Jia Xu suddenly felt that his choice this time was very correct, and he felt reassuring for the first time in his half-life here.

The brutality and cruelty under Dong Zhuo's tent, and Cao Cao's cautious step, are completely different here.

Yuan Xi gave him the feeling that he had the warmth of a son of a family, and he was laughing and funny from time to time, and there was no serious atmosphere between him and his subordinates except for official business.

He knew that Xu Shu was Yuan Xi's first mastermind, and the relationship was not ordinary, but he also saw that Yuan Xi and other subordinates were also talking and laughing.

This surprised him, and he was more at ease to do things, and he didn't have to be nervous all day to guard against accidents, and this kind of life was much more comfortable than before.

"Lord, the overall situation of this battle is basically decided, I don't know if the lord wants Hedong or Qingzhou?"

Jia Xu shook the feather fan and asked very seriously, Yuan Xi looked at his image, and couldn't help laughing, all of them were holding fans, and they were not afraid of the cold and fanning themselves to catch a cold.

There were no folding fans in the Three Kingdoms era, and the literati and ladies either took feather fans or group fans, and yes, men also took group fans.

After laughing, he also became serious, and muttered: "Qingzhou is too chaotic, but Denglai County and Liaodong face each other across the sea, and it is beneficial for us to take it down, but it is a lonely corner, and it is not easy to hold." Hedong is also a good place, hooking up Guanzhong, which is more beneficial for us to control Guanzhong in the future and look down on the world, but now Guanzhong is even more chaotic, especially Xiliang, and it takes all the energy to dare to say that we can eat Ma Teng, Han Sui and other forces. ”

Jia Xu nodded again and again, until he finished speaking, he pointed to the map of Qingzhou and said: "No, Denglai is not easy to fight, the entire Qingzhou is mountainous and hilly, and more than half of the county is mountainous and hilly. ”

Yuan Xi has never been to Qingzhou, let alone the Denglai area, and only learned from books that Qingzhou is located in the northern part of Shandong Province in the later generations, north of Mount Tai.

It is about Jinan, Weifang, Jimo, Yantai, Qingdao and other places, and the rest of the places are Yanzhou and Xuzhou areas, such as Langya belongs to Xuzhou.

Hearing Jia Xu's words, he nodded and said, "So the military advisor is suggesting to take Qingzhou?" ”

Jia Xu nodded and said: "Emotionally, I prefer to take Hedong first, and then enter Guanzhong, and if I take Hanzhong, I can peep into Jingzhou, but intellectually this road is a little more difficult now, Cao Cao will definitely work the contrary, take Qingzhou, force him to go south to fight Jingzhou with all his might, and we will win time to develop." ”

Yuan Xi understood as soon as he heard that Qingzhou was too close to Yanzhou, and once Hebei controlled Qingzhou, Cao Cao could only take Jingzhou and move the capital to Fancheng or Xiangyang.

Otherwise, he will definitely fight with Yuan Xi, but Cao Cao has suffered a big loss in this battle, and if it is not necessary in a few years, he is unwilling to fight with Hebei again, and the persimmon picks the soft pinch, which is human nature.

"Then speed up the pursuit, force him to give up Liyang, this battle will end as soon as possible, and let's go back and clean up the Wuhuan and Southern Xiongnu in the annexed state."

Yuan Xi made a decision immediately, Jia Xu nodded approvingly, and started a new round of draft planning, as for the rest of the war, he was not worried at all.

As long as Cao Cao can't break through Liyang, he can only cross the river and abandon Hebei, in order not to be pursued and difficult to cross the river, he can only let Zhang Liao go south with all his strength to reinforce, so that the strength of Cao's army in Qingzhou will be empty.

As for the merger, don't worry, originally the Yuan family didn't have much territory in the merger, only one Shangdang County, plus half of Taiyuan County, and the others were occupied by Wuhuan and Southern Xiongnu.

With 30,000 regular troops in the state, plus 5,000 people brought by Mulan, Zhang He had no chance at all unless he could get the entire Southern Xiongnu to help him.

Half a month later, Liyang was still in the hands of Gan Ning and Zhang Xiu, Yuan Xi's army had arrived, and the Qingzhou army led by Zhang Liao had also arrived.

But Cao Cao understood that there was no chance, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, a total of 70,000 troops were pressing step by step, and if they didn't pass the Yellow River, they would probably become lost dogs.

And at this time, news came from Qingzhou that Xu He and Sima Ju raised troops to attack Beihai County, and Sun Guan did not retreat, leaving only the three cities of Pingshou, Yingling and Zhuxu, forming a triangle and supporting each other.

Equal to the entire Beihai County, less than one-fifth of the territory remains, and the rest is occupied by the Yellow Turban Army.

And Yuan Tan's troops re-entered Qingzhou, Jinan County, Le'an County, and Qi State, which were originally guarded by Zhang Liao's army, but after the main force followed Zhang Liao south, where could they still block Yuan Tan's attack.

This time it was adjacent to Beihai County, Xu He and Sima Ju announced that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army would return to Yuan Xi from now on, and the two sides would join forces to march towards Denglai County.

This was to take the entire Qingzhou in one fell swoop, but Cao Cao was beyond his reach, and could only watch Yuan Xi block Zhang Liao's way back to Qingzhou.

"Send someone to negotiate peace, and tell Yuan Xianyi that we will give up Yecheng in exchange for Li Dian coming back."

Cao Cao, who crossed the Yellow River, sighed and explained that he had admitted defeat in this battle.

In the whole of Hebei, Yecheng is a lonely city, and Cao Jun is still holding on, even if he does not give up, it will be broken sooner or later, but if he wants to attack Yuan Xi, he will also suffer heavy casualties.

After all, Yecheng is too difficult to fight, since Yuan Shao took this as the political center, he began to expand Yecheng on a large scale, which was originally the capital of Jizhou, and then it was expanded to have the prototype of the imperial capital.

Historically, Cao Wei has always used this as a political center, and Xu Du was only nominally, and later Later Zhao, Ran Wei, Qianyan, Eastern Wei, and Northern Qi were all capitals here.

Until Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty destroyed the entire Yecheng, the Yecheng of later generations was actually not the original ancient capital of the Six Kingdoms, but Anyang City was renamed Yecheng.

On the eighth day of June in the eleventh year of Jian'an, Yuan Cao's peace talks ended, and Zhang He came out of the ragged clothes in the Taihang Mountains and came to Yecheng to return to Henan with the defenders here.

The battle of Qingzhou also stopped, Denglai County was captured by Yuan Tan, and the entire Qingzhou was basically incorporated into Hebei, and Cao Cao suffered a big loss this time.

The current situation has almost returned to the situation before the Battle of Guandu, and it seems that Cao Cao's territory is still the largest, but Yuan Xi's forces have caught up.

Cao Cao occupies Chang'an all the way to the Sili Captain's Department, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and a small piece in the north of Jingzhou, with a large span and a wide range of regions.

However, except for a few counties, these places have been repeatedly ravaged by war, not to mention the withering of people's livelihood, and the population has also dropped sharply.

On the contrary, Yuan Xi's side only had a little more than three continents, but Youzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou were almost all uprooted from the opposition.

And Jizhou is rich, the war did not affect the northern part of Jizhou, Youzhou has recuperated and gradually prospered, except for the dilapidation of Qingzhou, there is only one state left to spend a lot of effort.

Now he can deploy the merger of states, this war has actually fought several battles, but it doesn't matter to the overall situation.

Hua Mulan even defeated Zhang He, so that he could only drill into the Taihang Mountain.

But it was also these battles that made Hebei shout to clean up Wuhuan and the Southern Xiongnu, Zhang He bewitched a group of Wuhuan small tribes, and even borrowed 5,000 cavalry from the Southern Xiongnu to attack Gaogan.

After the big victory, everyone in Hebei is full of spirits, how can they still tolerate overnight feuds.