Chen Yuanbiao was born in Yongan County, Yizhou in 140. I've been an orphan since I was a child.,But I love military books.,And love to practice martial arts.。 At the age of sixteen, he was promoted to filial piety in the local area (Yong'an), and at the age of seventeen, he went to Luoyang to become a lang official (civil servant), and in a few months he was promoted to the rank of captain in the west (director of the Western District Police Station). When he was nineteen years old, there were aliens entering Liangzhou, so he went to Liangzhou and served as a soldier under Duan Jiong (one of the three Mings in Liangzhou).

The Liangzhou War lasted until 172. Chen Yuan and Duan Jiong returned triumphantly from Liangzhou and returned to Luoyang. Emperor Ling was named Duan Jiong Taiwei (one of the three dukes), and Chen Yuan was named General Pingyi (miscellaneous general, who governed the area of present-day Chongqing).

Chen Yuan then returned to his hometown and was stationed in Jiangzhou City, Ba County (later Chongqing City, Jiangzhou during the Three Kingdoms period). Appointed Bajun Taishou as Wang Ping, Wang Ping and Chen Yuan are the same age, the two have been friends since childhood, if there was no Wang Ping, there would be no Chen Yuan today.

At that time, the society was like this, the emperor appointed you as an official, and you had to pay the official fee, Chen Yuan was an orphan since he was a child, very poor, and Wang Ping helped pay it. Wang Ping's family is one of the few wealthy families in Ba County, Wang Ping is frail and bullied by his childhood friends, and Chen Yuan rescues him. Later, the two entered the palace to study together since childhood, one from literature and one from martial arts. Since Wang Ping became an official, Wang Ping silently helped to pay. It can be said that Wang Ping is Chen Yuan's most benevolent person, and there is no one.

Chen Yuan's wife died early, and later returned to Yong'an to take a concubine Wang (Wang Ping, close to the Wang family), and only had a daughter in 180, named Chen Ying. However, in the Wang family, he also died in childbirth, and Chen Yuan was no longer a concubine.

But a few years ago, Chen Yuan accepted the sons of several deceased comrades-in-arms as his righteous sons, and the eldest righteous son, Zhang Yi, nicknamed Xiaojun, was born in December 170; The second son, Pan Fu, nicknamed Ah Fa, was born in February 171; Wu Ji, the son of Sanyi, nicknamed Shoujiang, was born in March 175; The fourth son, Zhang Hao, nicknamed Xiaobiao, was born in August 176; Wuyizi Pan Rong, nicknamed Fugui, expressed his name Xinde, born in September 176; Yang Xuan, the son of Liuyi, nicknamed Ah Hai, was born in February 178.

In 180, after the birth of his baby daughter Chen Ying, Chen Yuan moved to Yong'an, except for the eldest son Zhang Yi in Jiangzhou, the other righteous sons all returned to Yong'an, Wang Ping's father died in the same year, and Wang Ping also returned to Yong'an to take over the Wang family.

After Wang Ping left Jiangzhou, Chen Yuan appointed Li Wei, who was another big family at the time, as the Taishou to teach Zhang Yi, who was only 10 years old at the time. Leaving the adjutant general Yan Yan to manage the local army.

Yan Yan, whose name is Heber, is a native of Linjiang (Zhongxian County, Chongqing), Ba County, and in historical materials, Yan Yan served as a subordinate of Liu Zhang (Liu Yan's son) as the Taishou of Ba County. At this time, Yan Yan was just about 30 years old, his qualifications were still shallow, he joined Chen Yuan's army a few years ago, and his efforts for several years were seen by Chen Yuan, so he let Yan Yan serve as his deputy general, and now let him help guard Jiangzhou, but he is not the real Bajun Taishou.

Li Wei, the head of the Li family, the largest family in Ba County, is distributed throughout Yizhou. Li Wei has no children, and his eldest daughter was born a few years ago, named Li Juyi. In 180, another thousand gold was added, named Li Xuening. Li Wei has a younger brother named Li Zheng, Li Wei's brother Li Zheng has a daughter named Li Sishi, and Li Juyi is one year old. On the day of Li Xuening's birth, Li Wei was appointed by Chen Yuan as the Taishou of Jiangzhou, which can be described as a double happiness.

When Zhang Yi was in Jiangzhou, he was still young and did not make many achievements, but when he was ten years old, when he and Yan Yan first suppressed the local bandits, they had a lot of insights into the battle situation, and after that, Chen Yuan began to teach Zhang Yi the art of war. Yan Yan often took Zhang Yi with him when he went out to suppress bandits, and Yan Yan also recognized Zhang Yi greatly, and Chen Yuan also began to see that Zhang Yi had extraordinary leadership ability, until January 184, when Zhang Yi returned to Chen Yuan's side. Chen Yuan told Zhang Yi his views on the art of war left by the ancients, and Zhang Yi also remembered it very carefully.

Several righteous sons of the general Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan asked them to practice literature and martial arts, and their homework every morning was to practice, and they would read books after lunch. Chen Yuan hoped that his adopted sons would be both civil and military.

However, except for Zhang Yi in Jiangzhou and Yang Xuan, who was still young, the other four were practicing martial arts just to perfunctory Chen Yuan, and for practicing martial arts, they preferred to stay in the study of the General's Mansion. Most of the books in Chen Yuan's study are military books, and many of them have their own annotations, and some of them are some miscellaneous books that Wang Ping has hand-copied from various places or recorded by others orally, and of course, Wang Ping's own experience in managing civil affairs and so on.

Chen Yuan saw that this world was not peaceful, so he still asked a few righteous sons to have some martial arts, at least a few tricks in his own hands.

In February 184, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out across the country, and there was not much chaos in Chen Yuan's territory, but as far as Yizhou as a whole was concerned, there was not much chaos. Yizhou's assassination history at this time is called thrift, this guy is more greedy, and he is a typical example of corrupt officials. There was a thief named Ma Xiang and Zhao Yu in Mianzhu called themselves the Yellow Turban Army, gathered the people to rebel, killed the county commander Li Sheng (Li Yizhi), and later gathered 10,000 people to attack the state capital and kill Desire, attack Shu County, Qianwei, and proclaim himself the Son of Heaven. All this is in Chen Yuan's eyes, Chen Yuan actually wants to borrow Ma Xiang's hand to get rid of the corrupt official assassination history at this time.

Chen Yuan has wanted to get rid of this assassin for a long time, but he is also an official, so it is not good to kill him directly, so Chen Yuan saw if this horse minister could get rid of this corrupt official. As a result, it was really eliminated, Chen Yuan immediately transferred an army of 1,000 people, and destroyed Ma Xiang soon after Ma Xiang claimed to be the Son of Heaven. It turned out that when Chen Yuan arrived at the state capital, Jia Long had already killed Ma Xiang one step earlier, and he also brought a thousand people, the difference is that his thousand soldiers are obviously not as good as the soldiers he trained, he is a cattle man.

Jia Long was originally engaged in Yizhou, but now Yizhou has no owner, so Chen Yuan was elected as the acting assassin. Chen Yuan also began to decorate.

Chen Yuan guarded Chengdu; Yan Yan guarded Jiangzhou, Chen Yuan's deputy general Chen Xiaozheng led 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Wudu, and threatened the barbarians, and Hanzhong was guarded by Chen Yuan's henchman Chen Lusheng with 10,000 people. Feng Da'er is the pilot lieutenant, and he is by Chen Yuan's side at any time; At the age of 8, the second son had some civil affairs insights in Yongan County, so he transferred the second son Pan Fu to be appointed as the deputy Chengdu Ling, and was the deputy in charge of Chengdu's political affairs; The third son, Wu Ji, was appointed as the deputy envoy of Jiangzhou City (no fixed tasks, idle post); Except for the sixth son, who had been accompanying Chen Yuan, the other two went to various cities and counties to serve in some inconspicuous deputy positions.

In 188, Emperor Ling listened to Liu Yan's suggestion, changed the assassination history to the state pastor, and gave the state pastor the greatest rights, becoming a local official with real power. Liu Yan himself automatically proposed to go to Yizhou to be the pastor of Yizhou, and Emperor Ling also agreed. So Liu Yan himself took his more than 10,000 people and horses from Luoyang to Yizhou and Chengdu.

Although the power of the post of assassin was not great before, Chen Yuan himself had already grasped the power of the soldiers and horses in Yizhou, and after taking the post of assassin, he appointed his cronies everywhere as officials, who dared to stand up. So when he heard that the emperor had sent someone to replace him, how could Chen Yuan, who had tasted the sweetness, let others ride on his head in vain.

So the layout was slightly adjusted, Zhang Yi and Pan Fu were in Chengdu, Zhang Hao was in Jiangyou, and Pan Rong was in Chen Xiaozheng's Wudu troops, and there was also a bit of popular voice. Chen Yuan himself went to Hanzhong and fought against Liu Yan. Yan Yan was transferred back to Chengdu to keep Chengdu, because most of the Chen family was in Chengdu. Wu Ji and Yang Xuan were sent back to Yong'an, how can you say that this is Chen Yuan's old nest. Although they have all been transferred, Wu Ji's official position as the deputy envoy of Jiangzhou City is still retained.

Liu Yan's men and horses had entered Hanzhong County long before Chen Yuan's deployment, of course, Chen Lusheng did not let Liu Yan walk in easily, and he also fought a few battles with Liu Yan, but Chen Lusheng was just Chen Yuan's own cronies after all, and he was not good at fighting, so he was defeated. And it was embarrassingly defeated, if you think about it, both sides are more than 10,000 men, and they have lost half of their troops, and the other side has lost less than half of what they have lost, and it is a defensive battle in their favor.

After Chen Yuan came to Hanzhong County, he confronted Liu Yan in Hanzhong.

"General, the last general is useless, Hanzhong City is lost!" After Chen Yuan came, Chen Lusheng, who was defeated, knelt in front of Chen Yuan, bowed his head, and waited for Chen Yuan to give an order.

Chen Yuan looked at the kneeling person in front of him, and said expressionlessly: "Go get the thirty military sticks yourself, and then roll back to my hometown for me." ”

Even Chen Lusheng himself was surprised that the general didn't have to punish himself. didn't think much about it, and quickly got out of the camp, for fear that Chen Yuan would regret it.

Seeing Chen Lusheng leaving, Wang Ping motioned for the others to go down as well, walked in front of Chen Yuan, and quietly followed Chen Yuan to look at the map of Hanzhong.

After a while, he said to Chen Yuantou, who was looking at the map carefully, "Ji Ming, why don't you kill him?" "How can Wang Ping follow Chen Yuan for many years, Chen Yuan's temper Wang Ping can more or less guess, but this time it stands to reason that Chen Yuan should kill Chen Lusheng, but since he didn't kill him, naturally there is a reason not to kill.

While waiting quietly, Chen Yuan spoke: "Now among the few people in charge of the military power, except for Yan Yan, the rest of them are just like this Lu Sheng, their abilities are mediocre, and when they encounter a war, they are really like today. But do you know why I use them, they are loyal to me, and it is this loyalty that makes me feel at ease to use them. After speaking, Chen Yuan looked at Wang Ping, and then continued: "Of course, you are the most reassuring to me. ”

Chen Yuan and Wang Ping stayed in the tent all day, looking at the map. When it was almost time for the big meal (dinner), Chen Yuan asked a few leading people to call a few leading people to prepare for a meeting.

At the meeting, in addition to Chen Yuan and Wang Ping, there were seven or eight thousand commanders.

After some discussion, Chen Yuan ordered: "Liu Yan broke through Hanzhong, most of the passes outside the city are still in our hands, the battle situation is still very favorable to us, if the few passes outside the city are captured by Liu Yan, then he can sit in Hanzhong safely, and then recruit troops without worries, and then seize other states and counties in Yizhou." Therefore, each of you will lead your own troops to guard these passes outside the city for me, and tell you that I will let you know the importance of these passes, and if you hear clearly, lead my troops to where you should go now. ”

A few days later, Liu Yan really led the team to compete with Chen Yuan for several passes outside Hanzhong City, and both sides had their own gains and losses, and there were no mistakes in general.

The two sides have fought in Hanzhong County for two years, of course, it is impossible to fight for two years, but Liu Yan and Chen Yuan have made a lot of small moves in Hanzhong in the past two years. It's not that Chen Yuan doesn't want to drive Liu Yan away, but there is a certain reason, Chen Yuan is a general who has led troops to fight in Liangzhou, and he is also a winning general. It's not that Liu Yan is very capable of fighting, but Chen Yuan feels that it's not time to get rid of Liu Yan and let Liu Yan live for a while longer.

There are several main reasons, one is that the imperial court at that time, Chen Yuan refused Liu Yan in Hanzhong, but also to isolate contacts with the imperial court; The second is the society at that time, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were more or less warlords, Chen Yuan saw the inevitable war between warlords in the future, so Chen Yuan took advantage of the period of isolation from the imperial court to develop his own power; The third is the most important point, that is, there are too many families in Yizhou, and Chen Yuan wants to rectify and rectify during the confrontation with Liu Yan, distinguish between friends and enemies, and then eliminate hostile forces.

That's why there is a saying that Chen Yuan and Liu Yan fought in Hanzhong for two years.