I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 761 Rebellion in Shu

In the midsummer of the fourth year of Jian'an, the imperial army conquered Yangping Pass in one fell swoop. Sun Ce, the leader of the Sun family army, was seriously injured. His generals Huang Gai, Zu Mao, Wu Jing and others were all killed in the battle. Yan Yan, Zhang Ren, Wu Lan, the generals in Shu, Lei Tong and other generals surrendered, and the leading generals of the Yizhou Army, Liu Huang, Yang Huai and others, died in the battle.

The capture of Yangping Pass was equivalent to the loss of the gateway to Hanzhong, and the imperial army could march straight into Nanzheng!

Yangping Pass can be said to be the first pass in the north direction of Hanzhong. If Yangping Pass is lost, Nanzheng is dangerous, but it is not difficult to overcome. With the current morale and combat power of the northern army, there will not be much hindrance in conquering Hanzhong. .

After Liu Jian gained a foothold at Yangping Pass, he immediately sent Zhang Fei, Lu Bu, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, Ma Chao, Cheng Yin and other generals, under the leadership of Yan Yan, Zhang Ren, Wu Lan and Lei Tong. Go and conquer all the counties in Hanzhong County.

Let’s not mention Zhang Ren, but Yan Yan’s reputation in Yizhou is very high. He went out to lead the imperial generals to conquer various ministries and counties. There were not many troops in each county. The local officials heard about the imperial army’s heavenly soldiers. Those who came here under the leadership of Yan Yan were so frightened that all the officials in the county immediately came out and surrendered.

Regarding Nanzheng, Sun Ce was seriously injured after returning and could not reorganize his troops, and the other generals were leaderless. Facing the gradually falling county, the main force of the Yizhou Army in Nanzheng City suddenly fell into panic.

At this time, they didn't know whether they should continue to stick to Nanzheng and fight the imperial troops, or withdraw their troops to Jiameng Pass and abandon Hanzhong County.

But Liu Jian would not give them this chance to think.

Soldiers and horses from all walks of life attacked Nanzheng City from all sides, with overwhelming momentum, almost like thunder!
Without a leader, Nanzheng's soldiers and horses were unable to stop the opponent's attack. They could only retreat quickly and give way to Nanzheng.

Now, Liu Yan's son is hiding in Nanzhong with a group of defeated soldiers, living with a group of barbarian bandits from the south.

He didn't care about the reputation and prospects of the Yuan family in this world. Anyway, no matter how much they fought, the father-in-law of the Yuan family would not fall on him.

If that's the case, then why not end up free and easy?
Of course, Yuan Yi did not give up his contact with Yuan Shao because of this. After all, Shu was lonely and weak, and he was also named Yuan after all. Now that Liu Jian dominates the world, Yuan Yi still has to wait with Yuan Shao even though there are dangerous mountains and rivers. People maintain close communication.

As long as he doesn't make any fatal mistakes, surviving here for decades won't be too difficult for him.

It’s no wonder that Yuan Yi is so confident and feels that his soldiers will be able to block the imperial army. This is mainly because Yuan Yi has not been living in Shu for nothing these years!
Not to mention anything else, he relied on his own ability to defeat Liu Yan in one fell swoop and consumed Liu Yan to death.

Then Yuan Yi was surprised to find that the passes in Shu were so steep and dangerous. It was simply a gift from heaven. With such a strong pass, even if there were 300,000 elite soldiers, they would not be able to pile up corpses. Shu was simply a treasure land given to him by heaven.

So as time passed, Yuan Yi's heart became less radical.

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In this way, he is equivalent to being prepared! It not only has the strong foreign aid of the Yuan family, but also has the dangerous mountains and rivers of Yizhou as a life-saving blessing. It seems that it is not difficult to live a comfortable life in Yizhou.

After Yizhou returned to his rule, Yuan Yi once led his troops to conduct inspections to the north, inspecting Yangping Pass and other dangerous places in the mountains and rivers one by one.

The great scholar who was a famous scholar but lived an extremely luxurious life.

At this moment, Yuan Yi did not show any panic. In his opinion, although Liu Jian's army was strong, Yizhou had accumulated a lot of soldiers over the years, and coupled with Yizhou's landforms and dangerous mountains and rivers, , it is absolutely impossible for an ordinary army to break in. Even if the gods come down to earth, they will still be blocked in this large mountainous and dangerous pass.

Moreover, Zhang Lu had surrendered to him and became Yuan Yi's subordinate. With Tianshijiao as his right-hand man, Shuzhong became easier for Yuan Yi to control.

It's a pity that when Yuan Yi wanted to live such a life, times had changed, and it was so different from what it was back then.

At this moment in Mianzhu, Yuan Yi was drinking, singing, and singing poems with a group of literati and scholars in Shu.

However, he has the most difficult foundation and barrier in the world to break through.

The person he admired most in his life was actually Ma Rong, a great Confucian from Kansai.

In this way, less than twenty days after conquering Yangping Pass, Liu Jian fully occupied Hanzhong County.

As a descendant of the Yuan family, compared to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Yuan Yi's temperament is relatively indifferent. In other words, rather than competing for supremacy in the world, he hopes to live a life of poetry, wine and song.

Although he does not necessarily have the most powerful army and the most skilled generals in the world.

This made Yuan Yi feel very confident in his abilities.

As for Yuan Yi, what should he do with his descendants after his death?
Why? Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Even if he wants to go crazy, some things are beyond his control. He just needs to make arrangements for himself first.

And just this year, Liu Jian achieved victory in Nanyang and Huainan, and Zhang Fei in Liangzhou also achieved unparalleled achievements, which made Yuan Yi quite frightened.

It's not that he is too timid, but that this matter is really not a good thing for him.

First of all, Yuan Shao was beaten to Nanjun by Liu Jian, which meant that his power had shrunk.

Once a crisis occurs in Shu in the future, Yuan Shao may not be able to provide much support to Shu.

And Zhang Fei achieved great success in Liangzhou, which is not a good thing for Yizhou. After all, the imperial court has no constraints in the northwest, so the pressure of the entire Guanzhong will be pressed on Yizhou, although there are high mountains in the north. But this also made Yuan Yi worried, but the matter has reached this point, what can be done?

It has become an established fact that Liu Jian became the overlord of the world.

Yuan Yi could only accept it helplessly.

In order to make Shuzhong safer and more stable, Yuan Yi borrowed Sun Ce from Yuan Shao to enter Shu. After the Sun family army entered Yizhou, Yuan Yi felt quite settled.

He asked Sun Ce to stay in Hanzhong as the main general, and he worked with Liu Huang, Yan Yan, Zhang Ren and others to fight against the powerful enemies in the north.

Yuan Yixiang was very flattered. He felt that with Sun Ce's ability and the generals in Shu, although he was not as powerful as Liu Jian, he could block the opponent from his home with the help of steep passes. This was very important to Yuan Yi. That's enough.

He can live his quiet life quite peacefully. But he never thought that he would get bad news today.

When the scouts at the front reported the battle report to him, Yuan Yi, who was painting with a group of Shu Chinese literati and scholars, was immediately stunned.

He stared blankly at the scout who was kneeling there and reporting to him, and then said: "Can you tell me what you just said again?"

The scout hurriedly said: "Replying to the envoy, the Northern Army has broken through Yangping Pass and entered Nanzheng. All counties in Hanzhong have surrendered. Yan Yan, Zhang Ren and others have surrendered to the Northern Army. General Liu Sui died in the battle. Sun Ce was seriously injured and retreated to Jiameng Pass. , the Sun family's army suffered a loss of seven or eight, and the troops and horses on the front line were completely defeated. Captain Jiamengguan asked the envoy for help..."

"Snapped!"

Yuan Yi fell to the spot, and the editing pen in his hand fell directly on the desk, splattering a piece of ink.

His own hands were constantly shaking due to nervousness.

"Me, me! What should I do? What should I do?"

"Once Hanzhong is lost, the Northern Army will march southward and will be unstoppable. Yan Yan, Zhang Ren and other thieves will surrender to Liu Jian, and the officers and soldiers in Shu will be frightened... What should we do if this is the case?"

The group of people under Yuan Yi were all looking at each other in confusion at this moment.

At this moment, Qin Mi stood up and said to Yuan Yi: "Your Majesty, in this situation, we should immediately entangle the big tycoons in Shu and join forces to join forces with the officials and troops from various states in Shu to guard the checkpoints and block the way. Liu Jian's army marched south."

"In addition, the generals who failed to guard Yangping Pass should be held accountable to save the current lost morale of the soldiers of the three armies and boost their morale to avoid being defeated one by one by Liu Deran's army."

What Qin Mi said is indeed quite reasonable.

This does not mean that you must punish a person, but you can use the opportunity of punishing a person to shift the responsibility to that person.

After all, the morale of the Yizhou Army is too low now, and there is no doubt that the person to be blamed must be Sun Ce, who Yuan Yi has just appointed as the commander-in-chief of Hanzhong.

Are the many heroes in Shu satisfied with Yuan Yi's appointment of Sun Ce as the general of Hanzhong? Of course they were very dissatisfied.

Sun Ce is a foreigner to them.

It was only because of the praise of many friends in Shu that Yuan Yi secured his position as the powerful right hand of Yizhou.

Therefore, according to the ideas of these Yizhou powerful rightists, Yuan Yi should give all the benefits of Yizhou to them Yizhou natives, even if Liu Jian's troops invade the border.

In the hearts of the Yizhou tycoons, there is no problem in using Sun Ce, but Sun Ce must not be the main general in Hanzhong.

Even if it is in line with common sense to fight the Northern Army under the command of a general recommended by the Yizhou heroes, Yuan Yi supported Sun Ce as the chief general, which made the Yizhou heroes always unconvinced. .

In fact, the Yizhou powerful people also understood that Yuan Yi used this incident to support Sun Ce as the general of Hanzhong, and wanted to use him to help him divide the power of the Yizhou powerful people.

Yuan Yi lives in the middle, plays both sides, and upholds justice in the middle, which can maximize his power.

Aren’t all the emperors of the Han Dynasty willing to use this strategy?

Yuan Yi's thoughts are understandable, but Yizhou's powerful right-wingers don't think so.

Are you saying that finding someone to check and balance us is enough to check and balance us? Sorry, this is impossible.

Now, taking advantage of the loss of Hanzhong and Sun Ce's loss of troops and generals, Yuan Yi asked Yuan Yi to punish him and rebalance the interests that originally belonged to Yizhou's powerful rightists.

Subsequently, many representatives of Yizhou's friends expressed their opinions to Yuan Yi, hoping that Yuan Yi could punish Sun Ce and take back his general authority and hand it over to the generals recommended by the Yizhou heroes.

Yuan Yi is very clear about the thoughts of the Yizhou people. Although he is angry that these people are adding insult to injury and trying to fight for their interests at this time, he has no way to refute it now. After all, the matter of defending Yizhou will still be in the future. It depends on these people to provide people, efforts, and money.

The situation was already very critical, and Yuan Yi had to make a decisive decision.

Under this situation, Yuan Yi had no choice but to sacrifice Sun Ce.

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Soon, in Yizhou, various powerful families elected Yizhou powerful right Gao Pei as the new general. He led the Yizhou powerful right to raise funds together to form elite troops and generals, and went to Jiameng Pass to resist Liu Jian.

But before Gao Pei's troops arrived at Jiameng Pass, there was news that Jiameng Pass had been captured.

Liu Jian's troops still moved very quickly.

He knew that Shuzhong must be in a panic now, but with Yuan Yi's experience in operating in Yizhou for so many years, he would definitely be able to calm down the panic as quickly as possible.

Therefore, it is necessary to capture Jiameng Pass before organizing a strong defense in Shuzhong.

Taking Jiameng Pass is equivalent to opening the door to the south. Even if Yuan Yi sends the Shu army again, he will not be able to stop his elite troops and generals.

This time, General Pang De from Liangzhou asked to be the vanguard death squad, leading a powerful force to seize the border.

Pang De is now extremely good. He led the five hundred Liangzhou athletes as a vanguard force to seize the opportunity for the large army and got off to a good start.

(End of this chapter)