A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 408: One person defeated two counties, and the inner house was uneasy and undefeated
Time enters the sixth year of Jian'an
February
Lu Bu, the governor of Yangzhou, on the advice of Xu Shu, the governor of Cao Cao's army in Jiujiang, took advantage of Cao Cao's new Jiujiang garrison Xia Houyuan's unsteady footing to besiege Hefei.

Xiahou Yuan was stationed in Shouchun. After receiving a request for help from Hefei, he immediately led 20,000 troops to rescue.

Lu Bu led thousands of cavalry to intercept him halfway, and Xia Houyuan was defeated.

When Bai retired to Shouchun City, he found that Shouchun had already been occupied by Zhang Liao, so he had to bypass Shouchun and continue to flee north, stopping at Xiacai.

Lu Bu, who had taken over Hefei, led Zhang Liao, Taishi Ci, Xiahou Bo and others with 40,000 troops and marched to Cai.

Xia Houyuan knew that the city of Cai Cai was small and not conducive to defense, so he retreated to Shen County in Runan County.

At this point, Liu Bei took over Jiujiang County.

After taking Jiujiang County, Lu Bu stationed troops in Guangling and Hefei to guard against Sun Quan, and built a city in Xiacai, relying on the Huai River to guard against Cao Cao,

Zhang Liao was still appointed as the governor of Jiujiang, and Taishi Ci was appointed as the governor of Guangling. They all obeyed the orders of Lu Bu, the governor of Yangzhou.

Liu Bei now occupies Xuzhou, except Qingzhou, Taishan County, Peiguo, and Jiujiang County of Jinan State on the north bank of Jishui River.

The entire defense line is roughly divided into three sections, from north to south, with Linji as the center and the northern section guarding against Yuan Shao. Guan Yu, the Yangwei general, is in charge. He was also awarded the "Captain of Qingzhou Military" by Liu Bei and was called the Governor of Qingzhou.

The middle section, centered on Xiapi, is mainly for defense against Cao Cao. Generally, Liu Bei is responsible for it personally. If Liu Bei goes out to fight, he is often guarded by the mighty general Zhang Fei.

The southern section, centered on Hefei and Guangling, was mainly for defense against Sun Quan. General Fenwei and Wenhou Lu Bu were in charge, and were granted the power of "commander of Yangzhou military affairs" and became the governor of Yangzhou.

However, unlike Guan Yu in Qingzhou, Liu Bei transferred Qingzhou Biejia and Bai Dian, the general of Diannong Zhonglang, as the governor of Yangzhou to assist Lu Bu.

Later, Xu Shu, who originally assisted Lu Bu, was transferred to Qingzhou and became the governor of Qingzhou. He was responsible for the government affairs of Qingzhou and freed Guan Yu and Lu Bu from complicated political affairs.

Since Liu Bei himself was only a county marquis, he did not have the authority to grant marquisships to his subordinates. Therefore, in the entire Qingzhou, only Liu Bei, Lu Bu, and Baidian had marquises.

Liu Bei's Gaotang County Marquis (Gaotang Hou), Lu Bu's Wen County Marquis (Wen Hou), and Baidian's Jiexiang Marquis.

Nowadays, the titles of the Han Dynasty are different from those of the Pre-Han Dynasty. In the Pre-Han Dynasty, the princes were mainly divided into Guannei Hou and Liehou.

Today's marquises have changed since the time of Emperor Ling. The marquis positions are divided into Tinghou, Xianghou and County Marquis. The highest one is County Marquis.

Liu Bei's Gaotang Marquis was promoted from Tinghou when he was appointed General Zuo by the Xudu court;

Lu Bu was promoted in Chang'an for his role in killing Dong Zhuo; Bai Dian was awarded by Dong Zhuo in order to appease the hearts of the scholars in the world when he was running away from Luoyang.

Therefore, for the sake of higher honor and more wealth, Liu Bei could not stop, and the civil and military officials below him did not allow him to stop.

March
Xu Du and Xiapi continued to send envoys to accuse each other of each other's mistakes in Jiujiang.

Xia Pi said that Xia Houyuan himself was unkind in his governance, and that our army complied with the people of Jiujiang, so they sent troops to regain their homeland. Besides, our army occupied more than half of Jiujiang. Xu Du should not have stationed soldiers here in the first place. Xiapi just wanted to Preserve the integrity of Jiujiang County.

Xu Du said that Xiapi's move was entirely an act of rebellion. Xiahou Yuan was the empress dowager of Jiujiang appointed by the imperial court. Xiapi appointed the prefect of Jiujiang privately, which was against the rules.

What do you want to do by raising troops to attack the imperial officials?
Xiapi argued: Lu Bu was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Yangzhou. Jiujiang County was originally a subordinate county of Yangzhou. How could it be that Lu Bu, the governor of the state and the marquis of Dahan County, did not have a place to settle down and temporarily lived in Guangling County, which belonged to Xuzhou? , it really shouldn’t be.

Xia Houyuan was only the governor of Jiujiang, but he actually occupied the official office of Lu Bu's Yangzhou governor. Wouldn't it be against Xu Du's rule?

The two sides came and went, sending no fewer than dozens of envoys, but in the end they never used weapons, because they knew that the two families were good at using weapons, and the only ones who benefited were Yuan Shao, Sun Quan, and Liu Biao.

Who said that the Cao and Liu families were in the middle of these three people? Especially Cao Cao, who borders all three families.

May
After nearly a year of preparation, Qingzhou's strength has recovered. After obtaining Liu Bei's consent, Qingzhou Governor Guan Yu raised 60,000 Qingzhou troops to attack Yuan Tan's station at Zouping from Linji.

Yuan Tan, who had already received the information, retreated to Dongchaoyang on the north bank of Luoshui with 40,000 troops.

Yuan Tan used Luoshui as his defense line, and Dongchaoyang, Zhuoxian, and Gaotang as his defense line.

Guan Yu did not force the crossing, but followed Xu Shu's plan and used 40,000 troops as suspects on the other side of Dong Chaoyang to prepare to cross the river.

Then relying on the Donglai navy, Bai Xing, the commander of the general, led 20,000 people to cross the river at Qiancheng point downstream of Luoshui.

May

Guan Yu ordered Lang General Gao Shun to suppress the formation, and he personally led five thousand elite soldiers to cross the Luohe River at the beginning of the sun.

After Yuan Tan found out, he prepared a half-crossing attack with strong troops.

Under the personal leadership of Guan Yu, the 5,000 Qingzhou Army stood tenaciously on the north bank of Luoshui. Although the front line continued to retreat, it did not collapse.

Then the warships of the Donglai Navy continued to fire towards the rafters on the shore to provide fire support for Guan Yu.

Half an hour later, the number of Guan Yu's soldiers continued to decrease, and they were approaching the critical point of collapse.

Bai Xing's troops, who traveled day and night, finally arrived and attacked from the side of 30,000 Yuan Tan's troops. Yuan Tan did not expect it at all, and the formation was in chaos. Then Guan Yu led his elite troops to continuously attack Yuan Tan's big banner.

Yuan Tan was well aware of Guan Yu's ferocity and hurriedly ran away with his soldiers, and then Yuan's army collapsed.

Gao Shun on the south bank of Luoshui saw the defeat of Yuan's army and immediately commanded the army to quickly cross the river with the help of Donglai navy.

In the afternoon of that day, Guan Yu commanded the 30,000 men who had already crossed the river and launched a fierce attack towards Dong Chaoyang. Yuan Tan could not hold on and fled from the west gate with the remaining soldiers in defeat.

Dong Chaoyang fell into Guan Yu's hands.

On May 14th, Zhuxian was captured.

May 16

Guan Yu's army marched to the gate of Gaotang City in mighty force.

Because of Liu Bei's reputation in Gaotang, that night, some wealthy people in Gaotang quietly opened the city gates, and Guan Yu took advantage of the opportunity to enter the city.

After Gaotang was defeated, Yuan Tan and his men fled from the north gate overnight, arrived at Beijin of Gaotang, and boarded a boat that fled to the north bank of the Yellow River.

Standing on the warship, Yuan Tan felt desolate in his heart as he looked at the soldiers of Yuan Jun who were constantly being pushed into the river.

He felt miserable not for the lives of these soldiers, but for himself. Although he was Yuan Shao's eldest son, he was not as favored as his third brother Yuan Shang.

Now that he was defeated again, he didn't know what kind of rage Yuan Shao was waiting for him. It was foreseeable that Yuan Shao would definitely scold him for being useless.

Thinking of this, I actually felt very strong resentment towards my father Yuan Shao.

why?
He is obviously his eldest son and his most suitable heir, but he still chooses his third younger brother. I have never made any mistakes. Is it just because he is more handsome than me? What kind of bullshit is this?

May 17

In the early morning, Guan Yu ordered the harvest to be counted and began to arrange a defense line against the north bank of the Yellow River.

In just half a month, Guan Yu wiped out all Yuan Jun's strongholds on the south bank of the Yellow River and drove them to the north.

In this battle, we lost more than 6,000 people, beheaded more than 7,000 enemies, and captured 20,000 Yuan's troops. According to statistics, there were only a few thousand Yuan troops who fled back to the north bank. Many of them were washed away by the Yellow River while fighting for the ferry in Gaotang and Beijin.

This was a hearty victory.

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Jizhou, Yecheng
After receiving Yuan Tan's report, Yuan Shao immediately ordered Zhang He to lead 30,000 troops to the plains to support him, and he was still mobilizing soldiers, preparing to recruit another 150,000 troops.

Prepare to completely win Qingzhou this year.

Not long after Zhang He's army left Yecheng, they had just arrived at Bai County, east of Yecheng, which was only about a hundred miles away. Yuan Shao received military reports that Yuan Tan was defeated and his 40,000-strong army was completely lost and retreated to the north bank of the Yellow River.

"Waste, what a waste!"

Yuan Shao kept roaring in the back hall and kept picking up items around him and throwing them on the ground.

This made Yuan Shaobu angry. The plan he had worked so hard to prepare was completely broken by Yuan Tan. Now the mobilization order is on the way, and the granaries in Pingyuan and Boping have been filled.

As a result, there was suddenly no place to attack. How could we force an army of 200,000 to cross the Yellow River?

Is this something that can be accomplished with more people?
"General, please don't get angry, or you may hurt your body!" Yuan Shao's wife and concubine, Mrs. Liu, walked in from outside.

It is no wonder that Yuan Shangsheng was handsome, because his mother Liu was no less generous. This was also the reason why Yuan Shao liked his third son, Yuan Shang, and disliked his eldest son, Yuan Tan.

Yuan Shao was born into a wealthy family, and the most important thing for a wealthy family was appearance, because he was influenced by the handsomeness of Bai's son.

Yuan Shao also hoped that his descendants would all be handsome people, so that the specialness of the Yuan family in Bohai could be reflected.

"Why is the general so angry?" Liu asked knowingly.

Yuan Shao kicked over a few more desks in front of him, then sat down, his chest rising and falling, obviously his anger had not subsided.

"Why, it's not Yuan Tan. I am just preparing to mobilize troops to capture Liu Xuande's Qingzhou this year. The result is not good. This guy actually abandoned the south bank of the Yellow River for me.

In this case, wouldn't it mean that all my efforts over the past year have been in vain? According to my opinion, he is not like my son, but like Liu Xuande's son. How can I do something beneficial to Liu Xuande? "

Mrs. Liu couldn't answer the second half of the sentence, but this was the time to gain points for her son Yuan Shang and reduce points for Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi.

"General, please don't get angry. If you are so angry, except for me, Monk Shang'er, who feels sorry for you, don't you teach Liu Bei and the others a joke. The same goes for Tan'er. He must have been confused by his subordinates. Otherwise, according to his character, he shouldn't have suffered like this. A big defeat. Wasn’t the first two years good?”

Yuan Shao snorted coldly: "You don't have to say good things for him. In the past two years, Liu Xuande was afraid of Yuan Shu and had no time to take care of him. Now Liu Bei hasn't taken action yet. It's just Guan Yu. Let him be defeated like this. It's really a wall of dirt."嬬也.”

"Oh, General, what you said is wrong. I heard people say that different people have different talents for different things. Maybe Tan'er is just not suitable for leading troops. Maybe he is suitable for other things. No matter what, he is still yours. Son."

After being disturbed by Mrs. Liu, Yuan Shao's anger was almost gone, and he said to Mrs. Liu: "You are kind-hearted, and Shang'er has a good mother like you. I will be in charge of Yuan's family business from now on, so I can rest assured." "

After finishing speaking, Yuan Shao summoned people and ordered Yuan Tan to come back. He also sent his second son Yuan Xi as the governor of Qingzhou, and sent Guo Tu and Jushu to assist him. He also ordered Chunyu Qiong to be the governor of Pingyuan.

As for why Chunyu Qiong was still given an important task by Yuan Shao after suffering a defeat in Le'an, we have to talk about Chunyu Qiong's identity. After all, she is brother-in-law with Yuan Shao.

Chunyu Qiong and Yuan Shao were both captains of the Eighth School of Xiyuan at first. Later, they married Liu's sister and became Yuan Shao's vassal.

After making all orders, Yuan Shao dismissed the soldiers who had been summoned and prepared to fight again next year.

(End of this chapter)