In late May of the fifth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei made all the preparations, and the advance preparations for the advance of the army were also made for him by Dong Huang, the Taishou of Wudu, and everything was ready as long as the army crossed Qishan and entered Wudu County.

So Liu Bei ordered the army to advance.

In this march, Liu Bei planned to train the troops, so he brought more recruits, and the generals were mainly Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Ma Teng, and Yan Xing, and the others also brought a Dong Huang, because Dong Huang was the Taishou of Wudu, and he was closest to the front line of Shu.

The army set out in late May, and in early June, the army entered Wudu County, followed the West Han River all the way south, and arrived at Baishui Pass, where it was greeted by Zhao Yao, the Taishou of Guanghan County.

Along the way, Liu Bei can be regarded as having exactly felt the difficulty of Shu Dao.

Qishan Road is already a relatively flat avenue in Shu Road, otherwise Zhuge Liang would not be obsessed with Qishan Road.

The main thing is that there is a distance here that can rely on the power of water transportation in the Western Han Dynasty, which can reduce the loss of logistics to a considerable extent, and if it is purely transported by land, it can definitely drag down a regime.

It is a pity that in Liu Bang's time, there were still waterways between Shuzhong and Guanzhong that could be connected, and using the power of water transportation, the connection between Shuzhong and Guanzhong was not too troublesome.

It's a pity that a Wudu earthquake in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty shook the waterway, so this most convenient and best road could not be used.

For this road that Zhuge Liang once fought for, Liu Bei walked and watched at the same time, and he almost "wrote" a poem about the difficulty of Shu Road to lament the difficulty of this road.

It's really difficult, and it's quite laborious to walk, and it's still difficult for people to move forward on their feet, let alone transport a large amount of supplies.

The level of the road is quite bad, and even this is a road that Dong Huang led people to slightly repair in the early stage, and the original state of many places is a mud road, which is rotten when you walk.

When the army finally arrived at Baishui Pass, Zhao Yao, who was too guarded, did not feel as calm as he imagined, but greeted Liu Bei's arrival at Baishui Pass with a trace of embarrassment.

Ma Xiang, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Yizhou, raised troops from Guanghan County, which he managed, which was a heavy blow to him, and he was not able to contain the Yellow Turban Army.

As a result, Yizhou Assassin Shi Xijian was killed by the Yellow Turban Army.

In every sense, this is a harbinger of Zhao Yao's political future.

"The lower officials are incompetent, they can't resist the yellow turban thieves, so that the state and county suffer a catastrophe, this is the incompetence of the lower officials, after this battle, the lower officials will resign from the table to thank the Son of Heaven."

Looking at Zhao Yao's depressed expression, Liu Bei didn't say anything, asked him about the current status of the Yellow Turban Army in Yizhou, and learned that Guanghan County, Ba County and Qianwei County were all within the influence of the Yellow Turban Army, and Ma Xiang, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, had already proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven.

Good guy, how long has it been since you called yourself the Son of Heaven?

This guy is too confident, isn't he?

"Where is Ma Xiang at the moment?"

"In Qianwei County."

Zhao Yao said in a low voice: "After killing Xi Envoy, he led his troops to Qianwei County, and sent people to attack Ba County, now Qianwei County and Ba County are very dangerous, and my Guanghan County is also more dangerous, Yizhou father and elder hope that the general will come to the aid of Ganlin for a long time, and please make sure that the general must annihilate the rebellion!" ”

Liu Bei nodded slowly.

"I'm here to quell the rebellion, I won't do anything superfluous, and you let the Guanghan elders not worry."

Zhao Yao hesitated for a moment, and said with a sad face: "What Guanghan County can provide, the lower officials will do their best to provide, but after this rebellion, many places in Guanghan County are broken, and the father and elder are displaced, and they are quite poor, so please forgive the general." ”

Liu Bei raised his eyebrows, realizing what Zhao Yao was saying.

"Don't worry, my army has strict military discipline, and the soldiers are fully paid, you don't have to worry about military discipline, whoever dares to rob my father, I will take his life."

Zhao Yao looked at Liu Bei, blinked, hesitated for a while, and said goodbye.

"In this case, please leave it to the general."

Liu Bei looked at Zhao Yao for a while.

"You don't look like a tyrannical person who is tyrannical, why did this Taiping Dao rebellion first appear in Guanghan County?"

"This ...... The state is located in Guanghan County......"

"Oh? Since you know that Xi Jian is so tyrannical and arrogant, why don't you stop it? ”

Zhao Yao smiled bitterly for a while.

"Since the general once worked in Luoyang, why did he knowingly ask?"

"I'm sorry for you."

Liu Bei smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and didn't say anything more: "But this time, the new Yizhou Assassin Shi is not a greedy and tyrannical person, it is definitely much better than Xi Jian, but unfortunately, you are going to resign, and it is good to avoid many disputes in the future and live a long life." ”

Zhao Yao looked at Liu Bei and didn't say anything, just sighed.

"It's just a long breath, how can a person like me be worthy of the luck of longevity?"

Looking at his depressed appearance, Liu Bei didn't say much.

He soon led his troops to advance in the direction of Mianzhu and Yuxian.

In addition, he divided his troops into two battalions and handed them over to Zhaozhao, who led the more stable Cheng Pu and Han Dang to advance to Ba County to solve the Yellow Turban Army attacking Ba County.

This is the first time that he has led troops to carry out a mission independently, and he seems a little excited, and he is also a little worried that he will not be able to complete the task well.

And Liu Bei has full trust in him.

"What we need to fight against this time is not an elite army, with your ability, I fully believe that you can do it, always fight with me, when will you be able to take charge alone? There are not many people I can trust and entrust to big things, Zijing, you have to grow up. ”

When he heard Liu Bei say this, his complexion changed several times, and finally he became firm and held Liu Bei's hand.

"In this way, I have no doubts, just leave it to me, even if I die, I will die on the battlefield, and I will never disgrace you."

"Who wants you dead!"

Liu Bei smiled and scolded and hugged the lead into his arms, and gave him a solid hug.

"See you in Chengdu."

"See you in Chengdu."

The lead also gave Liu Bei a big hug.

As Liu Bei expected, the enemy he faced this time, judging from the strength of the Liangzhou army, was really weak and a little too pitiful.

Although only one battalion of the Liangzhou army led by Liu Bei was veterans, and the others were recruited and formed after coming to Liangzhou, mainly from Liangzhou, but against the Shangyizhou Yellow Turban Army, they were simply the elite of a hundred battles.

In the first battle of Mianzhu, Liu Bei's troops recovered Mianzhu in only one and a half days.

In World War II, Liu Bei conquered Luo County in only half a day's effort and won a complete victory.

The Yizhou Yellow Turban Army did not have a unified military uniform, there were no powerful weapons, most of them were wearing tatters, even no clothes to wear, with strips of cloth tied to their heads, and simple and primitive weapons such as wooden sticks and bamboo guns in their hands.

They fought a field battle with Liu Bei, and the number of Liangzhou soldiers under Liu Bei was more than that of Liu Bei, but the blood collapsed in less than the time of the battle, and the whole line was defeated, and they were not opponents at all.

After the two wars, through the interrogation of prisoners of war and the understanding of some locals, Liu Bei understood the background color of this Yellow Turban Army.

The Yizhou Yellow Turban Army is not stronger than other Yellow Turban Army, they are also the same, not even the Yellow Turban Army, it can only be said that they borrowed the reputation of Taiping Dao, and in essence, they still can't stand the farmers and laborers who rose up because of Xi Jian.

Most of them are not natives of Yizhou, but displaced people who have taken refuge in Yizhou because of the Taiping Road Incident or some other things, and were gathered by Xi Jian to work, but because Xi Jian and his supervisors are too unhuman, they really can't bear it, so they pretend to use the reputation of Taiping Road to raise troops.