From Changsha to Chengdu, the middle mountains and rivers are far away, the road is rugged, and it will take at least 20 days to rush back, so for a while, the Sima family will not know the news that Zhang Ji has gone to the Jin Kingdom, and the exchange between Liangguo and Yizhou will be temporarily shelved.

The west is safe for the time being, but the east is now full of war clouds and the situation is tense.

There are five members of the Shadow Team who came to pick up Zhang Ji from the north, all of whom are disguised as porters or scholars, but there is an experienced team member among them, he is Peng Jian, the second housekeeper of Ma Mansion who successfully escaped from Guzang when Han Sui sent Cheng Gongying to surround Ma Teng Mansion in the past.

According to the Shadow Operations Guidelines, if a team member's identity is revealed or suspects are aroused in an area, they are to be transferred to another location far away from the area to ensure their safety and concealment. Peng Jian, Qin Yun, Zhao Hu and others were transferred back to the Crouching Tiger headquarters one after another for such reasons. Because it had been several months since Peng Jian returned to Crouching Tiger City, after a period of rest, he was once again entrusted with the important task, that is, to go to Changsha in Jingzhou to escort Zhang Ji safely to the Shangdang.

In fact, Hua Tuo repeatedly wrote letters to Zhang Ji, fooling this southern medical master to come to the north to learn medical skills, which had a lot to do with Zhao Xing.

As a person of later generations, Zhao Xing is naturally familiar with Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, two famous doctors during the Three Kingdoms period. When he sent many teams to search for online talents across the country, the names of Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji were at the top of the list. It's a pity that Zhao Xing's reputation at that time was not obvious and his prestige was insufficient, and Zhang Ji had already entered his official career, so naturally he would not go to Bingzhou to join him.

Later, after Zhao Xing got Hua Tuo, he used various methods of soft grinding and hard winding to detain Hua Tuo in Crouching Tiger City. Every once in a while, Zhao Xing would "inadvertently" come up with some new and strange medical ideas, and these ideas could always cause Hua Tuo's shock and study, so Hua Tuo studied more and more fun, and later simply threw the task of curing the disease and saving people to his own group of apprentices, but he concentrated on hiding in the medical hospital built by Zhao Xing for him to concentrate on studying and overcoming medical problems.

Over time, a variety of advanced medical devices have been designed and manufactured in the hospital that far exceed those of the same era. For example, a crystal light microscope that can see tiny objects clearly, such as a sterile operating table, such as a shadowless spotlight, such as a complete set of surgical instruments, and so on. With these advanced equipment and hardware conditions, Hua Tuo never thought of leaving Crouching Tiger City again, and he was determined to push the way of medical skills to an unprecedented peak in Crouching Tiger City in this life.

Hua Tuo didn't leave, so Zhao Xing fooled Hua Tuo and invited Zhang Ji to Crouching Tiger City to study medical skills together. For such a proposal, Hua Tuo naturally would not refuse. As the two most famous doctors of the same era, although Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji have never met, they have been friends for a long time, since Crouching Tiger City has such good conditions, Hua Tuo is also very eager to invite colleagues with common ideals and ambitions to come over and exchange and study together in the future.

This time, Peng Jian was sent to lead the team to meet Zhang Ji, which was personally arranged by Zhao Xing. When he heard Hua Tuo say that Zhang Ji finally couldn't help but want to come to Crouching Tiger City to have a look, the joy in his heart was even happier than when he heard that Sima Fang was in a coma. From this point of view, Zhao Xing is not a pure person.

Peng Jian escorted Zhang Ji from the Maoping area north of the Yangtze River to the shore, first towards Gaoyou in Guangling County, and after walking for two days, he saw many people helping the old and the young to come south. Peng Jian hurriedly stepped forward to inquire, but learned a piece of news that worried him.

The reason why the common people fled south with their families was only because Liu Yan in Yuzhou and Yuan Shu in Yangzhou had already gathered a large number of troops and were preparing to attack Xiapi in Xuzhou from two directions: Zhongli County in Jiujiang County and Hongxian County in Peiguo at the same time. It is said that Liu Yan and Yuan Shu's reason for sending troops was that Tao Qian of Xuzhou connived at local merchants to continue to sell the forbidden salt produced by the Jin State, disrupting the salt markets of Yuzhou and Yangzhou, and offending the Tianwei of the imperial court.

When Peng Jian heard this, he laughed in his heart, feeling that Liu Yan and Yuan Shu didn't know how to find a high-sounding excuse to send troops, and even copied the rhetoric of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. However, although he didn't think so, Peng Jian really didn't dare to be careless, and immediately suggested that Zhang Ji change his route, first walk a little to the east, avoid the dangerous place of Xiapi from a distance, and then stick to the sea and go north, directly to Yuzhou Mountain Island in the East China Sea.

The group continued to walk north, and they encountered more and more fleeing people on the way, and the news they heard became more and more worrying. First, there was news that Suiling, Xuyi, Huailing and other places were occupied by the army led by Ji Ling, a subordinate of Yuan Shu, and then there was news that the places of Suiling, Xuyi, and Xiaqiu were occupied by the army led by Liu Yan's subordinate Pan Feng.

When Peng Jian and the others arrived in Sheyang, they heard that Yuan Shu's army had sent troops to Huaiyin, and they were about to fight under Xiapi City, and Liu Yanjun and Cao Cao's army worked together to take Peng State, and Langya County in the north of Xuzhou was also attacked by Yuan Shao's subordinates Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

There is a scene of wind and noise everywhere, the people of Xuzhou now do not know where to flee, I heard that the road to the south has been blocked by another army sent by Yuan Shu, and the name of the general who led the team is Zhang Xun. If Peng Jian and the others go ashore at night for a few days, they will crash headlong under Zhang Xun's big knife, and it will be really sad.

Peng Jian pondered to himself, and found that now there was only the last safe place in Xuzhou, Donghai County, where there happened to be Yuzhou Mountain Island, the military port of the Jin State Naval Division, as long as he rushed to the territory of Donghai before Yuan Shujun cut off the road from Haixi to Quxian, then he would be considered out of danger.

So Peng Jian no longer cared about Zhang Ji, who was over forty years old and was too guarded, spent a lot of money to hire a group of porters, ran wildly with Zhang Ji on his back, and ran to Huaipu City on the edge of the Huai River in one go. Before the arrival of Ji Ling's army, Peng Jian hired a large ship that could go to sea, and sailed down the Huai River into the East China Sea, and then sailed north along the coastline, and finally arrived at Yuzhou Mountain Island at the end of June.

Boarding the large military port belonging to the Jin State Naval Division, Peng Jian could finally raise his eyebrows and accompany Zhang Ji, who had already been shaken by the sea, to watch the goddess peak on the other side of the strait that was half hidden in the clouds and mist. Even though he had heard that the four-way army of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and Liu Yan was rushing towards the rich East China Sea day and night, he was not worried at all.

As long as you look back at the dotted fortifications on Yuzhou Mountain Island, as well as the dozens of mighty and majestic warships docked in the harbor, and the neatly arranged large material warehouses in the barracks, what kind of enemy will you worry about hitting the island?