In 185 AD, in early February, Liu Bei returned to the canyon from Anxi and was warmly welcomed by the people of the whole valley. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jian Yong, Deng Mao, Ting Baihu, Qiu Ming, Qian Liben and his son, Elder Li, etc., all came out to greet him.

A month later, under the planning of Elder Li, the economic and military strength of the valley has been significantly improved, and the population of the valley has increased from 10,000 to 50,000, of which the regular army has increased from 1,000 to 3,000, and the reserve force has 20,000. All kinds of grain and weapons have reached a new peak.

The Education Center in charge of Qiu Ming has been completed, and all school-age children have entered the museum, and no penny will be charged. In addition, most of the three new armories have been completed, and the construction will be completed within a month. Seeing that everything was going well in the valley and there was a thriving scene, Liu Bei finally thought of his lifelong event and proposed marriage to Bailiru's father, Baili Tie.

Although Baili Tie does not love vanity, only knows how to build weapons, and ignores everything, but the good thing of a lover eventually becoming a family is something that anyone will approve. So ten days later, one day in mid-February, Liu Bei and Bai Liru held a grand engagement ceremony under the verification of the whole clan. In view of the customs, Liu Bei forced himself to guard himself like jade, leaving the energy to study the "Double-strand Sword Spectrum" and "The Thirteen Chapters of Sun Tzu".

Almost at the same time, the great event was that Emperor Ling of Han, who was imprisoned by Princess Wannian, died unexpectedly, and the whole country rejoiced, hoping that the new monarch would bring clear politics.

In March 185 AD, Emperor Liu Ban of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne, and Princess Wannian was regent.

In April, Situ Yuan Kui and Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, launched a coup d'état on the "Qing monarch's side", led the Praetorian Guards to break through the palace, and imprisoned Princess Wannian. It was regent by Situ Yuan Kui. At the same time, Yuan Shao led the Praetorian Guards to clean up the eunuchs in the imperial city, intending to completely eliminate the remnants of the Ten Standing Servants. The Praetorian Guards went on a killing spree in the Imperial City, killing any beardless man or a woman who looked like a man or a man who looked like a woman. Suddenly, the people of the entire Luoyang City were panicked and filled with gunsmoke.

Yuan Shao saw that Luoyang was in chaos and could not clear the remnants of the party for a while, so he wrote to the court to summon Dong Zhuo, the assassin who was stationed in Xiliang, to enter Beijing to help quell the chaos. As soon as this remark came out, Cao Cao was overjoyed, although he was very ambitious and did not want Luoyang to fall under the control of others, but he was quite in favor of this move. Thinking about Dong Zhuo's tyranny, if he is in power, it will inevitably cause chaos in the world. And the more chaotic the world, the better it is for him.

Cao Cao is very clear about Yuan Shao's personality, Yuan Shao is strong, and likes to stand out from others to show that his talents are very different from others. So he pretended to be very angry, hung his chest above the court, and made a very disapproving appearance. "It's just a few eunuchs, why bother summoning foreign generals?"

As soon as Cao Cao said this, Yuan Shao immediately came to his senses. insisted more and more on his own opinions, and instigated his cousin Yuan Kui to support him. Yuan Kui is also a fish and wood head, and he didn't think deeply about it, he just thought that Yuan Shao was his own family, and Cao Cao had no relatives with him, so he wanted to help him.

Yuan Kui was the only regent, and he immediately decided to summon Dong Zhuo to Beijing in front of the little emperor Liu Bian, and immediately issued a summoning order, and sent 800 li to Hedong County, 200 miles away.

Hedong County is the westernmost of the five counties directly under the jurisdiction of Luoyang, and it is only more than 200 miles away from Luoyang City. At the suggestion of Li Ru, Dong Zhuo, who was the assassin of Xiliang at that time, stationed 3,000 soldiers in Henan County under the pretext of quelling the rebel organization.

However, it is said that at noon on the day when Yuan Kui issued the edict, Dong Zhuo received the holy decree, and immediately wrote a letter to ask for a few days of grace, and after the important military affairs in his hands were dealt with, he was sent to Beijing.

This is a paralyzing plan, the decree made the front foot just go, Dong Zhuo's back foot led three thousand light horsemen to kill Luoyang, because there was a holy decree issued by the court, so it was easy to pass through the "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open" Xiongguan - Hangu Pass.

On the night of that year, Dong Zhuo opened the gate of Luoyang City and swaggered into Luoyang City. When Cao Cao heard that Dong Zhuo was coming, he immediately handed over part of the Praetorian Guard military power in his hands, and Dong Zhuo was overjoyed and thought that he was a confidant. Yuan Shao and Yuan Kui were overjoyed when they heard that Dong Zhuo had arrived ahead of schedule, and lay in Situ Mansion waiting for Dong Zhuo to come and visit. Who knew that Dong Zhuo had no one in his eyes, and he didn't bird them at all. After taking over the Luoyang Praetorian Guard, the third watch slept in the harem in the middle of the night and passed the emperor's hide.

Dong Zhuo's strong posture and arbitrariness soon clashed with the ministers of the DPRK and China, and the result was that he was beheaded one batch after another, and the government and the opposition have been shaken since then.

In the following days, Dong Zhuo, who had been leading the army for a long time, deeply realized that in order to conquer these extremely sour Beijing officials and control the imperial court, he must first master a strong military force. In order to create a strong military deterrent effect on Luoyang from the beginning, Dong Zhuo ordered his 3,000 light cavalry to sneak out of Luoyang quietly every four or five nights. All the people of Luoyang, including the officials of the imperial court, were intimidated by such a powerful strength and did not dare to have the slightest deviance.

Although illusions can temporarily deceive people, they will eventually be seen through. Therefore, Dong Zhuo accepted Cao Cao's proposal to further monopolize the military power of the empire.

In early April, he began to take practical actions to expand his forces and gain military power. The target was two large armies outside Luoyang City: He Jin and Wu Kuangdai led 200,000 soldiers and horses, and stationed fifty miles west of the city; He Jin's younger brother He Miao was the general of the chariot cavalry at that time, leading 200,000 troops to 50 miles south of the city.

After the death of the general He Jin in Anxi, Wu Kuang, the general of the tribe, had a deep resentment towards He Miao, believing that He Miao was unwilling to cooperate with He Jin, which led to He Jinke's death in a foreign land and the loss of bones. He is also suspected of colluding with Zhang Rang to deal with He Jin together.

Wu Kuangnian He Jin was kind to him on weekdays, and under Cao Cao's discord, he vowed to kill He Miao and avenge He Jin. He mobilized his soldiers and said: "It was He Miao, the general of the chariot cavalry, who colluded with Zhang Rang to kill the general, and we must avenge the general!" So he set up a Hongmen banquet, and then united with Dong Zhuo's brother Dong Min to attack and kill He Miao together. After He Miao's death, Dong Zhuo took advantage of the fisherman's profits and collected He Miao's 200,000 troops in the south of Luoyang without spending a single soldier. Later, Dong Zhuo arrested Wu Kuang on the grounds of killing the general of the Che Cavalry and took over his army of 200,000. Soon after, Wu Kuang died in prison.

Since then, with the addition of 300,000 troops in Xiliang, Dong Zhuo has 700,000 troops and has become the first warlord of the Han Dynasty! At the same time, in order to win the hearts of the people and get the approval of the local warlords, Dong Zhuo issued a holy decree in the name of the young emperor, completely decentralizing the military and political power of the court, and requiring the state governments to do their own things to achieve a situation of great rule in the world by doing nothing. Soon, local warlords wrote letters asking Dong Zhuo and Yuan Kui to be co-regent and crowned prime minister. Of course, this matter is a matter of course, and since then, Dong Zhuo has successfully ascended to the throne and ascended to the throne of the first position behind the scenes of the Han Dynasty.

At a time when the capital of the Han Dynasty was in turmoil, the heroes were ambitious, and the local warlords were in action, in Youzhou, the northern Xinjiang of the Han Dynasty, the Xianbei tribe was secretly brewing under the planning of the lord (leader) Tan Shihuai.

Xianbei and the Han Dynasty Since Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, there have been wars in northern Xinjiang, all of which have been sporadic and disturbed, and the wars have been stopped in a local stage. It wasn't until last year that Tan Shihuai conspired with Zhang Jiao to carve up Youzhou, and then attacked in a big way. I didn't want Zhang Liang's army to be restrained by Liu Bei, resulting in Xianbei returning in vain. However, Zou Jing, the marquis of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, was killed in battle, and the Xianbei army robbed countless goods and women along the way, which made Tanshi Huai taste the sweetness.

A year later, the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty made Tanshi Huai feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. So, he vowed to take Youzhou and bring it under the territory of Xianbei.

At this time, Xianbei Xiong lived in the north of the Han Dynasty, divided into three major parts: eastern, central and western. It has a population of more than 2 million and a total cavalry strength of more than 600,000. Because Xianbei is a horse herder, all the clansmen can ride and shoot well, and it can be said that the 600,000 cavalry is an elite division. Such a large cavalry corps allowed Tanshihuai to conquer one after another other tribes of Donghu. Small tribes including Wuhuan (also known as Karasuma), Rouran, Kumoxi, Khitan, Murowei, and Mongolia, as well as the Qiang and Southern Xiongnu in the west, all submitted to Xianbei.

At present, in order to attract the strength of the Han Dynasty and test the attitude of the new monarch of the Han Dynasty, Tan Shihuai ordered his righteous brother Ha Xiao to lead 700 cavalry to invade Shanggu County. He also secretly mobilized 200,000 troops to assemble in Liaodong County, which was thousands of miles away from Shanggu County. Suddenly, the border war clouds were thick.

Youzhou Thorn Shi and Zhonglang put Gongsun Chan bravely, and did not regard Xianbei as one thing at all. He also took a painless posture towards the intrusion of Kamiya County. This made Ha Xiao even more rampant.

In early April, the Ha Xiao Department had gone deep into the Han realm for hundreds of miles.

At noon on that day, seven hundred Xianbei cavalrymen dressed in linen cloth and crossbows with scimitars on their backs appeared around a field, and smoke curled in front of them.

Ha Xiao sat on the horse, and a Han woman was held under her crotch, her clothes were untidy, her hair was scattered, her eyes were red and swollen, and her whole body was scarred. The Han woman was found by the Ha Xiao Department yesterday when she was washing clothes by the river, and after being ravaged by him, she was tied up and let her trample on it wantonly and could not resist.

After walking for ten days, Ha Xiao, who was sleepy and tired, found a small village in front of him, and asked the guide in Xianbei language: "What kind of landlord is in front?" ”

"Leader Hui, if the prediction is not bad, he should have entered the territory of Pan County. That Zhuangzi must be Gujiazhuang, and after Gujiazhuang is Pancheng, the seat of Pan County. The Han guide nodded.

"If there is any further mistake, this leader will chop you up and feed the horse!" Ha Xiao screamed, and the frightened guide broke out in a cold sweat.

"Brothers, there are women with goods in front, everyone rush over together!" Ha Xiao was very excited, and his big nose and ears were extremely terrifying in the sun.

"Let's go deep into the interior of the Han Dynasty, if we are discovered by the Han army, I am afraid that there will be an accident. If you make a mistake, the 'adults' will surely kill the little ones. The guide said.

"The Han army has long been afraid of us, and when they saw the Xianbei warriors coming, they might have slipped away, and even their legs on horseback were weak." Ha Xiao sneered, and suddenly his eyes became solemn. "The god of Kunlun will protect us from plundering more goods and beauties. Brothers, go with me and kill these cowardly Han Dynasty people without leaving a single piece of armor behind! ”

Howling like a wolf, he threw the woman to the ground, trampling her to death, and the blood-stained hooves turned red.

Seven hundred knights howled in response, and the roar shook the sky. This is a unique ancestral ritual of Xianbei, using the blood of the enemy to wash away their calamity and keep themselves safe on the expedition.

"Drive!" Ha Xiao rode his horse and galloped, and the seven hundred Xianbei knights behind him whipped and chased after him, shouting and rolling towards Gujiazhuang.