Sun Ce led his army from Shanyin and westward to Qiantang County. Immediately, he planned to attack Yan Baihu in Wucheng in the north first, and then attack Chen Yu in Wu County in the east.

Before Chen Yu took office, Cao Cao had explained that he had to complete a task, thinking of encircling the surrounding forces, and then looking for an opportunity to get rid of Sun Ce. And the reason why Cao Cao would give Chen Yu such a task was mainly because of the previous performance presented by Xu Gong, which made him worry that if Sun Ce was allowed to sit in Jiangdong, then when he competed with Yuan Shao in the future, the rear would inevitably be threatened by him.

However, Cao Cao's plan also happened to give Sun Ce a reason to attack the land of Jiangdong logically.

At that time, Yuan Shu had also encircled Zu Lang and asked him to unite with Yan Baihu and be responsible for blocking Sun Ce in the middle. So, Chen Yu took advantage of the situation to unite with Yan Baihu and Zu Lang, and led the army into Haiyan City in the east, intending to fight Yan Baihu and Sun Ce.

Sun Ce discovered the plan of Chen Yu and the others in advance, so he changed his strategy and divided his troops into two ways. One route was led by Lü Fan as the commander to attack Chen Yu in the east, and the other was led by Sun Ce to attack Yan Baihu in the north.

Just when Sun Ce's two groups of men were fighting with Chen Yu and Yan Baihu, Zu Lang contacted Huang Longluo and Zhou Bo, the leaders of the thieves in Shanyin, and asked them to lead the crowd to attack Shanyin City from behind. Immediately, Sun Ce learned that the rear was lost, so he left his uncle Sun Jing and cousin Sun Ben to lead the army to continue to be responsible for the capture of Wu County, and he took Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, and Dong Xi, three generals, and led thousands of soldiers to rescue him.

After that, Chen Yu was defeated and led the remnants of the army to retreat to Wu County. Lü Fan led his army to help Sun Jing defeat Yan Baihu and kill him. Not long after, Sun Ce led his people to the Shanyin Realm, only to learn that thousands of thieves were attacking Sanyin City. Sun Ce didn't hesitate much, and immediately led the crowd to fight. Then, after some fighting, the thieves were defeated. The two thieves were beheaded by Dong Raid.

After solving the concerns behind him, Sun Ce continued to lead the army to attack Wu County. Chen Yu abandoned the city and fled because he was defeated, and went north to Yuan Shao. After Sun Ce occupied Wu County, he appointed Zhu Zhi as the Taishou of Wu County, and then temporarily ceased to rest and ceased to rectify.

said that after Yuan Shu returned to Shouchun, he recruited tens of thousands of homeless people to his command. He did not dare to go east to fight the idea of Guangling, so he led his people to cross the Huai River to the north and stationed in Xinyang County, which was under the jurisdiction of Runan County. Runan is Yuan Shu's hometown. Therefore, although this territory is under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, it is actually controlled by Yuan Shu.

Then, Yuan Shu sent someone to ask Chen Guo for grain and grass, and at this time, it was Luo Jun, the auditor, who served as Chen Guoguo's minister, and he refused Yuan Shu's request. Immediately, Yuan Shu sent assassins to deceive and surrender, looking for an opportunity to kill Luo Jun and Liu Chong, the king of Chen, and led the people to occupy the state of Chen. Chen was also a relatively wealthy county, and after Yuan Shu occupied it, he temporarily solved the dilemma caused by the lack of food.

Cao Cao learned that Yuan Shu had led his people to invade the state of Chen. He immediately waved his army to the crusade. As soon as Yuan Shu heard that Cao Cao's army was coming, he immediately swept away all the baggage, leaving Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui and others to garrison Xinyangduan, and he took the lead in retreating to Shouchun. Subsequently. Cao Cao attacked Xinyang, Qiao Rui and others were defeated and beheaded, and Zhang Xun escaped from the trap and retreated.

Subsequently, Cao Cao divided his troops to pacify the counties of Runan. The whole army was stationed in the former Lucheng east of Rushui, intending to continue to take advantage of the situation to go south to defeat Yuan Shu. At that time, Xu Chu, a native of Qian County, led the crowd to join him. Cao Cao Pingsu had also heard of Xu Chu's brave name. asked Xu Chu why he was willing to come to join him. Xu Chu replied that it was only because the two were fellow villagers, so they came to join them. Cao Cao was very happy when he heard this, so he appointed Xu Chu as the captain, and all his fellow swordsmen as his personal guards, called the Tiger Guard.

At this time, Xun You made another suggestion to Cao Cao: "Now that Runan has been recovered, Yuan Shu only has Jiujiang and Lujiang counties left at this time, and it needs to be kept to contain Lu Bu and Sun Ce; Then we should march into Jingzhou and take Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu as the best policy. ”

Cao Cao took Xun You's advice and led his army back to Xuchang.

In fact, with Cao Cao's current strength, it is not enough to eat Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu. And the reason why Xun You made such a suggestion was nothing more than to waste his energy in order to buy enough time for our plan.

The former lieutenant Yang Biao was related to Yuan Shu's family by marriage, and Cao Cao feared that he would secretly conspire with Yuan Shu, so he found an excuse to accuse him of the crime of great treason, and ordered him to be arrested and imprisoned.

When Kong Rong learned of this, he came to intercede for Yang Biao. He believes that even if someone commits a crime between father and son, he should not implicate anyone else, let alone the relationship between Yang Biao and Yuan Shu is just an in-law relationship. Cao Cao excused himself by saying that this was the meaning of the Son of Heaven. Kong Rong said that if King Zhou Cheng wanted to kill Zhaogong at the beginning, wouldn't Zhou Gong know?

Cao Cao couldn't argue with Kong Rong, so he had to order Xu Du to make Man Chong responsible for investigating and punishing Yang Biao's crimes. Because this person is a cool official, and the interrogators like to use torture to extract confessions, Xun Yu and Kong Rong both confessed that he must not lynch Yang Biao.

And although the full pet is ruthless on weekdays, it has always been clear from wrong. However, he couldn't easily disobey Cao Cao's confession, so he still tortured Yang Biao in the same way as usual. After Xun Yu and Kong Rong learned of this, they all felt very indignant, and they were somewhat dissatisfied with Cao Cao's actions.

However, a few days later, Man Chong reported to Cao Cao that Yang Biao refused to admit his guilt, this person was famous all over the world, and if he easily wronged him without conclusive evidence, it would be easy to lose people's hearts. As a result, Cao Cao had no choice but to order Yang Biao to be acquitted.

After Yang Biao was released from prison, he claimed that his legs and feet were injured due to the previous heavy punishment, and he was no longer able to walk normally at this time, hoping to resign and go home to retire. Cao Cao no longer embarrassed him, and immediately approved it.

The coffins of the late Taifu Ma Riyan and Jin Shang were transported back to Xuchang. The ministers of the DPRK and China discussed the plan to give Ma Riyan a grand funeral, but it was finally canceled because he had previously flattered Yuan Shu. Jin Shang was executed for refusing to submit to Yuan Shu, and the ministers believed that this was an upheld discipline for the Han family. So, the imperial court issued an edict for his beautiful funeral, and hundreds of officials came to pay tribute to the funeral. After that, he issued an edict appointing his son Jin Wei as Langzhong.

In fact, this is just a measure to buy people's hearts, but it doesn't seem to have much effect.

In the winter of November, Cao Cao sent troops to attack Zhang Xiu and led his troops to occupy Wancheng. Liu Biao sent Zhonglang General Deng Ji to come to the aid and stationed him in Huyang City, seventy miles east of Xinye. Immediately, Cao Cao divided his troops to attack Huyang, and Deng Ji led the crowd to meet the battle, but was defeated and captured by Cao's army, and then Huyang surrendered.

At this time, Huang Zhong led his troops into Xinye, and Cao Cao could not attack it, so he went east to attack Wuyin. Not long after, Wuyin was conquered, but Huyang was also reoccupied by Huang Zhong in a timely manner. After that, Cao Cao was in a stalemate with Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu's coalition for a while.

Speaking of Han Xian and Yang Feng, because of their previous meritorious service in helping us crusade against Yuan Shu's army, Cao Cao granted them the position of general in the name of the imperial court. However, it didn't take long for Liu Bei to suddenly take the opportunity of his birthday to send someone to invite the two to come to Peicheng for a banquet. Although Liu Bei's invitation made the two of them feel strange, after receiving the reply that Feng Xian and I would also go, the two of them also happily went to the banquet.

Later, when the two of them rushed to Peicheng with their crowd, they were told that Feng Xian and I had finished the banquet and returned to Xiapi. In this regard, the two did not doubt it much and continued to participate in the banquet. And when I learned about this, I immediately discovered Liu Bei's conspiracy, and immediately sent someone to Peicheng to quickly inform the two of them to be on guard. But unexpectedly, it was still a step too late, Yang Feng was ambushed and killed by Liu Bei at the banquet, and Han Xian was able to escape safely because he had a careful eye in advance.

When Liu Bei saw Han Xian fleeing, he thought in his heart that he might be heading in the direction of Xiapi, so he immediately ordered Zhao Yun to lead a team of cavalry to chase and kill. Han Xian had already guessed Liu Bei's move, so he turned around and fled north. But although he escaped this catastrophe, he was captured and killed by Zhang Xuan, the county commander who had already received the order, when he passed through the border of Zheqiu County.

Later, Feng Xian learned about this matter, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, so he ordered Yuan Jian to write a letter to scold Liu Bei for not preaching morality. In this regard, Yuan Jian thinks that it is not necessary, since the incident has happened, even if it is written to scold, it will not help, and it seems that we are narrow-minded. Feng Xian thought about it and felt that it was too, so he gave up. (To be continued......)