Thundered......

Smoke and dust billowed at the end of the almost abandoned official road, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves rolled in like thunder from afar, and the ground overgrown with weeds trembled slightly.

When two or three villages in a radius heard the movement, they immediately sounded the alarm, and the large wooden gate connecting the inside and outside was quickly closed, and soon there were many young men armed with fine iron knives and guns on the tall wooden walls.

"Years have passed, but I didn't expect such a big change here, and there are villages appearing!"

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves is like thunder rolling bigger and bigger, and a big flag of Guan Zi is flying high, even if the smoke and dust are filled, it can't hide its arrogance and edge.

A red-faced man rode on a red horse, squinting his eyes and staring for hundreds of miles, and when he saw the overreaction of those villages, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and said to the scribes dressed as men beside him.

"General Guan said with a smile, the hinterland of Qingzhou has been very peaceful in recent years!"

The scribe said with a smile while galloping on his horse: "Qingzhou has been war-torn before, and the people have been displaced, so when the situation stabilizes a little, it will naturally settle down slowly!" ”

"No, Mr. Mi, I can see clearly just now, there are only two or three villages within a radius of thousands of miles!"

The red-faced man narrowed his eyes, and his voice was unhurried but extremely clear: "Aren't you afraid of encountering bandits, why don't you enter the Yellow Turban Territory?" ”

"I know!"

Mr. Mi smiled bitterly and said: "These villages are actually built by a certain clan, and those patriarchs and elders will not agree with the practice of the Yellow Turban Collar, so they have to establish villages on the periphery to be self-reliant!" ”

The red-faced man was silent for a moment, he didn't say anything more, but led his 10,000-strong cavalry team to escort hundreds of carts of money and money straight to Qingzhou Yellow Turban Leader.

Don't talk about the affairs of the clan, even the eldest brother Liu Bei doesn't dare to touch it easily, otherwise it will be a monstrous disaster.

That's right, the red-faced man is Guan Yu, and Mr. Mi next to him is Mi Zhu, and the destination of their trip is Qingzhou Yellow Turban Collar, in addition to purchasing enough ordnance and materials, there are other important tasks.

The relationship between Liu Bei Group and Qingzhou Yellow Turban is very complicated, and the contact has never been severed.

Or to be more precise, Liu Bei Group has been supported by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which has not been driven away in Xuzhou until now, and its strength and strength have been improved to varying degrees.

Although such a thing is a bit embarrassing, the facts are the facts, and Guan Yu's arrogance will not prevaricate with excuses.

Liu Bei Group purchases a large number of ordnance materials from Qingzhou Yellow Turbans almost every year, and every time Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are not discounted, and even sends a batch of excellent ordnance, which is the support of Chiluoluo.

I don't know how to get the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the ordnance materials produced are all good things of extremely high quality, any steel long knife is comparable to a finished product made by a good craftsman, even the Qinglong big knife used by Guan Yu at this time is also specially asked to be built by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which is not only light and heavy but also extremely sharp, just suitable for his fighting style.

Although Qingzhou Yellow Turban collects enough money for each transaction, in fact, this practice is the support of Liu Bei Group.

Not to mention the current chaotic times of the chaos, that is, before the order of the Han Empire completely collapsed, it was not easy for the government to give the green light to procure enough ordnance and materials, and the price was surprisingly high.

At present, in troubled times, the people who have the strength to build weapons are basically the powerful and powerful families from all over the world, and sometimes even if you pay a big price, you don't want to purchase enough weapons and equipment.

But Qingzhou Yellow Turban is quite generous, no matter how much Liu Bei Group needs, as long as it comes up with normal procurement costs, it can basically be satisfied, and it can be done in a very short time.

What is this called support?

Mi Zhu, the big housekeeper of Liu Bei Group, goes to Qingzhou Yellow Turban Collar almost every year, and he is quite acceptable to the changes here.

It's really helpless to say, don't look at Liu Bei is now nominally the lord of Xuzhou, but the resources he can mobilize are very limited, there are too many powerful families in Xuzhou, and the power is too huge.

Liu Bei walks the world in the name of benevolence and righteousness, and naturally he will not self-destruct the signboard, so his life in Xuzhou is actually not very good, of course, whether it is the resources he has or the talents that can be used, he is much stronger than when he was in the Plains Country, and it is not in vain that he fought hard.

The violent Cao Jun is not so easy to deal with, that is, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two peerless fierce generals, can be ten thousand, and they have to go into battle shirtless to kill back and forth every time they reach a critical moment, but in a war of tens of millions, they can only affect the direction of the war in a small area.

The Cao army is not without good hands, whether it is the Xiahou brothers or the Cao family's Junjie, there are really several top first-class generals, and they plus the Cao army, who is extremely brave, is strong enough to stop the terrifying impact of Guan Zhang.

If it weren't for the tall city walls of the important towns in Xuzhou, Liu Bei's troops, and the millions of Danyang elite soldiers under Tu Qian, the faction would not have been able to withstand the fierce offensive of Cao's army.

That's it, in a series of earth-shattering bloody battles, the millions of Danyang elite soldiers in Xuzhou Muduqian were almost lost, and the 1.5 million horses of Liu Bei's group were only less than 500,000.

Guan Zhang and Cao Jun fought from the ground to the sky, and from the sky to the ground, and the violent strength blasted huge cracks in the land for thousands of miles, and it was also exhausted and difficult to continue to persevere.

When the situation was at its most critical, Liu Bei was ready to send Mi Zhu to ask for help from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

The risk of doing so is quite large, and the reputation of a bad business for many years is gone, and Liu Bei was also in a hurry at that time, and there was really no way.

As for the high-level leaders in Xuzhou, they are all very soft and courageous, and they are all ready to run away and surrender, and even the three brothers of Liu Bei have become their bargaining chips.

Fortunately, at the most dangerous moment, Cao Jun's nest had a problem, and Cao Jun had to withdraw from Xuzhou.

Liu Bei Group took this opportunity to take charge of Xuzhou, but it was a pity that the great enemy of Cao Jun was missing, and the family in Xuzhou did not cooperate much, and the resources that could be mobilized were less than imagined.

For example, steel smelting and military weapons are basically in the hands of the family in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei, as the lord of Xuzhou, has the ability to start from scratch, but in that way, it is a huge project to establish a complete set of metal deposits from scratch, from production to smelting, and then to the creation of ordnance and equipment, and the time can be at least three to five years.

Fortunately, Liu Bei Group can purchase enough ordnance materials from Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and at the same time can also set up its own military industrial system with difficulty, but three years have passed and now can only produce a small amount, which makes Liu Bei Group depressed, obviously their previous estimate is still undercalculated the difficulty of forming a military industrial system.

The family in Xuzhou is not a good person, so naturally they will not watch Liu Bei Group grow and develop, and slowly control the entire military and political power in Xuzhou, so they do not hesitate to lure the wolf into the room and invite Lu Bu, the evil god, to Xuzhou, for the purpose of containing Liu Bei Group.

Their goal was achieved, and the arrival of Lu Bu and his subordinates and the wolf cavalry of the state made Liu Bei's group like a great enemy, and most of their energy was divided into guarding against this guy.

Millions of wolves rode in the state, and with Commander Lu Bu, he could even barely condense his military spirit and step into the ranks of the absolute elite.

There are also 80,000 trapped camps, under the leadership of the main general Gao Shun, the combat power is unparalleled, which can be called the elite of the world, and Guan Zhang Zhiyong has no confidence to rush to kill without the slightest damage.

In addition, there are generals such as Zhang Liao, who are also first-class generals, as well as Cao Xing and other generals with their own characteristics and second-rate strength, everyone who is good at it.

Even if Liu Bei is capable, he doesn't dare to say that he can control the world's number one general like Lu Bu.

In other words, Lu Bu is also a cow, and he couldn't get along in Chang'an and ran to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao was worried that he would not be able to control him, and he didn't want to lose his strength and kill him directly, so he had to let him leave to harm Cao Cao, and as a result, Cao Cao's lair was almost taken down by him.

If it weren't for the timely evacuation of Cao's army from Xuzhou, the arrival of reinforcements when the last few cities of the nest were crumbling, and suppressing and driving away the arrogance of the murderous Lu Bu, I am afraid that Cao Cao would have become a homeless joke.

That's it, afraid of Lu Bu's personal strong force, Cao Jun didn't dare to chase too closely, for fear of being killed by Lu Bu, even the Xiahou brothers, who barely reached the threshold of peerless fierce generals, didn't dare to say that they could retreat.

At this time, the Xuzhou family invited Lu Bu to settle in, although Liu Bei Group was unhappy, he could only pinch his nose and admit it, and divided a radius of more than ten thousand miles from Xiaopei to Lu Bu and his subordinates and the wolf cavalry of the state to station, and the relationship between the two families was faintly discordant but they could barely coexist, and this state was directly maintained for nearly three years.

Liu Bei Group was eager to break such a situation, and at this time a major event happened, Liu Bei, as a member of the Han family, had to send troops, Liu Da'er immediately thought of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and asked Guan Yu to come over in person.

While purchasing a large number of ordnance materials from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, he also invited the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to send troops to participate in major events.

Because the relationship with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has been good, there is a large-scale purchase and sale of ordnance and equipment every year, Liu Bei Group has a rough estimate of the strength of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

But the combat power of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army should not be underestimated, three years ago and the Jizhou Army had a strong military spirit condensation of the existence of a strong army, after three years have passed, the combat power of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army will definitely go to a higher level.

In addition to Guan Yu, who is arrogant and has not had direct contact with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban for many years, whether it is Liu Bei or Zhang Fei, they have maintained enough respect for the combat strength of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and this time Guan Yu came over for the purpose of letting him see it with his own eyes.

But when he arrived at the outer area of the Yellow Turban Collar in Qingzhou, Guan Yu was a little surprised, and with his eyesight, he could see several villages within a thousand miles, and pointed to one of the villages and said curiously: "Why, the knives and guns in the hands of these village guards look like they are all good things made of steel!" ”