The big man is on the run

Chapter 136 In the first year of Jian'an, heroes fight

The gears of time turned again.

In spring, the first month of Guiyou, Liu Yi officially pardoned the world and changed the Yuan to Jian'an.

Many things happened in the spring of the first year of Jian'an. For Liu Yi, the most important thing was that the Xun family in Yingchuan finally made up their minds to split their bets on the imperial court. The year-old Xun Gongda had already been the servant of the Huangmen during the He Jin Rebellion, so naturally he would not start from scratch at this time, but was directly entrusted with the important task of the servant of the household department.

As for the political marriage of the two sects, with the Longxi Ma Teng and the Southern Xiongnu's Qubei, there will naturally be related envoys to discuss it, but Liu Yi doesn't bother.

There are still many other things, such as the Spring Festival, such as sacrifices, such as water conservancy and spring plowing, but they are all trivial daily affairs.

After the war in Guanzhong subsided, a large number of Guanzhong people who had fled to Hanzhong, Longxi, and Jingzhou began to return, which caused Liu Yi a kind of happy trouble. There were too many people and too many things. He was too busy with land and property disputes. The draft of "Han Law" added cases in the hands of the little official almost all the time, and finally reported to him to decide on the revised version.

How many acres of wasteland has been reclaimed in Guanzhong, whether the people’s cattle and farm tools are in place, how is the production of Yanchi in northern Shaanxi recovering, how many armors have been put on by the military engineering department, how are the horses and cavalry deployed and trained, all in all, in short, Liu Yi hardly has a single day idle.

More and more information shows that Yuan Shao's strategic offensive is imminent. Even the spring plowing in Hebei seems to be quite hasty. In many places, the spring plowing has not yet ended, and the peasants have already been forcibly conscripted to serve in the army.

Yuan Shao couldn't help being in a hurry, the fighting strength of the heroes in the world suddenly rose a lot in the first year of Jian'an.

First, Cao Cao, who had just recovered from Lu Bu's seizure of Yanzhou, began to expand his power outwards, and his strategic intention of replacing defense with offense was very obvious.Cao Cao led an army to attack the Yellow Turbans in Yingchuan, Runan. The Yellow Turbans in Runan County and Yingchuan County, such as He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, and He Man, each had tens of thousands of people (mostly old and weak women and children).Cao Cao led his troops to attack, defeated He Yi and other troops in Xu County, and then captured Xu County, expanding his power to Yuzhou.

Cao Cao's actions in February made a good start for the military conquests of various princes in the first year of Jian'an.

In March, Yuan Shu raised troops from Huainan to attack Liu Bei, preparing to capture Xuzhou.Liu Bei followed Liu Yi's suggestion and made Guan Yu guard Xiapi, and personally led the army with Zhang Fei to Xuyi and Huaiyin to face Yuan Shu.

The two armies held each other for more than a month in the Huaihe battlefield, which was completely unfavorable to maneuvering.At this time, Tao Qian had conflicts between Cao Bao and Guan Yu, and Guan Yu imprisoned Cao Bao, causing chaos in the city.Zhonglang recruited Xu Dan to lure Lv Bu to attack Xiapi, but Guan Yu couldn't hold out, Xiapi was besieged by Lv Bu, Liu Bei hurriedly led troops back to rescue when he heard about it, Yuan Shu took advantage of the situation and occupied the Xuyi and Huaiyin areas.

Lu Bu returned to Xiaopei, and let Gao Shun and Zhang Liao occupy Pengcheng, an important town in Xuzhou. Liu Bei's territory and power were weakened, and Guangling County was also captured by Yuan Shu.

In April, Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou who followed Liu Yi's teachings, huddled in the tortoise shell of Wuhu City and could not hold on. Before the ammunition and food ran out, he finally waited for the reinforcements sent by Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou. Liu Biao's nominal subordinate, the prefect of Jiangxia Huang Zu led thousands of large and small ships up the river, rescued Liu Yao and his men intact, and settled them in Yuzhang County.

Of course, Huang Zu had no good intentions. Yuzhang County was to the east of Jiangxia County, which formed the layout that Huang Zu was Liu Biao's shield, and Liu Yao was Huang Zu's shield.

Therefore, Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, only had one county territory left.

However, the four cities of Nanchang, Poyang, Chaisang, and Pengze rely on each other around Pengli Lake and its water system to form a complete defense system. For a while, Sun Ce couldn't help Liu Yao.

After all, when Sun Ce crossed the river, his power was not strong, and he was not the only enemy of Liu Yao.

For Sun Ce, not only Yuan Shu is the one he must guard against, Liu Yao, the justifiable governor of Yangzhou, is someone he must drive away, and other local forces in Yangzhou must also be treated with caution.

Liu Yao was the governor, they didn't care about Liu Yao, and Sun Ce, who had a bad background and prestige, came, and these local tyrants even raised their troops to resist.

In April, Sun Ce raised troops from Danyang, crossed Zhejiang (now Qiantang River) eastward, and attacked the land of the Three Wus. Wang Lang, the prefect of Kuaiji, sent troops to guard Guling City on the coast of Zhejiang, but Sun Ce was unable to attack several times.

His uncle Sun Jing suggested sending troops to attack Chadu dozens of miles south of Guling to catch his surprise and attack his unpreparedness.Sun Ce adopted it and ordered the sergeant to light more torches as suspicious soldiers, and then divided the army to attack Gaoqiantun after investigation.Wang Lang was shocked, so he sent Zhou Xin, the former prefect of Danyang, to lead his troops to fight. Zhou Xin fought in a panic, but was killed by Sun Ce's army, and Wang Lang's army was defeated.Yu Fan and others protected Wang Lang and fled to Dongye by sea. Sun Ce pursued and defeated Wang Lang again, and Wang Lang surrendered.Therefore, Sun Ce took charge of the governor of Kuaiji, replaced the county magistrates in Kuaiji, and defeated Yan Baihu and others who gathered a crowd to riot in Jiangdong, and then occupied the land of Sanwu.

In the spring of this year, many interesting little stories happened, such as Yuan Huan scolding Lü Bu for not hacking him to death, and Mi Heng scolding Huang Zu for being directly hacked to death by Huang Zu in the street. In front of it, it seems that it is not worth mentioning.

At the end of April, Yuan Shao, who hastily completed the spring farming work in Jizhou and Qingzhou, once again recruited grain, grass, civilians, and arms to supply the army stationed in Shangdang County, determined to take Bingzhou.

Yuan Shao's move made the people in Hebei even more complaining. After years of fighting, Yuan Shao's popular support in Hebei began to lose bit by bit. Even in many counties on the edge of Taihang Mountain, people ran to join the Black Mountain Army. The room is empty.

Many people now regard Yuan Shao as a devil. They think that their "Jizhou Mu" has gone crazy and wants to fight not only the Black Mountain Army, but also the Baibo Army and the Southern Huns.

In their impression, Yuan Shao has become very unfamiliar, and it is very different from when he took over Jizhou.

The so-called "Since Zhongping, the world has been in chaos, the people have abandoned agriculture, all armies have risen together, the rate is short of grain, there is no plan to live forever, the hungry will be invaded, the full will be abandoned, disintegrated and displaced, invincible and self-defeating, there are countless. "Although this is a situation that occurs all over the world, this situation became more and more crazy in Hebei in the first year of Jian'an.

Even when Yuan Shao was in Hebei, the soldiers had to eat mulberries to satisfy their hunger, and the people ate each other, and the state was depressed.

The only food resources were transferred to the front line of Bingzhou.

Moreover, Yuan Shao's recruitment this time, fundamentally speaking, he believed that these things belonged to him personally, he didn't care which commoner these things belonged to, he only knew that his purpose was to conquer Bingzhou.

This is Yuan Shao's most desired goal.

As long as he wins Bingzhou, Gongsun Zan of Youzhou will have no foreign aid, so he will naturally be in his pocket.

With Bingzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou in hand, send troops to Henan and Guanzhong, and the world can be won at your fingertips!
This goal made Yuan Shao's conscripts from Hebei people more and more frequent, and more and more grain and weapons were transported through Huguan.

After Jushou heard the news, he hurriedly sent his most trusted colleague Tian Feng to dissuade him, but Tian Feng's persuasion was useless. Yuan Shao still went his own way, pretending to take Bingzhou down even if Jizhou's war potential was exhausted. .

Yuan Shao didn't care too much. After the soldiers, horses, food, grass and armaments were in place, he came to Shangdang County in person and led the army to attack Yanzhou. He no longer had the patience to continue waiting here because he had waited too long.

From last autumn to the end of this spring, Yuan Shao spent every day scratching his heart and liver.

However, just as his army reached the junction of Shangdang County and Hedong County, they encountered the Baibo Army led by Han Xian, Li Le, and Hu Cai, who were also in Hedong County.

Yuan army camp.

"My lord, the white wave thief has arrived on our flank, what should we do?"

In the tent, Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Tian Feng, Ju Shou and other counselors gathered here to discuss the battle plan. Guo Tu asked Yuan Shao flatteringly.

"Hmph! They came just in time, and I'm just worried that I won't find a chance to deal with them!" Yuan Shao sneered, with a cold light in his eyes, his eyes seemed to grasp everything, "Since they came to the door automatically, let's You don’t have to be polite, I want to see if my sword is sharper or the Baibo Bandit’s bamboo spear is sharper.”

"My lord, our main army is sufficient this time. Why don't you ask your lord to send a partial army to pretend to attack Hedong to attract the attention of the enemy, and we will take this opportunity to attack the Heishan army to the north. After all, the city of Hedong is easy to defend and difficult to attack, while Heishan In addition to sticking to the road of Jinyang Jiancheng, as long as the army is exposed to terrain other than mountains, it will be easily defeated by our army."

"Oh?" Yuan Shao frowned, looking at Guo Tu, "You mean to send a general to lead a partial division to attack the city of Hedong County, and let me lead a main army to attack the Black Mountain Army?"

"That's right!" Guo Tu nodded and said, "Shangdang County is in the hands of the lord. We can't leave the main force of the lord in the narrow Shangdang-Hedong corridor. We are bound to win Jinyang. We have to use the fastest In addition, we must attack Hedong as soon as possible. In fact, it is not important to feign an attack or not. Even if it is a partial division, our army's strength is far stronger than the last time. Annexing Hedong County and Taiyuan County, at the same time, we also want to take all other places in Bingzhou into our bag."

Guo Tu's idea is very bold. He not only wants to annex Hedong County, but also wants to occupy Taiyuan County, which is really ambitious.

But this arrogant plan, although very in line with Yuan Shao's mentality, was strongly opposed by others.

Almost as soon as Guo Tu's words fell, the counselors of the Yingchuan faction couldn't hold back.

"My lord, no!"

"This plan won't work!"

"My lord, think twice!"

　Chapter 3 is late
　　
　
(End of this chapter)