Zhang Liao continued: "As for General Zhang Ji, the lord said, because we do not have a third complete state department except for merging states and Duliao, but the lord promised that now General Zhang Ji is temporarily the guard of a county, and the position of assassin history in the future must be left to the general, and the general is satisfied?" ”

"There is a handwritten letter written by the lord to General Zhang Ji, which can be used as evidence." After speaking, Zhang Liao took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji opened it and read it, and sure enough, it was Lu Bu's handwritten letter, in which he praised the feats of Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, and also expressed his love for talents, and finally, as Zhang Liao said, promised the conditions after returning to Shun.

With Lu Bu's handwritten letter, Zhang Ji was relieved. Zhang Ji stood up and bowed to Zhang Liaoshen, "General Wenyuan, you and I will be ministers in the same palace in the future, and I hope to take care of it, Zhang Ji is willing to return to Lord Lu Bu's account, Zhang Xiu, don't hurry up and meet General Zhang Liao." ”

Zhang Xiu had been waiting for his uncle to speak, and when he heard Zhang Ji's wish to surrender, he hurriedly bowed to Zhang Liaoshen. "Zhang Xiu has seen General Zhang Liao."

Zhang Liao was relieved at this point, although he was very sure that he could convince the two of them before he came.

But after all, he is alone and in danger, and the generals will not say anything, and they are also afraid!

Zhang Liao sent people to inform the army to enter the city, and Zhang Ji also sent Zhang Xiu to personally notify the defenders in various places, surrender to the Bingzhou army, lower the banner of the Xiliang army, and hang the flag of the Bingzhou army instead, and the Bingzhou army successfully received the counties of Hongnong County, which was one step closer to Liangzhou.

Zhang Liao sent a battle report, and was able to take Hongnong without blood, and recovered Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, and Lu Bu was very happy.

Originally, I wanted to wait for the seventh graduation exam of Shaling Military Academy to end, and then set off for Hongnong.

In the next battle of Guanzhong, he planned to command it personally, because there was still a general waiting for him to accept it!

At this time, the latest news came from Youzhou, the contradiction between Youzhou Mu Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan finally broke out, Liu Yu ignored the opposition of his subordinates, mobilized nearly 100,000 troops, and started a war against Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan borrowed reinforcements from Gongsun Du from Liaodong and unexpectedly attacked Liu Yu, who had always cherished the people and forbade his subordinates to destroy people's houses.

On the contrary, Gongsun Chan took advantage of the night to set fire to a surprise attack and broke through Liu Yu's camp in one fell swoop.

Liu Yu fled to Juyong County in the north, and Gongsun Zhan led the army to follow, attacked for three days, and finally broke Juyong and captured Liu Yu and his family alive.

At this time, it happened that Emperor Xian sent an envoy to seal Liu Yu, and Gongsun Zhan coerced the compulsor to behead Liu Yu and his family in the city on the charge of colluding with Liu Yu and Yuan Shao to abolish the emperor and establish himself as the emperor.

Then he named Gongsun Zan as a former general, named Yihou, and led Youzhou Mu himself.

Yuan Shu of Nanyang in order to eliminate the threat that was close at hand, Cao Cao of Yanzhou, he had long been secretly in contact with the Chang'an court.

After Sun Jian's death, Liu Biao in Jingzhou became even more arrogant, and took the initiative to send troops to cut off Yuan Shu's grain route, forcing Yuan Shu to lead his troops to retreat into Chenliu.

It happened that the official Yanzhou assassin Shi Jinshang, who was appointed by the imperial court, came to lead the troops, so the two joined forces and attacked Cao Cao in Yanzhou.

Yuan Shu's allies also dispatched one after another, and Gongsun Zhan sent Liu Bei and Shan Jing to garrison Yanzhou and Jizhou borders respectively to contain Yuan Shao.

Tao Qian of Xuzhou also sent troops to threaten Cao Cao's Yanzhou. Yuan Shutun troops in Fengqiu, and soon received some reinforcements from the Montenegrin army, so he fought with Cao Cao and Kuangting.

Cao Cao's troops were well-trained, and they ran for hundreds of miles in a row, but they were still able to maintain high morale, and soon defeated the Black Mountain Army and Yuan Shu's Army successively.

Yuan Shu first retired to Yongqiu, and then returned to Shouchun, but he didn't expect to encounter the rebellion of his subordinates and couldn't enter Shouchun.

In desperation, Yuan Shu led his subordinates to Jiujiang County, killed the original Yangzhou assassin Chen Wen, and led Yangzhou Mu himself.

After Li Dao and others took power, they wanted to win over Yuan Shu, so they named Yuan Shu as the general of the left, fake the festival, and the marquis of Yang Zhai.

Lu Bu was not surprised that Gongsun Zhan was able to defeat Liu Yu.

This point has been proven by history, this should be Gongsun Zhan's highest achievement in Youzhou, he has climbed to the peak of his life, and the downhill road is just around the corner.

It seems that he is also going to take precautions, he gave Li Su an order, let him start the shadows and methods arranged in Youzhou, and can't wait until Gongsun Chan himself perishes, this old brother's last moment, but it's crazy, and the jade is burning!

In March, spring arrived, and the clouds were full of greenery.

The graduation examination of the seventh batch of cadets of the Shaling Military Academy was held as scheduled, and after the addition of one additional subject of information science, the number of subjects in the graduation examination reached 20.

After the ban, the second all-honor student still did not appear, and the student with the best grades achieved excellence in sixteen subjects, but this person is a familiar person, Fa Zheng!

That's right, it's the son of Fa Yan, Fa Xiaozhi, his cultural skills are very high, and his brain is also very useful, but his physical fitness is poor, and his four good subjects are fighting, riding, archery, and five-kilometer cross-country.

However, Lu Bu didn't mind, and he didn't expect Fa Zheng to become a talent with both civil and military skills, just as he was in the formation of the General Staff of the Bingzhou Army, he was still in urgent need of a talent like Fa Zheng.

This time, Lü Bu personally commanded the Battle of Guanzhong, which was also the largest operation in the history of the Bingzhou Army.

Lü Bu personally served as the commander-in-chief, the military advisor Jia Xu took a new position, and the chief of the general staff of the state army, Fa Zheng followed Lü Bu and Jia Xu to Hongnong with the general staff.

Gao Shun and Fu Zhu were responsible for staying in Jizhou, Jin Riyan was staying in Duliao, and the Qingzhou army in Beihai also received Lü Bu's order to raise the combat alert level during the siege of Guanzhong and Liangzhou by the Bingzhou army, and monitored the Kwantung princes with Xu Huang.

In addition to the six brigades that Zhang Liao led into Hongnong in the early stage, Lü Bu also mobilized many other troops.

Including Zhang He's 1st Cavalry Brigade, Hou Cheng's 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Guan Hai's 2nd Honorary Brigade, Tian Yu's 3rd Honorary Brigade, Xu Rong's 1st Trapped Camp Brigade, Dian Wei's Guard Brigade, Zhao Yun's Heavy Brigade, in addition to two infantry reserve brigades, a cavalry reserve brigade, an engineer regiment, and a teaching regiment also went out with the army.

This time, Lu Bu can be regarded as the whole army dispatched, and for this reason, he took out all the money from the frustrated family, and even advanced some funds and grain and grass from the bank.

In order to make up for the lack of troops in the state, the three brigades of the servant army have withdrawn to the old camp in Yunzhong.

Ten brigades were temporarily conscripted from the Tuntian Army, and after the battle was over, they would return to work as peasants, and they would assist the local garrison brigades in each county in their defense.

The main force only left Xu Huang with Zhu Ling's third brigade of the trapped camp, which was placed in Changshan and stared at the Montenegrin army.

To sum up, a total of 11 main brigades were mobilized in the Guanzhong operation this time, plus the guard brigade, the heavy brigade, the three reserve brigades, as well as the engineer regiment and the training regiment, with a total strength of almost 90,000 troops, plus the 100,000 people who were requisitioned and transferred, it can be regarded as a mighty army.

Oh, and there are still 20,000 people from the Road Administration Bureau, who are responsible for building the official road from Bingzhou to Hedong County and Hongnong County, and there are 30,000 slaves to help.

Lu Bu's current principle is to build this road wherever the state army occupies.

Yangdihou

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