However, it was said that Liu Yu's sneak attack on Zu Zhao's army failed, and the news that he was killed by Gongsun Zan on the way to escape had already reached Yuan Shao's ears. After Yuan Shao learned the news, he couldn't help but take the case and scolded Liu Yu for being a waste, and he was not enough to strategize with him. Tian Feng was also frustrated in his heart, he had already warned Liu Yu not to be greedy for merit and trade, and only to choose to stick to it if he captured Liaodong, but he didn't expect that guy to want to sneak attack Zhuojun, and it was expected that he would be attacked by people back and forth.

The news that Gongsun Chan killed Liu Yu Zu Zhao also learned about it, and he was also a little sorry for this, Liu Yu was a good official no matter what he said, if he wasn't in a different camp, it was really worth befriending this person, and now he was killed by Gongsun Chan, it was worth sighing. He knew that Gongsun Chan would definitely plot against Liaodong, so he ordered Chen Youzhi and other generals to take the initiative to attack Gongsun Chan, and now his army and Yuan Shao are fighting on the front line, Yuan Shao will definitely not withdraw his army, this is a good time to eliminate Gongsun Zhan, if they join forces, then Cao Cao will be mixed in again, Zu Zhao feels that although his strength is strong, it is not enough to compete with their three-way army, and Cao Cao now has the Son of Heaven in his hands, and the other princes will naturally obey Cao Cao's words, and now Cao Cao did not send troops, When Yuan Shao was besieged, it was a good time to get rid of Gongsun Zhan.

After Chen Youzhi got Zu Zhao's order, he raised the troops of Xichuan, and at the same time united with the 50,000 troops of Youzhou, a total of 170,000 troops, to launch a pursuit of Gongsun Zhan. At first, Gongsun Chan was very angry because his son was killed, so as to encourage the morale of the army, so that they could fight hard with the army led by Chen Youzhi, but his wisdom was not as good as Chen Youzhi after all, he was first lured into the ambush circle and burned the elite troops, and suffered heavy losses, and then underestimated Chen Youzhi's elite forces, and the two armies clashed head-on, and as a result, Su De led the army to sneak attack their rear army grain and grass, which led to their rout, and they have been fleeing to their own rear base.

After the defeat, with Chen Youzhi's pursuit, he had several opportunities to counterattack, but because of his fear and conservative plot, he did not dare to touch, the previous tiger momentum was no longer there, seeing Gongsun Chan so without fighting spirit, his soldiers were also very disappointed in it, and gradually left, and many of them took refuge in becoming aspiring soldiers.

Seeing more and more of his subordinates fleeing, Gongsun Zhan was even more frightened in his heart, and ordered the people and soldiers to build very tall fortresses all day and night, and was bound to resist with the help of these fortresses and Chen Youzhi's army. But with the continuous advancement of Chen Youzhi's army, Gongsun Zhan's fortress was pushed off little by little.

In the end, Gongsun Chan hid in a tall fortress made of iron blocks, locked himself inside, and prevented his subordinates from being bribed to kill him, and every day he only let children under the age of ten bring in food, and he had to let the children try it first, and only after half an hour that the children were fine, he dared to eat. Seeing Gongsun Chan like this, the soldiers knew that he was completely hopeless, and there was a chance that the abandoners would be nine out of ten, originally Gongsun Chan still had more than 100,000 troops, but now, except for some cronies who had followed him for many years and could not bear to leave, they were almost all gone, and now there are no 20,000 troops left around him.

After Cheng Youzhi got the news of this army, he immediately launched a general attack with elite troops, and finally captured all the fortresses, and the fortress where Gongsun Chan was located was really strong, and one soldier inside was enough to reach ten outside, so when Cheng Youzhi began to attack, he lost some soldiers, and then he did not choose to attack again, but let people surround the fortress, and at the same time ordered people to dig tunnels from all directions, wanting to directly let the fortress fall into the ground.

The soldiers dug tunnels in a place where Gongsun Chan could see, and at the same time wantonly transported soil in front of him, completely after letting him, even if he hid in the fortress and had several years of food storage, he would eventually dig up his fortress and let him die inside, and it was a good choice to come out and surrender.

When Gongsun Chan saw this, he was disheartened and knew that his time for death had come, so he summoned his family to enter the fortress where he was, killed them all with a sword, and finally killed himself. Knowing that after Gongsun Zhan's death, all his cronies' troops surrendered and became obedient.

Chen Youzhi ordered people to blow up the fortress and entered the house where Gongsun Chan was, and saw that there were corpses everywhere, all of them from his family, one of them, wearing a suit of armor, and the hood on his head never retreated. A soldier told Chen Youzhi that since Gongsun Chan hid here, he has always been wearing armor, eating and sleeping is the same, and even when he eats, he is holding a sword in his hand, and he does not dare to bow his head to eat.

Once, when a child brought him food, because there was an iron spoon in the soup, Gongsun Chan suspected that it was a weapon to assassinate him, and directly killed the child with a sword. These things were later known by Zu Zhao, and he also sighed, a person who was once so brave, with fifty people to kill a team of nearly 1,000 northern barbarians, a fierce general who lost his armor and abandoned his armor, but finally ended up with this one who was more suspicious than Cao Cao, and couldn't help but sigh.

After Chen Youzhi heard about Gongsun Zhan's incident, he also lamented, he didn't expect him to be like this at all, thinking that when he fought him just now, Chen Youzhi was very cautious and didn't dare to be careless, but later found out that he was such a person who couldn't afford to lose, and if he was defeated, he didn't have the courage to fight again.

Thinking about the previous Gongsun Zhan, he still had a lot of credit for protecting the territory of the Han Dynasty, so Chen Youzhi also ordered someone to bury Gongsun Chan and his family, as for his non-direct relatives, Chen Youzhi was also very friendly to them, and let them do some official positions there and jointly manage that place.

After the destruction of Gongsun Zhan, Zu Zhao's rear was completely free of threat, which laid a solid foundation for him to compete for the world and Cao Cao and the Jiangdong Group in the future, which Chen Youzhi and others contributed to.

It is said that during the period when Chen Youzhi and Gongsun Zhan were fighting, Zu Zhao and Yuan Shao's armies also clashed from time to time, but the two armies were in a confrontation, and neither took the initiative to launch a decisive attack. Because everyone knows that once it fails, then the consequences are unimaginable.

Seeing that Zu Zhao had not launched a general offensive for a long time, and it was difficult for Yuan Shao's army to launch a counteroffensive for a while, Tian Feng thought to Yuan Shao again, and now the place where they are facing each other is the Xin family's county wang, which can let the Xin family come forward to attack Zu Zhao, so that Zu Zhao's military strength can be consumed, and when the time comes, they can cooperate with the Xin family to destroy Zu Zhao in one fell swoop.

Yuan Shao listened to Tian Feng's words and immediately ordered Fu Zhi to go to Longxi Di Dao to persuade the Xin family, a famous family, to send troops. Let's say that this Xin family provided a lot of help to Gaozu's army when Gaozu was against Qin, and at that time the Xin family was a very powerful family, with hundreds of thousands of family troops, which can be described as a monopoly and a country within a country. Later, Gaozu won the world, thanks to the credit of the Xin family, he personally issued an edict to Longxi as the county of the Xin family, if anyone dares to invade the Xin family, it is to rebel against the country, and the court must send an army to help exterminate it.

Let's say that he listened to Yuan Shao's order and went to Di Dao to ask to see Xinjia County to guard Xin Changdao. This person was an official in the court before, and the official was still the book, but later he was mediocre of the eternal Ling Emperor, so he resigned and returned to Longxi. Emperor Ling also issued an edict to Xin Changdao as the county guard of Longxi and govern everything here.

Xin Changdao heard that Yuan Shao sent someone to come, because Yuan Shao was the third prince of the fourth world, he was also a little in awe, and he was busy letting people come in, and he was also polite to Fu Zhu. During the banquet, he said: "The Xin family is a famous family in Longxi, there were imperial rules during the Gaozu period, anyone who dares to invade Longxi is an enemy of the imperial court, and now I can come here to see Lord Junshou, it is really a blessing for three lives." ”

Xin Changdao said: "It is also an honor for our Xin family to be able to come. The Xin family got the kindness of Gaozu and felt it in his heart. Mr. Fu is a well-known strategist under Yuan Benchu, the fourth and third princes, and he doesn't know what he is doing this time. ”

Frustrated, he said: "My lord and Zu Zhao have formed a confrontation in Longxi, I think the adults already know." ”

Xin Changdao nodded and said, "I naturally know." Yuan Benchu was an important minister in the court, but I heard that this ancestor Zhao is not a small role, he studied under Lu Zhi, quite knowledgeable, and governed Liaodong in an orderly manner, originally Youzhou was a poor place, but in the Liaodong County and Liaoxi County under his governance, but the merchants came and went endlessly, and its prosperity was no less than that of Luoyang, Kyoto. ”

Fu Zhu shook his head and smiled, and said, "Forgive me for offending, adults only know one of them, but they don't know the other." ”

"Oh? How do you say that? Xin Changdao was not angry, but wanted to hear what Fu Zhu had to say. He hadn't seen Zu Zhao, and he had only heard about Zu Zhao's affairs, so at this moment, he really wanted to hear what the frustrated sect as a hostile force would say.

Fu Zhu said: "Zu Zhao's people, there is indeed a way to govern the place, but this is all based on the destruction of local magnates. Didn't you hear that he first destroyed the famous Gongsun Du of Liaodong, and then threatened the daughter of the Taishou of Xuanwu County, so that the Gongsun King or the family was also suppressed by him, and later forced away Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, this person has wolf ambitions, poor soldier Dou Wu, wants to defeat my lord in him, just imagine, if we lose, what will happen to him next? ”

Xin Changdao frowned, already guessing the meaning of the frustrated words, and asked, "Sir's unguarded words." ”

Fu Zhu smiled: "Actually, I don't say it, adults already know." According to Zu Zhao's habits, every time he occupies a place, he must suppress the local nobles, and then use the people's hatred of the rich and the hatred of power to jointly denounce the local magnates, and finally eliminate the local nobles, but win the hearts of the people, so he will continue to occupy other places until all the territory of the Han Dynasty is occupied. To put it bluntly, he wants to eliminate the local forces in the DPRK and China step by step, and then seize power. The previous ten permanent servants, Dong Zhuo and the current Cao Cao, although they are all coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but they dare not seek to become a dynasty, the world has always been a big Han, but this Zu Zhao, if he wins the Son of Heaven, then he must seek a dynasty, and now he is sending troops to Longxi, I boldly guess that if my lord retires, his target should be your Xin family. ”

Xin Changdao was already angry, and he took the case and said: "Ignorant children dare to try the world in vain, it's really the opposite." My Xin family has Gaozu Longen, how can he let him come so nonsense. Mr. went back and told Yuan Benchu that my Xin family would not sit idly by, and I would immediately organize the army and horses to attack Zu Zhao. It's really unreasonable, I don't carry his head to see the emperor, I'm sorry for the name of this county Wangtaishou. ”

Seeing that the Xin family had moved, he was happy in his heart, and he didn't stay at the Xin family for long, but left quickly under the pretext of going back to tell Yuan Shao the news. Xin Changdao didn't keep it, and kept sending the frustration out of the city, and then he turned back.

After returning to the city, Xin Changdao immediately summoned the generals and generals to the council to discuss the matter of sending troops to attack Zuzhao. Some generals are puzzled, originally the battle between their two major warlords has nothing to do with their Xin family, why do they send troops, they only obey the dispatch of the imperial court, or the imperial court also wants to protect them, why do they suddenly attack the Zu Zhao army.

Xin Changdao had long known that there would be generals who would raise such questions, because he had this idea before he met Fu Zhu, and now when he heard other people's questions, he said the words of Fu Zhu to the generals in a different way, and everyone who said it was also indignant, clamoring that Zu Zhao must be killed and let him know what is powerful.

At this time, one person still did not recommend sending troops, and everyone saw that this person was Xin Changdao's daughter Xin Ainu, the only female general in the family, and her intelligence and courage were among the best female generals.

She said that Zu Zhao has always loved the people very much, and the reason why he confronted Yuan Shao's army was that Yuan Shao wanted to invade him, but now Yuan Shao can't beat him, so he wants to let the Xin family come forward, which is used by Yuan Shaojun. Youzhou was originally a poor place, but under the governance of Zu Zhao, it was already a prosperous capital comparable to Luoyang. In particular, Jojo also assessed the northern states, first surrendering Silla, and then conquering all the tribes of Uhuan, Goguryeo, and Korea, so that the north had not been burned by war for several years. Let's ask such a person, how could it be what her father said, she even directly asked her father if what he said was said by Yuan Shao's envoy, and now it is best not to meddle in their affairs.

Xin Changdao didn't listen to his daughter's words at all, and said that Zu Zhao killed the public prosecution, hid Xuansu County, and forced Liu Yu away, and said that he was a war maniac, and if he was heated up in the future, there would definitely be wars and chaos, and the country would never be peaceful.

Xin Ainu was still not convinced, saying that the Liaodong and Liaoxi governed by Zu Zhao had recruited all the people who went there to take refuge before, and all the merchants and merchants nodded and praised Zu Zhao, how could it be a poor soldier Dou Wu, the reason why he wanted to send troops to fight was completely to keep one side safe in this troubled world, and this time he fought with Yuan Shao, which was completely provoked by Yuan Shao first.

Xin Changdao said: "Ainu, you see the problem is too simple. In short, if you don't get rid of Zu Zhao now, it will be very troublesome in the future. If you have always insisted on not going to war with Zu Zhao, then the soldiers under your command will be directly under my control in the future, and you will return to the boudoir well, embroider when you should embroider, and weave cloth when you should weave, I don't want you to dance with knives and guns for a long time, and you will not be a girl's house at all. ”

When Xin Ainu heard this, he was immediately unhappy, and said sharply: "Father, are you going to cut my military power, I don't agree." What kind of woman, the predecessors of our Xin family, who fought the world with Gaozu before, are not women. Okay, since you insist on going to war with Zu Zhao, then I have nothing to say. However, when the war with Zu Zhao began, Yuan Shao must be guarded against, our Xin family should be protected by the imperial court, and the imperial court must be allowed to issue an edict, and all the legions must not plot against our Xin family, otherwise they will be enemies of the imperial court. ”

Xin Changdao said with a smile: "You have to worry too much about this, Yuan Benchuzhi is very talented, he will definitely not dare to touch our Xin family." And now he has a request for me, he can't even settle with Zu Zhao, how dare he touch my Xin family again, isn't this self-defeating. The order was sent down, and the elite troops were immediately reorganized and prepared to launch an attack on Zuzhao's army. ”

Xin Ainu said: "Father, even if you don't guard against Yuan Shao, if you want to attack Zu Zhao, you can't be in a hurry, I heard that Zu Zhao has many strategists, and his generals are even more brave and extraordinary, including Zhang Yuan, Zhao Meng and Zhao Yuan, etc., explain the fierce generals who come and go freely among thousands of military horses, and there are also prodigies such as Chen Gong as military advisors, if we attack rashly, we must not." ”

Xin Changdao smiled disdainfully: "Ainu, you are too girly after all." That Chen Gong, I heard, is a small county order, what can be extraordinary, Zu Zhao uses those people as military advisors, how can it be undefeated. ”

Xin Ainu said: "Father, don't forget, it's such a small county order, but it surrounded Yuan Shao's army of 500,000 with 300,000 troops, and Yuan Shao's subordinates have Tianfeng, Fu Zhu, Guo You and other world-famous wizards, but they can't compete with a Chen Palace, isn't this powerful enough?" ”

"Frustration and other talents are all over the world, but Yuan Shao didn't listen to what he said, so he was defeated. I am not Yuan Shao, naturally I will not be arrogant but cowardly as a mouse, now I have 300,000 soldiers, I don't believe that I can't defeat Zu Zhao. Ainu, you take your 50,000 elite soldiers to stay in the rear, and the front line will be left to me. Xin Changdao said.

Xin Ainu wanted to say more, but Xin Changdao didn't listen, and had already ordered the army and horses to be reorganized and attacked immediately. Xin Ainu had no choice but to secretly pray for her father's victory in the army, and she took the army to stay in the rear, she was always at ease Yuan Shao, he didn't have to do anything about the object, and now in this world, there are only eternal interests, no eternal friends.

Xin Changdao reorganized 200,000 horses, took dozens of generals, and left the city of Didao in a mighty way, and advanced to the place where Zuzhao's army was stationed. After listening to the words of Fu Zhu, he felt that it was very reasonable, thinking that Gongsun Du was killed and a good official like Liu Yu was forced to leave, he felt that Zu Zhao was really a chaotic minister and thief, but he didn't know that Liu Yu was actually forced away by Gongsun Zhan.