Just when Yuan Shao was about to perish, Liu Yu was so kind and kind that his nature broke out again. He actually ordered: Yuan Shao is the only one who is the culprit! The rest of the soldiers and the people must not be hurt by arbitrarily. Moreover, they should not burn houses, which would damage the lives of the people. Those who violate the order shall be executed immediately!

So, a big reversal. Liu Yu's soldiers were unwilling to fight and fight under forced orders. Yuan Shao rushed out under the siege of thousands of troops.

Once Yuan Shao escaped, it wouldn't matter if he evacuated from Nanpi safely. It was really like breaking the jade cage and flying colorful phoenixes, breaking the golden lock and leaving the dragon. Yuan Shao immediately felt happy.

Yuan Shao first asked Qu Yi to lead 800 dead soldiers to cut off the rear and block Liu Yu's pursuit. Then, Yuan Shao urgently ordered Yan Liang, the general stationed in Zhangwu, to lead 100,000 troops to intercept and kill Liu Yu's troops from the flanks. At the same time, he ordered Zhang He, the general stationed in Bohai, to lead 50,000 troops to copy Liu Yu's retreat and attack Liu Yu's capital Xindu. Only the general Gao Lan led 100,000 troops to defend Youzhou's intervention.

At the same time, Yuan Shao also wrote a letter to Han Fu of the Wei army, uniting him to raise an army to fight against Liu Yu. He also falsely accused Liu Yu of the two courts in Luoyang and Chang'an to make him an emperor, and also held troops hostages and threatened his subordinates to rebel. He and others were loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and they swear to never obey and resist. They specifically reported to the court.

Yuan Shao used these small methods.

First of all, Qu Yi led the deceased soldiers to fight to the death, which was in sharp contrast with Liu Yu's barely dealing with the soldiers and horses. He successfully blocked Liu Yu's soldiers and horses' pursuit of Yuan Shao.

Secondly, the soldiers and horses trained by Yan Liang took the cavalry of Youzhou Liu Ming as the imaginary enemy. How tenacious is his ability to respond quickly? How terrifying is his training intensity and combat ability? Although their combat power may not be as good as the Liu Mingde troops in Youzhou. However, their combat power is compared to those of Liu Yu who have only been trained for a year and are not afraid to let go of fighting. It is really a hundred times stronger. This can be easily proved by Yan Liang's rapid mobilization of troops and horses, easily cutting off and defeating Liu Yu's 200,000 troops.

In the end, Yuan Shao's diplomatic methods were also successful. Han Fu thought he was an old official of the Yuan clan, and he had always had a good relationship with Yuan Shao since he took office. Yuan Shao's ambitions and talent were a hundred times better than him and Liu Yu. Moreover, in this chaotic world, he could not be alone. He had to unite with the strong to survive under such a huge environment. Therefore, Han Fu resolutely raised the banner of rebellion, responded to Yuan Shao's letters and raised an army to attack Liu Yu's back and forth.

As a result, the tens of thousands of remaining troops and vast territory were surrendered and occupied by Yuan Shao in just over a dozen days. So Luoyang and Chang'an had not yet responded to Yuan Shao's first memorial. Yuan Shao's second memorial was successfully suppressed and the documents of the former general and Leling Hou arrived. These two courts were temporarily unable to deal with Yuan Shao and were unwilling to commit crimes against Yuan Shao, who was in great strength at this time, so they agreed to Yuan Shao's request. Of course, all of this included the intention of using Yuan Shao's former general to resist the position of Liu Ming's Grand Marshal. And they also made plans to take advantage of Liu Ming when Liu Ming avenged Liu Yu.

But! No matter what, after this battle, Yuan Shao not only integrated all the soldiers and horses in Jizhou and Han Fu's soldiers, but after digging out the damage, his strength directly reached a huge amount of 500,000. The most important thing is that Yuan Shao got all the money, grain, horses, armor, and weapons saved by Liu Yu's hard work in Jizhou for many years, and alleviated his imminent military ration and military pay crisis.

The most happy one among them is that Liu Yu and Liu Ming had a good relationship. Liu Yu was the only buyer who was not under the control of horses in Youzhou. Although Liu Yu had not trained cavalry for more than a year, Liu Yu had saved up a lot of horses, a total of 30,000. This is a good thing that even if you have money, you can't buy.

However, it is precisely because of this good thing that directly led to the close relationship between Yuan Shao and his brother Yuan Shu, which created a considerable crack.

Who doesn’t love such a short-term product like war horses! Especially those princes who are more eager to watch but can only look at them, but they can’t find any way to get them. Yuan Shu happens to be a member of it. Now, when Yuan Shu knows that Yuan Shao has so many treasure war horses, how can he not be jealous?

Especially for Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao was just a son born in a concubine, and he could not be considered the orthodox Yuan family. It was just Yuan Shao who was adopted by chance and was adopted to his uncle, and thus became the representative of the Yuan family to the outside world. But in fact, he was the true orthodox blood relationship of the Yuan family. He asked Yuan Shao for horses, but he looked down on him. Moreover, he didn't ask for much. His war horses were so easy, and he only had half of them, which was of course not an exaggeration.

But! Yuan Shu would think so, and Yuan Shao didn't think so at all.

Yuan Shao was also very precious to these war horses. The treasure war horse he had finally obtained was so hard that the ignorant brother wanted to take away half of it. It was a lion who spoke very much.

Moreover, because he was a son of a concubine, Yuan Shao always paid attention to his image and identity. In the second year of Jiaping, Yuan Shao met his mother's death. Yuan Shao avoided his official position for six years for his reputation. In every season of the week, Yuan Shao also showed off his demeanor of respecting the virtuous and self-restrained. Therefore, after Yuan Shao devoted so much hard work to gain a good reputation, he naturally looked down on his younger brother who regarded himself as orthodox and did nothing.

Therefore, Yuan Shao decisively rejected Yuan Shu.

After Yuan Shu was rejected by Yuan Shao, he became angry and thought that Yuan Shao was so powerful that he had obtained a high-ranking official like the former general, and looked down on himself, a legitimate successor of the Yuan family who was just the prefect of Huainan. Yuan Shu immediately decided to further expand his army and expand his territory so as to ask for a larger official position from the court. However! Now Yuan Shu's army of 250,000 is already the limit of Yuan Shu's military, horse, money and food. If he still wants to expand his army, his food will definitely not be able to support him.

Yuan Shu was a legitimate descendant of his four generations and three righteous people. He had a great face and wide connections. He immediately wrote a book to Liu Biao from Jingzhou and borrowed 200,000 stones of grain from him.

But Yuan Shu didn't think about it. Now the whole country has been greatly expanded by the arms race between Liu Ming and Dong Zhuo. No one has much food now, so how could Liu Biao lend him surplus food! Of course, Liu Biao refused to tell the truth.

Although Liu Biao refused openly, Yuan Shu didn't think so. Yuan Shu thought to himself: Jingzhou is a land of fish and rice, with a lot of money and grain. How could he have no surplus grain to lend him? Then, Yuan Shu thought of Yuan Shao asking Liu Biao to intercept Sun Jian, and Liu Biao immediately obediently did it. Liu Biao must be from Yuan Shao and his gang.

Yuan Shu was angry and became brave. He immediately sent a letter to Sun Jian, a subordinate who had been hiding in his name since he attacked Dong Zhuo, asking Sun Jian to send troops to attack Liu Biao.

However, Yuan Shu also knew that although Sun Jian had nominally praised him, Sun Jian was essentially his own school. Therefore, Yuan Shu's letters to Sun Jian were quite tactful, mainly focusing on provocation.

When Sun Jian took the letter, he saw that the letter mainly told him that Liu Biao was from the same group as Yuan Shao. When he was intercepted and blocked by Liu Biao, it was Yuan Shao's order. Now, after Yuan Shao became more powerful and advanced, he intends to seize his treasure and is preparing to join forces with Liu Biao to attack him again. Yuan Shu could not see his subordinates suffer losses, so he sent him a letter and was ready to help him deal with Yuan Shao, so he could fight against Liu Biao with peace of mind. At that time, Yuan Shu would be happy with Jizhou and his Jingzhou.

After Sun Jian finished reading it, he laughed loudly. At that moment, the generals gathered to discuss the matter.

After reading the letter, Cheng Pu shook his head and said, "Yuan Shu is cunning, and this matter is not necessarily credible."

Sun Jian laughed and said, "I don't know how Yuan Shu is. But what does it have to do with Yuan Shu when I take revenge? Can we still expect Yuan Shu to help us?"

When the generals around him thought Sun Jian had decided, a young general shook his head and sighed: "Although Yuan Shao could not cross Yanzhou and other places and crossed the land to attack us, since Yuan Shu gave us such a letter, we have no worries for the time being. It is the great opportunity for the Lord to declare that Liu Biao had cut off our return in the past. However, the bandit Yan Baihu had not yet been pacified, and the governor of Yangzhou, Liu Zhengli, and Zhang Xiu from Nanyang, were all staring at him. If we rashly attacked the royal family member Liu Biao for no reason, and Liu Biao could not hold on with the natural danger of the Yangtze River, we could not attack for a while. I am afraid that these princes and bandits would not miss this great opportunity, which would be detrimental to us."

The words of this young general poured a basin of cold water on everyone. The analysis was too accurate. Moreover, this was from the mouth of this young general, and no one believed that things would develop in this direction. Because this young general was not only a young prodigy, but also a friend of Sun Jian's eldest son Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin.

Zhou Yu, whose courtesy name is Gongjin, was from Lushu (now Shucheng, Anhui). He was a gentry landlord from Jiangdong. He had a good relationship with Sun Ce since he was a child. Xiang Buyan, and he would always get what he said. This is something that everyone here knows.

When Sun Jian heard Zhou Yu’s words, he withdrew his hot mind and said indignantly: “Did we miss this opportunity and reject Yuan Shu?”

Zhou Yu also shook his head and said, "No! If the lord rejects Yuan Shu completely and uses Yuan Shu's petty heart, he will definitely raise troops to attack us. Although we may not be afraid of him, we are fighting with cranes and clams, for the benefit of others' fishermen. Wouldn't that let the lord's old enemy Liu Biao feel what he wants?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Jian said angrily: "That's absolutely impossible. This general would rather fight Liu Biao to death than give Liu Biao a bargain."

Zhou Yu advised: "Don't be angry. There is still something to do. We just pretend to agree to Yuan Shu's proposal, bluff the way to collect ships and attack Liu Biao, and at the same time we were plagued by Liu Zhengli and Zhang Xiuxu. But we secretly concentrated our troops and stepped up the extermination of Yan Baihu, then put Liu Zhengli down, and then joined forces with Yuan Shu to destroy Zhang Xiu, and finally slow down the goal of Jingzhou, then the lord's foundation can be established. It is expected to compete for dominance in the world."

After Sun Jian obtained the jade seal, he thought he had a sign of destiny, so he was most enthusiastic about fighting for dominance in the world. Just now, Sun Jian deliberately followed Yuan Shu's opinion. Revenge was one aspect, and the most important thing was that Liu Biao intercepted him for the jade seal last time, and Yuan Shao had also pursued him with the jade seal before. Therefore, when Yuan Shu said this, Sun Jian believed it. Secondly, Sun Jian could not stand the crazy expansion of the army now. Conquering Jingzhou and alleviating his economic pressure was also a big temptation for Sun Jian. But now Zhou Yu has dispelled all his concerns and drew such a good path for him. Can Sun Jian agree unhappily?

And Sun Jian's fake attack and real attack, all the reactions around him came out.

Liu Biao didn't know whether it was true or not, so he could only actively prepare for the challenge. After all, Sun Jian's name as the tiger in Jiangdong was there.

However, Kuai Liang, who was under Liu Biao, did not give it to him for nothing. He advised Liu Biao: "Lord, don't worry. I have the natural danger of the Yangtze River as a basis. How can Sun Jian come across the river and cross the lake? How can he use martial arts? It is only necessary to order the general Huang Zu to lead Jiangxia's troops as the front drive. The lord leads Jingxiang's troops as the backbone, so there is no worries."

So, Huang Zu, who was under Liu Biao and Kuai Yue, the Kuai brothers, were sent by Liu Biao to Jiangxia to prevent him.

Zhang Xiu from Nanyang held Dong Zhuo as his backer and set up a carriage and horses to make a bargain. Although Liu Zhengli from Yangzhou recently received assistance from Taishici and Sun Shao from his fellow countrymen, Liu Yao sighed because of the world's evaluation of Taishici: "If I use Ziyi, Xu Zi will laugh at me for not knowing how to use people!" So, he just gave Taishici an official position to supervise military information. He himself was also greedy for being able to protect himself in Yangzhou.

In this case, Yan Baihu could no longer support him and fled to Xu Gong.

At the same time, Sun Jian was busy with troops, so of course Yuan Shu would not be idle. Of course, Yuan Shu could not travel thousands of miles to Jizhou to attack Yuan Shao. But Yuan Shu also took this opportunity to do his best to deal with Bai Rao in his territory.

Bai Rao couldn't bear to eat Yuan Shu's ruthlessness. He was forced to go to the end by Ji Ling, a general under Yuan Shu. In the end, Bai Rao had to run to Sili, and join Guo Taibing to fight the family and get along.

But the local officials in Sili could not stand it. They immediately asked the two so-called courts for help, but unexpectedly, this action gave Cao Cao a great opportunity.
Chapter completed!