In the sixth year of Zhongping, since July, Dong Zhuo deposed the young emperor Liu Bian and appointed Liu Xie, the King of Chenliu, as the emperor. There was no peace in Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo was arrogant and extravagant, proclaimed himself the prime minister, but did not worship the emperor when he saw him, and entered the palace with a sword, which also made the Xiliang army under him very arrogant.

Originally, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army lived alone in Liangzhou and was used to being poor. Now he has finally arrived in such a prosperous place as Luoyang. Dong Zhuo supports them, so he becomes even more lawless when he commits crimes. He has forced the women to rob people and does nothing to do evil. The people can only dare to be angry but not speak out.

At this time, Cao Cao, who was still loyal to the Han Dynasty, finally decided to do something big: for the sake of the country and the country, he wanted to assassinate Dong Zhuo!

Wang Yun clapped his hands and expressed his agreement, and gave Cao Cao a god-level equipment free of charge: the Seven-Star Sword!

Unfortunately, although Cao Cao's equipment was good, his plan for scouting was not done well. There were accidents one after another during the action, and even the assassination failed.

For this reason, Dong Zhuo was extremely angry. He felt that he had never been so angry, because since Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, all the civil and military officials in Luoyang were afraid of him like tigers and hated him extremely. Cao Cao was the only one who was the only one who did not like him Dong Zhuo like those ministers. On the contrary, he respected him very much, which made him feel very happy.

Thinking back to the time when everyone was a horse-boy under General He Jin, Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao had also met him, but they did not have a deep friendship, and at most they could only be considered a nod. Now, because of this, Dong Zhuo seemed to have found a friend, and he felt more or less comforted.

However, he never expected that Cao Cao, a guy who was regarded as a friend, would come to assassinate him. If he hadn't been alert to him, he would have become a corpse.

It was not until this time that Cao Cao respected him and made friends with him to get close to him and to assassinate him. This made him very angry. He issued three orders in succession and spread them all over the world, and he must arrest Cao Cao and brought him to justice.

Cao Cao was also a ruthless man. After failing to assassinate Dong Zhuo, he rushed back to Chenliu. With the support of his father Cao Song, he spent all his family money to recruit local brave men, and received the help of local tyrants Wei Zi, and took the lead in promoting his righteousness and preparing to attack Dong Zhuo. Because of his assassination of Dong Zhuo, his reputation rose sharply. For a time, countless heroes rushed to join Cao Cao.

The following year, in the first month of the first year of Chuping, Cao Cao issued a proclamation to fight against the bandits, calling on all the princes to raise an army together to attack Dong Zhuo.

For a time, the entire Han Dynasty was in turmoil, and all the princes, both big and small, revolted one after another, raised their troops to respond, intending to join forces with the sour jujube to jointly attack the traitor Dong Zhuo.

Xiao Lan was naturally not idle either. Although he did not launch a major military operation during this period, he secretly contacted several other Yellow Turban troops in Qingzhou, including Bai Rao, Yu Du and Geng Ling, and a small number of Yellow Turban troops such as Zhou Cang and Liao Hua. At most, there were 300,000 to 200,000 people gathered in the county town, at least 10,000 to 20,000 people, entrenched in the mountains and forests.

Xiao Lan naturally didn't need to use any clever means to show off his identity as a god and tempt it. With the force of the dragon's golden seal, these Yellow Turban Army surrendered and surrendered one after another and accepted Xiao Lan's reorganization reform.

Xiao Lan picked up the strongest troops in Changguang County, forming the Taiping Army, while the rest of the people went to their households to divide the land and put them into production, while the craftsmen were organized to build agricultural tools or cast military armor. Although the forces in Qingzhou have not changed much on the surface, in fact, half of the huge Qingzhou has secretly fallen into Xiao Lan's control.

During this period, Xiao Lan traveled all over Qingzhou. Wherever he saw, the fields were deserted, the land was dry, refugees were displaced, and the people were homeless. There were deserted tombs everywhere on the road, with dead bodies everywhere, starving to death, thirsty, and exhausted... It was a terrible sight. Xiao Lan was filled with emotion and immediately ordered the Taiping Army's territory to accept the refugees in Qingzhou. In less than a month, Xiao Lan controlled more than two million people.

In a few days, Yu Du, who was still knowledgeable in the Taiping Army, frowned and reminded Xiao Lan: "Lord, this is not a solution. There are too many people. People eat horses and feed them every day, and the daily consumption is astonishing. If we don't think of a solution, our Taiping Army will collapse if we don't have much time."

"Haha..." Hearing this, Xiao Lan immediately smiled and said, "It's almost done to calculate the time. In three days, when the princes gathered together, we took advantage of the situation to revolt and fully occupied Qingzhou. These are not problems."

"What is the lord who means to rob those rich families?" Yu Du couldn't help but ask, "But, didn't the lord issue a military order? The Taiping Army should not rob the people?"

"Ha! Yu Du, Yu Du, you really waste your name." Xiao Lan said with a smile: "What I mean is that you are not allowed to rob ordinary people. Those rich and kind people are mostly corrupt officials, wealthy families, food, clothing and expenses, all of them are people's wealth and good fortune. You don't need to be polite to deal with them!"

When Yu Du heard this, his eyes lit up immediately. Speaking of which, the robbery was the old profession of their Yellow Turban Army!

Three days later, Sili and jujube.

Sour Jujube is located at the junction of Yuzhou, Yanzhou and Jizhou. It has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. In history, Zhang Liang was the First Emperor who assassinated here, and later generations Zhao Kuangyin also had a yellow robe here and had an extraordinary status.

Today's great man, the sour jujube is in the sour jujube county of Sili, Henan, and is not too far from Luoyang. Therefore, Cao Cao placed the location of the alliance here.

As time went by, Cao Cao's proclamation to fight against Dong gradually spread out. All the princes from all over the Han Dynasty received this news and rushed to the Sour Jujube Alliance:

The first town, the later general, the prefect of Nanyang Yuan Shu, the courtesy name is Gonglu. The second town, the governor of Jizhou Han Fu, the courtesy name is Wenjie. The third town, the governor of Yuzhou Kong Yichang, the courtesy name is Gongxu. The fourth town, the governor of Yanzhou Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, the courtesy name is Gongshan. The fifth town, the prefect of Henei County, the prefect of Chenliu, the courtesy name is Mengzhuo. The seventh town, the prefect of Dongjun Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, the courtesy name is Yuanwei. The eighth town, the prefect of Shanyang Yuan Yi, the courtesy name is Boye. The ninth town, the prime minister of Jibei Bao Xin, the courtesy name is Yuncheng. The tenth town, the prefect of Beihai Kong Rong, the courtesy name is Wenju. The eleventh town, the prefect of Guangling Tai

The guard Zhang Chao's courtesy name is Menggao. The 12th town is Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, the courtesy name is Gongzu. The 13th town is Ma Teng, the prefect of Xiliang, the courtesy name is Shoucheng. The 14th town is Gongsun Zan, the prefect of Beiping, the courtesy name is Bogui. The 15th town is Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang, the courtesy name is Zhisheng. The 16th town is Wucheng Hou, the prefect of Changsha, Sun Jian Wentai. The 17th town is Qixiang Hou and the prefect of Bohai Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai. In addition, the people of Cao Cao's headquarters are a total of eighteen princes, and there are also heroes such as Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei in Pingyuan County, all of which gathered together.

The princes set up camp and set up camp, connecting more than 200 miles. Cao Cao slaughtered cattle and sheep, and feasted the leaders to discuss strategies for advancing.

Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi County, said: "We gather here under the orders, and we must establish a leader of the alliance; only then can we work together if we obey the leader's constraints."

Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, said: "I elect Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance. The Yuan family's four generations and three ministers are what everyone hopes to return!"

When everyone heard this, they responded. Yuan Shao took the position of leader of the alliance under the recommendation of everyone and said, "Although Shao is not talented, since he has accepted the recommendation of everyone as leader of the alliance, he will be rewarded for his merits and punished for his crimes. The state has regular punishments and the army has discipline. Everyone should abide by it and do not violate it."

He paused and looked at everyone, and said, "My brother, Governor Yuan Shu, is responsible for food and grass, and he is in trouble. He has to be the vanguard and go straight to Hulao Pass to challenge. The rest of them are in danger and think they will respond."

Sun Jian was eager to make contributions and said, "Jian is willing to be the front."

Yuan Shao said: "The Wentai brave and powerful can take this position."

Sun Jian immediately led his troops to Hulao Pass, thus starting a huge battle against Dong!

This is destined to be a day to remember for this world, because, on this day, after some intense preparations, Xiao Lan finally raised his troops in Qingzhou.

The Taiping Army had more than 2 million people and more than 200,000 soldiers. Xiao Lan called himself the Grand Marshal of Pingtian, and his generals under his command, Bai Rao, Yu Du, Geng Ling, Xu He, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Yu Du, etc., led by Xiao Lan, raised troops from all over Qingzhou.

The elite rebel army also had the advantage of a surprise attack. With a large-scale launch, it sieges the city and occupied land. In one day, most of the territory in Qingzhou fell into the hands of the Taiping Army... (To be continued.)

...
Chapter completed!