In Anyi, Hedong, Liu Xie thought hard about how to maximize the use of the power in his hands to achieve his goals, and continued to learn lessons and grow from setbacks.
In Hanoi, adjacent to Hedong, Yuan Xi also has similar troubles. He feels that his current situation is not much better than Liu Xie.
Because his strength is still insufficient, he has almost exhausted all the cards in his hand.
Tian Yu and Guo Jia were placed on Heishanjun North Road to block Zhang Yan's passage into Youzhou.
He placed Yan Rou's cavalry near Changshan County to prevent the Black Mountain cavalry from going north from Jizhou and cutting off his grain route to Youzhou.
Zhao Yun Jushou, on the other hand, took the most elite group of troops to welcome the emperor, hoping to seize the opportunity to seize this piece of fat from the prying eyes of Cao Cao, Li Jue, Baibo Army and other forces.
The available external forces were also used. In order to make meritorious deeds, Yuan Shang led Wen Chou, Zhang He and Zhang Yan to fight to the death and fell into a stalemate.
Yuan Xi himself stayed alone in Huaicheng to help block the incoming Yuan Shu army to prevent Lu Bu's hometown from being raided.
Oh, not counting being alone, there is also a subordinate, Hua Tuo.
Yuan Xi almost wanted to drop the tea bowl in his hand. Isn't this the same as nothing!
Hua Tuo, who was playing Wu Qin Xi, sneezed and wondered, wasn't he always in good health? Why did he catch a cold?
Thinking of this, he quickly took out a small pill from the gourd on his waist and took it.
Yuan Xi was a little irritable, Gao Shun didn't drink, Zhang Liao, who liked to be sociable, followed him out of the city, and the remaining eight generals of Lu Bu, judging from the history of later generations, may have joined Cao Cao long ago.
Although Yuan Xi didn't know whether these generals had secretly betrayed Lu Bu, he obviously couldn't believe them.
The only breakthrough is Gao Shun!
Without Gao Shun, it would be useless even if Yan agreed to kill Wei Xu, because the military power of the trapped camp was now in the hands of Wei Xu. Even though Yan was the mistress of the Lu family, she could not make the trapped camp switch sides with just a word.
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The main reason why Yuan Xi went to persuade Yan was to find someone to endorse him afterwards.
If Wei Xu's problem is not solved, he will not be able to obtain the military power of the trapped camp, and if he cannot obtain the trapped camp, there will be a high chance that something will go wrong when facing Yuan Shu.
After all, if Wei Xu really wanted to turn to Cao Cao, he could have ordered the enemy camp to fight and send him away. In this way, no matter whether he was defeated by Yuan Shu or not, Lu Bu would definitely be seriously injured, and Cao Cao could easily turn around and seize Huaicheng.
Yuan Xi made a mental calculation, and according to the reports from spies, in five or six days, Yuan Shu's army would be able to approach several hundred miles south of Huaicheng.
He himself still has hundreds of troops, and Lu Bu's army in Huai City still has thousands after the rebellion. It is impossible to defeat Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of troops with these people, so in the end it is likely that he will have to wait for Lu Bu to return for reinforcements.
Since he had no cards in his hand, he could only make up cards out of thin air. For this reason, Yuan Xi had to try his best to convince everyone who might send troops, but no one knew whether he could do so.
The situation in the world changed too fast. Cao Cao suddenly made a move to welcome the emperor in advance, which did not leave much time for Yuan Xi. When things came one after another, he could only take advantage of the situation. If he was thrown away, he would lose everything.
Can't get it.
Yuan Xi thought for a while, then took Sun Li out and headed towards Gao Shun's mansion.
Yecheng.
Yuan Shao summoned his counselors and said to everyone, "I have summoned you all today to send a letter from Xian Yi, requesting Jizhou to send troops to help."
It was said that there were all the counselors, but they were not all present. Jushou went to Youzhou, Guo Tuxinpi went to Qingzhou with Yuan Tan, Pang Ji went to Heishan with Yuan Shang, and came back to mobilize the troops, so the only people present were Xunchentian.
Feng Shen was paired with three people, which was less than half of the eight counselors.
When Xun Chen heard Yuan Xi's letter, he laughed and said, "Are you afraid that Mr. Xianyi wants to compete with Mr. Xianfu for the first place in attacking the Black Mountain Army?"
"He doesn't think he can compete with Mr. Xianfu, does he?"
Yuan Shao shook his head and said: "No, he said in the letter that he was responsible for resisting the Black Mountain Army from moving north. As for the credit for defeating the Black Mountain Army, he has no intention of competing for it."
All the counselors were startled.
Without him, although Yuan Xi is quite respectful to the Yuan family on the surface, he has shown extremely strong expansionism in recent years. How can such a person easily give up the key territory of Montenegro?
After Tian Feng heard this, he smiled and said, "Isn't it Xu Ziyuan who hindered Master Xianyi in Youzhou?"
The judge's wife looked sideways, Tian Feng had a bad temper and was dissatisfied with Xu You's family who often engaged in troublemaking, so he often disparaged Xu You openly or secretly.
Shen Pei actually thinks the same way. He attaches great importance to laws and disciplines, so he dislikes Xu You even more. However, he and Xu You are now on Yuan Shang's side, so they will never talk about Xu You on this occasion.
Bad words.
And more importantly, Xu You and Yuan Shao have been friends for many years. Tian Feng did this, intentionally or unintentionally, to disgust Yuan Shao. How could Yuan Shao be happy?
Shen Pei knew that Tian Feng insisted on going against Yuan Shao. The main reason was that Tian Feng had previously been inclined to establish a position of strength. Now that Yuan Shang was in power, Tian Feng also had an unbalanced mentality, so he often acted in strange ways overtly or covertly.
He was also sure of Yuan Shao's character of cherishing his reputation among the noble clans, and felt that Yuan Shao would not do anything to him, which was why he was so confident.
Shen Pei secretly sneered in his heart. Tian Feng still didn't understand. He would never go against the trend. There was a reason why Yuan Shao chose Yuan Shang!
He had seen the signs a long time ago and had lined up his team in advance. In his opinion, if those people who supported Yuan Tan didn't turn back soon, they didn't know what would happen in the future!
In fact, Shen Pei looked down on several counselors with higher names than him. In his opinion, those people, including Tian Feng, only saw that Yuan Tan was good at fighting and was the eldest son, so he was more qualified than Yuan Shang. Yuan Shao
Abolition of the elders and the establishment of the young are indeed a recipe for disaster.
Only the trial matchmaker guessed Yuan Shao's thoughts 70% or 80%. Yuan Shao chose Yuan Shang because Yuan Shang was the person who looked most like Yuan Shao. From appearance to personality, it couldn't be more true!
The most important thing is that although Yuan Shang always targets his two brothers and fights among themselves all day long, but which big family doesn't fight among themselves?
Even Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi have done many similar things, right?
As the heir of a family, especially one aspiring to the world like the Yuan family, the heir must be good at maintaining the status quo, rather than expanding the territory.
Conflicting territory can be left to counselors and generals. For a lord, the most important thing is to be tolerant, at least that's what Yuan Shao thinks.
Regardless of whether Yuan Shao's idea is right or not, after all, Yuan Shao himself was too lenient when his subordinates failed, but this idea was also to prevent the internal strife within the family from becoming uncontrollable.
At this point, although Yuan Shang did some unspeakable things against the two brothers, in the eyes of the judge, he did not touch Yuan Shao's bottom line.
Threatening the lives of family members.
On this point, Yuan Shang did not cross the line. He did everything he should do. Although he did not do it well and had some small thoughts, it was still within the allowable bottom line.
But Yuan Tan is different.
Many of the things he did in private were actually passed, and these things had already reached Yuan Shao's ears through the spy arranged by Yuan Shao, so he became more and more biased towards Yuan Shang.
As Yuan Shang's adviser, Shen Pei naturally knows the inside story of these things, but he will never tell Tian Feng. The relationship between the two is not deep, Tian Feng is stubborn and often does not give Shen Pei face, and he is happy to see Tian Feng suffer.
Woolen cloth.
As expected, after listening to Tian Feng's words, Yuan Shao looked displeased and said, "The general has done a good job in Youzhou. He has made no mistakes in arranging money, food, troops and horses. Xian Yi said in his letter to me
, praised him several times.”
Tian Feng choked. He was a little confused. Didn't Yuan Xi kill Xu You's nephew?
How come from what Yuan Shao said, it seems that the two of them have settled their differences?
What's going on?
Xun Chen smiled and said: "Master Xianyi, are you asking Jizhou to increase its troops and wipe out the Black Mountain Army as soon as possible?"
Yuan Shao shook his head and said: "No."
He picked up a secret letter and said, "This was sent by Xian Yi in Hanoi more than ten days ago."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. Hanoi?
Didn't Yuan Xi fight Zhang Yan in Montenegro?
Yuan Shao said slowly: "The letter says that Cao Cao has secretly taken the way to Jizhou to go to Hanoi to snatch the emperor!"
"If he gets the emperor, he will gradually escape Yuan's control, so we can't let him succeed!"
After Tian Feng heard this, he laughed and said, "I knew Cao Cao was not good-hearted!"
"On that day, Jizhou supported Cao Cao with money, food, troops and horses, but he never listened to his orders. It was obvious that he had other intentions!"
"Master Xianyi's proposal is very good. Now send troops to cut off his retreat and let him hand over to the emperor!"
Yuan Shao ignored Tian Feng's words and continued: "The letter also said that Yuan Shu is also approaching Hanoi and is very likely to join forces with Cao Cao!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and Xun Chen blurted out: "Impossible!"
"There is no way Cao Mengde and Yuan Gongdao can get together!"
"What's more, as I said in my heart, Cao Mengde went to serve the emperor, and Yuan Gongdao wanted to stand on his own feet. Their goals are fundamentally different!"
Tian Feng also looked surprised. He agreed with Xun Chen's words. How could Cao Cao and Yuan Shu get together?
Just as ridiculous as two male ducks laying eggs together!
Upon seeing this, Yuan Shao continued to throw out the third piece of news that stunned everyone.
"Xianyi said that in order to stop Yuan Shu, he has joined forces with Lu Bu!"
As soon as these words came out, Xun Chen's face changed drastically and he lost his voice: "Isn't this betrayal of the Yuan family?"
"You know, Lu Bu is the sworn enemy of the Yuan family!"
Tian Feng listened and said slowly: "I don't believe that Master Xianyi would betray the envoy."
"He naturally has his reasons for doing this."
The judge shook his head and said: "Lu Bu is a capricious villain. If we join forces with him, are we not afraid of being tricked to death?"
Yuan Shao added: "Xian Yi said in the letter that he is willing to guarantee his wealth and life. This time Lu Bu is reliable."
"Xian Yi is currently blocking Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of troops in Huaicheng, saying that his life is in danger."
"But this time Yuan Shu's army only has Zhang Xunqiao and a few generals, and the most troublesome Sun Ce did not come."
"Xianyi said that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If these tens of thousands of people are annihilated, Yuan Shu's vitality will be severely damaged and he will no longer be able to compete with Jizhou within a few years!"
Everyone was very moved after hearing this. They were all counselors and naturally knew that what Yuan Xi said was true.
As long as we send troops to defeat Yuan Shu, we can also cut off Cao Cao's retreat. In this way, no matter whether the other party joins forces or not, they will not be able to achieve what they want!
And if this is the case, the passage to Sili can be opened up and connected with the territory of Jingzhou's ally Liu Biao!
Tian Feng was the first to say: "It is indeed a rare opportunity. I agree to send troops!"
Everyone is complaining in their hearts, they all know that you don’t like Cao Cao, so of course they will agree to anything that can attack Cao Cao!
Several counselors discussed it one after another. Except for Xun Chen who hesitated to speak, most of them agreed with Tian Feng's opinion.
Yuan Shaodao: "Xian Yi's letter specifically stated that he worked with Zhang He back then and admired him quite a lot, so this time he wanted Zhang He to lead troops to help him."
Everyone thought that Yuan Xi's move was really disgusting. If he raised it so openly, would Zhang He continue to work under Yuan Shang in the future?