Puyang

When Yuan Xi waved his army south, Puyang was broken by Yuan Xi, and after Liu Xie led his army to kill, Yuan Xi left 50,000 people to guard Puyang, and he himself led the remaining 250,000 people to fight Liu Xie. The two sides confronted each other in the area of Baima, Tian Feng's deception failed, and Liu Xie's general planned to break the camp in one fell swoop, and then Tian Feng fled to Puyang under the escort of Zhang Nan.

Stealing chickens does not make rice, Tian Feng is very remorseful at this time. Knowing this, it is better to wait for Yuan Xi to bring reinforcements from Karasuma, and then fight to the death with the imperial court. It's just that there has never been a regret in this world about selling medicine, and it has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it. Rather than taking the time to get depressed, it would be more practical to think about how to face the current predicament.

Tian Feng sent Zhang Nan and Su You as soon as he arrived in Puyang. The Han army also attacked the camp at night, and under the chaos of the Yuan army, many people must have fled the battlefield and become stragglers. Zhang Nan and Su You's task was to bring these stragglers back to Puyang before the Han army captured them.

The matter is important, Zhang Nan didn't care about the fatigue all the way, and ordered Su You to move separately in the direction of the white horse, collecting the remnants of the defeated generals along the way, and when they returned to Puyang, more than 100,000 people had gathered in Puyang City.

Of the 300,000 Yuan troops, there are now only more than 100,000 left, and the rest are either captured by the Han army or secretly deserted. The Han army did not have the habit of mass slaughter, of course, this habit was only aimed at the Han people, if it was a foreign captive, then ask for more blessings. Therefore, Tian Feng believed that there were still a large number of defeated soldiers of Yuan's army still wandering outside the city. In order to prevent these defeated soldiers from absconding back to Hebei, Tian Feng ordered Su You, who had returned to the city, to lead a team of men and horses to Baimajin, trying to intercept the defeated soldiers there and reintegrate them into the ranks.

Su You took the order and left, and there were only four people left in the city: Tian Feng, Zhang Nan, Ma Yan, and Cen Bi. Tian Feng is the backbone of the other three, although Tian Feng's plan failed, it did not affect the trust of the three of them in Tian Feng. And Tian Feng also learned to be "honest" at this time, no longer thinking about a quick victory, and began to fight steadily, on the one hand, he ordered people to return Yuan Xi who was still in Hebei, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhang Nan and the three of them to strengthen the city defense and prepare to defend Puyang.

But what made Tian Feng feel a little puzzled was that although Liu Xie broke through the camp of the Yuan army, he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but instead stood still as if he was waiting for something, which made Tian Feng surprised. Eat a trench, grow a wisdom, just suffered a big loss in the hands of Liu Xie, for Liu Xie's every move, Tian Feng inevitably had to think about it. Although he didn't guess Liu Xie's intentions, Tian Feng was sure that this Liu Xie must be playing some ulterior motives.

"Ha Hu~" Liu Xie, who was watching the sand table in the camp, suddenly sneezed without warning, and Cao Zhang, who was on the side, hurriedly asked with concern when he saw this: "What's wrong with the saint?" Isn't it cold? ”

"Ziwen, can't you hope for me?" Liu Xie glanced at Cao Zhang. Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. This Cao Zhang, who is usually very arrogant, suddenly began to care about his body as if he had changed his temperament, and the reason was most likely related to the fact that he fell in love with a girl.

Men should get married, and women should get married. Cao Zhang is also old enough to think about his daughter-in-law, but the identity of the girl he looks at is a little ordinary. In ancient times, when Cao Zhang wanted to marry him, it was still a little difficult for Cao Zhang to marry him, first of all, the old feudal Cao Cao couldn't pass the pass.

In order to settle the old father, Cao Zhang, who was unwilling to wronged his sweetheart, hit Liu Xie's head with the idea. Cao Zhang is very smart, and knows that the only person in this world who can make Cao Cao bow his head is Liu Xie, and in order to let Liu Xie help, in addition to fighting bravely to kill the enemy during this time, he is also warm and caring for Liu Xie.

Liu Xie knows what this guy's purpose is, and he is also willing to be an adult. However, if the unruly Cao Zhang can bow his head and curry favor, Liu Xie is still willing to enjoy this kind of treatment for a while.

"Holy Lord, you've been watching the sand table for a few days, shouldn't we move, don't let Tian Feng in Puyang wait in a hurry." Cao Zhang asked as he changed the subject.

"Tian Feng is in a hurry, let him go in a hurry, anyway, I'm not in a hurry." Liu Xie said and set his eyes on the sand table again.

"Holy Lord, you better tell Ziwen and Tanzhi your thoughts, so as not to make the two of them anxious." Jia Xu on the side said to Liu Xie with a smile.

"If you want to say it, I don't need to spit that saliva."

"Mr. Jia, do you know what the Holy One thinks?" Guan Ping asked Jia Xudao.

"Huh...... After breaking the camp of the Yuan army before, you all want to take advantage of the victory to pursue, regain the lost territory in one go, and drive the Yuan army back to Hebei, right? ”

"Yes, is there something wrong with that?"

"That's right, if I didn't know something from Jiao Touch, I and the Holy Lord would have planned to do the same." Jia Xu smiled and nodded.

Seeing this, Guan Ping hurriedly asked, "...... What did Jiao Touch explain that made the saint and Mr. temporarily change their minds? ”

"Jiao Touch confessed that the reason why Yuan Xi was not in the army was not to flee in advance, but to return to Yecheng in advance to move troops."

"Moving troops? Just those old, weak, sick and disabled people in Hebei? Cao Zhang was a little disdainful when he heard this.

"Ziwen, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, your impulsive temperament, if you don't change this problem, you will be embarrassed." Liu Xie nodded to Cao Zhang when he heard this, and Cao Zhang bowed his head and was silent after hearing this. Jia Xu saw that Liu Xie had spoken about Cao Zhang, so he didn't give Cao Zhang another "real hammer", and continued to say to Guan Ping: "The soldiers and horses that Hebei can collect, I and the Holy Lord estimated before the war that there can be almost six or seven hundred thousand. Yuan Xi mobilized the army this time, and attacked in three ways, bringing 300,000 by himself, 150,000 in Zhang Jaw, and 50,000 in Zhu Ling, among which Zhu Ling had already asked Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to clean up all the way, and Lu Zhonglang was there in Zhang Jaw, and it was estimated that he would not be able to turn the sky. And our army broke through the camp of the Yuan army not long ago, and captured countless grains and grasses, although there were not many prisoners, but suffered this defeat, it is estimated that it is still difficult for Tian Feng to reunite those stragglers. ”

"But even if Yuan Xi collects 500,000 horses from Hebei, there are still 200,000 in Hebei."

"But these 200,000 are not the 200,000 that you imagine can be compared to the regular army of the Han army. Hebei is not a imperial court, and it has been recruiting soldiers according to the concept of the saint over the years. The conscription targets in Hebei were men ranging from 50 to 15, and most of these men were used to holding hoes instead of knives and guns before joining the army. The main force of the Yuan army can be said to be already on the battlefield at this time, as for the 200,000, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are farmers with weapons. ”

"If Mr. Zhao said so, then Yuan Ximo is not stupid, pinning his hopes for defeating our army on these people?"

Of course, Yuan Xi was not stupid, he was not counting on the 200,000 people scattered all over the place, but the Karasuma people who lived on the border of Youzhou. Karasuma King Badun has always been friendly with the Yuan family, and at this time, Yuan Xi has something to ask for, and Bandun will not refuse nine times out of ten. Over the years, relying on the support of the Yuan family, his strength has continued to expand, and now he has more than 100,000 people under his command. According to Jiao Fu's confession, Yuan Xi returned to Yecheng this time in order to persuade Badun to send troops in person. ”

For the nomads in the north, neither Cao Zhang nor Guan Ping had a contemptuous attitude. Although the wars between the Han and the Xiongnu and Xianbei have been victorious in recent years, those who have really fought against the northern nomads know that the barbarians living in the steppe are indeed more difficult to deal with than the Han opponents. The most troublesome thing is the mobility of the steppe barbarians, the people who live on horseback have no fixed residence, and with the continuous migration of the grasslands, it is the most troublesome to find the other party's station. And relying on the characteristics of war horses to come and go like the wind, the price to pay to clean up a large-scale cavalry cluster is also quite large.

Without practice, there is no voice! Cao Zhang and Guan Ping, who had fought with the grassland people, both understood that if Jia Xu's mouth mentioned Badun really participated in the war, it would indeed bring a lot of trouble to their side.

"Then the saint chose to stand still at this time just to wait for Yuan Xi to take the Karasuma people across the Yellow River?" Cao Zhang asked.

Ziwen guessed one of them, but he didn't guess all of them. Whether or not Bandon goes to war, the Karasuma people are a nuisance to be solved. It is impossible for Tonton to honestly obey the arrangements of the imperial court, so a battle with the Karasuma people is inevitable. The saint did not move at this time, firstly, he planned to wait for work, and secondly, he wanted to wait and see what happened and wait for the opportunity. ”

“…… What time is it, sir? Cao Zhang glanced at Guan Ping when he heard this, and then asked shamelessly.

"Of course, it's when Yuan Xi and Badun fell out and fought infighting."

"Is it possible?" Guan Ping was a little unconvinced.

"Huh...... At first, the old man also thought it was unlikely, but after listening to the Shengshang's analysis, he felt that it was indeed possible. If Yuan Xi's camp had not been broken by our army, then Yuan Xi, whose strength had not been greatly damaged, would still be able to suppress Bandun and make Badun dare not make a mistake. But now that Yuan Xi's 300,000 troops left in Yanzhou have lost nearly half, the deterrent to Bandun is small. Bun Dun is not a good man and a woman, and hundreds of thousands of Karasuma Iron Riders are the capital of his words. ”

"Sir, are you saying that Hebei is likely to have a big bullying situation in the future?" Guan Ping asked.

"Well, if Yuan Xi is strong and Yuan Xi is weak, how could the unruly Karasuma people be willing to obey Yuan Xi's orders. Once a conflict breaks out between the two sides, it will be out of control. Jia Xu said in a firm tone.

"But sir, what if Yuan Xi and Badun choose to temporarily forbear in order to fight us?" Cao Chang couldn't help but interject and asked.

"Then let's help them, not afraid of no good things, but afraid of no good people...... Ah, no, I mean to say, as long as there is a heart, there is no friendship that cannot be destroyed. Finding that Liu Xie was squinting at himself, Jia Xu hurriedly changed his statement.

Liu Xie glared at Jia Xu angrily, and said to Cao Zhang and Guan Ping: "That's the way it is, the Karasuma people of Badun have become a variable that determines the outcome of this war, so I decided to stay put, and let's see the situation first." And don't forget, the main battlefield of my Han is not here, but the grassland, once Zhang Liao and Xu Huang solve the Qianren, then it will be two more battles, and they will not be our opponents. ”

Hearing Liu Xie's intentions, Cao Zhang and Guan Ping were down-to-earth this time, and they no longer asked Liu Xie to fight, which made Liu Xie's ears a lot clearer. After the two were ordered to lead their troops out of the camp to clear out the defeated soldiers scattered by Yuan's army, Jia Xu asked Liu Xiedao: "Holy Lord, why don't you tell Ziwen and Tanzhi all your intentions?" ”

"Wenhe, are you confused? Ziwen and Tan Zhi are both military generals, and if they tell them too much, they are afraid that they will be restrained, so it is better to keep them in the dark. ”

The reason why Liu Xie chose to stand still and wait for Yuan Xi to come was only part of what he told Cao Zhang and Guan Ping, and part of the reason Liu Xie did not say, because it damaged Liu Xie's image as a clear gentleman.

Hebei has been divided by the Yuan family for many years, and if you want to talk about people's hearts, it is not on Liu Xie's side. The people of Hebei may envy their peers under Liu Xie's rule, but the vast majority of them will not have this idea of leaving their hometowns and fleeing Hebei. The homeland is difficult to leave, and Yuan Xi was not tyrannical during his reign, so the people of Hebei did not have a strong sense of belonging to the imperial court as the people in other places. If a regime wants to replace the original regime, the first thing to do is to make the regime that is to be replaced lose the support of the people.

But how? Verbal propaganda is far from enough, and Hebei, which has excellent officials such as Tian Feng and trial matching, is barely living. In this case, it is a good way to find a person responsible for bullying them for the people of Hebei. was bullied, and the regime that he originally supported ignored for some reasons, and if he was bullied, he would naturally deviate from morality, and at this time, Liu Xie jumped out to seek justice for the bullied, and this person's heart naturally won over.

For the sake of Hebei's stability in the future, Liu Xie needs to be insidious. And winning the hearts of the people is only one of them, and the second reason is that Liu Xie wants to kill people with a knife.

If the imperial court wants to recover Hebei, it means that it has to receive all of Hebei, in addition to the common people, there are also powerful families. But for those insatiable families, Liu Xie has always been disgusted. The Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty was not so much the fault of the imperial court as the excessive greed of the family for land.

The uncontrolled land annexation has cut off the livelihood of countless land-based people, and the left and right are dead, so why not give it a go. And Zhang Jiao responded to every call, the yellow turban spread to the eight states of the Han Dynasty, and there were more than a dozen states in the Han Dynasty, and more than half of the world rebelled at once, isn't it enough to arouse the vigilance of the family?

The Maison does not! On the contrary, taking advantage of the opportunity of clearing the yellow scarf, the major families either supported the spokesperson or went into battle shirtless, dividing a good man and dividing the heroes.

The general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. And the one who hides behind the storm is the family. Liu Xie is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, how can he not be vigilant against those big families.

Xun Yu, Zhong Xuan, Yang Biao and other representatives of the family are smart people, and they know that Liu Xie will not allow his family to be too powerful, so he insists on not being the first bird. But the families of Hebei have no such concerns, living under the rule of Yuan Xi, taking advantage of Yuan Xi's dependence on the family, the children of the Hebei family are full of Hebei officialdom and control the lifeblood of Hebei. And how could Liu Xie tolerate the existence of a big family under his rule that could threaten local stability, so splitting up the Hebei family was an inevitable thing.

But how could the Hebei family be willing to be "dismembered" by the imperial court. This is an irreconcilable contradiction, which can only be ended by the complete defeat of one side. And in order to reduce his troubles in the future, weakening the resistance of the Hebei family in advance was also put on the agenda by Liu Xie.

It's easy to bring hatred by doing it yourself, but if you don't do it yourself, then hatred will naturally not come to your door. At present, Hebei is still in charge of Yuan Xi, and Yuan Xi holds the power of life and death of all living beings in Hebei. And Liu Xieda's idea is to use Yuan Xi to remove obstacles for his future.

Although Yuan Xi is not Liu Xie's younger brother, he will not follow Liu Xie's orders. But now that the court is powerful, Liu Xie doesn't believe that when his army is pressing, those big families who are used to being wall grass will not send people to take the initiative to contact him. As long as he "inadvertently" leaked some information to Yuan Xi to know, I believe Yuan Xi would be happy to do the matter of "cleaning up the portal".

This kind of thinking really damages Liu Xie's image of being lenient to others. If the family knew that Liu Xie's methods were so insidious, maybe there would be some kind of chaos.

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Nanpi

Yuan Xi sat in his seat and was stunned, holding the letter sent by Tian Feng in his hand. After leaving for a while, Tian Feng, who had high hopes for himself, caused such a big mess for himself, which was really a big blow. Gao Ran and Jiao Touch were captured, and the 250,000 army was defeated, although after the war, Tian Feng ordered people to collect the defeated soldiers, but the conservative estimate of the loss of men and horses was also around 100,000, and what made Yuan Xi feel worried was the morale of the army.

Originally, the army was unsure about whether it could defeat the imperial court, but after this defeat, this argument was confirmed, and it was not easy to boost morale and fight with the imperial court.

"My lord, I don't want to see you." A report came from outside the door, which woke up Yuan Xi, who was in deep thought, and Yuan Xi immediately put the letter in his hand into his arms, and then got up to greet him.

"Hahaha...... Yuan Yuanjun is polite. With a bearded face, he laughed and greeted Yuan Xi.

"It's polite, I don't know what you're here for today?" Yuan Xi also asked with a smile on his face.

"There is nothing else, just to tell Yuan Yuanjun that my army has been assembled, and I can set off at any time to teach the great man who doesn't know how to divide the peace."

Hearing Badun's words, Yuan Xi felt a little relieved, nodded slightly and squatted at him: "Tun Shan Yu has a heart, since Bun Dun Shan Yu has been prepared, then you can set off at any time." ”

"Okay, then let's set it for three days later, it's a good day to send troops." Bun Dun said cheerfully.

"Okay, in a word."

After sending away Badun, Yuan Xi returned to the room, and his original smiling face became gloomy again, it turned out that Badun came back to inform him that he could send troops to help, and also took the opportunity to ask for payment. It was a natural thing to ask someone to help pay the payment, but Yuan Xi was very unhappy about the temporary price increase. It's just that there is a request for someone right now, and Yuan Xi can only swallow his anger and agree, but this does not mean that Yuan Xi intends to endure this breath. It will be a long time to come, and when the crisis in Hebei is resolved, it is not too late to settle accounts with the people.