Chapter 37: Yuan Shao's Troubles

The second year of Jian'an, May 25.

Yuan Shao slammed the bamboo slip in his hand to the ground and shouted, "Go, bring me Guo Tu." ”

A guard outside the door immediately answered: "No." Then he ran out.

He had been waiting for Yuan Shao for so long, and he had never seen Yuan Shao make such a big fire, so he couldn't hesitate.

As for Yuan Shao, he just received the news that Changshan reported back, saying that Zhang Yan led the crowd to surrender to Li Xian.

He saw that it was Chang Shan's spies coming back, and he thought it would be the news of Li Xie's death or defeat, and he was full of smiles, but he never dreamed that it would be such a result.

Zhang Yan has more than 100,000 people, if these hundreds of thousands of people obey Li Xian's orders, if he is his enemy, the consequences are really unimaginable.

Although Gongsun Chan is hiding in Yijing now and does not dare to come out, but if he joins forces with Li Xian, plus Cao Cao in the south, and suffers the enemy on his back, it will not be able to die.

Although he has not officially broken with Cao Cao now, Meng De, a shrewd person, can't come up and take a bite when he sees his defeat.

Yuan Shao was thinking about it, Guo Tu had arrived.

Guo Tu didn't know the news of Zhang Yan's surrender to Li Xie, he knew that Changshan's detectives had returned, and thought that what he had reported back was good news.

As soon as he came in, he smiled and said to Yuan Shao: "Is Li Xian dead?" ”

When Yuan Shao heard this, he was so angry that he didn't want to speak, so he just stared at Guo Tu, staring at Guo Tu so much that his eyelids jumped.

"Zhang Yan surrendered to Li Xian, look at what kind of plan you have come up with, not only did Li Xian fail, but also made him pick up a big bargain. The main thing is, what do we do now. ”

Yuan Shao originally wanted to scold Guo Tu, and even wanted to kill him to relieve his hatred, but Guo Tu couldn't kill him.

The Guo family is a well-known family in Yingchuan, and he won Jizhou from Han Fu at the beginning, and he also relied on Yingchuan people.

If you kill him, you will lose the support of the Yingchuan family, and you will not be far from defeat.

Therefore, he did not even scold.

Although Yuan Shao did not scold angrily, Guo Tu was also consciously ashamed, but the trouble he caused had to be solved by himself: "Then let General Yan Liang lead the troops to the crusade and take the opportunity to eliminate Li Xian and Zhang Yan together." ”

When Yuan Shao heard this, he couldn't wait to give him a slap immediately: "If Zhang Yan is so easy to eliminate, will I keep him until now?" Li Xian is a masterpiece, and killing him rashly will also lose people's hearts. Don't worry about it, go home. ”

Yuan Shao felt that if Guo Tu gave advice again, he didn't know what kind of disaster he was going to make, what kind of idea was this.

After driving Guo Tu away, he sent people to ask Xu Yu and Feng Ji.

Although these two people did not have the power of their own family like Guo Tu, they ran out of Luoyang with Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao was more trusting.

Yuan Shao told them the news of Zhang Yan's surrender to Li Xian, and the two were also shocked: Li Xian only brought three or four thousand people, but he could let Zhang Yan, who had more than 100,000 thieves, surrender? What kind of magic is this man?

Xu You stroked his beard and said: "Duke Yuan only gave 3,000 men and horses for Li Xian to conquer Zhang Yan, he has already offended Li Xian, and now he has more than 100,000 people of Zhang Yan, if he is an enemy of Yuan Gong, the consequences will be unimaginable." For the sake of today's plan, the only way to stabilize Li Xian is to send him away. ”

Yuan Shao asked urgently: "How to stabilize?" And how to send it away"

"It depends on whether Yuan Gong is willing to part with love."

"How to cut love? As long as Li Xian can leave Jizhou, what do I have to be reluctant to. Yuan Shao asked urgently.

Although Li Xian has married Cao Cao's daughter, he has no son, and now he has betrayed Cao Cao, and it is probably impossible for him to be with the daughter of the Cao family again. Yuan Gong Ke gave up the daughter of the Zhongshan Zhen family, who had previously agreed to marry the second son, to Li Xian, and let him fall into the gentle countryside, and had no ambition to compete for the world. ”

Feng Ji continued: "Duke Yuan can also recommend him as the general of Zhengnan, and let him go to Jingzhou to help Liu Jingsheng seize the land of Yangzhou. ”

Yuan Shao said helplessly: "If you can send him away, it doesn't hurt to give the Zhen family to him, I'm afraid that he will stay in Changshan and communicate with Gongsun Zhan." ”

Feng Ji said confidently: "Don't worry about this Yuan Gong, Ji Bao alone will definitely let Li Xian leave Jizhou." ”

Yuan Shao asked urgently: "Who?" ”

"Frustrated."

"Gonghe, can he really let Li Xian leave Jizhou?"

"I'm going to talk to him, I'm sure he'll let Li Xian leave."

"Okay, then you go and talk to Gonghe, if you can let Li Xian leave Jizhou, I will give you a credit."

Since Li Xian set out to conquer Zhang Yan, Yuan Shao divided the three armies under his supervision, and let Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong each supervise one army.

He also felt that Yuan Shao didn't trust him very much, so he usually did less activity, and at the same time, he was quite disappointed in Yuan Shao, and he didn't give him any advice anymore.

Feng Ji, who had never come to the door before, came to visit, and he felt that it must be related to Li Xian, and he also heard the news that Zhang Yan had surrendered to Li Xian.

Sure enough, after Feng Ji entered the mansion and sat down, he said: "Gong Yuan has been restless about food and accommodation recently, what does Gong and Gong know?" ”

He smiled and said, "Yuan Tu is here to persuade General Yangwei to leave Jizhou?" ”

Feng Ji was shocked, he didn't expect that he hadn't said it yet, and he guessed his intention.

He didn't need to beat around the bush anymore, and said directly to the point: "You and Li Yangwei are good, and now Li Yangwei has Zhang Yan more than 100,000 people, do you say that Yuan Gong can rest assured?" Cao Cao treated Li Yangwei as kind as a mountain, and he still saw betrayal, and Yuan Gong had wanted Li Yangwei before. Now the only person who can make Li Yangwei leave Jizhou is the public and you. ”

"If General Yangwei is allowed to leave Jizhou, where will he go?"

"Jingzhou." Feng Ji said.

Fu Zhu also guessed that it was Jingzhou, and now if Li Xian is allowed to leave Jizhou, he will have nowhere to go except Jingzhou.

But Jingzhou now has Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu, and if he goes to Jingzhou, he can only develop south.

To the south, they will fight with Sun Ce.

"Even if Li Yangwei is willing to go, will Liu Zhennan agree?"

Liu Biao is the general of Zhennan, and sometimes in order to show respect, he will call him by an official title.

"Cao Cao repeatedly violated Nanyang, and Zhang Xiu was difficult to defeat Cao Cao, if Nanyang was occupied by Cao Cao, Liu Jingsheng would be in danger. Therefore, if Li Yangwei led his troops to Nanyang to join forces with Zhang Xiu to resist Cao Cao and make Jingzhou stable, how could Liu Jingsheng disagree. Moreover, Li Yangwei sits in Nanyang County, and if he obtains Runan again, he will not be a hegemon. ”

Feng Ji's meaning is obvious, Li Xian's current strength is stronger than Zhang Xiu's, if Li Xian goes to Nanyang, then Nanyang must belong to him.

"Nanyang and Runan are too close to Xudu, Cao Cao can't let General Yangwei sit firmly, if he goes to Jingzhou, he will only be able to go south to seize the land of Jiangdong, is Liu Zhennan willing to help?"

Cao Cao set the capital of Xu County, how could it be possible for you to be safe in Nanyang and Runan, which is also the reason why Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu.

Feng Ji realized that what he was thinking was a little simpler, and hurriedly said: "Of course Liu Zhennan is willing, Sun Ce's father Sun Jian died in Jingzhou a few years ago, Sun Ce and Liu Zhennan have a father's enmity, and always want to avenge their father." Of course, Liu Zhennan also hopes that someone will help him eliminate Sun Ce, so that he will have no worries. ”

Fu Zhu thought that if he could join forces with Liu Biao to seize the land of Jiangdong, it would also be a good territory.

After all, the north is now a place where Cao Cao and Yuan Shao must win, and with Li Xian's current strength, it is difficult to fight, and it is difficult to hold it.

"Since Gong Yuan has been sent, I will go and talk to Li Yangwei."

Feng Ji said goodbye and went back to Yuan Shao to return to his life, and asked people to propose to the Zhen family in Zhongshan, but it was just to propose marriage for Li Xian.

Fu Zhu was ordered to come to Changshan Yuan's clan, saw Li Xian, and congratulated Li Xian: "General Li is really brave, not only to receive good generals, but also to hug the beauty." ”

Li Xian didn't know that Yuan Shao was going to give him Zhen, and he had heard that Yuan Shao was going to let Zhen Mi marry his second son Yuan Xi.

Needless to say, Yuan Shao's current power in Jizhou is needless to say, although the Zhen family is a famous family in Jizhou, they also have to give Yuan Shao face.

Of course, Li Xian also knew Zhen Mi, but even if he got Zhang Yan and hundreds of thousands of troops, he didn't dare to fight Yuan Shao's idea.

Yuan Shao has the land of four states and hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers and horses, although he now has more than 100,000 troops, but how can it be the same. Let's not talk about whether these hundreds of thousands of troops are really serving their lives, even if they are, the combat effectiveness is not enough to deal a blow to Yuan Jun.

The two generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou under Yuan Shao were not in vain, a few years ago, when they were fighting against poison, they almost wiped out all the bandits in the Black Mountain.

Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao also fought many times, but they never won.

When he heard the words of frustration, he was a little stunned: "Hold the beauty." What do you say? ”

He smiled and said: "General Li is now the leader of Zhang Yan, and his power is strong, which is jealous of Duke Yuan, so Duke Yuan wants to give up Zhen Mi, the daughter of the Zhen family of Zhongshan, to General Li." ”

Li Xian was overjoyed and surprised when he heard this: "Ah! Gonghe, then do you think I should accept this? ”

"You have to accept it, if you don't accept it, then you want to get Yuan Gong's Jizhou. Yuan Gong will definitely raise a large army to come, let me ask General Li, can you stop Yuan Gong's army? ”

Li Xian thought about it, it is such a reason, if you don't want a beauty, that is the ambition of the country, but now he does not have the strength to break with Yuan Shao.

"If I accept the Zhen family, what does Yuan Gong want?"

He guessed that Yuan Shao couldn't let Zhen give it to him for no reason, and there must be a request.

Fu Zhu said: "Yuan Gong asked General Li to leave Jizhou and go to Jingzhou to help General Liu Zhennan conquer Yangzhou. ”

Li Xian had already thought about the issue of leaving Jizhou, and he couldn't leave if he didn't leave.

Don't say that he can't beat Yuan Shao, even if he defeats Yuan Shao, there will be Cao Cao next.

If he is asked to help Yuan Shao fight Cao Cao, even if Yuan Shao trusts him, after winning Cao Cao, Yuan Shao's strength will be stronger, and he will be difficult to defeat Yuan Shao at that time.

His idea was to go to Jingzhou first, find a way to capture Jingzhou, and then unite with Liu Bei to fight Sun Ce, or unite with Sun Ce to fight Liu Bei. After you have a stable territory of your own, you can try to conquer the world.

He replied, "Okay." ”