People in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu and Han respected together

On the Runan battlefield, Cao Cao led his troops to defeat Yuan Shu's army, and even killed two generals, Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui, and they were defeated.

This was a huge advantage, but under the pressure brought by Li Yao, Cao Cao ordered to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, wanting to win the largest territory in the shortest time.

On the Xiapi and Guangling battlefields, Liu Bei's progress was not slow. Although Liu Bei's current strength could not securely defeat Ji Ling and the [-] army, he was lucky.

Wu Jing, Uncle Sun Ce, Sun Ben, Uncle Sun Ce, both of them defected to Yuan Shu after Sun Ce became self-reliant, and fled back to Jiangdong with their families.

As a result, the rear was unstable and seriously affected the morale of the army. Ji Ling lost ground and wanted to lead the troops into the battle himself, but met Zhang Fei and was eventually defeated and died on the battlefield.

The main general died, and the morale of the army was in turmoil. Although some generals tried their best to maintain it, such an army was no longer the opponent of Liu Bei's army, and it retreated steadily and fell apart.

This is something to be happy about, but Liu Bei is not happy, because he also received the news that Li Yao sent troops to Kanto, defeated Yuan Shao, and occupied Jizhou.

Although unlike Cao Cao, with Yuan Tan's support, he could know more inside information, but he still felt great pressure. In the past, he always felt that Li Yao was far away from them, but now he found that the enemy was also eyeing him.

After discussing with the left and right counselors, Liu Bei regained the lost ground while chasing and fighting fiercely. He not only wanted to regain Xiapi and Guangling, but also wanted to capture Yuan Shu's Jiujiang.

There is not much time left for them, so no matter Cao Cao or Liu Bei, they are going all out at this time, wanting to seize a larger territory and strengthen themselves.

Among them, only Yuan Shu was the victim.

Jiujiang, Shouchun!
On the battlefield ahead, bad news came one after another. Either this general died in battle, or that general died in battle. How many soldiers and horses were lost today, how many territories were lost, and how many soldiers and horses were lost tomorrow, how many territories were lost...

Yuan Shu couldn't figure it out, this was the first battle of the establishment of the new dynasty, with many soldiers and high morale, how could the army be defeated and retreat steadily.

In the court hall, Yuan Shu was furious:
"Why did my one hundred thousand army, one hundred thousand army, all die on the battlefield? I spent so much money and raised so many people. That's how they served me. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, after an eunuch, a weaver Xi Fanlu, why is it so difficult to deal with?!"

Not to mention Liu Biao who attacked Lujiang, and Sun Ce who separatist Jiangdong, but Cao Cao and Liu Bei wiped out Yuan Shu's important generals and elite troops.

At this moment, Yuan Shu's face was ashen. According to his thinking, he is the number one power in the south. to finish.

The old dynasty was destroyed, and the new dynasty was established. Is there any problem with him being the founding emperor?no problem!
But how did it come to this point, the army outside is oppressive, and the people inside are panicked. Look at the civil and military people in the court, they are all submissive and dare not make a sound.

The world is in chaos, the ruler chooses the ministers, and the ministers also choose the ruler. Yuan Shu is noble, speaks freely, and does things freely. He is not like a person who can achieve great things. Although there are many people who follow him, there are Yan Xiang, Yang Hong, Yuan Yin... like this There are resourceful talents, but it is useless if he does not accept good words.

Many of the public officials are incompetent. Facing Cao Cao and Liu Bei's army, they have no countermeasures, so how could they speak up.

Of course, there were still people who dared to speak, and an old man with white hair stood up immediately. He didn't agree with Yuan Shu's proclaiming emperor at the beginning. With such a boss, he could only admit that he was unlucky, and he had to think hard about making suggestions:
"Your Majesty, I am facing the army. Although there are many soldiers and generals, and the morale is high, they are too scattered and fight against several princes at the same time. That's why we have fallen into this situation..."

"Now, we can only take advantage of the fact that the frontline army is still entangled with the enemy, immediately recruit more people, strengthen the city defense, strengthen the wall and clear the field. Now that the enemy has not come, Jiujiang is still in the hands of His Majesty, and His Majesty is still the emperor..."

"We still have a chance. As long as the enemy's food is exhausted, we can survive this crisis, and then concentrate our efforts to solve Jiangdong Sun Ce first, and then Cao Cao and Liu Bei, one of them, so that we can break the game!"

Yuan Shu was very happy when he heard the words, this time he was hurt by the beating, and finally prepared to be obedient once again, he said with a smile:

"It has to be Yan Shangshu. It really made me suddenly enlightened. Yes, if I am still here, the Zhong family's court will not perish. Immediately send an edict to recruit the people, collect food, and bring all the people outside the city to the city. Come inside, burn their houses, burn the grain in the field... I see how long they can last after Cao Cao and Liu Bei come..."

"After this time, I will get rid of the damned Sun Ce first, and then use Jiangdong's soldiers to attack Cao Cao and Liu Bei. I want them all to die!!"

At the end, Yuan Shu gritted his teeth, obviously hating him to death.

Yan Xiang was also helpless in his heart, and he didn't want to come up with such a strategy of killing chickens and taking eggs to harm the people, but the Zhong Clan's court, which had only been established for less than a few months, was already on the verge of subjugation.

He had no choice but to make such a bad move, and no matter how hard the people were, in the future, he would persuade Yuan Shu to reduce or exempt the people from taxes.

Finally, the officials saluted:
"According to the order!"

Soon inside and outside of Shouchun, things started to fly like dogs and dogs. The people in the city were fine, they just recruited the young men, but the people outside the city were like encountering bandits and bandits. The whole village was taken away, all the food was robbed, not a single chicken or dog was left behind, and finally a fire was used to burn everything to ashes.

The howling, begging... never stopped on this land.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu are all making the final preparations, and will launch a desperate fight for the position of the southern hegemon.

At the same time, Jizhou, Wei County!

In Ye City!

Li Yao was also looking at the battle report sent back from the front, his brows were furrowed, his eyes were cold, and there was a murderous look in them, which made people shudder.

It's not because of Fan Chou, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, who resisted desperately and who refused to surrender during their capture of Jizhou.

The whole process of capturing Jizhou went smoothly. Without Yuan Shao and his [-] army, the entire Jizhou, counties, and counties would not have many troops to withstand their attack.

The key is that after the city is broken, the government will often be destroyed, or even burned to nothing.

However, this was not done by Fan Chou, Li Jue, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji. It may have been done by Jizhou officials who deliberately took advantage of the chaos to burn up a large amount of household registration information and field data.

Not surprisingly, this is a manifestation of the powerful Jizhou family not welcoming their arrival.

(End of this chapter)