At the beginning of the year, when the news of the Yumen Mutiny was spreading everywhere, the Montenegrin Army, which had joined forces with the Xiongwu Army against the imperial court coalition army on the battlefield in Jizhou, suddenly disappeared overnight.

Zhu Jun, who has always been cautious, was worried that this was a trick played by the Jin State to retreat into advance after discovering that the Black Mountain Army had disappeared, so he did not immediately lead the army to the north to fight for favorable territory, but sent a small force to Guangping and Guangzong to harass him, but did not encounter any counterattack.

Yuan Shu, who had been frightened by Zhang Liao and Li Tiezhu on the battlefield of Xuzhou, ignored the opposition of the imperial court, and directly ordered the 30,000 troops who went to Jizhou to support Zhu Jun under the leadership of the main general Jiang Qin, with the consent of Cao Cao of Yanzhou and Liu Yan of Yuzhou, to return to Yangzhou through the land of Yanyu.

Zhang Fei, deputy commander of the Southern Army, suggested that Zhu Jun should take advantage of the opportunity of Jiang Qin's return to the south to test whether the Montenegrin Army in the north was really playing a trick to capture the old man.

Zhu Jun felt that Zhang Fei's proposal was feasible, so he asked Zhang Fei to organize 60,000 southern troops and 50,000 troops of Liu Biao and Liu Yan who came to support Jizhou to carry out a feigned change of defense.

From this, Zhu Jun and Zhang Fei deduced that the Montenegrin army had withdrawn from Jizhou, either by returning to the Jin State through Huguan to strengthen the defense of the Jin State, or by withdrawing to the northern part of Jizhou to strengthen the defense of Youzhou.

Since the Jin troops on the battlefield of Jizhou had a weak defense, the southern army, which had been calculating to the north, naturally would not let go of such a favorable opportunity, so Zhang Fei immediately led 30,000 troops, set off from Yecheng and went straight to Guangping, and without hesitation, he recovered most of the territory in the south of Zhao and Julu County, and drove the troops to the south bank of the mainland, which was less than a hundred miles away from the heart of Jizhou.

At this time, the Montenegrin army was still missing, which can only mean that they have indeed evacuated Jizhou. So Zhu Jun ordered Liu Biao's 30,000 troops to come to support Jizhou, and under the leadership of the main general Huo Jun, they went north to take over the territory that Zhang Fei had taken down, and then let Zhang Fei, who had his hands free, continue to advance the troops north.

In the city of gall, Lu Bu, the commander of the Jizhou army, who had been struggling to endure, saw that Zhang Fei's troops were approaching the gall, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, forcing the army division Tian Feng to allow him to lead the army out of the city to fight Zhang Fei, but he was still dissuaded by Tian Feng, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai.

According to the army command system of the Jin State, if the army division does not agree with the combat plan of the legion, the corps commander has no right to mobilize and command the troops to fight alone, Tian Feng does not agree with Lu Bu to go out of the city to face the battle, and Lu Bu really does not have the courage to violate this important command system and lead the troops to fight with Zhang Fei alone.

There is an obvious problem that although Lu Bu is the leader of the Jizhou Legion, there are now only two troops under the Jizhou Legion, the Xiongwu Army and the Montenegrin Army, of which the Montenegrin Army has withdrawn from Jizhou, and the Xiongwu Army is under the command of the army commander Pang De, Lu Bu actually has no direct troops in addition to the 2,000 legion escort team, how can he lead the army out of the city to face Zhang Fei's 30,000 troops?

It turned out that although the Montenegrin Army quietly boarded a ship from Bohai County to Dongshengguo in the sea, the Jizhou Army secretly formed a new unit.

The full name of this unit is called the First Marine Brigade of the Jin State Naval Division, which is temporarily under the command of the Jizhou Army, with a full number of 20,000 and a brigade commander Wang Lu. The soldiers of the Marine Brigade basically came from the two Danyang soldiers in front of Yuan Shu's tent, Zhang Xun and Ji Ling, who were captured by Li Tiezhu before and after.

At that time, Li Tiezhu captured a total of 35,000 people from Yuan Shu, and after elimination, 5,000 people were removed, and 10,000 of the remaining 30,000 people were assigned to the newly formed Qinghuai Army, and the other 20,000 were transferred from the sea to the north of Jizhou in time, and directly handed over to Wang Lu, the commander of the Marine Brigade, who was secretly appointed for reorganization and training.

After the 20,000 blue wolf army led by Zhang Xiu sent back the good news from Fuyuguo, the 30,000 Xiong Zhen army originally stationed in Youzhou only left a total of 10,000 heavy divisions led by Lei Tong and light infantry divisions led by Xian Yuyin to garrison Yuyang, and the rest of the 20,000 troops such as mixed cavalry divisions, long-range attack divisions, and special operations divisions were led by Ye Xiong and Tian Chou to secretly go south to Jizhou and cooperate with the special operations brigade to prepare for the upcoming battle of Ghoutao.

Lu Bu only knew that he still had 20,000 marine brigades available in his hands, but he didn't know that the Xiong Zhen army, which had secretly gone south, was still on the way, so he was worried that the city would be surrounded by Zhang Fei, so he wanted to personally lead the team out of the city to the west bank of the mainland to intercept Zhang Fei, and the east bank was defended by the Xiongwu army.

Tian Feng persuaded Lu Bu to come down, and then proposed that he was ready to give up the gall Tao, and then lured Zhang Fei to come, and finally used 20,000 Xiong Zhen troops and 20,000 marines as the main force to trap the 30,000 southern army led by Zhang Fei to kill the gall Tao.

Lu Bu asked: "What if the follow-up troops of the Southern Army rush to reinforce it?"

Tian Feng replied with a relaxed face: "It is enough for 30,000 Xiongwu troops to block it. ”

Lu Bu asked again: "If the Xiongwu army is transferred from the east of the mainland to the west bank, who will take over its defensive line?"

Tian Feng replied: "If the war really develops to such a big extent, then urgently discuss with Xu Shu of the Youzhou Legion, and seconded 20,000 Jin naval divisions to land and replace the Xiongwu Army stationed on the eastern front of Jizhou. ”

Lu Bu no longer objected, and waited for Tian Feng to calculate Zhang Fei with peace of mind.

Besides, the Montenegrin Army, which quietly crossed the sea, after spending more than ten days of dizzy sea life on the troop carrier of the Jin State Naval Division, a group of soldiers who were originally born in the mountains vomited a lot of meat and vegetables, and finally saw the land with tears in their eyes, so they ended this voyage that made them feel heartfelt.

Zhao Zhong, the king of Dongsheng, had already received a notice from the Jin State before the arrival of the Black Mountain army, so he ordered the residents of Dongsheng Island to prepare for tens of thousands of troops to come to the sea, and not to be frightened by the sight of the big ships coming from the sky.

This Zhao Zhong of Dongshengguo is not Zhao Zhong, one of the great eunuchs of the "Ten Permanent Servants" in front of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty in the past, but the original lord of Tamna Island. Just because he admired the Han culture and expressed his willingness to sincerely obey the jurisdiction of the Jin Kingdom, he specially asked his son to help take such a name, and without hesitation, he chose the surname of Zhao Taifu who was powerful in all directions.

With Zhao Zhong's advance arrangement, when the rickety Montenegrin soldiers landed on Dongsheng Island, they temporarily lived in the homes of the islanders. With the help of the local people, they first carried a large amount of military supplies transported by ship to the island, and then began to build military docks and shore facilities suitable for large warships to dock on the island.

A group of young students who graduated from Taihang Academy came with the ship, and with a large number of books, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, farm tools and seeds, began the great task of educating the people of Dongsheng Island.