In the winter of the fourth year of Jian'an, Hedong County, the north wind swept overnight, the snow fell, in the early morning, the mountains were covered in silver, and the big river was frozen for thousands of miles.

In the past few years, the well-known Hedong City has also been wrapped in a thick white dress, the streets and alleys are vertical and horizontal, and the pavilions and houses are staggered, making this white dress cascading and scattered, which is extraordinarily beautiful. In the early morning, the sound of reading aloud resounded everywhere, making the city exude a strong smell of books. And the guards in the city who are stubbornly patrolling add a bit of majesty to the city.

In Hedong City, the former General's Mansion has been changed to the Jin Mansion. In the Jin Mansion, Zhang Liao took his two sons and guards to sweep the snow early in the morning, practiced martial arts for half an hour, and sweated profusely before washing up and returning to the study to read the documents and information.

This year's winter is already cold, the ice and snow are flying all night, and the morning is even colder, but fortunately, the study has Zhang Liao's design of wall heating and floor heating, which is like a spring day, very warm.

After Zhang Liao came back from the Western Regions, he did not go back to Hedong directly, but stayed in Guanzhong for more than a month, dealt with Guanliang affairs, and did not return to Hedong until half a month ago.

And the war in northern Xinjiang has ended before the winter, after Wuhuan Liucheng and Xianbei Wang Court were broken by Gao Shun and Zhao Yun successively, the three-way army swept through the rest of the Saibei tribes, captured a large number of cattle and sheep, captured hundreds of thousands of Xianbei and Wuhuan people, and the Xianbei with the rising trend was directly broken the backbone, and the vitality of the Saibei tribes was greatly damaged, and it was difficult to recover for decades.

Zhang Liao had just returned to Guanzhong from the Western Regions, and was overjoyed after receiving the news from the northern Xinjiang, and went straight into the back hall to hug the daughters to prostitute themselves during the day, which made the girls unbearable, I don't know why the husband was so excited, but I didn't know that Zhang Liao had completed the most important goal of coming to this era, pacifying the north, presumably after this battle, the five nonsense of China will not appear again.

Subsequently, under Zhang Liao's order, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun and other soldiers and horses entered a period of recuperation, while the officials of various prefectures and counties were busy, not only to build ten cities in Saibei, and to set up three major protectorates in Yanbei, Hebei, and Liaodong, but also hundreds of thousands of Xianbei and Wuhuan people moved into Guanzhong, Hebei and even Luoyang, where the population was seriously lacking. Zhang Liao wanted to leave this inevitable ethnic integration to the Han nationality to dominate, rather than be completed by the barbaric invasion and killing of nomads.

Zhang Liao was sipping tea while reading the documents, on the table next to him, a green-clothed girl with a flying fairy bun was bowing her head to sort out the paperwork information, her slender hands were extremely neat, and she occasionally looked up at Zhang Liao, revealing a beautiful and gentle face, and her bright eyes were especially pure and smart, just like clear water out of hibiscus. She is Cai Yan's sister Cai Ying, the cute little girl Zhang Liao met on Hongnong Road, seven years have passed, and now she is slim, although she is still a girl, she already has the temperament of her sister.

Zhang Liao finished reading a document, put a pen to make a reply, put it on the right side of the desk, and was about to pick up another document to read, when a familiar fragrance hit, he raised his head and saw Cai Ying come to him at some point, handed over a document, and said softly while adding tea to him: "Brother, this is information from Kanto." ”

Zhang Liao nodded, flipped through the information in his hand and read it carefully, and for a moment, his face showed a strange expression.

Cai Ying had been secretly staring at Zhang Liao, noticing that he had a strange expression, and couldn't help asking, "Brother, what happened in Kanto?" ”

Zhang Liao put the information on the desk, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "The play that Yuan Zhi and Xiaozhi sang in Kanto is getting more and more exciting, the court is divided, Feng Xian and Cao Cao lost the battle, my righteous brother and Yu Poison coerced the Son of Heaven to go to Jingzhou, Sun Quan is also about to move, and the southeast half of the wall is becoming more and more lively." ”

In fact, Fa Zheng and Xu Shu and others plotted about the affairs of the Kwantung region, Zhang Liao knew a little about it as early as when he was in the Western Regions, since his expedition to the Western Regions, Gao Shun, Zhao Yun and other generals led the main force of the Jin army to conquer the north, Fa Zheng, Xu Shu, Sima Yi and the students of Hedong Academy concluded in the debate that the internal forces of the Kwantung court were intertwined, difficult to integrate, and the loss of the threat of imminence would inevitably lead to infighting.

Therefore, Fa Zheng and Xu Shu had already gone to Kanto to wait for the opportunity, and while contacting Lu Bu and gaining Lu Bu's trust, they mobilized a part of the shadows within their authority to quietly monitor Ren Cheng, focusing on Cao Cao's movements. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Cao Cao to take action, and sent Cao Ren and Yu Ban to the west into the mountains to suppress the thieves, but in fact, they secretly made a detour to infiltrate Xuzhou.

As soon as Cao Cao made a move, Fa Zheng and Xu Shu immediately presented Lu Bu with a plan to behead the Hongmen banquet.

Xu Shu was quite kind, but Fa Zheng advocated concealing from Lu Bu that Cao Cao secretly sent Cao Ren to attack Xuzhou, and offered a two-way attack plan, asking Lu Bu to bring 800 elites to enter Rencheng from the south road with great fanfare to attract Cao Cao's attention, and secretly sent Wei Xu and Song Xian to lead the main force to pour out of the nest, travel at night and day, detour from the north of Lu State, raid Rencheng, and leave Cao Bao to guard Xuzhou.

If Cao Ren and Yu Ban did not lead the elite to secretly attack Xuzhou, Fa Zheng would undoubtedly give Lu Bu a clever plan, if Cao Ren and Yu Ban did not lead the elite to secretly attack Xuzhou, Cao Cao was not afraid of Lu Bu's two-way attack. But the fact is that Cao Ren and Yu Ban led the elite to sneak attack Xuzhou, Yanzhou was relatively empty, and Lu Bu's main force made a detour to attack Yanzhou, and Xuzhou was empty. So Cao Cao and Lu Bu were both tragic, and a group of strategists such as Fa Zheng and Xu Shu took Cao Cao and Lu Bu into a trap with their intentions.

At the Hongmen banquet in Linsi Tai, Lu Bu failed to kill Cao Cao on the spot, and Cao Cao fled into the city, and the two sides fought outside the city gate. Cao Cao has a skill in military training, coupled with Lejin and Cao Chun, who are desperate for death, and they are good at attacking like Lu Bu, but they can't please him. Immediately, the enraged Cao Cao mobilized troops and horses to launch a fierce attack on Lü Bu's 800 cavalry, and sent secret letters to Cao Ren and Yu Ban, ordering the two to attack Xuzhou immediately, bound to take Lü Bu and Xuzhou. Unexpectedly, the two generals Wei Xu and Song Xian under Lu Bu suddenly led a large army from the northeast, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. At the same time, there was also a split within the Kwantung court, and Yu Xuan, who had been suppressed by Cao Cao, could not raise his head under the persuasion of Xu Shu, and raised troops to respond to Lu Bu, while Liu Bei guarded the Son of Heaven with heavy troops.

At this time, the information on the table of Zhang Liao was already the sixth piece of information from the Kanto region, and it had been nearly two months since the Rencheng Rebellion began in the autumn.

During these two months, Cao Cao was first attacked by Lü Bu and Yu Poison, and had to withdraw from Rencheng, until Li Dian's hometown Juye, did he rebuild the defensive line. And Lu Bu occupied Rencheng, and when he was chasing Cao Cao fiercely, news came from the rear that Cao Cao, who had attacked Xuzhou, had fallen into Pi, Cao Ren broke Cao Leopard, captured Tancheng, and killed countless people, and Xuzhou had completely fallen into the hands of Cao Cao. Lu Bu hurriedly returned to the army in a panic, but was ambushed by Yu Ban, who rescued Cao Cao, on the main road of Kang's father, and his soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses. Cao Cao attacked decisively, and defeated Lü Bu, Lü Bu lost more than half of his soldiers and horses, had to withdraw from Rencheng, and was captured by Cao Ren Xuzhou, with nowhere to go, but to flee north into the state of Lu.

In the melee of Rencheng, Yu Poison saw that Lü Bu had lost, so he turned to unite with Liu Bei, who had been holding his troops still, and took advantage of the fierce battle between Cao Cao and Lü Bu to coerce the Son of Heaven to go south and go to Liu Biao in Jingzhou. When Cao Cao came to his senses, the Son of Heaven had already left Rencheng, and Cao Cao could only fight Lü Bu first and appease Xuzhou.

In the past two months, Zhang Liao quietly watched from the wall in Hedong, and the changes in the situation in the eastern part of the country made him unexpected, but it was beneficial to him, of course, he also added fuel to the fire at a critical time, just like Liu Bei and Yu poisoned the Son of Heaven to vote for Liu Biao in Jingzhou, to pass through Yuzhou, if there was no Zhang Liao's secret permission, how could they pass safely?

Maybe Liu Bei thinks that Zhang Liao is still afraid of the Son of Heaven, and he doesn't dare to use his sword in the face of the world's disapproval, but in fact, Zhang Liao just thinks it's time to clean up Jingzhou. If today, Zi, Liu Bei, and Yu Poison want to go to Jingzhou, which is in line with Zhang Liao's intentions, and he needs Jingzhou to move.

Only when you move, will you have more opportunities.