Chapter 242: Yuan Shu Becomes Emperor

Since ancient times, the economy has been full of right and wrong, and conspiracy is the most taboo. -----------Tang Dynasty. Sikong Tu "Two Songs with Feelings"

It is said that the Chang'an Military Conference set the tone of unifying the world based on Jingzhou. China's big, warlord scuffle, is a game of chess that can never be played, as the so-called general trend of the world, a long time must be united, a long time must be divided.

After the Yuan Shu incident, the jade seal in his hand not only attracted the firepower of the royalists, but also attracted the attention of the great warlords in the north, such as Lu Bu, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao. Chen Long kept a low profile, but the situation in Chang'an was very strangely stabilized, and a peaceful state was achieved

Continuation. In a calm and midwinter, Chen Long and his four wives ushered in the first heavy snow in Chang'an.

In the spring of 192 AD, after a winter of adjustment, all the military deployments of Chen Long were in place, and the troops of the Gongwei around Wancheng reached 80,000 people in two legions, with Zhao Yun as the main general, Zhang Xiu as the deputy general, and Fu Zhu and Jia Xu as the military divisions. The Jiangxia Navy garrison Hanyang Water Village, with Huang Zhong as the army commander, Xi Zhicai as the military division, Yang Huai as the naval army commander, Buyu Buzishan as the military division, 20,000 water troops, 40,000 army members, and a total strength of 60,000 troops, overwhelming the Jiangxia Huang Zu and Sun Ce's waterway coalition army, controlling the Yangtze River waterway on one side, blocking the exit of the Xiangjiang River, and defending the safety of Jiangling and Changsha.

Jiangling also formed a land and water coalition army, Zhu Huan was the chief general of the water army, Gao Pei was the deputy general, Xue Zong and Xue Jingwen were the military divisions, with 25,000 people of the water army as the main force, holding the defense line in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with Liu Xun and Liu Zitai as the army general, Zhu Zhi as the military division, and the troops were stationed in the land fortress in Jiangbei, not only inspecting the land route between Yizhou and Jingzhou, but also ensuring the smooth passage between Lingling, Wuling and Jiangling, but the number of troops was small, only 10,000. Jiang Wan arranged for Hu Zhen, Hu Wencai, Zhang Nan, and Zhang Yanbei to lead 5,000 troops each to protect Liu Xun's flank, and set up beacon towers to strictly prevent the Yizhou army from drilling out of the mountain road to sneak attack.

Xiangyang, as the new governance office, is responsible for the arch guard by the Fifth Army Corps, the army commander Sha Moke, the military division Pan Jun Pan Chengming, the strength of 40,000 troops, the leader of the water army Gan Ning, Lu Su, the leader of the Xiangyang water army 20,000 people, as the headquarters of the Jingzhou water army, Chen Long specially appointed Lu Su as the general governor of the water army. There were more than 20,000 Danjiangkou naval troops in the upper reaches of the Han River, with Wei Yan as the main general and Ding Yi and Ding Zhengli as military advisors, to prevent the Shangyong naval army from coveting Xiangyang.

Throughout the winter, Chen Long established a very good relationship with Ma Teng, Ma Chao and his son, and also made Ma Teng and his son realize Chen Long's political concept of working for the benefit of the people. And Chen Long learned that Ma Tengjun's current status in Xiliang was only the lord of a stable city, and the real overlord was the great warlord Han Sui who owned Tianshui, Wuwei, Zhangye, Dunhuang and other vast areas.

Wuwei, located at the east end of the Hexi Corridor, is an important town on the ancient Silk Road, known as the "ancient capital of Wuliang, the metropolis of Hexi", known as "Yinwuwei", since ancient times it is a rich place of "populated mulberry thick", a military strategic place of "a line through the desert, controlling the throat of the five counties" and an important commercial port town of "cars and horses intertwined, singing and blowing the sun". Han Sui stationed heavy troops here, with the late Han Dynasty Liangzhou famous scholar Yan Zhong as the military division, Li Xiangru, Huang Yan, Wang Guo, etc. as staff, under the eight generals Liang Xing, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, are all brave and good at fighting, each town and one side, like the stars and the moon scattered in Liangzhou towns, can be described as monstrous, has been pressing Ma Teng to become the overlord of Xiliang.

Ma Teng's several tiger-wolf-like sons gradually became adults, especially Ma Chao's martial arts, and gradually became dissatisfied with Han Sui, Chen Long Xu gave the Ma family Yongzhen Liangzhou, acting Hanzhong, conspiring with Yizhou, and participating in the CPPCC, according to Xun Yu's strategy, the spearhead of the strategy was directed at Tianshui and Hanzhong.

With the arrival of Zhang He and Gao Lan's troops, as well as the 5,000 cavalry brought by Chu Feiyan, the strength of Chang'an's Qinglong Army reached an unprecedented 65,000 people. Military advisors Zhou Budo and Guo Jia entered the city to reunite with the lord. Chen Long considered that Guo Jia died of illness in the expedition in the official history, and did not dare to let Guo Jia work too hard, so he asked him to assist Huang Gai to guard Chang'an.

Chen Long arranged for Mrs. Cai Yan and Mrs. Zou to return with their eldest son and stay in the Empress Dowager He's bedroom, and the special forces and Huang Gai's guards were mixed to form a guard to ensure safety. Since there were special masters such as Wang Yue and Shi A in the royalist faction, Chen Long ordered Sun Li to train female officers day and night, and also organized a women's guard, so he would not be too panicked in case of trouble. At the same time, Lu Zhi transferred thousands of soldiers and horses to guard the periphery of Empress Dowager He's bedroom, so heavily protected that the assassins did not dare to move lightly.

As for Tong Feifei and Chu Feiyan, they pretended to be two cute little soldiers, and prepared to attack Liangzhou and Hanzhong with Chen Long. The cities of the Qinglong Army began to recruit a large number of soldiers, and the arsenals, shipyards, and munitions factories in various places began to produce at full capacity, and purchased war horses in Chang'an, and weapons, armor, and horses were continuously equipped into the hands of soldiers. After nearly five or six years of accumulation, Jiang Wan, who was in charge of internal affairs, already had relatively abundant funds in his hands, and the total number of the Qinglong Army had exceeded 300,000. Since the recruits needed time to train, Chen Long consulted with several major military divisions, and the time of the expedition was determined to be in the third year of Jian'an, that is, in the early spring of 193 AD.

In the year of Chang'an, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and Chen Long were at peace with each other, and after the Jade Seal Incident of Yuan Shu, Wang Yun seemed to target Yuan Shu, who had obvious rebellious tendencies. And in the autumn of this year, it was the wheat harvest season, and there was a news that shocked the world, Hanoi Zhang Xiao divined the hexagram for Yuan Shu, saying that he had the destiny to be the emperor, Yuan Shu was ordered by the sky as the reason, called the emperor in Luoyang, built the Yuan Zhong clan, set up a hundred officials, and built the royal ancestral hall in the northern suburbs of Luoyang.

Yuan Shu was born in a famous family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his family was the fourth and third princes of Runan Yuan, and he was the second son of Sikong Yuan Fengzhi. Legend has it that when he was born, the fairy gave his mother a dream that the child in her arms had a destiny. Since Yuan Shu's cousin Yuan Shao is the adopted son of his uncle Yuan Cheng, although Yuan Shu is Yuan Shao's cousin, the two are actually half-brothers. Yuan Shao's mother was only a servant girl, and Yuan Shao's status in the family was quite low in his early years.

After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu each met and became warlords on one side. Yuan Shao wanted to establish Liu Yu of the Han clan as the emperor, and sent someone to inform Yuan Shu, hoping to get Yuan Shu's support. However, Yuan Shu had long watched the decline of the Han dynasty, and he had long harbored different aspirations and was unwilling to support the adult emperor of the Han Dynasty, so he disagreed with Yuan Shao's proposal under the pretext of justice, and the two brothers turned their faces with grievances. At that time, most of the heroes were attached to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu was furious and said: "Do these shafts not follow me, but follow my family's slaves? So he wrote letters everywhere and spread that Yuan Shao was not a descendant of the Yuan family. Although Yuan Shao was angry, because he was running Jizhou with all his might, the brothers had not officially started fighting for the time being.

Yuan Shu has been operating for many years, and his troops have reached more than 300,000, focusing on the front line of Luoyang, Hujiao, Runan, and Shouchun. Before becoming emperor, in order to eliminate Yuan Shao's ally Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Jin Shang waved an army to attack Yanzhou. Yuan Shutun's army was in Fengqiu, and then he asked the Xiongnu to help in Fuluo and others, and Cao Cao fought in Kuangting, but was defeated. Yuan Shu retired to Yongqiu, returned to Shouchun in the south, and the guard Chen Yu did not let him enter the city, Yuan Shu retreated to Yinling, gathered troops to attack Chen Yu, and Chen Yu fled back to Xiapi. Yuan Shu led the rest of the troops to Jiujiang County, killed Chen Wen, the assassin of Yangzhou, and led Yangzhou Mu, also known as Xuzhou Bo, and Feng generals Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui were generals. After a great war, although Cao Cao could not be eliminated, it also occupied large areas such as Yuzhou, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou, with a population of one million and more than 300,000 soldiers.

Yuan Shu brazenly proclaimed himself emperor, and the limelight suddenly overshadowed the rapidly rising Chen Long, and immediately became the target of everyone, and was despised by the princes of the world. Sun Ce first announced his rebellion and self-reliance in Jiangxia, broke with Yuan Shu, formed an alliance with Huang Zu, and drove away the Danyang Taishou appointed by Yuan Shu, and jointly made Yuan Shu's Guangling Taishou Wu Jing and general Sun Ben abandon Yuan Shu and join Sun Ce after receiving Sun Ce's letter, causing Yuan Shu to lose Guangling, Jiangdong and other large areas of land, and his power was frustrated; Subsequently, Lu Bu and Zhang Miao sent troops to Chen Liu, defeated Yuan Shu's army in Huaibei, and wantonly burned and looted; Cao Cao was not idle, personally led the army to recruit Yuan Shu, and captured Yuan Shu's generals Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Le Zhuo in Qiyang, and Yuan Shu once again lost a large area of land in Huainan.

In the winter of the second year of Jian'an, the area ruled by Yuan Shu encountered a great drought that had not been encountered in a hundred years, and Yuan Shu's rule was hit hard again, and there was even a tragedy of cannibalism between Jianghuai. Wang Yun thought that the time had come to exterminate Yuan Shu, and established an alliance to destroy Yuan, but no one responded to the peace, except for the 10,000 imperial forest troops of Chang'an Lu Zhi who nominally belonged to the imperial court, and Zhu Jun's 10,000 field troops stationed in Luoshan, Wang Yun had no troops available, and reluctantly gathered 10,000 infantry in Chang'an, with Wang Yue as the main commander, and wanted to go straight to Luoyang along the Yellow River, echoing Zhu Jun's attack on Runan. Wang Yue thought that the troops were too small, Wang Yun was helpless, and after thinking for a long time, he had to put down his posture and come to Chen Long to discuss the alliance.

Chen Long has been dormant this year, and in addition to cultivating himself and continuing to plan the battle of Hanzhong, he has also done several major things. Among them, the most important one is to let Liu Qian recognize Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying as her grandson and granddaughter, and comprehensively guide the two to understand modern science and technology, and give full play to Liu Qian's advantages in crossing. Although Liu Qian is not proficient in science and engineering machinery, her knowledge is a hundred times better than that of the wise people at that time, and she can be regarded as a good teacher of a generation.

In the middle of winter that year, a mysterious carriage hurried from Lingling into Chang'an, and delivered a large wooden box in the heavy snow. The person who came was Zhang Ning and Liu Qian's special envoy, Li Tong, the captain of the special operations team, and the box he brought was actually a machine-gun-like mechanical crossbow that had been successfully developed.

The mechanical repeater is so powerful that it can fire twenty bolts in a row when it is fully loaded, and it is extremely easy to change the sword magazine, although it is a little bulky to carry, but it is not a problem for moving troops, and it only needs to be transported by horse-drawn cart. And the defense used on the city wall makes the defense of Chang'an city like a tiger.

Chen Long listed the repeater wooden box as a top secret and began to secretly assign it to troops in various places. All troops transporting and using the wooden boxes were strictly ordered to surrender if they encountered any threat to their lives during the battle, but they must break the wooden boxes before being captured, otherwise they would be killed. However, Chen Long's long-awaited bag and remote communication device have not made progress due to environmental constraints.

Yuan Shu's proclamation as emperor disrupted Chen Long's planned plan to attack Hanzhong, and Wang Yun finally stepped on the threshold of Chen Long's mansion in the early spring of 193 A.D. when winter was coming to an end.

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