Zhang Rang's face turned pale, and he anxiously asked Huangfu how many such letters he had, and he was willing to buy them at a high price. "General Huangfu only has to make a bid, our family will never bargain, although our family admits its its innocence, but we also know that people's words are terrible, and everyone slanders gold."

Huangfu Song was embarrassed and said, "The rest of the letters are not in the hands of my official. ”

Zhang Rang was even more busy asking about the whereabouts of the letters, and Huangfu Song said unhurriedly: "The killing of Zhang Liang was done by Lu Zhi's subordinates, and these letters are naturally still in Lu Zhi's hands." ”

As soon as he heard that the letter was in Lu Zhi's hands, Zhang Rang's face was more uncomfortable than swallowing a fly, and the emperor took the opportunity to say: "Lu Zhi himself is difficult to protect, if Zhang Zhong is willing to say a few kind words for him in front of the emperor, this official can naturally ask Lu Zhi to hand over all the letters." ”

After some haggling, Huang Fu Song and Zhang Rang finally reached a secret agreement, Zhang Rang agreed to advise the emperor to pardon Lu Zhi, and Huang Fu Song also agreed to ask Lu Zhi for all the letters.

Sure enough, the shape took a sharp turn, and Emperor Lu Zhi pardoned and acquitted, although he could not be reinstated, he still returned to the Shangshu who served at the beginning of the year, which can be regarded as a complete merit. The emperor ordered Huangfu Song to immediately return to the front line in Yuzhou and command the army to quell the rebellion in Yanzhou.

At the send-off banquet of the officials, Lu Zhi was greatly moved and toasted to thank him. Huangfu Song smiled and said: "Brother Zi, don't thank me, if you want to thank you, thank your good disciple and good student." ”

Pan Feng had passed the news of Luoyang to Liu Ze earlier, and Huangfu Song's car arrived in Yuzhou after four or five days. After returning to the barracks, Huang Fusong's first order was to open the whole army to Yanzhou.

During the march, Huangfu Song walked with Liu Ze and talked about the affairs of the DPRK and China. Huang Fusong sighed a lot: "If it weren't for the letters that Runde inadvertently seized this time, I'm afraid that the road to Lu Gong's reinstatement would still be far away." ”

Liu Ze said: "The ten permanent servants and the Qingliu courtiers try to be the same as fire and water. This time, Lu Gong finally committed it in their hands, how could he give up. Fortunately, we caught some of their handles, otherwise we would not have the capital to trade with them. ”

Huangfu Song sighed: "Originally, using this letter as evidence, there is a possibility of overthrowing Zhang and letting them, but it's a pity!" ”

Liu Ze said: "This time the timing is not right, if Zhang Rang is forcibly impeached, Zhang Rang and others will jump over the wall in a hurry, just afraid that they will be burned, and it will be even more difficult to rescue Lu Gong." However, General Huangfu does not need to be discouraged, there are still many opportunities. Next time, if you want to catch Zhang Rang's handle, you will definitely lift him up forever and not turn over. ”

Huangfu Song laughed and said: "Runde's words are very much in line with my wishes, good, good!" ”

Yuzhou Dading, all the way from is safe and sound. At the beginning of October, Huangfu Song's army crossed into Yanzhou in Dingtao, and the Yellow Turbans of Yanzhou fled, and the officers and soldiers recovered Jiyin County smoothly. Now Huangfu's men and horses are far more than the 20,000 horses that went out at the beginning, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses reinforced by Cao Cao, the number of soldiers under Zheng Tai has exceeded 30,000. Coupled with the powerful donations from all over Yuzhou, it is roughly estimated that there are at least 80,000 soldiers and horses under Huangfu Song's current command.

Liu Ze was puzzled. According to the trajectory of history, Huangfu Song should have broken himself in Cangting in August and September, because Lu Zhi's matter was delayed for more than a month. It was not until October that Huangfu Song marched into Yanzhou. The matter in Hebei is even more weird, Dong Zhuo was defeated by the Yellow Turban one after another. After losing his army and land, the court was forced to let Huangfu Song take over the military power of Hebei. In October, Zhang Jiao fell ill and died, and the Yellow Turban Army was quickly defeated. But the current situation is very different, Hebei good news is frequent, Dong Zhuo has won many battles, and Zhang Jiao is not dead, he is alive and well, which makes Liu Ze very surprised, it seems that his arrival has really changed the trajectory of history, and the future history will be a new history, a history that he can no longer control and grasp.

Huangfu Song was completely unaware of this, and he was in the Chinese army tent, planning to launch a full-scale attack on the Yellow Turban Buji in Dongjun. He first ordered Cao Cao to lead his headquarters of 5,000 men and horses to attack Fan County, cut off Bu Ji's route to flee east to Taishan County, and then ordered Yanzhou Assassin Shi Zheng Tai to lead the army to attack Baima all the way, the left military captain to lead the army to attack Juancheng, the right military captain to lead the army to attack Lihu all the way, and personally led the main army to attack Puyang.

In addition, Liu Ze was ordered to lead the headquarters of 500 cavalry to Cangting in the starry night, which was said: "If Bu Jidong County is lost, he will go to Cangting, and if Runde can defend Cangting, it will be the first achievement." ”

Liu Zekang accepted the order. Huangfu Song is worthy of being a generation of famous generals, if the command is determined, strategizing, the deployment of troops in each battle is orderly, thoughtful, the use of the art of war formation is perfect, Liu Ze has benefited a lot from his account for several months.

The army pressed the border, Bu Ji was also panicked, Huangfu Song burned the Changshe, fought in Yuzhou, and captured Peng Tuo, and hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops in Yuzhou collapsed. Although Bu Ji entangled fifty or sixty thousand horses, conquered Dongjun and Jiyin County one after another, and occupied ten county towns in Shanyang County, Chenliu County, Bu Ji understood that his strength was far from being the opponent of Huangfu Song. Just when Huangfu Song set out from Yuzhou and did not come to Yanzhou, Bu Ji took the initiative to give up many counties and counties in Jiyin Chen Liushanyang, and shrank his troops to the east county, Rao is so, Bu Ji is not at ease, while arranging the defense line, on the other hand, ready to retreat east to Mount Tai in the case of unfavorable warfare, Mount Tai is hundreds of miles in circumference, the mountain is steep, if it is defended according to the danger, no matter how many officers and soldiers are difficult to overcome.

But Huangfu Song had long expected this, caught Bu Ji's hesitation, and first ordered Cao Cao to conquer Fan County when the Zhulu army was oppressing Dongjun but had not yet launched an attack. Cao Cao also lived up to his expectations and took the lead, and it took less than an hour to take the county seat of Fanxian, thus cutting off the line of Bu Jidong's trip to Mount Tai in one fell swoop. Then the four-way army marched hand in hand, which had the meaning of catching turtles in the urn.

Bu Ji focused his defense on Puyang City, ready to rely on the fortified city to defend, so the garrison force of Baima, Juancheng and Lihu was extremely thin, and ten days after the Huangfu Song war, the three strategic places fell into the hands of officers and soldiers, and Puyang, the capital of Dongjun, was already a lonely city, and the shape was extremely sinister for Bu Ji.

After Zheng Tai and the captains of the left and right armies captured the three cities, they marched northward, and joined the army of Huangfu Song under the city of Puyang, and their momentum was even stronger, and they attacked Puyang in turn day and night, the Yellow Turban Army was already disheartened, more and more people fled, and the day of the city was just around the corner.

At the critical moment, Bu Ji obeyed the deputy general's Jianyi, abandoned Puyang, and broke through to the east. After a bloody battle, Bu Ji led his army to break through the blockade line of officers and soldiers and fled east along the Yellow River. Although he successfully escaped from Puyang, Bu Ji's subordinates were already seven or eight out of ten, the remaining Yellow Turban soldiers were less than 10,000, and the wounded and sick were left with only seven or eight thousand people who were capable of fighting.

In front of Bu Ji, there are two ways to go, one is to cross the Yellow River to the north, close to the Tiangong general Zhang Jiao, and the other is to go east along the Yellow River, as long as you pass the Cangting, you can enter the boundary of Qingzhou.

Although the Yellow Turban forces in Qingzhou have been repeatedly attacked, there are still many forces, and more importantly, the officers and soldiers are fighting on their own, and without the emperor's edict, the military horses in various places are not allowed to fight across borders (this is the selfishness of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the purpose is to prevent the warlords in various places from taking the opportunity to expand their territory by taking the opportunity of counterinsurgency. Liu Yu sent troops to Qingzhou, that was a special case, first of all, it was also the Qingzhou Assassin Shi who issued a request for help), Huangfu Song could not enter Qingzhou for the time being, as long as Bu Ji fled to Qingzhou, he could get a chance to breathe.

These two escape routes, crossing the Yellow River north is undoubtedly ideal, Zhang Jiao is powerful in Hebei, and taking refuge in Zhang Jiao can be refuted.

But then the question arises, if you want to cross the Yellow River, you must first have boats, there are enough boats, and when the war is torn, where to find so many boats? Even if the boat is found, it will be difficult to cross the river, and the officers and soldiers are closely following behind, and if they cross the river at this time, it will take at least a few days to send these nearly 10,000 people to the other side of the Yellow River safely, but will the officers and soldiers give them a few days? Within a few hours, the officers and men will be able to chase them to the banks of the Yellow River, with no danger to rely on and no way to escape.

Therefore, the proposal to cross the river was nonsense at all, and without thinking about it, he ordered the team to march eastward and drive along the south bank of the Yellow River in the direction of Qingzhou. Fan County had been occupied by Cao Cao, and his plan to flee east to Mount Tai had long since collapsed. The hatred in Bu Ji's heart, if he had made a decision earlier and gave up Dongjun before the officers and soldiers encircled him, maybe his tens of thousands of horses would be at ease in the deep ravine of Mount Tai now. Bu Ji made up his mind that after going around to Qingzhou this time, he would recruit men and horses, so he would make a detour into Mount Tai, and only then would he have the opportunity to fight with the officers and soldiers by taking risks in the mountains.

After a day of rapid marching, Bu Ji's army was already sleepy and tired, the sound of chasing and killing behind him was gradually inaudible, most of the Yellow Turban soldiers were so tired that they climbed down unquickly, and the deputy general was also out of breath, and said to Bu Ji: "Marshal, the army is tired, and the chasing soldiers are far away, so it is better to camp on the spot and go again tomorrow." ”

Bu Ji looked at the terrain here, the mountains were high and dense, gloomy and terrifying, and he was secretly frightened, and said in a deep voice: "The terrain here is so treacherous, is it a place for soldiers?" Where is this place? ”

A soldier who knew said: "Commander, this is Cangting." ”

Bu Ji was overjoyed and said: "After Cangting, we can escape from Dongjun, all the sons and daughters listen to the order, march quickly, tonight must cross Cangting Mountain, tomorrow in Jibei County and then turn to Mount Tai, as long as we enter Mount Tai, 100,000 officers and soldiers can not help me!" ”

The adjutant general had a difficult look on his face and said: "Marshal, our army is already sleepy and tired, it is getting late, and the road is difficult, I am afraid that my brothers will ......."

Bu Ji was furious and said: "In such a dangerous place, if the officers and soldiers lay down a group of men and horses, how can we survive?" ”

At this moment, there was a shout on the mountain, and countless torches were lit up, which shocked Bu Ji and the others to scatter, but they saw all the troops crowding around, with red faces and long hair, holding big knives, and shouting: "Bu Ji! Guan has been waiting here for a long time! (To be continued......)