A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 427 King Bai issued an edict to disperse Yuan Qi, and the big snake swallowed the elephant and it was difficult to digest.
April
While Cao Cao and Gan Ning were fighting fiercely outside the city, King Bai suddenly issued a "Message to the People of Hebei" to the people of Hebei.

"The Bai family has lived in Hebei for a long time, five hundred years since the Han Dynasty, and more than a thousand years since the Zhou Dynasty. Fortunately, the people of Hebei love him, so they recommend the Bai family as a representative of the people and often praise him with words.

Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, Hebei was in decline, and the people of the Xia Dynasty fought hard to clear out the Dongyi and expel the Beihu. Therefore, the people of Hebei had many impassioned people and often performed righteous deeds.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the people of Hebei, under the leadership of local officials and the Bai clan, have successfully won a place to live. The barbarians did not dare to invade the border, and the bandits did not dare to speak lightly of massacres.

Wang Mang was in chaos, and the world was in the midst of an attack. The Bai family used the people's example to support Guangwu, and Guangwu won the warriors of Hebei. Therefore, they were able to wipe out the world and rebuild the Han Dynasty. Therefore, there was a clear rule, the prosperity of Yongyuan, and the prosperity of Hebei. The center of Jizhou became the most prosperous place in the world, with hundreds of thousands of households and nearly two million people.

From then on, there were learned scholars and brave and fearless generals, who were the best in the world and could be called outstanding people.

Yuan Shao originally had a surname from Bohai and was a popular figure in Hebei. However, he did not hesitate to use the power of the people, indulged in illegal power and corrupt officials, leaving the people with no place to live and no food to eat.

The rich land of Jizhou was more than enough to support Hebei. However, during Yuan Shao's reign, many people died of hunger and were displaced. This was a big thief.

Today, Yuan Shao's sons, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, follow the example of their father and use weapons recklessly, completely disregarding the interests of the people of Hebei. They engage in war all year round, making the people's lives worse and intolerable.

The Bai family obeyed the move of heaven and the people of the land. As a prominent family in Hebei, they all rejected the Yuan family as the lord of Hebei. All people with lofty ideals and thoughtful scholars in Hebei should follow the will of heaven and decisively abandon this dissatisfaction. The righteous Yuan family welcomes a famous Ming Lord.

Liu Shibei of Xuzhou was a scholar from Youzhou. He was originally the Prime Minister of Pingyuan, and later served under Gongsun Zan. He was originally from Hebei. There are many people in Qingxu and Xuzhou who praise his virtues and may be called Ming Lords.

Now it is heard that he is expected to take over Hebei Province, but it is still unclear whether he is a true gentleman from the past or a person who deceives the world and steals his reputation. As the leader of the Bai Kingdom, I sincerely invite General Liu to come to Chaoge to discuss ways to support the Han Dynasty and save the people.

Of course, any other heroes in the world who are interested in Hebei can come to meet him. Bai Shi will sweep the couch and wait for all the princes in the world to come here to discuss things. "

Just ten days after King Bai's "Message to the People of Hebei" was released, it immediately aroused a huge response.

April 25
Zhang Zhen, the prefect of Taiyuan, surrounded the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion in Jinyang with hundreds of family soldiers and county soldiers. He beheaded the senior governor of Bingzhou and announced his break away from the rule of Yuan Shang and other Yuan clans. He followed the public opinion and waited for the Ming Dynasty.

April 27
Shangdang, Xihe, Dingxiang, Yunzhong, Shuofang, Wuyuan and other counties in Bingzhou all declared their independence, broke away from the control of Yecheng, and held troops to wait and see the situation.

May 3rd
The Zhenbei Army announced that the Yuan family was not the master of the Ming Dynasty, and was willing to obey the Bai family's notice, break away from the Yuan family, and form its own army.

May 6
Liu Bei led an army of 30,000 people and headed west from Pingyuan County. He said that he was going to Bai Kingdom to attend King Bai's banquet and hoped that the counties along the way would not act rashly.

At the same time, Guan Yu, the governor of Qingzhou, showed Yuan Tan's letter and accepted Yuan Tan's invitation to go north to support Yuan Tan's army. With 50,000 Qingzhou troops, they boldly entered Bohai County.

May 10
Zhang Yan, the commander of Heishan, obeyed Bai's response and led a large army out of Taihang in the name of Yuan's being a big thief in Hebei. One hundred thousand troops came out of the mountain from three routes.

For a time, Baijun and Changshan County in Jizhou and the Taihangjing of Zhao State were attacked one after another. Some wealthy families in Changshan County recognized the Bai family's edict and secretly joined forces with the Black Mountain Army in an attempt to unite internal and external forces to open up Taixingjing and free them. The Montenegrin Army came out of the border.

May

Liu Bei arrived at Ganling in Qinghe County and contacted the Jizhou army.

Just when the Jizhou army was about to fight Liu Bei's army below the city, the flag suddenly changed on the top of Ganling city, and Ganling fell into the hands of Liu Bei's army.

It turned out that the Cui family of Qinghe responded to Bai's call and decisively rebelled from within, secretly letting Liu Bei's army enter the city.

So tens of thousands of Jizhou troops fled in all directions, and the Jizhou army was defeated.

After capturing Qinghe County, Liu Bei immediately issued the "Message from General Zuo's Mansion to the People of Hebei"

The announcement clarified Liu Bei's policy policy and his attitude towards the big families in the future. As a rural person, he promised that the people would be the main focus, and listed the benevolent policies Liu Bei implemented in Qingxu Prefecture.

Soon, many counties in Jizhou received Liu Bei's notice, changed their plans one after another, and announced that they would accept the talisman of General Zuo's Mansion.

Yuan Shang lost all the counties overnight. In panic, he took his relatives, friends and troops and immediately went north to the Jizhou army on the Youzhou battlefield.

May 25
Basically all the counties and counties in Jizhou accepted Liu Bei's rule. Liu Bei arrived at Yecheng and slowly entered with the welcome of the officials and people in the city.

The news soon reached the ears of Cao Cao, who was attacking Jingzhou. He knew that Liu Bei could not be allowed to take over Hebei so smoothly. After careful consideration, he decided to withdraw his troops.

June
Cao Cao left Cao Ren with 50,000 troops to continue the attack on Jiangling, while he withdrew from Jingzhou. After returning to Xudu, he immediately crossed Hanoi and entered Hedong with 80,000 troops, hoping to capture Bingzhou.

August
Guan Yu led his army to defeat Yuan Shang's army in Youzhou. Zhang He and other Jizhou generals surrendered. Jiang Qi was beheaded and Yuan Tan, who was planning a sneak attack, was defeated at the same time.

Yuan Tan died in the rebellion. Yuan Shang and his second brother Yuan Xi fled to Wuhuan in western Liaoning with the defeated generals who were loyal to the Yuan family.

In this campaign, more than 60,000 surrendered soldiers from Jizhou were received, 5,000 were beheaded, and 20,000 surrendered Hu people were accepted. The remaining Youzhou militiamen who were forcibly recruited from Youzhou were selected and released into the militia. In the same month, Liu Bei led many of his men into Chaoge, met Bai Wangluo in Bai Wang's palace, and accepted Bai Wang's blessing.

Liu Bei had a very pleasant conversation with King Bai, and promised King Bai a lot about his attitude towards the Bai Kingdom and the Bai family after taking power in Hebei. And invited King Bai to send some young talents from Bai Kingdom to join the show.

King Bai was very satisfied with Liu Bei's attitude and modesty. Hearing that Liu Bei didn't have a wife yet, he acted as a matchmaker and married a daughter of the Bai family who was interested in getting married, and also gave her a lot of dowry.

September
Liu Bei, who stayed in the Bai Kingdom for a month, returned to Yecheng with his beloved wife and a lot of harvest.

Liu Bei, who had Bai's daughter as his head wife, quickly gained the support of the scholars in Hebei. The governors of Bingzhou, the Zhenbei Army, the governors of Youzhou, and the Liaodong vassal states all requested Liu Bei to send officials to receive her.

In order to absorb Hebei as much as possible, Liu Bei appointed Zhang Fei as the governor of Youzhou, Chen Qun as the governor of Youzhou, Lu Bu as the governor of Bingzhou, Zhuge Dan as the governor of Bingzhou, Bai Gong as the governor of Jinyang, Yuan Zhao as the governor of Gaotang, and Gao Shun. He was the governor of Xuzhou, and Zhang Liao was the governor of Hefei.

At the same time, Guan Yu was still appointed as the governor of Qingzhou, and Xu Shu was appointed as the governor of Qingzhou. He also appointed Kong Rong as the governor of Xuzhou, and promoted Bai Xing, the partial general, to the general of Jianwu and the governor of Xiapi.

Tian Feng, who was released from prison in Yecheng, was appointed governor of Jizhou. He also appointed Zhang He, the surrendered general, as general Yangwu, who listened to orders in front of General Zuo's mansion. He also appointed Zhao Yun as the central leader, taking charge of Liu Bei's tens of thousands of guards. He moved General Zuo's mansion in Xiapi to Yecheng and made Yecheng his seat of government.

Because the spread was too big at once, Liu Bei had to temporarily use the military to control the people. He appointed his cronies as governors in several states to take control of the power. Then he also appointed governors in several key towns to guard against the attacks of Cao Cao and Sun Quan. .

There was too much to eat, and Liu Bei would not have the energy to launch another military campaign within a year or two.

Cao Cao attacked Jinyang, an important town in Taiyuan, with 80,000 troops.

However, Cao Cao underestimated the terrain of Taiyuan County and the winding mountain roads, which made it impossible for Cao Cao's army to take full advantage of the cavalry, so he had to engage in a tug-of-war with the Bingzhou Army.

Fortunately, Cao's army was elite, so the battle went smoothly, and they quickly marched to the important town of Jinyang.

The garrison of Jinyang was the White Communist Party, who had just taken office. He was the governor of Jinyang appointed by Liu Bei and was fully responsible for the war in Jinyang.

Since the reinforcements from Lu Bu, the governor of Bingzhou, were still many days away, at this time, Jinyang's city defenders only had more than 10,000 troops.

But fortunately, due to the terrain, Cao Jun's army could not deploy at all. But despite this, the Belarusian Communist Party estimates that it can only hold on for ten days at most, and it will take half a month for Lu Bu's reinforcements to arrive.

Although Lu Bu is the governor of Bingzhou and a native of Bingzhou in the past, he has just taken office after all. The soldiers and generals are not familiar and need time to get used to. He cannot directly bring him to fight against Cao's army, otherwise he will be seeking death.

But the White Communist Party did not panic at all, because Liu Bei had already found another reinforcement for him.

September

Just when Cao Jun was about to break through Jinyang, news came from behind that the Black Mountain Army in the Taihang Mountains suddenly came out and captured Gaodu, the only hub between Hanoi and Hedong. At this time, they were marching to Hedong County.

Cao Cao was shocked. You must know that Cao Cao's army's food route completely depends on Hedong County. If Hedong is occupied by the Black Mountain Army, all of his 80,000 troops will be ruined here.

He couldn't care less that Jinyang was about to be conquered, because even if Jinyang was conquered, he would not be able to get the food and grass from the rear through a direct war, so Cao Cao immediately announced a rapid retreat and sent General Cao Hong to lead thousands of cavalry to seize the important town of Jiangyi.

Hurrying slowly, Cao Cao finally returned to Hedong before the Black Mountain Army arrived at Jiangyi in Hedong County.

Seeing Cao Cao rushing back, Zhang Yan knew that her mission had been completed, so she led tens of thousands of Black Mountain troops to retreat slowly.

Seeing that the Black Mountain Army retreated, Cao Cao did not pursue it. Knowing that Gaodu had fallen into Liu Bei's hands, Cao Cao left General Jin to garrison Jiangyi and sent General Xu Huang to garrison Ye Wang in Hanoi to guard against the Black Mountain Army and the Bingzhou Army. The army entered Guanzhong from Hedong and returned to Xudu.

October
Montenegro commander Zhang Yan announced his recruitment and accepted Liu Bei's order.

Liu Bei appointed Zhang Yan as General Fenwu, and began to receive millions of people from the Taihang Mountains. In order to resettle them, Liu Bei appointed Xun Chen as Diannong Zhonglang General, responsible for the farming affairs of these millions of people.

Cao Cao was a little discouraged when his strategy to restrain Liu Bei failed, but with the encouragement of his subordinates and advisors, Cao Cao regained his confidence.

November

In order to increase the momentum of their own power and hope to reverse the decline, under the operation of Cao Cao, the Xudu imperial court claimed that Prime Minister Cao Cao had contributed to the country and quelled the causes of many rebellions in the world. His credit was so great that it had never been seen since the Han Dynasty. In order to show that the imperial court of kindness.

Therefore, Cao Cao was canonized as Duke of Han, added Nine Tins, established Korea, appointed prime ministers, prefects, generals and other officials, and established the capital in Xinzheng, because this location was originally the boundary of Korea in the pre-Qin period.

At the same time, in order to win over Sun Quan to resist the upcoming Liu Bei army's offensive, Liu Xie, at Cao Cao's suggestion, conferred Sun Quan as the Duke of Wu. He also added Jiuxi, established the Wu Kingdom, unified South Korea, and established the capital at Moling.

As for Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, Cao Cao selectively ignored them, because in Cao Cao's view, these two were the fat in his mouth. What qualifications did he have to negotiate with him about food?

(End of this chapter)