Cai Sangjin, Ma Yue's 20,000 Liang troops were stationed here.

Caisangjin is a ferry port and a small city, but it is east of the river, backed by Bingyi, and you can also exit the inner Great Wall to the north to defend the Hetao.

The 20,000 Liang troops were stationed in Caisangjin, and Ma Yue and Jia Xu made the decision after careful discussion.

First of all, and the most important one is that Ma Yue is unwilling to turn his face with Yuan Shao at this time, this is not because Ma Yue is afraid of Yuan Shao, Ma Yue hopes that Yuan Shao, the jackal, will turn his eyes to Cao Ying south of the Yellow River after eating and drinking.

Caisangjin is located in Hedong County, which is nearly hundreds of miles away from Jinyang, so it will not stimulate the Hebei army too much.

Secondly, Hedong County is the refuge chosen by the horse butcher and Jia Poison for Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew!

Once the war in the state was carried out to the moment when the surname was decided, the horse butcher would use various means to force Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew to surrender, lead the army to retreat to Hedong, and at the same time negotiate with Yuan Shao to ensure the safety of Hedong County.

With Ma Yue's 20,000 troops stationed in Caisangjin, Yuan Shao's army did not dare to unscrupulously go south to attack Hedong, let alone cross the Yellow River to attack Hetao.

After two warlord wars and two great migrations of Dong Zhuo and Ma Butcher, the population of Hedong County has dropped sharply from 500,000 in the Zhongping period to less than 50,000! These 50,000 people alone are not enough to feed the Bingzhou army of Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, so that the horse butcher can choke the throat of the Bingzhou army through the supply of grain and grass, and Zhang Ji will have more than enough strength even if he wants to rebel.

Lack of food and grass, how did Zhang Ji raise troops to rebel?

Unless Zhang Ji dares to follow the example of the horse butcher of the year as a rogue, however, not everyone has the courage and determination to be a rogue, at least they will not make this decision before they are forced to a dead end.

On the general strategy of dealing with Yuan Shao, Jia Yaoshi and the generals of Liangzhou generally agreed on the same opinion, but in some details, the opinions of the two sides diverged, and the differences of opinion on how to deal with the party's too flamboyant and publicized were the greatest.

Shangdang County is located in the southernmost part of Bingzhou, east of Jizhou, south of Sili, there is also Huguan danger in the county, tightly choke the east and west traffic arteries of Bingzhou and Jizhou! From Jizhong to Bingzhou, if you don't go to Huguan and bypass Zhongshan and Yanmen in the north, you have to walk at least thousands of miles, and the danger of Huguan can be seen from this.

The Liangzhou generals headed by Ma Chao and Gao Shun believed that the strategic position of Shangdang and Huguan was too dangerous, and they must not be allowed to fall under the control of Yuan Shao.

In the future, after Cao Ying is defeated and Yuan Shao enters the Central Plains, if the Liangzhou army can still control Huguan, it will pose a serious threat to the hinterland of Jizhou under Yuan Shao's rule! It only takes three hundred miles to the east from Huguan, and the soldiers of the Liangzhou army can directly kill Yuan Shao's old nest under the city of Yecheng!

This will put the Liang army in an absolute strategic initiative.

However, Jia Poison believes that now the surprise attack and occupation of Shangdang County and Huguan is equivalent to inserting a sharp knife into Yuan Shao's henchmen, and he can only break with Yuan Shao's group in advance, and even before Yuan Shao and Cao Ying make a move, the Liangzhou Army must first fight with the Hebei Army to the death and lose both.

This is the result that the Liangzhou Legion is categorically unwilling to face.

The horse butcher finally made a decision, unswervingly supporting Jia Yaoshi, and the opinions of the two giants of the Liangzhou Legion on the choice between Shangdang County and Huguan were surprisingly unanimous.

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Time passed quietly in the clouds of war, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the spring of the ninth year of Jian'an (196).

After a whole winter of preparations, Yuan Shao mobilized a total of 180,000 troops, and the troops attacked Bingzhou in two ways. The South Road army took Chun Yuqiong as the main general, Feng Ji as the military division, Xu Yu as the supervising army, led the army of 30,000 to attack Huguan, Yuan Shao personally led the 150,000 army for the north road, with Tian Feng as the military division, the fierce general Zhang He as the vanguard, and the trial and matching for the grain and grass to receive the envoy, the army swore from Zhongshan and marched into Yanmen and Xinxing County.

Zhang Ji's general, Yanmen guarded Zhang Xian, and Xinxing guarded Lei Xu at the same time, and sent an envoy to Jinyang to report to Jinyang.

Zhang Ji was greatly surprised when he received the report, and expected that the state army could not resist the enemy, so he hurriedly asked for help from the Liangzhou army in Caisangjin with an expedited 800 li, and at the same time ordered someone to rush to Anyi with a secret letter in the starry night, so that his nephew Zhang Xiu quickly went to Caisangjin, met Ma Yue with the courtesy of his subordinates, and asked Ma Yue to send troops to rescue.

When Zhang Xiu arrived at Cai Sangjin, the angels sent by the small court of Xuchang had just arrived.

The angel of the court came to read the edict of the Son of Heaven, which praised the exploits of the horse butcher to determine the barbarians, and also enshrined Ma Yue as the general of the expedition to the north, the marquis of Liang, and the false festival. The world is so impermanent, years ago, the horse butcher and Cao Apu fought to the death, both wanted to put each other to death and then quickly, but in the blink of an eye, Cao Apu reprimanded the horse butcher to add officials to the knighthood, and did his best to please him.

However, of course, the horse butcher would not be naïve to think that Cao A's move had any good intentions, in fact, on the contrary, Cao Ying's move had sinister intentions. The general of the Han Dynasty conquered the north to govern Yecheng and control the military of the four prefectures of You, He, Hebei, and Qingdao, and Cao Apu's move was obviously to provoke a dispute between the horse butcher and Yuan Shao!

This is the innate advantage of Cao Ying coercing the Son of Heaven to make the princes, in ancient times, the status of the name was quite high, and the melee between the warlords and the warlords was also very particular about the fame of the teacher! If the teacher is unknown, it is an unrighteous teacher, and it is difficult for an unrighteous teacher to get the help of the scholar clan.

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Cai Sangjin, Ma Yue's military tent.

As soon as the angel sent by the small court of Xuchang went down, Ma Yue raised his head and said loudly: "Where is Dian Wei?" ”

The tower-like figure appeared outside the tent, and replied sharply with his sword: "The end will be here." ”

Ma Yue wrapped up the holy decree, and then handed it to Dian Wei together with the seal of the general of Zhengbei given by the Son of Heaven, and said: "Send someone to send this holy decree to Bingzhou with the seal and hand it over to General Yuan Shao's tent." ”

"Yes!"

Dian Wei clenched his fists, took the seal and the holy decree and turned to leave.

Jia Xu said: "My lord, this is a wise move. ”

Ma Yue said: "The title of Marquis of Liang and the lonely food are laughed at (I didn't find out what title can be called Lonely, although Ma Yue is only a county marquis, not a prince or a king, but there are many examples of Hou being called Lone in Romance.) As for the General Day of the Northern Expedition, then thank you for not being sensitive, Cao Agui has exhausted the organs, and wants to provoke a dispute between Lone and Yuan Shao, but Lone is not as good as he wants, and he wants him to steal chickens instead of a handful of rice. ”

"Report~~" Ma Yue's voice fell, and suddenly a guard entered the tent and knelt on the ground and said, "Lord, Hedong Taishou Zhang Xiu asks to see." ”

"Zhang Xiu?" Jia Xu and Ma Yue exchanged glances, and said with a smile, "Zhang Ji finally can't hold his breath anymore." ”

Ma Yue waved his hand and said loudly: "Please." ”

The pro-soldier stood up, strode outside the tent and shouted: "Lianghou has an order, please invite Lord Zhang Xiu, the Taishou of Hedong~~"

Immediately, heavy footsteps sounded, and the figure outside the tent flashed, and the majestic Zhang Xiu had already stepped inside, kneeling on one knee and singing loudly: "The last general Zhang Xiu, see Lianghou." ”

"General Zhang Xiu, please get up quickly."

Ma Yuesu held his hand empty, and Zhang Xiu got up and bowed to the side.

Speaking of which, Ma Yue and Zhang Xiu are already old acquaintances and old friends, when Ma Butcher led 800 Liukou to sweep Luoyang and Gyeonggi, he had already fought with Zhang Ji, Wang Kuang, and Yang Feng, the three Qinwang army, and Zhang Xiu was only an eighteen-year-old sharp boy at that time!

More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhang Xiu has already grown from a sharp-edged teenager to a calm and introverted general.

"The world is impermanent." Ma Yue smiled and said to Zhang Xiu, "Back then, when the general followed Uncle Ling to besiege the Eight Hundred Liukou, did you ever think that there would be today? ”

Zhang Xiu obviously didn't expect the horse butcher to suddenly come to such a sentence, seeing that this posture has the meaning of settling accounts after the autumn, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive, and barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and responded: "This is all old and old, and at that time, the soldiers were different, and Lord Lianghou had a large number, so I don't want to hold a grudge." ”

The gloom on Ma Yue's face suddenly disappeared, and he stepped forward to stroke Zhang Xiu's shoulder and laughed loudly: "Hahaha, it's just a joke with the general, don't take it to heart." ”

Zhang Xiu was shocked and frightened by the horse butcher's front and back gong, and felt a chill on his back.

Arching his hand, when Zhang Xiu was about to get back to business, the horse butcher reached out and grabbed Zhang Xiu's shoulder, and said affectionately: "Come on, come on, today I say that Gu and the general only talk about personal friendship, not about business." ”

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(To be continued)