Guan Yu and Zhao Yun pushed all the way from Jurong to Wu County, and there was almost no resistance everywhere in between.

The Jiangdong Army that remained in the counties along the way to defend the city was either peasant soldiers or Ding Zhuang of Xinla, and there were no elite troops at all.

The Sun family didn't expect to defend one city after another on these undefended Taihu Plains, which would only disperse their forces and be broken by the enemy.

Therefore, with the fall of Moling, the northern part of the Taihu Plain is almost a matter of transmission, and the staking is very fast.

But after arriving in Wu County, resistance still appeared slightly.

Zhu Zhi, as the most senior minister of the Sun family and the Taishou of Wu County, ruled Wu County for several years, and helped Sun Ce do a lot of bloody dirty work to subdue the local forces of Wu County.

He knew that even if he surrendered, he might be liquidated - mainly because the major families in Wu County would definitely welcome Liu Bei at that time, and everyone voted for Liu, what if someone instigated Liu Bei to liquidate? Will Liu Bei be angry with him?

Zhu Zhi was not sure about this problem at all, but he also thought of the next best option - to abandon the city and flee, and then go to sea to escape.

But at the moment, this is more ambiguous, I heard that Cao Cao in the north withstood Yuan Shao's offensive, but there was no accurate letter to come, making it clear whether it was Cao Sheng or Yuan Sheng. Zhu Zhi didn't know whether he should go to sea or join Cao Cao, or go elsewhere to be a savage.

In addition, Zhu Zhi was not like Zhou Yu, and Sun Ce did not allocate the new sea ships captured in the Jiangyin Water Battle to him. After coming and going, Zhu Zhi's decision was delayed, and Guan Yu and Zhao Yun had successfully arrived in the west of Wu County and began to prepare for the siege camp.

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun also did not encircle Wu County on all sides, obviously leaving Zhu Zhi a chance to escape for his life, in order to break the morale of the defenders and prevent the defenders from jumping over the wall in a hurry.

In other words, Guan Yu is sure that the county seat of Wuxian County is not directly close to the sea, and after leaving the city, he has to go east to Huating Town to have a seaport. So even if Zhu Zhi breaks through, Guan Yu is confident that he will intercept and kill Zhu Zhi before he goes to sea.

Wu County is quite strong, after all, it is the former capital of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are thousands of elite soldiers to defend it, Guan Yu needs to rebuild siege equipment and destroy the outer trenches, and the preparation time of about half a month is still necessary.

Otherwise, if you can't destroy the moat, even if someone offers the door to answer it, it won't be reliable - if the drawbridge is damaged, you won't be able to enter the gate.

So at this time, Guan Yu can still afford to wait, sharpen the knife and not chop wood.

During the preparation for the siege of Wu County, Guan Yu asked Zhao Yun to divide his troops and turn to the south, collecting the counties in other directions along the Taihu Lake, and at the same time to find out the military situation of all parties.

And at this juncture, an important military information was sent from Zhuge Jin, who was guarding the Moling in the rear.

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Since Moling was captured, Zhang Zhao surrendered, and Sun Ce's main force was annihilated for most of it, Zhuge Jin did not participate in Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's follow-up pursuit battles, but entered Moling as soon as possible, restored order to the people, and devoted his energy to the internal political work in the rear.

Zhuge Jin knows very well that the Sun family is over, and the follow-up is the garbage time of horse racing, and there is no suspense. He himself is still a more civilian, and it is more important to govern the place well than to personally participate in the enclosure, and he does not need these icing on the cake military feats.

Now that Zhuge Jin has entered Moling City for more than 20 days, the people of Danyang County, who were exiled by Sun Ce, have also been resettled, and the basic real estate and fields that can clearly confirm the rights have also been registered and returned to the people.

But the real estate of some wealthy households, mainly a huge amount of excess land, Zhuge Jin naturally has to review it to ensure that the property rights are okay, and there is no crime of colluding with the Sun family against the imperial court, and the right will be reconfirmed-

This can be regarded as a cautious approach, and the local rich have nothing to say, and at the same time, it is also a matter of sorting out the problem of land annexation by local tyrants, and the means are quite moderate. And for the "borderless land" that could not be confirmed because of the war, Zhuge Jin did not swallow all of it as an official property, and he also returned a part of it to the landless homeless, which was regarded as a pull and a dozen, stabilizing the hearts of the people.

These day-to-day government affairs to alleviate the contradictions of land annexation do not need to be elaborated in detail.

Let's bring the topic back to the urgent military situation that Zhuge Jin reported to Guan Yu:

"Cao Cao has defeated Yuan Shao in Guandu on the ninth day of the lunar month, and the Jizhou generals Zhang He and Gao Lan surrendered to Cao in front of the array."

When Guan Yu got the news, he was also shocked, and at the same time ordered to continue to keep the seal tight, so that the generals on Sun Ce's side could not know about the situation.

Afterwards, Guan Yu took a closer look at the few details that Zhuge Jin had reported to him.

The results of the Battle of Guandu in this life are slightly different from the same period in history. On the one hand, the timing of Xu You's surrender to Cao changed, so Cao Cao finally failed to go to Wuchao to burn grain-

Historically, Wuchao was not a long-term grain storage point for the Yuan army, but a temporary overnight camp on the way to transport grain, so the camp defense was so poor, and there were almost no fortifications. Xu You's rebellion was tantamount to leaking Yuan Shao's grain transportation trip directly to Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao could seize a weak point on the way.

But in any case, Cao Cao will always make good use of the information brought by Xu You, but the specific means are more improvised.

In the end, Xu Yu's leak of secrets can account for at least 30% of Cao Cao's reversal. And the panic of the Yuan army caused by Xu You's defection, including the blow to morale and the chain reaction of the chain of suspicion, can also account for 30%.

The last forty percent of the responsibility is to blame for the defection of Zhang He and Gao Ran.

In the final analysis, Yuan Shao's life was not lost because the military rations were burned, nor was he lost because he was indecisive and "chose the wrong choice every time". The main reason is that his internal strife is too serious, and the Hebei faction and the foreign faction are in full swing.

Cao Cao can "listen to it and understand it", but the premise is that there is no infighting among the people under his command! Xun Yu Xun Yu is a family, and most of the other top-level civil officials who can speak are also the Yingchuan Group brought by Xun Yu, or simply a poor meritocracy with no foundation, only a newcomer Jia Xu is not, but Jia Xu also knows that he has a low status and does not dare to disobey his senior colleagues, of course Cao Cao can listen to both.

If Erxun, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others also attacked each other and demolished the stage like Yuan Shao's group of strategists, Cao Cao would not be able to listen to both.

This can also be regarded as a lesson to other princes of the same era: if you want to use the family family, you can only pick a family in a circle at most to reuse, and then you must supplement it with a large number of poor scholars and meritocracy.

If all the big families are used, and they are big families from various backgrounds, then there will definitely be infighting in the end, and then nothing will be done like the Luoyang or Chang'an court of the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" back then, and everyone is busy sharing the spoils.

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In these troubled times, it is not a good thing that the family has taken refuge in many people, they will bring resources, and they will also bring various small groups and local interest groups, Yuan Shao is too favored by the family family, everyone will vote for him, and the benefits that Yuan Shao can promise are not enough.

If a poor scholar is as strong as a child of a family, the work that a child of a family can do can also be done, but at least he doesn't have to share so many benefits with a poor scholar, and he doesn't have to speak for a certain interest group.

With the princes of the Han family, the degree of centralization of power will naturally be higher, and the potential for mobilization and dispatch of war resources will be stronger.

In fact, at this point, Cao Cao is quite similar to Zhuge Liang in the original history.

When Zhuge Liang ruled Shu, it was not because he "liked to use Jingzhou people and hated Yizhou people" that he reused foreign talents. Instead, Zhuge Liang knew that the war resources he wanted to mobilize and dispatch came from the Yizhou family. If the Yizhou faction is tilted and reused, then he will not be able to dispatch these resources, and who of the Yizhou people will spontaneously want to contribute money for the Northern Expedition of the country?

Zhuge Liang can only guarantee at most that "I reuse Jingzhou people, and at the same time ensure that the Jingzhou people I reuse will not fill their own pockets, do things fairly, and govern the country according to law, especially from the beginning of myself, I will be absolutely honest and honest by example", so that Yizhou people are forced to pay for it and be convinced. But after Zhuge Liang, other successors could not do Zhuge Liang's "calm intentions and admonishment Ming".

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Guan Yu and Zhao Yun naturally couldn't know how the battle of Guandu in the original history should go. They didn't care about the reason for Yuan Shao's failure at all.

Therefore, for the information provided by Zhuge Jin, they are more concerned about the specific losses after Yuan Shao's defeat and the development of the situation in Hebei.

And Zhuge Jin collected as much detail as possible in this regard.

In a word, Yuan Shao's losses in this life are mainly similar to those in the same period in history, Chun Yuqiong still died in battle, and Zhang He Gaolan still voted.

Jiang Qi didn't die, maybe it was the change in the grain robbery operation and the butterfly effect that appeared, which caused Jiang Qi not to rush to the rescue when Cao Cao beat Chun Yuqiong, and saved a life, and also saved an additional army for Yuan Shao, and finally successfully covered the withdrawal of Yuan Shao's father and son to Hebei.

Fu Zhu was still captured with the army in the midst of the chaos. But because of the slight butterfly effect, such as not finding the opportunity to "steal the horse and flee to Yuan", he was not directly executed by Cao Cao on the spot, but has been under house arrest.

But there is not much difference between being imprisoned and dying, anyway, he will not surrender to Cao Cao, even if he is false and wronged in order to save his life, at most he will "not say a word in Cao Ying", like Xu Shu later in history. Counting on Fu Zhi's complete rebellion, unless Yuan Shao is dead, there can be hope, and it is only possible.

Tian Feng was also not dealt with after Yuan Shao's defeat, because in this life, Tian Feng was only treated coldly before the war, but he was not imprisoned and was in a state of innocence, so it was even more impossible to "ridicule Yuan Shao because of Yuan Shao's defeat".

So on the whole, Yuan Shao was still defeated, retreated from Guandu all the way back to Liyang north of the Yellow River, and spit out the two newly occupied Henan counties in the past six months. However, in terms of losses, it lost one Jiang Qi and one Tian Feng less than the same period in history, and Jiang Qi's troops were additionally preserved.

Perhaps this is also related to the fact that Cao Jun's strength is slightly weaker than the same period in history, even with Zhou Yu's technology diffusion and Jia Xu's active advice, after all, it is a little bit worse.

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"I didn't expect Yuan Shao to still lose to Cao Cao, how serious is his infighting! Why are a bunch of civil and military people staring at their own people to attack! Alas, alas! ”

"Fortunately, Yuan Shao's defeat occurred after our army broke through Moling, and it took more than 20 days for the news to come. If Yuan Shao was defeated before Moling City was broken, I don't know how to inspire Sun Ce's will to persevere! ”

After Guan Yu read Zhuge Jin's information, he was also emotional.

Zhao Yun, who had just been called back by him, was also emotional, but out of encouragement, he still thought in a good direction and persuaded:

"Yun Chang doesn't have to worry so much, even if Yuan Shao was defeated before Moling City was broken, we were in control of Jianghuai, and we could block this news for another month or two.

Now it is Ziyu who knows that Sun Ce can't turn the tables, so he passed this military report to us, if Sun Ce still has the strength to spare, Ziyu may not even hide it from us, and we will not know until we return to Jiangbei. ”

When Guan Yu heard this, it seemed to be such a truth, and he couldn't help nodding frequently.

The level of secrecy of information is always related to the urgency of the situation. The more urgent the situation, the higher the level of secrecy, and now it is a relatively lax state, and Liu Beijun has this capital.

"What Zilong said is very true, although the situation has been settled now, we also have to pay a little attention, at least we can't let Zhu Zhi in Wu County know all this, otherwise it will not be conducive to taking Wu County lightly. I don't know how the Gu and Lu clans in the city are prepared, why they haven't decided to assassinate Zhu Zhi or Xianmen, do you want to try to contact them......"

Guan Yu was introspecting and pondering whether he had a match or not.

After Zhao Yun heard this, out of caution, he hurriedly persuaded him to be more serious: "It's better to wait, contact now, it may hurt them." Although Lu Yi had already taken refuge in us, his clansmen who stayed in Wu County had been tight-lipped, and he never raised his own banner when he led the army, and they were still safe. ”

Guan Yu nodded and decided to wait a little longer.

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Fortunately, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun did not wait in vain, although Zhu Zhi survived the New Year's Day of this year in Wu County, he did not survive the Shangyuan Festival after all, and he did not see the full moon of the first month.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Liu Beijun responded to Gu Yong in Wu County, and finally found an opportunity to deceive Zhu Zhi's trust, allowing him to participate in the city defense and defense, help the patrol to boost morale, and dispatch the civil clans to provide materials for defending the city.

Then, three days later, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Gu Yong mobilized the families of the Gu and Lu families and dedicated the south gate where Zhu Zhi was most neglected.

Zhu Zhi's adopted son Zhu Ran was the first to notice that something was wrong, and hurriedly led troops to plug the leak, Gu Yong took Gu and Lu Jiading to hold on desperately for a while, and Zhao Yun's cavalry entered the city and captured the city gate. Zhu Ran was also killed by Wei Yan.

After Zhu Zhi heard that the south gate was lost and his son was killed, he was a little uncalm for a while, and wanted to take revenge, so he organized his personal guards to fight with Zhao Yun in the street battle, and found that it was too late to break through after being defeated, and was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun.

Gu Yong and the Lu family immediately came forward to welcome Guan Yu into the city.

With the Gu family coming forward, order was restored in Wu County on the same day, and the city was not easy to wanton. The rest of the surrounding counties, such as Haiyan, Louxian, Jiaxing, etc., were also decided and surrendered without a fight.

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