Liu Zheng pressed the more than 10,000 horses under Cao Bao and returned along the Taishan Mountains to Donglai County.

Although Cao Bao agreed to cooperate with him, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, and he can't be in a hurry.

always needs to find a way to act in a play for Tao Qian, Liu Bei and others, otherwise they will be unprepared to reveal the news to Tao Qian, and the suspicious personalities of Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao may not be tricked.

So this matter cannot be rushed.

It will take at least two days to return to Dongnae County along the Taishan Mountains.

But Liu Zheng and the others had just walked halfway through, and under a mountain wall, they suddenly heard a fierce fight in the distance.

Liu Zheng also found out at the first time, and could see from a distance that two teams of men and horses were fighting each other, one team was wearing official and military uniforms, about four or five thousand people, and the other team was dressed more messily, but in terms of numbers, it was much more, estimated to be nearly 10,000 people.

As soon as he saw this situation, Liu Zheng's spies immediately went over to inquire about the news, and after a while, Liu Zheng roughly understood what was going on.

It turned out that these two waves of people, those wearing official uniforms, were the vanguard led by Zhao Yu, the Taishou of Langya County, and the other group of people and horses were a group of bandits who had been entrenched in the Taishan Mountains all year round.

This gang of thieves is naturally the famous Taishan thief.

The leader of them is Zang Ba, one of the eight strong generals under Lu Bu in history.

Of course, it was just that Zang Ba at this time was still a bandit near Mount Tai, gathering Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and others, and he was very famous in the generation of Mount Tai.

"My lord, those Taishan thieves are entrenched in Mount Tai all the year round, and their power is only a little smaller than the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, but they are also a force that causes headaches for the imperial court, but I didn't expect to meet them in this place."

After the people who went to investigate reported the information they had to Liu Zheng, when Liu Zheng heard the name Zang Ba, he couldn't help but glance at Lu Bu.

Zang Ba, Liu Zheng has naturally heard of it.

After all, Zang Ba's fame is not small at all, if you want to say that the capable people under Lu Bu, in addition to Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, Zang Ba is still a talent.

This Zang Ba is not inferior to Dian Wei, a fierce man who kills people on the street, and Sun Jian, who avenges his father.

According to Liu Zheng's knowledge, Zang Ba's father, Zang Jie, was a county jailer, and because he did not obey the law and did not obey Taishou, he wanted to kill prisoners privately. Taishou was furious and asked Zang Jiefu to be punished. Zang Ba, who was eighteen years old at the time, learned that his father was imprisoned, and gathered more than a dozen diners to go to Xishan in Fei County to rescue his father and kill Taishou. After this deed, Zang Ba's filial piety and courage are famous all over the countryside.

In Zang Ba's early years, because of this incident, he was valued by Tao Qian, and under Tao Qian, he became a petty officer who rode the capital to help Tao Qian clean up the Yellow Turban Army.

However, I don't know what happened later, Zang Ba left Tao Qian, and gathered a crowd near Mount Tai as a bandit, and after a few years, it has developed more and more, relying on the mysterious vastness of the Mount Tai Mountains, and Zang Ba himself is indeed quite famous in this generation, but no one dares to provoke them.

In the past few years, Zang Ba, who has grown and grown, has faintly gathered 20,000 bandits.

Originally, Zang Ba's lair was a relatively secret thing near Mount Tai, and others didn't know where Zang Ba was hiding, although Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian had the intention to exterminate Zang Ba's gang of thieves, but he couldn't find where Zang Ba's lair was, but he never had a chance.

"It's Zang Ba, it turns out that those guys' lair is here, I said why can't I find it all the time, before the assassin Shi Taoqian had sent 20,000 troops to find Zang Ba's lair in the nearby mountains, but there has been no news, it turns out that this Zang Ba put his lair in the Qingzhou territory, no wonder!"

When Liu Zheng heard the news reported by his subordinates, Cao Bao, who was following behind Liu Zheng, couldn't help but say a word at this time.

"Oh, it seems that General Cao Bao, you also know something about this Zang Ba?"

"Well, this person was originally Tao Qian's No. 1 general, but Tao Qian didn't like him, Tao Qian valued Zang Ba's bravery, recruited Zang Ba to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, but Zang Ba learned that Tao Qian had no intention of reusing him, so he turned his back on Tao Qian, but ran away to become a bandit near Mount Tai, which once angered Tao Qian, and Tao Qian wanted to encircle and suppress him several times, but he returned in vain."

Cao Bao also belongs to Tao Qian's subordinates, and the two are also former colleagues, so they naturally have some dealings.

After knowing that the person who was fighting against Zhao Yu in the distance was actually Zang Ba, Cao Bao still couldn't believe it.

However, after thinking about it carefully, I can also understand that in this place at this time, the only person who can summon tens of thousands of soldiers and horses is Zang Ba.

"Then who is Zhao Yu, how can they fight?"

Liu Zheng didn't know much about this Zhao Yu.

However, Cao Bao still explained to Liu Zheng.

"My lord, this Cao Bao is the Taishou of Langya County, and there are some festivals between them."

"Oh?"

As soon as Liu Zheng heard this, he became interested.

"This Zang Ba was originally a person from Langya County, in the early years, in order to save his father, he killed the previous Langya County Taishou, and after Zhao Yu took over the position of Langya County Taishou, he listed Zang Ba as the number one fugitive to arrest him, but Zang Ba later took refuge in Tao Qian's assassination history, and Zhao Yu gave up."

"Although it was Zhao Yu who did it, the news of the arrest of Zang Ba before still spread, which made Zang Ba already have a bad impression of this Zhao Yu, but on the contrary, after Zang Ba left Tao Qian, this Zhao Yu once again brought up the matter that Zang Ba was a fugitive, and Tao Qian wanted to arrest Zang Ba several times before, but it was all brought up by Zhao Yu."

Therefore, in Zang Ba's heart, he must have hated this Zhao Yu to death. It's normal for them to meet and fight here. ”

At this time, because Cao Bao had decided to take refuge in Liu Zheng, he no longer regarded himself as Tao Qian's subordinate, so when he talked about these things, he had no psychological burden at all, on the contrary, when he saw Zhao Yu and Zang Ba fighting, he still gloated a little.

After all, when Zhao Yu was acting as the vanguard before, he didn't check it well, and let Liu Zheng's men and horses ambush him nearby and caught him off guard, and Cao Bao had already hated Zhao Yu so much in his heart.

"It turns out that the two of them still have this kind of thing, since they have a grudge, let's let them fight for a while, and when they have a winner, we will take action."

Liu Zheng heard Cao Bao's explanation, but he was not in a hurry to come out to be a peacemaker.