To launch an attack against Yuan Shao, it is necessary to make some preparations.

Because the current Yuan Shao is no longer the same, far from the Yuan Shao when the princes of the Ten Towns were at the beginning.

At that time, Yuan Shao was just a Jizhou assassin, with only 350,000 soldiers and horses, which could not be called elite, and most of them were some miscellaneous soldiers who were improvised patchwork.

However, after a year of development, after Yuan Shao cooperated with Nanlou, the strength of the army has increased significantly, and more than 100,000 troops have been recruited under his command in just one year, and at the same time, there are also Nanlou as allies, not to mention 70,000 or 80,000 people.

In addition, in the past few months, the battle between Nanlou and Qiu Liju directly defeated Qiu Liju and once again annexed many of Qiu Liju's men, which made the alliance between Nanlou and Yuan Shao more stable and improved again.

Of course, why did Qiu Liju lose in the confrontation with Nanlou, firstly, Su Fuyan, the nominal Shan Yu, stabbed him in the back, directly led 10,000 soldiers and horses, and attacked Qiu Liju's lair, so that the Qiu Liju troops on the front line were unstable after receiving the news, and immediately sent 20,000 troops back to the lair to support.

That's it, let the people of Nanlou seize the opportunity, defeat Qiu Liju in one fell swoop, drive Qiu Liju out of the land of Liaoxi, and force Qiu Liju to be cornered.

can only use the last few people to confront Nanlou, Nanlou did not rush to kill, after all, they are all Karasuma people, there are not many Karasuma people, if they kill each other, they will only be in a more and more passive situation.

Nanlou only annexed Qiu Liju's soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses swelled all of a sudden, reaching as many as 100,000 people.

And Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and others, who originally occupied Youzhou, saw that Qiu Liju was at a disadvantage and was also a grass on the wall, so they immediately sent people to Yuan Shao to ask for peace.

At this time, Yuan Shao was also looking for allies, and those who came did not refuse, Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun's brothers wanted to take refuge in him, and he naturally would not refuse, because he was short of manpower to fight against the imperial army at this time.

Zhang Ju, although the strength of the Zhang Chun brothers is not very good, no matter what, they have tens of thousands of troops under their hands. These tens of thousands of troops. The soldiers and horses used to fight against the imperial court still have some effect.

At the same time, in order to appease the two brothers, Yuan Shao took advantage of the name of Liu Yu, a fake emperor, to directly canonize them as the general of Zhenxi and the general of Zhennan. And Zhang Chun was crowned as the history of Yangzhou Thorn, and Zhang Ju was the history of Jingzhou Thorn.

Yuan Shao's hand, but he played very slippery, and the official position of their military attache was to value Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's troops.

Coupled with the title of Seal Thorn History, it seems that the two of them are valued, but in fact, they are just two empty words, because Yangzhou and Jingzhou are not under Yuan Shao's control at all, if they want these two places, they can only fight by themselves.

But let's not talk about whether they have the ability to attack Yangzhou and Jingzhou, even if Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun really have this ability and defeat Yangzhou and Jingzhou, they are still nominally obeying Yuan Shao's orders, which can further pull them into Yuan Shao's lineup.

After having these horses, Yuan Shao's troops in Jizhou and Youzhou swelled unprecedentedly, and he had more than 200,000 troops at once.

Yuan Shao, whose strength was inflated, was a little proud, and after the increase in troops, several battles between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Zhan was defeated and retreated, and Yuan Shao's ambition also broke out, and he wanted to take the initiative to attack and send troops to attack Tiger Pass again.

On the one hand, he continued to draw troops, gathered Jizhou, and planned to attack the Tiger Pass again, on the other hand, Qingzhou, after last winter, a winter of brewing, at the beginning of spring, the well-prepared Yellow Turban Army uprising, once again in Qingzhou.

In just three months, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops launched a joint attack on all parts of Qingzhou.

Within three months, Qingzhou changed hands.

Although there are still a few cities and some soldiers and horses, they continue to resist, but in the absence of imperial reinforcements, such resistance is only delaying the time of death.

The matter of Qingzhou also quickly reached the ears of the imperial court.

It just so happened that at this time, Lu Zhi led people back from Xiliang, and the general He Miao immediately told Lu Zhi about these things, hoping that Lu Zhi could solve the increasingly powerful Yuan Shao and the Yellow Turban Army that was plagued in Qingzhou.

Lu Zhi thought that when he returned, he could free up his hands to solve the trouble of Yuan Shao in Jizhou, but in the blink of an eye, there was another Qingzhou.

Although he had some complaints, there was no way to do it, so he directly agreed, and began to discuss the strategy of dealing with it.

After discussing and discussing, the final result was that on the one hand, troops were sent from the Tiger Prison Pass to deal with Yuan Shao as the main force, and on the other hand, in order to contain the Karasuma people united by Yuan Shao, they sent people to draw soldiers and horses from Bingzhou to defend the Huns and go to contain the Karasuma people.

At the same time, it is also necessary to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Yanzhou and Xuzhou to temporarily control Qingzhou, otherwise if the affairs of Qingzhou are completely left alone, I am afraid that it will cause greater consequences.

And just as Lu Zhi and He Miao were discussing these things, someone from below approached and quickly handed over a new battle report.

"General, the battle report sent by Yangzhou thousands of miles in an emergency!"

"Yangzhou?"

When He Miao heard his subordinates say these words, he first frowned, and recalled that the wars in Yangzhou didn't seem to be very frequent, and it was nothing more than a few water thieves making trouble before.

But suddenly, He Miao thought of a person, and his face immediately changed greatly, and then he immediately took the emergency military information from the ground, and then opened it and read it.

This look made He Miao's face even pale.

Lu Zhi, who was standing on the side, was also curious after seeing these changes in He Miao's expression, and immediately asked.

"General, what's going on?"

"Damn, hateful Liu Zheng! It's just him, it's him, and it's at this time! ”

Liu Zheng attacked Yuzhang, and quickly occupied Poyang County, and then united with Yuan Shu to besiege Huainan and kill Yangzhou Mu Liu Xuan, and finally at this time, it was passed to Luoyang City.

When He Miao told Lu Zhi the news, Lu Zhi's expression immediately became much more gloomy and serious.

He took the piece from He Miao's hand and looked at it directly, and after a long time, Lu Zhi was also silent.

"I haven't thought of this guy all along, thinking that his ambition is just a corner, I didn't expect that he would choose to send troops at this time, and Yangzhou is also in danger!"

Lu Zhi sighed, he did have a complicated look towards Liu Zheng, an opponent.