In Gaotang County, southwest of Qingzhou Plain County, after a day of fierce fighting, above the city tower, Liu Bei was dressed in county clothes, and his face was gloomy looking at Yu Kou in the yellow scarf outside the city. The expression is depressed, and the mood is obviously not very good.

If you want to talk about Liu Bei, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the first year of Zhongping began to recruit villagers to fight, seven or eight years have passed now, and it is really not very good. The crusade against the Yellow Turban was meritorious, and the court rewarded an Anxi county lieutenant, and was blackmailed by a governor to lose his office.

At the beginning, he Liu Bei was not ignorant of current affairs, and secretly he had already donated all the resources he could to supervise the post, and he was still not satisfied. After that, he couldn't bear it anymore, and he was angry and angry, but he also abandoned the official and fled.

Over the years, from Xiami County Cheng to Gaomi County Lieutenant, the county order was moved, and he wandered to many places, but it was still only enough to govern a county for a hundred miles. For Liu Bei, who has always had great ambitions, it was really difficult.

Last year, the princes begged for Dong, Qingzhou assassinated Shi Jiao and raised righteousness, and Liu Bei saw the opportunity to raise the banner of Dong in the Tang Dynasty and recruited soldiers. plus the soldiers who have faithfully followed him over the years, there are more than 1,000 elite armor soldiers.

Liu Bei's move attracted ridicule in the counties around the plains. The one who raised troops to fight against Dong was not a famous family, a state and county assassin, and a general Taishou, who was he Liu Bei, but a small county order, he dared to be so self-conscious. However, Liu Bei's reputation has also spread to a certain extent.

Liu Bei had long been accustomed to the ridicule of other people, and he just silently trained soldiers in Gao Tang, just waiting for Jiao He to lead the army westward and join his army. Unexpectedly, Jiao and Fang traveled west, and a large-scale Yellow Turban Remnant Rebellion broke out in Qingzhou.

Although the Yellow Turban's combat power is low, there are more than 20,000 Yellow Turban ant thieves in Pingyuan County alone. Under Liu Bei's governance, Gao Tang was rich and peaceful, and naturally became the target of the Yellow Turban of the Plains, and the crowd came to attack.

Liu Bei's "great cause of seeking Dong" was over before it began, and he had to deal with the attack of the Yellow Turban. In the autumn of last year, there were only three or four thousand attackers, and Liu Bei defended according to the county seat, with thousands of armor soldiers, and recruited hundreds of strong people in the city, so there was no pressure to defend it. Under his command, General Zhang Eryong defeated the chaotic army not only , but also went out of the city to counterattack, and captured a lot of money.

But now, winter is going to spring, looking at the vast number of yellow turban ant thieves outside the city, I am afraid that more than half of the thieves in the plains are here. At this time, Liu Bei's confidence in keeping Gaotang was no longer enough.

"Lord, the thief army is overwhelming, attacking on three sides, our army is small, defend the city, overstretched, and if it drags on, the day of breaking the city is not far away!" Guan Yu was beside Liu Bei and said in a deep voice.

Liu Bei came back to his senses and turned his head to look at Guan Yu, a tall and majestic body, with a straight waist and back, but there was a lot of tiredness between his eyebrows. In the days of fighting, he and Zhang Fei both experienced the front-line fighting, and it was also through the martial arts of the two of them, Liu Bei dispatched later, and Gao Tang was able to hold on for half a month under the onslaught of the Yellow Turban.

Liu Bei is not an unwise person, and he also knows in his heart the situation in Gao Tang at this time that if he continues to defend it, the city will be destroyed and people will die. Although Guan Zhang has the talent to command the army, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, although Liu Beiping praises him every day as an enemy of ten thousand people, but the manpower is eventually exhausted, and hundreds of people are still unable to resist, and thousands of people, ten thousand people!

Sighing heavily, Liu Bei asked, "Yun Chang, how many pawns are available in the city?" ”

"The first soldier lost nearly half, and the young and strong almost suffered casualties, counting the official service, the number of soldiers who can fight is only eight hundred!" Guan Yudi replied, causing the boulder in Liu Bei's heart to sink down again.

Without thinking for long, Liu Bei decisively ordered: "You and Yide immediately gather all the soldiers in the city, take out all the corn and meat, and let the soldiers have a full meal, and tonight we will break through and go from the north!" ”

Gaotang is bordered by the Great River in the west, and although the Yellow Turban is besieged on three sides, it still takes the east gate as the main direction of attack, and the troops in the north and south are relatively weak. Late at night, Liu Bei led the army to break through from the north gate of Gaotang, and the yellow scarf was not in a hurry to deal with it, so it broke through easily.

Liu Bei went, Gao Tang no longer had the ability to resist, and was wantonly ravaged by the Yellow Turban. And Liu Bei, after breaking through, went east along the river to Jiaohe. As for Gao Tang, he has tried his best, but he really can't take care of it, and the eldest husband should keep his useful body for the future.

In the spring of the second year of Chuping, in the Central Plains, just after entering the first month, Yuan Shao and others carried out a big move. Liu Xie was young, far away in Chang'an, unable to be a country, and controlled by Dong Zhuo, and wanted to welcome Liu Yu as the emperor of Youzhou. Yuan Shao's thoughts, most people understand, Liu Yu naturally knows it, and decisively refuses. Coupled with the opposition at home and abroad, Yuan Shaofang gave up this thought, but was dissatisfied with Liu Yu.

In February, Dong Zhuo was appointed as the Taishi, above the princes and kings. The rebellion of the Kwantung princes did not seem to affect the status quo of Dong Zhuoquan's tilt towards the government and the opposition.

At this time, Sun Jian in the south made a move. was previously regarded by Yuan Shu as a broken general, and he was also asked for Dong. After staying in Luyang for several months, Sun Jian found that Yuan Shu did not have the intention of attacking Dong. At this time, he took the initiative to ask for orders to go north, and with such a fierce tiger by his side, Yuan Shu slowly became uneasy, and used food and grass to help him go north.

Sun Jian led 7,000 elite soldiers to walk Rushui into the territory of Sili, and met Xu Rong, the Zhonglang general who went south, in Liang County, the two strong contended, Sun Jian fought hard for two days, was defeated and left, and the soldiers were defeated. Dong Zhuo Dayue admired Xu Rong more and more, and gave him great power to guard Heluo.

However, Sun Jian was not so easy to be sent away, the more frustrated he became, the more courageous he became, he recovered 4,000 scattered soldiers, and marched north again. Dong Zhuo was still staying in Henan, transferred Hu Zhen to the south as the main general, and sent Lu Bu and Hua Xiong to help, wanting to break Sun Jian, as for Yuan Shao, who was "honest" in Hanoi, he ordered Niu Fu and Xu Rong to "take care" of him.

Dong Zhuo thought that he would be able to send elite soldiers and strong generals to deal with Sun Jian, the general of the defeated army. It's a pity that the generals of Dong Jun are not compatible, Hu Zhen, Lu Bu, and Hua Xiong can't pee in the same pot at all, you see that I am not happy, and I think you are even more unhappy. The Yang people gathered in a battle, Dong Jun was broken by Sun Jian, the brave general Hua Xiong was beheaded, and Hu Zhen and Lu Bu fled north in embarrassment.

Sun Jian's army was greatly strengthened, and he captured a lot of Dong army's war horses and soldiers, and used them for his own use, and recruited thousands of strong men, with more than 8,000 soldiers. After resting for more than a month, the army led to the north, broke through the Dagu Pass, and approached Luoyang, which shocked Dong Zhuo.

In Hanoi, Cao Cao had already led his army back east and headed for Yanzhou. Yuan Shao only cared about accumulating strength, and had no heart to please Dong, he saw through it, and temporarily stationed troops in Chen to the east to watch the situation for the time being.

"Sun Wentai in the south is fighting very well, and he has already entered Dagu and directly threatened Luoyang!" Putting away the news from the south, Yuan Shao said lightly, with no expression on his face, making it impossible to guess what he thought.

Xu Yu said: "Sun Jian is like a raging fire, fighting bravely, and now he is like a bamboo. Dong Zhuo has shrunk his military strength to the west these days, and his strength in Henan is not as good as before. If he can't suppress Sun Jian, I'm afraid that Sun Wentai really has the possibility of attacking Luoyang! Lord, I thought that our army could move! ”

In the past year, Yuan Shao has not been in vain in Hanoi, he has hoarded a large number of grain, grass and ordnance, and his strength has expanded to more than 20,000 people.

Listening to Xu You's proposal, Yuan Shao also showed a look of interest, and said with a smile: "Raising troops for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, our army should indeed move!" ”

However, before Yuan Shao could finish his preparations, news came from him that Liu Yuan had sent troops to Taiyuan and had already arrived at the city of Jinyang! This completely disrupted Yuan Shao's rhythm.