Sun Ce took Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and other his father's former generals, and the original more than 6,000 soldiers and horses, crossed the Yangtze River to the east, and swept Yangzhou like a wind sweeping away leaves while Liu Miao was still competing with the local tyrants in Jiangdong. Before Liu Miao could react, Niuzhu, Moling, Danyang, Hushu, Qu'a and other places had already fallen into the hands of Sun Ce.

The old department of the Sun family, Jiangdong Haojie, as well as relatives of the Sun family, and Sun Ce's friends came to vote. Uncle Wu Jing joined Sun Ce's troops with more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, and his friend Zhou Yu scattered all his wealth, recruited 500 strong soldiers, and led the troops to join Sun Ce. All of a sudden, the clouds of the east wind of the river changed, and another shining star rose on the land of China.

Within a few months, Sun Ce's troops had swelled to the point of 30,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. Sun Ce once followed Sun Jian on the expedition, and his style of using soldiers, his habits of leading soldiers, and his way of doing things were all the same as Sun Jian. In each battle, he personally led a small number of elite cavalry out to reconnoiter the enemy, and then commanded his troops to attack from the enemy's weak points.

After defeating the enemy, he pursued and fought fiercely with his elite soldiers, not giving the enemy a chance to regroup. When Liu Miao heard that there was a fire in the backyard, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly returned to Yangzhou with the army to fight Sun Ce, but he suffered several defeats in a row. Liu Xuan, who once dominated one side, had many generals, and the time he led his troops to fight was far longer than Sun Ce, but he was beaten by a young man who had just turned 20 years old and couldn't find the north.

For this kind of thing in war, most people have to stay up for time and eat experience, and then they can become a generation of famous generals. But there are also a very small number of people who are born to be the material of famous generals. Sun Jian is like this, and so is Sun Ce. As for Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Zhongmou, cough, that is, he failed to inherit his father's and brother's excellent genes.

When the east clouds in the east of the river changed color, something happened in Yuzhou again. The Yellow Turban Army has been silent for a long time after the successive deaths of the Zhang Jiao brothers, but the recent war between Yanzhou and Xuzhou has caused a lot of people to be displaced, plus the people who ran out of Luoyang before, the ranks of the Yellow Turban Army have swelled again.

Gong Du and Liu Pi were elected by the hungry people, re-raised the Yellow Turban battle flag, roared the slogan "The sky is dead", and went back and forth on the plains of Yuzhou, and even approached Shangcai City for a time. Yuan Tan sent his generals out to encircle and suppress, but they were defeated by Gong Du and Liu Bi instead. Yuan Tan is a son of a family, and he is not very familiar with the matter of fighting after all, so he can only hide in the city and order generals from all over the country to come to save his life.

Runan is the nest of the Yuan family, Runan and the entire Yuzhou, the officials and generals up and down are the protégés of the Yuan family, when the world is peaceful, these people regard themselves as righteous gentlemen, and their eyes are above the top. Once something happens, they can only stare at each other and hide in the city without the slightest movement.

There are many families in Yuzhou, and their strength is not inferior to Yanzhou and Jizhou, these people have intensified after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and they are knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow of the people, and they still feel insufficient. The people have long been a big powder keg, and now Gong Du and Liu Bi have once again raised the banner of the Yellow Turban Army, and countless ordinary people have come to vote.

Just when Sun Ce's strength in Jiangdong was expanding rapidly, the Yellow Turban Army led by Gong Du and Liu Pi was also growing rapidly. Even if you know that most of you will inevitably die if you join the Yellow Turban Army, between starvation and exhaustion and war death, many people choose to eat enough to be a starving ghost.

Those famous generals of Yuzhou who were reused by Yuan Tan led troops to fight with the Yuzhou Yellow Turban, but they were defeated instead. The Yellow Turban Army was so powerful that it even occupied some cities. At this time, no matter how much Yuan Tan was afraid of Cao Cao, he couldn't care about it, so he could only hand over the military power in the state to Cao Cao and let him exterminate the thieves like Gongdu and Liu Pi.

Cao Cao was also unceremoniously, and after getting the military power, he acted vigorously and resolutely. Although he was defeated in the Battle of Pengcheng, many soldiers still escaped from Yanzhou, and he recruited many strong men and heroes in Yuzhou, so he quickly defeated the momentum of the Yellow Turban Army.

Then, the matter is not up to Yuan Tan and Guo Tu. After the biggest defeat in his life, Cao Cao was not defeated, but as before, he stood up again and became stronger. His methods of acting and using troops became more sophisticated, and while suppressing the Yellow Turban Army, he also incorporated the powerful forces of Yuzhou, and soon included most of Yuzhou in his pocket.

When Sun Ce chased after Liu Xuan's remnants of the defeated army, Cao Cao also made a comeback. At this time, Chen Cheng had already returned to Chang'an, and he couldn't help but feel full of emotion after hearing about Sun Ce's sweep of Jiangdong and Cao Cao's comeback.

Liu Qian peeled a grape, fed it to his mouth, and said with a smile: "It's not easy to come back, just rest at home for a few more days, don't worry about other things!" ”

Chen Cheng bit the grape into his mouth and said vaguely: "No matter if it doesn't work, it's Cao Cao and Sun Ce!" Now our biggest enemy is Yuan Shao, but in the future it will inevitably be Cao Cao, and if Sun Ce does not die, it will also be a great threat. ”

Liu Qian was wearing short sleeves, revealing her white lotus-like arms, and said with a smile: "What about Liu Bei?" That's the future Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty! ”

Chen Cheng chewed a few times, swallowed the grapes, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Brother Liu Bei is a good person, as long as I don't call me king and emperor, he shouldn't be embarrassed by me." ”

"Maybe that's possible!" Liu Qian said: "I have also seen Liu Bei, he is the kind of hero who is unwilling to live under others, no matter how good your relationship is now, he will definitely raise troops to rebel in the future." ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "It shouldn't be." ”

"Then we'll see."

Chen Cheng looked at him left and right and said, "How does it feel to be the position of the temporary general?" Isn't it fun to think it's fun? ”

Liu Qian was really distracted, and said with her eyebrows fluttering: "That's!" Wang Yue and Jia Xu have to report to me every time they encounter a major event, saying that they want me to make up their minds! Even the Chinese book order is very polite to me! I only now know why everyone wants to be the emperor, it feels so good to have power in their hands! ”

Chen Cheng smiled: "Since you like it, then you will be allowed to deal with these things in the future, I will be lazy, sleep every day, feed the horses, and walk the dog." ”

Speaking of dogs, two big dogs, who already looked like calves, were joking with each other and running in from outside. Seeing Chen Cheng and Liu before and after, the two dogs straightened up, put their front paws on the chair, and wagged their tails quickly. Liu Qian grabbed a piece of jerky and threw it up, and the big yellow dog jumped up, bit the jerky in the air, and then ran out quickly.

The one in suit screamed and ran out as well.

Liu Qian peeled another grape, fed it to Chen Cheng's mouth, and said with a smile: "I don't want to be a general all the time, just play for a few days, keep doing things, and don't annoy me to death with so many things?" ”

"You can just leave it alone and push things down."

"Isn't that the same as I am now? I don't care about a lot of things right now. ”

"Well, that makes sense."

Liu Qianjiao said angrily: "It makes sense. ”

She approached, bit Chen Cheng's ear and said, "Do you know that Queen Fu is pregnant?" ”

"Your Majesty has been married to her for a long time, and it's normal to be pregnant." Chen Cheng was a little strange and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this?" ”

"No problem, I just thought, should we have a baby too?"

Chen Cheng looked at Liu Qian's blown-up face, couldn't help but reach out and pinch it, and said, "How old are you?" There's no need to rush this kind of thing. ”

"I'm seventeen!" Liu Qian said dissatisfiedly: "Ma Yunlu has a son!" I can't lose to her! ”

"What's there to fight about...... You talk and don't do anything, this is broad daylight...... Hiss~"

With the sound of gasping for air, time seems to go backwards, and it is back from autumn to the time when the glacier thaws and everything recovers.

The world is still in chaos, where there is war, there is still war, and where blood is shed, there is still bloodshed. After the autumn harvest, Yuan Shao of Hebei and Gongsun Chan of Youzhou began regular military operations, and both sides dispatched a large number of troops, and the scale of the war was very large. But after consuming countless money and food, and killing and wounding countless soldiers, neither side was able to help anyone.

Although Yuan Shao had gained the upper hand and was in an advantageous position in the battle, he had not been able to turn his advantage into victory. It can only be said that after a series of battles, his advantage has increased a little. But no one knows how long it will be counted.

According to the estimation of Tian Feng, Fu Zhu and others, it will take at least another two or three years.

The battle in Shuzhong was also fruitless, Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu were both soldiers and enough food, and the two sides fought repeatedly around those cities and mountains in Dongchuan, and the casualties were also heavy. But both sides gritted their teeth and continued to insist. If there is no external force to intervene, they will stop and fight with each other for a long, long time, and they will not really be able to distinguish the winner or loser.

In addition to Sun Ce, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang, and other people who are fighting in the nest, Chen Cheng is most concerned about a man named Gongsun Du. Gongsun Du is Xu Rong's fellow villager and friend, and now he has occupied Lelang and other places, and has expanded his influence to the entire Korean Peninsula.

For this reason, Chen Cheng specially asked Xu Rong to support Gongsun Du with a batch of ordnance and named him Pingzhou Mu to support his expansion on the Korean Peninsula. Although there are Wuhuan people entrenched in Liaoxi, but now Wuhuan people do not dare to provoke the imperial court, nor dare to provoke Gongsun Du, caravans can go back and forth between Guanzhong and Korea, selling ginseng, mink and other specialties near Changbai Mountain to Guanzhong, and selling cotton, linen, silk, porcelain, horizontal knives, steel armor and other things in Guanzhong to Liaodong.

After Gongsun Du was not him the pastor of Pingzhou in the imperial court, although he was very grateful in his heart, he felt that the imperial court was too weak. It is believed that this is because the imperial court has no way to whip him, so it has adopted such a policy of appeasement. Even Xu Rong secretly wrote to Chen Cheng, saying that although he and Gongsun Du were close friends, such indulgent behavior would only breed Gongsun Du's ambitions.

Chen Cheng replied to Xu Rong, reassuring him and said, "As long as Gongsun Du does not claim to be the king and hegemon, what can he do if he is the king and dominates?" ”