They say that when a house leaks, it rains all night. The ancients do not deceive me!
After Jiang Xiaobai and Li Mi, another piece of news caused a huge earthquake in Yuan Shu's power. Wang Mang surrendered to Cao Cao!
With Wang Mang surrendering to Cao Cao, the entire Chen County fell into Cao Cao's hands.
And this news was like the straw that broke the camel's back. Yuan Shu's forces completely changed their minds. If they only had an idea before, now these people may have put it into action.
For a time, I don’t know how many people came up with various ways and took many roads in order to build bridges with several princes.
In just half a month, the troops of Cao Cao, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhao Kuangyin had already invaded Runan. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang himself did not come in person at this time. He was still Zhu Di. Zhu Yuanzhang himself could not care about one now.
Yuan Shu! At the same time, Li Mu is also indispensable!
In fact, not only Li Mu, but also Li Xiang entered Runan from Nanyang under the escort of Xing Tian, Sun Mei and other generals.
Although Li Xiang's side did not unite as early as Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Cao Cao. However, after all, Li Xiang still represents the Han Dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with conquering rebellion! Moreover, no one can find anything wrong with it.
Come!
The slogans used by Zhao Kuangyin, Cao Cao and others were all used by the Han Dynasty to attack the puppet dynasty. Naturally, it was impossible to stop Li Xiang, who best represented the Han Dynasty, from coming!
Of course, Li Xiang did not come here to fight, and he was not planning to occupy the land here, so there was no need to help them fight Yuan Shu again. The previous battle was just for the talent of Xian Zhen.
On the contrary, Li Xiang not only did not come to fight, but to delay time. Li Xiang personally led his troops here, but did not participate in this battle. For those princes, it was the biggest deterrent to them.
He could not use all his energy to attack Yuan Shu.
The most fundamental reason why Li Xiang wants to delay here is that the population migration has not yet been completed.
Runan is a county with a large population. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it had a population of 2.1 million. Even some states could not match this population, let alone the county.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, apart from Nanyang, Runan County had the largest population. These two places were also two of the most prosperous and garrisoned places in the Han Dynasty.
This is also the reason why Yuan Shu had so much confidence to start wars everywhere even though he didn't even capture the entire Yuzhou!
Of course, the current Runan cannot be compared with the previous Runan. After Yuan Shu became emperor, under the advice of officials such as Li Mi and Yan Xiang, Runan was divided into four counties, including Runan and Ruyin.
Although the current Runan still occupies the best part of the former Runan, after this division, it cannot be compared with the previous Runan.
However, fortunately, Yuan Shu himself was not very powerful, but his ministers were very capable and managed the various places well. Coupled with the annual population growth of the system, there is still a population of nearly 2 million.
If Li Xiang wants to move all the population of the small half of Runan County he conquered before, it will definitely take a certain amount of time. If he wants to move the entire population of nearly 700,000, this cannot be done overnight.
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Nearly 700,000 people are indeed nothing to the current population of Li Xiang, but they are very important to those princes! Grabbing all these people may not bring much to Li Xiang.
The strength is improved, but it can at least affect the strength improvement of several other princes.
After Li Xiang has moved all the people, he will throw out the territory of a few small half counties. The princes can grab it if they want! Anyway, there is no population, so what's the use of just having the territory!
When they move the population from other areas under their rule there and slowly develop, this process will probably cost a lot of manpower and material resources!
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Compared with the vigorous advancement of several princes outside, Yuan Shu, who was trapped in the isolated city, was obviously demoralized.
Nowadays, Yuan Shu, who was once full of talents, only has three or two big cats and kittens left here. Among the civil and military personnel, only Pei Xingjian, Ji Ling, Yuan Wei, He Qi, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong, Yuan Sheng, and Yuan Huazhong are left.
, Dong Guo Ya, Yi Ya, Shu Diao, Kai Fang, Yang Ren, Shi Tuo, Li Chunfang and Yuan Tiangang.
Even if it is only the remaining part, it is probably unknown how many of them are truly loyal to Yuan Shu. At least, Pei Xingjian, Yang Ren, Shi Tuo, and Li Chunfang belong to Li Xiang.
Part of the reason why they continue to stay with Yuan Shu is to help Yuan Shu support him for a while and buy time for Li Xiang to transfer the population here.
Anyway, Li Mu's army has already arrived at this time, and they can leave at any time if they want. Besides, the identities of these people have been well hidden for the time being, and Li Xiang doesn't want them to return like this.
Except for Pei Xingjian and a few others, even among the remaining people, there are really a few people who are willing to serve Yuan Shu until death!
As for Yuan Yin, Chen Jizhi and others had already been killed in the previous battle. Yuan Da, Pang Nuan and others were captured by Cao Cao because they were tricked by Wang Mang. However, Yuan Shao's people obviously moved fast enough. Cao Cao wanted to persuade him to surrender but he had not yet
Before he could implement it, Yuan Shao's people had already come to ask for him. Therefore, these two people were now in Yuan Shao's hands.
And next, we have to talk about Cao Cao's huge gains, Wang Mang, Big Mac, Liang Lin, Liang Fang, Su Xian, Wang Chang, Wei Si, Wei Cheng, Wei Ji, Wang Feng, Wang Yi, Zhang Mei, etc.
All the generals followed Wang Mang into Wei.
Of course, while this is a huge gain for Cao Cao, you have planted a huge bomb for him. Wang Mang has never been a peaceful person!
Of course, if help can be suppressed, needless to say, it will definitely be of great benefit.
Among those who followed Wang Mang into the Wei Dynasty, Big Mac alone was already a god-level general. With his strength, he is still very marketable in today's world.
Except for Big Mac, although Liang Lin, Liang Fang, and Wang Feng have not entered the ranks of god-level generals, they are already among the best among peerless generals!
Apart from these people, there are also some superb or even peerless warriors left.
In addition, Wei Si, as the founder of the Wei State during the Warring States Period, is equally capable in all aspects. Of course, Wei Si, like Wang Mang, can use others if he wants, but he must be able to suppress them.