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Zang Ba thought of a question, he asked: "If Yuan Shu does not contain Cao Cao and Liu Bei from the south, we will have to bear their attack alone, I'm afraid it will ......"

"Before the Jizhou War, Yuan Shu had sent his son Yuan Yao, Xun Zheng and Liu Ye to Hebei." Xu Maogong smiled lightly, "Now, the three of them are on the ship back to Yangzhou. ”

Zang Ba suddenly understood.

The fundamental reason for the failure of the Jizhou War was Yuan Shu's betrayal. It is unbelievable that Yuan Shu had a secret relationship with Li Yi in Hebei.

Now it seems that Hebei must have promised Yuan Shu at the beginning, promised to help him drag down the rebels, let Yuan Shu capture the Central Plains, and then take advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Shu's capture of the Central Plains to cut off the rebels' food and grass to defeat the rebels.

Now Yuan Shu has failed, but Yuan Shu's strength is still there. On the contrary, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were scarred, and it was almost impossible for the two of them to get time to recover their strength under the front and back attacks of themselves and Yuan Shu.

With the strong strength of Hebei, as long as it takes a little respite, it will immediately be able to fight in the Central Plains in the south. Under the siege of Hebei's Northern Xinjiang Army, Yangzhou Yuan Shu and his own three-way siege, Cao Cao and Liu Bei would be defeated in the blink of an eye.

It is only a matter of time before Hebei occupies the Central Plains.

Obviously, when they sent someone to Hebei for help, Li Yi and Xu Maogong immediately saw the opportunity to win and quickly arranged the battle situation in the Central Plains.

Hebei has taken the Central Plains, and the day of pacifying the world is very close.

At this time, what reason do you have to betray Hebei? What other forces can compete with Hebei?

In fact, Li Yi and Xu Maogong never considered that they would betray.

If you don't get help from Hebei, you will be defeated sooner or later, and the Central Plains will be in Hebei's bag sooner or later, and if you get help from Hebei and accept Hebei's arrangement, the Central Plains will soon be pacified, the world will soon be stable, and the people will soon live a good life.

No matter whether he has a dream or not, and whether he is full of selfish desires, he has no reason to reject Hebei now, and there is no reason to betray Hebei in the future.

"If nothing else, next month, we can send an army to attack Langya County in Xuzhou." Zang Ba finally gave up all the messy thoughts in his heart and made up his mind, "I have been in Langya County for many years, and almost all the county officials are my people. I can take it down in a very short time. ”

Xu Maogong smiled with satisfaction, took out a scroll from his bosom and handed it to Zang Ba, and said, "After the end of the Jizhou War, we seized a large amount of food and ordnance. This is part of it and is currently being shipped to Plains City. You can send someone to Pingyuan City to contact Gao Shun and quickly transport this batch of grain and ordnance to Qingzhou. ”

Zang Ba received it in surprise and thanked him repeatedly.

"I've said everything I need to say." Xu Maogong smiled, "How to do it, whatever you want." With your credit for seizing Qingzhou and helping the imperial court pacify the Central Plains, you will be a famous minister in the Han Dynasty, and you will definitely be famous in history in the future. ”

"Sir, this is leaving?" Zang Ba asked in surprise.

"I'm going to Beihai to meet Yin Li and Wu Dun." Xu Maogong said, "In a few days, I will go to Linzi with Yin Li and Wu Dun, and we will talk in detail then." ”

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Cheng Yu got Zang Ba's promise and left satisfied.

Before Zang Ba parted, he swore to Cheng Yu: "I have been friends with the prime minister for a long time, and I helped the prime minister attack Li Yi in Xuzhou back then, and now I am naturally on his side." If the prime minister is short of soldiers, I will immediately send troops to support, if the prime minister is short of food, I will dig three feet of ground in Qingzhou, and I will also send all the food to the past. ”

Whether this sentence is true or not, in short, Cheng Yu is very happy and relieved. He originally wanted to order some food, but when he thought that Gongsun Zhan was collecting heavy taxes in Qingzhou, the people were very hard, so he didn't open his mouth in the end.

A few days later, Xu Maogong, Yin Li, and Wu Dun rushed to Linzi.

After several people discussed everything, Xu Maogong immediately took his leave and hurriedly returned to Hebei.

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Early October, Luoyang.

One after another, the bad news reached Luoyang. Yuan Shao was worried and worried.

The war in Hanoi was completely lost. The army was defeated three times in ten days, and retreated three hundred miles in a row.

In addition to the discouragement of the army caused by the defeat of Jizhou, the strong and sharp attack power of the Northern Xinjiang Army was the main reason for the defeat.

Under the command of General Xu Da, the Northern Xinjiang Army first conquered Chaoge City. Then another member of the Northern Xinjiang Army, Tai Shici, ambushed the first part of the Hanoi Army in Lugushan Mountain, and its 3,000 soldiers were all wiped out, and a large amount of grain, grass and baggage were lost.

Han Hao and Han Qiong immediately led their troops to retreat to Jicheng to hold on.

Sima Yi of the Northern Xinjiang Army didn't know what method he used, bought off the Zhang clan in the city as an internal response, and quietly led the army to climb the city wall in the middle of the night and seize the east city gate. Ki City is lost.

Han Hao, Han Qiong, Zhang Nan and others retreated in a hurry. Tai Shici led the Northern Xinjiang army to chase and kill all the way. Tao Sheng blocked the front line of the Qingshui River, and 3,000 men and horses were killed by Tai Shici. Tao Sheng finally fled to Huaicheng with only more than 20 personal guards.

And in Guanzhong, Ma Chao fled, and the boiled duck flew.

Yuan Tan was ordered to kill Ma Chao. He invited Ma Chao to Chang'an three times and twice, but Ma Chao refused under various excuses.

When Han Sui was leaving, he repeatedly told him that if Ma Teng didn't come back, you must not leave Huaili City. Ma Chao listened to this.

Yuan Tan was helpless, so he set up another plan and invited Ma Chao to come out hunting. This time Ma Chao agreed. The place of hunting is very close to Huaili City, only more than sixty miles, and Ma Chao thinks that nothing will happen.

As a result, Ma Chao was in the middle of the plan and was surrounded by Yuan Tan's iron horse. But Ma Chao is really too powerful, and he really has the courage of ten thousand people, he took fifty personal guards, fought hard, and finally single-handedly fought out of the encirclement.

At this time, Yuan Tan's army had already surrounded Huaili City. Ma Chao had no choice but to rush to Chencang overnight, join the three thousand main iron horsemen, and flee to Xiliang.

The Northern Frontier Army in the direction of Hedong began to attack Kansai.

The northern generals Huang Zhong, Yang Feng, and Han Xian each led a large army, and with the cooperation of Yu Dayou, launched an attack from the direction of Fenglingdu, Hongnongcheng and Maojindu at the same time.

Although the intention of the Northern Xinjiang Army's offensive this time was obvious, that is, to contain Yuan Shao's forces in order to help the Northern Xinjiang Army in the Hanoi battlefield advance rapidly, but due to the successive defeats in the Hanoi battlefield and Ma Chao's escape from Guanzhong, it is likely that he will join Han Sui's troops to invade Guanzhong in the near future, so the Guanxi battlefield suddenly became very important.

If the Northern Xinjiang Army succeeds in occupying Hongnong and cutting off the connection between Kanto and Guanzhong, and Guanzhong loses support, the situation will be critical. At the same time, the defeat in the Kansai battlefield will also lead to tensions in the Kanto region.

Yuan Shao, unable to support the Hanoi battlefield, may lose Hanoi and let the Northern Xinjiang army drink the Yellow River and directly threaten Luoyang.

On the battlefield of the Central Plains, the army of Cao Cao and Liu Bei suddenly boosted their morale and gathered heavy troops to attack Dingtao. Yuan Shu was at a disadvantage in terms of troops, and in order to avoid losses, he had to withdraw from Dingtao and defend Changyi.

If Yuan Shu withdrew from Changyi again, then Yanzhou would be recaptured by Cao Cao, and the situation in the Central Plains would be very unfavorable to the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

Now, in order to save the situation in the Central Plains and stop Cao Cao's attack, in addition to letting Yuan Zhong and Xia Zhao in the direction of Chen Liu immediately lead the army to move in the direction of Dingtao to contain Cao Cao, it depends on whether Xu You can successfully persuade Liu Biao and Liu Bei.

Fortunately, there is no endless road, and the news that Xu Yu came back made Yuan Shao breathe a sigh of relief.

When Xu You revealed the news that Yuan Shu planned to support Liu Chong as emperor, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei immediately felt the crisis that was coming.

Yuan Shu was already facing a desperate situation at this moment, he lost his advantage in force, and morally he betrayed the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, becoming a rebel who everyone was condemned for.

In order to survive, in order to change the current predicament, with his reckless character of never caring about doing things, Yuan Shu is very likely to reckless of the consequences and re-establish the emperor.

This is the only way for Yuan Shu to win back people's hearts and minds at present, avoid the rebellion of the people and their relatives, and quickly defeat, and it is also the only way to drag Yuan Shao and force Yuan Shao to join forces with him for the overall interests of Yuan Valve.

Once Yuan Shao pushed the boat down the river and recognized the imperial rule established by Yuan Shu, then the situation in the Central Plains immediately evolved into a confrontation between the Yuan brothers and Cao Cao.

After all, Liu Biao and Liu Bei are royal relatives, and when facing the two sons of heaven, they can only choose the more powerful Yuan brothers, and choose the imperial system supported by the Yuan brothers, so as to ensure the uniqueness of the Han Dynasty and the absolute majesty of the Han Dynasty. Cao Cao, who was not strong, and the imperial emperor who had no future supported by him had to be helplessly and ruthlessly abandoned.

With Cao Cao's strength, he could not compete with the union of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's brothers, and defeat was a matter of an overnight matter.

Cao Cao was caught off guard and was overwhelmed by this sudden change.

Of course, he knew that Yuan Shao's real purpose was the Son of Heaven in his hands, but the problem was that even if he sent the Son of Heaven to Luoyang now, he might not be able to keep the Central Plains.

He and Yuan Shao grew up together, and they know each other, and in Yuan Shao's eyes, they must be more difficult to deal with than Yuan Shu.

And Yuan Shu is Yuan Shao's brother, so it is reasonable for Yuan Shao to solve himself first.

In this way, if he sent the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, Yuan Shu's rebellion was likely to turn into a hero who saved the driver, but he became a rebel and was besieged by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's brothers. You may die sooner.

However, fortunately, the Northern Xinjiang Army is now attacking Hanoi, pinning down Yuan Shao's forces, which gives him a chance to save the situation.

Cao Cao decided to drag. The Northern Frontier Army was bound to win Hanoi, and as time went on, winter was coming soon, and the Northern Frontier Army's attacks would become more and more fierce. As long as Yuan Shao's main force was dragged to the battlefield in Hanoi and was unable to take care of Yuan Shu, his opportunity came. Even if Yuan Shu establishes the imperial system again, I will eat him even with the belt bones.

Liu Biao was about to return to Jingzhou, and he took the initiative to assume the responsibility of mediation. (To be continued.) )