Lu Bu was headed, Lu Xiang Zhang Liao surrendered, and then Zang Ba, Wu Dun, Yin Li, Sun Guan and other Taishan thieves ordered by Yao Zun Lu Bu also surrendered to Cao Cao.

The rest of Chen Gong Gao Shun and others were killed by Cao Cao with great regret because they were unwilling to surrender, and since then Xuzhou has been peaceful.

In the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, at the beginning of 199 A.D., Cao Cao's class returned to the dynasty, rewarded for meritorious deeds, and named Liu Bei as the left general, and the rest of Xiahoudun, Yu Ban, Xu Huang, Xu Chu and others were rewarded.

But Yuan Shu's life was not easy, he shot at Xuzhou several times, but was defeated by Liu Bei and Lu Bu, and lost several battles with Cao Cao, resulting in a great reduction in the strength of the army.

From the second year of Jian'an, that is, at the beginning of 197 AD, when he had just ascended the throne as the emperor, his debut was at the peak, but then he began to slide down like a roller coaster, and he slid all the way to the end.

First, drought and famine took turns, and then his subordinates defected one after another, first Sun Ce, then Chen Lan, Lei Bo, Liu Xun, etc., causing his power to fall apart.

By the time it was February of the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu was almost playing himself to death, there were not many troops around him, and the people's hearts were almost scattered.

Shouchun couldn't stay, Yuan Shu wanted to go to the rebel generals Chen Lan and Lei Bo, but they refused, and in the end he could only pull down his face and hand over the emperor to Yuan Shao, wanting to go to the brother he had looked down on since he was a child.

At that time, Yuan Shao had pacified Gongsun Zhan, occupied Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou, with a population of nearly 10 million, more than 230,000 people with armor, sufficient soldiers and food, strategists like clouds, fierce generals like rain, and the strength was already the prosperity of the princes of the whole world.

Seeing his younger brother relenting at this moment, Yuan Shao did not refuse and agreed to his request to defect.

But in June, Cao Cao sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to Xiapi to intercept Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu could not pass and soon fell ill and died.

At this time in Xuchang, Cao Cao occupied the entire Henan, including Xuzhou and other places, his power became stronger and stronger, and he became more and more domineering to the emperor, and he had slowly replaced the palace guards with his people, and he was not so respectful to the Son of Heaven.

These circumstances caused Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty to become more and more dissatisfied, so he issued an edict in the middle of the year and handed it over to his uncle Dong Cheng, so that he could find someone who could unite and rebel against Cao Cao together.

Dong Cheng found Liu Bei, Wang Fu, Chongji and others, and prepared to deal with Cao Cao secretly.

At that time, Cao Cao had not sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to intercept Yuan Shu, and after Liu Bei got the secret edict, he knew that Cao Cao was not a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, but a Han thief who bullied the emperor.

originally wanted to turn his face with him, but because Cao Cao was powerful at this time, he could only choose to hold back, preparing to accumulate strength or find a suitable time to make a move.

During that time, he grew vegetables at home every day, deliberately making people feel that they had nothing to do with the world.

As a result, one day at the end of May, Cao Cao suddenly summoned him in the garden and asked Liu Bei to come over to drink with him.

This is the famous "Hero of Green Plum Brewing Wine".

In addition to saying those people in history, Liu Bei actually wanted to ask in his heart, "Xuzhou Shen Chen, killed your younger brother Cao Ren, the general Lejin, and defeated you, can you be described as a hero?" ”

But he didn't dare to say.

After this incident, Cao Cao saw that Liu Bei would be frightened by the thunder, so he no longer doubted him, and in June, he heard that Yuan Shu was going north to join Yuan Shao, so he sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to intercept him.

Soon after, at that time, the Zhenggu who had seized Hanoi planned to take refuge in Yuan Shao and dedicate Hanoi County to him, but Cao Cao eliminated the Zhenggu ahead of schedule, which made the Yuan Cao conflict completely erupt.

Yuan Shao then actively prepared soldiers and horses, intending to go south to fight Cao Cao.

Liu Bei learned the news and attacked and killed the assassin of Xuzhou in December, seized military power, occupied Xuzhou, and echoed Yuan Shao.

In order to eliminate future troubles, Cao Cao led his troops to attack Liu Bei.

Tian Feng heard about Cao Cao's eastward expedition against Liu Bei, and urged Yuan Shao to take the opportunity to attack Xuchang, but Yuan Shao refused, scolded angrily, and was alienated by Yuan Shao since then.

Without Yuan Shao's support, Liu Bei was quickly defeated by Cao Cao, Guan Yu was captured, and he and Zhang Fei were forced to flee to the north.

After arriving in Yecheng, he unexpectedly met Zhao Yun, who had taken care of his brother's descendants, to defect.

Liu Bei was overjoyed and asked Zhao Yun to secretly raise the troops, claiming to be General Zuo's subordinates.

Meanwhile.

Yuan Shao sent the general Yan Liangwen Chou as the vanguard and began to attack Yanzhou.

In the Battle of the White Horse, in order to repay Cao Cao's kindness, Guan Yu took the lead, entered the army of millions, and cut off Yan Liang's head with one sword.

Wen Chou and Liu Bei were stationed in Yanjin together, and were defeated by Cao Cao's military division Xun You's "bait the enemy" strategy in the Battle of Yanjin, and died in the chaos.

Yuan Shao was furious and personally led an army of more than 100,000 troops south to defeat Cao Cao.

After the defeat in the Battle of Yanjin, Liu Bei learned that Guan Yu had killed Yan Liang, and for fear of angering Yuan Shao, he asked Yuan Shao to go to the south to unite with Liu Biao and fight against Cao Cao together.

Yuan Shao agreed to his request, so without Shen Chen's intervention, history was still following its trajectory.

But it's not completely unchanged.

For example, troop strength.

At that time, Yuan Shao's total strength was actually close to 300,000, but he still needed troops to garrison in the north to guard against the ethnic minorities in the south, so he only brought half of the troops, almost 1230,000 horses.

After Cao Cao conquered the east and west, and after destroying Lü Bu, Yuan Shu and others, he occupied the entire Henan and expanded his army to 100,000.

But he wanted to guard against Zhang Xiu, Liu Biao and Sun Ce, so he only took 50,000 troops to the north.

Yes.

Unlike the 30,000 or 40,000 people in history, Cao Cao brought 50,000 people this time.

Although Cao Cao had an army of 100,000 in history, Cao Cao was surrounded by enemies on all sides at that time, and he could only be forced to use more than half of his troops to defend against Liu Biao, Sun Ce and others.

For example, Cao Hong was in Wancheng, Man Chong, Li Tong was in Yuzhou, Zang Ba went to Qingzhou, Lejin and Li Dian defended Xu Du, and Xiahou Yuan and Xun Yu supervised the grain and grass in the rear, resulting in a serious division of troops, insufficient frontal troops, and was almost defeated by Yuan Shao.

But now history has changed because of Shen Chen.

In the early years, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, and countless people in Guanzhong flowed into Nanyang from Wuguan, so there were countless displaced people in Jingzhou, which led to a series of problems.

For this reason, Liu Biao wanted to find a solution, and Shen Chen proposed that these people could be in Nanyang Tuntian.

As a result, after a few years of tuntian, Liu Biao obtained a large amount of grain and grass, and his strength skyrocketed, and while giving Cao Cao grain and grass, he greatly expanded his soldiers and horses, and the army had reached 100,000 people.

In 199 AD, that is, on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Liu Biao took the lead in attacking and sent Huang Zu down the river from Jiangxia to attack Jiangdong and occupy Yuzhang County.

At that time, Sun Ce was attacking Liu Xun, the remnant of Yuan Shu, and Huang Zu sent his son Huang Jie to the rescue, but was defeated by Sun Ce.

After Sun Ce occupied Anhui City, he immediately turned back and began to fight with Huang Zu in the area of Peng Lize.

But at this time, Sun Ce suffered a loss.

Because Liu Biao gave Huang Zu more troops, he has been reorganizing the naval army in Jiangxia, with countless warships and naval soldiers, and he is very good at fighting water battles.

Historically, Sun Ce attacked Jiangxia Shaxian at the end of 199 when he was well prepared, and Huang Zu was defeated, and even seven wives, concubines and children were captured by Sun Ce.

And now Sun Ce was not well prepared and rushed to meet the battle, resulting in a shortage of ships and it was difficult to conquer for a while.

What's more, Liu Xian's strength has increased greatly, Huang Zu's strength has more than doubled, and it is still his best water battle, and when Huang Zu took the initiative to attack, Sun Ce could not defeat him for a while.

However, Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha, gave Sun Ce an assist, and he suddenly launched a rebellion in Jingnan, which was huge, startling Liu Biao, and hurriedly summoned Huang Zu back.

At that time, the army on hand of Liu Biao was controlled by Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, and Huang Zu, and in history, the army controlled by these three people plus the troops of Wen Ping, Liu Pan and others, totaled 60,000 or 70,000 people, and there was no way to look north to Cao Cao, and they were all used to resist Zhang Xian and Sun Ce.

But now that his strength has increased greatly, he sent Cai Mao and Zhang Yunnan to pacify Jingnan, and in order to prevent a two-sided battle, he asked Huang Zu to withdraw his troops, first stick to Shaxian, and prevent Sun Ce from attacking Xiangyang along the Han River north when his old nest was empty.

Liu Biao's strategy is no problem, as the so-called external must be peaceful, Zhang Xian is the greatest threat to him, first defend against external enemies, calm internal problems, and then solve Sun Ce.

can't stand Sun Ce too fiercely.

As soon as Huang Zu's side retreated, Sun Ce immediately chased and fought fiercely, pursued all the way, killed Sha Xian, and beat Huang Zu to lose his armor and lose his troops, although it was not as miserable as in history, but it was not much worse, Liu Biao added more than 20,000 horses to him, almost lost.

Therefore, going around and around, although Liu Biao's ambition is inflated, due to Zhang Xian's problem, he still has to pacify Zhang Xian first, and then enhance his strength before going to fight Jiangdong.

Then just when the general trend of the world is surging, and the entire Kanto region, Jingzhou region, and Jiangdong region are about to face a big war.

What is Shen Chen doing?

In the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, in November 199 AD, he asked Liu Biao to go north to attack Cao Cao, but Liu Biao refused.

This was unexpectedly expected by Shen Chen, and he didn't expect Liu Biao's ambition to swell so much, and he was actually eyeing Jiangdong, so after learning about these things, he asked Deng Hong to ask him to attack Cao Cao.

Liu Xian was focused on the issue of Jiangdong and Jingnan, so naturally he would not agree to his request.

But as the saying goes, "If you say that this room is too dark and you have to open a window here, you will not allow it." But if you advocate tearing down the roof, they will come to reconcile and be willing to open the windows."

Shen Chen asked Liu Biao for an army to attack Cao Cao, he had to deal with Sun Ce and Zhang Xian, so he naturally did not allow it, but when your request was rejected by him, and then asked him to hope that Huangmen Pavilion and Gan Ning would send troops, he naturally agreed.

So in December 199, when Cao Cao was preparing to meet Yuan Shao in Guandu, Shen Chen asked Liu Biao in Xiangyang to lead his people to attack Cao Cao, and Liu Biao agreed, so he decided to go north to prepare to resist Cao.

And after the countless families in Jingzhou, the famous and Confucian scholars learned the news, they immediately heard the news.

Although Wang Jun, Ying Rong, Kui Xi, Li Yan, He Qia and other celebrities did not wait for Shen Chen to reveal his flaws, they waited and waited, and their prestige and fame became bigger and bigger.

But now that he heard that he was going north to resist Cao and drag Cao Cao to pacify the north, he suddenly couldn't sit still, and rushed to Xiangyang to persuade him to stop his action.

A new debate is about to begin!

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.