Chapter 1485: Lian Po's Belonging

Before Yuan Shu launched a rebellion, he was also prepared for defeat in advance, and when he failed to rebel and died, Yan Xiang, Ji Lingzhongchen and others supported Yuan Shu's son Yuan Yao, as well as the families of some generals such as Lian Po, and fled into Lian Po's army.

Although Yuan Shu died, the 70,000 Yu army outside Shouchun City was still there, but Lian Po could not completely control the army.

Shouchun fell, Lianghuai has fallen into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, the families of the soldiers are under his rule, and the families of the generals of the Yu army are all in the city.

Although Ji Ling rescued some of the generals' families, most of them were still in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, and Zhu Yuanzhang used the families of the soldiers as persecution, which naturally made the Yu army outside the city afraid to move.

Therefore, there were also surrender factions and opposition factions in Lian Po's army, and both sides also insisted on their own opinions, arguing endlessly about whether to surrender or not.

Lian Po naturally didn't want to surrender, but most of the generals in the army wanted to surrender, and even Lian Po was about to be unable to suppress it.

On the other side, when Zhao Kuangyin learned that Lian Po had not returned to Shouchun, and Yuan Shu had already been unable to bear it and surrendered, the whole person was about to go crazy.

Yuan Shu's initiative to surrender disrupted all the arrangements of Zhao Kuangyin, he thought that Yuan Shu was no matter how bad it was, at least he could hold out until Lian Po went back, when the Yu army and the Ming army fought for two defeats and were injured, he took advantage of the weakness to enter and seize the two Huai granaries, but he didn't expect Yuan Shu to take the initiative to surrender.

Yuan Shu's surrender also means that Lianghuai and Zhao Kuangyin are completely out of play, and all the previous preparations and plans have been wasted.

Zhao Kuangyin paid too much planning in order to seize the Lianghuai granary, but in the end, he didn't get the fart, but Zhu Yuanzhang easily occupied the Lianghuai.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Kuangyin was even more furious, angrily scolding Yuan Shu for being a waste, and he couldn't even hold on to it in such a short time.

However, what Zhao Kuangyin didn't expect was that Yuan Shu rebelled immediately after his surrender, and this made Zhao Kuangyin see the hope of capturing Lianghuai.

In Zhao Kuangyin's opinion, Yuan Shu's rebellion will never succeed, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang is not an ordinary person, how can he not prevent Yuan Shu's rebellion.

In the end, as Zhao Kuangyin expected, Yuan Shu's rebellion failed and was killed by Luo Shixin, and the 70,000 Yu troops outside the city also became an ownerless army.

Zhao Kuangyin realized that as long as Lian Po could be brought over, if the two armies of Song and Yu were united, they might not be able to expel Zhu Yuanzhang to occupy the two Huai granaries, so he promised to surrender Lian Po with heavy profits.

At the same time, Cao Cao also sent envoys to recruit Lian Po under his command.

Now Lian Po is like a piece of fat, whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kuangyin, or Cao Cao, they all want to take a bite, but Zhu Yuanzhang is the most greedy and wants to swallow Lian Po in one bite.

Among Cao Cao, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Yuanzhang, Lian Po didn't want to take refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang the most, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang killed his lord, and taking refuge in him would damage his reputation.

As for Zhao Kuangyin, in all fairness, Lian Po didn't want to take refuge in him, although the personal relationship between the two was good, but Zhao Kuangyin wanted to deal with Lian Po, but all kinds of despicable means emerged one after another, not only pitting Lian Po, but also almost harming Lian Po's family, and the personal relationship between the two was gone.

Therefore, Lian Po looks down on Zhao Kuangyin so much, and among the three, Lian Po is more inclined to Cao Cao.

Zhao Kuangyin saw that after the death of the old master, Lian Po ignored his former friend, but was quite enthusiastic with Cao Cao, who had no friendship, and couldn't help but panic a little in his heart.

Zhao Kuangyin also realized that his original means were too much, so that Lian Po went farther and farther away from him, but there was no way for him to starve to death at that time, Lian Po didn't say anything about it, and he had completely forced him to a dead end, if he didn't use dirty tactics, he wouldn't have survived at all.

It's naturally too late to say this now, Zhao Kuangyin must keep Lian Po, so that he can have a chance to capture Jianghuai, and at this time, the military advisor Zhao Pu gave him a blow.

Zhao Pujin said that the standard could be lowered, and there was no need to incorporate the Yu army, but only cooperate with the Yu army, and after success, the two Jianghuai would be divided, and the Song army would get Huaibei, and the Henan army would be Huainan.

Before, the Song and Wei families wanted to co-opt Lian Po, but now Zhao Pu persuaded Zhao Kuangyin to lower the standards and change the co-optation to cooperation, so that Lian Po can ensure his independence and continue to support Yuan Yao.

As Zhao Pu expected, compared with Cao Cao's solicitation, the cooperation is undoubtedly more clever, which also makes Lian Po very excited.

In the end, Lian Po decided to cooperate with Zhao Kuangyin to jointly expel Zhu Yuanzhang into two Jianghuai, and refused Cao Cao's solicitation, but he did not dare to refuse Zhu Yuanzhang, because once he refused, it would mean that there was no room for relaxation with Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang would probably call him directly.

Lian Po wanted to hang Zhu Yuanzhang first, so that he could sort out the interior and completely take charge of the army and delay time.

How shrewd Zhu Yuanzhang was, how could he be deceived by Lian Po, he saw at a glance that Lian Po didn't want to surrender, but was just delaying time, so he pretended to believe Lian Po, but secretly won over those surrender factions in Lian Po's army, ready to wait for the opportunity to secretly give Lian Po a fatal blow.

Lian Po is indeed a good hand at fighting, but the means of fighting for power and profit are far behind.

Although Lian Po also killed a lot of surrender faction Liwei, there were too many surrender factions in the army, and he couldn't kill them at all.

In the end, the 70,000 Yu army fought inwardly, and even Lian Po couldn't control the army together, and Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to lead the army out of the city to help the surrender faction attack the opposition.

The capitulation faction naturally had the absolute upper hand under the cooperation of the inside and outside, while the opposition led by Lian Po fled in a crushing defeat.

Seeing that Lian Po had run away, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the army to pursue, just to capture Lian Po, a famous general, but Lian Po was too cunning, and even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't keep him when he wanted to escape.

In the end, 40,000 Yu troops surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, while Lian Po supported Yuan Shu's family, led less than 10,000 remnants of the army, and took refuge in Zhao Kuangyin, who did not want to take refuge the most.

Before Lian Po had 70,000 Yu troops in his hands, he was naturally qualified to say no to Zhao Kuangyin, but after rejecting Cao Cao's solicitation, only Zhao Kuangyin was left with the last retreat, and Lian Po had no one to vote for except Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin was leading the army to Shouchun, but before the army arrived, he received the news that the 40,000 Yu troops surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang and Lian Po led the remnants of the army to join him.

If he had learned that Lian Po had come to vote, Zhao Kuangyin would definitely have been crazy, and now although he is a little happy, he is far from being excited.

Lian Po voted in this way, which means that he failed to control the army, and it also means that the plan to recapture Lianghuai has completely failed.