The princes competed for hegemony, making life more and more difficult for the people, who were already living in difficulty.

Many people had already paid taxes this year, but in order to raise military rations, those princes collected taxes again under various names.

Today, this Taishou has the final say, and tomorrow the city will change hands, and it will be looted again.

The people, who did not have much food at home, could not survive at all.

In recent years, there have been small remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in various places.

More and more people can't survive, giving the Yellow Turban Army a resurgence of the image.

The number of Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Yanzhou and other places is growing rapidly, and those people who can't survive have joined the Yellow Turban Army one after another.

These remnants of the Yellow Turban Army were originally only a few hundred or thousand. In just a few months, it has now expanded to tens of thousands of people, and it is still growing.

The importance of the population, those princes were not unaware, but they still chose to kill chickens and take eggs.

Because they don't kill chickens to collect their eggs, the chickens will be captured by others later.

Without an army in their hands, they have no confidence to gain a foothold in this troubled world.

The Yellow Turban Army is growing, but no one knows that behind the Yellow Turban Army, there is another pair of hands secretly controlling.

Yuan Shao cooperated with Gongsun Zhan and had already forced Han Fu to let Jizhou out.

At the same time, Changshan County was temporarily lent to Gongsun Zhan, so that Gongsun Zhan had a place to stay, and after Gongsun Zhan recaptured Youzhou, Changshan County was returned to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao had just obtained Jizhou from Han Fu and needed to further consolidate his power. did not immediately help Gongsun Chan to attack Youzhou.

"Give this letter to Yuan Sai." Yuan Shao sealed the secret letter that had just been written.

A man walked out of the shadows of the palace and took the secret letter.

If you don't look closely, it's hard to see that there is a person hidden in the shadows.

A few days later, at the base camp of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Yuan Sai received a secret letter from Yuan Shao.

At this moment, he has re-transformed into Zhang Xian, and he is the leader of a Yellow Turban Army with a number of 30,000.

After reading the letter, Yuan Shi silently burned the secret letter.

He wanted to get out of Yuan Shao's control, but there was no way to do it, unless he died.

But even if he died, he didn't dare, his parents were still in Yuan Shao's hands.

Whatever Yuan Shao asked him to do, he had to do.

He began to integrate the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou and Yanzhou and Jizhou, and soon the number of Yellow Turban Army in his hands reached 150,000.

With Yuan Shao's secret support, Yuan Sai doesn't have to worry about the Yellow Turban Army's food and grass for the time being.

Because he has grain and grass in his hands, the other Yellow Turban soldiers are willing to obey him.

After integrating the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Yuan Shi led 100,000 Yellow Turban Army into Yanzhou.

At the same time, a secret letter from Yuan Shao was also sent to Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou.

In the letter, Yuan Shao told Liu Dai that he only needed to symbolically fight with the Yellow Turban Army, and there was no need to distinguish the winner or loser.

Liu Dai is the elder brother of Yuan Shao's wife Liu, and Yanzhou is in the hands of Liu Dai, which is equivalent to the territory occupied by Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao asked Yuan Sai to lead the Yellow Turban Army into Yanzhou this time, and the main purpose was to get rid of Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei.

When Bao Xin was in Luoyang, he and his brother Bao Hong followed Yuan Shao.

It's just that his brother Bao Hong, a military captain, died at the hands of Dong Zhuo, but Yuan Shao avenged him for helping, and later when he was crusading against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao also stopped.

Now Bao Xin has intended to break away from Yuan Shao and stand on his own.

Yuan Shao also noticed it, so he asked Yuan Shi to lead the Yellow Turban Army to get rid of Baoxin first.

The hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army led by Yuan Xian now, although it is now the Yellow Turban Army, as soon as the time comes, it can immediately transform itself into Yuan Shao's soldiers.

Yuan Shao can not only harvest hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but also the families of hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army.

Yanzhou Thorn Mansion!

"The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Thieves are coming, and the generals will fight with me." Liu Dai said;

"Lord, the thieves are powerful, why don't we invite other Taishou to come and help." Don't drive Zhang Xindao.

Originally, in the face of the menacing Yellow Turban Army, Liu Dai was still a little nervous, and he really wanted to invite Cao Cao and others to help.

But now that he received Yuan Shao's secret letter, Liu Dai already knew that this battle was just pretending. What else is there to be afraid of.

If Cao Cao is called, it will be easy for Cao Cao to see through it.

Yuan Shao cherished his feathers, so painstakingly let Yuan sacrifice come to Yanzhou from Qingzhou with hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops.

I just don't want others to know what he means by killing Bao Xin.

He killed Bao Xin like this today, which would chill the people who followed him at the beginning.

However, Bao Xin was already about to break away from Yuan Shao's control, and his prestige in Yanzhou was getting bigger and bigger, and if he didn't kill Bao Xin, Yuan Shao was worried that Yanzhou would fall into Bao Xin's hands in the future.

Liu Dai said: "It's just a few hundred thousand yellow turban thieves, so there's nothing to worry about." ”

According to Yuan Shao's plan, it was Liu Dai who fought with the Yellow Turban Army led by Yuan Xian first, and then pretended to be defeated.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Saihui led more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops, and before Cao Cao and other princes did not react, he directly took the Jibei Kingdom and killed Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei.

Then Liu Dai united with Cao Cao and others to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army led by Yuan Sai, and Yuan Sai took the Yellow Turban Army back to Qingzhou to preserve its strength.

In the future, Yuan Sai may still be doing something like this, or he may directly take hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops and surrender to Yuan Shao.

Let Yuan Shao's strength grow rapidly.

In the face of the Yellow Turban Army of more than 100,000, Liu Dai only led 20,000 soldiers and horses.

There was a huge difference in the strength of the two sides, and the soldiers under Liu Dai's account did not say much.

Under normal circumstances, it is not too much of a problem for 20,000 Han troops to defeat more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Army.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Gongsun Zhan, these people, they have done it before.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was menacing, and Cao Cao, Bao Xin and other princes had already heard the news.

Although Liu Dai did not ask them for help, Cao Cao Baoxin was still ready to take the initiative to send troops to help Liu Dai. They didn't realize that it was just a conspiracy on the part of Yuan Shao's.

Liu Dai's soldiers and horses and the Yellow Turban Army led by Yuan Sai met in Pingyin, west of Jibei Kingdom.

Liu Dai just wanted to pretend, and then withdrew.

But Yuan Sai didn't think so.

More than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops charged Liu Dai's soldiers and horses, surrounding Liu Dai's 20,000 people.

Although Liu Dai's ability is good, he is not a hero like Liu Bei and Cao Cao after all, and there are no peerless generals like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei under his hands.

And the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army led by Yuan Shi are not those Yellow Turban Army a few years ago.

The Yellow Turban Army led by him is stronger than the previous Yellow Turban Army, and it is not comparable to those Yellow Turban Army who have not had enough to eat.

"My lord, we are surrounded."

Liu Dai's face was cloudy, and he said, "Don't panic, it's just a hundred thousand yellow turban thieves, kill them." ”

Liu Dai didn't notice that Zhang Sai in the distance had already opened his bow to aim at his heart.