Zhang Yi couldn't help laughing when he received the military report sent back by Gan Ning. To tell the truth, the business of exchanging fifty ring-headed knives for a war horse feels profitable. In Huainan, a war horse has been fried for 150,000 yuan, but Zhang Yi has money, but he can't buy it. Because Cao Cao had already intercepted all the horses in his territory, even if he grabbed them, he would not let a single war horse flow to Zhang Yi's territory.

Zhang Yi's infantry was already very powerful, and Cao Cao didn't want Zhang Yi's cavalry to be powerful too. Although Zhang Yi's cavalry training was very good, after all, the number was small, and Cao Cao still had an advantage. If Zhang Yi's war horses were more and a large number of cavalry were assembled, Cao Cao would not know how to defeat Zhang Yi.

The production areas of war horses are all in the north, from Liaodong to Liangzhou, there are war horses. That's why Zhang Yi asked Gan Ning to get some war horses from the north as much as possible, and even he would do everything to transport some war horses back from Liaodong in the future. If Gongsun Du didn't know the item, Zhang Yi would not hesitate to start a war and cross the sea to eliminate Gongsun Du.

Zhang Yi just had good news on his side, and he received another bad news on the other side. Cao Cao subdued the Southern Xiongnu!

This matter still has to start with Cao Cao's support of the Son of Heaven, after the Son of Heaven escaped from Guanzhong, the entire Sili School Captain Department was in chaos! Countless armed forces are fighting, warlords, bandits, and Hu people, making this place restless.

Cao Cao didn't have the energy to take care of this place at first, until the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Cao Cao sent two people to Guanzhong, and everything was fine. These two are Zhong Xuan and Wei Qi, two capable people in governance.

Many people don't know Wei Qian, but it was Wei Qi who gave Cao Cao a strategy to stabilize Guanzhong. Cao Cao took his advice and put him in charge of civil affairs. At that time, there was a war in Guanzhong, and more than 100,000 families took refuge in Jingzhou. However, these people have no livelihood and can only serve as private soldiers for those warlords, which is why Guanzhong has been chaotic.

In response to this, Wei Qi used the salt administration to obtain money, and then bought rice to take these from the warlords, so as to weaken the warlords, and then used a master to control these warlords and gradually weaken them. And this person who gradually weakened the warlord, Cao Cao used Zhong Xuan.

Zhong Xuan was the lieutenant and the servant of the lieutenant, and controlled all the troops of the lieutenant department, and the various warlords in Guanzhong also gave him legal jurisdiction. It can only be said that the remnants of the Han are still there, and Zhong Xuan is indeed capable, as soon as he took office, he persuaded the two largest warlords in Guanzhong, Han Sui and Ma Teng, to send his son to Xuchang as hostages.

With these two people in charge, Cao Cao can be regarded as incorporating the Sili School Captain into the territory, and he can also use some resources in Liangzhou.

After the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao felt that his strength was insufficient, so he asked the Southern Xiongnu to send people to attack the Sili Captain's Department, so as to cut off the help to Cao Cao here. You must know that during the Battle of Guandu, Zhong Xuan once supplied Cao Cao with 2,000 war horses at one time!

Cao Cao was busy fighting with Yuan Shao, and he never moved the Southern Xiongnu. But Zhong Miao was not idle, although he had no troops, but there were many warlords in Guanzhong, so he persuaded these warlords to form a coalition army to attack the Southern Xiongnu and its accomplices - Hedong Taishou Guo Yuan.

The combined forces of the warlords were only a few thousand, while the combined forces of the Southern Xiongnu and Guo Yuan numbered tens of thousands, which was significantly more numerous than the combined forces of the warlords. These people are used to bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and they really want to withdraw their troops.

Zhong Xuan persuaded and said: "The Yuan family is strong, and many people in Guanzhong collude with the Yuan family, there is no reason for rebellion, but they are just worried about my reputation." If you retreat like this, Guanzhong will definitely be disrupted again, is this what you want to see? Moreover, Guo Yuan is stubborn and self-serving, competitive and competitive, and will definitely despise our army. If they want to cross the Fenshui, we will attack halfway through, and we will surely win a great victory. ”

The generals have settled down, and these little warlords really don't want to go back to the precarious days they used to have.

Then the good news came, Zhong Xuan sent Zhang Ji to persuade Ma Teng to send troops, and Ma Teng agreed, and sent his son Ma Chao and the general Pang De.

Ma Chao has already made a name for himself in the Yongliang area, and Pang De is not an ordinary person. When the coalition heard the two of them coming, they immediately settled down and began to prepare for battle.

After Guo Yuan arrived, he really looked down on Zhong Xuan's coalition army, and he led his troops to cross the Fenshui, but others didn't listen to any persuasion. Under Guo Yuan's will, the army began to cross the Fenshui, and then it was attacked by Zhong Xuan.

This battle was very easy, Ma Chao and Pang De charged ahead, and Guo Yuan was also killed by Pang De in this battle. What's more, this Guo Yuan is also Zhong Xuan's nephew. When he saw Guo Yuan's head, Zhong Miao cried bitterly, and Pang De knew at this time that he had killed Guo Yuan. Pound apologized to Zhong Xuan, but Zhong Xuan did not blame Pound, maybe this is one of the reasons why Pound really served Cao Cao in the future, right?

In this battle, Zhong Xuan also subdued the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Huchuquan, and completely helped Cao Cao solve the trouble of the Southern Xiongnu. Later, Hu Chuquan even lived in Han, and the affairs of the Southern Xiongnu were handed over to the management of King Youxian.

After taking the Southern Xiongnu, Cao Cao had a stable source of war horses, and there were also more cavalry.

In the face of such intelligence, how can Zhang Yi be calm? He can only say that the people on Yuan's side are basically waste materials now, and I hope that Fu Zhu can use it! The so-called four courtyard pillars in the river were killed and rebelled, and the meritorious general Ju Yi was also killed by Yuan Shao! Zhang Yi really couldn't think of any other good generals in the Yuan clan to use, and he didn't even know what well-known generals the Yuan clan had now? It seems that only people like Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang can be called, right?

But are these two military generals in history? It seems to be made up by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right? It seems to be the ghost of Zhao Yun under the gun when he was reckless.

No, I still have to restrict Cao Cao, but it seems that there is no way for the time being! Now that it's winter again, he's now guarding against Cao Cao's attack across the Huaishui! The defensive belts of Shenxian, Xia Cai, Ping'a, Yicheng, Zhongli, Huailing, Xuyi, Ping'an, Sheyang, and Yandu that he built should be enough to guard against Cao Cao.

But this defensive belt is too long, and there will be leaks in the south. Fortunately, Cao Cao mobilized too many troops this year and did not attack.

It's not easy to make trouble for Cao Cao! He has already begun to prepare for the attack on Jingzhou, and he is not ready to make a big move here.

Another year of Spring Festival has passed, and Zhang Yi also ushered in his third child, still a girl, born to him by Mrs. Bu, named Huang'er. He was going to take it in unison in this order, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, all seven colors. This inspiration didn't come out of nowhere, he named it after the seven fairies in a TV series.