Confrontation
Yuzhou.
General Long Chen personally led an expedition to conquer Yuzhou, commanding 200,000 soldiers from Jiangdong, making a move that appeared to aim at swallowing the territories of Yuzhou.
The Prefect of Nanyang Commandery, Yuan Shu, also harbored ambitions of annexing Yuzhou. He ordered his general, Ji Ling, to lead 100,000 Nanyang troops and several thousand foreign mercenaries who followed Yuan Shu to advance towards Yuzhou.
Long Chen's army launched an attack from the western part of Yuzhou, and with the blood-soaked battles fought by the 200,000 soldiers from Jiangdong, they swept through, directly approaching the central town of Yuzhou.
The reason they could do this so easily and swiftly was twofold.
First, Long Chen symbolized the legitimate Han dynasty. The current emperor, Liu Bian, had already issued a decree to reclaim Yuzhou.