The journey from Baling County to Qingzhou is not short. Even if Liu Zheng makes every effort to get there and takes more than ten days.

But just as Liu Zheng was passing by Wujun on a boat.

His men sent him a message that Zhang Muyu, who had been raising her baby, had finally given birth.

And he is another son.

Liu Zheng was ecstatic when he heard this news. Wu Jun delayed for a long time and went back home to meet Zhang Muyu and Cai Yao, and hugged his son in person.

Looking at the little guy and crying loudly in his hands, Liu Zheng really wanted to stay and accompany Zhang Muyu and his son. After all, it was a warm moment. Liu Zheng didn't accompany Cai Yao well back then, but now he really wanted to accompany Zhang Muyu, but the war in Qingzhou didn't wait for anyone.

Liu Zheng was worried that he would go too late, and Zhang Ning might have life worries.

So he still endured the pain and did not stay in Wujun for longer. He reminded Cai Yao a few words and asked her to take good care of Zhang Muyu and then led his troops directly north.

Early April 189.

Liu Zheng's troops were already approaching Qingzhou, and the situation in Qingzhou was not optimistic at this time.

After Liu Bei and Cao Cao led a large army to attack Linzi City from the west, in order to eliminate these Yellow Turban troops as soon as possible, they did not delay too much, but instead directly led their troops to chase and kill the Yellow Turban remnants.

A few days later, Liu Bei and Cao Cao's men finally arrived in Beihai County and learned that the North Navy still had tens of thousands of elite troops of the Yellow Turban Army.

Instead of attacking rashly, they chose to take steady steps to recover the large and small counties near Qingzhou, and then gradually came to the Beihai County City controlled by Zhang Ning.

In this Beihai County city, there are more than 40,000 soldiers and horses of Zhang Ning, and some other people were scattered in Donglai County by Zhang Ning, and Zhang Ning himself formed a defensive belt here.

A few days ago, Zhang Ning and Liu Bei's men fought a big battle, but Zhang Ning hardly took the initiative to attack and only took defensive measures. Most of the time, he was closed and he stood firm to fight. Guan Hai, Chu Yan and others commanded the troops, but there was no big defeat. He was favored by losing thousands of people, so Zhang Ning still blocked Liu Bei's fierce attack.

After the attack failed, Cao Cao and Liu Bei had no choice. Although they wanted to forcibly attack the city, they would definitely lose a large number of men once they attacked. It would be more than worth the loss of this kind of thing. Liu Bei, who has always been kind to his people, did not want to attack the Yellow Turban Army in this way.

Moreover, once he chooses to attack, it will inevitably affect the people in the city. Liu Bei, who cares more about his reputation, is naturally unwilling to kill the remaining Yellow Turban Army. He wants to use gentle means to persuade these Yellow Turban Remnants to surrender.

This not only allows Qingzhou to be obtained without bloodshed, but also allows this group of Yellow Turban Army to be incorporated into a new force.

At least if these people could surrender, Liu Bei could quickly form a military force from these Yellow Turban Army to replenish his lost troops.

In the big tent of Liu Bei's army.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao were discussing how to deal with these Yellow Turban Remnants in the Beihai.

Cao Cao advocated a quick battle and quick decision, and used tough means to break the Beihai County City and eliminate some of the last Yellow Turban Army.

However, Liu Bei did not agree to do this. Liu Bei wanted to recruit these Yellow Turban Army. At the beginning, the recruitment of troops in Yanzhou had reached its limit, and it was difficult for Liu Bei and others to recruit suitable personnel directly from Yanzhou.

The same is true for Qingzhou. The young and middle-aged people in Qingzhou have long been absorbed by the Yellow Turban Army. Even if the court recovered Qingzhou, Qingzhou would not be able to bring enough troops to the court in a short period of time.

That's why Liu Bei focused on the only remaining Yellow Turban Army.

"Brother Meng De, it's not that I want to let go of these rebels, but you have also seen along the way that the Yellow Turban bandits in Qingzhou are flooding and the people are suffering. Even if we recover the lost land, there is no way to recruit more troops here."

"The Yellow Turban Remnants in Beihai County at this time are very strong. If they can use it for us, it will save us from recruiting troops again."

Liu Bei expressed his thoughts.

Liu Bei was attracted by the strength of these Yellow Turban Remnants, which was different from the Yellow Turban Army they had encountered before.

Cao Cao also recognized this point.

"The strength of these Yellow Turban Army is indeed much stronger than those we have encountered before, but Brother Xuande, the Yellow Turban Army is not so easy to surrender."

Liu Bei's words of persuading surrender were not very recognized by Cao Cao. In Cao Cao's opinion, these Yellow Turban troops were not so easy to surrender.

If they were willing to surrender, they would not have waited until now. And even now, they still gathered to defend the city and resisted tenaciously, and it seemed that they were about to surrender.

So Cao Cao was not optimistic that these Yellow Turban troops would surrender.

"Maybe these Yellow Turban Army would not surrender earlier, but now, most of Qingzhou has been captured by us. In a few days, the troops of the governor Tao Qian will be surrounded by us and besiege Beihai together. By then, we will have 70,000 troops and horses. So many people will besiege Beihai. In less than half a month, the Yellow Turban Army in Beihai City will surrender."

"We just need to surround but not fight. Tens of thousands of troops were cut off from water and food in the city. They couldn't hold on for long, and once they couldn't hold on, they would definitely leave the city and surrender."

It was precisely because of this plan that Liu Bei was so calm.

Seeing that Liu Bei had made a decision, Cao Cao did not continue to say more and would let Liu Bei do this. Anyway, he was not optimistic about the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou.

And at the same time, in Beihai City.

Zhang Ning stood on the city tower with a gloomy face and looked out of the city. Seeing the tents that had already been rolling out outside the city, he was even more worried.

He knew the plans of these enemy troops outside the city. The other party had arranged so many camps, and his purpose was obvious, just to siege the city and fight a long war of attrition with them.

The Yellow Turban Army was already short of food, and before, he could rely on Liu Zheng to temporarily alleviate the difficulties. Now it is the beginning of spring. If you cannot farm outside the city, not to mention that there will be no food in the future, just the food and grass in the past month will be a little worried.

"Guan Hai, did our people send him the news?"

Zhang Ning was already considering whether he would continue to stick here.

"I had someone sent the news half a month ago, but the person who came back told me that Liu Zheng had gone to Jingzhou and no longer Yangzhou. I guess if he wanted to get the news, it would take a few days. I guess he should know what happened in Qingzhou now."

Guan Hai speculated and answered Zhang Ning's words.

When Zhang Ning saw that Guan Hai said that Liu Zheng had already known it, he didn't say much, but just nodded.
Chapter completed!