Liu Ze said angrily: "This Sima of the other department is just an official position temporarily appointed by Duke Lu, which is convenient for me to act in the army, in fact, to put it bluntly, the Sima of the other department is not in the official establishment, and when the war is over in the future, his subordinates will be dismissed, and this official will exist in name only." ”

Zhang Fei couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and said: "We have also made great achievements, why is it so difficult to be an official?" ”

Liu Ze patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Come on, my little official fan, you will be indispensable in the future." Zhang Fei thought that the eldest brother had the world in mind, so he didn't care about anything anymore. Liu Ze ordered Guan Hai and asked the team to gather and set off immediately after dinner.

Left Guangzong and headed south. It was nearly June, there was no rain for a long time, and the weather was hot, so Liu Ze ordered the team to rest at noon every day, and stayed overnight, and a group of more than 500 people were all light horses, and the foot was extremely fast, and they had crossed the Yellow River in three or four days, looking at the Yingchuan River. Yulu counties are dilapidated, most of them were looted by the yellow turbans, fortunately, there are still some counties that have not been poisoned, and the local officials are all frightened when they see the official document of the general Beizhong Lang, and they obey their orders, and the supply of grain and grass for Liu Ze and his party is also sufficient.

After crossing the Yellow River, the scene is even more shocking, the city is dilapidated, the villages and villages are withered, and there are no people for hundreds of miles, and there are rotting corpses and white bones everywhere. Unlike the Jizhou Yellow Turbans gathered in Guangzong, the Yellow Turbans south of the Yellow River were divided into several major forces, one part of Bocai in Yingchuan, one part of Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang, one part of Buji in Yanzhou, and one part of the Yellow Turbans in Runan, Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

As soon as Liu Ze crossed the Yellow River, he encountered a small group of yellow turban looting, obviously they had not yet figured out the origin of Liu Ze's cavalry, and suffered a lot in the first confrontation, but fortunately Liu Ze was in a hurry, and did not love to fight, and did not chase and kill the fleeing yellow turbans, these yellow scarves were considered to have escaped with their lives, and they did not dare to provoke Liu Ze's cavalry team lightly.

After Chen Liu, Yingchuan is not far away. It was noon, the sun was like fire, and Liu Ze ordered the team to choose a dense forest to rest. But he saw that there were fleeing people resting there in the dense forest, all of them with yellow faces and thin muscles, and their clothes were not covered. Liu Ze instructed Guan Hai to fetch some dry food for them, and the people who fled kowtowed to thank them.

Liu Ze sat down and chatted with those people, and learned that they all escaped from Yingchuan, so Liu Ze asked them about the situation on the Changshe side, and those people were all as white as dirt, and bluntly said that the yellow turbans were inhumane, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and the people were deeply affected. Liu Ze asked about the situation of the officers and soldiers, but these people did not know anything. It's just that I heard that a general surnamed Zhu was defeated before, killing and wounding many officers and soldiers, and later a general Huangfu came, but he couldn't beat the yellow scarf, and was surrounded by the yellow scarf in Changshe, and they escaped for some time, and the specific situation is not well understood.

Liu Ze saw that he couldn't ask for any valuable information, so he just did it, and then inquired about the road to Changshe, these refugees all fled from there, naturally it was very clear, and told Liu Ze in detail, went south to Gaoyang Pavilion, and then turned west, and passed Weishi County is Changshe, about four or five hundred miles away.

A white-haired old man looked at Liu Ze's few men and horses, and said worriedly: "The general is going to Changshe to fight?" ”

Liu Ze said: "Exactly." ”

The old man sighed and said, "The general can't go!" ”

"Why did the old man say that?"

"Yingchuan Yellow Turban people are numerous, and the wave talent of the commander is even more amazing, General Zhu's tens of thousands of horses were killed by him and fled, seeing that the general led only a few hundred people, how can he be the opponent of that wave of talent, wouldn't it be in vain to die?"

Liu Ze said with a smile: "Don't worry, old man, although there are few people under me, but they are battle-hardened warriors, how can I be afraid of the yellow scarf, not to mention that we are also acting on orders, and the military order is like a mountain, so we have to do it." ”

The old man carefully looked at Liu Ze's troops, but he didn't believe it, and kept shaking his head and sighing.

Liu Ze smiled, turned around and instructed Guan Hai to rest here for one more hour, and he would no longer camp tonight, and he would rush overnight, and it was expected that he would be able to rush to Changshe tomorrow morning. Guan Hai immediately sent the order down, and the army used up the dry food early, fell asleep, and hurried all the way, everyone did not have a good rest, and fell asleep at every opportunity.

Pan Feng handed a piece of marching dry food to Liu Ze, these marching dry food were specially prepared by Liu Ze, two thick cakes, a piece of bacon about half a catty, two carrots, meat and vegetarian, the cake is baked, a little dry and hard, you need to soak it in water when you eat it, the bacon tastes good, it is pickled in Phoenix Valley, as for the choice of vegetables, green leafy vegetables cannot be preserved, Liu Ze naturally thought of carrots first, rich in carotene, and resistant to storage. The nutrition of the whole package is good, which can fully ensure the sufficient intake of carbohydrates, protein and vitamins for each soldier at each meal, and it is estimated that Liu Ze can be regarded as a unique nutritionist in the Han Dynasty. Liu Ze ate dry food, drank half of the water, and leaned against the tree and squinted for a while.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already the west of the day, and he was about to order Guan Hai to assemble the team, when Wu Anguo, who was in charge of the guard, hurried over to report: "Lord Qi, I found a team of Yellow Turban soldiers ahead. ”

When Zhang Fei heard this, he stood up and said, "Where is it?" How many people are there? "Along the way, Zhang Fei did not kill the Yellow Turbans, once he found the traces of the Yellow Turban soldiers, he was always the first to rush up and cut all the way indiscriminately.

Wu Anguo said: "There are about fifty or sixty people. ”

When Zhang Fei heard that there were only fifty or sixty people, he was not interested, glared at Wu Anguo, and said, "What a fuss, but there are only fifty or sixty people, so you panic like this, you can't solve it with the patrol?" It disturbed my good dreams. ”

Wu Anguo was reprimanded by him, blushing and not knowing what to say.

Liu Ze thought that these fifty or sixty Yellow Turban soldiers were at most stragglers, and they would not come to his team at all, Wu Anguo solemnly stepped forward to report, and he must have something to do, so he asked: "You tell me in detail." ”

Wu Anguo hurriedly saluted Liu Ze and said, "My lord, this team of Yellow Turban soldiers is not coming at us, but intercepting a convoy on the official road, the convoy is obviously from the official eunuchs, and there are many guards and guards, and they are fighting with the Yellow Turban soldiers." The subordinates wanted to come to the rescue, but they were afraid of revealing the whereabouts of the team, so they asked the lord if he could help. ”

Liu Ze sighed and felt very strange, the world is so chaotic now, but all the big families with heads and faces are hiding in the capital and state and dare not come out, and there is actually a convoy of officials and eunuchs on this Chen Liuguan Road, which is indeed incomprehensible.

But since it happened, there was no reason to stand idly by, Liu Ze immediately turned over and said, "Let's go, take a look." ”

Wu Anguo, Pan Feng and others immediately followed and rushed out of the dense forest. Zhang Fei muttered: "Isn't it just dozens of yellow scarves, guilty of stirring up the people?" But he paced a few steps in place, and couldn't help but straddle his horse and chase after him.

The location of the accident was a few miles ahead, and Liu Zema was fast, and he arrived in an instant. On the official road, there are three or four carriages with canopies, decorated very magnificently, at first glance it is not an ordinary family, the carriage is surrounded by dozens of family members, holding blades and dozens of yellow turban soldiers with yellow scarves on their heads, more than a dozen corpses have fallen on the ground.

A yellow turban leader led by him shouted loudly: "Brothers, work hard, slaughter this fat sheep, and have fun tonight." These Yellow Turban soldiers were all outlaws, coaxing together, the attack was more fierce, and after a few screams, several more family members fell in a pool of blood, so anxious that an old man in brocade clothes standing next to the carriage stomped his feet.

At this moment, in a carriage, the head of a little girl stretched out, she looked outside curiously, but was frightened by the bloody horror outside, and screamed "ah", the little girl closed her eyes in fright, but did not shrink her head. A Yellow Turban soldier rushed forward and slashed at the little girl with a single sword.