In the blink of an eye, at the beginning of 192, the situation in the world became more and more chaotic. First of all, Cao Yingbing sent Yingchuan Yang Zhai, vowing to destroy Lu Bu and regain his beloved concubine Bian and his beloved son Cao Pi. But Lu Bu is not a soft persimmon, he has a strategist Zhang Yang under his command, as well as Yu Fuluo, Yang Feng, Li Le, Song Xian, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, Hou Cheng and other generals, and his strength is not worse than Cao Ying. In addition, Yuan Shao secretly provided food and grass for Lu Bu, and the two were still inseparable after half a year of fierce fighting, and they each withdrew their troops at the time of the autumn harvest.

Yuan Shao was not idle, annexed Yuan Shu's subordinates, and after taking Yuzhou, he recruited talents with the identity of the fourth and third dukes, and his strength has risen sharply in the past two years. The strategists under his command were Feng Ji, Xin Ping, Guo Tu, Xu You, Yang Hong, Yuan Lian, Yan Xiang and others, and the generals included Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Lu Yi, Chun Yuqiong, Zhu Ling, Chen Lan, Lu Fan, Lu Xiang, Gao Gan, Zhang Xun and others, in addition, there were also small warlords who took refuge in him such as Sun Jian, Liu Xun and Lu Bu and others.

And the most chaotic place in the world is Yangzhou, which has a huge territory, including Huainan, Huaibei and Jiangdong, and the forces are also extremely complex. Yuan Shao sent generals Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Lu Yi, and Sun Jian to attack Yangzhou in four ways. How can Chen Wen stop Yuan Shao? Defeat and retreat.

However, the local warlords were not willing to let Yangzhou be taken by Yuan Shao, and first Liu Xuan, the younger brother of Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, led troops to resist. This Liu Xuan was originally a Penglai clan, a rare talent, and was promoted to filial piety for leading Zhuangding to rescue his cousin from the bandits. During Dong Zhuo's reign, he succeeded Chen Wen as the assassin of Yangzhou. But at that time, Yuan Shao had already begun to get involved in Yangzhou, Liu Miao could not take office at all, so he scattered all his family wealth, recruited Xiangyong, coupled with Liu Dai's strong help, gathered more than 50,000 people, and his generals included Li Lan, Zhang Ying, Fan Neng and others, and their strength could not be ignored.

Secondly, it is Liu Xun of Huainan, Liu Xun was originally the Taishou of the Lujiang River, sitting on a large piece of territory between the Yangtze River and the Huai River, and the military strength is also strong, and there are first-class strategists like Liu Ye, and the strength should not be underestimated.

Among them, the best person is Sun Jian. Sun Jian claims to be the descendant of the soldier saint Sun Wu, not to mention the truth or falsehood for the time being, and said that Sun Jian is definitely a fierce general, good at using soldiers. Sun Jian started as a county magistrate, and successively served as five county magistrates, and has a great reputation in the local area. Later, more than 10,000 people in Changsha gathered to rebel, and Sun Jian, the cousin of the imperial court, was the Taishou of Changsha, and it only took a month to pacify the district star, and his reputation was even better than before.

Not only that, Sun Jian also married a pair of sisters of the local family Wu family, and the two sisters gave birth to Sun Ce, Sun Ning, Sun Quan, Sun Yi, Sun Kuang, Sun Shangxiang, and Sun Lang, of which the elder sister gave birth to the eldest son Sun Ce, the eldest daughter Sun Ning, the second son Sun Quan, the third son Sun Yi, and the fourth son Sun Kuang, who died of illness. And her sister (also Wu Guotai) gave birth to her second daughters, Sun Shangxiang and Sun Lang.

After Yuan Shu hung up, Sun Jian took refuge in Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao cousin Sun Jian assassinated the history of Yangzhou, provided him with grain and grass, and asked him to send troops to attack Chen Wen. Sun Jian also had a strategic vision, he handed over the complex areas of Jiangbei and Huaihe to Yan Liangwen Chou and Lu Yi, and he also gave up Changsha County and raised troops from his hometown Fuchun. With the help of Yuan Shao and the Wu family, Sun Jian was like a fish in water in Jiangdong, and in less than two years, he seized the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and his power developed rapidly, but he still had to bow down to Yuan Shao on the surface.

The main reason is that Sun Jian borrowed the light of Brother Xiaoma, because of Ma Chao's agitation, Sun Jian not only did not get the jade seal, but also hugged Yuan Shao's big thick leg, so naturally he would not die so easily.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou attacked Huainan again, and Lu Yi led 50,000 troops to attack Shouchun, after three months of hard fighting, Shouchun City was broken, and Chen Wen died of grief. In this way, Yuan Shao not only gained a firm foothold in Yuzhou, but also pocketed most of Yangzhou, and the rest of Liu Xun and Liu Miao also made peace with Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao also took into account the strength in the hands of the two, so he named Liu Xun as the Taishou of Lujiang, and led Wu Wei, and drove Liu Xun to Jiangdong, and was named Yuzhang Taishou, and received Shu Hou.

Yuan Shao developed his power, and Liu Biao was not idle, while he won over the local family, he also formed an alliance with Zhang Xiu, who seized Nanyang, on the condition of supplying grain and grass, so that Zhang Xiu could resist the threat from Ma Chao, Lu Bu and Yuan Shao in the north. At the same time, they were engaged in internal affairs and recuperated, and many people who had fled in advance returned to their hometowns.

Liu Biao vigorously promoted the Huang family, the Cai family and the Pang family, recruited the villagers, purchased ordnance, and soon pulled up an army of more than 100,000 people.

Compared with the south, in addition to the three states of Merge, Hebei and Xu, the other states in the north are also extremely chaotic.

Here, Cao Ying and Lu Bu have just quit their troops, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has risen again. This Yellow Turban Riot was full of millions of people, divided into several groups to loot everywhere, each with large and small leaders, and there was no unified leader! Millions of yellow turbans have been in rebellion in Qingzhou for a long time, among them, the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Guan Hai led more than 200,000 people to attack Linzi, Beihai County. Beihai was too guarded by Kong Rong to resist it, so he defended the city.

Another 780,000 attacked Xuzhou from Mount Tai. Tao Qian hurriedly sent the generals Zang Ba, Yili, and Cao Bao to lead the army to resist. The yellow turban thieves follow the crowd, but they are all rabble, belonging to the kind of crowd tactics of the old and weak women and children going into battle together. After attacking Xuzhou, he turned to attack Jizhou Bohai, but was repelled by Zhang He. Subsequently, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, which ran into walls everywhere, attacked Yanzhou.

Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, planned to send troops to meet him, but Bao Xin dissuaded him: "The thief army is strong, the people are panicked, and the army is discouraged. At the same time, there are many family members of the thief army, and there is an extreme shortage of food and grass materials in the army, so they all rely on looting to maintain supplies. Now instead of rashly attacking, it is better to let the troops recuperate, first take the defense, the enemy can not seek battle, and the strong attack will only increase casualties, and when its momentum is low, we will attack with the elite, and we will be able to win the battle. ”

Liu Dai didn't think so, and said disdainfully: "A group of rabble, what is the way? This assassin history is enough to break it with 50,000 armor soldiers! But it was said that Liu Dai's 50,000 elite soldiers fought against hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army, and the sergeants saw the Yellow Turban thieves all over the place, and they were so frightened that they had no heart to fight, and they were defeated after a little resistance, and Liu Dai was also killed by the Yellow Turban thieves in the chaos.

When Bao Xin saw that Liu Dai was killed in battle, he proposed to Cao Ying that he go to Dongjun to persuade Yanzhou not to drive and support Cao Ying as the pastor of Yanzhou. Later, he arrived in Dongjun with the state official Wan Qian and others to welcome Cao Ying as the pastor of Yanzhou.

Cao Ying did have military talent, and he thought that the Yellow Turban Army was proud of the enemy after its victory, so he set up a surprise army to meet the Yellow Turban Army in Shouzhang. Cao Ying and Bao Xin arrived at the battlefield first, but the infantry did not. At this time, the enemy had already met Cao Ying, and the two armies went to war. Bao Xin desperately rescued Cao Ying, but he was killed in the chaos. After the army arrived, several battles finally killed the Yellow Turban Army, and collected more than 200,000 elite soldiers, and the Yellow Turban thieves had 500,000 people.

Cao Ying ordered the recruited troops to be the Qingzhou Army, and the male and female thieves were organized as civilians. Since then, Cao Ying's reputation has been greatly enhanced, his strength has risen sharply, and he has recruited talents in Yanzhou, first Xun Yu and Han Fu have come to vote. Cao Ying was overjoyed, worshiped Xun Yu as the marching Sima, and Han Fu as the marching Sima. Subsequently, Xun Yu recommended a native of Dong'a in Dongjun, surnamed Cheng Mingyu, and the word Zhongde. Cheng Yu recommended Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, Cao Ying failed to recruit Guo Jia, and Xun Yu recommended Xi Zhicai, Lu Qian and Man Chong. Immediately afterwards, Lu Qian recommended Mao Jue and Mao Xiaoxian. Later, there were Taishan people in the forbidden introduction of five hundred Xiangyong to vote, Cao Ying worshiped it as the point army Sima. Cao Ren recommended Chen Liuren Gao Lan, and Cao Ying saw that Gao Lan's martial arts were outstanding and his courage was extraordinary, so he let him be the Sima of other departments. (To be continued.) )