Chapter 202: You can't have both
This news that made Yuan Shao extremely uncomfortable and even made him a resentful woman, naturally Cao Cao took advantage of the chaos in Qingzhou and had already come to his Qingzhou to rob him!
Stab him hard!
Although Cao Cao knew that he was now in a situation of lack of soldiers and food, he was suitable for rest and recuperation, but not suitable for launching a large-scale war.
However, Cao Cao didn't want Lu Bu to occupy Qingzhou, which he had already regarded as his own!
What's more, because of Cao Bao and them, now Qingzhou is in chaos, taking advantage of this good opportunity, it is naturally very easy for Cao Cao to conquer Qingzhou.
Although Cao Cao now has to lead the army into Runan County to eliminate Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Liu Pi, Gong Du, these wolf rushing people, Cao Cao finally thought about it, still tightened his belt, divided 20,000 soldiers and horses, and under his own rule, let the civil officials collect the grain needed by the 20,000 army as soon as possible, and let Xiahoudun be the main general and Cheng Yu as the military division of the army to conquer Qingzhou.
Because the soldiers and horses of Qingzhou were gathered by Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, to Linzi of Qi State, they wanted to deal with Cao Bao, who had already occupied Le'an State and also wanted to break through Linzi, the seat of Qingzhou Prefecture, so that the rest of Qingzhou counties did not have many soldiers and horses stationed.
With Cheng Yu's strategy, coupled with the courage of Xiahoudun and 20,000 troops, the two counties of Beihai and Donglai County in the east of Qingzhou were quickly occupied.
Qingzhou has six counties, and now Cao Cao's army has unexpectedly occupied two counties!
Qingzhou was divided by Cao Cao by a third!
After Yuan Shao learned this news, he scolded Cao Cao for taking advantage of the fire to rob and scolded Cao Cao for being shameless!
After Yuan Shao was tired of scolding, he was naturally unwilling to be led by Xiahoudun and Cheng Yu with an army of 20,000 to occupy Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County.
So, Yuan Shao naturally immediately dispatched troops, brought all the Qingzhou soldiers he brought to Qingzhou and Yuan Tan gathered in Linzi to deal with Cao Bao and them, and entered Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County in the east, wanting to drive away the invading Cao Cao army and recapture Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County occupied by Cao Cao's army!
Yuan Shao, who had already lost Youzhou and Yixian in Jizhou, felt that he could no longer afford to be hurt, and he was very precious about his remaining territory, so he naturally did not allow Cao Cao's army to take away the land of the two counties.
So, Yuan Shao, who led the army to Beihai Kingdom, immediately launched a war, and let the army he brought fight against the 20,000 Cao army of Xiahoudun and Cheng Yu, and worked hard to recapture Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County!
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When Yuan Shao led the army to confront Cao Cao's army, the army led by Lu Bu and Cao Bao had already rushed back to Ji County, Guangyang County, Youzhou.
In the front yard of Wenhou Mansion, Lu Bu, who returned to Youzhou, immediately convened a group of civil and military officers who were in Jixian County to discuss important matters.
In a large and spacious hall.
Lu Bu sat high on the top of the ground, and Tian Feng, Chen Qun, Cao Bao, Hao Zhao, Han Zhi, Zhang He and others sat on the left and right of the lower head.
"Bodao, Changwen, you two talk about what happened in Youzhou during the departure of Ben Hou and the army." At this time, I only heard Lu Bu ask Hao Zhao and Chen Qun.
Hao Zhao, as the chief general stationed in Ji County, the rear of Lu Bu, and Chen Qun, as the commander of Youzhou, naturally knew better than anyone what happened when Lu Bu was not in Youzhou.
"The lord, Wang, Zhao, Sun, Li, and Chen, the five great warrior families of Youzhou, because they did not accept the rule of the lord, gathered 30,000 troops to make a rebellion in Youzhou when the lord was on the front line to resist Yuan Shao's army going north, but now it has been wiped out by Zhao, Han Zhi, Jun Yi, and 20,000 troops stationed in Jixian! As for the five families of Wang, Zhao, Sun, Li, and Chen, they have been controlled by the army and are waiting for the lord to deal with them! Lu Bu asked, and Hao Zhao immediately replied.
Wang, Zhao, Sun, Li, and Chen are the five great families of the noble family, and Lu Bu knows that they are all the top family forces in Youzhou.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the inaction of the imperial court, it was tacitly assumed that some powerful families could have tribals, and these private tribals ranged from hundreds or thousands to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands!
Moreover, these people do not need to be recorded in the imperial court, because they are only sent by these families!
Therefore, these five families together have 30,000 troops, which is more than the number of troops stationed in Ji County, so it is not surprising that Lu Bu is not surprised!
It's just that the 30,000 troops gathered by these five warrior clans are naturally not as brave and good at fighting as the 20,000 troops stationed in Jixian County and often killing the enemy on the battlefield!
Therefore, under the slaughter of 20,000 troops led by Hao Zhao, Han Zhi, and Zhang He, they were quickly defeated.
Death to death, surrender to surrender!
As for the initiators, Wang, Zhao, Sun, Li, and Chen, they were also detained by Hao Zhao.
For these noble clans who are above the top and dare to rebel, Lu Bu will naturally not be polite to them!
Just like the Liaodong Shi clan Haoqiang who made a rebellion in Xiangping, Liaodong, it is natural to raid and exterminate these five Shi clans, so that they can clearly realize that they are living well, but they want to jump out and find death!
These nobles with above-the-top eyes looked down on Lu Bu's background, and Lu Bu also disdained them.
Lu Bu used a series of benefits to win over the ordinary people at the bottom, in addition to really not being able to see them living so poor, but also to win them in and let them recognize themselves!
In this era, the number of poor people far exceeded the number of the powerful scholars, although they did not have power or power, but at the critical moment, they could still play a huge role.
At the very least, when Lu Bu wants to recruit soldiers, without Lu Bu's compulsory conscription for them, these strong men among the poor people will come to hear the sound and fight for Lu Bu on the battlefield regardless of their own lives.
To repay Lu Bu's kindness to them!
What's more, water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat!
This is a very useful truth!
As a great prince, Lu Bu will even go further in the future, if he can get the support of enough ordinary people, he can also make Lu Bu get twice the result with half the effort and sit firmly on the throne of the highest!
Because, even if someone wants to rebel, they can't bewitch these ordinary people who have been bought by Lu Bu!
They don't have troops in hand, and their rebellion to make Lu Bu is just a joke in the end!
Therefore, when the nobles and the common people cannot have both?
Compared with those warriors who are above the top and difficult to subdue for their own use, Lu Bu did not hesitate to choose the ordinary, but extremely numerous, simple, and understanding of Entu retribution!
Now, these five great warrior clans dare to challenge their majesty as Youzhou Mu, and Lu Bu will naturally not let them go.
At the same time, it also let the rest of the warrior clans in Youzhou know that 'those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die', which is the motto that Lu Bu has always advocated!
So, under Lu Bu's order to 'kill without forgiveness', Youzhou once again had a bloody storm!
The five great warriors who wanted to take advantage of Lu Bu's absence and then make a rebellion were all killed by Lu Bu's soldiers under Lu Bu's orders!
Let the rest of the warriors in Youzhou who are ready to move, while scolding Lu Bu for being cruel, they are also very afraid of Lu Bu, as if they are afraid of ghosts and gods!
At the same time, they also deeply realized a truth, if they kept to themselves, Lu Bu would not deal with them, if they dared to jump out to resist Lu Bu's rule, they would only be greeted by sharp butcher knives, and only the road of raiding their families and exterminating their clans!
This made these warriors who were about to move suddenly tremble and shrink up, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to rebel against Lu Bu's rule in Youzhou!