Chapter 2 Like the Abyss Section 30 Tian Feng believes that after the Dongguang War and the Panhe War, Gongsun Zhan's strength increased sharply, which was not expected by Northern Xinjiang and Jizhou in advance.

Therefore, in the current situation, a two-front battle has actually been formed in northern Xinjiang. Now, even if we don't provide them with grain and grass, the northern Xinjiang will have to fight, and if we don't fight Jizhou, it will be lost, and the survival of the northern Xinjiang will become a problem in the future.

"There is no need to rush south now, on the contrary, we must make full use of the current golden opportunity to force northern Xinjiang to fight in two or even three battlefields at the same time, so as to consume their strength to the greatest extent and lay a good foundation for the stability of the society in the future." Tian Feng said confidently.

"Yuan Hao, please explain carefully." Yuan Shao hurriedly said. Tian Feng stood up, pointed to Jizhou on the map, and said unhurriedly: "Jizhou is difficult for us to gain a foothold with Li Hong in the west, Gongsun Zan in the north, and the Yellow Turban Army in the south. But for Li Hong, who relied on northern Xinjiang, and Gongsun Zhan, who was backed by Youzhou, it was 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 community in the future. Therefore, consuming their strength and destroying Jizhou is the only way to reduce and eliminate this resistance. "The sudden explosion of Gongsun Chan's strength has given us an opportunity to reduce and eliminate this resistance.

At present, Gongsun Chan has an army of more than 100,000 people and iron cavalry, and after the heavy snow comes, he will be given three to four months to recover and repair.

So in the spring of next year, Gongsun Zhan's strength will be even stronger, and if Li Hong wants to defeat him, he can only draw troops from outside the Saiwai to Jizhou.

We can foresee that the scale of the Jizhou War next year will be very amazing. In order to ensure that Li Hong and Gongsun Chan fought a decisive battle in Jizhou, and also to ensure that they used all their forces to fight a decisive battle, we had to help Li Hong and Gongsun Chan.

Li Hong is a leopard, and only when he is sure that he can capture his prey will he deliver the most powerful blow.

Therefore, the way to help Li Hong is very simple, one is to provide him with food and salary for the army, and the other is to join forces with him to send troops.

Gongsun Chan is very brave and loyal, but he has a strong and violent personality, is arrogant and lawless, and will be retributed.

If Gongsun Chan could treat Hu Ren and his subordinates as well as Li Hong, he might be the one who became famous all over the world.

As for Li Hong, he may still be a lieutenant guarding Lu Longsai. With Gongsun Zhan's current strength, it is not enough to compete with Li Hong, so we have to help him, give him time to develop, let him calmly occupy the county and reorganize the army, and raise the money, food and ordnance needed for the big war.

There are also two ways to help him, one is to take the initiative to send troops in order 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 counties to fully cooperate with Gongsun Zhan to prepare for war. At the same time, he used other channels to provide Gongsun Chan with a large number of ordnance.

"Take the initiative to send troops?" Guo Tu asked in surprise,

"If we transfer all our troops to Jizhou, what will happen to the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro? What about Yuzhou? When will we go south to occupy Luoyang? Tian Feng smiled,

"Brother Gongze, we took the initiative to send troops precisely to occupy Yuzhou and Luoyang in the south." Guo Tu's face was ashamed, and he asked for advice.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please look at this written text written by Gongsun Zhan in a hurry." Tian Feng picked up the text of Yuan Yuan that he had copied from the Panhe camp.

"In this text, from beginning to end, there is not a word about our support for Liu Yu as emperor, in other words, Gongsun Chan admits that we are right to depose the Son of Heaven and rebuild the imperial system, so ......" He looked at everyone present and asked word by word,

"Does Gongsun Chan also have the heart to rebuild the imperial system?" Gongsun Chan has the heart to rebuild the imperial system, and we have the same thoughts, at this time, what will the hussar general think?

Will he be worried that the layout of Jizhou is a conspiracy between us and Gongsun Zhan? Are you worried that we will suddenly turn against us and kill the northern frontier?

If the Saiwai army went south to Jizhou, Li Hong would not be defeated. Once defeated, the northern frontier will inevitably collapse, and the army may be destroyed.

Therefore, Li Hong will be very, very cautious when the food and salary are insufficient and the Northern Xinjiang 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 let us be held back on Gongsun Zhan's flank, so that we will not suffer any losses in our forces.

"We took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield in Montenegro and transferred our troops to the area of Yecheng and Ganlingguo, and the biggest question we faced was whether the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army would take the opportunity to attack Yecheng and let us suffer from the enemy?" Tian Feng shook his head,

"The Yellow Turban Army will never attack Yecheng." The Northern Xinjiang Army went south to Jizhou with heavy troops, and Gongsun Zhan had more than 100,000 troops in Ganling State, at this time, Yu Poison and Zhenggu would never risk the destruction of the whole army to attack Yecheng.

Yu Poison and Zheng Gu are very clever leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, and they can see at a glance the decisive battle that Jizhou is about to begin, and they will realize that the best time for the Yellow Turban Army to seize Jizhou has come.

When the Northern Xinjiang Army and the Jizhou Army were both defeated, it was the best time for the Yellow Turban Army to go north to seize Jizhou, but the strength of the Black Mountain Yellow Turban was insufficient, and they had to go south to the Yellow River again to join the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

In order to take revenge and survive, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army will definitely join forces with the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army to go north to Jizhou again.

Because we have made way for the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army to go south, they will quickly join up with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and then choose an opportune time to quickly move north.

After the Northern Xinjiang Army and the Youzhou Army were both defeated, they would immediately have to fight against the overwhelming Yellow Turban Army, and Jizhou would immediately fall into a bloody battle.

In the end, no matter who wins, there will be a huge loss of strength, and all that is in hand is a ruin, a dilapidated Jizhou.

Whether it is Li Hong, Gongsun Zhan, or the Yellow Turban Army, the period of defeat is just around the corner.

"The Northern Xinjiang Army and the Youzhou Army have a decisive battle, and the Yellow Turban Army has crossed the river to the north, and our opportunity has come." Tian Feng pointed at the black mountain of the map king and poked it twice,

"We went south to attack Montenegro and put an end to the old nest of the Yellow Turban Army to ensure the stability of Hanoi County and ensure that our road into Luoyang was unimpeded." There are two ways to occupy Luoyang and Yuzhou.

The first was to use the name of crusading against the Yellow Turban Army to quickly march into Hanoi and Yuzhou. The lord personally led the army, taking advantage of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro to meet the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou in the south, completely wiped out the remaining troops of Montenegro, and then crossed the river directly from Heyang, and entered Luoyang from Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin Pass.

At the same time, the lord sent a large army into Yuzhou, and Liu Biao in Jingzhou attacked back and forth, driving Yuan Shu out of Jing and Henan.

"The second approach needs to be implemented immediately." Tian Feng said to Yuan Shao, who was standing beside him and listening attentively,

"Lord Zhu Jun recently sent an urgent letter to all prefectures and counties, asking them to send 500 to 1,000 men and horses to Luoyang quickly to help the imperial court rebuild the northern and southern armies. I think this is a great opportunity, and you should not miss it. ”

"I know what you mean." Yuan Shao said with a smile,

"I have a big disagreement with Lord Zhu Jun on the matter of imperial reunification, he doesn't trust me, and he won't want the soldiers I sent. In addition, Chun Yuqiong's 5,000-strong army was originally in Luoyang, and if I sent troops over again, the intention would be too obvious. I have already written to Zhou Qian, Zhang Miao, Yuan Yi and more than a dozen other adults, asking them to do their best to help Lord Zhu Jun, and it doesn't matter if they give a little more soldiers. Then he patted the map,

"Yuan Hao, your method is really good. After all the main forces of the Northern Xinjiang Army arrive in Jizhou, we can take the opportunity to occupy Luoyang and Yuzhou, but ......"

"What your lordship is worried about is nothing more than the Northern Frontier Army in the Kansai and Kanto directions." Tian Feng shook his hand,

"Don't worry, don't worry, Dong Zhuo's strength has recovered to a certain extent after a year of recuperation. As long as we send the news from Jizhou to Guanzhong in time, Dong Zhuo will definitely send troops. This is the best opportunity to inflict a heavy blow on the Northern Xinjiang Army, I believe that Dong Zhuo is not old and confused, he will do his best to storm the Northern Xinjiang. After the Northern Xinjiang Army fell into the dangerous situation of fighting on two fronts, even if it could retreat with its whole body, its strength would be fatally damaged. Tian Feng thought about it, and suddenly sighed,

"The hussar general endured in northern Xinjiang for two years, and finally created such an opportunity to send troops to Jizhou, but suddenly a Gongsun Zhan whose strength increased suddenly, caused the previous achievements to be abandoned, and in the end he couldn't escape the fate of defeat, thinking about it, he was helpless." Yuan Shao smiled proudly,

"Even if the general can defeat Gongsun Zan and the Yellow Turban Army this time and occupy Jizhou, he can even make Xu Rong retreat calmly from Guanxi and Guandong, but in the face of a ruined Jizhou, he can probably only look up to the sky and sigh, complaining that his luck is not good."

"If Jizhou is destroyed and the troops in northern Xinjiang are seriously damaged, then the crisis in northern Xinjiang will continue, especially the stability outside the country, which is a big hidden worry." Xu You smiled,

"In this way, there will be plenty of time for us to develop. A year or two later, the adult hegemony was initially completed, and Dong Zhuo and Li Hong formed a three-legged trend, and the revitalization of the society was immediately fast. Yuan Shao and everyone carefully discussed the details, and after some discussion, Tian Feng, Xu You, Guo Tu and others drafted several documents.

In a book to the eldest princess and the hussar general Li Hong, Yuan Shao gave a detailed account of the situation in Jizhou and begged the eldest princess and Li Hong to immediately requisition a large army south to Jizhou to quell the rebellion.

In a letter to the cavalry general Zhu Jun and the Long Xiang general Xu Rong, Yuan Shao detailed the plight of Jizhou, hoping to withdraw Chun Yuqiong's army to Jizhou.

If the situation in the Kwantung region is tense, the retreat of Chun Yuqiong's army can be delayed until after the rebuilding of the northern and southern armies.

Yuan Shao also wrote a letter to Liu Dai, the Mu of Yanzhou, the Assassin of Xuzhou, the Assassin of Xuzhou, the Assassin of Yangzhou, Zhou Qian, the Taishou of Chen, Zhang Miao, the Taishou of Shanyang, the Taishou of Shanyang, and the Taishou of Hanoi, Wang Kuang, and many other officials, imploring them to put the community first, and to send troops to Luoyang as much as possible to help Zhu Jun rebuild the northern and southern armies, and strive to go west to fight against Dong and stabilize the society in the shortest possible time.

Yuan Shao secretly sent a letter to Liu Biao, the assassin 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 Yuan Tan, the eldest son of Chenliu County, and his nephew Gao Gan and other generals to quickly recruit troops and horses to prepare to attack Yuzhou.

Yuan Shao ordered the Jizhou army, which was fighting fiercely in the area of Montenegro, to immediately withdraw to Wei County, and quickly support the Ganling State to stop Gongsun Zhan's attack.

On December, Yuzhou. Long Xiang's generals Xu Rong and Wu Yi Zhonglang hurried Gao Ran to Yangzhai City, Yuzhou, and urgently discussed with the later general Yuan Shu about the future of the captured general Sun Jian.

Xu Xuan, the Taishou of Runan, Xu Ling, the minister of Chen Guo, and Cheng Jing, the minister of Liangguo, also sent people to condole, and the three of them mentioned the history of the assassination of Yuzhou in their letters to Xu Rong.

Xu Rong meant that Yuan Shu, the later general, would temporarily take over the lead, but he was immediately resolutely opposed by the three adults.

Zhu Jun, the general of the cavalry, also thought that this discussion was inappropriate. Xu Rong is very strange, Yuzhou is the foundation of Yuan Valve, and Yuan Shu is still the head of Yuan Valve, why are several officials unanimously opposing Yuan Shu and leading Yuzhou?

Chen Guoxiang Xu Ling explained the reason in his reply. In order to expand his strength, Yuan Shu recruited troops aggressively. The expansion of the army requires money, food, and ordnance, but in the past two years, Jingzhou and Yuzhou have been constantly fighting, especially the two counties of Nanyang and Gezhou, which have been captured by the warring parties, and the two counties have not even had grain in the warehouse for this autumn's harvest.

Nanyang in Jingzhou and Yingchuan in Yuzhou were already empty, and the counties in the south of Jingzhou were occupied by Liu Biao, so Yuan Shu had no choice but to forcibly extort money from the three counties of Runan, Chen and Liang in Yuzhou.

However, Yuan Shu went too far, and he not only emptied the county treasury, but also emptied the private treasury of some wealthy people.

Yuan Shumei's name is said to be on credit, but everyone knows the name of Yuan Changshui, the ghost in the road, he has borrowed but not returned, and robbery is the same thing.

The result of Yuan Shu's doing so is self-evident. Xu Rong was embarrassed. Please Yuan Shu and lead the history of Yuzhou's assassination, these Yuzhou officials did not say it in their mouths but resolutely refused to agree in private.

Ask a certain Yuzhou official to take it over, but Yuan Shu did not agree. In desperation, Xu Rong invited Zhu Jun to Yuzhou.

Zhu Jun has a big face. He said that at present, the Son of Heaven is in Chang'an, and there is no news, and the eldest princess and the court are in Jinyang, which is far away, and it is difficult to hear back for a while.

If the Yellow River freezes, the new Yuzhou Assassin will not be in office until at least March, so it is better to let Sun Jian's nephew Sun Ben act as his agent for the time being.

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

Mid-December, Kansai. As the temperature got lower and lower, the Candlewater River battlefield gradually quieted down. The Northern Army and the Northern Xinjiang Army each held on both sides of the Candlewater River, and neither had the intention of withdrawing and retreating.

At Maojin Ferry and Hongnongcheng Ferry, hundreds of boats are densely arranged together, forming two boat bridges that run from north to south.

The grain and all kinds of materials transported here in advance were transported to the other side by thousands of Tuntian soldiers, and then transported to Jinyang by the baggage trucks waiting on the other side.

Zhechong General Yushi and the new Hedong Taishou Wang Yi and the new Diannong Zhonglang General Zuo Yan stood on the upper floor of Hongnong City against the cold wind and talked.

"Look, when is it going to snow this day?" Wang Yi squinted at the gray and low sky, and shrunk his neck,

"Come on, it should be just these days." In mid-December, Jizhou, Ganling country. After Koji Yi led the army to retreat to Dongwu Castle, he rested for two days, and then did not wait for Gongsun Chan to lead the army, suddenly abandoned the city, and retreated directly to Guangzong Castle along the Qing River.

He asked Wen Chou to take the vanguard army to garrison at the boundary bridge ten miles away from Guangzong City to prevent Gongsun Zhan's army from crossing the river.

Gongsun Chan led the army all the way west, occupied Tobu Castle, and besieged Ganling Castle. In desperation, Ji Yong, the prime minister of Ganling, took refuge in Gongsun Zhan.

At this time, Yuan Shao led the army to the front line of Qingyuan and Guantao, and waited for it. Ganling City, Guangzong City, and Qingyuan City are each a hundred miles apart, and the three-way army just forms a confrontation trend.

This is a situation that all three parties need, so with a heavy snowfall, Jizhou quieted down.

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