Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

So, amidst the thanks of everyone, Li Yi said again: "Guo Jia, Kuai Yue, Xu Huang listen to the order!"

The three of them looked straight, and hurried forward and said: "This subordinate is here!"

"Jingnan is established, the three of you will draw up a list of meritorious soldiers, and after I make a decision, I will play the emperor and ask for merit for the soldiers!"

"In addition, immediately spread the news of the recovery of Jingnan to all the counties and counties in Jingzhou, and pass the heads of Liu Du and his son to the officials of the counties and counties. Be sure to let them take warning!"

"Order Cai Mao to celebrate the victory in Jingnan with Xiangyang officials on my behalf!"

Guo Jia wrote down these words of Li Yi one by one, thought for a while and asked, "My lord, why don't you wait to host the celebration after returning to Xiangyang?"

Li Yi shook his head and said: "Don't worry, the army is settling down in Yi County today, and the soldiers will be rewarded at night. In two days, you and Xu Huang will lead most of the troops to cross the river north and return to Xiangyang to repair, take over the defense, reorganize the troops, and let Cai Mao go to Changsha Go to office!"

"Also, Dian Wei, Huo Jun, Kuai Yue, the three of you and three thousand soldiers and horses will stay with me to patrol the counties in southern Jing and appease the people. As for when I will return to Xiangyang, hehe, let's talk about it when the time comes!"

Many people present were at a loss. They understood that Li Yi wanted to stay in Jingnan to appease the people, but it was not very clear what timing Li Yi said.

But not everyone is confused, Guo Jia saw that although Li Yi was talking about Jingzhou affairs, but his eyes were looking in the direction of Xuzhou, he immediately understood, and then clasped his fists and said: "Please rest assured, my subordinates will definitely handle things properly." !"

Kuai Yue also understood Li Yi's thoughts, but he was more concerned about Li Yi leaving him with him, which made him a little helpless, because Kuai Yue knew that Li Yi might have recognized him very much, but recognition belongs to recognition After all, I still can't completely trust him.

Li Yi's attack on Jingnan is a major event worthy of the attention of the world. There may be other forces obstructing it, and even Chang'an will have some criticisms about his deed of leaving Yangzhou for Jingnan, but in fact, Li Yi The actions in Jingnan did not attract too much attention, and the court did not say a word.

This is certainly due to the fact that the Jingnan War ended too quickly, but it is more because during this period of time, there are too many "active" people in the world

Before Gongsun Zan in Hebei fought with Yuan Shao, the two sides had completely torn their faces apart, and no one would give in. Normally, the fight between the two should continue this year, but because of Yuan Shu's incident, Yuan Shao was unintentionally ruthless. Now, there are many rumors in the market about the Yuan family's disobedience, which has a great influence on Yuan Shao who is determined to unify Hebei.

Yuan Shao is indeed unwilling to be lonely, and wants to use Hebei as the foundation to achieve a hegemony in this troubled world, but although his strength is strong now, there are still many people with similar strength in the world, Yuan Shao is much calmer than Yuan Shu, Knowing that now is not the time to lose righteousness, Yuan Shao resolutely admits he is cowardly, decides not to fight for now, shrinks his troops and horses to avoid the limelight, and changes the offensive strategy to recuperate, in order to show that he is still a loyal minister of the great man.

However, Yuan Shao's opponent, Gongsun Zan, was extremely happy to see Yuan Shu's rebellion and the reputation of the Yuan family had problems. , arbitrarily collecting taxes and food, trying to take down Yuan Shao in one go, but it made the people of Youzhou miserable.

Seeing this, Liu Yu, Shepherd of Youzhou, couldn't stand it anymore. Liu Yu was a person who cared for the people very much. He couldn't tolerate Gongsun Zan's actions that harmed the people. So Liu Yu led the army to attack Gongsun Zan. Whereas, most of the common people and officials were willing to follow him, but Liu Yu didn't understand war and acted with hesitation. In the end, he was defeated by Gongsun Zan with a small number of soldiers and horses. Even he himself was captured alive and became Gongsun Zan's puppet.

Just at this time, Chang'an was very dissatisfied with Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao because of their years of fighting. In addition, what happened to Yuan Shu before, the imperial court was even more worried about the situation in Hebei, so they sent envoys to Youzhou to seal Liu Yu , Let Liu Yu take charge of the affairs of the Hebei states.

However, the envoy of the Son of Heaven went one step too late. Liu Yu had already been captured by Gongsun Zan, and the envoy of the Son of Heaven was also threatened by Gongsun Zan's sword. , Youzhou animal husbandry, false festivals, and the governor of the four states of You, Bing, Qing, and Ji.

To put it simply, Gongsun Zan forced the emperor's envoys to appoint him as the lord of the four prefectures in Hebei!

Gongsun Zan's move was crazy, not much different from a rebellion, and directly defeated his good reputation as General White Horse and his achievements in the past.

Liu Yu's reputation in Youzhou was very good. Gongsun Zan killed him unjustly, and seemed to replace him, and completely controlled the power of Youzhou. At first glance, he was much stronger, but in fact, Gongsun Zan had lost the hearts of the people and soldiers. The human heart has made the imperial court even worse. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is suffering from internal and external troubles.

Yuan Shao, who was cursing his stupid brother at home, heard that Gongsun Zan had done such a rebellious thing, but he let go of his depression and laughed out loud.

Yuan Shu wrote to the imperial court, saying that Gongsun Zan had conspired against him, and asked the imperial court to punish him. At the same time, he summoned troops to fight Gongsun Zan again!

As a result, the flames of war in Hebei rose again.

Liu Yu's death represented that the great man had completely lost control of Hebei. Even though he knew that Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao were not good people, the court could only watch Hebei's corruption a little bit, and it was useless.

With such a serious illness in Hebei, Li Yi beat a few disobedient "little officials" within his jurisdiction. It was really just a drizzle, and it was not a big deal at all.

Of course, the court just didn't say anything, but in fact they still had some opinions on Li Yi in their hearts.

Because whether it was Li Yi who captured Jingnan, or the imperial court appointed Jingzhou Mu, Li Yi immediately gave all the positions of prefects to his own people, and did not share any soup with the imperial court.

There are so many bigwigs in the court, including their former disciples and their own children, they all need to be arranged and distributed. In today's world situation, Yizhou and Jingzhou are the safest places for officials to be released, but Yizhou is remote. , so Jingzhou is the first choice, but Li Yi didn't leave anyone with a mouthful of soup, so it will naturally make people unhappy.

However, even if those people in the court are unhappy, there is nothing they can do. After all, Hebei is already rotten, and Yangzhou is also rotten. It's really dangerous.

Moreover, since Li Yi took office, he began to pay tribute to the court, and his attitude was very good. Although the things he gave were not many, it couldn't hold back that Chang'an is too poor now.

Today the world is too chaotic, and many places have cut off the supplies that should have been sent to the imperial court, leaving Jingzhou, Yizhou, Yuzhou and other places that can support one or two.

Originally, Yanzhou and Xuzhou could also pay tribute to the imperial court, but after Li Yi sent troops to Jingnan, Cao Cao immediately fought with Tao Qian, making Xuzhou a war-torn place second only to Hebei. people can't care

After Cao Cao sent troops to Xuzhou, his first goal was Pengcheng. Although Tao Qian was prepared, the gap between the two sides' commanders was too great, and Xuzhou's soldiers were not as good. He lost the first battle and lost troops. Cao Cao took advantage of the situation and took Guangzhou. In Qixian City, Tao Qian hurriedly sent more troops to help, but was defeated by Cao Cao again, and the whole army was wiped out!

So far, Tao Qian's lack of arrogance was directly defeated by Cao Cao, thinking that Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were brave and unstoppable, so Tao Qian decided to abandon Pengcheng, shrink the defense line, and withdraw all the soldiers and horses back to Donghai County to defend.

As a result, Cao Cao's army went out several times, and it didn't take much effort to take down Pengcheng, Fuyang and other counties one after another. Almost all the territory of Pengcheng fell into Cao Cao's hands.

After obtaining Pengcheng, Cao Cao did not continue to march because of lack of military rations, but collected food on the spot. However, because the methods were too rough, the people of Pengcheng wanted Tao Qian, so they often fled, so Cao Cao was furious and ordered People beheaded the fugitives, but they didn't want to provoke a mutiny. After a bloody suppression, tens of thousands of people became innocent souls, and their bodies went with the flowing water, and the whole Xuzhou was full of mourning.

When news of Cao Cao's killing of the people spread to Jingnan, Li Yi was on tour in Guiyang. After getting the news, he immediately returned north. When he passed Changsha, he brought Cai Hao with him, because he was going to formally accept Cai Yu into his house.

At the concubine's banquet, someone asked Li Yi about Xuzhou, and Li Yi shed tears again and again, showing his sympathy and grief for the people of Xuzhou.

Then the next day, someone began to publicize Cao Cao's massacre of the people in Jingzhou. For a while, Cao Cao's notoriety in Jingzhou was almost comparable to that of Yuan Shu.

At this time, some generals under Li Yi thought that Li Yi would send troops to Xuzhou, so they began to call for a battle, but Li Yi refused all of them. When someone asked, Li Yi only said that the time had not come, and he had to wait.

The battle in Xuzhou continued. After Cao Cao was repaired in Pengcheng, he sent troops to Donghai County again. Tao Qian ordered Kaiyang Cavalry Captain Zang Ba to help him. , but also helpless to Zang Ba.

Fortunately, because Cao Cao's previous act of massacring the people in Pengcheng made Xuzhou people fearful and angry, and they shared the same hatred with the enemy in grief and anger. Therefore, although Cao Cao's soldiers were still fierce, all the cities in Donghai County were fighting to the death.

Tao Qian knew the truth that if you keep for a long time, you will lose, so he took this opportunity to write to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to reconcile, and at the same time wrote to Qingzhou and Yuzhou, hoping that Tian Kai, the governor of Qingzhou, and Kong Rong of Yuzhou would send troops to rescue him.

Tian Kai was Gongsun Zan's subordinate, and he had a good relationship with Tao Qian, but because Yuan Shao had signs of raising an army, even though Tian Kai wanted to help Tao Qian, he didn't dare to divide the army for a while, fearing that Yuan Shao would take advantage of him.

However, Kong Rong in Yuzhou was very righteous. When he first heard that Cao Cao slaughtered the people, he was very angry. He wrote directly to reprimand Cao Cao, calling him not a son of man.

Seeing that Kong Rong scolded him like a grandson in the letter, Cao Cao was very angry. Although he hated Kong Rong so much, but considering Li Yi in Jingzhou, he endured it. No matter what, I want to appease Kong Rong for the time being.

But Kong Rong's attitude was very stubborn, and he wrote again asking Cao Cao to withdraw his troops, and because Kong Rong hated Cao Cao's actions in Xuzhou, he decided to draw a clear line with Cao Cao, and even Cao Cao's brothers should be kept at a respectful distance. Cao Cao and Kong Rong made an agreement, and the matter of letting Lu Bu go to Yingchuan as the prefect fell through.

Just when Cao Cao was so angry with Kong Rong that his head hurt, Tao Qian's envoy arrived in Yuzhou.

Kong Rong was very straightforward, and agreed to send troops to help Tao Qian without saying a word, but it took half a month from his promise to the dispatch of troops.

After Kong Rong issued the order, although he immediately began to mobilize troops and horses, he did not start immediately after the troops and horses were ready, because Kong Rong had already written to the emperor, and he had to wait for the emperor's approval before sending troops.

Many people under Kong Rong's command said that the military situation was urgent, and such a delay would inevitably lose the opportunity, but Kong Rong refused, saying that doing so was against the law and that things must be done according to the procedure. Rong reprimanded.

After more than ten days, finally waited for the reply from the court. Kong Rong asked Tai Shici, the general he brought from Beihai, to lead [-] troops to Xuzhou to help Tao Qian. As a result, the troops had just arrived at Xiaopei, and hadn't left Yuzhou yet. He was defeated by Cao Cao, who had been waiting here for a long time, with a three-way ambush. Numerous soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, and all the supplies were lost. Even Tai Shici himself almost lost his life there.

Yuzhou suffered heavy losses in this battle, and less than 2000 of the [-] soldiers and horses came back. Kong Rong had just arrived in Yuzhou and had not gained a foothold. This time, he decided to help Tao Qian, and he was stubbornly procrastinating. This defeat was all the fault of Kong Rong alone, so for a while, there were many voices of dissatisfaction with Kong Rong, a great Confucian, in Yuzhou.

However, after Cao Cao defeated Yuzhou's reinforcements, his army's morale was greatly boosted. He also robbed Xiaopei, got a lot of supplies, and then returned to the army to continue to deal with Tao Qian.

Tao Qian was very bitter. He didn't expect Kong Rong to be so useless. Seeing that Cao Cao was robbing every place he passed by, he could only ask Tian Kai for help again. At the same time, Tao Qian also followed Mi Zhu's suggestion to be on the safe side. , sent Mi Fang to Li Yi for help, hoping that Li Yi could mediate between him and Cao Cao. Of course, it would be even better if Li Yi could send troops, especially if he sent troops to copy Cao Cao's hometown in Yanzhou.

Chapter 453 Liu Bei enters Xuzhou

The Mi family has now completely relied on Li Yi, and even Li Yi's intelligence network is managed by the Mi family. Therefore, after Mi Fang arrived in Xiangyang, without saying a word, she directly accepted Tao Qianming's superficial request and the hidden secret behind it. What he meant, without reservation, told Li Yi everything.

Li Yi first praised and affirmed the merits Mi Fang and his brother had done to him, and then sneered again and again.