Liu Bei was elected as the pastor of Xuzhou by the state people after Tao Qian, and if he said that he was in his heart, he could not be said to be ecstatic. On the other hand, in all fairness, at that time, only Liu Bei raised troops to help, and this huge Xuzhou was not given to Liu Bei, should it be left to Tao Qian's child?

It was only after Liu Bei was promoted to the pastor of Xuzhou that he learned about the difficulties in the affairs of the state, and all these difficulties came from Cao Cao's Xuzhou Massacre.

In that year, Tao Qian went from Xiapi to Taishan County, Yanzhou, and then attacked Renchengguo after defeating Cao's army. Tao Qian was defeated and retreated to Pengcheng, Xuzhou, where Cao Cao pursued and won another big victory; Tao Qian defeated and returned to Tancheng in the East China Sea, defended the city, Cao Cao could not attack for a long time, so he released troops to attack Pi Guo, Xiaqiu, Juling and other places, soldiers and horses crossed the border along the way, the people competed to slaughter, the corpses were all over the field, and Surabaya was cut off for it.

However, it was not that Surabaya was cut off, and several battles before and after were all near the upper and lower reaches of Surabaya, and then the counties with a large number of troops were all in Surabaya,, along the Huaishui coast.

Although in the end, Cao's army returned to Yanzhou due to the exhaustion of military rations and Lu Bu's sneak attack, but this battle caused Xuzhou to be greatly injured, not a big loss of vitality, but a loss of vitality.

Famine, plague, and the pain after the defeat continued to hurt the people of Xuzhou, and also made Liu Bei worried.

The famine was still rescued by manpower, but the epidemic of the plague could not be stopped in any case, because in the following years, the counties and towns of Xuzhou were often suspended, and there were no people in several counties and towns between Huaisi, and the epidemic spread to Jing and Yang in the southwest.

Such a Xuzhou, what can be used to stop Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses?

Yuan Shu sent troops from Jiujiang to Xia Pi, Liu Bei did not dare to enter the plague rampant Xiapi, Xia Pi was broken, Yuan Shu entered the East China Sea again, Liu Bei could not be the enemy, so he took refuge in Guangling, Guangling Mi Zhu Zi to help Liu Bei with family wealth, according to Guangling City to garrison. In just over ten days, Yuan Shu's army encountered almost no obstacles except in Guangling, and occupied most of Xuzhou, which made him happy.

However, in the middle of October, forty percent of Yuan Shu's army were infected with typhoid fever, and although most of Xuzhou was taken, Yuan Shu was shocked.

He had just sent a letter to Yuan Shao in Qingzhou to ridicule his short-sightedness!

When Yuan Shao heard that Liu Bei was defeated so quickly, he couldn't help but panic (ecstatic), and immediately ordered Han Meng, Jiang Qi and other generals who had already been on the border of Chen Bing to send troops south from Qi State, and Zhan Langya State raised the banner of helping Xuzhou Ping Thief Kou and then went south to the East China Sea to fight with the main force of Yuan Shu's army.

On the other hand, the state government engaged in Manchu Pet previously led the troops to stop at Mount Tai, but was worried about the plague in Xuzhou, so he did not send troops into Xu, at this time the war was approaching, and the sergeant brought back to Pengcheng without much news of the danger of the plague, so he led the troops into Pengcheng. It's just that Man Chong does things much better than Yuan Shao, he just entered Pengcheng to watch them fight, and opened the city gate to welcome the people to take refuge.

It's just that for Liu Bei, who is sticking to Guangling, it is Yuan Shao who led the army south at this time to make Liu Bei feel that the future is bleak, Yuan Shujun has already suffered from the plague, and he will definitely withdraw the army if he delays for ten days and a half at most.

Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were defeated by Yuan Shaojun's withered and decayed, retreated to Guangling and then fought with Liu Bei, Liu Bei's subordinate Guan Yu led the army out of the city to meet the enemy, and rushed the public with a widowed army.

In the battle, Liu Beijun collected more than 4,000 people.

Yuan Shu's army was already plagued by the plague, and was later attacked by Yuan Shao in the north, and the attack was defeated, and the morale was invincible. Liu Bei, who fled to Guangling, thought that Liu Bei, who had lost most of Xuzhou, was weak and could be bullied, but who knew that the pioneer Wu Jing was defeated not to mention for the time being, and even the people were killed by the generals from the battle, and the morale was even more plummeting, and he ran away from eight songs in one night, where did Yuan Shu still have the heart to fight, so he had to order the whole army to leave Xuzhou and return to Shouchun with grief and indignation.

Yuan Shuce, who left Xuzhou, stood on the bank of the Huaishui River and looked north, his eyes were full of unwillingness, and he suddenly covered his mouth and nose in the dog days and coughed a few times, his face was red but he didn't care, and waved his hand to the left and right to send an order: "Return to Xuzhou, and then talk about Xuzhou at the beginning of the next year!" ”

It's just that the majestic Yuan Highway has no chance to compete with Yuan Shao in Xuzhou in the coming year, and on the way back from the army, the grief of the defeat and the latent epidemic in the body dragged down his body and fell ill on horseback. A few days after returning to Shouchun, he died with a heart full of unwillingness.

The Yuan clan, which has a huge power in Yangzhou, also collapsed almost in one day, and was a thief in the past, and he rolled up his money and soldiers and horses to go to the field again to be a thief; In the past, it was too guarded, sending envoys to hook up with all places; In the past, it was a general's, and the troops were dispatched to occupy the city.

The Sun family also broke out almost overnight, and all parts of Jiangdong changed flags one after another, and half of Yangzhou was included in a blink of an eye!

It's just that most of these things have nothing to do with Liu Bei, his enemies are like a tide rising again and again, just hearing the news of Yuan Shu's death on the sickbed, and in the blink of an eye, Guangling ushered in Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses.

Xuzhou, he can't keep it.

Yuan Shao was not in a hurry to attack, but garrisoned in Haixi County, the northernmost part of Guangling County, and watched from a distance how Liu Bei's army in Guangling County was defeated by the plague. Yuan Shao didn't know how Yuan Shu's army was infected with the plague, but it must have been inseparable from the people of Xuzhou, so he didn't let his generals contact the people everywhere.

Fortunately, there was no plague in Haixi, there was a small river in Haixi, not Huaishui and Surabaya, the upstream was at the mouth of Yuzhou Mountain, and the water source was clean, so although Yuan Shao didn't know what was going on, his luck was good enough, and the soldiers were not infected with the plague.

Liu Bei is different, the plague that was about to be extinct in Xuzhou was plagued by the scourge of war, and brought to various places with the movement of soldiers and horses from all over the country, and now only Guangling and the East China Sea have not suffered from the plague, and the people of Guangling and have taken refuge in Guangling, where Liu Bei is located, but as soon as the displaced people come, the problem is big.

There is not enough food to eat, and the displaced people are carrying the epidemic, not to mention whether Guangling can stop Yuan Shao after a long time, but who can stop the plague themselves?

With no other choice, Liu Bei summoned his cronies and generals and those officials and staff who were willing to follow him, and agreed to open the grain and grass in the counties of Guangling and hand it over to the people for their own use, so that they could scatter and not gather in one place, so as to prevent the plague from moving back and forth.

In addition, Liu Bei wrote a letter to Yuan Shao, hoping that he would treat the people of Xuzhou well. After doing this, Liu Bei took the remaining thousands of elite soldiers of his subordinates to the west by boat and went to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao.