Thirty miles outside Xinye City, Liu Bei camped.

Towards evening, a scout ran back in panic, his voice hoarse and hoarse with fear: "My lord - it's not good!"

Liu Bei, who was 'resting' in his tent, heard this roar and almost dropped the straw rope in his hand.

What's wrong? I'm still thinking about waiting for my second and third brothers to make two pairs of straw sandals for them to wear before they return home in triumph! What kind of mourning is this outside?

When Liu Bei walked out of the camp, he saw the scout jumping off his horse from a distance and kneeling in front of him: "My lord... the second general, the third general... they... they..."

Liu Bei's heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly asked: "What happened to them!?"

"They led their troops to attack Xinye. Unexpectedly, the soldiers in Xinye City had a strange weapon. The second general and the third general were... killed before they could rush to Xinye City."

"What!?" Liu Bei's vision went dark and his body swayed.

"Lord!"

Liu Bei's camp was in chaos.

When Zhuge Liang saw this scene while hiding behind the tent, he sighed and felt relieved.

…

A few days later, Huang Shang received a battle report from Jingzhou, along with two exquisite wooden boxes.

After reading the battle report, Huang Shang was stunned for a moment: "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?"

Looking at the two wooden boxes on the table, they should be big enough to hold a basketball.

When you open it, you will see that one has a face as heavy as a jujube, with silkworm eyebrows and five long beards; the other is as black as coal, with a swallow's jaw and a tiger's beard.

"well!"

Huang Shang closed the lid and suddenly felt a sense of emptiness.

In The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the second master Guan of Yi Bo Yuntian, and the third master Zhang who said "I am the same", did not expect that the first meeting would be like this. Without Guan and Zhang, would the Three Kingdoms still be the Three Kingdoms?

"What a pity!"

After a moment of silence, Huang Shang suddenly thought of something: Why didn't Liu Bei die?

Didn’t we say that we don’t want to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we want to die in the same year, the same month and the same day?

Both of your brothers died on the same day, why are you still alive?

I re-read the battle report, which only stated that Luo Ping'an completely annihilated the 2,500 soldiers led by Guan and Zhang at the foot of Xinye City, but there was only one sentence description of Liu Bei: Bei and his remaining troops had disappeared.

Gone.

As expected, Liu Paopao was fully equipped with escape skills. Even if the two brothers died, he could escape successfully.

It's a pity that he didn't learn arithmetic, otherwise he could use his fingers to calculate where Liu Bei went.

"Forget it." He shook his head and said, "Although the world is big, there is no room for Liu Bei to show his talents. Let him go!"

A few days later, Luo Ping'an was promoted to the post of Governor of Changshan, with a rank of two thousand stones.

During this period, one stone weighed almost 120 kilograms, and if the order was two thousand kilograms, the annual salary would be 240,000 kilograms of grain. This much grain was enough for Luo Ping'an to raise ten or eight wives and give birth to one hundred and eighty children.

Huang Shang transferred him to his hometown as a prefect. On the surface, he was promoted, but in fact, it was a disguised form of providing for him to provide for him in his old age.

Being able to be the parent officer of his hometown, Luo Ping'an is definitely considered to be outstanding. In the future, the people of Changshan will not only remember that Changshan produced a great general, Zhao Zilong, but also remember that Changshan had a parent officer, Luo Ping'an.

Luo Pingan is satisfied.

Time came to July unknowingly. After half a year of preparation, the military report that Cao Cao was sending his troops south reached Huang Shang as quickly as possible, who was checking the road conditions in Yizhou.

"It's July again?" Huang Shang remembered the records of the Battle of Chibi. Cao Cao began to go south in July, and then was defeated in Chibi in December, completely losing the possibility of unifying the world in his lifetime.

Is history about to repeat itself?

Huang Shang smiled: "History will not repeat itself, it will only be more cruel."

...I am a few days later...

In Xiangyang, Huang Shang issued military orders one after another.

Since Cao Cao was not afraid of chipping his teeth and wanted to confront him head-on, he simply smashed his big teeth and let him go home to drink porridge.

"Zhao Zilong led the central army, led 20,000 musketeers, 50,000 musketeers, and 200 siege artillery to attack Cao Cao head-on!"

"Changshan Zhao Zilong takes the order!"

"Gan Ning led 50,000 musketeers and sailors on the right and a hundred siege cannons, crossed the river and attacked Xuzhou directly."

"Gan Xingba takes the order!"

"Zhou Yu and Tai Shici led 50,000 musketeers and sailors on the left and a hundred siege cannons to attack Yuzhou!"

"Zhou Gongjin (Tai Shi Ziyi) accepts the order!"

Huang Shang looked at Zhou Yu and Tai Shici with a smile on his face. When he sent them to Jiaozhou, in less than two years, after seeing the life of the people in Jiaozhou, their outlook on life was greatly impacted.

In order to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment, have enough food and clothing, and enjoy a peaceful life, they all agreed that Huang Shang was the master of destiny. Although they were a little entangled, for the ideal of calming the world in their hearts, they finally let go of their guard and recognized Huang Shang as the master.

After several years of hard work, he has become a naval general who can compete with Gan Ning.

This time three armies attacked Cao Cao. Except for Zhao Zilong, the Conglong general, who led the ground troops to attack, the other two armies were all naval forces. When they crossed the river and landed, they had only two legs to rely on. If the speed was slower, maybe it would be bad.

All the credit will be taken away by Zhao Zilong.

At this moment, Gan Ning was secretly competing with Zhou Yu and Tai Shi Ci: they must not lose to him (them)!

(Luo Pingan: Retirement...???????)

The war was going smoothly. Although Cao Cao's 200,000-strong army was approaching fiercely, they encountered Zhao Zilong's musketeers head-on and were knocked down by a shuttle before they could even rush over.

The super generals that Cao Cao gathered through years of campaigning were destroyed in one battle after facing a saturation attack by tens of thousands of musketeers.

At that time, Cao Cao was in charge of the central army. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately changed the central army to the rear army and ran away.

This speed is no slower than Liu Paopao.

But this was just a microcosm of the war. In the next three months, the three-pronged army led by Zhao Zilong, Zhou Tai, Zhou Yu, and Tai Shici attacked the city with overwhelming force, and captured Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Yanzhou at an extremely fast speed.

, Luoyang and Chang'an, drove Cao Cao to the north of the Yellow River.

In three months, Cao Cao went from being the overlord who unified the north to losing all the territories south of the Yellow River that he had managed for many years, leaving only the four states north of the Yellow River. Fortunately, he still had Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in his hands. Although he was only surviving, he was not yet alive.

As for losing all political capital.

On the other side, Huang Shang took over all the four states of Cao Cao, and his territory was once again expanded. Now, he exclusively controls eight of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and he is only one thought away from unifying the world.

However, Huang Shang did not take advantage of the opportunity to cross the Yellow River to pursue, but stopped again to engage in production and construction.

Now that the most prosperous territory of the Han Dynasty was occupied by him, Cao Cao could not survive for a few days. The most important thing at the moment was to clean up all the aristocratic families in the four states he had just occupied.

These aristocratic families have existed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and they are deeply rooted. It is much more difficult to deal with them than those in Jiangdong, but Taizu said it well: political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

Whoever dares to resist will directly let them experience the scientific and technological achievements of the first industrial revolution.

While Huang Shang was engaged in purges and construction in full swing, his civil servants and military generals secretly gathered together to discuss a "treasonous and unethical" matter.

"Is it time for my lord to ascend the throne?"

Most of the territory of the Han Dynasty has been conquered. If they don't proclaim themselves emperor at this time, how should they deal with themselves?

Learn martial arts and sell goods to the emperor's family.

These civil servants and generals who received orthodox Chinese civilization education since childhood all had the same inner thoughts. Only the emperor was orthodox in the world. In order to become orthodox himself, Huang Shang had to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

This group of people discussed for three days and finally made up their mind.

On this day, Huang Shang received the news that Zhao Zilong was ill in bed.

As the first general to conquer the world with him, how could Huang Shang not visit him personally.

That morning, Huang Shang went to visit Zhao Zilong's house with various gifts.

As soon as he walked into Zhao Zilong's bedroom, he smelled the smell of soup.

"Ahem, lord..."

Zhao Zilong struggled to get up.

"Zilong, lie down quickly." Huang Shang pressed him on the bed and said, "What's wrong with Zilong?"

"I just feel the cold occasionally, so it's okay." Zhao Zilong's face was a little stiff, and his tone of voice was not quite right, but Huang Shang didn't pay attention to this, and nodded when he heard the words: "In that case, Zilong should take good care of his illness and recover before he recovers.

Don’t go out.”

Zhao Zilong's eyes flashed with a trace of emotion and guilt, he shook his head and said: "Originally, I will not be so weak. It's just that I have been thinking about something for many days and I feel anxious, so I can't afford to fall ill."

"What can make Zilong sick?" Huang Shang said quickly: "Zilong just said, no matter which girl you want to marry, or you want a peerless weapon, as long as I have a way, I can do it for you.

.”

"Ahem, how can a general think about those trivial matters?" Zhao Zilong was embarrassed.

"Then what can make Zilong so anxious?" Huang Shang asked: "Speak out and I will help Zilong look into the details."

"Alas!" Zhao Zilong sighed and said: "The last general met his lord from Changshan and escorted him all the way to Luoyang. Later, the lord refused to give up and accepted him as a family general and went to Jiaozhou to take up his post. The last general never dreamed that he would follow him.

My lord has laid such a foundation."
To be continued...