The journey from Baling County to Qingzhou is not short, even if Liu Zheng rushes with all his strength and goes there as fast as possible, it will take more than ten days.

But just when Liu Zheng passed by Wu County by boat.

His subordinates sent him a message that Zhang Duyu, who had been raising a baby, had finally given birth.

And another son.

Liu Zheng, who heard the news, was ecstatic. Yu Wu Jun delayed for a long time, and deliberately went home to meet Zhang Duyu and Cai Yao, and hugged his son in person.

Looking at that little dot, crying in his own hands, Liu Zheng really wanted to stay and accompany Zhang Duyu's mother and son, after all, it was a warm moment, Liu Zheng didn't accompany Cai Yao well back then, and now he actually wants to accompany Zhang Duyu, but the war in Qingzhou waits for no one.

Liu Zheng was worried that he was going late, and Zhang Ning was likely to worry about his life.

Therefore, he still endured the pain and did not stay longer in Wu County, and told Cai Yao a few words, asking her to take good care of Zhang Duyu and then lead the men and horses to the north directly.

Early April 189.

Liu Zheng's men and horses have approached Qingzhou, and the situation in Qingzhou at this time is not optimistic.

After Liu Bei and Cao Cao led the army to attack Linzi City from the west, in order to eliminate these Yellow Turban troops as soon as possible, they did not delay too much, but directly chased and killed the remnants of the Yellow Turbans.

A few days later, Liu Bei Cao Cao's men finally came to Beihai County, and knew that there were tens of thousands of elite troops of the Yellow Turban Army in the Northern Navy.

They did not attack rashly, but chose to steadily recover the large and small county towns near Qingzhou little by little, and then gradually came to Beihai County, which was controlled by Zhang Ning.

In this Beihai county, there are more than 40,000 soldiers and horses of Zhang Ning, and some others are scattered by Zhang Ning in Donglai County, and Zhang Ning himself has formed a defensive belt here.

A few days ago, Zhang Ning and Liu Bei's men and horses had a big battle, but Zhang Ning hardly took the initiative to attack, only taking defensive measures. Most of the time, the city was closed, and they held on to the battle, with Guan Hai, Chu Yan and others commanding the soldiers and horses, but there was no big rout, and Zhang Ning still blocked Liu Bei's fierce attack with the loss of thousands of men.

After the attack failed, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were also a little helpless, although they wanted to forcibly attack the city, but once they attacked, they would definitely lose a large number of men. Liu Bei, who has always been kind to his people, does not want to attack the Yellow Turban Army in this way.

And once he chooses to attack, it will inevitably affect the people in the city, Liu Bei, who cares more about his reputation, is naturally unwilling to exterminate the remaining Yellow Turban Army, he wants to use Huairou means to persuade these Yellow Turban remnants to surrender.

In this way, not only can Qingzhou be obtained without blood, but also this group of Yellow Turban Army can be incorporated into a new force.

At least if these people can surrender, Liu Bei can quickly raise a force from these Yellow Turban Army to replenish his lost men.

Liu Beijun's big tent.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao were discussing how to deal with these Yellow Turban remnants in Beihai.

Cao Cao advocated a quick victory, using strong means to break the Beihai county town and eliminate the last of the Yellow Turban Army.

But Liu Bei did not agree to do this, Liu Bei wanted to incorporate these Yellow Turban Army, at the beginning, Yanzhou's recruitment of soldiers and horses had reached the limit, and it was difficult for Liu Bei and them to recruit suitable people directly from Yanzhou.

And Qingzhou is the same, Qingzhou's young adults have long been absorbed by the Yellow Turban Army, even if the imperial court recovers Qingzhou, Qingzhou will not be able to bring enough troops to the imperial court in a short time.

That's why Liu Bei set his sights on the few remaining Yellow Turban Army.

"Brother Meng De, it's not that I want to let go of these thieves, but you have also seen along the way, Qingzhou Yellow Turban thieves are rampant, and the people are suffering, even if we regain the lost territory, there is no way to recruit more soldiers and horses here."

"And those Yellow Turban remnants in Beihai County at this time are very strong, if they can be used by us, it will also save us from recruiting soldiers and horses again."

Liu Bei said his thoughts.

Liu Bei took a fancy to the strength of these Yellow Turban remnants, which was different from the Yellow Turban Army they had encountered before.

Cao Cao also recognized this.

"The strength of these Yellow Turban Army is indeed much stronger than the ones we encountered before, but Brother Xuande, the Yellow Turban Army is not so easy to surrender."

Liu Bei's words of persuasion were placed here by Cao Cao, but they were not very recognized by Cao Cao, and in Cao Cao's opinion, these Yellow Turban troops were not so easy to surrender.

If they were willing to surrender, they wouldn't have waited until now. And even now, they still gather in the city to defend it, stubbornly resisting, and it doesn't look like they are going to surrender.

So Cao Cao was not optimistic that these Yellow Turban troops would surrender.

"Maybe these Yellow Turban Army will not surrender earlier, but now, Qingzhou has been defeated by us, and in a few days, Tao Qian's soldiers and horses will join us to besiege Beihai, and we will besiege Beihai together, and then we will have 70,000 soldiers and horses, so many people and horses will besiege Beihai, and within half a month, the Yellow Turban Army in this Beihai City will surrender."

"We only need to surround but not fight, tens of thousands of troops are cut off from water and food in the city, they can't hold out for long, and once they can't hold on, they will definitely go out of the city and surrender."

Liu Bei has this plan that makes him so calm.

Cao Cao saw that Liu Bei had already made a decision, so he didn't continue to say more, and Liu Bei still did this, anyway, he was not optimistic about these Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou.

And at the same time, in the middle of Beihai City.

Zhang Ning stood in the city tower with a gloomy face, looked outside the city, and saw the tents that had been stretched outside the city, and his heart was even more worried.

He knew the plans of these enemy troops outside the city, and the other party had set up so many camp tents, and the purpose was obvious, that is, to besiege the city and fight a long-term war of attrition with them.

The Yellow Turban Army was already short of food, and it was able to rely on Liu Zheng to temporarily alleviate the difficulties, but now it is the beginning of spring, if you can't camp outside the city, not to mention that there will be no food in the future, just the grain and grass in the last month are a little worried.

"Guan Hai, did our people send him the news?"

Zhang Ning was already thinking about whether to continue to stick to it here at this time.

"Half a month ago, I had people send the news over, but the person who came back told me that Liu Zheng went to Jingzhou and no longer Yangzhou, presumably if he wants to get the news, it will take a few days, and it is estimated that he should know about Qingzhou by now."

Guan Hai speculated and replied to Zhang Ning's words.

Zhang Ning saw that Guan Hai said that Liu Zheng already knew, so he didn't say much, just nodded.