"How can Feng not know the character of the lord? But there are some things that must be said!" Tian Feng sighed, "Ma Butcher Ma is a wolf! Three years ago, the 23 coalition forces attacked Ma Yue, and Ma Butcher suffered losses in his troops and generals, and his vitality was severely damaged. At that time, it was the best opportunity to destroy Ma Butcher Ma, but the lord was indecisive and missed the opportunity!"

"Now the horse butcher's claws are strong and wings are full, it's really easy to provoke! The current strategy should be to leave Zhang Ji as a strategic buffer between the horse butcher, and at the same time reach a tacit understanding with the horse butcher, try to avoid breaking with the horse butcher group too early and then restraining it!"

"Then condemn the generals to set up Huguan, Yanmen, and Youzhou. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the butcher Ma was resting and unable to make a big move, he gathered a large army to go south to the Central Plains, eliminated Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Sun Jian and other warlords who had separatisted the country, annexed the Yan, Yu, Xu, Jing, and Yangzhou!"

"Finally, if you put the strength of Jiuzhou into battle with Ma Butcher Ma, the world... can be determined!"

Yecheng, the General's Mansion.

Yuan Shao was at the house to invite Feng Ji, Shen Pei, Xu You, Zhang He, Jiang Qi, Han Meng and other civil and military confidants. During the banquet, he sang and danced to entertain the fun and ate the wine.

Feng Ji Fu got up and said to Yuan Shao from afar: "Lord, General Tian Yu condemns the Malay report. The horse thief team led by his brother Tian Yue has been greatly captured. They have looted dozens of caravans, more than a hundred tribes of all sizes and sizes, and killed thousands of horse butchers! The cattle, sheep and livestock plundered were tens of thousands."

Shen Pei also smiled and said, "Now the grasslands in the northern desert under the horse butcher are in chaos. Where can we draw troops south to Bingzhou? Only Tian Feng would pedanticly believe that the wolf of the horse butcher should not be easily provoked. Now our army has already provoked him, but what is the result?"

"The military advisor's words still make some sense, they are too cautious." Yuan Shao said this, and his eyes showed a hint of unbearable expression, and said to Shen Pei, "Zhengnan, please invite the military advisor out of the prison in a few days. The army will be on the expedition soon. If there is no military advisor to go with the army, I am unsure of the general."

Although Shen Pei was unhappy, she did not show any expression on her face and responded respectfully: "Abide by the order."

Just after the first month of the ninth year of Jian'an (196), three warlord melee broke out in the three parts of Jiuzhou at the same time.

Yangzhou.

Sun Jian submitted a letter to the emperor to lead the governor of Yangzhou. On the excuse that the prefect of Lujiang Liu Xun did not obey the order, he personally led a 20,000 army across the river and the northward expedition. When Liu Xun heard the news, he urgently asked Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, for help. When Liu Biao heard the news, he urgently condemned Cai Mao. Zhang Yun led the Jingzhou navy down the river and rescued Lujiang. When Sun Jian heard the news, he appointed Zhou Yu as the commander and led the Eastern Wu navy to go up the river to fight against the Jingzhou navy at Hukou.

The melee between Sun Jian Group and Liu Biao and Liu Xun Group is about to break out.

Yanzhou.

After Lu Bu's army attacked Liang State, Cao Cao hurriedly re-appointed Guan Yu and led his army to resist with Guan Yu as a general. Guan Yu was ordered to live up to expectations. Finally, he defeated Lu Bu in a battle in Meng County, and the Xuzhou army's offensive was frustrated. Soon after that, Cao Cao personally raised the army to help. Lu Bu's army retreated and the two armies fell into a confrontation.

When the offensive of Lubu's South Road Army was set, the northern road army led by Cao Bao and Zhang Liao was unstoppable. Cao Hong, who was highly anticipated by Cao Cao, lost consecutive battles and lost his troops. He retreated from Taishan County to the East County. The passage from Xuzhou to the Yellow River was opened by Zhang Liao. Unfortunately, in the first month, the Yellow River was frozen and the military aid that Ma Butcher agreed could not be transported by water.

Cao Hong lost consecutive battles and hurriedly sent sixteen cavalry to challenge Cao Cao.

Cao Cao urgently ordered Cao Ren to lead five thousand elite troops north to Dongjun to rescue Cao Hong. Cao Hong got Cao Ren's help and Puyang's strong support as a support, and finally stabilized his position. Cao Bao and Zhang Liao led their troops to attack for several days but failed. Then he changed his strategy and ordered the soldiers to dig deep trenches around Puyang City to prepare for a long-term siege.

Bingzhou.

Compared with Yangzhou, Yanzhou battlefields and Bingzhou battlefields, they seem particularly treacherous. Before the melee has begun, the intrigue between various forces has begun to heat up.

Yuan Shao's strategy is to differentiate the relationship between Ma Yue, Zhang Yang, Zhang Ji, and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew.

The purpose is summarized in one sentence: to disturb Zhang Yang, appease Ma Yue, and attack Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew! But at the same time, Yuan Shao was extremely afraid of Pei Yuanshao, who was entrenched on the Mobei grassland, so while appeaseing Ma Yue, he also acted smart and asked Tian Yu to send two thousand cavalry to disguise himself as horse thieves to harass Mobei.

It was because of his firm opposition that Tian Feng believed that this move was like covering up his ears and would definitely annoy the butcher Ma, thus promoting the comprehensive merger of the Liangzhou Military Group and the Bingzhou Military Group. This made Yuan Shao furious and put him in prison for the second time. However, as Tian Feng expected, Yuan Shao had no intention of killing him this time in prison.

Yuan Shao’s strategy is to divide, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu’s uncle and nephew’s strategy is to form an alliance!

In order to obtain assistance from the Liang army, Zhang Ji even demoted himself and wrote a letter to Ma Yue as an official. In the letter, Zhang Ji said that the Bingzhou Army actually belongs to the branch of the Liangzhou Army. The two armies should share honor and disgrace and fight against the powerful enemy together! He also implied that if the Liangzhou Army could help the Bingzhou Army repel the Hebei Army, Zhang Ji would treat Ma Yue as his lord.

But at the same time, Zhang Ji was wary of Ma Yue everywhere, fearing that the Liang army would take the opportunity to annex Bingzhou.

Unlike Zhang Ji's two ends of the rat, Ma Yue's intention to move his troops north is actually very clear, that is, to give up Bingzhou, but to retain the vitality of the Bingzhou army as much as possible and let the Bingzhou army use it for its own use.

As a future man, Ma Yue knew that Yuan Shao was not afraid. The opponent that Ma Yue was really afraid of was Cao Cao, who was entrenched in Yan and Henan! Under the premise that the rest and recuperation of Yong, Liang and Shuo were not yet completed and the vitality of the Liang army had not yet recovered, Ma Yue's core strategy was to allow Yuan Shao to be strong and restrain Cao Cao.

Ma Yue knew very well that once Yuan Shao unified Hebei, he would definitely turn his attention to the Yellow River. In this way, the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao was inevitable! What Ma Yue was waiting for was the moment when Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fought. The Liang army could rely on its limited military strength (the rest and recuperation had not yet ended, and the butcher Ma could not organize an army of more than 100,000 to go to war) and stab Cao Cao hard from the back with one blow!

Therefore, before Cao Cao was finished, Ma Yue was never willing to weaken Yuan Shao's strength!

Shangdang Prefect Zhang Yang was the most popular among all forces. Not only Yuan Shao tried his best to win him over, but even Zhang Ji and Ma Yue spared no effort to show his kindness to him. Zhang Yang knew very well that the reason why he was so popular was entirely determined by the critical location of Shangdang County.
Chapter completed!