Chapter 228 [Yuan Highway Returns to the West!] 】
In Huainan, 100,000 Yuan troops waved their flags, gongs and drums were noisy, mighty and mighty, and they came to kill Huaishui. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Yuan Shu originally wanted to make a surprise attack on Xudu, at least to take down the Chen State near Xudu.
It turned out that in history, Yuan Shu saw that Chen Guo was rich in grain under the governance of Prime Minister Luo Jun, so he sent people to Chen State to borrow grain from Luo Jun. However, Luo Jun ate the money of Liu Han's court, and Yuan Shu's attempt to claim that the emperor was an enemy of Liu Han, how could Liu Han's courtiers use Liu Han's grain to fund Liu Han's enemies to eliminate Liu Han, so Luo Jun rejected Yuan Shu's envoy's request to borrow grain.
Yuan Shu couldn't borrow food, so he was angry and sent Zhang Min who had defected to him because he killed Cao Cao's father Cao Song (I didn't expect this product to appear again), pretending to be a representative of the victims who were relieved by Chen Guo, took wine and meat to Luo Jun's residence, lied about gratitude, and poisoned Luo Jun to death. When all parts of Chen Guo heard the news of the murder of the prime minister, the whole country mourned. Yuan Shu took the opportunity to attack Chen State overnight, broke through Chen County, killed Chen King Liu Pet, frantically searched for grain, and looted property.
Luo Jun's wife remarried Hua Xin, who later served as Yuzhang Taishou, Jian'an for five years, Luo Jun's son Luo Tong was 8 years old, and with the help of his family, he returned to his hometown in Wushu County, Huiji County, and later became a famous general in Eastern Wu.
Now, Yuan Shu was preparing to march into the state of Chen, and suddenly received a joint letter from Fan Jian of the Fan family of Yiyang and Kuai Yue of the Kuai family, saying that Wei Yan's army was now in Wancheng, the defense of Yiyang County was empty, and Yiyang County had more abundant food than Chen State.
Yuan Shu remembered that Yang Fenghan Xian, who had been preparing to defect to him, was defeated by Wei Yan and sent Yang Fenghan Xian to Xudu, Cao Cao killed Yang Fenghan Xian, and remembered that he had sent Zhang Xun, Lei Bo, and Chen Lan to lead 50,000 horses to attack Wei Yan, but they were flooded by Wei Yan's general Wen Ping, and the 50,000 horses were almost wiped out, and Wen Ping and Gan Ning also took advantage of the confrontation between their main forces and Liu Bei, broke into Huainan and plundered hundreds of thousands of people.
Therefore, Yuan Shu decided to take Yiyang first, defeat Wei Yan, and then go to fight Chen Guo!
But he remembered that the previous 50,000 horses could not help the 20,000 horses of the generals under Wei Yan, and they were wiped out by a trick, and if he sent another 50,000 horses, I am afraid it would not work, so he decided to expand the men and horses again.
Subsequently, he began to recruit soldiers on a large scale, and the recruitment ratio has reached a crazy two-ding one, that is, one of the two middle-aged men is selected as a soldier, in addition to military service, other conscription and taxes have also reached the maximum load with the outbreak of the war, after this battle, if you win, it is good to say, if you lose, Huainan will be a fiasco!
Yuan Shu can't manage so much anymore, he is bent on defeating Wei Yan, and then defeating Luo Jun, and getting a lot of food, he feels that as long as the food is abundant, there is no one to worry about at all, and a large number of hungry homeless people are willing to follow him, but he doesn't know that agricultural production is corrupted, even if there is food now, after eating, this is the simple brain of this child of this family who has never known what crops are.
In fact, most of the children of the family, who don't know the sufferings of the people, are tyrannical and don't care about the people's power, like Yuan Shao in Hebei, maybe because his territory is larger, not as obvious as Yuan Shu.
But when he was recruiting troops, the original soldiers took the opportunity to loot, and the people of Huainan fled in all directions, and it took him more than half a month to put together 100,000 horses, and at this time, Wei Yan was about to return to Yiyang New Town.
Wei Yan heard that Yuan Shu's troops were coming to Yiyang New Town, and he was furious: "Lao Tzu finally developed Yiyang, but everyone treats this place as fat, Made, even if it is fat, if you want to eat it, you have to break your teeth!" ”
According to the detailed report of Yuan Shujun, Yuan's army first crossed Huaishui from Shouchun, and then marched westward, preparing to cross Rushui, first capturing the Runan counties occupied by Wei Yan, and then marching into Yiyang New Town.
Wei Yan quickly sent Fu Tong, who was gathered in the counties of Ancheng in the upper reaches of Rushui, and ordered him to build a dam to intercept Rushui.
When Xu Shu heard the military order, he couldn't cry or laugh: "Lord, last time you ordered the generals of Gan Ning to deal with Yuan Shu with a flooding plan, and Yuan Shu will definitely not be fooled this time." ”
Wei Yan smiled: "Did I say that I would use water to deal with Yuan Shu?" ”
Xu Shu was puzzled: "Then what strategy are you going to use to deal with Yuan Shu?" ”
"Yuan Shu old thief, over the years, in Huainan rampant conscription, wanton conscription, before and after the loss of two or three hundred thousand horses, now most of these 100,000 horses are recruits, recruits are easy to be timid......" Wei Yan elaborated on his strategy, in fact, it is not a particularly powerful strategy, but the countermeasures of the Han side that has not yet occurred in history have not been taken to try.
When he finished speaking, not only Xu Huang and other generals admired it, but even Xu Shu was amazed.
However, Xu Shu immediately thought of a question: "Everything else is fine, but what about the internal response?" ”
Wei Yan said with a smile: "Previously, Yuan Quan, the head of the Yuan family in Nanyang County, was under Yuan Shu's command this time, and his wives and concubines and children were all in Yiyang New Town. Yuan Quan was funded by our money and bribed Yuan Shu, and now he is quite appreciated by Yuan Shu. ”
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When Yuan Shu led an army of 100,000 to the east bank of Rushui.
Wei Yan also led 30,000 elite soldiers to the west bank of Rushui, and the two sides confronted each other across the river.
Dozens of generals of the Yuan army surrounded Yuan Shu and came to the edge of Rushui.
Yuan Shu wears a golden helmet, wears gold armor, beats the dragon and phoenix, the sun and the moon flags, four buckets and five square banners, gold melon and silver axe, Huang Yue Baixuan, and Huang Luo pin under the golden umbrella cover, although he has not yet been called the emperor, but he already has the pomp of the emperor.
Although over the years, he has been defeated repeatedly, and he can't beat Cao Cao, even Liu Bei, who he has always looked down on, can't beat Liu Bei, but he still hasn't damaged his conceit, he feels that he is still the son-in-law of the Yuan family of Runan, the third prince of the fourth world, he is still unspeakably expensive, he is still the destiny of heaven, Cao Cao and Liu Bei's generation, sooner or later, they will be eliminated by him, as for Wei Yan, the kid who has not dried up, he is not in his eyes.
He looked back at his military camp, 100,000 horses stretched for more than ten miles, as far as the eye could see, with flags covering the sky and the sun, and then looking at the other side of Rushui, Wei Yan's men and horses were only 30,000 horses, which looked a lot shabby.
Yuan Shu suddenly became arrogant, drew his sword in his hand, and shouted at the sky: "My Yuan Highway is the destiny of heaven!" ”
Changshi Yang Hong hurriedly shouted: "The destiny of heaven returns!" ”
The other generals chimed in: "Destiny returns!" ”
"Destiny!"
Ji Ling frowned, but he had no choice but to shout: "Destiny!" ”
At this time, he heard the Wei army on the other side of Rushui shouting in unison: "Yuan Highway is destined to return to the west!" ”
"One life to the west!"
"One life to the west!"
Yuan Shu was furious: "The soldiers of the three armies obeyed the order, immediately crossed the river and attacked Wei Yan!" ”
Ji Ling hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "Lord, can you remember the defeat of Zhang Xun, Lei Bo, and Chen Lan a few months ago?" ”
Yuan Shu suddenly remembered, and couldn't help but be shocked: "Zhang Xun's 50,000 army was annihilated by the Wei army's flooding strategy. ”
Ji Ling pointed to Rushui: "My lord, look at the current Rushui, the water level is much shallower than in the past, the last general suspects that Wei Yan repeats his old tricks, and stores water in the upper reaches of Rushui, and will take the opportunity to release water when our army crosses the river......"