Yuan Shao couldn't help but feel a little moved when he saw Sun Ce asking for orders to crusade against Liu Xuan, but he was afraid that Sun Ce would get out of his control after taking charge of the army, so he hesitated.

Seeing this, Xu You immediately understood Yuan Shao's intentions, and said: "General Sun is a descendant of the Soldier Saint, known as a brave name, but he is still young and has shallow qualifications, and he is afraid that the army will be unstable if he dares to lead the troops to the battle!" Since the princes discussed Dong, the eldest prince Yuan Tan followed the lord to fight against the ministers, experienced on the battlefield for a long time, brave and good at fighting, and made great achievements, if the eldest prince and General Sun led the troops together, they will be able to break Liu Xuan and capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop! ”

Yuan Shao was overjoyed, and laughed: "Ziyuan's words are very much in line with my wishes!" Yuan Tan, Sun Ce obeys the order! ”

"Mo will be!" The two immediately stepped forward. Sun Ce was born in 175, one year older than Ma Chao, and Yuan Tan was two years older than Sun Ce, but Yuan Tan's concubine Sun Ning was Sun Ce's own sister, so the relationship between the two was extremely complicated.

I only heard Yuan Shao say, "Today, I ordered the two of you to order 50,000 armor soldiers to conquer Guangling, Liu Xuan, Zhao Yu, Zhenrong and others, and after the matter was completed, they marched into Xuzhou Pengcheng and Xiapi, and fully cooperated with Cao Ying and Yan Liang to attack Xuzhou!" ”

"Obey!" The two of them were secretly happy in their hearts, knowing that there were not many opportunities to lead troops to fight alone, and if they won this battle beautifully, they would soon be famous all over the world and become a generation of famous generals.

As soon as the two of them retreated, a personal soldier suddenly came to report that Yang Hong, who had sent Lu Bu, had just rushed back to the camp and had come to ask to see him. Yuan Shao's spirits perked up, he was still worried about Lu Bu's unclear attitude just now, and now that Yang Hong has returned, he will be able to bring back good news, so he will be summoned immediately.

After a while, Yang Hong, who was covered with dust, walked into the hall with his head drooped, bowed down, and said respectfully: "Yang Hong visited the lord, failed to complete the lord's entrustment, and asked the lord to surrender!" ”

Yuan Shao frowned, waved his hand and said, "Yang Cheng doesn't need to be polite, tell me what happened in detail!" ”

Yang Hong secretly complained in his heart, he recommended himself as the ambassador of peace this time, he was full of confidence, Yuan Shao has the identity of the fourth and third princes, and the object of this peace is Yuan Shao's favorite youngest son Yuan Shang, Lu Bu has no reason not to agree, but the result is very unexpected.

Yuan Shao has a wife and five concubines, with a total of four sons and one daughter, of which the eldest son Yuan Tan, the eldest daughter Yuan Fang, the second son Yuan Xi, and the third son Yuan Shang were all born to his wife, Mrs. Liu. In addition, there is also a concubine Yuan Mai, born to Yuan Shao's concubine. Mrs. Liu is the daughter of the Liu family of the Han family, so the backgrounds of these four people can be described as extremely noble, as for Yuan Mai, she is a concubine and has a child, and she can't enter the stage at all.

Speaking of which, I have to waste some pen and ink talking about this Mrs. Liu. It is really unclear which lineage Mrs. Liu comes from in the Liu family, but this person is one of the famous jealous and poisonous women in history. Mrs. Liu, like Yuan Shao, loves the beautiful Yuan Shang, and is extremely dissatisfied with Yuan Shao's five concubines. When Yuan Shao was alive, it was just when Yuan Shao died and was buried in the coffin, Mrs. Liu began to vent her jealousy and killed all the five concubines that Yuan Shao usually loved. But she was worried that Yuan Shao would see them in the underworld and be confused by them, so she ordered their faces to be destroyed and painted with ink. In order to please her, Yuan Shang also killed the family members of the five concubines.

This point is roughly similar in the notes and romances of the "Three Kingdoms". In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Jizhou Yecheng was broken by Cao Ying. When Cao Pi, the son of Cao Ying, entered Yuan Shang's house to meet Liu and Yuan Shao's second daughter-in-law, Zhen, Liu tied his hands to show respect. Later, in order to occupy Zhen Mi, Cao Pi secretly sent someone to kill Mrs. Liu without Cao Ying's knowledge, and the ending was much better than Liu Bang's wife Lu Pheasant, who was more jealous and poisonous than her.

Lu Pheasant invented the tragic human bi, killed Mrs. Liu Bangqi, and indirectly killed his own son. However, Lu Pheasant would never have dreamed that she would be a powerful and powerful person in her life, and she would play with power between applause, and she would be dug up by the Red Mei Army after two hundred years of death, and suffered the doom of annihilating the corpse, and it was also a round annihilation, which was simply a great shame, and the fate of the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty.

Well, gossip, in order to win over Lu Bu, Yuan Shao really gave a lot of lucrative conditions, not only recognizing Lu Bu's status as Yanzhou Mu, but also promising to come forward to resolve the grievances between him and Cao Ying. As long as Lü Buken returns Cao Ying's son Cao Pi to Cao Ying, the Bian family and Mrs. Yi will return to Lu Bu from then on, and Cao Ying will also withdraw from Yanzhou, and there will be no grudges between the two from now on, on the condition that they send troops to attack Ma Chao.

With such generous conditions, Lu Bu was really impressed, and immediately wanted to agree. But Chen Gong is not an idle person, and tries his best to dissuade Lu Bu from intervening in the battle between Ma Chao and Yuan Shao, even if he joins, the current time is far from ripe, at least to raise the price of both sides and get more benefits.

Lu Bu didn't like the polite Yuan Shang, and he regarded the smart and clever Cao Pi as his own, and he liked it very much, and he didn't want to give away his daughter and righteous son, so he came to a procrastination trick, so he had to eat and drink to entertain Yang Hong, but he didn't express his position.

At this time, Xun You took the edict of the Son of Heaven to envoy Lu Bu for the second time. There is a lot of friendship between the two, Guo Jia is the person recommended by Xun You to Lu Bu, and now Lu Bu unloads the grinding and kills the donkey, but uses Guo Jia and Qin Yi to blackmail Ma Chao, and after seeing Xun You again, Lu Bu will inevitably blush and feel embarrassed.

Xun You had already figured out Lu Bu's temper, and at the moment he didn't say a word about his house arrest of Guo Jia and Qin Yi, and read out the edict of the Son of Heaven straight to the point. Lu Bu was immediately overjoyed, this time it can be said that he gained fame and fortune, not only won the position of the general of the chariot and cavalry of the third duke, but also got 5,000 war horses and 500,000 grains. With these war horses and grain and grass, he can completely form an elite cavalry unit in a short time, why be afraid of Cao Ying?

Afterwards, Lu Bu discussed with Chen Gong, Zhang Yang and other confidants, and soon reached an agreement, that is, to have both fish and bear's paws. There are daughters, but they will neither marry the puppet son of heaven nor Yuan Shang, so as not to offend the other party. At the same time, he accepted Ma Chao's supplies and the post of chariot general, agreed to return Guo Jia and Qin Yi, and said that there would be no mutual aggression, and as a condition, Ma Chao must cede Yanzhou to Yanjin, Baima, Jibei and other places north of the Yellow River.

sent Xun You away, Lu Bu met with Yang Hong at the suggestion of Chen Gong, and rejected Yuan Shao's proposal in the name of his daughter's premature marriage, but was willing to accept Yuan Shao's reconciliation, and on the condition of offering Cao Pi, Cao Ying would completely get out of Yanzhou, and he Lu Bu would remain neutral and not help each other!

Chen Gong's idea was a good one, and after Yang Hong and Xun You returned to report the matter to their respective masters, Ma Chao and Yuan Shao were both furious. Yuan Shao is the best face, Lu Bu is just a martial artist, and it is already very humble to be able to put down his identity and marry him, but he didn't think of being rejected by others. Although Lu Bu did not agree to Ma Chao, there was a wolf at the door of his house, and Yuan Shao was inevitably restless.

Ma Chao is the same, you Lu Bu didn't agree to sacrifice your daughter, but tried to seek strategic places such as Baima and Yanjin. Once these places are lost, Jizhou will no longer have a barrier, which is equivalent to handing over their fate to others! The most hateful Lu Bu did not hand over Guo Jia and Qin Yi, and he still keeps it in his hand as a bargaining chip.

Xun You didn't expect Lu Bu and Chen Gong's appetite to be so big, and they were helpless for a while. After pondering for a long time, Ma Chao gritted his teeth and said: "Raising tigers is a problem, and it is all about it!" At this point, we must adjust our strategic deployment, and Gongsun Chan can only let it go for the time being, first concentrate on exterminating Lu Bu, repel Lu Yi and Chun Yuqiong, and lay the situation in the Central Plains in one fell swoop! ”

Xun You, Huang Zhong, Cao and other generals also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and when they saw that Ma Chao had made up his mind, they all nodded in agreement. Xun You said: "The lord's move can be described as a broken boat, concentrate all his strength and Yuan Shao and others to fight to the death, if you win, the general trend of the world can be determined, if you lose, several years of hard work into flowing water, only retreat to Guanzhong to recuperate!" ”

Ma Chao said: "This is also a helpless move, if the current situation is changing rapidly, how can the plan change quickly?" Lu Bu is an ambitious person, and he is assisted by Chen Gong and others, if he is allowed to become the climate, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to deal with in the future! This is not the case with Gongsun Zhan, there is still Liu Yu in Youzhou to check and balance Gongsun Zhan, and the two of them are firmly trapped in Youzhou by the general, even if they make trouble, it is difficult to make big waves! ”

Xun You nodded and said, "I don't know how the lord plans to stabilize the situation in the north?" ”

Ma Chao pondered for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu have always had contradictions, and the only way to do this is to use Liu Yu to contain Gongsun Chan." This general immediately named Liu He as the general of Zhonglang, added the lord Yuyanghou, and asked Liu Yu to send troops to attack Gongsun Zhan, and at the same time let Ma Tie lead the Hun cavalry to divert the route from Bingzhou to attack Gongsun Zhan! Even if the two armies can't destroy Gongsun Zhan, they can still contain him in Youzhou, so that we will have enough time to exterminate Lu Bu and repel Yuan Shao! ”

Xun You nodded and said, "The lord has a wonderful plan!" Lu Bu waited for the price to sell, and he had no defense against us, if he was unprepared to sneak attack with elite cavalry, he would definitely be able to hit him hard! Now that the vanguard of Koji Yi has arrived in Yingchuan, it is absolutely impossible to let the two of them be in one place, and they will be able to destroy Lu Bu's main force like lightning when they are soldiers! ”

"That's exactly how it should be!" After agreeing on the plan, Ma Chao immediately sent his henchmen to Bingzhou with his handwritten letter, informing Ma Tie's 20,000 Hun cavalry to divert to Youzhou, and at the same time asked Liu He, who was with him, to write a handwritten letter to his father Liu Yu, explaining the pros and cons.

Now, Liu Yu must express his position, if he sends troops to attack Gongsun Zhan, not only will his only son Liu He get his surname, but your Liu Yu will also enjoy endless glory and wealth, if it drags on any longer, Liu He will immediately fall to the ground, and Liu Yu will also be branded as a thief! In the end, he sent someone to transfer Zhao Yun's troops to Liyang, and ordered Zhang He's 20,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed in Hejian to prevent Gongsun Zan from invading the city of Jizhou at any cost.

After Yuan Shao was furious, he also hated Lü Bu for taking the opportunity to blackmail, and after consulting with the strategists, he decided to help Cao Ying recapture Yanzhou first and completely eliminate Lü Bu, an unstable factor. On the one hand, he sent an envoy to Cao Ying, and set a schedule for sending troops, and on the other hand, he ordered Lu Yi and Chun Yuqiong, so that the two of them would attack Chen Liudaliang, Dongjun and other places at any cost, and attack Lu Bu with Cao Ying. (To be continued.) )