Zhang Lu's choice to return to Weixuan was beyond the expectations of the selection, and it was even more unexpected for Liu Zhang. Before that, their father and son had been doing one thing for several years, that is, seizing Yizhou.

And Zhang Lu is the biggest hidden danger of separating Yizhou, so Liu Zhang thought about making a move on Zhang Lu, but he didn't expect that his side was not ready, and Zhang Lu over there submitted to the so-called imperial court.

Liu Zhang and Yizhou did not plan to face Wei Xuan directly, and now Wei Xuan occupies the land of Sizhou and has won the key position of Hanzhong, which inevitably makes Liu Zhang a little nervous.

At this moment, maybe Liu Zhang regretted forcing Zhang Lu too much, because leaving Zhang Lu at least had a buffer zone between Yizhou and Wei Xuan.

After Wei Xuan received the news, he also felt that history was gradually detached from the original kneeling, but since Hanzhong was in hand, the original plan had to make some adjustments.

Before that, Wei Xuan stayed in Taiyuan for a long time, and the purpose was naturally to unify Hebei first. Now we must be ready to have the opportunity to enter Shu.

It is quite possible that there will be two battlefields for some time. Therefore, Wei Xuan made major adjustments to his military deployment.

The first is to promote Zhang Lu as the great Si Nong, and now the imperial court has been completely hollowed out, just staying in a manor outside Hedong Yicheng.

One more Shao Yiming, three dukes and nine Qings can't arouse the interest of the Son of Heaven at all. In order not to continue to deteriorate the relationship between the two sides, Liu Xie naturally would not refuse.

After arranging Zhang Lu, Wei Xuan transferred Zhang Wei to the rank of lieutenant of Wuwei. Yang Ang, Yang Ren and others were all transferred to various parts of Liangzhou.

The most surprising thing is that Wei Xuan did not transfer from other places to serve as Taishou, but directly promoted Yan Pu to be the Taishou of Hanzhong, thinking that Zhang Hebu was guarding Hanzhong, shouting that another 3,000 county soldiers would be left, and Xu Shu would stay in Hanzhong as a soldier.

At the same time, Ma Teng was used to guard Jincheng, Zhang Ji was to guard Longxi, and Wei Yan and Duan Xuan were exchanged to guard Nanxiang. In the future planning, the team attacking Yizhou will be produced from the four divisions of Tai Shici, Zhang Ji, Zhang He and Wei Yan.

At the same time, Wen Ping separated from Wei Yan's department and led 10,000 troops to garrison Xinye, forming an inverted triangle with Wei Yan and Duan Xuan to further stabilize the southeast.

On the Jinyi Wei side, Wei Xuan sent Chen Zhong, one of the leaders of the Jinyi Wei family, to Hanzhong, mainly responsible for collecting intelligence and supervision in Yizhou.

Just when Wei Xuan was collecting Liangzhou and Hanzhong in a big way, the Kwantung heroes were not idle, especially Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

With the continuous delivery of grain to Wei County, Yuan Shao's relationship with Wei Xuan was temporarily eased, coupled with Cao Cao's mutual support across the river, Yuan Shao took advantage of Wei Xuan's westward expansion to frantically explode troops, and then spent half a year to seize the plain from Tian Kai's hands, and completely drove Gongsun Zan out of Qingzhou, and then the two sides fought many decisive battles on the border.

Yuan Shao colluded with Wuhuan, Gongsun Zhan united with the Montenegrin army, and the two sides continued to fight. There was a mutiny in the Zhao State, and after the rebellious soldiers joined up with the Montenegrin army, they occupied several cities.

At that time, Yuan Shao's troops were holding a celebration banquet in the whole army to celebrate Yuan Shao's complete control of Qingzhou, hearing this news, Yuan Shao's subordinates, especially those whose families were in Zhao State, either changed their faces or cried loudly.

There were more than a dozen troops of the Montenegrin Army in the entire Zhao State. However, there was a traitor Bai Rao in the Montenegrin army, and after entering the city, he protected Yuan Shao and the families of the officials in the state, and sent them to the hill.

Yuan Shao reprimanded Qiu, and appointed Bai Rao as the general of Jianyi. In order to stabilize the western part of Jizhou, Yuan Shao marched to suppress the Black Mountain and Yellow Turban Army, and first sent troops from the border of Zhao State and Wei County into the valley mouth of Cangyan Valley to defeat Yu Poison, besieged for five days, and killed Yu Poison and more than 10,000 of his subordinates.

Then, along the mountain, he attacked the left beard and eight others and wiped them all out. He also successively destroyed Liu Shi, Qingniujiao, Huanglong, Zuo Xiao, Li Damu, Yu Yigen and many other Black Mountain and Yellow Turban troops, slaughtered their tunbi, wantonly killed, beheaded tens of thousands of captives, and selected the best ones to enlist in the army.

After joining forces with Wuhuan, and Zhang Yan and the four battalions of Tu each started a big battle in Changshan, and fought for more than ten days in a row, although Zhang Yanjun was killed and wounded, but Yuan Shaojun was also very tired, so the two sides retreated.

Soon, Liu Yu's old department Xian Yufu and others recruited Wuhuan and attacked Gongsun Zhan, and Yuan Shao also sent Lu Yi to send troops and joined forces with Xian Yufu and others, gathering a total of 100,000 troops, defeating Gongsun Zhan in Baoqiu, forcing him to retire to Yijing.

Seeing that the situation was very good, Yuan Shao listened to Guo Tu's slander and prepared to borrow a knife to kill, Lu Yi and Gongsun Chan held each other for more than a year, the army food was exhausted, the soldiers were hungry, and led the rest of the thousands of people to retreat, Gongsun Chan took advantage of the situation to pursue, broke it, and killed Lu Yi with his baggage.

This victory is a rare life since the confrontation between Gongsun and Yuan Shao, but it has eliminated a big trouble for Yuan Shao.

So that Yuan Shao finally no longer had to disperse his forces to monitor Lu Yi, but concentrated his forces to confront Gongsun Zhan. Yuan Shao, who had no koji yi, was like a hanger, which was quite smooth, and since then, Jizhou's power has become stronger and stronger.

Yuan Shao had three sons: the eldest son Yuan Tan, the second son Yuan Xi, and the third son Yuan Shang. He doted on his stepwife Liu, and had a special preference for Yuan Shang, who was born to Liu, and intended to take Yuan Shang as his heir, so he took his eldest son Yuan Tan as the Qingzhou Thorn History to lead the troops to guard the town, and the second son Yuan Xi as the Youzhou Thorn Shi to garrison Nanpi.

Only Yuan Shang was left by his side. Someone once admonished Yuan Shao to establish a long and virtuous person, so he said: "The age is quite good, the sage should be chosen as the heir, and the virtue is quite determined by divination, which is the principle since ancient times." If the general can't change his decision, trouble will happen from this incident. Yuan Shao was already a little swollen at this time, and he couldn't listen to it at all, so he said: "I am going to let my sons each have a state to inspect their talents." After Yuan Tan arrived in Qingzhou, the area under his control was only the plains, so he lined Tiankai in the north, attacked Kong Rong in the east, and Yaobing Haiyu, and the entire Qingzhou fell into the hands of Yuan.

No matter how many people Yuan Tan got help, he still won Qingzhou for Yuan Shao. However, Yuan Shao's approach will obviously cause dissatisfaction among Yuan Tan and many civil and military officers under his command.

But Yuan Shao did not pay attention. Yuan Shao continued to devote himself to the crusade against Gongsun Zan and realize the reunification of Hebei at an early date.

The population under Yuan Shao's rule was several times that of Gongsun Zhan, and most of the plains were rich enough to support Yuan Shao's crazy expansion of troops, and Gongsun Zhan had Wuhuan in the north to make trouble, and his combat power was getting worse.

Under the long-term situation of this and the other, Gongsun Chan is also a little unbearable. So Gongsun Zhan dug ten trenches on the periphery of his station, and built many earthen platforms in the city, generally five or six zhang high, and built buildings on the high platforms.

He himself lived on a platform ten feet high in the middle, with an iron door, and no man over the age of seven was allowed to enter, only the concubines who served him, and the letters and documents had to be hung up and down with ropes, and he lived an almost isolated life.

Due to the large number of valleys in the city and the tight defense, Yuan Shao sent generals to attack frantically with several times the force for several months, but they could not attack.

Seeing that the army had been stranded in northern Hebei for a long time, the strategist Guo Tu began to use his brains again, suggesting that Yuan Shao send troops to intimidate Wei County, and Wei County's colleagues who took it back from Wei Xuan's defense asked Wei Xuan to send the Son of Heaven to Yecheng.

Tian Feng's reason is that Yuan Shao's strength is not what it used to be, and Wei Xuan's respect for the Son of Heaven is definitely very expensive.

This time Yuan Shao was quite calm, perhaps because the loss he had suffered in the hands of Wei Xuan was too great, and Yuan Shao decided not to offend Wei Xuan before he dealt with Gongsun Zhan.

Of course, the most important thing is that Wei Xuan just has no respect for the Son of Heaven, he Yuan Shao is a person who wants to be the emperor himself, what should he do at this time to welcome a Son of Heaven who is not in harmony with him?

Yuan Shao, who had been Zheng Tun for a while, made a comeback, personally led a large army to attack Youzhou, and at the same time married several women from several clans to the Wuhuan chieftain, asking them to send a large army to jointly attack Gongsun Zhan.

The north and south were invincible, and then besieged the garrison of Gongsun Zhan, who was forced to send his son Gongsun to ask for help from the Montenegrin army.

But someone told Yuan Shao about such a confidential matter, so Xu You and others suggested that Yuan Shao would do the trick.

Yuan Shao put up a ladder, dug tunnels, and constantly strengthened the offensive, Yi Jing was in danger, and some of the generals under Gongsun Zhan surrendered and some were scattered.

Two months later, Gongsun Xu and Zhang Yan, the leader of the Montenegrin army, led 100,000 rescue troops to march towards Yijing in three directions.

Gongsun Zhan sent someone to send a secret letter to Gongsun Xu, agreeing to use ignition as a signal to attack Yuan Shaojun inside and outside. The letter was intercepted by Yuan Shao's sentinels, who set the fire on fire according to the agreed signal.

Gongsun Zan thought that the rescue had arrived, and led the troops to attack, but was severely attacked by Yuan Shao's ambush soldiers, and retreated into the city.

Yuan Shao stepped up digging tunnels, digging all the way to the bottom of the platform, first using pillars against the foundation of the building, and then burning the pillars, and the platform collapsed.

Gongsun Chan had no way out, so he hanged his sister and wife, and then set himself on fire, at this time Yuan Shao's soldiers rushed upstairs to cut off his head, and Gongsun Chan's generals Tian Kai and Guan Jing were also killed in this battle.

This is the end of a generation of heroes. Yuan Shao ordered their heads to be sent to Zhanggong in Hedong. At this point, Yuan Shao occupied Youzhou and annexed Gongsun Zhan's army.

On the other hand, although Cao Cao had been forced by Chen Gong and Zhang Miao and Lü Bu to rely on Wei Xuan to retain his base.

But Cao Cao's original expedition to Xuzhou was all there, and the military under his command was much stronger than Lu Bu, plus the Peiguo between Lu Bu and Yuan Shu was Cao Cao's hometown, so when Cao Cao attacked Lu Bu, Lu Bu couldn't stop it, and soon retreated to the area of Lu Bu and Liang State.

The separatist forces of Yanzhou's forces also came to join one after another, and their forces developed rapidly. Among them, the most famous are Lejin and Yu Ban.

In addition, Cheng Yu, who is even more poisonous than Jia Xu, constantly gives Cao Cao ideas and uses his relationship attached to Yuan Shao to clear the Qingzhou Yellow Turban for Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao's statement is to exercise right, catch the strong man, and the territory belongs to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao is looking for an opportunity to fight with Gongsun Zhan, and he is naturally full of joy.

So Cao Cao also opened the hanging, and incorporated a large number of Qingzhou yellow scarves to form the Qingzhou soldiers. Even Kong Rong, who is famous in the sea, became Cao Cao's subordinate, resulting in the de facto occupation of half of Qingzhou.