Sun Jian's death was sudden, but it was also inevitable.

After Sun Jian's death, the old troops could not continue to fight, so they joined Yuan Shu under the leadership of Sun Jian's nephew Sun Ben.

Yuan Shu was shocked when he learned of Sun Jian's death, and hurriedly reorganized his army to try to recover the disadvantage, but he was unable to reverse the situation.

Soon, Yuan Shu was cut off from the grain route by Liu Biao and could no longer gain a foothold in Nanyang County.

So Yuan Shu could only lead his army to leave Nanyang County and enter the area of Runan County and Jiujiang County to the east, trying to reorganize the disadvantages in this area and wait for an opportunity to retaliate against Liu Biao.

Runan Taishou Kong Rong learned that Yuan Shu had entered the country, and sent someone to politely invite Yuan Shu as a guest, and Yuan Shu saw that Runan County was vast and densely populated, rich in products, and had the heart to occupy it.

Kong Rong is good at talking and making pears, these two aspects are okay, governing the place is inaction, and the foreign conquest is completely incompetent, and he is not Yuan Shu's opponent at all.

Yuan Shu pretended to invite Kong Rong to be a guest to drink, and Kong Rong happily went to Yuan Shu's military camp, and brought a lot of good wine.

As a result, the good wine was laughed at, and Kong Rong was placed under house arrest.

The unlucky Kong Rong can't escape the life of a soft persimmon anywhere.

Later, Yuan Shu's troops controlled Runan County and forcibly occupied Runan County, and no one dared to oppose it.

Later, Yuan Shu sent troops to annex Jiujiang County, killed Chen Wen, the assassin of Yangzhou appointed by the imperial court, occupied Shouchun, and called himself Yangzhou Mu and led Yuzhou Mu.

Occupying Jiujiang and Runan, two well-populated and wealthy lands, Yuan Shu began to reorganize his army, expanding his territory to the surrounding areas, expanding his influence to Yuzhou and Yangzhou, intending to take revenge on Liu Biao.

However, before that, Yuan Shu needed to conquer the Runan Yellow Turban, otherwise the Runan Yellow Turban would be entrenched in the mountains and forests of Runan County, and it would always be a great threat to Yuan Shu.

Kong Rong is incompetent, but Yuan Shu wants to make a difference.

At the same time, in September of the second year of Chuping, Yuan Shao made a feud with Gongsun Chan because of the fact that his subordinates killed Gongsun Zhan's younger brother, and Gongsun Chan did not listen to the advice of the sect members and forcibly led his troops to attack Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zhan persuaded the sect member, saying that if he killed Yuan Shao, he could take Jizhou, and the whole of Hebei would be within the sect member's sphere of influence, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing?

The sect member was a little old at this time, his mind was not very clear, and his position was not firm, so he let Gongsun Chan go.

Yuan Shao was defeated by Guo Peng, his vitality was greatly damaged, and he didn't want to fight with Gongsun Zhan, so he immediately sent someone to give the seal of Bohai Taishou to Gongsun Fan, another brother of Gongsun Zhan, and appointed him as Bohai Taishou.

Yuan Shao tried to ease the relationship with Gongsun Zhan, but Gongsun Zhan had long hated Yuan Shao because of Yuan Shao's stab in the back, and because Yuan Shaocai Guo Peng was defeated, Gongsun Chan knew that Yuan Shao's vitality was greatly damaged, so this time he didn't plan to give Yuan Shao a chance anyway.

So Gongsun Chan pretended to accept Yuan Shao's request for peace, let Gongsun Fan accept the seal of Bohai Taishou, and after taking office, he reorganized his troops and horses to welcome the Youzhou troops led by Gongsun Chan into Bohai County, and the two armies were combined into one.

Then Gongsun Fan announced his defection, and together with Gongsun Zhan, he led an army of 30,000 to enter the Qinghe Kingdom from the Bohai Sea.

In the Qinghe Kingdom, Gongsun Chan easily defeated several of Yuan Shao's small troops, and then Gongsun Chan quickly marched to the junction of the Qinghe Kingdom and Julu County - Jieqiao.

Gongsun Chan tried to break into the core of Yuan Shao's rule through here, smash Yuan Shao's rule in Jizhou, destroy Yuan Shao, and occupy Jizhou.

Yuan Shao was shocked when he learned of this, and had no choice but to raise 20,000 troops with the support of his subordinates to go to the Great Plains near the Jieqiao to meet Gongsun Zhan's elite soldiers of the Yan Dynasty.

Yuan Shao didn't want to fight this battle, but Gongsun Zan took advantage of his illness and wanted his life.

He now regrets that he had a hot head and fought with Guo Peng, which made Jizhou, which had just stabilized, become turbulent, and the newly recovered forces were weakened a lot.

The battle with Guo Peng caused Yuan Shao to lose 20,000 troops, and the main army was damaged.

Damn Gongsun Chan!

Yuan Shao hated Gongsun Chan a lot, but he had no choice but not to resist, and seeing Gongsun Chan acting in Bohai County and Qinghe Kingdom, he had to lead his army to confront him head-on.

Yuan Shao should also feel lucky, because Guo Peng was cleaning up the chaos in Donglai County and Beihai Kingdom at this time, busy clearing the remnants of the Yellow Turban and establishing rule and restoring order, as well as the autumn grain harvest, he had no time to take care of this battle, and could not support Gongsun Zhan, otherwise Yuan Shao would really be worried about overturning.

In fact, it was precisely because of this information that Yuan Shao's advisers felt that there was still hope for this battle, and encouraged Yuan Shao to personally lead the army to fight against Gongsun Zhan.

Yuan Shao led the army into battle with their support, and reappointed Lu Yi and Yan Liang, who had previously lost the battle, hoping that they could be ashamed and brave and fight a victory to show him.

Through exploration, Yuan Shao learned that Gongsun Zhan led 20,000 infantry troops and 10,000 cavalry to participate in the battle, including light cavalry and heavy cavalry.

The description of the sentry cavalry is that the banner armor illuminates the heaven and the earth, and there is nothing wrong with it being a heavy horse.

In the late Warring States period, due to the development of iron-smelting technology, iron weapons began to gradually appear to equip the army.

By the late Western Han Dynasty, due to the further development of iron-smelting technology, bronze weapons were completely eliminated, and iron weapons became the mainstream.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the emergence of the irrigation method, the iron weapons including armor have become less expensive, and large-scale equipment is possible.

Gongsun Zhan had a thousand collars of Xuanjia, and he was equipped with cavalry to increase the defense and impact of the cavalry, and the rest of the cavalry were light cavalry, with cavalry and archery as their housekeeping skills.

Gongsun Chan himself also assembled a light cavalry corps with all their members riding white horses as his own escort iron cavalry and participated in the battle.

In the early years, when Guo Peng was still in Youzhou, he was famous for riding a white horse, and Gongsun Zhan longed for it.

After Guo Peng left Youzhou, Gongsun Chan inherited this way of playing, collecting white horses and equipping himself and his subordinates.

The title of General White Horse was obtained by Gongsun Zhan.

This time, Gongsun Chan did his best to fight to the death with Yuan Shao and replace Yuan Shao's position.

As long as the half-crippled and immortal Yuan Shao can be killed, the entire Hebei is not a sky high for birds to fly?

The ambition in Gongsun Chan's heart began to grow.

With my 30,000 troops, can you defeat me?

Can you defeat me, half-crippled fellow?

Are you kidding!

Ambitious and confident, Gongsun Zhan led his army to the Jieqiao, where he confronted Yuan Shao's army, set up a barracks, and prepared for battle.

Unlike Gongsun Zhan's army with high morale, most of Yuan Shao's army didn't seem to want to fight, if it weren't for Yuan Shao's heavy reward for the soldiers, it was estimated that when facing Gongsun Zhan's cavalry, this army would have collapsed.