In terms of military strength alone, Yuan is strong and Cao is weak, at the beginning of the war between the two families, Xiahou has few soldiers, and the rest of the troops are not advantageous in all aspects, after receiving the battle, several battles are not the enemy of Yuan Shao's forward Wen Chou, can only lead the remnants of the army to hold on, wait for Cao Cao to arrive, and join the Chinese army.

Wen Chou took advantage of the vigor of the army, and then waved the division to attack Cao Cao's army, which had a halberd warrior difficult to fight, Cao Cao did not dare to fight, set up camp and built a ditch to avoid the war, did not dare to block his edge, the name of the famous general Wen Chou in Hebei, for a time spread all over the world.

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The Shu Road is winding and difficult, the entire Chengdu Plain is like an independent kingdom, Liu Zhang, the lord of Yizhou, got the news that Deng Ji wanted to be the emperor and implement a new system, which was nearly ten days later than Liu Bei and Liu Biaoshang, who were also clansmen, and after he knew it, he said that he was left and right and smiled: "Deng Muan or the strange people in the world!" ”

Although Zhang Lu died, and Liu Bei blocked Hanzhong, Yizhou and the outside world is not much contact, after a sigh, Liu Zhang abandoned it, and turned his attention to other things——— after the beginning of spring this year, Liu Zhang sent his subordinates to Jiangxia to welcome his uncle's Fei family into Shu to live, in order to avoid the troubled times. Jiangxia is the key place of Liu Cousin Sun Ce's battle, Liu Zhang sent people to greet him, Fei really abandoned his homeland and moved to Shuzhong, Liu Zhang has to return quickly, the Fei family has now passed Jiangzhou, he wants to prepare a grand reception in Chengdu.

Liu Zhang's uncle, Jiangxia Fei, is also a big family, and now he is in charge of his cousin Fei Boren. Boren has a younger brother named Guan, who is not yet ten years old this year, but in order to be close to each other, Liu Yan decided to marry his young daughter to this wife's uncle and young son before his death, so the boy Fei Guan who came with him is not only Liu Zhang's cousin, but also his brother-in-law, and the two families have a close relationship. Don't fail to greet each other with a heavy courtesy.

The Fei clan is large. Liu Zhang didn't know either. There was also an orphan among the Fei clan who came with him, who was younger than Fei Guan, and was the nephew of Fei Boren and Fei Guan's brothers, named Yi.

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At the end of last year, after the Pingliang Army was formed and went to Liangzhou to exchange for the second army of Huya and Xiaocai, it was stationed in the five counties of Tianshui, Wuwei, Jincheng, Beidi and Longxi with each school.

The counties of Liangzhou, which were included under Deng Ji's rule, are now gradually stable. The few remaining bandits who refused to join did not dare to confront the Pingliang army head-on. On the way back from the Ruyang Legislative State Affairs, Yan Xing beckoned: "The Lord is the public country, and the system has never been established since ancient times, and the true virtuous monarch is also!" It is a blessing that I have to wait for a courtier, and I must not think about it in return. Today, the lord entrusts you and me with the military of Liangzhou, and he is very responsible, and he is doing his best to sweep away the people in the state. To share the worries of the Lord! ”

He beckoned: "The general is the main general, if there is a decision." Someone should obey his orders! ”

At the beginning of the establishment of the Pingliang Army, Deng Ji had made it clear that when Liangzhou was stable in the future, General Pingliang would definitely lead the way, and Yan Xing would be transferred.

The current General Pingliang is Yan Xing, and he is recruited as his deputy, but with Deng Ji's words in front, once it involves military affairs, Yan Xing will deal with the merchants involved, and he is not arbitrary.

On the way, Yan Xing beckoned: "The Lord ordered the Pingliang Army to take the four borders as the first thing, but now the territory is gradually calming, only a small group of thieves are left to be wiped out, and the overall situation may be worry-free." There is no difference in the will of the lord, only the situation changes. Not only do you want to establish a new country and a new system in June, but you should destroy the country in the country first, and also raise the army to deter and subdue the Yukou of Liangzhou, and spread the virtue in all directions, otherwise it may damage the national prestige! ”

After listening, he suddenly realized: "The general wants to take Song Jian? ”

To the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liangzhou has been a place of rebellion for a long time, and there have always been many local forces. Song Jiannai is one of the anti-thief leaders with old qualifications, in the early days, he had raised troops against the Han with the kingdom, Han Sui and others, but after having some forces, he no longer wanted to forge ahead, only occupied a place in Longxi Caohan County, called himself the king of Heshou Ping Han, and imitated the court system to set up a hundred officials, the prime minister Jingzhao and the like, since then with Caohan as an independent kingdom, dominate a place, enjoy the power with peace of mind, and now it has been more than ten years.

Caohan County belongs to Longxi County, its land is close to Tianshui, at the junction of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau, Song Jian gathered tens of thousands of people, thinking that it was powerful. Deng Ji pacified Xiliang twice before and after, both of them were noble soldiers, and it was difficult to attack in the remoteness of Caohan, and Song Jian never showed any signs of invasion from the outside world, so he let it go and let him go free.

As a thief who once rebelled against the Han Dynasty together, Song Jian had a very good relationship with Han Sui before, and Yan Xing was already familiar with it. Deng Ji failed to win Caohan before, and then he did not order the Pingliang army to attack, in order to avoid the loss of soldiers, Caohan is remote, but the gains of a county outweigh the losses. Now to establish a new country, the governance of all kinds of waste to be revived, even if it is only for fame, it is no longer suitable to have a country within a country, so that the Longxi government is not complete, so Yan Xing proposed that the Pingliang army take the initiative to attack Song Jian, and by the way, deter Liangzhou Yukou.

Thinking about it carefully, according to the information obtained before, although Song Jian claimed to have gathered 50,000 or 60,000 people, the men and horses under his command were only half soldiers and half people, and most of them were just farmers on weekdays, and they were recruited as soldiers when there was something, and their combat power was not outstanding. Our own Pingliang Army is still only a new army, and there will be no more war to encounter in the short term, and if there is such an enemy, it is also good to take the opportunity to train and train troops, and there will be no objections.

The entire Liangzhou is under the jurisdiction of the Pingliang Army, and Caohan belongs to the county under the jurisdiction of Longxi.

After the two returned to Ji County, they ordered the people of the second school stationed in Jincheng and Beidi to gather their troops and come to Pingxiang County to converge, leaving only the first school stationed in Wuwei to guard against Zhangye.

Then, then go to Longxi Didao and Tian Rangxiao to meet, and the soldiers are sent to the Han.

The newly formed army was given preferential treatment, and the Pingliang Army had 8,000 soldiers so far, which was more than the Huya Army. However, there were only four schools of people in Longxi, with a total of more than 6,400 people.

Song Jianwen heard that Yan was marching, and under the rule of the Great Expedition, he gathered more than 40,000 troops on the fifth day and prepared to defend the county seat of Caohan.

Song Jian is known as the king of the Ping Han at the head of the river, and the head of the Yellow River is also the head of the Ping Han, with a great tone, and there are many Di people under his command to ride and fight, with more than 40,000 troops, and the disparity between the two forces is very large. However, Yan Xing has lived in Liangzhou for a long time, and was the first general of Han Sui, knowing the reality of Song Jian, he is not afraid, and led the Western Liang army to the outside of Caohan City, and first set up camp and garrison.

From the troubled times to the present, in order to adapt to the situation, the princes of the world have basically changed to the recruitment system, and a few times the recruitment and conscription go together, and Song Jian is only a small local prince, which is an exception. After Song Jian proclaimed himself king, many people around him fled to Caohan to avoid military disasters, and he granted the people land to live in peace and give shelter, but there are also words in advance, in addition to paying food, all adult men in Caohan were listened to in the army when they encountered the enemy, so they could recruit so many people in a short time.

Otherwise, if he really has so many soldiers, he can compete with Han Sui and Ma Teng and compete for the position of the boss of Xiliang.

In the past, Song Jian relied on gathering all the men under his rule to prepare for war, so that others could dispel the idea of gnawing on his bones that didn't have much meat, and his descendants were actually only six or seven thousand people. Song Jian knew that Sizhou's soldiers were good at fighting, and Yan Xing was the first brave under the original Han Sui, and when Yan Xing led the army, he didn't dare to fight at all.

Song Jian was used to being the emperor of the land of Caohan, and he was unwilling to rely on others anymore, and it was impossible to surrender, but although he did not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the Pingliang army, he did not believe that the other party could capture his territory with only more than 6,000 people, and thought that after delaying it, Yan Xing could only retreat.

I don't want that no one was willing to attack him before, just because the gains outweighed the losses, and now that Deng Mu'an is preparing to establish a new system, Yan Xing is ready to clear the dissident forces in the territory first, and will not retreat lightly.

The stalemate between the two has been less than half a month, and Song Jian has already complained bitterly. It is located in the transition zone between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau, the terrain is full of ravines, and there are plateaus (note), Sichuan, and a lot of cultivated land, although tens of thousands of households are settled, the inventory of war for many years is not too sufficient, and it is March and April, the old grain will be exhausted, and the new grain will not come out of the critical time period, his military rations are not much, and the daily consumption of these tens of thousands of people is really not small, if there is another half a month, there will be no military rations available!

And after a long time of confrontation, the war did not fight, and the hearts of the people who were concentrated in the county town of Caohan began to fluctuate, worried about their families outside the city, although Yan Xing did not send people to attack the houses of Siye, but various rumors have risen in the city.

If he didn't go to war again, his subordinates might have to mutiny first, and Song Jian had no choice but to order his general to lead the army out of the city and ask for a decisive battle with Yan Xing.

It is rare for the soldiers to be noble, and it is not easy to attack the city, but when Song Jian takes the initiative to go out of the city, the situation is naturally different. With such a fighter, Yan Xing and Zhao naturally couldn't ask for it, and led the Pingliang army to a big battle with it outside the city of Caohan.

Although the Pingliang Army is a new group of troops, no matter whether it is a Sizhou boy who has been selected from the surrender of the stroke, it is not a new soldier on the battlefield, fearless in every battle, with an elite cavalry against the miscellaneous army, although it is a small number of enemies, but it also has the upper hand in the war, the front and rear conflicts are camped twice, the people under the command of Song Jian are defeated, the rout is dispersed by Song Jianyan, and the battlefield soon evolves into a one-sided massacre.

Song Jianjun was defeated.

The general appointed by Song Jian died in the chaos, and in the end only three or four thousand people fled back to the city of Caohan, Song Jian saw that the situation was not good, so he asked for a life, Yan Xingyang Xu Zhi, to enter the city, beheaded Song Jian, and sent his head and private commission to Luoyang, and then these "hundred officials" were all used by Luoyang as criminals.

Song Jian is almost the same name as Han Sui and Ma Teng, after this battle and annihilated, after Yan Xing passed on Liangzhou, the local tyrants and thieves were terrified, and they no longer dared to be enemies with the Pingliang army.

Note: Yuan, a highland formed by erosion in the Loess Plateau region of northwest China, is a platform-shaped, steep on all sides, and flat on the top. (To be continued.) )