The big man is on the run

Chapter 168 Lu Bu Pigeon Yuan Shu

Now that the imperial court had given him an official name, Sun Ce wrote a symbolic letter about Yuan Shu's arrogance and proclaiming himself emperor, admonishing him not to do so. Yuan Shu had already proclaimed himself emperor, so of course he would not listen, and instead scolded Sun Ce for being ungrateful.As a result, the two broke off their friendship and had no further contact. Sun Ce sent someone to write a letter to inform Wu Jing, Sun Ben and others, and Wu Jing immediately gave up Guangling and returned to Sun Ce.

Yuan Shu also insisted on disgusting Sun Ce, and appointed Sun Ben as the prefect of Jiujiang in the name of his "Son of Heaven". Sun Ben failed to take office, was trapped in Jiangbei, and then abandoned his wife and children and returned to Jiangdong.Sun Xiang, a brother of Sun Ce's family, was also appointed by Yuan Shu as the prefect of Runan, but he could not return to Jiangdong because the road was far away.

Liu Yi's second plan to instigate rebellion is Lu Bu.

This is also the last object to instigate rebellion, and the reason is very simple. There are only five princes around Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Liu Biao.

Here Cao Cao is on Yuan Shao's side, and has never dealt with Yuan Shu.Liu Bei, Mu of Xuzhou, and Liu Biao, Mu of Jingzhou, were loyal to the Han Dynasty. To them, Yuan Shu's proclaiming himself emperor was outrageous, and this was a matter of principle and position.

Therefore, after Sun Ce and Yuan Shu fell out, the only one Liu Yi wanted to instigate rebellion against was Lu Bu.

Before that, Yuan Shu had been sending envoys to Lv Bu, asking Lv Bu to honor his promise to marry his daughter to Yuan Shu's son.

In the beginning, Lu Bu didn’t really want to fulfill the contract, because he made the marriage contract because he hated Cao Cao and Liu Bei at the same time, and attacked Yanzhou and Xuzhou all over the place. At that time, Lu Bu had no way out, so he agreed to marry Yuan Shu.

At that time, Yuan Shu had taken a fancy to the combat power of Lu Bu's troops, because apart from Sun Ce, he had no general who could be alone. Therefore, after Sun Ce drifted away from him, Yuan Shu turned his ideas on Lu Bu.

Lu Bu has always refused to send his daughter, but it was not easy to refuse directly, so he approached Chen Gong and asked what to do.Chen Gong naturally knew Lu Bu's intentions, and thought that Lu Bu should not send his daughter there to get married soon.

Yuan Shu's attitude is also very interesting. As the relationship between Sun Ce and him gradually cools down, he will naturally continue to increase his bargaining chips on Lu Bu's side.Yuan Shu also sent an envoy Han Yin to Pengcheng Mansion, hoping that Lv Bu could help him. Knowing the situation at this time, Lv Bu would naturally not agree, but he couldn't refuse directly, so he had to politely refuse.

Knowing that Lu Bu refused, Yuan Shu was not annoyed, and continued to send letters and gifts to Lu Bu, and the matter was over like this, and neither side mentioned it again, just some daily greetings.

After Liu Bei knew about this, he didn't take any special measures, but secretly made people pay attention to Lu Bu's movements, in case he was stabbed in the back by Lu Bu again.

At the same time, Cao Cao is not stupid. He knows that Lu Bu may fall to Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are allies. If Lu Bu does not come to fight him, he will neither help Yuan Shu nor Lu Bu against Liu Bei, but he will not easily help Liu Bei. I wish these three parties could fight you to the death.

In May, when Han Yin came to Pengcheng again, Lu Bu was also surprised when he received Yuan Shu's handwritten letter.

In the letter, Yuan Shu stated that he had ascended the throne and made his son the crown prince. If Lu Bu's daughter married, she would be the queen in the future.

Chen Gong, Lv Bu's counselor, was also quite shocked after reading the letter, because he also knew that although Yuan Shu was not the biggest competitor of his lord Lv Bu on the road to hegemony, he was still the strongest enemy at present. After all, the strongest Yuan Shao is now The imperial court is standing up, so there is no need for them, the princes of the Central Plains, to worry about it.

Looking around, Yuan Shu's military strength and territory, although not as good as Yuan Shao in Hebei, but Yuan Shu's territory was at the junction of the four prefectures of Yanyu, Xuyang, and Yang, with tens of thousands of troops, it was the most threatening to the princes of the Central Plains.

What is certain is that no matter whether it is Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Sun Ce, or Liu Yao, any one of them will be crushed by Yuan Shu if they only look at their combat strength on paper.

This time Sun Ce and Yuan Shu broke up, which is definitely good news for Lu Bu, because Yuan Shu lost the most capable general and the Jiangdong territory of the two counties.

In this case, Lu Bu also has enough confidence to choose one person to be an ally between the Yuan Shu camp (formerly Tao Qian, Gongsun Zan, and Yuan Shu) and the Yuan Shao camp (formerly Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Yuan Shao), instead of choosing neither.

After all, the court's basic situation was only stabilized last year, and the "controversy between the two Yuans" has been in line for five or six years since the Dong Zhuo Rebellion ended.

Yuan Shu also mentioned in the letter that he asked Lu Bu to help deal with Cao Cao. After all, Liu Biao couldn't shrink back, and Yuan Shu had nothing to do with Liu Biao, who had an absolute advantage. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, his staunch allies, were his greatest enemies. He still knew who they were. It's really worth dealing with.

As for Xuzhou who was originally in his camp, the reason why the relationship has become alienated is that on the one hand, Tao Qian was replaced by Liu Bei, and on the other hand, after the court proposed "Yuan's national thief", Liu Bei would not be able to stand in the team. It's great to get closer to Yuan Shu again.

In fact, from the fundamental interests of fighting against Cao Cao, Liu Bei should stand with Yuan Shu.

Although Liu Bei had a little feud with him, Yuan Shu also knew that Liu Bei had no ill intentions towards him, and Liu Bei was a smart man who knew who should be offended and who should not be offended. very nice.

But Cao Cao and Lu Bu are enemies after all, and Cao Cao is Yuan Shao's best friend, so he still needs Lu Bu's help.

Yuan Shu believed that after becoming emperor, Lu Bu would not deny himself this face.

Sure enough, Lu Bu did not shirk after reading it, nor did he ask himself to help him fight Cao Cao, but asked himself to help solve the food problem. Not only did he not make any other requests, but he also said that he would send his daughter here as soon as possible, which made Yuan Shu very pleased. .

Lu Bu also said in the letter that he asked himself to send troops to attack Cao Cao at this time to avenge his defeat by Cao Cao.

Of course, Yuan Shu didn't care why Lv Bu, who had been overthrown by others, felt that he had a grudge against Cao Cao. Yuan Shu was ecstatic, and even claimed it, and promised to destroy Cao Cao as soon as possible, and seize the entire territory of Yanzhou.

Lu Bu expressed his gratitude in the letter and promised Yuan Shu that if Cao Cao dared to attack Yuan Shu's territory, he would enter Yanzhou first, and then follow him to attack Cao Cao.

Yuan Shu was very happy after reading the letter. He thought that Lu Bu would delay, but now it seems that he is very satisfied with his sincerity.

The marriage between Lu Bu and Yuan Shu's family was finally resolved, which made Yuan Shu heave a sigh of relief.

Lu Bu ordered his daughter to accompany Han Yin to Shouchun.

——However, an accident came!

But at this time, Liu Yi sent Yang Xiu here, and Yang Xiu joined forces with Pei Xiang Chen Gui to persuade Lu Bu to marry Yuan Shu, and he would definitely be accused of injustice.

Deep down in his heart, Lu Bu, who still wanted to be a "loyal minister of the Han Dynasty", saw the high-ranking officials offered by the court, and thought so deeply, so he sent Zhang Liao to lead the cavalry to recover his daughter halfway, and captured Han Yin, and sent him to Chang'an to beheaded. .

Lu Bu was very obedient and Liu Yi was very happy.

Liu Yi issued an edict to inform the world, reviewing Lu Bu's "destruction of his father with righteousness". Ah Bu's experience of "destruction of relatives with righteousness" affirmed his contribution to the killing of the national traitor Dong Zhuo, and promoted him at the same time, appointing Lu Bu as General Zuo , Yuzhou Mu, encouraged him to continue the crusade against the new generation of national traitor Yuan Shu, and deeply comforted him.

Well, Yuzhou is in Yuan Shu's hands.
In short, the title is given to you, if you want to claim the territory, you can get it yourself.

When Yuan Shu heard that Lü Bu had ruined his marriage and beheaded his envoy, he was furious, and sent generals Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui, leading tens of thousands of footmen, to attack Lv Bu's territory Pengcheng and Xiaopei.

There is another small episode here, that is, in the original plan, it should be Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce who should besiege Yuan Shu, but there is a little accident on Sun Ce's side.

The first wave of envoys only caused Yuan Shu and Sun Ce to break off their friendship. The two sides hadn't turned their heads. Liu Yi felt that the heat was almost ready, so he sent the second batch of envoys in May. At that time, Yang Xiu went to Lu Bu and Sima Zhi went to to Sun Ce's office.

Sima Zhi brought Liu Yi's edict to Sun Ce, fulfilled his previous promise, and formally appointed him as the general who conquered the south, succeeded his father as Marquis Wucheng, and concurrently served as the prefect of Kuaiji, and ordered him to crusade against Yuan Shu together with Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Chen Yu.

At that time, Chen Yu's army was stationed in Haixi, and Sun Ce rectified the army according to the requirements of the imperial edict. He was going to meet with Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Chen Yu to plan military plans and participate in the situation.But when he led his army to Qiantang, the situation changed. It turned out that Chen Yu wanted to take the opportunity to seize Sun Ce's territory. He sent someone to cross the river secretly, and took more than 30 seals to scattered bandits and commanders of various counties and counties. Let them respond internally, and immediately attack Sun Ce's counties as soon as they move out.When Sun Ce discovered this conspiracy, he was furious and sent Lu Fan and Xu Yi to attack Haixi, smashing Chen Yu and capturing more than 4000 of his soldiers, wives and children.

Because of Chen Yu's betrayal, Sun Ce did not participate in Liu Bei and Lu Bu's military operations.

But this did not affect anything. At this time, under the will of the imperial court and the threat of reality, Xuzhou Muye Liu Bei also temporarily abandoned the previous suspicions, personally led the army to support Lu Bu, and attacked Zhang Xun together with Lu Bu.Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others will lead the way bravely. Zhang Xun is defeated and the army is completely lost.

Lü Bu and Liu Bei joined forces, and went down land and water, and pursued until Zhongli, which was only two hundred miles away from Shouchun. Yuan Shu personally led five thousand troops to the south of the Huai River to watch what happened. Lu Bu and Liu Bei were equal to the north of the Huai River. , and then returned to the north of the division, Yuan Shu was defeated after this, and his power gradually weakened.

And Lu Bu and Liu Bei joined forces to carve up part of the territory that Yuan Shu gave up.

Lu Bu obtained half of Runan County in Yuzhou, namely Chengfu, Shansang, Xiyang and other cities, connecting the territories of Pengcheng State, Pei State, and Runan County into a line from northeast to southwest.

Liu Bei regained Guangling County in Xuzhou, which was captured by Yuan Shu in the first year of Jian'an, and bordered Sun Ce across the river.It also de facto controlled the four counties of Guangling County, Xiapi State, Donghai County, and Langya State in Xuzhou.

Lost in the east and harvested in Sangyu, Yuan Shu, who was unwilling to fail, did not dare to meet the coalition forces of Lu Bu and Liu Bei for a short time, but aimed at Chen Guo, which is north of Runan County.

In September of the second year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu led an army to attack Chen Guo, killed Chen Wang Liu Chong, and annexed Chen Guo.

And this move deeply stimulated Cao Cao who was watching the play.

Because the disappearance of the strategic buffer zone of Chen State means that Cao Cao and Yuan Shu have completely bordered each other.

At this time, Cao Cao, with Yanzhou as the main sphere of influence, radiated the surrounding Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou, occupying Chenliu County, Dongjun, Liang State, Jiyin County, Dongping State, Jibei State, Rencheng State, Shanyang County, The territory of ten counties including Lu State and Taishan County can be said to be the most powerful princes in the Central Plains.

When two powers compete, one must be wounded.

Cao Cao led Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xu Chu, Dianwei and other generals to dispatch, and personally led the army to march south. When Yuan Shu heard that Cao Cao had come in person, he was shocked, abandoned the army and fled back to Huainan, leaving behind generals Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui, Li Feng and others retreated to Qi County.Cao Cao sent his troops to attack, defeated Yuan's army, and beheaded Yuan's generals Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Liang Gang, Lejiu and many others.Zhang Xun survived and fled back to Huainan.

In one year, Yuan Shu was defeated first by Lu Bu and then by Cao Cao. Not only did he lose all his soldiers, but his strategic situation fell into the dilemma of being surrounded by Liu Biao, Liu Yao, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Sun Ce. Only Yangzhou was left in the territory. Jiujiang County, Lujiang County and half of Runan County in Yuzhou.

At this time, among the princes of the Central Plains, Cao Cao had ten counties, Liu Bei had four counties, Lu Bu had two and a half counties, and Yuan Shu also had two and a half counties.

At this point, Yuan Shu is already a "dead bone in the grave", just lingering on his last breath and waiting to die.

The most terrible thing is that in the second year of Jian'an, the sky failed to fulfill people's wishes. There was a large area of ​​famine and drought in the Central Plains.

In the autumn, Chen Lan and Lei Bo, the last part of Yuan Shu, rebelled. After plundering food and grass, they went to Mt. Yun to fall grass and become bandits.

Yuan Shu had to sit in a lonely city, waiting for the final fate to come.

But the other person who was trapped in the isolated city received Liu Yi's attention.

This man is called Zang Hong, the city is Baima City, and Yuan Shao is besieging him.

　The plot of Yuan Shu, which is not directly related to the protagonist, is written here, let’s start the protagonist’s line
　　
　
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