Three Kingdoms Eschatology

When the distance between the cavalry formations of the two armies was less than fifty battles, Zhang Ji's pupils narrowed in fear.He had never seen such cavalry before.

The entire war cavalry, man and horse, except for the lower half of the horse's leg, was tightly wrapped in scaly iron armor.The rows of warriors reflected the sunlight into a brilliant piece, so dazzling that Zhang Ji couldn't even open his eyes.

That war horse was nearly six feet tall at the shoulders, a head taller than ordinary people.The most peculiar thing about the knights on the horses is not that they are fully armored, but that in addition to holding a three-foot lance, they also have a five-foot-long club full of iron nails hanging beside the saddle.They didn't use a saber, but a blunt weapon like this!

This is the armored heavy cavalry newly unlocked by Feng Yu.The horses they ride are heavy horses bred in high-end horse farms, similar in size to Shire horses in the original world.

Although the speed and endurance of this horse are much lower than that of Xianbei's pony warhorse, it is close to Xiliang horse.But in terms of load, it far surpasses Xianbei horses and Xiliang horses.Because of its own weight, the impact force is naturally several times that of the latter.

Zhang Ji wanted to withdraw at this time, but there was no way to withdraw.The enemy cavalry is now within thirty battles.Dense arrows have been falling from the sky, and the light cavalry flying feathers behind the heavy cavalry began to shoot towards the front of the formation.

Zhang Ji's Xiliang iron cavalry, if compared with ordinary troops, the rider's armor is excellent.But at the moment, it can barely block the arrows fired at high speed.Their war horses can't do it.From time to time, you can see the horse jumping because of being shot and knocking the rider off the horse.

With a puff, a guard in front of Zhang Ji's left immediately fell to the ground on his mount.An arrow pierced directly through the head-on bone of the war horse.This personal guard also flew forward two times, and then was trampled to pieces by Wanma.

"Stand up, get ready to meet the enemy!" Zhang Ji mustered up his courage and shouted loudly, in fact, he was extremely desperate in his heart.Fortunately for him now, this battle did not bring his nephew Zhang Xiu here.

The cavalry formations of the two armies finally confronted each other at close range. After the horses of the heavy cavalry easily stabbed into the body of the opponent's man or horse, they let go of their hands and walked away.

However, when Xiliang iron cavalry's horse spear stabbed the heavy cavalry, the point of the spear often had a streak of sparks, drawing a deep scratch on the iron armor.

If you are lucky or if you stab it accurately, you can stab the spear head into the opponent's heavy armor at a nearly vertical angle with the huge kinetic energy of the hedge, but you will also be knocked off your horse by the huge reaction force.

After Feng Yujun's heavy cavalry in front passed by on the wrong horse, those Qingqi Feiyu had turned their horses and ran back, firing arrows while running.

When Feng Yujun's heavy cavalry turned their horses and took off their maces, they found that Zhang Ji's remaining thousand Xiliang cavalry had collapsed.

Hua Xiong snorted coldly: "Grandma, you ran away so quickly!" He then ordered the soldiers to issue a horn order to let Qingqi Feiyu and cavalry scouts continue to chase and defeat the enemy.

In the distance, a large group of Chang'an reclamation soldiers and the infantry battalion of the Huaxiong Army marched slowly towards the Huangbai City.They are also mixed with a large number of baggage convoys.

Those carts carried the components of the counterweight trebuchet.But it seems that there is no need now, because Yang Qiu in Huangbai City has already raised the white flag.While cleaning the battlefield, Zhang Ji's body was also found, and an arrow was shot into the bridge of his nose impartially.

Half a month ago, Yang Qiu, who was entrenched in the northern part of Jingzhaoyin, was attacked by Hua Xiong, and suffered consecutive defeats. He was forced to retreat to Huangbai City with the remnants of the defeated generals.And asked for reinforcements from Zhang Ji.

He didn't expect Zhang Ji to be defeated so easily today. If Yang Qiu hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it.Zhang Ji's military strength is one of the best among the various forces in Guanzhong.

Yang Qiu, who was watching the battle from a distance, could see clearly the whole battle process.Feng Yujun's terrifying combat power of reloading the cavalry made him feel more relaxed.Because he doesn't need to continue to hesitate between surrender and war.

Hua Xiong boarded this small town at the junction of the Guanzhong Plain and the Loess Plateau.To the south of him is the Guanzhong Plain, which is fertile and thousands of miles away, and to the north is the loess ridge plain connecting Mobei with thousands of ravines.

In just over a month, he wiped out Liang Xing and Yang Qiu in Jingzhaoyin territory, but he was still far away from the mission goal assigned to him by the main bus - to control the entire Guanzhong Plain west of the Yellow River.

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In the beautiful spring courtyard, Feng Yu was resting in the gazebo with his wife and concubine, as well as his son and daughter.There are three other women in the gazebo, they are Sun Ce's mother Wu Shi and Zhuge Xuan's two sisters-in-law.

Nearly ten children were chasing each other and playing in the yard.It made Feng Yu think that he was in an elementary school playground in some original world.

These children are naturally the children of three women, including Zhuge Liang and Sun Quan.Feng Yu would invite these two families to visit his mansion from time to time.

At this time, under the guidance of his servants, Cai Yong went straight to the pavilion.Wu's and Zhuge Liang's two aunts bid farewell to Feng Yu knowingly, and then greeted several times, summoned the children and left.The whole courtyard is clean at once.

Cai Yan asked with a smile, "My lord, come to Zhuyang today to see your daughter, or to discuss state affairs with your son-in-law?"

No, Cai Yong said with a serious expression: "This time I came here for state affairs."

Seeing this situation, Cai Yan knew that Cai Yong must have something important to discuss with Feng Yu.Then he said to Feng Yu: "Father and husband have important matters to discuss, so my concubine and younger sister will leave first." After that, she and Wei Li'er walked away talking and laughing with their children in their arms.

At this time, Feng Yu just asked, "What is Yue Zhan telling my son-in-law?"

Cai Yong stretched out two fingers and said, "Two things, one big and one small. Do you want to listen to the big one or the small one first?"

Feng Yu smiled and replied: "Then let's start with the small ones, lest I listen to the big ones first, and ignore the small things because of being too surprised."

"The trivial matter is that the court did not agree with Liu Biao's recommendation, because Zhu Jun and Yang Biao disagreed. You should know their importance in the court. On the contrary, they think Zhu Hao, the son of Zhu Jun, is more suitable."

"I've expected this. I'll talk about it later. What about the big one?"

"The big one is Yuan Shao, even Yuan Shu is against him!"

"Ah?!" Feng Yu was taken aback. This is indeed a major event that affects the overall situation of the world.

Chapter 142

These days, the envoys and guards who command one side are the same as the thieves and bandits who occupy the mountain as king, they are all dominant and self-contained separatist forces.

If we strictly follow the legal standards of the Great Han Dynasty ten years ago, Feng Yu's system panel will display 43 forces in the world, including Feng Yu himself.One counts as one, and they are all qualified to be called rebels in the imperial court.Therefore, it is impossible for the imperial court to "demand" the princes according to the previous laws.

Then Cai Yong said that "the two Yuans have turned against each other" can only refer to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu wants to openly usurp Yuan and proclaim himself emperor, rebelling against the Han Dynasty.

If it is said that Yuan Shu is the only one like this, Feng Yu will not be surprised at all, because Yuan Shu has done this in the history of the original world.But now Cai Yong is saying that the two Yuans are all like this, so this is too different from the history of the original world.

But Feng Yu was just surprised for a moment, and he will soon come to his senses.

Since he killed the two thieves Li Jue and Guo Si, the trend of history has become more and more deviated from the direction of the original world.Even the order and time of appearance of the court year names are different.According to the original history, after Chuping should be Xingping, but now skip directly to Jian'an year.Then it is not surprising that Yuan Shao tried to arrogate his name.

At the moment, Feng Yu wanted to know more details of the matter, so he asked, "How did the imperial court know that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have objected?"

At this time, Cai Yong had already sat down in the gazebo, while sipping the tea soup, he narrated the matter from beginning to end.

It turned out that it was not long after Feng Yu returned from Xuzhou.The princes of the court in Wandu agreed on one thing - to send court envoys to the various princes to grant talismans and seals, and to recognize their titles and official positions.At the same time, an edict was issued to the princes to stop the war, and the content was that the princes recognized by the court should not meet each other privately.

Most of these titles and official positions were recommended by others, but never received a reply from the court.A small part is self-proclaimed.There are also very few official titles that Dong Zhuo was granted when he was in charge of the court, but did not go through a formal conferment ceremony.

Of course, not every force can be recognized by the court.For example, the Xiliang remnants of Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, and Guo Si are not listed here.There are also forces that are too weak to be filtered out.

Feng Yu nodded when he heard this.Cai Yong also told him about this when he came to Zhucheng.He also believed that this move was a wise move by the imperial court, and it was also beneficial to his planning for the overall situation of the world.

Now the imperial court with only [-] troops, even with the help of Feng Yu.Eliminate all separatist forces and restore the world to the previous era of centralized imperial power.It is unlikely to be possible until the state of sparsely populated land is not changed.

What's more, did Feng Yu have the idea of ​​helping the Han Dynasty and restoring the Liu Han Dynasty to the previous era of centralized imperial power.

Even if the imperial court does not recognize these princes, they still exist in reality.This, on the contrary, weakened the prestige of the imperial court, which was already scarce.

On the contrary, if the Han Dynasty followed Zhou Tianzi, the imperial court would recognize the names and status quo of some major princes.Evolve their separatist status into a legal enfeoffment in exchange for their recognition of the co-lord status of the Han Dynasty.It is undoubtedly the best choice for the Han Dynasty at the moment.

In this way, although the Han Dynasty has no strength, it has no conditions to eliminate the princes.However, with the status of the co-lord of the world, he can guide and integrate them to achieve a balance of power and maintain the status quo.It will not allow a certain force to be too powerful to replace the Han Dynasty.Objectively speaking, it can also allow the people of the world to rest and recuperate and restore the population.

Seeing that Feng Yu only nodded and did not express his opinion, Cai Yong continued:

"Unexpectedly, the envoys sent by the imperial court to Yuan Shu's office in Shouchun were detained by Yuan Shu and sent to prison. The envoys sent to Yuan Shao's office in Yecheng were not detained, but they were beaten with fifty army sticks and driven back."

"Then what is their reason for doing this?"

"Yuan Shu doesn't know, but Yuan Shao's side. According to the envoy who came back, Yuan Shao treated him with courtesy a few days before he arrived in Yecheng. But then he was summoned suddenly, claiming that the court of Wandu is now Controlled by several ministers, it is a puppet court, and the Han Dynasty is actually dead. He, Yuan Shao, does not recognize the Wandu court."

When Cai Yong said this, he looked up at Feng Yu and said, "This is Yuan Shao's public excuse, and the actual reason is definitely not the case. Can the son-in-law guess the real thoughts of these two Yuans?"

Feng Yu pondered his thoughts for a moment, and replied: "The Yuan family has four generations and three princes, and the former officials are all over the world. These make Er Yuan's ambitions expand, and they have different aspirations. They are not stupid, especially Yuan Shao. This ambition is on display publicly."

Feng Yu took a sip of tea soup and continued: "But since the imperial court moved its capital to Wancheng, although it is impossible for the Han Dynasty to seize the power of the princes and gather them in their hands, the status of the co-lord of the world is increasing day by day. This will greatly hinder the two Yuans' cooperation. Ambition realized.

Especially this time the imperial court publicly sent envoys to the princes to perform worship ceremonies, issued an edict of truce to stop the war, and won the consensus of the princes all over the world, which made Er Yuan feel anxious that his ambition could not be realized. "

Cai Yong said angrily: "So, they want to make a gesture in front of the princes of the world, attack the prestige of the Han Dynasty, disintegrate the consensus between the princes and the princes, and the Han Dynasty and the princes. Pave the way for their ambition to replace the Han Dynasty in the future!"

"That's right. If the Han Dynasty perishes, then the feudal lords will perish. If the feudal lords are in chaos, then the Han Dynasty will perish. The world consensus will be reached, and Er Yuan's ambition will be impossible to realize..." Feng Yu stopped talking when he said this.

In fact, the second half of the words he kept in his heart were:

Even if the Han Dynasty dies, not all the princes will die, and the few remaining families will divide the world equally.It is impossible for Er Yuan to dominate the world like Ying Zheng and Liu Bang in his lifetime.Because the population is too thin.

This principle is easy to understand with an example. If 1 people are concentrated in one city, it is easy to rule.What about spreading them over a hundred square kilometers?What about scattered over [-] square kilometers of land?People may not be able to find it, how to centralize the power to rule them?

The adoption of the enfeoffment system instead of the prefecture and county system in the early Zhou Dynasty is not necessarily because Zhou Tianzi didn't have the brains, but because of the limited population and transportation, he couldn't do it even if he had that idea.

In the history of the original world, it seems that the Three Kingdoms are the result of the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Yiling.However, Feng Yu believed that with the population density and traffic conditions at that time, the centralized rule of one-third of the world could be maintained at most.The population of the current world is even thinner. If the Han Dynasty dies, there may be more than the Three Kingdoms.

"Then...my son-in-law, what do you think the court should do now?" Cai Yong's question jolted Feng Yu out of his thoughts.

"Of course the imperial court should issue an edict to the world and call on the princes to seek thieves."

Cai Yong's face turned pale when he heard this, and he stammered, "This... how powerful the two Yuans are, you...you should know, and that Yanzhou Cao Cao is also an ally with Yuan Shao. You have to make it public... Do you want the imperial court to publicly issue an edict to attack them?"

Two Yuans plus one Cao, even with Feng Yu as the backing, the court in Nanyang Wancheng would be hard to resist.Which princes dare to provoke them?

Chapter 143 Cascading and Staggering

Seeing that Cai Yong was so nervous, Feng Yu said with a smile: "Don't worry, Yuezhang, Cao Cao will definitely not be with Er Yuan, even if he thinks Er Yuan has a good chance of winning, he will not do so. Because he and his staff are smart people On the contrary, he will definitely respond to the imperial edict and follow the order to hunt down the thieves."

After a pause, Feng Yu reminded again: "Of course, the imperial court should send an envoy to contact Cao Cao. Now Yue Zhan should think about how to persuade the princes in the court. Let them know that if the imperial court does not come forward to unite with the princes to fight against the usurper Eryuan, the princes of the world will be in chaos, and if the princes are in chaos, the Han Dynasty will surely perish!"

Cai Yong tilted his head and said: "This is a difficult task, but I am confident that I can still convince those old guys."

Immediately afterwards, he remembered something and said, "My son-in-law, you forgot to discuss the matter of Yuzhang County with the old man, if Liu Biao does not take the court's side at this juncture because of this matter, what should we do? Should the old man persuade Taiwei Yang Biao and Zhu Jun to take back Zhu Hao's appointment as prefect of Yuzhang County, but this will be very difficult to succeed."

Feng Yu thought about it seriously, and said: "You can try, but it doesn't matter if you can't be persuaded. Liu Biao has reached a tacit agreement with the imperial court before, and now he is going back on his word and extending his hand to neighboring states. It is a mistake. Don't worry, Liu Biao At most, he stays out of the matter, and he will never side with Er Yuan because of this matter."

Weng and son-in-law talked about it for a while before Cai Yong got up to leave.After Feng Yu sent him away, he ordered his left and right: "Go and call Xun Guoxiang and Jia Lingjun."

Not long after, Feng Yu met Xun You and Jia Xu in the study of the mansion.After some talk, the three of them looked at the map on the table and discussed it carefully.

Jia Xu's head was shaking like a rattle drum, and a long speech had come out of his mouth:

"My lord, it's not enough to just bring Cao Cao here. You see, this Yuan Shao has occupied most of the four prefectures, occupying the north of the Yellow River. The surrounding forces can't match him. The only one who can fight, Gongsun Zan, has retreated to Yijing and was defeated." It's a matter of time.

Yuan Shu occupies the entire Huainan Runan.To the south of him are small forces composed of wealthy families from Jiangdong.The governor of Yangzhou is also empty now, and their forces cannot be integrated.Then Er Yuan can concentrate on attacking Cao Cao from north to south.Of course, Tao Qian in the east can still support Cao Cao, but didn't these two meet each other, and they still have the revenge of killing their father.How could it be so easy to resolve the conflict and fight side by side..."

Feng Yu interrupted him and said, "That's right, it's not enough to just bring Cao Cao here, we also need to disintegrate Yuan Shu's forces. Let the dismantled forces integrate Jiangdong."

Xun You was a little puzzled, "Disintegrate Yuan Shu's power? What kind of power?" Then, he suddenly realized: "My lord, is it Sun Ce?"

"That's right, it's Sun Ce. According to news from Jiujiang, Sun Ce has now been sent by Yuan Shu to Jiangdong to attack the city and seize land for him. Sun Ce has the will to stand on his own, but he hasn't found the opportunity yet. To become emperor, he must take the opportunity to stand on his own."

After Feng Yu finished speaking, he stared at the map on the desk.The future situation of the world has been visualized in his mind.

From north to south, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, Sun Ce.Like a cocktail, the enemy and the enemy are layered and intertwined.

……

In April of the first year of Jian'an, it is early summer.In a large hall of Xuchang City's mansion, more than a dozen people were gathering together, discussing in whispers.

It was Cao Cao who was at the top of these people, and he summoned all his core staff and generals.

Cao Cao glanced at the hall and saw that everyone had arrived, so he spoke Shi Shiran and said, "Everyone, both Yecheng and Wancheng have sent envoys and envoys to us recently. The details have been confirmed before the meeting." It has been reported to everyone, and you must have read it and understood it clearly. What do you think about this?"

Before he finished speaking, there was a crisp voice: "My lord, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu insulted and detained the imperial envoy, and blatantly uttered presumptuous words. Now they have sent a letter to share the world with the lord, which is blatant and blatant." Rebellion, openly being a traitor. How can we be with them."

Cao Cao looked around and saw that it was Xun Yu.Cao Cao didn't reply, just smiled.Someone already took Xun Yu's words and said:

"Xun Lingjun's words are wrong. Now the Han Dynasty has survived in name only. If there is no Han Dynasty, how can there be the words of Han bandits? Entrenched in Huainan and Runan, occupying several counties. The two of them together have 20 soldiers and hundreds of strong generals. If we fight against them with only tens of thousands of troops, wouldn't we be hitting a stone with an egg?" The speaker was Mao Jie, the shogunate.

Cao Cao still asked with a smile: "Xiao Xian's intention is to ask someone to fight against the Han together with Er Yuan?"

Mao Jie quickly replied: "My lord, Jie didn't mean that. What I mean is that we can just stay out of the matter. There is no need to worry about this nominal Han court."

At this time, a young man said leisurely: "It would be great if we can really stay out of the matter, but unfortunately we can't!"

Cao Cao followed the prestige, his eyes lit up: "Feng Xiao, what do you mean by that?"

That person was Cao Cao's army sacrificial wine Guo Jia, Guo Jia said:

"If Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu really pretended to be the emperor, what would they do? There are only two things they can do. One is to wipe out the forces around them that have not yet belonged to them, and the other is to break through Wandu and destroy the Han Dynasty. Whoever is first and who is later, I can't stay out of it. Because we are sandwiched between the two Yuans, blocking Nanyang's side."

Cao Cao said with a chuckle: "If Er Yuan goes to besiege Nanyang Wancheng first, Feng Yu will definitely go to rescue each other, and the two will fight. Let Feng Yu and Er Yuan fight first. Wouldn't it be good for me to reap the benefits of the fisherman? Beautiful."

Before Guo Jia could reply, Xun Yu sneered secretly and rushed to say:

"My lord, if the Han Dynasty is destroyed, Feng Yu will shrink back into the mountains, and Yuan Jun will have nothing to do with him. The subordinates have watched Zhuyang's defense in the early years, and Yuan Jun is absolutely unwilling to gnaw at that kind of hard bone first. Return to the teacher first to level the Central Plains.

At that time, the lord had only two choices, one was to fight alone to the end, because no one could call on the princes to fight against Yuan, and no one dared to come to support the lord.The second is to bow down to the two Yuans and be their courtiers. After this life, the life and death of the lord, wealth and honor, and the gains and losses of wives, maidservants and concubines will all be determined by one of the two Yuans! "

When Cao Cao heard this, his expression changed, but it was not angry.

Guo Jia added without losing the opportunity: "My lord, don't imagine that after the two Yuans conquered the Han Dynasty and other vassals, we would benefit from the battles. Before that, Yuan Shaoneng formed an alliance with us to deal with Gongsun Zan and avoid Enemy behind him. At present, Gongsun Zan is trapped in Yijing, and his destruction is imminent. There will be no such condition in the future.

In addition, since the two Yuans were able to make the act of arrogance by coincidence at this time, it is obvious that they have already turned their enemies into friends and made a connection in advance.They may even have negotiated plans and conditions to win the world!

Of course, it will be a matter of time before they fight each other, but before that, they will definitely attack us first. "

Cao Cao's face became heavy, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Chapter 144 Two Yuan Proclaims Emperor

In Yecheng, Jizhou, a newly built altar stands on the eastern outskirts of the city.On the morning of May, the sunshine here is still soft, not as sinister as in the south.The altar casts long shadows on the earth.

The surrounding area of ​​the altar has long been lined with armored soldiers, heavily guarded with swords and guns.A large number of officials and nobles are waiting outside the armor.On the outer layer, there are ordinary people who are sparsely watching the excitement.A road paved with yellow sand extends from the altar to the city gate.Both sides of the road are also full of martial law soldiers.

The sound of drums, ceremonies and music was faintly heard in the city, and a large group of carriages, sedan chairs and public servants rushed out of the city gate to the altar, surrounded by cavalry.Where the team passed by, the soldiers ordered the people on both sides to kneel down and worship, shouting long live.

After a while, Che Yu arrived at the altar.A person got off from the most luxurious car, wearing a jade crown and dragon robe, tall and tall, with a white face and long beard, thick eyebrows and fine eyes.