Yuan Shu and Li Ye, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang, Ji Ling and others urgently discussed countermeasures. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Ye believed that the top priority now was not to immediately go south to attack Sun Ce and recapture Jiujiang and Lujiang counties, but to stabilize the army of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, so as not to leak the news of Sun Ce's betrayal, so that Cao Cao and Liu Bei would take the opportunity to lead the ranks to chase after them, resulting in damage to the army. As long as the army is intact, with Yuan Shu's current strength, it is more than enough to defeat Sun Ce and drive Sun Ce back to Jiangdong.

Feng Ji had just left, and although he did not make it clear that Yuan Shao supported Yuan Shu to establish the imperial system again, the meaning of his words was obvious. Since Cao Cao is still holding the Son of Heaven hostage in today's situation, he has no choice but to break the kettle.

Once Yuan Shu re-established the imperial system in a big battle, and set up another Son of Heaven to confront Cao Cao, Cao Cao's situation became very difficult. In order to survive and gain a foothold in the Central Plains, Cao Cao at this moment had no choice but to retreat. either send the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, satisfy Yuan Shao's wishes, and then let go of his hands and feet to attack Yuan Shu; Either reach a tacit understanding with Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu will return Yanzhou to Cao Cao and return to Yangzhou, everyone will still maintain the past situation, be safe and sound, and jointly deal with Li Yi in Hebei.

The first method is too great a loss for Cao Cao, and he will not give up the Son of Heaven unless he is forced to do so. The second method Cao Cao has no initiative, and Yuan Shu must take the initiative, and the premise of Yuan Shu's initiative is that even if he builds the imperial system again, Yuan Shao will take the benefits in the end.

For the sake of his own interests, Yuan Shu was forced to abandon the Central Plains, withdraw his troops to Yangzhou, and temporarily reach an understanding with Cao Cao and Liu Bei. As for whether the three of them will attack each other in the future, that is a matter of the future, and the main purpose of the three parties now is to quickly restore their strength and maintain the balance between the forces of each party.

Li Ye meant to immediately send people outside the city to negotiate with Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Yuan Shu withdrew to Yangzhou, and the three sides boycotted. This should be something that Cao Cao and Liu Bei can't ask for. They took back their own prefectures and counties, won time to restore their strength, dealt a blow to Yuan Shao's plan, shook hands with Yuan Shu and made peace, temporarily avoiding conquest and preserving their strength. It's an idiot not to agree to this kind of multi-killing.

Yan Xiang objected to this. He said: "The reason why we want to make peace with Cao Cao and Liu Beiyan now is because Sun Ce has captured Jiujiang and Lujiang counties. After we made peace with Cao Cao, we were about to fight with Sun Ce, and we needed Yuan Shao to provide grain and grass for baggage. If we follow Li Ye's method, we will first offend Yuan Shao, lose Yuan Shao's strong support, and the supply of grain and grass will not be available. Secondly, after we arrived in Yangzhou, we fought with Sun Ce repeatedly, and our strength will definitely be greatly damaged, so that next spring, the army of Cao Cao and Liu Bei is likely to take the opportunity to enter Yangzhou. And Sun Ce, who was defeated and returned to Jiangdong, may also make a comeback and join forces with Cao De and Liu Bei. We were besieged by three sides, and Yuan Shao sat idly by, how would we survive then? ”

"I suggest that the emperor be established again immediately, and Yuan Shao will be dragged first. With Yuan Shao's support, after we withdrew from Yanzhou, Cao Cao was bound to dare not take advantage of the victory to attack under the threat of Yuan Shao's army. Secondly, in the process of retreating, we can let Qiao Rui and Zhang Xun join forces and concentrate on taking Xiapi first. Then we took the two counties of Peiguo and Xiapi as the places of advance and retreat, and gathered a large army to go south to Jiujiang County to attack Sun Ce. ”

"Without Yuan Shao's support, even if we get out of the predicament temporarily, it will be difficult for us to persist in the Jiujiang and Lujiang areas. Re-establishing the imperial system, forming an alliance with Yuan Shao, and making peace with brothers are the only ways to ensure survival at present. Although in this way, Yuan Shao's strength has increased, but we have avoided the fate of defeat, and the overall interests of Yuan Shao have also been inflated, which is still very cost-effective in the long run. ”

"After the Jizhou War, the forces on the north and south banks of the Yellow River disappeared from each other, and Hebei could move south to the Central Plains at any time. At this time, for the sake of Yuan Valve's interests, it is best for us to join forces with Yuan Shao, and then quickly defeat Cao Cao and occupy the Central Plains, so as to form a north-south confrontation with Hebei, otherwise, in the future, whether it is Yuan Shao Yuan Shu or Cao Cao and Liu Bei, they may be killed by Hebei's iron cavalry and wiped out. ”

After Yuan Shu and the others carefully weighed the pros and cons, they decided to adopt the methods of Li Ye and Yan Xiang at the same time.

Yuan Shu sent people out of the city and took the initiative to contact Cao Cao, threatening to re-establish the imperial system and force Cao Cao to stop the war. At the same time, Ji Ling, He Yi and others led the army to evacuate Peiguo in a hurry. In addition, Yuan Shu also wrote to Zhang Xun to withdraw his troops from Pengcheng, rush to Xiapi Rendezvous Bridge, and take Xiapi City at all costs.

Yuan Shu asked Yang Hong to rush to Luoyang to meet Yuan Shao. After the re-establishment of the imperial unity, if Yuan Shao was willing, he was willing to send the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, but Yuan Shao had to assign Runan County to himself, so that he could quickly expand his strength, so as to form a flanking attack on the Central Plains. Although Yuan Shu knew that Yuan Shao would not believe his words, at this moment, in order to quickly reverse the unfavorable situation, he could only deceive for a while.

King Chen and Liu Chong are now in the county of Peiguo. Yuan Shu sent Li Ye and Liu Fu to Xiangcheng in a hurry. Regardless of whether Liu Pet himself agrees or not, he immediately raises the enthronement ceremony. Only wait for the army to withdraw to Peiguo, and then establish the imperial unity.

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Cao Cao and Liu Bei were anxiously waiting for news from Liu Biao.

Yuan Shao's attitude is very important, if Yuan Shao acquiesces to Yuan Shu to re-establish the imperial system, the situation in the world will be even more chaotic. Especially Cao Cao, after suffering heavy losses in the Battle of Jizhou, he was simply powerless to resist the combined attack of the Yuan brothers.

At this time, Yuan Shu's messenger arrived.

No one believed Yuan Shu's words.

"He wants to make peace? What is this kid doing? Cao Cao's first feeling was that Yuan Shu was cheating, and there must be a conspiracy behind it, "Could it be that Yuan Shu was forced to be in a hurry, and he wanted to drag himself with a delaying tactic, and then run to Peiguo to establish the imperial system again?" ”

Liu Bei said: "It may be that the Yuan brothers may have fallen out because of the re-establishment of the imperial unity, Yuan Shu was angry, did not do anything, and simply withdrew the troops, and became determined to restore the world to the pattern before the Jizhou War." ”

"There is Yuan Shao behind Yuan Shu, and it is not a matter of beating Yuan Shu all at once, and there is no need to rush at this moment. The Battle of Jizhou had just ended, and the army was in urgent need of rest. Rains have just fallen in the Central Plains, and the nine-month drought is over, and it is time to resume planting. The matter in Qingzhou is unresolved, and it takes time to solve Zang Ba's foothold first. ”

Since Yuan Shu took the initiative to withdraw his troops, it can be regarded as putting down the shelf and admitting defeat, which is good for Cao Cao and Liu Bei. The two readily agreed. Yuan Shu was also very quick and immediately sent Cao Cao and the families of all the Yanzhou officials to Cao Cao's camp.

Just when the two sides were talking harmoniously and Yuan Shu's army had begun to retreat one after another with a large amount of money and baggage looted from Yanzhou, a news came from Chenliu. Yuan Shao's army, which was stationed in Chen, went north and wanted to cross the river and rush to Hanoi to support.

Cao Cao immediately realized that Yuan Shao was in trouble. In the direction of Hanoi, Yuan Shao may not be able to support it, and Ma Chao in the direction of Guanzhong should also raise troops to betray. Yuan Shao was too busy to take care of himself, and he was no longer able to help Yuan Shu. Cao Cao felt that his chance had come, and the opportunity to kill Yuan Shu had come.

While secretly gathering an army, he waited for news from Liu Biao. Liu Biao went to Luoyang, if Yuan Shao was anxious to deal with the affairs of Guanzhong and Hanoi, he could more or less learn a little bit of the real situation through his own connections.

Cao Cao didn't wait for Liu Biao's news, but waited for Wang Lang, who hurried from Jiangdong.

"In order to uphold justice and revitalize the Han Dynasty, Sun Ce resolutely decided to break away from the rebellious Yuan Shu and return to the imperial court." After Wang Lang explained his intentions, he finally said, "At present, General Sun Ce is leading a large army to attack Jiujiang and Lujiang counties, and he is willing to follow the order of the Son of Heaven and the command of the prime minister, and fight bloodily to kill the rebellious Zhongxing Sheji." ”

Then Wang Lang began to sing praises for Sun Ce.

Cao Cao had heard of Sun Ce and knew that he was Sun Jian's eldest son, and in the past two years, together with Sun Jian, he led a large army to defeat Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, in Jiangdong.

Liu Miao is the younger brother of Liu Dai, the former Yanzhou Mu, and both of them have a good relationship with Cao Cao. Cao Cao hated Yuan Shu, and he also hated Sun Jian and Sun Ce's father and son, so Wang Lang committed Cao Cao's taboo before he could say a few words.

Sun Ce's defeat of Liu Miao was not the credit of Sun Ce for Cao Cao, but the sin of the troubled society.

"Who is Sun Ce? What is he? Cao Cao slapped his palm on the desk and interrupted Wang Lang's words, "A treacherous rebel, a brazen villain, this kind of person doesn't say anything, so as not to pollute my ears." ”

Liu Bei, who was sitting on the side, also frowned deeply, but his expression was still very polite. If this is true, Yuan Shu will be dead. No matter what Sun Ce's character is, he has done a great favor this time, and he can't be neglected no matter what.

In addition, on behalf of Sun Ce, who came to present a table to the Son of Heaven, was Wang Lang, a famous man in Xuzhou, who had to be polite and reasonable, and could not be too unrelenting.

"Sun Ce is the eldest son of Sun Jian, the general of the captivity." Liu Bei didn't know whether it was deliberate or pretending to be stupid, he introduced Cao Cao very seriously, "This son followed his father Sun Jian to fight everywhere at the age of a weak crown, and he was Sun Jian's first person who won Wu County, Huiji County and half of Danyang County in three years, and this person can be regarded as a tiger general." ”

When Liu Bei said the word "tiger general", he deliberately accentuated his tone and seemed solemn.

Three years to fight two and a half counties is also called a tiger general, which can't help but make Cao Cao look up to the sky and laugh, and Wang Lang felt humiliated, his face was pale, and his eyes glared at Liu Bei fiercely. secretly said in his heart, Sun Ce also relied on his own efforts to defeat two and a half counties, but what about you? You've just picked up a bargain and bumped into a luck. Cao Cao killed people like hemp, he once slaughtered Xuzhou, you don't avenge the people of Xuzhou, but you sit with the enemy and call yourself brothers, what are you? (To be continued.) )