Chapter Eighty-Six: People's Hearts Change
The attack in Guanzhong lasted for more than a month, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji turned against Li Dao camp on the marching road, at the beginning of the attack with 700 cavalry night to break through Li Dao's 10,000 people's army village, Li Dao and the emperor ran east to reorganize the army, in the west of Hangu Pass to fight Guo Yan, the two sides fought extremely fiercely, more than 10,000 dead and wounded. After several wars, Duan Xuan, who held the emperor's edict, mediated peace.
But this is just that the two sides no longer fight each other, even if it is later learned that the reason for the war between the two sides is only Guo Yan's wife's slander that Li Wei is worried that she will send more beauties to her husband, and the relationship between the two sides can no longer be restored to the same as before.
It's easy to create a rift, but if you want to heal it?
At this point, many warlords in Liangzhou were more inclined to fight on their own, and Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Duan Xuan jointly protected the emperor, and no one wanted to fake the emperor to others. In the final analysis, everyone understands their own situation, and it is still a trivial matter if they are not united internally, and there is Yanbei who dominates the northern soil outside, if they don't unite again, the disaster that will be broken one by one will befall each of them!
The strength of the two states alone has brought strong pressure to the princes of Guanxi, but Yanbei has never been alone. Beside him, nearly half of the princes of the entire north were gathered. Yang Feng's Bai Bo Army, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army, and Liu Bao's Xiongnu Left and Right Xianwang Department, their power was so great that even when Dong Zhuo was alive, they were just fighting against it.
If it is said that when Dong Zhongying dominated Luoyang, it meant that the forces of the entire northern Guanxi were gathered behind him; Then Yan Zhongqing is in Yecheng, and he holds the entire northern Kanto hostage.
Who can not be surprised, who can not be afraid?
It's just that after the chaotic mutual attack, the grain and grass of the warlords in Xizhou have been reduced even more sharply, whether it is a rout or a rebellion, and once again they have less than 30% of the remaining grain and grass, and the grain that can still support them to return to the west is only enough to pass through the Hangu Pass, and all kinds of materials are not enough, even the emperor can only sleep in the wilderness, there is no other way.
Seeing that the warlords of Xizhou were attacking each other, Zhang Ji saw that their general trend was difficult to stop Yanbei, so he resolutely led his troops out of Guanzhong and went south to Jing to invade Nanyang, hoping to get enough rations from Jingzhou...... Luyang is the granary of the world, and it is also the only place to run all over the world.
"Yan Zhongqing deceives people too much!"
This is Li Dao's angry reproach after he heard that the messenger he sent to Yecheng was robbed and killed by Liu Bao in Hanoi County after arriving at Hangu Pass, he didn't care about Liu Bao, he only knew that the Southern Xiongnu were Yanbei's people, that is to say, Yanbei not only refused his request, but also killed his messenger!
Refusing a request doesn't mean the same as killing a courier.
A simple refusal can be said to weigh the pros and cons, but the direct meaning of killing the messenger is that he doesn't bother to talk about it, which makes Li Wei angry. Even if he Li Dao hurts his vitality today, even if the brothers of Liangzhou are on the wall, there are still tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Liangzhou in Li's hands!
Before they starved to death, Li Dao had always possessed unparalleled strength in the land of Guanzhong!
Li Wei originally wanted to execute the envoy sent by Yanbei, but was stopped by Duan Xuan and Jia Xu. Li Wei, who was furious, reacted that the threat he could pose to Yanbei was really limited at the moment.
"It's a small matter for the general to kill the envoy, if General Yan is angry because of this, what should the general do?" Jia Xu asked like this, and then heard Li Wei say angrily: "He is angry, is he angry, is he Yan Zhongqing the only one in the world who has soldiers and horses?" Li also has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, he dares to come to Luoyang to give it a try! ”
Jia Xu laughed when he heard this, the previous Li Guo melee, he was listed by Li Dao as General Anfeng, although his subordinates only had 2,000 soldiers and horses, but he gave advice to Li Dao, and immediately asked: "Does the general think that General Yan will go on an expedition and go to Luoyang to fight with you?" ”
Although Li Wei's anger had been extinguished by Jia Xu, he still didn't want others to think that he was afraid of Yanbei, so he said angrily: "Jia Wenhe, what do you mean? ”
Jia Xu still had an almost flattering smile on his face, and said to Li Wei: "Aren't you afraid of killing the Yanbei envoy, he returned to Yecheng with Pingyin's grain, how should the general deal with himself then?" ”
Jia Xu's words are to the point, the current situation is in the eyes of the generals of Liangzhou, called Yanbei to pay tribute to the emperor, but in fact, they are begging for Yanbei for them...... Yanbei can take out grain and grass, he can take out grain and grass, but if he is unwilling to take out grain and grass, can they really lead the army to Jizhou to ask for food?
The land of Henan was connected to Cao Cao's Yanzhou, and unless they went to war with Cao Cao, their soldiers and horses could not pass. The land of Hedong and Hanoi is mountainous, not to mention that the soldiers of Liangzhou are not familiar with the road, but Yanbei has the soldiers of Baibo and Montenegro to help, not to mention that they have no military rations to support them to enter Jizhou, even if there are enough military rations, can they take advantage of the war in Hanoi?
To put it bluntly, unless Yanbei is willing to fight them in Luoyang, the military might of Li Guo and others will not have the slightest influence on Yanbei.
"This ......"
Li Dao was speechless for a while, and although Guo Yan was also in the account, after the previous incident with Li Dao, he had become an almost independent prince of Liangzhou, and Li Dao was no longer in the same party but as an ally, and he didn't want to say more about this matter.
Thinking of Yanbei, Guo Yan's back head hurt endlessly, and he was unwilling to fight with Yanbei in Hanoi, and the most humiliating time in his life was to fight against Yanbei in Hanoi.
The young general who picked up guns in Hanoi back then has never been famous in the world until now, and Guo Yan, who has never spoken, slapped the case a few times: "Yanbei is a strong general, we can't beat him in Hanoi!" ”
Duan Xuan looked around at everyone's attitude, chuckled in his heart, and said casually: "General Li is still thinking about the long term, it is better to have a good talk with General Yan." ”
As soon as the words fell, Li Wei and Guo Yan didn't have much to reflect, Jia Xu had already looked over suspiciously, and Duan Xuan didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded...... He didn't care what the few people in the tent thought of him at the moment. In the past, he didn't look down on Li Dao, Guo Yan and others occupying Chang'an to take charge of the government, and he never even had the idea of revenge for Dong Zhuo.
Not to mention now.
Most of the generals in Liangzhou are short-sighted, and Li Dao Guo Yan's short-sightedness is reflected in the fact that he does not want to make progress in occupying Chang'an, and Duan Xuan himself knows that he is not a person with great ambitions, otherwise he would not have no action in the Huayin garrison.
The imperial court is still the imperial court of the Han Dynasty, and they, the Liangzhou people, can't hold it. During the time when Li Guo was attacking, he had already exchanged more than a dozen letters of correspondence with Yanbei, just as he just said, he had already removed himself from the matter of holding the emperor hostage, and it had nothing to do with him whether Li Dao wanted to fight with Yanbei or not.
The nearly 20,000 Xizhou soldiers under his command did not intend to block Yanbei's way.
While Li Wei was silent, Jia Xu was also secretly analyzing the possibility of the success of the generals in Liangzhou...... Li Dao's vitality was greatly injured, and Guo Yan was no longer willing to be commanded by him; Zhang Jinan went to Jingzhou to plunder, and he would not join forces with Li Guo for a while; As for Duan Xuan, Jia Xu guessed that he had his own ideas, and Li Wei had already given up.
That night, Jia Xu demolished his camp next to Li Dao and led his family to live in the Duan Xuan camp.