After sending Tao Qiuhong as an envoy, Liu Bei did not wait for Liu Dai's reply, and began to mobilize people. Just wait for the soldiers and horses to be ready, and then send troops directly, this is for the sake of the speed of the soldiers, and I am afraid that Cao Cao will send troops to seize Dongjun.

At the beginning, Cao Cao was a northern lieutenant in Luoyang, and he set up a five-color stick in office, and under a mess of sticks, he killed Jian Shuo's uncle. The eunuchs saw Cao Cao's grandfather, the eunuch Cao Teng's face, and they didn't care about Cao Cao, so they simply made a move to "send God", appointed Cao Cao as the county magistrate of Dunqiu County, and sent Cao Cao, the "plague god", away.

And Dunqiu County belongs to Dong County, Cao Cao has some roots in Dong County, but I am afraid that this is also the reason why he can quickly pacify the Black Mountain Army in Dong County, at least he is familiar with the environment and does not suffer geographically.

When Qingzhou's million yellow scarves entered Yanzhou, Liu Dai died in battle, and Cao Cao was elected as the Yanzhou assassin because he could fight. At this time, Cao Cao, although it cannot be said that he is completely out of Yuan Shao's control, but he has to herd Yanzhou, manage rivers and Ji, and also begin to have the capital of the dominant side, which is not the same as the situation attached to Yuan Shao in the past, and can be regarded as the overlord of the previous side.

Judging from the development of history, becoming the Taishou of Dongjun is undoubtedly Cao Cao's first step towards becoming strong. Although it seems that Cao Cao no longer has the possibility of staying in Yanzhou, it is just that Liu Bei even has to interrupt the first step of Cao Cao's rise, and he doesn't want to give him a chance at all. Even if you can't get anything, you have to send troops to Dongjun, which is a typical behavior of "harming others and not benefiting yourself".

If it is possible, Liu Bei even wants to kill Cao Cao, and it will be a hundred.

In fact, this dispatch of troops is not only to prevent Cao Cao's rise. Historically, Liu Bei's rescue of Beihai Kongrong, although he did not get any reward on the surface, but he gained prestige, how can he be compared with a little territory, soldiers and horses.

This time, there are also two people in Liu Bei's army who have a deep relationship with Dongjun, one is Le Jin, and the other is Zang Hong. Lejin has a history now, and Zang Hong has a history history.

Le Jin is a native of Dongjun Weiguo County, and he is a real native of Dongjun, and the sense of identity between regions in this era is extremely serious.

Glancing back at Le Jin, Liu Bei said: "Wen Qian, Dongjun is your hometown, and now it is being rampantly committed by black mountain thieves, do you have any strategy." ”

Seeing Liu Bei asking himself, Le Jin naturally understood what he meant, and said: "The lord can rest assured, entering his hometown is also a little famous, long before the lord set off, he has already sent people to contact the clan, and everyone in the clan has also suffered from the Montenegrin army for a long time. ”

Liu Bei laughed and said: "Wen Qian has to contribute, fight hard, this time the fight is good, it will be the Zhonglang general." ”

Le Jin was overjoyed, hugged his fists and thanked him, led more than 100 personal soldiers under his command, and secretly went back to his hometown first.

Le Jin is short in stature, in the words of later generations, but only in his early fifties, but it seems to be horizontally long, and the whole person is extremely strong, courageous, and brave. His family was originally from Yangping, Dongjun, and later moved to Weiguo County. Although Lejin's family is not a powerful family in Dongjun, it is also a big family, and now Lejin is already a military captain, and he can be regarded as a glorious ancestor, so he can naturally call on his family and villagers.

On the big river, more than 100 warships rode the wind and waves, going upstream, and Liu Bei was on the boat, discussing military affairs with everyone. Dongjun is similar to the plain, both are big rivers through the county, the whole county is divided into two parts, north and south, it is not easy to say whether it is Henan or Hebei, the seat of the east county, in Puyang, Henan.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the thieves have been combined, Boling Zhang Niujiao, Changshan Chu Feiyan and Huanglong, Zuo Xiao, Yu Yigen, Zhang Baiqi, Liu Shi, Zuo Zhangba, Pinghan Daji, Si Liyuancheng, Lei Gong, Fuyun, Baique, Yang Feng, Yu Poison, Wulu, Li Damu, Bai Huan, Su Gu, and Bitter Worm are innumerable, the big ones are twenty or thirty thousand, and the small ones are six or seven thousand. ”

Zhang Niujiao was hit by a mischief during the war, and before he died, he "ordered his people to serve Feiyan as the commander". Chu Feiyan changed her surname to Zhang. Chu Feiyan's real name is Yan, because of his light courage and agility, so he is called "Feiyan" in the army. After that, most of the other scattered rebels were attached to Feiyan, so the number of troops soon grew to as many as one million. Because of its activities in the valleys of present-day Hebei and Shanxi, it is called the "Black Mountain Army".

Now the one who is attacking Puyang City is the Bai Huan Division.

Liu Bei asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, now that Puyang City is besieged, should our army go directly to Puyang City to relieve the siege for the official army, or besiege Wei to rescue Zhao and send troops to attack the Montenegrin Army Bentun." ”

When everyone heard this, they were all pondering, these two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they can't say which one is better, Liu Bei also hesitated about it.

In the end, it was Xi Zhicai who said: "Lord, the so-called noble soldiers are fast, when our army rushes to the city of Puyang, Bai Rao will definitely be caught off guard, and our army will definitely be able to break the thief army." ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he made up his mind, ordered the boat to go slowly, ordered the soldiers to keep their spirits up, and stayed until the evening, Liu Bei suddenly ordered people to speed up the boat, and at night, sent elite men and horses to cross the river and go straight to the white horse.

It's a pity that he didn't bring Guan Yu here, Liu Bei complained in his heart, fortunately, there is no Yan Liang here in Baima, and there is no need for Guan Erye to behead Yan Liang.

The white horse was in the west of Puyang, Liu Bei sent Yu Ban to select a thousand elite soldiers, arrived by boat overnight, and appeared under the White Horse City.

Liu Bei stayed in Yu Ban, led the men and horses of his headquarters to garrison Baima, and sent Zang Hong to lead 3,000 elite soldiers to cut off Bai Rao's back road. sent Zhao Yun again, led a thousand men and horses, and secretly sneaked to the left side of the Bairao camp, and then suddenly appeared, with great fanfare and bluff, thinking that it was a suspicious soldier. He personally led more than 10,000 elite soldiers from his headquarters to Puyang.

The Black Mountain Army under the command of Bai Huan, several days to storm Puyang City, Puyang is the capital of the East County, the city is strong, and attracted Pushui as a moat, Wang Qiu gathered thousands of troops in Puyang City, and did his best to help defend the city with large households, powerful guests, and servants. Although the Black Mountain Army of the Bai Rao Department stormed Puyang at any cost, they failed to capture it and held Puyang City before Liu Bei led the troops.

Before it was clear, the cavalry under Liu Bei had already arrived in Puyang first, and directly launched an attack, and the Montenegrin army was caught off guard and immediately chaotic.

Liu Bei took Zhang Fei as the vanguard, Zhang Fei led his troops straight to the enemy camp, and when he arrived in front of the camp, he shouted loudly at the panicked enemy camp: "Yan Zhang Fei is here, and those who surrender will not die." ”

After that, Zhang Fei threw the torch into the camp of the Black Mountain Army, held the Zhangba snake spear, and jumped into the enemy camp.

The Montenegrin army was attacked by Liu Bei, and in a panic, there was a sudden chaos. In the dark night, no one can fully control the troops, at this time, they can only rely on the people in the army to play their own role, and Liu Bei's men and horses are well-trained, officers at all levels, and although the Montenegrin army also has team discipline, it is considered to be the leader among the thieves, in the end it is not the opponent of the Qingzhou army, not to mention that it was attacked at night, and under the chaos, it was naturally powerless to resist.

Seeing this, Liu Bei knew that a great victory could be expected, so he found a novel hill outside Puyang City, brought hundreds of guards, watched his men and horses from a distance, and attacked the Black Mountain Army.

"Cao Apu, it seems that you don't need to bring troops to Dongjun for the time being."

Liu Bei said in a low voice, with a hint of pride in his tone.