Chapter Ninety-Five: The Coalition Disbanded
However, the confident Yuan Shao was destined to be disappointed, and after Liu Yu received Yuan Shao's meaning, he categorically refused, and even angrily reprimanded Yuan Shao in front of the messenger.
So, the messenger ran back to Yuan Shao in a gloomy manner.
Yuan Shao was extremely angry in his heart, but this kind of thing is what you and I want, people don't want to be the emperor, and he can't force it. Liu Yu refused to be the emperor, Yuan Shao had to choose someone else, and Liu Yan of Yizhou fell into the eyes of Yuan Shao, but since Liu Yan entered Yizhou, the passage into Shu was cut off, and now he can't send someone to write a letter.
In this way, Yuan Shao could only give up the idea of setting up a new emperor.
In other words, in addition to Liu Yu and Liu Yan, the two Han clan relatives, aren't there also Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, and Liu Bei, the commander of Pingyuan County? Why didn't Yuan Shao make these two emperors?
This Liu Biao was brilliant in intelligence, and he was friends with Chen Xiang of Runan, Fan Pan of the same county, Kong Yu of Lu Guo, Fan Kang of Bohai, Tanfu of Shanyang, Zhang Jian of the same county, and Cen Hui of Nanyang, and was called "the Eight Horses of Jiangxia" by the people of the time. If you support Liu Biao as the emperor, with Liu Biao's ability, it is impossible to be a puppet emperor, don't talk about the benefits at that time, it's good if you don't deal with them. Since Yuan Shao and the others dared to set up a new emperor, they didn't mind supporting others anymore. Therefore, if a person who is too smart can support him to be the emperor.
As for Liu Bei, he is just a guy who sells shoes and weaves mats, he claims to be a member of the Han family, and he has not been recognized by the royal family, not to mention Yuan Shao, none of the other princes has thought of supporting Liu Bei to be the emperor, let a person with such an identity be the emperor, they must be uncomfortable in their hearts, it is better to be the emperor themselves.
In desperation, the idea of setting up a new emperor had to be interrupted.
Gongsun Zhan was the Taishou of Beiping, and fought against the Hu people in the north all the year round, and won constantly, so he became more and more satisfied with the achievements he had created, and he also had an ambitious heart in his heart, and he was not convinced by his boss Liu Yu. And the neighboring Yuan Shao is the Taishou of the Bohai Sea, if Gongsun Chan wants to achieve great things, Yuan Shao must be his hindrance, therefore, Gongsun Chan does not want Yuan Shao's power to grow. Now that Cao Cao, Bao Xin and Sun Jian have left, and the alliance has the potential to collapse, Gongsun Zan thought that it would be better to return to Beiping and wait for the opportunity to move.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Zhan immediately found Liu Bei and discussed: "Yuan Shao is so happy, he is incompetent. The coalition forces have been gathering for a long time, but they have failed to frustrate Dong Zhuo, and they have won Luoyang, but they have stopped. Now Cao Cao, Bao Xin, and Sun Jian have gone, and the coalition forces are even more detached. If we continue to stay here, we will definitely become Yuan Shao's pawns, in that case, let's go back, I don't know what the virtuous brother thinks?"
Liu Bei also had such an idea, his people are only 3,000, and his power is the weakest, if it weren't for his identity as a clan member of the Han family, it is estimated that no prince will bird him. After the battle between Hua Xiong and Lu Bu, the reputation of the three brothers had already begun, and it was no good to stay here any longer. But he didn't have any reason to leave, but now that Gongsun Chan was taking the lead, he had something to say.
It was Gongsun Chan who brought him here, but now that Gongsun Chan is leaving, he naturally wants to follow.
So, Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei each pulled out the village and led their troops away. After returning to the plains, Liu Bei was still his county commander, and at the same time recruited soldiers to let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei practice, just waiting for the situation in the world to change, and then take the opportunity to move. Gongsun Zhan returned to Beiping and continued to lead troops to fight against the Hu people, so as to temper the soldiers, and also waited for the opportunity to dispatch.
Back in the coalition army, now the princes have gone all the way, and the coalition army is even more popular.
Let's say that Yanzhou is too shou Liu Dai, and he is also a member of the Han family. Because in the early years, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao did not obey his orders, so the two had a grudge. If there is chaos today and the coalition forces are out of harmony, Liu Dai wants to find an opportunity to kill Qiao Mao. Subsequently, under the strategy of his subordinates, Liu Dai borrowed grain from Qiao Mao.
Liu Dai is the Taishou of Yanzhou, and Dongjun belongs to Yanzhou, and the boss borrows grain from his subordinates, which is logically to be borrowed.
However, Qiao Mao didn't know which tendon was wrong, so she didn't borrow it. Therefore, Liu Dai had a reason, saying that Qiao Mao did not obey the order, and directly led the troops to kill Qiao Mao, and then took Qiao Mao's soldiers into his own possession.
After killing Qiao Mao, Liu Dai did not stay here, led the troops back to Yanzhou, and let his subordinate Wang Qiu serve as the Taishou of Dongjun.
Liu Dai killed Qiao Mao, which can be said to have completely ignited the fuse of the split of the coalition army. No one wanted to be the next Qiao Mao, so they left one after another, and when Yuan Shao saw this, he had no choice but to lead his troops back to Bohai. The vigorous campaign to woo Dong has been less than a year, but it has fallen apart because of the thoughts and suspicions of the coalition forces.
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Let's say that Liu Biao has just pacified Jingzhou now, and is in the prime of life, after receiving Yuan Shao's letter, he ordered Kuai Yue and Cai Mao to lead 10,000 troops to intercept Sun Jian. If in a few years, when Liu Biao is old, how can he make such a move, maybe keeping Jingzhou's foundation is his only thought.
Sun Jian's army had just arrived, Kuai Yue was already in position, a pure white tall horse in his crotch, riding the horse at the forefront, looking at Sun Jian with fierce eyes.
Sun Jian's face remained unchanged, and he stepped forward and asked, "Why did Kuaixodu stop me in my way?"
Seeing Sun Jian like this, Kuai Yue knew that he was pretending, so he sneered at the moment and said sharply: "Sun Jian, since you are a Hanchen, why do you want to secretly hide the national treasure heirloom jade seal? Let go of the heirloom jade seal, and I will let you go." ”
"Haha!"
Sun Jian laughed angrily, pointed his fingers, and said angrily: "Rampant, I think I, Sun Jian, have fought since I was a child, and after countless battles, only I let people go, and no one dared to say let me go." Today I will see how capable you are of having the courage to speak such big words. Publicly, and went to take the head of that guy!"
"Whoa!"
Huang Gai shouted loudly, then waved his whip and slapped his horse into battle.
Seeing that Huang Gai was brave, Kuai Yue did not panic, so he ordered Cai Mao on his side to fight. This Cai Mao often talks about how good his martial arts are on weekdays, and he never puts it in his eyes. Today, Kuai Yue wants to see what kind of strength this Cai Mao is.
"Whoever comes, report your name, my Cai Mao's subordinates will not kill nobodies!"
The long knife in Cai Mao's hand was cold and cold, and with his upright body, it also looked mighty. However, Huang Gai was silent, and smashed it with a whip. Cai Mao was furious, and secretly said that this person was so rude, and he wanted to give this guy a little bit of power. The two fought for a few times, and Huang Gai's eyes flashed fiercely, and he smashed Cai Mao on the head. Cai Mao saw Huang Gai's fierce moves, and hurriedly dodged, but the heart guard on his chest was still smashed. Cai Mao saw that Huang Gai was so powerful, and knew that he was invincible, so he immediately turned his horse back to the battle.
Before the battle, Kuai Yue saw it clearly, and seeing that Cai Mao was so unbearable, he even said that he could compete with Lu Bu, which was really ridiculous.
"De Jue, you often say that you can compete with Lu Bu, why can't you compete with a general under Sun Jian?"
Listening to Kuai Yue's mocking words, Cai Mao's face was slightly red, she had overtalked on weekdays, she thought that she would not have anything to do with Lu Bu, but she didn't expect to meet Sun Jianjun. However, Cai Mao quickly returned to normal, and explained complacently: "What I am good at is the water army, if I fight in the water, I am not afraid of ten or hundred Lu Bu, but I am not familiar with this land battle, and defeat is inevitable." ”
Although Kuai Yue ridiculed Cai Mao's martial arts, Cai Mao's training of the navy was indeed extraordinary, and at this time it was time to fight the enemy, Kuai Yue did not say much, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.
Being bullied to the head, how could Sun Jian give up, with a wave of his right hand, the army took advantage of the situation to kill the border.
"Liu Biao is here, Sun Jian will not be arrested at this time, let alone when!"
Behind the mountain, the golden drums sounded in unison, and the first person was wearing a brocade robe, and the tiger looked directly at Sun Jian, but this person was Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou.