As a close confidant of the former Jizhou Assassin Wang Fen, Lu Yi has a deep relationship with the party. This is also the main reason why Han Fu, who is not in the same vein as a member of the party, has always been unable to trust Lu Yi. And without the trust of his boss, of course, Koji's life is not comfortable. In addition, a blood feud between him and the insolence of the state, the army of the state in the area of Taihang Mountain can be said to be eyeing him.

In such a helpless situation, Xu You just showed the sign of Yuan Shao, the leader of the party, and Lu Yi immediately expressed his loyalty to Xu You. Regarding Xu You's request, Lu Yi was even more secretly happy in his heart. He also looked at Han Fu unpleasantly for a long time.

So, according to Yuan Shao's request, Lu Yi began to secretly mobilize his subordinates, prepare ordnance and grain, and wait for Yuan Shao's next action order.

As for Gongsun Zhan, although he can be regarded as famous and powerful in Youzhou, he has a boss who is stronger than him in all aspects, that is, the former Taifu, the clan of the Han family, and Liu Yu of Youzhou. Whether it is in terms of official position, fame, or the hearts of the people and the army, Liu Yu is enough to completely suppress Gongsun Zhan. Moreover, Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu had huge differences in their strategies for dealing with the northern barbarians, which made the relationship between the two sides very stiff.

Being disgusted by your boss doesn't make anyone feel comfortable. Fortunately, Liu Yu is a relative of the Han clan after all, and he is quite open-minded, and out of consideration for the stability of the Han border, he did not have the idea of winning Gongsun Zan for this reason. Otherwise, as long as Liu Yu said a word, Gongsun Zhan's elite soldiers were afraid that most of them would run away on the spot.

Gongsun Zhan, who felt greatly shrinking when doing things, wanted to get rid of Liu Yu's constraints. Helplessly, in Youzhou, Liu Yu is the boss, and no matter who he is, he can't shake it. As a result, Gongsun Chan had the idea of leaving Youzhou and looking for another development.

But there is a court law. If there is no strong reason, Gongsun Zhan, the general of the border army in Youzhou, will not be able to leave the territory of Youzhou. Otherwise, Liu Yu's order can be justifiably erased, and the official position obtained by Gongsun Zan after more than ten years of hard work can be erased.

The arrival of the Chronicle. made Gongsun Chan overjoyed. And Feng Ji didn't have to convince Gongsun Chan at all, his task was just to get a recognizable reason to send troops for Gongsun Chan in front of Liu Yu. The resurgence of the Yellow Turban thieves in Jizhou is a very good and powerful reason. As a relative of the Han family, Liu Yu had no reason to prevent Gongsun Zan from sending troops to neighboring states and counties to exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves.

So, with the southward movement of Gongsun Zhan's army, a big drama that happened in Jizhou officially opened!

The Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou was originally not strong. After the Yellow Turban Uprising that shocked the world six or seven years ago. The backbone of Taiping Road in Jizhou either died or fled. Coupled with the high vigilance and strong suppression of the counties and states in various places, there is no place for a large number of Yellow Turban troops to survive on the open Hebei Plain.

The Yellow Turban Army that Gongsun Zhan used as a reason to go south was actually not the local Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, but from Qingzhou in the southeast.

Thanks to the blessing of Qingzhou's assassin Shi Jiaohe, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, the development of the Yellow Turban Army in the past few years can be called a thousand miles a day.

Jiao and this guy. It can also be regarded as a wonderful flower among the officials of the Han Dynasty. This guy is a complete idiot in military affairs, even if he has a strong army, sharp armor, and plenty of food and grass. With such a superior military strength, it will still be defeated repeatedly by Guan Hai, the commander of the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou, whose ability to "transport" soldiers and horses for the enemy can be compared with the "Chang" Gong "Kaishen" in later generations.

After repeated defeats in war, Jiao He developed an extreme fear of war. This mental illness is so powerful in Jiao He's body that he hears that there is a war going on somewhere. He would hurriedly pray to the gods and ancestors, ask the sorcerer for divination, and pray for his own victory.

The so-called one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. Jiao He is so unbearable, but it has greatly facilitated the development of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. Although some of the important strongholds that were well guarded. The Yellow Turbans were powerless. However, the occupation of small towns and villages in Qingzhou has made the scale of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army rapidly swell to a population of one million!

And so, tragedy struck.

Guan Hai is a general, but he is not good at handling civil affairs. And the entire Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army Group has no ability to govern the local area at all. Therefore, as many as one million Yellow Turban Army successfully ate half of Qingzhou to the end. Seeing that so many people were about to run out of food, and the remaining territory in Qingzhou was also in short supply, Guan Hai, the commander of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, had to make an extremely painful decision:

Divide the troops and go out.

Under the pressure of food shortage, the million-strong Yellow Turban Army carried out a large-scale migration of unprecedented scale.

First, in the second year of Chuping [191], the Yellow Turban Army composed of 200,000 people went north, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Bohai County of Jizhou from Qingzhou Plain County. After the Yellow Turban Army in the north was suddenly attacked by Gongsun Zhan, the 300,000 Yellow Turban Army changed its goal and went west to Taishan County, Yanzhou, to seek a way to survive.

After such a large-scale population export, the number of Yellow Turban soldiers who still stayed in Qingzhou was reduced by half, and they could farm and fish on their own to make a living. It's just that most of the Yellow Turban soldiers who stayed behind were old, weak, sick and disabled, and many of them died of hunger and disease in the difficult days that followed. The number of them was so huge that even Guan Hai, the commander of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, felt extremely guilty.

Making such a cruel decision made Guan Hai extremely uncomfortable. He couldn't figure it out anyway, he was bent on realizing the last wish of "great sage and good teacher" and "peace in the world", but in the end, so many soldiers and civilians who followed him went to famine and fell into a near-death situation. This huge difference between reality and ideal made Guan Hai, who was physically healthy, extremely rare to have a serious illness. It was because of this illness that he had to stay in Qingzhou and did not move with the main force of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

The Yellow Turban Army that entered Taishan County, Yanzhou will be mentioned later. Those Yellow Turban troops who crossed the Yellow River and entered the Bohai Sea had a good life for a few days at first.

Because Yuan Shao was preparing to turn his face with Han Fu at this time, let Chun Yuqiong lead the main army of Bohai to march west along the Yellow River, and the Yellow Turban Army just took advantage of the emptiness of Bohai's troops to take advantage of the void. In just over half a month, most of the territory of Bohai County has become the world of yellow turbans.

After Yuan Shao got the news that his territory was invaded by the Yellow Turban Army, he was worried and happy. Of course, the worry is that his own territory has been robbed, but the joy is to invite Gongsun Zhan to go south, which is justifiable. And from the perspective of the overall strategy of plotting Jizhou, this unexpected invasion of the Yellow Turban Army. In fact, it still helped Yuan Shaoshao [not a typo].

After receiving Yuan Shao's formal invitation, Gongsun Chan quickly moved his troops. He took Baima Yicong as the leader, commanded 5,000 infantry as the main force, and then entangled the national soldiers from all over Youzhou and Jizhou, a total of 20,000 people, all the way south. Break into Bohai County, Jizhou.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, which was dying in Bohai County, only cared about keeping an eye on the movements of the soldiers and horses in Jizhou, completely unaware that the Youzhou Army would actually go south. Caught off guard, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was defeated by Gongsun Chan in the first battle, and the whole army was wiped out in World War II!

In this battle, Gongsun Zhan's army beheaded 50,000 people, captured nearly 100,000 prisoners, captured more than 30,000 carts of baggage, and the corpses stretched for more than 100 miles. Nearly 60,000 people threw themselves into the river and died. When the tragic situation spread to the state, even the arrogance that had broken with the other Yellow Turban Army couldn't help but be speechless.

It is worth mentioning that in the process of breaking the Yellow Turban Thieves, Gongsun Zhan had a member of the team named Liu Bei, who led his troops to perform extremely well. He led 600 soldiers from his headquarters and rushed all the way to the front, winning the crown of all armies. Even the general leader of the more than 100,000 Yellow Turban thieves. It was also the hand of Zhang Fei, the cavalry commander under Liu Bei.

Gongsun Zhan has been in northern Xinjiang for many years, but he is not recognized by the mainland of the Han Dynasty. Now after the First World War. He immediately became world-famous. And most of the county officials in Jizhou, who are facing the front of the Shanggongsun army, are mostly deterrent to their military strength. Wherever Gongsun Chan passed, they all expressed their obedience to Gongsun Chan.

Gongsun Zhan occupies the counties of Jizhou, this kind of thing, of course, Han Fu, as a state pastor, cannot tolerate it. So, on the one hand, he ordered the officials of Jizhou to guard the city. On the one hand, it was also urgently dispatched to recruit cronies to engage in Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan, and the governor of the new Jizhou Prefecture Division of more than 10,000 people, carrying nearly 10,000 strong crossbows, was transferred from the front line of guarding against Yuan Shao's army. Go north to fight against Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan's occupation of territory in Jizhou was not recognized by the princes because there was no legal basis. As a result, his land grabbing operation is actually progressing slowly. But at this moment, the so-called "drowsiness meets pillow", but someone sent a big basis for Gongsun Chan in time. It can be seen that Gongsun Chan at this time is really lucky to the point of going against the sky.

It was none other than Dong Zhuo who retreated to Chang'an to provide the legal basis for Gongsun Zhan.

As soon as the news that Gongsun Zhan was about to go south and suppress the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army reached the Chang'an Imperial Court, Dong Zhuo's mastermind Li Ru keenly felt that what could be done in it. So, under the recommendation of Zhonglang General Xu Rong, Gongsun Du, who accepted the appointment of the Liaodong Taishou, was on the way to office, and there was an extra messenger by his side to deliver the imperial edict. ①

The news that this imperial envoy brought to Gongsun Chan was that he was appointed as the assassin of Jizhou, and that Gongsun Zhan's younger brother Gongsun Fan was appointed as the Taishou of Bohai.

Li Ru believed that with Gongsun Zhan's temperament and the relationship with Yuan Shao and Han Fu, he would inevitably accept this appointment. After taking over these appointments, no matter what the connection between Gongsun Chan and the Kwantung traitors was, he would fight with Han Fu, Yuan Shao and other traitors for his own territory!

At this time, the Han Dynasty, because the imperial court was in the hands of Dong Zhuo and was not recognized by other states, basically fell into a very chaotic situation in the appointment of official positions.

It can be said that those state and county officials who were appointed before the first year of Chuping [190] were still relatively stable. However, since the establishment of the Anti-Dong Alliance, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have successively denied the authority of the imperial court, and appointed some local officials on their own according to their own prestige.

Since then, if there is a new vacancy, it has become a situation where all parties can appoint them, but all parties need to compete for them. The final approval of the appointee depends on the prestige and ability of the appointee in the region, as well as the influence of the forces behind it.

Now, Gongsun Chan has won the title of Jizhou Assassin. Whoever appointed the title undoubtedly provided him with great convenience. In the troubled times at that time, as long as he had strength, even if it was an empty title, Gongsun Chan could find a way to make it a real official position. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) According to historical records, Gongsun Du took office in 190 years. It doesn't hurt to falsify history here.