Lu Bu's return to the north was a good start. The judge who was originally stationed in Youbeiping read the relevant information about Lu Bu's return to the north and silently made an astonishing move.
After being driven out of the southern part of Youzhou by Ju Yi, Gongsun Zan was blocked by Shenpei and could not enter Youbeiping to attack southward. He had no choice but to occupy the Liaodong vassal state and stationed in Changli to mobilize troops and wait for the opportunity to counterattack Youzhou.
Since Shenpei had a monster defensive ability, Gongsun Zan basically had no good solutions. Fortunately, Shenpei did not attack Gongsun Zan specifically. Although Changli was suffering, Gongsun Zan gradually stabilized the situation by plundering the barbarians.
It is said that Youzhou and Bingzhou are actually the same situation. How big the territory is depends purely on the map to determine the power. If the fist is big, Youzhou will be big. Now Gongsun Zan is forced by the trial to withdraw to the northeast.
After retreating, Gongsun Zan discovered that he still had territory behind him. As for the border issue, Gongsun Zan's style has always been that wherever I hit, the boundary line on the map will be drawn there. If you don't accept it, fight back.
Of course, today's Gongsun Zan can no longer be as domineering as before, but he has never changed when it comes to dealing with foreigners. The hard-liners among the Iron-Blooded Faction have never discounted on foreigners.
It was an accident that he couldn't defeat Yuan Shao, but if he couldn't defeat the foreigner Gongsun Zan, he felt that he could commit suicide. Without the white horse, at most he couldn't chase and kill him. As long as there were soldiers, to the Hu people, he was still the invincible white horse general Gongsun Zan.
Although he was able to defeat the barbarians, the population problem in Youzhou itself still severely restricted the recovery of Gongsun Zan's strength. Now he could almost be considered as a military force, gathering more than 30,000 infantry and cavalry. As for Tian Yu who was stationed at the border,
Gongsun Zan never considered him as his subordinate, and his final dignity and mission could never be shaken.
Due to being blocked by the trial, Gongsun Zan, who was located in Changli, basically didn't know much about the situation in the Central Plains in the past two years. Even Gongsun Zan did not receive any news at all about Lu Bu's annexation of the prefecture, which had caused a lot of fuss before.
From this point of view, in fact, the fact that Chen Lin and others supported Gongsun Zan had nothing to do with Gongsun Zan. The people involved did not know that such an incident had happened until the dust settled.
It can be seen from this that Gongsun Zan's information was blocked at this time, and it can also be seen that without professional intelligence organizations in this era, the transmission of relevant information would be slow.
In a word, things have reached this level, and the other party involved in the heated discussion is completely unaware of it. Gongsun Zan, who is now living in Changli, is still thinking about how to counterattack Youzhou.
It is said that Gongsun Zan was able to go to war without causing food problems because of Chen Xi's strong support.
Although there has been less contact between Taishan and Gongsun Zan in the past two years, the sea transportation line has not been interrupted, and Liu Bei has never stopped providing food assistance to Gongsun Zan.
Of course, Yuan Shao was not a fool, and naturally he also sent troops to intercept transport ships at sea. Unfortunately, Jizhou warriors were mostly land warriors, and the army was all landlubbers. Not to mention naval battles, water battles were useless.
In addition, Yuan Shao had no generals at all, and his ships were just at will. He failed to rob Liu Bei's transport ship but lost a lot of manpower. After suffering several losses, Yuan Shao just let it go.
Anyway, judging from the exact information from Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei only provided material support to Gongsun Zan and did not provide personnel support. For the current Yuan Shao, the mere material support will not shake his rule in Youzhou at all. As for Gongsun Zan,
With some strength, as long as he is willing to round and flatten it at any time.
If there was no way to deal with Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao would have sent troops to crush Gongsun Zan to death.
In history, after Gongsun Zan was defeated at Jieqiao, he directly killed Liu Yu in order to avoid future troubles. Then the people of Youzhou who supported Liu Yu followed Liu Yu's generals to resist. Gongsun Zan, who was short of food at the time, did not stop doing anything.
He immediately began to send troops to grab food, completely cutting off his popularity in Youzhou.
Although Liu Yu was also attacked in this life, he was still alive. After his anger subsided, Gongsun Zan did not kill Liu Yu's wife, concubines, and family members. He packed them up and sent them to Mount Tai. Then Taishan transferred them to Chang'an to reunite him with Liu Yu.
At that time, Li Jue had already entered a period of remission, and Liu Yu did not suffer much.
In other words, in this generation Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu had political disagreements and fought, but they did not cause such crazy things as killing the emperor's relatives without permission.
Besides, the Han Dynasty had a falling out with many state officials and border guards because of its attacks on foreigners. This was not a big deal. Everyone was used to it. At most, they felt that the central government had begun to mess up its personnel arrangements again. No wonder the world has been in recession in the past two years.
As for the military expedition to grab grain, with Liu Bei's strong support, Gongsun Zan has not yet fallen to this level. Therefore, for the people of Youzhou, it is actually a change of governor, and their lives have not been harmed in any way. Since then, Gongsun Zan has been in Youzhou
The state still maintains its prestige.
This is why Yuan Shao is far stronger than Gongsun Zan and has to think about how to deal with Gongsun Zan. Killing is definitely not advisable, but if he doesn't kill, Gongsun Zan's prestige in Youzhou will be troublesome. I don't see that there are still many people in Youzhou who remember Gongsun Zan.
Good.
If he continues to attack Gongsun Zan, based on Yuan Shao's understanding of Gongsun Zan's character, if there is no chance of victory, that bastard Gongsun Zan will definitely commit suicide and will not give him a chance to capture him. In this case, Gongsun Zan dies, and Yuan Shao takes the blame.
deal.
Therefore, Yuan Shao doesn't fight Gongsun Zan very much now. He is thinking about how to capture Gongsun Zan alive, or how to kill Gongsun Zan without causing huge public resentment. Of course, if it is a last resort, Yuan Shao will kill Gongsun Zan even if the public resentment boils over.
However, the current situation has not yet reached the point where Yuan Shao is determined to directly kill Gongsun Zan, although Yuan Shao is already prepared to risk his life.
It can be said that the judge knew all these things. He also thought about getting rid of Gongsun Zan, for example, using Liu Yu's generals to avenge Liu Yu, or deceiving the barbarians to attack Gongsun Zan. In short, he thought of many ways, but
In terms of feasibility, there is basically no possibility.
Liu Yu's generals really wanted to avenge Liu Yu, but Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan were not mortal enemies. After Liu Yu was sent to Chang'an, he completely abandoned his position and did not pursue his political affairs. In order to prevent his subordinates from being deceived by foreigners,
Under Liu Yan's persuasion, he issued a declaration.
The general meaning is that I am still alive and well, and you don’t need to avenge me. Gongsun Zan will protect you if you stay in the Han people’s place. Hu people, please don’t go to Gongsun Zan to trouble you. I thank you for your kindness, but if you fight
But Gongsun Zan, please run away quickly. Without me in Youzhou, Gongsun Zan may go on a killing spree at any time.
