In the early morning of the second day of the three days agreed between Liu Yi and Zuo Feng, Lu Zhi and others attacked with the whole army and defeated Zhang Bao.

After defeating Zhang Bao, everyone's celebration banquet did not end until noon.

After Zhang Bao was defeated, the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou was completely cleared.

Relieved of the scourge in Jizhou, Lu Zhi, as the general of Beizhong Lang appointed by the emperor at the beginning, can be regarded as completing the task, worthy of the emperor's grace.

As soon as the three-day deadline expired, Lu Zhi returned to the imperial court with Zuo Feng, and before returning Lu Zhi handed over his soldiers to Liu Bei, and the captured Yellow Turban Army to Liu Yi.

Originally, Lu Zhi wanted Liu Yi and the others to stay in Zhongqiu and wait for the imperial court to send the commander over, but Liu Yi made it clear that he wanted to support other places, and Lu Zhi finally had to let Liu Bei garrison Zhongqiu with nearly 40,000 imperial troops to wait for the imperial court's order, while Liu Yi went to Yuzhou with his subordinates.

Before leaving, Lu Zhi pretended to use Liu Yi's hand to privately give Zuo Feng the benefits that Liu Yi promised to Zuo Feng that day, which caused Zuo Feng to be happy.

Liu Yi knew that after he left, the immortal temple on the mountain was afraid that he would be poisoned by Liu Bei, so before leaving, he gave Li Daochang a lot of money, enough for him to build another Taoist temple elsewhere.

After everything was arranged, Liu Yi and the others embarked on the journey to Yuzhou.

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Compared with the hardships of Liu Yi and others marching and fighting outside, Cheng Yu and others who stayed in Zhuo County have also been busy recently.

"Sir, is there any news from my lord?"

In the hall of Liu's Mansion, Wang San sat beside Cheng Yu, pointed to the letter in Cheng Yu's hand and asked anxiously.

During the time when Liu Yi and others left, a lot of things happened in Zhuo County, first of all, Wang San, who had been married for a long time, let his wife conceive a child after hard work every night, which really made the Liu Mansion happy for a long time, and Cheng Yu also wrote a special letter to inform Liu Yi who was far away in Zhongqiu.

The second thing is that with the joint efforts of Cheng Yu and Cui Si, Cui Si's intelligence network has now covered half of Youzhou, and the third thing is that through Cheng Yu's efforts, the people in Zhuo County live and work in peace and contentment, and all industries are thriving, and the Arsenal Division is gradually improving the quality and output of weapons and equipment.

The whole Zhuo County is developing in a good direction.

At this time, Gongsun Zhan, who was also in Youzhou, suddenly sent someone to ask Cheng Yu and others for weapons and equipment in the arsenal in the name of supporting and resisting Xianbei.

After learning of this, Cheng Yu and the others were shocked, because the existence of the Arsenal Division has always been Liu Yi's secret, and on weekdays, there is a post ten meters outside the Arsenal Division, and almost no living people can get close.

Seeing that the secret of the Arsenal Division was leaked, Cheng Yu asked Cui Si to inquire about the reason many times, but there was no news.

At this time, Cheng Yu was sitting in the hall of Liu's Mansion looking at the letter sent back by Liu Yi, and when he saw Wang San asking, he couldn't help sighing, "Alas~ Everything is fine with the lord, Yao Lie and Yun Chang also killed Zhang Bao a few days ago!" ”

Hearing this, Wang San's eyes suddenly lit up, and he laughed and said, "Haha~ I didn't expect Brother Yao to be so powerful!" After laughing, Wang San felt that Cheng Yu's tone just now was wrong, and asked suspiciously, "Since everything is going well with the lord, why does Mr. sigh?" ”

Cheng Yu looked at Wang San when he heard this, spread the letter in his hand on the table, and said, "The lord's letter said that now they have led the army to Yuzhou to support, I'm afraid it will be enough to come back a year ago!" ”

As soon as he heard that Liu Yi and the others couldn't come back a year ago, Wang San couldn't help frowning, "The lord can't come back, then it's not easy to do now, Gongsun Zhan's envoy is still waiting in the house, will we give or not give our equipment?" ”

While the two were talking, Cui Si hurriedly ran back outside the door.

"Sir, I've got some news!" As soon as he entered the house, Cui Si shouted to Cheng Yu.

"Oh? Tell me about it! Hearing this, Cheng Yu hurriedly motioned for Cui Si to sit down and talk about the news he had inquired about.

Cui Si sat on a chair next to him, and after making a cup of hot tea, he said to Cheng Yu and the others, "This morning, I sent my subordinates to Youbeiping to inquire about the news, and told me that the reason why Gongsun Chan knew about the existence of the Arsenal Division seems to be a letter from someone in Jizhou!" ”

As soon as they heard Cui Si say that the news was leaked from Jizhou, Cheng Yu and Wang San couldn't help but look at each other and were shocked.

"Jizhou? What's going on in Jizhou? The lord and they fought in Jizhou before, could it be leaked out at that time? Speaking of this, Cheng Yu shook his head and retorted, "No, with the character of the lord, even if the secret of the stirrup is leaked, he will find a reason to prevaricate in the past, how can he expose the Arsenal Division?" ”

Thinking of this, Cheng Yu looked at Cui Si puzzled and asked, "But what news did you inquire about?" ”

Cui Si saw Cheng Yu asking, thought for a while, and replied, "There is no more useful news, but I heard from my subordinates that Liu Bei, who had been a guest under Gongsun Zhan before, also led troops to Jizhou some time ago. ”

Hearing this, a cold light suddenly appeared in Cheng Yu's eyes.

"Hmph~ I think maybe it's a letter from Liu Bei!"

"Huh? Sir, then Liu Bei is so far away from us, how do you know that we can build weapons and equipment here? Wang San was surprised.

"I don't know, whether it's from the lord or someone who ordered him to inquire, nine times out of ten the fact that we can produce high-quality equipment is the secret he told you!"

"Sir, what are we going to do?"

Cheng Yu saw Cui Si asking, thought for a while and replied, "Si'er, are Gongsun Zhan's subordinates still honest with you?" ”

After being together for a long time, Cheng Yu has become familiar with Wang San and Cui Si, and he no longer calls General Cui like before, and he also calls Cui Si's nickname like everyone else.

Seeing that Cheng Yu asked about Gongsun Zhan's subordinates, Cui Si suddenly became angry.

"His grandmother's, not only honest, is quite comfortable, greeting me every day in my restaurant, can he not be honest?" Cui Si couldn't help but scold.

"Good! We are not afraid of him eating, we are afraid that he will not eat, you must serve him well these days, drag him first, I have written to inform the lord of the matter, thinking that in a few days I will receive a reply from the lord, and then if it is really not good, we will take some broken copper and iron to deal with it! ”

As soon as he heard Cheng Yu say that he would serve that person for a few more days, Cui Si was quite unhappy in his heart.

"Sir, I don't think it's okay, so what if we just get rid of him? Why did he come to us to shout at him? Cui Si shouted dissatisfiedly.

Cheng Yu shook his head and said, "That's definitely not good, no matter what, Gongsun Chan is also a county-level official, and his official position is higher than that of the lord, and he is also the son-in-law of Liu Junshou, I analyze that this time he can directly come to us to ask for equipment, he must have obtained Liu Junshou's tacit approval!" ”

Cui Si couldn't help but scold again when he heard this: "This is really a mouse and a long worm going together, there is no good thing!" ”

Cheng Yu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"Who told us to be weak now!"

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Under the rapid whipping of Lu Zhi and others, on the fifth day after leaving Zhongqiu, everyone rushed back to Luoyang.

After returning to Luoyang, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty intended to blame Lu Zhi, but under Zuo Feng's extreme praise of Lu Zhi's military exploits, Liu Hong not only did not blame Lu Zhi, but also reinstated his official position, ordering him to lead the defenders of Zhongqiu to support Jingzhou again.

After receiving Liu Yi's hospitality, Zuo Feng did not forget Liu Yi's kindness, and praised Liu Yi in Liu Hong's ear many times after returning to the dynasty, and truthfully said that Liu Yi's subordinates personally killed Zhang Bao.

Liu Hong was happy and personally ordered Liu Yi to be the Taishou of Zhuo County, and at this time, the envoy in charge of the edict of the imperial court had already embarked on the road to Youzhou.

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Speaking of Jingzhou, because Huangfu Song led the army to support Zhu Jun, the defenders of Jingzhou were insufficient, and Ma Yuanyi and Zhang Mancheng, the two "divine envoys" of the Yellow Turban Army, took the opportunity to kill Chu Gong, the magistrate of Nanyang County, and occupied Wancheng.

Just when the situation in Jingzhou was extremely urgent, the new Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie, Zhang Mancheng and Ma Yuanyi fought Wancheng, and killed Zhang Mancheng by luck in the battle.

Although Zhang Mancheng and Ma Yuanyi are both "divine envoys", Ma Yuanyi is a subordinate of Zhang Mancheng in terms of identity.

Although he was not a "divine envoy", Zhao Hong, who had a high prestige in the army, began to compete with Ma Yuanyi for the position of commander.

In the end, just when Ma Yuanyi was about to take command, Zhao Hong led dozens of his henchmen to kill Ma Yuanyi in the tent at night and seized the position of commander of the Yellow Turban Army in Jingzhou.

After the death of Ma Yuanyi, the Jingzhou Yellow Turban Army was unstable, many of Ma Yuanyi's old generals were dissatisfied with Zhao Hong's actions, and took advantage of the chaos to lead the army to break away from Zhao Hong, in order to stabilize the army's heart, Zhao Hong did not dare to forcibly attack Qin Jie, and could only lead nearly 80,000 Yellow Turban Army to occupy Wancheng and confront Qin Jie across the city.

In order to prevent the enemy from ambushing, Liu Yi stopped his troops at Chenliu and sent his men to Yingchuan's Changshe to contact Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.

Because he was afraid that his Yellow Turbans would defect in wartime, Liu Yi actually learned from the revolutionary old-timers and set up the post of "political commissar" in the army, which was specially responsible for the ideological education of those Yellow Turbans who surrendered to the army.

These so-called political commissars were all personally selected by Liu Yi, and if they want to hold this position, they must have the "good" quality of "thick-skinned and self-familiar" like Cui Si.

On weekdays, as soon as there is time to rest, these people will disperse into the ranks of those Yellow Turbans who have surrendered to the army, chatting with this one for a while, and talking about life with that one for a while.

At first, Zhang Fei and others did not understand the meaning of Liu Yi's move, but slowly, under the ideological education of these "political commissars", many Yellow Turban soldiers began to feel ashamed of their previous behavior and decided to join Liu Yi and others. So far, Zhang Fei and others have all admired Liu Yi's foresight.

Just when everyone was waiting for news from the Changshe side in Chen Liu, Cheng Yu's letter arrived.

"Damn, Gongsun Chan is bullying me too much!" Inside the big tent, Liu Yi read the letter, and in anger, he kicked the chair in front of him out and scolded.

Zhang Fei and the others didn't know what to do, and when they saw Liu Yi being so angry, they hurriedly stepped forward to ask the reason.

Liu Yi took a few deep breaths, stabilized his emotions, and then informed everyone about Gongsun Zhan's robbery. Everyone was also furious after hearing this, especially Zhang Fei, who had already started to scold in the tent at this time.

After scolding for a while, Liu Yi's mood stabilized, and Liu Yi, who had calmed down, hurriedly wrote a letter, and then asked Yao Lie to find a few soldiers who were good at running long distances.

"You must hand over this letter to Mr. Cheng as soon as possible!"

"Order!"