Chapter 22: Running around
Liu Bei readily agreed to the matter of rushing to help Lu Zhi, after all, Lu Zhi was his teacher, and Liu Yan recommended himself and others to go to this matter, with the help of these two people, the road to entry into the future must be much smoother. And Zhang Hao thought about it and didn't think there was anything wrong with this matter, because this is how history develops, although according to the records of "Romance", the four of them will become very tired during this time, but the final outcome is not bad.
So the four of them had a simple rest in the manor for one night, and the next morning they rushed to Guangzong. Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, a pair of masters and apprentices, were naturally very excited to meet again after a long time, but the other three were not so happy. On the one hand, Liu Bei was present, and Lu Zhi intentionally or unintentionally ignored the existence of the other three. On the other hand, it was Lu Zhi who told everyone that this time the Yellow Turban was not only as simple as sending the main force, but their supreme leader, the three brothers of the Zhang family, even went out in person.
Lu Zhi confronted Zhang Jiao in Guangzong, while Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were in Yingchuan, intercepting two other Zhonglang generals who rushed to aid the Hebei region: Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun. Lu Zhi's side is okay, although he was dragged by Zhang Jiao, he still persisted, but the situation on Yingchuan's side was quite not optimistic. Therefore, at Lu Zhi's request, Zhang Hao and the four of them went on the road again and went straight to Yingchuan.
As a result, when I arrived in Yingchuan, I found that there was only Zhu Jun here, and Huangfu Song was nowhere to be seen. After asking Zhu Jun, I found out that just two days before the four of them arrived, Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, had already come over and successfully won the game with Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang, which means that the siege of Yingchuan has been resolved.
It's just that Zhu Jun also told the four of them that although Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang lost in Yingchuan for a while, Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao were still fighting against Guangzong, so Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang would inevitably go to Guangzong to help their eldest brother. At this moment, Zhu Jun still has to stay in Yingchuan, and Cao Cao and Huangfu Song have already rushed to Guangzong first. Just in case, Zhu Jun hoped that Zhang Hao and the four of them would rush back to Guangzong to avoid any uncontrollable situation.
Needless to say, Zhang Hao and the four of them, who had just arrived in Yingchuan and had not rested for half a moment, set off again on the road to Ben Guangzong.
The current development of things is exactly the same as Zhang Hao's well-known "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which also makes Zhang Hao more sure of what will happen in the future. So when the four of them rushed to the Yellow River crossing and saw Lu Zhi sitting in the prisoner car, except for Zhang Hao, the other three were surprised.
stepped forward to inquire, and Liu Guan and Zhang learned the reason that Zhang Hao already knew. It turned out that Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao could not hold on to Guangzong for a long time, so the imperial court sent a supervisor over. However, this supervisor and the ten permanent servants are people of the same way, and they are good at accepting bribes, and the first thing they do when they arrive in Guangzong is to ask Lu Zhi for benefits. But Lu Zhi is a well-known Qing official, and this time he is traveling lightly, where is the money to bribe the supervisor. As a result, the supervisor became angry and reported directly to the imperial court, saying that Lu Zhi was sabotaging the war and was even more suspected of colluding with the party.
And the current imperial court, to put it bluntly, is controlled by the ten permanent servants, and this supervisor usually gives gifts to the ten permanent servants, so under the instigation of the ten permanent servants, the current emperor Han Ling Emperor directly issued an edict to put Lu Zhi in prison and immediately escort him back to Beijing. Fortunately, Cao Cao and Huangfu Song rushed to Guangzong in time, although they failed to save Lu Zhi, they still took over Lu Zhi's work, so that Guangzong's game did not completely collapse.
Seeing Lu Zhi gone, the four of them set off for Guangzong again. Although Lu Zhi is no longer there, Zhu Jun's task for a few people is to go to Guangzong to help, and if he chews the words, it actually has nothing to do with Lu Zhi.
Returning to Guangzong again, Zhang Hao and the others saw a black dwarf with small eyes, and a middle-aged uncle with a Chinese face. The latter is Huangfu Song, and the former is naturally the famous Cao Cao.
It wasn't until several people introduced each other and exchanged a few words that Zhang Hao solved a problem that had plagued him for many days. That is, it is obviously just a Keju game, and there is no battle between the two armies, why is it still like in "Romance", and the stalemate has not ended for many days.
It turned out that Guangzong could be said to be one of the base camps of the Yellow Turban, so Lu Zhi would stop at this small county town to "make trouble". What Lu Zhi didn't expect was that Zhang Jiao happened to stop in Guangzong at this time. Zhang Jiao, who heard Lu Zhi's original purpose, naturally wanted to drag Lu Zhi in Guangzong, so he proposed a bet: the two sides would have a Keju competition, and if Lu Zhi won, then the Yellow Turban would withdraw from Guangzong.
Although Zhonglang Jiang's position is a general, Lu Zhi is a scholar, Zhang Jiao also knows this, and knows that Lu Zhi's Keju strength is not outstanding, so he put forward this bet and did not mention what he would do if he won, he just wanted to leave Lu Zhi behind. And Lu Zhi also felt that if he could drive the Yellow Turban out of the base camp, the blow to the Yellow Turban would be no less than the economic loss of the encirclement and suppression of the wild ball game, and he would have no loss if he lost anyway, so he agreed to Zhang Jiao's conditions.
To Zhang Jiao's surprise, although Lu Zhi's strength was not good, he did not come alone, but brought a county-level juju team. And in the small county town of Guangzong, there is no one who can do it except Zhang Jiao, even if Zhang Jiao himself was also a person who played in the county-level Keju League, and even stronger than the level of most county-level Keju players, but it is still difficult to beat the four hands with two fists, and the game ended directly in the defeat of the Yellow Turban.
Faced with this unexpected result, Zhang Jiao naturally couldn't really agree to withdraw from Guangzong, so he once again put forward a request, that is, a game was too fortuitous, and asked the two sides to continue the game until one side won two more games than the other. And after Lu Zhi won the game, his desire to expel the Yellow Turban from Guangzong became stronger and stronger, and he agreed to Zhang Jiao's request again without much thought.
It's just that after Zhang Jiao proposed to fight again the next day, he sent people to the surrounding counties and dispatched several good players to come to the rescue of Guangzong, including many talents who have also participated in the county-level Keju League, such as Zhang Yan, Zhang Mancheng, Zhou Cang, and Liao Hua, who are all second-rate top generals in "Romance".
As a result, these two teams, which are also county-level strengths, were stalemate, until the imperial court supervisor came to Guangzong, and the gamble did not determine the winner, and the two sides just ended in a draw.
However, it was this supervisor who broke the balance between the two sides and directly took Lu Zhi away, and even took away the county-level team that came with Lu Zhi. Now it's okay, there is only one spare team left on the side of the imperial court, and Zhang Jiao took advantage of the situation to win a big victory, and there is only one step left before driving the champion out of Guangzong.
It's a pity that Cao Cao and Huangfu Song arrived in time, although there were only two people, but their strength was stronger than the county-level team, so they led the other two spare players to pull back a game with difficulty, which was able to save the defeat.
It was at this juncture that Zhang Hao and the four rushed over.