After Liu Dai killed Qiao Mao, he sent his henchman Wang Qiu as the Taishou of Dongjun to consolidate his territory.

After Liu Dai killed Qiao Mao, Yuan Shao, as the leader of the alliance, instead of speaking out to denounce and lead the heroes to seek justice for the dead, instead of slashing at his former allies like Liu Dai. Before, Yuan Shao used a stratagem to occupy Han Fu's Jizhou, and now Yuan Shao pointed his spearhead at his former ally and his younger brother Yuan Shu.

Of course, there is a twist and turn, when Sun Jian killed Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi to join Yuan Shu, and later Yuan Shu in order to win over Sun Jian, he was the assassin of Yuzhou, at this time Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance to ride the general, appointed a hundred officials, Yuan Shu has been with his brother Yuan Shao, so he did not inform Yuan Shao when he played Sun Jian as Yuzhou at this time.

Then Yuan Shao, as the leader of the alliance of the princes of the world, how can the head of the world suffer this loss? Now after plotting to seize Jizhou, his strength has risen sharply, and he has also freed up his hands, so he ordered Zhou Ang to be the assassin of Yuzhou, and supported Zhou Ang to pull up a team of men to compete with Sun Jian for the history of Yuzhou assassination and the dominance of Yuzhou.

In addition, Yuan Shao has received the news that Sun Jian has obtained the jade seal of the country in Luoyang.

Yuan Shao was furious after receiving this news, he didn't expect Sun Jian to be so bold, after obtaining the jade seal, he did not hand over the jade seal to the alliance leader, but hid it privately, this move will put the alliance leader anywhere, it is simply lawless. The jade seal of the country is the important weapon of the country and the treasure of the society, who doesn't want it? Sun Jian is a horse, how can He De hide the jade seal of the country, and he should dedicate the treasure to the leader of the coalition. Since you don't have a face and don't take the initiative to give the baby, you can only grab it yourself.

Some people say that Yuan Shu is a villain, narrow-minded, and he will repay him, so it can be inferred that Yuan Shao, who was created by one of his Lao Tzus, will not be so big-minded, so Yuan Shao did not be polite to Sun Jian.

So, Yuan Shao gave Zhou Ang two orders. The first is to compete with Sun Jian for Yuzhou and control Yuzhou; The second is to snatch back the jade seal of the country from Sun Jian's hands, and it is best to kill Sun Jian.

In order to prevent Zhou Ang from being Sun Jian's opponent, Yuan Shao also got a double insurance and asked Jingzhou Liu Biao to intercept Sun Jian and force him to hand over the jade seal of the country. Ever since the formation of the Kwantung Coalition Army, there have been constant internal strife and infighting.

The Kwantung Coalition Army was divided into three lines, and its forces gradually became connected with each other, and eventually evolved into three parts, one was the alliance composed of Yuan Shao, Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao, and Liu Biao; the second is an alliance composed of Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, and Tao Qian; The third is some neutrals, wall-riding factions, and so on. (Cao Heizi is now under Yuan Shao's subordinates and has not yet become an independent force, so I will not discuss it for the time being.) Among these three factions, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, and Tao Qian are the strongest in the alliance, but Yuan Shao's faction has many talents in the alliance and has strong development stamina. At present, Yuan Shu actually controls Nanyang, Tong Guò Sun Jian controls Yuzhou, Gongsun Zhan has a powerful cavalry under this group of princes that does not exist, and Tao Qian occupies Xuzhou; On the other hand, Yuan Shao occupies Jizhou, Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, and Zhang Chao are Yanzhou forces, and Liu Biao occupies Jingzhou except Nanyang, so between the two factions, although the Yuan Shu alliance has a slight advantage, it is generally comparable.

The so-called "food of the king, loyalty to the king", since Zhou Ang decided to be Yuan Shao's lackey, he must share the worries of his master. Therefore, after receiving Yuan Shao's order, Zhou Ang rushed to the vicinity of Yangcheng with his men and horses to find Sun Jian.

Zhou Ang didn't come by himself this time, but also brought helpers, one of them is his younger brother Zhou Qiao, Zhou Ang, is a Yangzhou Huiji, and there are three brothers, namely Zhou Xin, Zhou Ang, and Zhou Qiao, who are Yangzhou Huijiren. The eldest Zhou Xin is Taiming, the current Danyang Taishou, the second Zhou Ang, the word Zhongming, the Huijiren, the current Jiujiang Taishou, the third Zhou Renming, and there is no official position at present.

The three brothers are all die-hard fans of Yuan Shao, loyal generals, and protégés of the Yuan family. Zhou Xin and Zhou Ang are both from Yangzhou, but Zhou Qiao is from Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao appointed Zhou Ang as the assassin of Yuzhou to compete for Yuzhou with Sun Jian, the assassin of Yuzhou played by Yuan Shu. And Zhou Ang's other helper is the famous Cao Mengde. The reason why Comrade Yuan Shao asked Cao Heizi to assist Zhou Ang was mainly because the younger brother Cao Cao had nothing to do under his account now, and it was not a matter to eat there every day, so he should always find something to do, so that he could give full play to his spare heat.

Another is that the relationship between Cao Cao and the three Zhou Ang brothers is also relatively good, especially Zhou Qiao, when Cao Cao raised troops in Chenliu, Zhou Qiao also sponsored more than 2,000 Cao Cao. In this kind of disposition, the relationship between the generals is harmonious, the cooperation is relatively pleasant, and the success rate will be relatively high.

Cao Cao was a little disheartened by the Kwantung princes led by Yuan Shao after the defeat of the Xiliang army in Bianshui, so after returning to Chenliu, he was silent for a period of time to watch the changes of the times. But Cao Cao was an idle person after all, and after a little time of doing nothing at home, he took the two Xiahou brothers and the two Cao brothers to Yangzhou to recruit troops, in order to regroup.

It stands to reason that Yangzhou can have any elite soldiers, if you want to recruit soldiers or border soldiers, it is better to have Qiang Hu and Han people, the people are fierce, brave and good at fighting, hard-working, is the only thought of elite soldiers. The land of Yangzhou, the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Nong is still soft, what kind of elite soldiers can there be.

In fact, there is really a place in Yangzhou where there are elite soldiers, and that is Danyang. Since ancient times, Danyang has produced elite soldiers, and the 8,000 Jiangdong children of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, are Danyang soldiers; Tracing back further, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Yue fought for hegemony, and the three thousand Yue Jia of Yue King Goujian could swallow Wu, of which the three thousand Yue Jia refers to the three thousand Danyang elite soldiers under the command of Yue King Goujian; If you go back to the current dynasty, then the 5,000 Wu Yue elite swordsmen led by Li Ling who once fought the 100,000 cavalry of the Huns, if it were not for the exhaustion of supplies, would have been able to return to the Han Dynasty smoothly; Then there is the main force of the little overlord Sun Ce who swept Jiangdong, and it is his uncle Danyang Taishou Wu Jing who supports his Danyang elite soldiers.

Therefore, Cao Cao wanted to go to Yangzhou to recruit troops and use it as the main force of his own business in the future.

Cao Cao was very capable, and his recruitment in Yangzhou was very smooth, recruiting more than 5,000 people, and the harvest was very large, far beyond his expectations.

However, there is a problem with the Danyang soldiers that is not very good, that is, the xenophobia is relatively strong, and the military discipline is relatively poor, but Cao Cao did not pay much attention to this point, and as a result, there was a camp roar and mutiny in the barracks. Cao Cao did not have many henchmen with him when he went to Yangzhou, because his troops were all lost when they pursued the Xiliang army in Bianshui.

Because of the limitation of manpower, Cao Cao was not able to control this group of Danyang soldiers well, so the rebellion of the Danyang soldiers was not well controlled, and swept the whole army, and Cao Cao himself was almost chopped up by the rebellious soldiers. In the end, there were only more than 1,000 Danyang soldiers who followed Cao Cao back to Chenliu.