Fate, an unfathomable thing.

Some people are born noble and have an extraordinary fate; And some people are born poor and have a bad fate.

Being born noble does not mean that you can be famous; And being born poor does not mean that you can only be unknown.

Yuan Shu, the word road, is the representative of what kind of people are noble-born in this era.

Yuan Shu, born in the Yuan family of Runan County, the "Fourth World and Three Princes", because he is a son-in-law, has had plenty of food and clothing since he was a child, and has a superior life.

It is precisely because of the influence of his family environment that Yuan Shu has met many upper-class people since he was a child, which has greatly broadened his horizons.

Therefore, after becoming an adult, Yuan Shu did not go through any strong winds and waves, and successfully passed through the filial piety, successively served as Langzhong, Zhichong Lieutenant, Hu Benzhong Lang General, Henan Yin and other positions.

After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he made Yuan Shu a high-powered general.

Yuan Shu knew that he couldn't be with Dong Zhuo, so he went to Nanyang County and actively participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo called by his brother Yuan Shao.

After the princes attacked Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhuo fled to Chang'an, Yuan Shu led his soldiers and horses back to his base, which was also the largest county in the late Eastern Han Dynasty - Nanyang County.

After arriving in Nanyang County, Yuan Shu quickly won the support of the local family with the identity of a 'Yuan's sister-in-law', asking people to give people, grain to food, and generals to generals, so that Yuan Shu's power grew rapidly.

The human heart is not satisfied.

Because of this, Yuan Shu, who had power, was not satisfied with the land of a county in Nanyang County, so he planned to expand his sphere of influence around.

Yuan Shu has been extremely arrogant since he was a child, and he feels that a territory without an opponent is not a good territory, so he only picks the opponent's territory to attack.

First to the south against Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and then to the east against Cao Cao in Yanzhou.

The battle with Liu Biao ended with Sun Jian's death; The battle with Cao Cao ended with Yuan Shu's defeat and escape to Shouchun County in Jiujiang County, Yangzhou.

The battle with Cao Cao was one of the few battles in which Yuan Shu was defeated many times in his life.

At this time, although Yangzhou was not as prosperous as the Sui and Tang dynasties in later generations, there were also many families who avoided chaos here and had a profound heritage.

The more famous ones are the Lu family, the Gu family, the Yu family, and the Wei family; The next ones are the Zhou, Bu, Lu and other families.

After Yuan Shu arrived in Shouchun County, he once again relied on his identity as the 'sister-in-law of the Yuan family', and quickly won the support of the Zhou family and the Lu family, the local families in Shouchun County.

After two years of development, the power has returned to the peak state of Yuan Shu when he was in Nanyang County.

Ambition is such a thing, as long as there is one thing, there will be a second time.

Yuan Shu, who had power, once again couldn't hold back his ambitions, so his subordinate, Sun Ce, the son of Sun Jian, led more than 1,000 people from Sun Jian's old department to capture all parts of Yangzhou.

Between 194 and 195 AD, Sun Ce first took Lujiang County in Yangzhou, and then crossed the river to defeat Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, occupied Danyang County and Wu County, and continued to attack Huiji County and Yuzhang County in the south.

The vast territory south of Yangzhou, under Sun Ce's fierce attack, was mostly included in Yuan Shu's sphere of influence.

Although the territory has become larger, the troops in Yuan Shu's hands have not been consumed too much, and most of the counties and counties were fought by Sun Ce relying on Sun Jian's old troops and the local people.

Yes, Yuan Shu, who was full of confidence, prepared to go north to Xuzhou, and used Xuzhou as a base to chase the Central Plains.

At this time, Xuzhou Mu Liu Bei is a different situation.

Liu Bei did not have such a good fate as Yuan Shu, so he could only rely on his own efforts to get to his current position step by step.

Liu Bei, whose name is Xuande, although he is after Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, is indeed ill-fated.

At this time, the power of the Han court is weak, and even the orthodox emperor in Chang'an City, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, has been treated like pigs and dogs by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, not to mention Liu Bei, a 'royal clan' who can't be beaten by eight poles, can only rely on himself.

However, Liu Bei, who is already twenty-eight years old, can only make a living by selling straw shoes in Zhuo County, Youzhou.

It wasn't until the 'Yellow Turban Uprising' happened that Liu Bei gathered Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other people and defected to Gongsun Zhan.

People must have dreams, or what is the difference between them and salted fish?

Liu Bei, who is not exhausted, is also a person with the world in mind.

Although his life was embarrassing, he still worshipped Lu Zhi as a teacher when he was young, worked hard to learn various knowledge, and actively participated in activities such as suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising and crusading against Dong Zhuo.

Because of its excellent quality of Hongyi's generosity, knowing people and treating people, and indomitable, and because it has always adhered to the code of conduct of convincing people with virtue in ordinary life, it has gradually been known by scribes and celebrities, so that there is Tao Qian's foundation in Xuzhou.

People with different lives have different opportunities, but they have gained the same status.

So, the noble-born Yuan Shu sent troops.

Taking advantage of the time when Cao Cao and Lü Bu were fighting for Yanzhou, they sent troops.

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Cao Cao and Lü Bu of Yanzhou had been at war for a year.

Cao Cao's territory is getting bigger and bigger, while Lu Bu's territory is getting smaller and smaller.

Towards 196 A.D., both sides were facing a shortage of food and grass, so they had to temporarily suspend their troops.

At the beginning of 196 AD, Lü Bu received support from Han Cheng with 50,000 stone of grain.

Lü Bu, who had enough food and grass, immediately raised troops to attack Cao Cao's troops, but Cao Cao was still facing the dilemma of a shortage of military food, so he could only retreat one after another, and finally retreated to Chengyang County in Jiyin County.

Twenty miles outside Chengyang County, Jiyin County, there is a large embankment, and Cao Cao's men and horses built a camp according to the superior geographical location of the embankment.

A few days later, Lü Bu led a large army to come, and Cao Cao ordered half of his soldiers to lie in ambush behind the embankment, while the other half of the soldiers were exposed outside the embankment, and set up a military formation to fight against Lü Bu's army.

Lü Bu's army had just arrived in Chengyang County, Jiyin County, and was tired and had no intention of launching an attack immediately.

But Cao Cao had a way, according to Cheng Yu's plan, to let the six generals under his command, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, Lu Qian, and Yu Ban go out to challenge the invincible Lu Bu.

Because of the big battles in recent days, under the planning of the strategist Chen Gong, Lu Bu has always won more and lost less, and his self-confidence has been extremely inflated.

Coupled with his outstanding martial arts, how could he stand the provocation of the generals under Cao Cao, so he wanted to fight in person against the six generals under Cao Cao.

When Lu Bu was about to urge the red rabbit horse under his crotch to fight, Chen Gong knew that he couldn't persuade Lu Bu, who had a stubborn personality.

I had no choice but to tentatively say to Lu Bu: "Lord! The enemy has a total of six generals, and the lord is only alone, two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, it is better to directly let the army rush to kill, then we will win this battle. ”

Chen Gong's kind persuasion, in exchange for Lu Bu's disdain.

I only heard Lu Bu arrogantly say: "Don't worry! Not to mention these chickens and dogs, even if it is the whole world, there is no one who can beat me.

After I have slain them, you will give the order for the army to attack.

We defeated Cao Cao in one fell swoop, and from today onwards, I will beat Cao Cao like a lost dog and completely roll out of Yanzhou. ”

After Lu Bu finished speaking domineeringly, he rode away and fought with the six generals under Cao Cao.

After more than 100 rounds of the seven-man battle, they still look evenly matched.

Cao Cao looked at the brave Lu Bu in the field, and his heart was full of love.

said to the people beside him: "Lu Bu, although he is a man, is despised; But in martial arts, he is indeed talented and brave! It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the world's number one fierce general. ”

After listening to Cao Cao's words, everyone involuntarily nodded in agreement.

Chen Gong saw that Cao Cao was not moving, and with his understanding of Cao Cao, he felt that Cao Cao must have a backhand.

Seeing that Lu Bu had fought Cao Cao's six people with the strength of one person for a long time, he was afraid that Lu Bu would suffer a loss in physical strength, so he asked his soldiers to attack Cao Cao's army.

Cao Cao saw that Lu Bu's army was in an offensive posture, smiled slightly, and ordered the troops to fight.

After the two armies fought together, Cao Cao's ambush behind the embankment instantly landed on the embankment and killed it in one fell swoop.

The infantry and cavalry charged together, broke Lü Bu's army, and pursued to Lü Bu's camp thirty miles away before refusing to give up.

After Lu Bu returned to the camp, he counted the men and horses in his hands, and lost more than half, only more than 8,000 people.

And this is still after the general Gao Shun led the "trapped camp" to break off, and saved a large number of soldiers, otherwise there would have been more casualties.

So, Lu Bu gave the order to retreat overnight.

The retreating Lu Bu wanted to go north to Yuan Shao in Jizhou, hoping that Yuan Shao would take in Lu Bu again because of his former affection.

However, when Lü Bu arrived at the border between Yanzhou and Jizhou, he was greeted by an army of 50,000 Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

Lu Bu knew what Yuan Shao meant, so he had to lead the rest of the men and horses to the east to Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

Cao Cao took the opportunity to capture Chenliu County, Dongjun and other places to recover the entire Yanzhou.

Although Yanzhou had returned to Cao Cao's hands, after a long war between Cao Cao and Lü Bu, Yanzhou had already been in tatters.

Cao Cao could only temporarily stop fighting in the Quartet and recuperate.

In order to prevent Yuan Shu of Yangzhou from taking the opportunity to capture Yanzhou, Cao Cao made Liu Bei the pastor of Xuzhou, the general of Zhendong, and the marquis of Yicheng Pavilion. Let Liu Bei guard Xuzhou and resist Yuan Shu for himself.

After Han Cheng from Taiyuan County got the news, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Even though he had sent food to Lü Bu and helped Lü Bu tide over the difficulties, Lü Bu still lost to Cao Cao.

The power of heaven is not the fault of people.

Therefore, Han Cheng could only ask Emperor Han Xian to accede to Cao Cao's request.

After all, the battle between Yuan Shu and Liu Bei was also very beneficial to Han Cheng.

The relationship between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao is extraordinary, and no one can guarantee that Liu Bei will not send people to help Yuan Shao when Han Cheng and Yuan Shao are fighting.

The only way to keep Liu Bei from sending troops is to find him an opponent, and Yuan Shu in Yangzhou is in line with Han Cheng's interests.

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When Liu Bei of Xuzhou got the news that Yuan Shu of Yangzhou had sent troops, he immediately gathered his troops and horses to meet Yuan Shu in Xuyi County and Huaiyin County.

At this time, Lu Bu, who had just returned to Liu Bei, took the opportunity to lead the army to attack Xiapi County and captured Liu Bei's wife and other family members.

Liu Bei had no choice but to return to the army to rescue, but on the way he was attacked by Yuan Shu's army, and Liu Bei's men and horses were scattered.

Fortunately, one of the 'Seven Merchants in the World', the Xuzhou Elk clan used his family wealth to fund Liu Bei to re-establish the army, so that he was able to stabilize the army.

After returning to Xuzhou, Liu Bei knew that he was not Lu Bu's opponent, so he asked Lu Bu for peace.

Lü Bu also returned Liu Bei's wife and other family members to him, and only allowed Liu Bei to be stationed in Xiaopei.

Liu Bei was in Xiaopei, training soldiers and horses all the time and recruiting troops.

When more than 10,000 people arrived, Lü Bu was worried that Liu Bei would send troops to attack Xuzhou again, so he led his army to attack Xiaopei.

Liu Bei was defeated and could only go to Xudu to defect to Cao Cao in Yanzhou.

Poor Liu Bei finally had a place like Xuzhou, but he didn't want to be occupied by Lu Bujiu, so he regained his pasture from one side of the state and succumbed to others for others to drive.

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After a great change, the Xianbei Department of Bingzhou in the northern part of Bingzhou was subordinated to Hancheng, the head of its leader, Fu Luohan.

Because of the support of the Bingzhou Xianbei Department behind him, the Youzhou Xianbei Army, who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, could only retreat obediently.

Han Cheng was overjoyed when he got the news of Fuluo Han's return.

First, the 20,000 troops of the Xianbei Army of Bingzhou were incorporated into the Fenwu Army, and they were called the "Sharp Blade Army", which echoed the "Sharp Knife Army" of the Southern Xiongnu Army.

Yes, and sharp knives are used to charge into battle; The sharp blades are used for harvesting, and they are all sharp weapons in Han Cheng's hands.

Since then, most of the threats from the northern part of the state have been fended off by the Southern Xiongnu and the Xianbei tribes.

After arranging the Xianbei Department of Bingzhou, Han Cheng transferred a part of the men and horses that were originally guarding the northern part of Bingzhou to guard Youzhou Daijun, which was not attacked by Yuan Shaojun.

The original guards of Youzhou Dai County, under the leadership of Huang Zhong and Fu Zhu, converged with Han Cheng's army in Changshan County.

At the same time, Yuan Shao's army also drove to the city of Shangai County, Changshan County.

I saw Yuan Shao's army covering the sun with flags and coming mightily.

According to the intelligence battalion's inquiry, Yuan Shao came this time and led an army of 250,000.

And there were many fierce generals accompanying him, among Yuan Shao's six major strategists, except for Tian Feng, who was imprisoned by Yuan Shao, the rest of the people also came, it seems that Yuan Shao wanted to solve Han Cheng at one time.

Han became a response to Yuan Shao, and also mobilized the men and horses in his hands, gathering an army of 80,000.

Han Cheng's army of 80,000 was composed of 40,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry.

The 40,000 cavalry are the 10,000 "Sharp Blade Army" led by Fu Luo Han, the 10,000 "Sharp Knife Army" led by Liu Bao and the 20,000 Qinglong Army.

The 40,000 infantry is 4,000 Suzaku Army, 3,000 Xuanwu Army and its 3,000 auxiliaries and 30,000 ordinary infantry.

When Yuan Shao set up camp under Shangai County, it also meant that the war between the two sides would be on the verge of breaking out.

On the second day, Yuan Shaojun set up a formation, Yuan Shao stood on the tallest chariot in the center of the military formation, and shouted at Han Cheng: "Han family child, if you are interested, now submit to me, I can save your last face and leave a whole corpse." ”

After listening to Yuan Shao's words, Han Cheng shouted with a smile: "I am coming to crusade against the rebels by the will of His Majesty the Emperor. But you have made me submit to you, should I listen to His Majesty the Emperor, or should I listen to you? ”

After Han Cheng finished speaking, Yuan Shao could only be silent, because it was difficult to answer.

If Han Cheng is allowed to listen to himself, then he has put the emperor there?

If Han Cheng is allowed to listen to the emperor's words, he will indirectly admit that he is a rebel.

The emperor is in hand, and the advantage is occupied, so it makes sense to say anything.

Yuan Shao regretted a little in his heart, why didn't he send troops at that time to take Emperor Han Xian to Jizhou?

Guo Tu saw that the lord's speech was blocked, so he volunteered to shout: "His Majesty the Emperor has suffered a lot of humiliation in your hands, and you are Dong Zhuo, the second troubled dynasty."

We have come here to save His Majesty the Emperor. You must not cover up your selfish desires under the guise of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Han Chengxin said: "What a clever Guo Gongze, with just a few words, he will wipe out the righteousness he occupies. ”

So he put on a lazy look and deliberately asked, "Who are you?" ”

Guo Tu replied proudly: "I am not engaged in Jizhou, Guo Tu is also." ”

When Guo Tu wanted to continue to talk about his exploits, Han Cheng's voice came.

"Oh, haven't heard of it! Since you are a courtier, stay aside, and I will talk to your lordship? You are in such a hurry to speak, do you want to be the lord? ”

Guo Tu was instantly speechless by Han Cheng's words.

Yuan Shao knew that if he continued to talk to Han Cheng, there would be no result, so he said to Han Cheng: "You flamboyant boy, it's useless to talk more, let's see the real chapter under our hands." ”

Then he ordered the army behind him: "Attack the whole army!" ”