mtl008 Chapter 154
Chapter 154
With Zang Ba’s surrender, Cao Chun was captured.
Of Cao’s 60,000 troops, few escaped.
From Zang Ba’s mouth, Lü Bu learned that Cao Cao had taken several advisers and other generals from Cao Ying to Qingzhou on a trail.
In response, Lü Bu tried to continue the pursuit.
But Zhao Yun dissuaded Lü Bu in time.
According to the time, Cao Cao has probably arrived in Qingzhou with the army that took the trail.
If you continue to pursue, I am afraid that it will be in vain.
Generally.
This annihilation of Cao Ying’s 60,000 troops is equivalent to destroying half of Cao Cao’s living force.
For Cao Cao, it was tantamount to a devastating blow.
After this.
Zhao Yun and Lü Bu led their troops and prisoners back to the military town of Xiaopei in Xuzhou.
Near Xiaopei, wait for Gu Yi to come and receive the prisoners.
This time, the reason why Gu Yi sent troops to Cao Cao.
The original purpose was precisely to rescue Mi Zhu, Chen Deng, Cao Bao and others who asked him for help.
Thus.
It is also imperative to take Xuzhou.
Of course, when Chen Deng, Cao Bao, and Mi Zhu sent Sun Qian as an envoy to ask Gu Yi for help.
In fact, it already means that Xuzhou is already in Gu Yi’s pocket.
Gu Yi rushed to Xuzhou, to put it bluntly, he came to go through the process and re-divide the cake in Xuzhou.
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Qingzhou
Near Beihai City
Since the failure of the second coalition of princes against Dong Zhuo.
Therefore, in the land of Qingzhou, all that remains are some miscellaneous fish characters led by mountain thieves.
The three forces of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zan all quickly targeted Qingzhou.
But they are due to various external factors.
Only a small number of troops could be sent to Qingzhou.
I hope to occupy this land first.
This time, except for Jizhou, Hezhou, and Youzhou, Qingzhou was already Cao Cao’s final destination.
After learning the news that Cao Cao led his army to Qingzhou.
The small number of troops left by Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao in Qingzhou withdrew from Qingzhou very tacitly.
Avoid a head-on conflict with the menacing Cao Cao.
Never underestimate the explosive power of a person in a desperate situation.
Qingzhou was already Cao Cao’s last shelter.
If Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan were unwilling to withdraw the troops stationed in Qingzhou.
Cao Cao would turn his face on the spot and slaughter the small number of troops they had left behind in Qingzhou.
In this way, Cao Cao successfully entered Beihai City.
And quickly sent Cao Ren, Li Dian, Li Tong, Lü Qian, and others to occupy the surrounding cities.
But.
What made Cao Cao feel very worried.
Logically.
Zang Ba and Cao Chun, who led 60,000 Cao troops on the road, should have already led their army to rush here one step ahead of him.
But so far, there has been no news.
Intuition told Cao Cao that I was afraid that Cao Chun and Zang Ba were most likely to have an accident.
Worried, he had to send spies to the road from Yanzhou to Qingzhou to investigate the situation.
A few days later.
The spies returned with a terrified look on their faces and reported to Cao Cao that Zang Ba and Cao Chun’s entire army had been destroyed.
“Ah!!!”
“How did it end up like this?”
“The two of them have a full 60,000 troops in their hands.”
“Even if it is 60,000 pigs, I am afraid that the entire army will not be wiped out, right?”
A bowl of Cao’s rice bowl fell.
Cao Cao’s heart was full of doubts and puzzlement.
He didn’t understand, how could a whole army of 60,000 suddenly disappear?
Xia Zhicai and Guo Jia on the side said without speaking:
“Lord, I’m afraid that the ambush of General Zang Ba and General Cao Chun is not an ordinary army.”
“It’s the Union State Wolf Ride and the West Liang Iron Ride!”
The reminders of the two advisers reminded Cao Cao of the dilemma of being dominated by these two elite iron horses under the Xianshui Pass and the Tiger Prison Pass.
Is Cao Cao powerful?
Of course it’s awesome!
If there is no Gu Yi.
At this time, Cao Cao had almost completed the two major things of “welcoming the Son of Heaven and holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes”.
But now.
Although Cao Cao occupied Qingzhou by thunderous means.
But how can the dilapidated Qingzhou be compared with his old nest Yanzhou?
Don’t look at Yanzhou, Cao Cao’s old nest in history, often broke out of natural disasters and fell into the dilemma of running out of grain.
But Yanzhou suffered from natural disasters, and there were no natural disasters in other states?
As a matter of fact.
In the late Han Dynasty, Qingzhou was the most calamitous state!
Millions of displaced people left Qingzhou to seek a living in Yanzhou and Xuzhou next door.
Fundamentally, why was Qingzhou so miserable in the late Han era?
Because my uncle doesn’t hurt, my grandmother doesn’t love it.
There were no strong princely forces occupying this place, and Qingzhou became a favorite gathering place in the hearts of the mountain thieves.
As everyone knows.
The two states of Jizhou and Yuzhou, as the top two in the GDP of the Han Dynasty, are far more prosperous than other states.
The division of Qingzhou in terms of geographical boundaries belongs to the four prefectures of Hebei.
But at the same time, Qingzhou and the other three prefectures in Hebei are not so close.
Between the Central Plains, the two prefectures of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, although not as prosperous as those of Hebei and Yu, are also interconnected.
Each other, there is a lot of cultural identity.
(Such as the mountain in later generations. East and Xuzhou have a close relationship with each other. ）
And Qingzhou is embarrassed.
You say that it belongs to the four prefectures of Hebei, and the other three states do not recognize it.
You say that it belongs to the Central Plains, and several states in the Central Plains do not play with it.
Of course.
Qingzhou is not without prosperity.
In the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, Qingzhou can be called the paradise of the six eastern countries!
The capital of the State of Qi, Linzi, is even more in Qingzhou.
But…… Circumstances change with the passage of time.
Accompanied Qin Shi Huang to sweep away the Six Kingdoms.
The development of Qingzhou then became very embarrassing.
During the period of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, among the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, there was not a single Qingzhou person.
On the contrary, Qingzhou is also one of Wang Mang’s core bases.
That’s embarrassing.
Liu Xiu, who won the battle against Wang Mang, naturally wanted to invest more resources in his own Jizhou and Yuzhou.
And Qingzhou…
Sorry, you are not an initial shareholder.
You are even the last to join in, and without liquidating you, it is already very face-giving.
Of course, in some later novels of the Three Kingdoms, it may be advocated how prosperous and powerful Qingzhou is.
EMMM: In fact, this point is easy to verify the authenticity.
Throughout the more than 100 years from the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the return of the three points to Jin, the role played by Qingzhou has always been soy sauce.
It has never been a place where soldiers must fight, or a place where princes seek hegemony.
This is why a small Kong Rong can gain a firm foothold in Qingzhou.
It’s really… With your hands crossed at the waist, you can’t find an opponent!
A leader of the remnants of the yellow turban like Guan Hai. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
What I think about is actually to let the yellow turban thieves under his command eat.
I never thought about how to dominate the world.
The original history.
The reason why Yuan Shao sent his eldest son Yuan Tan to attack Qingzhou.
In fact, the main purpose is not to kill Kong Rong.
It was to take Qingzhou and facilitate the opening of the second battlefield for the conquest of Youzhou Gongsun Zhan.
Other words.
In the eyes of the princes, Qingzhou could not become a place to establish a career, at most it was only an auxiliary role.
But now.
Cao Cao no longer had a foothold in the north except Qingzhou.
0 for flowers 0
Of course.
There is another way.
That is, to snatch Gongsun Zhan’s Youzhou.
But how easy is that?
Since nominally defecting to Gu Yi, Gongsun Zhan’s waist has become straighter than before.
If Cao Cao wanted to kill Gongsun Zan and take Yanzhou, in addition to considering Gongsun Zhan’s combat effectiveness, he also had to consider Yuan Shao’s feelings.
After all.
Yuan Shao has always regarded Youzhou as something in his pocket.
How embarrassing it would be if he was suddenly taken away by Cao Cao to “lead the sheep”.
Now.
Cao Cao’s heart was full of worries about the future.
The loss of Zang Ba and Cao Chun, as well as 60,000 troops, made his situation even worse.
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Compared with Cao Cao’s worries.
Chen Deng, Cao Bao, Mi Zhu and others in Xuzhou have been much more comfortable in recent times.
After driving away Cao Cao, these three people can be described as “a small banquet in three days and a large banquet in five days”.
From the failure of the first crusade against Dong Zhuo by the coalition of princes.
Cao Cao, a prince who took Yanzhou as the foundation of his career, became a thorn in the eyes of the father and son of Xuzhou Tao Qian pottery merchants.
Besides.
The relationship between the Xuzhou family and the Yingchuan family headed by Xun Yu is not good.
The two sides can be described as the same water and fire, saber rattling.
After Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou under the banner of avenging his father, the two sides tore their faces apart.
If it weren’t for Yuan Shao’s sudden initiation of the Second Alliance of Princes.
I am afraid that between Cao Cao and Tao Qian, you have long been separated from life and death.
But even if the two sides signed an armistice, it only temporarily extinguished the flames of war.
Sure enough.
Not long after the alliance of princes ended, Cao Cao couldn’t wait to launch another campaign to attack Xuzhou.
With the blessing of various factors.
In the end, Chen Deng, Mi Zhu, Cao Bao and other people from the Xuzhou family were completely pushed to Gu Yi’s side.
For Gu Yi’s credibility.
Chen Deng, Mi Zhu, Cao Bao and others believed it.
After all.
Gu Yi has always been rewarding his own people.
Those who take the initiative to come over will also be rewarded as recognition.
After hearing the news of Gu Yi’s capture of Chen Liu, the three of them cheered even more, waiting for Gu Yi to rush to Pengcheng.
As for the titular lord of Xuzhou, the pottery merchant…
His life or death is not important to Chen Deng and others.
……
Soon.
After Gu Yi handled some government affairs in Yanzhou, he officially set off for Xuzhou.
Except for Guangling County in the south of Xuzhou.
The remaining counties, led by Chen Deng and others, have all expressed their allegiance.
However.
The Xuzhou family has a lot of influence in the land of Xuzhou.
Gu Yi naturally couldn’t let them continue to remain in their original form.
Therefore.
The promotion of the promoted.
Migration of the migration.
The recognition of the commendation.
However, if you want to continue to be the earth emperor and the earth head snake, sorry, this is not possible.
In such cases.
Chen Deng, Mi Zhu and others actively replaced Gu Yi and did ideological work to all families in Xuzhou.
However.
Just after all the families agreed to the conditions proposed by Gu Yi one after another.
Chen Deng and Mi Zhu smiled heartily.
Each brought his sister to interview Gu Yi.
They’re not fools.
Today, how to establish the most stable relationship with Gu Chengxiang?
Of course, through marriage!
Gu Cheng loves beauty, and this matter has long been spread throughout the Han.
And Chen Deng’s sister and Mi Zhu’s sister are also very famous beauties in Xuzhou.
Since there are already such high-quality resources at home, it is natural to make maximum use of them.
… Five….