At the end of the autumn of the fourth year of the first peace, there was civil strife in Linjin City, the original Bai Bo surrendered to Yang Feng, the candidate conspiracy to seize the city, the official temple in the city was also broken for a time, and the guard general Ganling was not in chaos, and led the generals of Xihe to suppress it urgently.

The two sides fought at night in the city, and after the defeat of the rebel army, the candidate led by him was killed, Yang Feng was defeated and fled, and even the cavalry with Feng Yiqiang and the Sanfu refugees who were appeased also fled in large numbers, and the Xihe army was also weakened.

Gao Shuo and Xia Yu, the generals under Guo Yan, took the opportunity to lead the army to come and wanted to capture the land of the West River.

At this time, Yan Xing, the general of Pingbei, also led his elite cavalry to come and thwarted the offensive of Gao Shuo and Xia Yu with a strategy, and then led the soldiers and civilians of each city to withdraw from the West River and cross the river to the east of the river.

A battle of the West River, which was originally tense, came to an abrupt end, and the land of Guanzhong seemed to be stable again.

However, with the arrival of winter, the weather was far colder than usual, the rivers froze early, and the bones of the starving dead were often frozen to death on the wilderness roads, and the poor families hid in the haystacks and shivered, praying that they could survive the hardships of the year.

It's just that, as Yan Shi predicted, the new year will be a year of large-scale and large-scale famine.

Chang'an's Taishi Ling also found the anomaly of the celestial phenomena, the imperial court revised the year name again, set it as "Xingping", but prosperity and peace are far away in reality, affected by the severe cold weather in winter, the wheat harvest in many fields is greatly reduced, once it enters the spring, there is a spring famine of large and small scales.

What's even more tricky is that after the beginning of spring, the rain is scarce, which also brings a strong haze prospect to spring farming in various places.

The five grains, the life of the people, the treasure of the country, the year of famine in the Chengping period still shook the state and county, shaking the community, not to mention the chaotic times of the late Han Dynasty.

In various parts of the Han Empire, in the past few years, because of the chaos between states and counties, the evil results of the large-scale expansion of troops and horses have also been revealed.

Fan Chou, the right general of Guanzhong, originally recruited troops and horses in order to contend with Li Dao, and the cities of the right Fufeng experienced war and chaos for a short time, and the supply of grain and grass was originally tight, and now in the year of famine, the grain and grass of the army were suddenly exhausted.

In desperation, Fan Chou could only ask Li Wei for soldiers, grain and grass in the name of going out of the Guandong Expedition, and Li Wei had long wanted to get rid of Fan Chou, so he took this opportunity to send his nephew Hu Feng to kill Fan Chou and Li Meng at the banquet, and Guo Yan and others annexed Fan Chou's subordinates.

Fan Chou died, and his subordinates were also divided. In the land of Guanzhong, there were only two major forces of Li Dao and Guo Yan, as well as Yang Ding, Dong Cheng and other small forces attached to Li Dao.

If it weren't for Shangshu Jia Xu mediating it, I am afraid that the two would have already started killing because of the military rations.

Zhang Ji of Hongnong, because he annexed a large number of people and horses of Zhu Jun in Henan in the summer of last year, and now the evil results have suddenly appeared, and he can no longer supply the grain and grass of the army under his command with the power of only one county, so there are rumors that Zhang Ji wants to transfer to Wuguan and lead the army to Nanyang to eat.

And the situation in Kanto is not much better than in Kansai.

The emergence of large-scale famine has complicated the situation in various places. Originally, after Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao failed to fight for Jizhou, the battlefield gradually turned to Qingzhou, but natural disasters struck, starvation was everywhere, and the re-battle was powerless, so he had to temporarily withdraw his troops.

And Cao Cao of Yanzhou aimed at Tao Qian, who had just been defeated by himself last year, Xuzhou originally had the benefit of fish, salt, mulberry and hemp, Tao Qian repelled the Yellow Turban soldiers in the territory early, and promoted Tuntian, compared to the Yan and Henan Prefectures that were ravaged by the Yellow Turbans and the soldiers were constantly fighting, it was like a treasure land with abundant reserves.

A large number of "Qingzhou soldiers" under the command of Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao are derived from the Qingxu Yellow Turban, they are familiar with the mountains and rivers of Xuzhou, and Xuzhou Mu Tao is dying, Xuzhou generals, soldiers are not as brave and good at fighting as Cao Cao's soldiers, wantonly encroaching on Xuzhou, is already the next target of the ambitious Cao Cao.

As for the Yuan brothers, in recent years, in order to conquer dissidents, they have also recruited troops and horses, exhausted the warehouses of the state and county, and now the natural disaster is coming, the army food is not enough, and the hunger is all over the field, and naturally there is a difficult situation of "Yuan Shao is in Hebei, the soldiers are eating mulberries, Yuan Shu is in Jianghuai, and the soldiers are taking Pu Ying".

The inherent dilemma of the huge forces in these groups of heroes is not something that small forces like Zhang Yang and Liu Bei can deal with, but some small forces are still in a more embarrassing situation than Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others.

For example, Wenhou Lu Bu.

After Lu Bu defeated Chang'an, he ran to Wuguan from Guanzhong, and took Dong Zhuo's head to Yuan Shu in Nanyang, but unfortunately Yuan Shu was also a strong and powerful role, and Liu Biao could not compete with Jingzhou, turned around and went north, and then united with Montenegro, Xiongnu and other forces, wanted to occupy Yuzhou and Yanzhou, and was defeated by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, and led the army to flee all the way to Huainan.

When Lu Bu was under Yuan Shu's command, he saw the opportunity quickly and threw himself at Yuan Shao in time, and then he was reused by Yuan Shao. In Yuan Shao's follow-up Lugushan pacification of the poison and Zhang Yan's battle of Changshan, Lü Bu and his cavalry took the limelight and followed Yuan Shao's army to break the Black Mountain Army.

It's just that after the war, because of the lack of military food, plundering the city, etc., Lü Bu soon formed a gap with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao sent assassins to assassinate Lü Bu, Lü Bu relied on his wit and bravery, escaped the pursuit, ran to Hanoi, and took refuge in Zhang Yang, the Taishou of Hanoi, who was also from Bingzhou.

Zhang Yang was in Hanoi and deeply felt the great pressure from Yuan Shao, a strong neighbor of Hebei, so although he was the Taishou of Hanoi, he was not stationed in Zhihuai County, but migrated to Yewang, just to avoid Yuan Shao's aggressive troops.

Now that he has been voted by Lu Bu, a fierce general who is also from Bingzhou and has a gap with Yuan Shao, he is of course happy in his heart, but there are still Yuan Shao and the remnants of Montenegro in Hanoi County, and Zhang Yang has not won the hearts of the people in the county, and it is already a little difficult to supply the grain and grass for the soldiers and horses under Zhang Yang's command, and from time to time he will cross the border and run to Shangdang to plunder the grain.

Now with the addition of Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, the military grain and grass are naturally in a hurry, and there are only one or two thousand soldiers and horses under Lu Bu's command, all of which were recruited from all over the country during his exile.

In desperation, Lü Bu had no choice but to take a risk and target the area around Hanoi.

Looking around, Yuan Shao was like a behemoth, not something that Lu Bu's small army could afford to provoke. Luoyang, Shangdang and other places also have no harvest, and the people have vegetables, but only Hedong looks like they still have surplus grain.

Therefore, at the turn of spring and summer, Lü Bu led his men and horses out of Kei Pass and raided and captured the "Dongyuan" city at the junction of Hedong County and Hanoi County.

After capturing Dongyuan at first, Lü Bu got the grain and grass in the city, and he was a little trembling, worried that Xu Huang, the defender of the eastern border of Hedong County, would angrily send troops to conquer his own men and horses, but after more than a month of vigilance, Hedong was stunned that not a soldier or a single war horse was sent, but sent an envoy from Anyi to Hanoi, and reprimanded Zhang Yang for indulging his soldiers and horses to invade neighboring counties and plunder grain.

Zhang Yang was happy to see Lu Bu go to fight with Hedong, and Hedong County sent an envoy to come, but in the end, he was naturally snubbed by Zhang Yang, and it was over.

Lu Bu also secretly rejoiced in this, saying that he really chose the right way, Yan Xing in Hedong resented Guo Yan, and now in this year of catastrophe, how dare he move troops easily, and lost a border city, most of them just chose to swallow their anger and calm down.

If it weren't for the fact that he was afraid that there were still 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Yan Xing around Anyi, Lu Bu really wanted to send troops to capture Hedong County.

It seems that this is how things have passed.

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Hedong County, Anyi.

Xu Huang, who was wearing armor, rode on a yellow-maned horse, held the reins in his hand, and led a team of cavalry to the barracks outside Anyi City.

It is completely different from Lu Bu's imagination that the Hedong generals are cowardly and self-defending, and dare not forge ahead, Xu Huang has never been afraid of his prestige as Wenhou Lu Fengxian, but has long been gearing up, rectifying his soldiers, and has written to Anyi many times, actively asking for battle, and is ready to compete with him.

Outsiders don't know about Hedong, but Xu Huang, who is in Hedong, knows Hedong's inner strength. In other prefectures and counties, because of the drought after the beginning of spring, the seedlings died in batches, but the agricultural affairs in Hedong were reduced to the greatest extent possible by manpower and material resources.

What's more, Hedong saved corn in Tuntian, withdrew from Xihe, avoided a big battle with Guo Yan's army in the west, and preserved his strength, in order to focus on the war in the east.

Now that Lu Bu innocently provoked Hedong and easily provoked a war, the soldiers up and down Hedong had long held back their strength and wanted to eliminate him.

Xu Huang stopped his horses in front of the camp and showed his test before he was able to lead the cavalry into the camp in Anyi.

In the camp, it is not allowed to gallop at will, Xu Huang controls the horse to slow down, and the cavalry behind him can only dismount and lead the horse on foot, and walk quickly to the big tent of the Chinese army.

At a glance, outside the big tent of the Chinese army, the security was even stricter than usual, and there were several times more soldiers.

After entering the big tent, Xu Huang found that from the Pingbei general Yan Xing to the military waiting Dian Wei, they had basically arrived and were discussing the current march matters.

"Gongmei, you're here, take a seat!"

This is not the official general who ordered the troops, Yan Xingzheng and Wei Xuan discussed the military situation, looked up and saw Xu Huang entering the tent, smiled, pointed to the position on the left side, and said with a smile.

Yan Xing was informal, Xu Huang didn't dare to be presumptuous, he met Yan Xing at the moment, and after greeting the generals who arrived first, he entered his seat and sat down.

As soon as Xu Huang took his seat, he saw Yan Xing waving his hand, signaling Wei Xuan and saying:

"Hongqi, you can talk to the generals and colonels about the strategy of using troops in Henan."

"No!"

Wei Xuan heard the promise and saluted, then turned to face the generals in the tent, moved to the map hanging on the shelf in the tent, held a wooden pole, pointed to the city that had already been marked on the map, and began to say:

"Gentlemen, Zhang Yang of Hanoi allowed his subordinate Lu Bu to invade the land east of our river and captured a city in Dongyuan, and the general deliberately did not move, but only sent an envoy to Yewang to reprimand Zhang Yang, just to show the enemy weakness and arrogance."

"Now that the spies we sent to Hanoi have come to report that Zhang Yang has sent soldiers and horses to sweep the Shangdang again because of the spring famine, wanting to loot the dock walls of the Chen, Feng, Chang and other big clans, and seize their food, goods, and women, Hanoi's defense has turned empty."

"And the Lu Bu Division, which captured Dongyuan, after guarding our Hedong soldiers and horses for more than a month, thought that we would not dare to send troops to attack at this time, and turned to arrogance, and divided the troops to plunder and eat in the wilderness, wanting to sweep away the grain stocks in the township and dock walls in the territory, and then drive the captured population and livestock, escort the looted grain, grass and goods, and return to Hanoi."

"Therefore, the current Lu Bu and Zhang Yang's followers are at a time when they are careless, and Hanoi is also a time when the defense is empty, and the time for me to use troops in Hedong has come, and I must take advantage of this great opportunity to destroy Lu Bu's department, and then take advantage of the situation to attack Hanoi, destroy Zhang Yang, and occupy a place in Hanoi."

"For this reason, the general is ready to arrange the strength of our army in this way... (To be continued)

The firelight and axe shadow at the city gate swayed wildly, like a group of demons dancing wildly. And the chaos in the city is also difficult to eliminate for a while, the ghosts and ghosts appear again, like a hundred ghosts walking at night, people and horses are fighting endlessly under the light of the flames, ordinary people all close the door, listen to the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse, trembling in the dark night waiting for the dawn of the cessation of the war.

Looking around, Yuan Shao was like a behemoth, not something that Lu Bu's small army could afford to provoke. Luoyang, Shangdang and other places also have no harvest, and the people have vegetables, but only Hedong looks like they still have surplus grain.

Therefore, at the turn of spring and summer, Lü Bu led his men and horses out of Kei Pass and raided and captured the "Dongyuan" city at the junction of Hedong County and Hanoi County.

After capturing Dongyuan at first, Lü Bu got the grain and grass in the city, and he was a little trembling, worried that Xu Huang, the defender of the eastern border of Hedong County, would angrily send troops to conquer his own men and horses, but after more than a month of vigilance, Hedong was stunned that not a soldier or a single war horse was sent, but sent an envoy from Anyi to Hanoi, and reprimanded Zhang Yang for indulging his soldiers and horses to invade neighboring counties and plunder grain.

Zhang Yang was happy to see Lu Bu go to fight with Hedong, and Hedong County sent an envoy to come, but in the end, he was naturally snubbed by Zhang Yang, and it was over.

Lu Bu also secretly rejoiced in this, saying that he really chose the right way, Yan Xing in Hedong resented Guo Yan, and now in this year of catastrophe, how dare he move troops easily, and lost a border city, most of them just chose to swallow their anger and calm down.

If it weren't for the fact that he was afraid that there were still 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Yan Xing around Anyi, Lu Bu really wanted to send troops to capture Hedong County.

It seems that this is how things have passed.