Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, and Sun Zhong gathered tens of thousands of horses, which was much worse than the previous powerful Yellow Turban Army. But they were not satisfied, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong took some soldiers and horses to attack Yangcheng, and only Han Zhong stayed in Wancheng. But even so, Wancheng is not easy to fight, the city is high and thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It's just that this Han Zhong seems to have a problem with his head, and instead of honestly guarding the city, he led the army out of the city and fought with the official army in the field.

When it comes to field warfare, the officers and soldiers are not afraid of them, and they often even fight more with less. When the two armies met, Zhu Jun and Liu Guanzhang each led an army, divided into a joint attack, and divided Han Zhong into a mess and fled in embarrassment, hiding in Wancheng and not daring to come out. Zhu Jun took advantage of the situation to surround Wancheng, and the four people each guarded one gate and attacked from all sides.

Originally, Zhu Jun thought that this would be a protracted battle, after all, Wancheng was too strong. But he didn't expect that in just a few days, Han Zhong sent someone out to discuss the surrender. This surprised Zhu Jun, and with a little trickery, he learned from the mouth of this envoy that there was no food in the city!

No wonder Han Zhong dared to go out of the city to fight, it turned out to be a last resort. If the officers and soldiers came a few days late, the Yellow Turban Army in the city would still have time to collect more grain and grass, but the officers and soldiers came too quickly, so they could only hope to block it and delay the time. Unexpectedly, Han Zhong was too incompetent, and the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army was too scummy, so he didn't stop it for even a day, and he was defeated in a battle, which made everyone in Wancheng hungry.

Since he knew that the Yellow Turban Army was short of food, Zhu Jun was determined and refused the Yellow Turban Army's request to surrender without hesitation. Liu Bei couldn't bear it, and admonished: "In the past, the ancestors won the world, and Gai was able to recruit Nashun; Why did the public refuse Han Zhongye? ”

Zhu Jun said: "At that time, at this time." On the occasion of the former Qin and Xiang, the world was in turmoil, and the people had no fixed master, so they surrendered and rewarded them to persuade them. Now the sea is unified, but the Yellow Turban rebels; If it is allowed to fall, there is no way to persuade good. Let the thief gain and plunder arbitrarily, and surrender if he loses: this long-term ambition is not a good strategy. ”

Liu Bei persuaded Zhu Jun not to move, so he had to offer the method of encircling three and missing one, in order to win the class as soon as possible. Zhu Jun adopted Liu Bei's strategy, but instead of letting go of one side, he let go of the east and south directions, and only attacked from the west and north.

In this way, how can the Yellow Turban Army, which is already panicking because of the end of food and grass, still have the intention of defending the city? They fled from the east and south gates, and Han Zhong couldn't restrain him even if he wanted to, so he had no choice but to run away as well. But it doesn't matter if others escape, he, Han Zhong, is the leader of the bandits, how can Zhu Jun allow him to escape? As soon as he saw Han Zhong leaving the city, he immediately covered up the whole army. In the midst of the chaos, Han Zhong was killed by an arrow shot by someone unknown, which made Zhang Fei, who wanted to take the first credit, feel very sorry.

Han Zhong gave the head, the main task was completed, and the rest was to clear those Yellow Turban Army. It's just that what people didn't expect was that just when the official army dispersed to reap the fruits of victory, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong came back! Because the formation of the officers and troops had dispersed and could not be closed for a while, Zhu Jun had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

The official army retreated, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong took the opportunity to recapture Wancheng, and the two sides returned to the original situation. However, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong brought back a large amount of grain and grass, which was much better than Han Zhong's situation. If you want to break through Wancheng again, it will be even more difficult.

But no matter how difficult it is, Wancheng must be broken! Zhu Jun quickly withdrew his forces and prepared to attack again. Just before he was about to attack, another group of men and horses arrived, led by Sun Jian, who was known as the Jiangdong Tiger.

Since Sun Jian has the title of Tiger, he naturally has extraordinary martial arts, and he looks like a tiger. It's just that his luck is not too good, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion started, he was already under Picheng, but this position did not have the power to lead the troops, in order to earn credit in this chaos, he did not hesitate to abandon his official position, and like Zhang Fei, he recruited the rebels at his own expense to join this feast. It's a pity that he came a little late, most of the Yellow Turban Army has been wiped out, and he heard that Zhu Jun was attacking Wancheng, so he hurried over.

Not to mention, Sun Jian's name Zhu Jun had also heard it, and when he saw him coming to help in the war, he happily accepted it, and then sent troops to attack the city. Out of the importance of Sun Jian, when Zhu Jun assigned the task, he let him take charge alone, leading the army to attack the south gate, Liu Guanzhang and the three of them attacked the north gate, and Zhu Jun himself attacked the west gate, leaving the east gate to give the Yellow Turban Army a glimmer of hope.

With such a distribution, Sun Jianke took a lot of advantage. Zhu Jun and Liu Guanzhang had fought a few battles with the Yellow Turban Army, and Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong knew how powerful they were, so when defending the city, they sent most of their troops to the West Gate and the North Gate. didn't pay enough attention to Sun Jian, who had just arrived, thinking that it was just Zhu Jun who sent him to make up the numbers, so he just dealt with it. But he didn't expect that Sun Jian was not a character who could be dealt with casually, not long after he started to attack the city, Sun Jian personally put on his strength and was the first to attack the city. When Zhao Hong heard the news, he hurriedly brought troops to help. But by the time he reached the south gate, the Yellow Turbans guarding the south gate had been killed and were running in all directions. Zhao Hong was furious and took Sun Jian directly, but Sun Jian took the lance and killed Zhao Hong, and then rode Zhao Hong's horse and continued to fight.

As soon as the south gate was broken, the defenders of the other two gates also panicked and fled one after another. Sun Zhong was at the north gate, and after hearing that the south gate was broken, he simply fled. However, he did not flee from the east gate, where there were no officers and soldiers, like the others, but changed into the clothes of an ordinary Yellow Turban Army and rushed out of the north gate. It is expected that Liu Guanzhang is in a hurry to seize the city and ignore him as a pawn.

But he was so unlucky that he accidentally bumped into Liu Bei. hurriedly turned the horse's head and wanted to run, but the flaw had already been seen. Liu Bei is also a person with vicious eyes, and he can see at a glance that something is wrong with this little soldier, not only does he have horses to ride, but he also grows fat and strong, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like an ordinary Yellow Turban Army who can't eat enough. So an arrow was shot at it and it fell off the horse.

After that, things are simple, the Yellow Turban Army is defeated, just chase and kill. Moreover, as soon as Wancheng was over, the other counties in Nanyang had no power to resist, and they were quickly swept away by Zhu Jun. The official army won a big victory again, but this time the first merit was snatched away by Sun Jian, which made Li Xiang and Zhang Fei quite angry. It's just that he remembered that he had already clashed with Cao Cao once, and if he disagreed with Sun Jian again, it would leave a bad impression on the ministers of the DPRK and China, so he had to endure it.

After Zhu Jun defeated Nanyang, he returned to the court. The reward of the imperial court also came down soon, and Zhu Jun also got the title of general of the chariot cavalry, and the actual official position was Henan Yin. Sun Jian was born in a family, and he was able to support favors in the court, and he also got the official position of a county Sima and went to office. There are only Liu Guanzhang and the three of them, and for some reason there is still no reward, so they can only stay in Luoyang.

For such a result, Li Xiang was not as depressed as Liu Bei, but more actively studied his distillation device. The small courtyard where they lived made him smell of alcohol every day, and Zhang Fei couldn't drink it in his mouth, so he could only hide out every day, otherwise he would have to be tormented to death.

Contrary to Zhang Fei, Liu Bei was in high spirits after smelling this smell of wine, and he was no longer depressed before. Just by smelling the wine, you know that once this wine comes out, it will be extraordinary. If you use this wine to make money, it will definitely be a day in gold. If you have money, are you still afraid that there will be no official to do? You must know that it is Emperor Han Ling who openly sells official porridge, and as long as he has enough money, he can even buy the position of the third prince to sit down. Therefore, Li Xiang's research was greatly supported, and if he could be frugal in daily consumption, he tried to be thrifty, and the money saved was invested in Li Xiang's research.

The distillation device was not too difficult, and Li Xiang had studied it for a while before, so it didn't take long for the first pot of spirits to finally be distilled. It happened that Zhang Fei was not at home at this time, Li Xiang had no interest in this kind of wine, just drank a cup to taste the taste, and let Liu Bei enjoy the rest. This time Liu Bei was calmed, I never thought that the wine could taste like this!

To be honest, this kind of wine made by Li Xiang has nothing to praise except for its high degree. What is fragrant, sweet, thick, clean, and has a long aftertaste, you can't talk about it, and it's just a fire in your mouth. But in the mouth of people who have never drunk high alcohol, this is wine, and what was drunk before was swill! At least Liu Bei thinks so, he is not a drinker, he can't stop drinking this time, he drank all the pot of wine, and then drunk Li Xiang to help him go back to the room to sleep.

When Zhang Fei came back at night, he found that Liu Bei had gone to bed early, so he asked Li Xiang strangely. Li Xiang said the reason, Zhang Fei's intestines were blue with regret, and he shouldn't go out today. It's a pity that it's too late to regret it now, so I can only urge Li Xiang to get another pot and let him try it too.

For his own brothers, Li Xiang has nothing to keep secrets, but he must be strict with others. So he pulled Zhang Fei to give him a hand, and Zhang Fei didn't care that this was a cheap servant in order to drink good wine, so he happily followed.

With the first success, the second time was much easier, and it took less than an hour to steam the second pot of wine. Zhang Fei drank it without saying a word, but it turned out to be the same pot of wine, and he also put down the guy who claimed to be a wine barrel, and Li Xiang also had to help him back to the room.

When they woke up the next morning, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei inevitably had a splitting headache, but as soon as Zhang Fei opened his eyes, he asked Li Xiang to hurry up and get another pot. Li Xiang didn't bother to pay attention to him, but discussed with Liu Bei how to use this wine.

Liu Bei meant to cooperate with the merchants in Luoyang, and their brother was responsible for making wine, selling it to those merchants, and then those merchants sold it at a higher price. This is the safest way, but it takes a lot of time to accumulate a sum of money that will appeal to the big guys.

Li Xiang wants to give this secret recipe directly as a gift, as long as it is a person who knows the goods, he will inevitably be moved. You must know that with the secret recipe in hand, you can earn money continuously, which is much better than taking a bribe only once.

Liu Bei didn't expect Li Xiang to be so generous, and he actually gave away all the cash cows that could have been his own, which made him value Li Xiang's brother even more. Li Xiang's martial arts are strong and strategic, which can allow Liu Bei to win him over, but this kind of unhesitating dedication for his brother can truly reflect the brotherly love. It's just that what he doesn't know is that in Li Xiang's opinion, this wine is really good, and the secret recipe is not worth cherishing, and it is better to use it for a future.