Chapter 115 The fourth year of Jian'an, the eve of Guandu
Lü Bu, the leader, and Lu Prime Minister Zhang Liao surrendered. Then Zang Ba, Wu Dun, Yin Li, Sun Guan and other Taishan bandits who had previously respected Lü Bu's orders also surrendered and defected to Cao Cao.
The rest of Chen Gong, Gao Shun and others were killed by Cao Cao with great regret because they were unwilling to surrender. From then on, Xuzhou was at peace.
In the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, at the beginning of 199 AD, Cao Cao returned to the court with his troops and rewarded him for his merits. He named Liu Bei the general of the left. The other Xia Houdun, Yu Jin, Xu Huang, Xu Chu and others were also awarded the title. After winning Xuzhou, Cao Cao's power increased greatly.
, Yuan Shu is the only one left in Henan.
But Yuan Shu's life was not easy either. He made several attacks on Xuzhou, but was defeated by Liu Bei and Lu Bu. He also lost several battles with Cao Cao, which led to a great reduction in the strength of the army. In addition, Huainan suffered from drought and famine for many years, and the situation was over.
From the second year of Jian'an, that is, at the beginning of 197 AD, when he first ascended the throne as emperor, he reached the peak of his career, but then started to slide down like a roller coaster, and it was still the kind of slide all the way to the bottom.
First, droughts and famines took turns, and then his generals defected one after another, first Sun Ce, then Chen Lan, Lei Bo, Liu Xun, etc., causing his power to fall apart.
By February of the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu had almost killed himself. There were not many troops around him, and the people's hearts were almost scattered.
Shouchun couldn't stay any longer. Yuan Shu wanted to defect to the rebel generals Chen Lan and Lei Bo, but was rejected by them. In the end, he could only lose face and hand over the imperial title to Yuan Shao, hoping to defect to the brother he had despised since childhood.
At that time, Yuan Shao had already pacified Gongsun Zan and occupied the four regions of Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou. He had a population of nearly ten million, more than two to three hundred thousand men in armor, abundant soldiers, well-trained soldiers, clouds of counselors, and fierce generals like rain.
It has become the most prosperous state in the world.
Seeing that his younger brother had surrendered, Yuan Shao did not refuse and agreed to his request to join him.
But in June, Cao Cao sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to Xiapi to intercept Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu could not pass and soon died of illness.
At this time in Xuchang, because Cao Cao occupied the entire Henan, including Xuzhou and other places, his power became more and more powerful, and he became more and more domineering towards the emperor. He had slowly replaced the palace guards with his own men, and treated the emperor as well.
Not so respectful.
These circumstances made Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty Liu Xie increasingly dissatisfied, so in the middle of the year he issued a clothing edict and handed it over to his uncle Dong Cheng, asking him to find people with whom he could unite to resist Cao Cao.
Dong Cheng summoned Liu Bei, Wang Fu, Zhong Ji and others to prepare for a secret deal with Cao Cao.
At that time, Cao Cao had not sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to intercept Yuan Shu. After Liu Bei obtained the secret edict, he realized that Cao Cao was not a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, but a Han traitor who bullied the emperor.
He originally wanted to fall out with him, but due to Cao Cao's overwhelming power at this time, he could only choose to hold back and prepare to accumulate strength or find a suitable time to take action.
During that time, he grew vegetables at home every day, deliberately making people feel that he was indifferent to the world.
Finally, one day at the end of May, Cao Cao suddenly summoned Liu Bei in the garden and asked Liu Bei to come and have a drink with him.
This is the famous "Green Plum Boiled Wine and Discussing Heroes".
In addition to naming those people in history, Liu Bei actually always wanted to ask, "Xuzhou Shen Chen killed your younger brother Cao Ren, and general Le Jin defeated you. Can you be called a hero?"
But he didn't dare to say it.
After this incident, Cao Cao saw that Liu Bei would be frightened by the thunder, so he no longer suspected him. In June, he heard that Yuan Shu was going north to join Yuan Shao, so he sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to intercept him.
Soon after, Sui Gu, who was in Hanoi's separatist power at that time, planned to defect to Yuan Shao and dedicate Hanoi County to him. As a result, Cao Cao eliminated Sui Gu in advance, causing the conflict between Yuan and Cao to completely break out.
Yuan Shao then actively prepared troops and horses, planning to go south for a decisive battle with Cao Cao.
When Liu Bei heard the news, he attacked and killed Che Zhou, the governor of Xuzhou, in December, seized military power, occupied Xuzhou, and responded to Yuan Shao.
In order to eliminate future troubles, Cao Cao led his troops to attack Liu Bei.
Tian Feng heard about Cao Cao's eastward expedition against Liu Bei and urged Yuan Shao to take the opportunity to attack Xuchang. However, Yuan Shao refused and cursed him angrily, and he was alienated by Yuan Shao ever since.
Without Yuan Shao's support, Liu Bei was quickly defeated by Cao Cao, Guan Yu was captured, and he and Zhang Fei Tai Shi Ci were forced to flee to the north.
After arriving in Yecheng, he unexpectedly met Zhao Yun, who had taken care of his brother's future, and came to join him.
Liu Bei was overjoyed and asked Zhao Yun to secretly recruit troops and declare to the outside world that they were General Zuo's troops.
at the same time.
Yuan Shao sent general Yan Liangwen Chou as the vanguard and began to attack Yanzhou.
In the Battle of White Horse, in order to repay Cao Cao's kindness, Guan Yu took the lead, charged into the army of millions, and chopped off Yan Liang's head with a sword.
Wen Chou and Liu Bei stationed in Yanjin together. In the Battle of Yanjin, they were defeated by Cao Cao's military advisor Xun You's "bait enemy" strategy and died in the rebellion.
Yuan Shao was furious and personally led an army of more than 100,000 people south to attack Cao Cao.
After being defeated in the Battle of Yanjin, Liu Bei learned that Guan Yu had killed Yan Liang, and fearing to offend Yuan Shao, he asked Yuan Shao to go south to join forces with Liu Biao and attack Cao Cao together.
Yuan Shao agreed to his request, and history continued to follow its course without Shen Chen's intervention.
But it's not completely unchanged.
Such as military strength.
At that time, Yuan Shao's total military strength was actually close to 300,000, but he still needed troops to garrison in the north to guard against the ethnic minorities moving south, so he only brought half of the troops, about 120,000 to 30,000 troops.
After Cao Cao conquered the east and west and defeated Lu Bu, Yuan Shu and others, he occupied the entire Henan and expanded his military strength to 100,000.
But he wanted to guard against Zhang Xiu, Liu Biao and Sun Ce, so he only brought 50,000 troops northward.
Yes.
Different from the 30,000 to 40,000 people in history, Cao Cao brought 50,000 people this time.
Although Cao Cao had an army of 100,000 in history, he was surrounded by enemies on all sides at that time. He could only use more than half of his troops to defend Liu Biao, Sun Ce and others.
For example, Cao Hong was in Wancheng, Man Chong was in Yuzhou, Zang Ba was in Qingzhou, Lejin, Li Dian was defending Xu Du, Xia Houyuan was in the rear, and Xun Yu was in the rear to supervise supplies, which resulted in a serious division of troops, insufficient frontal troops, and was almost defeated by Yuan Shao.
But now history has undergone certain changes because of Shen Chen.
In the early years, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, and countless people from Guanzhong flowed into Nanyang from Wuguan. As a result, there were countless refugees in Jingzhou, which caused a series of problems.
Liu Biao wanted to find a solution to this problem, and Shen Chen suggested that these people be allowed to farm in Nanyang.
As a result, after several years of farming, Liu Biao obtained a large amount of grain and grass, and his strength skyrocketed. While giving Cao Cao grain and grass, he also greatly expanded his troops, and his army had reached one hundred thousand.
In 199 AD, which was the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Liu Biao took the lead in attacking and sent Huang Zu down the river from Jiangxia to attack Jiangdong and occupy Yuzhang County.
At that time, Sun Ce was attacking Yuan Shu's remnant Liu Xun. Huang Zu sent his son Huang She to rescue him, but Sun Ce defeated him.
After Sun Ce occupied Wancheng, he immediately turned back and started fighting Huang Zu in the Penglize area.
But at this time, Sun Ce suffered a heavy loss.
Because Liu Biao sent more troops to Huang Zu, he kept reorganizing the navy in Jiangxia. He had numerous warships and naval officers and was very good at water warfare.
Historically, with complete preparations, Sun Ce attacked Shaxian, Jiangxia at the end of 199, and Huang Zu was defeated. Seven of his wives, concubines, and children were captured by Sun Ce.
But now Sun Ce was not fully prepared and rushed to fight, resulting in insufficient ships and difficulty in conquering for a while.
What's more important is that Liu Xian's strength has greatly increased, Huang Zu's troops have more than doubled, and he is still best at water fighting, and Huang Zu takes the initiative to attack, Sun Ce can't defeat him for a while.
However, Zhang Xian, the governor of Changsha, gave Sun Ce an assist. He suddenly launched a rebellion in Jingnan with such great momentum that he frightened Liu Biao and quickly summoned Huang Zu back.
At that time, Liu Biao's army was controlled by Cai Hao, Zhang Yun, and Huang Zu. Historically, the army controlled by these three people plus the troops of Wenpin, Liu Pan, and others totaled only 60,000 to 70,000 people. There was no way
Cao Cao visited the north and used it to defend against Zhang Xian and Sun Ce.
But now that his strength had greatly increased, he sent Cai Mao and Zhang Yun south to pacify Jingnan. In order to prevent two sides from fighting, he asked Huang Zu to withdraw his troops and first stick to Shaxian to prevent Sun Ce from taking advantage of his empty nest to go north along the Han River to attack Xiangyang.
There is no problem with Liu Biao's strategy. As the saying goes, to fight against foreign enemies, you must pacify the interior. Zhang Xian is the greatest threat to him. He must first defend against foreign enemies, calm down internal problems, and then solve Sun Ce.
But I couldn't stand Sun Ce being too fierce.
As soon as Huang Zu retreated, Sun Ce immediately pursued him fiercely, chasing him all the way to Sha Xian. Huang Zu lost his helmet and armor and lost his troops. Although it was not as tragic as in history, it was not much worse. Liu Biao gave him
More than 20,000 troops were added, but almost all were lost.
Therefore, going around in circles, although Liu Biao's ambitions were inflated, due to Zhang Xian's problem, he still had to pacify Zhang Xian first, and then increase his strength before going to fight with Jiang Dong.
Then when the general situation in the world is surging, the entire Kanto region, Jingzhou region, and Jiangdong region are about to face a war.
What is Shen Chen doing?
In the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, in November 199 AD, he asked Liu Biao to go north to attack Cao Cao, but Liu Biao refused.
This was unexpected by Shen Chen. He also did not expect that Liu Biao's ambition would expand so much and that he would be eyeing Jiangdong. So after learning about these things, he asked Deng Hong to ask him to attack Cao Cao.
Liu Fang was preoccupied with the Jiangdong and Jingnan issues, so naturally he would not agree to his request.
But as the saying goes, "If you say that this room is too dark and you need to open a window here, everyone will definitely not allow it. But if you advocate removing the roof, they will come to mediate and be willing to open the window."
Shen Chen asked Liu Biao for a large army to attack Cao Cao. He had to deal with Sun Ce and Zhang Xian, so he naturally did not allow it. But when your request was rejected by him and you asked him again for Huang Menting and Gan Ning to send troops, he naturally agreed.
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So in December 199, when Cao Cao was preparing to attack Yuan Shao in Guandu, Shen Chen asked Liu Biao in Xiangyang to lead his troops to attack Cao Cao. Liu Biao agreed and decided to go north to prepare to fight against Cao Cao.
When countless aristocratic families and famous scholars in Jingzhou heard the news, they immediately took action.
Although celebrities such as Wang Jun, Ying Rong, Wei Xi, Li Yan, and He Xia did not wait for Shen Chen to reveal his flaws, they waited and waited, and their prestige and fame grew.
But now I heard that he was going north to fight against Cao Cao and hinder Cao Cao from conquering the north. They couldn't sit still anymore and rushed to Xiangyang to persuade him to stop his action.
A new debate is about to begin!
Okay, the two excessive chapters are over, and soon there will be new passion and excitement. Some friends said that the protagonist should attack Hanzhong, but unless I am cheating, refer to the situation of Cao Cao's attack on Hanzhong. If it were not for luck, Cao Cao would not be able to win Hanzhong.
In addition, if you want to occupy Guanzhong, don't even think about it. At this stage, Guanzhong has ten houses and nine empty houses, with a population of one million and less than ten thousand. The real bones are exposed in the wild, there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and there is no basic base at all.
Therefore, let me consider the issue of the site. My previous thinking was indeed to continue with Longzhong. If you have better suggestions, you can also give me some reference.