Liu He's conditions for Yuan Shao were not harsh, but they were not easy, in short, they had to let Yuan Shao let out some blood before returning the territory in the north of Bingzhou to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao didn't get mad on the spot after reading Liu He's letter, it was precisely because Liu He's conditions were not too ruthless, but it still made him feel a little painful, so Yuan Shao planned to wait for the change, and wait for the new news to come back from the north of the state before making a decision.

As for Zang Hong, he was directly put behind by Liu He as an addition to the negotiation conditions, whether it was Liu He or Chen Rong, they all pretended to be dispensable.

This is the case in negotiations, at the beginning, it is natural that the opponent cannot let the opponent know his bottom line, especially the goal he wants to achieve the most, otherwise he will be held in the hands of the opponent and eventually lose more favorable conditions.

If Chen Rong forced Yuan Shao to release Zang Hong as soon as he came to the door, then it is certain that Yuan Shao would definitely treat Zang Hong as a strange commodity, and then ask for a sky-high price, which would make Liu He fall into a passive situation.

After Chen Rong returned to the post house, Yuan Shao sent someone to stabilize Chen Rong, and did not mention the affairs of the northern part of the state, but led Chen Rong to wander around Yecheng every day, as well as various drinking parties. Chen Rong was not in a hurry, and he was calm and calm, so that Yin Kui and Zhang Jin and others sent by Yuan Shao scratched their hearts but were helpless.

In this way, the final result of the negotiation depends on the outcome of the game between Liu He's subordinates and Yuan Shao's subordinates in the north of Bingzhou.

In Jiling City, Zhao Yun received an urgent secret letter from Guo Jia.

"Feng Xiao is really calculating! In this way, it is not cheap Yuan Shao, even if the four northern counties are handed over at that time, I am afraid that Feng Ji will be so angry that he will vomit half a catty of blood, right? ”

Zhao Yun held the letterhead in his hand, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

At the same time that Zhao Yun received Guo Jia's secret letter, Gao Gan sent reinforcements from Xihe County to reinforce the Northern Route Army, and finally approached Linrong City, the seat of Shuofang County, which had been occupied by Sun Li and Murong Ping a few days earlier.

It was Gao Gan's subordinate Hao Zhao who led the army to rob Sun Li and Murong Ping of Shuofang County, but Hao Zhao is now obeying orders and Wen Chou. This time he brought only 5,000 soldiers and horses.

When Wen Chou was transferred from the North Route Army to the West Route Army by Yuan Shao, few people in the entire West Route Army looked up to him, only Hao Zhao took the initiative to show favor to Wen Chou, and Wen Chou took Hao Zhao to the bitter cold and chaotic place at the junction of Xihe County and Shang County and Shuofang County to develop.

This time, Gao Gan gave Wen Chou an order and ordered him to lead his army to Shuofang to seize Linrong and other cities, and Hao Zhao made a statement to Wen Chou. I feel that things are not simple, and it is best not to easily get involved in the battle between Liu He and Yuan Shao, so as not to lose all the money that I have worked so hard to accumulate. Wen Chou attaches great importance to Hao Zhao's suggestion, he is now just under the name of a senior cadre, but in fact he is a unique army, if this army that is hard to bring up is defeated by the Youzhou cavalry, he will really be homeless in the future.

Wen Chou was not good at blatantly disobeying Gao Gan's military orders, and he didn't want his troops to fall into it, so he gave Hao Zhao 5,000 soldiers and horses. Let Hao Zhao take a trip to Shuofang, and when the time comes, the camera will act and try to avoid a head-on conflict with the troops under Liu He's command.

When Hao Zhao led his army to approach Linrong City for thirty miles, he sent a messenger to investigate. As a result, he soon learned the news that the Youzhou cavalry occupied Linrong City, so Hao Zhao sent someone to secretly submit a letter to the city, indicating that he had no intention of being an enemy of the Youzhou cavalry, but was only ordered to come to inspect. Please also ask the army in the city not to go out of the city to do it.

Murong Ping had escorted Liu He back to Macheng from Bingzhou, so he knew that Hao Zhao was a difficult opponent, and he was unwilling to start a war with Hao Zhao. So he sent people out of the city to contact Hao Zhao, and the two sides reached a secret agreement not to invade each other.

After a few days in the vicinity of Linrong, the horses of both sides received orders to go up. Zhao Yun ordered Murong Ping and Sun Li to move all the remaining 20,000 or so people in Shuofang County to the east, and to lose Shuofang to Yuan Shao's troops; Feng Ji gave Hao Zhao an order, asking Hao Zhao to take Shuofang and Wuyuan County as soon as possible and then attack Zhao Yun stationed in Jiling from the flank.

Because the two sides reached an agreement not to invade each other, Murong Ping sent someone to tell Hao Zhao that if Hao Zhao waited for a few more days, he could take Linrong City without spending a single soldier, and Hao Zhao really stood still after receiving Murong Ping's prompt, and watched Murong Ping and Sun Li send soldiers to gather all the people in Shuofang County, and then move towards Wuyuan County together.

Three days after Murong Ping and Sun Li left, Hao Zhao led the team to enter Linrong City, and then reported the news to Wen Chou, but ignored Feng Ji's order.

After Murong Ping and Sun Li brought more than 20,000 people into Wuyuan County, they also took the remaining more than 10,000 Han people from Wuyuan with them and continued to migrate towards Qiangyin County in Yanmen County, so that the entire Shuofang County and Wuyuan County became a no-man's land.

While Sun Li and Murong Ping escorted more than 40,000 people to migrate in the direction of Qiangyin, the 5,000 infantry led by Tian Chou arrived in Pingcheng, and Zhang He handed over the defense of Pingcheng to Tian Chou, and then quietly moved west with 10,000 infantry.

When Murong Ping and Sun Li sent more than 40,000 Han people to Qiangyin County near Daqingshan, Liu Fang and Han Heng, who came out from the direction of Macheng, picked up these people, and then began to settle them along Daqingshan, but this time they no longer distinguished between Youzhou and Bingzhou.

After Murong Ping and Sun Li completed their task, they immediately led 10,000 cavalry to Jiling, and when they arrived at Jiling, Zhang He led an army of 10,000 to Jiling.

As a result, the number of troops in the city increased to 25,000, of which 10,000 were infantry who were good at attacking fortifications.

After the three forces converged, Zhao Yun immediately sent someone to send a fiercely worded letter to Feng Ji, who was stationed in Tongguo, asking Feng Ji to immediately withdraw the troops sent to Shuofang, otherwise he would launch a fierce attack on Tongguo City.

After Feng Ji received Zhao Yun's warning, he didn't care at all, he thought that Zhao Yun's warning must be a bluff, because unless Zhao Yun was divided into troops and went to Shuofang County, it was impossible to find Hao Zhao's troops. Feng Ji then sent someone to reply to Zhao Yun, with the same strong wording, and even asked to immediately lead the army to withdraw from the state, otherwise after the several armies approached in the state, there would be no chance to leave.

Zhao Yun had already expected that Feng Ji would not let Hao Zhao withdraw to Xihe, and he sent people to Tongguo to warn Feng Ji that he was just trying to paralyze Feng Ji, and now that the goal has been achieved, the follow-up actions will be launched immediately.

Zhao Yun personally led 5,000 cavalry to pass outside the city, and then made a posture to attack Luo County, Feng Ji saw Zhao Yunnan attacking Luo County, but he must not be in a hurry, because he knew that even if Zhao Yun defeated Luo County, he would not be able to stay for a long time. Sure enough, after Zhao Yun captured Luo County, it didn't take long for him to go in the direction of Meiji, as if he wanted to deal with Hao Zhao of Shuofang. After Zhao Yun led the army away, Feng Ji led an army of 15,000 to capture the "empty" Jiling City.

The purpose of Zhao Yun taking the initiative to lead the army out of the city was to lure Feng Ji out of the city, because there were still 20,000 troops in Jiling City, and it was the famous general Zhang He in command!

Feng Ji suffered a blow to his head and face under the city of Jiling, and when he realized that he had been hit by Zhao Yun's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, he hurriedly wanted to withdraw his troops to Tongguo, but found that Zhao Yun led 15,000 cavalry to surround him from the east, south, and west, and did not give him any chance to retreat at all!

Zhang Xu, the former general of Feng Ji, led 3,000 cavalry with the intention of breaking through Zhao Yun's encirclement, but he confronted Zhao Yun in front of the battle, and after 30 rounds of hard fighting, he was picked off by Zhao Yun with a shot, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. The 3,000 cavalry of Bingzhou could not fight against the battle-hardened cavalry, and they were completely dispersed with just a charge, and not even one of them escaped.

Zhang He in the city of Jiling was unwilling to be lonely, led 5,000 infantry out of the city to carry out a fatal blow to Fengji, and the 15,000 Bingzhou North Route Army was then "annihilated", and below Fengji, Zhang Xu, Zhang Nan, Zhang Kai, Jiao Touch and other generals were all captured.

After Zhao Yun wiped out Feng Ji's soldiers and horses, he immediately led the army to the south, and took all Dingxiang County within half a month. Yan Liang, who was stationed in Juyang County, had been paying attention to Zhao Yun's movements, and after learning that Feng Ji had been taken, he hurriedly led his army to withdraw from Juyang, and ran to Yuanping County, which was close to Taiyuan County, with his soldiers and horses, and then stopped. Yan Liang is not stupid, now that the troops of Feng Ji Nalu have been annihilated, if he still guards in Juyang without knowing what to do, he will face the threat of at least 40,000 troops, and if he doesn't run away at this time, he will simply seek his own death.

Wen Chou, who was active in Xihe County, was also frightened into a cold sweat by the news of Zhao Yunnan's departure, Wen Chou didn't care about the safety of Jinyang at all, and immediately took the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to move closer to Linrong, intending to continue to move west after joining Hao Zhao, in short, to avoid Zhao Yun's soldiers, and resolutely refused to meet Zhao Yun again on the frontal battlefield.

By the time the news of Fengji's defeat and capture reached Yecheng, Zhao Yun had already led his army to Loufu, and Loufu was only more than two hundred miles away from Jinyang, the seat of the state administration.

Yuan Shao was completely stunned by the news from the direction of Bingzhou, he no longer dared to expect any miracles to happen, and hurriedly sent someone to invite Chen Rong, and then pinched his nose and expressed his willingness to agree to Liu He's conditions.

Three days later, a convoy loaded with all kinds of gold, silver, treasures and grain left Yecheng and headed north, but it was Yuan Shao's "thank you" gift in the direction of Youzhou. What is a thank you gift? Because the Youzhou army helped Bingzhou to wipe out the Xianbei Hulu who entered the Kou, and recovered the four northern counties of Bingzhou!

In addition to sending valuable wealth to Youzhou, Yuan Shao also recognized Youzhou's actual occupation of Qiangyin and Heping City in Yanmen County, and thus surrendered Yanze, a cornucopia of salt, to Youzhou.

As for Zang Hong, who was imprisoned in the prison, he naturally went to Yecheng with Chen Rong! (To be continued......)