As Lu Bu planned to seize Xuzhou, he expelled Liu Bei's forces.

With Yuan and Lu as an alliance, the world's pattern has also suffered tremendous changes due to the Southeast Defense Line.

Yanzhou.

Cao Cao suddenly received this battle report, and his hands holding the letter paper couldn't help but tremble slightly, and a look of fear appeared on his face.

Obviously, in the previous battle for Yanzhou, even though he defeated Lu Bu and ordered him to flee the state, he was still deeply impressed by his bravery if it was revealed.

Now Lu Bu is planning to seize Xuzhou and is making a comeback!

Cao Cao seemed to have felt that the tiger sniffed the roses slowly and was rushing towards him.

For this.

He couldn't help but immediately summoned Qi Zhi, the civil and military officials under his command.

"You guys, according to recent investigations, Lu Bu, who was defeated and expelled by our army in the previous period, fled east like a dog who was stranded and was taken in by Liu Bei, the governor of Xuzhou."

"This person secretly joined forces with Yuan Shu while Liu Bei was leading the main force to conquer Huainan, and now he has planned to seize the counties of Xuzhou."

As soon as this statement was made, Cao Cao briefly introduced the general situation to everyone, and suddenly showed a serious expression on his face and said in a deep voice: "I want to send troops to attack Xuzhou again. While Lu Bu has not yet fully stood firm in Xuzhou, he will be cut off in one fell swoop!"

One word goes down.

Everyone could see the determination that appeared on Cao Cao's face at this time, and they could understand that he was extremely afraid of Lu Bu's courage.

After the words were finished, the generals under his command were all fighting with great enthusiasm and bowed in unison and shouted: "Lord, please give me an order. We will run to Xuzhou together."

The shouts of generals gradually fell.

However, Xun Yu, who was kneeling beside him, couldn't help but waved: "Slow down!"

"The lord should not send troops to Xuzhou at this time!"

Upon hearing this, Cao Cao looked stern and asked, "Why?"

"Lord, when Emperor Gaozu of the past protected Guanzhong and Guangwu occupied Hanoi, they all have deep roots and solid foundations. To uphold the world, advance to defeat the enemy, and to retreat can be held."

"But now in Yuzhou, Yuan Shu's army is still numerous. If our army advances eastward, the enemy will invade our territory."

"At that time, if our army cannot conquer Xuzhou, and if Yanzhou is lost, where will the lord retreat?"

After a speech, Xun Yu waved his hand and analyzed slowly.

After this statement, Cao Cao, who had originally wanted to firmly attack Xu, fell into deep thought. After hesitating for a while, hesitated, he ordered: "Cao Ren obeyed the order and ordered you to send 7,000 troops to garrison Chenliu to prevent the Yuan army's surprise attack."

"Here!"

The order was passed down, and the generals agreed.

With Xun Yu's persuasion and analysis, Cao's army still temporarily kept resting and waited for the time being.

At least we must survive this winter famine first.

Only after the spring plowing is over next year can we mobilize troops again.

...

The second year of Han Xingping was not long, but it was passing by tightly.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the coldest November.

Since this month, snow has fallen day by day, and the temperature has also dropped significantly, almost reaching the coldest and freezing temperature.

The states and counties in the north can be said to be frozen thousands of miles away and snow drifting thousands of miles away. The snow that is three feet deep is unpassable for people to pass through, and the extremely cold temperature is as if it is about to freeze pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep.

Throughout the winter, the northern states suddenly fell into a deserted place, and the scholars and people hid from their homes to cover up the biting cold wind.

At this moment, even normal travel has become a problem.

Of course, the wars were already on the north, and the princes from all sides fought to the death in order to compete for territory. At this moment, due to the severe cold winter, they had to temporarily stop the troops and truce.

The Central Plains ushered in a short period of peace.

From north to south, the heroes among the states and counties changed from offense to strategic defense.

As time goes by, the airflow of cold air gradually begins to be introduced to Jiangnan.

But although the Jiangnan water town is in winter, the severe cold temperature is not as exaggerated as the truce that is completely stopped in the north.

The land of Bingzhou.

Previously, Zhou Tai and Chen Wu and the surprise attacked troops successfully surrounded the rear of Xiangyi, which facilitated the reunion of the Heishan Army troops in Neihuang, crossed the river together, and set foot in Bingzhou.

Therefore, he escaped the encirclement among the main forces of the Cao army.

As the elite Yuan army's infantry cavalry advanced northward, the original balance of battle situation was also broken.

The prefect of Shangdang, Zhang Yang, originally occupied the attacking Zhang Ji troops based on the natural security Huguan.

The results achieved are extremely significant!

Just wait for the delay to continue, Zhang Jijun will lose his combat effectiveness due to food and grass scarcity.

However, after Zhou Tai and Chen Wu entered Bingzhou, they first contacted the leader of Heishan, Zhang Yan, and persuaded him, and ordered Zhang Yan to use the opportunity to go with Yuan Jun.

Yuan's army was able to bypass the Huguan natural danger from the 800-mile Taihang natural danger, and entered the vicinity of Jinyang, the capital, and cut off the supply line of Zhang Yang's troops.

Therefore, the troops garrison near Shangdang gradually fell into an unfavorable situation of food exhaustion.

At this time, Zhang Ji also followed Jiang Gan's advice and immediately selected elite troops from various departments to form a suicide squad and launched a strong attack on Huguan first.

Under the internal and external difficulties, Zhang Jijun suddenly attacked.

The combat power of the soldiers on both sides is not on the same level.

Faced with the day and night attacks of the elite soldiers, even though the soldiers of Zhang Yang were guarding the majestic pass, the pressure suddenly doubled.

Especially after the food route was cut off and the food and grass gradually ran out, the morale of the army had gradually become disarray.

The situation of fugitive soldiers is getting worse every day.

Huguan's defense became weaker and weaker...

After several months, when Lu Bu was planning to seize Xuzhou, Huguan was finally defeated in difficulty.

But even so.

The dangers of Huguan are not broken by force.

Instead, Zhang Yang's general, seeing that the situation was over, he led his headquarters to attack Zhang Yang at night, and then took his head switch to welcome Zhang Jijun into the city.

Huguan is broken!

Shangdang Jun was naturally in charge of Changzi City, but because Zhang Yang was dead, he had no leader, and the defenders in the city opened the city without hesitation to surrender.

At this point, with Jiang Gan's advice, Zhang Jijun marched straight to Jinyang along the road, and the way was extremely smooth.

At this moment, Zhang Jifang felt how great it would be if he had a resourceful counselor in the army to serve him?

At this time, he couldn't help but think of Dong Zhuo and Li Jue...

With the plan of his son-in-law Li Ru, Dong Zhuo was able to jump from a Western Liang warlord to take control of the capital and do things to abolition and establish a monopoly on the government's affairs!

Later, Jia Xu made a plan that shocked Guanzhong.

More than 100,000 Xiliang troops called on each other to counterattack Chang'an.

And if it weren't for Jia Xu's plan, how could Li Jue be calm and use Lu Bu's hand to take the opportunity to get rid of Fan Chou and force Guo Si to leave, leaving him missing?

At this moment, he thought that since Jiang Gan arrived at the Zuying camp to help, he suddenly realized that when he was marching and conquering, he seemed to have a structure compared to before, and he no longer had to randomly make random calls.

This is the strongest feeling he has given.

For a moment, Zhang Ji felt a strong sense of shame in his heart, and wanted to make him serve under his command.

But perhaps there was already some guess at Zhang Ji's thoughts. When he was about to persuade him, Jiang Gan smiled at him first, and then said softly: "General, Gan came this time, and was specially ordered by the young master to help the general develop a country."

"But after the general is successful, he will return to report his life."

After a word, since he had seen through his thoughts, Jiang Gan's talent and eloquence were already excellent, and his speaking skills were naturally very excellent. However, he saw that every word and action was politely rejecting Zhang Ji's intention to recruit him.

only.

By the end, I didn’t feel anything about Zhang Ji’s emotions.

Huguan was broken and Shangdang was in his pocket.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jijun and Zhou Tai and Chen Wu joined forces, they naturally easily entered Jinyang City.

After assisting Zhang Ji to gain a foothold in Bingzhou, Jiang Gan also sent a letter to Xuchang as soon as possible to ask Yuan Yao for the next move.

But although Zhang Ji got his wish, he got the essence of Bingzhou from Taiyuan, Shangdang and other counties.

But the current situation that we will face next is still extremely serious.

First, when Zhang Yan agreed to send troops together, Zhang Ji promised that after the matter was completed, the two families occupied by him would be divided equally.

What's more, the reason why Zhou Tai and Chen Wu were able to successfully pass through the 800-mile steep Taihang Mountains was also because the Black Mountain Army, who was familiar with the terrain in the mountains, was able to successfully reach the vicinity of Jinyang.

Now that the spoils are divided after the war, we naturally cannot forget the Black Mountain Army.

After all, our side has only first established a foothold in Bingzhou, while the Heishan Army has been dominating the Taihang Remaining Veins for a long time, and the forces of all sides must not be underestimated!
To be continued...