The Western Regions are bitterly cold, and the long winter has passed, and it is not until the end of February that the snow begins to melt. ↑ Top Novel, x.

After a winter, the weather had just warmed up, and the smoke in the Western Regions began to rise again.

In March, Guishan's 70,000-strong army marched north along the Green Ridge River, and the front of the army approached Gumo.

At the same time, Luo Zheng conquered the troops of the 36 countries of the Western Regions, personally led 20,000 Western Liang cavalry and 70,000 Western Regions Hu cavalry to the south, and fought with the Guishan cavalry on the south bank of the Green Ridge River.

At this time, a major event happened in Hebei.

Chang'an, the official office yamen.

Jia Xu and Xun Yu were discussing the matter of mobilizing slaves to rebuild the official road in Guanzhong, and in the hurried footsteps, Cheng Ying rushed in with a solemn face, and arched his hand: "Military advisor, long history, it's a big deal!" ”

"Gongying, sit down!"

Jia Xu hurriedly invited Cheng Ying to sit down, and then asked, "What happened?" ”

Cheng Ying sat down on the side and said, "Just now, a secret message came from Hebei that Yuan Shao had collapsed!" ”

"What?"

Not only Jia Xu was taken aback, but even Xun Yu's face changed.

Xun Yu condensed and said, "How could Yuan Shao collapse so quickly? ”

Cheng Ying said: "Yuan Shao has been ill since he was defeated by Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu. Yuan Shao was crowned king last year, and he had already expected that his life would not last long, and this collapse and return to heaven was also expected! ”

Jia Xu said: "It's bad, Yuan Shao is dead, Hebei is going to be in chaos, this fateful time, the lord has not returned from the expedition to the Western Regions, this is really not time for me!" If it is not handled well, Cao Cao may have a chance! ”

Xun Yu's face was solemn and said: "What Wen He said is extremely true. As soon as Yuan Shao dies, his three sons will compete to attack. With Cao Cao's ability, he will not miss the opportunity, and it should be the best time to take Hebei. It's a pity that the public is far away in the Western Regions, so he will miss the opportunity! ”

Jia Xu said: "The top priority at the moment is to tell the lord the news as much as possible, and the second is to try to drag Cao Cao, no matter what, Cao Cao can't take advantage of the situation to take Qingzhou." Otherwise, if Qingzhou is owned by Cao Cao, it will definitely be a springboard to Hebei. General Gao Shun can be ordered to move to Xiangxian, ready to march into Pengcheng at any time, and contain Cao Cao in Pengcheng and dare not act rashly. ”

Xun Yu said worriedly: "Cao Cao is scheming, and he has lured General Gao Shun into danger before. Although General Gao Shun defeated Cao's army and turned defeat into victory, if he fell for Cao Cao's treacherous tricks again, he would be in trouble. ”

Jia Xu pondered for a long time before he muttered: "That's it, Cao Cao must not take advantage of the situation, Xu plans to go to the Central Plains to serve General Gao Shun in the military, and ask Wen Ruo to worry about everything in Chang'an!" ”

Xun Yu arched his hand and said: "Although Wenhe goes, the affairs of Chang'an can be borne by one person!" ”

Jia Xu looked at Cheng Ying again and said, "Can Gongju go through the same situation with Zaixia?" ”

Cheng Ying said: "Dare to disobey your fate!" ”

As Jia Xu and Xun Yu expected. After Yuan Shao died of illness, because the successor was not clearly designated, Hebei was really in chaos, and the brothers Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, and Yuan Xi, the assassin of Youzhou, both led troops to attack Jizhou. Only the state assassin Shi Gaogan did not move.

After Cao Cao received the news, he immediately sent an envoy to secretly form an alliance with Yuan Shang and gather an army of 20,000. Prepare to attack Qingzhou.

Unexpectedly, before the army left Pengcheng, there was a detailed report. Gao Shun moved to Xiangxian and prepared to attack Pengcheng.

Cao Cao's old tricks were repeated. Wanting to set up an ambush to divert Gao Shun's main army and attack its flank again, Gao Shun was not fooled, and the army advanced steadily, and the troops approached Pengcheng. Cao Cao couldn't make a plan, so he had to make another plan, personally led the elite soldiers to defend Pengcheng, and ordered Xiahou to lead an army of 8,000 from Yongqiu to Peiguo, and the counties along the way opened the city and surrendered, and there was a great tendency to sweep.

After Gao Shun heard the news, he hurriedly retreated and returned to Shipeiguo.

It happened that Jia Xu arrived in a hurry, and set up an empty city plan in Xiao County, thinking that Cao Cao was suspicious and would not dare to enter the city. When Cao Cao led the crowd to chase Xiao County, he really didn't dare to enter Xiao County, for fear of being ambushed by Gao Shun, and led the army back ten miles.

By the time it was discovered that there were only 500 soldiers in Xiao County, Gao Shun's army had already gone far away.

Gao Shun returned to Shixiang County, and Xiahoudun saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly led the army to withdraw.

Jia Xu ordered the killing of those who surrendered without a fight in the counties, from the county order to the city sergeant clan were all killed, and even the nine clans were also punished, and for a time there were thousands of heads rolling to the ground in each county, and the Central Plains was shaken after the news spread, and people were panicked for a while.

Since Luo Zheng conquered and occupied Yanyu Erzhou, he has always adopted an attitude of being kind to the scholars, and has not been cleaned.

Cao Cao has been in Yanyu and Henan for many years, and his power is deep-rooted, even if the bureaucrats of the scholar clan temporarily obey Luo Zheng, but after all, they do not have much loyalty to Luo Zheng, and they all want to be a grass on the wall, and they dare not attack anyone, so they all surrender Kaicheng.

Now that Jia Xu ordered a large-scale killing, the scholars of the two states immediately dispelled the luck mentality and closed their doors one after another to reject Cao Jun.

Chen Gong seized the opportunity, and with the cooperation of Jia Xu, he immediately purged the county guards and county orders, and transferred away those who had dissent and could not be used, and promoted and reused the officials who were interested in following Luo Zheng's promotion to become wealthy.

Originally, the appointment of magistrates such as county guards and county ordinances required the seal of the levy to take effect.

However, when Luo Zheng went on an expedition to the Western Regions, he temporarily authorized Jia Xu and Xun Yu, so that he could remove the officials smoothly.

Gaoshun garrisoned Xiangxian, and Cao Cao did not dare to act rashly.

Several times he tried to transfer Gao Shun's army away and seek opportunities to break the enemy, but Jia Xu saw through it.

At the same time, Liu Bei also ordered the general Huang Zhong to lead an army of 15,000 out of Jiangxia to the north to attack Runan.

At that time, the Nanyang Tuntian camp was completed, and Jia Xu sent a letter to Zhao Yun and asked Zhao Yun to send troops to help.

Zhao Yun then raised 100,000 Tuntian soldiers to the south, wanting to break Xiangyang.

Liu Bei was shocked, hurriedly summoned Huang Zhong, gathered all the soldiers who could fight, and prepared for a decisive battle with Zhao Yun.

Jia Xu sent an envoy to form an alliance with Yuan Tan and reminded Yuan Tan to guard against Cao Cao, and at the same time transferred 100,000 Tuntian soldiers from the original to guard the key passes of various cities, and then mobilized all the 80,000 Xiliang troops stationed in the Central Plains to the front line of Peiguo and Lu to garrison, ready to enter Xuzhou at any time, Cao Cao did not dare to move.

After Luo Zheng captured Yan and Henan, he reorganized the army under his command.

In the past two years, a part of the army has been withdrawn from the Central Plains to Guanzhong, except for the Chang'an battalion, which has been stationed with 50,000 elite infantry ready to go out at any time, Luo Zheng only brought 20,000 cavalry when he expeditioned to the Western Regions, and the Chang'an battalion still has 10,000 cavalry to mobilize.

As for the soldiers and horses guarding the Central Plains, only 100,000 soldiers and horses remained after several changes of defense and reorganization.

Except for the 20,000 troops under Zhang Liao, the remaining 80,000 troops were all stationed in Yanyu and Yuzhou.

In the past two years, Luo Zheng has reduced taxes in Yanyu and Henan Prefectures, and transferred a large amount of grain from Guanzhong to help the victims, and the people are getting better and better, and no one will cook.

The unstable ones are all those gentry bureaucrats who have enough to eat and have nothing to do.

Fortunately, after two years of painstaking management, the people of the Central Plains have made up their minds, even if there are still some scholars and bureaucrats who have different intentions, they can't make any waves, if it weren't for the expedition of the lord to the Western Regions, Jia Xu would be ready to take advantage of the situation to enter Xuzhou. (To be continued......)

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