The news that Liu Jian took down Luyang shook the entire Nanyang County.

Especially the county dignitaries in Nanyang County, they were very disappointed in Yuan Shao at the moment, and they were also very anxious about the fate of their family.

However, if they were to betray Yuan Shao immediately, they really couldn't do it.

After all, the fundamental interests and purposes that Yuan Shao defended were their interests.

If the Nanyang county lords submit to Liu Jian and survive according to Liu Jian's way of rule, the families of these county lords will no longer be glorious in the past.

Many counties began to move most of their family's wealth and resources southward, hoping to use the Han River to fight the north.

In this way, they could still maintain their family's transcendent status in the Han Dynasty.

And after Yuan Shao knew that Luyang had fallen, he also realized that the door of Nanyang County was wide open, and Liu Jian's next step would inevitably sweep away the counties around Luyang as a position in Nanyang County, and then attack Wancheng in a big way.

Many people began to persuade Yuan Shao to abandon Wancheng and retreat to the south, after all, the territory of Jingzhou controlled by Yuan Shao was very vast, and Nanyang County was only the northernmost county, in addition to the southern counties, and Yuzhou was Yuan Shao's territory.

Yuan Shao's depth is still there.

Temporarily doing strategic defense is of great significance to Yuan Shao.

However, Yuan Shao was born to be a good-looking person.

So, he began to shrink all his forces to Wancheng, and began to hoard grain and grass and transfer equipment.

The current Wancheng, under his preparation and stubbornness, is like a turtle covered in iron armor, which is extremely strong.

But this turtle is actually hard on the outside and weak on the inside.

Now Wancheng is only defending with the last accumulation, but in fact it is already in danger.

Sturdiness is just the surface of it. The current Wancheng will be dismantled from the inside or the outside at any time.

……

At this time, Yuan Shao sat on the main seat, looking at the Gao Gan who was kneeling there and crying bitterly with a gloomy face.

If it weren't for the fact that the person kneeling here was his eldest nephew, if it was someone else, Yuan Shao would have dismantled him a long time ago.

But in terms of the actual situation, this matter can't be completely blamed on the head of the senior cadres, Yuan Shao sent so many reinforcements, wasn't he still beaten by Liu Jian?

But the problem is that Yuan Shao can't put all the blame on himself, he needs an outlet after all.

Among the generals who led reinforcements to attack Liu Jian before, there were generals under him and generals recommended by the Zhuwang clan of Nanyang County.

These generals had close ties with the major families of Nanyang County.

Moreover, at the critical moment, these Zhuwang can also take out the soldiers and horses of their clan to support Yuan Shao, so Yuan Shao can't be too harsh on their people or the people they recommend.

Since he can't be too harsh on these people, then these accounts will naturally have to be counted on his own family.

During this time, Yuan's generals continued to fail, and they returned to Wancheng one after another to report to Yuan Shao, and they were more or less punished by Yuan Shao.

There were even two who suffered a big defeat and were beheaded by Yuan Shao.

Now, the senior cadres who have lost Luyang kneel in front of Yuan Shao.

This made Yuan Shao embarrassed.

Luyang is such an important location, in fact, according to Yuan Shao's thoughts, he really has the intention of cutting off Gao Gan, but he can't, after all, this is his own nephew.

Then I saw Yuan Shao take a deep breath and slowly suppressed the anger in his chest.

"Lu Yang is lost, isn't it? Do you know how much damage this will cause to our army? ”

Gao Gan cried bitterly when he heard this: "Envoy, the last general doesn't want things to be like this, but Liu Deran's army is too strong!" I don't have many soldiers and horses in Luyang City, and I was defeated by Liu Deran, and the last general worked hard to defend the city, but after all, I lost the city, and the last general was guilty of death. ”

Listening to Gao Gan's cry, Yuan Shao's heart was also quite uncomfortable.

But he really held his breath in his heart, and then waved his hand at Gao Gan and said:

"You have suffered such a great defeat, I can't help but punish you, so let's go out later and get thirty military sticks, and use the crime in the army, and if there is any more negligence and responsibility in the future, you will be killed!"

When Gao Gan heard this, he hurriedly thanked him.

Subsequently, Yuan Shao asked Gao Gan again: "How did you run back?" That Luyang City made Liu Jian surrounded by water, and there was his heavy defense, as the main general of a city, weren't you hunted down? ”

Gao Gan cried very sadly: "I was chased and killed, but Liu Deran's soldiers never killed me, even if some of them chased me, they were also repelled by my subordinate Gan Ning, if it weren't for Gan Xingba's desperate protection this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to return to Wancheng, let alone meet the envoy." ”

"Gan Xing Ba ......"

Yuan Shao lowered his head, as if he had fallen into a memory, and he muttered to himself: "This name is very familiar, why can't you remember it?" ”

Gao Gan hurriedly said: "It is the one who was known as the Jinfan thief in Shuzhong in the past, and the warrior in Sichuan who was sent to Jingzhou by Uncle Boye. ”

When Yuan Shao heard this, he suddenly realized.

"I remembered, I remembered, I remembered, there is indeed such a character."

Gao Gan hurriedly said: "Not bad, not bad! Envoy, just remember it! ”

"I retreated this time, and I was pursued by the thieves of the Northern Army, thanks to Gan Ning's hard work!"

"If there is no Gan Ning, I am afraid that my head would have been hung by Liu Jian in his big tent of the Chinese army!"

Yuan Shao nodded and said, "In this case, you can ask Na Gan Ning to come over to see me!" ”

Gao Gan listened to Yuan Shao's instructions, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly agreed.

Gan Ning was led by his attendants to the main hall of Wancheng to meet Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shaoshi listened to Gao Gan's introduction and knew that Gan Ning was a brave general, but when he really saw Gan Ning, he was not very happy.

Gan Ning was a good ranger when he was young, and he grew up in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Shuzhong Hengjiang to gather people, and was known as a Jinfan thief at the time, and he acted quite uninhibited.

Later, he suddenly woke up and began to hone himself, and at the same time seriously studied etiquette......

To be precise, it was his family who saw that Gan Ning was too out of tune when he was young, so they began to discipline him harshly, forcing him to change his ways, and from a gangster to an official.

No matter what kind of tricks the Gan family used in Shu, and no matter how much energy the Gan family had in Shu, anyway, in the end, Gan Ning was reborn, from a bohemian Jinfan thief, and finally became a county of Shu, with an official of 600 stones, and was later sent by Yuan Yi to Yuan Shao to help in the war.

In the late Han Dynasty, the influence of a family was too great.

Like a wealthy family like the Gan family in Linjiang, Ba County, they can turn a prodigal son in the family into the second-in-command of a county, and directly change their appearance.

If he was born in an ordinary Li Shu family and Gan Ning became a river thief, he would really be a river thief for the rest of his life.

But what kind of person is Yuan Shao? He only glanced at Gan Ning a few times, and he saw the debauchery in his bones.

After saying a few words to Gan Ning, although Gan Ning was very polite, Yuan Shao was still able to tell what was going on with this person.

Seeing that under Gan Ning's pretended deep appearance, what was actually hidden was a restless heart, Yuan Shao's good impression of this person had somewhat disappeared.

To be honest, he doesn't like Gan Ning's style very much.

Yuan Shao just said slowly: "Xingba is a general's talent!" Saved General Gao this time, it can be said that he has made a great meritorious service, I should talk about meritorious deeds, and now I will give Xingba gold silk, good bow, horse, armor, and sharp knife, as a reward, I hope you will make new contributions in the future, do not disappoint Yuan's expectations! ”

After that, Yuan Shao immediately ordered his subordinates to bring clothes, armor, gold silks, carved bows, swords and many other famous weapons for Gan Ning as rewards.

After Gan Ning saw Yuan Shao's reward, he couldn't help but feel a little chill in his heart.

It's not that Yuan Shao's reward is not heavy......... It's just a famous weapon, and there are precious weapons and armor that Gan Ning wants.

Yuan Shao's shot was quite generous, but for Gan Ning, these things didn't matter to him.

Gan Ning's family is not as good as Yuan Shao, but it is not an ordinary small family, he is also from a strong background, and his family power is quite large in Shuzhong, so he can support him to eat both black and white, what treasure has he not seen?

A person from a strong background only needs to take a step forward in his identity.

He needs a chance, a chance to move up, a chance to be recognized by Yuan Shao of the Fourth and Third Princes' Family!

Therefore, Gan Ning has been waiting quietly.

Now that he has saved Gao Gan, he has finally made a great contribution, and he can show himself in front of Yuan Shao.

originally hoped that Yuan Shao would promote him to his military position, or keep him in the Chinese army for reuse, but looking at Yuan Shao's current meaning, it seems that he still wants him to stay under the command of Gao Gan.

Yuan Shao sent him away with valuables such as gold silk utensils, which made Gan Ning very disappointed.

However, until now, Gan Ning had no choice, he could only follow Yuan Shao's arrangement, accept these valuable rewards, and then quietly retreat to the side, and continue to obey orders in the tent as a captain under the senior cadres.

After dealing with Gan Ning's affairs, Yuan Shao began to look back and forth at the people on both sides, and said: "Wancheng is as solid as gold, you don't have to care, if Liu Jian's soldiers and horses come, he will be told to break his halberd and sink into the sand, and they will all die here." ”

At this moment, I saw a person standing up at the edge of the hall.

This person is none other than Nanyang Xu You!

The people who introduced Yuan Shao's advice to Jingzhou at the beginning.

"Ming Gong! At this time, it is not practical to rely on Wancheng's strong defense to contend with Liu Jian, and the top priority is to quickly find a way to contain Liu Jian. ”

Yuan Shao saw that the person who spoke was Xu You, and he was somewhat unhappy in his heart.

Since the last battle with Sun Jian, Xu You's status in Yuan Shao's heart has plummeted.

It's just that because of the face of his old friend, Yuan Shao didn't do anything about Xu You, but just ignored his advice.

I hardly see him on weekdays, but now that Xu You stood up and admonished Yuan Shao again, Yuan Shao suddenly felt that Xu You was a little uninteresting.

But so many people are watching here, if Yuan Shao doesn't listen to Xu You's words, he directly refutes his suggestion, which inevitably seems that he is too small-bellied, and this is not his original style of acting.

So Yuan Shao patiently asked, "What is Ziyuan's good plan?" But in short, if I deal with it properly, I will be cautious! ”

Xu You actually made a lot of efforts in the past to save his position in Yuan Shao's heart, but everything was not so smooth, which made Xu You's heart very lost.

But to this day, Xu You spoke out again not to take credit, but to really want to help Yuan Shao save the situation!

Because Nanyang County is his hometown, he also brought Yuan Shao here in the first place.

After Yuan Shao arrived in Nanyang County, he Xu Yu became under one person and above ten thousand.

But it's a pity that because of Sun Jian's incident, Xu You lost Yuan Shao's favor.

If Yuan Shao loses Nanyang County this time, then for him Xu You, it will be like a bolt from the blue, and he will not be able to live under Yuan Shao in the future.

Xu You hurriedly said: "Duke Ming, at the moment, with the strength of my Jingzhou side, it is really difficult to compete with Liu Jian, even though Wancheng is strong, but if you just stick to it, you will lose it for a long time!" The top priority is to invite Cao Cao and Yuan Yi, as well as Sun Ce, who was at war with Gongsun Zan in Yuzhou, to help us in an all-round way, so that we can have a chance of winning! ”

It would be fine if Xu You mentioned others, but he just talked about Cao Cao.

To be honest, Yuan Shao's opinion of Cao Cao is very big now.

After all, it was he who helped Cao Cao gain a foothold in Jiangdong in the first place.

But this time he went north to crusade against Liu Jian, and Cao Cao actually used Cao Chun as a condition with Liu Bei and talked about business with Liu Bei.

The two sides not only halted the truce, but also demarcated the border.

Liu Bei's side officially ceded the land to the south of the Xiapi Kingdom and the Guangling Kingdom to Cao Cao.

At the same time, the two sides have also built a free trade zone and a shipping port, hoping to do economic business in large quantities in the future.

This is clearly a betrayal of Yuan Shao!

Yuan Shao can't take out his hand to deal with Cao Cao now, and if he is allowed to pull out his hand, he will have to crusade against Jiangdong.

But now, Xu You actually asked him to unite with Cao Cao to fight against Liu Jian.

Just ask Yuan Shao how not to be angry!

I saw him say with a gloomy face: "Cao Mengde has already betrayed me!" How can he send troops, he and Liu Bei are fighting fiercely now! ”

Xu You hurriedly spoke out to explain for Cao Cao: ""

"Ming Gong, although the peace talks between Cao Mengde and Liu Bei exceeded our expectations, they were also reasonable! After all, he, Cao Cao, also wanted to make some preparations for the sake of Jiangdong Tucun. ”

"The key now is that Cao Cao is swaying left and right between the lord and Liu Jian, wanting to compete with the snipe and the clam for the fisherman's profit, but now the lord has been repeatedly defeated by Liu Jian, the balance of the world has been inclined to Liu, he Cao Cao is also an understanding person, if he doesn't go all out, it is likely to lead to Liu Jian's family dominance, and then he Jiangdong will not think about it."

"As long as we send someone to say that it is powerful, with Cao Cao's wisdom, we will not be unable to understand, so that Cao Cao can help us share Liu Jian's pressure. In this way, the danger of Nanyang is solved. ”

"And I heard that Sun Ce is now at war with Gongsun Chan in Yuzhou, and has repeatedly gained the upper hand, Gongsun Chan is a famous general in the north, but Sun Ce, a junior, has the upper hand, which shows Sun Ce's talent in using soldiers, and the lord should reuse Sun Ce!"

Yuan Shao raised his eyebrows and said, "How to reuse?" And how to use Cao? ”

Xu You hurriedly said: "There is a certain plan, so that Cao Cao and Sun Ce can be completely tied to the lord's chariot!" ”

"One is to let Sun Ce be the pastor of Yuzhou and take charge of Yuzhou for the lord, and the other is to cede Jiangxia County to Cao Cao! In this way, Cao Cao got Jiangxia County, which is equivalent to entering the northwest battlefield of Jiangdong, and he borders Liu Jian's territory in a large area, so that we can also share our pressure and force Cao Cao to fight with Liu Thief! ”

When Yuan Shao heard this, he couldn't help but be furious.

"You actually asked me to cede the land to Cao, Sun Zhizhi and the like!?"

(End of chapter)