In Yecheng in early February, Yuan Shao was still angry about Han Cheng being named Jizhou Pastor by the imperial court.

At this time, the Montenegrin army in the south of Jizhou was driven back to Taihang Mountain by his confidant Wen Chouyan Liang due to lack of soldiers and horses.

At this time, only Gongsun Zan in the north and the remnants of the Han family in Changshan County were not taken.

He ordered his nephew Gao Gan and general Jiang Qi to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce Han Meng.

and accepted Guo Tu's suggestion, appointed Gao Gan as the main general to attack Changshan County, and asked Gao Gan to take at least half of Changshan County, that is, the land of the six counties, in order to relieve the hatred in his heart.

Guo Tu saw that the lord Yuan Shao had followed his advice, and his heart was excited, and the reason for his happiness was not only the favor of the lord, but also the one hundred taels of gold from Gao Gan.

For the sake of gold, Guo Tu took the initiative to offer a plan: "Lord, we might as well let General Wen Chou and General Yan Liang lead the elite troops to mix in the army of Gao Gan." In this way, the attack on Changshan County can be completed naturally, and the result will be twice as effective with half the effort. ”

Yuan Shao thought that the north against Gongsun Zan only needed the general Ju Yi and the strategists.

For the time being, Wen Chou and Yan Liang are not needed, so it is better to do Guo Tu's plan of stealing beams and changing pillars, and just take Changshan County in one fell swoop.

Tian Fengshou received the military report of Wen Chou and Yan Liang's victory, and heard Yuan Shao's order to send troops, he was in a hurry, and despite the dissuasion of everyone, he ran back to Yecheng from the front line to meet Yuan Shao.

In Yuan Shao's house, Yuan Shao saw Tian Feng asking to see him, and he didn't like it in his heart.

Dare to come back from the front line without his own order, this Tian Feng doesn't take military orders seriously.

Tian Feng saw Yuan Shao, and before he could speak, he heard Yuan Shao say, "Don't drive, when did you come back?" How did I not know? ”

Tian Feng was too anxious in his heart, and he didn't hear the anger in Yuan Shao's tone, and still shouted loudly at Yuan Shao: "The lord can't listen to Guo Tu's villain's words, and send troops to Changshan County." The retreat of the Montenegrin army in the south is greasy... ”

Yuan Shao saw Tian Feng scolding Guo Tu regardless of his feelings. There was anger in his heart: "Guo Tu thinks the same as himself, isn't this Tian Feng scolding Guo Tu just scolding himself?" ”

Before Tian Feng finished speaking, he ordered someone to beat Tian Feng out.

Tian Feng saw that the lord Yuan Shao didn't give himself a chance to speak, so he could only walk on the road alone, sighing secretly and sullenly.

At this time, in the living room of the senior cadre's mansion, a senior cadre in formal clothes was sitting precariously, and Guo Tu was sitting opposite.

Gao Gan pushed over a box of gold and said, "Thank you Brother Gongze for saying a few kind words in front of my uncle for me, so that I have the opportunity to lead the troops." ”

Guo Tu's small eyes flashed greedily, and he said with a smile: "Brother Yuancai is polite, taking people's property and helping others is a matter of course." ”

The reason why Gao Gan and Guo Tu are so anxious is mainly because of Yuan Shao.

Just after the New Year, Yuan Shao named his eldest son Yuan Tan as the assassin of Qingzhou; The second son Yuan Xi is the assassin of Youzhou, and the youngest son Yuan Shang has not yet determined his official position because of his young age.

Although these two places do not belong to Yuan Shao now, with the current development trend, sooner or later they will belong to Yuan Shao.

At the same time, this is also a manifestation of Yuan Shao's centralization of power: the main forces are concentrated in the hands of himself and his son, so Yuan Shao's rule over Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou will be more solid.

Gao Gan is worried: Yuan Shao's children have their own territory and power, but they are the only ones who don't, are they marginalized by power?

Therefore, set up Guo Tu's line and let him test it to see if Yuan Shao agrees to lead the troops himself, if he agrees, it means that things will take a turn for the better; If you don't agree, it only shows that you are really marginalized by power.

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Changshan County, Jizhou

Huang Zhong received the news that Yuan Shao's three-way army was coming, and he was also angry in his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that my Fenwu army went to the state, you Yuan Shao would dare to be so rampant?

But anger turned to anger, and Huang Zhong immediately invited the trial to study the strategy of guarding Changshan County together.

Even if the trial strategy is outstanding, the other party's power and your own strength are not at the same level, so you can only say:

"Changshan County is vast, Yuan Shao can attack from these three counties, we can only divide the forces, and the three guards can deal with it. If either side breaks the city, it may endanger the other two.

Therefore, I suggest that the general can transfer Zhao Fu from Dai County to Lingshou County, and lead 3,000 men to ensure that Lingshou County is worry-free.

And I will lead 3,000 men and horses to defend Gaoyi County, and there will be no problem. It's just that the rest depends on the general, after all, Shangai County, which the general guards, is the main battlefield. ”

Huang Zhong listened to the suggestion of the trial, and said in his heart, it is indeed the case. In the face of a strong army, all intrigues and tricks are floating clouds.

After the arrangement of the two counties was over, I clicked on the men and horses in my hand, and only a thousand strong bow battalions and 4,000 men and horses came to defend Shangai County, and they also had to fight against the main force of Yuan Shaojun, which was difficult!

But the rest of the people couldn't move anymore, and Huang Zhong also made a difficulty. Huang Zhongxin said: "If there are 3,000 cavalry, this battle will be easy to fight." ”

However, the reality is that although Han Cheng had sent more than 3,000 war horses a year ago, the warriors with superb riding skills and strong bodies were all picked up by the Qinglong Battalion.

There were no war horses but no cavalry, and Huang Zhong was depressed when he mentioned this.

After Mr. Huang set up a guard plan, he urgently reported the information to Taishou Hanye, and asked him to organize the people to assist the three counties in defending the city.

Huang Zhong also knew that it was not easy for Han Cheng to be in Bingzhou, so no matter how big the difficulty was, he had to bear it.

After all, it was because of his trust that Han Cheng handed over Changshan County to himself.

After Han Ye got the news, he reported it to Han Cheng as soon as possible.

When Han Cheng received the news, he immediately rushed back to Dai County from Bingzhou, and then came to Changshan County, three days had passed.

In the past three days, the situation has been different for the three counties.

Outside Gaoyi County, the cautious Han Meng followed the steps step by step, and was in the middle of the trial. A careful siege, a step-by-step defense, among the three counties, the battle of Gaoyi County was the smoothest.

Although the two sides involved in the battle in Lingshou County only had 3,000 defenders and 5,000 siegers. But the battle situation in Lingshou County was the most tragic.

Zhao Fu is Han Fu's subordinate, and his hatred for Yuan Shao has not decreased, and he is still better than back then, and finally seized the opportunity to fight with Yuan Shaojun, so he blindly defended fiercely, and killed the number of enemies as the battle to defend the city.

And Jiang Qi is also a brave master, these two guys got together and fought alternately in Lingshou County, so Lingshou County was the most tragic in the battle of the three counties, without any bells and whistles, just a fierce attack on one side without life, and a fierce defense without life on the other side.

And the most important thing in this battle is to go down to Shangai County.

As soon as Gao Gan led an army of 10,000 to the city, he ordered his two soldiers: Ma Fang and Yan Liang to challenge Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong saw that someone was challenged, so he rode his horse out of Shangai County, and saw that Yuan Shaojun only sent two small soldiers.

Touching his treasure knife, he said in his mouth: "Old slipknot, I'm going to see blood again." ”

Why did they let Ma Fang and Yan Liang out of the station as soon as they came up? One is that these two people are quite good at summing up; The second is that Yan Liang and Wen Chou are two generals in the army, and they want people to try Huang Zhong's skills, after all, they have fought before, and Huang Zhong's martial arts make Wen Chou and Yan conscience palpitate.

I saw that Ma Fang and Yan Liang attacked Huang Zhong's horse, and the coordination was very exquisite, one person's spear attacked Huang Zhong's left side, and the other's knife slashed Huang Zhong's right shoulder.

Huang Zhong was not panicked, a move "big waves and sand," left and right, the two weapons were swept away, and then a knife slashed at Yan Liang, who also made the knife, Yan Liang's knife was swung away, and a strong force came from the knife, so that the knife almost came out of his hand, and when he saw Huang Zhong's big knife coming again, he hurriedly mustered up his strength and raised his knife again to resist.

Huang Zhong seemed to know it earlier, the strength in his hand increased by a point, the speed suddenly became a step faster, and a knife slashed at Yan Liang's hilt, and even cut off Yan Liang's right hand, Yan Liang roared in pain.

Seeing this opportunity, Ma Fang plunged a spear into Huang Zhong's waist, Huang Zhong bowed down as if he knew it in advance, and after getting up, it was followed by a knife that slashed at Ma Fang's face.

Yan Liang saw that Ma Fang and Huang Zhongdou were together, and he didn't think about it, so he turned around and rode back to the battle with his only left hand.

Ma Fang used the shaft of a spear to hold Huang Zhong's knife, but he was already sweating profusely.

The two of them together can't fight Huang Zhong for three rounds, as soon as Yan Liang leaves, how can he beat Huang Zhong? Suddenly, I felt a sense of resignation.

Ma Fang's mind is the mind of a normal person, he can forget what moment it is, and dare to be distracted when he fights against Huang Zhong is tantamount to looking for death.

Huang Zhong shouted, "Die." ”

A knife carried a shocking momentum, falling from the sky, Ma Fang could only use all his strength to raise the spear in his hand to the top of his head, and said in his heart: "It's over." Then his eyes went black, and he left this world forever.

Yan Liang ran less than one hundred and fifty steps, and suddenly heard a "plop" behind him, which was the sound of Ma Fang falling from his horse.

I was even more anxious, and the strength in my hand increased, and when I ran to about two hundred steps, I was relieved, after all, it was so far away, only a bow with more than two stones could shoot it, and the generals who could use a two-stone bow knew that there were few in the entire Han Dynasty.

When Yan Liang was thinking about it, there was a sound of breaking the air, accompanied by a sharp arrow.

Yan Liang's eyes were dark, so he went to find Ma Fang. Who let him not know that Huang Zhong used a bow with two and a half stones?

Wen Chou, who was in Yuan Shaojun, licked his tongue and said to Yan Liang beside him: "Big brother, this Huang Zhong's martial arts are better than before, it seems that the two of us need to go together." ”