The Jiangdong Army occupied Jiangxia and had been eyeing Jingzhou, and Liu Bei did not dare to relax his vigilance. However, what Liu Bei and even Zhuge Liang didn't expect was that Cao Cao, in order to seize Yizhou, actually ignored the threat of Yuan Xi in Hebei and resolutely sent troops. If Cao Cao is allowed to occupy Yizhou, Zhuge Liang's plan for himself will not be implemented, and he can only risk being captured by Jiangdong, leaving Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Wen Ping, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others to guard Jingzhou and fight against Jiangdong.

In recent years, after the governance of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, Jingzhou has restored its pre-war strength, and even further strengthened it in the military aspect. There were as many as 200,000 troops in Jingzhou, and Liu Bei personally led an army of 100,000, accompanied by generals Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Li Yan, Liu Feng, Guan Ping, Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang and others, to attack Yizhou Ba County.

Fa Zheng and Meng Da were ordered by Liu Zhang to invite Yan Yan, the Taishou of Ba County, to lead his troops to Bing Meng Pass to retreat from the enemy, but they did not expect that the Jingzhou army was attacking Ba County, and the two could only help Yan Yan to repel Liu Bei first. Yan Yan saw that the Jingzhou army invaded for no reason, and asked Liu Bei: "I often hear that Uncle Liu Huang is benevolent and righteous, and he actually wants to take advantage of the fire to rob, wouldn't he lose his identity?" ”

Liu Bei's face was not red, his heart was not beating, and he said with righteousness: "Bei and Brother Ji Yu have known each other for many years, and now they are in trouble, and they are both relatives of the Han family, so they specially led troops to come to the rescue, and there is no intention of violating them. ”

Yan Yan laughed and refused: "Cao Cao raised troops to invade Yizhou for no reason, and he deserved to die, but he has been blocked in the Sword Pavilion, and it is difficult to move an inch, Uncle Liu Huang doesn't need to worry about Yizhou, and he can guard your Jingzhou with peace of mind, lest Jiangdong Zhou Yu seize Jingzhou, and Uncle Liu Huang will be homeless again." After saying that, there was laughter from all over Ba County.

Although Liu Bei is extremely thick-skinned, even if he is ridiculed by Yan Yan, his face will not change. Zhang Fei didn't have such good patience, and stepped forward and yelled: "My eldest brother is kind enough to save you Yizhou, if you don't appreciate it, you will take revenge." Come on, come on, do you dare to fight with your Grandpa Zhang for 300 rounds? ”

Zhang Fei is famous, Yan Yan has also heard of it, it is impossible to win against Zhang Fei with his own force and age, and sneered: "You are the famous Yanren Zhang Fei, in terms of force, the old man thinks that he is not your opponent, in terms of strategy, you are still far behind, if you want to trick me out of the city, don't bother." ”

Yan Yan has guarded Ba County for many years, and he has won the hearts of the people, and the city is strong, so it cannot be captured in a moment. His adviser Kuai Yue suggested: "Uncle Huang, our army is here to rescue Yizhou, if we forcibly attack the city, I am afraid that it will lose the support of the people." Let's first ask the local people, is there a way to get around Ba County? ”

Liu Bei also felt that it was not advisable to attack strongly, so he defeated Cao Cao and took Chengdu by himself, as long as he had Liu Zhang's order, Bajun naturally couldn't escape from his palm, and there was no need to waste his troops. Liu Bei ordered people to ask the local people, and a woodcutter said that there was indeed a small road that could bypass Bajun and go all the way to Chengdu.

Yan Yan saw that the Jingzhou army was not attacking the city, and a few days later, Yan Yan became suspicious and asked Fa Zheng: "Filial piety is resourceful, I don't know what Liu Bei's idea is?" ”

After a few days of observation, Fa Zheng also discovered the abnormality of the Jingzhou army, although Zhang Fei would come to challenge every day, but he did not see other generals in Jingzhou. Fa Zheng thought that Liu Bei was very likely to take a detour, and asked Yan Yan: "Old General Yan, there is a small road in Bajun that can be detoured to Chengdu." ”

Yan Yan thought for a while, nodded and said: "There is indeed a small road that can lead directly to Chengdu, but this path is rarely known except for a few woodcutters who go up the mountain to collect firewood, could it be that Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to lead the army to challenge just to confuse our army, and then he secretly led the troops to Chengdu?" Yan Yan saw that Fa Zheng nodded, and wanted to lead the troops to chase Liu Bei.

Fa Zheng stopped: "Old General Yan is slow, although we know Liu Bei's intentions, but Liu Bei will be on guard, and Old General Yan rashly chases after me and I am afraid that he will be ambushed." It is better for our army to defeat Zhang Fei first, and then it is not too late to chase Liu Bei. ”

Yan Yan obeyed Fa Zheng's plan and personally led his troops to raid Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei was defeated and lost Dazhai, just when Yan Yan thought he had a plan, Liu Bei led a large army to surround the Yizhou army. Yan Yan saw Zhang Fei beside Liu Bei and realized that he had been tricked, but he was outnumbered and captured by Zhang Fei.

It turned out that Fa Zheng and Meng Da had long been dissatisfied with Liu Zhang, and Yan Yan was loyal to Liu Zhang's Yizhou faction, so he wanted to get rid of him by Liu Bei's hand. Fa Zheng had already seen Liu Bei's plan to lure the enemy, and used Yan Yan to worry about Liu Zhang's safety, and wanted to return to Chengdu to rescue, so he had to defeat Zhang Fei first, and then defeat Liu Bei.

Yan Yan didn't know that he was betrayed by the two, thinking that Liu Bei was superior in skills and would rather die than give in. Liu Bei also wanted to rely on Yan Yan to take Ba County, so he ordered someone to let go of Yan Yan, and also took off his brocade robe and gave it to Yan Yan.

Fa Zheng and Meng Da saw that Yan Yan was fine, and had already surrendered to Liu Bei, in order to avoid the matter being exposed, they naturally followed Yan Yan's instructions to open the city gate and surrender Liu Bei. Fa Zheng took the initiative to ask Yan Yan for his guilt, and Yan Yan did not blame him, and introduced Fa Zheng and Meng Da to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei asked Fa Zheng about the matter of Yizhou, and Fa Zheng replied fluently, suggesting that Liu Bei seize the time to surround Chengdu, Liu Zhang is timid and cowardly, and must choose to surrender, and then surrender the counties of Yizhou, and the big thing can be decided. However, things did not go so smoothly, and on the way to Chengdu with Liu Bei's troops, he met Zhang Song, who had fled from Chengdu to Ba County.

Zhang Song saw that Fa Zheng and Meng Da were in Liu Bei's army, and truthfully told the situation in Chengdu, it turned out that Liu Zhang saw that Fa Zheng and Meng Da had gone for more than a month, and there was no news, and Cao Xiu's army had begun to surround Chengdu, Cao Cao's army attacked the flawed Meng Pass, Liu Zhang knew that the chances were slim, in order to reduce the war in Yizhou, despite the opposition of his subordinates, surrendered to Cao Cao, Zhang Song escaped in a fit of anger and went to Jiangzhou.

When Liu Bei learned that Cao Cao had occupied Chengdu, he was disappointed and hesitated to attack Chengdu. Seeing this, Fa Zheng suggested: "Uncle Huang, Cao Cao forcibly seized Yizhou, the soldiers were not convinced, and the people were not convinced, if he could lead the Jingzhou army to rescue Chengdu, the people of Yizhou would be very fortunate." ”

Kuai Yue thought that Chengdu should not be attacked, Yuan Xi had already taken the Central Plains, the army was on the Han River, opposite to Xiangyang across the river, and Jiangdong always wanted to annex Jingzhou, if he fought with Cao Cao again, I am afraid that it would not be far from destruction. Therefore, Kuai Yue suggested that Liu Bei make peace with Cao Cao and divide Yizhou equally.

After Liu Bei weighed the pros and cons, he decided to continue to cooperate with Cao Cao, retreated to Ba County, and sent Kuai Yue to Chengdu to negotiate with Cao Cao to divide Yizhou equally.

After Cao Cao captured Chengdu, he used Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang to surrender the old department of Yizhou, and most of Yizhou fell into the hands of Cao Jun. However, Liu Bei's army occupied Ba County to the west of Yizhou, which made Cao Cao very uneasy, once he returned to the Central Plains, Liu Bei was very likely to capture Chengdu, just like the last time he captured Jingzhou, he must not let similar things happen again, and decided to raise troops to attack Ba County.

Xun You dissuaded: "Lord, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to attack Liu Bei." The reason why our army ceded the Central Plains was nothing more than to pull Liu Bei and Sun Quan together to fight against Yuan Xi, and if it started a war with Liu Bei now, I am afraid that Yuan Xi would be the happiest. The top priority of our army should be to stabilize Yizhou, lead the army to support Guanzhong, and prevent Hebei's strength from increasing again. ”

At this moment, the envoy of Jingzhou, Kuai Yue, was ordered by Liu Bei to come to discuss the matter of Yizhou. Cao Cao pushed the boat down the river, and according to Xun You's proposal, formed an alliance with Liu Bei, took Jiangzhou as the boundary, recognized Ba County as Liu Bei, and the two joined hands to fight against Yuan Xi. After Cao Cao and Liu Bei reached an agreement, he ordered Xu Huang and Le Jin to lead the troops to Chang'an to support Guanzhong, as for Xuchang, Cao Cao had already left a letter to Cao Pi, telling him not to take risks, and if he couldn't hold it, he would retreat to Guanzhong.

Xuchang was also as Cao Cao expected, when the reinforcements arrived, Xuchang must have fallen, so it was better to support Chang'an and let Yuan Xi retreat. Xuchang was captured by the Hebei army, Cao Ren led the army from Wuguan to Guanzhong, but was ambushed by Yuan Xi, only thousands of Cao troops retreated to Guanzhong, and the Central Plains fell into the hands of Yuan Xi.

The Central Plains War, which lasted for half a year, ended with Hebei's complete victory, although the Central Plains was captured, and more than 100,000 Cao's troops were eliminated, but Hebei also sacrificed nearly 100,000 troops, and the Central Plains were in ruins.

In order to stabilize the Central Plains, Yuan Xi appointed Gao Shun as the Taishou of Wancheng, Zhang Liao as the Taishou of Xuchang, Zhang Yan as the Taishou of Shouchun, Gao Ran as the Taishou of Runan, Guo Huai as the Taishou of Yingchuan, Han Meng as the Taishou of Chen Liu, Ma Dai as the Taishou of Xinye, Yuan Tan as the Taishou of Qingzhou, Yuan Shang as the Taishou of the Prefecture, Gao Gan as the Shou of Youzhou, Zhang Jaw as the Shou of Sanhan, and Sima Yi as the Shou of Dongying.

Yuan Xi led the army, returned to the court, and handed over the jade seal of the country to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed, since ancient times, there is a saying that the jade seal of the country has won the world, and the people of the world are all greedy and want to occupy the jade seal of the country. Now that the jade seal of the country has been returned to its original owner, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty thought that God blessed the Han Dynasty, praised Yuan Xi as the greatest loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and pacified the Central Plains, and intended to be the king of Wei.

Taifu Xunyu objected: "The general has indeed contributed a lot to finding the jade seal of the country for the Han Dynasty and pacifying half of the Han Dynasty. However, Han Gaozu said that if it was not the descendants of the Liu family, he could not be kings, and he hoped that His Majesty would take back his fate. ”

Yuan Xi may be tired and doesn't want to worry about a title, so he simply said: "Finding the jade seal of the country is a matter for this general, even if Lord Xun doesn't say it, I won't accept the direct throne of King Wei." The long-term battle has been very tired, the jade seal of the country has returned, God bless the Han, if the emperor is fine, I will also go back to Yecheng to recuperate. ”

Emperor Xian of Han saw impatience in Yuan Xi's eyes, afraid that he would offend Yuan Xi because of this, and wanted to keep Yuan Xi, but Yuan Xi pretended not to hear it and left. Emperor Han Xian suddenly felt nervous, once Yuan Xi gave up on himself, his good life would be over, and the royalists thought that Yuan Xi's achievements were high, and there was no one in his eyes, so his arrogance should be attacked.

The people of Hebei were upset for Yuan Xi, and Emperor Han Xian could rely on Yuan Xi today, and it was natural for him to become the king of Wei. Yuan Xi advised everyone to be a little restless, just took the Central Plains, and became the king of Wei, the people of the world thought that I was threatening the Son of Heaven, and when the time was ripe, the throne of the king of Wei would come naturally, and everyone would obey.