Huang Yueying was strangled to death in her room. The soldiers who attacked her were from Xuzhou.
There was no element of suspense, and the case was placed in front of everyone openly.
Huang Yueying died of mechanical asphyxia, witnessed by almost everyone.
Qi Zhen said that she had to talk to her today, so she called Zhao Yu, Sun Guan and others, not forgetting to inform the other party's young envoy first.
A crowd of people came to Huang Yueying's room and saw the last scene of her dying.
Huang Yueying seemed to have lost the powerful mental ability she had when she competed with Qi Zhen. The defenseless woman seemed to have expected this end for herself, and her face was dull when she died.
Her purple face still maintained a different kind of beauty when she died, but it was so strange that it made people feel chilly.
The murderer did not have time to commit suicide, making the matter a dead end case.
Because Qi Zhen couldn't let him die.
With a simple mental shock, the soldier who was being used fell into a coma.
After confirming that Huang Yueying was dead, the young envoy from Jingzhou looked ashen and his mood hit rock bottom.
He knew who Huang Yueying was, and naturally knew what her death meant.
The lives of the entire family together could not equal the importance of this person.
Despair is followed by hysterical rage.
The envoy immediately prepared to send a letter to Jingzhou, explaining in detail what happened in Xuzhou.
Qi Zhen behaved quite calmly and promised the envoy that he would investigate the case thoroughly.
This sentence elicited a chuckle from the young envoy.
The person was killed by your soldiers from Xuzhou, and you still investigated it in front of everyone?
Naturally, there was no way for negotiations to proceed under such circumstances, and the process was once again severely hindered.
Two days later, news came from Jingzhou. Liu Bei was shocked by the incident. According to the current words, he issued a strong protest to the Xuzhou negotiating envoy and Zhao Yu himself who were in Xiapi.
Zhuge Liang became seriously ill after hearing this, and the pain of losing his wife made him physically and mentally haggard.
Jingzhou made two demands at the same time. The first is that Huang Yueying's body must be returned as soon as possible, and the second is that the murderer must be handed over to Jingzhou together.
However, at this time, Liu Bei obviously understood that there might be something fishy in this matter, and did not rush to send another army to attack.
Zhao Yu naturally agreed.
The young envoy took Huang Yueying's remains and the murderer who could not die and rushed back to Xiapi City.
A few more days passed.
No news came from Jingzhou, but Luoyang issued another imperial edict, and the two edicts were announced to the world in no particular order.
One letter is the appointment of the governor of Youzhou. After Liu Yu's death, the emperor did not promote him to a civil servant as the governor of Youzhou. Instead, he asked Gongsun Zan to serve as the governor of Youzhou. This can be said to be a military and political grab.
Another edict is about Yuzhou. Yuzhou is adjacent to Yanzhou, Sizhou and Jingzhou. It occupies a small area, but its strategic location is very important. It is now controlled by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
The content of the edict is quite interesting, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were asked to go to Luoyang to report on their duties.
As a result, Gongsun Zan obeyed the imperial edict, while Guan Yu and Zhang Fei seemed to have not seen the imperial call and resolutely stayed in the city of Yuzhou.
The two negotiations on the fate of Xuzhou suddenly came to nothing. After the mission led by Cheng Yu left Anqiu, there was no news again.
Also missing was the Jingzhou side.
Qi Zhen didn't know what happened secretly between them. In short, the whole world was in this kind of calm before the storm for half a day.
At this time, Qi Zhen and Wang Jianguo had returned to Luoyang City.
Xuzhou has now stabilized, and there is no need for two people to stay there and point fingers.
One sunny day, when Qi Zhen was thinking about her Sharingan, several pieces of news came almost in no particular order.
As the saying goes, hearing thunder in silence, these news really caught Qi Zhen off guard.
Like a domino chain reaction, the consequences of a series of events always make things feel unpredictable.
Yanzhou, where the Eighteenth Route Princes Alliance was first established.
After the death of the governor Liu Dai, this place seemed to be forgotten.
To the east is Jizhou, to the south is Yuzhou, and to the north is Bingzhou. This became Gongsun Zan's private territory.
The interesting thing is that during the Chinese New Year, Luoyang seemed to have no intention of canonizing Yanzhou, so it just left it vacant and became an ownerless land.
The incident began when General Zhang Fei of Yuzhou went out to hunt in the city. As soon as he led his army, he ran into the territory of Yanzhou.
The soldiers guarding the city in the border county of Yanzhou did not open the door to Zhang Fei as expected, but turned him and his soldiers away.
Both sides have ghosts in their hearts, so no one should talk about it.
Originally, it would be fine if Zhang Fei just retreated, but because of his bad temper, he actually ordered the army to attack the county seat.
After defeating this ordinary small county at a very small cost, Zhang Fei did not stop. He whipped the county magistrate several times, gave him a good education, and then left with his soldiers.
What's this? This is a naked provocation.
What happened next is a classic example of the butterfly effect.
Gongsun Zan scolded Guan Yu and Zhang Fei fiercely, probably saying that they were ignorant and acting nonsense.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei guessed that something was wrong in their minds, so they could no longer bear it and directly issued a message accusing Gongsun Zan of proclaiming himself king and rebelling.
This time Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stopped pretending and led the army straight to Yanzhou.
Although Yanzhou and Jizhou are actually part of Youzhou, Jizhou still has Yan Gang as its governor, and Gongsun Zan is beyond his reach in Yanzhou.
This statement was considered unreasonable, but it actually made it more justifiable to send troops to Yanzhou.
However, the speaker had no intention of listening, and Yuan Shao, who was far away in Qingzhou, actually took this opportunity to respond and directly sent his troops westward to Jizhou.
It seems that the conflict between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao can finally be overcome.
Yanzhou is a little further away, so Gongsun Zan can turn a blind eye for the time being, but Jizhou is a dangerous place, and daring to touch Jizhou can be regarded as triggering Gongsun Zan's rebellion.
So the war between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao started unexpectedly.
As the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole follows, and the shotgun fires again. No one knows whether he is the last shotgun.
The war between the two men lasted for a month in Jizhou. Both sides could be said to be full of elites, and both seemed to want to finish their work in one battle.
For Yuan Shao, the loss of Xuzhou, which could become a deep rear area, and the conflict between him and Gongsun Zan brought to the forefront after Liu Yu's death, Jizhou became a place that he must control.
However, the Youzhou army was much stronger than Yuan Shao's army in terms of quantity and individual soldier quality, so it was natural that Yuan Shao was retreating steadily on the frontal battlefield.
Shocking things are yet to come.
Zhao Yun of Bingzhou, who was once a subordinate of Baima Yicong under Gongsun Zan, quietly gathered an army at Youbian border. When Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan were fighting fiercely, he suddenly sent troops to Youzhou.
As soon as this news came out, the whole world was in an uproar!
Just a few days after Zhao Yun sent troops, Jingzhou counted his troops and went directly north to join the battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan.
However, the Jingzhou army did not help each other. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Liu Bei was here to reap the benefits.
In this battle, Yan Gang, the governor of Jizhou, died, and nearly two-thirds of Jizhou was occupied by the Jingzhou army.
At the same time, Liu Bei's troops were divided into two groups. One group of 100,000 troops went straight to Qingzhou, while the other group continued to spend time with Gongsun Zan.
This is all the trump cards that Huang Yueying left to Nanyang before the alliance between the eighteen princes.
Liu Bei pressed them all forward.
This posed a big problem for Gongsun Zan.
He was not stupid. At this time, he naturally knew that Zhao Yun had already had different intentions with him, and even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had also had different intentions.
It seems that the only plan for now is to return to Youzhou to help him. He can't take Jizhou anymore.
Carefully or unintentionally, Jizhou and Qingzhou were quickly captured by the Jingzhou army. Yuan Shao's situation was critical, and his life was in danger.
Although Liu Bei became the governor of Jingzhou in name, he was still stationed in Nanyang, which was close enough to Xuzhou and Jizhou.
Just when Liu Bei was about to become the biggest winner of this war, a fire broke out in the backyard.
Cai Mao, the general who conquered the south, led his 200,000 Jingzhou troops and drove to Nanyang in a furious manner to stab Liu Bei in the butt!
But Liu Bei's army was far away in Jizhou and there was no time to rush for reinforcements!
From the time Zhang Fei captured the small border county in Yuzhou until Cai Mao sent troops to Liu Bei, it only took two months.
This world is so chaotic.
No one can know the future direction of the world.
Except maybe Lin Biao.
"Don't regret your move." Lin Biao glared at Wang Jianguo in front of him.
"I'm not very good at playing this game. Go is not as interesting as chess. I like the flash of swords and shadows." Wang Jianguo said with a smile.
On the other side, Qi Zhen watched the two playing chess and felt angry.
"Can you two stop pretending to be nine-dan Go players when you play backgammon?"
Wang Jianguo rolled his eyes at Qi Zhen: "Go is so tiring. Three hundred and sixty-one points, playing a game of chess for several hours."
"I've never heard of anyone regretting playing backgammon." Qi Zhen held her forehead and shook her head.
"You lost." Lin Biao placed the last white piece and said softly.
"You always block me from both sides. I won't play anymore." Wang Jianguo waved his hand.
"When are you going to let Xhaka come back?" Qi Zhen asked suddenly.
"Don't worry, he still has a mission." Lin Biao said.
"Where is Zhao Yun?" Qi Zhen asked.
Lin Biao nodded.
"In this way, as long as we play steadily step by step, the game will be over." Qi Zhen sighed, but his face looked indescribably tired.
"What? Are you tired?" Wang Jianguo asked with squinting eyes.
