Chapter 805: The Situation in Xuzhou
Liu Zheng heard Liu Qi's answer, so he didn't persuade much.
"Okay, everyone has their own ambitions, since you don't want to take refuge in me, then I won't say more, you go and accompany your father first."
After that, Liu Zheng asked people to take Liu Qi to see his father Liu Biao.
After dealing with these surrendered troops in Jiangling City, Liu Zheng stayed here in Jiangling for two days.
However, Dian Wei and others thought that it only took Liu Zheng two months to pacify Jingzhou, and the calculation was perfect.
Liu Zheng told him that the matter was not over yet.
The matter is indeed not over yet, because although Liu Zheng defeated Jingzhou, but on the Xiangyang side, Liu Zheng also made a stalemate with Liu Biao.
The purpose of doing this is actually to show others.
And Liu Zheng himself doesn't want to settle down for the time being, because his eyes are still gathered in Xuzhou.
Xuzhou and Yanzhou were also fighting at this time.
Yuan Shao sent his own army, united with Liu Zheng, and attacked the imperial court together.
Liu Zheng attacked Jingzhou and Yuzhou, while Yuan Shao attacked Xuzhou and Yanzhou.
Compared with Liu Zheng's attack on Jingzhou and Yuzhou, Yuan Shao's battle between Xuzhou and Yanzhou was not so easy to end.
After all, now, it is Liu Bei who replaces Lu Zhi in charge of Xuzhou, although it is only 192 years now.
But Liu Bei is not the Liu Bei of history.
Liu Bei in history did not reach the peak of his life until twenty years later, but now Liu Bei already has the strength to win the world.
He not only has troops from Yanzhou and Xuzhou, but also has many generals under his command.
In addition to Liu Bei's own two righteous brothers, Liu Bei's current command has some of Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, and Cao Cao's old subordinates.
Later, after Liu Zheng defeated Gongsun Zhan, almost all of those Gongsun Zhan's men and horses defected to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei's subordinates, in addition to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, also included Zhao Yun, who had just defected to him not long ago, as well as Xu Chu, who was recruited in Yanzhou, and Tian Yu, the old department of Gongsun Zhan.
Even, Cheng Yu, who followed Liu Dai before, Xi Zhicai, who followed Cao Cao, and others, all took refuge under Liu Bei.
This is also the reason why Liu Zheng did not choose to deal with Liu Bei himself when he discussed with Yuan Shao to launch an attack on the imperial court.
Liu Bei, who has these horses, is definitely a difficult bone to gnaw, even if Liu Zheng wants to beat Liu Bei, it is not so easy to beat Liu Bei down.
On Liu Zheng's side, just after pacifying the war in Jingzhou and Yuzhou, Liu Zheng received the news from those brocade guards under his command.
On both sides of the Xuzhou battlefield and the Yanzhou battlefield, the battle situation is fierce.
Yuan Shao had a big heart, and he had soldiers and horses from three states under his command and an army of more than 300,000.
Youzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou.
Among them, Jizhou and Qingzhou, Yuan Shao hoarded heavy troops.
He wanted to swallow Liu Bei's Yanzhou and Xuzhou directly in one go, so when he launched an attack on Liu Bei, Yuan Shao didn't think about it at all, and directly ordered his generals to march towards Xuzhou, where Liu Bei was located.
Among them, on the battlefield of Xuzhou, Yuan Shao personally commanded and led his subordinate Yan Liangwen and Chou to fight directly in Xuzhou City.
In the other Jizhou battlefield, he let his son Yuan Tan lead Zhang He, Gao Lanchun, and Yu Qiong to lead some Karasuma cavalry to approach Chen Liu in Yanzhou.
Liu Zheng didn't care about the war in Yanzhou, but Liu Zheng was unusually concerned about the war in Xuzhou.
If nothing else, it is because Liu Zheng has always wanted to take advantage of the fact that Yuan Shao and Liu Bei are fighting at the same time, and intervene sideways to reap the benefits of the fisherman.
At this time, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei should still be in the midst of the fierce situation, Liu Zheng rushed over from here, it was the time when they were inseparable, and after they divided the victory, Liu Zheng started to seize the fruits of victory.
In this way, Liu Zhengke is the one who has the last laugh.
Of course, in order to do this, Liu Zheng wanted to maintain the war on Jingzhou's side on the one hand, so that Yuan Shao and Liu Bei's spies here in Liu Zheng thought that Liu Zheng was still worried about the war in Jingzhou.
On the other hand, Liu Zheng wanted to secretly mobilize troops and horses to Xuzhou.
In fact, Liu Zheng is already doing all aspects of this chain.
That's what happened in Xiangyang City.
In Xiangyang City, Liu Zheng deliberately let Sun Ce and Zhou Yu continue to stalemate in Xiangyang.
At the same time, this time here in Jiangling, after Zhang Liao was incorporated, Liu Zheng also planned to continue to let Zhang Liao command the remnants, and then cooperate with Liu Zheng to act here in Jingzhou.
Liu Zheng's men and horses, there is no need to rush to encircle and suppress them, they only need to be involved, and the war in Jingzhou is still going on, and it has not yet been calmed down.
And Liu Zheng himself secretly returned to Xuzhou and led Lu Bu's trapped camp to the Wenpin camp in Guangling.
In this way, you just have to wait.
I'm waiting for my chance.
In this way, Liu Zheng only stayed in Jingzhou for two days, and after instructing Zhou Yu and Huang Zhong to be in charge of the situation in Jingzhou, Liu Zheng secretly took Dian Wei and went directly to Guangling by boat.
It only took a few days for Liu Zheng to go down the river and come all the way to Guangling County.
At this time, the trapping camp of Lu Bu and Gao Shun was already waiting for Liu Zheng here in Guangling.
As soon as he came to Guangling, Liu Zheng directly asked Wen Ping, how is the situation in Xuzhou now.
During this time, Wen Ping did not take the initiative to participate in the war between Yuan Shao and Liu Bei, but he sent a lot of scouts to find out their news.
In this way, Wen Ping has a very clear grasp of the current situation in Xuzhou.
When Liu Zheng asked him, he immediately explained to Liu Zheng.
It turned out that two months ago, Yuan Shao did lead his troops and horses to attack Liu Bei's territory as promised, just like Liu Zheng, but it was Yanzhou that attacked first.
Yuan Tan's manpower attacked first, so the situation on the battlefield of Xuzhou was very calm at the beginning, but after waiting for half a month, Yuan Shao's men and horses transferred from Jizhou finally arrived in Qingzhou.
Gathering the people who were originally in Qingzhou, a total of 80,000 troops, Yuan Shao went directly to Xuzhou.
From Chengyang County to the south, the first thing is to attack Taishan County.
Under the attack of Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops, Taishan County did not make any resistance at all, and directly surrendered to the wind.
This was Liu Zheng's territory, but it was later occupied by Lu Zhi, and the notice was not long, and most of the troops in Xuzhou were transferred by Liu Bei to guard against Liu Zheng.
Therefore, on the side of Taishan County, not many men and horses were placed, so in the face of Yuan Shao's attack, Liu Bei's side had no ability to resist at all.
In addition, there is also a reason why Liu Bei himself did not react at the first time.
However, after the battle began, when Liu Bei's men and horses began to rush from Xuzhou to Langya County to confront Yuan Shao's army, Liu Bei's strength was highlighted.