A certain general, after two thousand stones stayed in one place for a long time, had more disciples and former officials, and they were entrenched in the local area, and naturally they would take it as the center to form a faction. After all, there were no factions in the country, and there were all kinds of strange things.

If it is necessary, Zhang Zong should belong to the "Dongsili clan". He joined the Wei army in Hedong, and basically served in the Sili area, serving as the prefect of Henan. His nominal direct superior was Dou Rong, the captain of the Sili school...

Hedong, Hanoi and Henan in their jurisdiction have never fought hard for powerful people. They have strong surnames and hope to recommend a spokesperson for the dynasty to take care of their interests. But Dou Rong only wanted to let the Dou family last for another hundred years, and there was no desire to form gangs, which led to the so-called "Dongsi Li clan" being quite loose.

As the number one general in the Dongsili clan, Zhang Zong's fame and aspiration were much stronger than Dou Rong.

"I heard that Wu Ziyan has become the Empress General, so it is really the latecomer."

Zhang Zong was unable to be anxious. Wu Han did not surrender until the Battle of Hebei, but he was very lucky and was transferred to Longyou to participate in the war. However, he could only defend Henan, where the place was rich and rich, but it was upset to stay. In the battle of Ao Cang, Ma Yuan himself was outstanding, and Zhang Zong only won some heads during the counterattack.

Zhang Zong started this battle, and the fifth reunion transferred him from his original troops and sent him a group of powerful armed forces recruited from Sanhe. He could only make do with it. But Zhang Zong was also quite strict with them. This time he came to operate and was ordered to follow His Majesty's actions. As we all know, wherever His Majesty goes, the big battle will happen...

As a result, the man's plan was not as good as the heaven's plan. The road to the top of the city was washed away by Ling Hong, and the Red Eyebrows of the Dahe surrendered and fled, and there was no more battle in Hebei.

Zhang Zong was stunned, but fortunately the new task came soon.

"General Huwei General Zong, general, was appointed as the army to cross Baimajin and was on standby at Baima City (now Hua County, Henan).

In the Fifth Reunification Plan, in addition to him and Geng Chun personally leading the troops in Jizhou, there are four armies south of the Yellow River. Zhang Zong and his more than 10,000 people under him are the closest to Puyang!

Baimajin blocks the natural danger of the Yellow River and guards the important roads in the north and south. From this, crossing the river north and going to Zhao or attack Chu, you can also go east and west by water and land transportation. Baimajin's special strategic location makes this busy ancient ferry an ancient battlefield with constant killing sounds. As far as Zhang Zong knows, during the Chu Han Dynasty, Liu Bang sent generals Liu Jia and Lu Wan to cross Baimajin to the south and cut off the Chu army's food route.

After Zhang Zong entered Baima City, he prepared his troops and according to the scouts' reward, they could not figure out how many Red Eyebrow Army soldiers were near Puyang, because it was too chaotic. Faced with general regimes, the camp method did not work at all.

I only know that there are people, people, people! The outer edges are Red Eyebrow's grain-copiercing teams and scouts, but there is no inner gate for them to prey. Further inside, there is Red Eyebrow's main combat force. It is said that after realizing the trap in the south, he returned to Puyang.

"I refuse to guard the white horse now. On the one hand, I can avoid the red eyebrows and peek westward, and on the other hand, I can attack its flanks nearby."

Zhang Zong estimated that there were 200,000 red eyebrows between Heji. The Wei army in the north and south of Henan and the combined number of Wei troops was also 100,000. The scale of the war would be unprecedented. Whether he could rank as a major depends on this battle!

But just as Zhang Zong was about to send troops, a new order was sent from the Hebei camp where the fifth reunion was found.

"What?"

Zhang Zong was puzzled: "Retract the previous life and stop the march? Without an edict, do not act rashly?"

The fifth reunion rarely directly deals with the front-line general like this, and things are strange.

But after all, Zhang Zong was both civil and military practitioners. After looking at the map in detail, he quickly understood: "Does Your Majesty think that Red Eyebrow's trip is a fraud?"

...

General Zheng Tong of Hengye, although he has been away for many years, does not belong to any faction. If he has to do so, he only belongs to the fifth legitimate line...

Therefore, the fifth reunion can feel at ease to hand over the Jingzhao Guard Division, who is behind him. Among the tens of thousands of people in this division, there are Zhu Tufeng brave old subordinates, all of whom are arrogant soldiers and powerful generals. Others are not convinced. Facing Zheng Tong, the former "Guard of Jianzhang", all of them can only bow their heads, just about to shout "Old Chief".

Zheng Tong's predicament was similar to Zhang Zong. He was all the time to get the miscellaneous general because of Yongrui, but he couldn't get promoted again. Zheng Tong was also anxious, mainly because he felt that none of Zhu Tufengyong's old subordinates were important, which was a bit embarrassing.

Therefore, although Zheng Tong was the farthest away from the east, he was the fastest. He didn't care about the Jingzhao Division's arrival and rushed forward desperately. After leaving Chenliu City, he marched for more than a hundred miles in two days and arrived at Jiyang County beside the Jishui River.

This also led to the edict sent by the Fifth Reun to chase him for several stops before catching up with him. When they met, they handed over to Zheng Tong's edict and attached several gold medals to show their urgency.

Zheng Tong was so scared that he thought the Red Eyebrows had raided Hebei and surrounded the emperor and asked him to rescue him. After listening to the envoy's reading, he learned that the fifth reunion changed his mind and asked all the troops to station on the spot, so that they should not go deep into Heji!

Zhang Zong also guessed something, but Zheng Tong was stunned for a moment.

"As long as I cross the Ji River, I can fight against the soldiers outside the Red Eyebrow."

"Why do you suddenly stop?"

He did not dare to resist the imperial edict, and he only held the gold medal and was puzzled. Finally, he had a bold guess.

"Is it because the civil officials around His Majesty slandered and misled the Holy Emperor?"

...

Ma Yuan once had the military power in Hebei, but later the fifth reunion transferred him to the Central Plains and gave him a veteran of the division, and the rest were recruited.

Ma Yuan was the second to build an army. From a general and lieutenant to an ordinary soldier, he had extremely strong centripetal force, and his "father-in-law" was also considered to have taken shape.

For example, Gai Yan, the Yuyang cavalry general who was originally a former subordinate of Wu Han, fell to Ma Yuan's feet after Ao Cang's battle and admired him very much. This time, Ma Yuan raided Dingtao, and used Gai Yan as his vanguard, killing Chimei all the way.

Ma Yuan's army was distributed between the Angry Ju and Dingtao, and basically blocked the Red Eyebrow's road to the south. If Fan Chong walked directly south, they were ready to fight a tough battle.

But the red eyebrows turned around and this forced Ma Yuan to "move" and go a little north to join the battle.

But on the day the three armies were on their way out, the Fifth Reunification edict arrived as scheduled, which surprised the generals and lieutenants.

They raided Dingtao and defeated the Red Eyebrow's army, but did not seize the food and fodder - the Red Eyebrow really didn't have any supplies, it was all robbed!

People can still rely on fried noodles for a long time, but their Yuyang riding war horses are not good. They usually eat wheat and beans. What should we do now? We only rely on eating the tender green and unnutritious grass by the Jishui River? Seeing that the war horses were not going to fight, their stomachs that were finally fed in Hanoi were slightly deflated, so Gai Yan became more and more anxious.

The "father-in-law" generals talked: "Is it because His Majesty wanted to surrender to the head of the city and urge Fan Chong?"

Gai Yan said, "If the thief Zhang Kuang, if you don't beat him up, how can you easily surrender?"

In a hurry, he couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty can't be so indecisive?"

For a moment, everyone in the tent stopped talking and stared at him. Is this big, big, unrestrained local bun in Yuyang who didn't know that there were also men from his Majesty who participated in the military discussion, who specially held a pen record, called "convenient to compiling military history and military books"?

The record of the Lang Guan is actually not so detailed, and it will not be specific to someone saying something, but those who directly question the emperor's orders like Gai Yan may not remember it in writing, and they must also remember it in their hearts!

Seeing that Gai Yan hadn't reacted yet, Ma Yuan scolded him directly.

"You are the one who knows only military skills, but you know the skills of your Majesty's military power?"

"The military strategy says that those who are in the battle field first and wait for the enemy are idle, and those who are in the battle field later and seek battle are tired. Therefore, those who are good at fighting will lead people but not to others. Those who can make the enemy come from themselves will benefit; those who can make the enemy fail to arrive will harm them."

"Child Eyebrow found that our army laid a trap on the Jishui line, so she turned north. It seemed that she had been tempted by His Majesty by the floating bridge. But how could she know that it was not Chiebrow who deliberately wanted to fish our army to go to Puyang for battle, waiting for the effort?"

Even if the weather is clear and even if there is no obstacle to crossing the water, what situation will happen after entering the Heji area, and how many encounters will be fought in a day, it is unknown. Even if the Fifth Reunification stipulates that one day the four soldiers will probably go out for ten hours, which gives the Red Eyebrows the risk of each defeating each.

Ma Yuan was confident that he would go on a stubborn move to Puyang, but the fifth reunion could not judge the real main force of the Red Eyebrow. At present, both sides were still under strategic temptation and cut off. It was reasonable that the fifth reunion finally canceled this plan out of caution.

What's more, the fifth reunion is as secret as others, and he has revealed the secret decree to Ma Yuan, the "deputy commander" in this battle. However, Ma Yuan should not be promoted because this trick is really a bit insulting.

The fifth secret edict said to Ma Yuan as follows: "The three roads are stopped, but the east road is not stopped. Let Dong Xian first try how deep the water between the rivers and Jis is!"

...

Dong Xian was beaten to the commander of the bare commander by Fan Chong last winter and was even captured. He was lucky enough to be released by the red eyebrows. At that time, he was in a state of decline.

But in just four months, Dong Xian became proud again. With the golden silk that Ma Yuan gave him, hundreds of armor and thousands of weapons sent from Hebei, he also formed a team of nearly 10,000 people on the banks of the Onoze River.

After the vigorous rebellion of the officials, Onozawa was still so poor, even more poor and chaotic than before the chaos. The local heroes taken away by Dong Xian either died in battle or re-spent in Red Eyebrows, but there are always young people who admire his reputation in the local area who are willing to join Dong Xian for the promise of "kings, princes, generals and ministers" and the temptation of golden cakes and silk.

But his "raiser" was really bad. It's not that Dong Xian was incompetent. Although his newly recruited soldiers could not match Fan Chong's main elite, they could always fight 50% to 50% when fighting with the other buses.

The trouble is that Peng Yue, an old senior at the time of Chu and Han dynasties, could still cut off the rear of the Chu army, but the Red Eyebrow did not have any food channels at all, and he always used war to support the war.

Dong Xian was not in a hurry. While recruiting troops, he sent a letter to the counties and counties in Yanzhou for Wei, and then turned to use these "goals" to ask Ma Yuan for gold and food, armor and soldiers, and plucked the banner with tiger skins. Dong Xian was sure to expand to 30,000 people within this year and control the territory of the two counties...

Until he received the Fifth Reunion edict, requiring Dong Xian to lead his troops westward to participate in the battle between Heji.

Seeing Dong Xian hesitating, his old subordinates advised: "The king had no choice but to join Ma Yuan. Now that the old subordinates have returned one after another, the soldiers have almost been collected. Why not continue to be kings? Why should he be a little marquis under the fifth relationship?"

Is this asking him to learn from Chu, Han, Han, and be a third party between the Red Eyebrows and Wei? Dong Xian immediately gave up this idea. How could he, a defeated general, compare with Han Xin's situation at that time? He was even worse than Peng Yue and Ying Bu!

But his subordinates were right. In this chaotic world, whether it was working alone or seeking power, it was the most important to have troops in his hands. Without this bargaining chip, he might not even be able to make a fortune in the fifth reunion!

So Dong Xian made up his mind.

"I have to go to the war between Haji."

"But not all go..."

Didn’t the Wei army have four routes? According to the habit of the Red Eyebrow Army, they often "surround the point and attack the aid", and they will hit whoever arrives first! He walked slowly and steadily, because Dong Xian knew very well that there were always active generals entering the battlefield before he could.

So, Dong Xian ordered 7,000 subordinates and set out along the "Huzi River". This river was the river that broke the Yellow River during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han and rushed into the river flowing down Juyeze. Now when the Yellow River is in full swing, it often uses this as the main road and pours into Yanzhou, flooding the originally wealthy Shanyang County (Changyi Kingdom) into a marina, and has long since given millions of Yanzhou refugees.

Dong Xian's army stopped ten miles and stopped five miles, and climbed at a speed of twenty miles a day. When he climbed to Puyang, it must be ten days later. He only hoped to catch up with the tail of the battle. If the fifth victory and the Red Eyebrow was defeated, he would be enough to fight the wind. If the Red Eyebrow won the fifth defeat, Dong Xian could slip back to Juyezhe and ask for more things from the fifth rein...

The edicts given to them by the Fifth Reun were all delivered from safe areas, and the two armies were basically impossible to communicate in real time across the Heji, which was spread across the Red Eyebrow Army. However, Dong Xian still tried hard to send people to contact Ma Yuan. As a surrendered general, he could only claim to be a "father-in-law" and only then could he survive by holding Ma Yuan's thigh.

But after sending three batches of envoys in a row, Ma Yuan was not heard from him. Only then did Dong Xian realize that something was wrong. At this time, they had already traveled a hundred miles west along the Huzi River and walked to a place called "Zhencheng". Their encounters with the Red Eyebrow Army were also frequent. Shouldn't their main force be elsewhere to intercept other Wei troops who entered Heji first?

Fortunately, Dong Xian had a way to avoid others: he ordered his subordinates to apply red eyebrows, intending to pretend to be the three elders from Yanzhou and sneak in, and sent a colorful scarf so that it would be a difference in the war and avoid many troubles along the way.

However, Dong Xian's trick was not effective at this time. Several Red Eyebrow Army suddenly approached them and launched an attack. Dong Xian hurriedly asked someone to tell them: "We are the Red Eyebrow in Yanzhou, and Red Eyebrows do not hit Red Eyebrows!"

But what Dong Xian welcomed was only a more fierce attack and Yang Yin, the fifth red eyebrows master who came to deal with Dong Xian, under Fan Chong's order.
Chapter completed!