Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 738 Yuan Shao's Southward Layout
Yuan Shao, as an outstanding generation of the Yuan family, should have known everything the Yuan family planned, so he naturally had ambitions in his heart.

Especially after Yuan Shu's death, Yuan Shao became the last person the Yuan family could rely on, and naturally became the target of the Yuan family's full support, so Yuan Shao's goal was naturally to replace Han as the emperor.

Perhaps this is also the inner obsession of Yuan Shao's unwillingness to welcome the emperor at first. He is a person who wants to be an emperor on his own.

It was only later that Yuan Shao regretted it. It turned out that coercing the emperor to order the world was such a meaningful means, but it was too late to regret.

However, Cao Cao previously lied to Yuan Shao that he was willing to send the emperor to Yecheng, which made Yuan Shao really tempted, but when Yuan Shao found out that he was fooled by Cao Cao, he was naturally annoyed.

Therefore, Yuan Shao was angry at Cao Cao's flickering, and he just sent Yan Liang and Wen Chou to express the so-called joint attack on Zhu Wei. In fact, he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

However, Yuan Shao is still a hero who wants to win the world after all, so he will naturally consider the changes in the state of the world.

With the procrastination of the war at Hulao Pass in Luoyang, changes in the public opinion of the people in the world, and Ju Shou's continuous letters to Yuan Shao, hoping that Yuan Shao can lead his troops to the south, Yuan Shao is still interested in the counselor's persuasion. What Ju Shou said made sense after all.

On the other side of Yecheng, Yuan Shao's military advisers, such as Tian Feng, Shen Pei, Guo Tu, Xun Chen, Feng Ji, Xin Pi, Xu You, etc., although there were small conflicts among them in competing for favor in front of Yuan Shao, they were still the same after all. I hope Yuan Shao can win the world, so they can naturally give Yuan Shao some correct suggestions according to the situation.

Although everyone expressed their opinions, it would make it difficult for Yuan Shao, who was already somewhat indecisive, to make a choice, but now the general meaning of the people is still the same, and the current situation can no longer allow Yuan Shao to continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

As far as the changing situation in the world is concerned, Cao Cao is absolutely no match for Zhu Wei, but once Cao Cao is solved by Zhu Wei, then Zhu Wei will own two-thirds of the world. Even if Yuan Shao occupies the four northern states, I am afraid it will change. Got weak.

So now it is really urgent to unite with Cao Cao to eliminate Zhu Wei, at least to weaken Zhu Wei's strength, and Zhu Wei cannot continue to develop like this.

In this way, Yuan Shao did have some intentions to go south, but he still needed a step so that he could hold his face.

After all, he was fooled by Cao Cao into joining the coalition army before, and for this reason he purposely took soy sauce as if to retaliate, but now he is asked to change his mind and go south with all his strength, so he just let Cao Cao fool him and ignore it? .

Therefore, even if Ju Shou sent a message saying that General Wen Chou was killed by Zhu Wei's General Pang Yan in front of the battle line, it would not be enough for Yuan Shao to mobilize his troops.

But I didn't expect Cao Cao to take the initiative to admit that he really wanted to move the emperor out of Xudu. Although he didn't move to Yecheng immediately, even if he moved to Juancheng, this step that allowed Yuan Shao to step down was finally It's enough to save face.

So when Zhu Wei's Guanzhong and Yizhou battles were almost over, Yuan Shao also officially sent his troops south. This time he was no longer here to fight for soy sauce, but a real army of tens of thousands.

However, Yuan Shao still did not plan to join Cao Cao's army in front of Hulao Pass. According to what Yuan Shao told Cao Cao, since the two armies joined forces to attack Zhu Wei, there was no need to gather troops in one place, and let Zhu Wei only need to guard the tiger. The prison can stop the coalition forces.

Therefore, Yuan Shao will focus on the natural dangers of the Yellow River on the side of Mengjin Pass and Xiaoping Jin Pass. In this way, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will attack Zhu Wei in two places, so that Zhu Wei can take care of one and lose the other. Zhu Wei's defensive force.

Yuan Shao also said to Cao Cao that everyone can compare who can break through the checkpoints guarded by Zhu Weijun first, and who can reach Luoyang first.

Just judging from this arrangement, the Hulao Pass that Cao Cao is going to attack now is obviously more difficult than the Mengjin Yellow River Ferry that Yuan Shao is attacking, but this matter cannot be opposed by Cao Cao. For Cao Cao, Yuan Shao can send a large number of troops this time. demand.

Ever since, a great battle that will determine the fate of the world will finally break out in Luoyang, and will eventually determine the direction of the struggle for hegemony in the world.

Of course, Zhu Wei also received the news of Yuan Shao's dispatch of troops at the first time, which also somewhat disrupted Zhu Wei's original military strategic arrangements, such as Wei Yan, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Pound, Jiang Wan, Chen Qun, etc. The people led the Jingnan Camp and Huyi Camp to attack Shangdang County, and then detoured to the north bank of the Yellow River in Hanoi to encircle and annihilate Yuan Shao's army under Yan Liang's troops. With Yuan Shao personally leading troops to kill them, it was not very easy to implement.

Now Jingnan Battalion and Huyi Battalion can only be regarded as a partial army that can harass Yuan Shao's army, but it is not so easy to use them to attack and destroy the main force of Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops.

At the same time, the problem was not so simple. Yuan Shao also ordered his nephew Gao Gan, who is now the governor of Bingzhou, to send troops from Taiyuan County of Bingzhou to attack Guanzhong.

In this way, there are at least 1 troops on Gaogan's side, and [-] to [-] Huns cavalry from the Southern Xiongnu's side, which means that Yuan Shao's side and Zhu Wei have the same idea and plan to use troops in Bingzhou.

Now if Zhu Wei does not allow the Jingnan Camp and Huyi Camp to return to aid, Zhu Wei does not know whether Ma Teng's Fubo Camp is capable of resisting the invasion of Yuan Jun and the Southern Huns cavalry led by Gao Gan.

Therefore, Zhu Wei may still need to send the Huyi battalion back to support Ma Teng's Fubo battalion, or directly let the Jingnan battalion and the Huyi battalion face the Yuan Shao army led by Gao Gan in Bingzhou, and then defeat the Southern Huns The cavalry's invasion made it difficult to participate in the battle on Luoyang's side.

In addition, Yuan Shao also made moves in Xuzhou. Yuan Tan, who originally helped Yuan Shao sit in Qingzhou, also led nearly [-] Yuan troops, together with Zang Ba and Liu Bei from Taishan County and Langya County in Xuzhou, launched an attack on Xuzhou.

In fact, Yuan Shao did this to help Cao Cao eliminate the threat behind him. Once Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei went out to the army, the Taishi Mercy Archery Battalion stationed in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, naturally had no choice but to gather their troops to fight, so Taishi Ci also had no way to attack Gunzhou.

At the same time, since there was a war on Taishici's side, Huang Zhong, who is located in Shouchun, may also need to lead troops to support Taishici. It can be said that Yuan Shao's use of troops in Xuzhou also helped Cao Cao resolve some of the problems on Taishici and Huang Zhong's side. threaten.

Therefore, Yuan Shao's large-scale southward move really made Zhu Wei's original good situation suddenly blocked everywhere, at least the troops on the periphery of Bingzhou and Xuzhou couldn't help Zhu Wei's battle in Luoyang for the time being.

Zhu Wei could only rely on his troops in Luoyang to face the siege of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's armies respectively, and indeed he could only divide his troops to fight.

Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's 5000-strong Xiongba Battalion, which originally guarded Mengjin and Xiaopingjin on the Yellow River, was definitely not enough to face Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops.

Now it seems that Zhu Wei can only send more troops to the Yellow River to face Yuan Shao's army going south.

Thanks to Zhu Wei's timely transfer of [-] Dongzhou troops from Yizhou, otherwise Zhu Wei's troops in Luoyang would have been stretched...

(End of this chapter)