On April 15, the wind and the sun were beautiful.

At noon, the official road located in Weishi County, Chenliu County, going north to Chenliu County, is lined with green grass, the trees are luxuriant, and the farther away, the fields are green, and the flowing water is sparkling. All the scenery swayed slightly in the gentle breeze.

At the same time, in the middle of the road, there were more than 5,000 cavalry and more than 2,000 infantry carrying grain and grass and baggage, extending an extremely long procession, leisurely marching towards Chenliu, hunting with flags along the way, and the sound of wheels and horses' hooves was endless.

At the front of the line, a number of cavalrymen were dressed in iron armor and armed with weapons, better equipped than most of the soldiers in the rear, and they controlled the reins, and slowly followed the figures at the front.

The figures in the foreground were walking on foot in iron armor, and some were talking to each other with maps and letterheads.

"It seems that Brother Bo Jue can't make it in time. It will be another month or two at the earliest."

It was Liu Zheng who spoke, at this time he was holding the wooden slip sent from Qingzhou by Gongsun Zhan from Yingyin today, and handed the wooden slip to Zhang Fei after speaking, and then walked forward with his hands in his hand, letting the warm breeze blow on his face, frowning and thinking.

Speaking of which, a few years ago, Gongsun Chan took Mo Hubao and others north to Youbeiping, and since then he has been recuperating and running in the army in Youbeiping.

Originally, Gongsun Zhan's statement to Liu Zheng was that he was going to survive the winter and then go south with Liu Zheng, but not long after the New Year, Gongsun Chan suddenly sent a letter from his side, saying that he was going to let Liu Zheng go first, and he was going to gather more than 30,000 people, and then go to Qingzhou with the Black Mountain Army and the Yellow Turban Army.

Gongsun Zan explained to Liu Zheng about this matter, Qingzhou bandits were already rampant, and he led many people to quell the chaos, which could not only benefit the people and reduce the pressure on Qingzhou, but also run in the army, recruit troops, and increase the chances of victory against Dong Zhuo.

On the other hand, Liu Bei holds the Zhongxing sword, which is a vital part of this push for Liu Zheng to go to Luoyang, this time Liu Bei was sent to rescue Beihai County, there are not many people, and Liu Bei is inevitably delayed there, so it is urgent to send reinforcements and let Liu Bei go to the sour date in advance to converge.

These reasons are said, Liu Zheng naturally has nothing to refute, plus the letter also contains a secret letter from Gongsun Chan asking Lu Zhi to get Lu Zhi's permission, and it was also at that time that Liu Zheng rectified his manpower and left Youzhou to come to Yingyin.

But more than two months have passed, although Gongsun Chan has repeatedly reported success after arriving in Qingzhou, this latest letter shows that Gongsun Chan will have to stay in Qingzhou for at least a month before he can come, knowing that Qingzhou Thorn Shi Jiaohe died of illness a month ago, even though Xun Yan and Ma Tai sent letters every now and then to show that Gongsun Chan did not have any clues of not cooperating, Liu Zheng was still a little worried about what was happening on Gongsun Chan's side.

Regarding Gongsun Zhan's entry into Qingzhou, or the Black Mountain Army, the Yellow Turban Army and Mo Huba's troops being co-opted and co-opted by Gongsun Zhan, Liu Zheng actually doesn't care about these things now, what he is most afraid of is that Gongsun Chan comes too late.

To be honest, in the whole link, although Liu Bei and Gongsun Chan participated together, in Liu Zheng's opinion, the weight of Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei is completely different.

After all, in Liu Yu and Lu Zhi's plan, Liu Bei's biggest role was to investigate whether Yuan Shao and others had different intentions in the process of attacking Dong Zhuo, and the incident of letting Liu Bei push Liu Zheng to go to Luoyang was only incidental.

Even without Liu Bei, there is a preconceived prejudice against Liu Zheng by Kong Ling, Yuan Yi and others, and Liu Zheng can justifiably hide Dong Zhuo and go to Luoyang, so knowing that Yuan Shao and others will definitely expose their dissent in the future, Liu Zheng maintains a dispensable attitude towards Liu Bei's involvement in this matter.

But Gongsun Chan is different.

Even though some people were sacrificed in Qingzhou, because of the war to feed the war, Gongsun Chan still has more than 20,000 elites. Regardless of whether Liu Zheng can complete the plan or not, Gongsun Zhan's soldiers will play a vital role in the incident against Dong Zhuo.

Therefore, once Gongsun Chan is late, or does not come at all, it will undoubtedly be much more difficult to complete the plan and eliminate Dong Zhuo.

On the other hand, this time Liu Zheng came from Youzhou, passing through Jizhou, Yanzhou, and all the way to Yingyin County, Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, not passing by Chenliu County, where the sour jujube is located, although he said that he did not have the sour jujube in the past, but he also sent someone to send a letter to the sour jujube, but no one came to greet him, and no one sent someone to visit, and even Xian Yufu Liu Zheng did not reply to the private message, only Cao Cao's private message came.

And Cao Cao's private letter also revealed the attitude of being restrained by Zhang Miao and unable to meet him, which shows how unpopular Liu Zheng is in the eyes of the princes of Sour Zao.

This shows that if Gongsun Zhan does not come, Liu Zheng may have to endure the exclusion from the princes for a long time when Sun Jian is located in Nanyang and cannot help in time, and even if he finds a suitable opportunity to attack, he is afraid that he will not be able to find someone to deal with.

Thinking about it this way, the current situation is really unprecedentedly tricky, and Liu Zheng's face naturally became a little ugly.

"A month or two, just a month or two. Big brother, don't worry, with Brother Xiu Ruo, as well as Zhang Yan and Ma Tai watching, Brother Bo Jue will definitely come. Zhang Fei browsed the wooden slip, then turned back to look at the map of Hanoi County in his hand, and said without a word: "If those Taishou assassins come to provoke me and wait, it's a big deal that I will let the brothers also restrain themselves, and then leave with this evil breath when Brother De Boqi comes." Isn't it just forbearance? ”

"Leave with a bad breath? If you think beautifully, they don't come, and it is possible that our people will be eaten by Yuan Shao and they will not even have bones left. Liu Zheng shook his head and looked behind him.

At this time, there were Zhang Mancheng and Zhao Yun standing beside him, Xun Yue and Xi Xi were riding on horses and talking and laughing with Xu He and Sima Ju who came with Zhang Mancheng, Ke Hai, Zhu Ming, Wen Renchang, and Wei Linping were managing the Tiger Ben Suwei and a group of cavalry, and more rear, as well as Li Cheng and Che Huan, who supervised the grain and grass, and Che Huan, who galloped on horseback.

There will be such a personnel distribution, but Liu Zheng and Xun Yu discussed it before going south this time. Considering that Youzhou, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, and Yuzhou all need to employ people, and Yuan Shao, Han Fu and others have only produced 30,000 people at most, they will inevitably become the target of public criticism, and Liu Zheng does not need to bring too many people.

What's more, in order to highlight the importance of Gongsun Zhan, Liu Zheng increased Dong Zhuo's weight to win him over, this time the banner is still under Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Chan is relied on, in fact, 5,000 people are already a lot.

But now that Gongsun Chan can't arrive in time, Liu Zheng is a little dissatisfied with the current staffing.

Even though Zhang Mancheng Xu and Sima Ju have been on the battlefield for a long time and have good combat effectiveness, Ke Hai Zhu Ming and others have followed Liu Zheng for a long time and are also quite combative, and the vast majority of the more than 7,000 cavalry infantry behind him are selected from the Yellow Turban Army and the Tiger Ben Guards who performed well in Youzhou this time, but Liu Zheng knows that once he arrives at Sujube and joins the alliance, everything will be out of his control, and he is likely to need to face not only the princes led by Yuan Shao, but also the possibility of fighting with Dong Zhuo's side.

Therefore, these more than 7,000 people seem to be a lot, if they really fall into that kind of predicament, that is, Yuan Shao's gang has no combat experience, and under the influence of many parties, they will also be consumed to a state of no bones.

What's more, in fact, these 7,000 people were supposed to divide their troops in Liu Zheng's plan, and after he arrived in Suojube, the real number of men and horses under his command was only 5,000. This is also the deep reason why Liu Zheng said frustrating words, many things were beyond his expectations, which made him a little overwhelmed.

"If the lord says so, then let's just let Yu Poison bring someone over to support?" Seeing that Liu Zheng was a little discouraged, Zhang Mancheng put away the map of Hanoi in his hand and asked with a frown.

This time Liu Zheng came to sour jujube, Zhang Yan and they didn't know for what reason, they didn't get involved in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and almost the whole army attacked Qingzhou, but they also sent Luo City to Lugushan near Chaoge County, Hanoi County to persuade Yu Yu to deal with Liu Zheng together.

When they were in Youzhou before, Zhang Fei and others led their troops south in advance, but they had actually met with Yu Poison and had been running in for a while.

This time, Liu Zheng went north to sour jujube, and the established plan was to divide 2,000 people, led by Zhang Fei, Zhu Ming, and Xi Xian to meet Yu Poison. After that, Zhang Fei and they would station troops in Hanoi, and under the guidance of Zhu Ming, who was born in Hanoi, they waited for the opportunity to move and respond to Liu Zheng.

However, although the situation has changed, Liu Zheng still shook his head at this time, "Who did Yu Poison listen to?" I can't help myself in the sour jujube, and the situation is the same when he comes, and it may make it worse for me here. Only when they go over can it be possible to reduce my burden on this side."

When he said this, he looked at Xun Yue and Xi Wei behind him, and grinned, "Tsk, I would have known that I would have asked Brother Xiu Ruo to come over to support me." It's good now, I don't even have anyone around me who knows the art of war."

"If you let Brother Zhongyu hear this," Zhang Fei looked at Xun Yue and smiled, hugging Liu Zheng's shoulder, "Isn't there still Cao Mengde and Xi Zhicai, with Brother Zhongyu here, can Xi Zhicai give you advice?" Xian Yu has already arrived with them, if you really want to get into trouble, can he still save you? Anyway, you can rest easy. Those people really don't want to make trouble for you shamelessly, it's a big deal that I brought people from Chaoge and also found trouble with them. ”

Seeing Liu Zheng glaring at him, Zhang Fei smiled disapplausively: "It's useless for you to stare at me." It's not that Zhang wants to go over, it's you who asked me to go out and lead an army alone, and you also said that my brothers and I want to become a corner. The so-called general is outside, and there is something wrong with the king's life! ”

Liu Zheng fell over the shoulder, Zhang Fei fell to the ground and begged for mercy, and after Liu Zheng let go, Zhang Fei fought with the gloating Zhang Mancheng again.

Everyone played and laughed, talking and laughing for a while, not long after, the trail disappeared, in front of the endless flat land, and walked for a while, there was a scout in front of the fast horse newspaper, saying that there was an army four or five miles away in front of the army is resting, look at the flag is also "Liu", and embroidered with the words "General Fuhan" and "King Chen" are flying, the number of people is more than 3,000.

When Liu Zheng heard this, he asked the scout to go and report that he would take back all the scouts that had been scattered, and then let the army change direction and prepare to make a detour from the west, everyone knew Liu Zheng's plan, and couldn't help but come over, Xun Yue asked: "King Chen, Liu Pet, are you not going to meet?" ”

Liu Zheng called Qingyun to his side, touched Qingyun's mane, looked in the direction of Chen Wang's tribe in the north, and then hooked the corner of his mouth, "Where is Chen Guo?" I've arrived here from Youzhou, how can he not be here yet? Now that Yuan Shao is the leader of the alliance, he has come over, and he is right in front of us, don't you think it's too coincidental? ”

Although Liu Zheng didn't stay in Yingyin for a long time, he didn't know about the situation in Youzhou. Chen Guo is next door to Yingchuan County and Chen Liujun, Chen Wang Liu Pet has always been famous in Yuzhou, Liu Zheng has always advocated picking important information to see first, and naturally he has carefully read this person's information.

Regarding the person of King Chen, there are mixed reviews and controversies in the market, and Liu Zheng has even seen a lot of proverbs and nursery rhymes such as "Sanxing Han Family, in King Chen", "Han Family Guozuo, Yu Chen Yanmian" and other proverbs and nursery rhymes are mixed in the intelligence.

For Liu Zheng, this person is brave and difficult, loves the people like a son, and can smooth the governance of Chen Guo.

If Liu Pet has now arrived at the sour date, and comes out to see him again, Liu Zheng will definitely have the heart to make friends. However, Liu Pet appeared here at this time, which made Liu Zheng a little vigilant.

It's not that Liu Zheng hasn't heard of it, since Qiao Mao's edict was publicized at the beginning of last year, Liu Pet has already responded. However, for more than a year after that, this person was still stationed in Yangxia County, Chen State, and did not do anything related to fighting Dong Zhuo except for the self-proclaimed "General of the Auxiliary Han".

The title of "Fu Han" is negligible, but the position of the general is higher than the status of the three dukes, and now Liu Yu is the great Sima, which can be called the first person outside Luoyang, then, Liu Pet is self-proclaimed General of the Fu Han, which is to tell the world that he should be the first person under Liu Yu to further say that in the case of Liu Yu not doing anything, he should coordinate all walks of life.

In a sense, Liu Chong's self-proclaimed general of the Auxiliary Han Dynasty can be called a worthy and heroic spirit, but in these years, everyone respects humility and respect, and as soon as his title comes out, it undoubtedly arouses a lot of criticism.

Originally, this is not a big deal, if you have the ability to be crazy, Liu Zheng can accept it. But it's a pity that when Yuan Shao and others didn't bird Liu Pet, Liu Pet was stationed in China and didn't take an inch.

In addition, knowing that Yuan Shao and the others were going to gather in the sour dates, Liu Chong didn't even rush over, let alone unite many people to discuss the matter of crusading against Dong Zhuo.

This shows that this guy clearly only wants power, but does not want to pay the price, and is quite suspected of supporting the army and respecting himself. For this kind of behavior, Liu Zheng is naturally a little unaccustomed.

On the other hand, Liu Chong now happens to be on their way forward, which is difficult not to make Liu Zheng think that Liu Chong is preparing to join him to go to Sujube to fight for power with Yuan Shao.

Liu Zheng needs someone to support him, but he doesn't need an ally with sinister intentions, not to mention that according to Liu Zheng's judgment, Liu Pet is likely to use him as a knife, which is something that Liu Zheng is even more afraid of.

At the same time, at the southern edge of a 5,000-strong military formation where Liu Zheng's scouts had reached, a middle-aged man in his thirties was sitting on a desk and squinting at the southern horizon.

Behind him, the big banner hunting, the cloak behind his back danced slightly, the white horse on his side neighed from time to time, the middle-aged man was dressed in gold armor, wearing a sword around his waist, and poured a sip of wine on his head, after the scout explained the situation, his rather resolute face showed an interesting smile, "It's all like this, and you are still so proud?" ”

He stood up, his slender and burly body, turned over his horse, and waved his hand at his men, "Give the order." All cheer up the king. Grab your crossbows and stay in formation. Let's go west! ”

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