In July of the 14th year of Jian'an, a major event occurred in Guanzhong.

Jingzhao Weishi, who was known to be a powerful man in Guanzhong, gathered three thousand troops to rise up in Ganting and captured Shanglin; the day after Weishi raised his troops, Hongnong Yang Fan raised troops in Hongnong and gathered four thousand troops.

The remaining people occupied Hongnong County. Immediately, Yang Fan responded to Wei Cong and sent troops to Hu County and occupied Huayin.

Jingzhao Weishi, Hongnong Yangshi!

These are Guanzhong tycoons with a century-old history and extremely powerful influence.

In particular, the Yang family of Hongnong is also a family with four generations and three princes. Taiwei Yang Zhen, Taiwei Yang Biao, two generations of Taiwei, and countless disciples and former officials. During Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Yang Biao played a role in protecting him. But later Cao Cao

Moving the capital to Xu County eliminated Yang Biao. In the end, Yang Biao had to leave Xu Du and returned to his hometown in despair.

Webster had a deep hatred for Cao Peng.

In the past, Cao Peng killed Wei Duan and Wei Kang and his son, which greatly damaged Wei's strength. In particular, it cut off the trade between Wei Duan and the Qiang people in Huangzhong, which almost destroyed 50% of Wei's income. Then Cao Peng started

Although Webster was also involved in the trade routes of the Western Regions, the benefits he gained were far less than those of other aristocratic families.

If nothing else, before Cao Peng opened the trade route to the Western Regions, the Pingling Dou family could not be compared with the Wei family.

However, due to Cao Peng's support, the Dou family, a 200-year-old powerful man, was reborn. Over the past few years, the Dou family's income has skyrocketed and continues to grow. In the ninth year of Jian'an, Dou Lan, who returned from Hexi, acquired Cao Hong.

He was appointed as Jing Zhaocheng and became uncontrollable. Dou Lan's son Dou Hu is now serving as the commanding officer in Wuwei County and has a bright future. With the rise of Dou Lan's lineage, the Dou family gradually changed their strategy and began to support

The Pingling Dou family is dominated by the Dou Lan lineage.

In contrast, Webster has suffered successive repressions.

After the death of Wei Duan and Wei Kang, there was no one at the helm of the Wei family. Cao Ji, who was in charge of Liangzhou, tried every means to suppress the Wei family. In any case, the friendship between Cao Ji and Wang Meng was far greater than that between Cao Peng and Wang Meng.

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An old friend for decades died because of Webster.

His own son suffered even more because of Webster...

Cao Ji is not a generous person. Under such circumstances, it would be strange if he did not suppress Webster. In this way, Webster's business in Liangzhou was almost cut off. And the business involved in the Western Regions trade routes was also

Cao Ji was often challenged by Liangzhou Pass. Cao Ji could not blatantly retaliate against Webster, but he could use the power in his hands to continuously weaken Webster's power. As a result, Webster's strength was seriously reduced.

Wei Cong, the new leader of the Wei clan, also asked other Guanzhong powerful men for help.

But everyone cooperated well with the Cao family and reaped great benefits... The so-called alliance of powerful families in Guanzhong has long been an empty talk. On the surface, these powerful families expressed their willingness to help Wei Shi, but later, they joined forces with Cao Ji.

Let's work together to suppress Webster. After all, Webster has been based in Guanzhong for a hundred years and has a lot of resources. Now Webster is obviously weak. It would be extremely stupid to not take advantage of the opportunity.

As for Cao Ji?

Not very talented, but very lucky!

This is the evaluation given to Cao Ji by the Guanzhong clan.

This guy has a super strong son, enough to keep the Cao family from losing power for a hundred years.

In this case, why not make good friends with them? Webster and Cao have a deep grudge, and it is just right to use Cao's hand to kill Webster. What kind of alliance, what kind of friendship? In the face of interests, they have become extremely fragile.

Faced with this situation, how could Webster just sit back and wait for death?

Cao Peng's appointment as Sili Xiaowei was tantamount to sending Webster to Cao Peng's sword.

Don't look at Cao Peng's lack of expression now, it's because he has no time to pay attention. If Cao Peng quells the Hehuang Rebellion and returns to Guanzhong... Wei Shiding will bear the brunt and become the victim of Cao Peng's sword. Having said that, don't do anything wrong.

In the past few years, Webster has secretly contacted Ma Chao of Wudu and Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, and even sent a large amount of military supplies to Ma Chao and Zhang Lu through his own channels.

If they are found out, Cao Peng will never let them go!

When the time comes, not only will those shitty allies not come to help, they will definitely happily come forward and accept Webster's power.

As for the Yang family of Hongnong, it was because of Yang Xiu's death that the Yang family was angry.

The Yang family itself belonged to the staunch imperial party. During the Wuzi Rebellion, they were also implicated.

The Hongnong Yang family's foundation in Guanzhong was almost uprooted.

And the death of Yang Xiu touched the last bottom line of the Yang family... Yang Biao learned that his beloved son had been killed, vomited blood and died. The Cao family's suppression of the Yang family also left the Yang family with no other way out but to resort to force.

On the scalp.

From this point of view, the Yang and Wei families are in similar situations.

Facing Cao Wei's aggressive posture, the only choice was to rise up and resist...

It was only because Cao Peng was stationed in the northwest that the two families did not dare to act rashly. Now Cao Peng is bedridden and seriously ill, and Cao Xiu is also mobilizing troops to prepare to send troops to Hehuang. Almost all the troops in Guanzhong have been transferred back to the city.

Fanxukou and Yangcheng line. At the same time, with the beginning of the Bingzhou War, Cao Jun's elite troops set off, leaving Hedong with an empty force and unable to pose much threat to Guanzhong.

After discussion, the two families decided to start an army.

Cooperate with Ma Chao's actions to conquer Guanzhong...

Once the Guanzhong is broken, the Central Plains will be in chaos. The Yang and Wei families have extremely close ties with Xianbei during their many years of business. As long as the Central Plains is in chaos, the two families can unite the three forces of Liu Zhang from Xichuan, Sun Quan from Jiangdong, and Kebineng from Xianbei

, work together, seek benefits, and safeguard their own rights.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no concept of country.

Many ministers in the DPRK had close contacts with the Hu people, such as the Xianbei Xiongnu.

This is also one of the reasons why since the Han Dynasty, although there have been countless expeditions to Mobei and even achieved countless brilliant results, the Hu people have always been able to threaten the Central Plains. If you don’t see it, every time there is a war, a large number of powerful people from the Central Plains defect to the Hu people. Including the Eastern Han Dynasty

In the last years, Liu Yu, Liu Yan, Yuan Shao and others more or less colluded with the Hu people. The only one who did not collude, Gongsun Zan, eventually died at the hands of Yuan Shao.

This may be a tragedy for the Central Plains.

Since ancient times, there has never been a shortage of traitors.

It was like this in the Han Dynasty, it was like this in the Tang Dynasty, it was like this in the Song Dynasty, it was like this in the Ming Dynasty...

The Yang and Wei families joined forces to raise troops, posing a huge threat to Guanzhong.

Cao Hong learned the news and hurriedly returned to rescue.

On the eighth day of July, Ma Chao gathered 20,000 troops and suddenly launched a fierce attack. Cao's army in Guanzhong, which was panicked, was caught off guard and was quickly defeated by Ma Chao. Ma Chao immediately captured the city and occupied Fanxukou. Cao Hong hurriedly led his troops to attack to recapture it.

Fanxukou. However, they were ambushed by Ma Chao and Cao's army was defeated.

Ma Chao's most important word in using troops is "quick".

After capturing Fanxukou, he ordered Ma Xiu to garrison Fanxukou, and then with Ma Dai as the vanguard, he personally supervised the troops and horses to pursue Cao Hong. Cao Hong was defeated in consecutive battles and fled to Chencang with the remaining defeated generals.

For a time, the wind in Guan Guan was roaring, and all the vegetation and trees were covered with soldiers.

After the Yang and Wei families reunited, they gathered 30,000 people and besieged Chang'an.

Liangzhou Mu Jiaxu, who stayed behind in Chang'an, calmly accepted the challenge...

On July 15, when Ma Chao took advantage of his winning streak and attacked Chencang, he was ambushed by Cao Jun while passing by Wu Yue Mountain. Cao Jun generals Zhang He and Xu Huang had long been ordered to lurk in Wu Yue Mountain. When Ma Chao's army passed by,

Cao Hong gathered 10,000 Cao troops in Chencang and prepared for a decisive battle with Ma Chao.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely, Zhang He and Xu Huang suddenly came out from Wuyue Mountain and attacked Ma Chao's rear army.

Ma Chao's army suddenly became chaotic. Under the attack of Cao's army, they were finally defeated and fled... The military advisor Zhonglang General Hu Zun was beheaded by Zhang He in the rebellion. Ma Dai fought hard to cover Ma Chao at the foot of Wuyue Mountain.

After Ma Chao broke through the siege, he did not dare to stay and fled to Fanxukou in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, just when Ma Chao was winning one after another, Shi Tao, the prefect of Hanyang, was ordered by Xu Shu to suddenly attack Longguan and recapture Fanxukou. Although Ma Xiu resisted desperately, Xu Shu and Shi Tao gathered three

Thousands of soldiers attacked forcefully, and although they suffered heavy casualties, they finally recaptured Fanxukou.

Ma Xiu fought bloody battles at Fanxukou for a day and a night. With no food inside and no reinforcements outside, he set fire to the city and then committed suicide. Ma Chao was horrified when he heard the news. Fanxukou was occupied, which meant that the war was over.

His way back. At this time, Cao Hong and Xu Huang had joined forces and were pursuing from Wuyue Mountain. Ma Chao retreated while fighting, and finally had no choice but to retreat to Yangcheng and wait for reinforcements.

Where are Ma Chao's reinforcements?

It is the soldiers and horses of the Yang and Wei families.

However, he did not expect that this farce was planned by Jia Xu from beginning to end.

Zhang He and Xu Huang were secretly transferred from Xudu, and then Fanxukou was vacated, allowing Ma Chao to enter the military pass.

To put it bluntly, it means luring the enemy deep and closing the door to beat the dog!

Previously, Jia Xu received a secret report from Cao Peng and closely monitored the Yang, Fan, and Wei Cong families. Before that, he had already been on guard and had suspicions about the Jingzhao Wei family and the Hongnong Yang family. Unfortunately, there was no evidence, so he had no way of knowing.

Start. If you suppress it forcefully, you have to worry about the thoughts of the powerful people in Guanzhong. After all, whether it is the Webster family or the Yang family... our fight is our own business. If you want to uproot two families, it will inevitably lead to the death of the lips and the teeth.

Feeling. So thinking about it carefully, the only way is to let the two families take the initiative...

So Jia Xu and Cao Hong discussed and made a gesture of emptying their troops.

Wei followed Yang Fan and was indeed fooled, so he launched an army and started a rebellion.

Just when Ma Chao was guarding Yangcheng and waiting for reinforcements, Xu Yi, who was secretly stationed in Heluo, suddenly launched an attack. He broke through Hangu Pass and conquered Hongnong. He filled the Yang family, regardless of slaves or men and women.

More than 800 people were all captured. Immediately afterwards, Commander Xu Yi drove straight in and recaptured Huyang and Huayin.

The Pingling Dou family, after receiving Jia Xu's order to counterattack, gathered thousands of people and sent troops to rescue.

Ma Chao defeated Wu Yueshan miserably, catching Wei Cong and Yang Fan off guard.

By the time the two of them reacted, Zhang He and his troops had arrived at Baqiao...
To be continued...