Qin Guan, Lu Su, and Cao Cao issued a document declaring Dong Zhuo a national thief, and then the troops began to attack.

Dong Zhuo and Li Ru had already prepared, Jiangbei defended, and Jiangnan stopped attacking Liu Pan and dealt with Qin Pass first.

The soldiers were divided into two routes, the first route was led by Zhang Xiu to the officers and soldiers of Jiaozhou, starting from Changsha and going straight to Nanchang County, Yuzhang County. The second road was led by Niu Fu as the main general, leading the original men, Wei Xu and others to accompany him, and went east along the south bank of the Yangtze River to snipe the Qinguan army.

At the same time, the naval forces under the jurisdiction of Huang Zu and Yang Ding (whole) were ready for battle; Lu Bu led his headquarters to garrison Lingling County to prevent Liu Pan from making trouble.

Huang Zu surrendered to Dong Zhuo, but he was not trusted, and he wanted to use his talent in the navy, so Dong Zhuo asked Yang Ding to cooperate with him, which was regarded as a supervision; Yang Ding trained the navy on a small scale when he was serving as the Taishou of Nanyang, and knew more about the navy than other generals, and among all Dong Zhuo's trusted subordinates, he was the most qualified person for the position.

Lu Bu and Wei Xu and Cheng Lian were stationed in various places, not afraid of their joint efforts.

Li Ru felt that this arrangement was foolproof.

Ji Ling was responsible for the defense of the central and western parts of Yuzhang County, and he arranged for the army Sima Li Feng to lead the headquarters of 3,000 infantry to be stationed in Yichun County, the army Sima Liang Gang led the headquarters to garrison Xingan County, the army Sima Le was stationed in Jiancheng County, and Ji Ling and the military Sima Chen Ji were stationed in the new city of Nanchang and Xi'an; The governor of Yuzhang County was stationed in Nanchang City.

The Governor of Luling County has gathered his troops and is ready for reinforcements.

Due to the terrain, Zhang Xiu did not dare to go deep alone, so he could only advance step by step, Yichun City was the county seat that must be occupied, but Li Feng was fully prepared, Zhang Xiu continued to attack the city, forming a confrontation situation.

And Gao Wei, the governor of the navy, led the navy to rampage all the way to Shaxian City, while Huang Zu's navy army was defeated and retreated, so he had to keep retreating.

When the navy retreated, Niu Fu did not dare to attack rashly, otherwise he would be cut off and the whole army would be annihilated.

Fortunately, Qin Guan and Liu Ye did not go deeper, but only occupied a few cities along the river.

These were not bad news for Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, but the news from Jiangbei made him shocked and angry.

The enemy troops in Jiangbei were divided into three routes, pointing to Wancheng, Xiangyang and Xiling City.

Lu Su and Pang De followed the path that Sun Jian took at the beginning, but they did not take Sun Jian's measures, but met the city and did not leave any trouble.

The defense of Jiangbei was focused on Wancheng, Xiangyang and Fancheng; Jiangxia County only has 20,000 garrisons, focusing on Xiling City, and there are very few garrisons arranged by other counties.

The Zhang Ji and Huang families in the city were ready to hold on.

Lu Su did not rush to attack the city, but set up camp and let the officers and soldiers repair it.

A large number of people in Jiangbei also moved south, and only a very small number of people are still in the local area, all of them belong to people who have no spare talents, if they were small tyrants, they would have been looted by Dong Zhuo.

Wei Yan's march was also very fast, and the time was mainly spent on the march, basically occupying the three empty cities, but the location of Anlu, Suixian and Zhangling counties was very important, and after occupying them, Hu Zhen, who was stationed in Xiangyang City, could only defend himself.

The two-way army of Lu Su and Wei Yan restrained Dong Zhuo's army in Jiangbei and won an opportunity for Cao Cao.

Cao Cao, in accordance with the strategy of attacking Chen Gong, quickly forced the defenders of Luyang City to surrender, and then besieged Wancheng; This is not that Cao Cao's troops are too strong, but that Cheng Lian's troops are too small, he has less than 25,000 people, except for Wancheng, which left 20,000 people, and the remaining 3 or 4,000 people are scattered on such a large territory, which does not play much role at all

Cheng Lian sat in Wancheng and became a lonely city.

Among the 20,000 officers and soldiers in Wancheng, 2,000 cavalry came from Bingzhou, followed him for many years, and was loyal to him, and 10,000 infantry were recruited when he was stationed in Hanoi County and served as Taishou in Yanzhou, and he followed for a long time, and his loyalty was also very high, only 8,000 infantry were officers and soldiers transferred by Dong Zhuo, these officers and soldiers were incorporated into the imperial army, and they didn't care about his loyalty, anyway, Wanling City was dominated by Chenglian's officers and soldiers, and they only played an auxiliary role.

Weighing the pros and cons, Cheng Lian convened a meeting of officers and discussed with everyone that the goal of the Taishi was the south, and let them guard the north, indicating that they had been abandoned by the Taishi, and now that they were besieged, the Taishi would definitely not send troops to rescue.

The crowd supported Cheng Lian's view.

Cheng Lian continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, the overall situation of the world has been decided, the general trend of the Taishi has gone, and we will die in vain if we die in battle, so it is better to surrender." ”

It is inconvenient for everyone to take a direct stance on this issue, and everyone is silent.

Cheng Lian said again: "In the past, Lian and the cavalry general Gao Junhou had an old power, so I hope everyone will surrender to Gao Junhou together." ”

Someone objected: "General, but we are not close to Luoyang, and we are besieged, how can we surrender to the prince?" ”

Cheng Lian smiled: "Haha, this matter is easy, we just need to negotiate with Cao Taishou outside the city, let us go, we let Wancheng out, he will definitely agree; Otherwise, he would not have paid tens of thousands of casualties among officers and soldiers, and would not have thought of occupying Wancheng. ”

Everyone thought that Wanling City was a strategic location, and after so many operations, the city was high and solid, and it was extremely difficult to overcome, and Cao Cao would definitely agree to let them go; If Cao Cao didn't let them go, he would offend Gao Shun's forces because of this, and I believe they wouldn't be so stupid.

So everyone agreed with Cheng Lian's opinion and sent people out of the city to negotiate.

The officers and soldiers of the imperial court who were recruited were embarrassed and asked: "Our family is still in Changsha, if we surrender, they will be slaughtered, what can we do?" ”

Someone replied for Cheng Lian: "This matter is easy to do, just let Cao Taishou announce that we are all killed in battle." ”

Cheng Lian nodded in approval of this suggestion, and those people had no choice but to accept it, as for the consequences, they don't care about it now, and it is rare to be able to save their lives in troubled times.

Cao Cao and Chen Gong were happy when Cheng Lian's envoy was introduced, it seemed that Cheng Lian and the champion Hou Gaoshun had already been in contact, and they did not know that Cao Cao had taken refuge in Gao Shun.

So Cao ** quickly agreed to the request of the envoy of Cheng Lian, and agreed to all the requirements of the army.

Seeing that Cao Cao and Chen Gong were so happy, the envoy thought that Cao Cao must have a conspiracy, set a trap, and wait for them to surrender before giving a deadly attack; So, in order to be safe and avoid falling into the trap set by Cao Cao, the envoy proposed that the people of the champion must come to accept their surrender.

Cao Cao readily agreed, which dispelled their doubts.

After the envoy returned to the city to explain clearly, he went out of the city to Luoyang with the people sent by Cao Cao to meet Feng Yong, the captain of Sili.

Feng Yong was very happy about this, this was just a gesture, but he could get 20,000 young people, so he readily agreed with them, and sent Zhang Liao and Zang Ba to lead 5,000 cavalry to receive Cheng Lian's surrender, and quickly reported the incident to Jizhou.

The result was that everyone was happy, and Cao Cao won Wancheng without a fight; Cheng Lian and the others not only successfully defected to Gao Shun's forces, but also took them away with their property without any loss.

Feng Yong also did not raise waste, since they were all declared dead in battle, it was not appropriate to disclose their identities for the time being, so he asked them to reclaim the surrounding areas of Luoyang, restore the villages, repair roads, maintain canals, etc., and if they wanted to immigrate in the future, these villages could be directly arranged for the people to live.

There was no danger to their lives, and they lived a stable life, and those officers and soldiers who surrendered were not dissatisfied.

However, the news that all Cheng Lian's troops were killed in the battle spread, but it greatly affected the attitudes of all forces.