Chapter 235: Clearance, North and South (Page 1/1)

After Yu Tianlai returned to Xiangyang from Yizhou. met with Liu Wei, who had just moved the palace from Jiaozhou to here last year. After the two had a secret conversation, Yu Tianlai was still practicing freely, but Liu Wei summoned his growing group of strategists. After several days of deliberation, the plan was finally decided, and Liu Wei issued a document announcing Liu Yan's many major crimes such as secession, unauthorized killing, trespassing, and rebellion, and sent 50,000 troops to Shu for conquest.

Liu Yan was suffering from back sores and was sick in bed at the time, and after hearing about this, he was shocked and angry, lying on the sickbed and scolding Liu Wei, and randomly and urgently mobilized people to strictly guard the passes everywhere.

Although Liu Yan was angry, he was also confident that as long as the passes along the way were carefully guarded, Liu Wei would be insurmountable. When he is short of food for a long time, he can only return in vain.

How do you know that wherever Liu Bian's people and horses go, there are five buckets of rice in the passes along the way. The guards will be bribed or coerced by them, and some of them are themselves believers in Wudou Midao, and they all surrender to the enemy without a fight, so Liu Bianjun was able to drive straight into Mianzhu, where Liu Yan was located.

At that time, Liu Yan was seriously ill and groggy all day long, and his son Liu Zhang presided over daily military and political affairs. Knowing that the enemy soldiers were approaching the city, Liu Zhang, who had always been weak, was frightened and helpless, so he had to wake up his father to ask for advice.

When Liu Yan heard that Yizhou, which he had been operating for many years, had collapsed so quickly, he screamed on the couch in a fit of rage, his back sore broke, and he died on the spot.

Liu Zhang was sad and frightened, and he was even more ownerless, and he would not do anything except cry.

The civil and military officials who had colluded with Wudou Midao took the opportunity to speak out and persuaded Liu Zhang to take the initiative to surrender in order to save his life and even wealth.

Liu Zhang hesitated for a long time, after all, he did not have the determination to fight against the water, listened to the words of these people, and personally took the seal letter out of the city to surrender, and Yizhou has since been owned by Liu Bian.

Liu Wei's unification of the south has put great pressure on the heroes in the north who are still dividing and fighting each other. At this time, Liu Xie sent an envoy to meet Yuan Shao. This messenger was a foreign monk, named "Zhu Donglai",

Zhu Donglai analyzed the general trend of the world to Yuan Shao with some tongue-in-cheek lotus words, so that he realized that now Liu Wei's general trend has been achieved, and when he spends a few more years integrating and digesting the land and population south of the Yangtze River, then he will go north, and the Central Plains will only be wiped out by him one by one.

Among the heroes of the Central Plains, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao stood side by side, and if the hostility continued, no matter which side won, it could only be a tragic victory with great vitality. It is better to jointly respect Liu Xie, join hands to level the Central Plains, and complete the reunification of the north as soon as possible. Then integrate all the forces of the Central Plains, take the north and the south, and win or lose with Liu Wei.

Yuan Shao hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed to Zhu Donglai's suggestion, and sent an envoy to Xudu to pay tribute to Liu Xie, who had been ignored for many years, and to discuss the details of cooperation with Cao Cao, the de facto ruler of the court.

Cao Cao on the Xu Capital side had also been persuaded by Zhu Dong earlier, and he hit it off with Yuan Shao and made an alliance of cooperation.

Liu Xie took Cao Cao as the commander and Yuan Shao as the great Sima, creating a delicate balance between the two, and appointed Liu Bei, who had recently lost Xuzhou and came to Xudu and recognized his ancestors and became the emperor's uncle, as the commander of the division and in charge of the Gyeonggi garrison.

Since Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have decided to join forces, they must clear the field as soon as possible to unify the north. The first target they chose was to go into exile for a while, and then they came to Xuzhou to join Liu Bei but took advantage of the gap to capture Lu Bu in Xuzhou.

Cao and Yuan chose Lu Bu, who was the best in the world, as the first target of the expedition, and naturally had the intention of killing chickens and monkeys, so this battle must be won in one fell swoop with the momentum of Mount Tai to deter other northern heroes. After the two discussed, it was decided that Cao Cao would sit in Xudu, and Yuan Shao would lead an army of 100,000 to go on the expedition. In order to suppress Lu Bu, Yuan Shao not only brought Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the two generals with the strongest force under him, but also borrowed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei from Liu Bei.

Compared with Liu Bei, who is accustomed to using gentle methods and winning the hearts of the people, Lu Bu's methods of governing Xuzhou are too simple and rude, and the people have been tired of suffering for a long time. Although Yuan Shao's reputation is not very good, wherever the army goes, it is also welcomed by the people. He has always had the best face, and since the people have given such a big face, he will never let his face be damaged again, so he has been strict with the army all the way and has not committed any crimes. As a result, many cities often fell without being cut down, and the march of the army was almost overwhelming, and soon they reached Xiapi and besieged Lü Bu in it.

Although Lu Bu was trapped in a lonely city, he didn't have too much to worry about, he was confident that his martial arts and courage were unrivaled in the world, and he had no scruples except for one Yu Tianlai. No matter how many people Yuan Shao has, he can also use the halberd in his hand, the wolf cavalry under his command and the dead soldiers in the battle.

In the first battle between the two armies, Lu Bu really beheaded Yuan Shao's generals in front of the battle, and took advantage of the situation to lead his troops to assault and defeat several of Yuan Shao's troops. Later, Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang and Wen Chou to join forces to fight, but they only lasted for a while or three more under Lu Bu's halberd, and in the end they were still defeated. Until Guan Yu and Zhang Fei joined forces, the two of them reluctantly fought to a draw with Lu Bu with the strength of finally breaking through to the realm of the exterior, but there was no possibility of victory.

When Yuan Shao was at a loss, Liu Xie sent Zhu Dong, who was from the front-line labor army, to take the initiative to ask for battle, and fought against Lu Bu in front of the battle with a Qimen weapon one-legged bronze man, and killed him on the spot after a fierce battle of a thousand moves.

Lu Bu is, except for one Gao Shun who fought to the death, the rest of the generals surrendered.

After subduing the entire territory of Xuzhou, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao took turns to attack, and the momentum was like a strong wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, and the various heroes and powers in the north were wiped out one by one, and even Ma Teng, Han Sui and Gongsun Du in Liaodong, who were far away in Xiliang, had to choose to surrender after being defeated by Cao Cao.

After the unification of the north, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao made every effort to reorganize their armies for war, and because the south was not conducive to horse warfare, they also specially ordered people to build warships to train sailors.

Liu Xie's appointment of Yuan Shao as the Great Sima is tantamount to having reneged on the previous promise and deposing Liu Wei as the Great Sima. But today's Liu Wei doesn't care about his name, but only works hard in the south to accumulate strength and prepare for the Northern Expedition in the future.

Both sides thought that if they didn't fight, they would do their best in the first war, so they didn't dare to start a war lightly, and the world got a rare period of peace after many years of turmoil, and the people who had suffered from the chaos were able to recuperate.

This period of peace lasted for seven years, and Liu Xie and Yuan Cao in the north felt that the time was ripe, and immediately sent an edict to Xiangyang to recruit Liu Wei into the Hajj. Liu Wei naturally refused to be summoned, and Liu Xie immediately accused Liu Wei of being disobedient, and marched south with an army of 300,000 to drive in person.

Liu Wei then accused Liu Xie of being set up by Dong Zhuo, a rebel minister, and that he was not in the right position, and mobilized 200,000 men and horses from Jiao, Yang, Yi, and Jing to go north, and he also personally accompanied the army north to meet the enemy.

A great war that determines the ownership of the world slowly kicked off.

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