In January of the fourth year of Chuping (193), heavy rain poured in the Fufeng area, and hail was as big as an egg, and a corner of Huashan collapsed, and the officials of Chang'an thought that natural disasters had descended into the world, all because of the wrath of the gods, and there would be great disasters, so the public agreed to dismiss Zhou Zhong (Zhou Yutang's uncle), who had just become a captain for a few months, to comfort the gods, and the captain was replaced by Zhu Jun.

Zhou Zhong has no resentment in his heart, who is the third prince at this time is unlucky, his predecessor Huang Wan is a good example, because of his strong temperament, he was imprisoned and killed by Li Wei, Ma Riyan and the servant Zhao Qi were sent to the charms, let them appease the world, in fact, let them go to death, Zhou Zhong is now happy to go back to his hometown Shu County to retire, let Zhu Jun go to the top cylinder.

The good times didn't last long, and it didn't take long for the Jingshi earthquake again, which collapsed a lot of houses, and even the imperial palace and some official residences were also affected, and the court was shocked, and everyone thought that the gods were not angry, and they also needed to remove a third prince to comfort the gods, otherwise there would be a catastrophe in the world.

Sikong Yang Biao was deposed, and he was succeeded by Zhao Qian's younger brother, Zhao Wen. Since then, Zhao Wen began his fifteen-year, three-duke career, until Cao Cao was ready to monopolize the government and serve as prime minister, so he found an excuse to remove Zhao Wen.

Yang Biao's dismissal did not prevent the catastrophe from happening, because the big thing had already begun, and the entire Han family became out of control.

Yuan Shu's ambition to encroach on the world is getting bigger and bigger, which has been fully demonstrated when he rejected Yuan Shao in a righteous and stern manner and recruited him to set up Liu Yu as the emperor together. and other words scolding Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao, who knew that Yuan Shu had hidden the jade seal, how could he not understand his brother's thoughts, the Yuan family wanted to have someone who was the master of the world, but did you Yuan Shu do it? Yuan Shao, who was scolded by his younger brother, how could he endure it.

After Yuan Shao's establishment was opposed by his younger brother Cao Cao and younger brother Yuan Shu, he completely lost his mind, and began to listen to the advice of Fu Zhu, Xu You and others, and began to compete for hegemony in the world.

Yuan Shao's actions Yuan Shu has always been very concerned, so after Yuan Shu knew that he couldn't win over Cao Cao, he decided to kill him first.

The Battle of Kuangting began.

This battle was an extremely important battle in the history of the Three Kingdoms. Its importance is second only to the Battle of Chibi, and even its status is above the two battles of Guandu (Guandu is only a chance for Cao Cao to win victory, not a real war to pacify Hebei) and Yiling.

It was also the beginning of Yuan Shu's own good hand of cards that he played into bad cards, thus going to perdition.

Yuan Shu first made the fatal mistake of having a feud with Lu Bu, who had taken refuge in him.

Lu Bu was arrogant by nature, relying on himself to fight against Dong Zhuo and their Yuan family, and because of Yuan Shu's prevention, Lu Bu's grain and grass were extremely scarce, so the arrangers began to plunder the people of the county in the rich Nanyang, and they were full of complaints.

Even a guy like Yuan Shu, who has no way and no virtue, knows that ruling the people is the basis of his rule, how can he allow others to plunder at will.

To be honest, Yuan Shu's idea is definitely correct, but he can't stand it and has another idea, that is, if he wants to plunder, he will also plunder.

Yuan Shu went to the book to scold Lu Bu, Lu Bu was alone and had no support, he had fought a few games with Liu Pan and Huang Zhong before, regardless of victory or defeat, and now there was a rift in the relationship with Yuan Shu, and Lu Bu, who was sandwiched between Liu Biao and Yuan Shu, had a retreat.

Lu Bu decisively took the Bingzhou army and went north overnight, taking refuge in the old acquaintance Zhang Yang, who is now in charge of Hanoi.

As Lu Bu left, the door of Yuan's surgery was wide open, and Liu Biao drove straight in, completely snatching back Nanyang, which was occupied by Yuan Shu, and cutting off the grain road of Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu had no choice but to lead troops to Chen Liutun to garrison Fengqiu, and ordered Liu Xiang to lead troops to garrison Kuangting.

Yuan Shu's choice this time was not wrong, Liu Biao was looked down upon by Cao Cao, Er Yuan and Changtian, the reason is that this guy was not aggressive, and sure enough, after Liu Biao snatched back Nanyang, he began to work with Yuan Shaoxu and no longer move forward.

On the contrary, Zhou Xin, who was farther away from Yuan Shao, behaved like a real Yuan Shao loyalist, did not listen to the dissuasion of his younger brother Zhou Hao, and resolutely went north, preparing to copy Yuan Shu's back road, and cooperate with Liu Miao to occupy Yuan Shu's old base camp!

Zhou Xin and Liu Xuan's actions were self-defeating in Yuan Shu's eyes, and he resolutely began to prepare for a decisive battle with Boss Cao.

This battle involved most of the princes and forces in the Kanto region who really had the right to speak, except for Boss Liu, who could not win over both parties and was neutral in the plains.

Yuan Shao naturally wouldn't watch his little brother being beaten, and immediately led troops to help Cao Cao, I have to say that Yuan Shao is still very righteous at this time.

He was ready to personally lead his troops to join forces with Cao Cao, but Gongsun Zhan used this opportunity to persuade Ji Yong, the defender of Juancheng, to defect, betray Yuan Shao and join his command, and sent troops to help Ji Yong defend the city.

Yuan Benchu naturally would not sit idly by, he sent Zhu Ling, a general who was also from Qinghe, to lead the army to recapture Juancheng, Yuan Shao's approach also laid the groundwork for Zhu Ling to join Cao Cao in the future, because Zhu Ling's family is all in Juancheng.

In the end, Jucheng was recaptured under Zhu Ling's desperate attack, and Zhu Ling's family was killed by Ji Yong at the head of the city.

Gongsun Zhan's containment of Yuan Shao was not limited to this, he sent Shan Jing to garrison Gaotang, and the Qingzhou Assassin under his command went all the way to the west to start a fierce battle with Yuan Shao's generals.

And Yuan Shu's help is far more than Gongsun Zan alone, but also Tao Qian and the Black Mountain Thief.

Tao Qian was very jealous of Cao Cao at this moment, he was afraid that he would come to smoke himself, so it was best to take this opportunity to destroy Boss Cao in one go, and he was ready to assign Zang Ba and Chang Xi to attack Cao Cao, but these two guys had their own thoughts and didn't listen to him at all.

Tao Qian had no choice but to assign the young Xu Sheng to attack.

However, a sudden news made Tao Qian scold, Xu Sheng's family moved south, the target was Luoxia City, Tao Qian was angry, you betrayed me, forget it, why don't you vote for anyone, go to the thief! Tao Qian vowed to cut Xu Sheng with a thousand knives.

As a last resort, he had to send the most famous general in Xuzhou, Cao Bao, to lead troops to prepare to unite with Yuan Shu and attack Cao Cao.

Cao Bao is as his name suggests, it is such a thing, Tao Qian sent him to lead the troops, and the result can be imagined.

Coupled with the joint efforts of Cao Yuan and the two, it is difficult to have opponents in the world, and Cao Yuan and the two are ready to defeat Shan Jing, Tian Kai and Tao Qian in one fell swoop.

The measures of Gongsun Chan and others are obviously difficult to achieve, but there are still unexpected achievements along the way.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who were fighting with Shan Jing, Tian Kai, and Tao Qian, and were about to win, received news that shocked the three armies.

"My lord! The big thing is not good, the Black Mountain thief led tens of thousands of troops to poison and the Jizhou Mu Hushou sent by the imperial court, instigated the Wei County soldiers to rebel and captured Yecheng! The herald shouted to Yuan Shao.

"What!" Yuan Shao's family members in Yecheng were suddenly shocked.

"My lord! The Montenegrin thieves led tens of thousands of troops to forcibly take Dongjun, and Dong'a was in danger! Cao Cao's heralds also ran over and shouted to Boss Cao.

Boss Cao was still frowning at the news from Yuan Shao's side just now, but now after hearing this, he was calm, his face was indifferent, and he said: "Just a thief party, why panic, after this victory, Cao Hui army will destroy itself." ”

Yuan Shao was stunned after listening to Cao Cao's words, Cao Cao could still be so calm after hearing the news, so why couldn't he lose face in front of Cao Cao, right?

"Humph! The family is small, the world is big, first kill Cao Bao, and then kill the poison! Yuan Shao snorted coldly, with a dissatisfied face.

Boss Cao was smiling secretly in his heart.

This news also reached Yuan Shu's ears, and he immediately laughed when he heard it, because the depression caused by being pressed below by Yuan Shao made Yuan Shu, who heard the news, immediately burst out the arrogant temper of his second ancestor that he had cultivated since childhood.

Aren't you Yuan Shao? How many are not people who take refuge? Aren't you Cao Cao fully equipped with civil and military weapons? How about now?

Yuan Shu felt that even his younger brother could break through the capitals of these two families, so why bother to take action himself? Let them fight first, the strength of both sides is almost consumed, that is, the time has come for him Yuan Shu to appear on the stage, so he was originally going north to Yuan Shu, but he stopped there and chose to sit and watch the success or failure.

Therefore, Yuan Shu, who was ready to sit and watch Cao Yuan anxious, took advantage of the situation to attack, and decided the situation in one fell swoop, completely lost the opportunity to become a leader.