At Ma Riyan's suggestion, Tong Yuan decided to win over Cao Cao and isolate Yuan Shu.

Zhong Xuan and Ding Chong, the squires of the Yellow Gate in the court, also wrote one after another, saying that Cao Cao had the world in mind and should be rewarded.

Although Li Dao, Guo Yan and others of the Western Liang Army were in a state of superficial disconnection from Cao Cao, they secretly acquiesced to this situation under the offensive of a batch of treasures and money.

At the end of February, the imperial court officially conferred on Cao Cao the title of Yanzhou Mu and crowned him as the general of Zhendong. At the same time, the left general Yuan Shu was demoted to the general of Yokono, and the Fu Jie that was captured by him was pursued.

At this point, Tong Yuan completely changed the strategy of forming an encirclement and besieging Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, but re-based on the situation, backed by the annexation of states, focusing on the strategy of Sanfu, Sili, Yongzhou and other places.

Li Ru was a little stunned by this, he hadn't seen Dong Bai, Tong Yuan and others for a while, they had achieved such achievements during this time, they really needed to re-plan, but would all this be as exciting as it was discussed at that time?

"Report, there is a secret letter from the Xinxi Liang Army."

Li Ru knew that this was another action handed over to him by the court, and he was not in a hurry, according to the usual, some key contents of the content of the secret letter were replaced, and they needed to be replaced and interpreted one by one with the special content in the historical records.

He got the secret letter, opened it and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Great, great! I see. ”

Li Wei got rid of Fan Chou, annexed tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and was a veritable leader of Chang'an. Dong Bai and Tong Yuan were shocked and made earth-shattering achievements, just supporting each other inside and outside.

He is not worried about any fierce conflict between the two sides, after all, they both have a certain strength and focus on their own development. In this case, it is generally a matter of cooperation and coexistence, and the distribution of benefits will be discussed later.

As for Li Ru, it seems that he has suddenly settled down a little, and he can't take it lightly.

This person is capable, but he is very ambitious, and he is by no means a guy that he can subdue. Since it can't be recovered, it must be eliminated, he has heavy troops and Tang Ji in his hands, and he doesn't have to worry about being unable to deal with Li Ru.

He seems to be invincible in the world, and he feels a little lonely in this Chang'an City. If Jia Xu came back from Yongzhou earlier, how long did he go back? It seems like it's been almost a year

Guo Yan is not as easy as Li Dao.

He lost his partner Fan Chou, and had to wag his tail in front of Li Wei and beg for mercy, showing his obedience and obedience.

Others said behind his back that he was incompetent and weak, and even caught him talking about the horse theft, but he endured it and kept it in his heart.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, he Guo Yan is a reckless man with no brains and very simple actions. But he knew very well what he had to do and what he could do.

Li Dao, there are tens of thousands of troops, only a few thousand. That Li Dao, there are thousands of proud Huang Zhongyi from him, and there are only hundreds of brothers who have followed him for many years who dare to die.

However, he has the guts that no one else dares to think! Others don't dare to think or do it, but he dares to achieve these incredible things.

At the end of February, when the area under Tong Yuan's rule was busy farming, Guo Yan seized the opportunity and suddenly attacked Li Dao, defeating thousands of Li Dao's elite soldiers and horses with hundreds of elites.

He also teamed up with Yang Ding to try to plot to rob Emperor Xian and make Li Dao throw himself into a rat trap. didn't want the matter to be revealed, Li Dao preemptively let his nephew Li Xian and his descendant official Zuo Ling lead a 3,000 flying bear army, robbed Emperor Xian and others, and grabbed their own camp to take care of them.

Then set fire to the palace and let his subordinates plunder the palace maids and finances at will. Coupled with the fierce competition between Li and Guo in the city for control of the area, the entire Chang'an was completely out of control.

Yang Biao and other important ministers had no soldiers in their hands, and they couldn't stop Li Dao's banditry at all. They tried to persuade peace from the weaker Guo Yan, but they were brutally detained by the latter.

Then, Guo Yan successively united with Li Wei's subordinate Zhang Bao and the powerful Yang Ding, etc., and almost snatched the emperor from inside and outside.

Li Wei was under great pressure, and gradually became superstitious about witchcraft, and became more and more rude to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie, and even provided Emperor Xian with rotten beef bones to eat, and finally proclaimed himself the Great Sima, forcing Emperor Xian to admit it.

Guo Yan has been on the offensive, and the two sides fought until May, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded soldiers, and countless strong men and civilians.

Most of the people near Chang'an fled and went to Xiayang, Hongnong, Tianshui, Hanzhong, and Nanyang again.

Tong Yuan did not immediately intervene in the situation in Chang'an this time, but recruited the population and routed troops, and most of them were sent to Gaonu, Luochuan, Fushi and other places. Those who are unwilling to give up their land and property to join Tuntian still set up a temporary market to make their own tuntian people.

The Chang'an Shi clan first turned to Li Ru, Dong Cheng and other people with higher prestige, hoping to mediate. However, they withdrew directly from Chang'an and temporarily occupied a corner to wait and see.

In desperation, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty had no choice but to secretly contact Dong Bai, Tong Yuan, Zhang Ji, Jia Xu and others, asking them to find a way to quell Li Guo's war.

At this point, the situation began to deviate markedly from the original historical trend and develop in favor of some people.

Tong Yuan himself led 3,000 Tuntian light cavalry into the area of Qiqi County, which was slightly closer to Chang'an, and Huang Yu's 13th Brigade went south from Haoyang to Linjin County, maintaining a situation of being ready to help at any time.

At the same time, Zhang Ji received instructions from Dong Bai and Tong Yuan to lead an army of 10,000 to approach Huayin County, a key junction, from east to west from Hongnong.

Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu have long been Tong Yuan's allies, and even vassal to him to a certain extent. Tong Yuan's positioning for them was also to control Hongnong Shaanxi County, guard the road to the east of Sanfu, cover the development of Liu Pi, Zhou Cang, Li Tong and other departments near Luoyang, and be vigilant against Duan Xuan and the Kanto Qunxiong.

Jia Xu in the west also led thousands of state and county soldiers from Wuwei to the east side of Tianshui, ready to intervene in the Sanfu Rebellion at any time.

So far, the three directions are Tong Yuan's people, and there is the powerful Li Ru in the middle, and it is almost a foregone conclusion that the Son of Heaven will coerce the princes.

After the various ministries were in place, Dong Bai sent envoys to take out the posture of the Dong family, admonished Li Dao and Guo Yan, asked them to send their sons to Xia Yang as hostages, and warned them that if anyone did not obey the Dong family's arrangement and continued to attack each other, then she would beat whom.

Li Dao and Guo Yan were afraid, so they had to stop for the time being. However, Li Wei and his wife, who loved their only son Li Shi stationed in Huayin County, refused to be sent as hostages, and as a result, the various ministries were still in a stalemate.

On the one hand, Tong Yuan dispatched Hu Lang'er's Third Cavalry Brigade to cross the river to exert pressure, and on the other hand, he notified Jia Xu to start working.

Jia Xu pretended to be friendly with Li Dao and walked around Li Dao's army in person. He met with the leaders of Huangzhong Yicong and the Qiang Hu soldiers, and launched a lobbying.

He first relied on the secret edict of Emperor Xian, saying, "The Son of Heaven has long known about their hard work, and he has not had the opportunity to obtain land and return to his homeland for so many years." Today, the emperor issued an edict to reward them with land, hoping that they would return to their hometown. ”

Then he took out a large number of treasures and money given to him by Dong Bai and Tong Yuan, and easily bought these leaders.

Soon, more than 1,000 Huangzhong righteous servants that Li Dao was most proud of actually changed their doors and went directly to Yongzhou to serve.

Thousands of Qianghu soldiers were also unstable, and soon after they were transferred to the border of Yongzhou and included in the command of Yongzhou Assassin Shi Jia Xu.