826, Yuan Shao's conceit
In Yuan Shao's view, many of the methods that Zhu Wei came up with before also showed Zhu Wei's jealousy of Yuan Shao.
Therefore, what Yuan Shao has to do now is to settle the outside first, first eliminate the harassing troops of Zhu Wei's army who entered his hinterland, and then go south to fight another decisive battle with Zhu Wei.
At the same time, in order to prevent Zhu Wei's army from continuing to harass Yecheng, Yuan Shao first rearranged a heavy defensive line south of Yecheng, and then mobilized his army to kill Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao's Tiger Wing Battalion cavalry and Cai Mao's army.
It can be said that Yuan Shao's current military arrangements were formulated under the premise that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao would work hard.
However, in this process, the frustration was basically idle, and Yuan Shao's military power was mainly placed in the hands of Feng Ji, Xu You, Xian Pei and others, and then Han Meng, He Mao, Wang Mo, Lü Kuang, Lü Xiang, Jiang Yiqu, Zhang Jie, Ma Yan, Wang Men, Su You, Zhaozhao, Jiao Touch, Meng Dai, Han Ding and other generals were assigned to various armies.
It wasn't until this time that he felt that the taste was wrong, how could he actually become an outsider at such a time.
However, he is also a person who is familiar with Yuan Shao's temperament, he knows that he has been excluded from Yuan Shao's core, even if he looks for Yuan Shao to explain something, he is afraid that Yuan Shao will not pay attention to him.
If it's wrong, maybe he and Tian Feng will end up together.
Therefore, he simply let it go, anyway, he originally assisted Yuan Shao, and he also felt that Yuan Shao had the heritage of being respected by the world, so he chose to be on Yuan Shao's side.
And Yuan Shao did attach great importance to Frustration before, and treated Frustration as a confidant, so that Frustration felt valued, and after the Battle of Guandu in the original history, Frustration was captured by Cao Cao, but instead of surrendering to Cao Cao, he privately tried to escape.
It was also because at that time that although Yuan Shao suffered some losses in the battle of Guandu, he had not completely lost his confidence, so Yuan Shao still had the strength to make a comeback, so as long as he could escape back to Yuan Shao's side, he would naturally be able to assist Yuan Shao to fight with Cao Cao again.
Therefore, at that time, Fu Zhu still had confidence in Yuan Shao, and out of the belief in loyalty, he did not betray Yuan Shao, of course, part of the reason was that Fu Xiang's family was in Hebei, if he surrendered to Cao Cao, I was afraid that Yuan Shao would not easily let go of his family.
However, now the situation is completely different, in terms of the general trend of the world, Yuan Shao has fallen behind, and Zhu Wei's rise is almost irresistible.
In addition, now that Yuan Shao treats himself like this, he is naturally cold-hearted, and he has lost his enthusiasm for Yuan Shao's assistance, and people don't trust him anymore, so why bother to stick a cold ass with a hot face!
As a result, the strongest strategist around Yuan Shao was frustrated, and he was actually left idle by Yuan Shao at such a critical moment, which really means cutting off his arm.
At this time, Zhu Wei didn't know about this matter, otherwise he would definitely smile from ear to ear, feeling that he really had the support of destiny.
Of course, this was still before Yuan Shao didn't know about the battle situation on Puyang City's side, and as a result, when Yuan Shao dispatched troops to do a good job in the southern defense, and just wanted to transfer troops to kill Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao's cavalry, the results of the battle on Puyang City's side spread to Yuan Shao's side.
When Yuan Shao learned that Zhu Wei used fire to burn Puyang, forcing Cao Cao's nearly 100,000 troops to surrender easily, and Cao Cao was also killed by 10,000 arrows, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
The development of such a battle situation was completely beyond Yuan Shao's expectations, and the originally said to resist to the death would make Cao Cao and Zhu Wei both defeated?
Now Zhu Wei seems to have easily swallowed Cao Cao's army, and then he can already go north with the momentum of a great victory, thinking of all this, Yuan Shao felt a fishy sweetness in his chest and abdomen, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out.
At this time, Yuan Shaocai really felt the terrible situation predicted by Tian Feng, and now he has really become a dry bone in the grave, and it is enough to bury him in the grave when Zhu Wei goes north.
At this time, Yuan Shao also felt the mood of Gongsun Zhan, who had been forced into a dead end by him, no wonder Gongsun Chan would finally make such a means in Yijing, it seemed that he had constructed layers of defensive fortresses, but when he looked at it again, Gongsun Chan was actually creating a cemetery for himself.
Yuan Shao, who figured out everything at once and lost his mind all of a sudden, fell ill at such a critical moment, and he couldn't afford to get sick, he was simply terminally ill.
At the same time, Yuan Shao's original strategy naturally lost its meaning completely, and now Zhu Wei's army could go north at any time, and it was impossible for Yuan Shao's army to leave Yecheng to encircle and suppress Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao's cavalry wandering in Yizhou.
However, Yuan Shao was ill and could not be a director, and now the three people who are relatively in power, Feng Ji, Xian Pei, and Xu You, naturally began to consider practical problems.
They all rely on Yuan Shao to control their current power, once Yuan Shao falls, then it is meaningless that they have done so many means before, so at this time, they finally began to wholeheartedly consider the problem of dealing with Zhu Wei's possible attack at any time.
At the first time, Feng Ji and the trial duo used means to encourage Yuan Shang to temporarily control the military and political power on behalf of Yuan Shao, so that even if Yuan Shao was seriously ill and could not be a director, at least Yuan Shang could stabilize the army's morale in the name of the young master.
In fact, the most suitable candidate should be Yuan Tan, after all, Yuan Tan is the eldest son, but Yuan Shao was originally ambiguous about Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, and he did not have a clear intention of letting Yuan Tan succeed him for a while.
They took into account Yuan Shao's original love for Yuan Shang, relatively speaking, they also had a move to favor Yuan Shang's side, but with the private competition between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, they completely fell to Yuan Shang's side, and naturally they would fully support Yuan Shang to take over Yuan Shao's position.
And now in such a time period, Yuan Tan is far away in Qingzhou, and he can't do anything in time at all, in addition, Yuan Tan has just experienced the defeat of Taishan County, Xuzhou, so naturally his reputation has fallen, so he can give Yuan Shang a chance.
Yuan Shang was by Yuan Shao's side, so under the arrangement of discipline and trial, when Yuan Shao was seriously ill, Yuan Shang deliberately served Yuan Shao's couch very eagerly.
In this way, under the persuasion of Feng Ji and Trial, Yuan Shao considered his physical problems and Zhu Wei's threat, so he agreed to let Yuan Shang be the regent temporarily.
In Yuan Shao's opinion, this is just because he is sick and temporarily experiences his son Yuan Shang, but for others, it has a completely different meaning, and Yuan Shang suddenly seems to have been confirmed by Yuan Shao as the heir.
Later, after Zhu Weijun, who was led by Huang Zhong, invaded Qingzhou and Yuan Tan withdrew from Qingzhou to Yizhou, he heard the news, and he couldn't help but be angry.
Yuan Tan is also a smart person, and he knows that he can't fight for anything when he returns to Yecheng at this time, so he didn't return to Yecheng at all after he was evacuated from Qingzhou, but went directly to Youzhou to find his second brother Yuan Xi.
Then Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi recruited soldiers and horses in Youzhou, and contacted the Wuhuan people and Xianbei people, intending to solve the Fubo camp of Ma Teng's department where Zhu Wei's army entered Youzhou first.
Of course, Yuan Tan also had the idea of pulling up a team in his heart and returning to Yecheng and Yuan Shang to seize power after Yuan Shao's death......