I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 796 Battle of Wujiang
Yuan Shao finally chose to burn his house and die. This ending was not a good ending for the heroes among the Four Generations and Three Dukes, but it was not a bad thing for the people of the world.

Yuan Shao's death is of great significance. His death does not only represent the decline of the Yuan family in Runan, but also represents the gentry class of the Han Dynasty. After more than a hundred years of struggle against the imperial power, it finally moved towards Decline, from now on, the clan will still exist in the Han Dynasty, but the clan that can directly confront the country like it did a hundred years ago will completely cease to exist.

Of course, the small-scale peasant economic model of the manor landlords will not perish in the Han Dynasty. They will gradually evolve, continue to evolve in struggle and death, become more advanced, and through fission and destruction again and again, they can find their way to the common Guizhou headland. A path where people can properly coexist.

Liu Jian stood in the burned house and ordered his soldiers to get water to put out the fire. According to his estimation, Yuan Shao would definitely not survive by this time.

He didn't want the official offices in Jiangling City to be completely burned to ashes because of his death.

At Liu Jian's signal, the soldiers of the three armies immediately began to pour water on the burned houses to put out the fire.

After the flames were extinguished, the soldiers found Yuan Shao's body in the ruins.

Liu Jian ordered that Yuan Shao's body be given a rich burial.

Then, he ordered Xun You to start arranging people to go to each of the four southern counties of Jingzhou to persuade.

Yuan Shao is dead. There is no need to send a large army to conquer the four southern counties of Jingzhou. It only needs to be decided by propaganda.

However, when Xun You sent people south again, he received a piece of news.

Yuan Shao's sons, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, were stationed in Changsha and organized the southern army. They were stationed at dangerous intersections and fought stubbornly in order to prevent the Northern Army from moving south.

When Xun You told Liu Jian the news, Liu Jian couldn't help but laugh and cry.

He suddenly thought of what Guo Jia had said to him before.

To be honest, in his opinion, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi's behavior was simply seeking death.

He wanted to spare their lives.

This can be regarded as leaving a descendant of Yuan Shao's lineage outside the borders of the Han Dynasty.

But I never thought that Yuan Shao's son was as unsatisfactory as he himself.

You give them a way to live, but they don't go, but instead head towards death.

This kind of behavior is really frustrating.

Not long after, Liu Jian summoned Guo Jia in front of him.

"Fengxiao, you really got what you said."

Guo Jia smiled and gave a salute: "Alas, Guo is unfortunately right."

Liu Jian looked at Guo Jia curiously and said: "Fengxiao, I don't understand."

"How did you know that Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi will not escape from Han Dynasty, but will definitely stop in Jingnan and become my enemy?"

Guo Jia sighed and said: "Back to the Prime Minister, what vision do these two scabies children have? I am afraid that everything they do will be controlled by the people on the left and right."

"Yuan Shao wanted the two of them to escape from the Han territory and save the blood of Yuan Shao's family. But the people around the two sons are Han people, and they all had good status in the past. How can they be willing to run away like this?"

Liu Jian nodded suddenly: "That's true."

Then, Liu Jian turned to Zhang Liao and said: "Wen Yuan, two scabies children raised the disabled people to fight against me in Jingnan. These younger generations are not worthy of me personally conquering them. Can you conquer them on my behalf?"

Zhang Liao immediately accepted the order and said: "Prime Minister, don't worry. The last general is willing to lead three thousand elite troops to go on an expedition. Within half a month, Changsha will be captured and all of them will be defeated. But..."

Liu Jian raised his eyebrows.

"It's just that I don't know if the Prime Minister wants to die or live?"

Liu Jian pondered for a long time, then slowly said: "If they insist on staying in the Han Dynasty... then let them go underground and fulfill their filial piety to their fathers."

"Here!"

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Yuan Shao's fall represented that the war in Jingzhou had basically settled. At the same time, the war in Jiangdong was also in full swing.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao fought back and forth on both sides of the Yangtze River with Jianye as the center. Although Cao Cao was good at using troops and had many ingenious plans, Liu Bei in this era was well-informed and had been using troops for many years. When it came to skills, he was not inferior to Cao Cao. , coupled with the help of Zhang Zhao, Lu Su and others, they are even more powerful and will not fall behind.

As for Wujiang, Guan Yu intended to cross the river to capture Danyang County, but Zhou Yu had already been waiting here.

He brought the elite troops assigned to him by Cao Cao to fight against Guan Yu.

Although Guan Yu had already had insight into Zhou Yu's behavior, Guan Yu, who always advocated royal warfare, did not use sneaky tactics. Instead, he followed the law of attack and defense to block Zhou Yu's sneak attack.

What Guan Yu did was naturally quickly discovered by Zhou Yu. While he secretly sighed that the Han military god was really powerful and it was too difficult for his side to sneak attack on him, he secretly thought that Guan Yu was pedantic. If it were him, he would definitely be there. If an ambush is set up in the camp, what kind of kingly troops can you use?
But now that things have come to an end, both sides should take action!
Zhou Yu used his troops flexibly. He knew that Guan Yu's army was very strong in land warfare, so he did not adopt the method of frontal landing and storming. Instead, he ordered his sergeants to gallop up and down the river in small boats, looking for opportunities to sneak attacks!

Guan Yu's soldiers guarded the areas along the river and blocked Zhou Yu's ships on the Yangtze River.

At the same time, Guan Yu ordered that no one was allowed to lead his troops out of the river by boat to fight Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu constantly sent ships to harass the river in order to allow Guan Yu's troops to launch from the land. In this way, he could change the away game into a home game, and then he would have the advantage.

The problem is, Guan Yu is by no means an idle person. He is the number one general of the Han Dynasty. He has been in northern Xinjiang for more than ten years. He spends more than half of the year on the battlefield. What scenes have he not seen?
Guan Yu could still see Zhou Yu's thoughts.

Therefore, he was determined not to be fooled by Zhou Yu.

If you want to fight me, then come up! Let's meet on land!

What Zhou Yu was thinking was, Guan Yu, if you have the ability, just come down and we can decide the outcome on the water!
The age gap between the two parties is not small, but they are both famous generals and very patient.

Moreover, the eyes of both parties are also very vicious.

In recent days, the ships sent out by Zhou Yu have obviously been able to approach Guan Yu's camps along the river more easily than before.

Although they still haven't landed, the opponent's defense is obviously not as tight as the previous few days.
If it were anyone else, he might not be so sensitive to the changes in Guan Yu's camp, but after all, Zhou Yu is not someone who takes things for granted.

He keenly sensed that something had happened to Guan Yu's camp.

But as for what the situation was, Zhou Yu couldn't tell yet.

Fortunately, Cao Cao also organized an extremely powerful intelligence team in Jiangnan over the years.

It was also Cao Cao who deliberately learned from Liu Jian.

Therefore, Zhou Yu specially sent this intelligence team to the other side to investigate Guan Yu's situation.

Soon, Zhou Yu knew that Guan Yu had not appeared in the camp for three consecutive days.

Although he didn't know what happened, Zhou Yu felt that there must be something wrong.

After all, as the military god of the Han Dynasty, Guan Yu has always patrolled the camp personally, which is his usual style. Zhou Yu has long known this.

His habit of raining on rain or shine!

But now, Guan Yu actually did not appear in the camp for several days in a row, leaving his generals to arrange defenses along the river.

The first thing Zhou Yu thought of was...could there be something unusual about Guan Yu?
But he never dared to lead his troops to raid the north bank easily.

After all, he was also afraid that this was Guan Yu's plan to lure him to land and then encircle and suppress him.

But in fact, Guan Yu's old illness is indeed getting worse now.

Although the disease is not fatal, once it hurts, it makes him unable to do anything, which really makes Guan Yu anxious.

Guan Yu, who had not appeared in the camp for several days, was afraid that if things continued like this, his situation would be known to his soldiers, affecting the morale of the three armies, and at the same time, Zhou Yu would guess something.

But my current condition is very bad.

Just when Guan Yu was anxious and helpless, he finally received a message from the advance troops sent by his sworn brother Zhang Fei, saying that Zhang Fei was coming towards Guan Yu's location.

(End of this chapter)