The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"Don't worry, as long as you can cooperate with me sincerely, your family members, I guarantee that they will not be in any danger!"

When Liu Zheng said this, he was not deceiving Cao Bao, but that he really had the ability to guarantee the safety of Cao Bao's family.You must know that his cooperation with the Mi family is already very close. Although the Mi family does not have much to do with Liu Zheng on the surface, everyone with a discerning eye knows that the Mi family is actually Liu Zheng's private subsidiary.

From the beginning of the cooperative relationship with Liu Zheng to the gradual intensification of the cooperation between the two parties, the Mi family also knew Liu Zheng's strength, and they wanted to hug Liu Zheng's thigh with all their heart.

It was too simple to help Liu Zheng rescue a few people from Xuzhou and escort them to Yangzhou.

So when Liu Zheng said that he could guarantee the safety of Cao Bao's family, it was true. He only needed to let Mi Fang return to Xuzhou to start rescuing Cao Bao's family while Liu Zheng implemented his plan in Qingzhou, so he would have no worries at all.

As soon as Liu Zheng briefly told Cao Bao about his plan, he immediately let Cao Bao understand Liu Zheng's ability, especially after seeing Mi Fang, the second master of the Mi family behind Liu Zheng, he became more convinced.

"Okay, my lord, I promise to cooperate with you!"

Cao Bao gritted his teeth and said to Liu Zheng, as if he had made a decision.

Seeing his expression like this, Liu Zheng knew that Cao Bao seemed to have really decided to take refuge in him.

Then Liu Zheng didn't doubt it. After accepting Cao Bao, he decided to take him back to Donglai first.

5 Chapter Eighty

Liu Zheng pressed the more than 1 men under Cao Bao to return to Donglai County along the Taishan Mountains.

Although Cao Bao agreed to cooperate with him, this matter still needs a long-term plan, and there is no rush.

It is always necessary to find a way to act out a play for Tao Qian, Liu Bei and others to watch, otherwise, if the news is revealed to Tao Qian unprepared, Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao's suspicious personalities may not necessarily fall into the trap.

So there is no rush for this matter.

It will take at least two days to return to Donglai County along the Taishan Mountains.

But Liu Zheng and the others had just walked halfway, when they were under a mountain wall, they suddenly heard the sound of a fierce fight in the distance.

Liu Zheng also discovered it at the first time. He could see from a distance that the two teams were fighting each other. One team was wearing official military uniforms, with about 5000 people, and the other team was more messy, but the number of people was On the other hand, there are many more, estimated to be nearly ten thousand people.

Seeing this situation, Liu Zheng's spies immediately went over to inquire about the news, and after a while, Liu Zheng roughly understood what was going on.

It turned out that these two groups of people, those wearing official uniforms, were the vanguard army led by the prefect of Langya County, Zhao Yu, while the other group of people was a group of bandits who had been entrenched in the Mount Tai mountain range all year round.

This group of bandits is naturally the famous Mount Tai bandits.

The leader among them is Zang Ba, one of the eight strong generals under Lu Bu in history.

Of course, at this time, Zang Ba was still working as a bandit near Mount Tai, gathering Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and others, and he was very famous in the generation of Mount Tai.

"My lord, those Taishan thieves have been entrenched in Mount Tai all year round. Their power is only a little smaller than that of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, but they are also a force that makes the court a headache. It's just that I didn't expect to meet them in this place."

After the people who went to investigate reported the information they had to Liu Zheng, when Liu Zheng heard the name Zang Ba, he couldn't help but glanced at Lu Bu.

Liu Zheng has naturally heard of Zang Ba.

After all, Zang Ba's reputation is not small at all. If you want to say that Lu Bu's capable people, apart from Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, Zang Ba is still a talent.

This Zang Ba is not inferior to Dian Wei, who kills people in the street, or Sun Jian, who avenges his father.

According to Liu Zheng's knowledge, Zang Ba's father, Zang Jie, was a county jailer. Because he obeyed the law and refused to obey the prefect, he killed prisoners privately.The prefect was furious and ordered Zangjiefu to be taken into custody for crimes.At the age of eighteen, Zang Ba learned that his father had been imprisoned, so he summoned a dozen diners to go to Xishan, Feixian County, to rescue his father and kill the prefect. Father fled.After this deed, Zang Ba's filial piety and bravery became famous all over the countryside.

In his early years, Zang Ba was valued by Tao Qian because of this incident. Under Tao Qian, he became a small officer riding a captain and helped Tao Qian clean up the Yellow Turban Army.

However, I don’t know what happened later, Zang Ba left Tao Qian, and gathered people around Mount Tai to be bandits. They are quite prestigious in this generation, but no one dares to provoke them.

Over the past few years, the growing Zang Ba has gathered [-] bandits.

Originally, Zang Ba's lair was relatively secret near Mount Tai. Others didn't even know where Zang Ba was hiding. Although Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, wanted to wipe out Zang Ba's gang of bandits, he couldn't find Zang Ba. Where is his lair, but there has never been a chance.

"It's Zang Ba. It turns out that the lairs of those guys are here. I said why I couldn't find them all the time. Before that, the governor Tao Qian sent [-] troops to look for Zang Ba's lair in the nearby mountains, but they were never found." The news, it turns out that Zang Ba put his lair in Qingzhou, no wonder no wonder!"

When Liu Zheng heard his subordinates report the news, Cao Bao, who was following Liu Zheng, couldn't help but say something at this moment.

"Oh, it seems that you, General Cao Bao, also know something about this Zang Ba?"

"Well, this man was Tao Qian's No. [-] general, but Tao Qian didn't like him. At first Tao Qian valued Zang Ba's bravery and recruited Zang Ba to suppress the Yellow Turban Army. After Qian had no intention of reusing him, he turned his back on Tao Qian, and instead ran away to the vicinity of Mount Tai to become a bandit, which once angered Tao Qian, and Tao Qian tried to encircle him several times, but returned in vain."

Cao Bao also belonged to Tao Qian's subordinates, and the two were considered former colleagues, so they naturally had some acquaintances.

After knowing that the person who was fighting Zhao Yu in the distance was actually Zang Ba, Cao Bao still couldn't believe it.

But after thinking about it carefully, I can also understand that at this time and this place, the only person who can summon tens of thousands of soldiers and horses is Zang Ba.

"Then who is Zhao Yu? Why did they fight?"

Liu Zheng didn't know much about Zhao Yu.

But Cao Bao still explained to Liu Zheng.

"My lord, this Cao Bao is the prefect of Langya County, and there are some disputes between them."

"Oh?"

When Liu Zheng heard this, he became interested.

"This Zang Ba was originally from Langya County. In the early years, in order to save his father, he killed the previous Langya County prefect. After Zhao Yu took over the position of Langya County prefect, he listed Zang Ba as the number one fugitive. Zhao Yu gave up, but Zang Ba later defected to Governor Tao Qian."

"Although it was Zhao Yu who gave up, the news of Zang Ba's capture was still spread, which made Zang Ba have a bad impression of Zhao Yu, but unfortunately, after Zang Ba left Tao Qian, Zhao Yu once again The matter of Zang Ba being a fugitive was brought up, Tao Qian came to arrest Zang Ba several times before, and it was Zhao Yu who brought it up."

"So, in Zang Ba's heart, he must hate Zhao Yu to death. It's normal for them to meet and fight here."

At this time, because Cao Bao had decided to join Liu Zheng, he no longer regarded himself as Tao Qian's subordinate, so when he said these things, he didn't have any psychological burden at all. On the contrary, seeing Zhao Yu and Zang Ba fighting, he still had A little schadenfreude.

After all, when Zhao Yu was serving as the vanguard before, he didn't do a proper inspection and let Liu Zheng's men ambush him nearby and beat him by surprise. In his heart, Cao Bao had already hated Zhao Yu so much.

"It turns out that the two of them still have this problem. Since they have a grudge, let them fight for a while. We will fight after they decide the winner."

After hearing Cao Bao's explanation, Liu Zheng was not in a hurry to come out and be a peacemaker.

Chapter 581 Master Zang Ba

The battle in the distance seemed to have been going on for a while, and it had already started before Liu Zheng and the others arrived, because the [-] vanguard army under Zhao Yu was already an hour faster than Cao Bao's men.

And Cao Bao was delayed for a while because of the battle with Liu Zheng's army.

Just like that, when Liu Zheng and the others caught up with Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu and Zang Ba's men had been fighting here for a while.

People like Liu Zheng didn't have to wait long for the winner to be decided on the battlefield.

Although Zhao Yu is also a prefect, and his official position is not small, he is only a civil servant after all, and he doesn't know much about marching and fighting. On the other hand, Zang Ba has been marching and fighting all year round, and he has gained experience. , and familiar with the terrain, he had the upper hand in every battle with Zhao Yu.

In addition, Zhao Yu had only [-] troops under his command, so it was naturally impossible to beat Zang Ba's tens of thousands of troops.

Zhao Yu's defeat is only a matter of time.

However, Zhao Yu persisted, directing his own men to defend, as if waiting for something.

Liu Zheng looked at Zhao Yu and the others so stubbornly, and guessed in his heart that they should be waiting for Cao Bao.

After all, Cao Bao's army was right behind them, and they were only an hour's journey away. As long as Zhao Yu continued to persist for a while, until Cao Bao's army came over, Zang Ba would really be hard to say.

After all, Cao Bao had an army of 1, and although Zang Ba was powerful, he only brought [-].

If Cao Bao can come over in time, then Zhao Yu might really be able to turn the tide against the wind.

Unfortunately, what Zhao Yu didn't know was that Cao Bao's situation was not much better than his.

The battle lasted for more than half an hour, Zhao Yu's [-] soldiers and horses lost most of them, and the rest were still retreating, and they were about to be surrounded by Zang Ba's men and killed.

Liu Zheng knew that it was time to play himself.

He ordered Wu Anguo to lead [-] soldiers and horses to fight, but he did not let all his own army attack.

Others, stay where they are, and when necessary, just let these people stand up, make a gesture, and deter Zang Ba.

The sudden appearance of thousands of soldiers led by Wu Anguo, wearing the uniforms of the army, suddenly made Zhao Yu, who felt a little hopeless, see hope.

When Zhao Yu saw these people, it was as if he had found a life-saving straw, and he called out frantically.

"Here we come! The reinforcements are here, and General Cao Bao's men have finally arrived!"

"Soldiers, we are saved, we are saved!"

"Follow me to block these bandits, our reinforcements are coming, don't give up!"

Zhao Yu shouted frantically, trying to inspire the few remaining soldiers to survive at this time.

In order to block the attack of Zang Ba's bandits, and at the same time wait for his own reinforcements.

With Zhao Yu's words, it really gave the few remaining soldiers a little more confidence. After all, when they saw the reinforcements coming from a distance, everyone knew that they should persist for a while. Yes, there is a possibility of survival, and the natural combat effectiveness will become stronger.

The ones who were nervous were the bandits like Zang Ba. They turned their heads and saw some of them coming from a distance, and they were still wearing uniforms of the army. In addition, people like Zhao Yu were so excited, they really took people like Wu Anguo, Became Zhao Yu's reinforcements.

"What should the leader do? These dog officers and soldiers are here for reinforcements. Should we continue fighting, or retreat to the mountains?"

After Sun Guan saw these officers and soldiers at a glance, he immediately felt a little bit withdrawn, but he couldn't make the decision, so he could only ask Zang Ba's meaning.

Zang Ba was tall and tall, with a beard and a deep look on his face. He squinted his eyes and glanced at Wu Anguo and other soldiers and horses in the distance, but he didn't flinch.

"Keep fighting! With such a small number of people, do you want to scare us, and treat us as Taishan thieves who are vegetarians?"

"Don't say it's these thousands of people, even if there are twice as many people, I'm not afraid. Today we must kill this Zhao Yu. If we retreat this time, we don't know when we will find such a good opportunity next time." gone."

Zang Ba didn't give Zhao Yu a chance, but after a glance, he decided that there were not many people coming. In Zang Ba's view, these people under him still had a great chance to defeat Zhao Yu and others. .

Seeing that his boss had said so, Sun Guan stopped mentioning the retreat and gave the order immediately.

"Brothers, charge me, attack with all your strength, and try to destroy Zhao Yu when the enemy's reinforcements arrive!"

These bandits are already fierce, and those who can be bandits are greedy for life and afraid of death. Following Sun Guan's words, these bandits also showed an aura that they are not afraid of death. Groups of bandits , and began to frantically rush towards Zhao Yu.

The few troops around Zhao Yu were suddenly attacked by Zang Ba's bandits, and they immediately became stressed.

But fortunately, these troops are usually well-trained, and they can still barely sustain the attack of bandits like Zang Ba. After a while, Wu Anguo's army has already approached here.

However, as soon as the people from Wu Anguo appeared, they didn't come directly to help Zhao Yu and resist Zang Ba's bandits' attack. Yu.

Zhao Yu was already in a hurry, but when he saw that his reinforcements had clearly arrived, but suddenly stopped leaving, he was also in a hurry, and immediately cursed in anger.

"Come on, what are you doing, can't you see that we are being besieged by people, you should come and help!"

Zhao Yu cursed loudly.

But he was too embarrassed to scold him too hard. After all, there was still time to ask for help from the other party. If he really scolded these reinforcements away, then Zhao Yu would have no time to regret it.

But no matter what Zhao Yu said, Wu Anguo and the others remained motionless, ignoring Zhao Yu's call at all.

This time, Zhao Yu was surprised, and at the same time, Zang Ba was already preparing for a big fight.

Zang Ba glanced at Wu Anguo and the others with a puzzled look, and the expression on his face became more profound, and he couldn't figure it out.

Zang Ba didn't care about the people around him, but walked up to Wu Anguo and the others, and asked Wu Anguo and others loudly.

"The general in front, dare to ask which way it is?"

Unable to figure out the identity of the other party, Zang Ba glanced at the leader of the team, Wu Anguo, but he didn't know him, so naturally he didn't dare to be careless, he wanted to find out the identity of the other party first.

Unexpectedly, Wu Anguo had already received Liu Zheng's arrangement, and when Zang Ba spoke, he immediately replied.

Chapter 582 Invitation

"Presumably, this is the head of Zang Ba's family. Our lord said that Zang Ba's head should be killed as soon as possible. He waits for the head of the family to deal with these enemies, and then invites the head of the family to go talk about it."

Wu Anguo was just a representative sent by Liu Zheng, not the person Liu Zheng sent to rescue Zhao Yu.

Whether Zhao Yu died or not had nothing to do with Liu Zheng. On the contrary, saving Zhao Yu might offend Zang Ba. How could Liu Zheng do such a thankless thing.

"Your master?"

Zang Ba showed a puzzled look, and Zhao Yu, who heard Wu Anguo's words not far away, was even more angry, and immediately cursed.

"Cao Bao, what do you bastard want to do? Is it possible that you want to die without saving your life? I am yours. If you die without saving, believe it or not, I will go to the governor to read a book for you!"

This time Zhao Yu was also scared. Hearing Wu Anguo's words, he really thought that Cao Bao didn't want to save him and ignored his life and death.

But Wu Anguo didn't pay attention to Zhao Yu at all, and didn't even have the thought of answering Zhao Yu.

On the contrary, Zang Ba frowned when he heard Zhao Yu say the word Cao Bao.

Zang Ba, who worked as a captain under Tao Qian for a while, had naturally heard of Cao Bao, and had met him a few times. Although he didn't know much about Cao Bao, Zang Ba knew the name Cao Bao anyway. figure.

With a tentative tone, Zang Ba asked Wu Anguo again.

"Your master is Cao Bao?"

"No, how could Cao Bao be my lord? Who is my lord? The head of the family will know in a while. If you are really interested, how about going with me now?"