After having an in-depth understanding of the general trend of the world, Liu He did not fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao, but formed an alliance like Liu Bei and Sun Quan in history, and Liu He even generously gave Wei County and Qinghe Kingdom to Cao Cao.

Liu He was obviously uneasy and well-intentioned in doing this.

Liu He wanted Cao Cao to fight Dong Huang in front.

Of course, Cao Cao was also dissatisfied with this, but he had no choice.

With Cao Cao's meat shield, Liu He actually had time to devote his energy to Bingzhou and Qingzhou.

After experiencing a battle with Dong Min and seeing the majesty of Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Liu He at this time no longer thought that he could defeat Dong Huang with his current strength. Therefore, Liu He's strategic goal was changed to secession of Hebei to keep the foundation, so as to obtain more war scores.

Liu He thought about it, held the first line of the Yellow River in the early stage, and when there were still ten days and half a month before the end of the mission in the later stage, he invited Cao Cao and Cao Ying's generals to come and take the opportunity to kill them in exchange for war points.

Indigenous, to put it bluntly, is just a resource.

Liu He didn't mind killing any natives.

If by the end of the mission, Liu and his generals still have no return, he will not hesitate to kill them, in case he can receive their inheritance.

Of course, after killing Cao Cao, his wife and children could not be spared, Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, and Cao Zhi were all killed, and Cao Cao's wife and daughter were pulled over to try the bell to see if they could get a new attendant.

One thing to say, Liu He has no special preference for wives, but if he can seize the wife of Emperor Wei Wu, the pleasure brought by the blessing of that identity is enough to make Liu He crazy.

In short, Liu He has made everything clear, just waiting for the task to be over.

In order to better complete the task and prevent Dong Huang's army from coming across the river, Liu He also ordered Tian Yu to lead 30,000 archers to burn and destroy crops in Qingzhou and other places across the river, destroy bridges and roads, and strive to make it impossible for Dong Huang's army to collect grain and grass from Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and it would be more difficult for the army to march smoothly.

At the same time, Liu He was also ready to break the embankment of the Yellow River when things changed.

Non-toxic not husband.

Liu He, who was able to endure loneliness and fight in the jungle for two years to train a cavalry that was good at Mongolian tactics, has always been a person who regards life like a mustard.

He never minded creating a yellow flood zone that lost all conscience.

When Hebei became a pot of porridge, Dong Huang did not continue to play in Huangshan, but led 200,000 tiger troops, took the waterway to detour through Jingzhou, and returned to Chang'an.

Dong Huang's departure greatly reduced the logistical pressure of the Eastern Route Army, allowing Fa Zheng to command the Eastern Route Army quite calmly.

Cao Cao, Liu He and both parties can think of the importance of food, and Fa Zheng, Xi Zhicai, and Jia Xu can naturally also think of it.

Coincidentally, when Cao Cao, Liu and his troops were preparing to seize the harvest, Dong Huang's troops also quickly entered Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

Dong Huang's army adopted the strategy of cavalry harassment and infantry siege, the infantry pulled out one city after another, and the cavalry went deep behind the enemy, robbing without finding the enemy, fighting when encountering a small group of enemies, and lighting wolf smoke to call the main force when encountering the main force of the enemy.

This tactic made Cao Cao extremely uncomfortable.

Cao Cao, who had no strategic space, could only concentrate his forces in Puyang and other places.

In fact, in the face of the harassment of Dong Huang's cavalry, Cao Cao also tried to send several cavalry to fight, but among these cavalry, those who were originally subordinate to Niu Fu's department often surrendered directly, and the rest were not opponents of Dong Huang's cavalry.

This is still the case on Cao Cao's side, let alone in the direction of Qingzhou.

At this time, the living forces of Qingzhou were Sun Ce, Guan Cheng, and Chang Xuan, who were originally ordered by Yuan Shao to attack Liu Biao across the river, but as a result, the Taishan soldiers were grinding and grinding, and when they finally sent Chang Xian to go on the expedition, Yuan Shao was already gag.

After Chang Xuan, who didn't know the information, accompanied Sun Ce, Guan Cheng and others to Qingzhou, he later felt the news that Yuan Shao had defeated Xuzhou and changed hands.

At this moment, the three of them were in no mood to cross the river.

Chang Xuan made a fuss about Taishan's hometown, Guan Cheng made a fuss about surrendering Dong Huang and asked Dong Huang to help him avenge him, Sun Ce was worried about the safety of Zhou Yu and Sun Quan but did not want to surrender Dong Huang.

As soon as the three of them delayed, Liu Biao was stunned, and Zhao Yun's department also entered Qingzhou with the surrendered Taishan thieves Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others.

Guan Cheng because Liu Biao was dead, and because he realized that this troubled era was really as his third brother Guan Qi said, it was not for their three brothers to participate, so he decided to cross the sea to find Guan Qi with the rest of the Yellow Turban who was willing to follow.

Sun Ce hesitated again and again, chose to surrender to Zhao Yun, and made a request: when he crossed the river to welcome back his father's bones, he would return to his hometown to marry and have children.

Zhao Yun agreed to him.

Zhao Yun's subordinates then took over Qingzhou, where the people's livelihood was withering, and attacked it in Linji, eliminating the advance of Tian Yu's army and blocking Tian Yu's army in the north of Jishui.

At the same time, the expeditionary fleet of the Japanese slave state, with Zhu Heng as the main general and Mi Fang as the deputy general, also assembled in Qingzhou, waiting for the monsoon and making final preparations; Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others prepared ships that could cross the Yellow River and prepared to go straight up the river, cutting off the back road of Cao Cao's army.

Cao Cao, who knew how Yuan Shao was defeated, after learning that Liu He's troops had failed to cross the river, in order not to become a lone army, at the suggestion of Guo Jia, abandoned Yanzhou, crossed the Yellow River with the main force, and reorganized the army in Wei County and Qinghe State in Hebei, relying on the Yellow River for defense.

This frustrated Fa Zheng's plan to reimpose his old tricks and annihilate the living forces of Cao's army.

When the first snow of winter arrived, Yanzhou and Qingzhou had been completely taken by Dong Huang's army.

Dong Huangjun and Cao-Liu allied forces confronted each other across the river.

As Guo Jia expected, because the weather turned cold, Dong Huang's army, which lacked cotton clothes, could only let the southern soldiers, especially the southern barbarian soldiers, go south, and the military pressure of the Cao-Liu coalition army on the south bank of the river was greatly reduced.

However, this is also the only good news left for the Cao-Liu coalition.

Although the Cao-Liu coalition army held the riverbank, it failed to capture the annexed state after all.

Dong Yue, the assassin of Shi Dong Yue, was often panicked after the arrival of Li Dao and Guo Yan. On the one hand, he felt that Li Dao and Guo Yan were reasonable, and Dong Zhuo's death was absolutely strange; On the other hand, he didn't think that Dong Huang, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, needed to plan this kind of thing. In addition, Li Dao and Guo Yan have always had a reputation for bravery, and they have the bad deeds of slaughtering Li Meng and others to merge their armies, which made Dong Yue feel deeply jealous.

And with the increasing pressure brought by Liu He's department in Jizhou, and the repeated pressure from the Wang clan and other big clans in Jizhou, Dong Yue also became more and more shaken.

Li Dao and Guo Yan noticed Dong Yue's vacillation and wanted to strike first, but they were told by their subordinates Yang Ding and Wu Xi.

So Dong Yue planned to attack and kill Li Dao and Guo Yan, and personally took their heads to Chang'an to plead guilty.

When Dong Yue came, Dong Huang had just finished burying Dong Zhuo, and was comforting Dong Hao, the wife of Niu Fu, who was frightened, and Dong Bai, the granddaughter of Dong Zhuo, who was charming and beautiful.

Hearing that Dong Yue was coming to surrender, Dong Huang received him with a family banquet and asked Dong Hao and Dong Bai to attend.

This made Dong Yue completely relieved.

(End of chapter)