Cao Pi's Sikong Mansion used a little means to resolve a public opinion crisis inside and outside the center.

Taking charge of the court as a foreign relative has always been an old story of the Han family and a shortcut for powerful officials to consolidate their position in the court. With this level of identity, Cao Pi could block the long mouth of the court.

As for asking Kong Rong to go to Jiangdong, in addition to transferring Kong Rong, who claimed to be the leader of Qingliu, from the center of the court, it was also because another successor attracted the attention of Sikong Mansion.

After inheriting the founding foundation left by his elder brother Sun Ce, the young Sun Quan showed remarkable ruling talent. With the help of old ministers such as Zhang Zhao, Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, he cultivated political affairs internally, recruited talents, quelled the royal family rebellion, destroyed Li Shu externally, attacked Shanyue, and attacked Huang Zu of Jiangxia, and successfully brought the foundation of Jiangdong into a period of vigorous development.

At present, the Central Plains are facing strong pressure from the soldiers coming to Guanxi, and they must concentrate their forces to fight against the powerful enemy. Therefore, they must try their best to repair their relationship with the surrounding forces.

Previously, Cao Cao had already reconciled with Liu Jingzhou by returning several cities in the southern border of Nanyang, and also sent a capable official Liu Fu to manage the southeast. Therefore, Cao Pi's Sikong Mansion was preparing to continue to use the imperial court's titles to win over and consolidate its relations with the Sun clan in Jiangdong and further ensure the stability of the Jianghuai region in the rear.

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Yizhou, Fu (fú) city.

After many months of consultation and reconciliation, the alliance across Jingyi was finally reached, and with the strong promotion of both sides, it quickly achieved results.

Liu Bei, who was living in Jingzhou, led more than 10,000 troops to set off from Jiangling on a boat, went upstream, passed through Yidao, Zigui, Quren and other important passes and other passes into Shu. Then, under the guidance of the envoy sent by Liu Zhang in Jiangzhou, he followed the inner water to Fucheng. The counties and counties along the way were provided with food, grass and supplies, which made Liu Bei's army unobstructed and arrived at his destination with high morale.

Today is when Liu Bei and Liu Zhang, who came from Chengdu, meet.

"Sir, I'm going to meet Liu Yizhou today. I wonder what else can I teach me?"

Early in the morning, Liu Bei led a group of elite troops out of the camp to welcome Liu Zhang's men. He was originally a broad-minded person, but he had a great plan to enter Shu this time, and today's meeting was the key. Therefore, it is inevitable that he still had concerns when things were about to come. He immediately turned his head on the back of the white horse and looked at Pang Tong beside him, and asked in a low voice.

Because Liu Bei's entry into Shu this time was still nominally a general under Jingzhou, and Pang Tong was famous and refused to be expelled by Liu Biao many times, so Liu Bei was inconvenient to grant him official positions in the army openly, so he had to be called a gentleman.

But this does not mean that Liu Bei does not attach importance to Pang Tong. In the past few months, Pang Tong has secretly planned for him, and the things he planned have come into effect one by one. Liu Biao, Cai Mao, Liu Zhang, Zhang Song and others who predicted in advance were all accurate in their attitudes and thoughts. They successfully used the means of using the straits to help Liu Bei escape from the shackles by taking advantage of the benefits. These facts of victory made Liu Bei pay special attention to Pang Tong, as if he had regarded him as the master of his side, and lived in seclusion above Jian, Mi, Sun and others.

"Since you have planned it in advance, the general doesn't have to worry too much."

Pang Tong smiled slightly when he heard this, and relaxed Liu Bei's inner pressure.

He followed Liu Bei into Shu in white, and was also observing the lord he chose along the way. In the end, Liu Bei's performance made him very satisfied. The comment he gave in his heart was "Know people and make good use of them, be powerful and kind, brave and righteous, magnanimous and broad, and true wise!"

In terms of "gaining people", Pang Tong believed that Liu Bei had surpassed many heroes of the times.

Despite his life's displaced, Liu Beikuan was able to win people. Every time he went, he always had talented men and his family to follow him. He could always take Luo Yongshi as his minions. In addition to the original teams such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jian Yong, and Shiren in Youzhou, there were Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, and Sun Gan in Xuzhou, Chen Dao and Liu Yan in Yuzhou, and Wei Yan, Zhuo Ying, Huo Jun, and Fu Kuang in Jingzhou. In addition, he had a close relationship with scholars such as Yi Ji, Xiang Lang, and Chen Zhen under Liu Biao, and his wings became more and more abundant.

Therefore, Pang Tong became more and more confident, believing that with his own assistance, Liu Bei led his army to skillfully take Yizhou from the weak Liu Zhang.

"We will only show the strength of the soldiers and generals during this meeting, but not the strong military appearance. I believe that with Liu Jiyu's weak character, he will only respect the general more and not have any other concerns."

“That’s good.”

Liu Bei was relieved by Pang Tong, and his inner worries were empty, so he calmly urged his horse forward.

Facts have proved that Pang Tong’s expectations were indeed correct.

Liu Zhang, who led his army to Fucheng to meet Liu Bei, was filled with respect and excitement at this time.

He did not lose the power of the Shu army in this behavior, so he specially asked Liu Yu, Ling Bao, Zhang Ren, Deng Xian and other generals and accompanying cavalry to choose tall horses, with their men and horses and their armors. However, after seeing Zhang Fei coming to contact Liu Bei's army, he felt that "there are few and elite infantry and cavalry, and both civil and military are extraordinary, and they are not as good as Shu." He still felt a sense of "there are few and the number of civil and military personnel," especially in front of Zhang Yide, who was strong and talkative, the Shu general who was originally mighty was dwarfed. This made Liu Zhang sigh in his heart and strengthened his belief in making friends with his clan Liu Bei and controlling the soldiers and horses in Guanxi together.

When Liu Zhang saw Liu Bei dismounting from the horse to greet him in advance without any arrogantness, he was even more excited.

"Liu Xuande is a truly kind elder!"

At this time, Liu Zhang, who praised Liu Bei in his heart, never thought that what the humble and polite elder hidden in his heart was an ambition that was ready to move.

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The actions of the Jingyi Alliance naturally could not hide the eyes and ears of the soldiers in Guanxi, Hanzhong. However, the war in the north once again involved Guanxi, and most of the troops in Sanhe and even the impact of the changes in the situation in Yizhou was secondary.

In Hebei, in order to better digest the new territory, Yan Xing Bingma, which occupied half of Jizhou, adopted a strategy of restoring energy and temporarily stopped his aggressive military attacks.

But on the other hand, the General Cavalry's Mansion never relaxed the division and disintegration of various forces in Youzhou. After lobbying by Zhou Liang, Xu You and others, Jiao, who called himself the governor of Youzhou, decided to surrender to the troops in Guanxi. Wang Song, who was in charge of Yuyang, sent envoys to surrender to Yan Xing under the persuasion of Liu Fang.

Seeing that Youzhou was about to be taken into his possession by Yan Xing, Zhao Du from Gu'an, Huo Nu had a strange intention. They wanted to seizure the counties and counties and relied on their own. They were unwilling to obey Jiao Chu's orders. In order to resist the upcoming state soldiers and Xiliang soldiers, they chose to take risks and sent envoys to borrow troops from the three counties Wuhuan, who had always been in contact with, and promised that after capturing Youzhou, the city and land would belong to Zhao Du and Huo Nu, and the rest of the money would be seized by the Wuhuan cavalry of the three counties.

The gradually growing Wuhuan counties, the Wuhuan county, had long been coveting the land of Youzhou. As early as more than ten years ago, when Qiu Liju was in charge of the Wuhuan tribe, he sent a large number of Wuhuan cavalry to attack Youzhou, in an attempt to help Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun establish the Yan Kingdom. Now, Tadun, who is eyeing the covetous Liaoxi, sees that there is an opportunity, and does not hesitate. He immediately sent Wuhuan cavalry to enter the frontier in a large number of ways to cooperate with Zhao Du and Huo Nu's troops to attack Youzhou.

As a result, Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan's soldiers were originally coming to fight against Zhao Du and Huo Nu, who resisted the prefecture, but unexpectedly encountered the Wuhuan cavalry rushing to attack while fighting the Gu'an rebels in the wild. After a big battle, the Youzhou soldiers were defeated, Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan were also killed in the army.

Zhao Du and Huo Nu's troops achieved a great victory with the help of the Wuhuan cavalry. They gathered the defeated soldiers and forced the soldiers to conquer the soldiers. The troops increased dramatically along the way. Soon, with the power of victory, they controlled the two places of Zhuo County and Guangyang, and began to send troops to attack Wang Song of Yuyang, besieging the peaceful Xianyufu, preparing to seize the southern part of Youzhou, and leaning against the Wuhuan of the three counties, to fight against the Xiliang soldiers. Yan Rou, who was in danger, saw that the situation was not good, fled to Shanggu County in advance, seeking the protection of the Xianbei people.

As an important ally of the Youzhou rebels, the Wuhuan cavalry did not join the siege. They took this opportunity to plunder the money, food, population, Zhao Du and Huo Nu, and had some words first, and there were still people who wanted others later, so they could only let them go. Zhuo County, Guangyang and Yuyang were completely trapped under the horse's hooves of the Wuhuan soldiers. Countless people's families were destroyed, and their surnames were once reduced to prisoners.

The rise and fall of various forces in Youzhou were dazzling, and Wang Song also urgently sent an envoy Liu Fang to ask for help from Yan Xing, who was in Hebei, and day and night, hoping that the Xiliang army in the south could go north to rescue the siege.

Yan Xing, who was raising energy in Yecheng, has been paying attention to the changes in the situation in Youzhou. Although Jiao Chu, Zhang Nan's rapid defeat, Zhao Du and Huo Nu's rise, and the strong military strength of the Wuhuan soldiers made him a little surprised, the forces in Youzhou fought for Youzhou and the summer heat was weak, the Guanxi soldiers who remained unmoved should have moved.

Yan Xing immediately ordered the entire Cao Yuan army stationed in Zhongshan to head north, expel the raging Wuhuan cavalry, annihilate the Youzhou rebels of Zhao Du and Huo Nu, rescue Wang Song, Xian Yufu and others, and gradually take over the defense of Zhuo County, Guangyang and Yuyang counties.

After receiving the order, Cao Yuan also acted quickly. He first sent Gongsun Xu, who was familiar with the military affairs in Youzhou, and led three thousand infantry and cavalry as the vanguard, and commanded the army as the follower. He drove into Youzhou with great fanfare, preparing to follow the incident of the Yellow Bird in the future and embarked on the final battle for Youdi.

Gongsun Xu, who served as the vanguard, did not disappoint everyone's expectations. His battles were quite like his father. He was extremely absurd. Since he set foot on the land of Youzhou, he fought against the Youzhou rebels and Wuhuan cavalry for several days. He became more and more brave. He defeated the enemy again and again and successively recovered Fanyang. He was about to arrive in Jicheng, but unexpectedly he encountered the Wuhuan cavalry who returned in Guangyang.

At first, Gongsun Xu didn't care and commanded his infantry and cavalry to attack the Wuhuan cavalry. However, as more and more Wuhuan cavalry arrived at the battlefield from afar, Gongsun Xu finally realized something was wrong. The fighting will of the Wuhuan cavalry is much more tenacious than before. I am afraid that this battle will be fearless and will come specifically for his own vanguard.
Chapter completed!