Lu Bu roared, and directly entered the second stage of his rage. Billowing blood mist, accompanied by a violent storm, gushed out from her tall and muscular body! However, this time, the blood mist did not form a dragon-lion shape with strength +8, but instead directly transformed into a fire phoenix shape with strength +12! Two scarlet phoenix wings formed by the blood mist guarded both sides of Lu Bu's body like a shield. A pair of three-meter-long gorgeous phoenix feathers stretched out from the dragon horn crown on her forehead and danced wildly in the air, like two blood-colored meteors tearing through the dark night sky. With this terrifying power added, Lu Bu lifted the four-hundred-pound door bolt with both arms, used it as a giant javelin, and threw it directly at the Yellow Turban Army that was rushing over. Before the leader could react, he was crushed into a meat paste by the door bolt! "boom!!!" There was a loud bang, and the door bolt several meters long fell to the ground with a bang, splattering flesh and blood all over the sky, smashing the entire Yellow Turban team into pieces, breaking bones and stumbling all over the place. Those who were lucky enough not to be killed were so scared by the sight of Lu Bu's magical power that they trembled with fear, and they were considered brave enough not to run away. Even Guo Huai was shocked. The original plan was for Lü Bu and Yuchi Hong to lift the gate bolt, but she succeeded alone, and even used the 400-pound thing as a javelin to throw it over? What kind of monster is this? ? ? Chapter 55: The Fist of Confucius and Mencius "Squeak-" When Lu Bu single-handedly repelled the Yellow Turban squad, Yuchi Hong also shouted angrily, accompanied by a series of sharp friction sounds, and with the power of Khorne, he single-handedly pulled open the heavy city gate. Seeing that the city gate was open, Liu Zhuang immediately ordered the soldiers to light torches, waved his commander's flag in the firelight, and led the carefully selected armored soldiers and heavy cavalry to charge towards the city gate! In the blazing flames, a black flag with a black border and a red background was fluttering in the firelight. On the top of the flag were written four small black characters "Biebu Sima"; in the middle of the flag was written a large character "Liu". The black and red colors formed the Han Dynasty's favorite black flag, which fluttered in the hot wind caused by the flames!
At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army also reacted. Two hundred elite soldiers gathered around another Thunder Warrior one after another, and used an extremely dense rain of bows and crossbows to force Lu Bu back, forcing her to retreat back to her horse and pick up her shield to avoid arrows during the charge - dodging arrows is one concept, and dodging raindrops in a rainstorm is another concept. This group of Yellow Turban Army even has crossbows. Lu Bu didn't dare to gamble. After all, in order not to limit her extraordinary agility, she didn't wear the kind of super-heavy armor like Tuoba Yun, but just an ordinary tube-sleeve armor. The armored soldiers in the front also held spears and built a dense wall of spears, gradually blocking the narrow city gate passage and restricting the cavalry charge in the rear. While the elite armored soldiers were blocking the city, some unarmored Yellow Turban soldiers quickly climbed up the city wall gate towers and fired arrows at the charging Han army. At the same time, through several skylights above the city gate passage, they began to throw rolling logs, rocks, and flaming oil into this only passage, trying to prevent the cavalry from rushing into the city at all costs. "Guo Huai! Use the levitation spell again and send me to the city wall!" Liu Zhuang's double pupils saw it clearly, and he immediately called for reinforcement from Rushu. Guo Huai used the levitation technique again, allowing Liu Zhuang to float into the sky on the rising air current. Tuoba Yun also turned into a flying swallow in the colorful magic shadow, flapped his wings, and climbed onto the city wall together with Liu Zhuang. At this time, an eagle swooped down from the sky, and the magic pet and its master exchanged positions for the second time in a green halo, allowing Guo Huai to climb the city wall elegantly first, accompanied by gusts of fragrant wind and fluttering long sleeves. "What are you doing here? We want to seize the gatehouse and stop the Yellow Turbans from throwing kerosene into the passageway on the city wall!" Tuoba Yun was wearing heavy armor and wielding a four-meter-long lance, which raged like a bloody whirlwind, killing the nearby unarmored Yellow Turbans. At the same time, he glanced at Guo Huai's slender body and the fine satin robe that was seriously inconsistent with the battlefield style. "Don't underestimate me. Confucius is also a Confucian scholar. He can fight on the battlefield, so why can't I?" Guo Huai raised her chin proudly. She had performed several Confucian arts tonight and her magic power was almost exhausted. So she drew the sword at her waist and used her last magic power to perform two first-level Confucian arts in succession. Amid the beautiful and melodious chanting, Guo Huai's three-foot sword edge burned with the green fire of etiquette. His slender and delicate hands turned into a pair of crystal clear, high-quality white jade, as smooth as silk and delicate as solidified fat, flashing dazzlingly in the firelight. The flying catkins in the jade were faintly entangled into the word "virtue". The green flames on the sword gradually condensed into the word "li", and then he leaped into the front line with light steps. The skirt fluttered, flames flew, Guo Huai waved the flaming sword in her jade hand, cut off the right hand of a Yellow Turban soldier, and then tore open the opponent's throat with another sword. The enemy's wound also burned with blue flames, and the blood vessels were burned and carbonized, resulting in not a drop of blood splashing out. Two Yellow Turbans rushed over with roars. Guo Huai raised his sword to block the first man's weapon. With the help of the illusory armor woven with magic on his body, he resisted the attack of the other man. Then he killed the two men with his sharp and swift swordsmanship. His swordsmanship was neat and clean, without any delay. Liu Zhuang was a little surprised. The three spells she had were ceremonial armor, flame enchantment, and a strength amplification... The effect of this Confucian spell was exactly the same as Khorne's [Fist of Khorne] which gave her +6 strength, except for the form of expression and the name. One arm turned into brass, and the other turned into white jade. This form of spell was called [Fist of Confucius and Mencius] in Confucianism. The Confucianism of the Modern Scholars Society is truly unfathomable. Not only can it assist others in opening city gates and climbing walls, it can even cast three amplification spells on itself, roll up its sleeves and fight in person, convince others with virtue, and control them with courtesy. When fighting ordinary dragons, you only need to guess what their talents are. When fighting Confucian scholars, you not only have to guess their talents, but also what the effects of their various spells are. Seeing that Guo Huai had gone up personally, Liu Zhuang was not willing to be outdone. He brandished his lance and rushed towards the nearby Yellow Turban Army. Taking advantage of the distance, the lance in his hand poked, stabbed, shook, and swung, like a dragon emerging from a cave or a giant python entangling himself, killing the Yellow Turban Army one by one on the spot. Several Yellow Turban soldiers rushed into the attack range of the long spears by relying on their numerical advantage. Tuoba Yun immediately transformed into an armored ferocious tiger in the colorful magic shadow and stood in front of Liu Zhuang, using his fangs and sharp claws to tear to pieces all the Yellow Turbans who dared to engage in close combat. The two of them, one far away and one close, cooperated closely, stepping on corpses and pools of blood, and rushed towards the city gate tower.
Guo Huai was behind the two of them, protecting each other's backs and clearing the enemies behind them with the fire of courtesy and law. The three of them worked together to fight their way through the crowd and quickly broke into the city gate tower. At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army was also very troubled. The three men on the city wall were very deadly, but compared with the hundreds of heavily armored soldiers who were about to rush into the city gate and the two-meter-six-meter-tall Lu Bu, they were not deadly enough. As a result, the Thunder Warriors with a large number of elite troops blocked the city gate. They really had no time to care about the three men on the city wall. They could only send some miscellaneous soldiers to the city wall to see what the three men wanted to do. But how could these people possibly be a match for Liu Zhuang and his two companions? After rushing into the gatehouse and seeing a dozen soldiers throwing logs and rocks into the city gate passage, Liu Zhuang immediately used the magic of Khorne and Huang Tian. His arms first turned into bloody killing brass, then his height doubled and his weight increased eightfold. In the astonished eyes of everyone, he turned into a iron-clad giant! Waving the amplified long spear in his hand, which was as huge as a beam, he slaughtered the Yellow Turban Army in the gatehouse! The long spear thrust forward, and a Yellow Turban soldier felt as if he was hit head-on by a battering ram, and was knocked flying. The long spear swept across, and five or six Yellow Turban soldiers were like light and fragile garbage, and were swept to the ground by the huge spear blade with blood flying all over the sky! With the blessing of the two gods' divine power, Liu Zhuang was like a god of war, wreaking havoc among the Yellow Turban bandits, killing them and causing blood to flow like a river, which stunned Guo Huai behind him. It’s not that these two blasphemous priests are so powerful, but, spellcasters? Liu Zhuang is just a farmer, how can he be a noble spellcaster like me? ? ? Tuoba Yun also used the stolen magic of Khorne and Slaanesh to greatly increase his strength and speed. With the creepy sound of tiger roars, he set off a bloody storm in the city. A giant and a tiger killed more than ten people in an instant like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves. The morale damage they caused was even more terrifying than physical damage. A tiger in heavy armor is scary enough, but what is that giant in heavy armor? After a round of charge and sweep, the remaining thirty people were frightened and fled. After Liu Zhuang controlled the first floor of the gate tower, he immediately shouted to the generals at the city gate passage, "Now, the whole army, charge!!!" After knowing that there would be no more rolling logs and rocks falling from above the passage, Lü Bu also ordered his adjutant to sound the drumbeat for the charge. Lü Bu, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng, Cheng Lian, Zhang Liao, Zhang Ji, and Yuchi Hong, eight cavalry generals, led hundreds of heavily armored Xianbei cavalry and rushed into the city like a bursting tide. They first disrupted and destroyed the enemy's formation with a round of deadly arrow rain, and then launched a terrifying cavalry charge like a tsunami! The eight cavalry officers served as the spearhead of this charge and assault, and led the way into the enemy's formation! "boom!!!" For a moment, countless horse lances and long spears pierced the bodies of the elite soldiers of both sides like a dense forest, making their armor sparkle and clang; their bodies were bleeding and their flesh was rotten. Countless Yellow Turban soldiers were knocked to the ground by the high-speed charging horses, and then trampled into meat pulp by the horses' hooves. Countless more Yellow Turban soldiers were knocked away directly, knocking down countless soldiers behind them, making the battle line even more chaotic! Lu Bu once again activated the dragon-lion form, and the halberd in his hand whistled and tore through the sky, dancing wildly in the air. Even the Yellow Turban Army wearing double-crotch armor could not withstand her attack. Anyone who was touched by the halberd in her hand would die, and anyone who was rubbed against him would be injured. Although the other seven people were not so terrifying, they were also first-class brave cavalry generals. They cooperated with Lu Bu to directly break through and destroy the Yellow Turban Army's spear phalanx. The remaining hundred or so Xianbei cavalry also rushed into the city, quickly breaking up into groups of ten or five. Some Xianbei armored cavalry cooperated with each other like a pack of wolves, and began to cut off, surround, and annihilate the defeated Yellow Turban armored soldiers, while others directly pounced on the archers in the city, and rushed into the enemy's long-range units like a hurricane, killing indiscriminately. The Thunder Warrior was sweating profusely at this moment, as the current situation had changed beyond his ability. He was just a captain of the old Han army, and he was good at leading a hundred men into battle, but he had only just learned how to command the entire army. Now, after breaking through the defenses, these Xianbei armored cavalry broke up into small groups and wreaked havoc like a pack of wolves throughout the entire pass. Should I go and stop them? No, there are hundreds of cavalrymen outside the city rushing towards here as the second echelon. Then, should we call on the defeated spearmen to continue blocking the city gates? No, there are still hundreds of wreaking havoc with Xianbei armored cavalry in the city! The Thunder Warrior felt that whatever choice he made at this moment was wrong. He had no idea what to do in such an extreme situation. He could only wave the flag desperately and gather the scattered soldiers together first. However, before he could gather the scattered soldiers, he saw a horrifying blood shadow, carrying a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, rushing towards him. Before he could react, he saw a blood-red phoenix burning with rage, swooping down from the sky with a scream! Afterwards, there was only darkness before his eyes. When he woke up again, he found himself a prisoner. The yellow flags of Changshan Pass were pulled out one after another and thrown into the dust. The red flags of the Han people were flying again on the walls of Changshan Pass. "How come you were captured too?" Zhang Cheng looked at his colleague speechlessly. "I got up and killed him in one blow. What's there to say?" The Thunder Warrior was also helpless. Chapter 56: Sense of Evil
Liu Zhuang assigned the task of counting the spoils to several civil servants under Lu Ze to relieve the pressure of work. Then he and Guo Huai wrote a letter to Zhongshan Xiang, saying that the fallen Changshan Pass was recaptured by the reinforcements from Bingzhou: "The White Horse Camp has been recaptured. Do you think you can send some soldiers to take over? We have other tasks and cannot stay in Changshan Pass for long. What is the situation here? Tell me in detail." The Han Dynasty implemented a system of parallel counties and kingdoms. Although Zhongshan was a fiefdom of a vassal king with the surname Liu, the supreme ruler was still the prefect, and the King of Zhongshan was almost a figurehead. It’s just that this county-level administrative unit is called a country, and the prefect who is the actual administrator is not called the Zhongshan prefect, but the Zhongshan prime minister, the prime minister’s prime minister. After writing to the Prime Minister of Zhongshan, Guo Huai and Liu Zhuang wrote to Gongsun Zan in the north, mainly to tell the friendly army that Changshan Pass had returned to the hands of the Bingzhou Army. What was going on here? Where was the Yellow Turban Army? We are now at Changshan Pass, and we don't know the current situation, so we dare not act rashly. During the time when the two men sent messengers to contact friendly forces, Lu Ze also counted the spoils of war. Changshan Pass was an important pass in Jizhou, and it stored enough weapons to arm a thousand men, two hundred sets of armor, and six hundred stones of grain, all of which were robbed by the Yellow Turban Army and now fell into Liu Zhuang's hands. He immediately upgraded the Han cavalry in the two camps from light cavalry to heavy cavalry, increasing the number of his heavy cavalry to 400. However, many of their armors were damaged when Lu Bu charged into the battle. But it doesn't matter. The armor of the Han Dynasty was made of hundreds or thousands of small armor plates, strung together by flexible leather ropes. If an armor plate was broken, you could just take it down and replace it with a good one. The broken armor plate could be put back into the furnace and recast, and then it could be used as a spare armor plate. If the armor was broken on the battlefield, you could just pull out the spare iron plate and quickly refurbish and repair it overnight. This is what I asked Guo Yu for so many blacksmiths. As for the one thousand sets of weapons, they were directly armed to the families of their soldiers just in case. Although they were in logistics, they still had militia-level combat effectiveness. In this battle, our side suffered more than 40 casualties, killed or wounded 200 enemy soldiers, and captured 400 enemies. The siege battle actually achieved a casualty ratio of 1 to 5. The record was extremely brilliant and dazzling. After the spoils were counted, Liu Zhuang personally distributed rewards to the soldiers. He first gave the pensions to the families of the fallen soldiers in front of all the soldiers. If you are willing to remain loyal to your husband, then do so. Anyway, with so much pension, plus the odd jobs of washing clothes and cooking that you have been doing in the camp, I guarantee that your family will not starve to death and will live well. If you want to find someone to marry, I can introduce you to other unmarried men in the camp, but the child must be raised well and must not suffer any grievances in the new family. Everyone in the camp is watching. After comforting the families of the fallen soldiers, Liu Zhuang began to reward them according to their merits. He first gave the first merit of the army to a group of Xianbei people who were the first to break through the enemy's formation. He then gave the first, second, and third class merits to Guo Huai who opened the gate, Lu Bu who killed the general and captured the flag, and Yuchi Hong who assisted in opening the gate and charging into the formation. The entire award ceremony was fair and open. Without the three of them, I couldn't even open the door of Changshan Pass. In front of all the soldiers, Lü Bu and Yuchi Gong were beaming with joy as they received generous rewards and awards, bathing in the envy and cheers of the crowd. They were already used to such glory. The new soldiers, seeing that their new boss really gave rewards and punishments clearly and really paid them after they had made contributions, were also very motivated. They were eager to fight and wanted to immediately throw themselves into the battle to change their own fate. Their fighting enthusiasm was fully mobilized. Guo Huai seemed a little at a loss. She walked to the front of the stage and looked at the cheering crowd in a daze. The envious, admiring and jealous glances from the audience made her feel at a loss as to what to do. She grew up in Yangqu Guo, one of the five surnames in Bingzhou, a top wealthy family. She was carefully nurtured by her father and teachers. From childhood to adulthood, apart from her relatives, she only saw two kinds of people: servants with lower status than her, and adults with higher status than her. They were either arrogant or flattering. However, the joy of being surrounded by brothers and sisters who fought side by side with him, and the feeling of being recognized and acknowledged from the bottom of their hearts, was truly unprecedented. Guo Huai became addicted and intoxicated after experiencing it only once. These farmers, who looked at me with hatred fifteen days ago, now accepted me and regarded me as one of them because of a battle and the contributions I had made. Thinking of this, Guo Huai showed a smile from the heart on his skilled and calm face. He took his reward from Liu Zhuang, opened it and found that the reward for his first-class merit was fifty strings of five-zhu coins, two rolls of high-quality silk found in the warehouse, and a jade pendant that looked of decent quality. These things are not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Guo family. The value of any piece of jewelry on their body is four or five times more expensive than this jade pendant. However, this jade pendant was the reward he won for his first participation in a battle; it was proof that the Baima soldiers accepted and recognized him; and it was also the first gift Liu Zhuang gave him. Guo Huai happily took the jade pendant and held it carefully in her palm. She couldn't stop looking at it. Even when the celebration banquet was held in the evening, she was still playing with it in her palm. "I'm sorry, military supervisor. I was still doubting you when we attacked the city gate, but now it seems that you are really good at Confucianism! Come! I'll toast you a cup! Don't make your tea. How can we have tea at the celebration banquet instead of wine?" Yuchi Hong picked up the wine glass and toasted Guo Huai with a bowl of rice wine. Guo Huai was a little hesitant. My father always said that wine was not good, and that I should wait until I grow up and need to socialize before drinking... But am I grown up now? I am sixteen years old and serve as the military supervisor of Baima. What can't I drink? The eldest daughter of the Guo family felt rebellious for the first time in her life. She picked up a bowl of wine curiously, sniffed it lightly like drinking tea, and then took a sip. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. It was a taste she had never tasted before. After drinking a bowl, she felt dizzy and a little intoxicated, and her quiet and elegant face also turned two embarrassing blushes. "Come on, let's drink to celebrate our victory!" The joyous banquet was still going on. After drinking another bowl of wine, Guo Huai fell into a drunken state. She stood up dazedly, picked up the wine glass, and invited all the generals to drink together to celebrate. After getting drunk, she could not remember the dignity and elegance that she had maintained for sixteen years. She looked like an ordinary girl. The airs of a noble family and the etiquette of a young lady were all gone.
"Hey, Military Supervisor, you are quite playful, aren't you? Why do you always put on airs?" After the bloody battle, Liu Zhuang was in an unprecedented state of relaxation. He grabbed a handful of stones and asked everyone to guess whether the number was odd or even. The loser had to drink. This was one of the few entertainment activities in the Han Dynasty. "You, you, it's weird that you're so careless, right? You don't even learn any etiquette. My younger brothers and the kids next door have been asked to do this by their elders since they were young? Well, I guess it's odd!" Guo Huai started playing while drunk. His dignified and beautiful face became a little unruly and his gorgeous silk robe also became messy. "Ha! So do you think it's better to relax or keep acting like a big shot?" Liu Zhuang spread out his palms and began to count the stones, 14, an even number. "Well - I can't say it's good or not, but after abandoning all etiquette, I feel a lot more relaxed. Oh, I lose. Drink!" Guo Huai pondered for a moment and found that he was indeed very relaxed after no longer having to pretend. At the same time, he was willing to accept defeat. This time he did not sip the wine, but directly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp, imitating the soldiers of the White Horse Camp. Once her disguise fell off and her airs dropped, the other captains and soldiers felt a lot more at ease getting along with her. At a dinner, everyone drank, chatted, cheered, played music, and had a great time until midnight. She was carried back to the tent by several maids from the Guo family. When Guo Huai woke up the next day, he found that he had abandoned all etiquette and violated all family rules after being drunk. His face turned red with shame, and he screamed and crawled into the quilt, curled up in a ball on the bed, feeling a huge sense of guilt. But... this feeling of betrayal is so exciting. A day later, the food and military pay from Yanmen County also arrived at Changshan Pass. Liu Zhuang did not deduct any of it and distributed it all to the soldiers. It's funny to say that even in the midst of this chaos that swept across the country, these aristocratic families were unwilling to contribute a single copper coin or a grain of rice to the court in Luoyang. The conflict between the aristocratic families and the emperor was very serious. And when Liu Hong asked these aristocratic families to recruit their own soldiers to resist the Yellow Turbans, these families were more willing to spend money than the other in order to build their own private armies and power. The Qin and Han military merit system, which was almost non-existent in the late Han Dynasty, was revived overnight. A large number of aristocratic families who were familiar with historical documents relied on their past victories and spared no effort to build their own private legions. Even though his own White Horse Camp had not yet been accepted as one of the Bingzhou nobles' own, it was still able to obtain sufficient food and wages. Chapter 57: Silver Spear and White Horse Liu Zhuang sent a messenger to Changshan Pass and waited for a reply, then detained 400 prisoners of war in batches. Even if these Yellow Turban Army were willing to surrender, Liu Zhuang did not dare to use them to fight Zhang Jue. The Yellow Turbans in Bingzhou and the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou are completely different things. The former are refugees with nowhere to go, while the latter, on the basis of refugees, have the background of Huang Tian's fanatical believers. Even if they dared to surrender, Liu Zhuang did not dare to use these people to fight Zhang Jue. He would lock them up first. After defeating Zhang Jue, the Yellow Turbans began to collapse in faith on a large scale. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou surrendered to Cao Cao, and the Yellow Turbans in Hedong surrendered to Dong Zhuo. There are countless such examples. However, these two captured Thunder Warriors were too weird. After stripping off their armor, Liu Zhuang discovered that there were abnormal bulges on both sides of Zhang Cheng's neck, like tumors. But upon closer inspection, the bulges of flesh turned out to be a miniature version of a human face with closed eyes, as if the thick neck was supporting three heads, one big and two small, like three flowers gathering at the top of the head. Another captured Thunder Warrior had the same thing on his neck, but there was only one tumor with two heads, one big and one small. What is this? Gene seed? After the White Horse Camp had been stationed at Changshan Pass for three days, they finally got in touch with friendly forces in You and Ji states. Changshan Pass fell around March 10th, but they recaptured it just five days after losing it. The Zhongshan State expressed great gratitude to their Bingzhou comrades for their timely assistance, and gave the White Horse Camp 100 strings of cash and 200 shi of grain as gifts, but the person who took over the pass could not come. Deng Mao, deputy commander of the Yellow Turbans in Youzhou, led 3,000 Taiping Dao soldiers to conquer the areas upstream of Hengshui and Yishui. Countless unruly people came to him to seek food and food. The exact number of troops is unknown. They are currently besieging Shangquyang. The situation is very bad. It's already good that I can send a messenger through this enemy-occupied area to contact you. Please ask our friendly forces to guard Changshan Pass first. My Jizhou troops have suffered heavy losses. I need to regroup the troops and then discuss the matter. In the afternoon, the messenger from the White Horse Camp also established contact with the Youzhou Legion in the north. Gongsun Zan, the magistrate of Zhuo County. The leader of the rebel army, Liu Bei, and others were overjoyed when they found that a friendly army had appeared in the enemy's hinterland. They said that they would lead the army to fight against Youzhou's war commander Cheng Yuanzhi on both sides of the Yishui River. He currently led 7,000 Yellow Turban main forces and a large number of people to camp in Fanyang. They invited Liu Zhuang to come and steal his ass, and then we would share the merits of the war equally! Liu Zhuang spread out the map. According to what the two men said, the Yellow Turbans in Youzhou were divided into two parts. The deputy commander Deng Mao had a main force of 3,000 and an unknown number of auxiliary troops. They blocked his way south to Jizhou. The Jizhou troops had been defeated and were regrouping. General Cheng Yuanzhi was in the north. He had 7,000 main troops under his command, and the number of auxiliary troops was also unknown, probably over 10,000. They were sandwiched between the Youzhou troops led by himself and Gongsun Zan. The ability of these Yellow Turban troops to enlist refugees was truly terrifying, and they could easily sweep up tens of thousands of civilians.
And he himself, like a sharp knife, suddenly appeared from Bingzhou and inserted himself between the two Yellow Turban generals. Liu Zhuang looked at the map and found it difficult to make a decision. The enemy in the south was weak, but his friendly army had been defeated; the enemy in the north was strong, but he was fighting together with Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei, not alone. The news that he had captured Changshan Pass could not be concealed for long, as the Yellow Turban Army might discover his presence at any time... ------------------------------------- Just as Liu Zhuang was thinking about the strategy, something unexpected happened outside the city. Zhang Liao and his cavalry were conducting daily patrols and reconnaissance work outside Changshan Pass. Suddenly, she noticed a flash of white cold light in the south. She looked closely and found a girl riding a white horse, approaching the position of Changshan Pass at a high speed.