Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 839 Living is not easy (eight)

   At this time, Runan, far south of Yuzhou, is holding a grand banquet.

  The candles are brightly lit, and the waiters who come and go are like swimming fish, flowing endlessly. Yuan Shu stood on the lobby, raised the cup of wine, and shouted to win the drink, and then Yuan Shu and his subordinates, generals and civil servants responded one after another, toasting and drinking.

  At this time, Yuan Shu is in full swing!

   While Yuan Shao was still struggling with Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao was still busy with the pacification of Dongjun, and Liu Bei was still trapped in the plain, Yuan Shu had already completed the general strategic layout and became the biggest beneficiary at this stage.

At the very beginning, Yuan Shu controlled only a small area south of Yuzhou and north of Jingzhou. At that time, Yuan Shu had the Shandong Allied Forces in Chenliu to the northeast, Liu Biao and Huang Zu to the south, and Dong Zhuo’s sphere of influence to the northwest. , was almost surrounded by groups, and Sun Jian accidentally died in battle during the crusade against Xiangyang, which was simply worse for Yuan Shu.

  At that time, Yuan Shao wanted to elect Liu Yu as the emperor, and he wrote a letter hoping to get Yuan Shu's support, but how could Yuan Shu agree? So it was rejected in the name of justice. However, such an approach caused the only slight bond of warmth between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to be completely broken.

  However, Yuan Shao won the support of the gentry including Jizhou and even Yuzhou by virtue of his title as the leader of the coalition army. This made Yuan Shu very angry and declared: "The group does not follow me, but my family!"

This sentence spread to the ears of Yuan Shao in Jizhou in the north. The most taboo thing in his life is the question of his background. On the one hand, it also means to attack Yuan Shu with Liu Biao from north to south.

  Under this situation, only Yuan Shu in the narrow and long area of ​​northern Jingzhou and southern Yuzhou, without the depth of strategy, did not fight with the surrounding princes, but immediately launched a series of ingenious maneuvers.

First, he expressed a truce with Liu Biao and withdrew from the dispute in the northern part of Jingzhou. Then he quickly made friends with Tao Qian and Gongsun Zan, and implemented the strategy of long-distance friendship and short-term attack. Yuan Shao's backyard continued to add firewood, which also relieved the huge pressure from the north.

This strategy immediately relieved the pressure on Yuan Shu's original battlefield, freeing up Yuan Shu's hands to stockpile food and grass, recruit soldiers, and replenish lost troops. Now Yuan Shao is fighting Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao is entangled with the Black Mountain Army, and Yanzhou is being defeated by Qingzhou The Yellow Turban turned the world upside down, but Yuan Shu, who had been at rest for almost a year, got a rare time to fully recuperate.

As for the next move, Yuan Shu is naturally keeping an eye on Yanzhou, but in Yanzhou, there is still a descendant of Xiongshu, but this is not a big problem, this Cao Cao is also a character like Zhao Kuo, even Dong Zhuo's subordinates Even Xu Rong can't fight, so how can he resist Yuan's army?

  So at today's banquet, Yuan Shu celebrated the smooth start of spring plowing on the one hand, and expressed his favor to civil servants and generals on the other hand, and at the same time gathered people's hearts, preparing for the next conquest.

  But in the banquet hall, not everyone was as happy as Yuan Shu...

  Sun Ce was sitting in a corner of the lobby, seeing that everyone was celebrating, but he didn't have much thought, so he used the excuse of changing clothes, went out of the hall, and walked slowly along the path in the courtyard.

  No one is more dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's recuperation this year than Sun Ce.

  It's very simple, Sun Ce wants revenge.

Although Yuan Shu's current strategy is excellent and has achieved good results in terms of the general direction, but for Sun Ce personally, he doesn't care about other things. Huang Zu's head was cut off.

  According to the truth, dying on the battlefield is actually the fate of every soldier. There is nothing to complain about, and there is nothing to hold grudges. Sun Jian also killed a lot of people. Could it be that those who were killed had no parents, no wives and children? Could it be that only Sun Jian was allowed to kill people and others were not allowed to kill Sun Jian?

  But Sun Ce didn't care about these, he only believed in death, he only wanted to attack Jingzhou.

Although there are rumors that Sun Jian did not die at the hands of Liu Biao, but the Hun general Feiqian who had passed on a "call for the Yin Mountain" some time ago, but Sun Ce believes that this is actually the cowardly and incompetent Liu Biao. avoid guilt.

  Huong Zhonglang General Fei Qian is clearly in the north of Bingzhou, and Bingzhou is far away from here, how did he get to Jingzhou to defeat and behead Sun Jian?

And about this matter, Sun Ce also asked in detail several generals who had experienced this battle at that time. These generals who were brothers and sisters with his father, although he said that the forward of the Jingzhou soldiers was not Huang Zu, but another unknown General Huang, but Sun Jian was indeed ambushed to chase Liu Biao's car cover...

  So, do you need any other proof for this matter?

But Sun Ce was very helpless. After Sun Jian died, the Sun family's position in Yuan Shu's army dropped sharply, and even the soldiers were taken back by Yuan Shu. If it wasn't for Yuan Shu's chivalrous spirit, he didn't attack Sun Ce. But let him continue to lead the personal guards of the Sun family and generals such as Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, then there is really nothing...

  However, Sun Ce still has a good friend who has been with him and encouraged him. Of course, this person is Zhou Yu.

  For example, at this moment, seeing Sun Ce leaving the lobby, Zhou Yu followed silently, "Bo Fu, why are you here?"

   "...I felt a bit dull, so I came out to get some air..." Seeing that it was Zhou Yu, Sun Ce said without any concealment, "...Gong Jin, when do you think we can take Jingzhou and cut off Liu Biao's dog's head?"

   Zhou Yu could also understand Sun Ce's disrespect towards Liu Biao, but according to the current situation, there are still some difficulties. Zhou Yu looked around and saw that no one had noticed the two of them, so he moved closer to Sun Ce, motioned to go a little further, and then said in a low voice, "Mr. ? This matter must be considered in the long run..."

   "Alas!" Sun Ce waved his fist fiercely in the air, but sighed helplessly.

  Zhou Yu patted Sun Ce on the shoulder, and then said in a low voice, "...but you don't have to wait too long..."

  Sun Ce's eyes lit up all of a sudden, he turned around quickly, then looked at Zhou Yu with wide eyes and said, "Why? Why? Gong Jin, tell me!"

Zhou Yu smiled, with a hint of cunning at the corner of his mouth, and slightly signaled: "...look in the lobby...there are people from Yuzhou over there, right...Bo Fu still remembers such a feast a while ago, compared with it, there are so many gentry in Yuzhou now. More or less?"

  Due to dissatisfaction with Yuan Shu getting too close to Qingzhou Yellow Turban, Heishan Bandit and others during this period, some noble children who maintained traditional concepts left a lot.

   "..." Sun Ce frowned, then wrenched his fingers while counting.

"Okay, okay, don't count..." Zhou Yu interrupted Sun Ce's counting helplessly, and said, "...compared to the previous number, the number of people left is much better now, Bo Fu, do you know what this means? "

  Sun Ce still maintained the posture of wrench his fingers, and without thinking about it, he turned his head and asked Zhou Yu, "What does it mean?"

"Duke Yuan is a chivalrous man, but he doesn't know that people know the truth now... If one or two people from Yuzhou go to Yuan Cheqi or Caodong County, it will be difficult for Duke Yuan to go north to Yanzhou..." Zhou Yu shook his head slightly. That's right, but why are you always reluctant to move when you're with me, but you didn't hide anything, and continued to whisper, "...However, now that Mr. Yuan is in high spirits, he is eager to speak out for fear of causing trouble, so...but Mr. Yuan's family The great cause is great, and a small defeat is not harmful...and if Yuan Gong fails in his northward march, he must turn southward, so Bofu's opportunity will come..."

  (end of this chapter)