On the fifth day of the eighth month, the end of the Liaodong Peninsula is in Qishi County.

An army of 20,000 has been stationed in this small and barren county for many days.

Since the fall of Zhang Chun, Liu Bei has gradually moved most of his troops south, on the one hand, to properly beat Goguryeo and Silla, and on the other hand, to reduce the loss of grain transportation-

Until the beginning of September, before the autumn harvest in Liaodong was completely over, the local grain stocks in Liaodong were not enough to fully feed Liu Bei's 20,000 regular troops and nearly 10,000 newly recruited former rebel soldiers. The grain of the army has always been supported by transporting grain by sea and selling horses on the return journey.

Therefore, in the absence of war, the troops will gradually move south to the Yushi hoard, which can also reduce the mileage of grain transportation by the Mizhu sea road.

The Lushun-Dalian area of the later generations is in good natural port conditions. Now it is the first foothold for Qingzhou refugees to cross the sea and go into exile in Liaodong. Since the rise of the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, the small county town of Qingzhou, which has had no people and trade since ancient times, has only prospered a little for the first time.

Liu Bei himself, as well as a group of generals, waited in Changli for the imperial court's reward and Liu Yu's instructions, and then quickly rode south, met with the slow army, and went to Qingzhou to help suppress it as soon as possible.

said that it was to help suppress, Liu Bei was also selfish.

It is now the beginning of August, and although the autumn harvest of wheat has ended in Qingzhou because the climate is slightly warmer than that of Liaodong, there are other coarse grain crops with a longer growing period, such as millet and sorghum, which have not yet completed the autumn harvest.

Besides, even if the wheat has been harvested, it will take time to thresh, dry the grain, and put it into storage.

If you don't take advantage of the autumn harvest season because of the grain to the enemy, most of these grains were also taken away by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, in this case, instead of cheapening the rebels, it is better to use it to raise the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and you can also easily kill some of the backbone of the Yellow Turban, and make some contributions to the colleagues in Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou.

It also relieved the pressure on Mi Zhu, and the 20,000 army could eat wherever they went, wouldn't it be the best of all three?

Historically, when Cao Cao was short of food, his advisers persuaded him to pick the soft persimmon of the Qingzhou Army and pinch it, which was basically the same idea, and the principles were all the same.

It's not that we don't volunteer to help our allies, but we only volunteer during the grain harvest season.

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After a few days of hurrying, Liu Bei, Li Su and others finally arrived in Yushi County.

On the road in the past few days, Li Su also found a suitable time to quietly bring some of the heartfelt words that Liu Yu asked him to convey secretly.

Li Su said: "The day before yesterday, when I heard that the envoy supported his brother to pursue Zhang Juyu across the state, I watched my brother be grateful, and I seemed to be very grateful to the envoy. But do you know why the envoy supports you and me so strongly? ”

Liu Bei was riding on horseback at the time, and asked with a straight face: "It is really rare to be willing to hear the details and make the king noble." ”

Li Su sighed: "At that time, the envoy said that the world was in chaos, and now there are at least four anti-thieves who are disturbing. Your Majesty's employment ...... Some of them are fishing with all their might, and they can't see good ministers and famous generals idle, such as Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and other loyal models, all of whom are exhausted by the transfer of Tiannan and Haibei. We can find the thieves who can be suppressed nearby, and we can find something to do, and strive to let the imperial court push the boat down the river, reduce the chaos of cross-state and county deployment, and rest with the people. ”

These words have already been said a little heavily, and the evaluation of the emperor "fishing with all his might" is not that he doesn't dare to say it if he treats you as a confidant. Liu Bei heard that Liu Yu actually dared to say such things to him and Li Su, it really regarded him and Li Su as his own nephews.

"Dare not do your best to serve the envoy and repay his kindness!" Liu Bei sighed generously and righteously.

The group traveled the world on the road, and when they arrived at the Yushi, they happened to meet the fleet sent by Mi Zhu to meet the troops, and they had also been assembled.

Mi Zhu himself is also very attentive to personally handling this matter and acting with the fleet.

Liu Bei said goodbye to Mi Zhu, and inevitably comforted him with warm words and thanked him for his dedication:

"Zizhong has worked hard, these days he has been running from north to south, and the scheduling is cumbersome, if it is not for the world's wealthy businessmen, who are good at cargo colonization and transshipment, they can't do this. Have you chosen a good route for crossing the sea this time? Donglai and Beihai pirates, can you find out the latest changes? ”

There is a specialization in the art industry, exploring intelligence and crossing the sea, Mi Zhu is more professional, and Liu Bei is very relieved to hand over the decision-making to him.

Mi Zhu also said modestly: "The strategy of the marching route, presumably Boya has already made a calculation, and Zhu will follow the plan." ”

Li Su: "Eh, no, Zizhong is more knowledgeable about things at sea, and he will win the one who can and is not the king." ”

Mi Zhu replied with a resolute hand: "Now in Donglai, Beihai, and Taishan, most of the suburbs are in the hands of thieves, and a few counties have capable officials and ministers to hold the city. The sea-crossing route is better in the three counties of Xiami, Duchang and Shouguang along the coast of Beihai County.

Although these three counties are not as close as Donglai, they have a large river flowing into the sea, and the transshipment is convenient. Dense glue and water. Duchang, Shouguang has irrigation water, ambiguous water. Especially the following dense is better, you can cross the sea to Donglai County, along the coast to the southwest, into the Weishui, intercept the dense, unexpectedly cut off the Qingzhou Yellow Turban return road of Donglai. ”

Liu Bei also prepared a map in advance, and at that moment, together with Li Su, he looked carefully along the map, and felt that this route was really good.

Donglai County is at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, roughly equivalent to Yantai in later generations, and is the closest to Liaodong. However, because it is the tip of the peninsula, it is mainly mountainous.

This is also the natural reason for the movement of the earth's crust, and the farthest part of the peninsula that can reach out into the sea must be a mountain uplift, and it is impossible to count on sediment alluvial landfills. In later generations, Zhaoyuan and other counties in Yantai were famous for their gold mines in mountainous areas.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Zhaoyuan gold mine had not yet been discovered, and the place is now called Qucheng County, and the mountainous area where the gold mine is located is called Yangqiu Mountain.

Yangqiu Mountain is far away from Rushan Mountain near Qingdao to the south, so that the tip of the peninsula is not suitable for the maneuver of the army on the plain, nor is it conducive to the suppression of bandits.

However, Liu Bei knew that he only needed to cut the peninsula in two sections along Weishui in Xiami County, Beihai County. The part of the Qingzhou yellow scarves that ate in Donglai had to run out of Donglai counties by themselves and try to break through and return to Taishan County.

Because although Yangqiu Mountain and Rushan Mountain are not conducive to marching, the difficulty and steepness of clearing and suppressing cannot be compared with Mount Tai after all.

Staying around Yangqiu Mountain is nothing more than delaying some more time, but as long as Liu Bei firmly ties the fence and gradually tightens the encirclement, the Donglai Yellow Turban Army will definitely die sooner or later.

This is the same reason as the Spartacus rebels in the Western world who were besieged on the tip of the boot on the Italian peninsula.

The only way to survive is to break through the time difference before Liu Bei's blockade line is not very perfect and firm.

The Yellow Turban Army dared to come to Donglai to make trouble before, completely because they never thought that it was possible for the official army to suppress bandits from this direction from the sea, so they naturally felt that everything would be fine if they blocked Mount Tai and Yimeng Mountains in the west.

In addition, the organization of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is very scattered, there are many mountains, and the small leaders are not willing to help each other, and generally divide a piece of territory and grab their own.

This is all the information that Liu Bei has carefully explored in the past half a month of preparing for the war.

After clarifying these, Liu Bei ordered: "Okay! Then cross the sea with the goal of going down to secret. However, there are two points to pay attention to, first, before crossing the strait and arriving in Donglai County, it is best not to get too close to the shore, so as not to alarm the yellow turbans entrenched around Donglai County in advance and give them time to escape in advance.

Secondly, if you can't sail offshore and the wind and waves are too strong, then try to pick a night time close to the coast of Donglai, and then spend a night traveling west, so that at least you can open up a gap of 100 miles and catch the thieves off guard. At dawn sail into Weishui"

For this request, Mi Zhu directly patted his chest and guaranteed: "This is no problem, the sand boat improved by Mr. Boya, fifty miles or even hundreds of miles offshore, sailing is not afraid of wind and waves, and it must ensure that before our army sails into Weishui, the Donglai Yellow Turban Army is unaware." ”

"Alright, let's set sail!" Liu Bei gave the order in high spirits.

Hundreds of large ships set off in turn, transporting about 8,000 soldiers first, and the first wave went south to the North Sea - 20,000 troops could not be transported at one time, which was also limited by the capacity of Mi Zhu's fleet.

For business people, the shipbuilding scale of the fleet is limited by the turnover of business, and there are not so many goods to be transported, and it is impossible to allocate ships according to the peak demand for capacity. Liu Bei has an army of 20,000, and it has only been in the last few months, and Mi Zhu is not so fast even if he hurries to build ships.

However, it is believed that after the first batch of 8,000 people crossed the sea and arrived in Xiami County, they would soon control the key ferries along the Xiami and Weishui coasts, and it should not be a problem.

As long as they hold on to the spot for about seven or eight days, a second group of troops will arrive, and after half a month, more than 20,000 troops will all be transported to the opposite bank.

This can also have a moderate urging effect on the Yellow Turbans: Are you still running? Do you want to continue to stay in Yangqiu Mountain and Rushan to the end? Give you seven days to march, and within seven days you can survive the Weishui breakthrough and break through the lower secret, and you can only face the encirclement of the elite Han army of 8,000 people. If you can't leave within seven days, you will have to face the blockade of 15,000 Han troops!

Liu Bei didn't want to kill the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, after all, east of Mount Tai and even the rich Bohai County of Jizhou, he had no reason to cross the border. Weaken the Qingzhou Yellow Turban and get a vote for yourself, kill Wusu, and you will be worthy of the court and your teammates.

It is also a merit to be able to drive the enemy away from Beihai and Donglai, and let the Yellow Turbans harm the innocent people of the two counties.

Three days later, Liu Bei's fleet arrived at the coast of Donglai and Xiami.

On the ninth day of August, he sailed into Weishui, and on the tenth day of August, he arrived at the city of Xiami.

Unexpectedly, near Xiami, Liu Bei actually happened to encounter a group of yellow turban thieves with thousands of people, who were raiding the county town that had already broken through a gap, and the officials in the county town were estimated to have died in their duties.

In the face of this kind of hors d'oeuvres, Liu Bei was of course evil and courageous, and immediately ordered the troops to land and attack, and recapture the city.

Liu Bei didn't know that if he hadn't met Li Su, but had allowed history to develop according to the original trajectory of "angrily whipping the post and abandoning the official and fleeing".

Then at the end of last year, when he followed Wuqiu Yi to the south to recruit Danyang soldiers and returned to the north, he would encounter the outbreak of the Yellow Turban when he passed through Qingzhou, and he was successively removed from the two official positions of "Xia Mi Cheng" and "Gao Tang Wei" because of his meritorious work in suppressing thieves on the spot.

But in history, Liu Bei's official luck in these two official positions was not good, both times because he was outnumbered, and was attacked by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and the descendants were almost wiped out.

Liu Bei should have died with a newly married wife in Xiami County this time, and Gaotang County was even worse that time, he himself was seriously injured, and he escaped by pretending to be dead and was carried back to life after being cleaned up by friendly forces.

Now, because of Li Su's changes, everything has long been different. Liu Bei in this life, it is estimated that he will not have the opportunity to go to Gaotang County in Qingzhou Plains County again, but by chance, he still came to the secret to suppress the bandits.

It's just that Liu Bei, who came to Xiami this time, has 20,000 elite soldiers who have experienced bloody battles on the border of Youzhou for a long time, instead of a small county with only a few hundred Danyang soldiers and being flooded by yellow turban thieves in the same period of history.

Perhaps, there is another unlucky county Cheng who took the place that should have belonged to Liu Bei, and in this secret city, he was beaten by the knife of the Yellow Turban Army for him.

Li Su secretly thought in his heart: After recovering Xiami County for a while, he should pay tribute to the nameless county Cheng who was martyred, and that county Cheng died for Liu Bei because of the butterfly effect.

"Kill in Xiami County! Annihilate the Yellow Turban Thieves! Liu Bei didn't know this, he had already personally supervised the battle and commanded the troops to recover the city.

Eight thousand Youzhou elite soldiers against three or four thousand Yellow Turban stragglers who met temporarily, of course, there is nothing to repeat in this battle.

In just half an hour, Xiami County returned to the control of the imperial army. In the city, together with the original Xiami County defenders who died in battle, as well as the Yellow Turban Army who died in battle, plus a small number of Liu Beijun killed, the three parties left a total of one or two thousand corpses.

Li Su couldn't bear it in his heart, so he called Tai Shici, who was in charge of cleaning the battlefield, and ordered in private: "Look at the officials in the city, whether they are all martyred, if there is still salvation, as long as they are not abandoned and thieves, try to save them." ”