On the ninth day of the fourth month of the second year of Chuping, Dong Zhuo, who was sitting in Jingzhao Yin Chang'an City, temporarily settled Ma Teng Han Sui, who was in Jincheng, and turned his head to deal with Ji Ping.

Dong Zhuo did not use force this time, but announced to the world in the name of Liu Xie, the son of heaven:

The Han family is unfortunate, the demons are everywhere, now there is a traitor Ji Ping, harboring evil intentions, taking advantage of the time to create chaos, ignoring the holy order of the ancestors, claiming to be the king, for the disaster of Hedong, the lord rewards from the heart, defeating the law and discipline, invading the three auxiliaries, stealing heavy weapons, this loyal minister's liver and brain are smeared with the autumn, the martyrs will make meritorious service, so that the heroes of the world will be punished, and those who have the head of the level will be sealed 5,000 households, and the reward will be 50 million. Moved to the prefecture and county, announced to the world, and made the Xian envoy know that the Holy Dynasty had difficulties in being detained. Like a law!

After Lu Zhi, the Taishou of Hedong, learned of the text, he couldn't help but lose his color, Dong Zhuo's method was ruthless enough, directly nominally designated Ji Ping as a traitor, and forced the generals and non-commissioned officers under Ji Ping to surrender, those of them who knew Ji Ping's true identity were good to say, and those officials below who did not know Ji Ping's identity were likely to give birth to him.

Lu Zhidang even sent a message to Ji Ping.

After Dong Zhuo issued a proclamation, he did not attack Hedong, but sent additional troops, ordering Hu Zhen, Li Dao, and Guo Yan to continue to attack Sun Jian from Luoyang with all their strength, and attack Zhu Jun and Chenggao Tang Fang stationed in Gongxian County in the east.

At this time, Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, had already sat firmly in Jingzhou.

Since Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, was killed by Sun Jian who went north, Dong Zhuo appointed Liu Biao, the former lieutenant of the Northern Army, as the assassin of Jingzhou, originally in order to get rid of the troubles, but although Liu Biao was famous, he was also a fierce man, and entered Jingzhou Yicheng on a single horse. But with empty gloves white wolves, borrowing the power of local wealthy clans. Conspired with Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, Cai Mao, Huang Zu, etc.

At that time, local armed forces were prevalent in Jingzhou, and each was in chaos. There are thieves Su Dai, Bei Yu and other Kouluo counties, leading the county guards, in order to bring disaster to the people, Liu Biao ordered Kuai Yue to send people to lure 55 thieves to the banquet, kill all of them, and attack their subordinates together, and based on these tribes, sent Kuai Yue and Pang Ji to persuade the Jiangxia thieves Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng who were entrenched in Xiangyang to surrender.

With the help of the power of the family, under the means of thunder. Liu Biao quickly took control of the six counties of Jingzhou except Nanyang County, according to Jiangling in the south and Xiangyang in the north, recruiting troops and horses to observe the changes of the times. Although it is a cooperation with the family, there are many constraints, but Liu Biao has become a force.

Just when there was a lot of turmoil in various places, Yuan Shu's envoy arrived in Youzhou and met Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou. A letter was sent to Liu Yu, in which it was mentioned that his son Liu He secretly harbored a secret edict from the Son of Heaven and sneaked out of Chang'an to gather troops from various states and counties to welcome the emperor, and asked Liu Yu to send troops to Nanyang. Join Yuan Shu in the army.

Liu Yu immediately summoned Gongsun Zhan, who was in Bohai County, and asked Gongsun Zhan to send troops to Nanyang with him to unite with Yuan Shu. Gongsun Zan was fighting a decisive battle with Yuan Shao at this time, how could he be willing to divide his troops. On the grounds that Yuan Shu had bad intentions, he stopped Liu Yu from sending troops. Liu Yu didn't listen. He sent 3,000 cavalry south to aid Yuan Shu.

Gongsun Chan was helpless, and he was deeply afraid that Yuan Shu would resent him after learning that he had blocked Liu Yu, after all, Yuan Shu was now quite powerful, and he was Yuan's sister-in-law, Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao were fighting, but they were unwilling to offend Yuan Shu.

So under Guan Jing's construction, Gongsun Zan secretly ordered his younger brother Gongsun Yue to lead more than 1,000 cavalry to the south overnight, non-stop, and rushed to Yuan Shu's place before Liu Yu's cavalry, and persuaded Yuan Shu to take the opportunity to detain Liu Yu's 3,000 cavalry and keep it for his own use.

After Yuan Shu saw Gongsun Yue, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, not because of the problem of soldiers and horses, but because Gongsun Zhan's move represented an alliance, and now Gongsun Chan is confronting Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu is at odds with Yuan Shao, so he is naturally happy to form an alliance with Gongsun Chan and suppress Yuan Shao.

At this time, Zhou Ang, the assassin of Yuzhou appointed by Yuan Shao, took advantage of Sun Jian's battle with Hu Zhen, Li Dao, and Guo Yan on the front line, and attacked Yangcheng, the assassin of Yuzhou, and occupied Sun Jian's lair in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Liu Biao also wanted to control the last county of Jingzhou and fully control Jingzhou, so he secretly formed an alliance with Yuan Shao and marched into Deng County and Fancheng in Nanyang County to control Yuan Shu.

Zhou Ang and Liu Biao's actions made Sun Jian and Yuan Shu furious, Sun Jian immediately withdrew his troops from Luoyang, wanting to attack Zhou Ang and recapture Yangcheng, but Yuan Shu ordered Sun Jian to go south, attack Liu Biao, and capture Jingzhou, and Liu Biao sent Huang Zu to meet between Fancheng and Deng County.

As for Zhou Ang in Yangcheng, Yuan Shu hated his attachment to Yuan Shao, so he ordered his troops and horses to attack. At the same time, in order to increase the hatred between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, so that they had no room for relaxation, Yuan Shu ordered the newly arrived Gongsun Yue to lead troops to assist in the attack on Yangcheng Zhou Ang, vowing to defeat Yuan Shao's right-hand man.

At this point, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao were added to the battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan. Yuan Shu formed an alliance with Gongsun Zhan, and Yuan Shao formed an alliance with Liu Biao.

At the same time, another force, Cao Cao, who was dormant in Yanzhou, also received a letter from Yuan Shao.

At this time, Ji Ping, in the name of Gongsun Zhan, recruited soldiers and horses in Jizhou Hejian State.

Although Gongsun Xu's subordinates had three troops recruiting, including Gongsun Cheng, Ji Ping and Zhao Yun of the lineage, Ji Ping and Zhao Yun were both nominally from Jizhou, so they had an advantage in recruiting troops than Gongsun Cheng.

Gongsun continued to recruit most of the county soldiers and befriended the children of the family, while Ji Ping and Zhao Yun recruited real capable warriors, especially Zhang He was still a native of Hejian Kingdom, and recruited a lot of warriors for Ji Ping in ten days, all of whom were brave and strong, and had many martial arts.

At the same time, Shi A's Shadow Division also took the opportunity to sweep away many local rangers and rogue forces, recruited a lot of new blood, and began to take root in this area.

In mid-April, Ji Ping received a letter from Lu Zhi and learned of the notice issued by Dong Zhuo, he pondered for a long time and rejected Lu Zhi's request to let him reveal his identity.

Although he doesn't care much about the identity of the abolished emperor, the weight of this identity is still very heavy, once it is made public, there will inevitably be some unpredictable and uncontrollable situations, whether it is good or bad, it is difficult to determine for a while, especially when Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao started a war and Dong Zhuo was ignoring Hedong, at this time, the identity was made public, and it would inevitably be pushed to the forefront.

This is a situation that Ji Ping does not want to see, his current strength is not enough to deal with possible changes, and if he is not careful, Hedong's great shape will be ruined!

At least before his identity is revealed, he still has one more move to make, this move is very crucial, this move is through, the battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan is settled, and he can not care whether his identity is public or not.

And at present, although Dong Zhuo has issued an order to the world, all the princes are busy with their own affairs, and none of them responded to Dong Zhuo, so Ji Ping didn't care.

Ji Ping also received the news that Tian Feng and Gao Ran were staying in the party, so he appointed Tian Feng as the governor of Hedong County, made up for the vacancy of Huangfu Li, and assisted Lu Zhi in governing Hedong. Gao Ran was appointed as the captain of Fenwei to assist Xun Di and Xu Huang in quelling the Black Mountain Thieves.

Although these two people are talents, they are both newcomers, and they may not be able to adapt to his decrees, so they are temporarily appointed to auxiliary positions, on the one hand, they are familiar with the matter of pushing the executive order, and on the other hand, it is also an observation and consideration, after all, they are talents, and they must agree with his decrees, and they must be like-minded, otherwise it will be a disaster.

At the end of April, Ji Ping and Zhao Yun entered Bohai County with Gongsun Xu and his entourage, at this time, Ji Ping's men had recruited 2,000 soldiers, but he had to face a problem, that is, to face Gongsun Zhan.

The fact that he held Gongsun Cheng hostage in the Hejian State naturally also reached the ears of Gongsun Zhan, whether it was Gongsun Chan himself or Gongsun Chan's Youzhou army, there was an uproar, and there were not a few generals clamoring for victory, and Guan Jing, who Gongsun Chan was quite trusted, also made a lot of slander in front of Gongsun Zhan, because the two refused to bribe, Guan Jing did not have a good impression of Ji Ping and Zhao Yun.

But Ji Ping didn't care about this, he didn't need to care, there was Li Ru's plan, and someone had already spoken in front of Gongsun Zhan. (To be continued......)