Because of Han Sui's unexpected defection and the undeclared war of the Sima family in Yizhou, the Liangzhou side fell into the quagmire of fighting on both sides, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

Since Zhao Xing entrusted Guan Yu and Jia Xu with full responsibility for the political and military affairs of the Liang State, he devoted more energy to the direction of Jizhou, and did not change the established battle plan because the Yizhou army invaded Wudu and the imperial court moved troops in the area of Hedong County.

The 10,000 troops supplemented by Xiong Zhen's army and Xiongwu's army had arrived in Youzhou, and Lü Bu's Flying Tiger Army took over the task of Xiong's army and was stationed in Youbeiping County, mainly to defend against the rebellion of Gongsun Du and the ethnic minorities in the north of Liaodong. Xiong Zhen's army was transferred to the area of Fangcheng in Zhuo County, and the Xiongwu army in Fanyang in the west went hand in hand, and the next combat target was naturally Jizhou in the south.

The 40,000 horses of the Dingyuan army were divided into four divisions, of which Huang Xuan's division was currently in Liangguo, Yansheng's division was stationed in Wuyuan, and Yaoxing's division was stationed in Yuyang, leaving only 10,000 Han army divisions, led by division commander Yan Rou into Zhongyang County, responsible for containing the imperial army in Hedong.

The 30,000 dragoons under the command of Zhang Liao have completed the assembly, and now they are hiding not far west of Huguan, just waiting for the order to attack, and the army will go straight to Huguan, which was occupied by Yuan Shao's army.

The three-way army of the Jin State looked at Jizhou, if Yuan Shao didn't feel it at all, it was self-deception. However, this time Yuan Shao had the courage and was ready to resist the Jin army.

Yuan Shao has pieced together in the past two years, and his subordinates have gathered 80,000 troops, although the combat effectiveness is average, fortunately, the number is enough to bluff people, so he has some confidence, this time he dared to completely turn his face with the Jin State, not only sent people to make trouble in Yuyang City, but also ruthlessly drove out the merchants of the Jin State.

Yuan Shao's courage also came from the imperial court, and he felt that as long as he withstood the first wave of the Jin Kingdom's onslaught, not only would his ally Cao Cao send troops to the rescue, but even the imperial court would not sit idly by.

Time flies, it's already the middle of December, and it's the Spring Festival in about ten days. According to the customs of the Jin Kingdom in the past, at this time, all localities should prepare for the New Year, but this year there is no such atmosphere. All the people of the Jin Kingdom are indeed busy, but they are busy making all kinds of weapons and materials for the Jin army, and everyone is holding their breath, no matter what, they have to avenge the killing of the merchants of the Jin Kingdom and the seizure of goods.

It is very clear in the various newspapers published by the Jin State that the merchants of the Jin State represent the interests of the people of the Jin State, and they leave their families and children and work hard to walk in all the states of the world, in order to sell goods for the people of the Jin State, and their death is related to every citizen of the Jin State. In the "Jin Daily", there was a rare signed article by Taifu Zhao Xing, titled "Blood Debt Requires Blood to Pay!", in which Zhao Taifu called on the people from all walks of life in the Jin Kingdom to unite and completely eliminate all the forces that dare to defy the laws of the Jin Kingdom!

None of the people of the Jin Kingdom accused the words of Lord Taifu of having a speech problem, and the law of the Jin State was above the law of the Han Dynasty, and everyone only knew that the Jin State was bullied, and this mistake could not be forgiven, and a group of people had to be buried to be martyred for the dead comrades. Including the group of teachers and students of Taihang Academy, although they are accustomed to speaking the phrase "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher", they also shouted the radical slogan of "Cultivate my spear and have the same enmity with the son" without hesitation.

On 20 December, the day when the general attack on Jizhou was scheduled, the Xiongwu Army, the Xiong Zhen Army, and the Dragoon Army rushed directly to the combat target from three different directions, and no one said even a word of nonsense. Jizhou did not say hello, so he killed the merchants of the Jin State, seized the goods of the Jin State, this time the army of the Jin State was prepared not to greet Yuan Shao from the beginning, until all the Jizhou soldiers were driven into the Yellow River.

When the Xiongwu army came out of Fanyang, the first thing they attacked was Zhongshan. The well-prepared Xiongwu army carried a large number of siege equipment, and destroyed all the cities that dared to block the road of the army, and the overwhelming bed crossbow arrows, hundreds of pounds of rolling stones, and deafening thunder poured down as if they did not cost money, and it took only three days to capture the entire territory of Zhongshan.

Yuan Shao's general Chun Yuqiong and 10,000 troops stationed in Zhongshan Kingdom could not resist the frantic attack of the Xiongwu army. Chun Yuqiong and Li Jinwu fought on the battlefield, but were stabbed to death by Li Jinwu with a horse lance, and 10,000 Yuan troops were also killed by the Xiongwu army like catching ducks.

After the Xiongwu army took Zhongshan in one go, the reserve forces that followed up from Youzhou immediately took over the counties in Zhongshan Kingdom, and all the officials who had no time to flee for their lives were expelled from the country, and the officials of the Jin State who had received the appointment documents immediately took up their posts and were responsible for restoring order in Zhongshan.

It is not difficult to see from the tacit understanding between the Jin army and local officials that this attack on Jizhou is not a punitive retaliation, but a real piece of land to occupy a piece of land, and it will never be let out in the future. If Yuan Shao knew that Zhao Xing had been secretly operating for a whole year in order to calculate him, he was afraid that he would go crazy.

At the same time, the Xiong Zhen army, which sent troops from Fangcheng, first attacked the Hejian Kingdom in the east of Zhongshan Kingdom, and their way of attacking the city was the same as that of the Xiongwu Army, or even more terrifying. Xu Shu first ordered the special operations team to infiltrate the territory of Hejian Kingdom and wreak havoc, and even assassinated Han Heng and Cen Bi, the generals of the Yuan Army stationed in Hejian Kingdom. After causing great chaos in Hejian, Xiong Zhen's firearms troops followed closely to launch a saturation attack on Yuan's army, and after only a round of intensive bombardment, Yuan Shao's army completely collapsed, and they all went out of the city to surrender, not daring to make the slightest resistance.

After the Xiongwu army and the Xiong Zhen army occupied the two large counties of Zhongshan and Hejian at a devastating speed, the Xiongwu army turned west and attacked Changshan Kingdom to the west of Zhongshan Kingdom, and Xiong Zhen's army turned east and attacked Bohai County to the east of Hejian Kingdom. What Li Jinwu and Xu Shu did not expect was that the garrisons of these two counties received Yuan Shao's order to urgently withdraw to Julu County, combine their troops in one place, and prepare to defend the city of Tao, so the Xiongwu Army and the Xiong Zhen Army actually occupied Changshan and Bohai without much effort, occupying half of the territory of Jizhou.

Zhang Liao, who was responsible for opening the passage from Huguan to Linxian from the West Road, encountered strong resistance from Yuan Shao's nephew ** under Huguan, which made Zhang Liao, who was eager to go to Jizhou to find Yuan Shao's bad luck, very angry. Zhang Liao complained that the fourth brother had lost Huguan to the East Road Coalition Army, and on the other hand, he gathered tens of thousands of people to work on civil engineering, preparing to use the method of the East Road Coalition Army to capture Huguan, and in turn drive back the Yuan army above Huguan.

At this time, an urgent report came from Crouching Tiger City, Zhang Liao looked up to the sky and laughed after reading it, and then said to himself: "I'll just say, when I repaired the pot pass like an iron bucket, didn't it cost Yuan Shao that guy for nothing, it turned out that there was a secret passage through the pass, and I don't know why Li Zhi didn't find it when he led people to dig the tunnel?"

It turned out that after the end of the war to defend and merge the state, the Huguan fell into the hands of Yuan Shao, after several negotiations, Yuan Shao refused to hand it over, Zhao Xing was angry and mobilized the people to rebuild a more majestic Huguan, which was only two miles away from the original Huguan, corresponding to each other. This time, Zhang Liao led the army to the east, first of all, he had to take the old Huguan guarded by the first guard, completely open up the road leading to Jizhou in the middle section of the Taihang Mountain in the middle of the Jin Kingdom, and prepare for the future jurisdiction of Jizhou.

Although the old pot pass is smaller than the new pot pass, it is also very strong and steep, even if it is difficult to use thunder, so Zhang Liao will be worried. When he received Zhao Xing's secret letter, he learned that the old pot pass was deliberately left with a secret passage when it was built, and he was naturally overjoyed, just looking forward to the early fall of the night, and then he led the army through the tunnel and captured the ** on the old pot pass alive.