Chapter 340: The Heroes Compete
As the saying goes, people are not as good as heaven, and plans always can't catch up with changes.
While Jingnan was developing rapidly in a stable manner, and Wang Xu was also drastically hoarding supplies, strengthening armaments, and accumulating strength to prepare for the upcoming war, the north underwent earth-shaking changes in just a few months.
After Yuan Shao co-opted everyone and made Liu Yu the emperor completely bankrupt, it meant that he wanted to seek power from top to bottom and control the new emperor, so that the road of submission of the world would not work. But if it is based on strength alone, he is nothing at all now, and even a chariot general is still self-proclaimed. Although relying on the prestige of the Yuan family and the grace of his ancestors, he was supported by many protégés and former officials, and many princes were willing to attach themselves to him, but his own strength was not strong enough, and he only controlled the land of Bohai County.
Since the existence of the Dong Alliance, one of his two direct troops and horses stayed in the Bohai Sea in the east of Jizhou, while the other was stationed in Hanoi in the north of Sili, separated by Han Fu's territory, not far from the garrisons of Wang Kuang, Cao Cao, Zhang Yang and others. If the forces of other princes are excluded, his strength may not even be as good as Yuan Shu.
And now, he has failed again in supporting the new emperor, and if he does not quickly find a way to change the status quo, in the long run, it will inevitably make the dependent princes lose confidence and gradually disperse, and then there will be no part for him to speak. What's more, his nominal cousin, Yuan Shu, who is actually a half-brother, is still competing with him and hating each other.
Just when he was worried in his heart and didn't know what to do, Jizhou Mu Hanfu happened to be sent to the door. Originally, the relationship between the two was good, and Han Fu was promoted by the previous generation of the Yuan family, and he was regarded as a protégé of the Yuan family. Among the two brothers of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao was also chosen as the object of support, but with the development of the shape, Yuan Shao's weakness also made him gradually rise to dissent. I can't figure out that he is a state pastor and is in charge of the military and political power in Jizhou. Why should you obey your subordinates?
After all, Yuan Shao was actually just a Bohai Taishou. And Bohai is only a county in Jizhou, although Han Fu's real power has never been able to manage Bohai and Yuan Shao, but he is qualified to manage it. As for Yuan Shao's self-appointed general of the Che Cavalry, everyone knows that it is nonsense at all. It's just a virtual number. If he buys it, then he is, and if he doesn't buy it, then it's not a fart.
It's just that he didn't dare to go against Yuan Shao clearly. After all, now Cao Cao, Zhang Yang, Wang Kuang, Gongsun Zan and other princes, and even many of his generals support Yuan Shao. Therefore, after thinking about it, this Han Fu had an idea, and he thought of a bad trick, which suddenly cut off the supply of grain and grass for Yuan Shao's army in Hanoi. It was hoped that Yuan Shao's army would be dispersed on its own, further weakening its power, and then finding a way to recover Bohai County.
But that's a real explosion. Yuan Shao and others stationed troops in Hanoi County, north of Luoyang. Although he didn't actually do anything, he still insisted on confronting Dong Zhuo nominally. In the past few days, he has also fought a few battles with Dong Zhuo's subordinates in Hedong County. His actions were immediately met with countless opposition, even if he was far away in Youzhou, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Yu and others who had nothing to do with Dong also issued a message to denounce him.
I have to say that Han Fu is quite pitiful, as a strong party, his thoughts are not wrong. But he was in a hurry, and he didn't think about what it meant in this era of loyalty as a protégé of the Yuan family, who was also raised by the Yuan family, to do this kind of thing. I didn't see the current situation clearly, and I don't know how many people I would offend if I obstructed the fight against Dong in Jizhou, where there were many righteous people. I didn't see clearly how high his current reputation was, whether the foundation was solid enough, and whether he had the ability to shock everyone.
Soon, his subordinate general Ju Yi took the lead in leading the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to mutiny, occupy Changshan, and form an alliance with Yuan Shao. Han Fu personally led his troops to attack, but was defeated by him instead. Subsequently, the subordinate officials and generals were even more detached, and many people rose up to let Yuan Shao enter Jizhou. Seeing this shape, Yuan Shao's ministers were not stupid, and they all mentioned yì, asking him to take this opportunity to force Han Fu to give way.
Yuan Shaozheng was worried that he had no place to stand, so he agreed, and immediately secretly wrote to Gongsun Zhan, inviting him to send troops to discuss Han Fu, and promised to share the land of Jizhou with him after his success. At the same time, he himself led his troops back and made a posture of fighting against Han Fu.
Han Fu was really panicked at this time, and seeing Gongsun Zhan's cavalry approaching quickly, he immediately led his troops to meet him again. But where is he Gongsun Zhan's opponent, although there are more soldiers and horses than the other party, he can fight three times in a row and lose! Just when he was riding a tiger and regretted it, Yuan Shao listened to Feng Ji's words and sent his nephew Gao Gan, as well as Xin Ping, Xun Chen, Guo Tu and others who supported him to persuade Han Fu.
These three people are all Yingchuan celebrities, and Xun Chen is a member of the Xun family and Xun Yu's younger brother. In addition, he has been an official in Jizhou, so he is very trusted by Han Fu. Their persuasion made Han Fu soon decide to give up the power in his hands, and resolutely surrendered Jizhou to Yuan Shao despite the persuasion of the loyal and righteous people under his account, Geng Wu, Min Chun, Li Li, Zhao Fu, and Cheng Lian. Since then, the original loyal officials and generals under Han Fu have all been disheartened by him and have turned to Yuan Shao. Only Geng Wu and Min Chun were angry and stopped everyone.
Soon, Yuan Shao led his troops to easily reach the county capital of Wei County, which was also the seat of Jizhou Yecheng. Subsequently, as a result, the state pastor seal in Han Fu's hand officially accepted the entire Jizhou, except for Geng Wu and Min Chun, the rest of them were rewarded. And he was not too ruthless with Han Fu, and praised him as a Fenwei general, but he didn't have any real power, neither let him command the troops, nor let him set up an official office.
Moreover, the newly appointed capital official engaged in Zhu Han, because he was once despised by Han Fu, and now he thought that he wanted to cater to Yuan Shao's wishes, so he took the opportunity to take revenge and led people to Han Fu's house. Although Han Fu himself escaped, his eldest son had his legs broken because of this. After Yuan Shao heard the news, he was immediately furious and took Zhu Han into custody and put him to death, which was worthy of Han Fu's abdication. However, Han Fu was still worried about being killed after all, so he resigned to Yuan Shao in desperation, and left Jizhou with his family, missing his whereabouts.
But this incident deeply stimulated Gongsun Zhan.
Although because of Wang Xu's relationship, there are some small changes in history, and the time of occurrence is also advanced. Sun Jian did not become a vassal of Yuan Shu before and after the fight against Dong, nor did he make a history of Yuzhou, but quickly returned to Wu County. Therefore, it was impossible for Yuan Shao to let Zhou Ang attack Sun Jian, and Gongsun Yue, the younger brother of Gongsun Zhan, could not die in the battle because of Yuan Shu's assignment. Therefore, it seems that the possibility of hatred between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao has been lost.
But Yuan Shao used him to annex Jizhou this time, but only gave him a county in Bohai, which made Gongsun Zan extremely angry, but the time had not yet come, and he could only endure it temporarily. It's just that the situation of Hebei's unity in supporting Yuan Shao has changed.
Soon, Cao Cao saw that Yuan Shao was powerful and his selfish desires were rapidly expanding, and he was also completely disappointed in this old friend.
At this time, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army invaded Yanzhou East County, and Liu Dai appointed the East County Taishou Wang Qiu could not resist and retreated to Jiyin. Under the persuasion of Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, Cao Cao decisively bid farewell to Yuan Shao, resolutely led his troops across the Yellow River, and exterminated the Yellow Turban. In order to continue to win over Cao Cao, Yuan Shao performed him as the Taishou of Dongjun.
With the emptiness of Hanoi, it didn't take long for Dong Zhuo's subordinates to take advantage of the emptiness of Hanoi to raid Wang Kuang, and Wang Kuang was defeated. In desperation, he could only lead the remnants of the army to return to his hometown in Taishan County to recruit soldiers. Subsequently, the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo, who was already attached to Yuan Shao, saw that the opportunity was wrong, suddenly rebelled, governed Zhang Yang to cater to Dong Zhuo, and rebelled against Yuan Shao. Dong Zhuo was also happy to sit back and enjoy his success, and took advantage of the situation to reappoint Zhang Yang as the general of Jianyi, and Hanoi was too guarded.
In this way, it was calm for two months, and it was not until the end of the first month of 191 A.D. that after the consumption of midwinter, the main force of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, which was greatly short of food, raised troops again. More than 300,000 troops attacked the Bohai Sea, intending to pass through Jizhou and join Zhang Yan of Montenegro, who was also the remnant of the Yellow Turban. When Gongsun Zhan heard the news, he immediately led 20,000 infantry and cavalry to meet the attack south of Dongguang County, breaking the Yellow Turban Army and killing more than 30,000 people. Then he chased and killed all the way, killed tens of thousands, captured 70,000, and the rest fled back to Qingzhou, and his reputation was shocked for a while.
At this time, Liu Yu, the son of Youzhou Mu and Liu He, a servant of the imperial court, secretly dedicated the emperor's life, escaped from Chang'an, left Sili from Wuguan, and wanted to go to Youzhou to find Liu Yu, hoping that Liu Yu would send troops to welcome the emperor's return to the east. It's a pity that halfway through the road, Nanyang Yuan Shu got the news and intercepted it. And in order to force Liu Yu to support him, the other party, Yuan Shao, also detained him and did not let him go.
After Liu Yu got the news, he sent thousands of cavalry south and rushed to Nanyang to meet Liu He. And Gongsun Zan was nominally Liu Yu's subordinate, and he had long seen that Yuan Shu had his own ambition to be the emperor, so he dissuaded Liu Yu, but Liu Yu did not listen. Gongsun Zan was afraid that Yuan Shu would resent him when he found out about this, so he also sent his cousin Gongsun Yue to lead a thousand cavalry to meet Yuan Shu, and secretly instigated Yuan Shu to detain Liu He and annex the team sent by Liu Yu.
How did Yuan Shao know that he was smart, not only did it, but also found a way to reveal it to Liu Yu. This is amazing, Gongsun Chan was originally promoted and cultivated by Liu Yu, and Liu Yu has always tolerated Gongsun Chan, but there is a grudge between the two at this moment. In addition, the two have always had conflicts in dealing with people outside Cyprus, so the relationship has become extremely tense.
It's a pity that Liu Yu is a person who has no ambition at all and is dedicated to the country, he only has how to guard the frontier in his eyes, and he doesn't want to fight for power and profit at all, so he missed the best opportunity to kill Gongsun Zhan.
In the blink of an eye, it was February 192 AD. Wang Xu, who learned about the changes in the Central Plains, was also a little anxious, and held the first high-level meeting in half a year...... (To be continued, if you want to know what happens, please log in to the http://www.biquge.info.)
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