Because Cao Cao, with his outstanding military vision, popularized the use of new stirrups and saddles commonly equipped in the Liangzhou army and the Zhang Mad army among his cavalry, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry was greatly improved, and the ability to force the battle was greatly strengthened. The birth of the "Tiger Cavalry" was the result of Cao Cao's attempt to use heavily armed knights to attack the enemy's infantry legions to achieve victory.

Of course, the cost of a "tiger horseman" is expensive, and the number of this heavy cavalry is not large. In addition to the "tiger cavalry" of no more than 300, Cao Cao also had about 800 lightly armed cavalry, which were specially used for peripheral reconnaissance and long-distance raid operations of the army's operations. This lightly armed cavalry, known as the "Leopard Cavalry", together with the heavily armed Tiger Cavalry, was the elite of Cao Cao's army.

However, it is a pity that Cao Cao's various battles carefully prepared for Han Sui failed to play any role in the end. Han Sui started his army from Liangzhou, and it has been more than ten years, and he has won and lost battles I don't know how many times. Even if he is a mediocre person, he can experience it, let alone an old and spicy powerhouse like Han Sui?

As a veteran of the battlefield, no matter how strong his emotions are, how could the scheming Han Sui easily fight the enemy when he is not sure?

Therefore, after the tripartite alliance of Cao Cao, Sun Ce, and Zhu Hao, after converging, they advanced all the way to the west, and the forward troops were entangled with Han Sui's scouts. But until the killing reached the foot of Hongnong City, the tripartite alliance army could not see the figure of Han Sui's army. The reason is that Han Sui took the initiative to lead his troops to retreat a day ago.

Since Han Sui was unwilling to have a decisive battle, Cao Cao and the others did not necessarily have the idea of forcing Han Sui to fight a big battle. Cao Cao had many enemies, and it was the best choice to be able to win without a fight and preserve his strength. On the contrary, Sun Ce felt quite annoyed, and privately scolded Han Sui for being a gutsless person. He didn't even dare to fight, so he fled in disgrace. This kind of reaction is probably because Sun Ce feels that he has one less chance to show off on the battlefield.

Regarding the arrival of Cao Cao and others' army, the Hongnong defenders can be described as cautious. After repeatedly verifying the true identity of the reinforcements, Ma Teng personally went out of the city to welcome Cao Cao and others into the city. Of course. There were more than 10,000 troops commanded by the three of them, and Ma Teng did not dare to put them all into the city. Cao Cao and the others had no intention of embarrassing Ma Teng, and each only brought a hundred to three hundred personal soldiers into the city to meet the Son of Heaven.

Cao Cao and Zhu Hao both met Ma Teng for the first time. Sun Ce was different, he had once glimpsed Ma Teng from afar on the battlefield. Seeing Ma Teng again, Sun Ce was taken aback:

Could this sloppy military general in front of him, who is haggard, with a face like a tree, and a sluggish spirit, be the "10,000 enemies" powerhouse who dominated the battlefield of Sanfu back then?

This decay of Marten. Cao Cao and others were greatly surprised. Fortunately, Cao Cao, Zhu Hao and others were not weak in self-control, and they did not show their surprise, only Sun Ce reacted obviously. After the meeting between the two sides was over, the three of them specially sent people to the city to inquire about the situation, and after figuring out what happened to Ma Teng, they could barely understand.

It turned out that Ma Teng was driven out of Chang'an City by the generals of Liangzhou. The family team was unfortunately attacked by Yan Xing, the general of Han Sui's army. Ma Teng's wife and concubines are three, and his young son is three. All of them were killed. The eldest son, Ma Chao, fought to the death in order to protect his family, and in the end he was not spared.

Today's Ma Teng, except for his second son Ma Xiu and nephew Ma Dai with him, is almost a lonely person. This blow has always been an example for the ancestors and horses. Ma Teng, who is bent on sealing his wife and son, and taking the mason's lintel as his own responsibility, is undoubtedly a catastrophe. When Han Sui's army was besieging, Ma Teng was still hanging with a breath. As soon as Han Sui's army withdrew, the idea of revenge that supported Ma Teng became a lot weaker. Naturally, he withered.

With Ma Teng's dejected appearance, Cao Cao could hardly believe that he could hold the city steadily for more than a month. Fortunately, in Hongnong City, there is also a figure at the level of a court boss. It was also this big man who mobilized the army and people of the whole city and tried his best to assist Ma Teng's army to defend the city, so that Han Sui could not overcome it again and again under the city, and when Cao Cao and Sun Ce's coalition forces were killed, they finally had to retreat gloomily.

This court boss is none other than Yang Biao, the current head of the Hongnong Yang family, who was as famous as the Yuan family in Runan.

With his own family background and ability, Yang Biao has been promoted smoothly in the Han officialdom. After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, with the help of the turmoil in the political situation, Yang Biao successfully ascended to the long-awaited position of "Three Princes" and realized the family's goal of "Four Generations and Three Princes".

However, the tragedy of the troubled times lies in the fact that the actual authority of the "three dukes" in the high position of the imperial court is only comparable to that of a local county guard. Moreover, in the eyes of the court bigwigs, Dong Zhuo is not a qualified court ruler. In the "assassination of Dong Zhuo" case that shocked the world, the mastermind was Wang Yun, but Yang Biao actually helped Wang Yun in secret.

However, Yang Biao, who participated in the plot against Dong Zhuo, could not have imagined that Dong Zhuo's death actually made the situation of the Han completely out of control!

Not to mention the fierce counterattack launched by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others after Dong Zhuo's death, killing Wang Yun and forcing Lu Bu away. That's it. After all, Li Dao and Guo Yan are also serious generals of the Han Dynasty, and it is reasonable to be officials in the court. However, Han Sui, who then became a yellow sparrow, is an out-and-out traitor!

As soon as Han Sui entered the capital, important ministers of the DPRK and China resigned one after another. It was also at that time that Yang Biao, in order to preserve the family's name, resolutely left the high position of the third prince and left the imperial court. After returning to his hometown of Hongnong, Yang Biao summoned his clansmen and protégés to build a dock fort near Hongnong City to defend himself on the grounds that the turbulent times were turbulent and he must have the power to protect himself.

Regarding the departure of other important ministers of the imperial court, Han Sui could also ignore them quite generously. However, Yang Biao's background was too famous, and the influence of the Yang family in the entire Kansai was too great, so that Han Sui did not dare to relax his vigilance easily.

And there is another point, Yang Biao's wife is Yuan Shu's sister. There is such a layer of in-law relationship, when Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian to attack the Sanfu region, Hongnong Yang became the focus of the Liangzhou army, so as to avoid Hongnong Yang and Yuan Shu's army from joining forces inside and outside.

When Yuan Shu's army retreated, and Ma Teng cut the territory, after being assigned to Hongnong's territory, he directly guarded Hongnong Yang as a thief.

Of course, it's just precautions.

You must know that although the Hongnong Yang clan is a little worse than the Runan Yuan clan in terms of momentum, he is still a protégé all over the world. If such a character can not be offended, of course, it is better not to be offended. If you really want to offend such a famous family, it will be a big trouble. Ma Teng is a person who wants to be famous for posterity, and he will never easily offend a famous family like the Yang family.

Yang Biao did not actually participate in the edict issued by Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven. However, when Ma Teng was driven back to Hongnong by Han Sui's army, and successfully brought the genuine son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, although Yang Biao complained about this, because he had to maintain the family's Qingwang, he had to summon the main force of the family's children and quickly rushed to Hongnong City to assist Ma Teng in defending the Son of Heaven.

Fortunately, the Yang family's reputation in Hongnong is unmatched, and with Yang Biao ascending to the heights, the entire Hongnong scholar clan was mobilized to join this "Son of Heaven Defense War". Han Sui attacked under the city several times, and each time he was hit on the head and bled out, most of which was due to the militia entangled by the Yang family.

This time, under the rescue of the tripartite coalition forces, Han Sui was forced to retreat, and Yang Biao's mind finally settled down. Although Hongnong Yang offended Han Sui to death, Yang Biao thought that he had made a great contribution to saving the driver, and the Son of Heaven would inevitably rely on him, and he also felt that it was worth it.

Although the Han family is declining, Yu Wei is still there. You don't see it, it's just an edict, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and other strong domestic vassals rushed over to King Qin?

With this qualification, Yang Biao is full of hope for whether he can re-emerge with the Hongnong Yang family.

Because Ma Teng was sad that his family was ruined and had no psychological trouble, Yang Biao took over what should have been Ma Teng's responsibility, and as a landlord, he first introduced the young son of heaven to Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Zhu Hao, and then set up a banquet for the three to welcome them.

Liu Xie, the son of heaven, actually didn't know much about Cao Cao and other foreign vassals, but because of Yang Biao's achievements these days, he trusted Yang Biao quite a lot. Therefore, after Cao Cao and others simply met Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, they were handed over to Yang Biao by the Son of Heaven for reception. And Yang Biao, as the spokesperson of the Son of Heaven, discussed with Cao Cao and others about the next step of the Son of Heaven.

Obviously, Hongnong is too close to the forces of the Liangzhou army and is not safe enough, and it is definitely not a suitable place for the emperor of a country to stay. However, where the Son of Heaven will be lucky next is a very interesting question.

In the Son of Heaven's personal opinion, he actually wants to return to Luoyang, the eastern capital where the Son of Heaven was born. It's a pity that after Dong Zhuo's rude and brutal relocation of the capital, Luoyang is already ten rooms and nine empty. And the fire that Dong Zhuo put before retreating, although it was partially saved by Sun Jian, was enough to burn most of Luoyang City.

Since then, there have been years of war in Sili, which has left the remnants of the population without food supplies. In the face of the terrible famine, the residents who are still alive in the city are extremely rare.

Luoyang is so dilapidated that even the city walls on all sides have fallen down a lot, and there is no food and grass to supply to the Son of Heaven and his party, of course, it is not suitable for the Son of Heaven to settle down. Therefore, when Yang Biao proposed this place by the Son of Heaven, he had already persuaded the Son of Heaven not to plan like this.

If you can't go to Luoyang, where can you go to Tianzi?

Yang Biao knew that today was a troubled time, and the behavior of the Son of Heaven depended to a large extent on the faces of the local separatist warlords. However, as the loyal guardian of the Great Han, of course, he will try his best to choose a better place for the Son of Heaven to stay.

As for the choice of the next foothold of the Son of Heaven, Cao Cao has been carefully considered. The city doesn't have to be very big, but it must have a certain economic level, otherwise, I'm afraid that even the attendants and honor guards of the Son of Heaven can't afford to support it. The defense should be strong, so that the Son of Heaven will not be easily alarmed by the enemy. As for the location of the city, it is best to be able to fall on the territory of Yanzhou. In this way, Cao Cao could gain dominance over the imperial court.

Therefore, the first place that Cao Cao proposed was Chen Liu. (To be continued......)