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Chapter 157: Confrontation period and renewed chaos in the South

"Has even Gongsun Du of Liaodong formed an alliance with Yuan Shao?"

Guan Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and there seemed to be a strong killing intent in his eyes.

For enemies, the more enemies, the worse it is, but as long as we are enemies with them, all obstacles will be removed, without exception!

Chen Mu nodded lightly, poured himself a cup of fried tea, slowly drank the tea, and slowly said: "I expected Gongsun Du to send troops, but I didn't expect him to take action now."

Guan Yu was surprised and said: "Fourth brother, does this count?"

Chen Mu smiled bitterly and said: "To be precise, I was forced to send troops. We in Qingzhou are vigorously developing shipping. Merchant ships and sea-going ships travel north and south, crisscrossing everywhere. Liaodong and Qingzhou are close at hand, and it is only four or five hundred miles away by sea.

, the big ship can arrive in a day or two, between us and Gongsun Du is like a tiger lying on the bed, how can he feel at peace?"

"Um......"

Guan Yu pondered: "Now that Bogui has been defeated and Yuan Shao is in peace in the north, I am afraid that the troops he sent to the north will also go south immediately. What should we do now?"

"It's fine with Gongsun Du. I sent people to Sanhan just to prevent Gongsun Du from doing this..."

Chen Mu put down the tea cup, closed his eyes, stroked his forehead, and continued: "It's just that I didn't expect Brother Bogui to be defeated so quickly. A defeat on his side would affect the whole body. Yuan Shao was originally placed in Youzhou

The troops and horses will come back, and it seems that the pressure on us will become great."

Guan Yu said solemnly: "No matter how great the pressure is, you have to grit your teeth and persevere."

Chen Mu thought for a while, nodded and said: "If we can figure out the enemy's marching route, we may be able to attack him head-on. Unfortunately, my internal commander who is ambushing in Jizhou is not a senior general of the army, and is not a close adviser to Yuan Shao, so it is difficult for him to master such secrets.

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"I'm going to inspect the camp and strengthen its defenses."

Guan Yu sighed, stood up and left the tent.

Watching his leaving figure, Chen Mu's eyes narrowed slightly, lost in thought.

He is thinking about two things.

One thing was mentioned in Xun He's letter to him some time ago. Yuan Shao had a counselor named Liu Hui, who might be able to win over him.

Xun He told him that Liu Hui, just like the Party members, was enamored of the Han Dynasty.

It was just that the original emperor, Emperor Xiaokang of Han, not only hurt the hearts of party members, but also hurt many nobles in the world. Therefore, when Wang Fen came to power, many nobles would seek refuge with him.

These people never care who the emperor is, they only care that the Han Dynasty is the world of the Han Dynasty, and they only care whether the emperor can listen to their words and be close to the virtuous ministers and far away from the villains.

That's why they helped Wang Fen, hoping to build a better man.

And these people were the so-called aristocratic families at that time, scholar-bureaucrats, bureaucrats, elites, nobles, etc...

Chen Mu knew very well that the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms had nothing to do with the poor. This was a world controlled by the elite. Even if Liu Bei was so poor that he needed help from his uncle to study, he was still a descendant of the royal family.

It is really difficult for people at the bottom to rise to the top. Even many high-ranking officials in Cao Wei later came from the elite aristocratic class and had nothing to do with the common people.

Poor family...First you have to have a family.

Any order to recruit talented people and recruit people from the bottom of the world are all lies.

Because these so-called poor families are all children of large families with land, industry and even a certain political status. The family may not be rich and powerful, but there are at least one or two county magistrates among the relatives.

Therefore, during Wang Fen's period, because of his obvious intention to respect the Han Dynasty, he was able to accommodate so many talents.

But during the Yuan Shao period, he openly deposed the puppet emperor of Jizhou and went against the Luoyang court, which caused dissatisfaction among many people below.

Zhuge Liang initially asserted that Yuan Shao's move was a fool's errand, not that those party members would be disappointed in him, but that those who gathered around Wang Fen's identity and wanted to re-create a Han Dynasty would be disappointed.

Even though from a certain point of view, they were rebelling, they did not think that they were rebelling, but that they were helping the Han Dynasty.

This is a conflict of ideas.

Chen Mu didn't know Liu Hui well, but he vaguely remembered that after Xun Chen helped Yuan Shao capture Jizhou, even if he became Yuan Shao's mastermind, he could not make any plans from then on.

It can be seen from this that Xun Chen is probably a replica of Xu Shu. He was in the Yuan camp but his heart was in the Han Dynasty. After seeing through Yuan Shao's ambitions, he never made any plans for Yuan Shao again.

The most important thing is that after Yuan Shao deposed the puppet emperor of Jizhou, he basically cut off the ideals of these elites who were committed to the Han Dynasty.

So Chen Mu initially won over the party members and let them fall into the arms of the Luoyang court.

Unfortunately, Yuan Shao was very wary of the party members, and the party members never found any opportunity to gain access to high-level secrets within Jizhou, which could not bring substantial benefits to Qingzhou.

But Xun He's letter gave Chen Mu a lot of inspiration.

Perhaps like the party members, there are many scholar-bureaucrats who love the Han Dynasty but don't care who the emperor is.

If there are such people among the senior advisers around Yuan Shao, perhaps it is really possible to win them over and learn about Yuan Jun's high-level internal secrets.

Liu Hui......Xun Chen......

Chen Mu unconsciously touched some water stains in his tea cup with his fingers, wrote the two people's names on the table, and stared at them for a while. After a while, he suddenly became alert and wiped them off immediately.

If you have Yuan Shao's internal support around you, maybe it would be a good idea to use a counter-measure.

For example, this tea is not about Liu Hui and Xun Chen, but about Xu You and Shen Pei...

But in a daze, I felt that because of my severe forced paranoia, I didn't give Yuan Shao a chance to arrange an internal response, which was quite a pity.

Shaking his head to erase all the messy thoughts from his mind, Chen Mu temporarily placed the proposal to win over Liu Hui and Xun Chen in his plan, and then moved on to the second thing to consider - Gongsun Du

The problem.

Gongsundu actually had one of two purposes when he laid out the Three Koreas.

Needless to say why the three Koreas were laid out, even if Chen Mu remembered what the world map looked like, it would be impossible to cross the entire Pacific Ocean to explore the American continent from Asia.

So he followed the map all the way, first to Korea and Japan, then to Russia, through the Bering Strait, to Alaska, and finally from the west coast of the American continent into the Americas, searching for everything he needed along the coastline, which became the only option.

Sanhan is the first step in a long march of thousands of miles, and it is also the first step in seizing Japan's rich ore island in the future, so he must win it.

As for Gongsun Du, it is incidental.

Liaodong also developed its shipbuilding industry. In history, Gongsun Du once sent a fleet to occupy Donglai County in Qingzhou. At the same time, he conquered Goguryeo in the east, Wuhuan and Xianbei in the west, Fuyu in the north, and Sanhan in the south.

It can be seen that the sailing range of his fleet is also in Qingzhou, Sanhan and Japan.

The sea areas of the two sides overlapped, and Liaodong ships could not defeat the Qingzhou navy. Moreover, because a large number of islands from Liaodong to North Korea were occupied by Qingzhou, Gongsun Du was very afraid of Qingzhou. In this case, Gongsun Du would obviously consider Liu Bei's victory in the Central Plains War in the future.

question.

Because the Bohai Bay has almost become the inland sea of ​​the Qingzhou Navy, Liaodong is just a remote rural area to other princes.

For Qingzhou, it is a close neighbor. The fleet can sail from Laizhou Bay to the Liaodong Peninsula overnight.

Therefore, as long as Liu Bei gains the status of northern hegemon, Gongsun Du will never be as stable as Mount Tai in Liaodong, and there is a danger of overthrowing at any time.

Don't forget that the reason why Gongsun Du was able to dominate Liaodong was because of Dong Zhuo's edict.

In Liu Bei's eyes, Dong Zhuo's appointment probably had no legitimacy, and the edict was no different than a piece of waste paper.

What's more, Gongsun Du himself added the title of Marquis of Liaodong and Mu of Pingzhou to himself on the basis of the governor of Liaodong appointed by Dong Zhuo. Such naked contempt for the imperial court was obviously beyond the endurance of a person like Liu Bei.

Once Liu Bei succeeds, it is very likely that the emperor Liu Yu will issue an edict to abolish his foundation in Liaodong. Even if Gongsun Du chooses to resist and disrespect the decree, Qingzhou's ships can attack Liaodong at any time.

This sense of crisis deeply hurt Gongsundu. Therefore, as a marginal prince who only wanted to dominate Liaodong and had no ambitions for the Central Plains, even if he had no other thoughts about the Central Plains, he could only choose

Stand aside, I would rather let Yuan Shao win than let Liu Bei win!

It's not that he was ambitious, it was actually forced by the situation.

Therefore, even if Chen Muzao arrived at Gongsundu, what kind of team would he choose and how to deal with it.

But he didn't expect that it would take Gongsun Du so long to make a decision.

According to Chen Mu's idea, Gongsun Zan should have taken the initiative to send troops when he was in the most difficult situation, instead of waiting until this time.

Of course, none of this matters.

The key is that since he chose to send troops, Chen Mu should indeed use Xu Rong's move.

In the matter of Jizhou, Chen Mu not only had to guard against his enemies, but also his allies. Gongsun Zan was very ambitious. If he were to occupy Jizhou, it would definitely not be a good thing for Liu Bei.

Therefore, it is inevitable to use Gongsun Du, but it does not mean that Gongsun Zan will die. He still has his uses, at least it is not the time for his death yet.

"Um......"

Chen Mu thought for a moment, turned his eyes to the east, and murmured to himself: "At least Liaodong should be back in the arms of the Han."

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In January of the second year of Yonghan, that is, in February 198 AD, Gao Lan and Zhang He's army went south to support Yecheng in a mighty manner.

For Guan Yu and Chen Mu, the pressure on the front line is very high.

The two sides constantly clashed with their cavalry, scouts, and scouts near Yecheng, and small-scale wars continued.

After more than a month of confrontation, in February of the second year of Yonghan, the Luoyang army chose to retreat.

It wasn't that the battle was defeated, but that there were some problems with the subsequent food and fodder.

Last year, in order to solve the severe drought in Henan and save hundreds of thousands of victims, Liu Yu allocated a lot of old grain to Cao Cao and Sun Jian, resulting in a lot of grain reserves in Luoyang.

Originally, this was nothing. There were still millions of dendrobiums of new grain left, and one dendrobium was equal to one stone. At that time, soldiers ate an average of three stones of grain per month. Considering that the Luoyang army had 60,000 people, it would not be a problem to sustain it for three or four years.

The problem is that Chen Mu used a strategy to capture more than 300,000 Montenegrin troops this time, including tens of thousands of troops and more than 200,000 family members. Most of the Montenegrin troops were impoverished, and capturing them would not bring benefits to the court in a short period of time.

It is a burden, and a lot of food must be allocated to them.

In addition, in order to dig canals and build dams, Chen Mu mobilized tens of thousands of people, and these people also had to eat.

Therefore, the food originally planned to be prepared for the soldiers on the front line was temporarily transferred a lot, and the subsequent food shipped from Luoyang has not yet arrived, resulting in some gaps in the process.

It was not a lack of food, but just like the failure of Zhuge Liang's second Northern Expedition, the food originally stored on the front line was consumed too much due to these two emergencies.

Although Zhong Yao was in Huai County, he was still continuously delivering food and grass to the front line. It was originally planned that the army could use food and grass for three months. The second batch of food and grass arrived two months later. However, unexpectedly, the army ran out of food and grass.

, the food and fodder at the back did not keep up, so naturally we had no choice but to withdraw our troops.

Anyang City was demolished, and Guan Yu's army and Zhu Jun's army retreated to Dangyin. As soon as they retreated, Yuan's army began to advance. Zhao Yun, who was the second echelon, covered their retreat and led the army to repel Yuan's front army and protected them back to Hanoi.

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The situation between the enemy and ourselves began to change again, and it became a situation where you attack and we defend. There is no way around this. After the liberation of the Yuan Army in the north, Gao Lan and Zhang He led his army southward. Now, although the Luoyang Army has recruited a lot of Montenegrin troops, its paper strength is 15

The 60,000-strong army was mostly a ragtag group of people, no different from the 800,000-strong army that Cao Cao recruited to surrender and rebel.

Therefore, Chen Mu of the Black Mountain Army was all handed over to Ju Yi for training in the rear. The strength on the front battlefield was still only a few tens of thousands. Zhu Jun had 10,000 troops, Guan Yu had 30,000 troops, Zhao Yun had more than 10,000 second-line troops, and Xu Huang had 5,000 or 6,000 troops.

, this is the current strength of all the Luoyang Army in Hanoi County, and it is indeed incomparable to the Jizhou Army.

However, although the strength of the Luoyang army is at a disadvantage, we must know that not all of Yuan Shao's 256,000 troops are elites. It can even be said that most of the soldiers and horses are rabble, and there are only a total of truly elite soldiers.

There are tens of thousands of people, definitely not as many as imagined.

With Qingzhou as the main direction of attack, Yuan Shao would naturally transfer most of his elite troops to Qinghe State. The combat effectiveness of the remaining soldiers was still much lower than that of the Luoyang army.

The Luoyang army consisted of 10,000 Qingzhou troops, 40,000 Baibo troops, and some Sanhe elite recruited by Zhu Jun.

The combat effectiveness of the soldiers far exceeds that of ordinary Jizhou soldiers. Therefore, even if they are at a numerical disadvantage, they are not too much at a disadvantage in terms of morale and combat effectiveness. The two sides have just returned to the original starting point and continue to maintain a confrontation in the Youli City and Dangyin areas. , this situation may last for a long time if there are no other unexpected factors in a short period of time.

This is not only the case in Luoyang, but also in Qingzhou.

Yuan Shao solved his worries and started his attack on Pingyuan City again. As a city larger than Linzi, Pingyuan City covers an area several times larger than a small military town like Anyang. It has more than a year of food reserves. The morale of the defenders in the city is like a rainbow. , there are tens of thousands of elite people outside the city to support them, and it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to break through.

Therefore, for a time, both Luoyang and Qingzhou fell into a brief confrontation period in the war with Jizhou.

This is also in line with Chen Mu's expectations.

When the strength of the two sides is very close, it is never that easy to quickly destroy the enemy.

It took Qin Shihuang ten years to dominate the world, Liu Bang eight years, Liu Xiu fifteen years, Li Yuan eight years, Kublai Khan twenty-one years, Zhu Yuanzhang eighteen years, the Qing Dynasty went through three generations of Nurhaci, Huang Taiji and Shunzhi for forty-six years. .

It can be said that, except for Liu Bang and Li Yuan, none of the founding emperors had an easy time.

And when Yuan Shao and Liu Bei were in a long confrontation.

The war in the south begins again.


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