The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"Serving the lord, what kind of hardship is this, even if I throw my head and blood, I will not hesitate!"

Huang Gai was rather stubborn.

"It's just, my lord, why did you come to Hepu City suddenly? Could it be that you brought someone to fight here? Then why is Liu Zheng still standing here? This traitor should be punished quickly!"

Sun Jian glanced at Liu Zheng in embarrassment, and then said to Huang Gai.

"Brother Huang Gai, surrender."

Chapter 367 The Battle of the Beasts

"What?"

Huang Gai thought he heard it wrong, so he froze on the spot.

Huang Gai thought that Sun Jian was here to rescue him, but he didn't expect that Sun Jian asked him to surrender when he opened his mouth.

When Sun Jian saw Huang Gai, he didn't seem to understand what he meant, so he continued to explain to Huang Gai.

"Brother Huang Gai, I have already taken refuge with Commander Liu Zhengqu, and now I am one of his subordinates. This time I specifically begged him to release you. Listen to my advice, join Liu Zhengqu and let him spare your life."

It wasn't until this time that Huang Gai finally understood that Sun Jian hadn't brought people to kill Hepu City.Instead, he was defeated by Liu Zheng and took refuge in Liu Zheng.

Although Huang Gai had great doubts about Sun Jian's defeat to Liu Zheng, he was speechless for a while when he heard Sun Jian's persuasion to surrender.After all, he sighed.

When Sun Jian saw Huang Gai sighing, he already knew that Huang Gai had the idea of ​​surrender in his heart. This was the belief he had always insisted on, and it collapsed at this moment. He briefly described to Huang Gai the reason why he appeared here.

After hearing Sun Jian's description, Huang Gai understood why Sun Jian appeared here. At the same time, he also knew Sun Jian's tortuous battle process, and expressed sympathy for Sun Jian's experience.

But it was precisely because of this that Huang Gai surrendered logically.Liu Zheng did not embarrass Huang Gai, but continued to let him obey Sun Jian.

After getting Huang Gai done, the three things have been done.

After simply cleaning up for Huang Gai, Liu Zheng sent someone to explain to Sun Jian about the next trip to Rinan County, and then he said goodbye to Sun Jian.

It will be September soon, and Liu Zheng, as the principal of the Military Academy, will still give a speech at the opening ceremony. At the same time, he will continue to build houses for the refugees, and he will need to deal with many things. In addition, a few months have passed, The business relationship between Jiaozhou and Xuzhou is getting closer, and more and more things need to be dealt with.

Liu Zheng has been busy with these things all day long, and he is also physically and mentally exhausted.

At the end of September, the weather was already a bit chilly, but the temperature in Jiaozhou was still very high. Xu You, Xu Huang and others hurriedly found Liu Zheng.

Speaking of the Central Plains area, there is finally a new movement.

Liu Zheng has been busy with the war in Yangzhou for the past few months, and he doesn't know much about the news in the Central Plains. In addition, the news sent to him by the spies is relatively fragmented. Either this prince defeated someone, or that prince was killed by others. Beheaded.

Although they were all insignificant little prefects, and they were all characters that Liu Zheng hadn't heard of before, so he didn't take it to heart.

This time, what Xu You told him surprised Liu Zheng.

The battle that took place outside the Hulao Pass against the general He Miao by the princes of the ten towns lasted for two months. Finally, a new situation emerged. The coalition forces of Guan and Yuan Shao fought for two months, but none of Yuan Shao and his men were able to break through Lu Zhi's defense.

This is mainly because there are several powerful figures under Lu Zhi's subordinates. As Lu Zhi's two major disciples, Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, both assisted Lu Zhi in resisting the attack of Yuan Shao's coalition forces at Hulao Pass.

Even though Yuan Shao already had Yan Liang, Wen Chou and the two powerful generals under his command, coupled with the continuous attacks of other princes from several towns, they still failed to break through the Hulao Pass.

When they thought they would continue the protracted battle at Hulao Pass, Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others in Xiliang began to grow stronger, and the rebellion of the Qiang people who were gradually driven out and suppressed by Lu Zhi before revived again.

As a result, the pressure on Dong Zhuo, who was originally in charge of Lu Zhi's rebellion in Xiliang, not only failed to deal with the rebellion of the Qiang people for a while, but also made the rebellion more and more intense. Zhang Yi dispatched soldiers and horses to support him.

The governor of Bingzhou is not Ding Yuan, but Zhang Yi. Although there have been frequent rebellions in the court in recent years, the court rarely uses troops from Bingzhou and Youzhou to quell the chaos, because the troops from Bingzhou must We must guard against the attack of the Hu people in the north.

Although the Hu people were beaten and fled by the Han court during the Western Han Dynasty, there were still many Hu people left behind. In recent years, some vitality has also been restored. The Hu people are warlike in nature and like to plunder, and they will ride horses to the territory of the big Han all the year round. To plunder money and food, so although Bingzhou is heavily guarded, it is mostly used to defend the barbarians outside the Great Wall. Even if the imperial court has internal and external troubles, the imperial court rarely uses the troops here.

But at this time, it is about the safety of the court itself, so it can't be controlled so much.

The imperial court could only use soldiers and horses from Bingzhou to go to Xiliang to quell the rebellion, and the person who was sent to Xiliang was none other than Director Ding Yuan.

However, after Ding Yuan withdrew more than [-] troops from Bingzhou, the whole Bingzhou seemed a little empty. The Karasuma people in Youzhou seized this opportunity and joined forces with Zhang Chun, the prime minister of Zhongshan, to launch a rebellion in Youzhou. Attacked Youzhou, and in a short period of time, killed Huwuhuan School Captain Qi Chou, Youbeiping Taishou Liu Zheng, Liaodong Taishou Yang Zhong, etc., gathered more than [-] people, stationed troops like fat, and plundered Youzhou and Jizhou .Zhang Chun called himself General Mi Tian and King Anding.

As far as Zhang Chun is concerned, he was originally an official of the Han Dynasty, and he was regarded as the center of the Han Dynasty, and he had no intention of rebelling. The people in the world are struggling to make ends meet, so Zhang Chun's mind began to change.

However, none of these were enough to make him disappointed in the big man. What prompted him to conspire with the Karasuma people was that when the imperial court sent Huangfu Song to quell the chaos because of the Xiliang incident, they also asked Taiwei Zhang Wen to go with him.

And Zhang Wen needed to find a few subordinates. When he came to Youzhou to recruit three thousand elite cavalry to deal with the Xiliang iron cavalry, Zhang Chun volunteered to go to Xiliang to mix up his achievements so that he could rise to the top.

But Zhang Wen didn't like Zhang Chun at all. Instead, he asked Gongsun Zan from Liaodong to go with him.

There is no way around this. After all, Gongsun Zan's teacher is Lu Zhi, who is also one of the three Zhonglang generals. Moreover, Gongsun Zan was quite outstanding in the battle against the Yellow Turban Army not long ago, which impressed Zhang Wen deeply, so he chose Gongsun Zan's.

But Zhang Chun didn't know the reason for this, he just thought that Zhang Wen's failure to choose him hindered his promotion and fortune, so he remembered it. It happened that the Karasuma people wanted to seize Liaodong, so they hit it off with Zhang Chun and they joined forces directly. The Karasuma people rebelled.

Chapter 368 The Karasuma people also want to do things

The Wuwan people in Youzhou followed the example of the Qiang people and rebelled. This is normal. After all, the Wusuma people are nothing but fools. One day they can fight the Huns with the Huns, and they can follow the Huns to fight the Huns tomorrow.

Repeatedly, it is normal. In history, the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju was to unite the Karasuma people. Liu Zheng still remembered this. Yu was able to rise to the top.

"I can still understand the rebellion of those Qiang people. After all, they are far away from the Central Plains, but why do these Wusuma people join in the fun at this time, and why do they rebel like those Qiang people?"

A smile appeared on Liu Zheng's face. After listening to Xu You and Xu Huang's description, although he didn't care much about the things these Karasuma people did in Youzhou, it was a fatal blow to the Han Dynasty. hit.

Originally, the Han Dynasty was due to the civil war, but now the prestige of the court is getting lower and lower. Now there are Qiang people making troubles in the northwest, Karasuma people in the north, and Liu Zheng, the Yellow Turban remnant party in the south, united with Zhang Ning and his group. , can make bigger disturbances at any time, the entire imperial court still belongs to the big man on the surface, but it has been torn apart in private.

"My lord, it's not surprising that those Karasuma people will turn against the big man at this time."

"Oh?"

Xu You opened his mouth and said something to Liu Zheng, which made Liu Zheng a little interested. Looking at Xu You, he wanted Xu You to tell why.

"When I was young, I went to Youzhou, and I also went to the territory of the Karasuma people. I know a little about the Karasuma people. To put it bluntly, these people are a group of white-eyed wolves who are not familiar with them."

"Speaking of which, this group of Karasuma people originally belonged to the Huns' branch. Since the Huns defeated the Donghu, Karasuma was alone, so they could only submit to the Huns. The Xiongnu Shanyu expropriated livestock from Karasuma every year. If the leather is not handed over within the time limit, his wife will be confiscated as a slave. In the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han general Huo Qubing defeated the left land of the Xiongnu. Therefore, the Karasuma people moved to Shanggu, Yuyang and Youbeiping in the two prefectures of Youbin , Liaodong, and Liaoxi five prefectures outside the Great Wall were used by the Han to spy on the Huns, and in Youzhou they set up Wuhuan Xiaowei to supervise Karasuma, so that they could not communicate with the Xiongnu."

Xu You began to tell Liu Zheng about the origins of these Karasuma people. Liu Zheng didn't know about it. He just knew how many powerful generals Karasuma had in the game, and he really didn't know the ins and outs of Karasuma. Many, now that Xu You opened his mouth to explain to him, Liu Zheng was also very interested.

"and then?"

"Later, Wang Mang came to power in the new dynasty and ordered Karasuma to no longer pay taxes on leather cloth to the Xiongnu, so the Xiongnu plundered Karasuma's people and animals. Wang Mang drove Karasuma to attack the Huns, took the wife of Karasuma as a hostage, and used killing as a prestige. Karasuma So he surrendered to the Huns."

"Later, at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Karasuma often joined forces with the Xiongnu to harass all places east of Daijun. In the 21st year of Jianwu, General Fubo Ma Yuan led his army to conquer. Taking the opportunity to attack the Xiongnu again, the Xiongnu had no choice but to flee to Mobei. Liu Xiunai, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, bribed the Karasuma people with gold and silk. Mink fur, etc. The great Han named him Qushuai, a total of 25 people were princes and princes, and allowed him to move inward, so that he could be stationed in the vassal states of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Youbeiping, Yuyang, Guangyang, Shanggu, Dai, and Yanmen , Taiyuan, and Shuofang ten counties within Zhangsai."

"And put Wuhuan Xiaowei in Shanggu Ningcheng, in charge of rewards, protons, and customs affairs. After Han Ming Emperor, Han Zhang Emperor, Han He Emperor III, Han and Karasuma lived in peace."

"Although we are safe and sound, the people of Karasuma are ruthless and always want to occupy the territory of the big man. At the end of each year, they will pretend to be horse thieves and plunder our Liaodong border, but only small groups of cavalry are dispatched. If there are no people, the court has nothing to do."

"Since more than 200 years ago, the Karasuma people have often followed the Huns to fight against the Han. Seeing that the Huns were weak, they joined forces with the Huns to fight against the Huns and acted as a wall. If you missed this opportunity, it is only natural to launch a rebellion against the Han Dynasty."

As Xu You said, he still sneered at the Karasuma people. If he was in charge of these Karasuma people, he might not give these Karasuma people a chance to stay here.

"Haha, Ziyuan, weeds are sometimes used well, and they are also beneficial, but most of the time, weeds are quite annoying. Anyway, those Karasuma people are still far away in Youzhou, and we have nothing to do with them." , let them make trouble for a while, in this way, the imperial court will be completely useless, I am afraid that if there is a trouble, the prefects and governors everywhere will start to make troubles for self-protection."

The current situation is the same as it was in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The deterrent power of the court gradually declined, and the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty could no longer suppress the princes below.

Liu Zheng knew that no matter what the outcome of the battle at Hulao Pass was, the imperial court would lose its trust.

Not to mention that the imperial court was attacked by Yuan Shao's coalition forces this time, none of the state herds surnamed Liu who implemented the state pastoral system before went to serve the king, so we knew that those state pastoralists with the same surname also had their own plans in mind.

They don't care about the life and death of the imperial court. What they care about is only their own one-acre three-point land.

The rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in Youzhou first affected not the imperial court, but the princes of the ten towns headed by Yuan Shao, because several of the princes of the ten towns had their headquarters in Jizhou and Youzhou In the two places, Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju's army, more than [-] people, directly swept Youzhou, and they were driven by Jizhou.

First of all, Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang, estimated that his hometown, Shangdang County, would be occupied by Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju and others. After receiving the news of Zhang Chun's rebellion, he withdrew from the coalition overnight and led his troops back to Shangdang.

Afterwards, Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai, taking advantage of the absence of Chen Liu's prefect Zhang Miao, wanted to take the opportunity to occupy Chen Liu's position, and led his troops to surround Chen Liu. After receiving the news, Zhang Miao also left the coalition army immediately. Cao Cao, who was worried about Chen Liu's old father.

In this way, the princes of the ten towns walked three times in the blink of an eye.

The rest are basically a few forces headed by the Yuan family. These people, combined with soldiers and horses, may not be bad, but it is somewhat impossible to take down Hulao Pass.

Instead of arguing about wasting food and grass here, they simply returned to their stations and took a rest first.

Chapter 369 Yuan Shao's Thoughts

The so-called recuperation is actually a massive recruitment of soldiers and horses, and at the same time annexing various forces to strengthen oneself.

Let's talk about Yuan Shao first. After Zhang Miao, Zhang Yang, Cao Cao and others left the coalition army, it became a joke for Yuan Shao to know that he was the leader of the coalition army.

In addition, most of the coalition forces he had assembled were his friends or relatives. Sometimes, he couldn't mobilize these people at all, especially people like his younger brother Yuan Shu and cousin Yuan Yi. Just look down on Yuan Shao, how could he obey his orders?

In addition, Zhang Ju of Youzhou and the Karasuma people jointly formed by Zhang Chun and Zhang Chun were indeed aggressive. They swept Youzhou in a short time, and there was a great possibility of looting Jizhou. Yuan Shao succeeded Wang Fen and became the new leader. After the governor of Jizhou, if he wanted to use Jizhou to develop into his own territory, he had to think about going back to defend.

So Yuan Shao quickly put forward the plan to retreat temporarily. Everyone didn't take advantage of Hulaoguan. Instead, they kept consuming food and grass here, which was too much. The soldiers dispersed.

Yuan Shao, who returned to Jizhou, quickly ordered his troops to garrison everywhere, because they took the initiative to stop fighting with the imperial court, but this did not mean that the imperial court would let it go. Yuan Shao knew that He Miao would definitely not let him go Their.

But they didn't want to sit still and wait for the people from the court to attack them, so Guo Tu, a counselor under Yuan Shao's command, offered Yuan Shao a plan, which greatly moved Yuan Shao.

What worries Yuan Shao is that the current court is controlled by He Miao, and He Miao will definitely let the little emperor say that Yuan Shao and others are rebels, so Guo Tu directly told Yuan Shao that he can learn from Wang Fen and not recognize the little emperor in the court. Support others as emperors.

As soon as this idea came out, Yuan Shao was very moved, because in this way, he could directly imitate Wang Fen and form his own country, and he supported others as emperor, which was different from Wang Fen, who played by himself. It is certain that his own will be besieged by the court and the princes and prefects.

But if Yuan Shao came forward to support someone else as emperor, the situation would be different. Many of Yuan's disciples and old officials would support him, not to mention others, even the princes of the ten towns would definitely support him.

With their support, the emperor supported by Yuan Shao will definitely be able to stand up to the little emperor in Luoyang City.

At that time, they will not have to be restrained by the little emperor of Luoyang and He Miao, and they will no longer be rebels, and they will even be able to attract some forces that are hostile to the current imperial court to join in and strengthen the team. He Miao and the current little emperor will be wiped out in one fell swoop, and they will truly unify the world.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao couldn't help but fantasize about the heroic scene where he would be a great general in the future.

Immediately, Yuan Shao decided to support someone else as the emperor immediately, and he could not continue to be restrained by the little emperor in Luoyang, but who should be established as the emperor?

Soon, Guo Tu picked out several candidates for Yuan Shao.

Liu Yan, Liu Biao, Liu Dai, Liu Yao, Liu Yu.

These five people are currently the most powerful and most likely to fight against the imperial court.

Yuan Shao frowned when he heard Guo Tu describe these people.

"Liu Yan can't do it. This guy is ambitious, and he's gone to Yizhou at this time, too far away from us. Even if we want to support him, there are no conditions."

As soon as Yuan Shao heard Guo Tu's words, he got rid of Liu Yan first.

"As for Liu Biao, even though he is in Jingzhou, not too far away from us, but he has no contact with us, and he is sitting in the rich land of Jingzhou, so his strength is not much weaker than ours. It may not be possible, but it may be annexed by him."

Yuan Shao considered Liu Biao again, but he also refused.

"As for brothers Liu Dai and Liu Yao, they are a good choice. It's a pity that Liu Dai, Cao Cao and Zhang Miao have feuds. If they support Liu Dai, Cao Cao and Zhang Miao may not agree. As for Liu Yao, he heard that he was bullied by Liu Zheng in Yangzhou very badly, and he looked like a useless waste, not a good thing."

"But Liu Yu is very suitable."

In the end, Yuan Shao set his sights on Liu Yu, who was also a Han family member, and he was the son of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty and the successor of King Gong Liu Qiang of the East China Sea.

Liu Yu's grandfather, Liu Jia, served as Guang Luxun, and his father, Liu Shu, served as the prefect of Danyang. Liu Yu was proficient in the Five Classics.

His status is neither high nor low, and he has no influence of his own. In addition, he has a relatively large reputation in Youzhou and Jizhou. It would be great if he could support him as emperor. Yuan Shao is fully capable of making Liu Yu his own puppet.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao immediately responded to Guo Tu.

"Just Liu Yu. Liu Yu is about the same age as me, so he is easy to control. He has no power of his own. After we make him emperor, he can only rely on us."

"My lord, Ying Ming, I'll choose him, and I'll go down and make arrangements."

After Yuan Shao selected Liu Yu as the object of support, he immediately sent people to send news to the other princes of the ten towns, and at the same time explain to them the powerful relationship among them.

I want to persuade them to support Liu Yu as the new emperor together.

But after waiting for a month, Yuan Shao thought that the other princes of the nine towns must be as he thought, supporting Liu Yu together, and then fighting against the court. Who knew that the first one who opposed him was his second brother Yuan Shu.

Who was Yuan Shu? He was ambitious and disobedient to Yuan Shao since he was a child, because although Yuan Shao was his own elder brother, he was a concubine. Okay, can Yuan Shu be convinced?

Moreover, Yuan Shu could naturally imagine what Yuan Shao's so-called support for Liu Yu as emperor was for. On the surface, he supported Liu Yu to fight against the Luoyang court, but in private, Yuan Shao could use Liu Yu to turn himself into an emperor. General.

At that time, Yuan Shao will be better than him again. Can Yuan Shu endure it?

Of course not, and he, Yuan Shu, is also ambitious. Seeing the decline of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shu has already harbored different ambitions, and he is unwilling to support the grown-up Emperor of Han. He wants to proclaim himself emperor, but now he can't show it. He can only reject Yuan Shao. proposed.

But Yuan Shao didn't know what Yuan Shu was thinking, he just felt that Yuan Shu disagreed with his decision and held resentment towards Yuan Shu.

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And Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and others also disagreed with Yuan Shao's idea.

The reason why I disagree with Yuan Shao's method of supporting the new emperor is that Cao Cao is different from Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's idea is to openly resist the Han Dynasty. He has bound He Miao and the Han Dynasty together.

And Cao Cao didn't want to directly resist the Han Dynasty. Although the Han Dynasty court has gradually declined, the world still belongs to the Han Dynasty after all, and it still belongs to the Liu family. Cao Cao still wants to be a loyal minister and serve the great Han.

It's just that Cao Cao objected to He Miao. He Miao's indiscriminate killing of innocent people and killing Huang Fusong made Cao Cao most angry, so he chose to join Yuan Shao's alliance to fight against He Miao.

But he was still unwilling to let Cao Cao directly resist the big man, so Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and others refused.