Liu Bei came back very late, he was already a little drunk, and when he returned to the big tent, he directly teased Lu Peng: "Your leg has been saved, shouldn't you thank me for being a big brother?" ”

When Lu Peng heard this, of course he was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the reason.

Liu Bei straightened his chest and said proudly: "This time, Captain Zou brought a certain person into the Taishou Mansion to meet, Liu Taishou personally greeted him, and rewarded the banquet, during the banquet, everyone appreciated our brother's military exploits, and asked the emperor for credit on the spot. ”

When Zhang Fei heard this, he slapped his thigh directly, Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled, no matter what, the crisis of his brother Lu Peng's law field was over, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Between the banquets, it happened that Gong Jing, the Taishou of Qingzhou, sent someone to urgently ask for help, saying that the Yellow Turban thieves besieged the city, the Qingzhou defenders were invincible, and Qingzhou was about to fall. Then he patted Lu Peng on the shoulder with a smile: "Since you will start the army early tomorrow morning, then your appointment tomorrow afternoon will be stopped, in this way, your legs can be saved, isn't this gratifying?" ”

Zhang Fei laughed with his ass at that time: "That's true, the military situation in the army tomorrow is urgent, everyone pats their butts and leaves, how can they go to the old official mansion of Zou Jing?" Hahaha, okay, this thing, it's worth a drink. Then he shouted to the outside, "Come, come, bring wine." ”

This guy knows how to drink, no matter what the reason is, there is a reason to drink, and there is no reason to create a reason to drink, it is really a wine bag rice bag.

Since he wanted to save Qingzhou, of course, he had to understand the situation first, so Liu Bei briefly explained the situation he heard to the messenger asking for help, and briefly explained it to Lu Pengguan Zhang.

Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were rampant, and after plundering all over the country and accumulating enough strength, Fang Shuai, the leader of the thief army, integrated all the 50,000 Yellow Turban Army and surrounded Qingzhou.

Please also rely on the Yellow Turban Thief's combat effectiveness at that time, Gong Jing and a group of people relied on the strong city to resist Fang Shuai's attack day and night, so that Qingzhou did not fall, which also proves that Lu Peng and Liu Bei said when they fought a lawsuit, the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Thief is really too bad.

In this way, the two sides were at a stalemate in Qingzhou City, so Gong Jing remembered Liu Yan's old acquaintance, and sent a messenger to break through and come to Youzhou for help.

Early the next morning, Zou Jing took 5,000 reinforcements from Youzhou, together with Liu Guan, Zhang and Lu Peng, and 1,000 men and horses, bid farewell to Liu Yan, who was personally sent to the city gate, and the army went directly to Qingzhou.

Along the way, the mountains are high and the road is far away, the military situation is urgent, and the army maintains the fastest speed, this time, Liu Bei's quality of rural courage is revealed, the limit speed of fifty miles a day makes those officers and soldiers complain, but Liu Bei's men and horses are easy to deal with, which has to be praised by Zou Jing from time to time, but every time he hears that this is Lu Peng's work, his face immediately darkens, which makes Lu Peng always try his best to avoid Zou Jing far away.

But Zou Jing blackens his face every time he mentions Lu Peng, but he is still like a wrongdoer, as long as he can't see each other for a while, there is a reason to summon, and there is no reason to create a reason to summon, and then there is an inexplicable number of scoldings, which makes Lu Peng miserable.

But there is no way, people are bosses, people have big mouths, and you have small mouths, you still have to be a ninja who is submissive, every time he is inexplicably reprimanded with a gray face, Lu Peng has to wipe his sweat and mutter: "I really didn't kidnap your daughter and run away, why don't you treat me?" ”

Out of the boundary of Youzhou, he entered Qingzhou.

Qingzhou was originally an important state and county of the Han Dynasty, originally densely populated, and the economy was also developed, and the five counties and one country (fiefdom) originally had a registered population of no less than 3.5 million, and if you count the secret population of those powerful officials, businessmen, and merchants, at least it was between 5 million.

But Qingzhou is also the hardest hit area of the Yellow Turban Army, along the way, you can see ruins everywhere, originally a densely populated rich land, but now it has become a hell on earth, three hundred years of construction in one fell swoop, it can be seen that the destruction is always faster than the construction.

The closer to Qingzhou, the worse the situation, the original countless villages and towns were almost all destroyed, and almost all the young and strong men and women were coerced by the Yellow Turban Army, or were forcibly recruited by the government, and the two sides of the government and the thieves were fighting and destroying, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a hundred miles of uninhabited.

Fortunately, there are many fortresses set up by powerful clans along the way, all of them are tall and sturdy, and the Yellow Turban Army can't take him, no matter what, it can be regarded as preserving some of the vitality of the population.

Originally, the Youzhou Army was a guest army, and the rescue of Qingzhou was at the invitation of Gong Jing, the Taishou of Qingzhou, and the supply along the way should also be a burden on Qingzhou.

But but, but, Qingzhou has been dilapidated, and the county and county governments around the country have almost been swept away by the Yellow Turban Army, and they are completely paralyzed.

Along the way, there are also wealthy families to set up forts, recruiting villagers and soldiers and servants to defend the stubborn is not broken, but those wealthy families have no understanding of the national disaster at all, they just want to keep their own basic industry, and they ignore the passing Youzhou army, Zou Jing is the captain of the eight colonels of the Han Dynasty, but in the eyes of these wealthy families, it is not worth mentioning at all, and another one, you are an outsider, everyone will see you today, forget tomorrow, no one expects to collude with you in the future, and there is no need to accept you, so, no matter what, there is food and grass, just don't give it, love what's wrong.

As a result, the Youzhou reinforcements could only transport grain and grass all the way from Youzhou to Benzhou in accordance with the rules of the national dynasty.

However, as the Youzhou army got farther and farther away from the foundation of Youzhou, the supply of grain and grass became more and more difficult. Also, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the roads are rugged, the grain is transported from Youzhou, not to mention the disturbances, the people and the escorts on the road chew the fruit is an astronomical amount, the so-called escort to the front army is a Hu, the road consumes no less than ten Hu, and from time to time there are bandits along the way, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army robbed, the losses are heavier, and often the transport can not keep up with the actions of the army, so it can't help but slow down the army's journey, and the soldiers are half hungry and half full, and they are complaining, and the morale of the army is getting lower and lower, if it goes on like this, don't say that the army rescues Qingzhou, Even if the army climbs to Qingzhou, it is estimated that it will become called Huazi.