After receiving an urgent letter from Liu Shi's personal guard, Liu Bei was taken aback, and took Guan and Zhang to gallop to the Yellow Turban camp. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as I arrived at the Zhaimen, I saw Liu Shi come out, and I was secretly relieved.

Liu Bei complained: "Next time, you can't go alone, the sage said: 'Nobles don't stand under the dangerous wall', now as the Marquis of Lantian and the Taishou of Nanyang, how can he go to a dangerous place alone like ordinary people." ”

Liu Shi said with a smile: "I believe in myself and in Guan Hai's personality. ”

Liu Bei mentioned to him what Kong Rong had entrusted him.

Liu Shi said a little embarrassed: "Shi Zi is away from home, busy with state affairs, far away from home, and his father is not in front of him, Shi does not dare to make his own opinions." In the matter of marriage, as long as the elder brother thinks it is feasible, he himself is of good moral character. Shi has no dissenting intentions, and the elder brother can be the master. ”

Liu Bei said solemnly: "According to Kong Rong, the woman is beautiful, although she is a businessman's family, because of her strict family education, she has been literate and reasonable since she was a child. It's just that sex likes martial arts, and it's ridiculous about knitting, you have to think about these things clearly. ”

Liu Shi smiled: "It's okay, there is no shortage of needleworkers in my family, just be dignified, sensible, and understand righteousness." ”

Liu Bei glanced at Liu Shi and said with a smile: "So I replied to Kong Beihai and agreed to this marriage!" ”

Liu Bei saw Sun Rong arching his hand: "My brother agreed to this marriage, thank you Kong Beihai for making it happen." ”

Mi Zhu also learned that Liu Shi agreed, and he was overjoyed.

The next day, meet with Liu Bei, exchange eight characters and engagement tokens, Mi Zhu and Liu Bei discussed, now the war continues, it was decided that the wedding should be simple, Liu Shi held a marriage ceremony when he passed Xuzhou, and the time was set for one month later.

Kong Rong attaches great importance to the etiquette system, but the current situation is uneven, and he is also very much in favor of simplicity.

After the discussion was completed, Mi Zhu immediately sent someone to inform the family to prepare for the marriage ceremony of the little sister.

When Liu Shi's army crossed Xuzhou, he provided 50,000 pieces of grain and grass, 20,000 pieces of weapons, and provided food for everyone free of charge during his stay in Xuzhou.

Liu Shi was overjoyed and said secretly: "This woman can also be married!" The Mi family is really rich. ”

After reorganization, more than 26,000 people were killed. The war in Xuzhou is urgent, can not be delayed, Liu Bei has few soldiers, but Liu Bei is not as rich as Liu Shi, and he does not dare to raise more troops, so he only selects more than 2,000 elite people from Liu Shi's reorganized army, bids farewell to Kong Beihai, and goes to the plain to borrow more than 1,000 light cavalry left in Qingzhou by Gongsun Zhan, and rushes to Xuzhou.

Originally, Liu Bei proposed to ask Tai Shi Ci to go to Xuzhou to help, but Tai Shi Ci recruited a letter from Liu Xuan, a villager from Yangzhou, to bid farewell to Kong Rong, Liu Bei, and Liu Shi and return to Donglai.

Before parting, Liu Shi took Tai Shici's hand and said: "Thank you for taking care of your junior brother Liu Zheng to return to Beihai, this time, Liu Zheng also plans to go to Nanyang, I wonder if Zi Yijun can go along?" ”

Tai Shici was embarrassed: "The villagers dare not go when they are invited. ”

He said strangely: "Ziming is your junior brother?" Have you promised to go to Nanyang with you? I'm going to invite him to go with me to Koto? In this way, I invite others again. "Say goodbye.

Liu Shi looked at his back, felt a little melancholy, turned back to the Taishou Mansion, and listened to Kong Rong order Wu Anguo to lead the army to Xuzhou with Mi Zhu to help, Liu Shi did not dare to stay longer, bought some grain and grass in Qamdo City, and said goodbye to Kong Rong.

Kong Rong saw that Liu Shi brought all the Yellow Turban troops to Nanyang, and generously sent 10,000 stone of grain and grass.

Liu Shi expressed his gratitude.

Liu Shi has a large number of people, walks slowly, more than 110,000 Yellow Turban troops, only more than 20,000 strong soldiers who meet the standards of Nanyang Zhengshu are selected, not that the Yellow Turban Army are all old and weak, but after a long period of hunger, most of them are very weak and need time to recover.

A thousand pieces of cloth is still far from enough, only a few thousand sets have been made, Liu Shi looked at these people and frowned, how could such a group of people be able to march long distances?

After thinking about it again, he selected 6,000 elites from more than 20,000 strokes, purchased some cloth by himself, plus 1,000 horses given by Mi Zhu, and selected dexterous needlemen from the relocation troops to make 6,000 sets of military uniforms, so that these 6,000 elites could be replaced, so that it seemed that there was a bit of military momentum.

In order to prevent the more than 100,000 people from going into chaos, Liu Shi divided the more than 20,000 soldiers into three parts: the vanguard 3,000 were led by Wei Yan, and Xu He was the deputy, opening roads and buying grain along the way. He led 18,000 strong soldiers as the Chinese army, Xiang Xiong as the middle officer, and Sima Ju as the deputy. Guan Hai took 3,000 elites as the rear army, took in those who fell behind along the way, and prevented bad people from following them.

He also organized all kinds of craftsmen, artists, and doctors into three groups, and marched with the front, middle, and rear armies. However, these people were in rags, and Liu Shi was helpless.

As for the weapons, Liu Shi is even more nerve-wracking, there are all kinds of things, even wooden sticks and shovels abound. There are only 5,000 sets of weapons that can be called complete, of which 1,000 sets can barely be called bows and arrows, and the rest have knives, swords, halberds, axes, spears, and spears, and most of the rest are in tatters.

Liu Shi smiled bitterly, how can such an army fight a war? 3,000 prepared weapons were given to the forward, and 1,000 were each received by the Chinese army and the rearguard.

After the rectification was completed, they began to migrate thousands of miles to Nanyang. With so many people and horses moving, and there is no government to provide food, let alone robbery, buying and selling along the way is also a drop in the bucket, how can we meet the food of more than 100,000 people, not to mention the lack of money. Liu Shi decided that except for the main pawn, the rest of the people could only feed and survive every day, so that walking thirty or fifty miles a day was the limit.

On this day, when he traveled to Langxi County, Xuzhou, Wei Yan sent someone to secret: "The former army infantry found Zhang Min, the governor of Xuzhou who assassinated Cao Cao's father. found that the reason was even more ridiculous, this foot soldier went to the market town with Wei Yan, Zhao He and others to buy goods, and occasionally met one of Zhang Min's cronies. Because he was a fellow villager, he stepped forward and made a move. Wei Yan felt that everyone was going to stay in the market town for one night, and there were not many things to buy this time, so he let this foot soldier talk to this Zhang Min cronie alone. In fact, this foot soldier didn't know that Zhang Min had committed a crime, but Zhang Min's cronies were weak in heart. When leaving, he followed the foot soldier to assassinate him. was discovered by this foot soldier, and when he was entangled, he called his companions and arrested Zhang Min's cronies into the camp. After careful interrogation, this cronie thought that the matter was exposed, and told Zhang Min's affairs 1510, and also told Zhang Min's hidden address. It turned out that this Zhang Min was hiding in this market town and pretending to be a wealthy businessman. So far, Zhang Min and more than 30 people have been arrested, and the thieves and money worth about 300 catties of gold have been seized, and a batch of antiques has been recovered. Please how to deal with it. ”

Liu Shi was overjoyed and replied: "The thieves were executed, and the money obtained purchased 5,000 sets of cloth clothes, 3,000 fine steel knives, and the rest to buy grain. ”

Liu Shi replaced the steel knife as the striker, and 5,000 sets of military uniforms were allocated to the Chinese army. In this way, the whole army has a new atmosphere.

Just as he was about to leave, Wei Yan sent someone to report: "Captain Cao is here." ”

Liu Shi was stunned! "What's going on? Didn't they let them go back to Nanyang on their own? How did we meet here? ”

Fate Cao Xing came in and replied.

As soon as Cao Xuan came in, he knelt on the ground and said, "Cao Xuan failed to complete the task assigned by the lord, and Zuo Bo and his party were all captured by the bandits. ”

Liu Shi was shocked, and asked anxiously about the situation, so that Cao Xing could get up and talk back.

He knew that Cao was cautious by nature, and would never deliberately cause trouble, nor would he intentionally leave Uncle Zuo.

Cao Xing said: "After he and Liu Zheng left Beihai with Zuo Bo and his party, they marched all the way to Xuzhou, and a few days ago, they walked to a valley and were suddenly surrounded by a group of bandits. There were about a few thousand of these bandits. He and Liu Zheng negotiated with the bandit, whose name was Changxi, who was very arrogant. I said, 'We are the Nanyang Army, and General Annam specially sent us to Donglaili to invite a papermaker, please do not stop us.' That Zhijing Xi didn't appreciate it, waved his hand, and shouted, "Catch them all, and want someone to take the money." Liu Zheng and I were defeated, so we had to rush out together. Ziming felt sorry that you wanted to leave, it was me who persuaded you to stay, and I was thinking of rescuing me when I stayed nearby, and it was rumored that General Annan had subdued 100,000 yellow scarves and was heading to Nanyang, so we hurriedly came to meet. ”

Liu Shi pondered for a while and asked, "How many bandits can you find out here in the past few days?" Can it be the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army? ”

Cao Xing said: "It has been found out that it is the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, there are about 100,000 people, divided into several departments, headed by Tibetan Ba, they occupy Mount Tai and Langyu, and sometimes go down the mountain to plunder. The one who plundered us this time was called Changxi, about 30,000 people, and about 20,000 soldiers who could fight, and their stockade was thirty miles away from here. ”

Liu Shidao: "Take me to see Ziming, and then discuss the matter of saving people." "Instructed the guards to find Wei Yan, Guan Hai and others to come to the discussion.

Cao Xing took Liu Shi to an inn, and in the guest room sat a young man, extremely strong. Seeing Cao Xuan coming in, he got up and said, "Captain Cao, this is ----。 ”

Liu Shi smiled: "Do you still want to fight?" ”

The young man was stunned, then overjoyed, stepped forward, and shouted, "But Senior Brother Liu? ”

Liu Shi smiled: "Isn't it who am I?" If you haven't seen you for ten years, you will forget about your brother? ”

The young man was overjoyed and stepped forward to hug Liu Shi, but then he held back and said: "It's not that the government doesn't want to be a senior brother, but since the separation, the Yellow Turban rebelled, and my father took a group of clansmen and fled to Liaodong by boat with everyone." I just came back, and I heard Senior Brother Wang say that Senior Brother Liu is already a noble marquis, a general of Annan, and a Taishou of Nanyang. Let me come to my brother. It's just that as soon as he arrived in Langya, the people invited by the senior brother were robbed by the bandits, making the government embarrassed. ”

Liu Shi soothed: "Ziming doesn't have to blame himself too much, we want to rescue the robbers, and we will discuss it together later." ”