Watching the carriage gradually fade away, Cao Cao stood in the snow for a long time. Just when Cao Ren didn't know whether he should speak, Cao Cao suddenly turned around and walked into the open courtyard gate. Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan looked at each other, and then pressed their knife to follow behind.

Cao Cao walked quickly and came all the way to the hall that had just left. Liu Dai was still discussing matters with his farewell Wang Yu, Wang Kai, Xu Xi, Mao Hui, Wan Qian and others. Seeing Cao Cao leaving and returning, Liu Dai stood up and asked.

"Is there something important about Meng De?"

"Cao, please send troops to Dongjun immediately!"

“…”

Seeing that Liu Dai and others frowned, Cao Cao knew what they were worried about, but his expression was extremely solemn.

"Yuan Benchu ​​stationed 20,000 troops in Liyang. The bandits in Luchang Mountain were cut off from retreat, but they failed to break through Puyang to obtain money, grain and supplies. It started to snow again in the sky. The bandits were already in a desperate situation at this time. Our army could break 100,000 thieves with just one blow!"

"Cao knows that this is very risky, and no one can guarantee whether Liang and Wanqi will take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. But if not, Mr. Bo Yi will definitely go north to recruit those thieves. Mr. Bo Yi cannot take out 100,000 thieves to eat food, and in the end he can only hand over to Luoyang. This will only increase Dong Hu's strength. Instead of doing this, it is better to... it is better to eliminate them all!"

Cao Cao looked firm. He wanted to force more than 100,000 people in Lucao Mountain in one fell swoop, but he knew that Liu Dai could not agree. Although the more than 100,000 people were not soldiers, they only needed hundreds of thousands of stones of food to rush their lives. However, this was also a huge sum of money that Yanzhou could not bear. Moreover, so many thieves gathered in Yanzhou. What if they rebel again next year?

Liu Dai looked at the officials and saw that they all frowned and sighed inwardly. He took out a cloth scarf from his sleeve. On it was the letter of help from the governor of Qingzhou Jiao He, the governor of Beihai Kong Rong, and the prefect of Taishan County Ying Shao.

"well……"

Liu Dai held the letter and gestured to Cao Cao. Cao Cao hurriedly stepped forward to take it, looked closely, and his eyes suddenly condensed.

"Three hundred thousand Qingzhou thieves?"

Cao Cao exclaimed in surprise, and Liu Dai sighed: "Hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou thieves ravaged the prefectures and counties. Once they plundered Qingzhou, they either entered Jizhou to plunder or... or went south to Yanzhou."

"As Meng De said, the bandits in Luyan Mountain have fallen into a desperate situation. It is cold in winter and the bandits live in barren mountains and wilderness, and their morale will inevitably be low and vulnerable. However... However, we cannot take a risky battle. Once the bandits in Liang and the bandits in Luyan Mountain attack our army, if Yanzhou suffers heavy losses, how can we deal with the bandits rampant in Qingzhou?"

Cao Cao opened his mouth repeatedly, but he couldn't say a word...

"At this time, I could only immediately try to get the Liang and the thieves who entered the country to retreat to Luoyang. Liu had already written a letter with Yuan Benchu, hoping that Yuan Benchu ​​could... let Liu Sheng go."

Liu Dai was extremely disgusted with the timid Liu Sheng, but Liu Sheng was the one who was the one who was the most accused of confronting him. The two were like natural enemies. When they learned that Yuan Shao had dealt with Liu Sheng, Liu Dai even felt some pleasure in his heart, but why was the retribution in the world so fast?

Seeing Qingzhou's call for help, Cao Cao had no choice. If he had not suddenly entered the ten thousand Liang and Iron Cavalry, even without Liu Dai's support, he would have attacked more than 100,000 bandits in Luyan Mountain at this time, but now...

"well……"

Cao Cao stood outside the mansion, looking up at the sky with snowflakes floating in the sky, and the snow was rustling. It seemed that there was only a sound left in the whole world...

Cao Cao looked up at the sky in Changyi and sighed that a "snow dragon" rolled over ten miles south of Ganling City, and the huge roar made the birds in the forest terrified and avoided...

"Wow—"

Zhang Yi suddenly strangled the war horse, and the hundreds of soldiers with small flags behind him did not stop immediately, but turned the horse's heads and spread them to both sides. Then Wanqi also reduced their cavalry speed and gradually strangled the war horse.

Dong Chong and Dong You turned over and dismounted. They jumped for a few times, then took out the wine pot and drank a big gulp. There were many people like the two of them.

"Lao Zhang, how far is Ganling City?"

Dong Chong stuffed the wine pot into Zhang Yi's hand. He didn't care whether it was in front of others or not, biting his gloves in his mouth, unbuttoning his belt and drawing a map in the snow. Seeing that he was still consciously tracing, Zhang Yi shook his head.

"After all, you are considered a general around the lord... Forget it, you can do whatever you want!"

Seeing Dong Chong turn around, Zhang Yi smiled bitterly again and asked him to pee at will. Dong Chong shook his body several times, looking at him not caring.

"There are no women now, so I'm afraid in front of my brothers? I remember that back then, my elder brother and the hundred and ten brothers were better than who did we pee higher than us! If you don't believe me, please ask you?"

Looking at Dong Chong's smug look, Zhang Yi was speechless, but Dong You turned his face away, as if he hadn't heard Dong Chong's muddle.

"Ahem...that, ten miles north of here is Ganling City, and we can enter the city before sunset."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

Dong Chong turned around and looked at the countless brothers behind him.

"Brothers!"

"After entering the city, let Lao Liu invite us to a big meal-"

"Ha ha……"

Dong Chong laughed to the sky, and countless soldiers turned over again.

"Brothers, we want to eat Lao Liu into a pauper at one time-"

"It's a big meal-"

Dong Chong was the first to run towards Ganling City. Zhang Yi was anxious that he was the chief general, and Qinghe County was also his place, so how could he be willing to fall behind Dong Chong?

Ten thousand iron cavalry galloped again and ran towards the empty city outside the city.

Yuan Shao was afraid that Wen Chou would be raided by Dong Buyi from ten thousand cavalry, so he rushed to order Wen Chou to withdraw his troops immediately.

Wen Chou was surprised that Liu Sheng was afraid of death and defended Ganling City. Three thousand soldiers could not break through the city of Qinghe County, so he could only force Min Zhuang to attack the city from the surrounding county towns. Min Zhuang, who was temporarily forced to recruit Min Zhuang, was not an elite soldier. Both sides fought at the city for half a month, and even Wen Chou himself attacked the city. However, Liu Sheng seemed to have burst out with endless courage under the fear of death, and actually stood at the city and fought with Wen Chou. His encouragement also made thousands of old and weak burst out with endless fighting spirit, and he fought with Wen Chou for more than half a month.

There were many casualties inside and outside the city. When snowflakes floated in the sky, Wen Chou also wanted to retreat, but he had no way to retreat. Liu Sheng was a shame among all the princes. Even the bottom-level baggage soldiers could laugh at him, but they couldn't take him down for a month. Once they retreated like this, how would the world view him Wen Chou? It was worse than a coward?

Wen Chou cursed Liu Sheng for many times. At the beginning, all the generals in the army cursed with him. However, with the heavy casualties in the army, there was no loud cursing sound in the central army's tent, becoming more and more silent, which made Wen Chou more and more worried. Fortunately, soon after, Yuan Shao's military order was sent over, which also made everyone feel relieved.

Thirty miles south of Ganling City is the Beiqiu City, and tens of thousands of cavalry attacks. No matter how arrogant Wen Chou is, he dare not use 10,000 or 20,000 Minzhuang to fight with 10,000 and 10,000 and iron cavalry in the wild. In the end, he had to withdraw his troops and retreat.

Liu Sheng suffered heavy losses, but at least he held the city. When Wen Chou evacuated, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, he could not guarantee whether Wen Chou was cheating. Even if there was no one outside the city, even if the spy had sent the exact news, he did not dare to be careless. He did not return home, and would eat and sleep on the city tower, for fear that no one would secretly open the city gate without his military order. He knew very well how Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng County, and Ling Zheng, the Qiang-guard, died...

"Dad...Dad..."

Liu Qi ran into the gatehouse in a panic, which scared Liu Sheng to tremble.

"Is Wen Chou here again?"

Liu Qi knew that his father was afraid of death by nature, but he was still speechless when he heard these words, but he was stunned for a moment and hurriedly pointed outside.

"It's reinforcements! Zhang Yi brought ten thousand cavalry to rescue us..."

"What-- Zhang Yi is here?"

Liu Sheng stood up, feeling sad again in his heart. He never thought that he would fall to this point...

"Dad...Dad? Can we open the city?"

"Ah? Oh...yes, open the city gate quickly!"

Liu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly ran outside, holding the helmet that was tilted to the side with his hands. During these days, he was afraid during the day and at night, and he kept his body away all day. After running dozens of steps, he remembered something and hurriedly grabbed his son again.

"You hurry back to your house and ask someone to prepare food and drink, kill all the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in your family. If you don't have enough, go to each store to buy it..."

"Go now!"

Zhang Yi could not have tens of thousands of cavalry. The only one who could come to rescue within half a month was Liangbian elite cavalry in Luoyang. Liu Sheng had been a lieutenant in Lintao for many years. There was still a judgment, and he knew the most about what kind of character the Liangzhou people were. In just a moment, there was a loud cheer on the top of the city. In a short time, the major families also received news and came to the city gate building in carriages...

"It has only been more than ten days since the prince asked Chenliu County for help. Why did Zhang Yi come so quickly?"

One of the people frowned slightly and Old Master Zhang looked at the south with a solemn expression.

"It's the Qiang Cavalry in Liangzhou."

Old Master Zhao nodded and said, "Brother Zhang said that only the Qiang Cavalry in Liangzhou can have such speed, but... how did Liu Dai let him cross the East County? Isn't Luoyang worried that all the princes would jointly siege again?"

"I'm afraid? I'm afraid of Yuan Benchu! It's Liu Dai! At this time, they were more worried that Luoyang would take advantage of Jizhou and Yanzhou, rather than being afraid of Jizhou. Yanzhou joined forces to siege Luoyang."

Old Master Zhang sighed softly without expression on his face.

"Yuan Benchu's entry into Jizhou was too short, and the counties and states were dissatisfied. He wanted to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. But at this time Gongsun Zan came over, and the Black Mountain Army on Taihang Mountain had already made Yuan Benchu ​​difficult to support him. If Luoyang was in trouble at this time, could Yuan Benchu ​​survive?"

"Jizhou is like this, how can Yanzhou be as stable as Mount Tai? It's not a year ago. If Jizhou and Yanzhou cannot solve the hidden worries behind it, neither Yuan Shao nor Liu Dai will compete with Dong Hu."

The old men nodded silently. At this moment, waves came from under their feet, and Old Master Zhang's eyes suddenly changed.

"Here you come!"

Everyone looked south together, and a rolling snow dragon suddenly appeared in the sky, roaring like an angry thunder. When everyone saw clearly, the angry dragon turned into a flood, and countless iron cavalry spread to their wings, tightly guarding the high "Han" flag of the central army...

Old Master Zhang's eyes were wide open and he stared at the countless iron cavalry parked a hundred steps away. Although he was old and could not see clearly under the snow, the old man's breathing became heavier...
Chapter completed!