When Zhang Yan's hundreds of thousands of people knew that they were going to Jingzhou, many of them expressed their reluctance to go.

Even Zhang Yan said to Li Xian: "General, my brothers are reluctant to go to Jingzhou, I am going here, and I can't bear to leave these brothers." And I'm also nostalgic for the mountainous area of Changshan, so ...... I can't follow you to Jingzhou anymore. ”

Li slanted Zhang Yan's back and smiled: "General Zhang, in fact, I also hope that you will stay in Changshan, if I lead the troops to come again in the future, I only hope that the general will remember to help me." ”

He had already thought in his heart that it would be difficult for Zhang Yan to leave Jizhou with more than 100,000 people. And if he brought these hundreds of thousands of people to Jingzhou, Liu Biao would be the first to disagree.

At that time, Cao Cao will also make friends with Yuan Shao and destroy himself first. Therefore, there are not too many people to bring to Jingzhou.

Then after knowing Li Xian's four iron laws and military regulations, many people said that it was difficult for them to abide by them, and finally there were only more than 7,000 people left who were willing to go to Jingzhou and said that they could abide by the military regulations.

Zhang He was refreshed, and directly expressed his allegiance to Li Xian, and was willing to follow with the two thousand men and horses.

In this way, Li Xian had 10,000 horses, and Zhang Yan also gave Li Xian 1,000 war horses to form a cavalry team.

Li Xian asked Zhao Yun to train cavalry, and selected another 1,000 men for Gao Shun to train as a trap camp, and Zhang He still led his 2,000 men and horses.

On August 18, after Yuan Shao negotiated with the Zhen family in Zhongshan, he asked Li Xian to marry Zhen Mi.

Li Xian did not go in person, but sent Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan to lead 2,000 people to Wuji County to meet Zhen Mi on his behalf.

It is written in the history books that it is Wuji County, in fact, it was Wuji in the Han Dynasty, and it was changed to Wuji County in the first year of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty.

On September 25, Zhao Yun and Xiahoulan, who had gone to Wuji to greet Zhen Mi, came back, and brought back 500 carts of grain and 500 catties of gold.

This made Li Xian very happy, and the dowry was decent.

When he saw Zhen Mi, he was even more overjoyed.

This is really the appearance of the princes of the beacon fire, and the daughter buys a smile.

But when he called out Zhen Mi's name, he was dumbfounded.

Zhen's daughter said to him: "I'm not Zhen Mi, I'm Zhen Rong." ”

He immediately called Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan, but the two of them didn't know what was going on, and Zhen Rong told him what happened.

It turned out that Zhen Mi was only sixteen years old this year, and the Yuan family was only engaged to the Zhen family, and it would be a few years before they could get married.

Moreover, Yuan Shao is now the pastor of Jizhou, not to mention the power in Jizhou, the Zhen family also wants to form a family with Yuan Shao, so as to ensure the better development of his family in Jizhou.

When Yuan Shao sent someone to say that he wanted to give Zhen Mi to Li Xian, they were blinded, can this still be conceded?

Later, after learning about the situation, the Zhen family came up with an idea.

The Zhen family has three boys and five girls, Zhen Mi is the youngest daughter, and the fourth daughter is named Zhen Rong, who is more beautiful than Zhen Mi, but she is not as smart as Zhen Mi.

Zhen Rong is nineteen years old this year, and he is not married, so he can marry Zhen Rong to Li Xian, and Zhen Mi is still married to the second son of the Yuan family, so that both sides can not be offended.

Because of this, the Zhen family sent so much food and gold to Li Xian.

In fact, Li Xian didn't care about marrying anyone, if it wasn't for Yuan Shao mentioning it, he wouldn't have thought of marrying the Zhen family.

Because he can't develop in Jizhou at present, it doesn't matter if he has a Zhen family or not.

But now it's like this anyway, Zhen Rong's appearance is so beautiful, he is also very satisfied, so he doesn't pursue anything anymore, and readily accepts it.

Yuan Shao knew that Li Xian gladly accepted, and hurriedly urged Li Xian to raise troops and go south to Jingzhou.

Previously, he had already recommended Li Xian as the general of the expedition to the south.

Cao Cao received Yuan Shao's recommendation and asked Cheng Yu and Guo Jia to discuss.

Cao Cao meant not to agree, he first asked Cheng Yu, "What is Zhongde's opinion?" ”

Cheng Yu smiled and said: "Gongyi allows, so if Li Xian leaves Jizhou, it will be easy for Gongyi to get Jizhou." If Li Xian stays in Tunjizhou and joins forces with Yuan Shao, Yanzhou will also be in danger. ”

Cao Cao had another view: "If you don't stay in Jizhou and let him fight with the original, wouldn't it be better for us to take the opportunity to take Jizhou again?" ”

Cheng Yu said: "Li Xian is a smart man, and he must know that with his current strength, he cannot compete with Yuan Shao, and he will definitely leave Jizhou." ”

Guo Jia also said at this time: "The big trouble of the public is Yuan Shao, and Jingzhou is only for the small trouble, but if the small trouble is not eliminated, the big trouble will be difficult to pull out." It is better to take Li Xianwei to conquer the south to Jingzhou, and then worship Sun Ce as a rebellious general, so that he can fight for Jingzhou, then Liu Biao and Li Xian have no time to go north, and the public can conquer Yuan Shao with peace of mind. It's just that before Li Xian went south, the public had to conquer Zhang Xiu first. ”

Cheng Yu said: "At the same time, the public can also let Liu Bei in Xuzhou fight against Yuan Shu, let the south fight each other, and wait for Hebei to be fair, so that the people in the north can be satisfied, and the south will not have to worry about it." ”

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Good." ”

So, Cao Cao approved Li Xie's general to conquer the south, and worshiped Sun Ce as a rebellious general, and he was named Marquis of Wu. Liu Bei was the general of Zhendong and was named the Marquis of Yicheng Pavilion.

Then, Cao Cao personally led an army of 30,000 to Nanyang to conquer Zhang Xiu.

Liu Bei also fought with Yuan Shu in Xuyi and Huaiyin.

Cao Cao, with Cao Ren and Zhang Liao as the vanguard, led 5,000 men and horses straight to Wanxian.

According to Zhang Xiu, who guarded Wan County, he only had 5,000 men and horses, when the scout reported that Cao Cao led a large army to come, he knew that Wan County must not be defended, and hurriedly found Jia Xu to discuss: "Cao Cao is here, he will avenge the previous defeat, how should we deal with it?" ”

Jia Xu said: "I heard that Li Xian, who was in Jizhou, was about to go south to Jingzhou, so Cao Cao was in a hurry to attack. The general's current plan is only to surrender in order to survive. ”

"Surrender? killed Cao Cao's eldest son last time, how could Cao Cao see him? ”

"Cao Cao's generous person will not pursue the previous incident, and in the current situation, he can only accept the surrender of the general. If the general does not surrender to Cao Cao, he will also be defeated by Li Xian. Compared with Cao Cao, Li Xian is a general, and it is better to surrender to Cao Cao. ”

Zhang Xiu also felt that if Li Xian came, he could only give the territory to Li Xian, so it would be better to surrender to Cao Cao, because if Cao Cao came, it would be equivalent to surrendering to the imperial court.

"Then I will ask Wen He to surrender on his behalf."

Jia Xu said again: "At this time, it is not possible to surrender, the general can first retreat to Sui County, and then come to ask for surrender when Cao Gongbing arrives in Wan County." ”

Zhang Xiu led the men and horses to retreat to Sui County, and directly ceded Wan County to Cao Cao's striker Cao Ren.

Cao Cao led the army to Wanxian County, stopped the army by the Shushui River, and personally worshiped Cao Ang and Dian Wei and other soldiers who died in the previous battle.

I saw him kneeling by the river in the water, with tears on his face, crying out in mourning, and all the soldiers wept when they saw this.

He entered Wanxian County and asked Cao Ren and Zhang Liao to lead 5,000 men to attack Huyang.

Xu Chu said to Cao Cao: "General, I am willing to lead my subordinates to attack Huyang with General Zixiao, and we must first climb the city wall and capture the guards." ”

Cao Cao knew that Xu Chu was with a group of chivalrous warriors, and he also wanted to give them a chance to perform, and this time he wanted to solve it quickly, so he agreed to Xu Chu's request.

Huyang was guarded by Liu Biao's general Deng Ji with 3,000 men, and Xu Chu followed Cao Ren to Huyang with 500 knights.

Huyang is only a small city, and the city wall is not so high, and the defender Deng Ji saw that Cao's army was strong, so he did not dare to fight, and held on to the city.