In December of the second year of Chuping, after the Marquis of Ji, Sun Zhan, broke the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, it only took a month to reorganize the captured Yellow Turban Army, and then sent two of his own cronies, Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai and Yanzhou Thorn Shi Danjing, to enter Qingzhou in a big way.

Tian Kai and Shan Jing entered the plain country in the northwest of Qingzhou, and the counties and counties all the way were afraid of Gongsun Zhan's prestige, and they surrendered to the wind one after another, but in half a month, Tian Kai and Shan Jing occupied the plain country in their entirety.

Immediately, Tian Kai continued to pursue the Yellow Turban, attacking the counties of Le'an and Jinan in Qingzhou to the east to expand his strength, while Shan Jing went south through the plain country, Chen Bing Yanzhou Jibei and the border of Dongjun, and directly faced Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, who had fallen to Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao, who was fighting in Montenegro in Dongjun.

In the first month of the third year of the first peace, Liu Xie, the son of heaven in Guanzhong, granted amnesty to the world.

And when the spring was cold and the Pan River was frozen, Gongsun Zhan personally led Baima Yicong and his 30,000 elite foot riders, taking advantage of the great victory of Dongguang, quickly went south from Bohai County, entered the Qinghe country of Jizhou, and directly attacked Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses stationed here, Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses had no resistance and retreated.

Gongsun Zhan's army and baggage swept through hundreds of miles of land in the territory of Qinghe Kingdom, almost non-stop, and went straight to Yecheng, Wei County, to attack Yuan Shao on a large scale, and the soldiers were invincible. Now, Gongsun Zhan's prestige among the princes of the world has surpassed that of Nanyang Yuan Shu, which makes the princes look sideways, and the families also have one more object of game in their hearts.

At this time, not long after Yuan Shaogang repelled the Taihang Black Mountain Army, he was in Yecheng, and before he had time to recuperate and calm people's hearts, he received the news that Gongsun Zan raised his troops to the south.

The loss of the Qinghe State made Yuan Shao's generals and officials panic, and there was no loyalty in the troubled times, and Yuan Shaogang occupied three counties and one country in Jizhou. The counties and major families of Wei County, Julu County, Anping County and Zhao State are even more current.

Yuan Shao heard that Gongsun Zhan was going south, under the construction of Xu Youzhong's advisers. While urgently ordering the second general Yan Liangwen to lead his troops north to meet the enemy, he secretly sent a letter. He is willing to share Jizhou with Gongsun Zhan in order to delay the war.

For Yuan Shao today, the longer the war drags on, the more stable his foothold in Jizhou will be, and the more beneficial it will be to him.

But Yuan Shao thought about delaying, and Gongsun Zhan, who was full of ambition and resolute, was in a hurry to occupy Jizhou, so he didn't think about delaying for a minute.

In less than ten months, Gongsun Zhan's army had already arrived at the Pan River.

At the same time, Yuan Shao's army also marched north to reach the Pan River. The two armies faced each other across the river at the boundary bridge, the war horses neighed, and the war was about to break out.

Jieqiao, located at the confluence of the Qinghe River and the Panhe River, is also the junction of the four counties of Jizhou, Qingheguo, Anpingguo, Julu County, and Wei County, and the geographical location is extremely important.

To the south of the boundary bridge, there are dozens of miles of open land, which is most suitable for cavalry to rush and charge, and there are tens of thousands of cavalry under Gongsun Zhan. Choosing to camp here, as a battlefield, first of all, occupies a geographical advantage.

Yuan Shao met the enemy with foot soldiers and occupied a disadvantage. But again had to fight.

Just when the two armies were facing each other, Zhang Liao, who was stationed in Taiyuan County, suddenly sent troops from Jingcheng and entered Changshan Kingdom and Zhongshan County.

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Yanzhou. East County.

Dongjun belongs to Yanzhou, but its geographical location is on the border of Yanzhou. It is adjacent to Hanoi County and Jizhou Wei County.

Years ago, after the 100,000 Montenegrin troops including Yu Poison, Bai Huan, and Zhenggu were defeated by Yuan Shao in Yecheng, they entered Dongjun. Intending to join the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, Cao Cao, who was dormant in Chen at that time, did not hesitate to lead his troops north into Dongjun to fight against the Montenegrin army.

Cao Cao stationed his soldiers and horses in the area of Dongwuyang and Dunqiu in Dongjun, backed by Yuan Shao in Wei County, Jizhou, like a nail, forming a line of defense with Liu Dai of Yanzhou and Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, and firmly blocking the convergence of the Black Mountain Army and the Yellow Turban Army. After the Yellow Turban Army failed to attack Taishan County from behind this line of defense, they had no choice but to go north to Bohai County, only to encounter the ruthless Gongsun Zhan.

After Cao Cao defeated Bai Rao, the commander of the Black Mountain Qu Shuai in Puyang, he was played by Yuan Shao as the Taishou of Dongjun and ruled Wuyang in the east. The world is so wonderful, when Ji Ping surrendered the Southern Xiongnu Yufuluo and pacified Baibo, they lost the opportunity to enter Yanzhou in the east, but a qiē turned a big turn, and Montenegro entered the east in poison, making Cao Cao enter the East County again.

At this time, Cao Cao, the Taishou of Dongjun, was laughing at his henchman Xi Zhicai in the Taishou Mansion of Dongwuyang: "Zhicai, Zhicai, now that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has retreated, and the people of Yu Poison have lost their goal of eastward expansion, they are panicked in their hearts, and the destruction of the Black Mountain thieves is imminent, and we will finally have a place to stay." ”

Xi Zhicai, who was dressed in cloth, was originally a native of Yingchuan, passed by Chen Liu when Xun Yu went north to take refuge, saw Cao Cao, thought that he was the master of the troubled times, and took refuge in Cao Cao, who was wise and scheming, and consulted many times when Cao Cao attacked the Montenegrin army, with more than 5,000 people against tens of thousands of Montenegrin troops, and gained several times, and won Cao Cao's weight.

Hearing Cao Cao's words, Xi Zhicai coughed twice and said: "The Montenegrin Army only has strict discipline and brave combat in the Poison Department, and the rest of the Bai Rao and Solid Generations are not enough to worry about. ”

Cao Cao squinted his eyes and nodded, then suddenly remembered something, and said: "Speaking of the war in Dongjun, Liu Xuande and Zhang Yide in Hanoi have contributed a lot, the two were born in the market, but they were promoted by King Shenwu to the post of the guard of a county and the general of Zhonglang. ”

Xi Zhicai frowned and said: "I have known Liu Xuande's past, his background is reckless, he has befriended Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and has traveled north and south for nearly ten years. ”

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and knocked on the desk, suddenly opened his eyes and said, "If King Shenwu is really King Hongnong, what then?" Liu Xuande has great ambitions, but it is difficult to enter the customs, and he is just assisting King Hongnong to restore the throne. ”

Xi Zhicai was silent for a moment, and slowly shook his head: "Hongnong Wangzhi's statement is probably groundless, after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he killed the Empress Dowager He, Bingzhen Palace, and imprisoned Hongnong Wang, how can he escape?" In addition, King Hongnong was the crown prince at the beginning, living in the palace, favoring the ten servants who looked up to him, and he was weak and inactive, but King Shenwu of Hedong was quite clever and brave, and King Hongnong was really incompatible. ”

Xi Zhicai's analysis is very accurate, but Cao Cao is a little distracted, after Luo Yang said goodbye to King Shenwu. Cao Cao analyzed the Han clan relatives who were divided into various counties, but they were all inconsistent with the Shenwu King who suddenly appeared from Luoyang. And since the rumors of King Hongnong came out not long ago, Cao Cao was shocked. He has seen Ji Ping's true face, recalling the appearance of the Son of Heaven at the beginning, except for his temperament, he is really a little similar.

Cao Cao always had a feeling in his heart, could it be that this Shenwu King is really the King of Hongnong? But intellectually speaking, Xi Zhicai's analysis is very correct, and many reasons show that King Shenwu has no connection with King Hongnong, and even judging from Dong Zhuo's reaction in Guanzhong, it is not intense. On the other hand, it shows that King Shenmu has nothing to do with King Hongnong.

Even if it was Cao Cao, a talented man and a first-class strategist, he would not have thought that there would be a crossing in the world, and they did not expect that today's Dong Zhuo is no longer Dong Zhuo when he first entered Beijing. I didn't bother to attack.

Intuition and reason conflicted, Cao Cao didn't think much about it, and then Xi Zhicai said: "Even though King Shenwu is really the king of Hongnong, he chooses the land east of the river." In the west and south, there are Dong Zhuo's tiger and wolf divisions, in the east, Yuan Benchu and Gongsun Zan compete for power, and in the north, there are Xianbei Xiongnu who repeatedly plunder. Surrounded on all sides, it is really more than enough to defend and difficult to stretch. Unless the party is attached, there may be a competition. It's just that King Shenwu recovered the benefits of salt and iron in Hedong and changed the law of taxation, although such a move is a grand event, but it offends the family of the world, and it will not be supported by scholars, and enemies are made on all sides, like moths to fire, which is very unwise. ”

Cao Cao praised the festival: "King Shenwu dares to do things that people in the world dare not do, collect salt and iron, pay taxes, and do things in Tuntian, it is really fast, and I am impressed." If there is a day, I will do it. ”

Xi Zhicai was silent.

Cao Cao suddenly said: "If Shenwu Wang Guo is the king of Hongnong, what if I vote for the king of Hongnong?" ”

Xi Zhicai, who lowered his head, didn't notice that Cao Cao squinted his eyes at this time, staring at Xi Zhicai's expression, the essence of light flickering, and it was difficult to fathom his heart.

Xi Zhicai didn't care, shook his head and said: "Even so, now there is a son of heaven in Guanzhong, and slowly look at it, Ming Gong should recruit talents, recruit troops, and win people's hearts." ”

"Zhicai is very right." Cao Cao laughed, his eyes were a little more cordial and satisfied, he stroked his beard, and suddenly changed the topic: "Yesterday, news came from Yan County, Liu Xuande suddenly withdrew his troops and retreated to Hanoi, which made me puzzled, what did Zhicai think?" ”

Xi Zhicai frowned and said: "Now that Montenegro is about to retreat, when this is profitable, Liu Xuande suddenly withdrew his troops, with his human ability, it is really unreasonable, unless it is ...... There was an accident in Hanoi...... Well, when it is! Liu Xuande was in Hanoi Tuntian, implementing the new tax law, and the family was dissatisfied, and most of its changes were here, or, Hedong...... Or maybe something happened to King Shenwu?! Ming Gong, it seems that he has not heard the trace of King Shenwu for a long time. ”

Cao Cao couldn't help frowning.

What happened to Hanoi, or Hedong, or King Shenmu?

Now there are many wars, and the group of fierce people have risen together, but Cao Cao always has an intuition that King Shenwu is by no means a person who waits for death, you must know that when he crusaded against Dong Zhuo in Luoyang, the princes of Kwantung all suffered defeats, and only King Shenwu was unique.

He will never forget the decision and means of the young man who calmly broke the enemy at the last moment in the palace tower, turning his hands into clouds and turning his hands into rain.

Just when Cao Cao was pondering, in Guanhuayin County, at the beginning of the snowstorm, a team of about 20 people and two carriages traveled all the way west, grinding out two rows of deep ruts on the snow.

The leader was a young man in his twenties, riding a snow-kicking horse and holding a spear, quite heroic.

Wheel! Wheel! Creak! Creak!

The group drove on the official road, surrounded by barren fields.

At this time, in a carriage in front, a beautiful woman's voice came out: "General Zhang, has that person woken up?" Is your body okay? ”

Hearing the woman in the car asking, a hint of intoxication flashed in the eyes of the leading young man, and then he smiled: "No hindrance, no hindrance, everyone Cai is really kind-hearted, now in troubled times, where are not dead, this comatose kid is not lightly injured, and he can meet everyone Cai in the wind and snow, hey, it is really an ancestor who has accumulated virtue." ”

Several men behind him couldn't help but laugh when they heard it. (To be continued......)