In November of the third year of Jian'an, under Cao Cao's offensive, Yuan Shu, who was defeated and retreated, chose to give up his last base and go north to join his brother Yuan Shao.

It is rumored that Yuan Shu has agreed to transfer the throne and jade seal to Yuan Shao, and at the same time...... After Yuan Shao unified the four prefectures of Qinghai, Hebei and You, he had a population of more than 2 million households, and his strength expanded amazingly.

For a while, Yuan's arguments under heaven were once again very loud......

However, Yuan Shu's movements were detected by Cao Cao in advance, not only in the Zhong army, many generals were unwilling to follow Yuan Shu anymore, and turned to Cao Cao, and even before Yuan Shu detoured to Nanyang, they were blocked by Cao Cao.

Ji Ling died after breaking off, and in the end, Yuan Shu's army was less than 30,000 people, and he was out of food and water, and he was desperate.

Yuan Shu became seriously ill because of this, and when he was dying, he still shouted to people: "I want to eat rock candy!" ”

The entourage general was also very annoyed, "Rock candy? There is no rock candy, only cold rain, slapping indiscriminately in your face! Indignant, saliva sprayed on Yuan Shu's face.

"You, you...... I'm Yuan Shu...... How can that! "Yuan Shu, died on the road.

Later, Yuan Shu's son Yuan Yao, son-in-law Huang Yi, and Yang Hong, who was still loyal to Yuan's family, mourned Yuan Shu on the one hand, and took refuge in Liu Biao on the other.

In fact, two years earlier, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao had always been allies, and the relationship was similar to that between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, but after Yuan Shu became emperor, Liu Biao had to draw a line with him - even so, Liu Biao did not officially send troops to Yuan Shu.

After Yuan Shu's death in history, his son and son-in-law wanted to defect to Liu Xun and even Sun Ce.

After all, Liu Xun and Sun Ce were once Yuan Shu's generals, even if it was to look better on face, they would not treat them badly.

In fact, this group was finally accepted by the Sun family, and Sun Quan also married Yuan Shu's daughter, and later married his other daughter to Yuan Yao's son, that is, Yuan Shu's grandson, and inherited Yuan Shu's "inheritance" the most.

The Eastern Han Dynasty's personal exchanges, or the change of power, are like this - even if Yuan Shu became infamous all over the world after becoming emperor, but ...... After Yuan Shu died and his descendants no longer called the emperor, there was still a relationship inheritance of "protégés and deceased officials".

However, now the entire Huainan and Jiangdong have been annexed by Baitu, and they don't dare to come to Baitu to give away their heads, so they have to defect to Liu Biao, who was at least an ally or even half of his subordinates.

Liu Biao was also shameless, fake, first hit Yuan Shu's coffin with a sword, to show that the Han thief was not separated, and then hugged Yuan Shu's coffin and cried, saying that he was crying an old friend, not a thief, and the thief had been whipped by him.

Blatantly and blatantly......

However, in the context of the Eastern Han Dynasty, instead of receiving too much criticism, his approach won a lot of praise, believing that he was clear from wrong.

The main reason, of course, is ...... Liu Biao's reputation in Confucianism over the years has not been in vain!

When he rode down to Jingzhou alone, in addition to a paper order from the imperial court and an order from Dong Zhuo when he was in power, Liu Biao relied on a "face" to start his business.

Before coming to Jingzhou, Liu Biao was a famous man in the clan, and after coming to Jingzhou, he paid more attention to his "strengths".

Especially after the chaos in the world, Liu Biao actively treated the refuge of Confucian celebrities.

It can be said that before Bai Tu was born, Liu Biao was the prince with the best reputation, and there was no other reason - now in the world, Confucianism's voice is very great!

Such a person can be said to make sense in everything he does, because there is a group of Confucian scholars who will help him blow, and when the three of them become tigers, black and white can be reversed.

Then Liu Biao naturally also received Yuan Shu's remains, and ordered them to be stationed in the area from Xiyang to Fuyang.

Xiyang and Fuyang belong to Nanjun and Nanyang County respectively, both of which are near the left side of the Huai River, and Xiyang County is the first county where the Huai River enters Jingzhou from Runan, that is, ...... It is separated from Xinxi, Anyang and other counties in Yiyang County under the control of Baitu.

And Fuyang County is close to the source of the Huai River Tongbai Mountain, belongs to Nanyang County, and between the two are also close to the Huai River, the three counties of Xuanguo, Pingchun, and Huang (the orthography has an ear knife, but the input method is not found).

If Liu Biao's acceptance of Zhang Xiu is to guard against Cao Cao, then accepting Yuan Yao and Yang Hong is obviously to guard against Bai Tu!

Between Jingzhou and Jiangdong, although adjacent to the east and west, on both sides of the Yangtze River, there are Dabie Mountains in the north, Mufu Mountain, Jiuling Mountain, and Luoxiao Mountain in the south, which is convenient for large-scale use of troops.

As for the further south, it is close to Jiaozhou, although the mountain road is not as difficult as Dabie Mountain or Shu Road, but it is the area with the most mountains.

This piece of mountains, to Yangzhou is Shanyue, to Jingzhou is the so-called Wuling Man, also known as Wuxi Man, in short, it is the place where the barbarians are entrenched, and they use troops here...... To pass by those super-large barbarian tribes in the mountains with Zongshuai and Yue Ji, I know how difficult it is.

However, after Baitu also pocketed Huainan, along the line of the Huai River, you can also bypass the Dabie Mountain, which is an important watershed between the Yangtze River and the Huai River, and the water source in the mountain range also flows into the Yangtze River in the south and the Huai River in the north.

Therefore, Liu Biao needs someone to block this road as well......

Bai Tu also issued a warning to Liu Biao at the first time, persuading him to know his way back and not to shield the sinners who slaughtered the city through the ages and discredit the clan, otherwise in the future, under Jiuquan, what face will he have to see his ancestors and ancestors.

Anyway, Liu Biao understood-this is directly going to send himself to Jiuquan!

Naturally, he couldn't erase the power that could protect himself, and he strengthened his determination to use Yuan Shu's relics to garrison the front line of the Huai River.

At the same time, Bai Tu also applied to Cao Cao, or the imperial court, to investigate the people who participated in the slaughter of the city and plundered the people in the Huainan army!

The wording is extremely intense, in a word-if the court is unfair, the people of Shouchun will not agree, the people of Huainan will not agree, the people of Yangzhou will not agree, and the people of the whole world will not agree.

Cao Cao not only had to face Yuan Shao's pressure, but also ...... also tried his best to appease Bai Tu and threw the pot on Qiao Rui, who had already died in battle.

As for why Qiao Rui died in battle?

He wanted to surrender to Cao Cao, but Cao Cao didn't want to accept it, and deliberately planned to kill Qiao Rui when he defected to Ji Ling, and outsiders didn't know that Qiao Rui had already secretly communicated with Cao Cao!

After all, Qiao Rui's ability is average, and there are a lot of troubles - if Qiao Rui is still there, Bai Tu will definitely stare at this big target.

If Cao Cao accepted Qiao Rui, he would be in a dilemma, after all, if it was after the other party surrendered, Cao Cao couldn't hand him over to Bai Tu for "a thousand gold to buy horse bones", so he ...... Let him die when he deserves to die.

As for the generals under the bridge, there is a lot of fighting, in short, Cao Cao represents the imperial court on the one hand, commends Bai Tu's people for asking for their lives, and on the other hand, he ...... He also quickly split Yuan Shu's relics and integrated them into his own military and political system to strengthen himself!

Cao Cao had also figured out at this time that between himself and Bai Tu, he was afraid that there would be a battle sooner or later, but not now.

Yuan Shao saw that in the north, he was about to form a whale swallowing trend, and he and Liu Bei were the first to face its pressure.

The other side of ...... Sitting on the white map of the entire territory of Yangzhou, there is a Jingzhou that has not yet been integrated, such a piece of fat in front of him, why bother to gnaw on his hard bones, and still risk being profited by Yuan Shao's fisherman?

It is impossible for Bai Tu and his wise men not to see this......

And morally, Qiao Rui, the evil leader, has been killed by him, but Liu Biao has received the "inheritance" of Yuan Shu's relics.

As for whether Bai Tu and Cao Cao fought in the north and south, or hunted in the Central Plains with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao actually didn't have a bottom in his heart, but he was very tough......

As for Liu Bei in Xuzhou, it was even more itchy for Cao Cao's teeth - after Xiao Pei had no danger to defend, Yuzhou to Xuzhou was a smooth road at all, but ...... I really can't pull it out.

From Yuan Shu to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao couldn't make up his mind to crusade against Xuzhou, after all, ...... Bai Tu also had an alliance with Liu Bei, and although Zhang Liao and Gao Shun had withdrawn, they were obviously not going to sit idly by and watch Cao Cao annex Xuzhou.

Under Yuan Shao's watchful eye, Cao Cao was even more reluctant to start a war with Liu Bei, and what was easier than Bai Tu was that Liu Bei faced Yuan Shao's threat directly, so now he and Cao Cao are natural allies!

On the contrary, Bai Tu made Cao Cao not so relieved, after all, Liu Biao couldn't put so much pressure on Bai Tu and Yuan Shao as he was.

Even if Bai Tu really started a war with Jingzhou, he couldn't tell when his brain would twitch, and he might explode a wave of back roads......

Now Cao Cao has the impulse to surrender against Yuan Shao, and he may not win steadily despite his best efforts, how to guard against the back road?

The only thing that makes Cao Cao feel gratified is that now in Chenliu, Yingchuan and other places where famous families in the Central Plains have come out one after another, the attitude of the major families towards Baitu is generally "respectful...... But "stay away".

admired Bai Tu's noble character, but he didn't like it, or even resisted from the heart, and under this resistance, he even fell a lot more intimately to the major families and the Cao Cao Group.

But even so, Cao Cao hoped to be able to conclude a more stable alliance with Bai Tu for the time being.

For example, traditional projects - mutual proton delivery, marriage.

It's just a pity that Bai Tu hasn't gotten married yet, and it's unlikely that they will send protons to each other, and the previous marriage was also rejected.

Cao Cao even had the idea of sending the proton to Yuan Shaona, and then concentrated on fighting Bai Tu first, but in the end this idea was stopped by Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others.

Mainly because it was impossible for Yuan Shao to leave the Central Plains still, because Cao Cao sent a proton, he went to knock Hetao, Xiliang, and Guanzhong...... These are the places of bones.

Cao Cao is almost the same as being a proton himself!

On the one hand, Yuan Shao sharpened his knife Huo Huo, and on the other hand, Bai Tu did not send positive feedback, Cao Cao collapsed, and accepted Xun Yu's suggestion to send protons to Bai Tu.

Originally, in Cao Cao's eyes, Yuan Shao's strength was worth sending protons unilaterally, as for Bai Tu...... Stronger than oneself is also limited, at most it is to send each other, or marriage, that is, an equal alliance.

But...... Cao Cao had to admit that Bai Tu was more irony than his own head!

Originally, Cao Cao's preferred proton was his second son Cao Zhi - Cao Zhi is eight years old this year, and Cao Pi is a compatriot, so he is naturally also a son-in-law, and in comparison, it is not as important as Cao Pi.

After all, in this troubled era, the age of the heir will directly affect the unity of his subordinates.

However, when Cao Cao was at home and mentioned this matter in private, Cao Pi suddenly bowed down in front of Cao Cao and cried: "Father! How can Xiao Zhi be allowed to take such a risk? I'm older, and it's safer for me to go! ”