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In the middle of April of the seventh year of Jian'an, at the north gate of Yecheng in Jizhou, Prime Minister Cao Cao led hundreds of military officials under his command out of the city to welcome the triumphant return of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Ten days ago, the general Cao Ren led an army of 160,000 to capture Changshan, successfully repelled the Jizhou rebel general Ju Yi and tens of thousands of troops under his account, and recovered Zhongshan and Changshan in one fell swoop, winning a complete victory.

In this campaign, Cao Ren's army completely expelled the rebels who had been entrenched in Jizhou for three years, exterminated more than 40,000 Juyi rebels, captured 3,000 prisoners of war, and captured countless horses, grain, grass, ordnance and other baggage. After the war, the traitor Ju Yi led the remnants to flee in a hurry, escaped into the mountains and forests, and then retreated to the state.

At the same time, Zhang He and Gao Ran led 50,000 soldiers and horses to seize Zhongshan, and then marched eastward, encircled and suppressed the remnants of the Xiliang army stranded in Bohai County, and attacked the city all the way to the fortress, almost at the same time as the Chinese army under Cao Ren's department, successfully recaptured Bohai County, destroyed the port of the Xiliang Water Division, and finally thousands of remnants of the Xiliang army fled into Youzhou in a hurry.

At this point, the rebel army in Hebei Xiliang army was all defeated and retreated, and Cao Cao finally recovered the entire territory of Jizhou, truly occupying the land of Hebei, Qing and Yanzhou, dominating Hebei and looking at the world.

It stands to reason that tens of thousands of rebels and a small remnant of the Xiliang Army are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for Cao Cao, who has more than 500,000 troops, and they are not worth mentioning at all. But that's not the case.

In fact, the Juyi rebels who occupied the two counties of Changshan and Zhongshan were very difficult to deal with, and they attacked and harassed Cao Cao's army for three years. During this period, Cao Cao would send a large army to encircle and suppress every year, but the Juyi rebels were strong and cunning, causing Cao's army to lose troops and lose generals. It also spent a lot of money and food, but the final result was repeated defeats. Beat the air.

Especially in the autumn of last year, Cao Cao personally led the fifteenth army to suppress the rebels. After more than four months of continuous fighting, they still lost more than they won, with little success, and they were still helpless against the rebels. After the beginning of spring, Cao Cao again mobilized 100,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce the encirclement and suppression, appointed Cao Ren as the chief general of the Chinese army, and led the main army of 180,000 to storm Changshan; Then he ordered Zhang He and Gao Lan to lead a detachment of 70,000 people to attack Zhongshan Kingdom. The two armies attacked at the same time, fiercely attacking. Do not leave the rebels a chance to breathe, and strive to succeed in the first battle, completely wipe out the rebels, and sweep away all the enemy troops detained in Hebei.

As long as the deep iron pestle is sharpened into a needle. Under Cao Cao's mobilization of more than 200,000 troops to encircle and suppress it with all his might, the Juyi rebels were unable to support it alone, and finally the army was defeated and fled. The Cao army, on the other hand, took advantage of the great victory to attack Bohai County, recovering the lost territory, and destroying the naval base of the Xiliang army in one fell swoop, completely eradicating all potential threats in Hebei.

May of the seventh year of Jian'an. That is, half a month after the victorious return of Cao Ren's army, more than 200,000 Cao troops and more than 100,000 people gathered in the eastern suburbs to witness the grand ceremony of the prime minister Cao Cao's sacrifice to heaven and earth.

Subsequently. Cao Cao ascended the throne and became the emperor, honored the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and established the country with the name "Wei". The capital is Yecheng, and the king is in the world.

Then. Cao Cao, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, posthumously named Yuan Shao as the king of Bohai and crowned Cao Ren as the general of the hussars. commanding the three armies; Cao Hong was crowned as General Wei, Cao Chun as the former general, Cao Zhen as the right general, and Cao Xiu as the left general; Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan, was named the general of the chariot cavalry, and Yuan Shang was the later general.

Zhang He was named the general of the expedition to the east, Gao Ran as the general of the expedition to the north, Jiang Qi as the general of the expedition to the south, and Zhao Zhao as the general of the expedition to the west; More than 100 generals were awarded more than Jiuqing, more than 200 generals worshiped the generals, and the rest of the generals were rewarded.

Cao Cao's strategists Cheng Yu, Xu You, Chen Qun, Guo Tu, Fu Zhu, Zhong Xuan, Chen Lin, Liu Ye, Man Chong and other more than ten civil servants and strategists, all of them were added to the rank of minister; The remaining officials at all levels are rewarded, and they are at least promoted by one level. Xun Yu still served as Shang Shuling, and he was the only important minister who did not receive any rewards after Cao Cao became emperor, while all other civil officials and advisors were honored, and their official positions were above him.

At the same time, Emperor Cao Cao of Wei announced to the world that Li Li of Xiliang was the king of Liang, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou was the king of Chu, and ordered the ministers of Xiliang and Jingzhou to be attached to the rule of Great Wei. If the king of Liang and the king of Chu were willing to lead the people to join him, Emperor Wei was willing to sit on an equal footing with the two vassal kings and rule the world together.

As soon as Emperor Wei's proclamation came out, the world was in an uproar, and it immediately set off an uproar, and it quickly spread throughout all prefectures, counties and even counties of the Han Dynasty in just half a month. So far, since the violent death of the Han Emperor, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao brothers have successively proclaimed emperors, there is another emperor in the world after a lapse of five years, this is the Great Wei Emperor Cao Cao Cao Mengde.

Because Emperor Cao Cao of Wei founded the country in Hebei, and the three states under his rule were all in the north, the people of each state called it "Northern Wei".

At the same time, although Cao Cao announced that the world would change the Yuan Dynasty and open the country after he became emperor, and changed the seventh year of Jian'an to the first year of the early Huang Dynasty, Wei only had three states, and the newly promulgated era names were limited to the use of Wei State, and other states and counties in the Central Plains still used the Jian'an era name; Even the military officials under Cao Cao still used the Jian'an era name, and only when the government decree was issued would the Huang Chu era name be used.

In the two months since Cao Cao ascended the throne as emperor, the world has become more and more calm, and even the friction and local strife on the border of various forces have disappeared. The forces of Li Li of Xiliang and Liu Biao of Jingzhou remained silent about the founding of Cao Wei, and there was no sign of the transfer of troops and horses, nor did they have any written congratulations or condemnations. For two months, these two princes did not react at all, and they all brewed in silence, sublimated in brewing, and exploded in sublimation.

Inadvertently, another month passed. At the beginning of August, Jingzhou, which had been silent for three months, suddenly broke out with explosive news, which caused an uproar again after the founding of Cao Wei.

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Today is the day when Li Li held a banquet in the hall of the county government to make a trip for the generals of Zhang Yan and Xu Huang, who were about to go to the camp in Montenegro.

In the past three months, the state army and the Hanoi army have completed the rotation and change of defense.

Now, Jia Xu serves as the governor of the prefecture, overseeing all the soldiers and horses of the prefecture and the Montenegrin battalion, with a total of 240,000 troops; Chen Gong took over as the governor of Sili and took charge of the 100,000 troops under Teng Xiao's account in Hanoi. In addition, Xu Rong still served as the governor of Youzhou, commanding more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Youzhou, and the rest of the Central Plains Prefecture except for Nanyang County increased the army by 50,000, and Yuzhou, Xuzhou and Yangzhou remained the same.

During this period of time, no matter how the situation changed, Li Li always dispatched troops according to the original plan in a decent manner without the slightest interference. When the news of Cao Cao's ascension to the throne and proclamation of the emperor reached his ears, he smiled faintly, and casually put Cao Cao's announcement on the handsome case, unmoved, and the book is still on the desk, and it has not been moved for three consecutive months, and it is still in the original position.

Although all the civil and military forces in the state had the intention of jointly persuading them, they were stopped by Li Li raising his hand before they could speak, and said, "Don't worry, don't hurry, wait a minute", so that even though everyone had the heart to support their own lord to become the emperor, they couldn't open their mouths and had nothing to do.

After the rotation of soldiers and horses was completed, Zhang Yan's Feiyan light cavalry and Xu Huang's tent were ordered to garrison the Black Mountain camp and be responsible for attacking Jizhou. After all, Montenegro was Zhang Yan's base camp, and this time he was ordered to garrison Montenegro even if he went home, and he returned to his old business again after eight years. Zhang Yan was the chief general of the Montenegrin battalion, so he rushed to the party with his own soldiers, listened to Li Li's admonition and advice, and escorted the grain and grass to return to Montenegro with Xu Huang's tent to the camp first.

Towards the end of the feast, Guo Jia and Jia Xu hurriedly walked into the lobby, and suddenly more than 30 generals who had entered the camp first in the hall put down their wine bottles one after another and looked at the two of them in unison. Although they didn't know what had happened, the generals could guess that something unusual had happened again just from the solemn looks of Guo Jia and Jia Xu.

Walking quickly to the bottom of the upper hall steps, Guo Jia did not shy away from the attention of the generals, and hurriedly reported: "Lord, Jingzhou Liu Biao has ascended the throne and become the emperor!" ”

"Oh? Liu Biao is the emperor! Li Li responded in surprise, the look on his face was a little dazed, and he groaned in a daze: "Since Liu Biao is the emperor?" He is almost seventy years old now, he is already at the age of rotten wood, and he is still so impulsive, what is the use of him being called emperor at such an age? ”

Obviously, Liu Biao's ascension to the throne as emperor surprised Li Li, which can be said to be completely unexpected. If Guo Jia hadn't said it in public, he wouldn't even dare to believe that it was true, and he didn't think about it and thought it was a rumor. But this is from Guo Jia's mouth, so Li Li can't believe it, because Guo Jia will not lie to him, and there is no reason to make up such meaningless rumors.

Seeing Li Li's suspicious face, Guo Jia took out a stack of letters from his sleeve, bowed down and walked up the steps to hand it to Li Li, while Jia Xu held a roll of bamboo slips and put it on the handsome case.

The moment he took the letter, Li Li saw that there were only a dozen words on the letter: "Liu Biao is the emperor, builds the capital of Xiangyang, and inherits the Han emperor." "This is the news sent back by Hawkeye Detail, and there is also a seal letter from Hawkeye who is in charge of Jingzhou's intelligence, which is absolutely reliable. These few words reveal a lot of information, Liu Biao is really the emperor.

After reading the letter, Li Li was already convinced that what Guo Jia said was true, and three months after Cao Cao became emperor, there was another emperor in the world, and he also claimed to be the orthodoxy of the Han family. Glancing at the book slip handed over by Jia Xu, Li Li didn't need to look at it at all, he knew that this was also a notice document, just like Cao Wei's notice placed on the desk, the content was similar, so Li Li did not rush to spread out the book slip to check, but closed his eyes and pondered.

At this moment, Li Li secretly sighed in his heart: "It's really strange that there are many things every year, especially this year!" In just a few months, there were two emperors in the world, one was in the prime of life, and the other was already dying. Since when has the emperor become so worthless, he can be the emperor alone! ”

As soon as he thought of this, Li Li suddenly opened his eyes and said with a smile: "I won't read the book, and all the generals will stretch their necks and wait to hear the details." In this case, Feng Xiao worked hard to tell everyone the content of the book, and what was the difference between Liu Biao's emperor and the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so as to save time as much as possible, so as not to worry the generals and delay the departure of the army. ”

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