Chapter 9 Chasing the Central Plains in the second quarter of March, Yanzhou Chenliu County, Puyang City. Yuan Shao's proposal to withdraw his troops was strongly opposed by Tian Feng.

The news coming from various parts of Jinyang and Yizhou, especially the fact that Hebei spent a huge amount of money to build a channel connecting the Juma River and the Gushui River in Zhuo County, Youzhou, can basically confirm that the target of Hebei's attack this year is the rebellious Hu people in the northern border fortress.

Our past judgments still seem to be correct. At present, although the Northern Xinjiang Army is aggressively attacking the hinterland of Henan in the south, their goal is still to hold us back, so as to maintain the situation in which the Central Plains is full of smoke, restrict the development of all forces in the Central Plains, and prepare for their future southward conquest of the Central Plains.

After the Northern Xinjiang Army moves south into the hinterland of Henan, it will be besieged from three sides. At this time, if Hanoi Guotu can lead the army to launch a counterattack from the area of Ha Yang and Wen County in time to recapture Pingao City, the Northern Xinjiang Army will be surrounded on all sides.

Although they are large in number and can support them for a while, as long as we quickly enter Wei County in Yizhou and cut off the grain route of the Northern Xinjiang Army, they will be defeated immediately.

The Northern Army was clearly aware of their situation, and their offensive was very sharp in the early days, in order to gain a quick foothold in Henan.

However, as the battle continues, their situation will become very awkward. If the attack continues, the situation in Hanoi on the north bank of the Yellow River will become more and more critical, and the grain route from Jizhou to Hanoi will also be cut off by us at any time, and the Northern Xinjiang Army attacking Henan will immediately find itself in a predicament.

If they withdraw to Hanoi, they will not be able to hold back our army and prevent us from capturing the Central Plains. In addition, if they do not choose the right time to retreat, they are very likely to face the danger of losing Hanoi and suffering the annihilation of their entire army.

"My lord, the Northern Xinjiang Army's attack on Henan is simply a defeat, we don't need to worry, let alone return to help." Tian Feng said very confidently,

"Let them attack Xingyang, with the solidity of Xingyang City, we can completely hold them back. The farther the Northern Army was from the Yellow River, the closer it was to defeat. Taking a step back, even if Xingyang is lost, with the risk of the Tiger Prison, we can still annihilate this lone enemy army in the Tiger Prison. Yuan Shao, Feng Ji, Xin Ping and others could not accept Tian Feng's suggestion and resolutely advocated withdrawing from the army. Feng Ji believes that Tian Feng's eyes are only limited to Hanoi and Henan, and he does not look at Guanzhong and Kansai. There are 50,000 troops in northern Xinjiang in Hedong, and they have been eyeing Guanzhong and Guanxi all the time. At present, the troops of northern Xinjiang in the direction of Hanoi are divided into two routes, one is attacking Henan, and the other is attacking the areas of Wen County and Ha Duong. If the Northern Xinjiang Army in the east of the river suddenly enters Guanxi at this time, Luoyang will inevitably fall into a three-sided attack. Once the situation evolves into this pattern, Luoyang's troops can only hold the eight passes of Gyeonggi. In the case of Kansai losing support, the troops are at an absolute disadvantage, and Kansai will lose it. As soon as Guanxi was lost, the connection between Guanzhong and Luoyang was cut off, and Guanzhong was immediately in danger. At this moment, our main forces are in the battlefields of Henan and the Central Plains, and they cannot be rescued. Guanzhong was flanked by the two armies of Northern Xinjiang and Xiliang, and it would be overturned in the blink of an eye.

"Li Hong has always used his troops to take risks, and this time he asked the Northern Xinjiang Army in the direction of Hanoi to cross the river to attack Henan at the risk of annihilation, and his purpose is obviously not as simple as preventing us from capturing the Central Plains." Feng Ji said worriedly,

"In my opinion, his main targets should be Kanchu and Kansai. Therefore, I think that we should quickly withdraw our troops, drive the Northern Xinjiang Army back to Hanoi, stabilize the situation in Henan, completely smash Hebei's vain attempt to occupy Guanzhong and Guanxi, and then consider attacking the Central Plains. Tian Feng immediately refuted it.

"With Hebei's current financial situation, is Li Hong capable of fighting on two fronts at the same time?" Tian Feng shook his hand again and again,

"No way. Unless there was no war in the northern frontier, and unless the Hu people in the desert and Liaodong were forced to take the initiative to negotiate peace with Hebei, Li Hong would never use a large army to attack Guanzhong and Guanxi. In addition, even if there was no war in the northern frontier, Li Hong's primary target was the Central Plains, not Guanzhong and Guanxi. Because now that the Central Plains is in flames, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are not strong, and they can't compete with Li Hong at all. ”

"If that's the case, we can't even quit Chenliu." Tian Feng said excitedly,

"Once we fall into the Henan battlefield, the Northern Xinjiang Army is bound to leak down from the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Central Plains will become Li Hong's bag in a blink of an eye. As soon as the Central Plains was lost, Luoyang became Li Hong's next target. At that time, not only Luoyang was in danger, but Guanzhong and Guanxi were also in danger. ”

"The army must not leave the Central Plains." Tian Feng said loudly at Yuan Shao,

"We must immediately launch an attack on Jizhou, without a moment's delay." Yuan Shao shook his head vigorously, his attitude was very resolute, and he insisted on withdrawing his troops and returning to Henan.

The two of them seemed hesitant on this matter. Tian Feng's worries are also their worries, no matter whether Hebei attacks the Biansaihu people this year, the Central Plains is Hebei's preferred target to pacify the world.

If Li Hong wants to attack the Central Plains this year, it will not work with the strength of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and the forces south of the Yellow River must meet again and join forces to resist the enemy.

In front of him, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce joined forces to fight with Yuan Shu between Jianghuai and Huai, and they had no time to take care of the Central Plains.

And Yuan Shao's army entered the Central Plains at this moment, not only could wait for the opportunity to capture Yanzhou, but also block them when the Northern Xinjiang Army was moving south, delay the speed of their attack, and win valuable time for Cao Cao and Liu Bei's army to return to the Central Plains and for the states and counties of the alliance to join forces to attack Li Hong.

Xu You said his thoughts in detail,

"Your Excellency, you'd better be cautious. After all, at present, this southward Northern Xinjiang Army has not threatened the security of Luoyang. Although Yuan Shao didn't believe that Li Hong would attack the Central Plains this year, Xu You's words still made him a little worried.

At this point, a compromise was proposed. Considering the safety of Luoyang, he still asked Jiang Qi to lead an army back to Henan to help the army left behind in Henan to block the Northern Frontier Army.

Ordered Guo Tu of Hanoi to immediately launch a counteroffensive against Binh Gao City, striving to cut off the retreat of the Northern Frontier Army.

The main army temporarily stayed in the Baima and Puyang areas, neither crossing the river to attack Jizhou, nor returning to Henan to rescue as soon as possible, but waiting for changes in the situation before making corresponding measures to control the enemy.

Yuan Shao thought about it for a long time and adopted the suggestion of the trial. At the same time, he ordered many scouts to scout along the river and pay close attention to the movements of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

In mid-March, Luoyang. After receiving Guo Tu's letter, he was very angry. When Yuan Shao was not in Luoyang, everything was represented by Fu Zhi, which has been a practice for many years.

This time, the Northern Xinjiang Army suddenly attacked Henan, and Fu Zhi immediately made a countermeasure, he ordered Guo Tu to recapture Pinggao City at all costs, attack Huaicheng, and completely cut off the retreat of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

Guo Tu refused without hesitation, the reason was very simple, he suspected that the Northern Xinjiang Army crossed the river and headed south, which was simply a plan to lure the enemy, and the purpose was to deceive his army between Pinggao City and Huaicheng, so that the camera could encircle and annihilate and seize the two cities of Wenxian and Heyang.

There are only 20,000 troops in Hanoi, and once the plan is made, Wenxian and Ha Yang are bound to be lost, and the army in northern Xinjiang will directly threaten Luoyang with the Yellow River.

If the Northern Xinjiang Army in Hedong took the opportunity to attack Guanxi at that time, and the enemy in the direction of Hujiao was contained, Luoyang would be in danger.

Guo Tu said in the letter, "I cannot obey your orders. After the loss of the two cities of Hanoi, it is not only the lives of me and 20,000 soldiers that we will lose, but also the hegemony of my first brother, and the Dahan Sheji may also be overthrown because of this.

The tone of the reply was very harsh. Today's crisis is directly related to your premature abandonment of Pinggao City, if you do not obey the military order, delay the military plane, and cause Luoyang to be in danger, I will severely punish you.

Guo Tu was furious and immediately returned to the book. It was the intention of the first brother to let me give up Pinggao City, and he asked me to choose the opportunity to retreat, and did not ask me to withdraw after the main army crossed the river to the north.

You have no right to accuse me, let alone any reason to accuse me. Now that the Northern Xinjiang Army suddenly crossed the river and went south, it broke your established strategy and made you very passive, and you want to shirk your responsibility, so you point the finger at me, which is also too deceitful.

Guo Tu is in Heyang City, on the north bank of the Yellow River, only sixty miles away from Luoyang City, and the letter can be delivered in a few hours.

After reading Guo Tu's letter, he was furious. is a matter of the fate of the society, how dare Guo Tu be such a child's play?

Frustrated back to the book Guo Tu. In whose hands was Hanoi lost? Who was killed by Zhang Liao and lost his armor and was embarrassed?

If I hadn't tried my best to intercede for you, you would have been thrown into prison by my brother. Attack Pinggao City for me immediately, or I will personally rush to Heyang and arrest you and send you to prison.

Guo Tu was so angry that he smashed the letter to pieces on the spot. Shameless, it was you who wanted to kill me in front of Brother Benchu in the first place, do you think I don't know?

Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. Guo Tu urgently wrote to Yuan Shao, urging Chen to stick to the importance of holding Heyang and Wen County to ensure the safety of Luoyang, and explained his reason for refusing to send troops to attack Pinggao City.

Then the conversation changed, and the spearhead was pointed directly at Fu Zhi, who had counted the mistakes and many criminal responsibilities of Fu Zhi, the most important of which was that Fu Zhu used Yuan Shao's trust and power to vigorously cultivate the Jizhou forces on both the military and political sides, which had seriously threatened Yuan Shao's status and power.

This accusation hit the nail on the head of Yuan Shao and hit Yuan Shao's sore spot. The reason why Yuan Shao reused Fu Zhi at the beginning was not only because of his own prestige, but more importantly, after he drove away Han Fu, he needed such a person to stabilize the army and scholars in Jizhou.

Yuan Shao's own foundation is in the area of Runan and Yingchuan, and if he wants to gain a quick foothold in Jizhou, he must be frustrated and judged by such people to support him in the overall situation.

Fu Zhu lived up to his expectations and helped Yuan Shao stabilize Jizhou in a very short period of time. At that time, most of Yuan Shao's subordinates were civil and military officials from Jizhou, and they were inextricably linked with Fu Zhu, which made Yuan Shao have to face the reality that Fu Zhu's power grew rapidly, and it was enough to threaten his position.

At that time, the situation in Jizhou was chaotic, Gongsun Zhan, the Yellow Turban Army, and Li Hong successively entered Jizhou, and Yuan Shao and Fu Zhu had to work together to fight the enemy, and the relationship between the two was very close.

After arriving in Luoyang, Yuan Shao returned to his roots, and his strength swelled suddenly, but the frustrated Jizhou forces were everywhere.

Tian Feng, Xianpei, Han Qiong, Zhu Ling, Pan Feng, these civil and military officials are all Yuan Shao's right-hand men, Yuan Shao is indispensable to these people, and at the same time, Yuan Shao's cautious humility also makes Yuan Shao very relieved, so the intimate relationship between the two can continue to be maintained.

During this time, the officials of the two major factions of Yingchuan and Runan kept attacking, slandering and even framing the frustrated Jizhou faction, but Yuan Shao put the overall situation first, tried his best to protect the vested interests of the officials of the Jizhou faction such as the frustrated minister, and still trusted and reused them.

However, when

"Yuan instead of Han" is the words of the weft

"Wude always said" When it spread all over the prefecture and county, when Geng Bao entered the book to ask Yuan Shao to stand on his own behalf of the Han, Fu Zhi and his Jizhou forces became a huge obstacle.

The Jizhou forces not only occupy an absolute advantage among civilian officials, but also have a strong strength in the military, and the combination of the two is extremely powerful.

This forced Yuan Shao to finally give up the idea of self-reliance on behalf of the Han Dynasty and kill Geng Bao to calm the turmoil.

This incident deeply stimulated Yuan Shao, and his relationship with Fu Zhu gradually became intimate, and the officials from Jizhou were gradually put aside and no longer participated in decision-making.

There was a time when he wanted to send Fu Zhu and many civil and military officials from Jizhou out of Luoyang. But before he could do it, the situation in the world changed.

The Battle of Jizhou forced Yuan Shao to use Jizhou civil and military officials again, but at the same time, it also gave him an excellent opportunity to weaken Jizhou's power.

Han Qiong, Pan Feng, and Zhao Fu, the Jizhou generals, died one after another, and the Jizhou forces suffered a major blow.

After the defeat of the Jizhou War, Hebei's forces became stronger, and all forces south of the Yellow River felt this huge threat, and used the time for Hebei to recover to seek development.

Yuan Shao saw that the power of Jizhou had weakened, and the constraints on himself were getting smaller and smaller, and it was not appropriate for him to cause turmoil in Luoyang at this critical moment, so he immediately dispelled the idea of suppressing the forces in Jizhou, and continued to reuse the big officials such as Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, and Zhu Ling.

Soon, as time passed, Yuan Shao's thought not only reappeared, but also made him a little impatient.

In the past year or so, the Jizhou forces headed by Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, the Yingchuan forces led by Xu You and Guo Tu, and the Yuan valve clan led by Yuan Wei and Yuan Zhong have been fighting each other, fighting openly and secretly.

From the revision to the implementation of various systems, from the collection and collection of financial endowments to the use of financial endowments, all aspects involving military and political affairs have become a battlefield for everyone's game.

The final result of the game was unexpected by everyone, that is, everyone was dragged into the dangerous whirlpool of the heir to the title.

And this dangerous whirlpool leads to a question that has to be faced, is the great cause that Yuan Shao wants to establish a hegemony or a royal industry?

If you talk about hegemony, Yuan Shao has basically achieved it now. So, in the next step, after Yuan Shao conquered the Central Plains and confronted Hebei across the river, should he go one step further and establish his own powerful royal industry?

It is still spreading all over the world

"Yuan instead of Han" is the words of the weft

"The five virtues always say" is not the time for its fulfillment. When the Central Plains was about to succeed, the significance of the struggle between the royal industry and the hegemony was self-evident, which made Yuan Shao once again strongly aware of the huge obstacles that hindered his progress.

Guo Tu's letter, Yuan Shao read it again and again, and it was difficult to make up his mind. Today, Tian Feng and Xu You's words made him have an ominous premonition, if Li Hong had the same idea as himself, and he would also take advantage of the current chaos in the Central Plains to attack the Central Plains, then the next few months would be a real life-and-death battle.

Whoever loses will lose the opportunity to dominate the world. Yuan Shao sent someone to invite Feng Ji. Yuan Shao has many friends who can be called irreversible, but only Feng Ji and Xin Ping clearly know that Yuan Shao's mind and Yuan Shao are like-minded, and both of them instigated Yuan Shao to take advantage of this troubled era to establish a royal industry and create a new dynasty.

After laying Guanzhong, Luoyang took the lead in passing

"Yuan instead of Han" is the words of the weft

"Five virtues have always said", and then this rumor spread all over the world, and its initiators were these two scheming masters.

Feng Ji and Xin Ping have had a personal relationship for decades and have a deep friendship, but in the past year, the two have turned their faces because of Yuan Shao's heir issue.

Xin Ping insisted on standing tall and not young, and supported Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan. Feng Ji is optimistic about Yuan Shao's youngest son Yuan Shang, the reason is very simple, because Yuan Shao dotes on Yuan Shang, and his words reveal several times that he wants to abolish Chang Liyu.

Yuan Shao was alienated from Xin Ping because of this, and many major matters were discussed with Feng Ji alone. After reading Guo Tu's letter, Feng Ji immediately understood Yuan Shao's thoughts.

He did not hesitate at all, resolutely supported Guo Tu's opinion, and drove Fu Zhi out of Luoyang first.

"This human right is tilted towards Luoyang, and the threat to adults is too great, so it is better to solve it as soon as possible, so as not to cause endless troubles in the future." Feng Ji said,

"Although Guo Tu, like Xin Ping, is on Yuan Tan's side and helps Yuan Tan speak, the main purpose now is to drive away the Jizhou forces, and there is no need for us to take the opportunity to attack him. Instead, we should use his and Yuan Tan's power to condone and acquiesce in their attacks. When they get out of control, the adults will come forward and play fifty boards each. In this way, the adults can justifiably deprive the power of the frustrated authority, and then drive Guo Tu to Chang'an by the way. Yuan Shao frowned, and said with a lot of guilt: "Lord Fu Zhu has no merit, if you drive him out of Luoyang based on this matter alone, I'm so sorry for him." ”

"Frustration is too upright, and it is a great obstacle to the great cause of the adult in the future, and it is a good thing for him to remove his power as soon as possible." Feng Ji smiled,

"He can't even command Guo Tu now, how can he still sit in Luoyang? The adults should put him by their side and let him escort the grain and grass to exert a little residual heat. When the adults occupy the Central Plains, let him do an idle job and support the elderly. Yuan Shao pondered for a while, and asked in a low voice, "How are Zhu Ling and Jiang Qi settled?" ”

"The adults didn't kill the frustrated people, what are you worried about? Frustrated to be with adults every day, to give advice to adults, although he is no longer in Luoyang, but he personally went to the front line to help adults kill the enemy, is there anything wrong with this? Zhu Ling and Jiang Qi are just simple-minded martial artists, as long as the adults treat them well and reuse them, these people will naturally be loyal to the adults. Feng Ji said lightly,

"Frustrated and upright, they haven't benefited them all these years, how deep can they be in their relationship? Adults don't need to worry. Then he approached Yuan Shao's side and said in a low voice,

"What adults should really worry about is Xu You and Tian Feng." Yuan Shao smiled bitterly and sighed. Fu Zhu, Xu You, Tian Feng, and Guo Tu are Yuan Shao's right-hand men, but they are also the most resolute people who oppose Yuan Shao's establishment of the royal industry.

"Take out Fu Zhu and Guo Tu, Xu You and Tian Feng will solve it very well." Feng Ji smiled faintly and made a gesture lightly,

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