1. Snow in patches and patches

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Wang Yun died, and died without accident.

According to the news sent back, after several days of fierce fighting, Chang'an City was still unable to withstand the attack from the Xiliang army after all.

In the end, perhaps in despair, or for some other reason, Wang Yun finally had to use his death to protect the safety of the titular emperor of the Han in Chang'an City, and he had no choice.

That day was the last thing that Wang Yun's life left in this world.

The stubborn old man faced the army outside Chang'an City that could not be seen at a glance, and his face was full of tears.

Whether he is lamenting his unfinished business, or lamenting the end of the great man's luck, this may only be known by himself.

The man, who had only one way to choose, slashed his neck with the sharp sword in his hand, and then fell headfirst down from the high walls of Chang'an City.

I don't know if he was dead when he fell, what he thought if he didn't die immediately, whether he remembered his life past, whether he remembered his former best friends, and recalled those former enemies.

Unfortunately, the life of Wang Yun is coming to an end, and dozens of greedy jackals have already been barking at the base of the city wall, impatiently waiting for their delicacies.

The bloody scramble scene made the Xiliang army outside the city feel extraordinarily happy, the beasts' war skills were obviously not comparable to humans, but the primitive impulses they expressed by instinct could arouse the violent factors hidden in the blood of humans even more.

What's more, for most Xiliang people, they may prefer to be one of the jackals, so as to complete their venting of Wang Yun's "raw meat".

At this time, in Chang'an City behind Wang Yun, there were countless corpses of the war dead, among them were the private soldiers of various courtiers, and there were also ordinary people who were temporarily recruited and equipped with weapons and were driven to the city wall before they even had time to change jobs.

Some of these corpses were wounded in the front, and some were stabbed in the back, but where were the injuries, the expressions of these people when they died were terrifying and desperate, perhaps they remembered the horror that once shrouded Chang'an City before they died.

And in a palace behind these corpses, there was Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, who sat on the throne and waited quietly.

At this time, the young man's eyes flashed with a calm, almost cold, gaze.

For what?

Is it hatred that Wang Yun has put himself in danger? Or is it the audacity of the remnants of the Xiliang Army?

The answer to this question is unknown, for those who can see through what is behind these eyes are either dead or trembling behind the walls, waiting for the victor's verdict on them.

The most important thing is that when the sound of heavy and chaotic footsteps sounded outside the palace, the coldness in the eyes of the Ninety-Five Venerable of the Great Han had disappeared, and in its place, there were really calm eyes, quietly waiting for the arrival of the victor.

And what he needs to do will not be much different from when Dong Zhuo was still there.

rehabilitated Dong Zhuo as required, and then presided over a huge burial ceremony. It's just that in the gorgeous coffin, it is not Dong Zhuo's bones, but a portrait carved from fragrant wood, after all, Dong Zhuo's corpse has already been burned by lighting the sky lantern, and then the little residue left has also become the food for wild dogs and rats in the city.

In this way, Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun, the two enemies of the government, have the same fate, which should be said to be ridiculous or lamentable.

All in all, when he saw this, Li Shushi put down the information in his hand and was silent for a long time.

However, such a complex mind did not stop him from continuing to read.

Li Wei got the general of the chariot cavalry, Guo Yan got the general of the hussar, and the rest of the generals who participated also obtained high positions that they could not imagine before, which can really be regarded as a great joy.

After all, when Dong Zhuo was still alive before, although the constraints of the Xiliang Army were limited, Dong Zhuo did not show as bold as the reward he gave in the official position, but was promoted according to his past merits and abilities, so except for a few people like Li Dao Guo Yan who climbed to the position of general by virtue of their merits, most of the senior generals of the Xiliang Army still stayed at the extreme of miscellaneous captains, and in terms of rank, they were only the lowest level among the generals.

The only thing worth noting is that there is a special group of people who are rewarded.

These people are the group of generals from Bingzhou who originally belonged to the Northern Army, a group of old fritters who are like duckweed drifting with the tide but looking more active and moisturized.

Because of Dong Zhuo's favor, they became the first group of people in the Luoyang Northern Army to defect, and used their connections in the Northern Army to trigger a chain reaction. Later, in the face of Wang Yue's threat, they did not choose to resist, and directly became the eagle dog under Wang Yun, and indirectly killed one of Dong Zhuo's sons-in-law, Niu Fu. Later, in the face of the Xiliang Army, which got rid of the entanglement of Liu Yan and Zhang Lu, and came violently, this group of people once again opened the door of Sanfu and became the leading party of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others.

In the midst of this swaying again and again, their official positions are getting higher and higher, and there are more and more soldiers and horses under them, although they can't be compared with the elite soldiers under the command of Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou and others who belong to Dong Zhuo's direct jurisdiction, but if they want to solve this group of people lightly, they have become a force that cannot be ignored enough to influence the situation of Sanfu.

Not to mention that among this group of people, Wei Xu's brother-in-law is the well-deserved first general Lu Xiaoqiang in the Bingzhou Army, and the leading brother of this group of people is Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, the generals in the Bingzhou Army who are now beginning to hold the power of one party. With this can still be called inextricably linked with Bingzhou, as long as they don't make the choice to die, even the Xiliang Army must be careful to treat them.

So, after sweeping away those guys in Sanfu who jumped out after Dong Zhuo's death, the Xiliang people once again started the construction of the "Xiliang people's country" that was interrupted because Dong Zhuo was killed, and this time the Xiliang people's determination was even stronger.

However, what is somewhat different from the history in the plane that Li Shushi is familiar with is that this time the actions of the Xiliang people are obviously more orderly, and the generals seem to be far closer to each other than the one he is familiar with.

Except for Hongnong Duan Xuan, Jincheng Ma Teng, and Bian Zhang, who had an ambiguous attitude after Dong Zhuo's death, the discipline of the Xiliang people was high enough to make all the spectators drop their jaws.

And there is only one person who can pinch this group of proud soldiers from Xiliang at the moment, the only man hidden in the Xiliang army who has not been promoted in this big reward and even resigned from his official position.

Under this man's strategy, Xiliangjun seems to be giving birth to some kind of unpredictable change.

However, how much change will there be, but it can't be seen now, Li Shushi is not willing to waste too many brain cells on it, anyway, at least in five years, even if Xiliang does not have civil strife, there will be no ** out of the east.

As long as this can be determined, it is enough for Li Shushi.

His gaze began to shift to the east.

Because of the unsettling danger from the north, Li Shushi realized that perhaps his step-by-step exhibition might not be enough to resist the impact of the man he identified as a rare hero. After all, although the vast grassland cannot compete with the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of population and economic strength, it is enough to pose a huge threat to the merged states that do not have much strategic depth, and at the same time, both economically and population, are only a small part of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The most important thing is that he does not have many means to directly participate in the civil strife in the grassland, and all he can do is some indirect methods, although he can produce some effects, but how big the effect can be, neither he nor his subordinates are sure enough.

Then, it is very important to find opportunities to continue to strengthen the strength of the state to resist possible changes in the future.

It's just that......

Looking eastward, Li Shushi was stunned, and it seemed that he didn't have much opportunity to speak.

Except for the area occupied by Li Shushi, the rest of Hebei has become a battlefield full of smoke.

Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan showed their respective talents to the fullest in this land.

The overall situation seems to be more favorable to Yuan Shao, but it is not easy for Yuan Shao to turn his advantage into victory.

I don't know what method Yuan Shao used and what conditions he promised, all in all, Liu Yu's support for Gongsun Chan is gradually exhausted, or at this time, Liu Yu's so-called "support" for Gongsun Chan is just to help Yuan Shao clean up the internal wall grass and ambitious fools, as for things like money and food, he found a reason to pinch the supply, which made the logistical pressure on Gongsun Zan suddenly increase sharply.

You must know that after the Battle of Qinghe, the two sides also broke out two large-scale battles and more than a dozen small-scale battles.

Among them, after the Battle of Qinghe, he was unwilling to be blocked by Liu Yu so that he could not completely weaken Yuan Shao and privately assigned troops to attack Longcuo City, an important place at the junction of the Bohai Sea and the plains, and Yuan Shao sent his favorite retainer Cui Xun and Cui Juye from Zhongshan to attack Gu'an City next to the Juma River in Zhuo County, hoping to threaten Gongsun Zhan's new base camp in the middle reaches of the Juma River - Hejian Yi County.

In each of these two large-scale battles, the total number of soldiers and horses invested by both sides exceeded 50,000, and the battle was also quite tragic, and the result was that each side won one victory and one defeat, and both suffered more than 20,000 losses, which can be said to have hurt their vitality.

If you just look at the results of these two battles, it seems that Yuan Shao's situation is a little better, after all, Jizhou under Yuan Shao's rule has a fertile land and a distant population, and the ability to recover from the war is stronger than that of Gongsun Zhan, who was dragged back by Liu Yu.

But the fact is that Yuan Shao did have some advantage in comparison, but he was unable to expand this advantage and defeat Gongsun Zhan completely, and even the land of Bohai and Hejian counties was regained, which had a certain impact on his reputation.

And what made Yuan Shao anxious was the group of Yellow Turban soldiers who spread from the Central Plains like locusts to all around.

Well, although Zhang Jiao has been wiped out for several years, the force he created still has a huge influence, and even Li Shushi has never imagined this influence.

Originally, it was just a scene performed by a group of Yellow Turban Army generals who felt that the future was unknown and a restless soul who planned to go a little crooked, and those who responded at first just wanted to use them to make the momentum bigger, and by the way, the surrounding princes were not clear about the situation, although the current situation was like a snowball towards a trend of getting out of control, but seeing that it could not affect their own plans, no matter which side directly turned a blind eye.

This is really a kind of flood outside my territory.

It's just that what Li Shushi didn't expect was that the action that was originally just used to "clean" a county turned into a monstrous avalanche in this continuous "rolling".

It can be said that with the Black Mountain Army with Zhang Niujiao and Guo Taiwei's Baibo Army being recruited by Zhao'an, the Yellow Turban Army with a large scale on the surface has disappeared from the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the rest is either the king of the mountains on one or two hills, or the seclusion on a certain island and hanging overseas.

However, neither Li Shushi nor the others realized at the beginning what kind of fruit they had planted now-the people who had originally obtained land in the Yellow Turban Rebellion had no choice but to lose the treasures they had just arrived because of the appearance of the "Returning to the Hometown Group", and if the situation remained stable, they could only swallow their anger, after all, they did not have the capital to fight against those behemoths. But what happens when that opportunity comes their way one day?

Those who had not joined the Yellow Turbans also entered the camp with resentment, and the devastation caused by these people was even more powerful than the real remnants of the Yellow Turbans who survived the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Because most of the latter have experienced or at least heard of the brutal purge from the official army, on the contrary, most of the former are ignorant, so they can be fearless.

Therefore, Jizhou, which is close to Yanzhou and Qingzhou, the hardest-hit areas of the Yellow Turban Army, has naturally been affected.

Especially in Jizhou, as the core area of Zhang Jiao's propaganda of Taiping Dao, even if a large number of supporters were taken away by the two armies of Montenegro and Bai Bo, and they were influenced by Huangfu Song and Jia Cong to give up the tyranny in their hearts and live a stable life, it seems that the traces left by Zhang Jiao have been erased on the surface.

However, as long as life changes a little and the situation gets out of control a little, the shadow of Zhang Jiao will strike again.

In fact, Yuan Shao was not unaware of the power of the Yellow Turban Army, after all, even if the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were generally some residues with low combat effectiveness and could not be compared with the regular army, the number of those soldiers was still enough to make any general blush.

After all, as long as you train a little and go back and forth on the battlefield a few times, you will naturally be a veteran who can survive, and then become an elite.

Think about the elite of the Jizhou army who returned from the northwest, in fact, when they were in Jizhou, most of them were either lazy county soldiers or powerful private troops whose combat effectiveness could not be compared with the border army. But now?

It's like the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army pulled back from Youzhou, the combat effectiveness is indeed a bit miserable, and even the physical quality of these soldiers is not as good as those rich farmers in the countryside of Jizhou, but under Yuan Fang's dispatch, it still brought a lot of trouble to Gongsun Jun, you can know that if these people are allowed to receive half a year of training and nutritional intake, Yuan Shao can once again widen the gap between him and Gongsun Zhan out of thin air.

It's a pity that with the battle between Yuan Shaojun and Gongsun Army, these people did not have the opportunity to stop to receive training and grow into elite generals, in fact, because the result of the Battle of Qinghe was slightly unfavorable to Yuan Shao, in order to leave himself a certain respite, those Yellow Turban Army from Youzhou were thrown to Gongsun Zhan by Yuan Shao as bait and abandonment.

As a result, under the city of Lecheng, corpses are everywhere. There were tens of thousands of dead on the Hutuo River north of Lecheng, the river was red, the Hutuo River did not flow, and the rest surrendered to become cannon fodder under Gongsun Zhan.

The fall of the Youzhou Yellow Turban Army was expected by Yuan Shao, so he was not in a hurry and used a large amount of gold beads to persuade another Yellow Turban Army from Qingzhou, so Gongsun Zhan, who had just fought a battle in Lecheng, had no time to rest and had to face the Yellow Turban Army that rushed from the direction of Qingzhou, including Qingzhou and Xuzhou, which was known as 300,000 people.

Of course, in the face of such a huge army, Gongsun Chan is indeed worthy of being a famous general in the late Han Dynasty, even if the middle-level generals who have suffered heavy losses in the battle of Qinghe, they can still lead more than 20,000 foot cavalry to fight several beautiful annihilation battles in the southern area of Dongguang County in Bohai County with their personal command ability, and finally counted a total of more than 50,000 enemy troops, more than 70,000 people, countless goods, and Danshui, the largest river in the south of Dongguang, was also dyed red.

After the two battles, Gongsun Chan also became a killing god in the eyes of the Yellow Turban Army.

In this way, in the following negotiations, even if the Yellow Turban Army still accepted Yuan Shao's "employment" on the surface, they were obviously unwilling to directly face Gongsun Zhan's soldiers, after all, no matter how much money was given, they still needed to have their lives to take it.

More importantly, it seems that inspired by the methods used by Yuan Shao, Gongsun Chan also began to seek private contact with the Yellow Turban Army. Although these miscellaneous armies are just chickens and dogs in the eyes of Gongsun Zhan, but there are many ants that can still bite the elephant to death, Gongsun Chan is now seriously injured, if he continues to bleed like this, it will be a matter of time before he collapses.

The contact between Gongsun Chan and the Yellow Turban Army went very smoothly, and the two sides soon made an intention to cooperate in private.

The reason why the two sides were able to negotiate so quickly was not only because Gongsun Zhan's image of "killing gods" had been deeply engraved in the minds of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army.

What's more, the Yellow Turban Army has already cooperated with Yuan Shao, so compared to the full-fledged and available cakes, the most important thing is to value Yuan Shao who is from a family background, after several battles, his wings have withered and his strength is slightly inferior to Yuan Shao, and the most important thing is that Gongsun Zhan, who is more casual in employing people around him, obviously has more appetite for those low-born Yellow Turban Army generals.

After all, it's better to get a harvest than a nice icing on the cake and be respected, so why not.

Of course, there is another factor that cannot be ignored, and that is the attitude of someone who is thousands of miles away but has always been extremely concerned about the struggle in Hebei.

And this person is the most dangerous opponent in Yuan Shao's heart - Yuan Shu, Yuan Highway.

This person's danger is definitely the first, and there is no one in Yuan Shao's heart.

Pan Sen: This is yesterday's one, and I overslept again...... (To be continued.) )