It took only ten days for Yang Xi to occupy the entire Donglai County, and after ten days, Yang Xi continued to order, ordering Wei Gua to be the left route army, leading 6,000 soldiers and horses, stationed in Dangli and Lu Township, and Jiang Qin led 3,000 soldiers and horses, and went south to defend the town. Yang Xi himself, with the Jian Shi cavalry, went straight to Beihai Ting County for the middle road.

Garrisoned in Beihai was Peng An, a general under Yuan Tan, who had known that Yang Xi had attacked Donglai, and had gone out of Beihai to defend Ting County a few days earlier.

Peng An has 5,000 soldiers and horses, seeing Yang Xi coming, he sent troops to fight, two formations against each other, Peng An scolded Yang Xi for being a thief, Yang Xi scanned, and found that this person was only 92 in physical function, Cai Kao's cavalry, there were forty or fifty people at this level, so he was too lazy to scold him.

"Yizhou, you go and cut him down!"

Jian Yan responded: "Childe, rest assured, within the three!" ”

"! This kind of role, you also want to have a three-in-one, give you a one-in-one, and I will immediately lead the army to cover up! ”

Jian Yan slapped the horse and speared, took Peng An directly, and stabbed Peng An under the horse, Yang Xi gave an early order, and the cavalry covered and killed.

What is the concept of 6,000 light armored cavalry, directly cover the past, and without any resistance, Peng An's 5,000 infantry was killed.

Yang Xi won Tingxian County, killed Peng An, the defender of Beihai, and did not make any stay, and within ten days, he went to Beihai State.

Yuan Tan was shocked when he learned that Peng An had been killed and Beihai Donglai had fallen, and he didn't know what to do when he heard that Zang Ba was attacking in the south.

When Yuan Tan had 25,000 soldiers and horses, he was killed by Yang Xi and surrendered 5,000, and there was a general Cen Bi who led 5,000 troops to the south according to Zangba, so he had to lead 15,000 troops to welcome Yang Xi.

Yuan Tan led the general Wang Zhao to lead the army, stationed in Qi State, heard that Yang Xi had more than 20,000 troops and horses, so he did not dare to move, only dared to defend the city, but Yang Xi did not want to fight with Yuan Tan, just to contain his soldiers and horses.

Since Yuan Tan couldn't defend it, Yang Xi was not polite, and directly ordered Wei Gua to lead 9,000 troops, guard Beihai, lead the assault regiment and Jiang Qin's battalion with 3,000, join forces and horses with 9,000 troops, and go south to collect Dongwu counties.

Wherever Yang Xi's soldiers and horses went, there were no opponents, because there were no soldiers in the county, hundreds of county soldiers, how to resist with tens of thousands of troops, everywhere they went, they were scared softly.

After taking Dongwu, Yang Xi only ordered Jiang Qin to lead 3,000 troops to stay behind, and let Dongwu's Chenhe Merchant Alliance recruit 1,000 troops to guard this place.

Since then, the entire Qingzhou has been taken by Yang Xi to the land of the three counties, and the Shandong Peninsula has been half in the hub.

When Cao Cao heard that Yang Xi had captured the three counties of Qingzhou, he was overjoyed, proving that Yang Xi and Yuan Shao were not all the way, so he transferred back to Zang Ba and ordered him to go south to assist in the attack on Liu Bei.

Cao Cao praised Yang Xi greatly, but the strategist Xun Yu said: "Yang Xi is a tiger wolf in Jiangxia, and now he dominates the Yangtze River, and now he is extending his minions to the north, and the lord has to guard against it." ”

Cao Cao listened, and his enthusiasm cooled down a lot, but at the moment he is facing a crisis, according to reason, it is very likely to be defeated by Yuan Shao, and now Liu Bei is opposed, and Yuan Shao is fighting from the north and south, and Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao in the southwest are waiting for the benefit of the fisherman, if there is no accident, he will be defeated.

At this time, Yang Xi appeared, and the battlefield became confusing, and the Cao Cao Group also knew that it was the best policy to temporarily stabilize Yang Xi, but it had to be guarded against.

Guo Jiadao: "Now Yang Xi occupies most of Qingzhou, south to Xuzhou, and Yuan Tan temporarily settled, if he can attack Qingzhou, he can't go down urgently, so that the two sides can wear down the troops, if he defeats Yuan Tan, then he needs to work with the lord to face Yuan Shao's 110,000 soldiers and horses, and share the pressure on the lord." ”

Cao Cao said: "But Yang Xi's letter said that he only sent troops to contain Yuan Tan and defend the east road for me, but he did not mean to face Yuan Shao directly." ”

Guo Jia said: "The lord can lure him, now I am surrounded by the enemy, divide the troops, once the war is unfavorable, all parties will definitely send their own troops, fall into the well, simply give Yang Xi a promise, if he can defeat Yuan Tan and capture Qingzhou, then it is the history of Qingzhou Thorn, if he does not want this title, the prime minister can promise to let him deal with it himself, this is an empty promise." ”

Cao Cao adopted Guo Jia's suggestion and revised a letter to Yang Xi.

However, it was said that Zang Ba received Cao Cao's order and went south to join Liu Dai and Wang Zhong's soldiers and horses to attack Chenliu.

At this time, Liu Bei left Chen Deng to guard, and when he saw Zang Ba and others attacking, he just couldn't hold out, Zang Ba and others discussed, not attacking Chen Liu, but going south directly, to attack Liu Bei's back road, and attacking the front and back of the Xiapi car.

When Che Zhou heard that Zang Ba and others were coming, he led his troops out of the city to besiege Liu Bei.

Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei to defend the back road, since he and Guan Yu came to the chariot, the chariot was defeated by Guan Yu, the two armies faced each other, and Guan Yu was beheaded under the horse, Liu Bei took the opportunity to cover up and kill, the chariot army was defeated, and Liu Bei was able to get off.

Zang Ba knew that he was not an opponent, and discussed with Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to withdraw the troops, and Liu Bei made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead the troops to pursue, and beheaded Wang Zhong.

Soon, Donghai County Changba rebelled, and nearby counties rebelled against Cao Cao and joined Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's power was slightly stronger, with more than 30,000 troops. Since then, Liu Bei has reoccupied Xuzhou.

Cao Cao was shocked when he learned of the battle report from the front, and when he heard that Liu Bei and the letter to Yuan Shao, he agreed to attack Cao Cao, and Cao Cao suffered from the enemy from then on.

Yang Xi received Cao Cao's letter and agreed to continue to send troops to attack Yuan Tan, but he was not in a hurry to send troops, and he had to wait until Yuan Shao and Cao Cao officially connected before starting to act, and he was building an air force at the moment.

Yes, the Air Force. However, this air force can only be used for reconnaissance, and cannot be used against the enemy.

Yang Xi ordered Dong Maru to build a hot air balloon according to his own design, but it is not possible to make an airship at the moment, because the airship needs hydrogen or helium, the technology tree has not been upgraded to the intermediate level, and he cannot make equipment such as air compressors, nor can he make helium, nor can he separate hydrogen from natural gas such as gas.

The hot air balloon made by Yang Xi is very large, the sphere is 2,000 cubic meters, that is, if it is a square, it is a square with a length, width and height of more than ten meters.

Such a large hot air balloon can lift about three or four tons, excluding the blower, one ton of coal fuel, and two manpower to step on the propeller, it can only carry more than a ton of load.

So Yang Xi expected a hot air balloon with a maximum of five or six soldiers and some ordnance.

This kind of hot air balloon, Yang Xi made a hundred, and no one knew what this thing was for.

Dong Maru only supervised the production according to Yang Xi's design, and he didn't ask.

Yuan Shao received the news that Yang Xi had entered Qingzhou, and he was also quite angry, but then received the news that he was not moving and his friends and enemies were unknown, so he only ordered Yuan Tan to pay attention to defense, and he wanted to concentrate his forces to attack Cao Cao, and at the same time sent a letter to Zhang Xiu to persuade him to surrender.

By the end of the year, Sun Ce led 30 ships and 30,000 soldiers, and began to plot to Jiaozhou. Thirty ships transported 30,000 people, divided into three transports, and by December, all of them had been assembled in Jiaozhou.

At this time, Zhang Xiu discussed from Jia Xu, led the army to surrender to Cao Cao in November, Cao Cao was overjoyed, worshiped Zhang Xiu as the general of Yangwu, and expressed Jia Xu as the commander of Shewu, the Marquis of Fengdu Ting, and married Zhang Xiu's daughter as his daughter-in-law.

Zhang Xiu's surrender exempted Cao Cao from the threat to the south of Xudu, so he gathered troops and horses, and prepared to personally lead the army to conquer Liu Bei in Xuzhou, so far, the battle of Guandu is getting closer and closer.