In the second year of Xingping, spring was full of wind and rain. Last year's drought year seemed to be no longer repeated, but the interweaving sounds of wars left over from last year's famine continued as always and continued endlessly.

After spring, the beacon fire spread from the heartland of the Central Plains to the northern grasslands. The vast space of the chaotic times also extended from the vast north of the border to the Jiangzuo Wu area where grass was growing and beetles flew.

In the heart of the Central Plains, Yanzhou, which had a ceasefire due to famine and locust plague, wars rose again.

Within the boundary of Yanzhou, the east county to the north is Zang Hong garrison under Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao is an ally of Cao Cao and Zhang Chao is Zang Hong's benefactor. Due to this complex relationship, this army was stationed on the north bank of the Great River and has not gone south for a long time to help any side who is fighting hard.

The Taishan, Jibei and other counties to the west of Yanzhou can no longer cause any trouble. Only Chenliu County, as the base camp of Zhang Miao and Chengong, is still struggling to fight. The battle between the east and west is concentrated in the competition between two wealthy counties, Jiyin and Shanyang in the central part of Yanzhou.

At the beginning, under the background of the rebellion of the prefectures and counties, the seemingly dominant Lu Bu and Zhang Miao's army gradually fell into a disadvantage. Lu Bu was defeated by the powerful Li Jin in the Jiyin Cheng clan and led his army to Shanyang County. However, he was stationed in Juye, Shanyang. A soldier led by Xue Lan and Li Feng, a major surnamed in the prefecture, was also defeated by Cao's army. Lu Bu, who went to rescue, was also defeated and had to withdraw his troops quickly.

Now Lu Bu, Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others gathered in Dongqiang City in Shanyang to gather more than 10,000 remaining soldiers and prepare to find an opportunity to fight the main force of Cao Cao in Juancheng again. Life and death will be won and defeated in the next battle.

The seemingly even confrontation between Youji, Hebei, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan also ushered in a critical decisive battle.

Gongsun Zan, who claimed to be entirely occupied by Youyan, caught fire in the rear. Xian Yufu, a great surname from Youzhou, Xian Yuyin, and Xian Yuyin, held a banner of revenge as the governor of Youzhou in Jicheng. They joined forces with Yan Rou, who had always been kind to the Hu people, gathered the people of Hu and Han, and obtained tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Yuyang County. They defeated Zou Dan, the prefect of Yuyang established by Gongsun Zan, and beheaded more than 4,000 levels.

After this battle, Youzhou's people resisting Gongsun Zan one after another, and Wuhuan of Liaodong County also joined the alliance against Gongsun Zan. Xian Yufu and others' power increased sharply and began to join forces with Yuan Shao of Jizhou to prepare to welcome Liu He, the son of Liu Yu, who was in Hebei, to return to Youzhou.

Gongsun Zan, who was on the Youji border, had to hurry back to his army in the face of this dangerous situation and prepare to quell the rebellion within Youzhou.

So, a war that decided Hebei hegemony came.

In this war, Que Yi's troops once again demonstrated his military talent as the number one general in Hebei.

He and Liu He led Hebei troops to the west across the Taihang Mountains, passed Feihu Pass, Jundu Pass, and joined forces with Dai County and Shanggu Wuhuan tribes to avoid the defense line set up by Gongsun Zan on the Youji border. After the army circled around, they went straight to Gongsun Zan's rear.

Unexpectedly, Que Yi and Liu He appeared in Youzhou, and with the Hu Han soldiers of Xian Yufu, Wuhuan Qiaowang and others, claiming to be 100,000. They fought a decisive battle with Gongsun Zan's army who rescued Yuyang County at Baoqiu River. The coalition forces defeated Gongsun Zan and beheaded more than 20,000.

After this battle, Dai County, Guangyang County, Shanggu County, Youbeiping County and other counties completely rebelled from Gongsun Zan and raised troops to attack and kill the chief officials appointed by Gongsun Zan. Gongsun Zan completely lost control of Youzhou. The remaining territory was Zhuo County, several cities in the north of Hejian County, and the isolated Pingyuan County and other enclaves.

The once famous general of the White Horse could only bring the remaining defeated soldiers to Yijing, while Que Yi and Hebei soldiers also immediately chased him and launched a siege of Gongsun Zan on all sides.

In the river basin, Sun Ce, who was later called "the hard to compete with the enemy" by Cao Cao, also recruited his father Sun Jian and his elite troops in Huai Si under Yuan Shu. With the support of Zhou Yu, Lu Fan, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and others, he took advantage of the opportunity of the two Yangzhou governors' confrontation and fighting, crossed the river and entered Wu, and began the journey of fighting in Jiangzuo.

Although Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, the chief officials of various counties, the strong enemy Wang Lang, and Yan Baihu all resisted one after another, after Sun Ce crossed the river, he faced difficulties and became more and more brave as his father.

Yizhou and Jingzhou in the upper and middle reaches of the river were also in a state of evil. After Liu Yan's death, the generals of Yizhou Chen Mi, Lou Fa and Gan Ning raised an uprising against Liu Zhang. After being defeated by Zhao Wei, who was appointed by Liu Zhang, they fled to Jingzhou one after another.

Liu Biao, who had already lifted the threat from the north, accepted these surrendered generals in Yizhou, which soon caused greater conflicts between the two sides. However, due to the uncertain civil strife in Yizhou, there were also many rebellions in the counties and counties in southern Jingzhou, so that the borders of the two states could barely maintain a peaceful situation.

Among these places, only the strong soldiers were in Guanzhong, and there was a strange peace.

However, Li Jue and Guo Si's life were also not easy. Guanzhong, which was originally a country of Tianfu, experienced the flood of money, quarrels and civil strife, invasion of cold land, internal struggles, droughts, locusts and famines and other natural disasters, people's livelihood was already in vain, and Sanfu's fertile land also showed signs of abandonment on a large scale.

After the beginning of spring, Li Jue and Guo Si's troops still had insufficient military rations.

For this reason, they urgently need to find a way out for themselves and the Xiliang Army.

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Zuo Fengyi, Chi Yang.

Li Jue and Guo Si, who met each other, led their troops to come on guard against each other and held a negotiation alliance.

In the big tent, the generals and schools of both sides occupied one place, carrying swords and swords, and each was on guard. Only Li Jue, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji, the three former Dongying school lieutenants, could still be indifferent to each other, but their words were becoming increasingly distant.

Among them, Zhang Ji, who had not recovered from the serious illness and had a pale complexion.

He lost his troops and territory, lost Hongnong County, and lost another 50,000 troops. Although Li and Guo invited him to attend the meeting with their old friends and raised the banner of regaining Hongnong County for him, Zhang Ji knew that he was just an optional role in this conference, and the one who could decide the destination of the Western Liang army was Li and Guo.

Li Jue waved his hand, Li Ru walked out with a smile, looked at the three of them, and began to talk:

"Dear generals, we have the opportunity to avenge General Zhendong and regain Hongnong County. The reason why the army had stopped moving before was, first, because the military rations were insufficient, and second, because Yan and Duan formed an alliance, and the soldiers of Hedong and Hongnong were supporting each other. Now the troops in Hedong are empty, which is a great opportunity for us to form an alliance to collect Hongnong in one fell swoop and capture the land of Sanhe!"

After hearing Li Ru's words, although he had expected it, Li, Guo and Zhang still turned their attention to Li Ru and waited for him to continue speaking.

Li Ru smiled proudly and continued:

"Although the spies in Hedong were strictly investigated, Lilu Lian was in charge, and the news of Yan Yan sending troops to Xihe County was blocked, but we did not expect that in the fierce battles on the northern grasslands, we could find out the actual situation through the channels of Shangjun."

"The news from the Qianghu tribe in Shangjun was reported that Hedong County dispatched an elite force of about 10,000 people, most of which were cavalry. He forcibly intervened in the battle for the Shanyu position within the southern Xihe County of Xihe County, and the leader was said to be Yan Yan himself."

When Guo Si heard this, he raised his eyebrows and disagreed. Li Jue took Guo Si's expression into his eyes. He didn't look moved, and turned to Zhang Ji, smiled and asked:

"I want to take this opportunity to recover Hongnong's lost land. What do you think?"

After all, Li Jue was under the banner of regaining lost land. Although Zhang Ji was cautious in his words and actions under Guo Si's command, he had to speak at this time. After pondering for a while, he began to say slowly:

"Ji has no choice but to thank the great kindness of the general of the chariot and cavalry who survived the survival of the chariots and cavalry. However, Hedong has the benefits of the chariots and the great rivers, and there is no enemy. If Hongnong is collected, Hedong will lead troops to attack. If he attacks Hedong, he is worried that the Hedong Zhoushi cut off the food route behind our army. Therefore, although there are opportunities for combat, Ji's talent is dull and he has not yet come up with a good strategy to defeat the enemy."

After listening to Zhang Ji's answer, Guo Si narrowed his eyes slightly and felt a little proud. Zhang Ji's answer was very self-aware, and obviously it was in line with his wishes.

Although Li Jue's side threw out the so-called fighter opportunity, if he did not have the good strategies and interests to convince his side to send troops, he would not think that his side would take Li Jue from the fire and charge into battle.

After listening to Zhang Ji's words, Li Ru looked at Li Jue's face and continued:

"The general Zhendong doesn't need to worry too much. The good strategy to defeat the enemy. Ru has already planned for all the generals. It is just eight words: "Speak east and attack the west, avoid the real and attack the virtual"!"

After hearing these eight words, Guo Si couldn't help but speak first.

"Then Shizhong Li will talk about how to 'speak east and attack the west, avoid the real and attack the virtual'?"

"Our army can be divided into two groups, one of which is very powerful, sending troops to collect Hongnong County, attacking Duan Wei, who has weak troops, luring Hedong to send troops to support in order to seek field annihilation. The other group will follow the troops and wait and see. After all the troops in Hedong are transferred south, they will suddenly send troops to cross the river. In the early years of the Han Dynasty, Han Xin pacified the Wei territory and rushed to Anyi, and then settling Hedong in one battle."

After hearing this, Guo Si did not speak out and turned to Zhang Ji. When Zhang Ji saw Guo Si's gaze, he shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't think anything was wrong.

Guo Si withdrew his gaze and made a decision in his heart. With Zhang Ji's previous lessons, these old corpses who have been in battle have a certain sense of fear of rashly invading Hedong. Therefore, Li Jue's plan to attack the east and west is a good strategy. By attacking Duan Wei, he can mobilize the defenders in Hedong. In the least, he can judge the virtuality and reality of Hedong, prevent the next attack and repeat Zhang Ji's mistakes.

"It's just who went to capture Hongnong, and who went to attack Hedong?"

Guo Si asked the question he cared about the most.

Li Ru smiled faintly and did not answer. Li Jue took over his voice, smiled calmly, and said generously:

"Since it is an alliance to the east, we must work together. Since this strategy is made by us, then what route can be led by Mr. Guo first chooses. The army under my command will fight against the tough situation in field battles!"

What a "nothing to do"!

Guo Si knew that Li Jue's military strength was better than him. When he heard him say this, he couldn't help but become competing for strength.

However, this ruthless heart was soon suppressed by Guo Si. After the previous conflicts with Li Jue, Guo Si could not see through Li Jue and Li Ru's conspiracy, but he was deeply wary of it.

To collect Hongnong, a large army must be dispatched. The attack on Tongguan in Duan Wei and the invitation to fight against Hedong reinforcements also need to dispatch a large army to fight to win the field.

Of course, the most important thing is that if one side takes the lead and Duan Wei, Yan Yan is certainly a strong enemy, but Li Jue, who is the back-up, is more likely to turn the enemy forward at a critical moment and give him a fatal blow.

If you choose to attack Hedong, you can use it as a backup plan. If Li Jue has the advantage, he will lead his troops to take Hedong. If Li Jue is not good, he will turn the troops to take Chang'an and annex Li Jue's power.

Also, Zuo Fengyi and Hedong were separated by the river, and Guo Si was not at ease to ask Li Jue to lead his army to pass through his territory and attack Hedong County.

According to the principle that whoever conquers the city or the city is who, it seems that the capture of Hedong County is much more beneficial than the capture of Hongnong County.

Therefore, choosing to attack Anyi is obviously your best choice.

Guo Si thought for a long time before finally making up his mind and said cautiously:

"I will choose to take the road to Anyi!"

Hearing Guo Si's decision over and over again, the smile on Li Jue's face became stronger. He and Li Ru thought that after various considerations, Guo Si would choose to conquer the troops in Hedong.

Li Jie laughed and said that he had to finalize the details of the military service according to the original plan, and then take the bloody oath.

"Okay, since Mr. Guo has already chosen it, then-"

"slow!"

Unexpectedly, Guo Si suddenly stood up again and interrupted Li Jue's words. He looked around the people in the tent, and finally turned his eyes to Li Ru on the side, slowly showing a treacherous smile.
Chapter completed!