In April of the second year of Chuping, Dong Zhuo's army left Hongnong and fought with Sun Jian's army in Zhuling, and was defeated. Dong Zhuo ordered the Generals of the Central Army Niu Fu, Dong Yue, Yang Ding and others to station in Huayin, Anyi, Mianchi and other places to guard against Sun Jian, and led his army back to Chang'an.

In May, Yuan Shao sent Zhou Ang as the governor of Yuzhou and attacked Yangcheng. Sun Jian's grain road was cut off, so he retreated from Luoyang and fought with Zhou Ang for Yuzhou.

In June, bandits in Heishan, Dongjun, killed the prefect Wang Gong. The governor of Yanzhou Liu Dai was afraid and asked for help everywhere. Gongsun Zan sent Fan Fang to lead 3,000 troops to support Liu Dai. Cao Cao secretly sent the Hu Wuban tribes to kill the prefect Wang Kuang of Henoi, and surrendered his army to obtain thousands of people. Yuan Shao ordered the prefect Zhang Yang of Shangdang to take charge of Hanoi.

In July, Yuan Shao deceived Gongsun Zan to attack Jizhou and coerced Han Fu to let Jizhou and take over the governor of Jizhou. Cao Cao was ordered by Yuan Shao to attack Wei County, and the bandits of Heishan in Dongjun were represented as the prefect of Dongjun and changed to Dongwuyang. The Southern Xiongnu King Yu Fuluo attached Dong Zhuo.

In August, Gongsun Yue was ordered to go to Yecheng and asked Yuan Shao for several counties in Jizhou that he had conspired. However, he was almost killed by assassins sent by Yuan Shao. Fortunately, he was sent by He Bai to warn him and fled to Youzhou alone.

Dong Zhuo appointed Yang Yi as the magistrate of Henan and stationed in Luoyang. When Zhu Jun heard the news, he led his troops back to Luoyang. Yang Yi retreated. Seeing that Henan was broken, Zhu Jun led his troops to the east and stationed in Zhongmu County. He also sent a message to various prefectures and counties and summoned troops to attack Dong Zhuo. Tao Qian sent 3,000 troops to join forces with other counties and reported that Zhu Jun was the General of the True Chariots and Cavalry. Dong Zhuo ordered Li Jue and Guo Si to lead tens of thousands of people to attack Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun attacked and was defeated.

In September, Gongsun Zan was furious and led 20,000 infantry and cavalry into the territory of Jizhou. He also issued a letter to the counties and states of Jizhou, listing the ten major crimes of Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao defrauded Jizhou and drove Han Fu was not popular. In addition, Gongsun Zan's offensive was fierce and powerful, which shocked Hebei. The northern counties and counties rebelled against Yuan Shao and surrendered to Gongsun Zan. The Yuan army was unstable and feared the power of his troops, so he appointed his younger brother Gongsun Yue as the prefect of Bohai.

In October, Yuan Shu sent the general Sun Jian, the defeated general, to attack Liu Biao. Liu Biao sent his general Huang Zu out of Fancheng and Deng County to fight against Sun Jian. Dong Zhuo made small money to disrupt the Central Plains. The economy of the Central Plains was in chaos, and the people only traded cloth and grain.

In November, after Gongsun Yue arrived in the county, he rebelled with the troops of Bohai County to attack Yuan Shao. For a time, Gongsun Zan's army was very strong. So Gongsun Zan used his general Yan Gang as the governor of Jizhou, Tian Kai as the governor of Bingzhou, Shan Jing as the governor of Yanzhou, and his younger brother Gongsun Fan as the prefect of Hejian, and he was renamed the prefect of Jizhou, and the prefect of each county was the commander of each county.

In December, Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu and marched to Xiangyang. Liu Biao ordered Huang Zu to go out of the city at night to summon reinforcements. When Huang Zu led the reinforcements back to Xiangyang, he was intercepted by Sun Jian and fled to Xian Mountain. He also set up an ambush on Xian Mountain and shot Sun Jian injured. The troops and horses of Jingzhou took advantage of the situation to siege. The soldiers and horses of Jiangdong were defeated. In the end, there were no ten people who escaped from the river. Zhou Ang, the governor of Yuzhou who was appointed by Yuan Shao, pressed again. Sun had no choice but to return to Yuan Shu in Nanyang.

At the request of Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian sent troops to Dongjun to station troops and set up troops, and forced Yuan Shao from the east; Yuan Shu also sent troops from Nanyang to Yingchuan, and Chen Liu responded from afar. The prefect of Yanzhou Liu Dai helped Yuan Shao, and Fan Fang led his troops back to Hebei.

This is the great military situation of the forces in the Central Plains in the second year of Chuping. What surprised He Bai was that Sun Jian was not shot to death in Xianshan. If Sun Jian was not dead, it would be contrary to history. If the first generation of the Sun family rulers were not dead, the development of the Sun family was probably not slow, and the world might become more and more chaotic.

After three months of embezzlement, Gongsun Zan had occupied most counties of Bohai, Hejian, Zhongshan, Anping, Qinghe and Julu, and his troops were once strong to 100,000. In addition to the defenders in various places, there were more than 40,000 troops in Gongsun Zan's headquarters. Julu Tian Kai and Anping also had nearly 30,000 troops alone through two separate divisions.

However, with Gongsun Zan's continuous advancement, the army's spirit disappeared, the generals were arrogant, the soldiers were of varying quality, and they were almost at the end of their strength. In addition, Gongsun Zan's levies and levies were intensive and appointing mediocre villains, which caused Gongsun Zan's people to lose all their hearts in Jizhou.

Many people left Jizhou and came to Qingzhou. He Bai had at least tens of thousands of victims, more than 20,000 households, and all of them were scattered in various counties to resettle. He heard that Liu Yu from Youzhou also accepted a lot of refugees from Jizhou. It seemed that Jizhou was in chaos.

Yuan Shao finally came to the public and was expected by the officials and people of Jizhou. He had a great opportunity to defeat Gongsun Zan's army. In January of the third year of Chuping, Yuan Shao ordered Cao Cao of Dongjun to guard against Tao Qian and Zhou Ang to guard against Yuan Shu; he also sent Yuan Tan to Rencheng to attack Tian Kai; the high-ranking cadres came out of Tangyang and the enemy was single-handed; he personally led more than 36,000 troops, took Qu Yi as the vanguard, arrived at the Qinghejie Bridge, and confronted Gongsun Zan's army, who was stationed in Panhe.

At this time, He Bai led 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers to drink with Liu Bei in Pingyuan County, and asked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had not seen Liu Bei for several months, to pay their respects to their elder brother.

Liu Bei raised his glass and asked, "Since the lord wants to send troops to support Brother Bo Gui, why did he stay on the plain and stop moving forward?"

He Bai smiled and said, "Actually, with the strength of Brother Bo Gui and I, it is not difficult to defeat Yuan Shao. When my two families joined forces, they can definitely easily occupy the entire Hebei area. However, Brother Bo Gui feared that I had the ambition to unify the world, and wanted to take over the fertile land of Jizhou alone. Therefore, I ignored my request for joint efforts, but asked Tao Qian and Yuan Shu to echo each other from afar. If I stepped into the land of Jizhou easily, I would inevitably be suspected by Brother Bo Gui to grab the territory and lead troops to attack me. Therefore, without the permission of Brother Bo Gui, I could only stop on the plain and watch the battle quietly."

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "Since the lord has the ambition to unify the world, why would he sit and watch Bo Gui's brother swallow Jizhou? If Bo Gui's brother got the land of Jizhou, with Bo Gui's ability, wouldn't he be the strong enemy of the lord to unify the world?"

He Bai glanced at Liu Bei and smiled and said, "Having the ambition to unify the world does not mean that he has to unify himself. If Brother Bo Gui can also unify the world, with his anger towards foreigners, he will definitely become another Emperor Wu of Han. I am willing to be the General of Wei at that time."

Liu Bei couldn't help but pursed his lips in secret, not believing He Bai's words. He didn't really want to help He Bai, and He Bai didn't really trust him. How could He Bai give up after years of ambition?

I don’t believe that there are really people like sages and saints in the world. Why can you, He Bai, unify the world? I, Liu Bei, can’t fight against foreign races, promote my great man’s reputation, and do what I will do if I am unified.

As for He Bai's words, the people in the world will never leave one. As long as a person with great ambitions, who will not know the importance of population, who will harm the people in a big way? Even if the people do not leave one, if they have to stay alive for decades, they can still return to the same as before.

The extinction of the Chinese seedlings mentioned by He Bai is just a big statement to deceive the world. Otherwise, it cannot prove that He Bai’s wise and majestic position of usurping the Han Dynasty. According to his predictions of the three parts of the world, according to his own time, he should be a visionary and analyzing the general trend of the world.

However, He Bai's deceitful words were passed down as strange dreams, just like the "A man who replaced the Han Dynasty should be Tu Gao" who has been circulated for hundreds of years, just to make him usurp the Han Dynasty and become independent. But who is the third part of the world?

There is Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan in Yecheng, and He Bai is spying on him. I think it must be one of them. Moling is far away in Jiangdong, so I guess he is a person near Jiangdong. It is either Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou, or Yuan Shu of Nanyang, or Tao Qian, or Liu Biao of Jingzhou. So the only thing left to him is Yizhou and Chengdu?

Liu Bei frowned. There was Liu Yanzai in Yizhou, and he had been a general under his command. Liu Yan was not an easy person to join him. Moreover, there was Dong Zhuo in the north, but Dong Zhuo was tyrannical and would not last long. I should have taken Chengdu to establish himself in Yizhou after Liu Yan's death.

Liu Bei's frown for a long time couldn't help but relax, and finally looked at He Bai proudly. There are countless heroes in the world. Since you, He Bai, since you said that I can accomplish something, how could I be willing to fall into depravity and be willing to attach yourself to your tail? The only thing that can be worrying is the Hanoi Xuanwu. Haha, how can He Bai predict the things that will happen in a hundred years? It must be just a deception to coax people.

But he became deeply suspicious again. Why did He Bai already believe that he might cause trouble to him in the future, but why didn’t he kill himself to eliminate future troubles? Looking at Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others sitting by, Liu Bei couldn’t help but think deeply.

Is it just to get the second brother, third brother? The second brother and third brother are brave, but He Bai already has Dian Wei and Huang Zhong, so why should he put a lot of effort into robbing him in his hands? But now he seems to have succeeded. The second brother and third brother are no longer as obedient as he was half a year ago. The mere two bitches of He have already made them forget the oath of Taoyuan, which is really hateful.

Gongsun Zan's cavalry was very powerful, and Baima Yicong was a well-deserved strong army. However, Gongsun Zan also had many weaknesses, and each of them was very serious. The most fatal one was that he lacked territory and tax collection, and had no money and food to support his soldiers.

Although the troops under Gongsun Zan were called the Youzhou Army, they were not the real Youzhou Army. They were trained by Gongsun Zan using the surrendered peoples entangled by Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion in the past. It can be said that this army was his private army, his efforts, and he was also the support he planned to pacify the Wuhuan and the Xianbei.

Unfortunately, when Gongsun Zan forcibly built the army, the court became in chaos. Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, who was in charge of military and political affairs, only knew how to protect the country and safeguard the people and develop agriculture. He only knew how to comfort the outside world, but did not know how to conquer foreign races with his strength, and did not support Gongsun Zan, who had always been radical.

If it weren't for the advice of Liu Yu's military advisor Wei You, Liu Yu would not even be willing to give the basic rations of Gongsun Zan and his army. He would have been able to order Gongsun Zan, who was shattering his subordinates to disperse all his troops.

For a moment, Gongsun Zan, a military general who had no territory, was immediately caught blindly. Because the army moved its garrison to Youbeiping County for the convenience of feeding. The original Youbeiping Prefect was afraid of his domineeringness, so he soon abandoned his official position and left, and no one dared to take office after that. Therefore, Gongsun Zan was re-appointed as Youbeiping Prefect.

Gongsun Zan was unwilling to be controlled by Liu Yu, but the Youbeiping County was vast and sparsely populated, and there were few taxes. How could he afford to support 20,000 cavalry? So Gongsun Zan responded to the call of Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, and sent troops to attack Dong to see what good solutions were available after entering the Central Plains.

In the Central Plains, Gongsun Zan discovered that the court could no longer control the world. There were only two ways in front of him. One was to expand force, and the other was to find a backer. However, Gongsun Zan was a proud person, how could he be willing to surrender to others at will?

Especially those who are qualified or capable of being the backer for him. Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, disliked each other, and Yuan Shao, who is famous all over the world, was unreliable. Han Fu, then hehe. He Bai and Gongsun Zan of Qingzhou didn't even think about it. Therefore, expansion of force was his only way out.
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