Chapter 3: The Storm and the Ninth Section of the Great Han Dynasty (192 AD) in March. On the first day of March, in the early morning, Qingting.

Gongsun Chan was like an angry tiger, roaring loudly, and his hoarse cry was heard far away with the howling cold wind.

The guards guarding the perimeter of the tent looked nervous and uneasy.

"Yuan Benchu, this bastard, dared to lie to me. I will kill him at once, I will skin him and destroy his people. Gongsun Zhan's eyes were cracked, and he kept waving his hands, scolding loudly and angrily, and walking around the big tent excitedly.

Yan Gang, Shan Jing and others were also scolding on the side. A military horse in untidy armor knelt on the ground, and Guan Jing was leaning over and whispering a question.

Gongsun Zhan led the army to attack and kill all the way today, advancing for forty miles in a row. When he arrived at Qingting, he saw that twilight was approaching, and immediately ordered the army to camp and prepare for another battle tomorrow.

Due to the very limited weight of grain and grass carried by the army, after nightfall, he hurriedly ordered people to rush back to Ganling City overnight to urge the transportation of grain and grass.

Guan Jing reminded him that the army was now fighting at the boundary bridge, and it was a hundred miles away from Ganling City, and it was impossible to protect Ganling City, so the garrison of Ganling City was very important.

In order not to reduce the garrison army in the city, it is better to send a group of soldiers and horses back to escort grain and grass.

So Gongsun Zhan sent a military Sima to return to Ganling City with 2,000 men. When they arrived at Xifeng Pavilion, this army was suddenly ambushed and almost wiped out.

"You see clearly, it is indeed the army of Jizhou? Is it Yuan Shao's centaurs? The military Sima looked at Gongsun Chan timidly and nodded again and again.

Guan Jing waved him back,

"My lord, send someone to the Xifeng Pavilion to investigate."

"Brother Shiqi, are we going to call back overnight?" Yan Gang asked,

"We don't have much food and grass, I'm afraid it's hard to persevere."

"Nope." Gongsun Chan said loudly,

"If we fight back, we just fell for Li Hong and Yuan Shao's tricks." Gongsun Chan patted the map on the desk hard,

"This place is thirty miles away from the Cloud Pavilion and forty miles away from the Xifeng Pavilion. If the army is trapped between the Cloud Pavilion and the Xifeng Pavilion, we will be dead. ”

"What do you mean by ......" Yan Gang looked at the map suspiciously, and asked cautiously,

"Continue to attack Li Hong?"

"Yes, we've been fighting and crossing the bridge." Gongsun Chan gritted his teeth,

"At all costs, break through first. As long as we cross the Qing River, we can go north through Anping Country and quickly get out of danger. ”

"Your Excellency is right." Guan Jing very much agreed,

"It's ten miles away from the boundary bridge, and the break through is a short distance. In addition, although the Northern Xinjiang Army was defeated and lured by deception today, they paid a great price for this, and their strength was reduced to a certain extent. In comparison, we are more sure to beat Li Hong than Yuan Shao. ”

"Fighting the boundary bridge, we and Li Hong swear to fight to the death, this is the result that Yuan Shao is willing to see, so he will not actively participate in the siege in the short term." Guan Jing pointed to the map and continued,

"We immediately sent a detachment of men and horses to Yunting to block the Jizhou army. Tomorrow, we will concentrate all our forces on attacking the Qinghe River and strive to cross the river north and break through as soon as possible. Shan Jing put forward a different view.

The strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army is obvious to all, and they also have the natural barrier of the Qing River, once the attack of the army is blocked and blocked on the south bank of the Qing River, our situation will be even more difficult.

Yuan Shao's army was only 30,000, and the maximum was not more than 40,000. He wants to besiege Ganling City again, and he wants to block us at Xifeng Pavilion, and his troops are obviously insufficient.

In addition, breaking through from the direction of Xifeng Pavilion, the terrain is more conducive to our attack. From here to the country of Ganling, there is no river, and the army can advance smoothly.

After we defeat Yuan Shao, we can quickly get the replenishment of grain and grass in Ganling City, and we can reorganize our troops and fight again with Li Hong and Yuan Shao.

In the later stage, even if we want to retreat to the Bohai Sea, we can retreat safely. Guan Jing objected. The Northern Xinjiang Army on the opposite side had only more than 20,000 people, and its strength was even smaller than that of Yuan Shao.

If we fight Li Hong, Yuan Shao will not immediately devote all his strength to participate in the siege, but if we want to fight Yuan Shao, Li Hong will definitely take the opportunity to pounce and eat us.

As for the grain and grass, what the army itself brought and what the Northern Frontier Army discarded could last about five or six days.

In these five or six days, because we have to fight fiercely, the number of troops will be drastically reduced, so that we will hold out longer.

For such a long time, can't we still defeat the Northern Frontier Army and cross the boundary bridge?

"But after three or four days, if we haven't crossed the Qing River, Yuan Shao will definitely attack, and by then we have become the end of the crossbow, how to deal ......with it," Shan Jing asked worriedly.

"According to the time calculation, the Yellow River will open soon, and Tian Kai and Liu Bei will be able to rush to Ganling Kingdom immediately." Gongsun Chan sneered,

"Gaotang City is only a hundred miles away from Ganling Kingdom, Tian Kai and Liu Bei are here in an instant, I don't believe that Yuan Shao has such courage to dare to launch a siege on me under such circumstances."

"Yuan Shao is a fox, and he won't do anything that suffers." Guan Jing said with a smile,

"As long as we hold on to Yunting and don't retreat, and consume a lot of his troops, Yuan Shao will immediately retract. We retreated to Bohai and Hejian, with the Northern Xinjiang Army occupying the four counties in the western part of Jizhou, and Yuan Shao occupying Wei County, Anping and Ganling. Jizhou is divided into three, and it will be lively in the future. ”

"Immediately send someone to Gaotang and ask Tian Kai and Liu Bei to come to the aid quickly." Gongsun Chan waved his hand and said resolutely,

"As soon as the morning dawns, we storm the boundary bridge." In the early hours of the morning, shelter from the wind. Yesterday, Liu Bei took the lead in crossing the Yellow River with 2,000 men and horses, crossed the big river close to the Yellow River, and arrived safely at the shelter and camped.

Inside the tent, the candles were lit up. Yi Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jian Yong and others sat around a pot of charcoal fire, laughing and talking in a low voice.

In December last year, after Tian Kai and Liu Bei led their troops to kill the Yellow River, they fought dozens of battles, large and small, not with hardship.

Many times the soldiers were in the ice and snow and the Yellow Turban Army bloody battle, because the Youzhou soldiers than the Yellow Turban Army more adapted to this cold climate, they won consecutive battles, all the way to the triumphant song.

After Tian Kai and Liu Bei led their troops to Linzi City of Qi State, they were greeted by Captain Zou Jing who went out of the city. Old friends meet, and everyone is very excited.

After Zou Jing's introduction, they learned that Qingzhou Thorn Shi Jiaohe had died of illness last fall. The power of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was too huge, and Jiao He couldn't defeat them, so he had to take the Qingzhou Army to defend the city, burning incense and praying to God every day, hoping for reinforcements to save him day and night.

The reinforcements did not expect, but Jiao He became ill because of depression and died. After Jiao He died, the veteran Zou Jing barely supported the overall situation.

Zou Jing is very old, he once participated in the Qiang rebellion in Xiliang with the former Qiang captain Duan Cheng, and later served in Beijing as a lieutenant of the Northern Army and a lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry.

Duan Cheng committed suicide shortly after being imprisoned for his crimes, and Zou Jing was implicated and returned home by the imperial court.

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, he was once again recruited by the imperial court to serve as a lieutenant in Qingzhou, responsible for quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion. With Zou Jing's help, the Yellow Turban tribes stationed in the four counties in the north of Qingzhou were dealt a heavy blow.

The Yellow Turban Army was unable to resist, coupled with low morale, they fled to Mount Tai in Yanzhou for refuge, or went to Dongjun, Jibeiguo and other places to meet the marshal Sima Ju.

In early February, Zou Jing, with the support of Tian Kai and Liu Bei and others, temporarily led the history of Qingzhou, vigorously pacified the people of Qingzhou, and rebuilt the county government.

At this time, Gongsun Zhan's letter arrived, and in the absence of any holy decree, he appointed Tian Kai as the assassin of Qingzhou, Liu Bei as the Taishou of Pingyuan County, and Zou Jing as the Minister of State of Jinan.

It is unheard of for a general to appoint his subordinates as the chief officials of a state and county.

Yuan Shao appointed state and county officials, but there is still one

The "Edict of Contracting" fills the façade. Gongsun Chan simply doesn't even want a façade, my fists are hard, and I have the final say.

Of course, Zou Jing couldn't bear it or accept it, but in the face of the devastation and starvation in Qingzhou, and in the face of the rescue of thousands of miles in Youzhou County, under the persuasion of Tian Kai and Liu Bei and others, he had no choice but to take thousands of people to Jinan with tears in his eyes.

The country will not be a country, the people's livelihood will wither, and the lives will be ruined, at this moment, what is the point of fighting for these meaningless ancestral systems and laws?

Let's let the people cultivate in peace and well-fed and clothed first. At the same time, Gongsun Chan described the recent situation in Jizhou in detail in his letter.

The hussar general has arrived at the boundary bridge, and a major battle between the Northern Xinjiang Army and the Youzhou Army is inevitable, so please ask the two brothers to go north quickly to help.

Tian Kai and Liu Bei immediately discussed sending troops north to help Gongsun Zan attack on Li Hong and Yuan Shao. In the course of the three-month conquest, Tian Kai and Liu Bei's armies had considerable losses.

In order to replenish their troops, the two recruited about 20,000 people from the Yellow Turban captives along the way, so that the strength of the Qingzhou Army quickly reached 30,000.

Tian Kai was short on money, and he bluntly told the officers and men of the Qingzhou Army that the current social crisis is in danger, and the overthrow of the Han is imminent.

Since this body can sacrifice his life for the country, what do you need money for? So you go back and tell the soldiers that there is no military pay, and now everyone can eat a full stomach, which is very good.

In the future, Qingzhou will be stable, the society will be stable, and everyone will have money. There are 30,000 troops, but they can't all go north to support, considering the safety of Qingzhou, considering the Yellow Turban Army that is eyeing the sidelines, we must leave a part of the army to garrison Qingzhou, otherwise these months will be in vain.

Tian Kai decided to leave half of the army to garrison the four counties of Qingzhou, and Liu Bei led 5,000 troops to Pingyuan County to prepare for crossing the river, and then led 10,000 troops to arrive.

Please ask Zou Jing to return to Linzi City to preside over the affairs of Qingzhou. A few days after Liu Bei arrived in Gaotang City, the Yellow River opened.

Liu Bei chatted with everyone for a while, and then the topic turned to the battle in Jizhou. In the past two years, there has been smoke in Qingzhou, and the people have either fled to death or been coerced away by the Yellow Turban Army, the fields are barren, there is no harvest, and there is no money and food at all.

If Qingzhou wants to regain its vitality, it must get help from Jizhou. At present, the grain and grass needed by the 15,000-strong army can only be replenished in the Ganling Kingdom, so everyone is very anxious to rush to Ganling City to meet Gongsun Zhan, but thinking that the hussar general Li Hong is at the boundary bridge, Liu Bei and everyone have a little bad feeling in their hearts.

As early as when Li Hong led Fengyun Iron Cavalry south to Jizhou to attack Zhang Niujiao, he and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others met Li Hong, although they were only in a hurry, but they left a very deep impression on themselves.

Later, when the Battle of Jicheng was fought and Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju were killed, the two sides met again, but at that time Li Hong was already a famous general.

What happened later made me and my subordinates both regretful and moved. After killing the governor of Zhongshan State in Anxi County, Zhongshan State, he led the crowd to abscond, and Li Hong, who was the general of the expedition to the north, not only sent people to look for himself in the area of Taihang Mountain, but also personally wrote to the first emperor to intercede for himself.

He was later pardoned by the first emperor and served under the general's account. When the general He Jin told him all this, he was really moved at that time.

However, what makes me regret is that I knew that the general of Zhengbei valued himself so much, why didn't he go to northern Xinjiang to avoid trouble in the first place?

If you go to northern Xinjiang, follow Li Hong to conquer outside the Saiwai, conquer the desert, laugh and drink the blood of Hu Lu, whip the wolf to live at the foot of Xu Mountain, and build a world-class meritorious service, it will not be in vain.

A lifelong regret. Whether it is for public or private purposes, he is not willing to be an enemy of Li Hong. At the beginning, he tried his best to persuade Gongsun Zhan to send troops to Qingzhou, but after a few months of this incident, he once again set foot in Jizhou and directly faced the hussar general Li Hong.

What am I going to do? Is Li Hong a good guy or a bad guy? Is it a disaster like Dong Zhuo or a big Han pillar who is bent on saving Sheji?

Is he still a hero of the Great Han Kingdom as he was in the past? No one knows the answer. Today the world is in chaos, and people like myself don't know the details at all.

Due to the war and the lack of news, he didn't even know whether the Son of Heaven was alive or dead. In the past two years, there have been rumors everywhere that the Son of Heaven has died, and Han Zuo has been cut off.

I am in a humble position, and I usually contact ordinary officials, how do I know if this news is true or false?

He once asked Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Zhan said with great certainty that the Son of Heaven had died a long time ago, and he had been killed long before Dong Zhuo deposed the Young Emperor.

He also told himself that the reason why Liu Yu, Zhang Wen, Lu Zhi, Li Hong and others wanted to rebuild the imperial court in Jinyang and use the eldest princess to lead state affairs was because the Son of Heaven died.

Otherwise, who would dare to build another imperial court? That's a great sin of treason. Don't you believe in the teacher Lu Zhi? Gongsun Chan thinks that Li Hong, like Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, is a disaster for the country. If you really want to talk about it, Li Hong has more than ten charges.

Before the expedition to the desert, he forced Gyeonggi and snatched the military and political power of the sixteen counties in northern Xinjiang from the hands of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.

After returning from the desert, he was reluctant to send troops to Luoyang to attack Dong Zhuo. Later, Li Hong sent troops, but he did not fight Dong Zhuo, but beat Yuan Shao, which is incredible.

Next, he engaged in some checks and balances, in a vain attempt to divide the community and divide one side. And then he did even more things that harmed the country.

If this kind of person is not a traitor, who is? You can do what I do, and you can't be wrong.

Since Gongsun Chan said so, what else can he say? I was suspicious, so I asked someone to bring a letter to Liu Yu, and I asked about it.

What the hell should I do, sir? What can be done to save the community? But once the letter was gone, there was no news, and it sank into the sea.

Since he doesn't know where he should go, he can only follow behind Gongsun Chan and take one step at a time.

The curtain was opened, the cold wind howled, and the charcoal fire

"Whew" rushed towards Liu Bei. Liu Bei, who was bowing his head and pondering, was shocked and raised his head suddenly. A sweaty scout fell to his knees and panted and said, "Report to your lordship, it's not good." "Jump to