The deadlock was broken twenty days later, when reinforcements from Yuan Shao's side arrived.

This reinforcement army, which was pinned on by Yuan Shao and all the generals under his command, was the famous Jizhou Prefecture Division commander - Lu Yi.

Because of the key contributions made by Yuan Shao in the process of Yuan Shao's entry into Jizhou, Lu Yi was promoted to Zhonglang General by Yuan Shao. However, even if he was promoted, the tasks he faced had not changed much, and he was still left in the western part of Jizhou by Yuan Shao, the pastor of Xinzhou, to guard against the possible invasion of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans under the arrogance of Bingzhou.

However, in the face of Gongsun Zhan's strong attack, Yuan Shao, who was deeply struggling, finally mobilized Lu Yi, an elite army vacant in the west, to participate in the battle after careful consideration. As for the threat from the state, Yuan Shao couldn't care about it so much for the time being. He could only hope that after the transfer of Lu Yi, the arrogant reaction would not be so fast, and even if he sent troops, it would not be too fierce.

Lu Yi was born in Liangzhou, and his subordinates were all elite soldiers who had fought bloody battles with the Qiang people, and they were full of experience in the battlefield, and they were very good at fighting against light cavalry. He thought that his relationship with Yuan Shao was not too close, and of course he wanted to use this rare opportunity in front of him to show his strength and loyalty to his new boss. After leading his troops to Wuyuan, Lu Yi only took a short rest, and then took the initiative to ask Yuan Shao for battle, claiming that he wanted to defeat Gongsun Chan head-on in one fell swoop!

After suffering from Gongsun Zhan's cavalry, Yuan Shao was very skeptical about whether Lu Yi could really defeat the "White Horse Righteous Servant" who was powerful in the world. However, for the sake of Lu Yi's confidence and eagerness to fight, Yuan Shao still agreed to Lu Yi's fight. Of course, he did not forget to follow the suggestion of the mastermind Tian Feng to prepare Zhang He's "Euphorbia" as a reserve behind Lu Yi's position. If the battle of Koji is unfavorable, with the defense of the "Euphorbia" in formation, the battle situation will not completely collapse because of this.

What happened next was the famous "800 First Climb to Break the White Horse" incident in later history. Historical records. In this battle, "the volunteers all lay down and did not move, not to dozens of steps, but at the same time, they all rose at the same time, screaming in the dust, clashing straight forward, and thundering with strong crossbows. The center will fall, and the battle will be slashed at the 'White Horse Yicong' more than 1,000 levels. ”①

In the battle, due to the light enemy and the middle scheme, Gongsun Zhan's "White Horse Yicong" suffered huge losses, which made him heartbroken. Fortunately, there were quite a lot of cavalry on the side of Gongsun Zhan's army, and although Lu Yi won a big victory over the "White Horse Yicong", he failed to take advantage of the victory to expand the results.

If you can't beat it, the cavalry will be able to escape. Such is the huge advantage of the cavalry side.

However, with this great victory. Yuan Shaojun's morale was greatly boosted, and he regained his confidence in the field battle with Gongsun Zhan's army. From then on, Yuan Shaojun swept away the previous decline and began to take the initiative to attack under the leadership of Lu Yi. However, Gongsun Zhan's army had a declining fighting spirit and did not have a strong city as a defensive support point. After fighting two more battles with Lu Yi, Gongsun Zhan saw that his subordinates were quite dead and wounded, and he was unwilling to fight hard with Yuan Shao, so he had to take the initiative to lead the army to retreat.

After this battle. Lu Yi's prestige among Yuan Shao's army skyrocketed. The sergeants of each battalion have added the name of "Jizhou Erdongzhu" on the original "Hebei Four Courtyard Pillars". is qualified to be recognized by everyone as the "two pillars of Jizhou". In addition to the biggest contributor to the defeat of Gongsun Zhan, Lu Yi is currently the first general under Yuan Shao's account, leading an army alone to resist the attack of Tian Kai's army in Nanpi.

As a result, with the exploits of defeating the "White Horse Yicong" in the "Wuyuan War", Lu Yi became the second person in the Jizhou Army under Yuan Shao's account, second only to the heavy general Chun Yuqiong. Even Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who have the title of "Ten Thousand Enemies". They all had to be subservient to the righteousness of the people.

After the news of Yuan Shao's defeat of Gongsun Zhan's attack spread, the officials of the counties in Jizhou were quickly reassured. Many county officials who were originally swaying left and right under Gongsun Zhan's soldiers openly played the banner of obeying Yuan Shao at this time, sending troops and money and food to Yuan Shao. And Gongsun Zhan's defeat in this battle not only lost a lot of the prestige of breaking the yellow scarf of 200,000 yuan before. It also made it difficult for him to supply military rations.

As we all know, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Liangzhou have always been known for their bitter cold. Even since Liu Yu served as the pastor of Youzhou, Youzhou has been well governed and can achieve a balance of money and food without foreign aid, but it cannot support Gongsun Zhan's army to go on an expedition for a long time. Moreover, the relationship between Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan is quite stiff, and Liu Yu can not deduct the daily use of Gongsun Zhan's army, which is magnanimous, and he supports Gongsun Chan to take the initiative to attack Yuan Shao, who is also a courtier of the Han Dynasty.

For a long time, what supported the supply of money and food needed for Gongsun Zhan's army to fight was the capture of Gongsun Zhan in the Yellow Turban Army, as well as the local officials in Jizhou who were optimistic about Gongsun Zhan's military prestige. And the capture of the Yellow Turban Army cannot be used for a lifetime, and most of it has to be provided by local officials in Jizhou.

Therefore, this defeat of Gongsun Zhan's army was not only a military defeat, but also induced his political defeat. Many counties and counties that had taken the initiative to send grain and grass to Gongsun Zhan's army saw that the situation was not good at this time, and they cut off their financial and grain support for Gongsun Zhan. If Gongsun Chan can't reverse the situation as soon as possible, I'm afraid it won't be long before he will retreat to Youzhou and honestly be reprimanded by Liu Yu.

Fortunately, Gongsun Chan is a famous general of a big man after all. In terms of command and decision on the battlefield, he is much stronger than Yuan Shao, a son of a big family. There are wins and defeats in wars. Gongsun Chan has not lost a battle. As long as the battle situation is reversed later, Gongsun Chan will not have no chance of victory.

Since Yuan Shaojun was numerous, Gongsun Zhan did not fight with him. Except for Lu Yi, Gongsun Zhanjun was not afraid of other Yuan Shao's generals. And the superiority of Gongsun Zhan's army in cavalry made Gongsun Zhan's mobility by no means comparable to Yuan Shao.

So, Gongsun Zhan seized the opportunity and maneuvered to the vicinity of Quyang, Julu County, which was located behind Yuan Shao's army, and broke Yuan Shao's partial division in one fell swoop, beheaded 6,000, and beheaded Cui Song, the general of Yuan's army.

Cui Songzi is a giant business, a famous man in Jizhou, and a native of Dongwu City, Qinghe. After Yuan Shao became the ruler of Jizhou, he entangled many Jizhou heroes to support Yuan Shao. The death of this person dealt a certain blow to Yuan Shao's forces. However, after learning the news of Cui Song's death, in order to avenge his brother, Cui Song's brother Cui Yan took the initiative to join Yuan Shao's command and served as a cavalry captain.

If you want to talk about Cui Yan's reputation in Jizhou, it is actually above Cui Song. He once organized a rebel army to fight rebellion during the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" that year, and it is said that he also joined forces with another famous man, Tian Feng, to use pure Confucian righteousness. Broke the "thunder" magic of the thief's first horn.

However, Cui Yan was indifferent to fame and fortune, and after pacifying the Yellow Turban, he gave up the reward and went to Qingzhou to study under the great Confucian Zheng Xuanmen. Last year, Qingzhou Yellow Turban was a masterpiece. Zheng Xuan had no choice but to dismiss the students and go to Buqi Mountain to escape the soldiers. Cui Yan left Qingzhou and returned to his hometown Qinghe to live in seclusion.

Therefore, this time Cui Song died in battle, because Cui Yan came out of Yuan Shao in anger in order to take revenge, and in the end, Yuan Shao's side actually did not suffer much. In this way, both sides have their own winners and losers. The tide of battle froze.

Just when Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan were fighting each other in Jizhou, Yanzhou in the Central Plains underwent great changes, drawing the attention of the people of the world from Jizhou back to the land of Yanzhou.

The major events that have attracted the attention of people all over the world are:

As one of the most powerful princes in the world, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, was suddenly defeated and died!

Liu Dai's death seems to have died directly at the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, but in fact, the indirect reason is more due to the dissatisfaction of the county officials in Yanzhou with Liu Dai.

But it is said that after the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou converged. Under the joint command of Zhang Rao, Yu Xuan, Lou Yi and others, they soon launched a siege on the important town of Yanzhou.

Zheng Sui, the minister of the city state. Of course, I have to ask the surrounding counties and counties, especially Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, for help. However, the relationship between Liu Dai and Zheng Sui has never been compatible. Zheng Sui was an important supporter of Qiaomao's competition for the Yanzhou Assassin History, and Liu Dai hated this matter and deliberately dragged his feet during the rescue. So much so that Zheng Sui guarded Rencheng for more than a month, but still couldn't wait for the help to arrive. Finally overwhelmed by the sea of people of the Yellow Turban army.

Now that the city of Ren has been breached, the Yellow Turban Army can continue to attack the surrounding territories. Their next target was the Dongping Kingdom in the north of Rencheng State.

The scholars were not blind, and the fall of Ren Chengguo made Liu Dai unanimously criticized by the state sergeants. His prestige in Yanzhou also plummeted. Now that Dongping Kingdom is in danger again, if Liu Dai still wants to leave some good prestige, he can't delay any longer. Therefore, he led the main force of the Yanzhou Prefecture Division, and gathered the troops of Taishan Taishou Yingshao, Jibei Xiang Bao Xin, Chen Liutai Shou Zhang Miao, Dongjun Taishou Cao Cao and other state and county officials, preparing to jointly crusade against the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhang Miao, Bao Xin and other county officials, because of their friendship with Qiao Mao, have always been at odds with Liu Dai. In addition, there is an example of Liu Dai deliberately delaying not long ago and killing Zheng Sui, the minister of Ren Chengguo, Zhang Miao, Bao Xin and others will naturally not work together with Liu Dai.

At this time, for the sake of his own prestige, Liu Dai wanted to show the combat ability of his troops, so he actually went to the front to command. This filial piety from the Han clan is obviously not as profound in military attainments as in scriptures. As a result, Liu Dai personally went into battle this time, and was accidentally pitted by Zhang Miao and others, so as to fall into the siege of the Yellow Turban Army.

The so-called one report and one report, in Liu Dai, it really seems to be the same thing.

The death of Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, made the battlefield situation in Yanzhou suddenly become precarious.

Although the number of the Yellow Turban Army is extremely large, the individual combat effectiveness is not strong. Zhang Rao, Yu Poison, Lou Yi and others are not traversers like Zhang Qiang, they do not attach much importance to military training, and they do not have the conditions for military training, but they are extremely good at coercing the people to join. Even so, in the face of the surging sea of people, the officers and men will suffer a small loss if they are not careful.

According to the existing strength of Yanzhou, it was not that difficult to defeat the Yellow Turban Army. However, the state and county officials did not trust each other, and they were always intriguing together, so that the advantages of the officers and soldiers in combat power could not be brought into play, so that the Yellow Turban Army picked up a bargain and beat and killed Liu Dai.

However, Liu Dai's death in battle created a good opportunity for the Yanzhou officials to unify their military command. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) The historical materials here come from the introduction of the Battle of the Boundary Bridge in "Three Kingdoms". In this article, the location of the Battle of Jieqiao has changed due to the arrogant actions, but the occurrence of the Battle of Takegaki can be regarded as a continuation of historical inertia.

At this point, the story will gradually depart from the outline of the historical record. This kind of deduction out of thin air is really a bit brain-wrenching.