Outside Hulao Pass, the allied forces of the princes camped.
These days, the princes of Guandong are having a very lively time.
Very early on, the Yellow Turban forces deployed heavy troops around him, which made the princes around him panic, thinking that Chi You would make some big move!
As a result, Cao Cao left his most valiant general You Liang and Cao Shen, both civil and military, to guard his home, instead of bringing them out to participate in the grand event of challenging Dong.
But how could Cao Cao have imagined that the reason why Chi You sent heavy troops to the surrounding areas was not to attack anyone at all, but to defend.
Just when the battle against Dong was in full swing, a shocking news suddenly came from Yanzhou.
When the papers and volumes of paper books from Yanzhou arrived in front of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was shocked and angry. He was even ready to withdraw his troops and turn around to fight Chi You.
Although Yuan Shao did not look very good in the eyes of future generations, as one of the elite children of the aristocratic family, Yuan Shao was definitely not as incompetent as future generations thought. After seeing that roll of paper and those few paper books, Yuan Shao
The first thing I thought of was the danger of these two things to the family. This was digging into the roots of their family!
Fortunately, all the princes had their own ideas and persuaded Yuan Shao to come back in time.
The first person to persuade Yuan Shao was Kong Rong. Although Kong Rong was also a descendant of an aristocratic family, he was one of the few loyal ministers of a large Han Dynasty. Naturally, he did not want to give up on the matter of challenging Dong. Moreover, for papermaking and printing
In terms of technology, Kong Rong did not hate these two technologies as much as other aristocratic families. What Kong Rong saw more was the effect of these two things on scholars all over the world.
Although Kong Rong is not very powerful, he has a good family background and is the 19th grandson of Confucius. His reputation among the people in the world cannot be just talk. Yuan Shao always has to consider Kong Rong's opinions.
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The next person to appear to persuade Yuan Shao not to retreat was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, a clan member of the Han Dynasty. Today's Liu Bei is not as miserable as he was in history.
Even compared to history, Liu Bei's current situation is much better, and he can barely be regarded as a powerful faction among the princes. His two sworn brothers are both brave enough. At least Yuan Shao's subordinates are
No one can compete with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They all fought side by side during the Yellow Turbans, so they have some idea of each other's strength.
Moreover, Liu Bei not only took action himself, he also went to Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu to make two crying scenes, so that these two people also went with Liu Bei to persuade Yuan Shao to give up the idea of withdrawing his troops.
Therefore, several people's dissuasion made Yuan Shao calm down a little.
For Liu Bei, he is a clan member of the Han Dynasty. It is not a good thing for the Han Dynasty if the power of aristocratic families is too strong. Now that someone is willing to weaken these aristocratic families, Liu Bei does not mind helping secretly.
Next, even Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and dissuaded Yuan Shao overtly or covertly.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang came from a noble family, like Li Xiang, his ambitions were directed towards that position. Therefore, they were happy to see someone weaken the noble family. Moreover, in the past few years,
Zhu Yuanzhang also did some dirty tricks overtly or covertly against the large and small aristocratic families in Jiangdong.
Zhao Kuangyin, who also had unlimited ambitions, promptly persuaded Tao Qian, who also wanted to withdraw his troops. After Zhao Kuangyin's deception, Tao Qian finally gave up those small ideas in his mind.
Poor Tao Qian, more than half of his military power was secretly and openly controlled by Zhao Kuangyin. Even the generals he relied on were actually Zhao Kuangyin's confidants. For example, when Tao Qian sent Gao Yanping to fight, Gao Yanping
He had to secretly ask Zhao Kuangyin for his thoughts. Unfortunately, Tao Qian was not aware of Zhao Kuangyin's ambition at all. He even thought that Zhao Kuangyin was his confidant!
In the end, even Cao Mengde stood up and advised Yuan Shao tactfully, asking him not to retreat for the time being and to wait until the end of the challenge against Dong to discuss everything.
The advice of so many people finally had an effect, allowing Yuan Shao to suppress the idea of withdrawing his troops and continue the attack on Hulao Pass with peace of mind.
But not even a few days later, several more pieces of news suddenly came out, once again causing an uproar among the coalition forces.
First, it was reported that those rebels in Qingzhou were attacking the territories of Kong Rong and Liu Bei, and then it was reported that the Xiang clan from Jingnan sent troops to attack Yizhou. Of course, the affairs of the Xiang clan had nothing to do with these princes.
Directly and habitually filtered by these princes.
After that, news came from Jiangdong, which was far away, and the king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, boldly sent troops to attack Wu Commandery.
This time, the situation was suddenly reversed, and Yuan Shao persuaded these princes not to withdraw their troops yet. Obviously, Yuan Shao was not very ambitious. He was persuaded to withdraw his troops a few days ago, but things turned around.
, Yuan Shao found the opportunity for retribution so quickly, if he could not withdraw his troops, then everyone would not withdraw their troops.
Among the princes present, the most uncomfortable general was Liu Bei. He finally had a piece of territory, but Liu Bei didn't want it to be ruined like this.
But because Kong Rong is here, Liu Bei can't send troops to rescue him. Kong Rong is simply a fool, his home is about to be stolen, and he still wants to insist on challenging Dong. With Kong Rong, he is like this
As soon as the words came out, Liu Bei, who always valued his reputation the most, swallowed back the words that he was about to spit out and wanted to retreat.
Unable to retreat smoothly, and reluctant to part with his own territory, Liu Bei had no choice but to send his generals back. So, in the following period, the brothers Guan Yu and Guan Sheng, who had always been in good health, became inexplicably sick.
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Compared to Liu Bei, Zhu Yuanzhang was less worried about his rear area. On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang did not bring many troops to participate in the challenge against Dong this time, only a few thousand, which could not affect the overall situation at all.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have many generals with him when he came out this time. Most of the generals and counselors were left behind by him in Wu County. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang was not worried that Hong Xiuquan would cause trouble in his absence.
Zhu Yuanzhang was confident that even if he retreated 10,000 steps, the generals he left in the rear would not be able to repel Hong Xiuquan, but there would be no problem in persisting until he returned.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had fought against Hong Xiuquan for so many years, and Zhu Yuanzhang had a pretty good idea of Hong Xiuquan's situation. Except for a few generals such as Shi Dakai who had real talents and hard work, he did not pay attention to the others.