At this time, most of the Zhan army also crossed the bridge. Gongsun Zhan hurriedly collected his troops and returned to the village, and as soon as he arrived at the gate of the village, he dismounted and thanked Liu Bei.

"If it weren't for my junior brother to save me, I'm afraid I would have died here today. Junior brother, please bow down. ”

After Gongsun Chan finished speaking, he bowed down. Liu Bei hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, and helped Gongsun Zan to say.

"Senior brother, you and I are like brothers, and we should support each other. A few days ago, I heard that my senior brother and Yuan Shao were going to fight, and I thought that Yuan was originally strong, but I was afraid that my senior brother would lose, so I immediately led troops to help. Fortunately, it came in time, is there a big problem for my brother? ”

Gongsun Zan listened, his heart was very moved, and he grabbed Liu Bei's hand.

"Don't worry, junior brother, I'm fine. I will remember the grace of today. In the future, if my junior brother is in any danger, even if he is thousands of miles away, I will come to my rescue. I have reported the great kindness of my junior brother! ”

Liu Bei listened in his heart and secretly rejoiced. Then he and Gongsun Chan exchanged emotional words and returned to the village together.

However, it was said that Yuan Shao saw Liu Bei arrive, and he was afraid of Pan Feng and Zhang Fei's bravery, so he couldn't hold out. The two armies rejected each other for more than a month, and Tian Feng persuaded Yuan Shao to take Jizhou in the new way, and he needed to rest, and it was not suitable to fight at this time.

Yuan Shao also had this intention, so he asked Tian Feng what plan he could make Gongsun Chan willing to reconcile. Tian Feng whispered a few words in Yuan Shao's ear, and Yuan Shao was happy, so he obeyed, and sent a sergeant and asked him to send a message to Chang'an. After Li Xun in Chang'an saw Yuan Shao's letter, he immediately asked Li Ru to discuss.

Li Ru thought for a while, and then said to Li Yu.

"Since this Yuan originally intended to sell well to Da Sima, then Da Sima might as well be a favor, after all, Da Sima's side also needs time to rectify the overall situation."

"Oh, how do you sell this favor?"

"Hehe, it's easy. Although Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan are both tigers and wolves, after all, the saint is still alive today, and the Han family has not died for a day, so the two of them are still Hanchen. The lord should fake the edict of the Son of Heaven and send someone to reconcile. ”

"Wen Ruo's words are very true, so according to Wen Ruo's plan."

The next day, Li Xuan summoned the Taifu Ma Riyan and the servant Zhao Qi to go to the edict. The two came to Hebei, and Yuan Shao led them out to greet them a hundred miles away, and then paid homage to the edict. In the coming day, the two went to Gongsun Zhan's camp to preach, and Gongsun Zhan saw that Yuan Shao was powerful, and it was undoubtedly difficult to get back the agreed half of Jizhou's land. After Yuan Shao took Jizhou, his power increased sharply, and he was afraid that in the next few years, he would seek to seize Youzhou. And Youzhou is the foundation of Gongsun Zhan's great cause, how can Gongsun Chan let Youzhou fall into the hands of others. It was decided to rush back to Beiping, and while Yuan Shao was resting, he would pocket Youzhou as soon as possible with lightning speed.

So, Gongsun Zhan sent an envoy to Yuan Shao to make peace with each other. After that, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan each led their troops to retreat. After Gongsun Chan returned to Beiping, Liu Bei casually found an excuse, saying that Pingyang was being watched by, and he offended Yuan Shao again, and wanted to borrow 3,000 soldiers and horses and 100,000 grain and grass from Gongsun Zhan. Gongsun Zhan thought about Liu Bei's life-saving grace, and he was also very happy, not only lent him 3,000 elite soldiers and 100,000 grains and grass, but also subsidized him with a lot of gold and silver.

Before Liu Bei left, he and Gongsun Zhan held hands and wept, making a look of inseparableness. Gongsun Chan was moved again, and told Liu Bei to take care.

Yuan Shao captured Jizhou and temporarily rested and recuperated. And Gongsun Chan went back to Youzhou Beiping and was trying to take over the entire Youzhou. On the other hand, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, accepted Cao Cao's kindness and asked him to lead his troops and horses to beg for thieves in Yanzhou, and was responsible for all his soldiers' rations. Cao Cao took the Xiahou brothers, Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other generals to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to crusade against the Black Mountain thieves in Yanzhou, and everything they attacked was broken.

And Cao Cao offered a knife to stab Dong, and gathered the princes of the Eighteenth Road to ask for Dong, and later became the leader of the Righteous Division's alliance, with great prestige. Therefore, the soldiers and horses are everywhere, and the black mountain thieves after the defeat are all submissive. Within more than 100 days, Cao Cao recruited nearly 30,000 Black Mountain thieves, and his power also expanded rapidly.

As for the south, the three fierce tigers of Runan Yuan Shu and Jingzhou Liu Biao and Changsha Sun Jian were also inseparable. Yuan Shu used tricks to provoke Liu Biao and Sun Jian to fight each other, and he took the opportunity to capture Nanyang. Yuan Shu defeated tens of thousands of Gepi Yellow Turbans in Nanyang, and recruited nearly 10,000 Gepi troops. Later, Liu Biao learned that Yuan Shu had won Nanyang, and only then did he know that he had fallen for Yuan Shu's fisherman's plan, so he hurriedly sent someone to tell Sun Jian, explaining Yuan Shu's calculations to him, hoping to make a truce with Sun Jian. Sun Jian agreed on the surface, but in fact, he was preparing inside, and when Liu Biao and Yuan Shu started a war and the battle was the most intense, he would lead his troops to attack Jiangxia in Jingzhou. Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu didn't know that Sun Jian was coming, and he was caught off guard, and after losing several counties, he stabilized his position and fought fiercely with Sun Jian with Jiangxia soldiers and horses.

The flames of war spread rapidly in all sides of the world, and all the princes of the world were either fighting, accumulating strength, or raising troops to fight. And as the war intensifies, big warlords will emerge from time to time.

In the blink of an eye, he returned to Bingzhou, since Wen Han captured Jinyang City, Guo Da killed himself, and Wen Han received a group of Bai Bo troops, and the army expanded to more than 40,000 people. After more than ten days of rest, Bai Bo's troops were all scattered and reorganized. After that, Wen Han sent four soldiers and horses to attack the counties of Taiyuan County with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping the leaves. At that time, the news of Guo Da's death had spread throughout Taiyuan County, and the number of these remnants of Baibo was not large, only a few thousand, how could they dare to confront Wen Han's army. Therefore, the Baibo thieves in the counties of Taiyuan did not resist and surrendered.

Not long after Wen Han recovered Taiyuan County, he wondered why he had not heard about the battle situation in Dingxiang for so long, and several scout teams he sent half a month ago to inquire about Dingxiang's information have not returned.

One day, Wen Han suddenly felt uneasy, as if something bad was about to happen, or had already happened.

"Urgent~!! Urgent~!! ”

Suddenly, outside the Jinyang County Governance Hall, a sergeant rushed forward with a panicked face, and in his hand was a bloodstained scroll of papers.

Wen Han was startled and hurriedly greeted the sergeant.

"What's so urgent!!"

The sergeant's face was sad and angry, and his eyes were blood-red.

"Lord!! This is an urgent battle report from Dingxiang. The brother who returned from the war report told me before he died that all the scouts sent by the lord had been annihilated by the thieves. It was a group of brothers who fought to the death to get out of the encirclement and come back to Jinyang to send back this battle report! ”

"The Thief !!"

Wen Han's heart was beating wildly, and he exclaimed unconsciously, and hurriedly picked up the bloodstained document and read it. The more you look at it, the more pale it becomes. In the end, he looked up to the sky and shouted angrily.

"Yuwen Tianyou!! Ke Dial Wu Shui!! You dare to offend my Han rivers and mountains, kill my Han people, and don't kill you and the other two, I swear not to be a human being!!!!! ”

It turned out that this battle report was written two months ago, when Wen Han was still fighting against the Jinyang White Wave Thief. The two wealthy clans of Qianghu, Keba and Yuwen, ended the battle, joined forces with 100,000 troops, and took advantage of the chaos in the state at this time to invade with troops. first secretly captured Shuofang and Wuyuan counties, and then took advantage of the fierce battle with the white wave thief army in Dingxiang while the flamboyant soldiers and horses were fighting, and led the army to attack from behind!!

Zhang Yang did not expect that the soldiers and horses of Pingyang, Xihe, Shuofang, and Wuyuan were taken by surprise by the 100,000 Qianghu army, and almost all the troops were wiped out. Zhang Yang, as well as Shuo Fang and Wuyuan, were all killed by Yuwen Tianyou. After Yuwen Tianyou defeated Zhang Yang, he led his troops to attack Dingxiang, and the Baibo thief army in Dingxiang saw that Qianghu's troops were large, and there were 100,000 people, so they were so frightened that they immediately abandoned the city and fled. After Yuwen Tianyou occupied Dingxiang, he sent a large army to besiege Yanmen County, and the white wave thieves guarding Yanmen were less than thousands, and they were not the opponents of the Qianghu army at all, and within a few days, Yanmen County fell into the control of Qianghu.

After that, Yuwen Tianyou sent Keba Wushui to lead 20,000 troops, taking advantage of the emptiness of the troops in Pingyang and Xihe counties, and sent troops to attack. And he led an army of 80,000 Qianghu towards Taiyuan.

At this point, four of the eight counties in Bingzhou were occupied by Qianghu, and two counties were attacked by Qianghu, and it was only a matter of time before they were occupied. Almost all of them fell into the hands of the Qianghu people.

After Wen Han read the battle report, after roaring again and again, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and sent people to urgently order Xi Long, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Zhao Yun and others to gather to discuss. When everyone arrived, Wen Han almost gritted his teeth and told the Qiang Hu soldiers about the merger of the state, and Xi Long, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, and Zhao Yun were all furious when they heard it, and the killing intent was monstrous.

Although the land of China is chaotic now, it is also a matter of the Han family, and these foreign races dare to take advantage of the situation to occupy the territory of China, which is really trampling on the dignity of every Han person. How can this make Xi Long, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Zhao Yun and others not angry.

"Lord!! I, Gao Boyi, am willing to be the vanguard, and I will kill these aliens until the blood is flowing!! ”

Gao Shun, who usually cherishes words like gold, stood up with a majestic body and shouted fiercely.

"Champion Wen, I, Zhao Zilong, am willing to be General Gao's deputy general!! Must take this Yuwen Tianyou head!! ”

On Zhao Yunjunxiu's face, the killing intent was terrifying, and the muscles of his whole body were trembling.

General Gao and General Zhao were calm at first. The thief is powerful, we should make a plan and then act, if we are swallowed by anger, we will only fall into the hands of the thief. ”

Although Xi Long was saying so, from the violent killing intent bursting out of his eyes, he could know that he was holding back the anger in his heart. However, as a military division of the First Army, how could Xi Long lose his calm, Xi Long took a few deep breaths and then said.

"Lord, the Qianghu people are divided into two lines of soldiers and horses, in addition to Yuwen Tianyou is killing the 80,000 thieves who came to Taiyuan, there is another team led by Keba Wushui to kill to Xihe and Pingyang. Xihe and Pingyang are empty, and if the lord does not send troops and horses to rescue, he will inevitably lose. And once the two counties of Xihe and Pingyang fall into the hands of the thieves, the 20,000 thieves will soon attack the Shangdang.

As soon as the party is lost, the two thieves can become a front and back echo trend and surround Taiyuan. Therefore, we must preemptively send a detachment of troops and horses to Pingyang to quickly gather the remnants of the defeated troops of Pingyang, Xihe and Dingxiang to fight against them. Most of these soldiers are from Bingzhou, how could they see foreign races invading their homeland, and the lord is extremely famous in Bingzhou, he will definitely flock to vote! ”

Wen Han looked cold, nodded silently, and then asked Xi Long again.

"In this way, Zhicai, who do you think can take on this great responsibility?"

"This person must be able to represent the authority of the lord and the public, and he must have both wisdom and courage. Such a person, except for the four generals, no one can take on this great task at the moment. ”

Indeed, as Xi Long said. Xu Huang is Wen Han's sworn brother, and he once repelled Qianghu with Wen Han in Bingzhou, of course, he can represent Wen Han's authority, and Xu Huang is not only wise and brave, but also a general.

"Zhicai's words are very much in line with my heart. I also feel that this great responsibility belongs to the fourth brother. ”

Wen Han looked at Xu Huang as he spoke, Xu Huang had a cold face, and with a terrifying momentum all over his body, he arched his fist and shouted.

"I, Xu Gongming, will not live up to the burden of the third brother!!"

Seeing Xu Huang's fighting spirit, Xi Long nodded secretly, and then said.

"In addition to the four generals, a brave general is also needed to be supplemented, so that it can be foolproof."

As soon as Wen Han heard it, he knew who Xi Long was talking about, and cast his eyes on Gao Shun, Gao Shun's face was shocked, and he shouted.

"My lord, Gao Boyi is willing to assist the four generals to repel the thieves!! I will live up to the trust of the Lord!! ”