On the sixth day of the ninth month of the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei swore an oath in the south of Luoyang City, holding the sword of the Son of Heaven given by the Son of Heaven to represent the Son of Heaven, and declared that he represented the Son of Heaven to crusade against the ministers and kill the ministers.

Then, the army was fully loaded, crossed the Xuanyuan Pass, entered Yingchuan County, and joined the 5,000 troops of Li Min, the Taishou of Yingchuan, in Yangzhai County.

Li Min was very grateful for Liu Bei's arrival, and told Liu Bei that although he was not good at conquest, he would do his best to ensure logistics for Liu Bei, and never let Liu Bei's logistics have the slightest problem, for which Liu Bei expressed satisfaction.

Then the two talked about what had happened for a while.

"I didn't expect Yuan's rebellion, and I didn't expect their brazenness, from the beginning they had bad intentions, trying to rely on the army to defeat me, and then coercing the first emperor to abdicate, and then letting the prince defend the throne as a puppet to satisfy their selfish desires.

For such a situation, I couldn't believe it at first, I couldn't believe that the general and Situ actually had such wolf ambitions, but this is the case, although I don't want to believe it, I have to admit that they are really rebellious, whether it is Yuan Kui Yuan Ji, or Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. ”

"The Yuan family was rebellious, and the lower officials couldn't believe it at first, but the matter was right in front of them, and the lower officials couldn't believe it."

Li Min said with emotion: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family are deeply favored by the country, but I didn't expect that in the end, they are such a group of wolf ambitions, if the previous emperors of the past dynasties knew about it, they didn't know how to be sad and angry?" ”

"Then let them go to their knees and confess in front of the previous emperors."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Before, Yuan Kui and Yuan Ji had already gone to repent, now let's send Yuan Shu, and after that, send Yuan Shao together, so that their entire family can kneel neatly in front of the previous emperors and repent of their wolf ambitions." ”

"Good!"

Li Min laughed and said, "What the general said is exactly what the lower official wants to say!" ”

Li Min talked and laughed with Liu Bei for a while, and the more he talked, the more he felt that Liu Bei was a very good general, with very decent speech and demeanor, showing good cultural literacy.

But Li Min also knew that Liu Bei Yunwen Yunwu, who was eloquent in Luoyang back then, was like a god descending from heaven, and later fought 300,000 Xianbei in Liangzhou, and won a complete victory, which can be described as a civil and military all-rounder.

Before, he didn't know how capable Liu Bei was, and he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but now that he saw Liu Bei's army with his own eyes, he understood why Liu Bei was so capable and so strong.

His army knew at a glance that it was absolutely elite.

The armor is distinct, the equipment is well-equipped, the queue is neat, the orders are prohibited, and the order is orderly.

Until now, Li Min has never seen such an army equipped with protective gear, and even the large-headed foot soldiers in hand-to-hand combat are equipped with helmets and armor.

The protective gear is standard, the weapons are standard, and even the military uniforms and military boots worn by soldiers are standard.

How much resources need to be spent and how much manpower and material resources need to be mobilized to serve this army, Li Min, as a county commander with military experience, still knows quite well.

And this army marched very neatly, one after the other, the queue was quite neat, and even the pace was relatively neat, looking at it from a distance, I thought it was a group of marionettes.

Looking at the army he recruited, whether they stood or not, sat or not, walked up one by one, like a broken snake, and could only maintain a general forward posture, which was completely incomparable with the army under Liu Bei.

Even if Li Min no longer understands military affairs, looking at such an army, he knows that if he fights with this army under his command, it will definitely be delivered to the door.

Knowing this situation and thinking about the situation on Yuan Shu's side, Li Min knew that Liu Bei could send the entire Yuan family to meet the previous emperors with this army alone, but he still chose to mobilize the army of the Eight Counties to fight with him.

Li Min privately speculated that Liu Bei might have two purposes in doing so.

First, share the credit and win over the locality.

Second, in this way, we can distinguish between friend and foe, who are the enemy's, and then we will strike, and if it is our own people, we can then promote and appoint them.

Previously, the big family of Yingchuan was rumored that Liu Bei had a huge influence in Kansai, not only in Liangzhou, but also in Sanfu and Yizhou, in Kansai, Liu Bei's words were better than the imperial court, and after he served as a general, he would inevitably extend his power to Kanto.

Isn't it just right to use this battle to distinguish who is a friend and who is an enemy?

With military in one hand and politics in the other, Liu Bei's wrist is so strong and hard, it is the only one Li Min has seen in his life, against such a person, even if He Jin and Yuan Kui are tied together, they are completely destroyed, Yuan Shu actually dares to blatantly rebel?

Yuan Highway, Yuan Highway, you ...... I'm really looking for death.

Li Min was completely convinced, and he no longer had any doubts about Liu Bei, he did not follow him to the front line, but took the initiative to ask Ying to stay and ask to stay to ensure the logistics channel for Liu Bei's army, and ensure that the army could smoothly pass through Yingchuan County and enter Runan County.

Of course, this is not a difficult thing, as long as you make full use of the advantages of Yingshui, you can make logistics and transportation a thing that gets twice the result with half the effort, and this is what Li Min is best at - even if he is not good at it, he will do his best to make himself a talent who is good at logistics, so as to get Liu Bei's favor.

He knew that after Huang Wan left as the pastor of Yuzhou, Yuzhou did not yet have a proper administrator, and the Luoyang court led by Liu Bei did not seem to have time to appoint the governor of Yuzhou, so Li Min felt that he could try his luck.

Liu Bei's army arrived in Yingchuan County on September 13 and arrived in Liqiang County on September 17, Yuan Shu's army did not set up any defenses here.

"Yuan Shu is rebellious, and the officers and soldiers are outnumbered, and they dare not resist, but they are also unwilling to help the abuse, so they have been waiting for the arrival of the general!"

Song Wei knelt on the ground and did not dare to look directly at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was silent for a while, turned over and dismounted, stepped forward, and personally helped Song Wei up.

"When Yuan Shu is strong, no one knows what he can do, everyone will have doubts about this, this is human nature, change places, I can't make a better choice, you do a good job, the court will remember you."

Song Wei looked at Liu Bei in surprise, and then moved to tears, and said goodbye.

Liu Bei entrusted Song Wei to join the army to deal with logistics for the army, and led the army to continue along Yingshui, arriving in Xihua County on September 19.

There was resistance here.

Because after Xihua County, the next target is Ruyang County, the old nest of the Yuan family, and Liu Bei's first stage of the march is Ruyang County, where he wants to destroy everything in the Yuan family.

According to the latest information, the people of the Yuan family in Ruyang County have followed Yuan Shu south to Pingyu County, the county seat of Runan County.

It seems that they also know that they can't resist Liu Bei's troops here, so they only resist a little.

It was Li Feng, a general under Yuan Shu, who was stationed in Xihua County, but there were not many men under his command, but more than 3,000 people, and it seemed that they were sent to death.

For such a small city with little defense, Liu Bei was too lazy to fight, and sent people to persuade Li Feng not to make senseless resistance, and Kaicheng surrendered.

The lobbyist who came to persuade him was Liu Ye, the general under Liu Bei.

After Liu Ye took refuge in Liu Bei, he had no chance to establish a meritorious career, this time he went out with the army, Liu Bei intended to give the newly recruited generals some opportunities to make meritorious contributions, so Liu Ye offered to persuade Li Feng to surrender.

After seeing Li Feng, Liu Ye spoke very politely, bluntly saying that Li Feng made a wrong choice, Yuan Shu only gave him a few dollars a month, and he needed to work so hard?

Liu Bei's army will be forty or fifty thousand, and the army brought by Li Feng is only two or three thousand, more than ten times the difference in strength, is this a war?

This is suicide.

"The army under your command is only one-tenth of the army under the command of the general, there is no comparison at all, Yuan Shu asked you to come here, is it to let you hold on to the county seat? You have only more than 3,000 troops, how many days can you hold the city?

If Yuan Shu is in Ruyang County, and you are sent to lead the army to guard Xihua County, I can still think that Yuan Shu has no choice but to do it, but he escaped by himself, but let you stay here to die, I feel worthless for you in private. ”