Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1243 Heading North
After hearing what Zhuge Liang said, Yuan Xi began to wonder in his heart, does Zhuge Liang really understand the danger posed by the Hu people moving south?
Because in his opinion, Yang Xiu was a man who even Cao Cao was not convinced by, so it was still unclear whether he could shock him. Moreover, the Hongnong Yang family was still in Weiguodian, Sili. Was Yang Xiu really loyal to him?

The Xianbei outside the pass were the culprits that caused chaos in the Central Plains for hundreds of years and almost wiped out the Han people. If I were not careful...
Zhuge Liang seemed to see the concerns in Yuan Xi's heart and said, "I have been following you for several years since I came out of the mountains, but there is one thing I find strange."

Yuan Xi asked: "Which point?"

Zhuge Liang said: "My lord, at this age, you have been able to defeat powerful enemies repeatedly and pacify most of the world. This is rare since ancient times. Let alone Emperor Gaozu, even the Qin Emperor was at this age. Logically speaking, my lord should be full of vigor and vitality and be able to dominate the world."

"But the Lord's actions now are full of hesitation and concerns. He seems to be more mature than Cao Cao. I really don't understand."

Yuan Xi smiled bitterly, "Perhaps it's just like what the military advisor said, I don't have enough confidence in my heart."

"I always feel that luck plays a big role in my progress. I am afraid that if I am not careful, all my efforts will be wasted."

Zhuge Liang said in a deep voice: "My lord, you think too much."

"Things are unpredictable. Even if you have made all the preparations before, there is no guarantee that everything will go as you wish. But Liang has great confidence in the lord. This is why Liang was able to choose to repel Cao's army first during the war on the Korean Peninsula."

"Liang can see a little bit of the lord's future in the dark. It is definitely not the kind of celestial phenomenon that will stop here. The lord has done better than anyone else in the world. If he still fails, it will be even more impossible for others to succeed."

"The worst case scenario for Youzhou is that the Xianbei outside the Great Wall, Goguryeo, Wuhuan, and the Gongsun family will all rebel. Can all these people combined be as powerful as Cao Cao?"

"My lord, who defeated Cao Cao, should show enough confidence at this time to stabilize the morale of his generals and soldiers."

"And the lord's achievements so far have been the support for the morale of the Jin army. To be honest, the combined effect of several of our advisers cannot be as good as that of the king himself sitting in Youzhou."

Yuan Xi found it quite amusing that Zhuge Liang had actually figured out a method of stargazing on his own. In comparison, he, a fake stargazer, was encouraged by Zhuge Liang.

But Zhuge Liang's words dispelled many of Yuan Xi's concerns. He smiled and said, "Military Advisor, you are right. There is no obstacle in the world that cannot be overcome. The worst case scenario in the north is just this. I will organize my army and set out now. Yecheng will be handed over to you, Military Advisor!"

Zhuge Liang bowed deeply and said, "I will live up to the trust of my lord."

Yuan Xi immediately summoned Yang Xiu and appointed him as military advisor. Yang Xiu was full of doubts. He didn't understand why Yuan Xi dared to use him to assist in military affairs. But since he had betrayed Cao Cao, Yuan Xi was now the de facto lord of the Central Plains. Naturally, Yang Xiu would not let go of this opportunity, so he agreed.

A few days later, Yang Xiu set out on a journey with Yuan Xi, but on the way he met a bad-breath sprayer who was as powerful as him.

The day after Yuan Xi was appointed as a general, he set out with 20,000 soldiers. He had previously sent Zhang Liao and Yan Rou back, and was quite confident in their work, so he did not march in a hurry, but instead rushed to Jicheng step by step at a normal speed.

In order to allow the soldiers to have sufficient rest this time, he also recruited a lot of livestock to pull carts so that the soldiers could take turns to rest on the carts during the march. The team of 20,000 people was equipped with thousands of animal-drawn carts. After walking for half a month, the team was about to reach Yijing at the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou.

At this time, Yuan Xi and Lu Lingqi were sitting in the carriage, but they heard two people in the carriage behind them quoting classics and arguing passionately.

Lu Lingqi had been so distracted by the quarrels over the past half month that she was confused. When she heard the two people arguing again early in the morning, she said angrily, "The sun has just come out and they are already chattering non-stop. They don't stop even when it gets dark. I don't know what these two people are thinking!"

"In ancient times, there were two children arguing about the sun. Today, there are two sour scholars."

"what!"

She was complaining when she was suddenly attacked by Yuan Xi. However, she was already used to this and just glared at Yuan Xi hatefully. Then her face gradually turned red and her eyes became blurred.

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "Let them talk. The truth will not be clear unless they are argued. Their talents are already higher than their peers. It is not easy to find an opponent who is equally matched. Naturally, they are happy to do so."

The two people who argued later were naturally Yang Xiu and the other was Ni Heng.

After Ni Heng inexplicably defected to Yuan Xi from Huang Zu, he became Yuan Xi's military clerk. This job was not an easy one. He needed to sort out and summarize a large amount of documents every day. After finishing the sorting, he had to report the important information to Yuan Xi.

At first, Ni Heng was extremely uncomfortable with this. He had been well fed and well fed in Jingzhou and had only done menial jobs. He had never experienced such hardship before. When he first joined Yuan Xi's camp, the high-intensity work almost drove him crazy. Sometimes he even seemed to see his own shadow on the mule pulling the cart.

At first, Ni Heng thought that Yuan Xi was deliberately making trouble for him, but when he followed Yuan Xi all day, he found that he went to bed later than him, and not only did he review the documents he had compiled one by one, but he also compared them with the originals and then asked for his opinion.

This was just the work that Ni Heng was responsible for alone. Yuan Xi had to command the entire army and discuss military and political affairs with several military advisors. He spent seven or eight hours out of twelve hours a day on official business, even when eating. Ni Heng had never seen such a scene before. He really didn't understand it. Yuan Xi was less than 30 years old. Normal scholars of this age would indulge in poetry and wine, but the other party was like a cow or a horse, working all day long. Was there something wrong with him?
After working for half a month, he finally couldn't hide his doubts and asked Yuan Xi: "Your Majesty should be the most powerful prince in the world, why do you still fight so hard?"

Yuan Xi put down the pen in his hand and said, "There is a saying that ten thousand years is too long, so we should seize the day."

"What I fear is that if the things that should be done today are put off until tomorrow, and tomorrow's things are put off until the day after tomorrow, and so on and so forth, the things that should have been done will not be done."

"If I put it off until I don't have the time or energy to do these things, then I may never have the chance again."

Ni Heng couldn't help but shake his head after hearing this and said, "After working so hard, what's the point of living like this?"

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "No, this is very interesting."

"Because what I do is not forced by others, but I want to do it out of my own confidence. The sense of accomplishment I get from my heart is the greatest reward for me."

"Zhengping may not have found what he really likes to do yet. If he does find it one day, he will be the same as me."

Ni Heng muttered to himself, I like to criticize people, can you let me do that?

He didn't dare to take the risk. The other party was the most murderous tiger in the world, with hundreds of thousands of lives on his hands. Moreover, his personal morality was not as criticized as Cao Cao's. During the days he followed him, he really didn't find too many faults in the other party.

But Ni Heng didn't know that the time when he followed Yuan Xi to fight back to Jizhou from Jingzhou was Yuan Xi's busiest time. Otherwise, with the absurdity of Yuan Xi's backyard in Jicheng, Ni Heng would have said a few words and found his own way to death.

However, until the fall of Yecheng, Ni Heng had not found an opportunity to display his strengths. Instead, out of concern for his reputation, Ni Heng gritted his teeth and held on in the face of high-intensity continuous fighting.

However, he loved arguing with others very much, and he had been feeling very depressed for the past few months. Unexpectedly, when he left Yecheng, he met an unexpected opponent.

Yang Xiu.

As a military advisor, Yang Xiu naturally had to communicate military intelligence and important matters with Ni Heng and others. The two of them only talked for half an hour before they were delighted to find that they had found a rare opponent in their lives, so they started to argue passionately.

Both of them are quick thinkers and good at arguing. They try to make every matter clear by arguing, and by the way, find loopholes in the other party's words to step on the other party hard.

However, both of them were masters at the same level, and they often debated for a long time without being able to convince each other. So the two of them fought from morning to night in this cold winter day, and they never got tired of it, which made Lu Lingqi, who was overwhelmed by it, wonder if the two of them had a relationship beyond friendship.

Yuan Xi was happy to see this happen. Many doubts in the military intelligence might require repeated scrutiny and debate before clues could be found. Now the debate between the two could be considered a benign promotion, so there was naturally no reason for him to stop it.

However, Yuan Xi thought about it and found it quite amazing that the talented people of different personalities of this era came under his command by chance and helped him move towards his goal unknowingly. If he had not appeared, these people would never have participated in this goal.

Amid constant quarrels, the team arrived at Yijing and temporarily entered the city to rest for two days. But the next day, news came that tens of thousands of the hundreds of thousands of Xianbei outside the Great Wall had entered Youzhou, and their vanguard troops were already approaching Jicheng.

Yuan Xi was also surprised when he heard the news. He had expected the other party to come so quickly, but he didn't expect so many people to come!

You know, these are definitely not all the enemies, they are just the vanguard of the first wave!

Could it be that all the millions of Xianbei outside the Great Wall went south?

Is the weather outside the Great Wall so bad this winter?
As the news came in one by one, Yuan Xi was certain that the climate outside the Great Wall had indeed deteriorated, to the point that many Xianbei tribes outside the Great Wall could not survive. Therefore, the tens of thousands of vanguard troops who came this time were young and strong, and those behind were all the elderly, children, women and children in the tribe.

Yuan Xi recalled that at this time in later history, Cao Cao had just won the Battle of Guandu. Yuan Shao died of illness, and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were fighting. Cao Cao captured Ye City, forcing Yuan Shang to flee to Youzhou and join Yuan Xi. Three years later, the Battle of White Wolf Mountain took place.

Yuan Xi speculated that if the climate in later generations was similar to that of this world, Yuan Xi in later generations should have resisted several invasions from the Xianbei outside the Great Wall, and lost a lot of troops in these battles with foreign tribes, so that he did not have enough strength to resist Cao Cao, which led to his collapse at the first touch.

However, in this life, the roles are reversed, and it is Yuan Xi's turn to take back Yecheng early and concentrate on dealing with the Hu people.

The Xianbei outside the Great Wall were obviously the same as the Wu State. They had learned about the war between him and Cao Cao and wanted to take the opportunity to invade Youzhou. However, they probably did not expect the Battle of Yecheng to end so quickly. What Yuan Xi had to do now was to give them a head-on blow, making them heartbroken and unforgettable!
(End of this chapter)