After knowing that Zhang Mancheng's enemy was really Qin Jie, Liu Zheng didn't say much, in the past two days, he had a good relationship with Sun Xia, while continuing to let his people step up training their own manpower.

The scouts sent out did not come back with any news at this time.

Although these scouts are only spies who have just taken office, and the information they can find out is limited, the officials and troops in Runan do not seem to have made any moves.

And after finding out from the side that Zhang Mancheng was going to fight Qin Jie next, Liu Zheng wanted to go over to watch the battle, but for a while he was worried that after he left, there would be a large number of officers and soldiers here, and there was some hesitation.

simply found Xu You, planning to discuss with Xu You.

Not long after, Xu You came to Liu Zheng's big tent.

"Qu Shuai, are you looking for me?"

"Mr. Xu You, something is wrong."

As soon as he saw Xu You, Liu Zheng immediately said a word to Xu You.

What Liu Zheng said was wrong, which made Xu You frown.

"What's wrong?"

"It stands to reason that these officers and troops in Runan, after defeating Bocai, will definitely take advantage of the situation to come and pursue us, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue and wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang in one go, but now that two days have passed, the officers and troops on the Runan side have not moved at all."

Liu Zheng's strange thing is here, it stands to reason that the official army will definitely not let go of the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party on the Nanyang side, plus Liu Zheng defeated Cao Cao's pursuers, so they will not let go of Liu Zheng's Yellow Turban Army.

But now, neither the official nor the army has appeared, which has to make Liu Zheng feel that something is wrong.

"There's something really wrong. If they didn't come over directly, they would definitely feel unsure and eat these Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang in one go. ”

"So what will they do?"

"Looking for reinforcements!"

Liu Zheng and Xu You said in unison.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Yu continued to tell Liu Zheng.

"Runan County and Nanyang County border, and at the same time, Runan County and Nanyang County border Jiangxia County, which belongs to the boundary of Jingzhou."

"Nanyang County is to the west of Runan County, while Jiangxia is to the south of the two counties."

"Now that the official army has not come directly from Runan County, it is very likely that they have been diverted and went directly to Jiangxia County and joined the officers and troops of Jiangxia."

Xu You said what he thought, but this was just his conjecture, there was no evidence, and he didn't know whether he should bring someone to inform Zhang Mancheng immediately.

At this time, Liu Zheng had also realized that most of what Xu You said was true.

Historically, Qin Jie did converge with the official army from Runan, and Zhu Jun, one of the three major lieutenant generals, led nearly 20,000 people to support Qin Jie, and the two sides only defeated Zhang Mancheng after the alliance.

Although Liu Zheng thought of this early on, he always thought that Zhu Jun was Qin Jie, who was directly from Runan County to Nanyang County, but he didn't expect Zhu Jun to change the route directly from Runan County to Jiangxia.

I'm afraid that Zhang Mancheng was still in the dark at this time, thinking that the men and horses of the official army were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of Qin Jie.

In this way, with 100,000 Yellow Turban troops to fight Qin Jie, Zhang Mancheng will definitely suffer a loss, and even die on the spot, it is also possible.

After thinking of this, Liu Zheng immediately went to find Sun Xia.

After telling Sun Xia about his conjecture, Sun Xia was also immediately, and his face was a little wrong.

However, Sun Xia is a more cautious person, and he did not completely ignore the safety of Ye County because of what Liu Zheng said.

"Brother Liu Zheng, what you said is not impossible, it's just that this is all your speculation, there is no real evidence, if we take people and rush to Jiangxia. In the unlikely event that the official troops of Runan raided Nanyang from the side of Yexian, wouldn't we have fallen for the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. ”

Sun Xia also expressed his worries.

Sun Xia's worries were not unreasonable, he was considering the safety of Nanyang, and it was also possible, and this sentence made Liu Zheng also fall into thought.

After all, although Zhang Mancheng is important, Nanyang is also important.

If Liu Zheng guessed wrong, in case their army left, the official army of Runan City attacked Nanyang from the side of Ye County, and the Yellow Turban Army of Nanyang ran to Jiangxia to deal with Qin Jie, wouldn't it be just right to be attacked by the official army left and right.

After some discussion, Liu Zheng and Sun Xia finally chose a compromise solution.

Some people were left to defend Yexian, and the others quickly rushed to the Jiangxia battlefield at this time to support Zhang Mancheng.

Sun Xia led 20,000 people to garrison Ye County here. Sun Xia sent another deputy to lead 10,000 people, plus Liu Zheng's own 7,000 men and horses to quickly support Zhang Mancheng.

After making these decisions, Liu Zheng rushed to Jiangxia County with 17,000 men under his command.

It only took half a day's effort, and he was already close to the place where Zhang Mancheng and Qin Jie were fighting.

But as soon as he got closer, he heard the sound of fierce fighting in the distance.

Hearing the sound of shouting and killing on the battlefield, Liu Zheng's mind suddenly sank, and he sighed in his heart.

"It's not good, it's still a step too late, they're already fighting. ”

Liu Zheng said helplessly, and Xu Yu on the side immediately answered.

"It's not too late now, as long as we rush over to support immediately, we should be able to give Zhang Mancheng and them some support and help, maybe we can defeat the official army. ”

The men and horses brought by Zhu Jun are at most less than 20,000 officers and soldiers, and with the Xiangyong recruited by Qin Jie and Xu Xuan, the total number of people is about 30,000.

And the Yellow Turban Army under Zhang Mancheng has an army of 100,000.

Although the strength of the official army is much stronger than that of the Yellow Turban Army, if it really wants to fight, the battle is far from being over in a while.

So at this time, Zhang Mancheng had not yet been defeated, and Liu Zheng still had a trace of expectation.

Liu Zheng did not hesitate at all, and quickly joined the battle with his soldiers and horses, and only after he intervened in the battlefield did he find that the number of officers and soldiers present was not only more than 10,000 people.

At a glance from the outside, he could conclude that there were at least twenty or thirty thousand officers and soldiers here.

Although Zhu Jun and others have not yet been seen here, Liu Zheng can already confirm that the officers and troops of Runan County have joined the officers and troops of Jiangxia County.

The 30,000 officers and troops actually surrounded the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army in the core of the battlefield and began the war of annihilation.

The battle was extremely tragic, and the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army fought very passively, and was defeated and retreated by the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army, with more than 10,000 dead and wounded.

And the number is still rising.

When Liu Zheng's men entered the battlefield, they gave the Yellow Turban Army some hope.

The morale has been boosted quite a bit, and the battle has become stalemate.

Xu Huang and Zhou Cang led Liu Zheng into the encirclement and entered the core battlefield.

After some searching, I finally met Zhang Mancheng.