Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 185 Who is the Rebel
The news of Yi Jing's defeat and Gongsun Zan's defeat spread across the world in an instant.

All the princes, including Yuan Shu and Cao Cao, were shocked.

too fast!
It took less than two months from the time the soldiers dispatched Yecheng to the fall of Yijing!

The most optimistic prediction of the counselors of the princes before was that the two sides would fight until the Chinese New Year, and many people even felt that Yuan Shao would return without success like last time.

The princes of the world have not yet learned the inside story, but they have speculated that either Gongsun Zan has made a foolish move, or there are spies from within, otherwise how could they have lost so quickly?

However, none of this could change the fact that Gongsun Zan's forces had just withdrawn. After that, the situation in the North Land would undergo earth-shaking changes.

Its most direct impact was the overall defeat of the Montenegrin Army.

With more than 1 elite soldiers, Yuan Tan struggled to block the main force of the Black Mountain Army's central road with tens of thousands of people for more than ten days, and finally waited for reinforcements from Yuan's camp.

On the day Yuan Shao captured Yijing, he dispatched [-] soldiers, led by Chunyu Qiong Wenchou and Zhang He, to quickly support Yuan Tan.

Yuan Jun traveled day and night, and finally arrived when Yuan Tan was in danger. The two sides joined forces and defeated the main force of the Black Mountain Army in the middle, leaving nearly half of the prisoners and corpses behind, and fled back to Taihang Mountain in Bingzhou.

Yuan Tan didn't fix it, but went directly south, intercepting the South Road Black Mountain Army that was threatening Yecheng.

This Black Mountain army and Gao Lan sent by Yuan Shang were at a stalemate. He wanted to withdraw the army just after receiving the news of the defeat in the middle, but he didn't expect Yuan Tan to come so fast.

Taking advantage of the siege of Yecheng, Cao Jun, who crossed the Yellow River to look for opportunities, immediately retreated to the south of the Yellow River after receiving the news, and the crisis in Yecheng was resolved.

Yuan Tan won two consecutive battles within ten days, and immediately became famous all over the world.

However, Yuan Xi, the minister who really made the first contribution in the battle of Yijing, was much worse than Yuan Tan because the inside information could not be treated by outsiders.

But this is not important to Yuan Xi, Yi Jing captured, the last nail between Jizhou and Youzhou was finally pulled out, and since then the two states have finally been unimpeded.

This means that Yuan Xi can finally start to lay out the entire Youzhou.

Of course, the premise is that Yuan Shao is willing to let him take charge of Youzhou.

At this time, the dust had settled, and Yuan Shao's subordinates were from all walks of life.Some were sent out to clean up the surrounding bandits, some stayed in Yijing to clean up the city defenses, and some returned to Yecheng. The camp was still busy.

But Yuan Xi was still staying in the camp outside Yijing City, chatting with Guo Jia boredly.

Guo Jia showed approval, "The young master saved Liu He and Gongsun Zan's family on the spot, which is really the finishing touch. It can be called the stroke of the god of war."

Yuan Xi smiled wryly and said, "Mr. Feng Xiao, don't put money on my face. At that time, I just thought that Liu He couldn't die, and I didn't think too much about anything else."

"However, my father was quite displeased with this afterwards, and he was noncommittal about my proposal to treat Liu He kindly. Could it be that if Liu He is alive, it will be detrimental to the Yuan family?"

Guo Jia shook his head: "If Liu He dies, it will save a lot of trouble in the short term, but it will be a failure in the long run."

Yuan Xi came to be interested: "Xi doesn't understand, please ask sir for advice."

Guo Jia said, "By virtue of his father Liu Yu's name, Liu He has a high prestige in Wuhuan and Xianbei."

Yuan Xi agreed, "I understand that Yan Rou, Xian Yufu and others promoted by Wuhuan Xianbei obey Liu He."

Guo Jia sneered, "No, you don't understand, otherwise you shouldn't have said what you just said."

"You have to understand that from Wuhuan to Xianbei, to the Southern Huns, to the Bingliang Wu people in Guan, they all have the same idea."

"Although they have lived in the Han land for a long time, they have not been fully accepted. Therefore, the one they want to attach must be the most righteous and legitimate side. It is not the princes or the nobles. These are not in their eyes."

Yuan Xi blurted out: "Son of Heaven?"

Guo Jia nodded and said: "That's right, even if they obey the emperor, they still have to cling to the emperor on the surface, even if there is only a shelf left in the Han court."

"So they don't think of themselves as foreigners, but as the people of the big man."

Yuan Xi didn't understand for a while, "I don't understand."

"The Han Dynasty may be overthrown at any time. What good is it for them to do so?"

Guo Jia sneered and said, "The boat in the river is about to sink. Some people know how to swim, and some don't. They know how to swim."

"They all have a way out, most of them are the frontiers outside the Great Wall, the Han court is destroyed, and the world is in chaos. At worst, they retreat to the grassland and then attach themselves to the new dynasty."

"But the gentry in the Central Plains have no way to retreat, and are closely related to the survival of the Han Dynasty. If this ship is really going to capsize, many people will drown."

"So when the ship sinks, some people die and some people don't."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi suddenly realized: "So that's how it is!"

Guo Jia shook his head and said, "You, you still don't understand."

"The boat sank, and not only were they able to fish it out, but they also claimed that they were the real owner of the boat."

"At that time, everyone else will be dead, and naturally no one will oppose them. At that time, they will be able to rule the Central Plains under the banner of loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty."

"This is the real purpose for them to superficially attach themselves to Han Ting even though they suffer some losses."

When Guo Jia said this, Yuan Xi's body shook, and then suddenly he understood, and he sorted out the chaotic thoughts of the previous few years.

Isn't it the same with the birth of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms, and even the birth of Han and Zhao?
In the past, Liu Bang was trapped in Baideng Mountain and was forced to negotiate with the Huns and sent a daughter of the clan family surnamed Liu to marry him.

"Book of Jin·Liu Yuanhai Records": "Liu Yuanhai, a new Huns, was born after Maodun.... At the beginning, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty regarded his ancestral daughter as a princess and his wife Maodun as brothers, so his descendants assumed the surname Liu .”

Regardless of whether it is true or not, anyway, this group of Huns considered themselves descendants of Liu Bang, so when they established a political power hundreds of years later, they got a clear and righteous excuse.

Yuan Xi suddenly realized that for the Xiongnu, and even Wuhuan Xianbei, who valued blood inheritance, they needed a strong claim, which only the Han court could give them!

Although Yuan Shao has such a good relationship with Wuhuan Xianbei now, it is very likely that what people value is not Yuan Shao's power, but the righteousness brought by Liu Yu, the patriarch of the Han Dynasty.

Yuan Shao suddenly remembered, no wonder in previous history, when Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Zan, Wuhuan Xianbei fully supported Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao probably used the name of avenging Liu Yu.

In the Battle of Guandu just one year later, the strength of Wuhuan Xianbei led by Yan Rouxian and Yufu turned to Cao Cao in private, catching Yuan Shao by surprise.

We must know that Yuan Shao still had the upper hand until the later stage of the battle of Guandu. Wuhuan Xianbei was full and ran to support Cao Cao?
But if you consider that Cao Cao served the emperor in the name of Ling Buchen at that time, everything makes sense!

Whether Wuhuan Xianbei defected to Cao Cao in the name of the Han court, or Cao Cao secretly reached a deal with him, the final result was a fire in the backyard of Youzhou.

After the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Tan also persuaded Wuhuan to raise five thousand troops to fight against Cao Jun.

After Cao Cao learned about it, he sent Qianzhao as a special envoy to persuade Su Puyan, the master of Wuhuan in Liaodong, to submit to him, "respect and accept the edict", and resigned as envoy of Liaodong, and disbanded the five thousand soldiers who were going to assist Yuan Tan.

"Three Kingdoms Karasuma Biography" records that after Cao Cao pacified Hebei, Yan Rou, the captain of Wuhuan, "is handsome in Xianbei, and Wuhuan belongs to him."

It shows that from the beginning to the end, Yuan Shao's allies of Wuhuan and Xianbei were not actually on Yuan Shao's side, but on the Han court's side.

Therefore, for this reason, Guo Jia, the later generation, has always been extremely wary of Wuhuan and Xianbei, thinking that they will hinder Cao Cao's plan sooner or later.

Therefore, he advocated the conquest of Wuhuan because he was afraid that Yuan Shang would "recruit his ministers of life and death because of Wuwan's capital, and if the barbarians moved, the people and barbarians would respond, and with the heart of life and death, it would become a coveted plan." Cheng Sanjun Wuhuan "suddenly attacked" when he was unprepared for battle.

To put it bluntly, it is a sneak attack.

Cao Cao adopted this opinion, and the army left Lulongsai, "for more than five hundred miles in the mountains and valleys, passing through Baitan, Lipinggang, involving Xianbeiting, and pointing to Liucheng in the east."

It was not until two hundred miles away from Liucheng that Ta Dun realized that something was wrong and raised his troops hastily, but it was too late.

Yuan Xi couldn't help smiling wryly when he thought of this, and after a long time, at this point in time, Wuhuan Xianbei is the loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are the big traitors!
The clown is me!
Yuan Xi has figured it out so far, Liu He is really indispensable at present.

If Liu He dies, the Yuan family will not be able to get rid of the ties. This will completely push Wuhuan Xianbei in Youzhou to the opposite side, making it difficult for Yuan Xi to expand in Youzhou.

Thinking of this, he bowed deeply, and respectfully said to Guo Jia: "Mr., wake up the dreamer with one word."

"But what I don't understand is that although Liu He is important, what's the use of Gongsun Zan's family?"

Guo Jia looked around and opened his mouth. Yuan Xi recognized the word "adoption".

Guo Jia said: "The complex forces in Youzhou are rare among the thirteen prefectures. Before you get a firm foothold, you can only find ways to combine vertical and horizontal."

"Liu He is a force, Wuhuan Xianbei is a force, and Gongsun Du is a force."

"And the last one is those who still have sympathy for Gongsun Zan, or those who try to take advantage of his posthumous reputation. These people cannot be killed."

"If you can save his widow and children, and spread the name of benevolence and righteousness to the world, you can slowly use these forces for your own use."

"No matter how bad it is, it will make them dare not act rashly."

Yuan Xi nodded again and again, "Will my father think that Gongsun Zan's descendants are a threat, and kill the grass and roots?"

Guo Jia laughed and said: "Children of how old are afraid, but with this little courage, you still want to take over the world?"

"I think it's better to go home and farm as soon as possible."

Yuan Xi sweated profusely: "Mr. taught me the lesson."

Guo Jia finally said: "Young Master, it's good to show some womanly benevolence now, at least it can make Yuan Shijun more at ease."

"After all, no one wants to see brothers fighting against each other."

Yuan Xi understood that what Guo Jia was talking about was adoption, and he thought that he had done it unintentionally, so there are so many twists and turns?

Yuan Xi was actually trying to give an explanation to Zhao Yun and Tian Yu at the time, but he really didn't think so deeply like Guo Jia!

He stood up and said, "If that's the case, I'll go talk to my father and protect Liu He and Gongsun Zan's family."

"If my father can't think about it and kills them all, it will be troublesome for me."

Guo Jia nodded, "Yeah, it doesn't matter if you suffer a little bit, my lord. If you suffer a little bit now, you will definitely get bigger rewards in the future."

Yuan Xi understood and said, "I understand."

Yuan Shao has not been in a hurry to return to Yecheng these few days, and has been staying in the camp, really thinking about how to deal with Liu He and others.

The counselors below were also arguing endlessly, but Liu He's identity was too sensitive, and no one dared to suggest that he be killed, but many suggested that he should be placed under house arrest in Yecheng.

The counselors insisted on their own opinions, and Yuan Shao's old habit of hesitating when he was not fighting was repeated, and he still has not made up his mind.

At this time, the guard came in and reported: "Second Master Yuan is asking to see you."

(End of this chapter)