In February of the second year of Xingping, Li Dao and Guo Yan were suspicious of each other, and they installed their henchmen in important positions in the imperial court, and the struggle for power and profit became more and more powerful.

However, since Li Wei annexed Fan Chou's army, his family has been dominant and arrogant, and he does not take Guo Yan seriously at all. Guo Yan then wooed Yang Ding, the general of Anxi, and instigated it.

Yang Ding listened to Guo Yan's slander, thinking that Li Wei was going to murder him, and in order to protect himself, he conspired with Guo Yan and prepared to kidnap the Son of Heaven to his camp.

But the jihua of the two was not thorough, and the improper use of people was leaked out and known by Li Wei.

Therefore, Li Dao decided to strike first, first sent his nephew Li Xian to kidnap Emperor Xian of Han to his camp, and sent troops to attack Yang Ding's camp first.

Yang Ding knew that the matter was revealed and could not resist Li Wei's army, so he led his army to flee to Guo Yan's army station, and fought side by side with Guo Yan to counterattack Li Wei.

After Guo Yan learned that the Son of Heaven was kidnapped by Li Dao, in a fit of rage, he kidnapped the ministers who came to persuade peace, commanded the army, and engaged Li Dao.

One of the two occupied the west of Chang'an City, and the other occupied the east of Chang'an City, fighting each other and not giving in to each other. Seeing that he could not win, Li Dao coerced him to be the son of today, named himself the Great Sima, and wanted to overpower Guo Yan in his official position.

The Son of Heaven was controlled by Li Dao, if he did not comply, his life was in danger, and in desperation, he had no choice but to agree to Li Dao's request, issued an edict, and promoted Li Dao as the Great Sima and took charge of the country's military aircraft.

When Guo Yan learned about it, he coerced the ministers to jointly write a letter to denounce Li Dao, and proclaimed himself a general, in charge of the country's soldiers and horses.

The two are-for-tat. Today, the son and the minister took turns to persuade him. None of them can calm the anger in the hearts of the two. Nor can it be allowed to make a truce.

The two armies fought for more than a month, and they lost a lot of troops, but they were never able to tell the winner. In order to make up for the lack of troops, Li Dao and Guo Yan successively drove the people in Chang'an City to fight for themselves.

zuihou。 The whole Chang'an City made people panic, and many young and strong men, in order to escape the war, those who could escape had already fled, and those who could not escape had to hide in Tibet, for fear of being caught by any party.

Today's Chang'an City has suffered a month of turmoil, and it has already been ten rooms and nine empty, and the streets and alleys are full of dead people. It's almost a hell on earth.

After listening to the report of the scout who came back from Guanzhong, Zhang Yan also had a certain understanding of the current situation of Chang'an City. Thereupon. He opened his mouth and asked, "By the way, have you found anything about the other things I told you?" ”

"Lord Qi, my subordinates have investigated, and there is still no clue. The scouts of our army changed the location of the joint several times, but they could not escape the eyes of that person, and every time they were at the joint, they would find a letter. This person knows the scouts of our army very well, and he can detect them very clearly when he is still and moving. The subordinates think, could it be that there is something detailed within us? The scout replied.

Zhang Yan shook his head and said: "For scouts, our army has always been very tightly controlled, and the number of scouts is also very limited, you are all the same as Xu Sheng, I rescued them from the Futu Temple, and I know where everyone is." Every time they are sent to carry out a mission, the number of people will definitely not exceed three people, except for the one who was killed last time, the other two scouts lurking in the pass are all transferred once a month, and there will be no details at all. Since the messenger has been able to find out the location of our changed joints, it means that this person has been paying close attention to the actions of our army, or maybe the scouts on the front line have revealed some clues, so they were discovered......"

The scout hugged his fists and said: "Lord, the kung fu we are waiting for is not as good as Lord Xu, why don't we send Lord Xu to Guanzhong to investigate clearly, right?" ”

Zhang Yan thought for a moment and felt that the scout's proposal was very good, Xu Sheng was the leader of the entire scout army, and his assassination and hiding skills were also the highest one, and now at such a critical moment, it was time to transfer Xu Sheng to the place where he was needed most.

"You're right, now is the time when you need Xu Sheng, you go to Linyi now, tell Xu Sheng the ins and outs of the matter, and let Xu Sheng leave for Chang'an as soon as possible, and thoroughly find out who the person who sent us the letter all along. As for the defense of Linyi, it will be temporarily handed over to Xu Sheng's subordinate military Sima to do it for him. Zhang Yan said.

The scout received the order, worked tirelessly, and rushed to Linyi City overnight.

When Zhang Yan withdrew his troops from Yanzhou, he specially left Mi Fang, Bao Shao, Chen Ying, Niu Jin, and Xu Sheng, each leading 2,000 troops, to form a river defense team, which was stationed in Baima, Jicheng, Qinting, Cangting, and Linyi, and formed a line with Zang Ba in Qingzhou, the purpose of which was to prevent Yuan Shao from crossing the river from Hebei and attacking the south of the Yellow River to ensure the safety of the Central Plains.

But judging from the latest situation, Yuan Shao is preparing to clean up Gongsun Zan in Jizhou, and he has no time to look south. For this reason, Zhang Yan dared to boldly transfer Xu Sheng out to fill the vacant scout team.

For this mysterious messenger, Zhang Yan also wants to figure out who this person is and how he has so much ability.

After Zhang Yan sent scouts to Linyi, he actively devoted himself to the training of soldiers, and transferred Li Cai, the director of the Ministry of Commerce, from Qu County, and temporarily let Li Cai take care of the business of the paper mill and the printing house.

Li Cai is an out-and-out businessman, and his way of operating capital is very different from Zhang Yan's, and he has transported 10,000 war horses from Liaoning unharmed, so what is the difficulty in managing the business of paper mills and printing houses?

A few days later, the scouts lurking in Guanzhong came news again, and Zhang Ji, the general of Zhengdong, heard that Li Dao and Guo Yan were attacking each other in Chang'an, and led the army to rush over from Hongnong.

Li Ji and Guo Yan were very scared when they heard this, the two of them fell into a bitter battle for more than a month, not to mention the loss of soldiers, and the soldiers were even more exhausted, at this time Zhang Ji came from Hongnong, and all he brought was a new force, and neither of them could guess the intention of Zhang Ji's coming this time, and they were very worried that Zhang Ji would take the opportunity to eliminate them.

As a result, there was a long-lost short-lived peace in Chang'an City. Li Dao and Guo Yan took the initiative to cease fighting. A truce was called for a few days. As for the time of the start of the war, it will be announced separately.

When Zhang Ji arrived in Chang'an City, he stationed the army outside the city, took his nephew Zhang Xiu and five hundred relatives and cavalry, and came to Chang'an City with great courage and high spirits, and asked people to invite Li Dao and Guo Yan to talk in detail in person.

Li Dao and Guo Yan were afraid that Zhang Ji would plot to kill them, so they proposed to let Zhang Xiu lead his troops back within a radius of half a mile. There can't be one person.

Zhang Ji agreed to Li Dao and Guo Yan's request, and the two of them came out of the city. After a month, this was the first time that Li Dao and Guo Yan met, both of whom had become haggard because of the war, and arrived in front of Zhang Ji one after another.

Zhang Ji went straight to the point and said that he was here to persuade and hoped that Li Ji and Guo Yan could put the overall situation first and stop the war from now on. Otherwise, he will lead a large army to attack Li Dao and Guo Yan.

This time. Li Dao and Guo Yan's armies were not as strong as Zhang Ji's, and both of them were a little hesitant. However, due to the strength of Zhang Ji's troops, he was forced to agree to a truce.

After Li Dao and Guo Yan agreed to a truce, Zhang Ji asked Li Dao to release the current Son of Heaven and Guo Yan to release the Gongqing, not to joke about Jiangshan Sheji, and to apologize to the Son of Heaven and the Gongqing.

The two had some doubts and were afraid that the Son of Heaven would not be able to forgive them, so Zhang Ji went to see the Son of Heaven alone and persuaded the Son of Heaven to forgive Li Dao and Guo Yan, and the two agreed to Zhang Ji's conditions and released the Son of Heaven and the Gongqing.

After that, Li Dao was in the west of the city, Guo Yan was in the east of the city, and Zhang Jitun was near the palace to maintain the prestige and order of the Han Emperor, and the turmoil in Chang'an City came to an end for the time being.

Half a month later, the scouts came the news again, because Li Dao and Guo Yan fought in Chang'an City, the city was ruined, the granary, arsenal, city wall, and people's houses were destroyed, and Chang'an City was even more in a mess, like ruins.

Therefore, Zhang Ji suggested that the current Son of Heaven should be transferred to Hongnong City for food on the grounds that the army had no food in Chang'an.

Chang'an was the Shili range of Li Dao, who refused to move the Son of Heaven to the east, and took the initiative to lead the main force of the army to the Chiyang area to find food.

However, Guo Yan supported Zhang Ji's suggestion, and just as Li Dao led the main force to leave, he encouraged the rest of the generals with military power to instigate Zhang Ji together with Yang Ding, Yang Feng and others, and together with the minister, they jointly wrote a letter asking for the east to move east to Hongnong.

The Son of Heaven was fed up with Li Dao's oppression and thought that this was a good opportunity, so he decisively agreed to the request and officially canonized Zhang Ji as a hussar general, opened a mansion, and was like a third duke; Feng Guo Yan was named the general of the chariot cavalry, Yang Ding was the general of the post, and Yang Feng was the general of Xingyi, all of whom were named the Marquis of Guannei. In addition, the Son of Heaven took the opportunity to canonize Dong Cheng as General Anji, responsible for accompanying him to protect the Son of Heaven.

A cadre of people waited, and left Chang'an without Li Dao, all the way to the east.

When Li Dao learned of this news, he was furious, so he led an army to pursue the Son of Heaven, intending to snatch the Son of Heaven back.

The Son of Heaven returned to the east, Guo Yan suddenly felt scared on the way, after all, Hongnong was Zhang Ji's shili range, in case he arrived at Hongnong, he would not have the right to speak, thinking that Zhang Ji wanted to rob the Son of Heaven.

So, Guo Yan had evil thoughts and wanted to strike first, robbed the Son of Heaven, and went to Yixian County to station. So, Guo Yan encouraged Yang Ding and Yang Feng to return to Yi County with him, but Yang Ding and Yang Feng had their own ideas early on, and they also wanted to rob the Son of Heaven to do whatever they wanted.

At this time, Dong Cheng had insight into the evil thoughts of the three of them, so he came out to stop Guo Yan, Yang Ding, and Yang Feng, saying that Li Dao and Zhang Ji were strong, and they should unite, since they wanted to return to the east, they would return to Luoyang, hoping that Guo Yan, Yang Ding, and Yang Feng would help, and once they arrived in Luoyang, they would be great heroes and would definitely get a very rich reward.

Guo Yan, Yang Ding, and Yang Feng believed Dong Cheng's persuasion, so they dispelled their thoughts and continued to travel east.

However, on the way to the march, everyone had their own ghosts, and they were fighting for power and profit with each other, this one asked the Son of Heaven for high-ranking officials, and the other asked the Son of Heaven for generous fortune. Guo Yan came more simply, without warning, and suddenly launched an attack on Yang Ding and Yang Feng's camp, defeating Yang Ding and Yang Feng. Then, Guo Yan led an army to seize the Son of Heaven, but was repelled by Dong Cheng's army, so Zhang Ji led an army to attack Guo Yan, Guo Yan could not resist and was forced to flee.

As a result, Guo Yan met Li Dao on the road, and the two released their previous suspicions, and joined forces again to attack Zhang Ji and Dong Cheng together.

Yang Feng was originally a white wave thief, and later became Li Dao's subordinates, this time he rebelled against Li Dao, and was attacked by Guo Yan, Yang Feng, who was embarrassed and angry, handed over his army to Yang Ding to lead, he returned to Hedong alone, and recruited Li Le, Han Xian, Hu Cai and others who were thieves in the Baibo Valley, each led troops to rescue the Son of Heaven, and led the army to attack Li Dao and Guo Yan. Even the Right Xian King of the Southern Xiongnu went to Bei, and after receiving the news of the fall of the Son of Heaven, he personally led troops to help the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty.

Finally arrived at Hongnong, Zhang Ji finally returned to his own territory, and wanted to hold the Son of Heaven hostage and confront Li Dao and Guo Yan. Who knows, the Son of Heaven relied on Dong Cheng and successfully persuaded Yang Ding, Yang Feng, Li Le, Han Xian, Hu Cai, Qubei and others to continue to flee eastward.

It was only at this time that Zhang Ji knew that the Son of Heaven had set the destination of his return to the east in Luoyang.

As a result, Zhang Ji was extremely remorseful, and led the army to rob the Son of Heaven but failed, but joined forces with Li Dao and Guo Yan to pursue the Son of Heaven together.

Coincidentally, the party was too guarded and public, and when he heard that the Son of Heaven had returned to the east, he personally led the Jian'er of Bingzhou to come to help, and joined forces with Yang Ding, Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and others to jointly resist Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others, and fought and retreated.

And now, the Son of Heaven has arrived near Hangu Pass......

When Zhang Yan heard the news, he was excited, thinking that the time he had been waiting for had finally arrived. He immediately ordered all the cavalry, with Tai Shici, Xu Chu, Zhang Hong, and 10,000 cavalry, each with ten days of dry food, and headed towards Luoyang City.

When he was in the two places of Jingyin and Chen, Zhang Yan also brought Gao Shun and Zhang Liao with them, and asked them to order their own soldiers and horses, followed closely behind, and asked Yu Ban to lead Li Dian, Mi Fang, Chen Ying, Niu Jin, Bao Shao and other soldiers and horses to Luoyang together, ready to compete for the current Son of Heaven!

After the order was issued, Zhang Yan led 10,000 cavalry such as Tai Shici and Xu Chu to arrive in Luoyang first.

At that time, it was the glorious imperial capital, but since Dong Zhuo moved westward and burned Luoyang City with a fire, Luoyang City has become a pile of ruins, and until now, there are still traces of fire and smoke on the city wall.

Zhang Yan and the others worked non-stop, sleeplessly, and after arriving in Luoyang City, they immediately received a report from the scout, saying that the escort team of the Son of Heaven had arrived in Xin'an County, less than 100 miles away from here.

When he heard this exciting news, Zhang Yan couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, because, soon, he would be able to meet the Son of Heaven...... (To be continued......)