As the saying goes, the opportunity cannot be missed, and no more will come. Just when Deputy Director Tao personally led a large army to attack Wancheng, Mr. Yuan Tan from the north seized this opportunity firmly and took advantage of the empty northern line of the Xuzhou army's Yanzhou line, temporarily

He was unable to provide strong assistance to his arch-rivaled brother Yuan Shang, and personally led a 50,000 army out of Huguan to enter Jizhou. His blade pointed directly at the former base camp of the Yuan family. The essence of the three states of Jiyoubing is, Yuan Shangjun's current nest - Yecheng!

This was a very miserable expedition for the Yuan family. I won’t say that the target of the attack was his own brothers and sisters. The 50,000 army led by Master Yuan Tan was even more sad and pitiful. This number is for the second and third-rate princes.

There may be a lot of words, but for the Yuan family, who once sent hundreds of thousands of troops, this amount of troops is really a bit ashamed to see people. [This article comes from] But even so, these 50,000 troops are already the current ones of Mr. Yuan Tan.

The maximum force that can be deployed.

Bingzhou is desolate, with vast land and sparse population. In fact, there are only two counties of Taiyuan and Shangdang. There are not many troops that can be supported. After Mr. Yuan Tan took away these 50,000 troops, there were actually only 20,000 left in Bingzhou.

The army that stood out had to guard against the Xuzhou army from Hanoi to attack Bingzhou, so they had to give up the defense of the northern line.

Fortunately, Mr. Yuan Shang didn't have many troops to control directly. At the same time, Mr. Yuan Tan's team was also a veteran of Jizhou who was preserved by senior officials and Jiang Yiqu during the Xuchang War. He had relatively strong combat power, so Mr. Yuan Tan still occupied the market.

Advantage.

Many people also firmly opposed Yuan Tan's fight against Yuan Shang's brothers and sisters. Jiang Qi from Youzhou and Dai County both sent letters to oppose Yuan Tan's self-harm. Jiang Qi also expressed his willingness to provide Youzhou as a neutral land.

Let Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang brothers sit down and have a close conversation. Yuan Tan's cousin Gao Gan also firmly opposed it, but Mr. Yuan Tan, who hated his brothers, refused to listen. Not only did he not listen, he also deliberately led the high-ranking officials.

He went to the army to attack Yuan Shang. He left Jiang Yiqu, who was more supportive of his Eastern Expedition, to guard Bingzhou, so as not to make trouble in Bingzhou in logistics and force himself to give up the Eastern Expedition.

Of course, Mr. Yuan Tan said that he would meet his third brother in war, and he had his own reasons and difficulties, because Yuan Tan knew very well that no matter how he negotiated with Yuan Shang, it would be impossible for Yuan Shang to hand over the largest population among the three northern states.

, the best economy and the most abundant grain production in Jizhou, and once Yuan Tan makes concessions on the issue of Jizhou, he has to face the dilemma of raising troops without money and food to prepare for war, and then let alone be fighting for dominance in the world and regaining his prestige.

Even self-protection is even more difficult.

So there is no other way. Even though he knew that the advice of Gao Gan and Jiang Qi and others was loyal and kind, he understood that going to war with his younger brother was a traitor. Yuan Tan could only forcefully decide to send troops, taking advantage of his own strength to fight.

Before being completely dragged down by the economy, money and food, he also took advantage of the most sinister jackal and the most vicious viper, and his brother-in-law Deputy Director Tao, and his main force went south. He was temporarily unable to interfere in the war in Jizhou, so he quickly sent troops to retake Jizhou.

Hearing that his brother's troops were out of Huguan, Mr. Yuan Shang did not consider anything to surrender to his brother-in-law. He was even more unwilling to sit and wait for death. With the support of the Jizhou family led by Shen Pei, he sent an envoy again to ask for help from his brother-in-law Deputy Director Tao, while personally

Leading 30,000 troops to fight against his brothers. He fought with Yuan Tan's army at Jiuhou City west of Yecheng, which also pushed the dispute between the Yuan brothers to the highest point.

The battle in Jiuhou City was extremely fierce. The two brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang both personally took the battle and fought in front of the battle. They also fought against each other in person, attacking each other. They also attacked each other in the battle. The soldiers of the two armed forces, the same county and even the same tribe were forced to

Each raised his sword and gun. He fought bloody battles for the power of the Yuan brothers, met with each other and killed each other. On the day of the first battle, the sky of Jizhou, which had been clear for a long time, suddenly turned from sunny to cloudy, and it was drizzling, like a drizzle of tears.

The battlefield of Jiuhou City was full of corpses and blood flowed into a river, and the adjacent Zhang River turned pink.

In history, Mr. Yuan Shang was a typical representative of civil war and a foreign war outsider. Every time he met Mr. Cao, he would lose his armor and become defeated. Every time he met his elder brother, he was full of energy and courage. This time he was no exception.

When the army was not as strong as the army, the army was not as strong as the army, Yuan Shangzilei withstood the first fierce attack of his elder brother. In the first battle, he fought with Yuan Tan equally, which also caused heavy casualties and injuries to both troops.

Both sides suffered losses.

With weak forces, Yuan Shang's morale was boosted by Yuan Shang's first fierce attack, while Yuan Tan's morale was frustrated. When he fought again the next day, he still did not defeat Yuan Shang. However, at this time, he was stationed in Wei County.

Gao Fan, the prefect of Ye County, was dissatisfied with Yuan Shang's forgery of the will of the Grand Duke of Yuan Sangong, and took advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Tan to send troops to Yecheng to rebel. He led his army from Wei County to pick up Yuan Tan and attacked Yuan Shang's army behind him.

, Yuan Shang

After receiving the news, I was afraid of being attacked from both sides, so I had to retreat to Yecheng quickly. Yuan Tanjun took the opportunity to advance to Yecheng City and fought with Yuan Shang again in the foreign city of Yecheng City, which once relied on the twelve channels of the West Gate to enrich the world. Countless people could mature and harvest.

The rice turned into silt, and countless markets outside the city were destroyed, including the Zhangshui Wharf settlement area where Deputy Director Tao’s concubine Guo Huan’s family once lived. Tens of thousands of people in Jizhou were displaced and hungry all over the ground.

Even if it was advanced to the city of Yecheng, Mr. Yuan Tan was not sure of victory, because the city of Yecheng was too strong and the food was sufficient. At the same time, Yuan Shang also had more than 30,000 armored soldiers in his hands, so he did not lose.

Even though the young Yuan Tan army received reinforcements from Gaofan, they still could not form an overwhelming advantage over Yuan Shang's strength, and they were far inferior to Yuan Shang's army in terms of food. As a last resort, Yuan Tan could only play forcing his own territory.

The trick of collecting people's food for military use. Yuan Shang and Shen Pei grasped the weakness of Yuan Tan's lack of food and grass. While continuing to ask for help from the Xuzhou army, they only guarded and did not fight and delayed time with Yuan Tan's army, and planned to survive.

Yuan Tan's military rations were exhausted and he was retired.

At the critical moment, luck stood on the side of Mr. Yuan Tan, the orthodox successor of the Yuan family. Ju Hu, the son of Ju Shu, who was loyal to the old Yuan family, was sent back to Jizhou by the third prince of Yuan to assist Yuan Shang and Shen Pei to move.

The capital, which happened to catch up with Yuan Shang's rebellion, had to bow to Yuan Shang. After gaining Yuan Shang's trust, he went out to guard the prefect of Zhao County north of Yecheng, and controlled some of the military powers of Zhao County. This time, he also took advantage of the opportunity that Yuan Shang was unable to take care of Zhao State, and

A mutiny suddenly started in Handan City, killing Yuan Shang's confidant Zhao Prime Minister Li Huang, led his army to Yecheng to surrender to Yuan Tan, and brought a large amount of military rations to Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan was overjoyed and appointed Ju Hu as a Jizhou, and there were also

The confidence and capital to compete with your brothers for a long time.

With Ju Hu's rebellion, the situation became increasingly unfavorable to Yuan Shang's army, because Yuan Shang's Jizhou had to be inappropriate. Before, the counties in Jizhou only forced to surrender to Yuan Shang because Yuan Tan was not good at it. Now Yuan Tan has been killed.

When he arrived at the city of Yecheng, the rescuers in Xuzhou were not heard for a long time. If the stalemate continues, there will definitely be more and more counties in Jizhou that rebel against Yuan Shang and surrender to Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan's army will also become stronger and stronger, and Yuan Shang's army will only

Being forced to helpless, Yuan Shang could only carefully consider the sinister proposal of his black-hearted brother-in-law and give up Yecheng to Qinghe or Liyang to seek the protection of the Xuzhou army.

By the way, when I received this letter from Deputy Director Tao, Mr. Yuan Shang raised the table and scolded his mother. Mr. Yuan Shang's biological mother Liu did not much scold her son-in-law for being vicious, and only cared about herself and her mother-in-law, but now she has not.

After the solution, Mr. Yuan Shang was dissatisfied with his brother-in-law's reluctance to save him, so he had to consider the so-called kindness proposal of his black-hearted brother-in-law.

Yuan Shang's consideration was firmly opposed by Shen Pei, because Shen Pei was very clear. Once Yuan Shang's army gave up Yecheng, even if the Xuzhou army retakes Yecheng in the future, he will never return Yecheng to Yuan Shang again, so

Shen Pei repeatedly persuaded Yuan Shang to defend Yecheng to the death. He pointed out that the Jizhou season was inappropriate in the past two years, and the grain harvest in various counties was severe, and most of the stored grain in various places had been taken back to Yecheng, so even the counties in southern Jizhou all turned to Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan's army could not waste its own army. Instead of taking the risk of breaking through the siege, it would be better to stick to the strong city of Yecheng. When Yuan Tan's army was exhausted, the siege of Yecheng would be lifted.

Considering that it was too a pity to give up the important town of Yecheng, Yuan Shang finally temporarily gave up the idea of ​​giving up Yecheng. He followed Shen Pei's suggestion and took back all the troops outside the city, and drove a large number of elderly, weak, women and children out of the city to save food.

The expenses not only free up houses and garrisons, but also increase the time to persevere, but also throw tens of thousands of elderly, weak, women and children into packages to Yuan Tan—and also use the rescue of the people from the fire of war to prevent the people from being tragic and release Yuan Tan's soldiers.

A good excuse for family members.

As a result, Mr. Yuan Tan was also stunned. Yuan Tanjun’s food and grass were not sufficient enough. If he had to bear the food expenses of so many elderly, weak, women and children, he would have to lose his life? So there was nothing he could do, Mr. Yuan Tan was also

I can only ignore my firm opposition and give my own soldiers some food to my family, so that they can find a way out on their own, and then return to Yecheng until the war is over. The elderly, weak, women and children who are not my family members ignore them at all.

They were allowed to die. In the end, ordinary people suffered in the end, and countless people starved to death. A large number of people went south to Yanzhou controlled by the Xuzhou army. The Yuan brothers lost all their hearts together.

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At the same time, after confirming that his lord Deputy Director Tao had already restrained Liu Biao's team extremely strongly, Cao Boss also began his own revival plan and personally led the rebuilt 40,000 troops to march south from Chen Cang to prepare to attack Zhang Lujun's control.

The Yangping Pass troops entered Hanzhong and seized the Hanzhong granary known as the small Jiangnan, so as to realize their plan to make a comeback faster and more powerfully. They also seized the Huixian and Fengxian cities north of Yangping Pass, which were controlled by Zhang Lujun, in one breath.

Hanzhong was shocked. In order to protect himself, Zhang Lu had to send troops to reinforce Yangpingguan's throat immediately and began to expand his troops on a large scale to prepare for war in order to prevent the wolf Cao from the Central Plains.

According to common sense, the Hanzhong army, which had been separated for a long time, could only compete with the Cao army with geographical advantages and natural dangers. It was also very hopeful that Cao's army, which had a hundred elite troops, had captured Hanzhong. However, what Cao Boss never dreamed of was , As early as more than a year ago, someone had seen that after he set his footsteps in Guanzhong, his first goal of advancing must be Hanzhong! And based on this judgment, he planned to make a comeback for his army, so... ………

So Uncle Liu had the opportunity to make a comeback. After Zhang Xuan, the brother of Zhang Lu, the prefect of Shangyong, was hiding for more than half a year, he had just received the news that Cao's army had invaded Hanzhong. Uncle Liu immediately sent Sun Gan to the south of Hanzhong County with a heavy gift to the south of Hanzhong County. Zheng Cheng bribed Yang Song, a counselor who was famous for his wealth, for a large amount of money, and asked Yang Song to speak out in front of Zhang Lu. Yang Song deserves to be the same surname as Yang Changshi, and immediately ran to Zhang Lu with money. In front of him, he suggested that Zhang Lu use the Emperor Liu as a general and lead his army to resist the attack of Boss Cao.

The same thing is true. When Uncle Liu was running around a few years ago, he still earned some good reputation for fighting. Zhang Lu, the leader of the Wudou Rice Sect, who had some connection with Taiping Road, had already heard of Uncle Liu's famous reputation, and now he is now Facing the frontal threat from the hero Cao in troubled times, Zhang Lu, who was in a hurry to take the advice of Yang Song, a brother of Yang Changshi, and urgently ordered Uncle Liu to come to Hanzhong to meet. Although Zhang Lu's other counselor, Yan Pu, expressed his opposition, was kind-hearted. He reminded Zhang Lu that Uncle Liu was looking at the wolf and could not give up military power, but Zhang Lu did not listen at all.

So, with only more than a dozen people entering Long, the Emperor Liu, who had just entered the Long, was transformed into a Hanzhong commander with tears, and his eloquence and reputation. He led three thousand troops to Yangping Pass to assist Zhang Wei in guarding the pass, and Xu Shu, who followed the Emperor Liu, into Long. Pang Tong, Zhang Fei, Guan Ping and others also had a place to use their skills. Under Yangping Pass, Zhang Fei suddenly came out of the pass and shot the battle of Cao Niu Jin. He shouted that Zhang Yide, a man from Yan, was here and led his army to fight. Cao Ren ran away with his head in his arms, and the soldiers rushed around. Liu Huangshu led his army to chase and Zhang He led his army to respond. He was also fought back by Zhang Fei. Zhang Lu's army finally reversed the dilemma of being passively beaten and slightly reversed some of the gap in combat power.

"Big ear thief! I fuck your mother's 18th generation of ancestors!" After roughly learning about the past when Uncle Liu appeared in Yangping Pass, the first thing Mr. Cao did was to curse and greet Uncle Liu's relatives, and roared: "You want to fish in the water and fish in the water. No one stops you when you make a comeback, but what are you doing in Hanzhong? Do you know? Who are you and I wasted time and strength for a Hanzhong County, and ultimately benefiting? It is your arch-rival Tao Ying traitor!"

After scolding Uncle Liu, it was not enough. Boss Cao scolded his de facto son-in-law Deputy Director Tao again, "Heaven kills you Tao Ying traitor! It's not counting to force my eldest daughter. Leave my youngest daughter in Xuchang, so I'm also If you don’t talk about you, why didn’t you kill the traitor Liu Bei? If you kill this traitor, take advantage of your chance to plot against the three prefectures of Hebei. Wouldn’t Hanzhong and Xichuan be mine?!”

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Due to the limitations of distance and roads, Deputy Director Tao certainly could not know about the things that happened above quickly. At the same time, Deputy Director Tao also has no strength to interfere in these matters for the time being, so Deputy Director Tao did not spend much energy to pay attention to these enemies. Movement, I just keep training the poor General Huang Zu, to train his own army's ability to attack and lay some foundation for the future war in Hebei - taking advantage of tricks may lead to ten or eight solid cities, but it is destined to be impossible to win all of them. It is impossible to build a strong city without laying some foundation. Deputy Director Tao does not like to attack head-on, and he understands this truth.

After the river was filled, the war went on for two days. It was estimated that the Wancheng defenders had consumed more than half of the feather arrows. Deputy Director Tao immediately took action overnight and sent general Xu Huang to lead 20,000 troops to the south and Jijiu. There, they built water overnight.

The gate blocked the waterway and established a camp to defend the water gate, cutting off the connection between the north and south of the clean water. When the Wancheng garrison and the Jingzhou Army stationed in Yuyang discovered this situation, everything was too late, and the Xuzhou army with sufficient preparations had already been

The first water grid and the first pontoon bridge were built in the gentle water of the water, and the second water grid and more pontoon bridges were also being built quickly!

Huang Zu, who knew that he was trapped, was shocked and urgently ordered his confidant Su Fei to lead his army to destroy the water grid. As soon as the army left the city, it was immediately attacked by the cavalry of Zhao Yun, the general of Xuzhou Army. After the battle, Su Fei suffered heavy losses.

Forced to retreat to the city. Wen Pin also rushed to lead the naval and land army to attack the waterzhai. Xu Huang ordered his deputy Fan Yi to lead the Xiangyang artillery team to attack the Jingzhou naval fleet and lead the army to fight Wen Pin on the land. What Xu Zhou army is most afraid of is

Fighting with Jingzhou Army on land, although Wenpin is ten

He was cautious and did not fight with Xu Huang. He was still no match for the battle formation with Xu Huang. He was killed and retreated after several attacks against Xu Huang. Xu Huang then attacked the front of the Wenpin Army with infantry and led the cavalry to strike against the Wenpin team.

Behind it, Wen Pinjun was soon defeated and was defeated by Xu Huang's army. The navy fleet was also smashed by Xuzhou army with Xiangyang cannons in the narrow water. The water and land were both defeated and were

Forced to retreat to Yuyang and ask for help from Liu Biao, Xu Huangjun took the opportunity to continue to strengthen the water grid without mentioning it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity that Wancheng was completely isolated and morale was greatly extinguished, Deputy Director Tao also stepped up the battle to attack Wancheng, urging the infantry to completely fill the two moats in the northwest of Wancheng, and after opening the siege road, Deputy Director Tao

Immediately arrange infantry teams to take turns to fight. When the defenders' bows and arrows were obviously insufficient, the ants attacked the city. The morale and combat effectiveness were not as good as the self-armed army. The Wancheng defenders trained their ability to attack. Not only did they accumulate experience in attacking the army, but they also discovered that they were self-armed.

The various shortcomings exposed by the army in the battle were able to summarize the lessons and make up for the failure.

The real sword and gun ants attacked the city for seven or eight days. The infantry team of Xuzhou Army has taken turns to fight, and at the same time it has caused huge casualties and losses to the defenders. Deputy Director Tao is planning to make efforts to capture Wancheng in one fell swoop.

At that time, after the second update that night, Lu Su, who was in charge of the southern battlefield, sent someone to send an urgent report that it was said that the young Yuan Sangong had died of illness and that his son Yuan Yao succeeded to the throne. Yuan Shujun was facing a critical situation of the change of old and new people's hearts. Therefore,

Lu Su, who had learned bad things, planned to take advantage of the situation and take the opportunity to eradicate Yuan Shu's power, and asked Deputy Director Tao to allow it.

"Reply to Lu Su, I will not launch the Jiangdong war for the time being." Deputy Director Tao, who was dressed in clothes, stood up to read the letter, only thought for a moment, and did not summon Jia Lao Poison to discuss with Liu Ye. He immediately ordered Chen Ying: "Tell Lu by the way."

Su, let him send someone to Yuan Shu's spirit to celebrate his filial piety with my reputation, and also let our envoy tell Yuan Yao that if he wants to bury Yuan Shu in his hometown in Runan, we can do our best to help and facilitate it, as well as Yuan's family

I also ordered the family's ancestral graveyard to be protected only and not destroyed, and now I am safe and sound."

"No." Chen Ying sang Nuo and said, "Lord, let Yuan Shu be buried back to the ancestral tomb of Runan. This is something that my subordinates understand, but Yuan Shu just died and Yuan Yaoxin succeeded. The old and new are unstable. It was our army who took Wan in one fell swoop.

Ling, Yuzhang's great opportunity, why didn't the lord allow Governor Lu to advance to attack and watch this opportunity missed?"

"Because our strategic focus is still on the northern line." Deputy Director Tao said with a smile: "The world is divided into three parts, Xu, Yan, Qingyu and Yu are one, Ji and You are one, and the rest are one, how can we make the best for Yangzhou

A fraction of the money, grain and troops were used to waste a lot of money, grain and troops, and missed the great opportunity to seize the three states of Jiyou. Our army has been fighting for years, and the money and grain are not very sufficient. We must restrain and use it on the blade."

"I understand." Chen Ying nodded and asked again: "Lord, should we speed up our movements? We should think that only by taking down Wancheng as soon as possible and taking the initiative in the Nanyang battlefield can we withdraw from the southern line at any time.

Return to the army and go north to get the three states of Jiyou."

"Your judgment is correct, this is the reason." Deputy Director Tao smiled and said, "I am just planning to let the team rest first..."

"Report————!"

Before Deputy Director Tao finished his words, a guard rushed out of the tent, knelt down on one knee in front of the tent, clasped his fists and said, "Report to the lord, at the second update, Huang Zu suddenly opened the northwest of Wancheng two days ago.

The gate led the army out of the city and fled to the southwest of Fengyang!"

Deputy Director Tao first smiled at Chen Ying, and then asked the guards: "Where is a fire in Wancheng?"

"No." The guard replied.

"The old guy is quite smart. If he dares to set fire to the city, I will kill his whole family!" Deputy Director Tao, who had already been to Huang Zu's niece, snorted and then ordered: "Go and send an order to Zhao Yun quickly,
Chapter completed!