Chapter 205: Smoke Rises
In the battle of Zhending City in Jizhou, Baima Gongsun Zan and his Baima Yicong were seriously injured, but fortunately, with Tian Feng's plan and Yan Gang's response, they returned to Bohai County without danger, lying on the bed and licking their wounds.
After a battle with Zhao Gao, Princess Huayang dissipated a lot of resentment in her heart, and gradually opened her heart to Gongsun Zhan, and kept showing her affection while lying on the couch to recuperate.
At present, Gongsun Chan is trapped in it for a while and can't extricate himself, so naturally he has no enterprising spirit, and even political affairs are abandoned, not to mention the fierce soldiers, plotting Ji, You, and Sanzhou.
Fortunately, he has a straightforward and daring Tian Toyoda Yuanhao, after slamming the door several times to ask for a meeting, forcing the drunken Gongsun Chan to shake off his hands and let go of power, under the planning of Gongzi Xu and the diviner Liu Weitai, it was decided to first set Youzhou to build a solid foundation for itself, and then seek Jizhou.
Tian Feng pretended to be Gongsun Zhan's order to take Zhang He as the main general, and appointed himself as the military division of the army, and led the army to capture Jicheng without any scruples, forcing Youzhou Mu Liu Yu to retreat to Fuyang.
And Liu Yu is a relative of the Han family, and the other is a generous and benevolent government when he guards Youzhou, appeases the people, and wins the hearts of the people. Therefore, together with the war in Youzhou, the young and strong men in the territory went to Fuyang with swords in hand to assist Youzhou Mu Liu Yu to resist Zhang He.
When the two armies were in confrontation, although Liu Yu had several times more troops than Zhang He, he knew the power of the spirit soldier and the spirit armor, so he sent someone to ask Yuan Shao, the pastor of Jizhou, for help.
After Jizhou Mu Yuan Shao got the Jizhou Ding, his prestige naturally went to a higher level, and the generals of Wenchen and the military were united, and the sense of belonging of the people of Jizhou also skyrocketed. While Yuan Shao was proud, because there was Gongsun Zan in the east, the Black Mountain Army in the west, and he had seen the strength of the White Horse Yicong with his own eyes, he had to gather his minions, carefully strengthen himself, and accumulate strength.
Yuan Shao was deeply embarrassed when he got a letter of help from Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, and before he had the strength to deal with Baima Yicong, he was naturally unwilling to go to war with Gongsun Zhan, not to mention that there was also the Black Mountain Army eyeing him on the side. But Liu Yu's prestige is quite high, if he goes back to the end, he will have his own disadvantages, and besides, he doesn't want to see Gongsun Zan successfully occupy Youzhou, otherwise, he will be attacked on all sides.
Under the staff of a group of scholars, Yuan Shao listened to the advice of Fu Zhi and sent Gao Lan, who had a spirit soldier and spirit armor, to lead a thousand elite cavalry to Fuyang to help in the battle, not to be able to defeat Zhang He, but to be able to delay the war in Youzhou.
The Montenegrin Army, which also participated in the battle for Jizhou Ding, entered the holy pool in the deep mountains to recuperate because the top combat power Yellow Turban Lux was seriously injured, Zhang Yan's original intention was to let the Black Mountain Army fall silent, and wait for the Yellow Turban Lux to recover before making plans, but unexpectedly, a letter from Qingzhou for help disrupted his deployment.
After receiving 30,000 cavalry from the allies and a large amount of grain and grass from the Tiger Pass, Cao Cao returned to Taishan County in high spirits, and after a short rest, the troops were divided into two routes, led by Xiahoudun and Xiahou Yuan to garrison Laiwu and Gai County, in order to block the Yellow Turban thieves in Qingzhou from advancing westward. Cao Cao personally led the army with Dian Wei as the vanguard, and suddenly went north, taking advantage of the unguarded Yellow Turban Thieves in Jinan, and captured Jinan in one fell swoop, and Bian Xi, the deputy leader of the Yellow Turban Thieves, was forced to surrender.
After capturing Jinan, Cao Cao, under the advice of Xi Zhicai, divided his troops to subdue Gaotang, Luoyin and other places on the south bank of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County to stabilize the rear; On one side, Chen Bing Zou Ping and Liang Zou pointed directly at the main force of the Yellow Turban in Le'an.
Guan Hai, the leader of the Yellow Turbans in Le'an, saw that the Cao army was menacing, and while mobilizing the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Guan Cheng, Xu He and others led the army to reinforce it; On the one hand, he sent people to ask Zhang Yan of Montenegro for help, hoping that he could lead the army to attack Cao Cao from behind.
Zhang Yan thought about it again and again, and felt that he couldn't ignore the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, so he ordered Yu Poison, Bai Huan, Zheng Gu and others to lead the army to support Guan Hai and others.
Yu Poison, Bai Huan, Wei Gu and others led the army to attack Wei County and Dong County along the road, and approached the rear of Cao's army.
In order to prevent the spread of Yellow Turban thieves and disturbing the peace in the territory, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, and the new Taishou Wang Qiu of Dongjun immediately mobilized troops and horses to go north, and were forced to be entangled with the Yellow Turban thieves and Cao Cao.
During this period, Dong Zhuo, the most powerful, did not hesitate to give up Xiliang and Merge the Prefecture in order to meet the Kanto heroes, wanting to destroy the Kanto heroes in one fell swoop. However, because of Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong and the underestimated Son of Heaven Liu Xie, they suffered setbacks in the Great War, losing Niu Fu, Hua Xiong, Wang Fang, Hu Zhen, Li Su, Wu Qiong, Zhou Yu and other generals, as well as tens of thousands of elite soldiers. What made Dong Zhuo and Li Ru even more distressed was that Liu Xie, the son of heaven, not only got out of control, but also took the opportunity to take away Hangu Pass and the land of Sanfu, and even the prosperous imperial capital Luoyang was empty, and there was not much left that was burned by the fire.
Faced with such a predicament, Li Ru was not depressed, and after some planning, he immediately suggested to Dong Zhuo that he give up continuing to entangle with the Son of Heaven, and leave Yang Dingtun to fight Gucheng to prevent the Han army from attacking. Then the troops were divided into three routes, and Lu Bu led the troops to capture Luyang, and the soldiers pointed directly at Wancheng, Yuan Shu's old nest; Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew soldiers entered Chenliu and expanded eastward; Dong Zhuo led a large army to capture Yingchuan and made Yangzhai, the seat of his governance, a new base.
Yang Zhai, the capital of Xia Qi, Xia Qi once enjoyed Juntai with the princes of the alliance here, and it was also the capital of Korea during the Warring States Period. Dong Zhuo sent troops to fight everywhere while expanding Yangzhai, and at the suggestion of Li Ru, he followed the strategy of Liu Xie, the son of heaven, to collect land near Yangzhai and force the people who had lost their land to cultivate, in order to quickly restore their strength.
After learning of Dong Zhuo's atrocities, Liu Bei, the emperor's uncle who got the second tripod of Xuzhou and Yangzhou, immediately took the crusade against Dong Zhuo as the slogan, contacted Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, borrowed a large amount of money and grain from Xuzhou, and gathered heroes and recruited strong men to form an army, with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as generals, and stepped up training.
With the spread of Dong Zhuo's atrocities, all the counties and counties in Yuzhou, from the officials to the common people, were all frightened, and after learning the news that the emperor's uncle Liu Bei had formed a new army to crusade against Dong Zhuo, they responded one after another, so that Liu Bei could develop rapidly, and the eastern part of Pei County, Liang State, and Runan County were all under his rule.
Under the guidance of Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shu, the Taishou of Nanyang, returned to Wancheng and recruited strong men to train quickly, and at the same time sent his generals to attack Jiangxia County, preparing to use Jiangxia County as a base to search for Kyushu Ding along the Yangtze River.
After Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha, borrowed the Ding from Hangu Pass to obtain the spirit soldier and the spirit armor, he led the army to Wancheng and wanted to discuss with Yuan Shu about the assassination of Yuzhou. At this time, Dong Zhuo led a large army to capture the counties and counties of Yuzhou, and the news that Lu Bu led the army to capture Luyang came. Sun Jian was full of emotion, and he had the intention to recruit Dong Zhuo, but because of his lack of strength, he looked up to the sky and sighed, tears raining down. Later, seeing that Yuan Shu was afraid, he volunteered to lead the army into Pheasant County and confront Lu Bu.
After learning that Yuan Shu had sent troops to attack Jiangxia, Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, immediately sent someone to order him to withdraw his troops immediately and severely reprimanded him.
Yuan Shu, who was bent on getting the Kyushu Ding, naturally refused, humiliated the messenger sent by Liu Biao, and ordered him to tell Liu Biao to divide some and not to provoke disputes.
When Liu Biao learned about it, he immediately became furious, and while severely condemning Yuan Shu's behavior, he actively prepared for war, and contacted the county guards in Jingzhou to send troops to support Jiangxia County.
The contradictions between the two are getting bigger and bigger, and the hostility is getting stronger and stronger......