Outside Hulao Pass, the allied forces of the princes camped.
These days, the princes of Guandong were living a very lively life.
Very early on, the Yellow Turban forces deployed heavy troops around him, making the princes around him panic, thinking that Chi You would make some big move!
As a result, Cao Cao left his most valiant general You Liang and Cao Shen, both civil and military, to guard his home, instead of bringing them out to participate in the grand event of challenging Dong.
But how could Cao Cao have imagined that the reason why Chi You sent heavy troops to the surrounding areas was not to attack anyone at all, but to defend.
Just when the battle against Dong was in full swing, a shocking news suddenly came from Yanzhou.
When the papers and volumes of paper books from Yanzhou arrived in front of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was shocked and angry. He was even ready to withdraw his troops and turn around to fight Chi You.
Although Yuan Shao does not look very good in the eyes of future generations, as one of the elite children of the aristocratic family, Yuan Shao is definitely not as incompetent as future generations think. As soon as he saw the roll of paper and those paper books, Yuan Shao immediately thought of the dangers of these two things to the aristocratic family. This was digging into the roots of their aristocratic family!
Fortunately, all the princes had their own ideas and persuaded Yuan Shao to come back in time.
The first person to persuade Yuan Shao was Kong Rong. Although Kong Rong was also a member of a noble family, he was one of the few loyal ministers of a large Han Dynasty. Naturally, he did not want to give up the matter of asking Dong for half-way. Moreover, Kong Rong did not hate papermaking and printing as much as other aristocratic families hated these two technologies. What Kong Rong saw more was the role these two things had on scholars all over the world.
Although Kong Rong is not very powerful, he has a good family background and is the 19th grandson of Confucius. His reputation among people in the world cannot be just talk. Yuan Shao always has to consider Kong Rong's opinions. of.
The next person to appear to persuade Yuan Shao not to retreat was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, a clan member of the Han Dynasty. Liu Bei today is not as miserable as he was in history.
Even compared to history, Liu Bei's current situation is much better, and he can barely be regarded as a powerful faction among the princes. His two sworn brothers are both brave and courageous. At least no one under Yuan Shao could compete with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Everyone had fought side by side during the Yellow Turbans, and they had some idea of each other's strength.
Moreover, Liu Bei not only took action himself, he also went to Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu to make two crying scenes, so that these two people also went with Liu Bei to persuade Yuan Shao to give up the idea of withdrawing his troops.
Therefore, several people's dissuasion made Yuan Shao calm down a little.
For Liu Bei, he is a clan member of the Han Dynasty. It is not a good thing for the Han Dynasty if the aristocratic family is too powerful. Now that someone is willing to weaken these aristocratic families, Liu Bei does not mind helping secretly.
Next, even Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and dissuaded Yuan Shao overtly or covertly.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang came from a noble family, like Li Xiang, his ambitions were directed at that position. Therefore, they were happy to see someone weaken the noble family. Moreover, in the past few years, Zhu Yuanzhang has also done some dirty tricks overtly or covertly against the large and small aristocratic families in Jiangdong.
Zhao Kuangyin, who was also ambitious, promptly persuaded Tao Qian, who also wanted to withdraw his troops. After some deception from Zhao Kuangyin, Tao Qian finally gave up those little thoughts in his mind.
Poor Tao Qian, more than half of his military power was secretly and openly controlled by Zhao Kuangyin. Even the generals he relied on were actually Zhao Kuangyin's confidants. For example, when Tao Qian sent Gao Yanping to fight, Gao Yanping I have to secretly ask Zhao Kuangyin for his thoughts. It's a pity that Tao Qian is not aware of Zhao Kuangyin's ambition at all. He even thinks that Zhao Kuangyin is his confidant!
In the end, even Cao Mengde stood up and tactfully advised Yuan Shao not to retreat for the time being, and to wait until the end of the challenge against Dong to discuss everything.
The advice of so many people finally worked, allowing Yuan Shao to suppress his thoughts of withdrawing his troops and continue to attack Hulao Pass with peace of mind.
But not even a few days later, several more pieces of news suddenly came, once again causing an uproar among the coalition forces.
First, it was reported that the rebels in Qingzhou were attacking the territory of Kong Rong and Liu Bei, and then it was reported that the Xiang clan in Jingnan sent troops to attack Yizhou. Of course, the affairs of the Xiang family have nothing to do with these princes, and are directly filtered out by these princes.
After that, news came from Jiangdong, which was far away, and the king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, brazenly sent troops to attack Wu County.
This time, the situation was suddenly reversed, and Yuan Shao directly advised these princes not to withdraw their troops yet. Obviously, Yuan Shao is not very ambitious. He was persuaded to withdraw his troops a few days ago, but the situation has turned and Yuan Shao has found an opportunity for retribution so quickly. If he cannot withdraw his troops, everyone will not withdraw their troops.
Among the princes present, the most uncomfortable general was Liu Bei. He finally had a piece of territory, and Liu Bei didn't want it to be ruined like this.
But because Kong Rong was there, Liu Bei couldn't send troops to rescue him. Kong Rong was simply a stupid young man, his home was about to be stolen, and he still wanted to insist on challenging Dong. After Kong Rong's incident, Liu Bei, who always valued his reputation the most, swallowed back the words that he was about to spit out and wanted to retreat.
Unable to retreat smoothly, and reluctant to part with his own territory, Liu Bei had no choice but to send his generals back. Therefore, in the following period of time, the brothers Guan Yu and Guan Sheng, who had always been in good health, became inexplicably sick.
Compared with Liu Bei, Zhu Yuanzhang was less worried about his rear area. On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang did not bring many troops to participate in the challenge against Dong this time. There were only a few thousand troops, which could not affect the overall situation at all.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have many generals with him when he came out this time. Most of the generals and counselors were left behind by him in Wu Commandery. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang was not worried that Hong Xiuquan would cause trouble in his absence.
Zhu Yuanzhang was confident that even if he retreated 10,000 steps, the generals he left in the rear would not be able to repel Hong Xiuquan, but there would be no problem at all in holding on until he returned.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had fought against Hong Xiuquan for so many years, and Zhu Yuanzhang had a pretty good idea of Hong Xiuquan's situation. Except for a few generals such as Shi Dakai who had real talents and hard work, he didn't pay attention to others.
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