"Do you want to do something according to your own ideas, Marquis Wen?"
After hearing this, Lu Bu was about to refute, but suddenly found that he had nothing to say.
He was born in a farming family in Bingzhou, and he was lucky to survive. Fortunately, he was gifted, and after joining the frontier army, he slowly climbed up the ranks.
After he became a general, he found that he was at a loss as to what to do in the future.
Moreover, he, a Bingzhou general, had always followed the trend in the Bingliang border army where Liangzhou military generals gathered together. He would do whatever everyone else did.
Someone asked him for help, but he couldn't tell the difference between the glory of a great Khan and the future of a warrior, so he killed one leader after another in a chaotic manner, only to realize in the end that there was no turning back.
Even though he was later supported by the Yanzhou nobles, a large part of the reason was that in the eyes of the Yanzhou nobles, he was far easier to control than Cao Cao.
As for his real thoughts, no one seems to care. It seems that Lu Bu himself has never thought about this issue.
Lu Bu rarely fell into deep thought.
Yuan Xi stood on the hillside and carefully observed the distant scene with a telescope.
Heishan, later known as the Taihang Mountains, was extremely difficult to walk. Crossing the mountains was a great test for the physical strength of the soldiers, but the most worrying thing was the enemy troops who did not know when they would appear.
Most of the Black Mountain bandits are locals and are very familiar with the terrain. The Youzhou Army is fighting away from home, so naturally they lack confidence.
Although Yuan Xi also used a large number of soldiers who had escaped from Montenegro to serve as sentinels, no one could guarantee that there were no spies sent by the other party.
As long as you point the wrong way in some difficult-to-detect places, you can cause considerable trouble.
But it is already the best approach at present. When Wei Qing and Huo Qubing went deep into the hinterland of the Huns, not only did they not get lost, but they were also able to go straight to the Huns' tent, relying on a large number of Huns sentries to lead the way.
Leave professional matters to professional people. Otherwise, you will use your own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points.
What Yuan Xi is currently observing is the places that the surrendered soldiers in Montenegro said were not easy to walk through and where it is easy to ambush people.
Although Yuan Xi looked through the telescope and saw that there was nothing unusual about the hills, he only took away nearly a thousand infantry. If the enemy ambushed them with thousands of people, he might not be able to escape.
He hesitated again and again, and finally said to Sun Li: "Give me the order to go down, bypass those mountains, and go northeast."
After receiving the order, the soldiers began to stand up slowly, dragging the weeds and trees with difficulty on the hillside, and turned north.
Half an hour after Yuan Xijun left, in the dense forest on the top of a mountain in the distance, Yang Feng stood up from the grass dejectedly and cursed a few words in a low voice.
After lying in wait for most of the day, dozens of mosquitoes were fed in vain, but the other party was not fooled.
She has been following Yuan Xi secretly for a few days, and he is too cautious!
Yang Feng turned around and said to the hundreds of soldiers in the grass behind him: "Follow them."
Not thousands, but hundreds, just to hide their whereabouts as much as possible.
And in Yang Feng's view, these people are enough.
These hundreds of soldiers are her most elite personal guards. They have followed her almost since childhood. Now in order to intercept Yuan Xi, Yang Feng used this trump card to achieve success with one blow.
As long as Yuan Xi is killed, the Youzhou Army will inevitably fall into chaos, thus opening up a passage to Youzhou for the main force of the Black Mountain Army!
When she got the news that Yuan Xi had left the military camp and headed over the mountains to Jizhou, Yang Feng immediately summoned her men and took a small road to chase Yuan Xi.
Yang Feng decided to kill Yuan Xi at all costs. As long as this fierce tiger of the Yuan family died, the Youzhou army would be leaderless and they would no longer be able to stop the Heishan army's offensive!
The last time she failed, it was because she underestimated the cunningness of this ferocious tiger. After suffering a loss, Yang Feng held back her anger and vowed to avenge her previous defeat.
Thinking of this, she sighed. Zhang Yan was still too conservative. If he had listened to his plan and marched at full speed with all his strength, he might have broken out of the North Pass of Heishan Mountain and captured Beixin City by now.
Once Beixin City is captured and Zhuo County is opened up, the entire Youzhou will be an undefended fat sheep. I heard that Youzhou has been doing very well in recent years. Water conservancy roads have been built, food is abundant, and the people are happy, which is better than Heishan.
There are more.
If the other party wants Montenegro, then give it to them. Wouldn't it be better to trade Montenegro for Youzhou?
Unfortunately, this proposal was not accepted by Zhang Yan, and Yang Feng didn't know whether Zhang Yan was nostalgic for her hometown Zhending, or had other ideas?
Maybe he was defeated by the Yuan family several times and lost his ambition and vigor after being beaten?
Zhang Yan's strategy was conservative. He learned through spies that the Youzhou army was divided into three groups, so he placed heavy troops at several passes to guard against enemy sneak attacks.
Yang Feng was very disdainful of this arrangement. What was the use of putting tens of thousands of people in each place?
What if the other party doesn't come?
For Montenegro, which adopts the tribal system, if this kind of consumption happens a few times, I am afraid that it will be dragged down!
Yang Feng's premonition was very accurate. The most recent elite unit of the Youzhou army went to the South Pass, but not to attack Heishan, but to go south again.
This army, led by Jushu and Zhao Yun, passed through Bingzhou and the border of Weijun in Jizhou, and was about to enter Hanoi.
No one expected that the Youzhou Army launched a large-scale attack on Montenegro. In fact, most of it was just a cover. Going to Hanoi was the real purpose of this army!
He built the plank road openly, visited Chencang secretly, and went to Anyi in advance to welcome the emperor, instead of waiting until the emperor's motorcade returned to Luoyang!
When Zhao Yun heard that Ju Shou was also involved in this plan, he rarely raised objections.
He understood that there was no room for error in Yuan Xi's plan, but Jushu had only been in Youzhou for a short time and was not even considered one of Yuan Xi's people. Is it reliable to let him participate in this matter?
He said to Yuan Xi: "Although Mr. Gong and Mr. Yu proposed the strategy of welcoming the emperor to order the princes, but if he has other ideas..."
Yuan Xi said: "What brother said does make sense."
"But in this matter, I think he should still be reliable."
"Does Zilong know that Li Jue attacked the emperor's chariot and killed Ju Jun, the commander of Shesheng School, years ago?"
Zhao Yun recalled it and suddenly said: "Master, are you saying that Ju Jun and Gong Yu are related to each other?"
Emperor Liu Xie really controlled very few armed forces.
If there are any, it is the Huben Army and the Yulin Army. These people directly take orders from Liu Xie and are the most loyal to Liu Xie.
When the emperor's chariot left Chang'an, there were probably hundreds of people in this group, and they were led by Jujun, the commander of Shesheng School.
Under the command of Ju Jun, these people have been trying their best to protect Liu Xie. However, around the Chinese New Year, the emperor's chariot was driving to the east stream of Hongnong County, Hongnong County, and was overtaken by the coalition forces of Li Jue, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji.
Yang Feng had betrayed Li Jue and Guo Si one after another, and had no way out, so he and Ju Jun tried their best to stop him, but they were ultimately defeated. Yang Feng escaped, but Ju Jun was seriously injured and captured.
Li Jue and Guo Si wanted him to beg for mercy, but Ju Jun cursed loudly. Li Jue and Guo Si were furious, so he killed Ju Jun and Sun Rui, a scholar who had previously reprimanded Guo Si, and others.
"Book of the Later Han·Biography of Dong Zhuo" says: Jujun, the commander of the Shesheng School, was injured and fell from his horse. Li Jue said to his left and right, "Can he still survive?" Jun scolded him and said, "You are so rebellious, persecuting the emperor, and rebellious ministers and thieves.
There is no one like you!" Jue ordered him to be killed."
Yuan Xi said to Zhao Yun: "The emperor's chariot was attacked and the news that Ju Jun and others were killed soon spread throughout the world. At that time, Jushou happened to be in Youzhou and sent three urgent messages to Yecheng to persuade Jizhou to send troops to welcome the emperor.
when."
"After I learned about it, I always felt that there was some connection, so I sent a letter to interrogate Mr. Gong."
"Mr. Gongyu is very candid. He admitted that Ju Jun is the nephew of the Ju family, so Ju Shou was leaning towards the emperor from the beginning."
After Yuan Xi finished explaining the cause and effect, Zhao Yun suddenly realized that there was no such thing as unreasonable giving in the world, and there was also his own motive behind Jushou's behavior.
At that time, in order to continue the family, the noble families placed their children under the princes of various places. The typical example was the Xun family.
Judging from Ju Jun's position, Ju Shou obviously had his own ideas, and his goal was probably to bind the emperor and the Yuan family together.
Not to mention whether his idea is feasible, Yuan Shao's other advisers are not fools. They know the details of the major families, and naturally they also know the relationship between Ju Shou and Ju Jun.
The Yuan family is about to become self-reliant, why should they care about the emperor who is no longer useful?
Isn't this asking for trouble?
Therefore, their opposition to serving the emperor was not just out of selfish motives, but they had different positions.
After all, the ultimate goal of most of Yuan Shao's advisers is to bring Yuan to power, so that they can gain the greatest benefits.
Jushou's behavior, in their view, was obviously contrary to everyone else's.
Zhao Yun sighed: "Young Master convinced Gong Yu, is it because the current position of Young Master is consistent with Gong Yu?"
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "That's true."
"My father does not need to rely on the emperor's popularity, but for me now, if I can get the emperor's endorsement for my work, it will be much more legitimate."
Zhao Yun heard Yuan Xi unconsciously call Yuan Shao his father, and the corner of his mouth moved slightly.
Yuan Xi didn't realize it and said: "Although the Black Mountain Army has been drained by us, there will definitely be disasters in the past two years, but the best time to deal with them is two years from now, not now."
"But the reason why I am so urgent is that in a few months, the emperor will return to Luoyang. At that time, there will be a melee around his warlords. In the end, someone will lose and someone will become the final winner."
"If that's the case, why don't we strike first and join forces with Lu Bu to seize the emperor?"
"The emperor should live better under his protection than in the hands of others."
Zhao Yun said: "My master, Mr. Yu, has far better battle strategies than I do. Since the master can trust him, Yun should obey his orders."
"But Yun still has something unknown. Why should he join forces with Lu Bu?"
"Is it because Hanoi is closest to Hedong?"
"But Lu Bu has betrayed us many times. What if he betrays us at a critical moment?"
Seeing that Zhao Yun asked such detailed questions, Yuan Xi felt a little relieved. This meant that Zhao Yun was not just perfunctory, but was trying to understand the interpersonal relationships between everyone and work hard to get things done.
To be fair, Zhao Yun is not the best among the people in the world in terms of military force and strategy, but he has one trait that is beyond the reach of others.
When Zhao Yun wants to do something, he will definitely go all out. In this regard, he is the most reliable and trustworthy.
This is why Yuan Xi entrusted the most important matter related to his future to Zhao Yun.
He said to Zhao Yun: "Lu Bu is in Hanoi now. Naturally, I planned it in advance."
"As for why I chose him, there is only one reason."
"He is the least ambitious among the princes in the world today."
What Yuan Xi said is well-founded.
Everyone has ambitions. The higher the position, the greater the ambition.
But when it was applied to Lu Bu, it seemed to have failed.
Judging from later generations, he did not have the ambition to help the Han Dynasty or unify the world. After capturing Xuzhou, he drank and had fun with his wife and concubines all day long, so that he neglected his martial arts, and he behaved like a farmer with his wife and children hot on the kang.
He killed his master several times, which only shows that his mind is unclear and his moral limit is low, but it does not mean that he is ambitious.
His so-called ambition is more like revenge after consciously suffering unfair treatment. After killing the leader several times, he did not stand on his own feet, but was willing to be someone else's second-in-command.
A person who keeps saying that he will not be inferior to others, but always chooses to be inferior to others, and is not even willing to take on the responsibility of being a master, can he be said to be ambitious?
Yuan Xi felt that if Lu Bu had been half as ambitious as he was, he would not have fallen to where he is today.