What worries Cao Cao, Liu Biao and Liu Bei is that there is a chance that Qingzhou will fall into the hands of Zang Ba and the Yellow Turban Army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zang Ba did not flee to Gaotang, so he only had one place to go, that is, to defect to the Yellow Turban Army with 10,000 troops, so that he could not only avoid the pursuit of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, but also join forces with Yin Li and Wu Dunbu of the Yellow Turban Army in the Qingxu area to capture Qingzhou.

Xiahoudun was worried that Zang Ba would take the opportunity to wreak havoc on Qingzhou, so he recently sent a lot of scouts to the area of Mount Tai to inquire about the news, and the result was just as he expected, Zang Ba had conquered Linzi City a few days ago, and Yin Li and Wu Dun were attacking Beihai with the Yellow Turban Army.

Now that Gongsun Chan is dead, the Qingzhou army has been annihilated, Cao Cao and Liu Bei and others have just withdrawn from Jizhou, not to mention the great loss of strength, and they have to compete with Yuan Shu for Yanzhou and Xuzhou, and they can't afford to take care of Qingzhou at all.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others could only look up to the sky and sigh at this time. Who would have thought that in order to survive, Zang Ba would re-embark on the road of rebellion without hesitation.

Zang Ba and the Yellow Turban Army occupy Qingzhou, in fact, it is not terrible, as long as Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei join forces to defeat Yuan Shu and take Yangzhou, and then Cao Cao and Liu Bei can join forces to attack Qingzhou again, with the strength of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, they will be able to fall in one fell swoop.

But the problem is that by that time, Hebei's vitality has recovered, and the Northern Xinjiang Army has taken advantage of the situation, and Qingzhou has become Hebei's bag, and then ......

The death of Gongsun Zhan and the betrayal of Zang Ba dealt a major blow to Cao Cao's strategy of dominating the Central Plains.

In desperation, Cao Cao summoned Liu Biao, Liu Bei and many of his subordinates to discuss repeatedly, and everyone debated fiercely about whether to immediately send troops to occupy Qingzhou.

Now that the troops are sent to Qingzhou, the timing is very good, as long as they pay a small price, they can defeat Zang Ba and Yin Li and Wu Dun's Yellow Turban Army, but what will be Hebei's reaction? Will the Northern Xinjiang Army and the Yellow Turban Army fight back and forth? What will be Yuan Shao's reaction? Will they join forces with Yuan Shu to occupy the Central Plains?

In this Jizhou War, although the losses of the Northern Xinjiang Army were not large, Hebei's financial endowment reached the limit.

In this war, Northern Xinjiang mobilized a total of more than 300,000 troops, as well as more than 1 million people, and also relocated more than 2 million people, which consumed huge financial resources.

Moreover, nearly one-third of Hebei's financial income comes from Jizhou. And the location of this war is in Jizhou, which is a very serious blow to Hebei's financial endowment. In this year, nearly half of Jizhou not only failed to generate wealth, but consumed a large amount of wealth.

In this battle, Li Yi lured the enemy deep and kept the armed forces of northern Xinjiang, but he could not keep the wealth of Hebei. However, compared with the Northern Xinjiang Army going south to fight in the Central Plains, Li Yi still earned it, but the Northern Xinjiang Army's force loss was not large. As long as there is money and food, the Northern Xinjiang Army will be able to roar down immediately.

It is precisely because of this that no matter Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, or Liu Bei, they all want to use this limited time to attack each other and rapidly expand their strength.

If Cao Cao and Liu Bei's armies were trapped on the Qingzhou battlefield and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers joined forces to occupy the Central Plains, then today's battle would be in vain.

Cao Cao can't give up Qingzhou, let alone give up the Central Plains, what kind of countermeasures can be taken at this time to ensure the hegemony of the Central Plains, in order to ensure the prosperity of the Han Dynasty?

After a long time of arguing, Cheng Yu, Man Chong, Mao Jue and others finally tended to appease Zang Ba, and issued an order in the name of the Son of Heaven to worship Zang Ba as a powerful general, lead Qingzhou Mu, and seal the Marquis of Qi, first pull him to his side, and push him to the opposite side of Hebei.

Instead of adding an opponent to yourself, it is better to add a friend to yourself.

Zang Ba's foothold in Qingzhou is not stable, he has to guard against the northern Xinjiang army to cross the river to attack, but also to guard against Cao Cao and Liu Bei from the west and south of the two directions to carry out a pincer attack, panic all day, at this time suddenly to him to worship the marquis, admit that he sits in Qingzhou, Zang Ba's mentality can be imagined, must be grateful to Cao Cao. In this way, Cao Cao could easily gain a loyal ally and regain control of Qingzhou, and he could easily solve the Yellow Turban Plague that had plagued the Central Plains for several years.

If the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was able to disappear because of this, the benefits to Cao Cao's domination of the Central Plains would be self-evident.

What's more, Zang Ba and Li Yi have an enmity. In the first year of Chuping, Li Yi went to the Central Plains to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, and fought fiercely with the Taishan thieves led by Zang Ba. In that battle, Zang Ba's troops were all wiped out and only survived. After so many years, Zang Ba has not regained his original strength. Otherwise, when Tao Qian died, I am afraid that there would be nothing to do with Liu Bei.

Therefore, when choosing between Hebei and himself, Zang Ba must not be stupid to choose Hebei.

In addition, Hebei was also very angry about Zang Ba's participation in the attack on Jizhou, if Zang Ba not only recognized the Son of Heaven and the imperial court supported by Cao Cao at this time, accepted the worship of this Son of Heaven, but also openly occupied Qingzhou and Hebei to fight, Hebei would inevitably regard him as a rebel who must be killed.

In this way, the grudge between the two sides is getting deeper and deeper, and Zang Ba will be like Gongsun Zan before, getting closer and closer to Cao Cao.

Most of Zang Ba's subordinates were the former leaders of the Yellow Turban Army. Cao Cao can give them a promotion in the name of the Son of Heaven and give them money and rewards. On the contrary, Hebei cannot do this.

Among the generals in Hebei, there are indeed many people from the Yellow Turban Army, but Zhang Yan, who has the highest status, is only General Annan, and among the many generals in northern Xinjiang, he can't even rank in the top ten. He doesn't even have the authority to lead a legion on his own, he's just the deputy commander of the legion.

The other Li Zhong, Li Xin, Li Yi and others are just miscellaneous generals, and Yu Poison, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro, as well as Sima Ju, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Yang Feng, Han Xian, Hu Cai, Li Le, as well as Guan Hai, Sun Guan and others, are not even mixed with miscellaneous generals, but are just ordinary captains.

Zang Ba's qualifications are not comparable to Zhang Yan at all, and the qualifications of Zang Ba's subordinates are even far from Yang Feng, Han Xian and others. In this case, what official position can Hebei give Zang Ba? Can you make Zang Ba's subordinates generals?

With this alone, Cao Cao was able to hold Zang Ba firmly in his hands.

However, suddenly turning one of Liu Bei's subordinates into a big official who sits on the leading side, will Liu Bei feel that he has lost face?

For this reason, Cao Cao and Liu Biao deliberately found Liu Bei and sat together and talked for a long time.

When encountering this kind of thing, no one is happy, and Liu Bei is no exception. But this matter involves the great cause of the prosperity of the community, and personal shame and disgrace are nothing, Liu Bei immediately nodded and agreed.

Thinking that Zang Ba has changed from the leader of the Yellow Turban Army to the captain of the cavalry, from the captain of the cavalry to the veritable Kou Shuai, and now from Kou Shuai to the general who leads the party, and has also been knighted as the Marquis of Qi, Liu Bei feels that the things in the world are really unpredictable and unpredictable.

Due to the importance of this matter, Cao Cao deliberately asked Cheng Yu and Jian Yong to rush to Linzi to announce the decree.

The matter of Qingzhou has a contingency plan for the time being, and now it is time for Xiahoudun to transport grain and grass from Gaotang to launch a counterattack against Yuan Shu.

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In mid-September of the second year of the Han Dynasty, Handan.

When Zhang Fei walked into the big tent, the atmosphere inside the big tent was very solemn, which was completely different from the festive atmosphere outside the big tent.

In the big tent, only Li Yi and Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Gao Changgong, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Jing, Gao Shun, Lu Bu and other army commanders who participated in the battle, as well as Xu Maogong, Liu Bowen, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Xun You, Xun Yu, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and other major strategists under the command of the generals, and the rest of Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Wei Yan, Yu Ban, Zhang Yan, Xun Di and more than 20 generals of the unified army rested in other military tents.

Zhang Fei saluted everyone one by one, then sat down beside Xu Da and whispered: "Tiande, you're late, the battle is over." ”

Xu Da smiled reluctantly and said depressedly: "I ran fast enough, but I was still a little slower than you, and I didn't catch up." ”

Zhang Fei asked, "Will you go back immediately?" ”

Xu Da shook his head and said, "Since you're here, you have to fight." ”

Zhang Fei immediately became excited and asked, "Is it to fight Qingzhou?" ”

Xu Da showed a trace of murder in his eyes and did not answer.

Li Yi knocked lightly on the desk, Zhang Fei originally wanted to ask, but when he saw Xu Shu standing up, he had to keep his mouth shut.

Xu Shu recounted in detail the losses and successes and failures of the Jizhou War in the past four months.

Beginning with the rebel attack in mid-May, the rebels fought more than 30 large and small battles in four months, destroying more than 280,000 enemies, including more than 90,000 killed and more than 170,000 captured. It lost more than 50,000 people, of which nearly 12,000 were killed and nearly 40,000 were wounded.

The main casualties of the army came from the early blocking battle. In the later pursuit battles, except for a few battles, the losses were relatively small.

Judging from the final result of the war, the pre-war goals were basically achieved. In the later stage of the war, due to various reasons, the battlefield situation was a little out of control, but with the concerted efforts of the soldiers in northern Xinjiang, they still defeated the opponent.

Another regrettable result of this war is that the main rebellious characters fled except for Gongsun Zhan; There were also very few enemy generals killed, and there were also not many prisoners, mainly Gongsun Zhan's generals. This is because of the death of Gongsun Chan in battle and the collapse of the Gongsun army, and the captured Gongsun Chan troops will include Gongsun Fan, Gongsun Xu, Guan Jing, Tian Kai, Zou Dan, and Fan Fang; The rest of the royal family, Shan Jing and Yan Gang were killed in battle.

In addition, Yuan Shaojun's generals Gao Lan and Liyi were also captured, as well as Liu Biaojun's general Wang Wei; beheaded Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and others.

Xu Maogong then talked about the current situation of the money, food, ordnance and imperial court finances consumed in the war, and asked the major armies to follow the imperial decree and the orders of the lord and return to the garrison as soon as possible to reduce the financial burden of the imperial court.

Zhong Xuan explained the relocation of more than 2 million people, the implementation of relief, and the organization of autumn planting. The recruitment of soldiers by the major legions to replenish the forces lost in this battle will also be presented to the imperial court in the near future. In this battle, the Northern Xinjiang Army lost more than 10,000 casualties and more than 10,000 were seriously wounded, and almost all of these seriously wounded soldiers had to withdraw from the army. Therefore, the Northern Frontier Army has a lot of troops to replenish, which requires the consent of the imperial court. (To be continued.) )