"Nonsense! Xuzhou Mu is drunk, are you drunk too? Get me fifty military sticks, and then report to Xianden Camp in Yuan Rang Camp!" Cao Cao scolded the bus order.
The bus commander was stunned for a moment, but he immediately realized that Cao Cao didn't want to pursue Liu Bei for the time being, so he wanted to get rid of him first, accuse him immediately, and leave.
However, Cao Cao did not know at this time that Liu Bei, who was theoretically drunk, was staying up all night in the mansion, anticipating Cao Cao's attitude - Dong Cheng's previous "acting skills" made Liu Bei have to take advantage of it...
Liu Bei also scolded Dong Cheng angrily in his heart - he is just a useless teammate, he can't do anything, and he can't even act?
He was asked to keep a low profile recently, so he just changed his personal profile? Are you afraid that Cao Cao won't be suspicious?
Early the next morning, Liu Bei heard that Cao Cao had sent the bus order to the death camp, and also sent people to warn him privately, but at the same time, when the people used this matter to slander him... Liu Bei was relieved.
——It seems... at least his passing by the car gave Cao Cao peace of mind for the time being!
Yes, Dong Cheng did have something on his mind before, and he couldn't hide it at all.
Liu Bei had said before that this matter could not go through Dong Cheng, but... Liu Xie got the news, and Dong Cheng also got it!
Liu Bei felt so tired...
However, Liu Bei did not stop doing what he needed to do.
In order to attract Cao Cao's attention and reassure him, Liu Bei drove out of the palace from Simamen.
At the same time, in the palace where Liu Xie had no confidants, Dong Cheng was still angrily reporting to Liu Xie about what happened to Simamen last night.
Although Dong Chengming was blaming Cao Cao on the surface for imposing such a light punishment on the official bus order, Liu Xie understood that his underlying meaning was that he was telling small tales about Liu Bei!
But this time Liu Xie just looked at him coldly, and then said: "Uncle Guo, you should do your own thing. How about your uncle, I don't have to worry about it."
Hearing Liu Xie's cold tone, Dong Cheng trembled and did not dare to say anything more.
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On the other hand, in Jizhou, Hebei, taking advantage of Yuan Shao's defeat and seemingly still anxious and seriously ill, the Black Mountain Army became active again, and this time began to move out of the valley on a large scale.
Originally, the Black Mountain Army was active in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, and Hanoi counties. It was a super "bandit" that spanned Jizhou and Bingzhou.
Initially, it was in the same line as the Yellow Turban Army. It was led by Zhang Niujiao, the commander of Daqu, and combined with the strength of various commanders, it was known as a crowd of millions. After Zhang Niujiao died, Chu Feiyan succeeded to the throne and changed his surname to Zhang, which is now Zhang Yan.
To say that there are millions of troops is definitely bragging, and it is far from the truth.
However, if we count the young and old, there are indeed millions of people - in line with the characteristics of the Yellow Turban Army, they can incite or coerce a large number of old, weak, women and children, most of whom are half civilians and half thieves...
Among them, there are probably only a few hundred thousand real Ji Zao soldiers, and...most of them are Yellow Turbans!
As a special unit to which Huang Tianji belongs, the combined manpower is only one-fifth of the regular Han army and can be used as corvees.
However, the shortcomings are poor controllability, tailwind waves, headwind collapses, low initial values, and low training effectiveness...
Basically, apart from being cheap and allowing for temporary training (training in advance is not very effective), it has all the drawbacks!
There were only a few thousand Yellow Turban warriors, that is, a small number of elites among the main force of the Yellow Turban during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Not only does it require a lot of manpower, but only the manpower of believers in Taiping Dao can be used to synthesize it. Its hard attributes are equivalent to those of wood and stone warriors, and they are not afraid of death and are absolutely obedient.
The formation method of the original Huang Tianji is unknown. Some people may know it, but it has never been spread to the outside world. After Zhang Jiao raised the banner of "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian will stand", she appeared as the core Yiji of the Yellow Turban Army.
When the Yellow Turban Army was at its peak, the eight states of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan responded, and Zhang Jiao established thirty-six square canal commanders, each fighting...
Thirty-six concubines were also born, all of Huang Tian's lineage. They did not rely on the city, but relied on the scale of the Yellow Turban Army!
Nowadays, only the "remnants" of the Yellow Turbans remain. Huang Tianji disappeared after Zhang Jiao's death. Most of the other Huangtian lineage disappeared after the defeat, and the remaining ones are in twos and threes.
Although the Black Mountain Army has a large force and was initially the top one among the Yellow Turban local factions, with the most powerful force in the area, it only has one Huangtian-type alien concubine at this time - Black Mountain Princess.
The so-called Black Mountain Army now is actually equivalent to two or three counties, with a population of one million mountain people and refugees, with various tribes spread throughout the valleys of the Taihang Mountains.
Not long ago, Zhang Yan had frequent contact with the White Wave Yellow Turbans led by Yang Feng who were entrenched in Guanzhong.
At this time, I decided to take advantage of Yuan Shao's vitality to make a final profit, then go south through Hanoi County, pass the former Sili land, and go to Guanzhong to meet up with Baibo Huangjin!
It is said that they are the White Waves and the Yellow Turbans. In fact, they surrendered to Dong Zhuo in the later period of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Moreover, when Li Guo was in chaos, this part of the White Waves rebelled against the enemy. In name, because they had the credit of escorting the Han Emperor back east, they had been exonerated.
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Hanoi County is the southern end of the Black Mountain Army's activity range, and not far to the south is Hulao Pass.
It is roughly equivalent to retracing the journey that Dong Zhuo took when he moved westward to Guanzhong ten years ago after burning Luoyang.
However, what is different from ten years ago is that although Luoyang today has been rebuilt in name, it is only a semi-military city on the ruins. From Hanoi County to Hulao Pass, and then to Luoyang... Although the whole journey is under Cao Cao's control,
The defensive strength is very weak.
After all, the weak chickens in Guanzhong only dare to peck each other and dare not take advantage of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao does not want to explore the muddy waters of Guanzhong that have long since withered!
Moreover, this once prosperous place has long been deserted for thousands of miles, and its recovery will require a lot of manpower to reclaim it.
What's more, Cao Cao's main energy is still in Hebei, so naturally he is even more unprepared here...
How weak are the defenses along this road?
There is no record in history, but in the romance, after Guan Yu learned that Liu Bei was in Hebei during the Battle of Guandu, in order to re-join Liu Bei and "pass five passes and kill six generals", he took the road from Hulao Pass to Luoyang, regardless of whether
Whether it was Hulao Pass, which made the eighteen princes look back and sigh, or Luoyang, the former capital of the Later Han Dynasty, they were all destroyed by Guan Yu...
As for why Guan Yu took such a long detour?
Baitu doesn’t know either!
At the beginning of the sixth year of Jian'an, this exciting start of the new year was led by the Yellow Turban Army, which was no longer a flower in the past...
The "yellow scarf people" who were originally stationed in various places in the Taihang Mountains, under the leadership of Zhang Yan, packed up their weaklings and started to take advantage of Yuan Shao's recovery of strength. They robbed as many people as they could and coerced as many people as they could.
"Breaking through".
When he first passed through Hanoi, he falsely claimed that he wanted to join Cao Cao and fight against Yuan Shao. At this time, the governor of Hanoi was none other than Sima Lang, Sima Yi's father - Sima Fang!
Looking at the posture of the Montenegrin Army, how can one easily believe it?
So he asked Cao Cao for help while appeasing Zhang Yan...