The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 160 Changes in Situation

Yuan Shu originally just wanted to take advantage of the vacancy that Jingzhou's senior officials had been unable to deal with in the past few days, and just make a few bucks here in Jingzhou.

For this purpose, he sent two generals, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, plus 30,000 not-so-elite troops, and most of them were given to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu as new recruits for training.

Unexpectedly, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu made such a big news for him, and directly captured Xiangyang City.

Under Yan Xiang's analysis and suggestions, Yuan Shu decisively dispatched Ji Ling to lead an army to Jingzhou, and he and Sun Ce each raced to enclose territory in Jiangbei.

Although Yuan Shu did not have Lu Bu joining him at this time, and the speed of conquering cities and territories dropped slightly, Yuan Shu was still the legitimate son of the Yuan family.

So along the way, Yuan Shu gave full play to his status as the legitimate son of the Yuan family and captured most of the cities in Jiangbei.

Even if they encountered a few cities that dared to resist, they relied on the force of Ji Ling and Sun Ce, as well as the help of some Yuan family disciples in the city, to successfully capture all these cities.

After sweeping the north of the Yangtze River, Yuan Shu led 70,000 infantry and cavalry to defeat the enemy and overwhelmed Jiangling. It seemed that this battle was the decisive battle.

After Sun Ce and Zhou Yu captured Xiangyang City, they led an army to attack Jiangxia and confronted Huang Zu on the Yangtze River.

In the end, Huang Zu was defeated in seven battles and died on the Yangtze River. Sun Ce fished him out of the Yangtze River to commemorate Sun Jian.

After this battle, the Jingzhou Jiangxia Navy came under Sun Ce's command, and most of the Jingzhou Navy's heritage was lost to Sun Ce.

Afterwards, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu fought up the Yangtze River, subduing various water bandits along the way. When they arrived at Jiangling, they had expanded their navy to more than 20,000 people and more than 200 boats.

After Liu Biao was carried to Jiangling, he locked himself in a small dark room and thought for three days. Then he mobilized all troops from Jingnan to Jiangling in an attempt to have a decisive battle with Yuan Shu in Jiangling.

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"Tsk, it seems we have another reason to send troops to Yanzhou and Yuzhou." Chen Xi put down the information in his hand.

Although they had already made plans to send troops to Yanzhou and Yuzhou, the changes in the current battle situation were not what they could have expected.

They may not have expected that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu could capture Xiangyang City in such a short period of time, and then smoothly defeat the Jiangxia navy.

They did not expect that Yuan Shu would be so decisive, personally leading a large army out of Jiangbei, and forcing Liu Biao to Jiangling so easily.

Jia Xu sneered and said, "Oh, it seems that the group of advisers under Cao Mengde are not to be underestimated, they can actually come up with such a clever strategy to break the situation.

If we really digest all parts of Qingzhou in situ and advance steadily, it is estimated that they can really gain one to two years of rest time. "

Chen Xi tapped the map on the wall with a bamboo pole, attracting everyone's attention, "You should remember that the purpose of our dispatch this time is Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

Yuzhou is not the purpose of our trip. Capturing Lu is already the best result. This is because Lu is close to Mount Tai.

Otherwise, the biggest result of our trip to Yuzhou would probably be that Yuan Gongli leads his army back to Yuzhou. After all, the Yuan family's operations in Yuzhou are really deep.

By the way, Ziyang, can you understand why Yuan Gongdao adopts such a governance method in Yuzhou? "Chen Xi asked Liu Ye. Even people like Chen Xi don't understand how the idealist Yuan Shu's brain circuit was constructed, and he would even disdain to exploit the people because of the glory of the family.

In other words, Yuan Shu didn't bother to care about how the people of Yuzhou were living, and the tax rate set by the court was whatever it was.

In Yuan Shu's view, all the officials in Yuzhou are basically Yuan's disciples and former officials. As long as he does not raise taxes, no one will dare to increase taxes.

Although this kind of governance method is regarded as proper inaction by many officials in Yuzhou, the people of Yuzhou support Yuan Shu's rule.

This is very interesting. Officials who do nothing gain the support of the people, while those officials who reach out everywhere make the people live in dire straits.

Liu Ye shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Even if I use my spiritual talent to think about Yuan Gongli's thoughts from all angles, I still can't figure out what he is thinking.

The only thing that can be concluded is that Yuan Gongli is a very willful person. " Speaking of this, Liu Ye couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, Liu Ye himself never expected that he would come to such a conclusion after analyzing Yuan Shu's thoughts from many aspects and angles.

After Jia Xu heard Liu Ye's analysis of Yuan Shu, he frowned and seemed to have thought of something. He knocked on the table and said:

"It seems that we need to think about the follow-up solution if Yuan Gongli chooses to endure the siege of his hometown and continue to besiege Jiangling."

According to Jia Xu's understanding of willfulness, most people with such a personality are stubborn, the kind of people who never look back until they hit the wall.

Chen Xi then said, "Don't worry about this, even the most willful person will feel anxious when his family is surrounded.

When the time comes, they will surround Pingyu City and force Yuan Gongdao to mobilize his troops and return to Yuzhou. If this happens, I wouldn't mind attacking Pingyu City directly. "A cold light flashed in Chen Xi's eyes.

Chen Xi continued to add, "After the Yuan Highway turns back to Yuzhou, we can also run towards Yingchuan and cooperate with Ziyu's actions to surround the Yanzhou group in Chenliu."

Although Chen Xi regretted that their plan had to change with the changes in the situation in Jingzhou, this change was not an opportunity for them.

Jia Xu nodded, as Chen Xi said just now, the purpose of their sending troops this time was not Yuzhou.

Their strategic goal is to force Yuan Shu to give up attacking Jiangling, turn around to Yuzhou, interrupt Yuan Shu's momentum of conquering the three states, and surround Yanzhou's senior officials with Yang Ji and Chenliu.

As for Yuzhou, it would be good if they could at most capture the Lu State this time. After all, Fan County is now in their hands, and the Lu State is close enough to their Mount Tai.

Besides, although Yuan Shu did not govern Yuzhou very much, on the premise that Yuzhou had good harvests every year, Yuan Shu's free-range farming model won the support of the people of Yuzhou.

Even if they can occupy one or two places in Yuzhou and replicate the model of Mount Tai and Qingzhou in this place, the local people may not necessarily recognize their rule.

Benevolence and righteousness in this era are no joke.

"Well..." Chen Xi pondered for a while, "Since we can't capture Yuzhou at this time, then let's empty out the treasuries of various places that we can.

Anyway, with the wealth of Yuzhou, people will definitely not care about this loss. In short, just don't attack the people. "

(End of this chapter)