When the church was busy planting the blood red cross flag on the heads of the counties in the two prefectures of Qingyan, the princes from all walks of life were not idle.

The era of change has begun, but to Luan Yi's surprise...... The first to make a move was not the strongest Yuan Shao, but the most insignificant Cao Cao.

With the help of Chen Gong, Cao Cao escaped from Luan Yi's captivity and returned to Chen Liu, where he met Xun Yu, Xun You's uncle and nephew, and Cheng Yu in Daliang City.

The four of them had a good relationship in Luoyang a few years ago, and Cao Cao also knew a lot about Xun Yu's uncle and nephew and Cheng Yu's talents. ”

After Chen Liu gained a foothold, Cao Cao was afraid that the church army would turn around and come to Chen Liu to chase and kill him. quickly reached an agreement with the Hedong Wei family, and was funded by the Wei family to recruit troops. On the basis of Chen Liuyuan's men and horses, he gathered an army of 30,000 and lined up on the border of Chen Liuyanzhou, Dingtao, Shangqiu, and Liangjun, intending to use the danger of the city to resist Luan Yi's counterattack at any time.

It's just that even so, Cao Cao, Xun Yu, Xun You, and Cheng Yu are still not at ease, they know very well that the church soldiers are strong and strong, and Dong Zhuo has failed to stop the fierce church guards with the three major Xiongguan of Tiger Prison, Hangu, and Tong. br/>

To this end, Xun You suggested that Cao Cao implement the strategy of ploughing roads into fields in Chenliu, destroying all official roads and small roads along the line from Yanzhou to Chenliu, and destroying all bridges and ports. In order to hinder the march of the Church's soldiers and horses, especially the Church's food, grass, and heavy supplies. The grain trucks could not keep up, and the movement of the army would naturally be hindered.

Cao Cao followed his words. What made him even more fortunate was that the strategy of plowing the road for the field had just been implemented, and it rained heavily for seven or eight days in the area of Chenliu Yanzhou, and the heavy rain poured down, and the mountain torrents continued to pour on the potholed roads.

In this way, in a short period of time, it was completely cut off from the path of the church's soldiers and horses to attack Chen Liu.

At the same time, Xun Yu took advantage of the fact that Luan Yi did not take any action against Chen Liu from beginning to end, and even the soldiers and horses were not assembled, as well as the intelligence that Tian Kai conquered Dongpingling County, and immediately guessed that the granary of the church side was destroyed and the surplus grain was insufficient, and it was impossible to carry out any military action against Chen Liu before the autumn harvest, and after the autumn harvest was the cold winter of the northern country, which was not suitable for a large army to fight, so it can be seen that within this year, Luan Yi could not use troops against Chen Liu.

With this judgment, Cao Cao has no worries.

Chen Gong admonished at the right time, saying: "The lord must not settle for Chen Liu. Although Chen Liuguo's jurisdiction is wider than that of Jinan, the population is also larger than that of Jinan. But now Luan Yi not only has a Jinan country, the young emperor has already announced that the world has sealed Lu Bu as the history of Qingzhou, and Qingzhou has fallen into the hands of Luan Yi. Yanzhou is also half into Luanyi's bag, and he can change his surname Luan at any time. In this way, Luan Yi sits in the land of two states and one country, and the momentum is more than before, when he lays a solid foundation and comes to attack Chenliu, the lord will fight against each other with the land of one country, and it may be difficult to fight for a long time! Therefore, the palace suggested that the lord should take advantage of this day as a good opportunity to expand the territory. ”

Cao Cao deeply agreed, and after deliberation, it was decided that Cao Hong would stay in Chenliu, with Xiahou Yuan as the vanguard, Cao Cao personally served as the commander of the Chinese army, Xun Yu was the military advisor to sacrifice wine, Cheng Yu was the Chinese army, Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren, and Li Dian obeyed orders, and the three armies of the governor of Lejin were grain and grass, and the total of 20,000 troops was directed at Xuchang.

At this time, the surname of the person sitting in Xuchang was Yang Mingfeng, who was originally serving under Li Wei's account. Later, when Luan Yi killed Li Dao to break through Hangu Pass, he was defeated and retreated in a panic, lost his way in the wilderness, and failed to return to Tongguan in time. When they found the right direction and came to Tongguan, Luanyi's army had already surrounded Tongguan. Yang Feng knew that the few men under his command couldn't break through the church camp at all, and they couldn't enter Tongguan. And not being able to enter Tongguan means that you can't go back to Chang'an.

In desperation, he had to lead his troops south and retreat to Yiyang. He originally wanted to capture Yiyang County, Yuzhou and stay temporarily, but he couldn't do it for a long time. Yuzhou was nominally Yuan Shu's territory, and when he heard that Yiyang was attacked, Yuan Shu immediately sent the general Ji Ling to support.

Where is Yang Feng's opponent for Ji Ling? After the defeat, the only more than 2,000 remnants of Xiliang under his command were broken in half, and only more than 1,000 people fled to the east in embarrassment, and they were chased by Ji Ling for nearly a hundred miles before they escaped from Ascension. When he was almost cornered, Yang Feng was lucky to meet Han Xian, the old Yellow Turban who was in the mountains. Yang Han and the two exchanged ideas, and they had the intention of seeing each other and hating each other, so they became brothers of the opposite sex and joined forces. Later, he gathered troops to capture Xuchang, in order to recruit troops and buy horses to do great things.

However, before Yang Feng and Han Xian could cover the chairs of the Xuchang City County Guard's Mansion with heat, they received the message that Cao Cao had raised some troops to kill.

Yang Feng and Han Xian knew that Cao Cao's soldiers were fierce and did not dare to meet the battle easily, so they closed the city gate tightly and could not hold out, intending to take advantage of the danger of the city pass to force Cao Cao back.

What they didn't expect was that Cao's army was on the verge of the city, and there was no intention of attacking the city for several days. Unhurriedly, the city was surrounded on three sides, leaving only the west gate without a camp.

Only then did Yang Feng realize that it was the autumn harvest season at this time, and the vast land in the villages and towns outside the city was full of grain and grass that had not come and been harvested, and the grain and grass in the city were seriously insufficient, making it difficult to supply the army for a long time.

Seeing through all this, Yang Feng was stunned. He knew very well that if they held each other for a long time, when the grain and grass in Xuchang City were exhausted, the morale of his soldiers would plummet, and he would inevitably be in chaos. At that time, Cao Cao did not need to use a single soldier, and Xuchang was self-defeating. If you choose to retreat from the West Gate...... Cao Cao clearly played a siege for him, although there was no Cao army camp outside the west gate, but the ambush soldiers placed in it were estimated to be no less than the other three gates. This road may seem like a living road, but it is the most dangerous dead end of all the retreats.

In the face of this conspiracy sent by Xun Yu, Yang Feng racked his brains and had no countermeasures, and finally had to follow Han Xian's suggestion and lead the crowd out of the city to surrender.

Cao Cao's soldiers captured Xuchang without blood, and they were so excited that Yang Feng, Han Xian and more than 8,000 troops surrendered. Yang Feng was immediately named the commander of the cavalry, and Han Xian was the commander of Xuchang County, and he was left under the tent to listen to the order.

When Xuchang arrived, Cao Jun took advantage of the cold winter to force Nanyang County non-stop.

Nanyang guard general Zhang Ji is also Dong Zhuo's old general, and he and Niu Fu guard Tianshui together. Later, Luan Yishuai's army broke through Hangu Pass and Tongguan Pass and invaded Chang'an.

Chang'an was in danger, and Dong Zhuo had to ask Tianshui for help.

Niu Fu immediately led an army of 80,000 with Zhang Ji to aid Chang'an. But when I arrived in Chang'an, it was already too late. Chang'an City was broken, Dong Zhuo died, Luan Yi had already led the church army, and took the young emperor and hundreds of civil and military officials to the east for a long time, and tens of thousands of people in Chang'an City also followed east.

Niu Fu pounced and screamed in anger. What's even more infuriating is that Luan Yi not only took everyone away, but also swept away all the grain, grass and property in Chang'an City, and all the things that could be transported were loaded onto the cart, and those that could not be transported were destroyed in a centralized manner, and not even a copper plate or grain of grain and grass was left for him.

Poor Niu Fu was still satisfied that he could save Chang'an, and obtained grain, grass and silver supplies from Chang'an, but the result was indeed nothing, and the army was out of food.

In a fit of rage, Niu Fu ignored Zhang Ji's dissuasion, led the army to risk the risk of running out of military rations, and desperately pursued the church army, intending to regain the rations and wealth in Chang'an City from Luan Yi, but in the end he failed to rob the church before Luan Yi left the tiger prison.

At this time, the Niu Auxiliary Army had been cut off from military rations, and the two former Han kingdoms of Luoyang and Chang'an, which had become empty cities at this moment, could not find any supplies.

There is no food and salary in the army, and the deserters are more than one day at a time, and they can't be stopped.

Niu Fu was very helpless about this, so he could only let it go. At the same time, the soldiers were ordered to go to the villages and towns along the way to fight the autumn wind and grab grain to meet the daily needs of the army.

In the following days, Niu Fu and Zhang Jifeng slept in the open air, suffered a lot of hardships, and when they went to the 80,000 army, there were only more than 30,000 people left when they returned to Tianshui, and they were all depressed and embarrassed.

What's even more unexpected is that he finally returned to Tianshui, but Niu Fu found that Fan Chou, who stayed in Tianshui, chose to return to Tianshui after learning that Dong Zhuo was defeated. Monopolizing Tianshui County, he proclaimed himself a prince, and refused to let Niu Fu and his party enter the city.

made Niu Fu desperate. entered, and was blocked by Fan Choujun; retreated, the army was cut off from food, and there was no place to stand. Forced into desperation, Niu Fu had to order a strong attack on Tianshui.

However, the Niu Auxiliary Army pursued the church army all the way to the Tiger Prison Pass, and just turned back, the army was already exhausted from the round trip of more than 2,000 miles, and the military rations for the second half of the journey were cut off. At this time, if the city is forcibly attacked, and it cannot be attacked for a long time, the morale will soon fall to a negative value.

Fan Chou seized the flaw of the Niu Auxiliary Army and attacked the village at night, and the Niu Auxiliary Army was defeated. Niu Fu died directly in the chaos, and the more than 30,000 troops suffered few casualties, and there were countless surrenders. Duzhang Ji led thousands of men and horses to break out of the siege and escape from Tongguan. In Nanxiang County, the generation and the local powerful Wang Yong became strong.

Speaking of this Wang Yong, if you use the words of later generations to describe it should belong to a speculative businessman, seeing that Zhang Ji is brave and good at fighting, and has a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands, he wants to use Zhang Ji's power to make a difference. He donated a large amount of grain, grass and assets to Zhang Ji for the use of the army.

Zhang Ji really did not disappoint Wang Yong, reorganized the soldiers and horses, and trapped the two counties of Nanyang and Nanxiang. Wang Yong's identity also rose and became the Taishou of Nanxiang County. It's just that the official hasn't been enjoyed yet, and Cao Cao's army is here!

At this time, Zhang Ji had just captured the two counties of Nanyang and Nanxiang for less than three months, so there were not many people under his command who were worthy of important tasks, and most of the counties in the county were old ministers, and the regime was not stable, and there were many dissatisfied.

Therefore, Cao Cao's army was like a bamboo, and the county orders of Luyang, Yexian, and Duyang counties opened their doors one after another. Cao's army arrived in the important town of Zhixian. If even Zhixian County falls into the hands of Cao Cao, then Cao Jun's next target will be Wancheng, the seat of Nanyang!

Zhang Ji didn't dare to lose Zhixian easily, so he ordered his nephew Zhang Xiu to command 5,000 troops to go to the town to defend it, blocking this important throat that has been leading to Wancheng.

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