Chapter 378: The Situation in Xuzhou
Gao Cang and Zang Hong defeated the Jiangdong Army outside Guangling City, and then Gao Cang led his troops to expel the Jiangdong Army from Guangling County, and at the same time, Zang Hong relied on the prestige he had accumulated by governing Guangling and many old troops left in Guangling County, and took Guangling County into control in a very short period of time.
This is also an important reason why Yuan Shu wants Zang Hong to come to Guangling County, there are many capable people under Yuan Shu's command now, but only Zang Hong can take Guangling County in a short period of time and not cause chaos, and no one else can.
Zang Hong has already returned to Yuan Shu at this time, although he often misses the old proposition, but now that Zang Hong compares Yuan Shu with Zhang Chao, he will find that compared with Yuan Shu, Zhang Chao is really not worth mentioning.
Whether it is ambition, personality charm, or even his own cultivation, Yuan Shu has thrown Zhang Chao off many streets. And although Yuan Shu defeated Zhang Chao, he didn't do anything to Zhang Chao's family. As the so-called disaster does not affect the family, Yuan Shu is the son-in-law of the Runan Yuan family of the first family in the world, and even one of the candidates for the next head of the Runan Yuan family, Yuan Shu still wants to save face, and after defeating Zhang Chao, he did not do anything to Zhang Chao's family.
The most important thing is that among the two most outstanding people of the Yuan clan in Runan, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu's reputation in the world is more than Yuan Shao's. Yuan Shao's robbery of Han Fu's Jizhou was also directly or indirectly related to Han Fu's death, and Yuan Shu took Han Fu's general Pan Feng and Han Fu's son Han Lie under his command to protect the two.
This one thing is to make Yuan Shao's reputation like a river, in fact, if there is no Yuan Shu to protect Pan Feng and Han Lie, Yuan Shao's reputation will not be hit. However, in terms of his attitude towards his protégé, Yuan Shao chose to snatch the foundation of his protégé, and Yuan Shu was the descendant of the protégé, so many of the protégés of the Yuan family in Runan were willing to join Yuan Shu instead of Yuan Shao.
If it was just this matter, Yuan Shu's reputation would be at most equal to Yuan Shao's, after all, Yuan Shao had also been operating in the world for a long time, and his reputation was not low. But after Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou and slaughtered on a large scale, Yuan Shu immediately ordered You Heng to send a letter of condemnation, and Yuan Shao suppressed Chen Lin's text and forced Chen Lin to leave Jizhou, and now he has become friends with You Heng in Yuzhou.
Yuan Shao made the wrong choice for both of these things, and Yuan Shu made the right choice, so that Yuan Shu's image in the eyes of the world was better than Yuan Shao's, and what Yuan Shu did also made Zang Hong willing to work for Yuan Shu. Zang Hong is not a person with big ambitions who wants to eat and wait for death, he also has ambitions in his heart, but it is difficult to perform under Zhang Chao. And now under Yuan Shu, there is a platform that can allow Zang Hong to display his ambitions, and Zang Hong will naturally not betray Yuan Shu.
With Zang Hong's loyal help, Guangling County naturally had no problems, and under Chen Deng's leadership, most of the families in Xiapi County and Guangling County, including Pengcheng County, which Ji Ling had just won, showed their attitude to Yuan Shu and were willing to support Yuan Shu's rule over the three counties of Xiapi, Guangling, and Pengcheng. Only Langya County and Donghai County did not express their attitude on the bright side because they were occupied by Liu Bei, but there are still a lot of secret songs with Yuan Shu.
Cao Cao of Pengcheng County withdrew quickly, and as soon as Ji Ling got the news of Cao Cao's withdrawal, he acted quickly and led his troops to take Pengcheng County. And although Liu Bei's reaction was not slow, it was still a little slower than Yuan Shu's side, who had already gotten the news from Yanzhou. When Liu Bei was about to send troops, most of Pengcheng County had already been taken by Ji Ling, and at that time, even if Liu Bei sent troops to Pengcheng, it would be useless.
After Liu Bei learned about the situation in Pengcheng County, he gave up sending troops to Pengcheng, but set the goal on Langya County, ordered Guan Hai to send troops, and took the entire territory of Langya County in his hands. Since then, the land of the five counties of Xuzhou, Pengcheng, Xiapi, and Guangling have fallen under the control of Yuan Shu, while Langya and Donghai have been occupied by Liu Bei.
Yuan Shu got Chen Deng's investment, and subdued many families in Pengcheng, Guangling, and Xiapi counties, and also had secret ties with many families in Langya and Donghai.
Of course, although Yuan Shu is strong, Liu Bei is not weak, Yuan Shu has Chen Deng's investment, Liu Bei also has Mi Zhu under his command, and when Mi Zhu welcomed Liu Bei into Xiapi City, he also took away the Xuzhou Mu seal ribbon to Liu Bei, and although Liu Bei was finally beaten out of Xiapi City by Yuan Shu, Xuzhou Mu's seal ribbon was not lost.
After Liu Bei returned to the East China Sea, he used the seal of Xuzhou Mu to occupy the righteousness, and at the same time, with the cooperation of the Mi family, it was the suppression of many families in Donghai County and Langya County, so that although these families had a secret relationship with Yuan Shu, at least they did not oppose Liu Bei on the surface.
Since then, the battle of Xuzhou has basically come to an end, originally Yuan Shu, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Tao Qian five princes gathered in Xuzhou, and finally Tao Qian died inexplicably, Cao Cao and Sun Jian were beaten out of Xuzhou, Yuan Shu occupied the land of Xiapi, Pengcheng and Guangling, and Liu Bei won the East China Sea and Langya two counties.
Originally, according to Yuan Shu's meaning, he was going to fight with Liu Bei again to take Donghai and Langya into his hands, but this is that the weather is already too cold, even if Yuan Shu's soldiers can rely on warm clothes to be able to move outdoors, but once they leave the city, their strength can only be exerted at most three or four percent, and it is difficult to form enough combat power.
Although Yuan Shu wanted to take the East China Sea and Langya and let the entire territory of Xuzhou fall under his control, Yuan Shu had to give up this idea because of the weather. Although as long as the cultivation reaches a certain level, you can basically ignore these celestial changes, but if you want to do this, you need to be above the Condensation Gang Realm or the Void Soul Realm, but there are not many such characters under Yuan Shu, and most of the soldiers can only use foreign objects to resist the cold weather.
However, although he could not send troops to attack Liu Bei, Yuan Shu was not idle, strengthening his rule over the three counties that had been occupied. Among them, Zang Hong and Zhao Yan were to strengthen their rule over Guangling and Pengcheng, while Chen Deng was to appease the Xuzhou family and show Yuan Shu's attitude towards Xuzhou's family to join his family.
On the other hand, although Liu Bei occupied half of Xuzhou, he was still not satisfied, and did not return to Qingzhou, but stayed in the East China Sea with Zhang Fei, Guan Hai, Wu Anguo, Sun Qian and others. First, it is to plot the three counties of Pi, Guangling, and Pengcheng, and secondly, it is also to suppress many families in Langya and the East China Sea.
Only if Liu Bei stays in Xuzhou, Langya and Donghai will not change.