Yanbei didn't expect that at this time, there were still people among the southern princes who were willing to follow him against Cao Yuan's coalition army, and it was Liu Biao, a clan relative of the Han family! In fact, in Yanbei, the most likely person to raise troops to help him was Jiangdong Sun Ce, but Sun Ce was at most dragging his feet behind Yuan Shao. It was difficult for the Central Plains to fight in that part of Jiangdong, but it was even more difficult for them to fight north.

But Sun Ce is now unable to use a large team of men and horses to the north, his combat power has been greatly damaged in the previous annexation of Yuan Shu's remnants and the battle against Yuan Shao, it is rare for Cao and Yuan to fight against Yanbei, this is not the moment for him to fight for the military in the north, but the best time to recuperate.

But Liu Biao of Jingzhou, who always talked about the loyalty of the Han family and the respect of the alliance leader, how could he send troops to help Yanbei at this time? Not to mention Yanbei, even Guo Jia was taken aback, in his previous deduction, he thought that the biggest possibility of Jingzhou was whether Yanbei or Cao's opinions were unified, and the two did not help each other to reap the benefits.

I really didn't expect Liu Biao to have such courage and dare to send troops to face Cao.

All this has to be said that more than a month ago, Yanbei sent a message to Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu, informing them of the news that they were about to go south. Putting aside how Liu Biao's pastoral government argues for the time being, there is not much controversy in Nanyang County, which has many soldiers and few generals.

If you can get an idea, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu are two people, arguing about what to do!

"What do you think, sir, of this letter?" Zhang Xiu respectfully asked Jia Xu. With Jia Xu's help, he took tens of thousands of Liangzhou outsiders to gain a firm foothold in Nanyang after his uncle's death, and was also recognized by Yanbei of the imperial court and Liu Biao of Jingzhou, becoming a veritable prince, and he naturally relied on Jia Xu in every way.

Jia Xu has never let him down.

"King Zhao invited, we have to obey." When Jia Xu said this, he saw Zhang Xiu's disdain for the word 'King Zhao', but obviously because he was in front of him and didn't complain, and then continued to ask: "Does the general know that Jizhou rains heavily every year in August?" ”

Zhang Xiu didn't know why Jia Xu suddenly said that it was raining heavily in Jizhou, so he shook his head slowly, and said with an apologetic face: "Mr. doesn't know, embroidery has been in Liangzhou for a long time, if it weren't for my uncle who entered the Central Plains from Dong Gong back then, I'm afraid I'm still in my hometown now." ”

"If there is no accident this year, there will be heavy rain in Jizhou, so that it will be difficult to transport the northern baggage to Henan, compared to the plan of King Zhao is to lead the army to eat the enemy, and the grain and grass will be plundered where the soldiers and horses pass. If Duke Cao and Duke Yan fight, what if the general wants to win over there? ”

Zhang Xiu spread his hands and smiled: "The two of them are too strong compared to us, it is better to lose both." There's no point in saying that...... If the two tigers fight, of course Xiu hopes that Yan Zhongqing will win, in the end he needs us more than Cao Cao. ”

"The general is right, there are many difficulties in the troubled times, and it is common for distant friends to attack people from afar, at least now it seems that King Zhao can tolerate people, if the general sends troops to help him, the general Nanyang Taishou will definitely be able to keep it. If King Zhao wins, Jingzhou will most likely remain the same as long as it surrenders; If Cao Gong wins, then the next step is to conquer Jingzhou, since we hope that the Yan army will win, why don't we send troops to help him? What's more, even if the army is not victorious, it will also face Cao Gong's conquest in the future. ”

"If this is the case, as Mr. said, there is heavy rain at the turn of summer and autumn in southern Hebei, and it is inconvenient to transport heavy baggage, then why do you have to send troops, no matter what, you have to deal with Cao Cao's next offensive, it is better to save your strength in order to fight!"

Zhang Xiu thinks so reasonably, they will send troops to fight Cao Cao, Nanyang is not bordered by Yan's army in the north, Yan's fight is Yanzhou East County, they can only fight Yuzhou Yingchuan, so that in the face of Cao's army alone, there will be many casualties among the soldiers.

"No, Nanyang has been rich for a long time, even if Dong Gong died in the past, Li Dao's rebellion failed to cause much harm here, which is why the general is here. Now in the Yanyu War, tens of thousands of dead and wounded can be counted, and the displacement of the people will reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, this is not the opportunity for Nanyang to move these people to Nanyang, especially the outstanding people of Yingchuan, even if the general only moves 100,000 people, it is also a blessing for Nanyang. In the future, if we fight with Cao Gong again, we will be able to have more soldiers, not to mention that this time we will aid the Yan clan, and the next time Jingzhou is attacked, won't King Zhao come to our aid in the north? ”

People of insight in the world are very optimistic about Yanbei and think that he can hold Jizhou. But in the same way, people of insight in the world are not optimistic that the Yan family can enter Yanzhou.

Because the time is not in the Yan family.

Zhang Xiu was moved by Jia Xu's words, but he still hesitated in his heart: "If I send troops to Nanyang, then Jingzhou Liu Gong ......"

"The old man will go to Xiangyang and persuade Liu Gong to send troops, and he will earn a southern reinforcement for the general!"

Jia Xu was old, and it was already very difficult to gallop through Jingzhou on a horse, but it was not too difficult to take a carriage, and he immediately arrived at the city of Xiangyang from south to north in a few days.

At this time, the Jingzhou Pastoral Mansion was still messing around!

The reason why Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou was because of Liu Biao's bravery, and because he became the ruler of Jingzhou under the premise that the princes in various places were fighting for the general situation with the army, and it was a model for distributing the interests of all parties in advance. And this also caused Jingzhou's power to be too scattered, and it was difficult to concentrate power like other princes and achieve the ability to make a final decision.

This is what later people often said about the Shi clan, the Shi clan is stronger than the Hao Qiang clan, because their clan not only has more inheritance, but also has more say in the officialdom than Hao Qiang. But in the final analysis, whether it is a noble clan or a powerful person, they all have the same counter-effect for the monarch - the separation of powers.

The greater their power, the less power the monarch has, and there are only enterprising scholars, not enterprising scholars. The roots of the scholars are in this land, the most representative is the Chen Palace in Yanzhou and the Chen Deng father and son in Yangzhou in history, the princes come and go, but the masters of this land are always them.

The nobles were not happy to fight in the north and south, even if some scholars were willing to receive more merits, but they knew better that the monarch would not give them more land and benefits in the future, so they were often not inclined to be warlike, and only when there was an invasion of foreign enemies could they work together to resist the enemy, but in peacetime?

Hey.

Liu Xian is facing such embarrassment, and his subordinates Pang, Huang, Cai, Kuai, Ma, Xi, and Yang do not recommend going east to compete with Cao Cao. In short, even if Cao Cao was defeated in the battle in the north, it would still be difficult for Jingzhou to resist their attack when he came back with all his strength, and if the Yan clan was victorious, would the land of Yanyu still belong to Jingzhou?

This is a war that makes no sense.

Jia Xu just smiled after hearing this, and smiled lightly at Liu Biao: "Liu Gong, I heard that you have a subordinate general Liu Xuande, can you ask him to send troops to Runan?" ”