After the death of Xiang Yu and the demise of another prince in the world, the South, which had been suppressed, finally became fierce again. The battle between the two major military groups in the South, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Che, officially kicked off.
As everyone on both sides expected, although Zhu Yuanzhang finally captured Xiang Yu's head, how could Liu Che give up the territory he had already conquered based on this alone? Zhu Yuanzhang had already picked Liu Che's peaches in this battle.
After taking advantage of them so much, could Liu Che let him continue to take advantage of him?
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of this to severely damage Liu Yang's reputation. In this regard, Liu Che refused to let it go. This matter was done privately by his subordinates and had nothing to do with him!
As a result, the smell of gunpowder between the two sides became stronger and stronger. After Xiang Yu's death, the war cloud hanging over the south not only did not disperse, but instead became more concentrated.
Originally, the two sides had not started fighting so quickly. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang should not be underestimated. Liu Che did not dare to take action easily without enough confidence, but he did not mind a small-scale friction.
However, when the Japanese gold and silver were imported to the Han Dynasty, it strengthened Liu Che's confidence in taking action against Zhu Yuanzhang.
Just by looking at it, if there is really a large amount of gold and silver flowing to Zhu Yuanzhang, and if Zhu Yuanzhang converts these gold and silver into his own strength in time, how much more difficult will Zhu Yuanzhang be to deal with in the future than he is now?
Taking one step at a time, Liu Che had already seen at the beginning that Zhu Yuanzhang might be brewing a greater threat. Therefore, Liu Che had decided not to wait any longer, but was preparing to take action immediately.
Even, out of concern for Zhu Yuanzhang, although Liu Che did not send any further troops, he sent many strong generals to the Jiaozhou battlefield.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang never let down his guard against Liu Che, who was eyeing him eagerly. Therefore, when Liu Che was about to take action, he was already ready to fight.
The two sides launched a battle for southern hegemony around Jiaozhou.
In the Central Plains, the three families of Cao Cao, Chi You, and Zhao Kuangyin also had a growing smell of gunpowder. However, Cao Cao and Chi You had suffered heavy losses in the previous battle with Li Xiang. Although they each borrowed Yuan Shu's milk, this mouthful of milk
They also need time to digest.
After all, Chi You had to seize more territory due to the inconvenient geographical location, so he could only stop when the situation was good. Therefore, what he gained from Yuan Shu could not make up for his losses in the previous battle.
As a result, the smell of gunpowder among these three parties is intense, but they are still under their respective forcible control.
Yes, Yuan Shu has come to an end at this time. There is one less force in the world and one less emperor, although not many people take this emperor seriously.
What made Zhao Kuangyin want to cry the most was that he originally thought that after Yuan Shu's death, he would slowly subdue Pang Juan, who had been captured before. However, when the news of Yuan Shu's suicide spread, Pang Juan actually killed himself. This also became
This gave Zhao Kuangyin a huge regret.
Pei Xingjian was quite capable and helped Yuan Shu last for half a year. During these six months, Zhao Kuangyin, Cao Cao and Zhu Di really suffered a lot of casualties in order to break through the city.
The reason why Pei Xingjian was able to support these three armies for half a year was because it was regarded as the capital of the country by Yuan Shu. The city had been expanded many times, and the city walls were high and thick, so he had the foundation to defend it.
Secondly, a large amount of food and grass was stored in the city in advance, so that they did not have to worry about food and grass.
Thirdly, it was Li Xiang's secret help. Without Li Xiang secretly holding back the three princes, Pei Xingjian really couldn't help Yuan Shu for the past six months.
With Li Xiang's soldiers and horses watching, Zhao Kuangyin, Cao Cao and Zhu Di knew that Li Xiang would not be able to attack them at this time, but they could not attack with all their strength, and they had to leave a force as a defense.
In addition, many people in Yuan Shu's forces had the reality of finding another way out. Among the four armies outside the city at that time, the Jin army was obviously the strongest. Therefore, he took the initiative to contact Li Xiang
There are quite a few.
However, there were no valuable figures among these people. Therefore, they were all secretly sold to Pei Xingjian by Li Xiang. Among them, Dong Guo Ya, Yi Ya, Shu Diao, and Kai Fang were the representatives who were tricked by Li Xiang.
The character, even sadly, did not know that he had been cheated by Li Xiang before he died!
In this way, Li Xiang not only had time to move a large number of people from Runan to his own territory. He also allowed Yuan Shu's power to exert his last remaining heat and try his best to wipe out the forces of the princes in this final battle.
In the end, when the situation was really about to run out, Pei Xingjian took the initiative to send Yang Ren to contact Zhu Di at this time to express his goodwill to Zhu Di, hoping to give them a way out by joining the Yangzhou Army.
To be fair, Pei Xingjian has indeed caused them a lot of trouble and a lot of losses during this period of time. However, after all, Zhao Kuangyin and Cao Cao are the main ones bearing the losses.
Zhu Di's strength here is only this, if he loses more, what will he lose?
On the contrary, in these six months, the troubles Pei Xingjian caused them and the losses he brought to them further proved Pei Xingjian's ability. He was a truly famous general.
Now that such a famous general has taken the initiative to seek refuge, how could Zhu Di refuse to accept his offer?
It is precisely because of this that Pei Xingjian, Yang Ren, Shi Tuo, Li Chunfang, Ji Ling, Yang Hong, He Qi and others successfully whitewashed themselves from the followers of the pseudo-emperor Yuan Shu into the power of Wu King Zhu Yuanzhang.
Ji Ling, Yang Hong, He Qi and others were not Li Xiang's people, but they still voted for Wu under Pei Xingjian's persuasion and contributed to the construction of Yangzhou.
But what does it matter? After all, these people are not important people, so what if they are given to Zhu Yuanzhang? Anyway, this way, true and false, false and true, can better hide their identities. If everyone
If he is Li Xiang's spy, he might reveal some flaws!
In fact, in terms of talent alone, Li Mi is more suitable for this position than Pei Xingjian. However, Li Mi's identity cannot be kept secret forever. People like Zhang Liang and Liu Bowen can guess it to some extent, but Li Xiang doesn't think this is the case.
No other god-level counselors in the world will have the slightest doubt!
Therefore, when Li Mi wanted to use Xian Zhen's incident to return, Li Xiang expressed his agreement and handed over this more important task to Pei Xingjian and Li Chunfang.