When Lü Bu and Huangfu Jianshou fled eastward with the Son of Heaven and a cadre of ministers, Li Dao and Guo Yan, who had retreated to Chang'an, fought with Yuan Shao, and the two sides seemed to hold back their strength and refused to give in half.

The reason why Li Wei let the Son of Heaven not chase him, but wanted to turn back and fight for Chang'an with Yuan Shao, was because he knew that even if he snatched back the Son of Heaven from Lu Bu, if Chang'an was occupied by Yuan Shao, he would have no place in Guanzhong, and sooner or later he would be wiped out by the surrounding forces.

The reason why Yuan Shao watched Lü Bu take the Son of Heaven hostage and flee eastward, but he wanted to compete with Li Dao and Guo Yan for Chang'an, was because he knew that with Lü Bu's character, he would never escort the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, but would turn to Hedong. Lu Bu's road to Hedong was deliberately let out by Yuan Shao, and now Zhao Yun has withdrawn to Hanoi, and Lu Yi has controlled Jiangyi, the heartland of Hedong, as long as Lu Bu enters Hedong, he is a turtle in the urn, and he can't run out of Yuan Shao's palm.

Yuan Shao's troops always couldn't take advantage of Liu He's troops when they fought against them, but after changing opponents, they were very brave, even against fierce people like Li Dao and Guo Yan, they were not inferior, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were very uncomfortable.

Li Wei went out of the city several times to face the battle, but was defeated by Yan Liang, in order to preserve his strength, he had to hide in Chang'an to defend, and watched Yuan Shao occupy all the territory of Zuo Fengyi, which originally belonged to him. Yuan Shao was also afraid that the troops would lose too much in Chang'an, and after finding that he could not capture Chang'an in a short period of time, he asked Yan Liang's troops to confront Li Dao in Chang'an City across the Weishui River at Yangling, forty miles north of Chang'an.

When he saw that Li Dao's territory was occupied by Yuan Shao, he was worried that Li Dao would come to seize the territory with him, so he found an excuse to withdraw from Chang'an with his troops and stationed them in Huaili, fifty miles west of Chang'an.

Although Li Wei knew that Guo Yan was guarding against himself, because Yuan Shao's troops were still eyeing Yangling, it was difficult for him to attack. had to be kind enough to appease Guo Yan, and at the same time try his best to win over Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, Wang Fang and others, and strive to maintain the situation of the warlords of all walks of life in Guanzhong being unanimous with the outside world.

However, since ancient times, everyone has rushed to do the icing on the cake, but the thing that sends charcoal in the snow is rarely heard of and some people are willing to do it. Li Dao had been in Guanzhong for many years, and everyone had a lot of resentment against him in their hearts, otherwise Guo Yan and Zhang Ji would not have been easily instigated by Zhong Xuan. Li Dao fought with Lu Bu and Yuan Shao repeatedly, although he did not taste defeat, but the troops suffered heavy losses, and now he has lost the territory used to restore his vitality. It only occupies an empty Chang'an City, and its actual control ability can only be described as getting worse and worse.

After Yuan Shao learned that Guo Yan had withdrawn from Chang'an, he secretly sent people to contact the two minor warlords, Fan Chou and Wang Fang, and promised them that if they switched to his own camp, he would not only give the two of them an official and a knighthood, but also give them the territory that originally belonged to Li Ji and Zhang Ji. This Fan Chou and Wang Fang were originally villains who forgot their righteousness, and after seeing Li Wei's decline, they were already moved. After Yuan Shao's coercion and temptation, he drew a clear camp with Li Dao.

After Yuan Shao got rid of Fan Chou and Wang Fang, he sent people to threaten Guo Yan and asked Guo Yan to take his troops to Longxi. Otherwise, he will send troops to attack Huaili first. Guo Yan was intimidated by Yuan Shao, and hurriedly sent someone to Chang'an to contact Li Wei, who immediately replied to Guo Yan, promising that Yuan Shao would send troops to attack Guo Yan once he sent troops. He will personally lead troops out of the city for reinforcements. Guo Yan got Li Wei's promise, so he didn't take Yuan Shao's words as a threat, and still stationed troops in Huaili. It echoes with Guo Yan inside and outside.

After Yuan Shao occupied Zuo Fengyi, it was equivalent to opening up the road from Jinyang to Chang'an, and he gave an order to the senior cadres who stayed in Jinyang to send 10,000 soldiers and horses to Yangling. After Jinyang's reinforcements arrived, Yuan Shao gave Yan Liang an order to send troops to attack Guo Yan. After Li Wei received Guo Yan's urgent report for help, he sent troops to reinforce Huaili as agreed, but the soldiers and horses were stopped by Fan Chou and Wang Fang's troops before they left the city.

The reason why Fan Chou and Wang Fang stopped Li Wei's troops was very simple, or ridiculous. At the beginning, Li Wei had secretly contacted Fan Chou and Wang Fang to deal with Guo Yan together, and now these two people used this matter as a reason, they thought that there could only be one boss in Guanzhong, and Guo Yan was obviously a little redundant, and now since Yuan Shao wanted to clean up the portal for everyone, what reason did Li Wei have to send troops to reinforce Guo Yan?

In fact, all parties knew that the reason that Fan Chou and Wang Fang came up with was pure nonsense, but in order to avoid seeing each other, Li Dao could only endure it. Li Wei knew in his heart that if he forcibly sent troops from Chang'an to rescue Guo Yan, Fan Chou and Wang Fang, who had obviously fallen to Yuan Shao's side, would definitely not be afraid of a battle with him.

Yan Liang attacked Guo Shao for several days, but Guo Yan did not wait for Li Wei's reinforcements, he thought that Li Wei's previous promise was to fool himself, Guo Yan was angry and sent someone to see Yuan Shao, expressing his willingness to accept Yuan Shao's conditions, withdraw from Guanzhong, and go to Longxi. Yuan Shao then gave Yan Liang an order to temporarily stop the attack and sit back and watch Guo Yan lead his army to retreat westward.

After Guo Yan withdrew, Li Dao was able to rely on Zhang Ji's forces in Guanzhong, but he always had to pay it back, before Li Dao in order to force Guo Yan to stand with him, he had instigated Lu Bu to ambush Zhang Ji's troops to rescue Guo Yan, at that time, although Li Dao's attack on Guo Yan was a fake fight, but Lu Bu's ambush of Zhang Ji was a real fight. After Lu Bu suffered Li Ji's big loss, he sent people to Hedong to ask Yuan Shao for help, and when he sent someone to ask Yuan Shao for help, he shook off all these things to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao told Zhang Ji how Li Dao and Lu Bu secretly hooked up with Zhang Ji to calculate Zhang Ji, and Zhang Ji, who knew the truth, regretted not falling, and hated Li Dao to death in his heart, where would he stand in the same camp with Li Dao again?

Although Zhang Ji hated Li Dao for repeatedly using him, he also did not trust Yuan Shao, when he saw Guo Wei retreat to Longxi, he knew that Li Dao was going to be unlucky this time, and once Li Dao was finished, it would be his turn next. After some difficult thinking, Zhang Ji finally chose the same approach as Guo Yan, and while Yuan Shao and Li Dao were still confronting, he and his nephew Zhang Ji took the remaining troops to break into the rich Nanyang County through Lantian Valley.

As a result, only Yuan Shao and Li Dao were left in Guanzhong, and Fan Chou and Wang Fang were added to play soy sauce, and the situation suddenly became much clearer.

Li Wei, who was trapped in Chang'an, saw that Guo Yan and Zhang Ji were far away from Guanzhong, the land of right and wrong, and Fan Chou and Wang Fang switched to the camp, he panicked in his heart, he didn't want to sit still, so he wanted to involve Ma Teng and Han Sui in Xiliang in this dispute, so he asked Ji and Jia Xu.

Li Wei said: "Now that the situation is difficult, Yuan Shao's husband is becoming more and more rampant, I want to contact Xiliang Ma Teng and Han Sui to chase Yuan Shao together, I don't know if it's possible?" ”

Jia Xu replied: "Ma Teng and Han Sui, both tigers and wolves, watched the battle in Changping, and the general severely defeated these two, although several years have passed, they must have a grudge." Ma Teng and Han Sui saw that the general was now forced by Yuan Shao, and they did not come to the well not because their hatred had subsided, but because they had previously sent troops to attack Yuan Shao, which caused Yuan Shao's plan to attack Hanoi to fail, so they were worried about being attacked by Yuan Shao. If Yuan Shaoken puts down the festival and shows favor to Ma Teng and Han Sui, our situation will be even more worrying at that time. ”

Jia Xu's words suddenly made Li Wei's heart cool by half. Thinking of his hard work this time, and in the end he actually made a wedding dress for Yuan Shao, he felt inexplicable bitterness and grief in his heart.

"Am I at the end of my rope and have no way out?"

"There is another way, although it can't be rich and expensive, but it can ensure that hundreds of people in the Li family don't have to worry about their lives. But...... I'm afraid that I can't make up my mind. ”

Li Wei heard Jia Xu say that there was still a way to live, so hope was rekindled in his heart, and he begged Jia Xu and said: "Wenhe should stop selling Guanzi, although it is a pity that the power and wealth are lost, it will not be fatal." Now my Li family's lives are hanging by a thread, as long as I can let them live, I am willing to do any difficult thing! ”

"This time, we made some calculations, and finally drove away Lu Bu who was entrenched in Chang'an, but in the end, Yuan Shao finally made a profit, it seemed that it was in vain and made a wedding dress for Yuan Shao, but if you take a long-term view, Yuan Shao is just making a wedding dress for others."

"Yuan Shao has won the land of Guanzhong, how can he be making wedding dresses for others?"

"You might as well think about it, when the soldiers besieged Chang'an six years ago, Liu He only had 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands at that time, and he dared to come to Guanzhong to stir up the situation, and now he has more than 100,000 troops in his hands, and Luoyang is even more managed by him like an iron bucket, why has Chang'an been fighting so far, but he has not seen any movement?"

"You mean, Liu He deliberately let Yuan Shao come to Guanzhong to fight with us this time?"

"Indeed it is! Looking at Liu He's style of acting since his rise, what he is best at is layout, and he likes to draw it slowly. Yuan Shao's troops in Jizhou were defeated by Liu He's subordinate Tai Shici, and his troops in Hedong were defeated by Zhao Yun, plus Feng Ji had been defeated by Zhao Yun and Zhang He in the north of Bingzhou before, if Liu He wanted to take advantage of the situation to solve Yuan Shao, it was actually not difficult, why did he stop? The most bizarre thing is that after Zhao Yun discovered Yuan Shao's intention to attack Zuo Fengyi from Hedong, not only did he not take advantage of the situation to seize Anyi, but suddenly withdrew from Jiangyi to Hanoi, so that Yuan Shao could rest assured and boldly throw the main forces into Guanzhong to fight us, which led to the current situation ......"

Although Li Wei is not a master of strategy, he is not a mediocre talent, and when he heard Jia Xu say this, he completely understood Liu He's clever means of driving away tigers and wolves.

I understand and fully agree with all the truths that Wen He said. But what does this have to do with my way out? ”

"The way out for childishness is on Liu He! Now Chang'an has become a lonely city, it is useless to defend it, like chicken ribs, why not abandon Chang'an to Tongguan, between Luoyang and Chang'an, this is a way to live. ”

"In case Liu He and Yuan Shao attack Tongguan, wouldn't they kill themselves?"

"After the defeat of Gongsun Zhan, Tian Kai was isolated in the plains, and it was childish to see that Liu He and Yuan Shao had joined forces to deal with Tian Kai? When Duan Xuan had no way to retreat in Hedong, did he ever see Liu He and Yuan Shao join forces to deal with Duan Xuan? What Liu He wants to see is that we continue to fight hard with Yuan Shao, as long as we don't make peace with Yuan Shao for a day, he will not kill us completely. (To be continued......)