When Liu He announced his crusade against Yuan Shu, although he was still thousands of miles away from Yuan Shu, the "lethality" of Yuan Shu was huge. Liu He's remarks are not only the best endorsement of the attitude of the imperial court, but also the best excuse for the forces around Yuan Shu to take action against Yuan Shu.

The place occupied by Yuan Shu is the prosperous and wealthy Jianghuai land, whether it is Cao Cao, Liu Biao, or Jiangdong Sun Jian, they all covet this territory, the reason why they have not done anything to Yuan Shu for a long time is because it is very dangerous for any family to annex Yuan Shu's territory, and even become the unlucky praying mantis, which is cleaned up by the yellow finch hiding behind.

If Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shu, he had to worry that Liu He, north of the Yellow River, would attack his nest; If Liu Biao attacked Yuan Shu, he had to worry about whether Sun Jian's father and son, who occupied Yuzhang, would take the opportunity to attack Changsha and Guiyang; If Sun Jian attacked Yuan Shu, he would worry about whether Liu Biao of Jingzhou would stab him in the back; If Lu Zhi of Xuzhou crusaded against Yuan Shu, he would first have insufficient troops, and he would also have to guard against Cao Cao......

Liu He's public statement is undoubtedly a starting gun, before Yuan Shu is resolved, any undeclared war between these forces is a serious foul, and then the imperial court will show a red card to the foul party, and even send a hussar general who can fight well to talk to him.

What the? Some people say that Liu He is far away in the north, and he can only deter Cao Cao, and he can't reach Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Sun Jian in Jiangdong.

Please, please take a closer look at the current situation map of Dahan, and then make a discussion!

If the imperial court wanted Liu He to attack Liu Biao, then Liu He could gather troops in Hanoi and then attack Nanyang via Luoyang, which nominally belonged to Jingzhou. What's more critical is that once Liu He takes Nanyang, Liu Biao's good times in Jingzhou will be gone forever.

If the imperial court wants Liu He to attack Sun Jian. Then Liu He can gather troops in Qingzhou, and then transport the troops to Xuzhou by sea, or even directly throw the troops to Zhu Hao's territory in Wu County. Even if Sun Jian's father and son can block it, what if Liu He and the troops from Xuzhou attack Jiangdong together?

Therefore, although Liu He was just standing in front of the gate of the Yecheng Hussar General's Mansion and reading a letter to everyone to crusade against the traitor Yuan Shu, he set off a stormy wave to bury Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, thousands of miles away!

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and Yuan Shu, who has fallen into madness, is like a dying camel, and everyone needs a unified order before they can take their mouths. lest the first one to rush forward be kicked out by Yuan Shu and knock out his front teeth. Liu He's message in the north spread to the south, which was the order for unified action, so that all the forces had no worries and took action one after another, and they were moving quickly, for fear of falling behind, and they could only drink soup if they couldn't catch up with the meat.

Cao Cao got the news the fastest because he was next to Liu He. So he was the first to prove his loyalty to the court with practical actions. He sent Xiahou Yuan as the "commander-in-chief" of the "rebel army" on the northern road, Xun You as the military advisor, and a full 30,000 soldiers and horses approached Shouchun from the direction of Runan.

Liu Biao was the second to act, and he sent Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu to serve as the commander-in-chief of the "rebel army" on the western road. The fierce generals Huang Zhong and Liu Pan served as the pioneers, and sent 50,000 troops to attack the Lujiang River from Xiling.

Although Sun Jian used to be a general of Yuan Shu, and the two families have had many contacts secretly over the years, he is not ambiguous when it comes to major issues of right and wrong. If you say turn your face, you turn your face. At that time, Dong Zhuo was just a dictatorship, and he didn't dare to abolish the Han and stand on his own, and Sun Jian still desperately attacked the powerful Dong Zhuo. Now Yuan Shu is openly proclaimed emperor. If Sun Jian is still indifferent, then he is the Jiangdong Tiger Sun Wentai.

Although he was the last to respond to Liu He, Sun Jian actually made the fastest move, sending his eldest son Sun Ce to lead 20,000 infantry from Nanchang to Peng Ze, and he himself led 10,000 infantry to attack Wanling, which soon tore a huge hole in Yuan Shu's defense line on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Lu Zhi of Xuzhou originally wore a pair of pants with Liu He, and he was very clear about Cao Cao, Liu Biao and Sun Jian's desire to join forces to carve up Yuan Shu's territory, but Lu Zhi was not interested in Yuan Shu's territory, and he wanted to take advantage of the wolves to share the food and take back the territory lost in Xuzhou in the past.

Yuan Shao, who was far away in Guanzhong, did not have the opportunity to participate in this feast of dividing up Yuan Shu, but in order to clear up his relationship with Yuan Shu, and also to maintain the reputation of the Yuan family, which was already stinking on the street, Yuan Shao published a text that was even tougher than Liu He's wording, not only announcing the severance of brotherly relations with Yuan Shu, but also severing relations with Yuan Shu on behalf of the Yuan family and expelling Yuan Shu from the door. Yuan Shao was so ruthless, and he was also forced by his paranoid and crazy younger brother, if he didn't show a look of deep hatred, Liu He would be able to find an excuse to deal with him when he turned around.

However, it is said that when various forces united to approach Yuan Shu's lair, this goods openly worshiped heaven and earth in Shouchun City, and officially ascended the throne as the emperor, with the country name "Dacheng" and the year name "Zhongxing". Because Yuan Shu is the second oldest in the Yuan family, and his brother is Yuan Shao, so when he takes the year name, he is set as Zhongxing, and the "Zhong" in Uncle Zhong is the second, and Zhongxing is the meaning of the second child of the Yuan family to prosper. Judging from the name of the year taken by Yuan Shu, the narrow-mindedness of this product is really not comparable to ordinary people, and when it came to destruction, he did not forget to disgust Yuan Shao.

Although before Yuan Shu, there were also many people who called the king the emperor in these years, such as the Huiji Xuchang (not the place name Xuchang) called the emperor, the star of Changsha District called the emperor, Yuyang Zhang Ju called the emperor, Xia Pique claimed the emperor, Xiliang Beigong Boyu, Huangzhong Song Jian...... and others are called emperors, but these people are all low-level people or thieves from the Xiaoju side, and they were completely wiped out by the army sent by the Han Dynasty in a very short period of time, and they can't become a climate at all. And a family like Yuan Shu, who has been by Hann for a long time, dares to openly claim the emperor, he can be regarded as the first, and it is estimated that he will be the last.

After Yuan Shu became emperor, he took the dragon and phoenix, built a palace, rewarded the officials, mobilized 200,000 troops, and divided into four ways to resist the troops who came to crusade from all directions. In another time and space, after Yuan Shu became emperor, he launched 20 armies and attacked Xuzhou in seven ways, intending to destroy Lu Bu. Now Lu Bu is trapped in Anyi, and Xuzhou is the famous Han general Lu Zhi is in charge, Yuan Shu will not be so mad that he will attack Xuzhou regardless of the siege of Cao Cao, Liu Biao and Sun Jian, so Xuzhou Lu Zhi can watch from the wall and watch Yuan Shu be beaten.

Yuan Shu has four major generals, Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui and Lu Mian, this time Yuan Shu let Zhang Xun lead 50,000 soldiers and horses out of Ruyin to resist Xiahou Yuan, let Ji Ling lead 50,000 troops to garrison Anhui County to guard against Huang Zu, let Lu Mian lead 50,000 soldiers and horses into Wuhu to guard Sun Jian, leaving Qiao Rui to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to guard Shouchun, and at the same time guard against the direction of Xuzhou.

Yuan Shu's territory is only three and a half counties, last time he lost 60,000 soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, has been greatly damaged, so this time the temporary assembly of 200,000 soldiers and horses sounds scary, but in fact, there are many strong men who have been forcibly recruited, they have not received formal training at all, and many people may not even have touched weapons such as knives and guns, so it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a rabble.

The four-way troops under Yuan Shu's command, if you really want to talk about combat effectiveness, it is estimated that the 50,000 people of the Qiaorui Department who stayed in Shouchun are okay, but they are definitely not as strong as the Jiangdong elite soldiers led by Sun Jian and his son, and they cannot be compared with the 30,000 elites led by Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuanbu, who marched from the north to the south, used the strategy of attacking the east and the west in order to force Ji Ling to come out of Ruyin City to fight a decisive battle with him. Xiahou Yuan asked his lieutenant general Li Dian to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses along Rushui to approach Xincai, while he himself led the main force to ambush in the upper reaches of Yingshui. Li Dian deliberately exposed his whereabouts during the march, so that Zhang Xun felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, Zhang Xun did not know what to do, and personally led 30,000 troops to Xincai to ambush Li Dian, Xiahou Yuan immediately led the main force down the Yingshui River and launched a fierce attack on Ruyin.

There are 20,000 Yuan troops left behind in Ruyin, and Xiahou Yuan who attacked the city is also 20,000 people, but the gap between these 20,000 people is huge.

Under the fierce attack of the Cao army, the defenders of Ruyin were soon exhausted, and when the besieging Cao army shouted the slogan of "only punish the rebel Yuan Shu, and those who are not punished", the will of the defenders completely collapsed, and Ruyin soon fell.

The biggest feature of Xiahou Yuan's leading troops in battle is the word "fast", after he successfully took Ruyin, he immediately sent troops to reinforce Li Dian and flank Zhang Xun. Li Dian only led 10,000 soldiers and horses, but Zhang Xun, who came to ambush, could not move on the east bank of the river, and when Xiahou Yuan personally led the soldiers and horses to kill behind Zhang Xun, Zhang Xun panicked and hurriedly fled with his troops in the direction of Yangquan in Lujiang.

Zhang Xun fled fast, Xiahou Yuan pursued faster, half a day later, Xiahou Yuan caught up with Zhang Xun, and shot Zhang Xun in the back of the heart with an arrow in the chaos, Zhang Xun fell off his horse and died on the spot. As soon as Zhang Xun died, Yuan's army was in chaos, and the Xiahou Yuan Department captured countless prisoners and won a great victory.

Just before and after Zhang Xun's death, Ji Ling, who was stationed in Anhui County, also ushered in Huang Zu's attack.

Huang Zu led his army down by boat from Xiling, and after arriving at Xiapheasant, he rested for a while, and then entered Peng Lize (Poyang Lake in later generations), and then encircled and suppressed a small number of Yuan army sailors stationed in the lake. At this time, the Jingzhou Naval Division was the strongest in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with thousands of large and small warships, and Yuan Shu's naval division was not put in Huang Zu's eyes at all.

After Huang Zudang cleared the Yuan army in Pengli Lake, he ordered Liu Pan to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to land, penetrate directly into the rear of Xunyang from the east, and easily capture Xunyang. Huang Zu left 5,000 soldiers and horses here to garrison, he led the army to the east, out of Pengli Lake, continued to go downstream, and arrived at Zongyang a day later.

Ji Ling, who was stationed in Anhui County, thought that Huang Zu would attack from the land, but he didn't expect Huang Zu to go down by boat and touch his back. (To be continued......)