At the end of the Han Dynasty, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, disasters have continued to occur in various places, bandits have abounded, and since Emperor Ling changed the history of assassination to the state pastor, the power gradually declined, and the herdsmen around the country did not recuperate with the people because of this, but forcibly requisitioned and expanded the troops, although there has not yet been a rebellion, but all parts of the country do not listen to the dispatch, each of them has become an indisputable fact, the alliance of princes to discuss Dong, from this.

At the beginning of February, the north wind is already cold, but it can't hide the strong spring, the willow branches spit out buds, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the spring is joyful.

The Yellow River, because of the sand and good silting, the river burst often occurs, the nearest largest breach from the end of the Han Dynasty, occurred in 11 A.D., in the west of Linzhang burst, the southeast rushed into the Luochuan old road, through the present Henan Nanle, Shandong Chaocheng, Yanggu, Liaocheng, to Yucheng Beiluochuan northbound, and through Shandong Lin, Huimin and other places, to Lijin into the sea.

Frequent breaches, resulting in a huge range of yellow floods, sediment alluvium, the emergence of a small plain of different sizes, sour jujube, is the old road of the Yellow River, a very inconspicuous small county, because of the gentle terrain, has become the best place for the princes to settle down.

On the outskirts of the sour jujube, a large number of camp tents are endless, and the flat land outside the sour jujube city is divided into more than a dozen pieces, and the sound of the soldiers' drills resounded in the sky, and farther away, a large group of people who were recruited were busy building camp tents, and the blue and gray dome was extending outward at a very fast speed.

"Qixiang Hou Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao to ......" in the city, the original county guard's mansion has long been requisitioned by the princes, Qiao Mao as the initiator of the alliance, this time is very prosperous, the princes who arrived at this time, including Cao Cao, have nine people, a few people are fine, and they are chatting with a banquet in the house, at this time, a long voice came in.

"Oh? Since the first time we arrived, how about we go out to greet us? After his eyes swept around everyone, a smile suddenly appeared on Qiao Mao's face, and his tone was a little eager.

The alliance was initiated, or Yuan Shao gave him the news, in this regard, it was undoubtedly a good start for him who had just joined the Yuan family, in his opinion, Yuan Shao was willing to let him come out, that is, the Yuan family recognized his existence, and it was to Yuan Shao, Qiao Mao's indescribable gratitude in his heart, but I don't know, if he could know Yuan Shao's original plan, would he have such a good mood.

"Since the beginning, most of this alliance has been completed." Han Fu and Yuan Shao were in Jizhou together, but they didn't think about why he had arrived here a long time ago, but Yuan Shao had just come to this question, but instead laughed when Qiao Mao's voice fell.

"Since I came here at the right time, I was the same at that time, let's go out and have a look." The good old man Kong Rong said.

The few people who were sitting got up one after another, no matter which force they belonged to, not to mention anything else, just because of the reason in Kong Rong's words, they couldn't help but get up to greet them, Cao Cao saw this, and in the depths of his eyes, he couldn't help but flash a trace of extremely vague bitterness.

In fact, Yuan Shao at this time, like Cao Cao, should still be a white body, and his current so-called Qixiang Hou Bohai Taishou is just appointed by himself, and the imperial court controlled by Dong Zhuo has not passed at all. But when he Cao Cao arrived, no one came out to greet him, not to mention, or after he himself led the troops to station, there were people who personally came to the door, which is like at this time, it was a group of people competing to greet him, this is the so-called fame, and the benefits brought by him Cao Cao have been chasing for many years, but he still failed to get it.

"......" was silent for a long time, Cao Cao got up and went out behind everyone.

In the next few days, several more people arrived one after another, such as Zhang Chao, Sun Jian, Gongsun Zhan, etc., so that another month passed, and at the beginning of March, no princes came, until this time, the princes who came before and after, a total of seventeen roads:

On the first road, the later general Nanyang guarded Yuan Shu. The second road, Jizhou Thorn Shi Han Fu. The third road, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling. The fourth road, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai. The fifth road, Hanoi County Taishou Wang Kuang. On the sixth road, Chen stayed too much to guard Zhang Miao. On the seventh road, Dongjun guards Qiao Mao. On the eighth road, Shanyang guarded Yuan's legacy. The ninth road, Jibei Xiang Baoxin. The tenth road, Beihai Taishou Kongrong. On the eleventh road, Guangling guarded Zhang Chao. The twelfth road, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian. On the thirteenth road, the party guarded Zhang Yang. The fourteenth road, Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zhan. On the fifteenth road, Wucheng Hou Changsha guarded Sun Jian. On the sixteenth road, Hou Bohai of Qixiang guarded Yuan Shao. The Seventeenth Road: Cao Cao who sent troops in the name of Jinan Xiang.

If you add the Ma and Han coalition armies that are far away in the extreme west of Liangzhou, and also hold high the banner of the alliance to fight against Dong, it can be counted as the eighteenth road, among the princes, the person surnamed Liu is the only one in the clan, Liu Dai, but it is a pity that Yuan Kui's plan before was all in vain at this time.

On this day, Qiao Mao ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep to reward the army, but the princes from all walks of life gathered in the city mansion with their henchmen to discuss Dong's strategy.

"Dong Zhuo is powerful, not one person can punish him, you are all here for the righteousness, it is to please Dong, if we are fighting separately, we will be taken advantage of by Dong Zhuo, and each will be broken, so we still need to elect an alliance leader to restrain everyone and work together." The main seat, Qiao Mao gave up at the beginning of this banquet, but as the initiator of the alliance, it is understandable to speak first.

In the house, because of Qiao Mao's words, it fell into silence.

People are selfish, not to mention that the title of the leader of the alliance is a symbol of prestige and status.

Seeing the solemn atmosphere in the room, Zhang Chao got up and said: "For the leader of the alliance, he needs to be famous and talented, and he is not talented, and he is willing to recommend one person for you." ”

"Who is it?" Some people couldn't help but ask loudly, and others couldn't help but cast their eyes and stared at Zhang Chao quite nervously.

"Shoot the sun Zang Hong." Zhang Chao spoke solemnly. Speaking of which, he can make up his mind to raise troops, or because of Zang Hong's persuasion to him, he has always had a good relationship with Zang Hong, not to mention, Zang Hong is now idle at home, he has been recruited many times, but he has been rejected, and he is not a prince, Zhang Chao does not have to offend others for the name of whom.

"Zang Hong?" If you are unfamiliar, you can't help but whisper in doubt.

Some people are not familiar with it, it does not mean that everyone is not familiar with it, and Deng Shi exclaimed: "Ziyuan Gong? ”

"I agree that Ziyuan will take on the responsibility of the alliance leader."

"I agree."

"I agree."

Soon after the room suddenly fell into a short silence, almost at the same time, Zhang Miao, Liu Dai, and Kong Ling, who were familiar with Zang Hong, spoke out at the same time, attracting everyone's hearts, and no one noticed that Yuan Shao, who was originally full of smiles, didn't know when, his face was full of iron blue.