Chapter 33: The Princes Chase the Deer
First of all, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao received Yuan Shao's secret letter, knowing that Changsha was too guarded by Sun Jian to have a jade seal of the country, so he sent troops to intercept Sun Jian on the way back to Jiangdong, intending to seize the jade seal in Sun Jian's hands.
The Jingzhou army that intercepted Sun Jian was led by Kuai Yue and Cai Mao under Liu Biao, with a full 10,000 people!
Sun Jian had just arrived in Jiangxia County, and he was intercepted by Kuai Yue and Cai Mao.
Changsha County also belongs to Jingzhou, Sun Jian naturally knew that Liu Biao's two generals, Kuai Yue and Cai Mao, he secretly shouted that it was not good, he had no grievances with Liu Biao, Liu Biao suddenly sent troops to intercept him on the way back to Jiangdong, he must have heard from Yuan Shao that he got the jade seal of the country.
Sun Jian also took a few steps forward and asked Kuai Yue loudly: "Kuai Yue, why did you and Cai Mao lead the troops to block my way?" β
Kuai Yue was too lazy to beat around the bush, and directly reprimanded: "Sun Jian, you are a Hanchen, but why do you secretly hide the jade seal of the country." My father-in-law is a clan member of the Han family, Jingzhou Mu, you quickly leave the jade seal of the country, and my father-in-law will let you go. β
Sun Jian gritted his teeth and denied: "I have not privately hidden the jade seal of the country, let alone the jade seal of the country, how can I leave it?" β
Kuai Yue said angrily: "Sun Wentai, I think you are toasting and not eating and drinking, and when you are taken down, you can search for the jade seal of the country." β
Behind him, Cai Mao stepped forward and said loudly: "Cai Mao is here, who dares to fight." β
Huang Gai asked Zhan and said: "Lord, Gai takes his head." β
Sun Jian nodded, and Huang Gai immediately flew forward to meet Cai Mao.
Huang Gai is a general who has followed Sun Jian in a hundred battles, and the level of bravery is not comparable to Cai Mao, the two fought for only a few rounds, Huang Gai whipped Cai Mao's chest with an iron heartguard, almost pulled Cai Mao off the horse, Cai Mao was shocked, and turned the horse back to escape.
"Good chance, the whole army rushes to kill!" How could Sun Jian let go of such a good opportunity for the enemy general to be defeated and the morale of the enemy army to plummet, and immediately led the whole army to rush over.
The two armies fought, although the Jingzhou army had 10,000 people, which was more than three times that of Sun Jian's army of less than 3,000, but Sun Jian's army was all the elite of the rest of the battle, and Huang Gai defeated Cai Mao in only a few rounds, and all the soldiers were full of morale.
Soon, the defense line of the Jingzhou army was broken by Sun Jian.
Sun Jian laughed wildly: "Hahahaha, even a rabble who has never fought a war dares to stop me from 3,000 elite soldiers!" β
Just as Sun Jian was about to break through the border with his army, suddenly, the golden drums in front of the border were ringing, and thousands of soldiers rushed out, not only preventing Sun Jian from breaking through the border, but besieging Sun Jian and the remaining more than 2,000 soldiers under his command.
"......" Sun Jian smiled suddenly, and he was angry.
After a while, Liu showed his body, and sure enough, Liu Biao came in person.
Sun Jian glanced around the front and back, because Liu Biao personally reinforced him, the Jingzhou army besieging him at this time exceeded 20,000, which was eight or nine times more than his current army of more than 2,000.
Battle, more than eighty percent of the possibility is a fiasco, out of such concerns, Sun Jian did not immediately lead the army to kill, but only faced Liu Biao and asked: "Why is Jingsheng like this, is he going to take my Sun Jian's head?" β
Liu Biao didn't talk nonsense with Sun Jian, he asked a soldier to send a letter to Sun Jian, saying: "I ask you to see something, and you will know the reason after reading it." β
Sun Jian took the letter and looked at it, and sure enough, it was a secret letter written by Yuan Shao to Liu Biao informing him that he had a jade seal of the country and asking Liu Biao to intercept and kill him.
What a Yuan Shao! Sun Jian secretly hated in his heart, and he said to Liu Biao: "Jingsheng, I am a close neighbor of Changsha and you, why do you believe that Yuan Shao's book will force me?" β
Liu Biao's expression was very cold, this kind of thing, of course he would rather believe Yuan Shao, so he said: "You hide the jade seal of the country, do you want to rebel?" β
As soon as these words came out, it showed that they did not believe in Sun Jian, but only believed in Yuan Shao.
Sun Jian's heart was under great pressure, and suddenly he thought of something, and suddenly swore to the sky: "Jingsheng, I am willing to swear to the sky, if there is a jade seal of the country, I will die under the sword!" β
This oath, Sun Jian once made it in front of Yuan Shao, at this moment, in order to win Liu Biao's trust, Sun Jian didn't mind sending it again, anyway, if the oath really had to be fulfilled, it would be difficult to stop it, but Sun Jian didn't know that he made two oaths in succession, not only did he die miserably, but also pit his son Sun Ce.
However, as soon as Sun Jian's oath came out, it still achieved some results, and sure enough, seeing Liu Biao's hesitation, Sun Jian was not only secretly happy in his heart, but also expected Liu Biao to really believe his oath and let himself go back to Jiangdong.
However, Sun Jian thought too much, Liu Biao did hesitate, but the matter of the jade seal of the country was too big, Liu Biao would not let Sun Jian go for Sun Jian's oath, he said: "Sun Jian, if you want me to listen to your oath, you will unload the luggage of the army and let me search, if you really don't, I apologize to you." β
Sun Jian's face was pale, Liu Biao insisted on not believing it, and he undoubtedly made an oath in vain.
It was useless to say more, Sun Jian was annoyed and said angrily: "Liu Biao, what are you capable of, dare to underestimate me!" β
"Kill!" Sun Jian no longer hesitated, and personally led the whole army to rush to kill, vowing to break through the siege with a bloody way.
The two armies fought fiercely, and blood flowed all over the field.
Sun Jian is worthy of being Yuan Shu, the Jiangdong Tiger that Yuan Shao is afraid of, and the nearly 3,000 soldiers left under his command are also the elite of the rest of the battle, plus the three generals around him, Huang Gai, and Han Dang desperately guarded them, and after a day of fierce fighting, after most of the troops were broken, Sun Jian finally took the last more than 200 soldiers to break out of the encirclement.
Liu Biao sighed and was annoyed, Sun Nut was a character, but he didn't expect that with more than eight or nine times the troops, he still failed to leave Sun Jian's life, so that Sun Jian broke through the bloody road and escaped, he couldn't help but say: "The future will not be peaceful, Sun Jian will not give up on me." β
Over there, after Sun Jian broke out of the encirclement, he looked at the three generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang around him, as well as more than 200 soldiers who were all wounded, and thought that he had led 20,000 troops to participate in the alliance to fight against Dong, but now there are only more than 200 people left, and the loss is huge.
Sun Jian angrily swore and said: "Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, I, Sun Jian, are inseparable from you!" β
Sun Jian, who fled back to Jiangdong, really had a grudge against Liu Biao.
Jiangdong is not calm, and Hebei is also not calm.
The alliance of the princes against Dong collapsed, and after Yuan Shao returned to Bohai from Luoyang, he plotted to seize Jizhou, which was Mu Hanfu of Jizhou.
At the suggestion of the strategists Feng Ji and Xu You, Yuan Shao used Gongsun Chan to secretly send a letter to Gongsun Zhan, saying that the two armies would attack Han Fu in the north and south and divide Jizhou together. Gongsun Zhan coveted Jizhou, got Yuan Shaozhi's letter, and without thinking about it, he did not hesitate to raise troops south to attack Han Fu.
Although Han Fu is the pastor of Jizhou, in charge of a state, but the military strength is not as strong as Gongsun Zhan, and his own talent is limited, I heard that Gongsun Chan led the troops south to attack him, Han Fu was very panicked, and immediately convened his own advisers to discuss, and among Han Fu's advisers, two of them had already secretly taken refuge in Yuan Shao, so they followed Yuan Shao's order and said to Han Fu: "Gongsun Chan is brave and brave, famous outside the Guan, 20,000 iron horsemen broke the yellow scarf of 300,000 in the past, and he is the tiger of Beiping." Now with Yan, instead of the crowd, it is unstoppable, and there is Liu Bei, who has fought with Lu Bu for more than 100 rounds, and Zhang Fei and the two brothers are even more difficult to resist. Now there is Yuan Benchu, the fourth and third dukes, and once for the Dong coalition alliance leader, wisdom and bravery, the command of the famous generals is very wide, the general can ask him to govern the Jizhou military, then Yuan Benchu in order not to bad the name of the fourth and third dukes must be kind to the general, Gongsun Zan is not afraid of it. β
Han Fu believed it and immediately sent someone to invite Yuan Shao to enter Jizhou.
Han Fu let Yuan Shao into Jizhou, it can really be said that he led the wolf into the room, saying that it was the military of Tongzhi Jizhou, but the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, there were so many protΓ©gΓ©s and former officials, and even Han Fu himself was once elected by the Yuan family as an official, so Yuan Shao easily set up Han Fu and only named Han Fu as the general of Fenwei, but he replaced Han Fu as the pastor of Jizhou and forcibly captured Jizhou.
"The thief misunderstood me!" Han Fu was full of grief and anger, but he was helpless, Jizhou was the base camp of the Yuan family, there were too many Yuan protΓ©gΓ©s, and Yuan Shao's soldiers were many generals, Han Fu knew that he would never be able to regain the military and political power of Jizhou from Yuan Shao, and he couldn't help but be depressed.
In the end, he has been the pastor of Jizhou for a short time, and was one of the nineteen princes who crusaded against Dong Zhuo, and Han Fu also has some diehards, among which the two leaders are called Geng Wu and Guan Chun.
Geng Wu and Guan Chun were angry that Yuan Shao had seized Jizhou by such despicable means, and they refused Yuan Shao's solicitation of them, and secretly gathered the same hundred people to ambush Yuan Shao.
A few days later, while Yuan Shao was traveling, more than 100 people including Geng Wu and Guan Chun rushed out from the side of the road and killed Yuan Shao.
"Ann dares to hurt my father-in-law!" Yan Liang and Wen Chou will stand in front of Yuan Shao and meet Geng Wu, Guan Chun and others who rushed in.
Yan Liang, Wen Chou is a real fierce general, the force is even better than Cao Cao's Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, etc., just Geng Wu and Guan Chun, how can they be their opponents, only one face, Geng Wu was killed by Yan Liang, Guan Chun was also beheaded by Wen Chou, most of the more than 100 assassins were beheaded, and only a few people successfully escaped.
"Geng Wu, Guan Chun assassinated Yuan Shao, then Yuan Shao will definitely think that I instructed him, he will not let me go, my life is in danger." Han Fu heard that Geng Wu and Guan Chun had assassinated Yuan Shao, and his Jizhou had been taken by Yuan Shao, and he was afraid that Yuan Shao would use this as an excuse to kill him, so he panicked so much that he didn't even care about his family, and hurriedly fled from Jizhou on horseback, and went to Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, and Jizhou completely 'ced' to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao won Jizhou without spending a single soldier, he was happy, but Gongsun Zan was not happy.
With him, he poured Yan and replaced the soldiers to go south, and he had not even occupied a city or a county, but Yuan Shao relied on his soldiers to scare Han Fu, and directly deceived the entire Jizhou from Han Fu's hands, is he making wedding dresses for others?
Gongsun Chan was unwilling, sent someone to negotiate with Yuan Shao, and sent his younger brother Gongsun Yue to share Jizhou with Yuan Shao.
How could Yuan Shao divide Jizhou to Gongsun Zhan, facing Gongsun Yue, he only said perfunctorily: "If you want to divide Jizhou and let your brother come in person, I will discuss with him." β
Gongsun Yue couldn't, so he had to resign and go back to Yuan Shao to restore his life, but Yuan Shao, at the suggestion of the strategist, planted a killer on the way.
As soon as Gongsun Yue came out of Jizhou less than fifty miles, a team of soldiers and horses rushed out, besieged Gongsun Yue and his party, and said: "I am Prime Minister Dong Cheng's general, and I am here to take my life!" β
After speaking, the arrows were fired in unison, and Gongsun Yue was shot to death, but he let go of the other surviving entourage.
The entourage brought Gongsun Yue's corpse back to Gongsun Zhan, and when Gongsun Chan saw the corpse of his younger brother Gongsun Yue, he first cried bitterly, and then said angrily: "Yuan Shao Pifu, lure me to raise troops to attack Han Fu, but he used my soldiers to coerce Han Fu to deceive Jizhou, and now he deceives Dong Zhuo to shoot my younger brother in the name of Dong Zhuo, this revenge cannot be avenged!" β
Gongsun Zhan led his soldiers and horses to attack Jizhou, and the soldiers were extremely fierce.
Since Yuan Shao decided not to divide Jizhou with Gongsun Chan equally, and shot Gongsun Chan's younger brother Gongsun Yue, he was ready to meet Gongsun Chan, Gongsun Chan had just invaded Jizhou, Yuan Shao also led his troops to resist Gongsun Chan, and the two armies fought in the north of Jizhou.
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In Jiangdong, Sun Jian had a grudge with Liu Biao, and after leading more than 200 remnants of the army to flee back to Jiangdong, he reorganized his army and fought directly at Liu Biao's Jingzhou.
Nanyang, Yuan Shu is not willing to be lonely.
When he heard that his brother Yuan Shao had won Jizhou, he sent a messenger to congratulate him and asked Yuan Shao for a thousand war horses.
Yuan Shao just got Jizhou, and he had to deal with Gongsun Zhan, this time was the time when there was a shortage of war horses, how could he be willing to give Yuan Shu, and immediately refused.
Yuan Shu didn't get the war horse he wanted from Yuan Shao, he only felt that Yuan Shao's excuses were all perfunctory, the huge Jizhou, so rich, would he not even give him a thousand war horses? It must be that Yuan Shao doesn't pay attention to his brother at all, since this is the case, this brother doesn't do it.
Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao's brothers already had a gap, and after this incident, they almost turned against each other.
Yuan Shu wanted to 'borrow' grain from Liu Biao, so he immediately sent someone to ask Liu Biao to borrow 200,000 yuan of grain.
Jingzhou's land of fish and rice, although rich, but 200,000 Hu grain is enough for 70,000 or 80,000 troops to eat for a year, it is definitely not a small amount, and who knows if Yuan Shu will come back in the future, plus Liu Biao ambushed Sun Jian, so that Sun Jian fled back to Jiangdong, there is no doubt that as long as Sun Jian relaxes his breath, he will definitely raise troops to attack him, in this case, how can he borrow 200,000 Hu grain to Yuan Shu, don't even think about it!
Liu Biao refused.
Yuan Shu gritted his teeth, only feeling as if everyone in the world was sorry for him.
He imagined the jade seal in Sun Jian's hand, and he also wanted to take revenge on Yuan Shao for not giving the horse and Liu Biao for not borrowing grain, so Yuan Shu wrote to Sun Jian.
Yuan Shu informed Sun Jian that some time ago, Liu Biao sent troops to intercept and kill him, all of which were instructed by his brother Yuan Shao, and said that his brother Yuan Shao had formed an alliance with Liu Biao, and would send troops to attack Jiangdong in the near future, and he was willing to form an alliance with Sun Jian, and let Sun Jian strike first to be strong, and immediately raise troops to attack Liu Biao, and he would drag his brother Yuan Shao, and not let Yuan Shao look south, and in the future, Sun Jian would take Jingzhou, and he would take his brother Yuan Shao's Jizhou.
Sun Jian received Yuan Shu's letter and summoned his generals to discuss.
Cheng Pu read the letter and said: "Lord, when the princes were begging for Dong, it was Yuan Shu who did not send grain and grass, which led to the defeat of the lord and the loss of most of the troops. β
Sun Jian nodded, he also knew that Yuan Shu was not credible, but he said: "I am at odds with Liu Biao, and no matter how he Yuan Shu calculates, with or without his Yuan Shu's help, I will also crusade against Liu Biao." β
After saying that, Sun Jian stood up and ordered: "Generals, follow me to fight against Liu Biao." β
Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang and others will give up their hands to lead the way.
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