After discussing some details, Mao Jue got up and said goodbye, wanting to report the good news to Liu Zhang.

Beigong Yan kept two sentences, and when he saw that Mao Jue was very strong, he expressed his sincerity and was willing to go with Mao Jue to meet Liu Zhang, Mao Jue naturally agreed, and Beigong Yan took a group of Qiang generals and more than ten guards to go to Liu Zhang's camp with Mao Jue.

It was as dark as ink, but fortunately, the guards lit a lot of tung oil torches, and the speed of everyone was not slow, and they arrived at Liu Zhang's camp in about half an hour.

Like Beigong Yan before, Liu Zhang and Zhong Wenwu endured fatigue and waited for Hou Maoyu's news, and learned that Beigong Yan led the crowd to surrender, Liu Zhang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and personally led everyone to greet him.

When Beigong Yan saw Liu Zhang, who was coming like the stars holding the moon, he immediately knelt on the ground and said, "The last general, Beigong Yan, see the lord!" "The Qiang generals also performed the same ceremony as Beigong Yan.

Liu Zhang was overjoyed and stepped forward to help Beigong Yan up, and said: "The general is here to vote, it is really the blessing of the Han Dynasty and the luck of Zhang, the general please ...... quickly."

"The last general will not dare, in the past, the last general did not know what to do, and he was the enemy of the lord, but now he thinks about it, he is terrified, and he asks the lord to surrender!"

"Haha, what does the past say about him, we have to look forward, don't we?" Liu Zhang helped Beigong Yan and said with a smile.

"Thank you, my lord......"

"Go in and say, go in and say ......" Liu Zhang took Beigong Yan's hand and entered the handsome tent.

Liu Zhang said: "The general came to vote, it was a happy event every day, he should have conspired with the general to get drunk, but Zhang had already had a strict order, no alcohol was allowed in the army, the law was established by Zhang, and it could not be abolished by Zhang, this wine was owed first, and when Dong Zhuo was defeated, Zhang drank with the general again." At this moment, you can only replace wine with tea! ”

Of course, Beigong Yan can't object.

Liu Zhang ordered tea, and asked the room to send stewed beef and mutton, white flour steamed buns, the fourth watch is coming, everyone is a little hungry, this meal will be regarded as breakfast.

During this period, Liu Zhang asked about the Qiang people, and when Beigong Yan talked about the difficulties of the Qiang people, Liu Zhang said that he would help as appropriate, and then asked some things about Dong Zhuo, and Beigong Yan knew everything and said everything.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Zhang was eager to catch up with Dong Zhuo, and he did not rest, so he ordered the army to pull out.

Beigong Yan immediately expressed his willingness to be the vanguard, Liu Zhang readily agreed, and Beigong Yan led the Qiang soldiers to gallop north. Before leaving, Liu Zhang ordered several personal guards to act together with Beigong Yan, not to monitor Beigong Yan, but Liu Zhang thought that Guan Yu was also chasing in front, although he had left for most of the day, but the infantry speed was far inferior to the cavalry, and he would inevitably be caught up by Beigong Yan in a day or two.

As the saying goes, you can't have the heart to hurt people, and you can't have the heart to defend people, after Beigong Yan left, Liu Zhang still ordered Huaxiong to guard the two wings, and he led the infantry in the center and followed Beigong Yan's footsteps.

Huaili, the right Fufeng Zhizhi, the original heavy guard, but after Liu Zhang's Northern Expedition, Dong Zhuo felt that the troops were insufficient, and transferred troops everywhere to support the front line, there were only more than 1,000 defenders left in Huaili, Dong Zhuo thought of going to the north before retreating north, and it must be difficult to raise money and food, and recruiting soldiers were problems, so he ordered to notify the defenders of Huaili to accompany him with gold and silver in the city, originally Dong Zhuo also wanted to bring the grain and grass in the city, but Li Rujin said that the pursuit was not far away, the situation was extremely urgent, and it was better to retreat as soon as possible, and bringing a large amount of grain and grass would inevitably affect the speed of action of the army, It is very easy to be caught up by the pursuers.

Dong Zhuo was anxious to flee for his life, so he agreed with Li Ru's opinion that he didn't want food and grass, but with his character, what he couldn't get, his enemies didn't want to get, so he ordered the defenders to set fire to all the grain and grass when they retreated, and at the same time set fire to the city to delay Liu Zhang's army's action. The county lieutenant strictly obeyed Dong Zhuo's order, and after the gold and silver were transported away, he would order the city to be burned, but somehow, the news was known to the people, and the people who had suffered so much were immediately angry, and they took the hoes, firewood knives, hunting forks and other tools at home to block the roads in the city, and warned the Xiliang soldiers that if a fire was lit in the city, then they were willing to die with the Xiliang soldiers, anyway, the city was burned, and they would die in the coming midwinter. At this time, the county lieutenant had no more than 600 soldiers and horses (in order to ensure the safety of gold and silver, Dong Zhuo ordered the county lieutenant to send 400 to escort gold and silver forward), and in the face of tens of thousands of angry people, he had no doubt that if he really forced the people to death, then they would definitely tear him to pieces. The lieutenant hurriedly stopped the soldiers from lighting the fire, claiming that the burning of the city was just a rumor......

In the end, the lieutenant ran out of the city under the watchful eye of the people. After Dong Zhuo learned that the county lieutenant disobeyed his order and gave Huaili to Liu Zhang, he was immediately angry and was about to cut off the county lieutenant's head on the spot.

After the retreat of the Xiliang soldiers, there was no one to manage the city, and the people lost their restraint and immediately began to loot the treasury and the mansion of the original Xiliang army. Many people did not hesitate to fight with others for a pound of grain, half a foot of flower cloth, and so on, and by this time yesterday, many tragedies had already occurred in the city, and dozens of people had died.

After Liu Zhang learned about it, he continued to chase Dong Zhuo, and on the other hand, he divided five hundred soldiers to occupy Huaili, and after the majestic Yizhou army entered the city, the situation in the city quickly stabilized.

In the afternoon, Liu Zhangjun was taking a nap, and suddenly received a report from Beigong Yan that he met Guan Yu, who was blocked in Jingshui.

It turned out that Dong Zhuo didn't know if Beigong Yan could buy him enough time, so he led the army to cross Jingshui, in case Beigong Yan intercepted and frustrated, he could also use water instead of soldiers, and use Jingshui to delay the pursuit of soldiers for him. Naturally, if he wanted to replace the army with water, he would not leave Liu Zhang's boats, so he ordered all the boats and boats in Jingnan to be requisitioned, and when the army passed Jingshui, he set a fire on the edge of Jingshui to burn the boats.

Guan Yu, who chased him to the edge of Jingshui, was very frustrated, but he did not despair, he asked the soldiers to collect boats everywhere, and on the other hand, he ordered people to cut down trees and bamboos to make rafts.

Just as the soldiers were in full swing, the scouts who were roaming outside came to report that a Qiang soldier was killing at full speed. Guan Yu, who was annoyed by letting Dong Zhuo go, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and he didn't know that Beigong Yan had become a comrade-in-arms, so he immediately ordered a formation along Jingshui, preparing to fight against the water and destroy this Qiang army.

Beigong Yan, who had been galloping with all his might, saw Guan Yu start to line up, and immediately understood that the other party had misunderstood, and hurriedly stopped the troops and horses three miles away from Guan Yu, and at the same time ordered the sword to be returned to the sheath, indicating that he had no intention of being an enemy with Guan Yu, and then sent Liu Zhang's personal soldiers to contact Guan Yu to explain the situation. Originally, Beigong Yan thought that Liu Zhang deliberately sent his own soldiers to follow him in order to monitor him, but at this time, he knew Liu Zhang's true intentions, and he couldn't help blushing for his careful eyes.

Two of Liu Zhang's personal soldiers, Guan Yu, had met a few times before, and they knew each other, and after seeing Liu Zhang's handwritten letters, they believed that Beigong Yan had surrendered, and ordered the army to disarm their war preparations and continue to search for and control the things that crossed the river.

Beigong Yan led several Qiang generals to ask to see Guan Yu, and after learning the news, he also ordered the Qiang soldiers to help.

However, the Qiang and Han armies had a total of 23,000 soldiers, and 13,000 war horses, and in a short period of time, they could not find so much equipment for crossing the river.

When Liu Zhang learned the news, he couldn't do anything, so he could only rush to Jingshui to make another plan.

In the evening, Liu Zhang arrived at the Jingshui side, and Guan Yu and Beigong Yan, who got the news, came out to greet him from afar.

After Liu Zhang and Guan Yu said a few words, they went to the Jingshui River surrounded by everyone.

In later generations, there was an idiom called Jing Wei Ming, which originally meant that the place where Jing Shui and Wei Shui converge was clear and clear, and the boundary was clear and not mixed, but Liu Zhang also knew that the controversy over who was clear and who was turbid between Jing Shui and Wei Shui lasted for thousands of years, until the Qianlong Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also ordered the governor of Shaanxi at that time to investigate the truth. Although he couldn't really see the phenomenon of Jingshui and Weishui at the confluence, after seeing the situation of Weishui and Jingshui respectively, Liu Zhang naturally came to a conclusion.

Jingshui, more than 900 miles long, 10 to 20 zhang wide, it is not too wide, the water in many places is not as good as the chest, now it is the dry season again, the water depth is shallower, it is said that it should be able to wade in vain, but the Jingshui basin is the loess plateau with serious soil erosion, the sand content in the water is very large, the local folk song sings "Jingshui is a stone, its mud is several buckets." And irrigated and dung, grow my corn", it can be seen that a large amount of river sand must have been silted up at the bottom of the Jingshui River, and if it is waded in vain, it will inevitably be deep in it and unable to extricate itself.

Guan Yu and Beigong Yan were busy for a long time, but they only found four small boats that could be crossed by five or six people, plus some bamboo rafts and wooden rafts that were rushed to cross, and so far they have only crossed less than 2,000 people. Because the tools for crossing the river were rudimentary, the war horses could not be crossed, so all the people crossing the river at this time were infantry. Although Dong Zhuo was already a frightened bird, if he only pursued with 2,000 infantry, he would undoubtedly fall into the net, so only a small number of soldiers chased after him in disguise, and most of the soldiers were also like the soldiers on the south bank, searching for ships upstream and downstream of the ferry. In order to prevent the pursuers from crossing the river, Dong Zhuo's boats on the south bank were almost all burned, but the damage to the north bank was not serious, and more than a dozen small boats were finally searched by the soldiers.

Seeing the small boat carrying only more than ten people slowly being pushed to the opposite bank in the muddy river water, Liu Zhang couldn't help but get anxious, at this speed, it is impossible for more than 70,000 people and horses to cross the river without two or three days of effort, but when Dong Zhuojun, who has a large number of horses on his behalf after two or three days, is three or four hundred miles away, how can he catch up? Maybe the Qiang cavalry crossed the river first, and then caught up with Dong Zhuo, but Guan Yu and Beigong Yan had already tried, once those war horses got on the rocking and turbulent, undulating boats, they would immediately panic and go crazy, no matter how the rider appeased, it was useless, the first time the three horses tried to cross two of them accidentally fell into the river after going crazy, and the war horses were even more frightened and struggled frantically after entering the water, and as a result, they fell into the deep mud in a blink of an eye. After trying several times in a row and losing eight war horses in vain, Guan Yu and Beigong Yan had to give up.