A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 381: Each one’s evil intentions eventually fell apart, and conspiracies and intrigues emerged in troubled times.

On one side, Sun Jian marched bravely all the way into Luoyang. On the other side, the Kwantung Allied Forces camp in Xingyang was experiencing the same undercurrent.

"Han Envoy, my general Yan Liang in Hanoi sent me a message. It said that the Hanoi army has had problems with food and grass in recent months. I don't know what the reason is?
Also, you are the general person in charge of all the food and grass for the Allied Forces, and you are also the Mu of Jizhou. The Black Mountain bandits are ravaging Bai County and blocking the Allied Army's food routes. Shouldn't you solve it?

We have gathered troops here to suppress the Dong thieves, but what we have done is nothing more than a big man. If it is because of the lack of food and grass, the allies will have to retreat.

Ambassador Han, I’m afraid it won’t be easy for you to explain when the time comes! "

It turned out that in order to maintain the Kwantung Allied Forces, most of the grain and grass for the entire Allied Army's hundreds of thousands of troops in Suanzao and tens of thousands of troops in Hanoi were dispatched from Jizhou by Jizhou Mu Han Fu.

Because only Jizhou had the strength to raise so much grain and grass at this time. In other places, either there were few people and food shortages, or the remnants of the Yellow Turbans were raging in the territory, making it impossible to realize long-distance transportation of grain and grass.

Especially in East County, tens of thousands of Black Mountain Army branches, composed of remnants of the Yellow Turbans, have recently crossed the river from Bai County in the north and are constantly attacking the counties in East County.

After the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, the Black Mountain Army was led by the Yellow Turban Canal commanders Zhang Niujiao and Fan Kai in Changshan County. In order to avoid being strangled by the court, they had to change their names, but they still followed the Yellow Turban Army's approach, killing powerful people and releasing granaries. .

However, now that Zhang Niujiao has passed away due to illness, his adopted son Zhang Yan has inherited his army, and he and Fan Kai are still known as the Second General of Montenegro.

Due to the geographical environment of Changshan, Jizhou's many attempts to suppress the enemy failed. Even at the end of last year, the Black Mountain Army came out of the Taihang Mountains and invaded Bai County.

The various cities in Bai County can only guarantee the defense of the city, but are unable to attack at all. Later, they took advantage of the ice of the Yellow River to cross the river and wreak havoc on Dongjun. This step directly blocked the food route of the Kwantung Allied Forces.

Wang Gong, the governor of Dongjun, asked Yuan Shao for help many times. Yuan Shao had no choice but to allocate thousands of soldiers to Cao Cao, allowing this allied force, which had few military strategists, to replace the Kwantung Allied forces in wiping out the Black Mountain Army raging in Dongjun, in order to maintain the Kwantung Alliance's power. status.

Speaking of which, the Montenegrin Army was originally unwilling to go out to plunder the mountains. It was because there had been too many wars in the past few years, which caused a large number of refugees to flee into the Taihang Mountains to avoid military disasters.

This caused the Montenegrin Army's population to be directly exploded. In order to find a way to survive, Zhang Yan and Fan Kai decided to attack outwards to reduce the pressure in the mountains after discussion.

Therefore, Zhang Yan commanded the Baijun campaign. In order to further share his pressure, Zhang Yan had a change of heart when he saw the Yellow River freezing, so he asked his subordinates Yu Du and Sui Gu to lead tens of thousands of people across Dongjun and to the south. Build a stronghold.

As for Yuan Shao and Han Fu, who were originally allies, why did they attack them at this time?

It turns out that Han Fu is the shepherd of Jizhou, and Yuan Shao is the governor under him. Now he is more powerful than him, the shepherd of Jizhou, which makes him have to worry about Yuan Shao becoming powerful.

Therefore, he secretly delayed the allocation of grain and grass to the Hanoi Army many times. However, since the Hanoi Army's grain and grass were transported by the Baiguo Trading Company, Yuan Shao could not make an attack and had to endure it. This also made him resent Han Fu greatly, and even The two sides gradually became hostile.

Hanoi County belongs to the Sili Xiaowei Department, and is separated from Jizhou by the Bai Kingdom. With the support of tens of thousands of troops, Hanoi alone is obviously not enough.

However, all the roads from Jizhou to Hanoi are within the territory of the Bai Kingdom, and the Bai Kingdom refused to allow the Kwantung Allied Generals to pass through.
After the final discussion between the two parties, Bai Guo was responsible for purchasing grain and grass from Jizhou and then transporting it to Hanoi for sale. This way, there was no need for Jizhou to recruit civilians and there would be no enmity with Bai Guo.

The Hanoi army only needs to get money to buy military rations outside the camp, and Bai Guo can also obtain a lot of benefits from it, and secretly purchased a lot of grain and grass from Jizhou and stationed it in Bai Guo.

In order to suppress Yuan Shao, Han Fu ordered his men to prevent Bai merchants from purchasing grain and grass in Jizhou, and also weakened Bai County's defense in the Taihang Mountains.

He wanted to release the Black Mountain Army out of the mountain and block Baijun's food route, and he did succeed. However, he did not expect the Black Mountain Army to be so reckless and rushed directly into Dongjun, cutting off the food and grass for the entire Kwantung Allied Army. Chenliu County relied on Yuzhou to recruit troops.

However, Yuzhou not only had to support Sun Jian's tens of thousands of troops, but also had to support tens of thousands of jujube coalition troops. This was a bit difficult for Yuan Shu, and he had to write a letter to express his bitterness. This was the scene in the big tent.

Looking at the princes in the tent who looked at him unkindly, Han Fu felt miserable and could only say: "This is not what I want to see. The Black Mountain bandits are really too ferocious, and they actually broke through Bai County's territory." Defense caused the army's food route to be cut off.

Speaking of which, it is indeed my dereliction of duty, but I have already gone to the general in Xinzhou, Qu Yi, and asked him to lead the elite troops of Jizhou to attack the Black Mountain bandits in Baijun. I believe that the food road will be cleared in the near future.

But Dongjun is not in my defense area, and I am really beyond my reach. However, I can provide Cao Cao with food, wages, and military equipment, which can be regarded as my compensation to him. "

After hearing Han Fu's promise, the generals withdrew their gaze, but Yuan Shao still said: "The army cannot live without food for a day. The general has written many times, saying that the land of Yuzhou can support hundreds of thousands of troops. It is true." It's too forced.

I hope Han Shijun can open up the food route as soon as possible, otherwise the Allies will run out of food, which will be a heavy blow to the great cause of reviving the Han Dynasty. "

Han Fu had to accept Yuan Shao's criticism. Even though he was just his own prefect, he was also the leader of the Kwantung Allied Forces.

April
Han Fu's troops defeated Qu Yi's Black Mountain Army in Bai County, but Qu Yi relied on the elite Jizhou Army in his hands to separatist power in Bai County, and became the prefect of Bai County, no longer obeying Han Fu's orders.

Han Fu was furious and hurriedly returned to Jizhou from Xingyang to gather an army to attack.

But in the end, the Jizhou army was defeated by the Quyi army and was defeated. Han Fu's army was defeated.

After Yuan Shao learned about it, he sent an envoy to make friends with Qu Yi. He wanted to fight Han Fu with him, because Yuan Shao had long wanted to take control of Jizhou.

Because only by occupying Jizhou can Yuan Shao have the capital to dominate the world. In the same month, Yuan Shao followed the advice of his counselor Feng Ji and sent an envoy to Liaodong to persuade Gongsun Zan to let him attack Jizhou south. Then the two of them would divide Jizhou equally.

Gongsun Zan originally planned to come to Suanzao to participate in the alliance, but due to the unrest on the border and the old grudge between Youzhou Shepherd Liu Yu and him, when he reached Zhuo County, Liu Yu would not let him pass again.

He had no choice but to lead his troops back to Liaodong and wait and see the situation in the Central Plains.

After receiving Yuan Shao's letter, Gongsun Zan decisively led his troops southward under the pretext of attacking Dong Zhuo. The actual plan was to secretly attack Han Fu.

As the Allied forces each had their own evil intentions and attacked each other, the Suizao alliance disbanded as expected.

Yuan Shao, on the other hand, openly brought troops withdrawn from Suanzao and Hanoi and stationed in Yanjin. Secretly sending lobbyists Gao Gan and Xun Chen to Julu County without losing the opportunity, they found Han Fu and told him all about Gongsun Zan's conspiracy.

Sure enough, Han Fu was very frightened when he heard that Gongsun Zan was coming to attack him, because Gongsun Zan was one of the few fierce generals in the world who was as famous as Sun Jian.

Seeing the fear on Han Fu's face, they continued: "Gongsun Zan took advantage of the victory and went south, and the counties surrendered in anticipation of the wind; Yuan Cheqi also led his troops to Yanjin, and his intentions are unpredictable."

When Han Fu heard that Yuan Shao was also coming to beat him, he became even more restless and hurriedly asked Gao Gan and Xun Chen for any way to protect themselves.

Xun Chen said with a smile: "Gongsun Zan led the elite troops of Yan and Dynasty, and his troops were irresistible; but the Yuan family is a hero of the generation, how can he stay under the envoy for a long time.

Jizhou is an important place on which the country depends for its survival. If Yuan and Gongsun Zan join forces and engage the envoy at the gate of the city, the envoy will be in danger and perish.

However, Yuan is an old friend of Shi Jun. Although there was some gap before, are those small things still worth mentioning in the face of today's big events?

Moreover, everyone has formed an alliance on the surface. The Yuan family's position as leader of the alliance was entirely due to the merits of the envoy. Presumably the Yuan family will not be so ruthless. The current plan is to give up Jizhou to the Yuan family. "

Han Fu was originally a civil servant, with little talent for military strategy, timid temperament, and lack of independent opinions. After hearing what Xun Chen said, he agreed.

However, his chief ministers Geng Wu, Biejia Minchun, and Zhizhong Li Li tried their best to advise:

"Although Jizhou is remote, it has millions of soldiers and enough food to last for ten years. However, Yuan Shao is a solitary and poor army. He relies on others to breathe, just like a baby in his hand. Once weaned, he will starve to death immediately and should not be given away. Jizhou.”

But Han Fu was already very tired and didn't want to get involved anymore, so he said: "I am an old official of the Yuan family, and my talents are not as good as those of Yuan Shao. How can there be a saying that people without talents occupy high positions and talents are lost in the wild? So Had to give way.”

On the other side, Zhao Fu and Cheng Huan, the governors of Jizhou stationed in Heyang, heard the news and hurriedly marched eastward from Mengjin with hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of people. They requested to send troops to resist Yuan Shao, but Han Fu refused. .

Finally, Han Fu moved out of the official office and sent his son to deliver the seal and ribbon of Jizhou Mu to Yuan Shao.

After taking over the seal and ribbon, Yuan Shao announced that he would lead Jizhou Mu on his behalf, claiming to be the inheritor of the system, and gave Han Fu the empty title of General Fenwei, with no generals or soldiers.

Here Gongsun Zan learned that Yuan Shao had taken Jizhou and was very angry, but he was helpless. With the help of Yuan Shao's elite soldiers and generals, Gongsun Zan failed to attack Bohai from Guangyang County many times. He had no choice but to withdraw his troops back to Liaodong, but this also made Gongsun Zan hate Yuan Shao very much.

July
Dong Zhuo once again gathered an army to attack Sun Jian's army in Taigu, but was defeated. Dong Zhuo had to lead his army back to Guanzhong. Sun Jian conquered Luoyang and repaired the tombs of the previous emperors and ministers.

When the various princes in Guandong were attacking each other, a large-scale Yellow Turban Rebellion suddenly broke out in Qingzhou.

The governor of Qingzhou was killed by the Yellow Turban Army, and a large number of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans invaded Yanzhou adjacent to Qingzhou and Jizhou to the north, hoping to join the Black Mountain Army in the Black Mountains of Jizhou.

Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, died in the rebellion when he was quelling the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who invaded Yanzhou.

However, the Black Mountain Army that invaded Dongjun was pacified by Cao Cao, and the Black Mountain Army in Bai County was pacified by Qu Yi. The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans have since cut off the channel connecting the Black Mountain Army from the west.

They can only place their hope in Bohai County in the north.

Because Yuan Shao focused on defending Gongsun Zan in the north and neglected the defense line in the south, the southern Bohai Sea was captured by the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans rushed all the way towards the Hejian Kingdom.

Because after passing Hejian Kingdom, we arrived at Changshan County.

However, if the Yellow Turban Army defeated the Hejian Kingdom, it would mean that Yuan Shao's Jizhou would be divided into two sections, so Yuan Shao deployed a large number of soldiers to defend the Hejian Kingdom.

The Yellow Turban Army could not pass, so they had to attack north.

Seeing such a great opportunity, Gongsun Zan immediately raised troops to invade. Under attack from the north and south, the northern part of Bohai County was occupied by Gongsun Zan, and the southern part was occupied by Qingzhou Yellow Turban.

(End of this chapter)