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The Battle of Changshan ended. In history, this battle lasted for more than half a month. The Yuan army and the Heishan army attacked and defended each other and used their own means, but the result was no winner. However, the Yuan army fought at home, and as long as they were tied, they were considered to be victorious. Therefore, the Heishan army retreated from Changshan and retreated to Taihang. This time, due to the addition of Mahan, the battle lasted only seven or eight days, and ended with the defeat of the Heishan army and retreating in a hurry.

After all, the Yuan army detoured and took a long way. It was still one step late. It had only time to intercept the tail of the retreating troops of the Heishan Army, mostly infantrymen. After a lot of pursuit and death, they beheaded more than a thousand enemies, captured 3,000 enemies, and then recovered Gengxiang. After the war, the Yuan army killed more than 5,300 Heishan Army in this battle, captured 7,000 enemies, and killed a quarter of the total strength of the Heishan Army. From this point of view, the Heishan Army must be defeated. If the losses reach this level, they will indeed not be able to continue to fight.

Although Yuan Shao won, he actually did not get much benefit from this battle. Because the Black Mountain Army took the initiative to retreat, not to be defeated, the supplies, food, horses, armor and other things had been transported away, and the Yuan army had few seized. Although there were 7,000 prisoners, who knew the quality of the Black Mountain bandits. That person collected 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans and reorganized tens of thousands of "Qingzhou soldiers" as the starting capital. As a result, when Wancheng was defeated, the Qingzhou soldiers immediately rebelled. If there was no Yu Jin to purify them, they would probably run away. When they faced Lu Bu, the Bingzhou cavalry rushed, and the Qingzhou army was defeated, and Lao Cao fell off his horse and burned his palms...

Of course, the above are all later stories, which have not happened at this time. But Yuan Shao was familiar with the qualities of these bandit soldiers: unorganized, undisciplined, and unintentional to fight. Typically, no personnel are not in the past. If the battle in Changshan was not the battle of Changshan that day, if it were not for Zhang Yan's elite central army, and Sun Qing's cavalry torrent, he would have been greatly defeated and lost. This kind of person who can only be an auxiliary soldier and a weak servant, what's the use of arresting more?

However, just when Yuan Shao thought the prisoner was useless, Ma Han told him that it was useful! Because he wanted to acquire it, the purchase price was Jiumen County.

Ma Han didn't pay the specific price, just asked one question: "Do you see how much the Nine Gate is worth? We don't bargain, we don't think it's worth it, it's not worth it."

Such a philandering face really made Yuan Shao laugh and cry. He waved his hand and gave half of it to make up four thousand prisoners. At the same time, he also provided the 4,000 prisoners with 20 days of food to ensure that they could arrive in western Liaoning smoothly.

In this way, with more than a thousand prisoners from the Jiumen, Ma Han had a total of five thousand prisoners in his hands. One of his goals of participating in the Changshan War was initially achieved.

Yuan Shao originally wanted Ma Han to stay for a few more days and talk about cooperation issues, but Ma Han refused on the grounds that he had been away from western Liaoning for too long and had stagnant government affairs. Ma Han certainly knew what Yuan Shao wanted. And he would never tie the Yuan group chariot at this time. What he wanted was to achieve a balance between Yuan and Gongsun. So he did not explicitly refuse, but just hinted that he had only a few thousand soldiers at the moment. He was less than a palm, and his land was only a city, and his strength was not enough to help him.

After discussing with his staff, Yuan Shao decided to provide "aid". Although it is not certain how strong Bailang City is, in this battle, hundreds of cavalry can attack the Nine Gate and defeat nearly a thousand Hu cavalry. In time, this will be a force that cannot be ignored. Especially the reputation of Ma Han among the Wuwan and Xianbei Hu Hu is very helpful to the next joint strategy of the Yuan Group. Therefore, Yuan Group unanimously agreed to assist money, grain, iron tools, cloth, various agricultural tools, vehicles and other items. It also promised that Qing, Ji and other states could establish trade with Bailang City in the future.

This time, Ma Han really made a profit.

The biggest gain of this trip was actually not just these material and population, but Zhao Yun finally agreed to join his command. There were also hundreds of volunteers from various Wubi, including Xiahou Lan, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, and Changshan, plus more than a thousand Baodu Villages, which was a lot of gains. Oh, and there was also Zhao Yingzi...

On July 22, 5,000 prisoners, more than a thousand Baodu Villagers and a large amount of supplies provided by Yuan Shao were loaded with twenty large ships leased from Zhen. Under the guidance of three sill boats, they sailed out of Zishui, entered the Hutuo River, and headed towards the Bohai Bay.

When the fleet entered the Hutuo River, a cavalry rushed to the bank of the river and shouted loudly.

Ma Han ordered a small boat to row to the shore and asked what happened. Soon, the boat rowed back and the soldiers presented something. Ma Han took it and saw that it was an iron arrow, and it seemed to be a pure iron heavy arrow he used. However, the arrow was very dull and seemed to have hit some hard object.

Ma Han thought about it and understood. He turned around and laughed at Xiahou Lan and others: "It seems that this is someone's challenge to me! Well, I hope one day we will have a real showdown!"

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In early August, Ma Han returned to Beihai and Laizhou Bay again. The noisy coast two months ago had been silent, and all kinds of domestic waste had been cleaned up. Apart from the bumpy camping traces, there were almost no sight of tens of thousands of immigrants stationed here.

Mahan had enough ships this time, so he didn't need to stay in the Beihai and transferred them in batches. In terms of food, he also received strong support from the Zhen family of Zhongshan. In addition, the food provided by Yuan Shao was enough to support more than 6,000 people to arrive in western Liaoning smoothly.

After the ship arrived at Laizhou Bay, Ma Han decided to divide his troops into two groups, and all the supplies, horses, prisoners and Baoduzhai returned to western Liaoning first. Zhao Yun led Xiahou Lan, Zhao Yingzi, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao and more than 300 volunteers to be escorted. Ma Han led Taishi Ci, Guan Hai, and 170 wolf-fanged flying flying rode to Donglai, where there were 30 wolf-fanged flying cavalry warriors to respond, and they also had to check the completion of the reconnaissance mission.

The "main" mission that Ma Han came out this time was to explore the reality of Donglai, but he ran to Beihai and went to Changshan again. If Gongsun Du wanted to know that he sent people and boats, but Ma Han was so "unprofessional" he would be furious.

However, before going to Donglai, Ma Han got off the boat first and took Taishi Ci to Duchang to visit Kong Rong and Wang Xiu, thanking these two for their strong support for their immigration work some time ago. No matter what their starting point was, they did make great efforts to immigrate to western Liaoning. After this work came to an end, it was necessary to come to the door and thank you.

In the Duchang Prime Minister's Mansion, Ma Han met Kong Rong again. This contemporary famous scholar and scholar had a good complexion. He had a light robe and a fluttering tail. When he saw Ma Han and Taishi Ci, he was obviously quite happy and was very entertained. When asked about Wang Xiu, he replied that he had been appointed as the secret order.

Ma Han presented a gift and asked Kong Rong to pass it to Wang Xiu to express his gratitude. Of course, Kong Rong's share is indispensable.

During his conversation, Ma Han said that if there were still Yellow Turban turbulence in Beihai, including Qingzhou, Bailang City would be willing to send troops to help him. Kong Rong was overjoyed by this. He witnessed the combat effectiveness of the Wolf-Tooth Flying Cavalry himself. As long as there were three or five hundred archers and defeating tens of thousands of Yellow Turban mobs, it would be no problem for Ma Han to help him as he said. If Ma Han helped him as hard as he said, Beihai would be worried.

As a sage, Kong Rong didn't know that "selling me with papaya and repaying it with Qiongju", and immediately expressed his willingness to provide manpower and material resources to Bailang City and sell grain at a relatively low price. Taishici looked on the side and admired it. The city guard seemed young and was very experienced in forming alliances. In just a few months, from Beihai to Changshan, he had obtained a lot of support from the Zhen family, Yuan family, Kong Beihai and other three forces. He also established military assistance and trade exchanges, and introduced many support and development routes for Bailang City, which is in a corner. With this lord, Bailang City is small and western Liaoning is remote, but has great potential. At this moment, Taishici was truly at ease to be the Sima of this White Wolf Camp.

The guest and the host talked about each other and were just having fun, but were interrupted by a 400-mile urgent document.

Kong Rong took it and looked happy and worried, and sighed: "Why is Xiang Benhou? Alas! It's better to be harmonious..." Seeing that Ma Han and Tai Shi Ci were both interested in asking, he handed over the Chinese disc to Ma Han.

After Ma Han thanked him, he took it and looked at it, and felt a little bit like this: Has the life-and-death battle between Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan finally begun?

In August of the fourth year of Chuping (193), the governor of Youzhou, the Taifu, and the Marquis of Xiangben Liu Yu led an army of 100,000 to attack Gongsun Zan. The war broke out in Youzhou!

Yuan Shao immediately stopped pursuing the Black Mountain Army, urgently summoned the army, closely monitored the war, and prepared to take the opportunity to act. The Yuan shogunate was filled with joy and made plans. The generals also rubbed their hands, urging the soldiers to step up their training and practice armor.

However, before the joy of the Yuan group passed, the battle ended in an astonishing way.

It should be said that Liu Yu was well-known for the war. At that time, Gongsun Zan's troops were scattered on the Youji front line, and there were not many troops in Jixian and Yijing. Although Liu Yu's army, which claimed to be 100,000, sounded a lot, there were 50,000 troops in half, and 20,000 troops in half.

Gongsun Zan searched around, and there were only a few thousand people. He realized that he was defeated and wanted to abandon the city and escape. Unexpectedly, Liu Yu's soldiers were not good at fighting - Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan were two extremes. Gongsun Zan started his career in war and killed Hu Kuangren; while Liu Yu was a typical pro-Hu faction, opposed foreign wars, and emphasized peace as the most important thing. This can be seen from the name of his son - Liu He.

Lack of training and even less practical combat. How can such an army compare to Gongsun Zan's elite troops in all kinds of battles?

However, Liu Yu was confident of having 20 times the enemy's force. Considering that after capturing Jixian, if the damage was too great, he would have to spend more energy to rebuild. He ordered that the city could only be fought regularly and not burned. In the Three Kingdoms era, which lacked effective siege equipment, even if the ants attached to the city were attacked with twenty times the force, it would take a long time to siege it before it could be captured. As a result, the attack was urgent for several days, but it could not be defeated for a while.

Gongsun Zan got a breather, and summoned hundreds of elite troops that night, roped out of the city, set fire with the wind, took advantage of the situation to raid, and rushed into the camp of Liu's army, defeating Liu Yu. Liu Yu tens of thousands of people collapsed, and only led a few people to flee north to Juyong County. Gongsun Zan personally led hundreds of cavalry to pursue him, taking advantage of Liu Yu's miserable defeat, his morale was sluggish, and the city defense was in vain, and he attacked fiercely. The city was trapped in three days and captured Liu Yu alive.

He surrounded the enemy with twenty times his troops, but ended up like this, which shows how bad Liu Yu's command and combat can be. Since then, the entire Youzhou area belongs to Gongsun.

In October, the battle in Youzhou had just ended and the court had not yet known it. He actually sent an envoy Duan Xun to reward Liu Yu, and added his fiefs to him, and ordered him to be in charge of the affairs of the six northern states. Gongsun Zan took the opportunity to become a former general, and was granted the title of Yihou, and was appointed as the governor of You, Qing and Ji. He also secretly reported that Liu Yu wanted to conspire with Yuan Shao to become emperor, asking Duan Xun to kill Liu Yu.

This was not intentionally falsely accused by Gongsun Zan. Yuan Shao did write a letter to Liu Yu, asking Liu Yu to replace Emperor Xian and ascend the throne to emperor to get rid of the central dynasty under the control of Dong Zhuo and other Western Liang warlords. However, Liu Yu refused. In any dynasty, if there are such signs, no matter what you think, as long as there is something wrong, you will not let go of the wrong killing. However, in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, there are countless warlords and princes with this ambition, but those who are not strong have been "reformed", while those who are capable live well, and turn their ambitions into reality step by step.

Liu Yu happened to be incompetent, so he died.
Chapter completed!