When they arrived at the north bank of the Hutuo River, Gongsun Chan suddenly ordered the army to temporarily set up camp on the riverside, but he was not in a hurry to cross the river to the south, which surprised many generals in the army.

When the army was raised, Gongsun Zhan claimed to his soldiers that he wanted to ally with Yuan Shao in Jizhou, and then marched west to defeat Dong thieves, and welcomed the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang.

This statement sounds very reasonable.

But it's just a matter of listening. If anyone really believes, there are some too young, too simple Tucson breaks.

This is the case in this era of chaos and commotion, before marching and fighting, it is necessary to find a sanctimonious reason to seize the commanding heights of public opinion and morality, that is, the so-called "division is famous"; as for whether or not the army really fought according to the slogan declared before leaving the division, then few people will investigate and theorize.

The reason why Gongsun Chan ordered the troops to stay here was that he suddenly received a letter from Han Fu secretly sent yesterday.

In the letter, Han Fu told Gongsun Zhan unabashedly about Yuan Shao sending someone to persuade him to let Xian, and then asked himself in a puzzled tone: "Alas, Jizhou is so big, and now there are two tigers coming, who should I give it to?" ”

Fortunately, Han Fu didn't say the words "two vicious dogs came to grab food" like Liu He, otherwise Gongsun Zhan would definitely not stop marching at this time, and it is very likely that he would go to Gaoyi to "grab food" in anger.

Although the tiger and the vicious dog both have four legs, they are obviously not comparable.

Gongsun Zhan is not a brainless warrior, as one of the top five warlords in the comprehensive strength of the Han Dynasty during this period, he accurately sniffed out what Han Fu wanted him to smell from Han Fu's letter.

Why didn't Yuan Shao rush to attack Han Fu without waiting for him to go south? Gongsun Chan is now beginning to doubt Yuan Shao's intentions.

If it is true, as Han Fu said, Yuan Shao is forcing and enticing him to give up Jizhou, then once this matter is completed before Gongsun Chan leads the army into Jizhou, it will be tantamount to putting Gongsun Chan together.

At that time, Yuan Shao took over Han Fu's territory and soldiers and horses, not only did his strength increase greatly, but he could also say to Gongsun Zhan confidently: Oh, I'm really embarrassed, General Gongsun, your movements are a little slow, I have been waiting for you in Fucheng, but I didn't expect Han Fu to understand the righteousness, crying and shouting to give Jizhou to me, considering that the people of Jizhou are in dire straits, this matter is delayed for one more day, and the people will suffer one more day, so I had to reluctantly accept Han Fu's request. Uh, ahem......, this ...... That ......, Jizhou is now mine, where did you come from, buddy, or where are you going back?

In order not to be calculated by Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan decisively stopped the army on the north bank of the Hutuo River.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Guan Jing, the chief strategist of Gongsun Zhan, gritted his teeth and said: "General, since Yuan Shao has not deceived Jizhou from Han Fu until now, then things are still promising!" Please send an envoy to ask Yuan Shao now, why don't you wait for our military horses to arrive in Jizhou and start to do it, if Yuan Shao finds such and such reasons to prevaricate, then ask him what to do next! ”

The general Yan Gang said: "The army is going south, how can it return empty-handed!" If Yuan Shao only cares about taking benefits, we don't have to worry about the original agreement, and when the time comes, please ask the general to give an order, and the last general is willing to lead the army to Yuan Shao's lair, take Nanpi, and control the Bohai Sea! ”

General Zou Dan also got up and said: "What Captain Yan said is reasonable, even if our army does not fall out with Yuan Shao this time, when Han Fu withdraws from Jizhou, sooner or later it will become an opponent." There is a saying that 'strike first is strong, and then strike at disaster', no matter how the matter in Jizhou is solved this time, the general should be extremely wary of Yuan Shao, and do not be deceived by his rhetoric! ”

Liu Weitai, the younger brother of Gongsun Zhan, who came with the army and was in charge of the supply of grain and grass for the army, proposed: "Now that our army is coming with the power of a great victory, then Han Fu must be frightened, so it is better to send an envoy to Gaoyi to follow Yuan Shao's actions and persecute Han Fu." At that time, Han Fu was in a dilemma, maybe he would divide Jizhou into two, half to the general, and half to Yuan Shao, so that we could get half of Jizhou without blood, and at the same time avoid a direct war with Yuan Shao.

After listening to everyone's opinions and suggestions, Gongsun Zhan frowned and pondered for a moment, and then said: "What you have said is meritorious, I will write a letter to Yuan Shao and Han Fu separately to see how they react!" If Yuan Shao knows each other, he will obediently ask me to take Jizhou together, if he wants to swallow it alone, then don't blame me for being polite! If Han Fu is acquainted, he should ask me and Yuan Shao to discuss the affairs of Jizhou, if he wants to sit and watch me fight with Yuan Shao and the two tigers and then benefit, I will lead the troops to destroy him first! ”

"The general's plan is long-term and thoughtful, we might as well wait!"

"It's talk or fighting, everything is under the orders of the general!"

Gongsun Zhan's side then set a countermeasure, and the next day sent his third brother Li Yizi to Fucheng with Yuan Shao's envoy Xu Yu to question, and at the same time sent Changshi Guan Jing to Gaoyi to meet Han Fu.

It is worth mentioning that in order to ensure the safety of Guan Jing and Li Yizi on the road, Gongsun Zhan each dispatched a hundred white horse followers to accompany him, and the leader of the cavalry guarding Guan Jing was the young general Zhao Yun.

However, it was said that after Yuan Shao retreated to Fucheng, he was a little unsure of Gongsun Zhan's intentions, so he sent his strategist Feng Ji to the north, and when he came to a place called Linping, he happened to meet Xu You and Li Yizi who were going south.

Xu You was sent by Yuan Shao to Lingzhi to fool Gongsun Zhan, and this time he completed the task and successfully led Gongsun Zhan from Youzhou to Jizhou. But when Gongsun Zhan's army stopped north of the Hutuo River, he realized that something had happened, so he whispered from Li Yizi's mouth on the way south.

With Xu You's resourcefulness, it is really easy to try to talk to Li Yizi, who was born as a peddler. Soon, he learned the inside story of Han Fu's letter.

After meeting Feng Ji on the way, Xu You exchanged views with him, and then suggested that Feng Ji continue to go north to see Gongsun Zhan, and first use words to stabilize him. Feng Ji felt that in the current situation, there was no better trick to play for the time being, so he listened to Xu You's opinion.

After Li Yizi saw Yuan Shao, he presented Gongsun Zhan's letter with obvious anger, and Yuan Shao didn't speak for a long time after reading it.

"The children of the Liu family are really hateful, and they have ruined a certain good thing!"

Suddenly, Yuan Shao smashed his fist on the several cases in front of him, which startled Li Yizi.

"I don't know who Yuan Gong is to call the children of the Liu family? What does this person have to do with what you and our armies have agreed on? Li Yizi asked a little puzzled.

Yuan Shao was angry for a while, and it was not easy to say that it was Liu He who had broken his plan to force Han Fu to sell Jizhou, and said vaguely: "Please also reply to General Gongsun, Han Fu Lao'er has ill intentions, and his so-called matter of ceding Jizhou to me is really nonsense, and the intention is to instigate the first battle between the two armies of Gui and China, so that he can benefit from it!" Now that your army has approached Gaoyi, please come to reinforcements as soon as possible and work together to drive away Han Fu'er! ”

Li Yizi was not stupid, he remembered that Gongsun Zhan explained his affairs before leaving, so he asked: "Before leaving, General Gongsun specially confessed to the contemptible people, saying that there is no problem with the joint dispatch of troops, but after Han Fu is driven away from Jizhou, how will your army and our army get along?" ”

Yuan Shao was speechless for a while. At the beginning, he only thought of using Gongsun Chan to help him gain momentum, where did he ever think of giving Gongsun Chan the fruit? Now that it has become a difficult situation to ride a tiger, I really haven't figured out how to send Gongsun Zhan.

Xu You on the side interjected: "Now that Han Fu has tens of thousands of soldiers in the area from Gaoyi to Gaotao, and Bo Luoting is guarded by Zhang He, is it too early to talk about the division of Jizhou in the future?" ”

Yuan Shao immediately nodded and said: "What Mr. Ziyuan said is extremely true, the current plan is how to defeat Han Fu, and the rest of the things will not be too late to take Gaoyi!" ”

Li Yizi didn't get an accurate answer from Yuan Shao, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, but he said: "Since Yuan Gong has an idea, the contemptible person will return to his righteous brother." ”

After Li Yizi left, Xu You whispered to Yuan Shao: "My lord, that Li Yizi was originally a merchant and a mercenary, so you might as well bribe him a lot of money and let him speak for us after returning to Gongsun Zhan!" ”

Yuan Shao asked: "Now that the situation is deadlocked, there is no other way than to use force, what can this Li Yizi say for us?" ”

Xu You replied: "Gongsun Chan is now powerful, if the lord can't take over Han Fu's territory in a short period of time, he can only compete with Gongsun Chan in Jizhou." In this case, why not look at the state west of Taihang? The lord can give Li Yizi a lot of money, and let him instigate Gongsun Zan to lead the army to attack Zhang He and Gaoyi, and our army might as well go south to take Qinghe and Wei County first! ”

"Ziyuan means that we will cede the territory in the north of Jizhou to Gongsun Zhan and let him fight with Han Fu in the area from Gaoyi to Gaotao?"

"Exactly. Now that the situation has changed, the lord must not hesitate, and when he decides, he will decide. The humble position thought that the lord might as well temporarily agree to give up Hejian, Zhongshan and Bohai in the north of Jizhou, as well as Anping County to Gongsun Zhan, while we went to seize the weakly defended Qinghe, Zhao and Wei counties, and so on, and after taking Wei County, the lord could send a large army from Huguan into the chaotic state of Merge, taking advantage of the fact that Dong Thief was now unable to look north and Zhang Yang was shrinking Hanoi to the supreme party, and control most of the state in one fell swoop! ”

Yuan Shao twisted his eyebrows, stroked his beard under his chin, and carefully pondered Xu Yu's words.

As a first-class strategist during the Three Kingdoms period, Xu You's strategic plan proposed to Yuan Shao was undoubtedly desirable. He seemed to be persuading Yuan Shao to make concessions to Gongsun Zhan, but in fact, he threw Jizhou's hard-to-gnaw bones to Gongsun Zhan.

If Gongsun Chan takes the territory occupied by Han Fu in the north of Jizhou after a hard battle, he will not be able to continue to go south for a period of time; If Gongsun Zhan was defeated by Han Fu's desperate resistance and retreated to Youzhou, Yuan Shao would take the opportunity to attack Han Fu from the south of Jizhou to the north, and then maximize his interests.

Xu Yu's strategy can be summed up in eight words: avoid the real and make the virtual, and take retreat as advance.

"Ziyuan, I'm afraid that if I give up Hejian, Zhongshan, Bohai and Anping County to Gongsun Zhan, I still can't fill his desires."

"Don't worry, my lord, when the time comes, Gongsun Chan is afraid that he won't even be able to eat these places, how can Liu Bo'an in Youzhou sit back and watch Gongsun Chan continue to sit big?"

"Well, it seems that Ziyuan's plan is indeed long-term, and he can act according to this plan!"

Immediately, Yuan Shao gave Li Yizi a number of cars and goods, and then claimed that he was willing to share Jizhou with Gongsun Zhan, in order to avoid misunderstandings between the two sides in the future, he would immediately lead the army south to Qinghe, and give up the Jizhou seat Gaoyi and the important town of Gaotao.

Li Yizi was a man of the same age, where could he see Yuan Shao's plan, so he happily accepted Yuan Shao's bribe, and then returned to Hutuo River to report to Gongsun Zhan.

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