One day later.

The Hu army met head-on with the vanguard troops sent by Boss Cao.

The soldiers of the vanguard did not recognize Wu Liang, let alone the Hu army. From a distance, they saw that their age groups were relatively mixed, and they thought they were just random people passing by. They immediately shouted to drive them away from the official road: "Get out of the way, get out of the way."

Open, quickly get out of the way if you don’t mind your life, I’m telling you, are you all deaf?”

However, everyone in the Hu army stood calmly on the spot. It was not until a small group of soldiers ran up with weapons to surround them that Wu Liangcai smiled and said to the leading soldier: "Excuse me, please inform me. I am sending your subordinate Shi Shi

Commander-in-Chief Wu Liang is waiting for you here."

"General Zhonglang?"

The leading soldier was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Wu Liang up and down, and then at the people in the Hu army behind Wu Liang. However, he saw that these people were old and young, male and female, and they were in no way comparable to the regular army.

It was even more incompatible with the pomp that a general classified as a lieutenant should travel with. His face immediately showed suspicion, and he subconsciously asked, "Do you have a seal or ribbon to prove your identity?"

"I don't carry the seal with me, but this seal can prove my identity."

As he spoke, Wu Liang had already taken out a small copper seal with a tiger's head from his arms. He handed the small copper seal to Dian Wei's hand and motioned for him to show it to the leading soldier for inspection.

Dian Wei stepped forward, but did not directly hand the small copper seal to the soldier's hand, but only showed the words on the small copper seal.

"With a seal on your hand, everything you ask for will be answered?"

The soldier knew how to read. He frowned and read the eight words above carefully, but the suspicion on his face did not weaken, but in fact increased.

This small copper seal with a tiger head is the "Faqiu Seal" that was previously awarded to Wu Liang by Boss Cao. With this seal in hand, it is as if Boss Cao is personally present, and he can move freely and conveniently in the territory under Boss Cao's rule.

But the leading soldier obviously didn't know about this seal, after all, his level was still too low.

But if they were his superiors, especially the officials who had attended the success celebration banquet, they must have been very impressed. After all, the power conferred by this Fang Quan Seal was second only to Boss Cao, who had invited Wu Liang to the celebration banquet.

A lot of "hatred" and "hostility".

"What are you still doing? Why don't you go and report it immediately?"

Dian Wei immediately glared at him and shouted in a stern tone.

As Wu Liang's number one sword-carrying bodyguard, Dian Wei knew his responsibilities very well. He had to protect not only Wu Liang's personal safety, but also Wu Liang's majesty.

Such a small soldier stopped Wu Liang here and pushed him back. It really insulted Wu Liang's status. People thought that General Wu was easy to bully.

"..."

The leading soldier was also startled by Dian Wei's scolding. He didn't know whether he should go and report it, but he didn't dare to offend easily.

But Wu Liang took the initiative to step forward, still looking at the soldier with a smile, and asked: "I see you are holding a flag with the word 'Zhang'. I wonder which general controls the army?"

"It was controlled by General Wenyuan."

The soldier replied.

"It turns out to be General Zhang Wenyuan."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, and then said, "General Zhang and I have met once before, and he also recognizes me. If you go and inform him, he will know who I am. Is there anyone who dares to fight against thousands of troops these days?"

Can you cheat by showing off in front of the battle?"

After hearing this, the leading soldier finally thought about the truth. He didn't dare to say anything more and quickly said, "No! General Wu, please wait here."

…

Soon after.

One man came galloping with more than ten horses, and the leader was Zhang Liao.

Seeing Wu Liang, Zhang Liao jumped off his horse, bowed his hands and said, "I didn't know that General Wu is here. Zhang is a little short of a distance to greet you. Please forgive me, General Wu."

"General Zhang is serious. It was Wu's visit that suddenly disturbed General Zhang's peace."

Wu Liang returned the courtesy with a smile.

He could see that although Zhang Liao said he was sorry, there was no sign of welcome on his face. He came out to greet Wu Liang in person because of his official rank, or because he wanted to give Wu Liang his "Fa Qiu Yin".

Boss Cao just wants to save some face.

"I don't dare. Zhang is just a school captain now. How can he deserve to be called General Wu?"

Zhang Liao said modestly with a smile, and then asked directly, "I wonder what General Wu is here for? There are some things that need to be said first. This time, Zhang was appointed as the vanguard by the commander, shouldering the responsibility."

The responsibility is very heavy and there is no room for any mistakes. Therefore, I am afraid that I cannot distract myself from entertaining General Wu. Please be patient with General Wu."

The implication is that I don't welcome you here. I came to see you in person to give Boss Cao face. If I don't welcome you, I don't forget the responsibilities that Boss Cao has given me. You won't be afraid even if you go to Boss Cao and complain to me.

In fact, Zhang Liao was not dissatisfied with Wu Liang. After all, the two had basically had no contact before. Even if Lu Bu had some competitive relationship with Wu Liang, it would not have much impact on him.

He just regarded Wu Liang as the "supervisor" sent by Boss Cao.

This is a common thing in official circles. Boss Cao didn't trust him, so he sent a person with a higher rank to parachute down. Not only would he monitor his every move, he might even make important decisions when he was faced with it.

Relying on his official rank to dictate, if he makes a contribution, it is the credit of both of them, if something goes wrong, he alone will take the blame.

This is the most unacceptable thing for all generals leading troops abroad, and it is also a taboo for military strategists.

"General Zhang, don't worry about me. In fact, I just came to meet up with the envoy. I met General Zhang's troops first on the way. Now that it was getting late, I temporarily decided to rest in General Zhang's formation for the night and continue on my way tomorrow.

My envoy, General Zhang should just do his own thing. I will be responsible for food, food and accommodation, so I don’t want General Zhang to worry about it.”

Wu Liang smiled again.

"In that case, please ask General Wu to follow me back to the Central Army first, please."

Seeing what Wu Liang said, Zhang Liao pondered for a moment and then made a gesture of invitation.

So the Hu army, led by Zhang Liao, entered the military formation.

It was evening at this time, and the vanguard troops had set up camp, lit fires, and were cooking rice. The strong aroma of rice filled the camp everywhere.

When Wu Liang passed by, he glanced into the cauldron on the fire.

The rice porridge being cooked inside is very viscous, and it feels like it would be easy to hold up a chopstick. This shows that Boss Cao still has plenty of food and grass in his hands now.

Before arriving at the middle tent, Zhang Liao invited Wu Liang to sit inside the tent for a while.

Wu Liang had already seen that Zhang Liao did not welcome him very much, so he politely rejected Zhang Liao's kindness, and immediately ordered the Hu soldiers to set up the tents they carried nearby, and ordered the Hu soldiers to light fires and make food themselves, but only asked Zhang Liao for

Got some fire wood.

"..."

Watching the Hu army build their own tents and solve their own food problems, Zhang Liao felt a little embarrassed.

But in the end, he didn't say anything, but returned to his tent, and then quietly called one of his scouts, and said to him: "Go quickly and inform Lu, who is stationed in the rear center with the envoy, about this."

General."

"What can I say?"

The scout asked garrulously.

"You only need to convey the matter, there is no need to say a single extra word."

Zhang Liao said.

Although Lu Bu now became Boss Cao's adopted son, and the Lu Bu Group also became Boss Cao's army, Zhang Liao and many of the generals of the Lu Bu Group still belonged directly to Lu Bu.

Therefore, in Zhang Liao's opinion, Boss Cao's sudden placement of Wu Liang must have other purposes, and Lu Bu must know this.

As for how to decide, it still depends on Lu Bu's intention.

at the same time.

Zhang Liao is still a little unclear about Wu Liang's background.

At present, there are only two lieutenant generals under Boss Cao, one is Lu Bu and the other is Wu Liang.

Lu Bu has many people under his command. Although they do not occupy half of Boss Cao's camp, they are still very important to Boss Cao, and Wu Liang...

Zhang Liao just paid attention to the troops accompanying Wu Liang.

The older ones seem to be unable to walk, the younger ones have not even grown beards, and there even seem to be women among them... These people cannot march and fight at all.

The only people who could take a look were the soldiers escorting the carriage and Dian Wei.

Moreover, each of these people were dressed in a way that was called "friendly to the people", and the "friendly" people were not ordinary people, but refugees in ragged clothes, who looked like they had just escaped from there.

As both Zhonglang generals, it is absolutely impossible for Lu Bu to travel in such a battle, and he simply couldn't bear to see it.

So Zhang Liao really didn't understand Wu Liang's approach.

He had already heard the details about Wu Liang from Lu Bu. It was said that he only had an army of several hundred pottery craftsmen under his command, and they spent all their time playing in the mud at Chenliuyong Hill. They were not as good as Lu Bu, who had more soldiers and generals, but even so.

, he is at least a lieutenant general and the son-in-law of Boss Cao.

Moreover, at the last celebration banquet, Boss Cao was granted the title of "Yongqiu Marquis" and added thousands of soldiers and civilians to serve as food settlements. No matter what, it should not be like this.

…

It's night.

Wu Liang and others were tired after a day's journey, so they went to bed early.

Except for some soldiers who were on patrol at night, the rest of Zhang Liao's troops found a sheltered place and slept in their clothes, waiting for dawn to continue on their way to Anyi.
To be continued...