In the second half of the first month of the fourth year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (199 AD), Yuzhou, Xuchang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cao Cao sent the Son of Heaven to Xuchang. Yuan Shao greeted many officials.

The two met very happily and talked and laughed. Cao Cao timely proposed to Yuan Shao the matter of allocating grain and grass. He was anxious to attack Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shao was very happy this time, and immediately invited Chen Guoxiang Gaogan and Runan Taishou Xu Xuan to the mansion. In front of Cao Cao, the four of them discussed properly and agreed to allocate grain and grass in place before the beginning of March.

After receiving Yuan Shao's promise, Cao Cao immediately took his leave and rushed to the front line in Qicheng.

After Cao Cao left, Yuan Shao urgently summoned Fu Zhu, Xu You and other officials to discuss, secretly deployed the army, and prepared to send troops to the Central Plains when Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were defeated.

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In early February, Yangzhou, Shouchun.

When Yuan Shu received that Yuan Yao had successfully left the Yangtze River and entered the sea with more than 20 large ships and thousands of people, Xu Xuan of Runan sent him the last batch of grain, grass and ordnance.

However, a bad news also came at the same time, Liu Pet committed suicide. This old man, who was forcibly pushed to the throne by Yuan Shu, couldn't bear the pain of cannibalism and hanged himself. In the end, he had only one request, hoping that Yuan Shu would send his remains to Chen Guo for burial.

Yuan Shu fulfilled his wish and sent a team of men and horses to send the coffin to the state of Chen.

Cao Cao was the first to get the news, and he immediately posted a message against Yuan Shu, saying that Yuan Shu had killed the king he had established and established himself as emperor, which was the most shameless and despicable rebellion in the world.

Asking Yuan Yuwen to tell Yuan Shu's crime of killing the monarch and standing on his own feet vividly, coupled with the fact that Liu Chong's death is a fact, Yuan Shu's black cauldron has been completely condemned since then.

When Yuan Shu saw this article against Yuan, he didn't laugh angrily, and said: "The winner is the king, and the loser is the villain, let him go." ”

This article on Yuan Shu shocked Yuan Shu's subordinates greatly, and many people who did not know right and wrong fled to Runan to seek refuge with Xu Xuan. Chen Lan and Lei Bo even took the army and went directly to Yuan Shao.

There are still many loyal Yuan Shu's subordinates, such as Li Ye, Yang Hong, Xun Zheng, Yan Xiang and other civil officials, and military generals such as Ji Ling, Qiao Rui, Zhang Xun, and He Yi, under the command of Yuan Shu, actively prepare for war, and prepare to rely on Jiujiang County to fight to the death with Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu.

In mid-February, the armies of Cao Cao and Liu Bei began to attack Qicheng. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's sailors began to Chen Bing Liyang. The two sides fought fiercely.

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Late February, Hanoi, Huai Thanh.

Eight hundred miles of fast riding rushed into the city like the cold dew of early spring.

Tai Shici Li Yi saw the general's handwriting, and his heart was suffocated.

The Great War began.

"What is the Lord's order?" Koji Yi asked anxiously on the side.

"Drum ......" Tai Shi Ci roared, and suddenly smashed out with a volley, "Gather a large army and attack Pinggao City." ”

Fierce war drums rose into the sky, and then an earth-shattering roar erupted from the sky above Pinggao City, accompanied by a piercing roar from far and near, and a huge cloud of black arrows fell from the sky.

The sound of "...... Boom" sharp arrows tearing through the air was thrilling.

The sound of "knock knock ......" sharp arrows hitting shields, nailing to the city walls, and penetrating the doors and windows of the city towers was terrifying.

The panicked and terrible roars came and went, and in an instant they merged into waves of turbulent sound that continuously crashed against the crumbling city wall.

Zhang Nanmeng opened his eyes, turned over and sat up.

The extreme exhaustion of body and mind penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and the soreness and pain all over his body made him moan involuntarily. After several days of fierce fighting, his physical strength was seriously exhausted, and at this moment, Zhang Nan sat on the couch blankly, his mind was blank, he couldn't tell whether he was in a dream or in reality, and it was day or night.

There was a dense "ding dong" sound and a sharp whistling in his ears, like a violent storm suddenly coming to Pinggao City.

Rain cats and dogs? It's raining?

Zhang Nan closed his eyes, shook his numb head, couldn't support his tired body, and slowly fell to the couch.

There was a "......bang", and the door of the house came apart, and the two wooden doors slammed against the wall.

Several figures rushed in, it was Zhang Nan's deputy general and a group of staff.

Zhang Nan opened his eyes again, his stiff and tilted body suddenly regained his strength, he was like a beast waiting to be devoured, he stood up with a "whew", and asked loudly: "The enemy has attacked?" ”

"General, the Northern Frontier Army is attacking continuously, and the East City Gate is in an emergency." An adjutant general rushed to Zhang Nan's side out of breath, bowed down and shouted, "General, go to the East City Gate and have a look." ”

Zhang Nan scolded hatefully.

Last year, Zhang Nan and Guo Tu repeatedly wrote letters to Yuan Shao, requesting to attack the Northern Xinjiang Army stationed in Huaicheng, but Yuan Shao did not agree for some reason, and dragged it until winter, and the result was to no avail.

Zhang Nan originally thought that Yuan Shao was going to launch a counteroffensive this year to drive away the Northern Xinjiang Army, but Yuan Shao still did not move, and there was not even a sign of increasing troops.

Now, after more than a year of recovery, the Northern Xinjiang Army has taken the initiative to come to the door.

Zhang Nan really didn't understand, the Northern Xinjiang Army was about to reach Luoyang, why wasn't Yuan Shao in a hurry? Do you have to wait until the Northern Xinjiang Army Chen Bing Huanghe is approaching Luoyang before the army counterattacks?

Zhang Nan asked, "Is there any news in Luoyang?" ”

"Nope." Zhang Nan's long history shook his head, anxious, "Mr. Guo Tu came to the book and said that he sent three letters a day to Luoyang to ask for military support, but Luoyang has not replied so far. ”

"A bunch of idiots." Zhang Nan gritted his teeth, pointed to the door, and said angrily, "The people in Luoyang should be allowed to come and see how the Northern Xinjiang Army attacked the city." Such a fierce attack is enough to show the determination of the Northern Xinjiang Army to attack Luoyang. ”

"General, stop talking nonsense. The Northern Xinjiang Army attacked day and night, arrows and stones rained, our casualties were too great, let's ask Luoyang for help. The adjutant general wiped the sweat from his face and urged loudly, "Now it is Tai Shici and Ko Yina who are attacking the city and they are rebellious, and when the other troops in Jizhou rush to the city, we will not be able to support it." ”

Since Liyi surrendered to the Northern Xinjiang Army, he was sent to Tai Shici's regiment as a deputy general to directly confront Yuan Shaojun, which made Yuan Shaojun's generals very hateful. Of course, what they hated the most was the ability that Koji Yoshimi showed on the battlefield, and when he was on his own side before, these abilities couldn't be seen. But when he arrived in the Northern Xinjiang Army, he seemed to have changed people all of a sudden, and he couldn't do it fiercely, and for more than a year, Zhang Nannan suffered a lot of losses in his hands.

"How many casualties have we suffered so far?" Zhang Nan walked out the door while turning his head to look at Changshi who was following him.

"General, there are nearly a thousand casualties." The elder said bitterly, "The Northern Frontier Army has dozens of stone cannons, and that thing has done us too much harm. ”

"The lord is too partial." The deputy general scolded angrily, "Luoyang and Chang'an have stone cannons, but they don't give it to us." If we also have stone artillery now, how can the Northern Frontier Army be so rampant? ”

"Okay, let's say a few words." Zhang Nan glared at the deputy general and said loudly, "You go to Xicheng to transfer troops to reinforce Dongcheng, go quickly." ”

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Tai Shici sat on the horse, covered his mouth, and kept coughing.

In the past few days, he supervised the siege of the city day and night, and he was so tired that he lay down on the ground with his leather mattress and slept casually, but he fell cold.

"Are you still dizzy?" Wang Wei on the side asked with concern.

Tai Shici reluctantly shook his hand and said, "I can still support it." ”

Wang Wei asked: "Tonight, do you still let the two generals Lu Yi and Tian Kai continue to lead the army to attack?" ”

Tai Shi Ci looked up at Pinggao City in the distance, frowned and asked, "Where is General Zhang Fei's army now?" ”

Wang Wei replied: "General Zhang has already set out from Yecheng, and he will take his army directly west to Chaoge City." If nothing else, the 30,000-strong army will be able to reach the city of Pingao in ten days. ”

"Ten days?" Tai Shi Ci thought for a moment and waved his hand resolutely, "Order the army and continue the attack." ”

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In early March, Luoyang.

Yuan Shao and Fu Zhu, Xian Pei, Feng Ji and others had been discussing for several days, and they could not understand the intention of the Northern Frontier Army to launch a sudden attack on Hanoi.

The news from Jicheng and Jizhou confirmed that the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army had left the fortress, and Jizhou was successively recruiting people and ships to transport grain and grass to the desert. There are all kinds of indications that Hebei's targets this year are still Ding Ling, Jiankun and other Hu rebellions.

Northern Xinjiang is unstable, Hebei will not be able to go south to conquer the Central Plains, the Northern Xinjiang Army's decision to continue to quell the rebellion in the border is undoubtedly correct, but now the question is, why did Tai Shici attack Pinggao City in Hanoi?

At present, on the north bank of the Yellow River in Hanoi, there are three cities of Ha Duong, Wen County and Binh Gao, which are controlled by their own army, with 30,000 defenders, which is close to the strength of Tai Shi Ci. If Tai Shici did not have reinforcements, even if the Northern Xinjiang Army was strong, under the condition that the strength of the two sides was about the same, it would not be able to conquer Pinggao and other three cities, and Chen Bing Huanghe directly threatened Luoyang.

At present, the Northern Xinjiang Army in Jizhou has three infantry corps and one cavalry corps with a total of 114,000 troops, except for the Gaoshun Corps stationed in Pingyuan County, Li Jing's corps in Dongwuyang, and Zhang He's corps in Qinghe State, only the 32,000 army of Zhang Fei's corps stationed in Wei County can support Hanoi. If Zhang Fei led his army to support Hanoi, the Northern Xinjiang Army would have more than 60,000 troops to attack the three cities of Hanoi, and the chances of victory would be greatly increased.

However, this led to an unbelievable situation, and the Northern Frontier Army had to fight on both the southern and northern fronts at the same time. The Jizhou War has only been more than a year, and Hebei has not recovered its vitality anyway.

In fact, apparently impossible.

So what was the purpose of Li Yi's order to attack the three cities of Hanoi? Is it to contain his own forces and prevent himself and Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others from taking the opportunity to join forces to attack Jizhou?

Last year, the Central Plains was in flames, and there were frequent wars, whether it was Cao Cao or Liu Bei, they were exhausted at the moment, and they had no ability to go to the Northern Expedition to Jizhou.

Since this is the case, then Li Yi still has one purpose left, he restrained his forces, not to prevent himself from joining forces with Cao Cao and Liu Bei on the Northern Expedition, but to prevent himself from taking advantage of the fact that the Northern Xinjiang Army had no time to take care of the Central Plains, defeat the exhausted Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and dominate the Central Plains. (To be continued.) )