When Xu You left Yecheng, he felt a little unhappy, but compared to the betrayal in history, this unhappiness was limited...
Yuan Shao did not order his family to be taken back, and... the surprise attack on Xu Du was indeed Xu You's suggestion!
Now Xu You is just dissatisfied that Yuan Shao has invested too little power, and expresses a little distrust, or fear.
Originally, there were only a hundred or so of Quyi's Great Halberds left. After returning to Yecheng, they only drew 300 people from various armies, and this was all they had to attack Xudu!
Originally, Qu Yi also felt that it was because of his previous performance in Nanyang that the lord deliberately made things difficult for him, so there was no need to do anything about it.
However, Xu You's ability is indeed not directly proportional to his character, and he is especially good at this kind of secretly stabbing people in the waist!
He actually thought of a way...
That is to take advantage of the migration of the Montenegro Army at that time. First, he mingled with the Montenegro Army, and then he identified the Qu commander who could instigate rebellion, and directly Li Daitao was killed!
In this way, you can not only deceive others, but also obtain "cannon fodder".
After all, only elite soldiers cannot attack a city. Even on flat ground, a group of Euphorbia warriors composed of dozens of warriors and all generals can't do it!
The Yellow Turban Army is undoubtedly the best cannon fodder, with low cost and no need for training, and the Yellow Turban Warriors have the function of partially extracting manpower to "train" the Yellow Turban Army. Huang Tianji is not needed. This is why during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yellow Turban Army blossomed in all directions. So fast.
Soon Xu You discovered Tao Sheng and judged that this former Neihuang County official should have just wanted to "kill people and set fires to attract peace", so he decisively extended an olive branch, and the two sides hit it off.
At the same time, Xu You, as a young talent who had been in Luoyang with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, naturally had many connections in the court. After joining forces with Tao Sheng, he also secretly contacted Xu Du...
When the Emperor returned to the East, Yuan Shao's subordinates only debated whether to "take the Emperor into hostage". The honest Jushu was the one who "held the Emperor under hostage". However, Guo Tu, Chun Yuqiong and others all thought that after "taking the Emperor under hostage", they would lead Because of the constraints of fame, position and practical operations, he opposed welcoming back the emperor.
At that time, Yuan Shao was much more arrogant than Cao Cao - Cao Cao was still "the emperor" in name, and they had already discussed the issue of "coercion".
However, this did not affect the fact that Xu You went to Xudu to "talk nonsense" and act as if he was loyal to the Han Dynasty.
Although Liu Ai, Zhong Ji and others did not completely trust Yuan Shao, under the circumstances of Cao Cao's increasing pressure, the cooperation between the two sides was natural.
On the one hand, Liu Bei promised Xu You to cooperate in sending the Han Emperor to the north, and on the other hand, he actively prepared to take advantage of the chaos to send troops from Xuzhou... At the same time, he warned Dong Cheng not to let Dong Cheng know about it, lest he do something bad!
Xu You also didn't trust Liu Bei, but for him, it was most important to defeat Xu Du first, otherwise Ah Man would probably kill Yuan Shao to death.
In May of the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao beat Yuan Tan in Weijun...
Yuan Tan is also a tragedy. His younger brother died. Not long after he laughed out loud, he was inexplicably jealous by Yuan Shao.
One thing to say is that although Guo Tu has been encouraging him to clean up Fengji and examine marriages, Yuan Tan's straightforward temperament does have this intention, but... he is not stupid!
Instead of agreeing, Yuan Tan asked Guo Tu to help him make friends with several important staff. Seeing that Yuan Shao was seriously ill, he was ready to take over. Isn't this what he should do?
However, even though Yuan Shang is dead, Guo Tu can still make things happen like this? As long as he works hard, there is nothing that cannot be messed up?
In this way, when the second son Yuan Xi was not favored at all and had no background, Yuan Tan's position as heir was unshakable, but... when he was leading troops outside and needed to mobilize people and resources in Yecheng,
But I always feel a little more defensive!
Originally, for Yuan Tan, Cao Cao was an opponent whose attributes far exceeded his own, and he needed to be crushed by levels to have any hope of victory. With the opponent being held back from behind, how could he still have a chance to win?
Even the "Hebei generals" sent to him by Yuan Shao, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, were also torn apart by Dian Wei's hands one after another.
Jizhou, the hometown of the Yuan family, is equivalent to the combination of Wei and Zhao during the Warring States Period. Not only is its area almost as large as two of the three states of Yan, Henan, and Xu, but before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, its population was second only to Jingzhou, with nearly six million people. Even now, there are
Nearly one million households!
Yecheng, during the pre-Qin period, was an important town of the Wei State, and is now also the seat of the Yuan family...
From the Northern Zhao Dynasty to the Southern Wei Dynasty, Yecheng was naturally located in the south of Jizhou, Hebei Province.
Yuan Tan lost a series of battles, Yuan Shao was bedridden in Yecheng, and Jushou and Shenpei had another disagreement.
Jushou believed that the government should be moved north to Handan to avoid Cao's army and rely on Hebei's population and resource advantages to fight a protracted war with him.
Shen Pei wants to defend Yecheng. After all, if he goes north, who knows how Tian Feng will deal with him - in order to resist Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao handed over the military power in the north to Tian Feng and Zhang He.
Now Shenpei and Fengji's last hope is to hold Yecheng and Yuan Shao in check, and survive until Yuan Shao dies. As for the future... take it one step at a time!
And if they leave Yecheng, wouldn't their last talisman be gone?
So the judge went to talk to Yuan Shao, whose IQ had jumped, and said that Jushou was persuaded by Tian Feng to have evil intentions - the evidence? The evidence is Jushou's current proposal, does it sound similar to Tian Feng's proposal before the war?
You taste it, you taste it carefully!
Coupled with the beautification of the battle situation on the front line, Yuan Shao smacked his lips after hearing this and decided to stay in Yecheng and not go anywhere.
Cao Cao also didn't expect that after Yuan Shao fell ill, Hebei would become such a loser. He threw a left hook and a right kick, but the opponent didn't even tighten his fist?
And he actually stayed in Yecheng. Isn't this God's help to me, the prime minister?
I originally thought it was a tough nut to crack, but now it seems that within two or three years, I have hope of unifying the north!
If it weren't for the winter in Hebei and the weather was really not suitable for using troops, Cao Cao even thought that this time would be shorter...
In October, Cao Cao had fought all the way to Yecheng, and Yuan Tan... had already retreated to Zhao County, preparing to fight Cao Cao farther north.
As for Yuan Shao, when his condition got a little better, he finally figured out the current situation, but he was almost taken away by the bad news!
Now he couldn't retreat even if he wanted to. At the last moment, Yuan Shao finally summoned up some courage. While sending a message to Tian Feng and Zhang He in the north, and to his nephew Gao Gan in Bingzhou, asking them to fully cooperate with Yuan Tan, he went to the hospital despite his illness.
A, personally supervise the battle on the tower.
Yuan Shao didn't think he could turn defeat into victory, but at least he would have to wait until the coldest days. At that time, Cao Cao would have no choice but to retreat first. His body... I'm afraid it was hard to recover, but at least he had to buy some more time!
A surprise attack on Xudu? What kind of surprise attack on Xudu?
Yuan Shao himself had almost forgotten this matter. After all, Qu Yi and Xu You were completely free to move. Yecheng could not help, and it was difficult for them to send messages to Yecheng!
When Cao Cao saw Yuan Shao on the tower, he was filled with emotion and even wanted to recite a poem...
However, just when Cao Cao was full of ambition, an urgent letter woke him up like a bolt from the blue!
A strange force suddenly appeared in Xinzheng. From Xinzheng to Changshe, they were defeated one after another in half a month. When the letter was sent, it was less than thirty miles away from Xudu - and this letter was sent out a month ago!