Although Zhao Xing was a little depressed by the reactions of the people, it did not make him anxious. What Zhao Xing was anxious was the dragon cavalry hanging alone.

In the Tao City, Jizhou Julu County, there is a 20,000 elite cavalry he carefully built. When he competes for hegemony in the future, the role of this mobile force will be related to the success or failure of Bingzhou. In any case, it will not be infected with the plague, damage the soldiers, and reduce the combat power.

Zhao Xing did not believe that Yuan Shao from Jizhou had the ability to stop the outbreak of the plague. According to the speed of the plague spread, it only takes half a month to reach Julu Tao in Jizhou, as fast as half a month, and it can also arrive in the slowest after one month. Fortunately, from Taocheng to Shangdang was heading south, and it would not collide with the plague head-on. If the troops were withdrawn urgently, although the time was hasty, it was still possible to bring the troops back to Bingzhou safely before the plague arrived.

So, the next moment after the "Six Epidemic Prevention Bans", Zhao Xing immediately wrote a letter to Zhang Liao, asking the Shadow Team members to send them to Shentao as quickly as possible.

The Shadow Team members only took five days to send Zhao Xing's secret letter to Guantao. At this time, the plague brought by the Xianbei people southward had spread to Dai County, Youzhou, and there was only one day left before it spread to Zhongshan Kingdom in Jizhou. If the four days left for the information to be transmitted from the woven wilderness to Wohu City, then when Zhang Liao received the information, he would be able to reach Guantao after the plague calculated by Zhao Xing, and there were six days left!

Several sworn brothers were very determined and thorough in implementing Zhao Xing's orders, and Zhang Liao was the same. He never questioned Zhao Xing's orders, but when he was executed in detail, he liked to play some tricks and tried every means to maximize the benefits of each action. For example, in the last Qingniwa Battle, he personally led two thousand people to defend Manber City, and once played an authentic battle with unique ideas and achieved brilliant results.

If someone else had put aside the order to withdraw the commander, he would have left nothing behind when the plague approached quickly and fled to the base camp with his troops without his life, but Zhang Liao would not do so!

Zhang Liao didn't want to leave something ready for Yuan Shao, so he wanted to move Taocheng back to Bingzhou. Except for the city walls and houses that he could not take away, the rest of the people and things were all under his calculations.

First, Zhang Liao publicly announced an emergency, completely closing down Taocheng. Then he sent Shadow Team members out of the city and spread rumors to counties south of Taocheng, claiming that a large number of people infected with plagues appeared in northern Jizhou and were fleeing south. If the people want to survive, they should go south quickly. After crossing the Yellow River, they will be safe.

Regarding Jizhou, a miserable place often visited by the plague, when the people heard that the plague broke out from the north, they immediately launched their families and fled south. The shadow team members who were mingling inside continued to spread rumors to the south, so the fleeing people rushed to Wei County in Jizhou like snowballs.

The day after the Shadow Team was released, Zhang Liao announced to the people in the city that a great plague broke out in Youzhou and had spread to Zhongshan Kingdom. The Dragon Cavalry Army was going back to Bingzhou. Those who were willing to follow him could go to the calm Bingzhou together. As soon as this was said, the whole city was in an uproar. So everyone packed up their things, opened the city gate, and quickly ran south.

Zhang Liao's wife Zhen Mi persuaded the two brothers and several sisters: "To this day, Jizhou cannot be kept for a long time. Brothers and sisters, don't stay for the money that cannot be moved away in vain to waste your life! I have asked Wen Yuan. This matter is absolutely true. It was an order issued by General Zhenbei himself. If you do not retreat to Bingzhou with the army, you may not be able to enter Huguan if you want to go there in the future!"

After some discussion, Zhen Mi's second brother Zhen Yan and eldest sister Zhen Jiang decided to stay in the Tao guard house, and the rest followed Zhen Mi to move to Bingzhou.

On the fourth day, when Zhang Liao opened the city gate, another message was spread: the people south of Tao received the news that they fled south two days ago, and now they have escaped far away. If everyone follows behind, they may be regarded as sick people, and they will be killed and blocked by the banks of the Yellow River. It would be better to follow the Dragon Cavalry Army to retreat to Bingzhou.

So the people were in an uproar. Although they scolded Zhang Liao for being a good person, they deliberately dragged everyone down for four days, but they had no idea. Most of the people had no choice but to follow Zhang Liao to Bingzhou. So, Zhang Liao successfully occupied 50,000 people in Taocheng, and evacuated Taocheng two days before the outbreak of the plague.

Sima Zhi firmly wanted to stay and appease the people and organize fugitives from the north to fight the plague. As for how to do it, Sima Zhi, as the prefect who served the longest under Zhao Xing, has long been very familiar with the content of the "National Health Movement". He can definitely do a good job of copying things.

Zhang Liao, who originally wanted to kidnap Sima Zhi, was later persuaded by Sima Zhi, so he let it go and did not dare to stay any longer. He quickly moved south with 20,000 dragon cavalry and 50,000 ordinary people, and then passed Guangping and headed westward, preparing to enter Bingzhou through Huguan.

Since all the people in the south of Taocheng in the temple had run away, the team was moving very fast along the way, and there were no refugees blocking the road.

At the same time, after the people of Jizhou in northern Guantao discovered the plague, they went south. When they arrived at Guantao, they found that it was an empty city, so they went into the city to live, intending to wait and see for a while and decide whether to flee south depending on the spread of the plague.

In this way, an isolation belt was formed between Taocheng and Weijun inadvertently. Zhang Liao did not have to worry about the people infected with the plague behind him and Yuan Shao escaped by chance.

Zhang Liao and his men and the people passed through Huguan without any danger. Then the Huguan city gate fell, and it took many years to open again.

When he heard that Zhang Liao brought 50,000 people, and brought his family and his family to drive his cattle back to Bingzhou, Zhao Xing could only shake his head and smile bitterly. He really didn't know what to say to this bold fifth brother. Zhang Liao is such a good guy who plucks his hair and shaves the ground. Before leaving, he doesn't forget to torture Yuan Shao for a while. He gets enough benefits before running back to Bingzhou.

Yuan Shao, who was in Yecheng, received news of the outbreak of the plague, which was one day later than Zhang Liao. The Yuan family also buried spies everywhere, and it was not difficult to promptly transmit information about the outbreak of the plague in Youzhou to Yecheng.

So Yuan Shao urgently summoned his staff to discuss countermeasures. At this moment, news came that the people had fled to Yecheng, so Yuan Shao was shocked and quickly asked someone to appease the people. Not long after, the servants who were sent out to inquire about the news sent back the news that the Dragon Cavalry Army of the Tao had withdrawn and now they had arrived in Guangping and were heading west. Jizhou was no longer crowded from Yecheng to Wutao.

So his adviser Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao send troops to block the people who were heading south, ensure peace in Wei County, and prevent the plague from continuing to move south. Yuan Shao adopted Xu You's opinion and artificially built one isolation zone after another at nearly 300 miles from Yecheng and Taocheng in the Tao, which greatly reduced the pressure on the southern states and preserved himself enough strength and capital.
Chapter completed!