Chapter 62, Yan Liang
Yanmen County is a key gateway to the east and north of the state.
This is now one of the three counties occupied by Yuan Shao, and it is also the most important place among them, and in fact, these three counties were originally when Yuan Shao participated in the fight against Dong's coalition army, and his generals Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Liyi who stayed in Hebei received the order of Li Ru to attack in the name of Yuan Shao at that time, and it was at that time that the three counties of Bingzhou, some areas of Jizhou and some areas in the west of Youzhou were taken.
Therefore, it can also be said that Li Ru played a considerable "role" in the loss of the three northeastern counties of Yanmen, Yunzhong and Dingxiang, although it was mainly to create contradictions within the Dong Alliance through this point, and it did succeed, but if he did not use this to weaken and limit Lu Bu's intentions, Lu Bu would not believe it.
After all, this place should have belonged to Lu Bu's control, but at that time, Yan Liang led the army to be menacing, Wei Yue and Wang Kai did not dare to plunder its edge, and they also held the purpose of reaching a compromise with Yuan Shao so that they could continue to hold the Five Plains in peace - after all, at that time, the momentum of the Dong Lianjun was huge, and not many people thought that Dong Zhuo could survive this catastrophe, and Lu Bu, who was the blade of Dong Zhuo's vanguard at that time, would naturally bear the brunt, but he didn't expect the result to be very unexpected, of course, this is all an afterthought, Therefore, these left-behind troops barely did much resistance, so they gave up these three places and retreated until Wuyuan County, so based on this alone, even if they didn't disobey Lu Bu's intention at the beginning, Lu Bu would not be able to let them go.
However, among the three counties in the northeast of this state, Yuan Shao really attaches importance to Yanmen County. And Yanmen County, in his plan, is also a real bridgehead for him to completely expand his territory to the entire territory of Bingzhou, but it has never really played its role.
Although Han Meng and others Chen Bing were here, and now they have sent General Yan Liang, who has not helped the Hebei war for the time being, to come to the town in person, but at the same time, because of the changes in Youzhou, he must concentrate all his current energy on the Hebei war, so Yanmen County has been safe and sound, and this also means that it has not played its due role.
It's just that Yuan Shao knows very well that there are priorities, and it is obvious that for him, no matter from which point of view, Hebei is more important and urgent than the annexation of the state. If he can once completely possess Hebei. The east can enter the sea, the west can go straight to Luoyang and the state, and the south is the later plan, but having such a base with a deep foundation and obvious advantages is very beneficial to his future development.
Hebei is an important place of foundation. From this point of view, Yuan Shao and Lu Bu's thoughts are actually the same. It's just that the way of the two is a little different. Lu Bu waited for himself to gain a foothold in Bingzhou and obtain a base area of foundation, and then he would wholeheartedly plot against Hebei; Yuan Shao, on the other hand, wanted to build his foundation on Hebei from the beginning. And that's what he thinks, and that's what he is doing now.
Of course, no matter how much Yuan Shao still thinks about merging the state now, but for Yan Liang, the current guard of Yanmen County, he has a lot on his mind.
After Han Meng's death, the current head of the Yanmen garrison has become Yan Liang.
To be honest, Yan Liang seems to be one of the two most important generals under Yuan Shao, who is currently in the limelight in Hebei, but in many cases he is the most useless one.
If you want to say that the basic essence of being a general, Yan Liang certainly has it, otherwise Yuan Shao will not let him lead an army no matter how much he trusts him, but if he really talks about the ability to lead the army to fight, he may not even be able to compare with Chun Yuqiong.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou were once relied on by Yuan Shao as their generals, known as the three armies of Yongguan, but no matter how powerful this "brave" is, it is just the courage of the horseman, if it is placed when Yuan Shao just recruited them before, the most important thing is this, and in the battle of the Tiger Prison, there is almost no general in the Huaxiong Alliance Army who can suppress the other party before he can say what would happen if his generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou were here; But you must know that at this time and at that time, compared to Yuan Shao's great cause of dominating Hebei, fighting against Han Fu and Gongsun Zhan, it is almost difficult for personal courage to play a role on the battlefield, and what is really useful is marching and fighting, arranging troops, and these are precisely Yan Liang's weaknesses, it can be said that from this point of view, Xu You's mouth may be more effective than Yan Liang's "brave".
Since Yan Liang showed his weakness in the military strategy in several confrontations with Han Fujun, there were several times when it was possible for the whole army to be wiped out if he had not relied on his own courage to lead the troops to break through, although this made him more famous in Yuan Shao's army, but after all, it also paid a lot of casualties, such a small defeat would not hurt Yuan Shao, but it made him gradually disappointed in Yan Liang, especially at this time Xu You said something bad to Yan Liang next to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao simply transferred from the name of experience, Transferred Yan Liang from the Hebei battlefield when the conflict broke out.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that Yan Liang and Wen Chou are both loyal to Yuan Shao, and like Tian Feng, they did not participate in the battle between the eldest son Yuan Tan and the third son Yuan Shang, but the two have always been biased towards Yuan Shang intentionally or unintentionally, and they are more benign and bold, and Xu You, a person with a small belly, naturally hides a lot of dirt, and Xu You naturally will not mention it when he does not make mistakes or is even deeply favored by Yuan Shao, but now when Yan Liang is disliked by Yuan Shao because of repeated mistakes, he will be the first person to fall into the well, the reason why Yan Liang was transferred this time can be said to be "indispensable".
However, although Yan Liang will be stunned and brainless many times, he is not confused when he thinks about things at critical moments, he knows that Xu Yu is just adding fuel to the fire, and this matter is still his own problem in the final analysis, after all, if he is capable enough to attract Yuan Shao's attention, as long as he does not override it and suffer suspicion, it is difficult for Yuan Shao to change himself in a few words.
It's just that I want to read military books to enrich myself, so as to improve my military accomplishment and attainments, with Yan Liang's character, I don't have that patience; And let him learn lessons and accumulate experience in practice, Yuan Shao does not have the patience, this has simply become an unsolvable problem.
So during this time in Yanmen, Yan Liang's mood has actually been very depressed.
Anyone can see that Yuan Shao's center of gravity is now in Hebei, and his coming here is equivalent to a distribution, there is no place for a powerful martial arts, so it's strange if he is not depressed.
At this time, someone came to report: "General Wenchou has written again......"
Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou are often called together, they came out to break into the world together, and they were the same person, and they have a good relationship with each other and are brothers, Yan Liang is one of the brothers, but Wen Chou is much better than Yan Liang, a pure reckless man, in terms of military strategy, and he is not as high-profile as Yan Liang, so he was still reused by Yuan Shao.
Of course, this did not affect the relationship between the brothers, and even they often contacted each other by letter, but every time he thought of Wen Chou and then thought of himself, Yan Liang couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Now that he heard Wen Chou's letter again, he couldn't help but perk up, after all, he was still very concerned about Yuan Shao's situation in Hebei, and Wen Chou seemed to know this, and he had to mention it in every letter, I don't know what news he will come this time. (To be continued......)