Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

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Sitting on the main seat, Zhang Chao's expression was a little dignified.

Cao Cao and the others looked serious.

There is one thing to say, they are really curious, what is the big thing that provoked Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao to fight against Liu Dai's army in Suanzao County, regardless of the feelings of their colleagues.

It can't be that Liu Dai indulged his subordinates and did something outrageous, right?

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"Everyone, I think you all know that in recent days, as Mr. Cao's edict has been announced for longer and longer, there are more and more defenders near Chenliu County."

On the other side, Zhang Chao didn't care what Zhang Yan and others thought, and just said to himself:

"More and more people means that more food is needed to support it. My brother already had conflicts with that Liu Dai. I don't want Liu Dai to get worse in recent days, and even let his subordinates maliciously control Chengzhong Food. The price has restricted the supplies of my elder brother's trilogy, which is really abominable!"

"In addition, recently, my brother actually found out that a company in the city that originally supplied food to the army was directly controlled by Liu Dai behind the scenes!"

"Then Liu Dai is really not a son of man. In order to embarrass my brother, he secretly ordered to replace all the grain in the store with old grain, and many of them even went moldy. The belly of the last few days..."

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While talking, that Zhang Chao suddenly sighed, and the expression on his face became a little helpless:

"If it weren't for fear of Liu Dai's clan status, brother, he would have wanted to take action against the army under the governor of Yanzhou."

"What you see today, in the final analysis, is just a little punishment for those wicked people."

"My elder brother couldn't bear to be insulted by Liu Dai, so he secretly joined forces with my Guangling soldiers to plot against the other party's soldiers. If the envoys are dissatisfied with Mr. Cao, then blame it on me, and it has nothing to do with my elder brother."

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"You guys haven't seen it. When I first arrived in Chenliu, what Liu Dai's army did was much more excessive than it is now!"

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After finishing speaking, Zhang Chao's expression showed a trace of grievance.

Hearing Zhang Chao's words, Zhang Yan, Cao Cao and the others were also speechless, and a trace of worry flashed in each other's hearts.

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Malicious control of food prices?

Also dispatched his men to add chaos to the opposing army?

Even... even deliberately shoddy, and even secretly used moldy food to supply the other party...

Cao Cao didn't expect that the conflict between Zhang Miao and Liu Dai would develop to such an exaggerated level without anyone watching them.

And the relationship between the two is just a microcosm of the relationship between the princes today.

God knows, in Suanzao County, there are still many problems like Zhang Miao and Liu Dai who seem to have little conflicts, but have actually developed to an irreconcilable situation! ?

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Seeing that Cao Cao frowned at this moment, he turned his eyes to Zhang Yan who was on the side, and Zhang Yan also seemed to have a tacit understanding. The eyes of the two intertwined and said at the same time:

"That does not work!"

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Both Cao Cao and Zhang Yan were accurately aware of the crisis this matter brought to the coalition forces.

Now the relationship between Zhang Chao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai is far from representing the whole crisis. Could it be that there are conflicts between them, and there are no conflicts among the other princes of the Han Dynasty?

of course not!

With more and more princes responding to the imperial edict, there will definitely be more forces that have enmity between the two in Chenliu County, even more exaggerated than Liu Dai and Zhang Miao. possible.

And one more important point is that what Zhang Chao said just now also exposed a reality—that is, with the gradual increase in the number and strength of troops, the pressure on the supply of food and grass for the army in Chenliu County has gradually increased.

Under the huge supply pressure of food and grass, various conflicts will soon erupt between the two parties who had no conflicts at first, and quickly intensify to the point of terror that cannot be reconciled.

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"Meng De, what is the total number of troops in Chen Liuzhong who have come to join the alliance?"

"Now these people, the alliance has reached such a level, if it continues like this, I'm afraid it will take less than half a month, and the alliance itself will be loosened first!"

Frowning, Zhang Yan couldn't help but mention something to Cao Cao.

He came to seek Dong, not to see the infighting among these princes.

Now that everyone has not set off yet, the impact of fighting with each other will not be great.If they fought with Dong Zhuo's soldiers with real knives and guns, when they got there, what kind of internal strife would they cause...

The danger is simply unimaginable!

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Zhang Yan knew all kinds of contradictions in the army, and Cao Cao knew even more clearly.

After Zhang Yan reminded him, Cao Cao's expression also changed slightly.

After that, I didn't care about the previous arrangement...

In order to reduce the frequency of such conflicts among the princes as much as possible, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao and others hurriedly said goodbye to Zhang Chao, and returned to camp overnight to discuss countermeasures.

Same as Zhang Yan...the reason why they formed this alliance was to kill Dong Zhuo, not to kill themselves!

The coalition forces' existing method of gathering a dozen or even dozens of princes in one place must be changed immediately!

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Fortunately, "Romance" has never been the only standard for Zhang Yan to refer to.

Until the early morning of the second day, the sun had already climbed three poles, Zhang Yan and others yawned and left Cao Cao's residence.

A brand-new, or in other words, relying on the original historical facts, the way of the alliance of princes was proposed by Zhang Yan, and was quickly recognized by Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others.

After that, the hundreds of thousands of troops hoarded in Chenliu County began to mobilize slowly, and marched in three different directions.

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Prior to this, Cao Cao originally wanted to wait until the auspicious day, and everyone would meet in Suanzao County first.

When the covenant is drawn up, a leader will be selected like the White Horse Covenant, and lead the hundreds of thousands of troops to kill in the direction of Luoyang.

In this way, no matter how powerful Dong Zhuo's army is, the Kwantung princes are not free.

Facing these hundreds of thousands of coalition forces, Dong Zhuo will definitely retreat one after another, and even find it difficult to parry.

After all, this is not the time when the Qin and Han Dynasties were first established. An army of hundreds of thousands is already a force capable of subverting any regime.

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It's just a pity that the sky fails to fulfill people's wishes.

If it really continues as Cao Cao imagined, I am afraid that it will not be Dong Zhuo's regime that will collapse first, but their coalition forces.

Since the problem is discovered in advance, it must be rectified accordingly.

Fortunately, the improvement method proposed by Zhang Yan is not unacceptable to Cao Cao.

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"Nademao, let's say goodbye like this."

"Don't forget what we agreed on earlier!"

A few days later, before the coalition forces set off, Cao Cao looked at Zhang Yan who was riding a white horse not far away, and couldn't help but clasped his fists.

But Zhang Yan pursed his lips lightly and didn't say much.

The two bid farewell to each other in this way, and then led their respective armies towards two completely different directions, unswervingly marched over there.

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PS: I fell asleep halfway through writing...it was so painful...

The transitional chapter is hard to write.

Chapter 26 Division

In fact, the method provided by Zhang Yan is also very simple. To sum it up in two words, it is nothing more than dividing troops.

This is also a very common method in the process of marching in ancient China.

To give the simplest example, when Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor in the south of the Yangtze River, his men had sufficient food and soldiers, and occupied one-third of the most affluent land in China at that time. It can be said that their strength was far stronger than that of Cao Cao who attacked him. , Liu Bei, Lu Bu and others.

That being the case, why didn't he join forces and defeat these three men instead of "dividing the army into seven armies" and taking advantage of Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and others?

In the final analysis, it was just that the Seven Route Army had too many people and they were forced to gather in one place, and the supply of soldiers, horses, money and food was not enough.

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Now that Zhang Yan and others have discovered that there are always fights among the princes when they gather in one place, they might as well lead the team by the stronger of these people, and set off from several different passes in Luoyang to try to attack Luoyang, which is heavily guarded. .

As for those princes who have a bad relationship... just think of a way to drive them away when the time comes.

Zhang Yan is not a kind person who eats his fill, since he doesn't have the leisure to reconcile the conflicts among the people.

In fact, it is not difficult for everyone to realize the division of troops.

Up to now, although there are dozens of princes gathered in the Suanzao area, their military strength exceeds [-], and there are only thirteen or four princes with their own organized troops.

There are only a handful of troops with a strength of more than 3.

The vast majority of people just sent two to three thousand or three to five thousand troops, and then handed them over to a prince they are familiar with to command instead. The actual prefect didn't come here to participate in the alliance.

This also gave Zhang Yan a chance.

The minority obeying the majority has always been one of China's iron laws for resolving disputes.

Zhang Yan, Yuan Shao and others are all "thighs" with more than [-] soldiers, and they are the absolute main force to challenge Dong.

Therefore, when Cao Cao summoned all the princes and announced in front of them the division of troops with these big men as the core, even Liu Dai, who had the most farts, did not find any suitable reason to object.

On the contrary, many subordinates of the prefect who were quite famous in the Eastern Han Dynasty praised this practice even more.

As we all know, if there is an alliance, then an alliance leader must be elected, and then the entire allied army will be handed over to him to command.

And it would be fine if the lord was one of his own... If it was his enemy, who would guarantee that at such a time, the other party would not set him up?

For example, people like Kong Rong and Tao Qian, who formed an alliance early, naturally found an organization in advance and hugged their thighs.