Great Han Empire

Chapter 628 The Heroes of Troubled Times Like the Abyss
Tian Feng believes that Gongsun Zan's strength increased sharply after the Dongguang War and the Panhe War, which was not expected by Beijiang and Jizhou in advance, so under the current situation, Beijiang has actually formed a two-front battle .Now even if we don't provide them with food and grass, northern Xinjiang will still be fought. If we don't fight Jizhou, we will lose it. In the future, the survival of northern Xinjiang will become a problem.

"There is absolutely no need for us to rush south now. On the contrary, we must make full use of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to force Northern Xinjiang to fight on two or even three battlefields at the same time, exhausting their strength to the greatest extent, and laying the foundation for a stable society in the future." A good foundation." Tian Feng said confidently.

"Yuan Hao, please explain carefully." Yuan Shao said hastily.

Tian Feng stood up, pointed to Jizhou on the map, and said unhurriedly: "For us, Jizhou has Li Hong in the west, Gongsun Zan in the north, and the Yellow Turban Army in the south. For Li Hong and Gongsun Zan, who is backed by Youzhou, it is the foundation of the hegemony. No matter who occupies Jizhou in the end, the two of them will become a huge obstacle to our revitalization of the country in the future. Therefore, we should consume their strength and destroy Jizhou. is the only way to reduce and eliminate this resistance."

The sudden surge in Gongsun Zan's strength gave us an opportunity to reduce and eliminate this resistance.At present, Gongsun Zan has an army of 10,000+ with iron cavalry. After the heavy snowfall, he will have three to four months to recover and repair. Therefore, by next spring, Gongsun Zan will be even stronger. If Li Hong wants to defeat him, he can only Troops were drawn from outside the Great Wall and went south to Jizhou.We can foresee that the scale of the battle in Jizhou next year will be astonishing.

In order to ensure the decisive battle between Li Hong and Gongsun Zan in Jizhou, and to ensure that they use all their strength for the decisive battle, we must help Li Hong and Gongsun Zan.

Li Hong was a leopard, and he would strike the hardest only when he was sure he could catch the prey, so the ways to help Li Hong were very simple, one was to provide him with food and pay, and the other was to join forces with him to send troops.

Gongsun Zan is very brave and loyal, but he has a domineering and violent personality.If Gongsun Zan could treat the Hu people and his subordinates as kindly as Li Hong, he might be the one who became famous all over the world. As for Li Hong, he might still be a school lieutenant guarding Lulongsai.With Gongsun Zan's current strength, he is not enough to compete with Li Hong, so we need to help him, give him time to develop, let him calmly occupy counties and rectify the army, and raise the money, food and ordnance needed for the war.There are also two ways to help him. One is to take the initiative to send troops to control and delay the time of the decisive battle in Jizhou. The second is to secretly send people to contact the officials of Bohai, Hejian and other prefectures to fully cooperate with Gongsun Zan in preparing for the battle. At the same time, use other channels to provide Gongsun Zan with Lots of ordnance.

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"Send troops on your own initiative?" Guo Tu asked in surprise, "If we transfer all our troops to the Jizhou battlefield, what will happen to the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army? What about the Yuzhou matter? When will we go south to occupy Luoyang?"

Tian Feng Nianxu smiled, "Brother Gongze, we took the initiative to send troops to the south to occupy Yuzhou and Luoyang."

Guo Tu looked ashamed and asked for advice.

"My lords, please take a look at Gongsun Zan's hastily written call to action." Tian Feng picked up the letter of appeal to Yuan that Ju Shou copied from Panhe Daying, "In this letter, from the beginning to the end, there is no mention of our support." The matter of Liu Yu becoming emperor, in other words, Gongsun Zan admits that we are right to dethrone the emperor and rebuild the imperial line, then..." He looked at everyone present and asked word by word, "Does Gongsun Zan also have the intention to rebuild the emperor?" System?"

Gongsun Zan's intention to rebuild the imperial line is the same as ours. What will the Hussar General think at this time?Will he be worried that the layout of Jizhou is a conspiracy between us and Gongsun Zan?Will you be worried that we will suddenly turn against us and put northern Xinjiang to death?

If the army outside the Great Wall goes south to Jizhou, Li Hong cannot be defeated.Once the battle is defeated, the northern border will inevitably collapse, and the army may be destroyed, so Li Hong will be very, very cautious when the food and pay are insufficient and the northern border army is fighting on two fronts.I can say with certainty that Li Hong will not let us participate in the decisive battle with him, at most he will let us be contained on Gongsun Zan's flank, so our troops will not suffer any loss.

"We voluntarily withdrew from the Montenegro battlefield and transferred our troops to Yecheng and Ganling Kingdom. The biggest problem we face is whether the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army will take the opportunity to attack Yecheng and let us suffer from the enemy?" Tian Feng shook his head, "The Yellow Turban Army will definitely not They will attack Yecheng."

The northern frontier army marched south to Jizhou with heavy troops, and Gongsun Zan had an army of 10,000+ Chen Bing in Ganling Kingdom. At this time, Yu Du and Suigu would never attack Yecheng at the risk of their entire army being annihilated.Yu Du and Sui Gu are very smart leaders of the Yellow Turban Army. They can see the decisive battle in Jizhou at a glance, and they will realize that the best time for the Yellow Turban Army to capture Jizhou has come.

When the Northern Xinjiang Army and the Jizhou Army were defeated, it was the best time for the Yellow Turban Army to go north to capture Jizhou, but the Black Mountain Yellow Turbans were not strong enough, and they had to go south to the Yellow River to join the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army again.In order to avenge and survive, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army will join forces with the Montenegro Yellow Turban Army again and go north to Jizhou.

Because we let the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army go south, they will soon join the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and then choose an appropriate time to quickly go north.

After the Beijiang Army and Youzhou Army were both wounded, they would immediately fight against the overwhelming Yellow Turban Army, and Jizhou would immediately fall into a bloody battle.

In the end, no matter who wins, they will suffer a huge loss of strength, and what they get is nothing but ruins, a dilapidated Jizhou.Whether it is Li Hong, Gongsun Zan, or the Yellow Turban Army, defeat is just around the corner.

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"The northern border army and the Youzhou army have fought a decisive battle, and the Yellow Turban Army has crossed the Hebei, and our chance has come." Tian Feng pointed to the Black Mountain on the map, and poked it twice, "We will go south to attack the Black Mountain, and take the Yellow Turban The old nest of the army has been removed to ensure the stability of Hanoi County and ensure that our road to Luoyang is unimpeded."

There are two ways to occupy Luoyang and Yuzhou.One is to use the name of crusade against the Yellow Turban Army to quickly march into Hanoi and Yuzhou.Your Excellency personally led the army, and when the main force of the Yellow Turban Army from Heishan went south to join the Yellow Turban Army from Qingzhou, they completely wiped out the remaining troops in Heishan, and then crossed the river directly from Heyang, and entered Luoyang from Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin Pass.At the same time, Your Excellency sent another army into Yuzhou, and attacked Liu Biao in Jingzhou, driving Yuan Shu out of Jingzhou and Yuzhou.

"The second method must be implemented immediately." Tian Feng said to Yuan Shao, who was standing next to him and listening attentively, "Master Zhu Jun has recently urgently written to various states and counties, requesting that they send 1000 to [-] troops to Luoyang quickly to help The imperial court rebuilt the northern and southern armies. I think this is an excellent opportunity, my lord, don't miss it."

"I know what you mean." Yuan Shao smiled, "My lord Zhu Jun and I have a big disagreement on the unification of the emperor. He doesn't trust me, and he won't want the soldiers I sent. In addition, Chunyuqiong's five thousand The army is already in Luoyang, if I send troops there again, my intention is very clear. I have written to Zhou Qian, Zhang Miao, Yuan Yi and a dozen other lords, asking them to do their best to help Lord Zhu Jun, and it doesn’t matter if they send more soldiers.” Then He patted the map, "Yuan Hao, your method is really good. After the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army arrives in Jizhou, we can take the opportunity to occupy Luoyang and Yuzhou, but..."

"My lord is worried about the Northern Frontier Army in the direction of Kansai and Kanto." Tian Feng shook his hand, "Don't worry, your lord. After a year of recuperation, Dong Zhuo's strength has been restored to a certain extent. As long as we timely Send the news of Jizhou to Guanzhong, and Dong Zhuo will definitely send troops. This is the best opportunity to severely damage the northern army. I believe Dong Zhuo is not too old-fashioned, and he will do his best to storm the northern army. The northern army is in danger of fighting on two fronts After the situation, even if you can retreat completely, your strength will be fatally compromised."

Tian Feng thought about it, and suddenly sighed, "The General Hussars endured in northern Xinjiang for two years, and finally created such an opportunity to send troops to Jizhou, but suddenly a Gongsun Zan whose strength increased suddenly appeared, and all previous efforts were wasted. In the end, I still couldn’t escape the fate of defeat, and when I think about it, there is nothing I can do.”

Yuan Shao smiled complacently, "Even if the general can defeat Gongsun Zan and the Yellow Turban Army this time, occupy Jizhou, and even allow Xu Rong to retreat from Kansai and Kanto calmly, but facing a dilapidated Jizhou, he probably can't help it." I can look up to the sky and sigh, complaining about my bad luck."

"If Jizhou is destroyed and the military strength in northern Xinjiang is seriously damaged, then the crisis in northern Xinjiang will continue, especially the stability outside the Great Wall, which is a big hidden worry." Xu You said with a smile, "in this way, it will give us the opportunity to develop There is plenty of time. One or two years later, the adult has just established his dominance, and he has formed a three-legged power with Dong Zhuo and Li Hong, and the revitalization of the society will be fast."

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Yuan Shao discussed the details carefully with everyone, and after some discussion, several documents were drafted by Tian Feng, Xu You, Guo Tu and others.

In the book to the eldest princess and Hushi general Li Hong, Yuan Shao introduced the situation in Jizhou in detail, and begged the eldest princess and Li Hong to immediately recruit an army to go south to Jizhou to suppress the rebellion.

In letters to General Zhu Jun of Chariots and General Xu Rong of Longxiang, Yuan Shao described the plight of Jizhou in detail, hoping to withdraw Chunyuqiong's army back to Jizhou.If the situation in the Kanto is tense, the retreat of Chunyuqiong's army can be delayed until after the reconstruction of the northern and southern armies.

Yuan Shao also wrote a letter to many officials including Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai, Xuzhou Governor Tao Qian, Yangzhou Governor Zhou Gan, Chenliu Governor Zhang Miao, Sanyang Governor Yuan Yi, Hanoi Governor Wang Kuang, etc., imploring them to put the country first Therefore, he dispatched as many troops as possible to Luoyang to help Zhu Jun rebuild the northern and southern armies, and strive to go west to discuss Dong in the shortest possible time and stabilize the country.

Yuan Shao secretly trusted Liu Biao, governor of Jingzhou, and asked him to launch an attack on Nanyang in the early spring of next year, so as to cooperate with his army to occupy Luoyang and Yuzhou.

Yuan Shao ordered his eldest son Yuan Tan, nephew Gao Gan and other generals to station troops in Chenliu County, and quickly recruited troops to attack Yuzhou.

Yuan Shao ordered the Jizhou army, which was fighting fiercely in the Heishan area, to withdraw immediately to Weijun, and quickly supported Ganling to prevent Gongsun Zan's attack.

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In December, Yuzhou.

Long Xiang's general Xu Rong and Wu Yi Zhonglang's general Gao Lan rushed to Yangdi City, Yuzhou, and the later general Yuan Shu urgently discussed the funeral of General Sun Jian.

Runan prefect Xu Qi, Chen Guoxiang Xu Jue, and Liang Guoxiang Cheng Jing also sent people to express their condolences (yan). All three of them mentioned the governor of Yuzhou in their letters to Xu Rong.Xu Rong meant that Yuan Shu, the later general, would also be in charge temporarily, but was immediately opposed by the three adults.Chariot General Zhu Jun also thought this was inappropriate.

Xu Rong was very surprised. Yuzhou was the foundation of the Yuan Clan, and Yuan Shu was still the patriarch of the Yuan Clan. Why did several officials object to Yuan Shu's simultaneous leadership of Yuzhou?
Chen Guoxiang Xu Jue explained the whole story in his reply.In order to expand his strength, Yuan Shu recruited troops on a large scale.Expansion of the army requires money, food, and ordnance, but in the past two years, Jingzhou and Yuzhou have been fighting continuously, especially the two counties of Nanyang and Yingchuan, which were looted by the two warring parties.Nanyang in Jingzhou and Yingchuan in Yuzhou were empty, and the counties in the south of Jingzhou were occupied by Liu Biao. In desperation, Yuan Shu had to forcefully demand money from the three counties of Runan, Chen, and Liang in Yuzhou.But Yuan Shu went too far. He not only emptied the treasury of the county, but also emptied the private treasury of some rich and powerful.Yuan Shu euphemistically called it loan on credit, but everyone knew the name of Yuan Changshui, the savage on the road.The result of Yuan Shu's actions is self-evident.

Xu Rong was in a dilemma.Ask Yuan Shu to be the governor of Yuzhou concurrently. These Yuzhou officials don't say anything, but they firmly refuse to agree in private.Yuan Shu refused to ask a certain official from Yuzhou to be the leader.Xu Rong had no choice but to invite Zhu Jun to Yuzhou.

Zhu Jun has a lot of face.He said that the emperor is currently in Chang'an, and there is no news at all, while the eldest princess and the court are in Jinyang, and the journey is far away, so it is difficult to hear back for a while.If the Yellow River freezes, the new governor of Yuzhou will not take office until at least March, so let Sun Jian's nephew Sun Ben act as his deputy for the time being.

Everyone agreed.Zhu Jun and Xu Rong then returned to Luoyang, while Gao Lan stayed in Yuzhou.Now the grain purchased from various places in Northern Xinjiang is being transported north one after another. Yuzhou is the top priority to ensure the safety of grain transportation, and no one dares to be careless.

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In mid-December, Kansai.

As the temperature got lower and lower, the Candlewater River battlefield gradually quieted down.The Northern Army and the Northern Border Army stood on both sides of the Zhushui River, and no one had the intention of withdrawing their troops.

At Maojin Ferry and Hongnongcheng Ferry, hundreds of water boats are densely arranged together, forming two boat bridges running from north to south.The grain and various materials transported here in advance were transported to the opposite bank by thousands of field soldiers, and then transported to Jinyang by the heavy trucks waiting on the opposite bank.

General Zhechong Yushi, the new Governor of Hedong, Wang Yi, and the new Diannong Zhonglang, Zuo Yan, were standing on the Hongnong Tower and talking against the bitter cold wind.

"Look, when will it snow this day?"

Wang Yi squinted his eyes to look at the dark and gloomy sky, shrunk his neck, "Hurry up, it should be in these few days."
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In mid-December, Jizhou, Ganling.

Qu Yi led the army to retreat to Dongwu City, rested for two days, and then, without waiting for Gongsun Zan's army to arrive, suddenly abandoned the city and returned directly to Guangzong City along the Qinghe River.He asked Wen Chou to lead the forward army to station at Jieqiao ten miles away from Guangzong City to prevent Gongsun Zan's army from crossing the river.

Gongsun Zan led the army all the way westward, occupied Dongwu City, and surrounded Ganling City.In desperation, Ji Yong, Prime Minister of the Ganling Kingdom, took refuge in Gongsun Zan.

At this time, Yuan Shao led the army to the front line of Qingyuan and Guantao, ready to fight.

Ganling City, Guangzong City, and Qingyuan City were each a hundred miles apart, and the armies of the three armies were in a confrontational situation.

This is a situation that all three parties need, so, with a heavy snowfall, Jizhou became quiet.
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I have something to do at home tomorrow, so I won't update it, I will make it up the day after tomorrow.Sorry, sorry.

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