The battle on the western outskirts of Jinxiang once again showed the world the almost unstoppable and shocking strength of Xu Ji's corporal soldiers, and the myth of the invincibility of the Montenegrin army in the Central Plains was easily debunked. And Xu Ji entered the range of top-level potential power as a result, and even overshadowed Dong Zhuo for a while

After this battle, the main force of the Montenegrin Army was completely defeated, and the direct casualties in a single round were as high as 30,000, and the main force under Zhang Yan was almost completely defeated, and countless Montenegrin soldiers were pursued by Gao Shun and fled into the deep mountains and old forests, and never dared to mention the word battlefield again in his life, and even later heard the words Gao Shun and Xu Ji were like avoiding snakes and scorpions, covering their ears and trembling. There were less than 10,000 soldiers of the Montenegrin army who fled with Zhang Yan, and Zhang Yan's right-hand man was beheaded by the junior general.

Gao Shun respected them as heroes on the battlefield, and couldn't bear to abandon them in the wilderness, so he held a thick burial for them according to the treatment of the soldiers who died on the battlefield.

As soon as Zhang Yan escaped, Liu Dai, who was trapped in Jinxiang, of course, had to get rid of the sea of suffering, but Liu Dai's face did not have the joy of escaping, because after the first battle in Jinxiang, his strength was greatly damaged, and the so-called Yanzhou assassin history existed in name only, and the strength of himself, Zhang Miao and Bao Xin was now less than 40,000 people. But looking at Gao Shun's subordinates, the casualties in a war were less than 300, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so uncomfortable that he didn't even attend the banquet held in Jinxiang City that night, and only sent Wang Qiu, who was just a little more injured, to thank him reluctantly.

Around Jinxiang, there are a lot of Montenegrin troops to discard, not to be old, young, sick and disabled, according to Bao Xin's meaning, of course, it is a chaotic minister and a thief, and everyone will be punished. However, he was refuted by Gao Shun, and he was deeply influenced by Xu Ji. The thoughts in his heart are naturally almost the same as Xu Ji, he thinks that these people are innocent people. If it weren't for their own strong men who took risks, what would these old people, women, and children do? So Gao Shun sent these people back to Rencheng County again, so that they could temporarily settle here, and they could return to Chenliu with Gao Shun and others in the future, this group of about 200,000 family members of the Montenegrin Army cheered when they heard this, the long-term war has made them physically and mentally exhausted, they are called the families of the Montenegrin Army, in fact, many of their families have died on the battlefield long ago, and they follow Zhang Yan just because there is no better choice. Now, when they hear that they can live a stable life again, of course, they are overjoyed, because it means that they finally have a permanent home, no war, and can eat their stomachs.

Although Bao Xin was very dissatisfied with Gao Shun's decision, he couldn't say anything, after all, this war was won by Gao Shun, and he vaguely understood the most important truth of strength in troubled times from this matter. admired his friend Cao Cao's foresight even more, not long after. Bao Xin took Bao Xun and led the remnants of his army straight to Guangling to defect to Cao Cao.

Of course, Bao Xin also questioned Gao Shun's refusal to pursue Zhang Yan that night, but Gao Shun just smiled incomprehensibly and did not answer. It wasn't until the next day that Bao Xin, who had been staying in Jinxiang City to repair, got a military report, and Zhang Yan, who fled south in the first battle yesterday, actually went and returned. Once again, he passed through Jinxiang, but this time there were pursuers. They were pursued by Huang Jun, the commander under Gao Shun, and he led Xu Ji's last soldier who could be called.

But it turned out that Gao Shun broke the ambush of the Black Mountain Army in the northwest of Jinxiang. Immediately ordered Huang Jun to travel lightly, detour from the dense forest to the east of Jinxiang to the south of Jinxiang, and kill the remnants of Zhang Yan who wanted to enter Jiyin County through Changyi and flee in desperation, Zhang Yan, who had nowhere to go, made a dangerous move and led the rest of the Black Mountain of less than 15,000 people at this time to rush north, Zhang Yan gambled that after the victory in Jinxiang, Gao Shun, who did not pursue him, did not want to kill them all, but had already brought the troops into Jinxiang City. Now Huang Jun's infantry obviously just wanted to drive him north for some reason.

As a result, Zhang Yan bet right, there were no officers and soldiers in the north to chase and intercept, and Zhang Yan, who had to get out of the big disaster, did not have time and energy to think about why Gao Shun wanted to drive himself north, but he was just embarrassed to run north.

Gao Shun, who learned the news, was of course very annoyed on the surface, and scolded Huang Jun in front of Bao Xin, Zhang Miao and Liu Dai, saying that he was not good at supervising the war, and he would actually let Zhang Yan go. In fact, Gao Shun and the others had already laughed in their hearts, so that Gao Shun's department could have moved northward in a grand manner, in the name of pursuing the remnants of the Montenegrin army, in fact, they wanted to rush to the north, and then be able to stop at the border of Xuzhou, the purpose of course was for Xu Ji's next Xuzhou strategy.

As for Zhang Yan, there is still his usefulness, after all, Xu Ji can't afford to take care of more now, the current chaos in Yanzhou is still waiting for him to clean up, although Zhang Yan's strength has been lost, but there are still Bai Huan and other departments of the Montenegrin Army in Yanzhou, Zhang Yan can go to defect, although he can no longer lead the army, but he can still give advice, it is conceivable that in Yanzhou, there is still a fight between the Montenegrin Army and Liu Dai. But this is not the result that Xu Ji is willing to see, he must force Zhang Yan to go to Xuzhou, so that Yanzhou is relatively stable so that he can let go of his actions.

Just when Gao Shun was about to move his army to chase Zhang Yan, a mysterious guest came to Jinxiang City-Xun Yu from Yu County. After reading the letter written to him by Xu Ji brought by Xun You, Gao Shun's eyes flashed, and he realized that the situation in Jizhou was so complicated and difficult to understand, and he admired Guo Jia's ability to observe people in detail, and he could see the inappropriateness of Lu Yi. Gao Shun, who understood Tai Shici's intentions, immediately led the soldiers under the command of the dragon spirit and tiger who had been repaired to leave Jinxiang and drove to Qinghe County, Jizhou, where he wanted to intercept and kill the inner ghost of Jizhou Han Fu's power first-Koji Yi.

Of course, Xu Ji has rushed to Xuzhou at this time, and he must make his rear in a state as stable as possible before he goes to Chang'an to solve the trouble there, of course, Xu Ji's actual intention is just to get the exact news of Xuzhou from Mi Zhu, no matter what Mi Zhu plans to do in the future, Xu Ji will inevitably make a move on Xuzhou. In this way, the "internal response" of Mi Zhu is very important.

And at this moment, Koto had another accident. Sun Jian, who had escaped the catastrophe before, raised an army to take revenge after recovering from his injuries for several months, but he was in the battle with Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou. Once again, Xu Ji made the mistake of warning Sun Jian many times: rash marching, and the result is self-evident, he was killed by Liu Biao's general Huang Zu with random arrows, leaving only a few of his young sons in the world, among them, there are naturally Sun Ce, who is already quite prestigious, and Sun Quan, who has not yet shown his dew at this time, they are desperate, and they can only throw themselves to their father's nominal boss before his death - Yuzhou Thorn History, Yuan Shu.

And at this moment, Xu Ji finally saw the situation of the troubled times. But people seem to only pay attention to Yuan Shu's movements, because Sun Jian's death in battle marks a temporary setback in Yuan Shu's conspiracy to develop to the south of the Yangtze River, and he has to find another way, Xu Ji of course also knows that this other way is to start from Yangzhou, and Sun Ce is probably the best candidate to carry out this order, however, Yuan Shu's generals are very many, if it weren't for Sun Ce's sacrifice of the jade seal. I'm afraid I won't get this opportunity. But this also marks that the contradiction between Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao has gradually become acute.

What is interesting is that it seems that this year is a very unlucky year for the two brothers of the Yuan family, these two brothers who have a tense relationship are probably adhering to the wishes of the Yuan family, and they have a tacit understanding and do not disturb each other's development, but now they are all blocked. And their obstruction made two already prestigious people once again become the center of the world's attention, one is to shoot Sun Jian's Jingzhou assassin Liu Biao, and the other is Xu Ji, who fought a shocking battle in Jinxiang.

And Xu Ji certainly didn't just do that. He began to recruit more troops and began to restructure the army. And this big move made Xu Ji, who originally had only nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command, have as many as 50,000 troops at once, although these newly recruited soldiers are far from being comparable to the previous elite in terms of combat effectiveness, but it also marks Xu Ji's official membership among the princes. It's just that for Xu Ji, these soldiers are not elite. But compared with the standards and requirements of Gao Shun and Chen Zhi, the quality of these soldiers is at least a regular army in the hands of other princes, and the biggest change is that after this battle, these soldiers who can be suppressed by Xu Ji began to become belligerent, thanks to the generous treatment set by Xu Ji and the pension for his family after the death of the war, all the soldiers under Xu Ji's command are extremely eager for foreign wars, which is their biggest goal in the army!

At this time, there is only one thing left for Xu Ji, he needs a reasonable excuse now, which is the so-called "righteousness". But Xu Ji was not in a hurry at all, he knew very well that Gongsun Zhan, who had been looking forward to it for the past few months, was definitely impatient, and once Gongsun Chan had the slightest change, then Liu Yu would definitely give himself an extremely reasonable and appropriate excuse.

Soon, Liu Yu, the assassin of Youzhou, gave a very satisfactory answer to Xu Ji, so that the action of establishing the status of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty led by Liu Yu and Xu Ji, the great Han concubine, began to be implemented, and many of them responded, such as Han Fu, the assassin of Jizhou, who is now in awe of Xu Ji, and Tao Qian, the assassin of Xuzhou who intends to establish a friendly relationship with Xu Ji under Mi Zhu's efforts, and Cao Cao, the Taishou of Guangling, who has been loyal to the Han family until now, and Liu Xuan, the royal family and the assassin of Yangzhou.

Of course, only these people are far from enough to make waves, although Xu Ji has just won a battle that is almost qualitatively different for him, but he knows in his heart that his prestige and status are only vain, and it is obviously not enough to compare Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, so of course he is happy to see more and more weighty people join in.

Liu Yu saw that the momentum was so natural and sent people to Chang'an, but Xu Ji only sent a letter to Shi A to tell him to pay attention to Dong Zhuo's movements, and even sent the Phantom Elite to escort a large number of rare and exotic toys to Chang'an, of course, Xu Ji's purpose is to cultivate Shi A into the sharpest and deepest hidden knife in his hands, but at present, Xu Ji's purpose is to make Shi A a new generation of Han emperors, there are people around the emperor, and everything he does in Yanzhou can find a justifiable excuse, although "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes" Xu Ji is not capable of doing it now, but Xu Ji can and is extremely willing to do the matter of "attacking the princes in the name of the Son of Heaven", and this is definitely an excellent excuse for Xu Ji to expand his territory. It's still an excuse that no one can refute, and the benefits of being a colt for themselves are beginning to manifest.

And the reason why Xu Ji did this was, of course, because he knew that Liu Yu could not save Emperor Han Xian. Because Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu will definitely stop this matter, and under the current situation, which prince would like to see the Han Dynasty unified again? They have already tasted the sweetness of dominance. So it must be perfunctory, so it is. It can be predicted that Liu Yu's operation will end in failure, which is exactly the reason why Xu Ji wants to send troops to Gongsun Zhan, that is, to crusade against the ministers who bully the king. Because Gongsun Chan will inevitably want Yuan Shao to report this.

However, when Xu Ji was quietly watching the changes, a major event happened in Yanzhou: Liu Dai and Zhang Miao continued to crusade against the remnants of the Montenegrin Army, but they did not find Xu Ji as a helper, and Zhang Miao also put himself aside, but instead asked Yuan Shao, who was in an embarrassing situation at the moment and was still stranded in the area of Chen Liuyanjin, to help crusade against the Montenegrin Army. Yuan Shao, who was desperate, didn't know the opportunity to agree immediately. At the time of landing, Yuan Shao's 70,000 troops outside had a place to live, and after too long, the timid and fearful Zhang Miao was completely at the mercy of Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao gained a firm foothold in Chenliu, and even approached Xu Ji's own town. Moreover, Yuan Shao's grain and grass problem that had been a headache because of Guo Jia's grain robbery has also been solved, and because of the prestige of Yuan Shao's fourth and third dukes, the celebrities and talents of Jizhou and Yanzhou have flocked to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao has gradually recovered the momentum of the past phase in just a few months. The power of the army has expanded from Chenliu to Jiyin County, Yingchuan County, and Chen County, and it has the potential to occupy the entire Yanzhou.

Xu Ji had already left Yuxian County for Xuzhou at this time, and after hearing about this incident, he couldn't wait to scold himself. He really didn't expect that Yanzhou would make such a change, Zhang Miao's stupidity was far beyond his imagination, and now it was Yuan Shao and himself competing for Yanzhou. This made Xu Ji, who originally thought that Yanzhou was already in his pocket, but now he was helpless against Yuan Shao, after all, Yuan Shao was invited by Liu Dai Zhengdaguang. There's no reason to start a war with Yuan Shao if you say anything, right?

What worries Xu Ji the most now is that his rear is threatened by Yuan Shao all the time, what kind of person Yuan Shao is Xu Ji knows very well. Judging from the grievances between himself and this guy, Yuan Shao will definitely not be polite, and at that time, I am afraid that he will not have time to implement any plan, and he will have to turn back and face Yuan Shao's threat.

Of course, Xu Ji didn't have an excuse to deal with Yuan Shao, but he could only do it after Gongsun Zan reported to Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, but at that time, Yuan Shao must have been in a big position. What is certain is that there is still a certain gap between his current strength and Yuan Shao, and he will definitely not be able to wait for Gongsun Chan to give him an excuse, and the top priority now is to weaken Yuan Shao.

It is already an unrealistic thing to keep Yuan Shao out of Chen Liu, Yuan Tan has withdrawn his troops to Yingchuan to garrison, threatening himself at all times, and now that his army has not returned, it is difficult to say whether Yuan Shao will suddenly attack, and he is not sitting in Yuxian now, and the threat from the rear makes him can't help but start to get anxious.

There can be no further delay; Of course, Xu Ji didn't distrust Liang Xi who stayed in Yuxian and Xiangyi, but the trickiness of Yuan Shao's opponent made Xu Ji have to be extremely cautious.

It's just that in this way, the war in the Central Plains came to an abrupt end, and the various princes fell into a stalemate with each other, and for a time, there was an extremely short period of peace in this era of war. But this was extremely bad news for Xu Ji, this period of time was the golden period for him to develop his strength, but now he had to pause, and he had to worry about his rear all the time, which was really a thing that made Xu Ji very unhappy.

And at this point, Xu Ji had to think about his own back road, he clearly knew that if he wanted to conquer the world, then there were many stumbling blocks under his feet, even in the Central Plains, where he could gallop now, he was in a lot of trouble. For example, Han Fu, the assassin of Jizhou, who is now in a cooperative relationship with him, was put on Xu Ji's table how to seize Jizhou during the truce. Once Chen Liu is unable to keep himself, he will inevitably have to seize another place to live, and now Jizhou is obviously an extremely appropriate choice.

Gao Shun has already Chen soldiers in the plains, but Xu Ji still retains his bottom line: the use of troops in Jizhou is a last resort, if the soldiers can not bloody plot to capture Jizhou, it is the biggest victory, and all this depends on the skills of Guo Jia, who has been a "guest" in the Zhen family in Jizhou for more than a year.

Even to this point, Xu Ji still has no intention of taking Jizhou as his foundation, Jizhou, the place of four wars, is just a springboard for himself, once there is a better choice, Xu Ji will definitely not be reluctant to Jizhou, of course, the conditions of Jizhou are indeed mouth-watering, but it is just a waste of his troops for Xu Ji to hold on. (To be continued......)