As early as before Yuan Shao sent troops, he ordered Chen Lin, a great writer under his command, to write a "Book of Seeking Su Thieves", copied hundreds of thousands of copies, and sent detailed works to be widely distributed in the Central Plains states.

In this inscription, Yuan Shaoli counted Su Zhe's "ten major crimes", what cruelty to the world, bullying celebrities, holding the world hostage, and defiling the palace......

Yuan Shao hoped that with these inscriptions, coupled with his reputation as the fourth and third dukes, and the military might of 200,000 troops, it would be enough to cause the Central Plains states to fall into panic, and the people of the states turned their backs on Su Zhe and turned to him.

At that time, the people in Su Zhe's ruling area were in turmoil, and rebellions broke out everywhere, but he was afraid that before his army could go south, it would be defeated without a fight.

Surrendering without a fight, this is Yuan Shao's wishful thinking.

It was already night, and the Yuan army was in camp.

In the Chinese military tent, Yuan Shaogao sat on it, drinking a little wine, listening to the strategists reading the secret letters sent by the clans from all over the world.

Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and the powerful people of the world, although they were washed by Su Zhe and suffered heavy losses, they still have strength in the end.

When Su Zhe was in the limelight, these people naturally didn't dare to show their dissatisfaction, so they could only honestly be people with their tails between their legs, but they were actually dissatisfied.

Yuan Shao, the spokesperson of this clan, is now waving his army to the south, in the eyes of these Central Plains clans, it seems like a savior has come, which naturally makes them full of hope, thinking that the "dark" days are finally coming to an end and the light is coming.

These clans believed that Yuan Shao would win, so they sent secret letters one after another, expressing their allegiance, hoping that Yuan Shao could destroy Su Zhe as soon as possible and save them from fire and water.

Yuan Shao listened to these letters of allegiance, and his old face did not hide his smugness.

"The lord is really the lord of the mandate of heaven, I didn't expect so many heroes in the Central Plains, looking forward to the lord saving the people from the upside down, it seems that the people in Su Zhe are already in chaos, and the day the lord's army crosses the river is the day when the hearts of the Su thieves collapse, and they will not fight and chaos."

Feng Ji was the first to stand up and compliment Yuan Shao very much.

Yuan Shao stroked his white beard, and his smile made him even more confident.

At this time, he said: "My lord, those famous people in the Central Plains are just people who see the wind and rudder, they just see the lord's momentum, so they express their allegiance, but in fact, they may not really be willing to respond." Even if they want to respond, they will only act when the lord has broken the Su thieves and the victory or defeat is clear, so we can't expect too many of them in this battle, and we have to rely on ourselves to win is the best policy. ”

The frustrated truth-telling made Yuan Shao feel unhappy when he heard it, and he couldn't help frowning slightly.

Fu Zhu didn't look at what he said, and continued: "The advantage of multiple armies is that there are many soldiers, so I think that the lord should lead the main force south from the front, attract the main force of the Su thieves to block, and at the same time divide the troops to attack from the flank, and directly copy Xu Du. ”

The word division of troops made Yuan Shao's eyes move, and he seemed to be moved.

As soon as Yuan Tan saw this situation, he immediately glanced at Feng Ji Guotu and others.

You must know that Fu Zhu is a person from Yuan Shang's faction, if his plan is successful and he makes great contributions, it is equivalent to adding glory to Yuan Shang, which they never want to see.

Guo Tu comprehended, his eyes rolled, and he immediately said: "The prince is not the same as this, the lord of the 200,000 foot cavalry army went south, and he should have an absolute advantage and crushed the Su thief head-on, so as to show the lord's heavenly might. ”

As soon as these words came out, Yuan Shao's expression really became arrogant again.

Thinking about how noble his background is, he was originally a proud and conceited person, but now that he has destroyed Gongsun Zan and unified Hebei, he is even more arrogant and conceited to the extreme.

Guo Tu has long understood Yuan Shao's conceit, and such a sycophant like "Tianwei" is shooting Yuan Shao's heart.

Yuan Shao snorted coldly, and said proudly: "What Guo Tu said is extremely true, the division of troops is plagiarism, conspiracy and trickery, that is a means used by the weak, my 200,000 heavenly soldiers are driven south, who can stop it, I just want to use Yang Mou to crush the Su thief, so that he can only be forced to a dead end by me, but he is helpless!" ”

Yuan Shao's words have been released, what else can he do, he can only shut up.

So Yuan Shao continued to march south unhurriedly, waiting for the Central Plains clan to sound and Su Zhe was defeated without a fight.

……

Chen Liucheng north, the Soviet army camp.

Yuan Shao was not in a hurry to enter the army, and Su Zhe was naturally not in a hurry to rush to the Yellow River defense line, he wanted to use troops against Yuan Shao's rhythm.

Since the army left Xudu, he also swallowed it slowly all the way, and it took three days to arrive at Chen Liucheng.

After the camp was completed, Su Zhe summoned Pang Tong and Man Chong to the tent to discuss the military discussion.

"My lord, recently, the Taishou of Runan, Taishan, Jibei and other counties have been sending back news, saying that the local clans are ready to move, and rumors are spreading everywhere that Yuan Shao's army is approaching and our army will be defeated, which seriously shakes the morale of the people."

The urgent report in his hand was read to Su Zhe one by one.

After hearing this, Su Zhe snorted coldly: "These gang of powerful people of the clan, they regard Yuan Shao as a savior, it seems that they are not enough to kill me." ”

Full of pets showed murderous intentions, and arched his hand: "My lord, these people must have secretly communicated with Yuan Shao, disturbing people's hearts at a critical moment, and they must be punished according to law." ”

Pang Tong persuaded: "Although these clans should be killed, but if they do it now, it will inevitably provoke their resistance, and when the time comes, the counties will be in turmoil, and we will divide our troops to quell the rebellion, not to mention, but also affect the morale of the army, but fall into Yuan Shao's hands." ”

Su Zhe nodded slightly: "What Tong'er said is extremely true, now you have to endure it, deal with those clans, and then settle accounts with them after this battle." ”

Man Zhong said: "But if we don't do anything and let them go like this, I'm afraid that people's hearts everywhere will become more and more unstable." ”

Su Zhe stood up and paced in the tent, thinking about countermeasures.

After a while, his eyes moved, the corners of his mouth raised a sneer, and he said disapplaudedly: "The big clans in various places have long been wiped out by me, and the remaining clans, with their own strength, can not cause trouble, only by inciting the local people can they have a chance to respond to Yuan Shao, so as long as we can appease the people, no matter how fierce they are, they are just clowns." ”

Pang Tong nodded and said: "What the prime minister said is extremely true, I don't know how the prime minister plans to appease the people." ”

"The people take food as the sky, of course, they start from the top." Su Zhe replied simply.

Eat?

Pang Tong and Man Chong glanced at each other, and the two failed to comprehend for a while.

Su Zhe said: "Pass the order to reduce the grain tax by half for the households in each county, and all these reduced shortfalls will be apportioned to me on the families and heroes in various places, and they will bear them." ”