Chapter 305 The world is in turmoil, and the old ministers of the Yuan family vote
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The actions of Lu Bujun in Qingzhou really slowed down the forces of Bingzhou, Yanzhou Yuan Tan, and Cao Cao, who were actively "preparing for war". Even Yuan Xi of Jizhou, who didn't want to be involved in this muddy water, was also a little overwhelmed by this sudden situation.
With the news of Yuan Shu's two-way army of more than 50,000 people fighting undeclared and brazenly raiding Xuzhou, Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi admired their uncle, who had always been not very good at dealing with his father Yuan Shao, who was really brave and dared to wrestle with Lu Bu, and at the same time, they suddenly realized that when their father Yuan Shao went like this, the "throne" of the head of the Yuan family might not actually fall on their heads, whether it was qualifications, strength or the "guts" that dared to defy everything, it seemed that their brothers together may not be comparable. It even made Yuan Tan, who was originally energetic, suddenly want to retreat.
In the end, no matter how arrogant Yuan Tan is, he is not stupid yet, and he has his own set of "algorithms". Yuan Tan dared to provoke Cao Cao before, largely because of the situation in Yanzhou. To the west of Yanzhou, there are two thieves who have just been "withdrawn" from Chang'an, Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji, who has occupied Wancheng for a long time, are eyeing each other, and to the south, there is Yuan Shu, who is quite ambiguous with these two thieves, thinking that it is a disaster in his rear, and Cao Cao also encountered the problems that Lu Bu encountered when he first entered Qingzhou, and the territory suddenly expanded nearly twice, and there was a serious shortage of officials and troops. In this case. Yuan Tan has the confidence to predict that Cao Cao in this situation may be the same as Yuan Shao who "let in" everything before. Accommodate yourself.
But now the situation has changed. Yuan Shuzi, who was active-minded, really got the idea of Xuzhou after getting the grain and grass hoarded in several counties outside Guangling and Xiapi, as well as countless weapons and armor supported by other "foreign aid". It gave Cao Cao a lot of strategic depth space in the rear. And a few people in Wancheng have not yet run in on internal problems, and there is still Liu Biao south of Wancheng who is "watching" at all times, and he is unable to look east in a short period of time, and he can't afford to raise any storms. Other words. The final result of Yuan Tan's plan that he thought was seamless this time was likely to make the state army alone with his father's old friend. Yanzhou Mu, who had also affectionately called him "Uncle Cao" before, was officially opposed. Yuan Tan is crazy, but there is still self-knowledge of how much difference there is in each other's strength. Although now it is not and between Yan and Erzhou, because of Yuan Tan's mania. There is already a situation where the arrow has to be launched. However, because of Yuan Shu's invasion of Xuzhou, Lu Bu's action of sending troops made both Yuan Tan and Cao Cao subconsciously slow down their "pace", and they invariably put most of their attention on the matter of Lu and Yuan's two families hunting in Xuzhou.
Yuan Tan's annexation is far away, and needless to say, Cao Cao actually has a lot of "feelings" for Xuzhou. After all, his father Cao Song almost gave his life there. And the world knows that although Xuzhou is a place of four wars, it is because there are few wars. It's a first-class state. The development of population, land and commerce makes Xuzhou tantamount to the granary and money bank of the Central Plains. In the eyes of the surrounding princes, who is not greedy?
Seeing that Qingzhou has relied on it to gain a firm foothold. And in the eyes of people with a discerning eye, Lu Bujun is simply rich because of the benefits of Xuzhou's salt industry, and because of the quality and price of the sea salt produced in Xuzhou, it almost almost trampled the Sichuan Shujing salt and pool salt, which originally occupied the lifeblood of the salt industry of the Han people, and was known as Tianfu. If you are accustomed to eating fine and white sea salt, who will touch the salt of the bitter and muddy well again? And the Mi family, who was originally only a prominent businessman in the state, also ranked among the top wealthy businessmen in the Han Dynasty because he led this "big business", which shows the huge profits.
Salt and iron are the foundation of the country, and an army that cannot guarantee the supply of salt will not be able to fight at all. So much so that although other people still don't recognize the sudden ascension of Lu Bu and others to a high position and the official worship of the hussar general, the princes from all walks of life who were unknowingly seized by Qingzhou have no grasp of their strength and occupy an overwhelming advantage over Qingzhou, no one will be stupid enough to provoke Lu Bu, who is still stable. That is, Yuan Shu, who was confused by the artifact of the country, only wanted to eat meat without thinking about whether he would be beaten because of it, and he stupidly leaned over to fight Xuzhou, which was obviously the attention of Xuzhou under the shroud of Lu Bu's forces.
That's good. The tiger is furious! Dumbfounded, right? There's no way back, right? Regardless of the quality of the soldiers controlled by the two families, in terms of numbers alone, this time the Qingzhou army led by Lu Bu was 20,000, plus the more than 40,000 troops in Xuzhou itself, the total strength was close to 70,000, almost more than Yuan Shu's two armies. And in terms of combat power, there is no comparison at all. In addition to the thousands of veterans who followed Yuan Shu from Nanyang to Huaisi, but were used by Yuan Shu to make a good deal, whether it was the army that Yuan Shu relied on to maintain a strong "self-confidence" or the soldiers led by Sun Ce, they were all newly recruited recruits, and even a considerable part of the soldiers recruited by Sun Ce were the private soldiers of the family of the broken family clan in Jiangdong, and there were some orders and prohibitions, and most of the soldiers led by Yuan Shu who planned to attack Xuzhou were homeless people who could eat military food only for the year of the great drought. Moreover, Yuan Shu only cared about the pursuit of prestige in numbers, and even spread "kindness" widely, including many old and weak. To tell the truth, just such an army, called a rabble, is to promote Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu also wanted to rely on these people to capture Xuzhou as the foundation, and this time, his own pioneer general Ji Ling also frowned after seeing these so-called Yuan volunteers. Helplessly, now Yuan Shu can't listen to half a word of advice at all, and Ji Ling, as a military general, can only give up when he sees that his words don't work.
The "elite army" of Yuan Shujun's army marched at a speed of only ten miles a day, but Lu Bujun was quite an elite force that gave Yuan Shu face. Only the world's well-known elite soldiers include the trapping camp, the first camp and Lu Bu's headquarters to guard the wolf cavalry, if you add the Danyang elite soldiers in Xiapi City, it is indeed enough for Yuan Shu to attack Xuzhou The two forces to attack Xuzhou have a good drink. This is not counting the Qingzhou barracks soldiers who have been recognized in Lu Bu's army as being not weaker than those in the camp.
The so-called soldier is fast. After holding it for a long time, the soldiers of Lu Bu naturally interpreted the true meaning of this word very well. Since the beginning of Linzi, more than 300 miles of travel, it took only one day to march to the city of Jinan, and the same morning could not bear the loneliness, and the early change point was all the soldiers and horses waiting for the Chenglian Huihe.
However, among the people who came to welcome the arrival of Lu Bu's army under the command of Han Guang brothers led by Tong Chenglian, Qin Xu locked his eyes on the three former ministers of the Yuan clan who had threatened to concentrate only on civil affairs and no longer participate in the war. It seems that Yuan Shao died violently this time, and Yuan Tan Yuan Xi then "expelled" Yuan Shang from his three places, one occupied the state, and the other shrunk to Jizhou, and Yuan Shao didn't know how much effort he took, and fought for two years, seeing that Youzhou, which Gongsun Zhan was based on that could be crushed immediately, gave up in vain at the critical moment, and let the Han-Hu coalition army led by Liu He, who was already a hardcore ally of the Yuan family and had long been tied to a boat, was beaten by Liu Bei's brother and his brother, who had eased up. The countermeasures were near Jixian County, the place of Youzhou Governance, and they were still breathing.
In the rare unanimous views of Xu You, Xianbei, and Feng Ji, Yuan Tan, who is the eldest son of Yuan Shao, who is accustomed to being favored by the Jizhou military, does not know what is crazy, it seems that he is only concerned about competing to inherit Yuan Shao's inheritance, and he ignores the repeated requests for help from his allies. I don't know whether it is better to say that Yuan Tan's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, or to laugh at the fact that it is no longer the eldest son under the protection of Yuan Shao in the past to shake the tree. In short, the three old ministers who were in Lu Ying's heart and Yuan were really dead.
It has been more than a year since he was "arrested" to be a "coolie" in Jinan. These three former ministers of the Yuan family can be regarded as witnessing the rise of Qingzhou. Step by step, leveling the yellow scarf, controlling Xuzhou, and saving the Son of Heaven, I have to make people admire Lu Bu's good luck, and also witness that it is not easy for Lu Bu to come now.
Although Xu You and the other three have their own advantages and disadvantages, they have not been without disagreements with each other before, and it can even be said that they are quite incompatible with each other. But through more than a year of "calmness" and running-in, the competition between them has also faded a lot, and seeing that Qingzhou is not as quick as before, the original intention of being a diehard loyalist for the Yuan family is also much more lively. It's just that he didn't give Qin someone a good look at him who was a "high-ranking official" of Lu Bujun's army, and now Qin Xu is the lord of a state again, and he is Lu Bu's baby son-in-law. Therefore, although I have that thought, I can only put it on hold for the time being.
At present, Yuan Shao, the male lord of Hebei, is dead, and the rest of the old Yuan family are all "crazy", and the three of them are also resourceful, and it is expected that this Han world may also become more and more chaotic because of the "fuse" of the old Yuan family. At this time, if you and others still don't take action, I'm afraid you can really only add some foil to the cake after the pattern has become a fixed pattern.
I can't say that this idea came out in my life, as if it had taken root in the hearts of the three of them, and they spread out wildly.
At the beginning, the three of them abandoned their old master Han Fu and defected to Yuan Shao, didn't they just want to show their ambitions with what they learned in their chests, win a famous minister, and seal their wives and sons? Nesting in Jinan to deal with trivial political affairs all day long, how can the three strategists who were once relied on by Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance be embarrassed?
Therefore, after getting the news that Lu Bu sent troops to Linzi and would pass through Jinan to transfer troops, these three finally couldn't do much. Anyway, it wasn't the first time, and the three of them, who were unwilling to be plain, simply threw aside the so-called worthless thing like face, and finally appeared in the team to welcome Lu Bu's arrival. (To be continued......)