For Cao Cao, attacking Yuzhou was simple. The key is that after conquering Jizhou, how to finally keep Yuzhou under Sun Jian's counterattack.

Since Yuan Shu submitted a table to the imperial court and appointed Sun Jian as the assassin of Yuzhou, Sun Jian moved the seat of the assassin of Yuzhou to Yangcheng on the front line to facilitate the battle against Dong Zhuo. And Sun Jian's main force is still staying in the old capital of Luoyang, which has become a ruin.

The person who was left by Sun Jian to guard Yangcheng was just a military Sima, named Jia Hua, with mediocre ability and only more than 4,000 troops that could be called old and weak. The main task of these Yangcheng defenders is not to fight, but to carry grain and grass for the front line. From this point of view, Yangcheng's defenses were extremely empty.

When Cao Cao led his troops and entered Yangcheng under the banner of Yuan Shujun, it could be described as smooth sailing.

Since everyone was born in the Han army, the military uniforms, flags and so on are all similar. That is, in order to distinguish it from Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou Army, the color on the flag was changed a little. Therefore, it was not until he was taken down by Xiahoudun on the spot that Sima Jiahua, who was left behind by Sun Jian, reacted and scolded Cao Cao.

Of course, with Cao Cao's thick skin, he would not care about the whining of a defeated general. On the contrary, in order to meet Sun Jian in the future, Cao Cao was quite polite to Sun Jian's subordinates after defrauding Yangcheng, and did not take any actions such as humiliation.

Sun Jian fought Dong Zhuo to death in front, but he stabbed himself in the back, and Cao Cao also knew that this thing was not authentic. Therefore, although Jia Hua scolded loudly and even implicated Cao Cao's ancestors, Cao Cao finally spared Jia Hua's life in addition to asking Xiahoudun to give him a few blows to shut him up.

In addition, Cao Cao also handed over all the family members of Sun Jian's camp who were placed in Yangcheng to Jia Hua and let him take them away.

For this "Koto Tiger". Cao Cao had seen it as early as the "Yellow Turban Rebellion". Speaking of which, the two sides still have some friendship. For the sake of other people's affairs, and to offend such a rare fierce general of a big man to the death, Cao Cao will not be so stupid. Everyone is in charge of their own affairs, as long as they don't go too far, everyone can understand. Now everyone leaves a step. We'll see you in the future.

Of course, what Cao Cao let go was only Sun Jian's old subordinates and cronies. As for the more than 3,000 recruits recruited by Sun Jian in Yuzhou, Cao Cao did not let go, and left them all to Zhou Ang. In addition, Zhou Ang received the support of 2,000 Danyang soldiers from his brother Zhou Xin, and the new Yuzhou Thorn Shi has a full 5,000 soldiers and horses, which can be regarded as a shelf that can support the Thorn History.

The work has come to this point. Cao Cao can be regarded as worthy of the brothers Zhou Xin and Zhou Ang. So, before Sun Jian reacted, Cao Cao first took 4,000 elite soldiers from his headquarters to leave Yuzhou, return to Yanzhou, and stationed troops in Dongjun to accept Yuan Shao's remote command. As for whether Zhou Ang can survive under Sun Jian's counterattack. Then it's none of Cao Cao's business.

doesn't have a little bit of his own strength, and he still wants to rob Sun Jian's Yuzhou assassination history. Isn't that a dream?

Sun Jian's counterattack was not fast, but it was fierce.

Yuan Shao's small action this time completely angered Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu, in front of his generals, Liu He, and Gongsun Yue, publicly scolded Yuan Shao for being a "servant son". Then, Yuan Shu wrote to his friend Tao Qian, as well as Gongsun Zhan, who had recently become a relationship. Inform everyone of Yuan Shao's disgraceful behavior this time, and invite them to send troops together to encircle and suppress Yuan Shao, a "servant son" who betrays the alliance and likes to stab a knife in the back!

In this way, Dong Zhuo, who retreated to Chang'an. The long-awaited infighting among the Kwantung princes has finally broken out in full force!

Zhou Ang is good at clerical affairs, and his martial arts are not very good. However, just guarding a city or something, it was not enough for him. After occupying Yangcheng, Zhou Ang got a mountain of baggage and grain and grass from the capture, which was enough to supply an army of 10,000 to support more than half a year. Therefore, after occupying Yangcheng, he wrote letters to the officials of various counties in Yuzhou, asking them to obey the orders of the new assassin history, and on the other hand, he recruited strong men from all over the country to join the army, and requisitioned the people in the city to repair the city wall with all their might, preparing to meet the counterattack of Sun Jian's army.

Yangcheng is not big, but it is very strong. Sun Jian chose this place as his place of governance at that time, that is, as long as there were 5,000 people guarding this place, even if there were 50,000 troops, it would be difficult to forcibly conquer it. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the city that was originally prepared to deal with Dong Zhuojun was now for Sun Jian to enjoy by himself.

Together with the forces that Yuan Shu supported Sun Jian, the total number of troops that Sun Jian used to attack Yangcheng was as high as 60,000. In addition to the main force that retreated from the ruins of Luoyang, the 2,000 Youzhou cavalry from the north also participated in the siege side operation under the leadership of Gongsun Yue.

On the other hand, although the Xuzhou assassin Shi Taoqian did not publicly declare war on Yuan Shao, he sent his general Cao Bao with 4,000 Danyang soldiers to launch a tentative harassment against Yuzhou and Yanzhou. Obviously, Yuan Shao's action of sending a new assassin to Yuzhou to seize power has stabbed the nerves of the state and county officials in various places.

However, Cao Bao's mission was not so much to harass Yanzhou as to drive away the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army. Since the revival of the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains in the fifth year of Zhongping [188], there have been many displaced people in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Although the Yellow Turban Army in Xuzhou has not formed much climate under Tao Qian's suppression, it still rises and falls, making it rare for people to have three months of peace.

Tao Qian is also a capable assassin, as soon as Pu took office, he appointed a large number of sons and daughters of the powerful Xuzhou clan and powerful outlaws to serve as state and county officials. He first incorporated Sun Guan, a Taishan man who was exiled in the East China Sea, into Sima, and then used Xuzhou Haoqiang Cao Hong as the meritorious Cao, the famous Zhao Yu as the other driver, the famous scholar Wang Lang as the ruler, the son of the family Chen Deng as the captain of the agricultural school, and Cao Hong's brother Cao Bao as the governor of the state division, and soon sorted out the political situation in Xuzhou and mastered the power of the state.

Next, Tao Qian severely cracked down on the Yellow Turban Army in Xuzhou on the one hand, and on the other hand, he connived at the integration with the countryside and vigorously spread the Futu religion to fight against the spread of the Taiping Dao.

Futu Buddhism, that is, Buddhism in later generations, was not recognized by many people in China at this time, so it was not widely spread and its status was not high. In order to spread the Futu Sect, he can be said to have gone all out, and even did not hesitate to carry the benefactor Tao Qian behind his back, embezzling a large amount of money and grain collected from Guangling, Xiapi, Pengcheng and other places. Later generations recorded his deeds in the history books as follows:

"Rong Dafutu Temple, which can accommodate more than 3,000 people, read Buddhist scriptures; He also called for the exemption of believing in Buddhism, attracting more than 5,000 households. For each bath of the Buddha, there are more wine and rice. Spread on the road, through dozens of miles, the people came to watch and eat, and ten thousand people."

Including the Futu Sect, plus the vigorous suppression of Cao Bao, Sun Guan, Chen Deng and others, when the Yellow Turban Army flourished again in the Ping Years, the Yellow Turban Army in Xuzhou was never a climate. And so it goes. With 4,000 Danyang soldiers in his hands, Cao Bao was able to drive more than 10,000 Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army, who still insisted on fighting, to Yanzhou.

Compared with the Taiping in Xuzhou, Yanzhou can be described as a war and chaos.

Liu Dai's attack on Qiao Mao, although Liu Dai sat firmly on the throne of assassination, failed to eliminate the contradictions between him and other county officials. Those county officials who had supported Qiao Mao were afraid that Liu Dai would settle accounts afterwards, so they supported their troops to protect themselves, and privately formed alliances with each other.

And so it goes. Compared with Tao Qian, who has soldiers, generals, money and food in his hands, the strength that Liu Dai's subordinates can effectively control is far from the same. And the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army also took advantage of the discord and strife between the state and county officials, thriving in the gap between the two sides, and finally became a big force enough to subvert the state and county!

To say that Yanzhou Yellow Turban is the most tenacious county, Taishan County is the first to be recommended. Mount Tai is mountainous, and since ancient times, the bandits have been known for "inexhaustible". Even insolence. Back then, I also fell in love with the concealment of this place and wanted to survive in Mount Tai for a few years. Wait for the day, and then take advantage of the momentum.

However, although the undulating and mountainous Mount Tai gave the Yellow Turban Army and the bandits strong protection, it also limited the large-scale growth of the Yellow Turban Army's strength. Without enough people, the number of Yellow Turbans cannot explode. And the people of Mount Tai are strong. Let the local county soldiers have good strength. Under the blow of the newly appointed Taishan Taishou Yingshao, the Taishan Yellow Turban did not have much room for development.

Just as Cao Bao was trying to drive the weakened Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army into Yanzhou, a Yellow Turban army from Qingzhou suddenly poured into Taishan County. This Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army connected with the Taishan Yellow Turban Army, after tentatively launching an attack on the Taishan County soldiers. Immediately realized that Tarzan was not a good fruit to gnaw. If it is tough, the Yellow Turban Army may not be able to achieve the final victory, but the price is something that the Yellow Turban Army is unwilling to accept.

So, Zhang Rao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, sent an envoy to reach an agreement with Taishan Taishou Yingshao. Ying Shao privately opened a road to the interior of Yanzhou to the Yellow Turban Army, while Zhang Rao would abandon his strategy against Mount Tai and march west to Yanzhou.

As a result, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, the Taishan Yellow Turban Army and the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army happened to collide together. The commander of the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army is Zhang Rao's old acquaintance. Back then, the two once followed the Qingzhou marshal Guan Hai together and rescued the Yanzhou marshal Buji. Later, Guan Hai's army was broken by Huangfu Song's army in Gucheng, Zhang Rao fled back to Qingzhou with Guan Hai, but Lou Yi was scattered and lived in Xuzhou, and another situation was achieved.

Just when Zhang Rao and Lou Yi were happy to reunite, another old man came to the door. That is the strongest person in the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army, Yu Poison.

After Yu Poison broke away from the arrogant department that year, he originally wanted to rush back to Gucheng to join Guan Haishuai. However, on the way, he was attacked by the rangers of Huangfu Song's army. After discovering that Guan Hai was being targeted by Huangfu Song, Yu Yu immediately dismissed his intention to venture to Gucheng, but temporarily found a small village to settle down and wait and see the outcome of the battle. That's it, Yu Poison escaped the catastrophe of the year.

Since then, with the gradual pacification of the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army, Yu Poison knows that it is not a way to go on like this. He is also a reasonable person, so he took the initiative to retreat to the area of Taihang Mountain and found a small hill to live temporarily.

Later, Zhang Qiang rose in Taihang Mountain, and Yu Poison was embarrassed to see Zhang Qiang again because he refused to defect to Zhang Qiang, so he left Taihang Mountain and wandered around Yanzhou. Because the hundreds of cavalry in his hands were quite strong, the county soldiers were reluctant to provoke him, so they have been able to survive the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers.

When the Yanzhou officials were busy opposing Dong, Yu Poison saw that the time had come, so he erected the Yellow Turban Battle Flag again in Yanzhou, coerced the displaced people, and became the commander of the 100,000 Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou.

The convergence of Yu Poison, Zhang Rao and Lou Yi brought the elite of the Yellow Turban Army of Sanzhou together, and the combat effectiveness was greatly strengthened. As a result, the scale of the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains suddenly jumped to more than 300,000, of which no less than 50,000 were elite and strong, and the combat power was considerable. (To be continued......)