Chen Mu stood on the top of the mountain and smiled.
The trick of this deceitful method is to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall. The soldiers are deceitful and use false and true to make people fall into the trap.
The navy pretended to be the main force to deceive Yuan Shao into thinking that Liu Bei was going to change the direction of attack to Weiqiao. Little did he know that the real direction of attack had never changed and was always at the important location of Jieqiao.
So from the beginning, Yuan Shao had already gone in the wrong direction.
Many things are difficult at the beginning. If you can find the right direction and overcome the initial difficulties, everything will be smooth sailing later and your career will become more and more prosperous.
But if you start in the wrong direction, it will be useless no matter how hard you try.
It's like digging for oil in the ground. You have to go all out to get ready, but in the end there is no oil in the ground. Why are you digging so hard?
Therefore, when there were huge flaws in Yuan Shao's strategy, the defeat of Yuan's army was a foregone conclusion.
Chen Mu stood on the top of the mountain and looked into the distance. The slope below was densely packed with countless hurried and ant-like beings fleeing in all directions. His expression and mood were calm.
The mountains and rivers are picturesque, and the great achievements of the ages only happen in a blink of an eye. It is Yuan Shao who is defeated today, and the banner of the Yuan family will also collapse.
To put it cruelly, the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy.
The only difference is that in history Yuan Shao was defeated by Cao Cao, but now he is defeated by Liu Bei.
The process and methods are different, but the results are the same.
But fate is like this. Yuan Shao is defeated today, but who knows whether Liu Bei will be defeated tomorrow?
Therefore, life is endless and planning is endless.
After this game.
That's the next big move.
At this moment, he was no longer paying attention to the battle situation, but was thinking about dealing with the aftermath of Yuan Shao.
After the Battle of Jieqiao, Liu Bei faced not the remnant forces of the Yuan family nor the enemy on the battlefield, but in the court.
His enemies were no longer the princes of the world, not the bandits and bandits from all over the world, but became the officials in the imperial court who had been close to him.
Even if Yang Biao admires Liu Bei and is still a brother-in-law with Chen Mu, I am afraid he will be the first one to ask Liu Yu for an order for the emperor to send a new Jizhou governor to parachute.
A good relationship is one thing, but a position cannot be changed. What Yang Biao and his group of veterans are worried about is not a new overlord, but the Eastern Han Dynasty of Liu Xiu's descendants.
The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty are already two dynasties in their eyes. Even if Liu Bei is also a descendant of Liu Bang, it is impossible to sit in that position.
So Yang Biao tested Chen Mu at the beginning, but everyone knew this kind of thing well, so Chen Mu didn't try to talk him off at that time.
He just hinted at some things and said some vague things.
But no matter what, the land of Hebei is the most important area in Guandong. After Jizhou is recovered, it is inevitable that the court will intervene.
As long as Liu Yu is not stupid enough to have an IQ below 80, he should understand that when Liu Bei already has Qingzhou, if he takes Jizhou again, who in the world can check and balance him?
Therefore, the shackles from the court are indispensable.
However, the eldest brother cannot fall out with the imperial court now, because the land in Hebei has not been obtained, and everyone in the world still admires Liu Bei, who is a benevolent and righteous king.
Once he fell out with the imperial court because of Hebei, all the reputation he had accumulated before would be lost, which would be more than worth the loss for him.
What's more, Big Brother wouldn't do this because of his good face and upright character.
Therefore, we must find a way.
The method is quite simple, and can be summed up in one idiom - raise the bandits to respect themselves.
Yuan Shao can die, but the Yuan family cannot lose too quickly.
Only in this way, the Qingzhou and Luoyang courts still have a common enemy, and the two sides will not quarrel until the Yuan family is completely eliminated.
Yuan Tan is still in Yecheng, why don't you ask your second brother to put some water in?
Chen Mu touched his chin and thought.
But considering the kind of person my second brother is...forget it, let's think about this more carefully.
Chen Mu shook his head, it was not easy to plan this matter.
The most troublesome thing now is that he has done too much in these years. In addition to constantly weakening Yuan Shao's strength, Yuan Shao has also lost another very important thing - the people's support.
The public sentiment here includes not only the common people in Guizhou, but also many powerful families, and even most of the officials who were originally loyal to Yuan Shao have planned to surrender.
In other words, most of these people are eagerly waiting to see the outcome of this battle. Moreover, they have countless letters to the Qingzhou court, waiting for Yuan Shao to lose and immediately surrender the city.
People's hearts itself will fall in whatever direction the wind blows. Chen Mu instigated many people to rebel. He sent countless surrender letters to various counties before the decisive battle. In addition, Yuan Shao dealt with the party members, causing Wang Fen to
The little bit of public support he had gained was squandered by him.
So once Yuan Shao died here, it would be basically a very simple matter to regain Jizhou. Unless Yuan Tan had the courage to continue to hold on to Yecheng, the autumn wind would sweep away the fallen leaves, and the Han Dynasty would soon be restored.
But again, Liu Yu is not dead yet. If Yuan Shao dies early, Liu Yu's court will most likely send a new Jizhou Mu to fight for power. This is obviously not good news for Chen Mu.
To put it simply, the current situation is no longer like the situation in history after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu.
After the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao died of illness soon. Cao Cao wanted to go north. Facing the three brothers of the Yuan family, it was not easy to wipe out Hebei. Therefore, he had to take advantage of the internal strife among the three brothers and slowly kill it. It took several years to calm down Hebei.
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But Liu Bei is different. The first reason is that during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he had already accumulated quite a good reputation in Jizhou. The second reason is that the imperial court now represents great righteousness, and Liu Bei is following the order to attack the bandits.
The third and most important point is that Yuan Shao himself did it several times. In order to force Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei to leave Jizhou, he deposed the pseudo-emperor established during Wang Fen's period.
In order to monopolize power, he suppressed and marginalized party members. You must know that party members are the bellwethers of scholars. Chen Mu repeatedly jumped between eunuchs and party members in the past because party members could bring him reputation.
Benefit.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, after taking power, in order to exclude dissidents, he searched for money and food, forcing many aristocratic families to flee Hebei, which made Yuan Shao's reputation among the people worse and worse, and the people's opinion of him became worse and worse.
support is actually very low.
Why was it so difficult for Cao Cao to regain Hebei after the Battle of Guandu? Not to mention the massacre of Xuzhou, just the massacre of Yecheng made the entire people of Hebei extremely resistant to Cao Cao.
On the contrary, Liu Bei did not massacre the city, and was kind to the people of Jizhou. In addition, he attacked Yuan Shao for the sake of the imperial court, so the people of Jizhou did not resent him.
The reason why the Yuan family can still hold on now is entirely due to Yuan Shao's own personal prestige.
But as long as Yuan Shao dies, with the Yuan family's background in Jizhou, the three Yuan brothers will not be able to make a splash. It is estimated that they will be captured by his subordinates soon and brought to Liu Bei.
When the Qingzhou Army arrives, the whole of Jizhou may surrender.
So this is where Chen Mu has a headache.
Jushu on the side saw him sometimes frowning and sometimes looking into the distance with a thoughtful expression, so he asked, "Zi Gui, what are you thinking about?"
"After trying to regain Jizhou, my eldest brother may be in a bit of a difficult situation."
Chen Mu sighed.
Jushou also frowned and thought for a while before shaking his head and saying, "It will indeed be difficult. How do Zigui think the court will take action?"
"It's nothing more than airborne Jizhou Mu, and then find a way to send the eldest brother to the south to continue to regain the lost territory."
"It seems that Ming Gong is used as a tool. Does Zigui have any countermeasures?"
"No."
Chen Mu looked into the distance: "Unless my eldest brother has not captured Yuan Shao alive, and Yuan Shao is not dead, there is still room for maneuver. It's just that swords and guns are weak on the battlefield. I can defeat Yuan Shao, but I'm not sure I can let him run away."
"Let Yuan Shao run away? Did I hear correctly?"
Xun You looked at them confused, not knowing what they were talking about. Could it be that there was something wrong with his ears?
Jushou whispered: "If we don't let Yuan Shao go and eliminate the Yuan family, the imperial court will be suspicious of us in Qingzhou."
"I see."
Xun You suddenly realized that he was a military wizard, but he was indeed not that good at controlling people's hearts.
Counselors are also divided into three, six or nine levels, and counselors of the same level have different priorities.
For example, in a later game, Xun Yu's intelligence was 96, and Xun You's intelligence was 95. The difference seemed to be only 1 point.
But would you like to ask Xun You to handle internal affairs, logistics and court affairs?
Xun Yu was able to completely destroy Xun You by engaging in internal affairs.
Or maybe let Xun Yu lead 10,000 people and Xun You lead 10,000 people to command each other to fight in the wild?
When it comes to marching and fighting, Xun You can defeat his clan uncle until he can't find his way.
According to the standards of later generations, counselors can be roughly divided into five types: internal affairs, strategy, military, politics and strategy.
Xun Yu's strategy, internal affairs and political level were quite high, but strategy and military were barely interesting. Xun You's level of strategy and military was high, but others were not as good as Xun Yu's.
Why did Zhuge Liang's intelligence surpass all the counselors in the Three Kingdoms in almost all Three Kingdoms games in later generations, and he was also recognized as the wisest man?
That's because he is an all-rounder, with all types above 95 and proficient in everything.
Therefore, it is natural that Xun You did not think of the imperial court.
This belongs to the category of politics.
Jushou was much better at politics than Xun You, but compared with people like Chen Mu, Jia Xu and Guo Jia, he was still a little behind.
He only thought that the court would be suspicious of Liu Bei, but he didn't know what means he would use.
And Chen Mu has been in the court for so many years, and he knows all the methods without even thinking about it. It is just to continue to increase the rewards for Liu Bei, and to praise him with high hats, but he does not give any actual benefits.
The court will try to seize the territory and control the military power. It is best to take advantage of the court's righteousness and let Liu Bei go to the south to cause trouble for other princes and consume their strength.
The greatest means of the imperial court was to control the righteousness. But Liu Bei just did this. It is estimated that after Liu Yu issued an edict, he would have to go south.
No wonder Cao Cao wants to firmly control Han Xian Emperor in his own hands and cannot give away any power, because it is impossible to violate the decree of heaven in the court.
"Is there no other way?"
Xun You also frowned. It was uncomfortable to think that they were fighting life and death on the front line while the imperial court was making small moves behind them.
Chen Mu touched his chin and said: "I have made a back-up move, but this back-up move can only be used when the emperor is about to die of old age. I don't know how the emperor's health is now. I'll find a way to delay it."
"Then we can only hope that Yuan Shao will not die."
Jushou said.
"If Yuan Shao doesn't die and lets him escape back to Yecheng, I'm afraid there will be another big war."
Xun You's frown deepened. The Yuan clan still had nearly 100,000 troops on the other side of Yecheng. Yuan Shao fled back. Although the sun was declining and he would not be able to hold on for long, it was another big battle that wasted his own strength. This was for
For a counselor, this is unacceptable.
Chen Mu thought for a while, then turned to the attendant beside him and said, "Go to brother's tent and light the lights."
"Zi Gui has something planned?"
Jushou was interested, and it seemed that he was going back to the camp to look at the map.
"I'm thinking about how to force Yuan Shao back to Wei County, but I can't go back to Yecheng. I need to find a suitable place for him. I can't have too few troops and food, and I can't be too strong. I'll besiege the city for a year and a half and delay the time.
, waiting for the emperor’s final day.”
Chen Mu turned around and got off the wall, and the three of them headed towards the main tent of the camp, because only Liu Bei's tent had specific maps. These were military secrets and could only be seen when the general was raising his tent.
However, Chen Mu and the others were naturally not within the restriction, so while Liu Bei was chasing Yuan Shao, Chen Mu went back to the tent to see where Yuan Shao would have fled if he was not killed by Big Brother.
The group of people quickly arrived at the tent and the lights were lit. Jushu and Xun You glanced over and locked their eyes on a certain red dot on the map, and they immediately laughed.
"Handan!"
Chen Mu also smiled and said, "Actually, we have all thought of it."
Xun You nodded: "Yuan Shao's entire army is divided into three divisions. One division is led by him to station troops at Jieqiao to resist our Qingzhou Army. One division is in Yecheng to resist General Guan from the Luoyang direction, and the last division is in Julu and other places in Zhao State.
Resist Xian Yufu, and as we capture the border bridge, the Julu defenders will retreat."
"The defenders of Julu are retreating from the north to Wei County in the southwest. Zhao State is the northern gateway to Wei County. If these defenders want to withdraw to Wei County, Handan is the only way to go, and Yuan Shao may not give up on Zhao State.
, then Handan will become an important town."
Jushu added: "From Guangzong to the south and north of Qingshui, there are only two cities, Ping'en and Kuiqiu. If we can immediately send troops south to capture these two cities, Yuan Shao can only cross the Zhang River and escape in the direction of Zhao."
"When the time comes, we will force him to go to Handan."
A cold light flashed in Chen Mu's eyes. Yecheng is located south of Zhangshui. If Yuan Shao wants to go back, he can just escape from the boundary bridge to the west of the boundary bridge, and then run all the way to the southwest.
In later generations, that direction was Wei County, Qiu County, Feixiang, Guangping, Wei County, Linzhang and other local counties around Handan City in Hebei Province.
However, in the Han Dynasty, Zhangshui and Qinghe were located in the middle of the two rivers due to their different geographical locations. At this time, there were only two cities, Ping'en and Cuiqiu, and there was basically an endless plain along the way, with no danger to defend and no danger.
There is a way back.
If Yuan Shao escapes from Liu Bei, Liu Bei only needs to send out Zhang Fei's cavalry troops to quickly occupy these two cities, and then hunt them down in the wild, basically cutting off Yuan Shao's retreat back to Ye City.
This is equivalent to Cao Cao taking a small road instead of a big road when escaping from Luoyang. It would be the fastest for Yuan Shao to return to Yecheng in the direction of Ping'encuoqiu, but this is a big road and he will definitely pursue him to death.
So if Yuan Shao is smarter, he can take a long detour, take the so-called small road, cross the Zhang River, and retreat from Guangzong to Quzhou. In this way, he can take away the defenders on Julu's side, and then go south to Zhao.
, there is at least a large army accompanying him for protection.
But this played into Chen Mudu's plan. He only hoped that Yuan Shao would not die for the time being, delaying time so that he could seek victory in the political struggle in the court. Therefore, he would definitely force Yuan Shao to go to Handan, thereby deliberately letting the situation go.
And the rest......
The three of them looked at each other, and only Yuan Shaofu was lucky enough to escape from the chase.