—184 A.D.——

Jinan.

"Meng De, you recruited tens of thousands of elites when my lord didn't know it, causing the surrounding feudal lords to boil, and did you intend to rebel?"

Liu Kang, the lord of Jinan, sent the minister of the country to meet with Cao Cao, the head of the split, if it is an ordinary official, I am afraid that he will already be broken and ask for guilt - and Cao Cao is not in this case.

This Liu Kang is nearly forty years old, a little fat, wearing a dark red county marquis robe, and a feather crown on his head, although the tone of that sentence is quite strong, but there is a faint smile on his face.

The place of this meeting was located in the back garden of the palace, and there was no one else on the left except for the state master who could be called the confidant of the lord of the country.

Moreover, the focus of these remarks is not at all "unknowing" and "tens of thousands of elites", but "boiling".

The Han Dynasty divided a total of five levels, in addition to the princes who have long ceased to be divided, from top to bottom are the county marquis, the county marquis, the township marquis and the pavilion marquis, among which the "county as the country" of the county marquis is also known as the lord of the country, can intervene in local political affairs, other low-level feudal lords as Cao Cao was worried before, only the right to collect taxes indiscriminately and gather hundreds of people to carry out the "village chief fight".

This time, they were plundered by Na Guancheng, and when they came to ask Liu Kang for help, they saw Cao Cao's troops that far exceeded the specifications, and they also asked for the right to take charge of the army.

"The lord of the country, please reply to the lords, if you are not worried about their safety, you can send the defenders of Jinan to 'assist in the defense' for him." Cao Cao responded according to what Xi Zhicai had told him before coming here.

"Mengde, you—hahaha!" Liu Kang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Aren't these feudal lords going to take the power of the army? He gave them a ready-made army directly, just to see if they dared to ask for it.

The lord of a country has two people under him, the state master who manages his palace and the minister who manages the county, which is about the emperor's internal governor and prime minister, Cao Cao can assign the soldiers recruited in Jinan to do anything, and even pull away another vote is not a problem, but the only thing that cannot be done is to take the initiative against this Liu Kang, otherwise not only the soldiers will mutiny, but there is no place for him to go in this world.

Therefore, in Liu Kang's opinion, the generals under Cao Cao are forgotten, but the soldiers recruited belong to themselves, so they are not worried that they will be controlled by those small feudal lords after sending them, if they really dare to try to control, it will be difficult to say what the surnames of those fiefs will be at that time - well, it seems that they will be surnamed Liu no matter what.

He obviously didn't know what was going on with the Qingzhou soldiers, who were mainly composed of Taiping Daoists, and the tiger and leopard cavalry, all of whom came from Qian County.

"Those small feudal lords are addicted to fighting each other, which makes it unfavorable to arrest the Taiping Road, so that the thieves will sweep Qingzhou, and the lord of the country ascends and shouts, and tens of thousands of warriors in the country respond, what excuse is there to make noise?" Cao Cao thought for a while, and then gave Liu Kang an excuse on the surface.

"Yes, yes, that's right, hahaha, so, Qingzhou's defense will be handed over to you," Liu Kang turned around and said: "This king has prepared thin wine in the garden, and he should drink it with Meng De." ”

As the lord of Jinan, do you want to be in charge of Qingzhou's defense? Sure enough, because the four consecutive generations are not sons inheriting their father's business, everyone in the old Liu family has more or less a little bit of thought.

"Lord of the country, at this time, the thieves have been driven to the direction of Beihai Kingdom, do you want to send an order to collect troops?" To confirm this, Cao Cao asked.

"What kind of soldiers are collected, just go to 'assist in defense'," Liu Kang waved his hand arrogantly: "Those Confucian students let them study hard!" ”

"Yes."

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North Sea.

"I seem to understand Xi Zhicai's strategy a little."

Guan Cheng, who couldn't fight at all, once again left some of his men and fled, and Le Jin, who was ordered not to chase, and Li Dian and Zhang Juehui, who came from the rear, climbed high and looked at the group of routs from afar, and said so.

"Convenient to recruit and don't want to go the same way with him to the black?" Zhang Jue looked at the prisoners who were busy trying to surrender: "I still had to use the 'Life and Death Talisman' for the first few days, but now they won't even give me a chance." ”

"Show force to the counties and counties of Qingzhou, so that those with dissident intentions think that Jinan is empty, and by the way, this group of thieves who are not so much Taiping Taoist disciples as they are determined to use it to 'do a vote' after trying 'Fu Shui' to the territory that has always been at odds with Jinan, and take the opportunity to control them while expelling the thieves." Li Dian responded: "There may be other purposes, but I can't think of it with my head." ”

"This Beihai country lord doesn't have much ability, but the state minister Kong Rong is a powerful character," Le Jin said as he looked at the Guan Cheng Department who was fleeing to the northeast, "Maybe he will defeat that Guan Cheng." ”

"Defeat with what? Pears? Zhang Jue scoffed.

"Rong is four years old, can make pears" as a model of brothers, friends and brothers, and was mentioned and praised by many Confucians, and Kong Rong himself was also raised as filial piety because of this incident.

"It's not this pear, it's the one who came for it." Le Jin said solemnly: "People who value filial piety will not be bad in their skills." ”

Zhang Jue hesitated a little and said, "Hmm...... There is indeed some truth in this, but Kong Rong has been famous for many years, and his time as minister of state is not short, so he will not let me wait to meet him so coincidentally-"

Halfway through his words, he heard a loud shout like thunder coming from the remnants of the so-called "Taiping Army" in front of him.

"Donglai Taishi Ziyi is here! Who dare to offend my Beihai! ”

Then, he saw a heroic warrior with a big red double hammer breaking into the array of remnants led by the Guan Cheng Office, and all the people in front of him were swept away by the two iron rods.

"Speaking of which, before leaving, I asked the military advisor what if other counties sent large armies or generals to intercept Guan Cheng and defeat or disperse it." Lejin Road.

"Oh? What did he say? Zhang Jue asked cooperatively.

He asked rhetorically—" Le Jin smoothed the iron spear and rushed down the hill with a heavy stomp under his feet: "—'Are you willing to let someone else take the credit you have received?'" ’！ ”

"Hmm...... My sixth sense tells me that we need one more comrade. Li Dian didn't follow, turned around and beckoned the Jinan soldiers behind him to come forward and surround the battlefield that unexpectedly appeared.

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Southeast of Qingzhou.

"Brother, brother, what should I do?"

"Don't panic, although we can't help them, they can't help us either."

The 20,000 heavily armored cavalry "Tiger and Leopard Cavalry" were fighting separately at this time, protecting the infantry and trying to slash the enemy in front of them, but no matter how desperate they were, the number of enemies did not decrease at all, but increased and increased.

It was a group of "soldiers" whose bodies were glowing with a faint blue light and whose figures were constantly flowing like water waves, and the powerful slashing and stabbing of the tiger and leopard riders could easily split or pierce them, but the next moment the soldiers would disappear like bubbles in the water and reshape themselves not far away.

"I didn't expect that in addition to that Zhang Jue, there are also people who can transform the 'Fu Shui'," Xiahou Xuan slashed the "Phantom Man" in front of him with a knife, and said in a deep voice: "I only need to find its controller to solve this batch of monsters." ”

"Did you find it, brother?" Xiahou Yuan brushed two arrows and shot through the "soldiers" who rushed over with the phantom sword.

"I didn't find it, maybe I used the wrong eye." Xia Houdun took the time to change the blindfold on his face and put it on.

There was nothing wrong with this pre-selected battlefield, and it did repel or scare away two groups of Taiping Daoists from the direction of Yanzhou and Xuzhou in the early days of the war, but the third group from Yuzhou was this strange "phantom man", and the weapons of the tiger and leopard riders had no effect on them, but fortunately, although their "phantom weapons" were harmful, they were not enough to break through the heavy armor defenses of the tiger and leopard riders.

But if they continue to be held back like this, then the enemy who was originally repulsed will take the opportunity to return and enter Qingzhou, and Xiahou Yuan has no guarantee at all that Xiahou Yuan will not really "apologize with death".

"Brother Xuan, why don't we ignore them and retreat to the vicinity of the Qingzhou Gate?"

"We have no way back! The rear is Jinan County! ”

"Uh, okay......"

Xiahou Yuan was at a loss, and suddenly heard a heavy "Bang!" from the direction of Yuzhou! Boom! Boom! It sounded like some huge beast walking slowly, and the "phantom people" in front of him began to ripple with the sound.

"As long as it's not these 'phantom' reinforcements, it's good for anyone to come." Xiahou Yuan muttered.

Boom!!

A swarthy iron ball, almost as high as Xiahou Yuan, fell from the sky, smashing several "phantom people" who could not react directly into scattered splashes.

Boom!!

Without waiting for the Xiahou brothers to react, a big fat man with a round face, round eyes, and wearing blue leather armor also fell from the sky and carried the "iron ball" very easily, and the Xiahou brothers found that the "iron ball" was originally a huge hammer.

The "phantom people" who reacted around them launched attacks on the big fat man, but he let those attacks clange on his body, turned to the Xiahou brothers without realizing it, raised his fat hand and waved: "Yo~ Are you Lord Cao Cao's subordinates?" ”

Calling him an "adult", presumably not an enemy, Xiahou Yuan responded: "Exactly." ”

"Oh, then these nasty guys are the enemies who prevent me from going to Lord Cao Cao's place for dinner?" With a strange accent and intonation, the big fat man waved his hand indiscriminately and flew a few approaching "phantom people": "Look at the puppet!" ”

"Wait......" Xiahou Yuan's intuition was a little bad, and he was about to stop it, but he saw the big fat man raise his hand and throw the dark iron hammer high into the sky.

"Whoever prevents the occasional from eating will be flattened by the occasional!" The fat man exerted force at his feet and flew high in a movement that did not fit his body shape.

"Tiger and leopard ride! Defend in place in a circular formation! Xiahou Yuan's eyes widened, and he gave an order loudly, while dragging Xiahou Yuan, who was still admiring, turned around and ran.

"[It's going to fall! The big fat man in the air caught the sledgehammer of the iron ball that had just been thrown away by himself, screamed loudly, and then threw it to the ground.

Boom - Boom——!

Xiahou Yuan only felt as if he had become a bean that had been turned in a basket when he was a child, and he kept shaking up and down, and he didn't even notice which tremor made him lie on the ground.

With the tremors, all the "phantom people" turned into water and scattered at the same time, revealing a Taoist man wearing a strange Taoist robe with his hair standing on end, although he walked crookedly, he fled without looking back.

"Yo!" The big fat man fell, and he picked up the sledgehammer that was deep in the ground again: "Even called Xu Chu~ Can you take the puppet to Lord Cao Cao for dinner?" ”

It must be that the county can't afford it...... Xiahou Yuan thought as he looked at the tiger and leopard riders who were also lying on the ground and couldn't get up.