Chapter 320: Lu Bu attacked step by step, and Yuan Shu retreated
It is said that Zhou Gongjin has a deep understanding of the opportunity, one step at a time, and his grasp of the situation alone is by no means very comparable. Just when Sun Ce, in accordance with Zhou Yu's request, would rather lower his figure, play the card of friendship and righteousness, and retreat to Xuzhou in a "timely" manner, it was finally difficult to suppress the delusions in his heart.
Perhaps it is difficult for ordinary people to understand the idea of a "very person", Yuan Shu can't even wait to turn back to his own Huainan office, in the fourth year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, in the camp outside the city of Xuzhou on November 11, openly worship heaven and earth, and the widely spread proverb "Acting for the Han Dynasty, when Tu Gao also" thought that it was a heavenly opportunity, cast a high platform from the jade seal of the country, saying that the son of heaven Liu Xie was young and thin, and was humiliated by the rebellious ministers, and there was no image of a human king, and the prestige of the Han Dynasty was empty. At present, the chaos of the Han Dynasty is frequent, the lives are devastated, the military disasters are continuous, and the hunger is everywhere, and the great drought that ravages the Central Plains is the wrath of heaven. And he, Yuan Shu, as the head of the Yuan family of the family of the fourth and third princes, couldn't bear to see the Han Li Min suffer in vain because of Liu Xie's incompetence. Then he did not think about personal labor, replaced him with great wisdom and great perseverance, extended the Han Dynasty and abolished Yan Liu, and remotely sealed Liu Xie, the son of the Han Dynasty in Xuchang, as the Duke of An Han, and established the name Zhongshi, calling himself the emperor of the Zhong family.
Yuan Shu is the emperor! But certainly didn't have time to pick a zodiac auspicious saying. Seeing that even choosing a place to enthrone and worship the heavens is perfunctory, and it seems that it is doomed to such a rebellious act, and it will be difficult to have a good end after all.
But Yuan Shu didn't have time to care about this. It's a busy time to be an emperor! Regardless of anything else, the vassals are the first priority. was intended to be used as a "bargaining chip" to befriend Yuan Shao, but Yuan Yao, who was still suffering in Qingzhou at the moment, was named the prince by Yuan Shu, and the generals Ji Ling, Li Feng, and Qiao Rui, who accompanied the "prince" to suffer, were all named high-ranking generals, and the strategists under his command were all named Jiuqing headed by Chen Ji and Yan Xiang, and the generals under his command also raised their respective positions by three or five levels, which was really "all happy". Not to mention, after such a random toss, not only did there be a large group of three princes and nine kings and generals in his own army, but also the morale of the army was slightly improved, after all, these large armies composed of displaced people from various states under his command did not know what the general trend of the world was, but he only knew that his own lord had become the emperor of the Zhong family, and his own group of people naturally became the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and he naturally couldn't starve in the future.
The noisy atmosphere in Yuan Shu's military camp lasted all night, and even someone took the lead in shouting the slogan of "Kill Xiapi, sweep Qingxu, rescue the prince, and capture Lu Bu alive", so that Yuan Shu's initial apprehension and fear of Lu Bu were also rushed away by the joy of "the heart of the army".
Affected by the higher and higher voices, Yuan Shu didn't know where the confidence came from, and he thought that Lu Bu did not attack when he ascended the throne, but was reserved, and expressed goodwill on the side, and actually decided Xuzhou's mind under the pretext of passing on the throne, and on the second day of his enthronement, he sent an "angel" to send a letter to Picheng, holding the Zhongjia holy decree stamped with the jade seal of the country, to see Lu Bu. Claiming that Yuan Shu, the emperor of the Zhong family, loved Lu Bu bravely, as long as Lu Bu could conform to the time of heaven, send out the crown prince, lead the army to give up resistance, return to "orthodoxy", and help him Yuan Shu sweep the world, at that time, not only can the official position and territory of the Han Dynasty be retained, but also will be generously gifted as the first king with a different surname in the Zhong family, hereditary replacement, and the Zhong family will live the same life.
When Lu Bu and Qin Xu saw this "holy decree", they couldn't laugh and burst their bellies. This Yuan Shu really thinks that he is the true dragon son of heaven who belongs to the destiny of heaven, and he actually plans to take a shoddy broken silk shaft to write a temporary "holy decree", a few marginal "seals", he dares to hit the idea of Qingxu Erzhou, and the white wolf with empty gloves can't play like this! And it seems that the "angel" who preached the holy decree did not even fit very well in brocade clothes, and he looked trembling, standing there with trembling legs, and he could smell a smell of urine from a distance, how to look like a child messing around. Of course, it wasn't until later that I didn't know that the Yuan Shu envoy, who won the honor of the first "angel" sent by the Emperor of the Zhong family, was so shaken that he couldn't even stand steadily, in fact, he was still afraid, mainly because he had just been castrated for the harem of Yuan Shu, the emperor of the Zhong family, and was sent out the next day to pass the decree, and the newly created knife was still bleeding, and because he couldn't control the incontinence outflow, he only used a bag of rags and grass, and he came to Xiapi, and he was able to finish the scene, which also shows that he is also a ruthless person. Even Lu Bu admired his "strong will" a little and left this person with a surname.
For Yuan Shu's move, Lu Bu had actually been waiting for a long time. Yesterday, Yuan Shu's actions had already made Lu Bu hold back for another day, and now that the handle was in hand, the righteousness was on the side, and the army that had been waiting for Lu Bu in Xiapi City for a long time, except for leaving Qin Xu in charge of 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers and nearly 20,000 Danyang soldiers who were still in training to garrison Xiapi, they almost came out of the city.
The army of Lu Bu, which has not had a decent battle in the past two years, has long held back its strength, with Lu Bu personally leading the trapping camp as the leader, Dian Wei, Song Xian leading the personal guard battalion, Lu Yi, leading the first to board the camp, Cheng Lian, Han Guang leading the flying cavalry battalion, and attacking in all directions, just like a tiger coming out of the gate, and even Hao Meng's baggage battalion has to come to join in the fun, even if it is just playing and drumming.
In just thirty miles, almost instantaneously, before Yuan Shu's army, which was still waiting for Lu Bu to surrender to the state, had not all reacted, Lu Bu's army of nearly 30,000 troops was overwhelming, and he actually committed suicide!
Fortunately, there are still a few people in Yuan Shu's army who have not been overly affected by Yuan Shu's already hot emotions, such as Ji Ling, the commander of the "Zhongjia Imperial Forest Army" who led 5,000 Yuan Shujun veterans to protect Yuan Shu in the Chinese army, and Yuan Shu was named an auxiliary general, and "Enzhun inherited" the more than 10,000 Danyang elite soldiers collected by his own son Tao Qian Xuzhou Mu and Liyang Marquis, so that Yuan Shu's 50,000 army was saved from being scattered due to the great enemy and almost being attacked by Lu Bu. The army that stormed the camp struck a blow to the doom of the battle. On one side is the rabble of the dragon who have been subordinate to the destiny of heaven, and on the other side is the army of tigers and wolves who are in charge of the righteous crusade against the rebels. As soon as the battle was engaged, it was like a group of strong young men relying on their body height and strength, bullying a few young children, there was no suspense at all, and the number of Yuan Shujun's injuries rose like a flying in just a moment, and was driven to the front to resist, and the 10,000 recruits of Yuan Shujun, who wanted to weaken the offensive of the troops, were almost wiped out, and the loss of Lu Bu's five-way army was not only damaged at the beginning of the battle with the Danyang soldiers led by the pottery merchants, but after the Danyang soldiers and the Jiling Imperial Forest Army saw that the situation was not good, they protected Yuan Shu and fought and left. The casualties against the Yuan Shu recruits were almost negligible. The first battle was fought until it was getting late, forcing Yuan Shu's army to retreat one after another, and finally retreated for nearly fifty miles, and the soldiers were tired before they could collect their troops and wait for battle.
With such a fierce fight, the Quartet forces will naturally not be without news. Cao **, who was actively preparing for the war to resist Yuan Tan, ordered to hold on to the whole line, gathered troops and sent troops to Xuchang to attack Yuzhou, in order to respond to the righteous actions of the "ally" Lu Bujun, and issued a document to order the world's heroes to conquest Yuan Shu, and in the name of the Han Emperor Liu Xie, issued an edict to "reward" the hussar generals, the special entry of the great Sima, the Qingzhou pastor, and the loyal deeds of Wen Hou Lu Bu.
Once cooperated with Cao ** to drive Yuan Shu away from Nanyang, and then even the Xiliang soldiers gathered troops in Wancheng, and put the army at the door of the house, and Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, who had been guarding the door and not participating in the princes' discord, also rarely responded at the first time, and sent the generals Huang Zu and Wen Ping to send troops from Jiangling, and peeped at the already hollow Yuan Shu's base camp Lujiang across the river.
It is no wonder that Liu Biao has such "courage", just when the news of Yuan Shu's proclamation as emperor came, he was driven out of Chang'an by the four coalition forces before, and escaped to Wancheng by luck.
Even Sun Ce, who had just avoided Xuzhou's circle of right and wrong and returned to Jiangdong, also drew a clear line with Yuan Shu, and reached a "reconciliation" with Qu A Liu Xuan, who was still attacking before, at the first time, and used a rather "surprised" and "regretful" tone to send a letter of admonition to spread to the world, "admonishing" the old boss Yuan Shu to quickly get lost and know his way back, don't make mistakes, don't try to do things against the sky according to the artifact, if you repent, it is not that there is no way out, and you are still a good comrade of the Han Dynasty.
In the face of the sudden condemnation from all sides, Lu Bu's army has almost returned to Huainan from the border of Xiapi County, and he is still a wolf surnamed in the eyes of the world before Lu Bu, who does not know the righteousness, and it is not surprising that there is such a temporary profit, as long as he has the jade seal of the country in hand, the world will still be followed, and soon he will join the army from all walks of life, and in one fell swoop to destroy Lu Bu's dream of Yuan Shu, he will be numb.
In Yuan Shu's thoughts, Cao ** and Liu Biao have become mortal enemies because of the previous incident, and in response to Lu Bu's words, they are just ignorant of the time, and with the help of Emperor Yuan's Emperor Yuan, and the help of the world's "knowledgeable heroes", sooner or later they will inevitably embark on the same fate of defeat as Lu Bu. What Yuan Shu couldn't figure out was that Li Dao, Guo Yan, the two thieves and Sun Ce were so ignorant of righteousness? These two parties, one is the father and son, both generations are "old departments", and they have always been "loyal", serving their lives on the way to the rise of Yuan Shu; After the defeat of the party, it has been secretly funded, and even the weapons and armor that attacked Xuzhou this time are its "good friends", how can they make such an unrighteous move that the wall is pushed down by everyone?
In the face of this neighborly enemy, and the menacing situation, Yuan Shu is also a person who has fought with Yuan Shao for decades for the head of the Yuan family, plus after all, there is a jade seal that represents the orthodoxy of the world in hand, even if it is at an absolute disadvantage, there are tens of thousands of people including Danyang elite soldiers, and the generals Ji Ling and Li Feng are all at the loss. More than ten days will kill their own troops only three or four, but in the case of defeat and retreat, relying on the strong merit of survival, after the army of Ben Lu Bu attacked and advanced, forced to retreat to Huainan, after all, there was a "good name" to collect the displaced people, but according to the advantages of the location and people, under the "brave" survival of the remaining troops, it was finally able to resist the army of Lu Bu because the battle line was too long, and the offensive was slowing down...... (To be continued.) )