After the fire, although it was confirmed that Guo Wei had perished in the fire, Liu Bei and Dou Jiande still felt heavy.
Although they realized afterward that the fire was not as violent as they saw, and the fires in many places were just a bluff.
But after such a fire, those who were burned to death by the flames, and those who trampled each other to death in the panic, calculated from this, the two of them each lost more than a quarter of their troops. Although it was more than Guo Wei expected,
There was less land, but Liu Bei and Dou Jiande were still unhappy.
Not only the soldiers, but also a small number of generals did not escape in the end and died in the fire.
Fortunately, Dou Jiande has a Bull Demon in front of him to clear the way. Regardless of whether the person blocking his way is one of his own or an enemy, the Bull Demon will smash it with a stick and clear the road for him as quickly as possible. Therefore, these people are following
When the Bull Demon rushed out, the only losses were some minor figures, and most of the named generals were killed.
The situation on Liu Bei's side was relatively miserable. During the siege, Yang Chun, Ding Desun, Bao Xu and other generals had already been killed. In the fire, there were also Zheng Tianshou, Le He, Bai Sheng,
Zhu Gui and other generals have not returned yet, so they must be in serious danger.
On Guo Wei's side, Shi Wengong, Wang Yin, Fang Jinzhi, and Zhao Yi took advantage of the chaos and ran out. Although the other generals, Chao Zhong and Tang Fenshi, rushed out of the city, they did not escape Liu Bei.
During the pursuit with Dou Jiande, Liu Bei chose to surrender. The rest, like Wu Zhi, Huang Ai and others, either died in the fire or did not escape the pursuit afterwards.
However, although the losses were not small, the gains were also huge. After Guo Wei was successfully eliminated, it was naturally time for the two sides to divide Guo Wei's territory.
In this regard, the weaker Dou Jiande was at a disadvantage after all. In addition to his original Le'an Kingdom, he only captured most of Beihai Kingdom and a small part of Donglai County. The rest were all lost.
It fell into the hands of Liu Bei. In other words, Liu Bei now owns the three counties of Pingyuan, Jinan, and Qi, as well as a small half of Beihai and most of Donglai County.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. After taking down Guo Wei, the biggest tiger, Dou Jiande and Liu Bei also started to fight. While cautiously guarding against each other, they began to think about how to annex each other.
However, both sides had suffered considerable losses in the previous stop, and it was not yet the best time to start the battle, so they temporarily tolerated it and began to work hard to recuperate.
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During this time, Yuan Shao was very happy, and Chi You was also very happy. Pies were falling one after another from the sky, so how could they not be happy?
On Yuan Shao's side, first Gongsun Zan was killed by Hou Yi with an arrow, and many of his generals were also injured, giving Yuan Shao the best chance to annex the opponent.
Yuan Shao did not miss this opportunity. After returning from Hulao Pass, he divided his troops into three groups. He, generals Yuan Chonghuan and Duan Shao each led one group and launched a fierce attack on Gongsun Xu.
To Yuan Shao's delight, during the battle, counselor Xu You keenly discovered the problems between Gongsun Xu and Gongsun Shu, and then Cui Hao took this opportunity to propose a plan to divorce between Mo Shujian.
Even Yuan Shao did not expect that this time the alienation plan would go so smoothly, and that Gongsun Zan's son Gongsun Xu would be so cooperative with him and start to target Gongsun Shu overtly or covertly.
At first, when there was a strong enemy on his side, Gongsun Shu was somewhat tolerant to Gongsun Xu. However, Gongsun Shu's tolerant behavior was regarded by Gongsun Xu as a kind of cowardice, which made Gongsun Xu think that Gongsun Shu was afraid of him. Therefore,
Next, Gongsun Xu's behavior became more and more unscrupulous, and at the same time, he was also frantically testing Gongsun Shu's bottom line.
After reaching the point where he couldn't bear it anymore, Gongsun Shu did not coddle Gongsun Xu. He had always wanted to be the boss. However, Yuan Shao's sudden attack made him temporarily decide to let Gongsun Xu climb to that position first to concentrate all his efforts.
to counter Yuan Shao's attack.
But now, since he had decided to deal with Gongsun Xu, Gongsun Shu was even more violent and showed no mercy in his attacks. He led his cronies to raid Gongsun Xu's camp that night, hoping to completely eliminate him and Gongsun Xu before Yuan Shao could react.
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Gongsun Xu had always been under the protection of Gongsun Zan. As an eagle that had never experienced the wind and rain, how could he fight against the evil wolf Gongsun Shu. Just when Gongsun Xu was doing what he did to make Gongsun Shu completely surrender and take over the power alone.
While he was having a sweet dream, reality slapped him hard on the face.
That night, Gongsun Shu launched a surprise attack, but the ambitious and talented Gongsun Xu didn't take much precautions, and Gongsun Shu successfully picked off his head along the way.
After a night of fighting, when the results of the battle between the two sides came out. Among the large and small civil and military circles that originally supported Gongsun Xu, only Gongsun He led the few hundred white-horse Yiyi followers that remained after the original battle.
Escorting Gongsun Zan's daughter, Gongsun Baoyue, to flee eastward, the remaining civil and military officials all turned to support Gongsun Shu, very aware of current affairs.
Yuan Shao was very happy to watch Gongsun Xu and Gongsun Shu's dog-eat-dog fight. After the outcome of the fight between the two men came out, Yuan Shao took advantage of Gongsun Shu's failure to fully integrate all the power of Gongsun's forces and continued to attack in one go.
Gongsun's power suddenly changed greatly, and two consecutive lords died one after another. At this time, facing Yuan Shao's fierce attack, it can be said that he was defeated in succession. Gongsun Jie, Gongsun Fan, Tian Kai, Guan Jing and other famous generals were killed one after another.
Even the territory he belonged to was lost, leaving only Gongsun Shu. Gongsun Xiong still led a group of supporting generals to support them unwillingly.
Although Gongsun Shu has not been completely solved yet, Yuan Shao is confident that he can complete the finishing work in a month at most, and by then he can truly unify the entire Jizhou.
And just when Yuan Shao was preparing to continue to completely eliminate Gongsun Shu, the results of the Qingzhou Battle reached Yuan Shao's ears.
Liu Bei and Dou Jiande both suffered losses to varying degrees, and these two people once again expanded too much territory, far from turning it into real strength, and the hearts of the people in these newly acquired territories have not been recovered.
It was when they were both at their weakest.
But for Yuan Shao, it was an opportunity, almost like a pie that fell to him, just waiting for him to send troops to get it.
