Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 263 Take the first shot

In fact, although Ji Ling did not send troops to Yangquan immediately, Yangquan was not without war.The reason why there was a war was naturally because Xu Shu took the initiative to send soldiers to attack.

However, this battle was only partial, and it almost ended with Liu Yujun's complete victory.Therefore, it did not cause any disturbance, but made Yangquan more peaceful.

While cleaning up the restless forces in Yangquan, Xu Shu also comforted the people of Yangquan.He gave Yangquan's grain and grass to the people, but it was not for free, but he asked the people to do things such as repairing the city wall before giving them to them.Of course, if you are older or a woman, you don't have to.

The common people are easy to appease, but the gentry are difficult to appease, but it is not a problem for Xu Shu.He only adopted two attitudes towards the gentry in Yangquan, and he subdued them obediently, and there were not a few who even volunteered to donate food and grass.

The so-called two attitudes are nothing but support and suppression.Support the pro-Liu Yu faction, suppress the pro-Yuan Shu faction, and let the middle faction go.This is the best way, and also the simplest and rudest way.On weekdays, Xu Shu would not use this method, because it was too violent and might arouse strong resistance from the gentry.But at this time, it doesn't matter if it is fierce or not, the purpose is to quickly suppress Yangquan.Of course, if you can be stable, you will be stable. After all, it is better to be more stable.

After Yangquan was really settled down, Xu Shu arranged for Gebei's soldiers to bring food, grass and utensils over.This is also the reason for not attacking other places in Huainan immediately. After all, there is no food, grass and utensils to attack other places.

The grain, grass and utensils transported to Yangquan can be described in one word-in an endless stream, or in a steady stream.Not because of anything else, but because Yangquan is the front line and the base for conquering Huainan.As long as Yangquan is stable, Liu Yu's army can attack or retreat, fully grasping the initiative.

Since Yangquan is so important, it stands to reason that Ji Ling should take advantage of its instability and attack quickly, so as to drive Liu Yu out of Huainan in one fell swoop.But why Ji Ling not only did not attack, but instead strengthened Shouchun's city wall?
In fact, Yangquan and Shouchun were not close to each other. If Ji Ling wanted to attack Yangquan, he would have to send a large number of troops.In this way, Shouchun must be air defensed.According to ordinary people's thinking, as long as Liu Yujun is driven away, why should he care whether Shouchun has air defense?
But Ji Ling is a keen man and realizes that as long as he guards Shouchun and waits for Yuan Shu's class teacher to return, no matter how many cities Liu Yu seizes, he will be driven out.In addition, he also realized that if he led his army to leave Shouchun, and then Liu Yu sent troops to attack Shouchun, Huainan was very likely to fall.

I have to say that Ji Ling was very thoughtful.Although he didn't think of Xu Shu's scheme, he probably did.It's a pity that he misunderstood two points, one is Yuan Shu's character, and the other is Xu Shu's intelligence.

Let's talk about Yuan Shu first. He listened to the slander and kept urging Ji Ling to send troops, asking him to drive Liu Yu out of Huainan as soon as possible.This was the first time that Yuan Shu was just anxious and did not mistrust Ji Ling.But Ji Ling didn't listen to Yuan Shu, but only agreed perfunctorily, because he had his own plan.It's a pity that he is a general, not a capable minister, and he doesn't know how to guess his master's mind.

His disobedience naturally gave the greedy ministers a chance to slander more unscrupulously.Yuan Shu believed in Ji Ling at first, so it can be seen that he didn't chase Liu Yu away, but just shrank back in Shouchun, so doubts arose naturally.However, Yuan Shu still believed in Ji Ling at this time, and did not suspect that he had defected to the enemy.

But at this moment, Xu Shu's sudden action finally made Yuan Shu suspect Ji Ling.

This action was nothing more than the completion of the preparations. Xu Shu ordered Wei Yan to lead his army westward and seize a large area of ​​land in the west of Huainan.And Wei Yan also strives for strength, all the way like a broken bamboo, Yuan Jun was defeated and defeated.If it's just that, then that's fine, the key is that Xu Shu also sent Chen Dao to lead his army straight to Lujiang.

Lujiang is also an extremely important place.

If Xu Shu didn't send Chen Dao to capture it, it is very likely that Sun Ce would capture it.Even if Xu Shu sent Chen to go, he might not be able to win it.

Not to mention whether Chen Dao can capture Lujiang, but Xu Shu's two moves seem to have the ambition to swallow Huainan, as if Huainan is within easy reach.And the next move made Yuan Shu even more furious.

The next step, that is, the third step, is to raise the banner in Yangquan, as if going straight into the heart of Huainan, to seize Shouchun.It has to be said that this move was too arrogant and did not take Yuan Shu seriously.

Just imagine, Xu Shu had sent two teams to capture half of Huainan, but at the same time, he also sent a large army to capture Shouchun.Isn't this arrogant enough? Did he take Yuan Shu seriously?
Yuan Shu was furious immediately, and sent someone to tell Ji Ling to send troops immediately, and if he didn't send troops, he didn't need to send troops.Obviously, if Ji Ling didn't send troops, Yuan Shu would withdraw him.

However, Yuan Shu's threats didn't work, and Ji Ling didn't actually send troops.Although Ji Ling did not send troops, he reported it carefully to Yuan Shu, hoping that Yuan Shu could understand the truth, but it was a pity that Yuan Shu was angry, so how could he listen to it.However, this persuasion still had some effect, that is, Yuan Shu gave Ji Ling another chance, and let him continue to lead the soldiers when he said that he would send troops.

There was no other way, this time Ji Ling really had no choice but to agree to send troops with a wry smile.But he was not stupid, he didn't lead the army straight to Yangquan immediately, but led the army forward slowly, hoping that Liu Yujun would come over first.In that case, he would have a reason to retreat into the city and take advantage of the city wall.

Let him down again, Liu Yujun didn't kill him, and he had to continue marching.He even had to march faster, because Yuan Shu sent someone to reprimand him again, telling him to kill Xiang Yangquan and drive Liu Yujun away.

In this way, Ji Ling left a team to guard Shouchun, and led the army to quickly kill Xiangyangquan.

When Xu Shu from Yangquan received the news, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, because Ji Ling finally took the bait.The truth is, all of Xu Shu's actions were aimed at drawing out Ji Ling's defenders and creating opportunities for Xu Huang and Zhao Yun.Of course, Wei Yan's capture of the western part of Huainan and Chen Dao's attack on Lujiang were both practical moves. It would be better if they succeeded, and it doesn't matter if they don't.

In short, the main goal is Shouchun, and everything else is incidental.However, this incidental goal still surprised Xu Shu and Liu Yu once.

First, Wei Yan attacked the west of Huainan with thousands of soldiers.Not only that, but the number of soldiers in his hands was actually beating more and more.Of course, this is a later story. At that time, Xu Shu had already fought against Ji Ling.

In addition to Wei Yan's accident, there is also Chen Dao's accident, but Chen Dao's accident is very thrilling, it can be said that he is close to death.

(End of this chapter)