Xuande

Chapter 383 See you in Chengdu

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

So Liu Bei ordered the army to advance.

This time, Liu Bei planned to train his army, so he brought more recruits. As for the generals, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Ma Teng, and Yan Xing were the main six, and the others also brought one Dong Huang, because Dong Huang is the prefect of Wudu, the closest to the front line of entering Shu.

The army set off in late May, and in early June, the army entered Wudu County, went south along the West Han River, and arrived at Baishuiguan, where it was greeted by Zhao Yao, the prefect of Guanghan County.

Along the way, Liu Bei can be regarded as exactly feeling the difficulty of the Shu Road.

Qishan Road is already a relatively flat road among Shu Dao, otherwise Zhuge Liang would not be attached to Qishan Road.

Mainly, there is a section of the journey here that can rely on the water transportation of the Western Han Dynasty, which can reduce the loss of logistics to a considerable extent. If only relying on land transportation, it will definitely bring down a regime.

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

It is a pity that a major earthquake in Wudu in the early Western Han Dynasty destroyed the waterway, so this most convenient and most usable road could not be used.

For this road that Zhuge Liang once fought for, Liu Bei looked at it while walking, and he almost "wrote" a poem about the difficulty of the road to Shu to express his feelings about the difficulty of this road.

Difficulty is really difficult, and it is quite troublesome to walk. It is difficult for people to move forward on their feet, let alone transport a large amount of materials.

The level of the road is quite bad, even this is the road that Dong Juan led people to repair a little bit in advance. The original state of many places is a dirt road, and it will rot when you walk on it.

When the army finally arrived at Baishuiguan, the prefect Zhao Yao was not as calm as imagined, but greeted Liu Bei's arrival at Baishuiguan with a little embarrassment.

Ma Xiang, the leader of the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army, raised troops from Guanghan County under his management. This was a heavy blow to him, and he still failed to contain the Yellow Turban Army.

As a result, Xi Jian, the governor of Yizhou, was killed by the Yellow Turban Army.

In various senses, this is a harbinger of Zhao Yao's bleak political future.

"The lower officials are incompetent, unable to resist the Yellow Turban bandits, so that the states and counties suffered catastrophes. This is the lower officials' incompetence. After this battle, the lower officials will resign from office to thank the emperor."

Looking at Zhao Yao's dejected expression, Liu Bei didn't say anything. He 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 the Yellow Turban Army The leader, Ma Xiang, has already called himself the Son of Heaven.

Good guy, how long has it been since you called yourself the Son of Heaven?
Isn't this guy too confident?
"Where is Ma Xiang now?"

"In Qianwei County."

Zhao Yao said in a low voice: "After killing Lord Xi Shi, he led his troops to Qianwei County, and sent people to attack Ba County. Now both Qianwei County and Ba County are very dangerous, and my Guanghan County is also more dangerous. Yizhou The elders look forward to the general's help like hope for the rain after a long drought, and ask the general to wipe out the rebels!"

Liu Bei nodded slowly.

"I'm here to quell the rebellion, and I won't do unnecessary things. Please tell the elders of Guanghan not to worry."

Zhao Yao hesitated for a moment, and said with a sad face: "What Guanghan County can provide, the lower officials will try their best to provide, but after this rebellion, many places in Guanghan County were dilapidated, and the elders were displaced. Forgive me."

Liu Bei raised his eyebrows, realizing what Zhao Yao said.

"Don't worry, my army has strict military discipline and is fully paid. You don't have to worry about military discipline. Whoever dares to rob the elders will be killed by me."

Zhao Yao looked at Liu Bei, blinked her eyes, hesitated for a while, and bowed again.

"So, please, General."

Liu Bei looked at Zhao Yao for a while.

"You don't look like a tyrannical person who extorts money. Why did the Taipingdao rebellion first appear in Guanghan County?"

"This... Luo County, the state capital, is in Guanghan County..."

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

Zhao Yao smiled wryly for a while.

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

"It's hard for you, too."

Liu Bei smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said nothing: "But this time the new governor of Yizhou is not a greedy and tyrannical person. He must be much better than Xi Jian. Unfortunately, you are about to resign. , it’s also good, to avoid many disputes in the future, and to live a long life.”

Zhao Yao looked at Liu Bei, didn't say anything, just let out a long sigh.

"It's all about lingering, how can a person like me deserve the luck of longevity?"

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

He quickly led his troops to Mianzhu and Luo County.

In addition, he divided his troops into two battalions and handed them over to Qianzhao, who led Cheng Pu and Han Dang, who were relatively stable, to march towards Berkshire to deal with the Yellow Turban Army attacking Berkshire.

This was the first time that Qianzhao led troops to perform a task independently. He seemed a little excited and worried that he would not be able to complete the task well.

And Liu Bei has full trust in him.

"What we need to fight this time is not an elite army. With your ability, I fully believe that you can do it. You will always fight by my side. When will you be able to take charge alone? I can trust someone who can entrust great things to me. Not much, Zijing, you need to grow up."

When Qianzhao 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 embarrass you."

"Who wants you to die!"

Liu Bei cursed with a smile and hugged Qianzhao into his arms, giving him a firm hug.

"Let's see you in Chengdu."

"See you in Chengdu."

Qianzhao also gave Liu Bei a big hug back.

As Liu Bei expected, the enemy he faced this time, judging by the strength of the Liangzhou Army, was really weak and a bit pathetic.

Although only one battalion of the Liangzhou army led by Liu Bei is a veteran, and the rest are mainly recruits recruited from Liangzhou after they came to Liangzhou, but against the Yizhou Yellow Turban Army, they are simply elites .

In the First World War against Mianzhu, it took only one and a half days for Liu Bei to lead his troops to recover Mianzhu.

In Luo County during World War II, Liu Bei took only half a day to conquer Luo County and won a complete victory.

The Yizhou Yellow Turban Army did not have a unified military uniform and no powerful weapons. Most of them were dressed in tatters, or even had no clothes on. Their heads were tied with strips of cloth, and they held simple and primitive weapons such as wooden sticks and bamboo spears in their hands. A war is a swarm, and a retreat is an avalanche.

They fought against Liu Bei in a field battle with more people than the Liangzhou soldiers under Liu Bei's command, but they collapsed before the start of the battle, and they were defeated across the board. They were not opponents at all.

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

The Yizhou Yellow Turban Army is no stronger than the other Yellow Turban Army, they are the same, they are not even considered the Yellow Turban Army, they can only be said to have borrowed the reputation of the Taiping Road, and are essentially peasants and laborers who rose up because they couldn't stand that fellow Xi Jian.

Most of them are not natives of Yizhou, but refugees who were displaced into Yizhou because of the Taipingdao uprising or other incidents. They were gathered by Xi Jian to work. I couldn't take it anymore, so I used the reputation of Taipingdao to raise troops.

(End of this chapter)