Shouchun, Yuan Shu drank and had fun in his palace, and the dancers in the palace had soft waists and dances, and they were singing and dancing.

At this moment, I saw a civilian official under his command come forward and report, "Your Majesty, according to the front-line battle report, Pei Qing is now in Xuzhou, and Cao Cao is facing each other, and there are dozens of large and small battles, although the casualties are unknown, but it seems that the big war between them has begun, and there is no time to take care of us." ”

Yuan Shu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Oh, haha, now I am completely relieved, Pei Qingxiao'er relies on his own soldiers and generals, and provokes right and wrong everywhere, like a mad dog biting everywhere, Cao Cao's old thief has always formed an alliance with the slave of my family, and he is against me, and now the dog eats the dog between them, and when the time comes, we will reap the benefits of the fisherman, which is what I am most happy to see." ”

Then Yuan Shu loudly announced the good news, now that the threat from Pei Qing has been lifted, Yuan Shu is naturally more assured of pleasure, but at this time he remembered Sun Ce's matter again, and suddenly said with a displeased face, "A big war broke out between Pei Qing Xiao'er and Cao Pu, and their strength between each other will definitely be greatly damaged, which is also destined to take me to occupy Yu Yanqing and Xu Sizhou in a short time, and then enter Luoyang, advance into Guanzhong, and it is not difficult to level the two thieves, in this case, Sun Ce Xiao'er did not surrender, It's really hateful, I plan to raise troops to conscript, I don't know what the ministers think"

But seeing the long history Yang Hong said, "This matter must not be, my lord, although the battle between Pei Qing and Cao Cao will definitely lose their troops, but once our army crosses the river to conquer Sun Ce, the soldiers will not be able to rest, at that time, even if Cao Cao and Pei Qing are both defeated, we do not have the strength to clean them up in time, so for the sake of today, it is best for us to stay put, and wait for the situation to change and then respond."

And at this moment, I saw the general Qiao Rui enter the palace, and said with an anxious face, "Your Majesty, the ministers have received the news that Yuan Shao of Jizhou ordered an attack on Cao Cao, and the alliance between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao was broken. ”

"What's so good haha, now even the house slaves are involved together, and the three of them fight to the death, which is what I am happy to see." After hearing this, Yuan Shu became even more proud, and said to Yang Hong: "Now you don't have to worry, we don't have the strength to clean them up in time, the three of them are very happy, and we have more time to clean up Sun Ce'er." ”

"But in this way, Cao Cao's forces will be scattered, and it will be more difficult to balance Pei Qing, once Pei Qing leads the army to launch a surprise attack on us, how can we resist so the lower officials ask the lord not to go to Sun Ce again, it is best to lead the army to defend Huainan"

"Haha, Yang Aiqing, you are too worried, Cao Cao's root is attacked, he will definitely lead the army to help, in this case, Pei Qing will naturally take the lead in choosing to occupy Xuzhou, he wants to occupy Xuzhou, but also defend Cao Cao's attack, which will involve how much strength he has, he can't even want Xuzhou, but come to attack me Huainan"

Yuan Shu didn't care about Yang Hong's worries at all, which only strengthened his determination to crusade against Sun Ce, so he ordered Liu Xun, the Taishou of Lujiang, to be the general of Hengjiang, and Mei Cheng, Lei Xu, Mei Qian and others as deputy generals, leading an army of 50,000 to attack Qu'a.

Yang Hong saw that Sun Ce insisted on this, and immediately sighed, "Pei Qing's movements are unknown, Chen Deng is still in Guangling, and his movements are unknown, once he surrenders to Pei Qing, it will pose a greater threat to our army." ”

Yuan Shu immediately smiled when he heard this, "What you said reminded me, the last time because of Zhang Min's rebellion, the attack on Guangling failed, which made Chen Dengxiaoer pick up a ready-made bargain, but he really thought that our army couldn't do anything with him."

Subsequently, Yuan Shu ordered Zhang Xun to be the main general, Qiao Rui, Li Feng, and Lei Bo as deputy generals, and led an army of 30,000 to attack Guangling.

Yang Hong immediately smiled even more bitterly when he heard this, he originally suspected that the garrison strength was insufficient, but now Yuan Shu actually sent troops to attack Guangling, the result of this could only speed up Chen Deng's fall to Pei Qing, and at the same time further disperse his own forces, if Pei Qing launched an attack at this time, I am afraid that even the immortals would not be able to defend Huainan

Yuan Shu ignored Yang Hong's worries at all, and insisted on sending his subordinates to conquer, in fact, Yuan Shu could not be blamed for the expansion, because he still had more than 30,000 troops in Huainan, and he believed that once Pei Qing fought to the death with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, he would be able to occupy Yuzhou and Xuzhou with these 30,000 troops alone.

"Now Cao Pu, the house slave and Pei Qing Xiao'er are fighting happily in the Central Plains, but I am here to watch from the wall, drinking and having fun, it is really a joy in life, after the fight between them, I will sit and reap the fisherman's profits, this is the joy of life, with Pei Qing'er's words, what is it called, this is called making wedding clothes for others and marrying others, I have to say, this child's sentence is too apt to describe."

Yuan Shu was very proud in his heart, and ordered the ministers not to leave, and then set up a banquet and conspired with the ministers to get drunk.

After that, Yuan Shu drank and had fun every day, drunk and dreamed of death, and the strategist Yang Hong dissuaded him many times, but he didn't care at all, and still had his sweet dreams.

However, just when he was drunk and dying, Pei Qing had already personally led the army into Huainan territory, and along the way, Pei Qing's 20,000 army was like a bamboo, and it was very easy to break through the defense line deployed by Yuan Shu in Zhongli County, killing more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 5,000 soldiers of Yuan Shu's department, and capturing more than 5,000 people.

Then Pei Qing's army went directly on the road without any rest at all, and arrived at the city of Yinling in only half a day, this Yinling City was originally the county of Jiujiang County, although now Jiujiang County no longer exists, it has become Huainan Yin, and Shouchun naturally became the seat of Huainan Yin, but the defense of Yinling is still more attentive, mainly because Yuan Shu's former chief Shi Yanxiang was worried that he would be attacked by Pei Qing's army after being relegated here, so an extremely strong defense was built here, And Yan Xiang is frantically recruiting soldiers in the city, and now there are nearly 20,000 soldiers in a small county town, and most of the soldiers are caused by Yan Xiang forcing the local people to enlist, which leads to almost all the men in the entire Yinling County being conscripted into the army.

"Immediately go to the city to defend, and, immediately report to the lord and ask the lord for help" Yan Xiang immediately ordered the army to go to the city to meet the battle after discovering the arrival of the enemy army, and at the same time flew to report to Yuan Shu, because even he didn't expect that Pei Qing's army was coming too fast, his defense work had not yet been completed, and the training of the sergeant had just begun, and it was simply a fool's dream to block Pei Qing with his current strength.