Since Shao Zhen assassinated Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian did not die on the battlefield, but he did not escape the fate of being assassinated by other players.
His son Sun Ce retreated to Jiangdong, recruited talents, made friends with heroes, and led his father's old troops to surrender to Yuan Shu.
Sun Ce was a handsome young man with strong martial arts skills. He captured many cities for Yuan Shu, but he could not reuse them. Sun Ce captured Lujiang and returned victorious, but Yuan Shu treated him very rudely. Sun Ce was reminded by Huang Gai, his father's former subordinate, and borrowed three thousand troops from Yuan Shu using the jade seal as a pledge, and returned to Jiangdong to wait for an opportunity to make a comeback.
Sun Ce met his sworn brother Zhou Yu on the road, and with the help of Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, he prepared to attack Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou.
Liu Yao and Sun Ce stayed at Shenting Ridge. Liu Yao camped at the south of the mountain and Sun Ce camped at the north of the mountain. Sun Ce wanted to find out whether Liu Yao was real or not, so he rode up to Shenting Ridge with only Thirteen, entered Han Guangwu Temple, and burned incense to worship.
Liu Yao's general Tai Shi Ci was brave and good at fighting. He did not listen to Liu Yao's orders and actually mounted his horse and went out of the camp to fight with Sun Ce. The two of them fought from the top of the ridge to the bottom of the ridge, from the horse to the bottom, and finally abandoned their guns and fought. They fought inextricably and their shirts were torn to pieces. At dusk, the storm came, and they retreated after two blows.
Sun Ce fought with Liu Yao, and Liu Yao was defeated. Taishi Ci was unable to do it alone, so he led a dozen cavalry to Jing County to recruit men. Sun Ce went into battle and killed one of Liu Yao's generals, Mi, in front of the battle line, and drank a general named Fan Neng to death. From then on, everyone called Sun Ce the "little overlord".
Because Sun Ce liked Taishi Ci, he and Zhou Yu made a plan to conquer Taishi Ci.
After Sun Ce defeated Liu Yao, he also defeated Yan Baihu, Wang Lang and others, and occupied six counties and eighty-one prefectures in Jiangdong, which was powerful in Jiangdong. While writing a petition to the court and making friends with Cao Cao, he also sent a letter to Yuan Shu to retrieve the jade seal.
Cao Cao put down the rebellion of Li Jue and Guo Si, and was granted the title of Lieutenant of Sili, recording affairs of the Shangshu, and taking control of the political power. In order to further control the imperial court, Cao Cao moved the capital to Xuchang, proclaimed himself General and Marquis of Wuping, and gained the status of holding the emperor hostage and commanding the princes.
Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao in Yanzhou and went to Xuzhou to join Liu Bei and garrisoned in Xiaopei. In order to eliminate Lu Bu and Liu Bei, counselor Xun Yu proposed the "two tigers competing for food" strategy for Cao Cao, and asked Cao Cao to write a letter asking Liu Bei to kill Lu Bu - if it succeeds, he will try to kill Liu Bei, but if it fails, Lu Bu will kill Liu Bei.
Liu Bei knew that this was a estrangement plan, but did not carry out it. Xun Yu also proposed the strategy of "driving the tiger to swallow the wolf". On the one hand, he first informed Yuan Shu and on the other hand, he faked the emperor's edict and ordered Liu Bei to go against Yuan Shu. After Liu Bei received the imperial edict, he and Guan Yu went on an expedition, leaving Zhang Fei to guard Xuzhou.
Zhang Fei persuaded Lu Bu's father-in-law Cao Bao to drink at a banquet. Cao Bao refused to drink and was whipped by Zhang Fei. Cao Bao sent a message to Lu Bu overnight, asking Bu to attack Xuzhou. Because Zhang Fei was drunk and unable to fight, he had to leave Liu Bei's family and go out of the east gate.
Xuzhou was owned by Lu Bu, so Liu Bei had no choice but to ask Lu Bu for peace and temporarily settle in Xiaopei.
Yuan Shu sent General Ji Ling to lead an army to attack Liu Bei. He ordered people to send 200,000 husks of grain and asked Lu Bu to attack from both sides. Liu Bei asked Lu Bu for help because his troops were low on food and supplies. Lu Bu weighed the pros and cons and was afraid that Yuan Shu would annex Liu Bei and it would be disadvantageous for him, so he raised troops to rescue Liu Bei. Ji Ling blamed Lü Bu for breaking his promise. Lü Bu came up with a plan to reconcile the two families. He invited Liu Bei and Ji Ling to a banquet. He ordered his soldiers to stick their halberds outside the camp gate one hundred and fifty steps away, and said: "If I am hit by an arrow, If you draw a halberd twig, your two families will stop fighting. If the shot fails, you will go back to the camp and arrange a fight. If anyone refuses to follow me, I will gather my troops and horses and kill them together with the other family!" Liu Bei agreed very much. Ji Ling was afraid of Lu Bu's courage, so he had no choice but to agree.
Shao Zhen looked at the map of Jiangdong and felt that in this troubled world, no one knows who is the decent player and who is the villain.
