Compared with the answers to these questions, Yuan Yao was more concerned about how Liu Yao and Liu Biao planned to jointly attack him.
So on the way back, Yuan Yao tempted Liu Yao more than once.
Today is the third time that Yuan Yao has come to test Liu Yao, but Liu Yao is still just like the previous times, just laughing loudly at Yuan Yao, but unwilling to say anything more about his conspiracy with Liu Biao.
"My son of the Yuan family, don't bother visiting me so diligently all day. I don't have to worry about eating and drinking here. Your life will be much more comfortable than being a shepherd in Yangzhou."
"Don't look at me with that murderous look. It's true that I was your enemy yesterday, but today I'm just a first-level prisoner."
I saw Liu Yao, who was full of resentment yesterday, but today he looked relaxed and relieved, and instead started talking to Yuan Yao:
"Mencius said that if you are unable to do something, you should seek help from others."
"I was captured by you today, all because of my arrogance; firstly, I despised that thief Zuo Rong, and fighting him took too much effort and time; secondly, I really didn't expect you to use your troops so quickly, and to fight him right away. Let me fight to the death; if I can deal with you for a few more days, maybe you will be locked up in the prison car today."
"Then again, I also advise you to look for the reasons for everything within yourself. It is a good thing for young people to be decisive and impetuous in doing things, but if the foundation is not stable and they rush for success, they will inevitably bury troubles and lead to defeat!"
Yuan Yao was so angry that he couldn't find any means. If he tortured a Han clan member, his reputation would be as bad as that of his cheap father Yuan Shu.
Fortunately, Yuan Yao heard the hidden meaning in Liu Yao's pretended to be relaxed, and immediately retorted: "Old man, are you talking about me, or are you cursing that Sun Bofu?"
Sure enough, Liu Yao's expression immediately changed when he mentioned that person.
"Hmph, is there any difference between you and that Sun Ce?"
"Hahaha!"
Yuan Yao knew that Liu Yao was not as relieved as he appeared on the surface, and he immediately laughed heartily.
Liu Yao: "Why are you laughing?"
"Liu Zhoumu compared me to Sun Ce. This is the first time I've heard someone praise me like this, so I couldn't be happier!"
Yuan Yao and Sun Ce are the same age, but no matter where they go, Sun Ce's reputation is eighteen miles ahead of Yuan Yao's.
The two were often compared by the scholars and people under Yuan Shu's rule. However, in front of Sun Ce, a polite corporal, an ambitious young man, outstanding and knowledgeable, Yuan Yao, who has no knowledge and skills and only knows sex, is naturally disgusting, and even his only advantage of birth has become a joke.
Even Yuan Yao's biological father, Yuan Shu, often said to his left and right: If Shu has a son like Sun Lang, why would he regret his death?
This is enough to show the difference between the two!
Liu Yao was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he had unintentionally promoted the leader of the Yuan family in front of him.
He would not let Yuan Yao be secretly proud, and immediately said: "Sun Ce has the style of the former overlord of Western Chu! I was defeated by Sun Ce, I have nothing to say!"
"And you, the eldest son of the Yuan family, are just a sneaky person! You can only take advantage of others' danger when I am in trouble!"
Seeing Liu Yao directly breaking through the defense, Yuan Yao was very proud.
"Liu Zhoumu, didn't you just say, 'If you can't do something, ask for help from yourself'? I thought you had a great enlightenment and would reflect on yourself!"
"Why are you blaming others again? Being able to pick up bargains is also a skill. Isn't this young master just picking up on you?"
Liu Yao completely broke through the defense, grabbed the wooden pillars of the prison car, and gritted his teeth at Yuan Yao: "You can defeat me only by luck; now you have no chance of winning against Liu Jingsheng's 20,000 troops!"
"Ru Shuzi's plan is definitely not Liu Jingsheng's enemy!"
Yuan Yao's eyes flashed: "Twenty thousand troops? I didn't expect that Liu Biao is really good at this!"
Liu Yao's pupils shrank sharply, and he realized that he had exposed the strength of Liu Biao's troops.
Yesterday, the several letters written by the reporter to Yuan Yao were just courtesy letters from Liu Yao to contact Liu Biao.
As for the secret letters in which the two parties agreed on important military matters, Liu Yao directly contacted Liu Biao through his absolute confidant, and Liu Yao had long destroyed these secret letters himself.
"Liu Zhoumu, if you can speak, speak more; do you want me to release you from the prison car and prepare some fruits and peanuts for you? Let's talk slowly!"
I took every precaution, but I still got tricked by this guy!
Liu Yao regretted it too late and closed his eyes directly, with an expression that no matter what you are saying, I will never say another word.
Twenty thousand Jingzhou troops!
I repeated the same story several times before getting out such information.
Starting yesterday, Yuan Yao ordered people to interrogate more than ten of Liu Yao's confidants, trying to find out some details.
You can't be rough with Liu Yao, but you have no such scruples with his subordinate Yuan Yao.
But until today, two people have been forced to death by forced confessions, but no useful information has been obtained.
The ancients valued righteousness, and even though it was some insignificant information, such as how many meals Liu Yao usually ate a day and how much he could eat in one meal, these close confidants refused to tell them.
But it also opened Yuan Yao's horizons.
But think about it, this is normal. These people stayed with Liu Yao when Liu Yao was defeated and fled from Jiangdong. Naturally, most of them are loyal people.
Yuan Yao was also unsure whether Liu Yao's close confidants really didn't know or were refusing to tell him. He could only talk to Liu Yao again and again.
Liu Biao actually sent 20,000 Jingzhou troops to attack him!
This information is completely different from the figures reported to him by Lu Su and Liu Fu!
These two men, one guarding Chaisang and the other guarding Shangliao, both said that the Jingzhou army attacking them only numbered five thousand.
Where were the 10,000 Jingzhou troops sent by Liu Biao?
Although Huang Yi said that the situation in Nanchang was critical, he only said that he was besieged by the clan soldiers of the Mo family and the Xu family. The letter asking for help did not say that the Jingzhou army was found.
Could it be that they were sent to attack Luling?
There's no need for that. As long as the Jingzhou army captures Shangliao and Chaisang, Yuan Yao will be defeated without reinforcements outside and without food and fodder inside. Liu Biao's message to Luling and other counties could be decided, so there was no need to send troops to fight.
Moreover, sending an army of 10,000 troops from Jingxiang to attack the southern part of Yuzhang has low strategic value. The road is far away and is full of mountain and mountain bandits. It is completely a bad idea.
From this point of view, if Liu Yao did not lie and Liu Biao really sent 20,000 troops to attack him.
There is only one explanation, and that is that Liu Biao adopted a strategy of surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao!
Perhaps it would be more clear to use the words of later generations to describe it, that is, Liu Biao was calling for reinforcements at the encirclement point!
Those ten thousand soldiers and horses are lying in ambush somewhere outside Chaisang or Shangliao City, waiting for them to be trapped!
