In September of the third year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, disputes broke out again in Hebei, which gradually became calm.

Unexpectedly, this time the two sides were within Yuan Shao, between Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan of Montenegro, who had not been surrendered for a long time.

To say that this Black Mountain Zhang Yan is indeed a character, his real name is Chu Yan, and because of his light skills and strong foot strength, he got a nickname of "Feiyan", as for the later change of surname is related to his joining the Yellow Turban and recognizing the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Zhang Niujiao as his father, this surname is naturally from him.

Zhang Yan is not a person who is willing to be subordinate, after the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army and the death of Zhang Niujiao, he tried his best to entangle a group of soldiers under the command of Zhang Niujiao, and disobeyed the command of Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, the main remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, and called himself the Black Mountain Army, which was actually a Black Mountain thief, and quickly gathered millions of people in Jizhou, Youzhou and other places.

Of course, this is the same as the original Yellow Turban Army, most of them are rabble, and the real available soldiers can have one-tenth or two, which is already good, and the combat power that can compete with the elite soldiers of the imperial court may not be in the number of 30,000, this part is also the elite power of Montenegro that Zhang Yan has always held firmly in his hands, and it is more important than the 30,000 cavalry of the Lu Bu Army who had just retreated from Luoyang and returned to Bingzhou before going to Bingzhou.

The situation in Hebei is changing, and Zhang Yan is also tortured in the process, because to talk about it, he is not as good as the three major princes of Hebei, and he can remain until now, thanks to Yuan Benchu who has not taken him seriously, Han Fu and Gongsun Zan have deliberately used his power to create some trouble for Yuan Shao.

In the early stage, relying on his sleek means of being left and right, Zhang Yan was able to maneuver around the three major forces to get a living space. But as the situation became more and more tense, and the friction and wars between the three major forces became more and more frequent, he had to start to choose a clear side, and when Gongsun Chan and Han Fu were gradually weakening, he took the initiative to choose to take refuge in the stronger Yuan Shao.

But since Zhang Yan would choose to be self-reliant, although she is forced to take refuge in Yuan Shao out of desperation, she also hopes to retain her greater autonomy.

At the beginning, of course, Yuan Shao was able to tolerate it, even after the fall of Gongsun Zhan, he still needed to face Han Fu, who was likely to jump off the wall in a hurry, although the black mountain thieves under Zhang Yan were not good at fighting. But being cannon fodder is the best choice. In this case, even if Zhang Yan is given a certain amount of freedom, there is nothing, the problem is that this is definitely not the result that Zhang Yan wants, and he must have a backlog of dissatisfaction in his heart.

During the Battle of Guangnian, a large number of Black Mountain thieves were sent to the forefront of the siege team. There were no defensive weapons such as shields. can only become a target for the defenders of the city. Of course, they did play a great role in covering the advance of Yuan Shao's real main siege force, and even in the end, it seemed that Yuan and Han lost the same number of troops, but in fact, the number of these cannon fodder was removed. The strength of Yuan's army is basically intact, which is why Han Fu finally had no choice but to retreat from the city and withdraw his troops.

Zhang Yan, who was originally a little dissatisfied, found that just after such a battle, his men and horses had already suffered a lot of losses, although they were not able to hurt the 30,000 elite roots, but whether it was the former Yellow Turban Army or the current Black Mountain bandits, they were able to make the officers and soldiers of the imperial court feel jealous never because of their sophisticated equipment or excellent cooperative combat ability, in these aspects they are definitely not comparable to the regular army of the imperial court, they rely on their numbers.

When the black mountain thieves who are like locusts and ants all over the mountains appear in front of them, the intuitive visual impact alone will make people feel shocked from the heart, and the momentum of the war will be a little more plain, and panic is easily contagious in the crowd, so in the early days of the Yellow Turban, it is not surprising that there were scenes of officers and soldiers being frightened and fleeing in a hurry.

But when they lose this most powerful advantage, it is like becoming a toothless tiger, not to mention that Yuan Shao is jealous, it is impossible to get his attention, and when such Zhang Yan is in front of Yuan Shao, it may be difficult to be so confident when he puts forward some suggestions and requirements.

Although Zhang Yan thought about this day, when this day really came, he still felt cold, but if it stopped, he could still accept it, because Yuan Shao, who defeated Han Fu, would become even stronger, even if Lu Bu broke into Hebei later, he didn't think that Yuan Shao would eventually sweep Hebei and be changed.

But what made Zhang Yan feel intolerable the most was that he regarded it as the absolute control of the 30,000 elite Montenegrin troops in his heart and the last forbidden area, Yuan Shao also had a heart, and Yuan Shao, who was injured by Lu Bu's sudden attack, finally decided to attack Zhang Yang in order to make up for the loss of soldiers, and prepared to receive all the soldiers and horses under his command, including these 30,000 elites.

This is actually a reasonable thing, no lord can tolerate his subordinates to firmly grasp a private force, even if it is not a threat to himself, he couldn't tolerate Yuan Shao at the beginning, not to mention Zhang Yan, who was already trying to clean up.

Of course, compared to the arrogant Koji Yi, Zhang Yan may be more difficult to deal with on a certain Cheng dù, he knows how to hide himself, even Yuan Shao does not dare to say that he can see through him, so when Zhang Yan suddenly led his army to attack the Yuan camp outside Ye City in the night, they were defenseless and suffered a head-on attack from a close distance.

Zhang Yan's uprising was unexpected, and it also achieved unexpected results, but he couldn't attack Yecheng, because the garrison of the city had been further strengthened after the siege of Lu Bu before, even if he was defenseless, it was basically impossible to deceive the city and enter it, and it would be even more difficult to attack it directly.

Zhang Yan's siege strategy lasted only one night, and after the reinforcements from outside the city gathered before dawn, he could no longer implement the siege plan, and he did not even dare to stay in Wei County any longer, and after a fierce encounter with Yuan's army, he very decisively led his troops to retreat until Yanzhou.

So the battle between Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan, which originally only happened in Yuan Shao's own sphere of influence, spread to Cao Cao, who had been a bystander to the situation in Hebei.

In this matter, how Cao Cao looked wronged, it was a bit like Lu Yi defecting to Han Fu at the beginning. caused Yuan Han to break up, and it was even worse, because as long as Han Fu took into account his own back road, it would be a matter of time before he parted ways with Yuan Shao; And Cao Cao didn't have much contradiction with Yuan Shaoke before, and even had some friendship when he was a teenager, when he watched the battle of Guangnian, he still thought about whether it was possible to join forces with Yuan Shao to deal with Lu Bu, but now because of Zhang Yan's sudden move, he fell into a dilemma.

In desperation, people always feel that there is no worst outcome. Only worse results. Therefore, the psychological lower limit was lowered to an incredible level, and Zhang Yan was like this at this time, he seemed to have thought of such a result after completely offending Yuan Shao. As a result, all the ambitions that still existed were thrown aside in the face of a desperate situation at this moment. Only the most basic life safety has been guaranteed.

For the tens of thousands of horses brought over by Zhang Yan. Although less than 20,000 of them are what Cao Cao can see, there is no doubt that Cao Cao is already excited about this part of the army, but at this time, he is not willing to fight Yuan Shao only for Zhang Yan.

Finally under Guo Jia's Jianyì. He chose to contact Lu Bu, who was in Zhongshan Kingdom, Jizhou, and fought against Yuan Shao with him from the north and south.

This confirms that sentence, there is no eternal enemy, only eternal interests, Lu Bu is indeed Cao Cao's most feared enemy at present, but Yuan Shao is also a huge obstacle for him to dominate the world in the future.

If Cao Cao wants to deal with Lu Bu, Yuan Shao is indeed likely to unite with him, but it is difficult to say what benefits he can get in the end, Hebei is after all a place where Yuan Shao has been operating for a long time, and he is just a "guest" here, if the battlefield against Lu Bu is placed here, Yuan Shao can get the greatest benefits after success, which not only means that he is rooted in this land of Hebei, but also because it is not far from here to Luoyang, and Cao Cao has to cross most of Yuzhou if he wants to go over, and the daylily will be cold at that time.

And now dealing with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao believes that Lu Bu will definitely choose to unite with him, after all, he only has 60,000 soldiers and horses, even if he and Si Li can continue to provide support for him, but he is the same as himself in Hebei at this time belongs to the "outsider", so in terms of the strategic advantages of the time, place and people, the two sides occupy a low position and the opportunity is equal, when Yuan Shao is destroyed, what advantage the two can get in Hebei, it depends on their respective play, no one has absolute certainty, but this is at least better than Yuan Shao, the head snake here.

What's more, not to mention the benefits that may be obtained later, in order to get this Zhang Yan's power right now, he and Yuan Shao also have a contradiction, and at this time, except for Lu Kangyuan, there is no other countermeasure that can make him feel more at ease.

Regarding the joint invitation issued by Cao Cao, Lu Bu agreed after a little consideration, which was not bad for him.

So when the three princes who can be called the biggest forces today, they finally fought together for the first time in history, and because they were two princely forces that were not much weaker than Yuan Shao, they united from the very beginning, and Yuan Shao was overwhelmed.

Compared with the strength of troops, whether it is pure numbers or actual combat ability, the Yuan army cannot be compared with the union of the two sides, and it is said to be a union, but Lu Bu and Cao Cao only seem to be the same, that is, they led the army to attack the Yuan army almost at the same time, and it seems that there is no tacit understanding at all.

But Yuan Shao hoped that they would have a more tacit understanding, instead of being exhausted on both sides of the north and south as they are now, and his attention had to be constantly pulled from the north to the south, and then from the south to the north.

The alliance between Lu Bu and Cao Cao looks like a greeting to each other: "Oh, you attack from the north, I attack from the south, and the rest of the matter will wait until the attack is over, and that's ......"

Cao Cao was now closer to Yuan Shao, and set off directly from Puyang and entered Wei County; And Lü Bu led less than 50,000 troops and horses, starting from Zhongshan, passing through Julu, and then entering Wei County, which was equivalent to Cao Cao launching an attack on Yuan Shao, when most of Yuan Shao's attention was shifted to the south, Lü Bu seized this careless effort, and drove straight into the north of Wei County to launch a surprise attack.

With Zhang Yan's previous experience, Yuan Shao doesn't seem to have learned to be obedient, but this time it seems that it is useless to learn to be obedient, because Lu Bu and Cao Cao are prepared, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Cao Cao attacked first to cover for Lu Bu.

Yuan Shao suddenly became a belly and back to the enemy, and he suddenly became extremely nervous, in this case, he did not dare to have the slightest support, and replaced his military horses that were originally scattered all over Hebei, even some garrisons, all of them were assembled to face the great challenge of Cao Lu's alliance.

"Damn!" At this time, Yuan Shao, who was in Yecheng but was always distracted from the north and south, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, walking around the meeting hall.

Xu You, Guo Tu, Chen Lin, Jiang Qi, Chun Yuqiong and others sat silently, and they didn't dare to take a breath, and those who dared to speak out at this time should be Tian Feng and Wen Chou, and they were both personalities, but they were not here at this time, Wen Chou was on the front line of facing Lu Bu, compared to Cao Cao, whether it was Yuan Shao or Wen Chou, the hatred and jealousy of Lu Bu were deeper; As for Tian Feng, this guy annoyed Yuan Shao again before, and returned to his second home, prison.

Yuan Shao was full of anger and couldn't vent it, and he became more and more dissatisfied with the silence of everyone around him, sometimes it was so strange, Tian Feng, who had repeatedly rushed into him and was also imprisoned by him, was actually one of his most trusted strategists, not only because of his outstanding wisdom but also because he was not selfish, although he never punished them with these subordinates who obeyed him, but many times he didn't want to or even dared to adopt their opinions.

This may be a little sad to say, but Yuan Shao never refused to admit that it was his own mistake, and only lamented that his subordinates were really unreliable and untrustworthy.

Yuan Shao's character weaknesses are too obvious, which also dooms him to ultimate failure, otherwise why would he first defect to Han Fu and Zhang Yan's escape to lead to Cao Mengde's confrontation?

Speaking of which, if he had succeeded in encircling and suppressing Gongsun Zan with Han Fu at the beginning, maybe many things would not have happened in the future, even if Lu Bu had the heart, he would not have found the gap to insert himself into the overall situation of Hebei, or Yuan Shao would have completed the great cause of pacifying Hebei and become one of the real northern overlords.

It can only be said that time is also fate, and now Yuan Shao has no time to regret the past, he can only deal with the current situation first, he will not be willing to give in under the attack of Lu Bu and Cao Cao.

"Lord, now that the situation is critical, I secretly think that Wei County should not stay for a long time!" At this time, Chen Lin spoke, he was very literary and elegant, and he was at the forefront of the world, and the original letter to Dong Wei attracted Cao Mengde's admiration, but he was sorry for his literary talent in terms of wisdom.

Yuan Shao directly ignored his words and asked Jiang Qi: "Strange, how is the battle situation in Wei County?" ”

The place where the Yuan army and the Cao army confronted was in Wei County, east of Yecheng, and the Yuan army occupied a favorable location, but the Cao army was menacing, and the Yuan army could still deal with it calmly at first, after all, Cao Cao could not lead all the men and horses here, and there was still a little disadvantage in numbers, but after Lu Bu attacked Yuan Shao had to divide his troops and move north, he could only enter a stalemate with Cao Cao at most, and he became more and more vulnerable, after all, the pressure on Lu Bu's side was getting bigger and bigger, and it also affected Yuan Shao's support here.

Now that it has been seven days, both sides have suffered their own injuries, and whether the Yuan army of Wei County can hold on and continue to drag Cao's army here is very important for Yuan Shao.

Jiang Qi's words are different, after Wen Chou and the dead Yan Liang and the defected Lu Yi, he is the most important general of Yuan Shao, but at this time, in the face of Yuan Shao's questioning, he can only smile bitterly: "Lord, we have not given effective support to Wei County for three days, at this time the morale of the army over there has begun to fluctuate, although there are no soldiers to defect, but General Gao is afraid that he will not last long." ”

General Gao is Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan, who united Tian Chou to assassinate Liu He at the beginning, but in the end he forced Tian Chou away and threw himself at Lu Bu, but Yuan Shao did not blame Gao Gan, and still entrusted him with heavy use. (To be continued......)