The Jiangbei region has just stabilized, and the Jiangnan region has fallen into the flames of war again, becoming a big stage for the competition of forces from all sides.

Dong Xi was full of spirit, and it was a great honor to be promoted from a civilian to a military commander.

He led the 2,500 infantry of his headquarters, and after a little training, he set off for Huiji County, marching all the way and training all the way.

After arriving in Huiji County, he stationed in San'in Castle and sent scouts to inquire about the news.

With the support of the local county governor and the people, the location of the bandits was discovered.

Take advantage of the darkness to go out of the city, day and night, ready to raid the bandits.

The county lieutenant supported the Liangtun cavalry in battle, and the infantry under the county lieutenant's jurisdiction held the county seat.

The cavalry attracted bandits in the plains, and Dong Xianqin led the infantry to make a detour to attack the cottage and succeeded in one fell swoop.

The soldiers pressed the border, the thieves in the cottage were in chaos, Dong Raid led the troops to take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and many thieves surrendered with their heads in their hands; Dong attacked and charged forward, and the more he fought, the more courageous he became, and personally cut off the heads of the thieves Huang Longluo and Zhou Bo.

A small group of bandits in other places even surrendered when they heard the news, and the rebellion of the bandits in Huiji County was quickly quelled, which deeply shocked the people of Fujian and Yueshan.

Victorious, Dong Xi was appointed as the Sima of the other department, with 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, stationed in Liyang County.

Ling Cao was appointed as the Sima of the other department for pacifying the thieves in Qiantang County, and stationed 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry in Wucheng County.

Qin Guan is ready to encircle Yan Baihu and eliminate the biggest unstable force in the jurisdiction.

Yan Baihu occupies a dangerous place, there is no shortage of money and food, he is not shocked in his heart, he does not regard himself as a bandit, but a righteous army, the Yellow Turban Army is also a righteous army, and they are also righteous soldiers, so they should support each other, how can they fight among themselves? So he sent his younger brother Yan Yu to Dantu to find Qinguan to negotiate, intending to divide one side and jointly open the world.

When Gao Shun learned this, he was furious and ordered someone to kill Yan Yu immediately.

Qin Guan suggested: "Lord, the two armies are fighting, don't kill the envoys, hope to calm the anger!" ”

Gao Shun smiled: "Haha, bandit, why did the two armies fight?" Talk about morality with bandits, pedantic! ”

Qin Guan received the order, killed the Yan Yu sacrifice flag, and then dispatched a large army to personally encircle and suppress Yan Baihu.

Pan Zhang and Ma Zhong led the team to attack in advance, tried their knives, and even went down the checkpoints and tunzhai arranged by Yan Baihu, and the army of Qin Guan was unimpeded all the way until the city of Yangxian, where there were few thieves and soldiers, and they were invincible, and they were drummed down.

Yan Baihu learned that his younger brother was killed, he was angry, but the army was weak, and he was unable to fight the enemy, in order to avoid the edge of Qinguan and avoid being surrounded, he crossed the Yili Mountains, entered the territory of Yuanshu, raided the old county, looted, and gained a lot; Subsequently, along the northwest side of Tianmu Mountain, go to She County, and go to Zhenrong.

He was overjoyed and immediately set up a banquet to treat each other; Yan Baihu does not doubt that he has him, and he can drink with confidence; Zhen Rong took advantage of the drunkenness to kill Yan Baihu, join his crowd, send his head to Dantu, befriend Qin Guan, leave a way back for himself, and hope to join hands with Qin to attack Yuan Shu.

The killing nature of Zhen Rong is brought into full play.

Qin Guan ordered Ling Cao to enter the county in his hometown in the name of suppressing thieves and compress Yuan Shu's territory.

He naturally smiled at Zhen Rong's overtures, and refused to attack Yuan Shu on the grounds that the time had not yet come; However, in order for him to contain Yuan Shu, he can trade with him, which can be counted as support for him, so as to avoid being destroyed by Yuan Shu early.

Qin Guan ordered Dong Xi to send troops again to pacify Zou Lun, Qian Tong, Wang Sheng and many other separatist forces, so Wu County was pacified.

Dong Xi, Ling Cao and others were promoted from a grass citizen to another Sima in a short period of time, which guided the direction of progress for the majority of officers and soldiers, as long as they have the ability and as long as they have military merits, they will never be buried in the Yellow Turban Army; This not only attracted more poor men to join the Yellow Turban Army, but also made the existing officers and men actively train, looking forward to bravely killing the enemy on the battlefield and making meritorious contributions.

The property of the Sun family was confiscated, Sun Jian's fiefdom Wucheng was occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, and life was unsustainable.

When Yuan Shu hired people, he appointed Sun Ce as the military commander, and assigned him 1,000 veterans from Zhu Ran's department and Yu He's department, so that he could follow the army to exterminate Zhenrong; As for Zu Mao's tribes, after he was killed, he had been completely adopted by Yuan Shu and would never be given to Sun Ce.

Sun Ce asked Sun Jing to go to Yuzhang County to contact his father's old subordinate Sima Huanggai and his clansman Taishou Sun Ben and others; and actively contacted Sun Jian's old department, Zhu Ran, and his clansman Yu He, who were still in Xin'an County.

Yu He was the first to pledge his allegiance to Sun Ce, intending to follow Sun Ce to act together, and Sun Ce told him not to be impatient, to maintain the status quo first, and then to join forces when the form became clear.

Yuan Shu hoped to exterminate the Zhenrong forces as soon as possible so that he could march into Yuzhang County, otherwise Zhenrong would be in the rear and extremely unsafe.

After receiving Chaisang, Sun Ben and others seized Ai County to the west, Pengze County to the east with the cooperation of the naval army, and Liling County to the south; It was blocked by the troops sent by Yuzhang Taishou in Haiyang County.

After that, Zu Mao was killed, lost the support of the navy, and Sun Ben and others were not allowed to advance; And they also have the intention of self-preservation, and they disobey Yuan Shu's orders.

Huang Gai was very dissatisfied with Sun Ben's unenterprising attitude, and after Sun Ce contacted him, he immediately expressed to Sun Jing that he wanted to be loyal to Sun Ce.

Everyone was not optimistic about Yuan Shu, and Sun Jing persuaded him, and Sun Ben decided that the family would be headed by Sun Ce, welcome Sun Ce to the west, and work together to occupy Yuzhang County, thinking that it would be the foundation.

Sun Ce was overjoyed when he heard the news, fought bravely, occupied Huangxian, achieved great military achievements, and asked Yuan Shu for Zu Mao's old department.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed, so he handed over Zu Mao's old department to Sun Ce's command, hoping to go down to She County again and eliminate Zhenrong.

Sun Ce proposed to let Yu He and Zhu Ran cooperate with him to fight, and Yuan Shu allowed it.

After joining up with Yu He and Zhu Ran, in the name of suppressing bandits, he quickly broke away from Yuan Shu and went to Chaisang.

Wu Jing and others also went to Chaisang to support Sun Ce.

His subordinates defected one after another, Yuan Shu's strength was greatly reduced, and he was angry in his heart, but he was unable to deal with it; It's just that Rongrong has made it powerless.

Sun Ce left, Zhenrong's pressure plummeted, and he had the support of the Yellow Turban Army, thinking that he had a backer, he continued to take the initiative to attack, and the Yuan Shu forces he fought retreated; More importantly, he had the support of the Yellow Turban Army, and used materials to trade with the Shanyue people and the Shuiyue people, which not only made good friends with the Yue people, but also obtained huge profits.

Xu is a famous man, but he is not good at governing the army.

After Sun Ce, Sun Jing, Wu Jing and others joined, Yuzhang Taishou Xu Zhao felt pressure and couldn't deal with it.

Under the persuasion of the doorman, Xu Zhao sent someone to contact Lu Su, hoping to lure Lu Su south as foreign aid.

Lu Su rejected Xu Zhao's kindness and declared that he would not interfere in the affairs of Jiangnan and take it as his responsibility to protect the people of his hometown from the suffering of war.

As a last resort, Xu Zhao sent someone to contact Liu Pan, wanting to take refuge.

Liu Pan is now in charge of the south of the Jingzhou River, but he has to deal with Dong Zhuo's forces in Jiangbei with all his might, and he has to go all out to help Liu Biao, who is holding on to Xiangyang, he very much hopes to get foreign aid, but he doesn't want to be dragged down, so he also rejected Xu Zhao's kindness.

Sun Ce actively built a naval army, but fortunately, he had the foundation left by Zu Mao at the beginning, and the results were quite fast.

Three months later, Sun Ce broke through the defense line of Haiduan and besieged Nanchang.

Xu Zhao was defeated and killed, and the doormen fled in all directions, which also left a foreshadowing for Sun Ce's assassination in the future.

Sun Ce took advantage of the situation to send troops to various counties, successfully accepted Yuzhang County, and appointed himself as the Taishou of Yuzhang County.

At this point, the counties in the south of the Yangtze River stabilized and formed a temporarily stable situation.

And Qin Guan became the biggest winner, occupying the largest territory, the largest population, the most fertile land, and the most powerful.

Yuan Shu and Zhenrong occupy Xin'an County, both of which are barren land with mountains and rivers; Zhenrong can also obtain money and food wealth from trade with the Yellow Turban Army and the Yue people, and his life is okay; The most bitter is Yuan Shu, who has a small territory, less arable land, fewer people, less taxes, and has to raise so many troops, but has no direction for development.

Sun Ce occupies Yuzhang County, especially in the northern and central plains, with fertile land and convenient irrigation, which is a very good grain-producing area, but the population of Yuzhang County is too small; The advantage is that Yuzhang County is surrounded by mountains, which avoids the intrusion of foreign forces and buys him time for development.

In the Jiangnan region, there are many small forces, this is the phenomenon that Dong Zhuo wants to see the most, but he doesn't know that this is the result of Gao Shun's deliberate actions, which can be regarded as a trap set for Dong Zhuo in advance, and is luring Dong Zhuo to throw himself into the net.