Just as Guo Jia suggested before, Li Jing specifically targeted Yuan Shao's side, which was so powerful that the casualties among the coalition forces, including that of Yuan Shao's family, were much greater than those of Chi You and Cao Cao combined.
To put it simply, if ten soldiers were lost in total, six of them were probably from Yuan Shao's side, and the remaining four were from Cao Cao and Chi You combined.
The only good thing is that after all, the two sides have not completely found the opportunity, so the successive battles are just some tentative fights, and it has not yet reached the time to start a big war or even a decisive battle.
Therefore, overall, the casualties are not too large and are within a controllable range. This is true whether it is the coalition forces or the Jin army!
However, even if the casualties were not huge, Yuan Shao still felt unbalanced in his heart! This was equivalent to several princes joining forces, and they also suffered losses, but Yuan Shao's loss alone was greater than the other two of them combined.
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Invisibly, Yuan Shao's power has weakened even more, but the weakening of the remaining two families has been limited. To put it more seriously, if it continues like this, now and in the future, Yuan Shao's power will probably not be as good as the other two.
Home. In this case, how could you ask Yuan Shao to agree!
Let alone Yuan Shao, even Cao Cao or Chi You may not be able to endure this situation!
Why do these princes want to unite? Isn't it just to weaken a common strong enemy? However, it is unclear whether they succeeded in the end, but if they have to sacrifice themselves to achieve teammates in the process, how can these princes
Maybe agree? It’s already pretty good if they don’t cheat their teammates!
Although these princes have achieved an alliance, in the end, it is all about their own interests. If their own interests are guaranteed in this process, then what is the point of forming this alliance!
What made Yuan Shao unbalanced the most was Qin Zheng. After all, at the beginning, Qin Zheng's forces also joined this alliance of princes. Although Han Xin later received Qin Zheng's order and withdrew his troops, in name only
Being part of an alliance of princes only withdraws its troops rather than withdrawing from the alliance.
Withdrawing troops and withdrawing from an alliance are not the same concepts. There is still a certain gap in name!
But the few remaining princes fought against the Jin army here and tried every means to weaken the Jin army. However, Qin Zheng kept expanding his territory and annexing Liu Bang's power.
This is a place that makes Yuan Shao feel unbalanced!
Even if there is an alliance, there is one problem that cannot be avoided. Yuan Shao's own strategic plan will always be Hebei, and Youzhou is one of his goals. But his goals are getting stronger and stronger.
He is becoming more and more difficult to deal with, but as an ally, he is ridiculously here to consume another enemy!
My goal is becoming stronger now, but my strength is constantly being damaged. How can you let Yuan Shao be willing to do it?
Therefore, as the alliance lasted longer, the conflicts between the princes inevitably began to manifest.
At this time, Li Jing continued to take action. Under Li Jing's instruction, 20,000 naval troops headed by Han Shizhong and Jiao Mo kept wandering in the Yellow River, pretending to look for opportunities to attack.
Han Shizhong's Yellow River Navy originally had 30,000 people, but 10,000 people followed Qi Jiguang to Jingbei. Using these people as the backbone will ensure that Qi Jiguang can set up the Yangtze River Navy as quickly as possible in the future, and allow them to
Once formed, sufficient combat effectiveness will be formed.
It is precisely because of this that Han Shizhong now only has 20,000 sailors left.
Although they are northern princes, many princes also have naval armies, but they cannot compare with the southern navy in terms of combat power. Just like the north has a natural advantage in cavalry, the south also has a natural and unique advantage in forming a naval army.
Advantages. Each has its own strengths, which are incomparable.
For example, Li Xiang, Liu Bei, Qin Zheng, and even Dou Jiande all formed naval armies. Of course, although they belonged to Dou Jiande in name, they were actually no different from Li Xiang's. However, Yuan Shao did not have that vision in the north.
Form a naval force.
Moreover, the naval army is not just formed, you also have to have the corresponding naval talents! If there are no supporting talents, even if it is barely formed successfully, the final combat effectiveness will be very low!
Therefore, when the coalition forces did not have naval forces, they could only choose passive defense in the face of Han Shizhong, who was menacing and ready to attack at any time. As a result, Han Shizhong only had 20,000 men and horses, and he had already contained the coalition forces.
40,000 troops!
This was enough for Li Jing, and the only purpose Han Shizhong had for sending Li Jing out was to allow Han Shizhong to attract the enemy's strength as much as possible, but not to let Han Shizhong actually take action.
A bow and arrow is always unstrung, but the moment it is not shot is the most alarming moment. The arrow that has been shot is not worthy of people's constant vigilance!
Next, Li Jing used most of his power to attack Chi You and Cao Cao, but used less power on Yuan Shao.
Moreover, compared with Chi You and Cao Cao, Li Jing was clearly planning to fake the match with Yuan Shao at the beginning, which was obviously to make thunder but no rain.
But as luck would have it, Yuan Shao, who was in an unbalanced psychological state, fell into Li Jing's scheme in the end.
Facing the two princes Cao Cao and Chi You's request for help, although his subordinates Cui Hao, Yuan Xi, Ju Shou and other princes kept admonishing him, Yuan Shao obviously made a mistake at this time. The words of these counselors not only did not have the desired effect, but also made him suffer.
Yuan Shao became a little impatient.
Fortunately for Cui Hao, Yuan Xi's personality is completely different from Tian Feng's. He knows when to stop, and after all, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shao are the same family. Otherwise, Yuan Shao might have to stage another plot to decentralize counselors.
Let’s go to the wonderful show inside the prison.
Cui Hao and Yuan Xi were two people who knew each other well. When they secretly observed that Yuan Shao's face was starting to look a little unhappy, they immediately stopped and silently stepped aside. They also stopped him out of suspicion among their colleagues.
Give me a hand.
And Yuan Shao's actions directly contributed to their failure this time, and even more directly caused the failure of their alliance of princes this time!
