The anger in Yuan Shao's heart could not be calmed.

He wanted to kill a few people to vent his anger.

For the battle in Donglai County, Yuan Shao has also received a detailed battle report.

It's just that after seeing the battle report, Yuan Shao regretted it even more in addition to anger.

Why did he send Jiang Qi to Qingzhou?

If it weren't for Jiang Qi rushing forward and leading troops out of the city without authorization, how could Zhang He and Xu You follow.

For Yuan Shao, Qingzhou only needs to maintain the previous situation.

The Yellow Turbans only occupy one county, Donglai.

But now, in the entire Qingzhou, there is only one Beihai left for him, and it may be broken by Xu Huang at any time.

A state, that's gone.

Yuan Shao's heart was dripping blood.

He really didn't expect that this would be the result.

Yuan Shao suddenly felt why his subordinates, when they followed him, looked very good one by one.

But why did they suddenly change their appearance as soon as they let them out, and immediately became bears?

Yuan Shao didn't understand.

Knowing this, he didn't let Jiang Qi go to Qingzhou, and Qingzhou would still be in his hands now.

Now there is only one Jizhou left. The pressure on him to face Zhao Hui will be even greater.

With the power of one state, facing the power of Zhao Hui and three states, the difference in strength between the two is very large.

Even if Jizhou has a large number of people and a wide area, one state can be worth two states.

Now his strength is at least twice as far as that of Zhao Hui.

And this gap will also get bigger and bigger.

If Yuan Shao wants to block Zhao Hui, he must squeeze Jizhou's potential.

The power of Jizhou will become smaller and smaller.

And Zhao Hui holds three states. He can give Sanzhou enough time to recuperate.

Youzhou and Qingzhou will have more and more populations.

Dominating the land of three states, no one dares to underestimate Zhao Hui.

Even if he is the identity of the Yellow Turbans.

Even if he doesn't have a family background.

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, these princes, now have to look up to him.

Zhao Hui now only needs to consolidate Qingzhou.

Even if Yuan Shao and Cao Cao join forces, the combined strength of the two will not be as good as Zhao Hui.

Xu Huang's results in Qingzhou were indeed beyond Zhao Hui's expectations.

Zhao Hui didn't expect that Xu Huang would be able to capture Zhang He in such a short period of time and make Xu You surrender.

Xu Huang did not tell Zhao Hui in advance about his plan this time.

When Zhao Hui received the battle report, he was really surprised.

He sent Xu Huang to Qingzhou, and it was really a party.

Although Zhang Wangliao has been in the past two years, he has been greatly trained and made great progress in Qingzhou.

But compared to Xu Huang, it is still a little worse.

Without Xu Huang, even if they were told the plan this time, the two would not be able to complete it.

It's their lack of capacity.

Just because you know how to do it doesn't mean you can do it well.

Some people will still be wrong even if they teach them by hand, let alone just talk about the plan.

After the victory on the battlefield of Qingzhou, Zhao Hui was not just defensive, and constantly put pressure on Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Shao did not dare to send a large army to Qingzhou.

Xu Huang's current control of Qingzhou is only temporary, and it is still very unstable.

Yuan Shao now only has 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.

If he wants to send troops to Qingzhou, he has to think about it, after transferring 50,000 people to Qingzhou, whether the rest of the people in his hands can still hold the boundary bridge.

Unless he can conjure up 50,000 elite soldiers.

And in the face of Xu Huang, who is he sending now?

The only military general who can get it is Wen Chou.

And Wen Chou is still confronting Tai Shici.

Yuan Shao didn't dare to transfer Wen Chou away.

Compared with Xu Huang, Tai Shici's fame is greater here in Yuan Shao.

The 30,000 Hun cavalry he contacted before were all wiped out at the hands of Tai Shi Ci, and even the Xiongnu Zuo Xian King died in the hands of Tai Shi Ci.

In contrast, in Yuan Shao's heart, he still thought that Tai Shici was a greater threat.

Even Tai Shici has not made any big moves in the past few months.

But who can know if Tai Shici will suddenly go crazy.

Yuan Shao no longer expects Wen Chou to defeat Tai Shici, he only hopes now that Wen Chou is undefeated, as long as the current situation is maintained.

If Wen Chou is also defeated, then Yuan Shao will really have no hope.

Yuan Shao didn't dare to send people to support Wen Chou.

Yuan Shao can be regarded as having understood.

These generals and strategists in his hands can still be restrained a little when they are in front of him.

As soon as he is out of his sight, he immediately begins to fight for power.

It's just that even if Yuan Shao understands, he has no solution to this situation.

Power can never be evenly distributed.

When the power in the hands of this person is greater, the power of someone becomes smaller.

Even Yuan Shao himself is no exception.

This is true even for the supreme emperor.

If the emperor centralizes power, the power in the hands of the ministers below will definitely be weakened.

Yuan Shao himself likes to hold power firmly in his hands.

Most of the people below him are very eager for power.

And Zhao Hui's desire to control power is very weak.

The power that can be delegated, Zhao Hui will basically delegate it to Tai Shi Ci and Xu Shu.

Reluctant to power, in the end it is still yourself who is tired.

I can't give up power, and I don't want to do things. Eventually, it will be replaced by someone else.

After losing again and again, Yuan Shao now dares not delegate power to others.

He has lost faith in these strategists and generals in his hands.

Yuan Shao is a person who is already arrogant and conceited in his heart.

Yan Liang frustrated Zhang He, Xu You and others lost one after another, which made Yuan Shao begin to doubt the ability of his subordinates.

Regardless of whether they were frustrated or not, before, Yuan Shao was a powerful assistant, and Yuan Shao also recognized the abilities of the two very much.

No matter what the reason for the failure of the two was, both of them lived up to Yuan Shao's expectations.

Yuan Shao was very disappointed.

Yuan Shao can't spare troops to go to Qingzhou now.

But he didn't want Zhao Hui to get Qingzhou easily.

Yuan Shao did not have enough troops in his own hands, and he did not have suitable generals.

He immediately contacted Cao Cao in Yanzhou.

Cao Cao had already asked Li Dianle to assist Yuan Shao before.

He himself has stayed in Yanzhou for the past few months to recover.

Yanzhou has been fighting one after another, and with the addition of locust plagues, it has already suffered a lot of vitality.

Even though Cao Cao has gathered a large number of displaced people in the past few months.

But Yanzhou's population is still too small.

Even if Cao Cao wanted to recruit troops, it was very difficult.

Deduct the people and horses that Li Dianle brought to Jizhou.

Cao Cao now has only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Yanzhou.

That's a very small amount for a state.

It's not as good as those counties that are too guarded, and there are more soldiers and horses in their hands.

The war and locust plague have directly reduced the population of Yanzhou by more than half.

Yanzhou originally had a population of more than 2 million, but now there are less than 1 million left.

This year, more than half of the people in Yanzhou were either killed or starved to death.

There were bones everywhere.

Walking on the side of the road, you will step on a rotten arm at any time.

After Cao Cao received Yuan Shao's order, he did not hesitate.

Qingzhou has always been under Cao Cao's prying eyes.

Just because Qingzhou was in Yuan Shao's hands at that time, Cao Cao didn't dare to stretch out his hand.

Now, even without Yuan Shao's order, Cao Cao would send troops to Qingzhou.

(End of chapter)