Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 742 The Situation Is Still This Situation

Considering the necessity of an alliance with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao naturally couldn't tear himself apart for Hanoi County and Yuan Shao.

In this way, as the coalition forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were established, even though Cao Cao was somewhat concerned about the ownership of Hanoi County, he could not directly send troops to seize it, so Hanoi County completely became the territory under Yuan Shao's control.

This is also why Yuan Shao could send Yan Liang as the vanguard to march directly through Hanoi County to the north bank of the Yellow River, marching on his own territory, of course there is no need to worry about anything.

But now, with the news of Yidai Zhao and Han Xiandi's suicide coming from Xu Du, Yuan Shao's army entered Hanoi County not long ago, Yuan Shao unavoidably stopped the army unexpectedly, and Tian Feng, Xu You, and Judgment were all around him. The military counselors and others discussed the situation and the necessary countermeasures.

Should we continue to join forces with Cao Cao to attack Zhu Wei?

At this time, Yuan Shao should probably go back to the army directly, and then find a child of the Liu family in Yecheng to support him as the new emperor, so as to slowly plot the overall situation of the world's hegemony.

But the problem is that Yuan Shao is still afraid of Zhu Wei's growing power.

After all, creating a new emperor is just a prestige in name, but with the current development of the world situation, actual military strength needs to be considered, and the world still needs to be conquered.

For Yuan Shao, this is indeed the best time to unite with Cao Cao to weaken Zhu Wei. If Yuan Shao withdraws his troops now, then Zhu Wei will definitely do his best to attack Cao Cao.

It can be said that Zhu Wei already has the best excuse to attack Cao Cao, and he has enough strength to defeat Cao Cao.

But for Yuan Shao, if Zhu Wei's strength grows stronger, even if he separates the four northern states, he will gradually become a disadvantage, and eventually he will not be able to compete with Zhu Wei who occupies the Central Plains and the South.

So as far as the situation in the world is concerned, Yuan Shao should still ignore the issue of the new emperor, first join forces with Cao Cao to weaken Zhu Wei, and then take advantage of the situation to eliminate or force Cao Cao to surrender.

Then Yuan Shao will be able to take advantage of the general situation of the four northern states and the Central Plains, and become the strongest overlord in the world.

At that time, Yuan Shao might not even have to think about supporting a new emperor. He could completely establish himself as emperor like Yuan Shu and directly create his own world.

As far as this point is concerned, Yuan Shao and Zhu Wei actually have similar considerations. Both of them have sufficient military strength, and in fact, they don't want to get a puppet emperor to come out to frighten them for the time being.

As long as there is any good result in this Luoyang battle, Zhu Wei and Yuan Shao don't need to play any vain rituals of abdication at all, and can directly establish a country and a dynasty.

After thinking about it for a while, Yuan Shao first sent an envoy to Cao Cao's side, expressed some comfort to Cao Cao, and also mourned Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, it shows Yuan Shao's attitude. Yuan Shao believes that Cao Cao did not hold the emperor hostage or threaten the emperor. The death of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was entirely caused by Dong Cheng and other rebellious officials and traitors. The clothing edict and the like are not worthy of trust. It was entirely Dong's fault. Accept the false things they created by conspiring to rebel.

So Yuan Shao said that he was willing to support Cao Cao to continue to stabilize the court, but because of the current situation, everything can wait until everyone has defeated Zhu Wei before considering how to appoint a new king, how to arrange the new capital and so on.

It can be said that at this moment, in order to allow Cao Cao to come back with peace of mind and join forces to attack Zhu Wei, Yuan Shao also helped Cao Cao guarantee his reputation, so that Cao Cao would not be charged with the crime of killing the king.

As for how Yuan Shao will find Cao Cao to settle accounts after defeating Zhu Wei, that is of course a later story. Anyway, Yuan Shao can also take advantage of the trend to push Cao Cao. If Cao Cao sincerely obeys Yuan Shao, it will naturally speed up the unification of the world. Speed ​​up.

Cao Cao was also a little worried about what to do in Xudu, but Yuan Shao's ventilation made Cao Cao feel relieved. Anyway, Cao Cao could at least overcome the current difficulties.

With Yuan Shao's support, Cao Cao's voice of denying that he killed Han Xiandi became more firm.

Of course, Cao Cao also thought of Yuan Shao's careful thinking, but that's the next thing. Maybe when Yuan Shao and Zhu Wei fight, both losers, then Cao Cao can pick the final fruit by picking millet out of the fire.

So on the one hand, Cao Cao continued to instruct Xun Yu and Man Chong to thoroughly investigate the case of the murder of the emperor in Xudu. The son of heaven, blamed Cao Cao, thus achieving Zhu Wei's intention to proclaim himself emperor.

Anyway, Cao Cao just wanted to blame Zhu Wei for the death of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, so he could continue to fight the war of words to restore Cao Cao's reputation.

On the other hand, Cao Cao returned to the military camp outside Hulao Pass again, and was really preparing to launch a strong attack on Hulao Pass.

As long as Xu Du makes a crime here, Cao Cao can immediately set up a whole army to wear filial piety and attack Zhu Wei in the name of revenge for the emperor. Anyway, Cao Cao will not be charged with murdering the emperor. He must push the crime to Zhu Wei. guard.

And once Zhu Wei is defeated by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, all charges will naturally be deducted, and the winner is the writer of history.

It has to be said that this time Cao Cao actually found the right owner in a crooked manner, but it was not so easy for him to find evidence, but in political matters, why does he need evidence, as long as he can have an argument, it is enough.

As for Yuan Shao, after reaching an agreement with Cao Cao, he continued to move his troops south, and soon built a camp on the north bank of the Yellow River, and launched an offensive against Luoyang on the south bank of the Yellow River.

It can be said that the Yidaizhao incident and the death of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty only delayed Zhu Wei for some time and brought Zhu Wei a name that could fight back against Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, but in fact it did not affect Luoyang. situation.

At this time, Zhu Wei had also sent most of the troops who had stayed in Luoyang to set up camp on the south bank of the Yellow River, and built a defense line with the help of the natural dangers of the Yellow River. channel.

It's like Zhu Weijun used the Yellow River to make a moat, making the bridges above the two ferry crossings a battle channel over the Yellow River.

Of course, at the Yellow River Defense Camp, Zhu Wei also served as the general in person, but the specific battle arrangements were left to Jia Xu and Liu Ye to analyze and make decisions, and Zhu Wei only needed to make the final order.

At this time, the four generals Zhang Ren, Huang Quan, Wu Lan, and Lei Tong transferred from Yizhou, as well as [-] Dongzhou troops had also arrived in Luoyang.

Along with them, Wang Yuyan also sent a large amount of logistics supplies from the base camp behind Xiangyang to Zhu Wei's front line in Luoyang. Among them, food and grass came second, and the main ones were various defensive and offensive equipment, feather arrows, and kerosene. War consumables and so on.

Naturally, Wang Yuyan was also worried about the safety of Zhu Wei's frontline battle, but she was still in a state of postpartum weakness. Under Zhu Wei's comfort, she finally did not go to the front line of Luoyang to assist Zhu Wei in the battle.

But Wang Yuyan also sent her military analysis and suggestions along with her. Many of the suggestions and plans were directly drawn on the map, or placed directly on the sand table, so that Zhu Wei could see clearly at a glance.

Zhu Wei could feel Wang Yuyan's worry. To be honest, it would be a lie for Zhu Wei to say that he was not worried at all.

Now many times Zhu Wei just pretends to be calm and deliberately assumes a confident posture so that the morale of the army can be stabilized...

(End of this chapter)