Zang Ba's troops are not many, at most he is watching Liu Bei outside Linzi City to prevent Liu Bei from escaping, and he has no ability to go forward to eliminate Liu Bei, even if Liu Zheng reserves Lu Bu and others in Beihai, as well as tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops, he still can't destroy Liu Bei in a head-on battle.

Without the assistance of Cao Cao and Tao Qian, Liu Bei knew that he was not Liu Zheng's opponent, so he would naturally not go out of the city to fight Liu Zheng, and Liu Bei, who relied on the city wall to hold on, was not something that Liu Zheng could defeat in a short time.

Liu Bei, who was cowering in Linzi City and only wanted to fight a defensive battle, made Zang Ba and others a little embarrassed, and for several days, there had been no decent battle.

Although Liu Bei has been cowering in Linzi City, Liu Zheng is not completely helpless.

He began to let his men and horses lead small forces to gradually overthrow the small counties in other places outside Linzi, hoping to occupy other small counties first, leaving a Linzi city, and then make the final decisive battle.

This is also the intention of learning from Liu Bei and others, besieging Beihai City first, and then persuading them to surrender.

However, Liu Bei dared to lead people to garrison Linzi City without returning to Yanzhou, naturally he also had some plans, and he was sure that he would be able to block Liu Zheng here.

May 189.

Liu Zheng was trapped in Linzi City for half a month.

Liu Bei did not go out of the city to fight with Liu Zheng because of this, but quickly sent people to Jizhou half a month ago to convey the order for help, resulting in a reinforcement coming from the direction of Jizhou half a month later.

Naturally, the reinforcements this time were none other than Lu Zhi's army, which was supposed to fight Yuan Shao in Jizhou.

May is not actually a good time to fight.

Because this time is the spring ploughing period, the people are busy with spring ploughing, and the war at this time will more or less affect the farming of the people of Qingzhou outside the battlefield.

If Qingzhou was not Liu Zheng's territory, of course Liu Zheng didn't mind the life or death of the people in Qingzhou, but now Liu Zheng is about to take Qingzhou into his pocket, so the life and death of the people in Qingzhou have something to do with Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng besieged the city of Linzi, and Lu Zhi led an army of 30,000 to come to the aid of Liu Bei.

The two sides encountered outside the city of Linzi.

In fact, Liu Zheng had already received the news a few days ago, knowing that there was a group of soldiers and horses coming from Jizhou, and he had already guessed that it was Lu Zhi's men.

It's just that Liu Zheng is now fighting continuously, and his soldiers and horses have been damaged a little, and he doesn't dare to act rashly knowing that Lu Zhi's people are coming from Jizhou.

After all, 30,000 troops are not a small number, if Liu Zheng leads his men to block Lu Zhi's people, then in Linzi City, if Liu Bei's more than 20,000 people go out of the city to cooperate, the blow to Liu Zheng will not be small.

It's better to defend first, and wait for Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses to arrive, and then see the situation.

Anyway, it is better to work steadily than to be greedy and reckless, and be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.

A few days later, Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses arrived in Linzi City, but because Linzi was surrounded by Liu Zheng, outside Linzi City, there were 20,000 troops of the Yellow Turban Army, 10,000 troops of Zang Ba, and Liu Zheng's own nearly 20,000 people.

There are barely 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the enemy army is almost this number, if the 50,000 troops under Liu Zheng are all his own men and horses, carefully selected soldiers and horses, then Liu Zheng naturally does not need to be afraid, but most of them are Yellow Turban remnants and bandits, and the combat effectiveness of those people is not very reliable.

So in order to win this battle, Liu Zhengcai can only be more stable.

The two armies faced each other, and the person responsible for coming to the rescue was naturally Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses gradually began to form formations in the territory outside Linzi City, as if they were preparing for a big battle with Liu Zheng.

However, Liu Zheng didn't plan to fight Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses here.

Instead, he sent an envoy to Gongsun Zhan's tent to negotiate peace with Gongsun Zhan.

The person who was ordered to go to the peace talks, Liu Zheng thought left and right, and still let Zhang Zhao go.

After all, Liu Zheng is around, there are no talents who can be used at this time, and at the same time, most of them are military generals, these people are not good at mouth, and they can't represent Liu Zheng, and Liu Zheng's meaning is well expressed with Gongsun Zhan.

Zhang Zhao had just taken refuge with Liu Zheng, and it was when he wanted to show himself, so when Liu Zheng ordered him to go to negotiate with Gongsun Zhan's army, he did not refuse.

After asking Liu Zheng's intentions clearly, he took a few guards and went directly to Gongsun Zhan's camp to meet Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan's white horses are righteous, and the leader of the team is naturally Zhao Yun, the legendary general of the Three Kingdoms, and behind Zhao Yun, all the white horses are handsome and elegant, just these hundreds of white horses, are a beautiful landscape.

Zhang Zhao only brought a few entourages, and came here to ask to see Gongsun Zhan, originally Gongsun Zhan didn't want to meet Liu Zheng's envoy at this time.

But now that everyone is here, and the big war is about to take place, Gongsun Chan still thought about it for a while and decided to see what tricks Liu Zheng was playing.

Zhang Zhao's men and horses appeared in the big tent, and Gongsun Zan sat on the main seat, looking up and down at the messenger sent by Liu Zheng in front of him.

"You are the person sent by Liu Zheng?"

"Lord Hui, in Xia Zhang Zhao, instead of the lord's envoy."

"Say, what are you doing here, what do you have to say about Liu Zheng?"

Gongsun Chan doesn't have a good impression of Liu Zheng, although Gongsun Chan and Liu Zheng don't have too many grievances, the only time they met in their lives was a few years ago, when they were in the Tiger Prison, but Gongsun Chan replaced the Han Dynasty, Liu Zheng was a thief, and the positions of the two sides were different, so Gongsun Chan still hated Liu Zheng very much.

And another reason is that Liu Bei and Gongsun Chan have a good relationship, this time Gongsun Chan heard that Liu Bei suffered a big loss under Liu Zheng's hands, so he naturally wanted to come to Liu Bei to find face.

"My lord, I heard that the lord is coming with an army, and he wants to send me over to negotiate peace with the lord."

"Peace? Hahaha, Liu Zheng is really joking, he just hit the army of my court, and now he is here to negotiate peace, does he think too much. ”

When Gongsun Zhan heard Zhang Zhao's intention, his face suddenly showed a look of ridicule, and he couldn't help but despise Liu Zheng a little.

Zhang Zhao saw Gongsun Zhan's attitude, but he was not moved, but continued.

"My lord knew that Lord Gongsun would not agree to the peace talks, but he said that if Lord Gongsun is not afraid, just come to attack and see who will suffer in the end."

"Taking advantage of the fact that the two sides have not yet fought, and there is no environment in which both sides are defeated, my lord wants to rebuild the relationship between the two families and suspend the army for the time being."

Liu Zheng sent Zhang Zhao over for peace talks, but it was just a test to see how much confidence Gongsun Zhan had on his side.