Jiang Qi and Ma Yan were both generals under Yuan Shao, and their status in the army was second only to Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and Gao Lan in the Four Courtyards of Hebei.

If it were normal times, the two of them led an army of 100,000, which would not be said to have wiped out Gongsun Du, but it would be enough to suppress Gongsun Du's 30,000 troops.

Unfortunately, the opponent they are facing this time is not Gongsun Du, but Chen Mang at all.

Jiang Qi led 10,000 soldiers as vanguards and came to challenge the battle. After only one of them charged head-on, he was captured alive by Chen Mang. When his soldiers saw that the chief general was captured, they fled in an instant.

After being driven away by Chen Mang, the defeated soldiers rushed, even the main force of the army was in a vague trend of defeat.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Ma Yan hurriedly led the army to organize a counterattack. After a fight with Chen Mang, he left 20,000 soldiers and retreated to Yuyang.

After Chen Mang brought Jiang Qi back to the military camp, he sent someone to take care of him in a tent.

After nightfall, the soldier guarding Jiang Qi lay in the tent and fell asleep. Seeing this, Jiang Qi secretly broke away from the ropes and slipped out of the tent while the night was dark and windy.

Avoiding the loose patrol soldiers, Jiang Qi found that he had actually come to Chen Mang's camp. He couldn't help but take a breath and his heart thumped violently.

During the day, he witnessed Chen Mang's power with his own eyes. Not to mention himself, he might not be his opponent when he tied up the four pillars in Hebei!

Just when he was nervous, a man with a Jizhou accent suddenly spoke in the account and said, "Governor Chen, General Ma Yan sincerely requests to surrender and is willing to submit the entire territory of Youzhou to the Governor. This is General Ma Yan's handwritten letter, so please check it out."

Jiang Qi trembled suddenly. I never expected that Ma Yan, the guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would rebel and surrender to the enemy!

Now Youzhou's troops are empty. If Ma Yan leads his troops to rebel, let alone Youzhou, Jizhou may also lose most of it!

When he was in a panic, Chen Mang said, "Since that's the case, then I'll feel at ease. Go back and tell you that the general of your family will agree to the surrender. Let him stop moving and wait for the opportunity to give Yuan Shao a fatal blow. After the matter is completed, this governor will submit to the court and grant him the title of the governor of Youzhou!"

Soon, Chen Mang sent a general dressed in Yuan Jun out of the tent and then went to the Central Army to discuss matters.

Seeing that Chen Mang's tent was unattended, Jiang Qi carefully slipped in.

Soon, he saw a letter signed by Ma Yan on the table. When he opened it, he found that he was indeed requesting a letter to surrender!

Jiang Qi was both shocked and angry, and stuffed the letter into his arms and was about to leave.

At this time, he found that there were still several letters on the table, and he couldn't help but pause slightly, opened it and saw that cold sweat suddenly flowed, and a cold air rushed straight from the soles of his feet to his forehead!

It turned out that not only Ma Yan, but also Guo Tu and Shen Pei had rebelled. Shen Pei even revealed all the top secret information about their grain in Wuchao to Chen Mang!

It was of great importance, Jiang Qi did not dare to stay any longer, so he stole a horse and ran towards an unguarded place.

Ma Yan had already surrendered to the enemy, so he didn't dare to go back to the military camp, so he rushed towards Guandu. He ran day and night for three consecutive days, and five horses died. Finally, he rushed back to Guandu and came to Yuan Shao's camp overnight.

Yuan Shao heard that he had top secret information and wanted to inform him alone. He was suspicious by nature and immediately became alert and brought a few guards to the tent.

"Master, something is wrong!"

When Jiang Qi saw Yuan Shao, his tense nerves that had been tense for many days suddenly relaxed, and the breath that supported him blew, fell to the ground with a thud.

At this time, Jiang Qi had a disheveled hair, his face was as color as a dish, his lips were chapped, and his body was filled with a strong stench, and he looked very embarrassed.

Seeing this, Yuan Shao hurried forward and helped Jiang Qi up with his own hands, and said in surprise: "Why are you so embarrassed? Didn't I ask you to lead your troops to help Youzhou? What's going on in the war in Youzhou?"

Jiang Qi shouted in grief: "Lord, Ma Yan surrendered to Chen Mang, Youzhou is in danger! Not only that, even Shen Pei Guo Tu surrendered to Chen Mang..." As he said that, he took out the letter in his arms and submitted it to Yuan Shao.

After hearing him, Yuan Shao's face changed drastically. After opening the letter for a while, his face turned pale and gritted his teeth and said, "Wuchao is where our army stationed grain. Apart from the officers and soldiers who know about this, there are only a few people. There must be someone in the army who secretly communicated with Chen Mang, but it may not be Guo Tu. Shen Pei, or Chen Mang's plan to alienate him."

Jiang Qi said: "Lord, but the facts are there..."

Yuan Shao waved his hand and said, "I will find out this matter. The important thing at the moment is to defend the Jizhou gate. Don't let Chen Mang enter Jizhou. General Jiang Qi, now it is difficult to distinguish between loyalty and treacherous in our army. I can only work hard for you to lead 30,000 elite troops to help Yuan Xi guard Youzhou!"

Jiang Qi wiped the sweat from his forehead and knelt on one knee and said, "I will take the order!"

After Jiang Qi left, Yuan Shao's face showed a sinister look. He looked at the map and thought for a long time. He said to the messenger: "Recalling the inspector and obey the orders, and ordering Guo Tu and Fengji to exchange defense. Xu You went to Gaolan's account to obey the orders."

The messenger took the military order and ran quickly outside.

In the next few days, Yuan Shao ordered three changes a day. Cao Cao did not sleep well for two consecutive nights. In any case, he could not understand what Yuan Shao was going to do, so he had to ask his subordinates to be more vigilant and send troops to test.

In fact, it was not just him. Yuan Shao's advisers and generals were also confused. No matter how he could not understand what Yuan Shao wanted to transfer the order, he had to obey orders and strictly abide by Yuan Shao's orders, causing the war damage of his subordinates to be twice as bad as before.

Chen Mang, who was far away in Youzhou, was so happy that he could not stop. He watched the operation of Weicao Master Yuan Benchu ​​through the spy's intelligence, while waiting for his army to come from the sea.

After a few days of eating melons and watching the show, Chen Mang's 50,000 soldiers were transported to Youzhou one after another. In addition to the 20,000 newly captured Yuan army prisoners, the strength reached 70,000, which was enough to occupy the entire territory of Youzhou.

Just at this moment, Chen Mang received the news that Ma Yan was killed by Yuan Xi and Jiang Qi in the central army. Ma Yan's generals immediately exploded the camp and fought in chaos in the army.

Seeing that the time had come, Chen Mang ordered Guan Yu, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun to divide the troops into three groups to attack Fanyang, Shanggu and Dai County respectively, and led a 40,000 army straight to Yuan's camp in Youzhou!

At this time, Yuan Bing, who had fought for years, was already exhausted and had no intention of fighting. Now he has experienced some inexplicable internal struggle and his morale is very low.

Faced with the premeditated raid Chen Mang had already planned, Yuan's army could not resist it. After Chen Mang killed Yuan Xi and Ma Yan, most of the soldiers put down their weapons and surrendered, while the remaining part fled everywhere and hid.

Within three days, Yuan Shao's territory in Youzhou was acquired by Chen Mang. Yuan Shao lost Youzhou and Qingzhou in succession. Regardless of the troops and territory, they all became the Chen-Cao alliance.

At the same time, the relationship between the three parties gradually became subtle.

Today, Chen Mang occupied Qingzhou and Youzhou, with 300,000 troops, and has become Yuan Shao's number one enemy.

On the other hand, Chen Mang sandwiched Cao Cao's land in Xuzhou and Yanzhou in the territory of Xuzhou and Qingzhou, and could cut off Cao Cao's food and grass at any time and take down the entire Shandong land, which also made Cao Cao unable to sleep or eat.

So, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, two young children who grew up together, tacitly stopped fighting each other, causing the entire Central Plains to fall into a strange atmosphere.

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