A group of five people waved goodbye to Xujia Village and went to Yingshui. Originally, Liu Zhang planned to hire a boat to go all the way west to meet with several important people, but after waiting at the ferry for a long time, all the boatmen heard that they were going upstream, and they all refused like snakes and scorpions. There was no way, Liu Zhang had to change to the land route, but fortunately, they all had mounts to travel, and the speed was not slow, so they stayed in Ku County that night.

The next day, the group went to the dock of Kuxian to look for a boat, and the result was the same as what happened in Qianxian, no matter how much money was given, the boatman just shook his head and didn't go. When Liu Zhang and others inquired, they learned that there was a group of thieves in the Wuping area of the upper reaches of Yingshui, who dominated the water and land passes, robbed houses, raped and plundered everything, and now the entire territory of Yuzhou is changing. After inquiring again, Liu Zhang smiled, daring to love that this group of thieves was none other than Liu Pi, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Pei Yuanshao, Gong Du and others. This Liu Pi, Pei Yuanshao, and Gong are all okay, but that Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Liu Zhang is very fond of it. In later generations, he has seen a lot of Guan Yu Temple, no matter which temple, standing next to Guan Yu, except for Guan Ping, is this named Zhou Cang. After Zhou Cang surrendered to Guan Yu, he held a sword and held the flag for him, and was born to die, and after Guan Yu was defeated and killed, Zhou Cang died together, which can be described as unparalleled loyalty. As for Liao Hua, there is a saying that has been passed down through the ages - there is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is a pioneer! Liu Zhang does not think that this is a sentence in the belittling of Liaohua, first of all, the people who lead the troops have some battlefield superstitions, which is one of the key points of a good start, a victory, and the first merit, until the concept of modern warfare has not changed, and the elite of the People's Liberation Army in later generations have a slogan: use me in the first battle, use me to win, this sentence shows two problems, first, the vanguard competition is fierce, and second, the non-elite can not be qualified as the vanguard. No army wants to give the other side a blow at the beginning of the war, which is a big blow to the morale of your own army, and may even affect the victory or defeat of a war. Since the first battle is important, the choice of the pioneer is extremely important. This pioneer must be brave, tenacious, not afraid of sacrifice, and resourceful (Chen Shou called it in the book "Three Kingdoms": known as Guolie), and a pioneer with such a temperament can bring his first victory to victory. Because it is a vanguard army, if the road is impassable, it has to open the road in the mountains and build bridges in the water, so the vanguard will have to be calm and calm, and cannot become impatient, irritable, and irritable because of doing these lock things all the time; The vanguard general's business is not over yet, because it is the first unit to arrive on the battlefield, and the vanguard also has to reconnoiter the battlefield environment for the rear army, so this vanguard will have to be cautious......

Now let's count the conditions that a pioneer will need: brave, tenacious, not afraid of sacrifice, resourceful, calm, calm, and cautious...... If a general has these conditions, can't he be called a famous general? There is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer This sentence itself shows that in Shu, his ability is recognized by the commander, there are few generals in Shu who have greater skills than him, and no one is more suitable for the position of vanguard general than him. And Liao Hua is not just a pioneer, he has been a pioneer almost all his life, which is a great praise for him. As the saying goes, if the crockpot is not broken from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle, not to mention such a high-risk occupation as a pioneer? But Liao Hua has been a pioneer for almost his whole life, and there are many dangers and dangers he has encountered, needless to say, but no matter how bad the situation is, he can always fight his way out of the encirclement, and it should be said that his martial arts are also very high. You must know that Guan Yu and Lu Bu, thousands of enemies, have not escaped the fate of being tied up and killed? Moreover, Liao Hua was a very long-lived general, and he did not die of illness until after the fall of Shu, and his real life was over.

Liu Zhang had read the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" well, but he forgot at this time that Liao Hua in history was not an ordinary person, and successively served as the prime minister to join the army, the governor of Guangwu, and the commander of Yinping County.

In any case, since these two generals were met by Liu Zhang, if they couldn't be taken under his command, he would not be happy. So he decided to cross the river and go straight to Wuping! They didn't dare to let the boatman go upstream, but there was no problem crossing the river. Yingshui was not wide, and soon the group set foot on the land on the south bank, and arrived at a village less than ten miles from Wuping in the evening of the same day. The village is very large, and the prosperity of the past can be vaguely seen, but now it is like a dead city, the houses are broken and repaired, and the garbage is everywhere, which should be when the cooking smoke is everywhere and the food is fragrant, but there are only a few puffs of green smoke in the village of Nuoda, which is weakly swallowed, and the breeze caresses it, and then disperses into the fog and disappears.

Several people went all the way, hoping to find a family to stay for a day, inquire about the situation and then determine the location, and found that most of the puffs of green smoke were not cooking smoke, but caused by hungry and cold villagers raising fires to keep warm.

Looking at the people with collapsed eyes and limbs like dry wood, without Liu Zhang's orders, Xu Huang and Man Zhong distributed the dry food they brought with them to everyone.

Finally, the group finally found a house that was still intact, called to open the door, and the host was also hospitable and hurriedly invited in. When asked, it turned out that this was the village chief's home, and the village chief said that because the village is located on the edge of Yingshui, merchants often rest here, and there was a bit of prosperity in previous years. However, the Yellow Turbans were in chaos, the village's property, grain and grain were looted, and the people were also quite killed and injured. However, the misfortune is not a one-way street, as soon as the Yellow Turban left, He Yi, He Man, and Huang Shao, who were from Wuping, gathered a group of hooligans and scoundrels, calling themselves the Yellow Turban Army and acting as traitors everywhere. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion was put down, a group of routs came to take refuge, and the bandits who had greatly increased their strength intensified. Because the village is the closest to its cottage, it is the most "patronized", the village's food, property, and slightly better women have been robbed, many villagers see that they can't survive, most of them have fled their homes with their families who have not been persecuted to death, and now those who remain in the village are nostalgic for their homeland and have no relatives to vote into, and these people who stay actually understand their end - death! The village chief's family suffered a little less, not because of his collaborators, but because those bandits came out to commit crimes, and often needed a place to rest, and they also needed the village chief to "maintain" order for them......

After knowing these situations, Liu Zhang and the others were very emotional, they knew that the life of the people of Dahan was not easy, but they never thought that they had reached such a difficult situation! For the sake of countless such villages in Wuping, this gang of bandits must be eliminated! But how could they possibly break through a huge force that was deeply entrenched in the local area and numbered in the thousands?

Liu Zhang was even more depressed, he thought that Zhou Cang and Liao Hua were loyal and righteous people, but now their behavior is ......

After hastily eating a bowl of porridge prepared by the village chief that can be used as a mirror, several people crowded into a room to rest, not that the village chief was not hospitable, and was unwilling to arrange two more rooms for them, but it was really the only empty room in the family that could still shelter from the wind.