Gao Shun saw that Liu Bei's attitude was serious, and he didn't dare to immediately carry the flag to beg the thief, but he didn't think it was strange, after all, Liu Bei just listened to the words he brought.

Yuan Shao is in a high position, and he has a conflict with Cao Cao, so it is right for Yuan Shao to first carry the flag and throw stones to ask for directions.

After talking about it, Liu Bei took Gao Shun back to Xiling County, and let people be entertained and rested for two or three days.

After the injuries of the entourage brought by Gao Shun were bandaged and treated, the movement was unhindered, and then they crossed the river by boat and went to live in Wuchang County.

Dong Cheng's orphans and Lu Bu's wife and daughter naturally moved to live in Wuchang County. After all this was done, when I settled down in Wuchang City, the time had entered the end of February.

Of course, in the past four or five days, Zhuge Liang has not been idle. The day after Gao Shun came to vote, he asked Liu Bei to record the latest summary of the situation, wrote a book, and sent it down the river to Wuhu to Zhuge Jin.

The letter also added some details, such as emphasizing that "when Sun Wei went to Xu Capital to give gifts to Dong Cheng, the two pieces of wire ring chain mail were finally seized by Cao thieves after Dong Cheng and Lu Bu were martyred."

At the end of the letter, Zhuge Jin was asked to send the news to Yuan Tan as soon as possible through the coastal communication channel between Donghai County and Langya County in Xuzhou, and then let Yuan Tan send it to Yuan Shao as soon as possible - this is also no way, most of Liu Bei and Yuan Shao's jurisdictions are separated by Cao Cao, and only a small handful of easternmost coastal areas are bordered, so they must go around in a big circle.

Zhuge Liang's secret letter was sent on February 17, galloping fast during the day, taking a boat down the river at night, relaying day and night, but it arrived in Wuhu in four days.

Zhuge Jin did not dare to slack off, while the horses and soldiers were strong, while making a separate book attached to it, it was also a combination of vehicles and boats, two days to Huaiyin, and then sent people to travel hundreds of miles a day to run horses through Xuzhou to Langya.

On February 25, the news reached Yuan Tan, and Yuan Tan hurried another 600 miles, and three days later, he sent the inside story of the "Cloth and Belt Edict" he knew to Yecheng in its original form.

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February 28, Yecheng, General's Mansion.

Early in the morning, Yuan Shao was recruiting advisers in the shogunate to discuss: how to use the excuse of the Xu Du mutiny to start an all-out war with Cao Cao.

He learned the news that there was a mutiny in Xudu five days ago, and that Dong Cheng and Lu Bu were defeated and killed, and then asked people to probe again, and there is no updated information yet.

Therefore, Yuan Shao only knew this fact, but he had not yet found out the specific motives and how to characterize Dong Cheng and Lu Bu's actions.

With Yuan Shao's indecisiveness, it is natural to fully listen to the opinions of all quarters. Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Guo Tu, Judge, Xu You, and Feng Ji quarreled over this.

Tian Feng was the one who liked to pick on the hindsight the most, and was the first to be disliked by Yuan Shao.

There is no other reason, but because Tian Feng is the one who attaches the most importance to practical interests among Yuan Shao's strategists, and his vision of practical interests is indeed the most sensitive.

As early as a few months ago, Tian Feng advised Yuan Shao not to worry about the problem of face and reputation, and to take advantage of the time to fight Yang Chou in Hanoi, and go over recklessly! Don't give Cao Cao a chance to breathe and win over the other princes!

What does it matter if you lose some righteous name? As long as Cao Cao is killed quickly, history is written by the victor, and no one will investigate whether the excuse for starting the war in the first place is sufficient! Wouldn't it be better to slowly whitewash it when the time comes?

It's a pity that Yuan Shao wants face, and even these old and serious ministers want face, so Tian Feng's suggestion was isolated and abandoned at the beginning.

Later, more than a month after the armistice was reached, that is, in the month of last year, the envoy sent by Yuan Shao to persuade Zhang Xiu was driven back by Jia Xu. Jia Xu actually persuaded Zhang Xiu to vote for Cao, Zhang Xiu really voted, and Cao Cao also accepted and courtesy Zhang Xiu.

As soon as the news came back to Yecheng, Tian Feng began to sigh and said on several occasions:

"If it weren't for the indecision of the lord and the love of face to give Cao Thief a chance to breathe, where would Cao Cao have won over Zhang Xiu? After waiting for a few more months in vain, our army has not been additionally strengthened at all, but the enemy army is constantly gathering foreign aid! When the time comes, I have to fight one more Zhang embroidery on the battlefield! ”

Tian Feng's words, other Jizhou faction strategists at that time, such as frustration and trial, did not tell right and wrong. But Yingchuan and Xu You and Guo Tu of the Nanyang faction secretly blew the wind in Yuan Shao's ears.

Yuan Shao heard Tian Feng insulting him, and he secretly resented in his heart, fortunately, Tian Feng had not talked about this topic in public, Yuan Shao could pretend not to know forbearance for the time being, but he secretly hated it in his heart.

Today, Yuan Shao once again summoned a group of strategists to discuss going south, and Tian Feng was the first to jump out to express his opinion:

"Foolishly think that now is not the best opportunity to send troops, to say that the opportunity to conquer Cao Cao in the south, the best opportunity at the beginning is that before Zhang Xiu was persuaded to surrender, our army did not care about going south, Zhang Xiu and Cao thief still had a feud at that time, and they would spontaneously attack him.

The second good opportunity was at the beginning of the year, when Dong Cheng and Lu Bu, who were anti-Cao in Xudu, were about to move but did not happen. As long as we attract the main force of the Cao army, Xu Du will inevitably be attacked by Dong Cheng.

Now Cao Cao has newly killed Dong Cheng and Lu Bu, even if these two people are not our army's internal response, but as long as our army immediately goes south, Cao Cao will inevitably preach that 'Dong Cheng and Lu Bu are the original internal response, and he is angry and angry because the internal response was recognized and killed, so he is angry and angry, and there is nothing to be afraid of'.

At that time, Cao's army will inevitably take advantage of the momentum of the successful counterinsurgency just now, and its morale will be high, and it will be difficult to attack it in a hurry. That being the case, why don't we wait until the Cao army has recovered from the high morale of the successful counterinsurgency, and then try to forge ahead. ”

Tian Feng's analysis can be regarded as a whip from a tactical point of view. The war is about morale, no matter whether Dong Cheng Lu Bu colluded with Yuan Shao or not, as long as Yuan Shao attacked, Cao Cao would definitely preach that they had collusion.

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In this way, you can create a morale bonus of "our army has seen through and destroyed the enemy's internal response in advance", so that everyone can rest assured.

Tian Feng just didn't want to give Cao Cao an extra psychological advantage for nothing.

It's a pity that in the past three months, he has already offended Yuan Shao many times, either explicitly or secretly. After Yuan Shao heard this, his face was not very good-looking, and he just asked in a low voice: "Then Mr. said, when is the specific time to attack?" ”

Tian Feng shook his head: "This is not for me to know, I only know that this is not a good opportunity, when the opportunity comes, as long as the lord obeys my words, act immediately, don't hesitate, I will find a good opportunity for the lord." ”

Hearing this, Yuan Shao was also furious: co-authoring you is just "broken but not standing", you can't say what others say is good, and you can't say it if you say it's good?

And we can't hesitate, when the time comes, you will implement it immediately?

Yuan Shao finally showed an angry face and slammed the table: "Let you give advice, and you will only shake your lips and criticize others, what kind of system!" Don't quit yet! ”

A guard came over on the side and asked Tian Feng to leave, but Tian Feng had to leave with his neck bent and sleeves.

However, it didn't make a fuss to the extent that he was imprisoned and questioned by Yuan Shao as in history - this may also be because the situation has changed, and now Yuan Shao's victory rate of the attack is indeed greater than that of the same period in history, so even if Tian Feng strives for perfection and wants to find the best time to start a war, he will not try his best to obstruct and contradict Yuan Shao to the extent that he will go to prison.

At best, he only offended the lord and was alienated to the point that he could not participate in the military council for the time being.

After Tian Feng was driven away and treated coldly, the opinion of "marching into the army in the near future" no longer exists, and what remains is nothing more than disagreement on how to enter the army.

Guo Tu and Xu You are naturally still the routine of last winter, and they hope that Yuan Shao will enter the army immediately, and they have prepared enough.

Fu Zhu was a little more serious, and suggested again: "My lord, our army may send an envoy to Xudu first, salute first and then soldiers, and ask Cao Cao to thoroughly investigate the case of Dong Cheng and Lu Bu's mutiny, and find out whether there are any grievances in it, or whether Cao Cao has the crime of punishing dissidents."

Once we grasp the Cao thief with more handles, or even force the Cao thief to weaken his heart, obstruct our envoy who demands a thorough investigation, or even harm the envoy, we will have absolutely sufficient reasons to enter the army again. The officers and men of the three armed forces knew that Qu was completely on the enemy's side, and they could also be more sympathetic to the enemy, which was conducive to the encouragement before the war. ”

Hearing this, Guo Tu pursed his lips and sighed: "Although the words of the frustrated prince are serious, but at least it will take a month or two to go back and forth, and I can't wait for time. If the war continues until autumn, Cao Cao will run out of food again.

Delay another month and a half, the spring ploughing season is over, once it becomes a protracted war, Cao Cao will not starve to death until the end of this year! ”

Frustrated by Guo Tu's refutation, he also changed color: "What a word! The Lord raised righteous soldiers to save the world, how could he expect the people of Yan and Yu to starve to death to win! ”

Xu You hurriedly jumped out to help Guo Tu play a round: "The public rule didn't say that the people would starve to death, isn't this oppressing the supply of military food for the Cao army, why speculate wildly!" ”

Between the Jizhou faction and the foreign faction strategists in Yingchuan Nanyang, they were divided into two camps as they talked.

The locals of Jizhou, such as the trial and Xin Ping, supported the frustration, and Xu You and Feng Ji both supported Guo Tu.

Yuan Shao saw that everyone was obviously unanimous and was going to send troops, but he didn't talk about the rhythm of the troops and the literary drama before the troops, so he was arguing like this, and Yuan Shao also felt a deep headache.

Just when Yuan Shao was about to break out and was about to scold everyone to shut up, a messenger outside the door suddenly rushed in and bowed down:

"My lord! The eldest prince sent an urgent messenger from Qingzhou, and there was a secret letter from the chariot general Liu Bei to the lord! There is also the accompaniment of the eldest prince, which is said to be related to the Xu Du Mutiny. ”

This letter directly relieved Yuan Shao, and he also took the opportunity to scold, asking everyone to be quiet first, he wanted to read the letter first.

"I don't know what happened to Xu Du, but what is the new inside story? Maybe Brother Xuande knows more than me. Yuan Shao opened the letter to himself and read them one by one.

And after just looking at a few lines, Yuan Shao's eyes gradually widened.

"Hahaha! God help me! Frustrated, needless to say! There's nothing to send someone to Xu Du to investigate thoroughly! Ordered the three armies to prepare as soon as possible, get all together at Liyang, cross the Yellow River on the same day, and attack Yanjin and Baima! ”

Frustrated: "Lord! What did the eldest prince and Liu Bei say? ”

Yuan Shao laughed proudly: "Ah Hide, this thief, originally came from the unjust killing of Zhao Yan the year before last, and the arrogant bullying after destroying the highway last year, so he was jealous of His Majesty." His Majesty asked Dong Cheng to plot to punish the thieves with a secret edict in the belt, but Dong Cheng acted secretly, and Jia Xu, who had newly surrendered by Ah Xuan, saw the clue and designed a booby trap to cause defeat!

Dong Cheng's orphan, Lu Bu's wife and daughter, and Gao Shun, the general of the Ministry of Knowledge, have crossed Tongbai Mountain from Runan to Jiangxia to Liu Bei. Our army should be under the secret edict of the Son of Heaven, and the king of Qin will punish the thief! ”

After finishing speaking, Yuan Shao couldn't help but sigh: "It's been ten years, it's been ten years!" Finally, I encountered this kind of grand occasion where the name of righteousness is all in our army! Ten years ago, Lone went south and contacted the princes of the world to discuss Dong! Everywhere the king goes, the grand occasion of the people eating pot pulp is still at present!

Now that I have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, far superior to Cao thieves, and even more occupy the heavens, how can I be immortal? Chen Lin! Quickly write an article on the thief, send it to the counties, and count the crimes of the thief! ”

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