When Zhang Ming went back, he didn't say hello to Cao Cao.

used to be allies, but as soon as Yuan Shao was defeated, the two sides were enemies.

Zhang Ming went back directly.

And Cao Cao's side was also busy collecting and surrendering troops.

This time he collected tens of thousands of surrendered troops.

After receiving the surrendered troops, Cao Cao was also unable to pursue Yuan Shao, because he had no food and grass.

Originally, there was a shortage of food in the army, and there was not much to bear.

When Zhang Ming came, he still needed to provide him with food and grass.

Now that he has collected some of his troops, Cao Cao can only go back.

He did not take the opportunity to occupy anywhere.

Because Cao Cao doesn't have the ability to occupy other places now.

The anti-dumping and anti-dumping parties went back like this.

However, on the way back, Cao Cao said: "In this battle, Zhang Ming is the biggest beneficiary, his army has not moved, and after returning to the south, he can directly go south to occupy Yuan Shao's territory, and we will have to recuperate for a long time." “

"That's right, lord, Zhang Ming's army and grain and grass are sufficient, and the battle we fought with all our might ran out of money and food."

"Ahem, ahem." After Guo Jia finished speaking, he coughed loudly.

Cao Cao frowned, Guo Jia's condition was getting worse and worse.

At the beginning, Zhang Ming said that he could save Guo Jia.

In fact, this made Cao Cao very embarrassed, Zhang Ming would not save Guo Jia without conditions.

Cao Cao knew that Guo Jia was powerful, and if Guo Jia was allowed to return to Zhang Ming like this, he would become his great enemy in the future.

However, his subordinates all knew that Zhang Ming could save Guo Jia.

If Cao Cao didn't let Zhang Ming be treated, then his subordinates would be chilled again.

Cao Cao didn't have time to think about this before, but now he can't help but think about it.

Cao Cao planned to solve this problem when he went back.

In Youzhou.

Zhang Ming had already sent someone back.

Xi Zhicai and others have also been waiting for news.

A few days later, they received a message from Zhang Ming.

This news was sent by the cavalry day and night, changing men and horses.

It is easy to handle, and Zhang Ming directly used the system of delivering newspapers, which played a great role in the military this time.

Information is delivered from station to station.

Xi Zhi received the information, so he began to give orders.

"Xu Rong, you lead the soldiers and horses to prepare to resist the Yuan army on the border of Jizhou, they don't move, and you don't move."

"Yes."

"Gao Lan, Zhao Yun, Yan Rou, the three of you can bring 100,000 soldiers and horses, you can enter Qingzhou and control the entire Qingzhou."

The action began, finally began.

The army marched south.

An army of 100,000 marched south.

Yuan Jun, who was on the border, was shocked when he received the news and hurried to ask for instructions on what to do.

The defenders are also stupid, 100,000 troops, they can't resist.

The most important thing is that they have no order, if the army of Youzhou is entering Jizhou, they can send troops immediately.

But now that they are going to Qingzhou, they can't decide for a while.

And the three generals went directly to Qingzhou.

Qingzhou, there were not many soldiers and horses at this time, and Yuan Xi transferred most of the soldiers and horses, grain and grass to Yuan Shao, and asked him to fight Cao Cao.

Zhao Yun and the others went all the way over, and when they encountered large and small cities, they all looked forward to the wind.

And Zhao Yun and the others had already spread the news of Yuan Shao's defeat.

In this way, only a few places in Qingzhou met resistance, and the rest were direct surrenders.

And Yuan Xi, as the assassin of Qingzhou, when he found out, he ran away directly with 20,000 people.

Yuan Xi was scared.

What is Zhang Ming, he has never been reasonable, and his combat power is still strong.

His troops were all transferred to the front line, and they couldn't fight against Zhang Ming's army at this time.

This Yuan Xi escaped, and Zhao Yun and them were even more difficult, and directly swept the entire Qingzhou.

On the way back, Zhang Ming received the news of controlling the entire territory of Qingzhou.

"Great, there is one more Qingzhou, and the strength has increased greatly."

Qingzhou, a state that is not too good and definitely not bad.

And the army on the border of Jizhou has not been ordered.

In the end, they chose to attack Youzhou.

The guards judged that the troops in Youzhou were not there, and they did not have many soldiers and horses.

However, after they attacked, they knew how strong Youzhou's army was.

Xu Rong led a large army, inflicted great casualties on them, and beat them back.

At this time, the news of the defeat in the Battle of Guandu also came, and suddenly, these Jizhou troops lost their fighting spirit.

Zhang Ming received the news that he was going to Qingzhou to help and kill these troops directly.

When Zhang Ming arrived, he cooperated with Xu Rong and attacked them.

Soon this army, more than 10,000 people surrendered, more than 10,000 were destroyed, and the rest ran back.

"My lord, in this battle, we have achieved all our strategic goals."

Xi Zhicai was delighted, and since then, they have more land and more people.

Zhang Ming said: "Now that the overall situation has been decided, I will immediately order Tian Feng to enter Qingzhou and innovate Qingzhou." ”

"In addition, let him bring tens of thousands of civil officials to go, we have accumulated some officials over the years and have nowhere to replace, and now they are all solved."

Not all those who passed the imperial examination were placed as they wished.

Many people have arranged deputy positions and kept them to train them.

In fact, many places don't need so many officials, so they can only arrange it this way first, and now they don't have to worry about it.

Now the concern is the shortage of talent.

Zhang Ming now has such a solid talent base, and he does not plan to retain local officials in Qingzhou.

Dare to disagree? Dare to make trouble for Zhang Ming in the local area.

I'm sorry, I killed it.

If you don't accept it, you will either flee early, or you will find death.

Zhang Ming also raised a group of arresters, who would be stationed in every place to maintain law and order and crack down on various crimes.

The army returned in a mighty way, this time with tens of thousands of prisoners.

These prisoners, Zhang Ming plans to use them this time, of course, they have to be retrained, and then disrupted to the various armies.

At the same time, if they are unqualified, Zhang Ming does not intend to embarrass them and let them go.

Zhang Ming returned to Youzhou, and the people of the world only saw Zhang Ming clearly at this time.

This Zhang Ming is not a sick cat, not a king who is only greedy for pleasure, but a hegemon who wants to compete for the world.

In this battle, Zhang Ming and Cao Cao became the largest princes.

Of course, there are also people who are not convinced, for example, Jingzhou Liu Biao can be dissatisfied, if according to various indicators, Liu Biao is better than Zhang Ming.

Cao Cao was second, Jingzhou was second, Zhang Ming was third, and Liu Zhang of Shuchuan was probably fourth.

Of course, Yuan Shao is still very strong now, with an army, territory, and economy.

But everyone thinks that this Yuan Shao is no longer good.

Zhang Ming returned to the state pastoral mansion, and this time he called a few core personnel to readjust and deploy.

"Now, the general trend is mine, Tian Feng, you must clear Qingzhou within half a year."

Zhang Ming paused and said: "Originally, he was supposed to hand over the big task to Chen Gong to do, but he was still too short to come and didn't have a comprehensive understanding of our operation system. ”

Tian Feng already has a lot of credit, and Chen Gong is new, so it is better for him to make meritorious contributions.

Zhang Ming pointed this out.

"Now, our army is still trapped in Qingzhou, and I estimate that half a year is not enough time for Cao Cao to recover, so we must develop first, and then start swallowing Jizhou."