With such a big movement in Youzhou, how could it hide from Yuan Shao and Yuan's original ears? When Yuan Shao got the news, he couldn't help laughing: "As the so-called heroes see the same, I was about to beat you, but you sent it to the door, which saves me the trouble of attacking your Jiancheng, so let you run your head in front of my Jiancheng." ”

Yuan Shao has long been eyeing Youzhou, and at the same time, attacking Youzhou is also a method he has to do, the main reason is the loss of population, which has made him unbearable.

Yuan Shao led the land of three and a half states, but he did not have a good neighbor, his neighbor, that half of Youzhou, the wealth and peace are simply outrageous, and the territory of Yuan Shao, which surrounds this rich land, is relatively poor and poor, as the so-called people go to high places, water flows to low places, and the people under Yuan Shao's rule began to flow naturally to Lu Peng's place.

In this way, the population of the people under Yuan Shao's rule decreased sharply, and without the population, nothing could be done, and it was a person who understood this truth.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao adopted the method of strict defense to prevent the flow of people to Youzhou, but the border between the two sides was long, and it was really impossible to prevent it.

And the gang of guys under Lu Peng, not only did not stop the inflow of displaced people like other states and counties, and did clever things to beggar-thy-neighbor, but opened the door of convenience, and later came directly to dig the foot of the wall, and simply set up porridge shacks in the border areas on both sides, as soon as they stepped out of their boundaries, there was immediately a hot meal waiting for these displaced people.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao was extremely pleased, because of the decrease in the number of displaced people, his area began to become peaceful, after all, without the displaced people, there would be no troubles and poles, but later found that things were wrong, the land began to be uncultivated, taxes were difficult to collect, and the chickens and dogs barked for hundreds of miles were stable, but there was no output, and more importantly, those wealthy gentry who supported themselves also began to complain to him, there were no tenants, so what income was there? So what else to use to support Yuan Shao?

So, under the more severe oppression, he sent officials to negotiate with them, but the officials in Youzhou used various excuses to shirk the obstruction. But at that time, he was fighting Gongsun Zhan to the death.

ended the war with Gongsun Zhan, stabilized the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction, and then prepared for Lu Peng to fight and die in the grassland, and then to make a move on Youzhou, but at this time, his blind brother Yuan Shu dragged him back, so Yuan Shao had to unite with Cao Cao and squeeze Yuan Shu to Huainan, and this battle took several months.

After forcing Yuan Shu away, Cao Cao went south to attack Taoqian in Xuzhou, and Yuan Shao returned to his base in Yizhou, and began to prepare for an attack on the remaining half of Youzhou.

Taking the remaining half of Youzhou, not only has a huge amount of money and grain income, but most importantly, there are millions of people's household registration, all of which will enhance their strength and realize their ultimate dreams.

For Lu Peng, who suddenly appeared as a descendant of some immortals, Yuan Shao looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, he was not from a family of eunuchs, and he had no family background, but he got to this point with some luck, how could he compare with his life experience of the fourth world and the third duke?

As long as he shouted softly, what he followed to crusade against Lu Peng was the amount of car fighting, destroying Lu Peng and robbing him of his foundation, but it was just a matter of a blink of an eye, Huangkou Xiaoer, what kind of threat is it worth?

With such a psychological advantage, Yuan Shao had long wanted to start a war against Lu Peng, take the rich and outrageous Youzhou into his pocket, and prepare for his own attempt to dominate the Central Plains in the future.

Of course, the preparation for a war is definitely not achieved with a wave, coupled with the old officials under Yuan Shao, all of them are mediocre and incompetent, and they are absolutely slow-paced in doing things, and the procrastination makes the preparation for war even slower, and as a result, I watched Lu Peng completely kill the Wuhuan people, relieve his worries, and return to Youzhou with a large amount of money, grain, cattle and sheep, and missed the excellent opportunity for Youzhou to have no owner.

But a good opportunity still came, Lu Peng came back, in Yuan Shao's eyes, he was not self-sufficient, contrary to the convention, in just three months of recovery, he began to prepare to use troops against himself, it is not bad between gains and losses, he can rely on the advantage of defense, consume part of Lu Peng's troops, and then seize the opportunity, when he is weak, play a defensive counterattack, maybe a battle can solve the entire Youzhou.

"Where is Lu Peng's attack direction this time? In other words, where should we be to give Lu Peng's kid a head start? Yuan Shao convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures, his demeanor was relaxed, and he was full of confidence.

Yuan Shao's first strategist stood up and replied: "Based on my observation, Lu Peng's dispatch of troops this time will inevitably take Fanyang County directly, Fanyang is under the nose of Youzhou, which is conducive to the movement of the army, then the logistics and transportation can also be safeguarded, and after taking Fanyang, we can directly threaten our Yizhou roots." ”

This is a common-sense thing, and it doesn't need to be explained in detail.

But at this time, a fierce general stood up under the lobby and retorted loudly: "What Mr. said is wrong, according to General Mo's encounter, Lu Peng will definitely not attack our Fan Yang first when he sends troops this time, and he will definitely directly attack Zhuojun." ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar, because this judgment was absolutely out of common sense, and no matter how stupid Lu Peng was, he would not be willing to seek the near and far, causing the safety of his logistics supply line to be disregarded, which was against the taboo of the soldiers.

Yuan Shao looked up, but it was his beloved general Zhang He. At that time, he smiled and asked kindly, "What is the opinion of 儁乂 (Zhang He's character)?" ”

Zhang He confidently analyzed to Yuan Shao: "Lu Peng has just pacified Wuhuan, although he has relieved his worries and seized countless money, grain, cattle and sheep, but his basic soldiers have suffered heavy losses, so the purpose of his attack this time is definitely not our Yizhou, and he does not have such a big appetite, but just to restore the four counties of Youzhou that we occupied, that is to say, Lu Peng may be going to fight a limited war, and the reality of his Youzhou pasture is complete, so I think he will definitely not fight Fan Yang directly, and our Yizhou headquarters in direct confrontation. ”

Yuan Shao couldn't help but nod slightly, this analysis is very reasonable, in Yuan Shao's heart, Lu Peng and himself directly confronted each other, he didn't have that capital and qualifications yet. Of course, he shouldn't have the guts.

"Since Lu Peng just wants to take back the four counties of Youzhou, then he must first attack Zhuo County, cut off the connection between the two northern counties and us, let our two counties hang alone, and then carry out various breakthroughs, without the three counties threatening his back, attack Fanyang County with all his might, and try to avoid confrontation with our main force."

At this time, Feng Ji, who had always been in opposition to the matching, stood up and supported Zhang He: "What General Zhang said is that if Lu Peng directly attacks Fanyang County, then the south will have to face our own army, and in the north of Fanyang, there will be the threat and oppression of our three counties, and there will be a dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the abdomen, and a fool can't do this." Then he smiled and asked the judge: "Is Lu Peng a fool?" The implication of those words is that since Lu Peng is not a fool, then you are not smart in judging the match.

So another group of Wenchen stood up, either to support the trial, or to support Fengji, here it is obvious that they are divided into two factions, but they left Zhang He aside, after all, the military generals are inferior to Wenchen in terms of playing lipsticks.

One faction is the old ministers under Yuan Shao, and the other faction is dominated by the civil and military forces who surrendered to Han Fu in Yizhou.

Yuan Shao was originally an indecisive person, listening to what was said here, it made sense, thinking about it, it was even better, so there was a quarrel in the lobby for a day, and there was no result, in the end, Yuan Shao lined up the banquet, everyone began to drink happily, and no longer talked about business during the banquet, but the poetry and songs were full of heaven, and the feeling of peace was simply enviable.

When Zhang He saw it, he couldn't help but sigh, confessed, said goodbye to Yuan Shao, and strode away directly.

After a banquet, everyone went back to their respective homes to find their mothers, leaving the urgent war behind.

It's no wonder that everyone is so relaxed, because this era is like this, everything is so slow and procrastinating, there is time, let's discuss it slowly.

Five days of quarrel and quarrel have passed, and the banquet is incomparably rich, but the matter is still inconclusive, and the two factions have produced obvious opposition in this matter.

And on this day, when everyone was arguing and preparing dinner, the emergency messenger of Zhuo County rushed into the lobby and set the tone for everyone's ridiculous meeting - Lu Peng, with an army of 30,000, was already under the city of Zhuo County, and the defenseless defenders of Zhuo County were already in danger.

The matter has become clear, and there is no need to argue any further, Yuan Shao, the old minister represented by the trial, lost to Zhang Hefengji, represented by the original Yizhou.

Since Lu Peng had already attacked Zhuo County, Zhuo County's troops were empty and needed rescue, so everyone once again began to argue about who would go to the rescue.

This time it was not a prevarication, but a rush to volunteer. Because in everyone's hearts, Lu Peng is just a small warlord, with no more than 30,000 soldiers, and he will definitely be helpless in the face of Zhuojun Jiancheng.

In the end, Yuan Shao still decided to hand over this military merit to his old foundation, with his eldest son Yuan Shang as the commander, the strategist Guo Tuwei to join the army, and Zhang Nan to be the left and right, sending 50,000 troops, ready to come inside and outside should be combined with the inside and outside, and the battle will be decided.

Yuan Shang hated Lu Peng to the core, it was this thing, robbed his daughter-in-law, the so-called hatred of killing his father, the hatred of taking his wife is not the same as the sky, this time he finally has the opportunity to fight against Lu Peng, he must be killed to relieve the hatred in his heart.

With the eldest prince in a hurry, the preparation for the war naturally increased the speed, but in the 10th, the 50,000 army, known as 100,000, was ready to go, and then after the oath and the flag, began to go to relieve the siege of Zhuo County.