The weather is warmer, farmers walk in the fields, looking at the road in the distance, and countless flags have spread.

On the sixth day of the third month, Gongsun Zhi led 150,000 soldiers and horses to Chang'an, converging with Xiliang Machao in the land of Sanpu, with a total of 150,000 soldiers and horses in the Western Liang Army, Guo Yan's Xiliang Army, Pan Feng's Fengxiang Army, and Marcusius's Western Combined Army. At the same time, the middle route army led by Lu Bu opened the way with the white wolf cavalry, the black mountain cavalry, and the Bingzhou iron cavalry, and Wei Yan, Huang Zhongjingzhou foot soldiers, and Youzhou soldiers and horses as the middle and rear formations, totaling 100,000 people to go south and attack Jingzhou. And the Eastern Route Army, Sun Ce governed Zhou Yu, Cao Hong, Yu Ban and other generals, and led 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Central Plains to drive Xuzhou.

On April 11, Ma Chao led the army out of Xiliang, passed martial arts, and arrived at Youfufeng. Chang'an Taishou Zhong Xuan mobilized the baggage to be stationed in Changmen Pavilion, and soon, he welcomed the two troops and horses of Guo Yan and Yu Poison, who led the army first, and turned to Ganting to prepare for crossing the mountains and mountains.

In the same month, Lu Bu, Lu Xun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and other middle route armies in Runan County, Yuzhou, went to Wancheng, Nanyang to join the guard Cao Ren, and the rear team Lu Lingqi also entered Bowang at the end of the month.

At the beginning of May, the main force of Gongsun was stationed in Jingzhaoyin, looking south at Hanzhong County behind Taiyi Mountain, sending people to bring out a letter to Zhang Lu, on the 12th day, the messenger returned to Zhang Lu and refused to surrender, five days later, Yang Ren and Yang Ang led the army to cross the mountains and mountains to attack the Black Mountain Army stationed in Ganting, and was seen through by Yu Poison, and the Hanzhong soldiers were defeated and fled, and Yang Ren, the general of Hanzhong after the break, was hacked to death by Yu Poison.

Liu Ye, a free cavalryman, suggested that the troops go out of the meridian road to directly attack the east of the Han Dynasty, and Gongsun stopped accepting the words, allowing Yu Poison to lead the army in a roundabout way, and then waved the army south to climb the South Mountain and Taiyi Mountain, and approached Anyang City.

On the same day, Sun Ce's Eastern Route Army arrived in Guangling, and Taishou Che Zhou built a water village in Tanglin Pavilion and built ships to directly threaten the Dantu on the south bank and radiate Qu'a.

On May 20, the Middle Route Army trapped Yuyang and Yuxian, and forced Xinye. On the twenty-fifth, Xinye Taishou Wang Fu fought to the death according to the city, and the city fell in one day, Wang Fu died in battle, and was buried on the outskirts of the city by Lu Buhou.

On May 23, Pan Jun, the general of Jingzhou, came to the rescue, but was ambushed by Lu Xun halfway, and the army was defeated and retreated to Chaoyang.

At the end of May, the prince and grandson of the Jin Dynasty stopped the Keigu and poisoned the meridian road, threatening the eastern part of the Han Dynasty.

In June, on the Yangtze River, Ding Feng and Ling Tong attacked the Dongling Pavilion Water Village at night, ignited a fire, and on the way back, Zhou Yu sank the boat with a ship, Ling Tong had three knives in his hand, and was almost captured, and then was rescued by the guards in the water, and fled in panic.

June, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.....

June 12......

The world suddenly burst into smoke, all kinds of wars from east to west filled people's ears, and the hot and dull air in summer seemed to be able to smell the disgusting blood on the battlefield. Zhang Lu walked out of the Taoist temple and got into a carriage to go back to the government office, and many believers outside the curtain saluted his car, and there were voices in the crowd praying for the heavenly master to send down heavenly soldiers to drive away the enemy troops from the north.

For such a prayer, Zhang Lu couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, what religion is, in fact, he knows best. But as an educated people, it is also his lifelong pursuit, and he used his mother's sermon to obtain a trust relationship with the Liu family from Liu Yan, which is what is now the land of Hanzhong.

On the one hand, the Heavenly Master Tao is consolidated, and the power of Hanzhong is consolidated, and the Taoist scholars are the officials who govern the place, in general, the Heavenly Master Tao advocates the foundation of goodness, and in the thirteen states of the Great Han Dynasty, which is full of smoke, Hanzhong has become a paradise in general, and there are tens of thousands of households in Guanxi alone, and even the doctrine has spread to the Bayi region, and has been believed by the Qiang and Di Shaomin in the place.

The carriage returned to the mansion, and his brother Zhang Wei also hurried back from outside, jumped off the horse and threw the reins to the soldiers at will, and ran into the hall: "Brother, now that King Bingfeng of Jin has arrived in Keigu, people everywhere are panicking, can they fight or not?" There are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Hanzhong, and they can hold out for two years to defend the city. ”

Zhang Lu sat behind the long case, silently handling official business and some things in the teaching.

"Brother! Tell me—"

Not long after, Yan Pu, a strategist outside the hall, also walked in, arched his hand towards the impatient Zhang Wei over there, and approached the figure who was writing at the desk, and whispered: "Lord, Liu Bei sent someone to send a letter." As he spoke, he took out a stack of plain silk from his wide sleeve and handed it over.

Unfold the silk, it is written: Shi Jun Xiong according to Hanzhong, to educate the people with Taoism, prepared in Shu also often heard, very admired, if you can meet with Shi Jun, enough to talk, life is enough. However, the prince of the northern Jin Dynasty, Sun Zhi, is actually a Han thief, the soldiers are approaching Hanzhong in the south, and they are worried about the master, and they are also worried about the thousands of people in Hanzhong...... Bei is willing to join forces with Shijun to resist the king of Jin in the north.

"What do you think?" Zhang Lu put down this letter, handed it to his brother Zhang Wei, and turned his head to look at Yan Pu, who was known for his scheming, "Liu Bei just got Liu Zhang's family business, so he looked at Hanzhong, what he said in this letter is good, but in fact, he wants me to belong to him, this big-eared thief is really reaching out everywhere to pick up white food." ”

"Then it depends on how the lord chooses, the fifteenth army of the King of Jin is coming from the north, and there is Liu Bei of Xishu in the south, we are sandwiched in the middle, no matter whether this battle can be won or not, there are fishermen staring at the shore, the view of the garden, if you want to become a big thing, you should attach the king of Jin, if not, then you can only go to Liu Bei to attach to him."

Zhang Wei dropped the letter and shouted: "Then why don't you fight!" ”

No one paid any attention to him.

"Liu Bei only has two places, Jingzhou and Xichuan, which seem to be huge, but the foundation is unstable, and it is not as good as the Central Plains and the Northland......" Zhang Lu pondered for a moment, threw aside his official duties, and stood up: "....... If I sincerely belong to the King of Jin, even if I no longer serve as the Taishou of Hanzhong, I also have an official and a half position, and after the world is peaceful, I can continue to preach and pass on the Taoism in this world. ”

"Brother, we just voted for it?!" Zhang Wei chased after Zhang Lu and shook his fist and yelled.

In the hall, no one still paid attention to him, Zhang Lu, who walked to the door, looked back at him, "Half of the world is in the hands of King Jin, and all places in the south are fighting, you let your brother use a county to touch the battle that will be lost, when the time comes, this Hanzhong will be full of corpses and bones, tens of thousands of believers will die, the old people and children will starve to death, the young and strong will die in battle, and the houses will be burned clean, which goes against the original intention of my brother to govern Hanzhong County, and also violates the teachings passed down from my ancestors——"

"Under the general trend, if you can't think about the people, what do you mean with the thief!"

He strode out with his sleeves brushed up, looking at the bright sky, the white clouds were walking, and his voice contained anger. Turning to the southeast along the looking sky, over the sky of Shangyong, falling to Xiangyang, Jingzhou, the flames and soldiers in the Xinye area have been ignited, even if the army is more restrained in the south, but there are still many villages and cities that have been seized in the war, and the people who have lost their homes are frightened to take the whole family, drag their children and daughters to avoid the war, and the continuous ranks of displaced people seem to have no end, walking through this summer.

When the eastern and western armies launched an offensive, the middle route army that went south to Jingzhou rested for half a month, and then came south from Xinye again.

Xiangyang.

As the seat of Jingzhou, it is a towering fortified city, but there is also an air of unease in front of the 100,000 troops, and the wealthy families in the city have embarked on the journey to other counties with their wives and children. On the city wall, the general in the half-covered green robe of the golden lock fish scale armor closed his phoenix eyes and felt the atmosphere of the storm, and after a while, the eldest son Guan Ping walked up with a big knife and whispered behind him: Lu Bu is here.

Over there, the long hair stroked gently in the wind, a pair of Danfeng eyes opened, and the voice sounded low like a copper bell: "I've been waiting for him for a long time." ”

Phew-

The green dragon knife slammed on the ground and let out a soft sound.

This time, he was ready to fight the tiger. On June 15, Xiangyang sent 50,000 troops to Fancheng, and soon after, Lü Bu's 100,000 soldiers and horses also pushed through Xinye to the north of Fancheng, and the two armies faced off from each other 20 miles apart.

On the afternoon of the sixteenth, the sky was shining brightly, and the beacon smoke was about to rise.