At the beginning of January in the first year of Chuping [190], Yuan Shao took a hundred people with his relatives, one person and two horses, and galloped all the way to Changyi, the seat of Yanzhou Thorn History. Why did he want Baba to rush to Yanzhou?

This is related to Yuan Shao's marriage.

Yuan Shao's ex-wife, Li Ying's daughter, died of depression many years ago because of the disaster of her mother's family. As a top celebrity of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao naturally would not fail to find his stepfamily. The younger sister of Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, is the stepwife of Yuan Shao who married in Luoyang a few years ago.

When Yuan Shao ran away from Luoyang City, he didn't bring his family with him. It was only after Yuan Shao was appointed as the Taishou of Bohai that his family set foot on the road to Bohai. Originally, the family members were relatively slow to move because they were dragging their children and daughters. In addition, the departure time was late, and at this moment, Yuan Shao's family just arrived in Changyi.

The Bohai Sea is remote and far away. Yuan Shao was busy with the anti-Dong cause, and he would not return to Bohai County in the short term. Therefore, there is naturally no need for his family to move to Bohai. Since Yuan Shao's step-family is the sister-in-law of Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, Yuan Shao will not let go of this opportunity to get closer to the local powerful faction.

So, after Yuan Shao arrived in Changyi City, he met with his family in a hurry, and simply entrusted his family to his brother-in-law Liu Dai. Entrusting all the family members to Liu Dai is a great trust in Liu Dai. In this way, Liu Dai has no reason to support others and preside over the anti-Dong alliance.

Yuan Shao himself, on the other hand, was busy writing letters to contact the rest of his anti-Dong allies. In order to demonstrate his prestige, Yuan Shao planned to bring all the anti-Dong activists over at the end of January to hold a formal alliance in order to integrate the forces of the entire anti-Dong group.

In order to express the threat to Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao thought carefully about the location of this meeting. It is located in Suozao County near the junction of Chenliu County and Sili in Yanzhou.

The princes who participated in the alliance must have brought some soldiers with them. In this way, after the alliance, the princes can directly put their forces on the battlefield to attack Dong Zhuo, causing huge military pressure on Dong Zhuo's army, and then threatening the imperial capital Luoyang.

Yuan Shao rushed to Yanzhou. participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, which soon had a huge impact on the world.

Cao Cao raised troops, and the people of the world could not take it very seriously. Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao falsely passed on the letters of the three princes and the Taifu, and encouraged many states and counties to raise troops, and the people of the world really felt shocked. And as soon as the news of Yuan Shao's rush to Yanzhou spread alone, the whole world immediately began to boil!

There is no way, Yuan's title of "Four Worlds and Three Princes" is not covered! That can really be said to be a call from the heights, and the responders gathered!

With Yuan Shao, the real brand, Yuan's sister-in-law joined. The rest of the states and counties, which were originally waiting and watching on the crusade against Dong Zhuo, began to tilt their attitudes towards the side of the Dong coalition army.

Among them, Yuan Shu, who was the rear general, was most stimulated by Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shu left Luoyang, ostensibly because he returned to his hometown to preside over the family sacrifice. However, he had more ideas. I still can't get used to Dong Zhuo's appearance of covering the sky with one hand in the court. So, after the sacrifice is over. Yuan Shu had no intention of returning to Luoyang immediately. In this way, Yuan Shu escaped and did not accompany Yuan Kui, Yuan Ji and others in Luoyang.

Because his biological mother is the wife of the former Sikong Yuan Feng, Yuan Shu has always been proud of Yuan Shao, the half-brother, with his pure and noble blood. It's a pity, in addition to this advantage. Yuan Shu rarely had a chance to overpower Yuan Shao in other matters. In this regard, Yuan Shu can be said to be angry, if there is any opportunity that can allow him to overshadow Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu will inevitably work hard. Go with Yuan Shao for a long time.

Now, Dong Zhuo is disgusted by the princes of the world, and everyone is unanimously determined to fight this bureaucracy. Whoever can take the lead in this matter will inevitably gain the support of the people of the world in the future struggle for power in the court!

With such an analysis, as soon as he heard the news that Yuan Shao was going to make an alliance in sour jujube, Yuan Shu was unwilling, and he lagged behind Yuan Shao, the "servant son", in such a major event that shook the world. If he is suppressed by Yuan Shao in this matter, then what kind of drama will he have in the battle between the head of the Yuan family in the future?

Yuan Shu, who was keenly aware of this, on the one hand, asked to get close to the surrounding counties of the Yuan clan and provide him with personnel and money and food support in order to build a large army to fight against Dong Zhuo; On the other hand, when he heard the news that his biological brother had convened the princes' alliance, he immediately took his cronies and ran to the sour dates with fire.

Another example is Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian, because he is not a protégé of the Yuan family, he has not expressed his position on the matter of discussing Dong before. His position in the history of assassination came from the appointment of the first emperor Liu Hong, and had nothing to do with Dong Zhuo and the Yuan family.

But now, hearing Yuan Shao's actions, Tao Qian finally couldn't sit still. In Yanzhou and Yuzhou around Xuzhou, there are many state and county officials who have joined the anti-Dong forces, if Xuzhou does not express it, then it will become an outlier?

In order to avoid being regarded as an outlier by the surrounding states and counties that had fallen to Yuan's family, Tao Qian, after receiving the letter from Yuan Shao, quickly sent a thousand-strong army and a batch of grain and grass from among his state divisions to Yuan Shao, the current commander of the light pole, to express his support for this matter.

and Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha who is far away in the southern borderland, has now made a big move.

Sun Jian's promoter was Zhu Jun, who succeeded Wang Yun, who had just been promoted to Situ, and took over the post of Henan Yin. Since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Sun Jian has become Zhu Jun's confidant, and has experienced the crusade against the Yellow Turban in the Central Plains, the conquest of the Xiliang Rebellion, and the extermination of the stars in the Southern Region.

Originally, since Sun Jian was not a party of the Yuan family, the dispute between Dong Zhuo and the Yuan family had nothing to do with him. Changsha County is located in the southern part of Jingzhou, which is extremely despicable, not the hinterland of the Central Plains. The states and counties in the interior of the Central Plains, because they are geographically close to the whirlpool of the struggle between the two sides, are really unavoidable. But Changsha County does not have these concerns.

Even if the later general Yuan Shu wrote a private letter to Sun Jian, inviting Sun Jian to join the battle against Dong Zhuo, if Sun Jian didn't want to agree, he just had to sit down and watch the excitement, and no one would criticize Sun Jian for this.

However, Sun Jian's temperament has always been incompatible with Dong Zhuo. Even back then, when Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo worked together under the account of Taiwei Zhang Wen to defeat the Xiqiang rebels, he once suggested that the commander Zhang Wen directly kill Dong Zhuo, who did not obey the military order.

With such an old grudge as a reason, as soon as the news of Yuan Shao's participation in the crusade against Dong Zhuo reached Sun Jian's ears, Sun Jian immediately jumped out actively, reorganized his troops and horses, and took the initiative to advance to the area of Sili with thousands of troops from the vast Changsha County.

As for the rest of the local state and county officials, such as Gongsun Zhan, a general of Fenwu stationed in Youzhou, Wang Rui of Jingzhou, Chen Wen of Yangzhou, Jiaohe of Qingzhou, Zhang Zhi of Nanyang, Zhou Xin of Danyang Taishou and others, although they did not take actual action, they also verbally expressed their opposition to Dong Zhuo.

And the rest of Yizhou Mu Liu Yan and Youzhou Mu Liu Yu are both Han clan relatives. In this power struggle between the central court and the local princes, the attitude of the Liu princes can basically be ignored. They are really not fit to make a statement.

If Er Liu falls to Dong Zhuo, it is tantamount to going against the views of the people of the world, and it will have too much impact on Er Liu's prestige. If it falls to the Yuan side, then Er Liu must take the initiative to trample on the prestige of the central court to the soles of his feet. No matter which way it is done, it will make the Han family's country obviously shaken.

In such a tricky situation, as the clan relatives of Er Liu and their whom are quite feared by the Son of Heaven, they can and can only maintain a neutral attitude towards the princes this time. That's what is best for others and for yourself.

To sum up, the entire state and county in the Kanto region basically expressed their disobedience to Dong Zhuo. Getting rid of the chaotic Liangzhou and the merger of the state threatened by the Taixing army, Dong Zhuo certainly controlled the power of the central court of the imperial court, but in fact, the territory that could really be controlled was just a division and a school captain's department.

Oh, by the way, there is another Jiaozhou that was not mentioned.

It's just that Jiaozhou, which is known as a despised and barbaric land, is not only sparsely populated and short of wealth, but the entire state cannot afford to arm even 5,000 regular troops. Also, not to mention anything else, it will take half a year just to send a team from Jiaozhou to Luoyang.

Can this kind of place really affect the operation of major affairs in the imperial court?

Therefore, based on the comparison of forces between the two sides, it can be found that Dong Zhuo must use the lands of Liangzhou, Sili, and Merge States to fight against Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, and Xuzhou. Even if you exclude those states and counties that are just shouting and do not directly send troops, the comparison of the strength of the two sides is equivalent to the state and county officials of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and the joint forces are against the division and the subordination.

Although the anti-Dong coalition forces have the weaknesses of chaotic members, inconsistent command, and lack of combat experience, after all, they have a considerable advantage in the total number of troops that can be mobilized. Both Yanzhou and Yuzhou were densely populated upper states in the Han Dynasty. Even after the Yellow Turban Rebellion a few years ago, the losses of the two large states were not small, and the number of households in the states combined was more than one million.

According to the average calculation of a household of five people, the total population of the two states is more than 7 million. With the practice of five households sending one soldier to mobilize, that is more than 200,000 people!

With such a huge strength, in the eyes of those state and county officials, even if they use people to pile up, they can easily pile up Dong Zhuo.

As for Dong Zhuo, the current situation he is in can be said to be much worse than that of the anti-Dong princes. Because, not only did he have to deal with the enemy in the east, but he also had to be careful of the Liangzhou rebels in the west.

After several years of development, the Liangzhou rebel army, under the leadership of the strong leader Han Sui, had to let the Han face up to its strength. The last time the Liangzhou rebel army attacked Si Li, the Han used Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song, two famous generals, to join forces, and barely defeated the coalition of Han Sui and Ma Teng.

Since Dong Zhuo is the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, it is naturally his unshirkable task to protect the country. If there is any change in the Liangzhou rebel army, he will have to accept it honestly. (To be continued......)