In July of the second year of Jian'an, before the news of Gongsun Zhan's defeat spread, the war in the four sides was already raging, and the world was in a panic.

The first is the Guanliang battlefield, the general Zhang Liao led Zhang He and Xu Ronger to fight Ma Teng and Han Sui in Xiaoguan, Ma Teng's son Ma Chao, Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing, and Ma Chao's favorite general Pang De, crisscrossing the battlefield and highlighting their reputation.

Qingzhou, Gongsun Du 100,000 cross-sea army and Tai Shi Ci fought on Long Island, this time Gongsun Du sent 36 ships, giant ships, and countless speedboats, along the line of Long Island to the south. After several engagements, Tai Shici retreated to the Donglai mainland of Qingzhou, and Gongsun Dulou's ships and giant ships quickly advanced.

In the northwest of Yanzhou, the original Taishan Kou Changfeng took advantage of the chaos in the four directions, secretly colluded with Yuan Shu, and plundered Taishan County, Dian Wei, who was sitting in the north of Yanzhou, was ordered to lead the troops to go to the conquest, but the terrain of Taishan County was complicated, although Dian Wei won consecutive battles, he could not catch Chang Feng for a while.

Yuzhou, Yuan Shubing divided into two roads, all the way to Yingchuan County to meet Zang Ba, all the way to Chenliu County and Jiyin County to meet Cao Cao, because of the implementation of the imperial examination system, the Kwantung family opponents are innumerable, many people secretly support Yuan Shu, plus Yuan Shu early to learn Zhang Liao Tuntian, the strength is far stronger than in history, on the contrary, Cao Cao because of Zhang Liao suppression, failed to develop, soldiers and horses are only 20,000, although there are Yu Ban, Li Dian, Le Jin, Xiahou Yuan and other fierce generals, but the strength is very different, for a while at the junction of Yanyu and Yu confrontation tug-of-war.

In Chen's palace, Yuan Shu looked uneasy, Chen Liu's battlefield was fine, but the battle between the Yingchuan battlefield and Zang Ba was extremely unsmooth, Yuan Shu originally wanted to annihilate Zang Ba in one fell swoop first, and then go all out to compete with Cao Cao, but he didn't expect that the notorious Zang Ba was so brave, and the charge was almost not weaker than Lu Bu, and the arrangement of troops was even more powerful.

In the past half a month, Yuan Shu has lost three generals in Yingchuan one after another, and the number of soldiers killed and wounded is more than 10,000, which is even more tragic than the battlefield of Chenliu, which makes Yuan Shu extremely angry and hateful, and he doesn't want Zhang Liao's generals to be so powerful, so that almost no one in the army can be done.

Yuan Shu wandered anxiously for a few steps, and said sharply: "Chuan I order, transfer Qiaorui and Le to evacuate Chenliu, and then transfer 20,000 soldiers and horses from Runan to reinforce Yingchuan, and it will definitely break Zangba!" ”

"Your Majesty!" One of the courtiers below hurriedly said: "Yingchuan has 50,000 soldiers and horses, and it is okay to transfer troops from Runan, but the battlefield of Chen Liu cannot be neglected, you must know that Cao Cao is good at using troops......"

Yuan Shu waved his hand and said: "Cao Cao is cunning, although he is ordered by the Han court, he will never fight for Zhang Liao and Liu Xie and me, lose his own strength, and only concentrate his forces to break Zang Ba, if Zang Ba is not broken, how can I break Zhang Liao!" ”

Yuan Shu is now facing Zang Ba, vowing to take down Zang Ba first.

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Yingchuan County, Zang Ba camp, just finished a battle, the bearded Zang Ba and the soldiers returned to the camp for dinner, although he was covered in blood, his eyes were still sharp.

Beside Zang Ba were Sun Guan, Sun Kang, and Yin Li, several sworn brothers, and several people were eating in a hurry, during which Yin Li hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't help asking: "Big brother, is Second Brother Chang really rebellious?" ”

Listening to Yin Li's inquiry about Chang Xuan's rebellion, Zang Ba's face turned pale, and he snorted: "He is greedy repeatedly, his temperament does not change, the rebellion is true, the general has ordered Dian Wei to go to the conquest, this time for the sake of our loyalty, spare his life, and take him with him in the future, so as not to regenerate branches!" ”

On the side, Sun Kang snorted: "Chang Feng is difficult to repent of death, and he is not with us, so he can be cut off so as not to harm others." ”

Sun Guan knew that his elder brother Sun Kangsu looked down on Chang Xuan, and when he saw that he was not worried, he hurriedly changed the topic and asked Zang Ba: "Eldest brother, Yuan Shu has a steady stream of soldiers and horses, five times as many as me, although we are brave, but we have fought hard one after another, the soldiers are tired, and they will be in danger for a long time, I don't know when the imperial court will send reinforcements?" ”

Zang Ba wiped the long knife, and his voice was a little hoarse: "Don't worry, Zhongtai, the general has already settled down." ”

Sun Guan breathed a sigh of relief, he had been Taishan Kou, and he defected to Zhang Liao with Zang Ba during the Xingping period, he naturally trusted Zhang Liao very much, but now Zhang Liao went west, he didn't trust the court so much, and now he heard his brother say that Zhang Liao had already made arrangements, and he was relieved.

Zhang Liao has become a general step by step from a soldier from a humble background, with his merits, coupled with the legend of his superb martial arts and unrivaled opponents, he is now the god of war worshiped by everyone in the army.

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Runan County, with 36 counties, is not only the largest county in Yuzhou, but also the largest county in the world, adjacent to another large county, Jingzhou Nanyang, is one of the richest places since the Later Han Dynasty, prosperous not inferior to the former Luoyang.

When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Runan was the hardest hit area, had defeated the famous minister Zhao Qian, to Zhongping five years, when the Hedong Baibo Rebellion arose, the Runan Yellow Turban also resurrected again, conquered the county, there were five major canal marshals, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Huang Shao, He Man, He Yi, each with tens of thousands of soldiers, a total of nearly 100,000 people, in Runan such a large population county is also a strong strength.

I don't want to fight against Dong Zhuo in the first year of the first year of the first peace, there is a high escape road suddenly from Yingchuan, extremely fierce, with thousands of people to defeat the evil Liu Pi and Huang Shao two divisions, kill the two commanders, annex their people, occupy Ge Pi, the rest of the yellow turban dare not violate. Soon, Zuo Ci, a master of Taoism, appeared in Ruying to educate the Yellow Turbans, and under the guidance of Zuo Ci, the remaining Qu Shuai Gong Du, He Man, and He Yi were all led by Gao Dundao.

At this point, the ravages of the Yellow Turbans in Runan have decreased slightly, except for the occasional plundering of the outdoors, on the contrary, they have reclaimed barren fields on all sides of the mountains and forests, collected the displaced people, and the power is stronger.

But two or three years later, Gao Dundao disappeared, and soon after, Gao Dundao's deputy Jiang Yiqu replaced Gao Dundao as Qu Shuai, and the rest of Qu Shuai was suspicious.

About two years ago, between Rushui and Yingshui, in the southeast of Xincai County, there was another bandit, the leader Yang Guo, self-proclaimed mountain carving, there were 5,000 people, once broke through two Haoqiang forts, drove away the county order appointed by Yuan Shu, extremely powerful, but fortunately did not harass ordinary people, but also collected a lot of displaced people.

Just when Yuan Shu gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Chen State to fight with Cao Cao and Zang Ba, a heroic young man was reviewing the soldiers and horses on the school field between the hills.

This heroic young man is none other than the current general Zhang Liao!

Yes, it was Zhang Liao who was supposed to fight with Ma Teng and Han Sui in the northwest of Guanzhong!

In fact, Zhang Liao had long planned to attack Yuan Shu first, and he already had a foundation in Runan.

As early as when the princes crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Zhang Liao, under the advice of Guo Jia, left Gao Shun, Song Chao, Xue Ming and Jiang Qi to operate in Yingchuan and Runan for two years, and appeased the Ruying Yellow Turban through Zuo Ci, and during the battle with Li Dao and Guo Yan, Gao Shun, Song Chao, Xue Ming and Jiang Qi were transferred.

Two years ago, when Cao Cao and Lu Bu were fighting for Yanzhou, and Yuzhou was also in chaos, Zhang Liao sent Yang Han with 5,000 men and horses, and under the cover of Jiang Qi, he sneaked into Runan in batches to develop. After Yang Han arrived in Runan, he broke through two powerful forts to shock the Quartet.

Three months ago, Zhang Liao had already included the crusade against Yuan Shu in his plan, and ordered Huang Zhong to lead 10,000 horses and horses to the south from Wuguan, and ordered Yang Han and Jiang Qi to attack some Haoqiang forts, causing chaos, and secretly received Huang Zhong's troops and horses to enter Runan in batches.

So far, in addition to the Yellow Turban, Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses in Runan County have exceeded 30,000 soldiers and horses, sharpening their knives and Huo Huo to Yuan Shu.

Two months ago, when Dong Cheng mobilized his courtiers to encourage Zhang Liao to crusade against Yuan Shu, Zhang Liao objected, in order to buy time for a while to deal with Empress Fu's affairs, and secondly, to cover up his military goals and attack the west.

After Zhang Liao took Zhang He into Guanzhong, he left Zhang He and Xu Rong to deal with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and he took Xu Chu and three hundred guards from Wuguan to the south, pretending to be a caravan, and entered Runan, preparing to launch a fatal blow against Yuan Shu.

In history, it took two years for Cao Cao to attack Yuan Shu, and this time Zhang Liao adopted the strategy of attacking the east and the west, which was to pacify Yuan Shu in one fell swoop with lightning speed, control Yuzhou and Yangzhou, and then attack Yuan Shao.

It's ridiculous, Yuan Shu hasn't noticed it yet, Zhang Liao has quietly opened his tiger mouth to him.

Of course, Zhang Liao's reasons for attacking Ma Teng and Han Sui first in the court that day were not false, and the threat was naturally greater than Ma Teng and Han Sui, and Guanzhong was Zhang Liao's rear, and he also attached great importance to it, but Zhang Liao trusted the generals in Guanzhong very much, whether it was Xu Rong or Zhang He, with Xiao Guan, it was enough to stop Ma Teng and Han Sui.

Zhang Liao believes that it won't take long for him to pacify Yuan Shu, and I'm afraid that the imperial court may not be able to react at that time, so as not to let those jumping clowns keep calculating behind their backs.