Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 173
After Yuan Xi rushed to Yuan Shao's tent, the generals and counselors came one after another, but their faces were not good-looking.

Calculating the time, Zhang Yan's vanguard can arrive in about ten days if they march quickly!

During this period of time, no one has any idea whether Yi Jing can be defeated.

Xin Ping first said: "Now we have to deal with it."

"Should we divide our troops to stop Zhang Yan, or attack Yi Jing with all our strength."

Ju Shou said: "Isn't there another option, to retreat?"

Xun Chen said coldly: "A large army is overwhelming the city and making false claims to retreat, should it be called military law?"

The examiner said: "As a military supervisor, Gongyu naturally needs to consider the worst situation. If it rains again, what should we do?"

Everyone was silent. The rain the day before yesterday not only dampened the food and damaged the armor, but also caused many people to get sick and even die.

If there is another rain, I'm afraid Gongsun Zan will not have to go out of the city to fight back, and Yuan Junji will collapse and retreat.

Who knew the weather was so weird this year, it was already October, and it was still raining!

Pang Ji said: "The current situation is that there is no retreat. This year, Jizhou is the least affected by locust plagues in all states, so there is surplus food and grass to raise troops."

"The mobilization of the army this time has cost a lot of money. If the troops are withdrawn, it may take two or three years before such an army can be recruited again."

Guo Tu echoed: "If this good opportunity is missed, let alone two or three years, even three to five years, it's hard to say what will happen in the future."

Tian Feng sneered and said: "But if we fail to attack the city, our army will be cut off by the Black Mountain Army. Not only will the main force be lost, but even Yecheng will be in danger."

"I heard that Cao Cao sent troops to attack Yecheng. Fortunately, our army was prepared and frightened him away temporarily."

Xu You said: "It's hard to say, Cao Mengde is an ally of our army, how could he sneak attack at this time?"

"I think Mr. Yuan Hao is worrying unnecessarily."

Tian Feng sneered and said: "I think you are on good terms with that Cao Cao, so you speak for him?"

Xu You blushed, "Yuan Hao! How dare you smear my innocence out of thin air!"

Seeing a group of counselors quarreling, Yuan Xi thought to himself that the more counselors, the better, just like now, it is counterproductive.

If I were in Yuan Shao's position, I would not be able to deal with this group of people at all.

This group of counselors is backed by their own gentry, and they have long been unable to lose their tails. Although they are all working hard, they will all speak from their own standpoints, rather than being absolutely neutral.

Among the counselors present today, Tian Fengjushou, the counselor, belongs to the Jizhou School, Xun Chen, Guo Tuxinbi, belongs to the Yingchuan School, and Xu Youpangji, belongs to the Nanyang School. Want to overwhelm each other.

The hidden problems here will intensify over time. Today is just the tip of the iceberg, and the Jizhou faction is already dissatisfied with being suppressed by the other two factions, and has begun to feel war-weary!

The Jizhou faction should support Yuan Tan, but now being suppressed by the other two factions that support Yuan Shang, Yuan Tan's chances of becoming the heir are getting slimmer and slimmer.

Moreover, the benefits allocated to the Jizhou counselors were far lower than expected. It can even be said that after the Yingchuan faction and Nanyang faction gained power, they greatly weakened the local influence of the Jizhou faction counselors.

Therefore, the Jizhou faction began to show a tendency to sing the opposite. Tian Feng's so-called offense can only be that he has seen this fact clearly a few years ago and took the opportunity to vent his dissatisfaction with his bad mouth.

Yuan Xi thought to himself that this world is really wonderful. He was the one who took the initiative to attack Yi Jing, but now Yuan Shang's faction supports the attack on Yi Jing, but Yuan Tan's faction has the idea of ​​retreating!

Yuan Shao's faction of counselors is really too troublesome. Yuan Xi feels that Yuan Shao has not balanced the contradictions between these factions so far. In this point, he is far inferior to Cao Cao.

Regardless of the fact that there are many counselors under Cao Cao, Cao Cao controls them quite well.

Cao Cao's idea of ​​counselors is quite clear, that is, the Yingchuan faction is the main one.

From Xi Zhicai to Guo Jia, and then to Xun Yu and Chen Qun, all are from Yingchuan, and Cheng Yu, who followed Cao Cao at the beginning, became a marginal person in the later period, let alone Jia Xu , I went to hide my strength and bide my time.

So when Cao Cao couldn't make up his mind, he just had to discuss with the Yingchuan people behind closed doors, and the matter was settled, and Cao Cao himself was a very powerful military strategist, and he could hold people down.

In the military, Cao Cao led the army with the Cao family and Xiahou family as the core. No matter how successful other generals with foreign surnames were, they could only serve as deputy most of the time.

This effectively put an end to the situation of internal fighting. Although the battle will be defeated, at least stability can be guaranteed under this system.

But on Yuan Shao's side, the problem is much bigger.

Not to mention the infighting among counselors, even generals, there are many factions.

Chunyu Qiong, who is a veteran, has four courtyard pillars on the top of the mountain, and Bingliang general who has been squeezed out and suppressed.

When Yuan Shao personally sat in the battle to win the battle, it was good to say that if the battle was lost, the various factions would inevitably shirk their responsibility. At this time, the generals who had no backing became scapegoats.

When Qu Yi betrayed Han Fu and joined Yuan Shao, it was because he lost a battle and was punished by Han Fu, so Qu Yi was forced to turn against Han Fu.

As a result, after he took refuge with Yuan Shao, because of his bravery in battle, his subordinates ascended the dead first and were powerful, and because of Yuan Shao's fear of ambush, he almost died.

When Yuan Xi switched to Qu Yi's perspective, he could feel deeply depressed, and he couldn't do anything. Isn't this the same as whether he wears a hat or not, he will be slapped in the face.

No wonder later Zhang He Gaolan surrendered immediately after attacking Cao Jun's camp. Although he was not loyal enough, I'm afraid he also understood the way of playing in Yuan Shao's circle.

In the final analysis, there is still no group to keep warm and form a circle.

The counselors huddled together to keep warm, but different factions fought again.

The counselors were still arguing endlessly, but Yuan Shao finally couldn't help it, and said: "It is impossible to retreat, and I will never go back to Ye City if I don't take down Yi Jing!"

As soon as he uttered these words, the crowd fell silent, Yingchuan faction and Nanyang faction showed color, while Jizhou faction remained expressionless.

Because in their view, what Yuan Shao said was to support Yuan Shang and suppress Yuan Tan.

Seeing this, Yuan Xi felt that enough was enough. A few counselors dared to play like this because Jizhou was too powerful, so they felt confident that even fighting each other would not affect the success or failure of the matter.

If Yuan Xi hadn't read the script, who would have known that Yuan's such a great advantage would disappear if he waved and waved?

But now that Yuan Shao has expressed his attitude, there are two paths left.

Attack with all your strength, or divide your troops to stop the Montenegro Army.

Zhang Yan's three roads went straight to Yecheng. With Yuan Shang sitting there, there were enough soldiers left in Yecheng, so it would be no problem to just defend the city.

Now it is the road that detours to the south of Yuan Shaojun in the middle. After discussion, it was decided that Yuan Tan would lead 1 people to stop it.

There were only 4 or [-] people on Zhang Yan's journey, and most of them were civilian militiamen with wooden spears. Yuan Shao's [-] elite soldiers were enough to stop them.

Then it goes through the south of Beixincheng and goes around to the back of Yijing.

Everyone looked at Yuan Xi. Seeing this, Yuan Xi knew that he was the most familiar with the defense lines of the three cities in Zhuo County, and he was the only one who was the most suitable.

He said: "I'll come that way, but now I only have more than 2000 people left, I'm afraid it's still less, if I can make up five thousand, there will be no problem."

Yuan Shaowei pondered for a while, and said, "Okay!"

"I'll give you another five hundred cavalry and two thousand infantry!"

Yuan Xi made up his mind, these soldiers relied on the defense of the three cities, and it would not be a problem to block the Black Mountain Army.

The key is whether he can come back in time to see Gongsun Zan's final outcome.

Before he left, he glanced at Yuan Shao, and the father and son looked at each other, tacit understanding.

Before setting off from Yecheng, the father and son had a private conversation, and only the two of them knew that there was a key that could be used. As for whether it would be effective, it would depend on the future situation.

He returned to his camp, summoned Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, and told them to recruit soldiers, regroup, and return to Zhuojun the next day to stop the Black Mountain Army.

The two left under orders, and Yuan Xi asked Sun Li to bring Tian Yu back, saying, "Brother Guorang, I might have to break my promise."

"Originally, I wanted to bring my brother to meet Gongsun Zan for the last time, but now that the Black Mountain army is coming, I have to go back and fight."

These days, Tian Yu has been escorted by Sun Li to watch Yi Jing attack and defend every day. At the beginning, he was quite angry when he saw the defenders at the top of the city being killed, but when he saw Yuan Jun return to the camp later, he was also missing arms and legs, crying Day after day, it gradually became silent.

Hearing Yuan Xi's words, there was no change on his face, and he said: "This is not the son's fault, why should I apologize to Yu."

Yuan Xi sighed, "Because I always agreed to you first."

Tian Yu thought to himself why did you promise me, I want to go back, but you won't let me go back!
He said: "My lord doesn't need to explain this to me, I won't have second thoughts because of the kindness of Marquis Ji."

Sun Li listened to him, and couldn't help but mocked: "That bastard Gongsun Zan even killed his own people, you are stupid and loyal."

Tian Yu listened and remained silent.

Yuan Xi had already arranged things properly, and when he had free time, he said to Tian Yu patiently: "Actually, I am very interested in Brother Guorang, and there are many questions that I don't understand."

"For example, Liu Yuzhou and Gongsun Zan both belong to the same family, but they behave much more benevolently, and the elder brother has been with Liu Yuzhou for a longer time. Why did the country let the elder brother abandon him and return to Gongsun Zan?"

Tian Yu didn't expect Yuan Xi to know about his affairs, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "I will not hide it from you, my lord."

"I went to Jihou at first because my clan uncle worked under Jihou's subordinates."

"That day, Liu Yuzhou and his clan uncle carried Yuan Tan together, so I naturally defected to Liu Yuzhou."

"Later, Liu Yuzhou gave up Jizhou and the clan uncle to join Tao Qian. Because of my affection, I naturally chose the clan uncle's side."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi asked in confusion, "Who is Guorang's uncle?"

Tian Yu had a strange look on his face: "Young Master has dealt with him many times."

"It's the one who was promoted by Jihou as the governor of Qingzhou, and was beaten by the young master, and was forced to escape from the sea."

Yuan Xi suddenly realized that it was Tian Kai, no wonder!
The ties between the two sides are deeper than what I want, and if I take over Tian Kai's hometown, can Tian Yu make himself look good?
No wonder Tian Yu is so stubborn, the original reason lies in Tian Kai!

Now it's troublesome, because Tian Kai is even more stubborn!
(End of this chapter)