The news of Huainan Yuan Shu's suicide in Qianshan spread far and wide, and it spread throughout the Han states and fell into the ears of the princes of various towns in ten days.

However, the princes of the towns couldn't help but sigh when they heard the news, but they were not surprised, it seemed that this qiē had been expected as early as possible, and what should have happened happened after all.

The only thing that surprised the princes was that they never expected that Yuan Shu would be defeated so quickly and so completely, so that he would finally go to a dead end.

If the news of Yuan Shu's defeat and death was not enough to surprise the princes of the towns, then Li Li's subsequent burial of Yuan Shu with the courtesy of the princes and allowing Yuan Yao to guard his father's spirit surprised the princes, who could hardly believe their ears and their jaws were about to fall.

Is this what Li Li did?

The princes were skeptical, but facts speak louder than words, and everyone's eyes are bright. On the day of the burial, more than 10,000 people from Yuzhou counties, Jiujiang counties and Lujiang counties attended the funeral and witnessed this scene with their own eyes.

For this reason, the princes of the towns were full of compassion in their hearts, and there were no more long and short words, and they all remained silent and watched from the wall.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the spring of the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, in the middle of February 199 AD.

On the seventh day of Yuan Shu's entry into the earth, the edict of the Son of Heaven, which had disappeared for two years, reappeared in the Central Plains and quickly spread to all prefectures and counties in the Han Dynasty, which caused an uproar.

In an instant, one stone stirred up a thousand waves. With the appearance of the edict of the Son of Heaven, the Hebei battlefield, which was still in the truce period, was boiling in an instant, and the people and horses of all parties who had rested for a winter regrouped and fought vigorously. Stir.

The smoke rose suddenly, the war horse neighed, and the smoke cloud of war once again shrouded the sky over Jizhou. And quickly spread to the entire Central Plains.

And the source of this qiē is that after Huainan Yuan Shu, another emperor appeared in the world.

In the middle of February of the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao of Jizhou ascended the throne in Yecheng and proclaimed to be the emperor, claiming to uphold the edict of the Han Emperor, inheriting the will of heaven and obeying the will of the people. Ninety-five, succeeded to the throne as the emperor, and reigned over the world. Yuan Shao was called the emperor. Tell the world, still use the name of the Han Dynasty, take Yecheng as the imperial capital, and posthumously call his father Yuan Feng as "Emperor Ren". Posthumously awarded the Han Emperor Liu Xie's name "Emperor Xian".

Meanwhile. Yuan Shao, who claimed to be the emperor without authorization, issued an edict, granted amnesty to the world, placed the three princes and nine kings and hundreds of officials, and included all the princes of each town under his command, and rewarded them greatly.

In this edict, Yuan Shao enshrined Cao Cao of Yanzhou as Situ and Lu Chengshi, Liu Biao of Jingzhou as Taiwei, and Liu Zhang of Yizhou as Sikong. Xuzhou Lu Bu was the general, and Jiangdong Sun Ce was the hussar general. Gongsun Du of Liaodong is the general of the chariot cavalry, and Kebineng is the general of Wei?????? There are more than 300 people, including almost all the famous strategists and generals under the accounts of the princes of each town. Finally, it was Xiliang Li Li, Yuan Shaoyi named him the general of Xiaocai, and specially stated his responsibilities to guard the Western Regions forever.

This is the general content of the edict of the Son of Heaven that spread all over the world during the tenth day.

Obviously, the edict after Yuan Shao became emperor undoubtedly humiliated Li Li, so that the generals of the army under Li Li who were stationed in various states were indignant and sent troops to attack Jizhou as soon as possible.

On the third day of Yuan Shao's establishment as emperor, Zhang Liao, who was ordered to garrison Youzhou, led more than 100,000 Youzhou troops to take the lead in attacking. In the battle, Zhang Liao's 50,000 infantry cavalry was the Chinese army, Zhao Yun's Wushuang iron cavalry was the left army, Zhang Yan's Feiyan light cavalry was the right army, and the three soldiers and horses marched together and attacked at the same time.

At the same time, Zhou Yu, who was in Hanoi, also dispatched troops and led 100,000 cavalry into Jizhou and went straight to Yecheng.

At this moment, Li Li, who had just won the great victory of the Southern Expedition, quietly returned to Luoyang. Immediately, while mobilizing a large army to come to Sili, he rushed to Jizhou non-stop, wanting to join forces with Zhou Yu's army.

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Spring flowers bloom, grass grows warblers fly. The sound of horses' hooves galloped by, ravaging the new grass and green shoots on both sides of the road, and then went straight to the Liyang camp.

As the cavalry of the brigade got closer and closer, the defenders of the camp gate, who had already received the news, opened the gate, and the main general of the battalion, Zhou Yu, led the generals out of the camp to greet them.

Not long after, Li Li led Jin Yiwei and the two battalions of the trapped camp to ride 50,000 steps to the front of the gate, and dismounted to meet Zhou Yu, Huan Fei, Xu Chu and other generals who had been waiting for a long time.

This is the reunion between Li Li and the generals stationed in Hebei after a long absence. Since the second year of Jian'an, Li Li's army has not met for a whole year and six months, and it was not until this expedition to Jizhou that they were able to reunite.

After a few hours of greetings, the army entered the camp, and the chief ministers walked into the tent of the commander of the Chinese army hand in hand.

After taking his seat, Li Li said with a smile: "For more than a year, fortunately, Gong Jin led the army to contain Yuan Shao's army, so that it could not advance an inch and was struggling. In addition, it is precisely because of your dedication and hard work that the development momentum of Yanzhou Cao Cao was greatly curbed, and his soldiers and horses were detained in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and there was no time to take care of them. It is because of the great merits of all of you, if this crusade against Yuan Shao is successful, it will depend on your merits! ”

"The Lord is serious." Hearing Li Li's praise, Zhou Yu stood up on behalf of the generals under his tent and said respectfully: "The last general and others were ordered to garrison Hanoi and contain Yuan Shao's army. ”

After humbling himself, Zhou Yu paused, turned his head to look at the generals present, and then said: "Today, the lord came to Jizhou in person, and the last general will report on behalf of the soldiers. It is a shame to say that the last general led the army into Hanoi County for nearly two years, but he has always been trapped in place and has not built an inch. For this reason, the last general and the soldiers under his account were deeply ashamed, so the last general asked for help, and was willing to be the vanguard of the former army and lead the army to attack Yecheng. I beseech the Lord to fulfill it. As soon as these words came out, the generals under the account, such as Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Pang De, and He Man, echoed their words, willing to be the vanguard of the former army, and asked Ying to fight.

Obviously, as Zhou Yu said, Huan Fei, Xu Chu and other generals are indeed suffocated. They were ordered to garrison Hanoi County, and they have been on the defensive for more than a year, and occasionally sending troops to attack the city is also a bluff feint, which plays a role in containing the Jizhou army. During this period, the soldiers and horses of the battalions that followed Li Li on the expedition repeatedly performed miraculous feats, recovering Youzhou, sweeping away the barbarians outside the Saiwai, and now pacifying Huainan and reaching the Yangtze River. This pile and piece are all miraculous feats, which are enough to shine in the annals of history and leave their names in history. But Zhou Yu, Huan Fei and Xu Chu and others could only sit and watch, and they couldn't intervene at all.

However, as Li Li said, Zhou Yu led the army to garrison Hebei not without achievements. Although this army did not have the merit of attacking the city and pulling out the village, it greatly restrained Yuan Shao of Jizhou and the Jizhou army under his account, forcing him to be difficult to take care of, and the enemy on his back and back.

And the most rare and the most easily overlooked is that due to the rear containment of Cao Cao of Yanzhou and Zhang Liao's army of Youzhou, Zhou Yu's army was able to easily cross the Yellow River, and then firmly wedged into Jizhou like a nail, stuck on the gateway of Jizhou to Hanoi County. In this way, it shattered the dream of Yuan Shao of Jizhou trying to rely on the Yellow River as a barrier, thus forcing the Jizhou army to be in an extremely passive defensive situation at the beginning of the war, trapped on all sides, with the enemy on its belly and back, and always on the verge of crumbling danger.

Not only that, due to the existence of Zhang Liao's army in Youzhou and Zhou Yu's army in Hanoi, not only trapped Yuan Shao in Jizhou, but also indirectly contained and contained all the troops of Cao Cao in Yanzhou, so that he watched Li Li's army attack the city, rapidly expand its territory and strengthen its strength, but he did not dare to act rashly, and had no choice but to sit on the land of Liangzhou, sighing in envy and sighing. Because the army of Zhang Liao in Youzhou was behind, it not only besieged Jizhou, but also posed a great threat to Qingzhou; And Zhou Yu's army Chen Bing was in front, which could not only besiege Yecheng, but also deter Yanzhou. In addition, the soldiers and horses of Jia Xu's subordinates posed a direct threat to Yanzhou, and they could send troops to attack Chen Liu at any time.

This is the value of Zhou Yu's troops and horses stationed in Hanoi County, although they did not achieve substantial military achievements, but they played a key role that cannot be ignored in Li Li's army's eastward expedition to Youzhou and southern expedition to Huainan, and made a huge contribution.

Now Huainan was initially decided, and the Zhong Emperor Yuan Shu had just died, but Yuan Shao of Jizhou had rebuilt the Yuan family. As a result, Li Li had just destroyed an emperor, but he didn't expect that after less than a month, the Yuan clan would resurrect again and have another emperor. The most annoying thing is that after Yuan Shao became emperor, he dared to openly provoke Li Li, which instantly opened a life-and-death battle that determined the final ownership of the Central Plains.

At present, the armies of the two sides facing Hebei are in full swing to mobilize their armies, and the battle for the cities around Jizhou has begun.

According to Zhou Yu's detailed account, Li Lifang knew that Zhang Liao's Youzhou army had already attacked Julu, and Cao Cao, who was in Yanzhou, where the army was in the plain, had also led his army to attack Qinghe. The offensive momentum of these two armies was very rapid, the front was strong, and they successively attacked the city and pulled out the fortress in ten days, and won a lot. Comparatively speaking, Yanzhou Cao Cao's army made particularly rapid progress in attacking the Qinghe Kingdom, and has now captured most of the cities of the Qinghe Kingdom, while Zhang Liao's troops have encountered the most stubborn resistance of the Yuan army, and the progress is relatively slow.

After learning that Cao Cao had no abnormal movements, Li Li's face changed slightly, as if he was thinking, while Guo Jia, Gao Shun and others who followed Li Li were secretly relieved. Obviously, they all thought that Yanzhou Cao Cao and Jizhou Yuan Shao would join forces again, but they did not admit that Cao Cao did not defect from the Yuan alliance, but still led the army to attack Jizhou. This is undoubtedly good news, which is extremely beneficial to Yuan Shao this time, and the odds of victory are very high, and it can be said that the victory is in hand.

After pondering for a long time, Li Li instructed in a low tone: "Feng Xiao drafted an invitation and sent someone to Cao Cao's camp, asking him to come to Liyang's camp within five days to discuss Yuan's plan. Do it quickly, and there must be no mistakes! ”

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