"Could it be Dong Gongren?!"

Yuan Shao looked at the spy report presented by Guo Tu and glanced up at Guo Tu.

"Yes."

Guo Tu finally returned to his usual calm appearance, and replied respectfully.

Dong Zhao, the word Gongren, Jiyin Dingtao people. Although this person came from a poor family, he had a great reputation in the county when he was young. It is said that after using some secret methods, Dong Zhao successfully squeezed out several celebrities in the same county, and was promoted as filial piety by the county guard.

After serving as a squire in the imperial court for several years (1), Dong Zhao was elected an official two years ago and served as the commander of the county of Julu County. Although it is only a county order, the gall pottery is the seat of Julu County. The county magistrate who serves as such an important place, although there is a current manager above who is in the way, can get the news of the county as soon as possible. After Yuan Shao entered Jizhou, this person was the first batch of Jizhou officials to show obedience to Yuan Shao. As a result, Dong Zhao fell into Yuan Shao's eyes.

Later, Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao fought, and Li Shao, the original Taishou of Julu County, and the eunuchs in the county, thought that Gongsun Chan had a strong army, and they all wanted to defect to Gongsun Chan. After Dong Zhao participated in the anti-Yuan gathering between Li Shao and the powerful in the county, he immediately wrote a letter to expose Li Shao's actions, which was appreciated by Yuan Shao. Subsequently, Yuan Shao decisively sent the general Yan Liang to take down Li Shao and behead him on the charge of fornicating with foreign thieves, while Dong Zhao was appointed as the new Julu Taishou.

When Dong Zhao first took office, he boldly forged a copy of Yuan Shao's inscription in front of the county gentry, and in the name of Yuan Shao, he beheaded more than ten well-known scholars such as the filial piety of the county. Because of the fact that Li Shao was killed before, few people in the county suspected that it was fake. When the scholars of the whole county were panicked because of Yuan Shao's inscription, Dong Zhao comforted them one by one. With such a combination of hard and soft, he successfully settled down the whole county.

Regarding Dong Zhao's decisive behavior of using his reputation to kill decisively, Yuan Shao was extremely unhappy, but he had to pinch his nose to express his appreciation. After all. Dong Zhao's behavior is also doing things for Yuan Shao. Even if he did something out of line, it was not for his own selfish desires. If Yuan Shao punished Dong Zhao for this, he was afraid that his subordinates would encounter difficulties in the future, so they would not dare to do it boldly.

Therefore, if you don't like it, Yuan Shao will not punish Dong Zhao. It is also intended that he will be reused. However, after Dong Zhao provoked enough resentment, Yuan Shao did not mind borrowing his head to appease the grievances of the gentry in Jizhou.

After learning that Li Cheng, the Taishou of Wei County, was killed, when Yuan Shao chose Li Cheng's successor, the first thing that came to mind was Dong Zhao, a bold and capable subordinate. But who would have expected that the mastermind behind the planning of the eastern invasion of the Bingzhou army and the capture of Yecheng in one fell swoop. It's actually this white-faced scholar who looks clear-eyed?

When Yuan Shao was shocked when he learned that Dong Zhao was actually the mastermind of the invasion of the Bingzhou army, Dong Zhao, who was the culprit, was chatting leisurely with Zhang Yan.

Dong Zhao is the Taishou of Julu, and there is a Changshan Mountain between Julu and Bingzhou, so it is not so easy to see Dong Zhao when he is arrogant. However, Dong Zhao relied on his status to provide a lot of military mobilization documents for the Bingzhou Army. There is the corresponding paperwork as proof. In the turbulent Jizhou, all localities will not go out of their way to stop these passing guest troops.

Even more exaggerated. Dong Zhao also sent the tiger talisman he asked for from Yuan Shao when he suppressed Julu Haoqiang to Zhang Mad so that Zhang Mad could make the Bingzhou vanguard army he sent pretend to be Yuan Shaojun's banner.

In this way, whether it is Zang Ba's strategy for Shexian on the southern line, or Zhoucang Raiders on the middle line, Shangai. Or the northern front's Yu Ban attack on Jing Cheng or not, they all succeeded in fighting without blood, and went down with one drum. The defensive forces that Yuan Shao carefully left behind in Shexian and Yecheng were thus abolished by the two "traitors" Dong Zhao and Tao Sheng. Many of the officials belonging to the county have not yet understood, half of Wei County and most of Changshan. It's already changed hands.

Of course, a good start does not mean that the arrogant Jizhou strategy will be successfully realized in the end.

For example, if Zhang Qiang wants to successfully take Changshan and Julu into his hands, Dong Zhao's internal should not be enough, he must use his own strength to defeat Yuan Shao, so as to be able to truly deter Jizhou's big and small people who are careful to Yuan Shao's heroism. As far as Zhang Qi is concerned, under the current situation, the best combat target is the headquarters of Yan Liang and Wen Chou stationed in Xiaquyang.

Zhang Mad led the Chinese army of 6,000 people, and after converging the 5,000 soldiers of the Forbidden Detention Department and the 4,000 Julu soldiers brought by Dong Zhao, the strength of the army jumped to as much as 15,000. If Zhang Yan, who followed him, arrived with 4,000 of his subordinates, it would be almost a full 20,000 troops.

The 20,000 army is composed of soldiers and auxiliaries, not including the 3,000 people of the state and the 4,000 people of the giant deer!

Judging from the total number of troops alone, the mobilized troops for this expedition have successfully refreshed the upper limit of the arrogant command.

Fifty miles southwest of Xiaquyang City, Zhang Qi and Dong Zhao finally met for the first time.

"Master Jen! Your name has been known for your arrogance for a long time, but you have never seen it. Now that I see it, it's comforting! ”

In the face of the enthusiasm shown by the arrogance, Dong Zhao did not dare to hold it up at all, and extremely respectfully made a great gift from his subordinates to the lord, and shouted loudly:

"Dong Zhao greets the Heavenly Master!"

"My own brother, why be so polite!"

Zhang Qi hurriedly caught up a few steps forward, helped Dong Zhao up, and talked to him.

"If it weren't for Master Ren, how could our army have been in such a smooth situation? Master Ren has made great contributions, great achievements! ”

Dong Zhao made a gesture of submission to Zhang Qi in front of the army, which made Zhang Qi extremely satisfied. Since Dong Zhao is so upright, Zhang Zhao did not hesitate to praise himself, and immediately named Dong Zhao as the assassin of Jizhou, and he took over the title of Jizhou assassin. In this way, Jizhou at this time actually has three Jizhou assassin histories, which can be regarded as reflecting the strategic importance of Jizhou.

Of course, Zhang Qi's title of Jizhou Assassin History is still more legally grounded than Yan Gang and Yuan Shao's title of Jizhou Assassin History.

Yan Gang's Jizhou assassination history comes from Gongsun Zhan's self-proclaimed and Liu Yu's acquiescence; Yuan Shao's Jizhou assassination history comes from Han Fu's concession and the recognition of the world's corporals; However, the arrogant Jizhou Assassin History is from the edict of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an City, which can be said to be justified to a certain extent.

After occupying most of the division, Han Sui had not yet effectively controlled half of the division, and immediately faced Yuan Shu, who claimed to be 200,000. In fact, it is a crusading army of 100,000. Such a tricky situation was also something that Han Sui had not expected in advance.

Who would have thought that Yuan Shu, who was already going to attack Yanzhou, had reached the point where he was ready to attack, and he actually stopped in a daze and decisively changed the direction of the attack?

Yuan Shu's large-scale attack made the situation in Guanzhong greatly dangerous for Han Sui, Ma Teng and others. At this time. The arrogant attitude of Si Li's northern and state assassins has become quite important. If Zhang Mad came to rob by fire, Han Sui's Western Liangqiang Han army would not have a firm foothold in Guanzhong, and it was very likely that Zhang Mad and Yuan Shu would join forces to fight back to the bitter cold Liangzhou.

The forces of Han Sui and Zhang Qiang once had a slight grudge in the competition for Baibo Valley. However, in the face of major events related to the world, Han Sui would not care about these trivial grievances. He also believed that if he were not a fool, he would not have daunted these details.

But. With Han Sui's old scheming, of course, he would not fail to see that it was unlikely that Zhang Qi would go south at this time. After all, even if Han Sui was defeated, if Zhang Qiang wanted to occupy Si Li, he would have to face the 100,000 Yuan Shu army commanded by Sun Jian.

According to Han Sui's research on Zhang Qi over the years, he believes that Zhang Qi's mind at this time should be placed in Jizhou in the east. There, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan fought to defeat both. But a lot of cheap ones are waiting for Zhang Crazy to pick them up!

Conjecture is conjecture, the old and spicy Han Sui will not pin his hopes on the conjecture of possibility. So. As soon as he took control of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an City, he immediately issued an edict to the Son of Heaven to Bingzhou, sealing Zhang Qiang as the assassin of Jizhou, in anticipation of the disaster to the east.

In order to show the importance of Bingzhou, the envoy was Han Sui's very relied on confidant and strategist - Cheng Gongying.

Although Cheng Gongying is outstandingly resourceful. But he looks five big and three thick, and he looks like a majestic martial artist. When he came to Bingzhou, Zhang Mad was busy with the Eastern Crusade, and only had a few words with Cheng Gongying. On the premise that both sides had no intention of confronting, the two reached a gentleman's agreement in a few words.

As agreed. Zhang Qi promised not to participate in the war in the land of Sanfu, and Cheng Gongying promised in place of Han Sui that he would not try to attack the area of Sanhe for three years (2).

However, in addition to these conditions, Zhang Qi also proposed an additional condition to Cheng Gongying on behalf of many Taoists in Taiping Dao. That is:

Extradition of Huangfu Song.

As the main general who suppressed the Taiping Dao Uprising that year, Huangfu Song committed a lot of blood debts to the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou and Yingchuan. Not to mention anything else, after Huang Fu Song broke the main force of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army commanded by Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, he captured more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops, killed all of them regardless of the old, young, women and children, and built a Jingguan to boast of his martial arts. This kind of behavior makes the remnants of the Taiping Daoist people hate the emperor to the core!

In today's Bingzhou Army, there are many relatives of middle- and low-level officers and soldiers, among the hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children killed by Huangfu Song back then. Therefore, insolence can let go of other Han officials, and even shake hands and say goodbye, but it is impossible to let go of Huangfu Song, who is full of blood. It can be said that how high the prestige of Huangfu Song among the Han soldiers is, how deep Taiping Dao's hatred for him is!

After being stunned for this request of insolence, Cheng Gongying said that he could not agree to this matter immediately, and he had to ask his lord Han Sui.

Huangfu Song is a native of Liangzhou, and can be called the most outstanding Han general in Liangzhou for decades, and his reputation in Liangzhou even surpasses that of Dong Zhuo, who was once powerful. Even though Han Sui and his gang were anti-thieves and had fought with Huangfu Song for many years, they also had great respect for this famous Han general.

After conquering the Yiwu set up by Dong Zhuo, Huangfu Song received the news that Li Dao, Guo Yan and other commanders were besieging Chang'an, but when he returned to Chang'an, he was suddenly attacked by the combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng, and was unfortunately defeated and captured. Although Huangfu Song has never responded to Han Sui's solicitation, he has never secretly done anything.

Han Sui was hindered by Huangfu Song's prestige in the hearts of the Liangzhou people, and was unwilling to disadvantage him. But after hearing the news that Cheng Gongying had returned from Zhang Qiang, Han Sui's mind changed.

Only one hero in Liangzhou is enough. This hero, of course, is Han Sui himself, who led the people of Liangzhou to get rid of the tyranny of the imperial court. As for Huangfu Song, please die obediently! (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) Shilang, a kind of Lang official in the Han Dynasty, was originally a close attendant of the court, with a rank ratio of 400 stones, lower than Yilang and Zhonglang.

(2) Sanhe refers to the three counties of Hedong, Hanoi and Yin, Henan, to which the division belongs.