The Jiangdong War became the history of half a year ago in a blink of an eye, in that thrilling land and water war, the Jingzhou army, which once had all the upper hand, was unexpectedly defeated, less than half of the 80,000 Jingzhou elites withdrew to Wuchang, and the fleet of sailors who had worked hard for thirteen years was also fatally damaged, more than 800 of the more than 6,000 large and small warships escaped back to Jiangxia, and most of the remaining half were captured unscathed by the Xuzhou Navy, and the absolute surface superiority of the Xuzhou army was completely reversed. The Xuzhou Sailor became the leader of the Yangtze River, and the Jingzhou Sailor fell to the point where it was difficult to even protect himself.

If it weren't for the Jiangdong Corps of the Xuzhou Army worried that it would not be able to continue its strength and did not dare to go too deep into the hinterland of Jingzhou, the Jiangdong Corps of the Xuzhou Army had every hope of taking the entire territory of Jiangxia and controlling the important land of Xiakou, but because the long-term supply of military rations could not be guaranteed, and there was also a lack of a strong Xuzhou army in the northern front battlefield in Jingzhou, Lu Su still gave up the action of taking the opportunity to capture Jiangxia, and chose to digest the newly captured Jingzhou fleet while taking the opportunity to send troops to attack Nanchang and pull out Yuan Yaojun, the nail nailed to the Jiangdong portal.

Yuan Yaojun in the Chaisang War was greatly injured, the two internal ministers and completely turned against each other, simply unable to resist the main force of the Jiangdong Army to the south, the brunt of Liu Xun to Yuan Yin for help to no avail, had to open the gate of Haiduan City to surrender to the Xuzhou army, Xuzhou army continued to go south, land and water into the siege of Nanchang City, although Yuan Yin father and son refused to surrender, ready to lead the army to break through and flee to Luling, but a letter from Yang Zheng persuaded Yuan Yao to send a henchman to open the city gate, Xuzhou army took advantage of the situation to attack the city, and killed Yuan Yin and his son in the city in the street battle. Yuan Yao came forward to lead the remnants of the Yuan army to surrender to the Xuzhou army, Yuzhang was peaceful, and Yuan Yao was also able to escort the coffin of the little Yuan Sangong back to his hometown in Runan for burial, and was named the Marquis of Ancheng by the imperial court controlled by the Xuzhou army.

The Xuzhou army also paid a lot of price in this war, 20,000 Chaisang defenders finally lived with only more than 9,000 people who were alive and the main force of Lusu, Qiao Rui's nephew Qiao Wei and Sima Feng of other departments were both killed, and the streets in Chaisang City, which had been operating for many years, were also burned to ruins, but Qiao Rui, who had lost his beloved nephew, admitted that these sacrifices were definitely worth it, and these sacrifices were exchanged for the Xuzhou Sailor to hit the Jingzhou Sailor hard. Completely reverse the disadvantage of the strength of the Jingzhou Water Division. The gains of the Xuzhou army far outweighed the losses. After the war, Qiao Wei and Feng Ze were also posthumously named Marquis of Ting, and the title was inherited by their heirs, and Qiao Rui was named the general of Dingnan. The Pavilion of Shangxi.

The biggest gain in the Chaisang War is, of course, Yang Changshi's beloved son Yang Zheng. In view of the fact that Yang Zheng privately gave up the task of welcoming back Yuan Mai. Deputy Director Tao first ordered the removal of Yang Zheng's previously appointed official position as Cao Peng, the official position of the Northern Lord, and deprived him of the title of Marquis of Liangqiuting, and then in order to reward Yang Zheng for his outstanding performance in the Battle of Chaisang. Deputy Director Tao also appointed Yang Zheng to join the army in Yangzhou, returned the Marquis of Liangqiuting, and asked Yang Zheng to assist Lu Su in running Jiangdong and quelling the remnants of Jiangdong warlord forces. In the end, Deputy Director Tao asked Yang Changshi to tell Yang Zheng that when he returned to Xuchang from the frontier, he asked Yang Zheng to return to Xuchang as soon as possible to meet him.

"Good boy, I really looked at him before." This is Deputy Director Tao's evaluation of Yang Zheng.

"Heaven doesn't help Cao, help the thief!" This is Boss Cao's evaluation of Yang Zheng after learning about the battle situation of Chaisang, and lamented: "Why did such a young talent appear under the account of Tao Ying's traitor, acting for Tao Ying as a tiger?" ”

"Mr. Zhongming, I heard that Ling's son, Huai Qingxian's nephew, has reached the age of marriage early, but he has not yet been engaged, my daughter is at a prime age, do you want them to be a couple?"

After learning about Yang Zheng's performance on the battlefield of Chaisang, this is what many Xuzhou military civil and military soldiers rushed to say to Yang Changshi, Yang Changshi, who was too greedy and almost engraved with the words rabbit dead dog cooking on his face, no longer had to worry about his two sons not being able to find a suitable person to marry, and began to pick and choose, and with a smile on his son, he picked more than a dozen girls from famous families for his son, and let the baby son choose by himself. The result was to everyone's surprise, Yang Zheng didn't know what to say to Yang Changshi in the letter, Yang Changshi actually chose a girl from a poor family as his wife for his beloved son Yang Zheng, and let the second son marry Qiao Rui's daughter, and scolded his wife who resolutely opposed the matter.

Hearing this trivial matter, Deputy Director Tao smiled and said nothing, Jia Lao, who had a very good relationship with Yang Changshi but had never proposed a marriage with Yang Changshi, sighed and sighed: "Zhong Ming is blessed, he has such a smart and sensible son, there is no need to worry about what is going on after his death." ”

Diametrically opposed to the proud fellow disciples of the spring breeze, Liu Qi, who fled back to Jiangxia in embarrassment, was disgraced to the extreme, although Liu Biao could not kill his head because of this fiasco, but in order to give an explanation to his subordinates, Liu Biao could only remove Liu Qi from all official positions, recall Xiangyang to live idle, and hire the acting Jiangxia Taishou to resist the retaliation of the Xuzhou sailor from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Cai family took the opportunity to regain the power of the sailor and completely control the remnants of the sailor team in their hands. Although poor Liu Qi was still unwilling after returning to Xiangyang, he was helpless at this point, so he could only hide honestly in Xiangyang City for the time being to lick his wounds, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback.

In fact, compared to the other princes of the world, Liu Qi is also happy enough, at least after the big defeat, there is a father to help wipe his ass, Liu Biao is disappointed in the performance of his eldest son, and he must take action to deal with the aftermath, and the other princes who participated in the melee in the world are not as lucky as Liu Qi, and they must bear the consequences if they lose.

When Liu Qi sent troops to attack Chaisang, he pressed the Chaisang defenders to fight, and Cao Boss, who once looked at the world, was bullied by dogs in Pingyang, and was pressed and beaten by Ma Teng, Han Sui and Zhang Lu's three coalition forces.

In the battle of Guanzhong in which the three families attacked Cao, Zhang Lu was the first to take the lead in sending troops, and first sent Uncle Liu Huang to lead an army of 10,000 to attack Sanguan. In fact, he has always paid attention to preserving his strength and buying the hearts of the army, and he did not fight hard with Cao Ren, the defender of the Cao army, so at the beginning, Cao Boss was very relaxed, and in order to break the three enemies, he personally led the army to Chencang to prepare to clean up Uncle Liu Huang first. However, what Boss Cao, who had long been accustomed to laughing at and watching the enemy's intrigue, said what he didn't expect was that his main army had just arrived in Chencang, and Ma Teng had already attacked Longxian, and he also brought quite a lot of Qiang people to help in the battle.

Because he didn't expect Ma Teng to be so coarse, Boss Cao was forced to make an improvised tactical plan. Abandon Liu Bei's first goal of booking. Led the army out of Longguan to fight a decisive battle with Ma Teng - Boss Cao This is also a smart choice, with the virtue of Uncle Liu Huang, he found that he was facing the main force of Cao's army, and he immediately retreated to the Qinling Mountains to preserve his strength. It will never be like Ma Teng's stupid real knife and real gun to fight with Cao Boss's main force. So in order not to be dragged by Uncle Liu Huang to hold the main team. Boss Cao can only temporarily change the first goal, and first find a more honest and honest Ma Teng to solve it quickly.

Boss Cao obviously underestimated Ma Teng, and got up with traitors such as Deputy Director Tao and Uncle Liu Huang. Although Ma Teng is relatively honest and honest, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Qiang Soldier Spear under Ma Teng are not vegetarians, and the javelin tactics of the Roman Corps handed down by Ma Tengzu also made Cao Boss suffer a lot. During the battle in Longxian, the infantry team of the Ma Teng army lined up in the Roman phalanx, threw the javelins both fierce and fast, so that the Cao soldiers who had never encountered this tactic were caught off guard, and they were nailed through the javelins one after another like a string of sugar gourds, and then the Qiang soldiers' spears were piled up, and the Xiliang iron cavalry attacked from both wings, and the Cao army was defeated in the first battle, and was forced to give up the Longxian city that refused to surrender and retreat to Longguan.

The next day, Cao Jun and Ma Tengjun fought again, Cao Boss who had learned a lesson no longer forcibly rushed into battle, and sent a fierce general Zhang He to fight, who knew that Ma Teng rushed out of a handsome white-robed general, only with more than 30 to let Zhang He defeat and go, Zhang Liao went out to catch it, and asked about the name of the white-robed general, the white-robed general claimed that the surname Ma Mingchao was Mengqi, but Ma Teng's eldest son, and Zhang Liao fought for twenty or thirty times, seeing that Zhang Liao's marksmanship was gradually chaotic and a little unbearable, Cao Boss had to play helplessly, and urgently made the one-eyed Yu Ban out of the formation to attack Ma Chao, wants to kill Ma Chao first and shake Ma Tengjun's heart.

Yu Ban came out of the battle, Ma Teng's command rushed out of a nobody named Pang De Pang Lingming, caught Yu Ban with a knife, and fought extremely brave and fierce, only a dozen rounds let Yu Ban can't parry, Zhang Liao over there has also been killed by Ma Chao and forced to flee back to the formation, seeing that the situation is not for the forbidden Ben also wanted to escape back to the formation, but when he turned the horse's head, he moved a step slower, and was caught up by Pang De from behind, and a knife will be cut under the forbidden horse. Cao Laoda, who gradually began to wither the talents in his hands, shouted and cried when he saw this, but Ma Teng on the opposite side laughed, and urgently ordered the second son Ma Xiu and his cousin Ma Dai to lead the army to clash, and the Cao army was defeated again and fled back to Longguan in embarrassment.

Seeing that the Cao army was defeated in successive battles, the defenders of Longxian County, who originally refused to surrender, had no choice, and honestly opened the city gate to surrender, Ma Teng swept away his worries and immediately waved his army to attack Longguan, and at the same time Han Sui's reinforcements have also come to Longxian, and Ma Teng was in one place, and then Han Sui volunteered to cross the water, led the army to copy the back of the Cao army, Cao Boss received a report that the situation was not good, and quickly gave up Longguan to retreat to Chang'an, and temporarily stabilized Ma Teng for a day with the strategy of hanging sheep and drumming, and barely escaped the doom of being immediately pursued by Ma Teng's army.

Let the goat step on the drum in the pass after all, after all, can only be concealed for a while, a day later, found that the Ma Tengjun in the plan immediately waved the division to pursue, and in the area of Wang County caught up with the Cao boss team who personally led the army behind the palace, Cao boss waved his division and Ma Teng's army to fight, in the fierce battle Ma Chao, Pang De and Ma Dai three fierce generals clash back and forth, Ma Chao also once rushed to Cao Lao Da Ma front, if it was not for Dian Wei to fight back Ma Chao, Cao Boss only almost died on the battlefield, but it was also thrilling, dangerous and dangerous. Later, after a hard fight, Cao's army finally retreated from Ma Chao, who had insufficient troops, and barely escaped from Wangxian, and ordered Cao Xiu to defend Wangxian to buy time for the main force to retreat, and retreated to Chang'an.

Cao Xiu also brilliantly completed the task of buying time for the main force to retreat, and held the small city of Huangxian County for eleven days, but at the cost of Cao Xiu and the 2,000 defenders all died in battle, and none of them were spared. But Boss Cao had no way to know the battle situation in Wangxian, and he didn't have time to cry for Cao Xiu, the thousand-mile horse of the Cao family, and led the team to retreat all the way back to Chang'an.

Cao Laoda's tactical goal was finally achieved, and the Ma-Han coalition army, which had suffered a lot during the attack on Wangxian, did not attack the cities along the way. All the way to the east, it was just to go east and go straight to Chang'an - the reason is that these cities are too poor, and I don't know how many times they have been sacked by the Xiliang army in the past few years, and the second is that the township soldiers in these small cities can't threaten the back of the Ma and Han coalition forces, so Ma Teng and Han Sui are relieved and bold to just go straight to Chang'an, and prepare to get the official title promised to him by Deputy Director Tao in Chang'an in one fell swoop.

After learning the news that Cao's army retreated to Chang'an after the defeat at Longguan, Uncle Liu immediately attacked Sanguan, contacting Ma Teng and Han Sui to attack Cao Ren, while spreading the news that they had been abandoned by Cao Boss among the defenders of Sanguan, and when the Mahan coalition army came to the bank of the Weishui River north of Sanguan. The demoralized Sanguan garrison really collapsed. Cao Ren was also worried that he would be dumpled by the Ma-Han coalition army and Uncle Liu Huang, so he was forced to abandon the pass and retreat to Chang'an. While desperately recruiting and attacking cities along the way. The people of Guanzhong were tricked into fleeing to Hanzhong in order to destroy the economic and military base of Cao's army.

At the end of the eighth year of Jian'an. The three coalition forces besieged Chang'an City, and Boss Cao was also very calm when the nest was trapped, and all the troops outside the city retreated to the city to hold on. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Xiliang Army and the Huangshu Army, and also taking advantage of the strong city defense of Chang'an City, they worked hard with the three coalition armies, and they did not go out of the city to fight once after being besieged for more than a month, and dragged on to wait for the three coalition armies that gathered for profit to disperse because of profit.

Cao Boss's grasp of the enemy's psychology is naturally extremely clever, with the repeated attacks of Chang'an City, Ma Teng and Han Sui's grain and grass gradually began to run out, Uncle Liu's grain and grass all rely on Zhang Lu's supply, naturally he can't take out too much surplus grain to help his allies, when Ma Teng and Han Sui proposed to borrow grain, Uncle Liu Huang can only take out as much food as possible to help the allies, while encouraging Ma Teng and Han Sui to ask Zhang Lu for more grain and grass, but Zhang Lu of course will not support so many allied troops, categorically refusing to provoke Ma Teng and Han Sui to be furious.

At the end of the first month of the ninth year of Jian'an, the grain and grass situation of the Ma-Han coalition army was already very dangerous, and Cao Boss also took advantage of the opportunity of the Ma-Han coalition army to attack the city for a long time, and suddenly sent troops to attack Ma Teng's camp at night, and finally fought a victory to reverse the decline. Boss Cao took the opportunity to take advantage of his relationship with Han Sui's former colleague, exchanged frequent letters with Han Sui, and deliberately let Ma Teng know, which made Ma Teng suspicious of his wife and enemy Han Sui, and was suspicious of each other and refused to fight hard.

At the beginning of February, the three coalition forces finally ran out of food and grass, and saw that Chang'an was hopeless to break the city, Ma Teng, Han Sui and Uncle Liu Huang had to choose to withdraw after consultation, and Cao Laoda, who had come out, took the opportunity to send troops to counterattack, and also singled out Ma Teng to fight Liu Huangshu and Han Sui, and persuaded Han Sui to take the opportunity to annex Ma Teng's team by letter, and had long found that Ma Teng was suspicious of his Han Sui was once tempted, but Uncle Liu Huang sensed the danger and came forward in time to persuade Han Sui to reconcile with Ma Teng, and rarely volunteered to be cannon fodder, and rescued Ma Teng with all his might when he was attacked, Joined forces to kill and retreat the Cao army's pursuers, Han Sui was also persuaded by the imperial uncle's army envoy Xu Shu, and sent troops to save Ma Teng once, Cao Boss saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, so he had to hate and retreat, and Ma Teng was grateful to Uncle Liu Huang, and became friends with Uncle Liu, and also released his previous suspicions with Han Sui again.

After the melee in Guanzhong, although Cao Boss finally kept the old nest of Chang'an and withstood the three coalition forces that were unable to continue, most of the grain and grass savings that Cao Jun was preparing to use to capture Hanzhong were also consumed, and at the same time, many counties in the west of Chang'an were also hit hard, and the people of the four cities of Yixian, Gudao, Wugong and Yongxian were almost deceived into Hanzhong by Uncle Liu Huang to escape the war, and the tuntian outside Chang'an was also destroyed, and the economy was hit hard, and it was unable to launch the southern expedition for a long time. Uncle Liu Huang took the opportunity to display his magic skills of fishing in troubled waters, expanded the Hanzhong army under his control to more than 15,000, and also incorporated a large number of local township soldiers in Guanzhong, with more than 20,000 troops in his hands, and had the strength to annex Hanzhong.

In this way, after more than three years of dismal operation in the broken and withered Guanzhong, Boss Cao, who finally had some savings, had once again his hope of a comeback was shattered by the three coalition forces, but Liu Huangshu, the biggest opponent on the Qinling battlefield, took the opportunity to sit big, and it was even more difficult to eliminate. Under the anger, Cao Boss unconsciously also contracted the same cough as Guo Jia, which could not be cured for a long time, but fortunately he did not cough up and cough blood like Guo Jia often, so it was still supportable, and at the same time, Cao Boss inevitably planted spring crops such as millet and soybeans immediately after the withdrawal of the three coalition forces, so that there was some grain harvest in the autumn, so as not to starve the army and the people together.

Unconsciously when the autumn harvest came in August, in order to ensure the smooth harvesting of millet into the warehouse, Boss Cao not only personally led the civil and military forces to the field to comfort the soldiers and civilians of Tuntian, but also went down to the field to wave the sickle and cut the ears, fulfilling the performance obligation of a leading brother. And just as Boss Cao asked the soldiers not to miss a spike and a meter, Xun Yu came to Boss Cao with an urgent document and said: "Lord, Hanzhong is in an emergency, Liu Bei and Zhang Lu turned their faces, Liu Bei responded from within, and suddenly took Yangping Pass, and the soldiers came to the south of Zhengcheng. There is also unconfirmed news that Du Hao, Pu Hu, Yuan Yue and other Yiren forces in Langzhong have also formed an alliance with Liu Bei. ”

"Sooner or later, the big-eared thieves like to do that there." Boss Cao's expression was as usual, and he said while cutting ears: "However, attacking Zhang Lu by force is too much like the consistent hypocrisy of big-eared thieves, what kind of excuse is used to start a war?" ”

"It's still an extremely hypocritical excuse to protect his fellow brother Liu Zhang." Xun Yu said with a wry smile: "I heard that it was Yang Song who made a statement to Zhang Lu and persuaded Zhang Lu to send Liu Bei's team to attack Liu Zhang, take the rich land of Xichuan Forty-one Cities and establish himself as the king of Hanning, and by the way, avenge the murder of his mother. Who knew that after Liu Bei listened to the order, he immediately killed Zhang Lu's messenger, under the pretext that Liu Zhang was his brother of the same clan, and he would rather die than meet the sword soldiers of the same clan, and then immediately sent troops to attack Yangping Pass, someone in the pass opened the gate, and Liu Bei took the opportunity to take Yangping Pass. ”

"What a vicious strategy." Cao Lao sighed: "Bribery Yang Song to make him attack Xichuan, take the opportunity to rebel in the name of benevolence and righteousness, and if it is successful, it will get the granary of Hanzhong. ”

"Lord, do you suspect that Liu Bei bribed Yang Song's words?" Xun Yu asked in surprise.

"Who else but him?" Boss Cao smiled bitterly and said: "The pottery thief won't do this, he is more afraid of the big-eared thief than me to win Hanzhong and Xichuan." ”

"So what do we do?" Xun Yu asked, "Are you ready to send troops?" ”

"Of course, but we also sent troops to help the big-eared thieves." Boss Cao smiled even more bitterly and said: "If the big-eared thief can't take Nanzheng, he will go to Xichuan, we will send troops to Hanzhong, whether it is to help Zhang Lu beat away the big-eared thief, or to take Hanzhong himself, the big-eared thief will definitely go to Xichuan, Xichuan, but it is much stronger than Hanzhong." (To be continued......)