On October 15 of the first year of Kangqian in the Northern Han Dynasty, 150,000 Han troops gathered in front of the martyrs' monument in Yanjing Square against the rising sun.

Ao Lie, who was standing on the platform, looked around at the soldiers who were about to go to the battle, and said loudly: "Soldiers, it is difficult to go to Shu and it is difficult to go to the blue sky, but this is the first war since the new era of the Han Dynasty, and it is also a battle to avenge the first emperor. Tell the king, are you all ready? ”

150,000 soldiers roared with all their might at the same time: "Always ready! ”

Ao Lie nodded in satisfaction, and turned to look at the Loyal Martyrs' Monument behind him. After the last war, there were many more names on the martyrs' monument, and in the first line, there was only one eye-catching name: Han Xian Emperor Association. Ao Lie stretched out his hand and stroked Liu Xie's name, then pointed to Liu Xie's name, and asked loudly to the soldiers in front of him: "Soldiers, you told the first emperor that you are ready to defend your family and the country and sacrifice your life for the country?" ”

"Always be ready! Always be ready!! Always be ready to !! ”

"Well, keep in mind one sentence, soldiers, only those who died in battle, not those who were scared to death! This was the case with the Yan army in the past, and so is the Han army now! If there is any superfluity, the king will not say much, carry the monument of loyalty and martyrs, and go to battle! Ao Lie gave the order to set off loudly.

Generals at all levels immediately called out to their subordinate soldiers and marched in order. Lu Bu and Zhao Yun were the first two people to set off, Lu Bu took the full 20,000 dragon elites, while Zhao Yun took half of the blood killing elites, and took the lead in embarking on the journey together, as the vanguard of the army. These two elite cavalry have different emphases, the Longxiang Army is good at charging into battle, chiseling and other heavy cavalry operations, while the Blood Killing Army is an all-round army, and at the same time, it can also be competent for the task of detecting the outpost, and the two elites can form a perfect complement. Pledge to clear all obstacles in the path of the army's advance.

After Lu Bu and Zhao Yun, it is the main force of Ao Lie's Chinese army, which is a team of 100,000 people, including 10,000 blood slaughter troops and 20,000 Qilin troops, as well as Xianbei, Xiongnu and other foreign soldiers who have accepted sinicization, and more Han veterans who have been in the army for more than three years. Such a composition structure ensured the strong combat effectiveness of the Han army. Following Ao Lie's side, the generals were Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Xu Chu, Dian Wei and the young general Jiang Wei. The advisors have Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, a pair of peerless thinkers, and they are also a good pair, as well as Xun Yu and Jia Xu, who were the first to follow Ao Lie.

For a long time, whenever Ao Lie went on an expedition, he would hand over the task of sitting in the base camp to Xun Yu, and Xun Yu never disappointed Ao Lie, every time he could transport the raised grain and grass to the front line in time, and at the same time keep the rear in order, but this time it was about the honor and disgrace of the Northern Han Dynasty. This was the first major battle since the establishment of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Ao Lie didn't want to have any deviations, so he brought Xun Yu out this time. To be honest, with Xun Yu's talent. It's just that staying in the rear is indeed a bit condescending, and his talent should be shown on a bigger stage, but Xun Yu has never complained about it. Instead, he tried his best to make the rear stable, and it can be said that Xun Yu was the most inconspicuous behind-the-scenes hero in the Northern Han Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that he will win the respect of all civil and military officials up and down the Northern Han Dynasty, and his silent dedication to the character of not asking for it is worthy of admiration and learning.

After the Chinese army, there were 20,000 grain and grass escort troops under the command of Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao is also one of the first to follow Ao Lie's group of veterans, even much earlier than Xun Yu, he is bold and careful, calm and calm, by him in the rear army, Ao Lie does not have to worry about grain and grass, if you want to rob grain in Zhang Liao's hands, it is almost impossible to do.

When the three-way army of the Northern Han Dynasty embarked on the journey one after another, Cao Cao's spies lurking in the shadows finally realized that the Han army was about to make a big move, and hurriedly prepared to transmit the news back to Xuchang as soon as possible and report it to Cao Cao. However, compared with the elite shadow members, these spies are simply like a cloud, nearly 100 spies of the Cao army, on the way back to Xuchang, were intercepted by the shadow members, the worst strength, even failed to get out of the gate of Yanjing, even the strongest group of Cao army spies, after struggling to escape the continuous interception of the shadow members, still could not escape the tragic fate, the last spy who was intercepted by the shadow members, is still a hundred miles away from Xuchang.

Of course, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Cao Cao finally heard the movements of the Han army, but when he learned the news, the 150,000 Han troops who set off from Yanjing were about to arrive in Luoyang, and without Cao Cao's knowledge, the 150,000 Han troops had traveled nearly half the way.

This made Cao Cao furious, and the members of the Shadow made Cao Cao blind and deaf, and he didn't know anything about the outside world, how could he not make Cao Cao angry? After venting his anger, Cao Cao realized that he lost to Ao Lie again, this failure, ten years ago had been laid foreshadowing, Ao Lie did not hesitate to spend a lot of financial and material resources, and devoted himself to creating a special force of Shadow, from that time on, it was already doomed, no matter who wanted to be in the field of intelligence and Ao Lie, he would be at an absolute disadvantage.

After all, Cao Cao is a generation of heroes, in the face of setbacks, he quickly cheered up, and at the same time made a remedy-style amend, ordered to raise food and grass as soon as possible, mobilize troops, and assemble in Xuchang, once the war between Ao Lie and Liu Bei fell into a stalemate, or Zhang He, Xu Huang and others who defended Jizhou had loopholes, he would wave his troops and drive straight in, taking advantage of Ao Lie's immaculate doppelganger, to seize Jizhou. Although Cao Cao knew very well in his heart that since Ao Lie dared to send troops to recruit Liu Bei on a large scale, he must have made a solid defensive deployment on his side, not to mention that he had been concealed for so long, whether it was in terms of timing, in terms of raising food and grass armaments, the response had been slower by more than a beat, and Cao Cao did this just to do his best and obey the destiny of heaven.

As early as half a month ago, when he received Ao Lie's edict, Guo Jia pointed out that Ao Lie would inevitably make a big move in the near future, and he also accurately deduced that the Han army's soldiers were pointing to Liu Bei in Yizhou in the southwest. For this reason, Cao Cao sent a large number of spies to deal with it, but who expected that the final result was such a thing, everything happened too fast, which really caught Cao Cao off guard.

After making the deployment, Cao Cao came to Guo Jia's mansion with helplessness, he wanted to spit out to Guo Jia and confide in him about his inner worries. But when Cao Cao saw Guo Jia, he found that he hadn't seen him for a few days, Guo Jia was already terminally ill, his face was pale without a trace of blood, accompanied by a violent cough, and he would cough up a mouthful of blood.

Getting this result, Cao Cao was both shocked and regretted, Cheng Yu, Xun You and others who followed him, most of them were the same generation as himself, only Guo Jia was more than ten years younger, Cao Cao originally planned to let Guo Jia assist his successor, but he didn't expect that now he would watch Guo Jia suffer from illness and die little by little. This made Cao Cao's heart feel very unacceptable and full of regret.

At the same time, in Jiangdong, Sun Ce made corresponding arrangements. The reason why Sun Ce was able to react so quickly was not that his spies were better than Cao Cao's, but that Ao Lie clearly told him the specific date of the Han army's dispatch in advance. Sun Ce had long known about the day when Lu Dao Ao Lie sent troops, so why did Lu have to wait until now to take action? Because he and Zhou Yu and Sun Quan jointly formulated a plan, they can only implement this plan after everyone's eyes, especially Liu Bei's eyes are attracted by the Han army, and the whole plan is to block Liu Bei and make him troubled, so that he can't concentrate on confronting Ao Lie, in this way, Sun Ce is equivalent to restraining Liu Bei's attention on the side, so that Ao Lie on the main battlefield can deal with it more calmly.

So, what is Sun Ce's plan? Except for Zhou Yu and Sun Quan, the two initiators of the plan, there is no fourth person who knows the way. Jiangdong is different from the north, there are many scholars and families here, if you want to control Jiangdong well, you must get the help of these scholars in the famous people, and these scholars don't care who is in charge of the world in their hearts, what they care about is that the interests of Jiangdong will not be harmed, in this context, Sun Ce is impossible to make his plans public, which is also an important reason why Ao Lie asked him to keep secrets in his letter, otherwise, once let these representatives of the scholars, For example, the civil officials led by Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong know that they will definitely consider the problem in the interests of their own scholars first, and maybe they will have side troubles.

The civil and military people in Jiangdong didn't know what Sun Ce would do next, they only knew Lu Dao, because it was not a big quarrel, Zhou Yu just made a few slightly excessive jokes with Sun Ce after drinking, and as a result, Sun Ce was deposed and rushed back to Chaisang's home. After driving out Zhou Yu, Sun Ce appointed Lü Meng, a general of the Mesozoic Era, to take Zhou Yu's place, and as the deputy governor of Jiangdong, he temporarily held the power and responsibility of Zhou Yu's governor in the two counties of Jingzhou belonging to Jiangdong until a new governor was elected. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: Hehe, Zhou Yu was deposed, and Lu Meng was on the throne, is it a little familiar? I think many friends can guess what happened next, right?