Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 579
Yuan Shu's withdrawal from Chen Guo actually had his own little plan. On the one hand, Yuan Shu didn't want to fight Cao Cao head-on.

Although he gained a lot of benefits in Chen Guo, he really had no intention of attacking Xu Du, so he thought that if he withdrew his troops from Chen Guo, maybe Cao Cao would take advantage of the trend and stop the war.

On the other hand, Yuan Shu was also worried that his retreat would be cut off by Lu Bu and Liu Bei.

After all, the two of them sent troops from Xuzhou, which happened to be able to directly attack Qi County, Yuan Shu's important town in Huaibei. This was also the only way for Yuan Shu to retreat to Shouchun, his old nest in Huainan.

Therefore, Yuan Shu just retreated immediately with the food, grass and money obtained by Chen Guo, and then sent Qiao Rui and Zhang Xun with [-] troops to stop Cao Cao's army in Kuxian County.

Of course, Yuan Shu may also have a plan in mind. As long as Cao Cao is blocked by him in Ku County, he can first deal with Lu Bu and Liu Bei's troops in Q County.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu's calculations came to nothing. First of all, Cao Cao didn't stop fighting because he withdrew from Chen State, but the army stormed Ku County. The city of Ku County was ordinary. After staying for a day, they withdrew their troops to Qi County.

So when Zhu Wei captured Lujiang County, the three armies of Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei had already converged on Qi County and were preparing to attack Qi County.

According to the military intelligence information Zhu Wei has now obtained, the three armies of Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei have joined together and have surrounded Yuan Shu's important town in Huaibei, Qi County.

As for Yuan Shu, he left four generals, Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Le Jiu, and Liang Gang, with [-] troops to garrison Qi County, while he himself returned to his hometown in Huainan with generals Ji Ling, Zhang Xun and other confidant generals. Shouchun.

It's just that Yuan Shu heard that Zhu Wei had captured Lujiang County and marched towards Hefei. Naturally, he stepped up his defenses on Shouchun's side and brought back the troops scattered on the front lines of Quyang, Yinling, and Zhongli to Shouchun. .

It can be said that Yuan Shu has gathered about 15 troops in Shouchun at this moment, and it seems that he wants to stick to his old camp.

However, Zhu Wei was not in a hurry to attack Shouchun, because Zhu Wei remembered that in history, the three armies of Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei should have easily captured Qixian County, and then went to attack Shouchun, which scared Yuan Shu to throw Shouchun again. He left his subordinates to defend, while he himself fled to Runan County, Yuzhou.

In the end, after Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei really finished fighting Shouchun, they lost the capital to pursue Yuan Shu. After looting Shouchun City, they withdrew their troops, and Yuan Shu returned to Shouchun after that, lingering for the last period of time .

But now Shouchun has more than [-] Yuan Shu's troops stationed, Zhu Wei is not willing to gnaw this tough bone by himself, he wants to wait for Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Liu Bei to fight to Huainan.

As for Yuan Shu, if he still flees for his life in Runan County, Yuzhou, he might bump into the Liangqi battalion commanded by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, who were sent by Zhu Wei to Runan County, Yuzhou. It's a miracle.

To be honest, Zhu Wei can be regarded as "admiring" this Yuan Shu who dared to disobey and proclaim himself emperor. Everything he did was really irresponsible. When encountering problems, he only knew to run away first and leave some subordinates to help him deal with it. It's a mess, and there is no sense of responsibility.

That being the case, why did he proclaim himself emperor in the first place?
Of course, now that Zhu Wei knew about the changes in the battle situation, he naturally made his own strategy accordingly.

The first step is to capture Hefei County.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army can be based in Hefei County in Jiujiang County, and then wait for Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei to arrive in Shouchun together before besieging Yuan Shu's lair.

Hefei County was the provincial capital in later generations, but now it is just a medium-sized county in Jiujiang County.

Hefei is named after both the East Fei River and the South Fei River originated from this place. The so-called Hefei actually means the confluence of the two Fei Rivers in the East and South. At the same time, the place where the two rivers meet is Xiaoyaojin. The infantry counterattacked Sun Quan, and the Battle of Xiaoyaojin, which finally shocked Sun Quan, took place here.

Going further back, the famous Battle of Feishui in history also took place here. The Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated more than [-] former Qin troops with only [-] troops, which enabled the continuation and development of the Central Plains culture of the Han people living in the south. The battle of water preserved the core inheritance of Chinese culture.

The Nanfei River here finally flows into the Yangtze River, while the Dongfei River flows into the Huai River. These two rivers of life in Huaiyou also gave birth to Hefei and Shouchun, two counties with a population of several 10.

It's just that now Yuan Shu takes Shouchun as his capital, strengthens the city of Shouchun, and builds palaces in it. Naturally, Shouchun has become the core of Jiujiang County and the most densely populated place in Huainan.

As for the population of Hefei is actually not very large, the population has basically been relocated to Shouchun to enrich Yuan Shu's imperial capital, so now Hefei can be regarded as a medium-sized commercial center just like Chaisang, relying on the location where the rivers and rivers meet. county seat.

Of course, Hefei can also be regarded as the outer gateway to Shouchun from south to north.

Now Yuan Shu's garrison generals in Hefei are Lei Bo and Chen Lan, and the troops that can be allocated to them are no more than ten thousand. In addition, they are asked to recruit young and strong civilians to guard Hefei City.

Obviously Yuan Shu didn't think that Lei Bo and Chen Lan could defend Hefei, but only hoped that they could stop Zhu Wei's army from advancing in Hefei so that he could have more time to prepare for defense in Shouchun.

To everyone's surprise, just after Zhu Weishuai's army entered Jiujiang County, and then joined Huang Zhong's Jiangdong Camp and Tai Shici's Shenjian Camp, and made the intention to besiege Hefei, the troops originally stationed in Hefei Lei Bo and Chen Lan took the initiative to present a letter of surrender to Zhu Wei.

It turned out that Lei Bo and Chen Lan had already had some dissatisfaction with Yuan Shu. In the original history, when Yuan Shu was exposed, they directly carried a batch of food and went up the mountain to become bandits.

Later, Yuan Shu was so desperate that he had no choice but to seek refuge with the two of them, but they refused to accept Yuan Shu at all, which is why Yuan Shu finally vomited blood and died.

Now although Yuan Shu still maintains his airs and has not reached the most desolate state, but because of Yuan Shu's extravagance and waste, coupled with the status of Yuan's son-in-law, he doesn't care about the life and death of ordinary people and soldiers at all. Signs of dilapidation.

At the end of last year, that is, in the winter of 197 A.D., a severe drought broke out in the Jianghuai area as in the original history, which triggered a local famine, and even tore away Yuan Shu's pretense. Perhaps this It was also one of the reasons why Yuan Shu had to go to Chen Guo to fight the autumn wind.

However, although Yuan Shu gained a lot from Chen Guo, before these spoils were moved back to Huainan, they were already besieged by the four families of Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei.

In this way, in Yuan Shu's hometown of Huainan, not only the common people had a difficult life, but they could only starve to death or flee their hometowns in search of food in order to survive under the famine.

Under such circumstances, Lei Bo and Chen Lan also had no intention of guarding Hefei for Yuan Shu, so they simply prepared to surrender and change the master...

(End of this chapter)