The third year of Chuping (192 AD) was destined to be a nightmare for the crumbling Han Dynasty. First, Ma Bin and Lü Bu fought for the Dasan Pass, followed by the civil strife in Yizhou, and then Ma Teng's eastward advance.

This was originally a great turmoil between Yongliang and Yizhou, but in April of the third year of Chuping, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army invaded Yanzhou, beheaded Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai, and Yanzhou was shaken. At this time, Chen Gong, a subordinate of Cao Cao, the Taishou of Dongjun, persuaded Yanzhou Zhizhong and Beijia to welcome Cao Cao into Yanzhou, and Bao Xin, the minister of Jibei who was friendly with Cao Cao, also strongly recommended Cao Cao. So Wan Qian and Bao Xin went to Dongjun to welcome Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou. After Cao Cao entered Yanzhou, he immediately blocked the Qingzhou Yellow Turban in the eastern suburbs of Shouzhang with Bao Xin, the two armies launched a fierce battle, the Yellow Turban Army has been in battle for a long time, the soldiers are all strong, and the battle beheaded Bao Xin, Cao Cao took the lead in the rate, inspired the soldiers, and after a fierce battle day and night, finally drove the Qingzhou Yellow Turban out of Fengzhang, and it is foreseeable that Yanzhou is destined to become Cao Cao's bag.

After a series of turmoil, Ma Bin seized a large area east of Baishui in Yizhou, and even won strategic places such as Baishui Pass and Ma Mingge, and Dasanguan was firmly in his hands, so looking at the world, it is not difficult to find that Ma Bin's strength among the princes of all walks of life at this time is only a handful.

Ma Teng, who was equivalent to lying on a salary and trying his courage, took advantage of the fire to rob, and skillfully took advantage of the dispute between Ma Bin and Lu Bu to go all the way east, not only recovering his original territory, but also approaching Chang'an for a time, which frightened Dong Zhuo, so Ma Teng's strength at this time was by no means comparable to the past. In addition, in addition to Pang De, Ma Chao and Ma Dai have also grown rapidly in actual combat, and they are also extremely brave.

After Lu Bu counterattacked Pang De to the vicinity of Longxian, in addition to leaving 8,000 elite soldiers to continue to confront Pang De, he returned to Chang'an with Gao Shun.

For Pang De, he was pursued by Lu Bu all the way, and he also suffered heavy losses, if he hadn't set up an ambush in the area of Longxian County, he successfully gave Lu Bu a blow to the head. He was really worried that he would be beaten all the way to Wuwei.

After stabilizing his position in Longxian, Pang De also needs to adjust his men and horses to recuperate. This expedition, as far as he is concerned, has already made immortal achievements. And in the cities that have been occupied by him, Ma Teng is also actively recruiting troops. The strength is growing rapidly, so it is conceivable that in the near future, Ma Teng is also a very formidable prince.

It's just that Ma Teng and Ma Bin are different in that Ma Bin's goal is to overthrow the Han Dynasty, while Ma Teng wants to be more ashamed and destroy Dong Zhuo, Qing Jun, in his bones, he is still loyal to the Han Dynasty.

In Yizhou, the tripartite forces of Ma Bin, Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang are constantly intertwined. Ma Bin is undoubtedly the biggest winner of the Yizhou Rebellion. In other words, this Yizhou rebellion was skillfully used by Zhang Lu's disobedience to successfully provoke and fan the flames.

As for Zhang Lu, although the three-way army of Yang Bai, Zhang Tong, and Zhang Wei has always been evenly matched with the three-way army of Gao Pei, Ling Bao, and Deng Xian, he has successfully controlled a large area east of Yizhou, and Jiangzhou (Chongqing) in the south.

With such a large area, Zhang Lu followed Yan Pu's suggestion and directly classified this area into a county, named "Padang County", and he called himself "Padang Taishou".

Because Meng Da adopted the strategy of "real east and virtual north". That is, the main force stormed Zhang Lu's army east of Chengdu and did its best to contain Zhang Lu's further westward advance. As for Zhao Yun's army, which was guarding Baishui Pass and Ma Ming Pavilion, he only sent troops to confront him, but he did not take the initiative to attack from beginning to end.

Liu Zhang also knew that Meng Da was forced to adopt such a strategy, after all, Yizhou's troops were limited, and from the beginning, Gao Pei's army was entangled by Yang Bai's army. If in the case of limited troops. It would undoubtedly be a nightmare for him to use superior forces to storm Zhao Yun again.

Zhao Yun has long been famous in the world, and looking at the generals of Yizhou, there is really no general who is Zhao Yun's opponent. And another very important reason for Liu Zhang to just guard against Zhao Yun's army was that he could see that Ma Bin did not mean to let Zhao Yun go further south.

Zhang Lu is different, he is desperate to go west. even wants to take Chengdu in one go, so in such a comparison, it is reasonable for Meng Da to adopt such a strategy.

When Wang Meng and Guo Jia returned to Nanzheng with their men, Ma Bin still did not receive any news about Diao Chan, Cai Zhaoji, Qiang and Ma Yunluo.

Although he thought very clearly about the general trend of the world during this time, his heart was quite fluctuating. The longer the time dragged on, the more he felt that the disappearance of the four of them would be more and more difficult.

Looking at Ma Bin's haggard look, Guo Jia said: "Lord, after the turmoil of the past half a year, if the general trend is basically clear today, Yanzhou must belong to Cao Cao, Ma Teng has dominated Yongliang, Zhang Lu has Badong, and the lord has a large area north of Hanzhong and Yizhou. The Han can be said to have exhausted his qi, and the strength of the lord is undoubtedly the strongest among the princes from all walks of life, so Guo begged the lord to take care of his body. ”

"Strategist, don't you have anything you can do?"

Guo Jia didn't want to relieve Ma Bin's worries, but since he returned to Nanzheng, he began to search for clues everywhere, but there was still no progress, and for him, there was no way. Although he didn't believe that the four big living people would disappear from Nanzheng out of thin air, the facts were right in front of him.

"General Ben originally thought that it might be Yun Ying and Suo Ming who kidnapped the four of them, but he didn't inform General Ben for such a long time, this is obviously not Yun Ying and Suo Ming's style! General Ben really can't think of anyone who has such great ability to rob the four of them without knowing it in my Jingtian Mansion today! It's so weird! ”

Wang Meng's injuries were almost healed at this time, and he frowned tightly and said, "Could it be that there is a secret path under the Jingtian Mansion that they cultivate?" ”

Ma Bin shook his head and said: "General Ben has already sent someone to dig Jingtianfu three feet into the ground, but he still hasn't found anything, after searching for so long, if there is a secret passage, he would have found it a long time ago!" And there are no houses around Jingtian Mansion that can be hidden. ”

Guo Jia paced a few laps in the lobby and said, "What is the reason for robbing four people and not giving any news, this matter is really incredible!" ”

Ma Bin shook his head and said, "That's it, this matter is not urgent, we can only send people to search while waiting for news." Although the war has been subsided now, Dong Zhuo will definitely not give up so well, and the defense of our newly captured city is still very weak, and a large number of men and horses are urgently needed, I don't know what the two of you have to say? ”

Guo Jiadao: "If there are constant disputes today, there are many displaced people, Hanzhong is a place of stability, if you let a few generals guarding the pass strictly check, for the real displaced people, you can let them like Hanzhong, on the one hand, you can let them cultivate in Hanzhong or Yizhou, on the other hand, you can also choose the young and strong people to fill the army!" ”

Ma Bin said: "The words of the military advisor are very reasonable, but this time we must strictly investigate!" You can't let Dong Zhuo or other princes' people pretend to be exiles and blend into Hanzhong! Master Yang's side has been recruiting troops in Hanzhong recently, and the people of Hanzhong are very supportive, which is very rare for us! ”

Wang Meng smiled: "It's really rare, but the last general still thinks that there are not many soldiers but fine!" The lord should increase the power of the tiger and leopard horseman, so that it can not only fight on horseback, quickly attack, but also conquer cities! ”

"The Almighty Army?" Ma Bin asked with a smile.

When Wang Meng heard this, he immediately nodded like pounding garlic...... (To be continued.) )