With the Jizhou army into Xuchang, the twists and turns of the Xuchang war finally announced that the dust has settled, in this super-large-scale melee, Yuan Shaojun, Cao Jun, Xuzhou Army and Jingzhou Army four armies took turns to fight, you sang and I appeared, launched a bitter and bloody battle, staged a scene of tragic or joyful human sorrow and joy, there are singing and crying tragedy, there are also filthy and outrageous despicability, and whether there is the joy and joy of Jitailai, a total of more than 150,000 soldiers of the four armies died on the battlefield, the battle is fierce, The situation has changed so much, and the forces participating in the war are as complex as the Eighteenth Route Princes fought against Dong many years ago.

Cao Boss is the biggest loser in this big melee, Yanzhou lost two-thirds, the painstakingly built Xuchang Laochao and Emperor Han Xian lost a fine light together, the loss of the army is even more shocking, the main team is not one out of ten, the second-line team and the auxiliary team participating in the war are almost lost, Xiahoudun, Liu Yan, Li Tong, Le Jin and Li Dian and other first-class generals have been killed, the blood can no longer flow, the vitality can not be injured anymore, the losses can not be more miserable, all the capital for hegemony has been exhausted, was forced to withdraw from the queue of the Central Plains hegemony.

Yuan Shaojun is a winner, but also a loser, although he got Xuchang City as he wished, and also obtained the political advantage of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but the elite soldiers of the four states were tossed away by the three princes of the Great Yuan, plus the previous Guandu War, Yuan Shaojun lost a total of more than 300,000 troops before and after, countless Wenchen generals who died and surrendered, the main force of the four states was empty, and the seemingly huge body actually became an empty shelf, it seems that the overall strength is still the best in the world, and it also has the qualification to dominate the world, But the position of the northern hegemon is already unworthy of the name, weakened to the point of extreme danger.

Jingzhou army is the most typical soy sauce role, although the tactics are excellent, the timing of the shot is also the best, and the vertical and horizontal aspects are also very good, but unfortunately the strength is not good, the infantry is too weak, and the Xuzhou army was beaten up and embarrassed to withdraw from the battlefield for hegemony, fortunately, the loss is not large, and a large amount of lost land has been recaptured.

Poor Uncle Liu Huang was once again reduced to the role of a clown, the tactics chosen were the most correct, the timing of the shot was the most appropriate, and the psychological analysis of the enemy was also the most correct, but unfortunately he ran into Deputy Director Tao who did not play cards according to common sense, and he wanted to be a chicken beard but ran into the opponent who held thirteen in his hand, and was beaten by the elite Xuzhou army to find teeth all over the ground, and the meager business accumulation of five thousand troops was almost lost again, and Zhuge Liang, who came out of the mountain eight years in advance, was extremely unlucky and was crippled by a stray arrow, I don't know how many years in advance, I got on the wheelchair that was forced to accompany Uncle Liu Huang and was forced to disappear from Deputy Director Tao again.

The Xuzhou army is the loser, but also the biggest winner, the loss is because the Xuchang in hand was forced to hand it over again, and also lost into the koji and a large number of elite soldiers, winning is to win in strategy and morality, to help Yuan weak Cao's strategy is unprecedented success, not only the Cao boss out of the ranks of the hegemony, but also weakened the Jizhou army to the point that it can no longer be weakened, quickly narrowed the gap in strength with the Jizhou army, faintly has a tendency to overtake, it can even be said that if the Xuzhou army is the thickest-skinned, the heart is blacker, as long as the moral shame is ignored, It's not impossible to quickly defeat Da Yuan Sangong and Cao Boss!

Both the Great Yuan Sangong and the Jizhou army should be glad that Deputy Director Tao is still an unqualified public servant of the people with a bottom limit, and he refuses to throw poisonous snakes into the homes of nail households when he is demolished, nor does he hire dynamic social organizations to clean up nail households like many colleagues, and he also pays attention to his own faith and reputation after coming to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so Deputy Director Tao not only resolutely gave up the best opportunity to kill his father-in-law by force, but also faithfully implemented the Xu Ji Covenant and led the army to withdraw from Xuchang, and surrendered the strategic place of Xuchang and Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to the old man. Lose the benefits in hand, win the reputation of the world, and win the strategic initiative.

As the saying goes, Shengmi endou Mi hatred, sometimes good people just don't have good rewards, Deputy Director Tao is basically benevolent and righteous to the old man, but unfortunately Yuan Sangong does not appreciate it, and is still full of resentment towards his son-in-law's farewell and some behaviors, and the most hated point of Da Yuan Sangong is the abolition of the prime minister's position and the reset of the three public seals requested by Deputy Director Tao.

Here is a general introduction to the situation of the three princes and the prime minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty with the great Sima, the great Situ and the great Sikong as the three dukes, no prime minister by the three dukes to disperse the power, Cao Lao Da coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, in order to abolish the three public positions in order to abolition the three public positions, forced the Han Xian Emperor to make himself the prime minister monopolize the government, Deputy Director Tao beat away Cao Laoda, immediately asked the Han Xian Emperor to abolish the post of prime minister, reset the three dukes, and obtained the happy approval of the Han Xian Emperor. As a result, Deputy Director Tao, who refused to be named prime minister, won the reputation of being a loyal monarch, but Yuan Sangong, who wanted Cao Boss to dominate the government, was angry and embarrassed, and he couldn't be the prime minister.

Originally, as long as the army was in hand, it didn't matter if there was an official title or not, as long as the three dukes of the Great Yuan asked Emperor Han Xian to seal the two empty three dukes, they could still dominate the government like Cao Boss, but the three dukes of the Great Yuan were more amazing in politics than in the military, not only refused the position of Da Sima, but also forced Emperor Han Xian to reset the post of prime minister, and named himself the prime minister, the marquis of Ji and the general, and in fact monopolized the Han court together in reputation, which made Emperor Han Xian hate. It also made the Han civil and military who had illusions about the Great Yuan Sangong in an uproar, and several Han civil and military who were not afraid of death jumped out to openly oppose it, including Kong Rong, a doctor who once hated Deputy Director Tao very much.

After unceremoniously cutting off Kong Rong and other thorns, the third prince of the great Yuan became the prime minister as he wished, and the reputation of the third prince of the great Yuan was completely finished, from the emperor of the Han Dynasty to the ordinary scholars, all of them hated the cruelty and arbitrariness of the third prince of the great Yuan, and they all missed the polite Tao brothers, and began to look forward to Deputy Director Tao to return to Xuchang and drive away the third prince of the great Yuan who was worse than Boss Cao.

In addition to arranging henchmen to tightly seal the imperial city, Yuan Sangong disregarded the resolute opposition of the strategist Cui Yan, and began to counterattack Cao Lao Da Yu Party, all the Xuchang civil and military officials who had something to do with Cao Boss were interrogated and interrogated by Yuan Shaojun, and for a time Xuchang City was full of mourning, many Han officials were ruined, their wives were separated, and Cao Jun's family members who did not escape were a large number of tragic murderers, and many Yuan Shaojun greedy officials took the opportunity to accumulate money. made the prestige of Yuan Sangong plummet, and his image was close to a negative score.

Politics is a mess, in diplomacy, the Great Yuan Sangong listened to Cui Yan's persuasion, sent a large number of envoys in the name of the Son of Heaven, asked Liu Biao, Ma Teng, Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu and Yuan Shu and other princes to enter the court to pay tribute, and took the opportunity to conclude an alliance to isolate the remnants of the Cao army, and also isolated the Xuzhou army, which has in fact become the biggest opponent of Yuan Shaojun's domination of the world, and the result has also achieved some results, at least Liu Biao is happy to form an alliance with the Great Yuan Sangong to deal with Cao Laoda and Deputy Director Tao, and also sent Jingzhou to engage in Han Song's tribute, discussed the alliance with the Great Yuan Sangong face-to-face, but the Great Yuan Sangong put forward an unbelievable alliance condition - requiring Liu Biao to immediately send troops to Runan to exterminate the remnants of Cao Laoda entrenched in Runan.

Of course Liu Shoumen didn't do such a stupid thing as cannon fodder, so after Han Song left Xuchang under the pretext of asking Liu Biao's opinion, the Jingzhou army and the Great Yuan Sangong also cut off contact, and the Great Yuan Sangong waited for a long time to see a response, and also understood that Liu Biao was unwilling to ally with him to fight Cao, and in a fit of rage, the Great Yuan Sangong sent his second son Yuan Xi to Runan to attack Cao Laoda, who confirmed that he had fled to Pingyu, and on the other hand, he listened to the idea of his eldest son Yuan Tan, and sent a messenger to Xuzhou, asking his son-in-law Deputy Director Tao to send troops to Runan and Chen Liang in the honor of the Son of Heaven. Exterminate the remnants of Cao's army entrenched in this area.

When Su You, the envoy of the three princes of the Great Yuan, arrived in Xuzhou, the time was the end of the fifth year of Jian'an, and it was also catching up with the great expansion of the Xuzhou army, and also expanded the army by 100,000 in one go, preparing to expand the total strength to more than 300,000, and under the influence of the Yanzhou war, the expansion of the Xuzhou army was also carried out very smoothly, a large number of Yanzhou refugees chose to join the Xuzhou army to carry guns and eat in order to have food, including many old soldiers of the Cao army, and the largest recruitment location Pengcheng County was overcrowded. On both sides of the road from Xiaopei to Pengcheng, you can see the new army of Xuzhou that is being trained everywhere, even if the heavy snow is flying, it will not stop, and it has the benefit of Xuzhou's money, food, and financial resources, and there is no shortage of armor, banners and weapons, the scene is very spectacular, Su You can enjoy it while also inevitably secretly frightened, worried that after the start of the Xuzhou war in the future, how can the Jizhou army with great vitality be able to compete with the Xuzhou army on the steaming Xuzhou army?

Entering the rich and prosperous Pengcheng, Su You met Deputy Director Tao very smoothly, but unfortunately after Deputy Director Tao read out the will to ask the Xuzhou army to send troops to Runan, Deputy Director Tao not only did not receive the decree, but also asked directly: "Is this holy decree the request of the Son of Heaven, or the meaning of Lord Yuezhang?" ”

Su You asked Deputy Director Tao in confusion what he meant by this, and Deputy Director Tao said straight to the point: "When I was in Xuchang, the Son of Heaven once personally witnessed my negotiations with Cao Thief, at that time I promised that as long as Cao Thief did not attack my army, I would never send troops to pursue Cao Thief, and the Son of Heaven also promised in public that he would never give an order to let me send troops to Runan, and now Cao Thief did not attack our army, but the Son of Heaven suddenly issued an edict ordering me to send troops, so I have to ask clearly, is it the Lord of Heaven who repents of his word, or my father-in-law ordered me to send troops?" ”

Su You was speechless, and Deputy Director Tao said: "Please ask the angel to return to the Son of Heaven, it is okay to ask Weichen to send troops, but the Son of Heaven must first issue an edict to admit that he first broke his word and repented, and ordered me to send troops to fight against Cao Thief, so that I can send troops to Runan, otherwise, I will not die for breach of trust." ”

Su You continued to be silent, and muttered in his heart: "Tao Envoy Jun, who was hit by Cui Jiju's words and had stiffened wings, can no longer obey the lord's words." ”

It wasn't until Deputy Director Tao unceremoniously ordered someone to send Su You away that Jia Lao, who was accompanying him, spoke and asked Deputy Director Tao with a smile, "Has the lord made up his mind?" Xu also thought that the main guild would send troops to Liang County to deal with it. ”

"There's no need to deal with it anymore." Deputy Director Tao replied: "Anyway, it will be our turn when the Cao thief is finished, instead of wasting troops and money to deal with it, it is better to refuse and let the Cao thief consume more Jizhou troops." ”

"Then the lord is not worried that Yuan Shao will use this as an excuse to take the opportunity to start a war against our army?" Jia Lao Poison asked again, and added with a smile: "Although normal people would not do this, but as the lord described, Yuan Shao likes to get water in his head, and he will definitely be able to do this abnormal thing." ”

Deputy Director Tao smiled and asked rhetorically, "Mr. Wenhe asked so knowingly, could it be that he wanted to instigate me to take the initiative to provoke Lord Yue?" ”

Jia Lao Poison put away his smile, nodded, and said solemnly: "That's right, Xu really wants to persuade the lord to take the initiative to provoke Yuan Shao, now Yuan Shao's vitality has been greatly injured, and our army suffered the smallest loss in the Battle of Xuchang, and now it has returned to the rear of Xuzhou, with abundant money and food and waiting for work, if Yuan Shao is provoked at this time and induces Yuan Shao to personally lead troops to attack Xuzhou, our army has a great chance of winning, and there is still a great hope that the thief will capture the king first, and solve the threat of Yuan Shao once and for all." ”

"In front of Mr. Wenhe, I don't tell lies." Deputy Director Tao replied quite sincerely: "I have considered this more than once, but Yuan Shao is my father-in-law after all, if I deliberately provoke him to induce him to send troops, even if I win by taking advantage of the danger of others, it will be difficult to block the mouth of the world, so I thought about it again and decided to give up." ”

"Besides, even if we take Yuezhang at this time, we don't have the strength to annex the entire Central Plains and the North at once." Deputy Director Tao smiled and added, "So I think it's better to bother Lord Yuezhang to look at the northern land for us first, and when we have enough strength, it's not too late to consider taking these lands back." ”

"Then what if Yuan Shao's body has a problem?" Jia Lao asked again, "According to our army's detailed investigation, Yuan Shao's health is not very good now, and he seems to be not lightly ill. ”

"It doesn't matter, as long as you don't die at our hands." Deputy Director Tao replied: "Lord Yuezhang can die of illness, old age, or death in the hands of others, but only not in our hands, otherwise, if we want to unify the north, we will inevitably encounter huge resistance." ”

Jia Lao Poison nodded slightly, and saw that Deputy Director Tao was resolute and did not want to destroy his hypocritical reputation for the sake of immediate interests, so he no longer persuaded Deputy Director Tao to take the initiative to provoke Yuan Sangong, but said: "Since the lord has a resolute attitude, then Xu can't force the lord to be a villain, I just hope that the sky will follow people's wishes, and bless Yuan Shao to die as soon as possible, and give the lord and our army a chance to show their strengths." ”

…………………… Deputy Director Tao was benevolent to his father-in-law, and when his military strength had actually surpassed that of his father-in-law, he still maintained calm and restraint, except for refusing to be cannon fodder again, he never took advantage of the danger of Da Yuan Sangong, and did not even take the initiative to provoke that could be done easily. But even so, when Su You brought back to Xuchang the news of Deputy Director Tao's refusal to send troops, Da Yuan Sangong was still furious, and once threatened to personally lead the army to attack Xuzhou, but fortunately Cui Yan stopped him and repeatedly persuaded that the current mortal enemy was Cao Ying, and never gave Cao Boss a chance to resurrect, and Da Yuan Sangong barely suppressed his anger.

"Prime Minister, since the pottery thief refuses to send troops on the grounds of trustworthiness, then we can't make him comfortable." Seeing that the anger of the Great Yuan Sangong had stopped for a while, Mr. Guo Tu, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, suggested again: "The minister suggests that the prime minister may wish to send an envoy to contact the pottery thief again, and ask the pottery thief to pay tribute to our army with 200,000 grains and grass for our army to destroy the Cao thief!" Prime Minister, you are his brother-in-law of the pottery thief, if it wasn't for our army to restrain the Cao thief, the Xuzhou thief army would have been wiped out by the Cao thief long ago, and our army has a reason to ask the pottery thief for this batch of grain and grass, and is also qualified to ask for this batch of grain and grass. ”

"That makes sense!" Da Yuan Sangong was angry again, and shouted a few times: "Yes! When he was a child, if I hadn't married my daughter to him, and for the sake of Weng's son-in-law, I would have restrained Cao Thief from embarrassing him, and he would have the opportunity to strengthen his strength? ! Now that the wings are stiff, I dare not to put my true colors in my eyes, dreaming!! ”

"Quickly write a letter to Tao Yingxiaoer, and ask him to attack 200,000 ...... of grain and grass, no! Tribute of 300,000 grains and grass to our army, 100 million ......, 100 million for our army to break Cao! Bao ......, Bao Bao answered my great kindness of the year!! ”

In the slurred roar, Da Yuan Sangong's hands and feet began to feel a little numb and ant bite, and the lord over there, Bo Chen Lin, was afraid that Da Yuan Sangong would be angry, so he didn't dare to disobey the order and just immediately picked up the pen, but just when Chen Lin's brush fell on the white silk, the door was suddenly knocked open, and a biting cold wind with snowflakes poured into the room first, making Chen Lin, who was wearing a robe, shudder, and then Yuan Tangongzi's anxious voice also came in, "Father!" Big things are not good! Big things are wrong! The second brother conquered Runan, was ambushed by the Cao thief in Yangshan, and was defeated by the Cao thief, and the grain and grass were also burned by the Cao thief!! ”

Contrary to the expectations of everyone in the room, the furious Da Yuan Sangong did not get used to yelling and shouting to open the case, and everyone retracted their eyes from the body of Yuan Tan Gongzi, who was covered with snowflakes, and turned their eyes to Da Yuan Sangong, who was sitting in the center, but saw that Da Yuan Sangong's body suddenly fell crooked, and he fell to the ground in the middle of the sitting! Cui Yan, Guo Tu and others were shocked, and hurriedly rushed up to pick up Da Yuan Sangong, but saw that Da Yuan Sangong had a crooked tongue, his eyes were white and his pupils were missing, the muscles on his face were still twitching, and the whole person was unconscious............

(To be continued)