Chapter 131 Should we send troops to help Gongsun Zan

Yuan Shao was furious after reading the letter. He slammed the table and said: "Huh, Gongsun, you actually want Liu Bei to send troops to attack me. What are they talking about? Everything agreed with me will be as agreed before. I look forward to good news."

What happened? What did they agree on? It seems that Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan have been in contact for a long time. The last letter was clearly written by Gongsun Zan. Fortunately, I believed that he had no wrong intentions. I didn’t expect that Liu Daer was such a good pretender!"
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The counselors are circulating letters.

Guo Tu said: "Fortunately, the eldest son did not bring troops to help, and stayed in Qingzhou."

Yuan Shao did not let Yuan Tan lead troops to jointly attack Gongsun Zan, but asked him to stay in Qingzhou.

"Yes, judging from the meaning of this letter, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei have been in contact for a long time, and they have set up a conspiracy to capture Jizhou and Qingzhou. General Ming should ask Yuan Qingzhou to immediately send troops to attack Liu Bei," Feng Ji continued.

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"General, Liu Bei now has nearly 10,000 troops in the two counties, and Yuan Qingzhou only has 15,000 troops. I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat Liu Bei. Should we divide 10,000 troops to go to Qingzhou to help him?" Jushou suggested.
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They only counted the troops and horses in Liu Bei's camp, and did not include the troops and horses kept in the military garrison. Therefore, they believed that Liu Bei only had 10,000 troops and horses. In fact, Liu Bei now had 15,000 troops and horses, the same as Yuan Tan.

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"No need," Shen Pei said urgently, "Although Liu Bei has nearly 10,000 troops, more than half of them are new soldiers. Yuan Qingzhou has 15,000 soldiers, which is more than enough to deal with Liu Bei. Moreover, Gongsun Zan has already attacked the Black Mountain bandit Zhang Yan

Call for help, if the Black Mountain bandits arrive, we will need to leave more troops here to be able to defeat them!"

"General, I think the eldest son will be able to defeat Liu Bei!"

Guo Tu also hoped that Yuan Tan's troops and horses could defeat Liu Bei, which would better demonstrate his ability.

If 10,000 people are sent to help, the victory will be due to the reinforcements, not Yuan Tan.

Yuan Shao was a little relieved. It was rare that this time everyone no longer argued and had a unified opinion.

I also thought that what they said was reasonable. It is said that Gongsun Zan has sent his son Gongsun Xu to ask for help from the Black Mountain bandit Zhang Yan. There are many Black Mountain bandits. If he comes to help, he will face a pincer attack from both inside and outside. It is really not appropriate to divide his troops at this time.

With Yuan Tan's troops and horses, it seems not difficult to defeat Liu Bei. When his eldest son first arrived in Qingzhou, he forced Kong Rong to surrender the state without a single blow. This time, he will definitely have no problem dealing with Liu Bei.

"Okay, then let Xiansi lead his troops to attack Liu Bei personally."

Yuan Shao immediately sent people to the Qingzhou Plain and ordered Yuan Tan to personally lead all the troops to attack Liu Bei.

Yuan Tan received his father's order and was gathering troops, horses and supplies. He had not yet sent out troops. However, when he was secretly in Beihai, Liu Bei had already received people sent by Gongsun Zan.

Gongsun Zan had heard about "him" writing a letter to Liu Bei before. Now he was facing the siege of Yuan Shao's 60,000 troops. He thought of Liu Bei in desperation, so he sent people to Beihai to ask Liu Bei for help.

At the same time, he remembered the last time the messenger was stopped, so he deliberately wrote another letter, and also deliberately let the messenger be stopped by Yuan Shao's scouts and read the letter.

Doing this will allow Yuan Shao's people to relax their vigilance and help the people sent to Beihai escape. At the same time, it will allow Yuan Shao to send troops to attack Liu Bei and force Liu Xuande onto his pirate ship.

"My brother Xuande is surrounded by Yuan's troops and is in danger. If I raise troops to attack the plains, divide Yuan's troops, and relieve the siege of Yijing, I can give him 300,000 dan of food to help him capture Qingzhou..."

Liu Bei finished reading the letter and handed it to Zhou Xing.

Zhou Xing read it carefully and passed the letter to Jian Yong and Sun Qian.

"General Liu, Yuan Shao is besieging the city very urgently. General, please send troops quickly to attack the plains. In this way, Yuan Shao will send troops to rescue, and the siege of Yijing can be lifted." The visitor advised.

Liu Bei didn't answer, he was thinking in his mind.

I wonder if Gongsun Zan is worth saving.

Gongsun Zan did help him once, but he killed Liu Yu, the shepherd of Youzhou, which greatly lost the support of the people. It was precisely because of this that he left resolutely and stayed in Xuzhou.

Now, he has not developed into a powerful force. He has few soldiers and horses, and insufficient food and grass. He has not broken with the Yuan family. If he openly becomes an enemy of the Yuan family for Gongsun Zan, if Gongsun is defeated, he will not be able to stay in Qingzhou any longer. .

But if he doesn't help Gongsun Zan and once Gongsun is destroyed, Yuan Shao can concentrate on himself. If there is any trouble, it will be even more difficult for him to resist when Yuan's army arrives.

Liu Bei hesitated and looked at military advisor Zhou Xing.

Zhou Xing is also thinking carefully at this moment.

He knew that at present, Gongsun Zan was very likely to have his letter intercepted by Yuan Shao as in history, and then Yuan Shao set up an ambush and raised fire as scheduled to lure Gongsun Zan's troops out of the city and defeat Gongsun Zan.

The destruction of Gongsun Zan would actually be of no benefit to Liu Bei, and would even increase the threat.

Keeping Gongsun Zan can attract Yuan Shao and prevent him from focusing on Liu Bei.

But it is not easy to save Gongsun Zan now. Liu Bei only has more than 10,000 troops, and Yuan Tan has left his troops in the plain. Even if he sends troops to attack the plain, it will be difficult for Yuan Shao to divide his troops. The siege of Yijing is equally difficult to solve.

Just like Liu Bei thought, Zhou Xing was also worried that if he sent troops to openly oppose the Yuan family, once Gongsun Zan was destroyed, the Yuan family's troops would definitely come to Beihai, and his efforts in the past few years would be in vain.

Zhou Xing noticed the way Liu Bei looked at him, thought for a moment, and said to the person sent by Gongsun Zan: "You go down and rest first, and we will make a decision after discussing it."

The visitor looked very anxious: "General Liu, General Gongsun and General Liu had a friendship in the past, and they had the kindness to help them later. General Liu can't help but die!"

The people sent by Gongsun Zan understood the relationship between the two and deliberately mentioned that when Liu Bei had nowhere to go, it was Gongsun Zan who took him in and made him the Prime Minister of Pingyuan, which was considered a kindness.

I also know that Liu Bei is a person who values ​​friendship and loyalty. Although Liu Bei is disgusted with Gongsun Zan because of Liu Yu's incident. But it has been so long and now it is a time of life and death. I hope that the other party can remember his kindness and help Gongsun Zan. .

Liu Bei's face darkened, he waved his hand and said: "You go down and rest first."

The visitor had no choice but to say goodbye and go out, leaving Liu Bei, Zhou Xing and others to discuss.

"Master Zhou, should we send troops to help Gongsun?"

Liu Bei hadn't asked yet, but Jian Yong couldn't help but ask first.

Zhou Xing glanced at Liu Bei and saw the anticipation in his eyes. Sun Qian, Zhang Fei, Tai Shici and others were also waiting for his answer.

In the current situation, many people have thought that they are in a dilemma of whether to help or not.

"Commander Zhou, I believe you have a way. My eldest brother and I hate Gongsun Zan and we hate Yuan Shao as well. Just tell me what you should do. My eldest brother and I will definitely listen to you."

Zhang Fei saw Zhou Xing hesitate to speak, and saw the worried look on Liu Bei's face, so he shouted.

Zhou Xing nodded, looked at Liu Bei and said: "My lord, looking at it now, we must help Gongsun Bogui."

"How can we help?"
Chapter completed!