Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2217: Demoted from King to Marquis, Zhao Shen succeeded to the throne

Jiyin.

In Tian Dan's army, when the news of Zhao Kuangyin's death in battle came, the entire army wailed.

I don’t know whether these people were crying for Zhao Kuangyin or for themselves.

After all, if Zhao Kuangyin was gone, these people here would become rootless water.

"My lord passed away before he could even start his business. I wish to support my young lord in taking over the throne. What are your opinions?"

After a moment of silence, Tian Dan stood in front of Zhao Kuangyin's spirit tablet and looked at the generals in the hall with a deep gaze.

Although he wanted to listen to the opinions of these generals, looking at Tian Dan's expression, he had no intention of listening to these people's opinions. He was just informing them!

At this time, all the generals in the hall did not dare to look Tian Dan in the eye.

The prestige he had accumulated as the number one figure in the army for more than ten years was unmatched by any of the generals present today.

If anyone present dared to say anything against it, a large number of soldiers would definitely rush in from outside and cut him into pieces.

"General, the lord is gone, so it is only natural for you to take over the throne!"

"But our army's food and grass are running out. What should we do? We need to think long-term!" Strategist Zhang Chengye sighed helplessly.

Tian Dan was defeated by Wei Qing because of insufficient food and grass. If Tian Dan had been given more leeway on the issue of food and grass, he would not have lost so miserably in that battle.

After that defeat, even though Tian Dan tried his best to gather the defeated soldiers as much as possible, he only managed to gather 20,000 troops.

Of course, in a sense, after this great defeat, the food and fodder pressure faced by Tian Dan dropped exponentially.

Although the pressure of food and fodder for 20,000 soldiers and horses was also extremely heavy, it was much better than the pressure of food and fodder for the soldiers and horses at the beginning.

Fortunately, Wei Qing received the order to return to Liangzhou to provide assistance at that time, otherwise, it would be hard to say whether Tian Dan would still be there at that time!
However, the problem of food and fodder was always a problem they could not solve.

"Dongjun and Chenliu have been lost, and the issue of raising grain..." Tian Dan said with a headache.

In the entire Yanzhou, the most essential parts are the two counties in the west, Dongjun and Chenliu. The former was the seat of Yanzhou during the Han Dynasty, while the latter was the political center during the Cao Cao period.

In Yanzhou, these two places have the highest population density and are also the most prosperous in all aspects.

If these two places cannot raise money and food, the situation in other places will only get worse. Moreover, at this time, whether it is Chenliu or Dongjun, they are no longer within their control.

Zhao Kuangyin's forces still have an army of 100,000 at least. Tian Dan has 20,000, and Runan has 80,000. However, these two forces are completely separated and cannot be connected at all.

In this case, they would just be fighting each other, more like two large groups of guerrillas.

"Our only option now is to ask the Emperor in Qingzhou for food!" Zhao Pu, the governor of Yanzhou, said unwillingly.

As one of Zhao Kuangyin's earliest counselors, it can be said that Zhao Pu has participated in almost every step of Zhao Kuangyin's power development to the present. In the process of Zhao Kuangyin becoming the overlord of the Central Plains, this also contains countless efforts of Zhao Pu, and the power of the Central Plains is also Zhao Pu's career.

However, only a few months had passed since the Central Plains War, and the Central Plains War had already entered its final stages. The career that he had been struggling to support was also on the verge of crumbling. How could Zhao Pu be willing to accept this?

During the months of the Central Plains War, what was lost was not only Zhao Kuangyin's career and life, but also Zhao Pu's hard work and career. Just like Li Yan and Chen Zhen of the Yellow Turbans, they were unwilling to see their years of hard work turned into nothing.

"Liu...Your Majesty, will he give us food?" The general in black robe asked uncertainly.

Although the situation on Liu Bei's side was much better than that of Zhao Kuangyin and his men, Liu Bei was merely not short of food and could sustain the needs of this battle. But if he said that he had extra food and grass, Tian Dan would never believe it.

In those days, even the landlords didn’t have surplus food, let alone Liu Bei.

Therefore, it is conceivable how difficult it was to ask Liu Bei for food at this time.

"Of course I will give it to you!" Zhang Chengye said firmly.

Firstly, Liu Bei and his men had already been severely injured at this time.

Although there are only a few remnants of their army left, they are still a force that Liu Bei must win over at this time.

To put it simply, at this time, Liu Bei could only unite all the forces he could, no matter how small.

Secondly, although their force here is small, there are still 80,000 troops in Runan.

Even for the sake of the 80,000 troops, Liu Bei could not sit idly by and watch their troops collapse. Even for the sake of the 80,000 troops, Liu Bei had to help them raise Zhao Kuangyin's banner again.

How to restore Zhao Kuangyin's character? Of course, Zhao Kuangyin's son would succeed him and lead the two armies to continue fighting against the Jin army.

Although Liu Bei could see but not touch the 80,000 troops in Runan, and was destined to be unable to take them, for Liu Bei, it was enough to allow this force to continue to resist the Jin Dynasty.

Even for this reason, Liu Bei had to help them raise Zhao Kuangyin's banner again. Without a banner, the soldiers would surely be defeated without a leader.

With this flag, both Tian Dan's 20,000 troops and the 80,000 troops in the south had the basic conditions to continue the fight.

However, Zhao Pu and Zhang Chengye thought that under such circumstances, it was possible to ask Liu Bei for some food and grass.

However, if they were to get something for nothing, such a thing would never last. Even if Liu Bei gave it to them under pressure, he would certainly be dissatisfied.

At this stage, having reached this situation, they will probably have to rely on Liu Bei for a long time.

Therefore, while they asked Liu Bei to provide food, they still had to take care of the other party's face and allow the other party to have enough way out.

It was also because of this that although Zhao Pu and Zhang Chengye also agreed with Tian Dan's idea to let Zhao Kuangyin's son Zhao Shen inherit Zhao Kuangyin's position as soon as possible, he could no longer be given the title of king, but should be demoted to marquis.

In this way, Liu Bei's face in the Qinghan court was fully taken into consideration.