There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

Speaking of this, Yuan Shu suddenly struck his right palm with his left fist, and said joyfully, "Cao Aman, Cao Aman, I would like to see if Bian Rang, the leader of the Yanzhou gentry, secretly turned against you, would you dare to move him or not? "

Yan Xiang smiled slowly and said: "Cao Cao does not move and gives way, and sooner or later he will unite with the Yanzhou gentry to take Cao Cao off, but if Cao Cao dares to move the leader of the Yanzhou gentry, then his good life in Yanzhou will come to an end... Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others will never support Cao Cao at that time! At that time, as long as there is a slight opportunity, Cao Cao's power in Yanzhou will be destroyed overnight under the promotion of all Yanzhou gentry!"

Yuan Shu laughed loudly, and praised: "Master is clever, this strategy of splitting up is really good!... Can you use this method to deal with the Tao family boy in Danyang County? He also took over Danyang County just like Cao Cao Not long."

Yan Xiang shook his head when he heard the words.

"Forgive me, Yuan Gong. Originally, this method was intended to be used by the subordinates on pottery merchants. However, since this son returned to Xuzhou to take over Danyang County, the subordinates have been arranging to send people to investigate his behavior, but found that this method just now , is not applicable to the potter and his father Tao Qian."

"Oh?" Yuan Shu frowned and said, "Why?"

Yan Xiang sighed, and said: "Cao Cao is eager to seek success at the moment and recruits talents widely, but the behavior of the Tao family and his son is quite satisfactory, especially the pottery merchants, the means of balancing the gentry are also quite powerful. The four major families of Xuzhou are in Pengcheng. Father Tao Qian has a balance between left and right. Although he is not aggressive, he has no omissions. Foreign gentry such as Wang Yun and Huangfusong were settled in Danyang County by pottery merchants as foreign aid. What's more surprising is that even Chen Deng, the eldest son of the Huaipu Chen family, the leader of Xuzhou gentry in the past, was taken to Jinling City by potters. They are all used just right, not lukewarm, and there is really no way for the Xuzhou gentry to murder his father and son."

Yuan Shu snorted when he heard the words, and said disdainfully: "If that's the case, we can only fight hard against Danyang County?"

Yan Xiangchang sighed, and said: "At this moment, if the general confronts Cao Cao head-on, his troops are fierce. I am afraid that the general may not be able to defeat him, so he can only use the strategy of dividing the gentry, but to deal with Tao and his son People who are tepid and have a good relationship with the gentry...but they can only fight."

Hearing this, Yuan Shu understood.

Yan Xiang said so much, but he was just trying to persuade himself not to fight Yanzhou, but to fight Yangzhou!

"What kind of play?"

Yan Xiang smiled when he heard the words, and said: "It's easy to say, first find a reason at will, capture Shouchun, get rid of Yangzhou governor Chen Wen, and make Yangzhou counties without leaders, and then urge Sun Jian's son Sun Ce to help his father's coffin return to his hometown to observe filial piety. The general can designate Sun Jian's nephew Sun Ben as governor of Yuzhou, transfer to Danyang captaincy, and use Sun Ben as the forerunner to lead Sun Jian's former soldiers and horses as the front, and our Nanyang army as the rear. Open the gateway to Yangzhou!"

Speaking of this, Yan Xiang paused again, and said: "I heard that the pottery merchants don't have a navy army. My lord can put the main force on the water battle this time, and use this as an advantage to defeat the pottery merchants in one fell swoop and occupy Jinling City. , I heard that potters have an iron mine and a salt mine under their jurisdiction, if they can get these two treasures, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others will find it difficult to fight against the Lord in the future!"

Chapter 222 Ruxuwu (Chapter 3)

The news of Yuan Shu's rejuvenation was quickly passed to Jinling City by the school affairs of the school affairs office.

At that time, it was the end of the year.

At the end of the second year of Chuping, which was also the first month of the Renshen year of the third year of Chuping, Yuan Shu recruited soldiers and horses under his command in Luyang County. Taking advantage of Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce returned to his hometown to appease his father's coffin and guard his filial piety. Sun Ben, the cousin who temporarily led Sun Ce's army in the Sun family, was appointed as the governor of Yuzhou. He took the opportunity to recruit Sun Jian's original team, plus Yuan Shu himself recruited new soldiers from Nanyang County and Runan County in recent years. To the east, go straight to Shouchun City and Jinling City.

This time, Yuan Shu dispatched people to Yanzhou according to the plan in advance, so as to provoke the local gentry and celebrities, so as to make a relationship with Cao Cao.

Before the expedition, Yuan Shu, with the help of Yan Xiang, first designed Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou who planned Shouchun.

At the same time, it also includes his unlucky brother of the same clan, Yuan Yi, the prefect of Sanyo.

Yuan Shuxian sent people to deliberately spread the news of his Eastern Expedition to Shanyang County.

Although Yuan Yi, the prefect of Shanyang, was Yuan Shu's cousin, he was close to Yuan Shao's faction. Yuan Shao had intended to make Yuan Yi the governor of Yangzhou over the years, but because of the war with Gongsun Zan, he had been stuck.

Yuan Shu, who wants to occupy Yangzhou, of course cannot let Yuan Shao and Yuan Yi's small plan succeed.

When he learned that Yuan Shu had entered the east, Yuan Yi immediately panicked. He was afraid that the land of Shouchun would be acquired by Yuan Shu, and his power would be even greater. Therefore, Xingye led his troops and rushed to Jiujiang County, hoping to support the governor of Yangzhou. Chen Wen defended against the enemy.

But who would have thought that these things were all in Yan Xiang's plan. He asked Yuan Shu to send generals Le Jiu and Li Feng to ambush Yuan Yi on the only way to Jiujiang County, annihilate Yuan Yi and his party in one fell swoop, and cut down all of them. head.

The poor brothers of the same clan ended up killing each other.

After getting rid of the thorn in Yuan Yi's side, on the other hand, Yuan Shu dispatched Ji Ling, who cooperated with Sun Ben, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others, to conquer Shouchun City in one fell swoop, and secretly executed Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou. He declared to the public that It was Yuan Yi and Chen Wen who were at odds with each other, and he came to rescue them.

To cover it up, Yuan Shu's move really made everyone blind.

But although people in the world are not blind, they can't make Chen Wenwen and Yuan Yi angry because of his affairs.

So, what to do?

Everyone had to pretend to be blind.

So far, Yuan Shu has completely occupied Nanyang County, Runan County, Yingchuan County, Jiujiang County, Lujiang County and other places, and he has completely consolidated his power on both sides of the Huainan River.

In the next step, his goal turned to Danyang County.

The battle in the southeast is imminent.

When the news reached Jinling City, the whole city was shocked.

Tao Shang was already prepared for Yuan Shu to invade him, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

In history, Yuan Shu's battle to expand his strength and invade his neighbors should actually be fought by him and Cao Cao.

Of course, the ending is that Yuan Shu was beaten to the ground by Cao Cao because of his arrogance and strategic mistakes.

But now, because of the butterfly effect, Yuan Shu's opponent in the expansion war has changed from Cao Cao to himself, and in terms of time, it seems to have come earlier than what happened in history.

The wheel of history has begun to deviate slightly.

But no matter what, the matter is already in front of us, and we have to find a way to solve it.

The soldiers came to block the water and the earth to cover it. Historically, Cao Cao could beat Yuan Shu to the ground during this period of time, and the potter felt that he could do the same.

Peeing his pants was too childish, so he decided to beat Yuan Shu out of his shit.

The pottery merchant hurriedly held an emergency military meeting to gather people to discuss how to resist Yuan Shu.

In the meeting hall, all the counselors and generals of Jinling City gathered together, quietly listening to the information Guo Jia brought back.

At this moment, Guo Jia also put away his usual laughing face, and rarely showed a serious expression.

The pottery merchant was in a daze for a while, looking at such a serious Guo Jia, he wondered if the kid drank too much last night.

Guo Jia said sternly to everyone: "Yuan Shu's army is currently stationed in Shouchun, and they are rectifying their troops and gathering their warships. The [-] army even includes the old soldiers under the command of Sun Jian, the tiger from the east of the Yangtze River. If Jinling City confronts it, even if it wins, it will probably destroy the countryside and fields of Jinling City and shake the people's livelihood, so where to defend against the enemy is the most important thing."

Hearing this, the Tao merchant immediately said: "Of course you can't fight Yuan Shu in Jinling City. Jinling City is an important town, and it is also Tao's core in Danyang County. You must definitely keep Yuan Shu out of Jinling City... Mr. Xiao, in your opinion, where should our army deploy defenses? Confront Yuan Shu?"

Guo Jia stood up from his seat, walked to the screen with Pitu in the hall, watched carefully for a long time, then suddenly pointed out, and said loudly: "If Yuan Shu comes from Shouchun, he must pass through Chaohu Lake. In this way, Ruxukou is an important place to guard the throat of his troops, but Ruxukou has no fortifications, if we fight Yuan Shu at this place, the enemy will be outnumbered, and it would be unwise."

Guo Jia's words immediately lit up a bright light in the potter's mind.

In the 17th year of Jian'an, Sun Quan moved his office to Moling, renamed Jianye, and built a stone city at Ruxukou, named Ruxuwu. There were large-scale battles with Cao Jun here, and both of these battles ended with Cao Jun's hard work and futility.

According to Guo Jia's words, he can indeed build a fortress in Ruxukou according to his method to stop the invading army from Huainan.

"How long will it take before Yuan Shu attacks Jinling City?" The potter asked Guo Jia in a deep voice.

Guo Jia counted with his fingers, and then said: "Yuan Shu's army has just occupied Huainan, and Shouchun is waiting for him to come forward to tidy up. 10 people, prepare food and fodder, and go all in one. It will take 20 days to reach Chaohu at the earliest. Between a month."

"Enough!" The potter clapped his hands lightly, and said to Chen Deng, "Yuanlong, hurry up and gather the peasants, arrange craftsmen, and build a fortress at Ruxukou to guard against Yuan Shu."

"No." Knowing that the matter was of great importance, Chen Deng hurriedly bowed to say yes, and then rushed to arrange the matter.

"Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Xu Rong, Tao Ji, rectify all the soldiers and horses in Jinling City, and go to Ruxukou to deploy defenses."

The four warriors stood up respectively, and said together, "No!"