In fact, the reason why Yuan Shao is so resolute is none other than Cao Cao.

When he learned that Cao Cao broke the Yellow Turban of Qi State, swept through the three counties, seized countless money and grain, and trained a Qingzhou soldier based on the Yellow Turban of Qi State, Yuan Shao was moved.

Yuan Shao was always proud, he had always been Cao Cao's big brother, and now? The little brother did a better job than him, at least in dealing with the yellow scarf problem.

Seeing that Cao Cao was about to cut through the mess and pacify the bumper harvest of the Yellow Turbans by force, he saw himself dragging mud and water like this, and he was always told by those Yellow Turbans that half of his foundation came from their funding.

How did Yuan Shao endure this?

leveled him, put away the money and grain, urged him to join the army, and he Yuan Shao also pulled out a Yuzhou soldier.

And once the interests and face are directed to the conquest, the war is inevitable.

So when Liu Pi and others' statement letter was sent to him, it was naturally a waste of silk.

Not to mention that Yuan Shao has already made up his mind, let's just say that some rumors in the market make Yuan Shao vigilant. Some of the people he used to talk about the Runan Yellow Turban were not groundless, it was really because they had a connection with Guan Yu of Mount Tai.

Since the battle in Qingzhou in the middle of the year, Guan Yu has not stopped his troops, but has continued to intersperse various areas of Yanyu and Jianghuai with small forces.

Every time they broke through a strong force, they would leave behind some of their armament and then lurk in various places.

In addition to constantly passing on information, these people also provide support and protection to various resistance forces.

It is said that a group of Surabaya thieves in Pengcheng had the back of the Taishan army behind them, and their intention to make a rebellion seemed to be to save a group of Surabaya heroes who were detained by Pengcheng Ling.

It seems that Guan Yu has changed the hard confrontation of the large corps in the past, and adopted a more covert and flexible way to enhance the influence of the Taishan army in Huaisi and the Central Plains.

For Guan Yu, Yuan Shao didn't dare to take it lightly.

Before Guan Yu shocked the East, his little brother Cao Cao was about to take Qingzhou, and he was almost knocked down by this person. And now that there are people under his rule who are in tandem with Guan Yu, how can he not let Yuan Shao care.

In addition, before he decided to take action against Nanyang and Runan Yellow Turbans, he had just destroyed Chen Guo's Liu Pet forces, and among the many books seized, the Yellow Turban Army's funding for Chen Guo was the most eye-catching.

Obviously, these Yellow Turban thieves are also funding Yuan Shao's enemies in an attempt to balance Yuan Shao's strength.

So, Yuan Shao did it.

He first secretly dispatched the elite soldiers of Chen, Pei, and Liang to the front line of Tongbai Mountain, and then built a fortress at the exit of Laole Mountain, Tongshan, and Tongbai Mountain, completely cutting off the passage of these yellow turbans out of the mountain.

Among them, the heavily besieged is Tongbai Mountain, which is where the main altar of the Southern Taiping Road is located.

And the current sect leader Liu Bi lives here.

Liu Pi's personal fate is obviously affected by the opportunities of the times. Among the many commanders in Runan, Liu Bi's ranking is relatively low, but those in front of him either died or fled, and in the end, only Liu Bi still held high the apricot yellow banner and had the last laugh.

But this is not to say how eloquent Liu Pi is, he only lived in the area of Tongbai Mountain with the remnants of the Yellow Turban soldiers at the beginning, but he didn't expect the opportunity of the times to come, and he actually ushered in a great expansion with the Yellow Turban soldiers.

That is, the suppression of the great uprising was not the end of the troubled times, but the beginning.

With the decline of the Han dynasty, the Kanto region rose together. In order to frantically expand the army, these people squeezed their subordinates to the extreme, and also made the head of Qian, who was supposed to settle down, flee again.

This time, they were no longer afraid of the Yellow Turban, and even took the initiative to take refuge in the Yellow Turban, because the reality told them that compared with the Han Army, the Yellow Turban was simply their own person.

Besides, where else can they go except to defect to the Yellow Turban soldiers in the mountains?

So when the Kanto fight more fiercely, the better the development of the Yellow Turban.

Liu Pi also made a contribution to this, and he cited the method of the Wudoumi Sect to transform the Taiping Dao organization from a rebellious armed force in the past to a welfare organization with the nature of mutual assistance at the bottom.

It was also because more and more leaders spontaneously donated their savings, grain and rice to the Yellow Turban Army, so that the Yellow Turbans suddenly grasped huge wealth and resources.

Relying on this resource, the Yellow Turban began to open up trade routes again, exchange what they have, and roll up this wealth even more.

In addition to making believers live a better life, Liu Pi did this because he understood the cost of wealth accumulation.

Those disciples did not give their savings to the Yellow Turbans for nothing, they wanted the Yellow Turbans to protect themselves in times of danger.

In other words, the current Liu Pi has actually opened up an insurance business far ahead of its time.

It's just that Liu Bi doesn't have an actuarial concept, and he doesn't know whether he is losing or earning. He often had nightmares in which he dreamed that he could not afford to give five buckets of rice to the disciples, and then he was torn alive by the disciples.

But now the good news is that Yuan Shao is coming to attack him, and he no longer has to worry about whether he can afford to pay grain and rice.

But the bad news also came, and the war finally broke out.

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As Tongbai Mountain launched an apologetic order, countless remnants of the Yellow Turban from the Tongbai Mountain Range to the Dabie Mountain Range began to attack Yuan's army.

At the beginning of the war, the overall situation was not favorable for Yuan's army.

In addition to not expecting the Yellow Turban Army to set off such a large-scale rebellion, another reason is that there are a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers in the Yuan Army.

This is not to say that Yuan Shao is careless in his work, he has to run a yellow scarf, and he has to recruit some yellow turban soldiers to join the army, but these are all caused by some problems left over from history.

After the failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising, its armed forces did not disappear, but were transferred to various counties and counties, and were absorbed by these local powers. After they were recruited by the locals, they also became soldiers and ate rations.

And a large part of Yuan Shao's army came from the Central Plains heroes who had been eradicated before, and they were either eliminated or absorbed, so these officials with a yellow turban background infiltrated into Yuan's army in this way.

These Yellow Turban soldiers, who joined the Yuan Army either because of the economy or out of desperation, have feelings for the Taiping Road in the past, and their hearts are still towards that side.

They did not dare to openly resist the orders from above, but they spontaneously pulled out the arrowhead in private, replaced the head of the go, and then made a show on the surface and fought a foolish battle.

And with this kind of two or five soldiers, how can Yuan Shao win?

So, on September 10, Yuan Shao personally went to Pingyu in Runan and began to completely take over the work of requisitioning and suppressing Tongbai Mountain.

After consulting with a group of wise men, Yuan Shao deployed his troops on the front line of Wufang and Langling, and then discussed with Yuan Shu in Nanyang to cut off the back road of the Yellow Turban in Tongbai Mountain.

In this way, Liu Bi and other yellow scarves were jointly clamped by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and the entire external situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

What worsened the situation was that when the Yellow Turban of Dabie Mountain went north to attack Xincai in Runan, he was ambushed by Li Tong, the general of Yuan Shao's side, and was defeated.

Although the strength of the yellow turbans in Dabie Mountain still exists, and they are still absorbing the nearby homeless people to grow, they have also lost the ability to go out of the mountain again in a short period of time.

At this moment, the yellow scarf in Tongbai Mountain fell into a real encirclement.

However, the Tongbai Mountain Yellow Turban is not without fighting.

In terms of military strength alone, there are about 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Yellow Turban of the entire Tongbai Mountain group, and they occupy the old nest of the green forest in the past, the mountains are high and the forests are deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But Yuan Jun on the opposite side should not be underestimated.

Yuan Shao gathered a huge army of 30,000 elite soldiers at the northeast foot of Tongbai Mountain, and his younger brother Yuan Shu was even more powerful, and directly pulled out an army of 50,000 at the southwest foot of Tongbai Mountain to help his brother.

The two Yuan are known as 100,000, the flags are connected, the horns are heard, and the sky and the sun are covered.

Of course, the brothers settle the accounts, and Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao don't want much, just give him fifty percent of all the seizures.

Yuan Shao agreed.

Yuan Shao of this plane is no longer the northern landlord who owns the four states, at this time he urgently needs to unite Yuan Shu, so even if he can eat the yellow scarf, but in order to unite, Yuan Shao brought Yuan Shu to do it together.

And Yuan Shu doesn't object, after all, as long as the road is closed, there will be such a big benefit, don't do it in vain.

According to the agreement, Yuan Shao's side took the lead in attacking.

After that, Yuan Shao ordered his henchman Xin Bi to command 3,000 troops to attack Tongbai Mountain.

Xin Bi often gave advice to Yuan Shao, so he was always considered a first-class strategist.

But in fact, Yingchuan Xin is an authentic martial artist, and its ancestor is Longxi Xin, after the Xin family, he has his own family history by using soldiers to govern soldiers. And this time, Simbi participated in this battle as the leading general.

Yuan Shao's use of Xinbi makes sense.

As for the person Xin Bi, if it sounds good, it is called a strong temperament, and if it is ugly, it is very stubborn. Once his men lead the army, they will first reorganize the army internally.

The methods he used were also very cool, directly encouraging internal whistleblowing, and once he was accused, he was directly assigned to dare to die and driven to the front line.

And once the front line dares to die alive, they will immediately be rewarded with wine and meat.

One is rigid and one is soft, and people's hearts are gradually attached.

In Simbi's words, he didn't have time to screen at all, and he didn't care who was loyal and who was traitorous. All of them will be wheeled into battle, and the battlefield will test everything.

In this way, as soon as several means came up, the atmosphere in the army was immediately rectified.

After rectifying people's hearts, Xin Bi immediately attacked the mountain without stopping.

The yellow scarves in Tongbai Mountain are not simply guarded by Tongbai Mountain, but also build barriers in the mountain road.

One of the most important strongholds is Yangkoubi.

In ancient times, Tongbai Mountain was also called Dafu Mountain, and Huaishui was from the south foot of Dafu Mountain of Tongbai Mountain to flow eastward, its mountain pass was called Yangkou, and its Huaishui South was Fuyang.

And the Yangkou wall is the first barrier of the yellow turban in the mountain, and if Yuan Jun wants to attack the mountain, he must first break the Yangkou wall.

Because there is Huaishui near Yangkoubi, so the surrounding area is full of wetlands, and in order to pave the way, Xinbi harvested all the hay in the vicinity and paved a marching road.

Then the ravines were filled with the daring soil of the army, and in just one day, the ravines outside the Yangkou wall were completely flattened.

After several days, Xin Bi was personally supervised by the department to attack the wall, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

On September 13, the wall of Yangkou collapsed.

Xin Jun used soldiers and acted resolutely.

(End of chapter)