After the fire, although it was confirmed that Guo Wei had died in the fire, Liu Bei and Dou Jiande still felt heavy.
Although they realized afterward that the fire was not as violent as they saw, and the fires in many places were just a bluff.
But after such a fire, some were burned to death by the flames, and some were trampled to death in the panic. After all, the two of them each lost more than a quarter of their troops. Although it was less than Guo Wei expected, Liu Bei and Dou Jiande were still unhappy.
Not only the soldiers, but also a small number of generals did not run out in the end and died in the fire.
Luckily for Dou Jiande, there is a Bull Demon in front of him to clear the way. Regardless of whether the person blocking his path is one of his own or an enemy, the Bull Demon will hit him with a stick and clear the road for him as quickly as possible. Therefore, when these people rushed out with the bull demon, they lost all the supporting characters, and basically all the named generals were killed.
The situation on Liu Bei's side was relatively miserable. During the siege, Yang Chun, Ding Desun, Bao Xu and other generals had already been killed. In the fire, Zheng Tianshou, Lehe, Bai Sheng, Zhu Gui and other generals have not returned yet, so they must be in serious danger.
On Guo Wei's side, who had already come to an end, Shi Wengong, Wang Yin, Fang Jinzhi, and Zhao Yi took advantage of the chaos and ran out. The other generals, Chao Zhong and Tang Fenshi, although they rushed out of the city, they did not escape Liu Bei. He and Dou Jiande pursued Liu Bei and chose to surrender. The rest, like Wu Zhi, Huang Ai and others, either died in the fire or did not escape the pursuit afterwards.
However, although the losses were not small, the gains were also huge. After successfully solving Guo Wei, it was naturally time for the two sides to divide Guo Wei's territory.
In this regard, the weaker Dou Jiande was at a disadvantage after all. In addition to his original Le'an Kingdom, he only captured most of Beihai Kingdom and a small part of Donglai County. The rest all fell into the hands of Liu Bei. In other words, Liu Bei now owns the three counties of Pingyuan, Jinan, and Qi, as well as a small half of Beihai and most of Donglai County.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. After taking down Guo Wei, the biggest tiger, Dou Jiande and Liu Bei also began to fight. While carefully guarding against each other, they began to think about how to annex each other.
However, both sides had suffered considerable losses in the previous stop, and it was not yet the best time to start the war, so they temporarily endured it and began to work hard to recuperate.
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During this time, Yuan Shao was very happy, and Chi You was also very happy. Pies were falling one after another from the sky, so how could they not be happy?
On Yuan Shao's side, Gongsun Zan was first killed by Hou Yi with an arrow, and many of his generals were also injured, giving Yuan Shao the best chance to annex the opponent.
Yuan Shao did not miss this opportunity. After returning from Hulao Pass, he divided his troops into three groups. He, generals Yuan Chonghuan and Duan Shao each led one group and launched a fierce attack on Gongsun Xu.
To Yuan Shao's delight, during the battle, counselor Xu You keenly discovered the problem between Gongsun Xu and Gongsun Shu, and then Cui Hao took this opportunity to propose a plan to alienate Mo Shujian.
Even Yuan Shao did not expect that this time the alienation plan would go so smoothly, and that Gongsun Zan's son Gongsun Xu would actually cooperate with him so much and start to target Gongsun Shu overtly and covertly.
At the beginning, Gongsun Shu was somewhat tolerant to Gongsun Xu when there was a strong enemy on his side. However, Gongsun Shu's forbearing behavior was regarded by Gongsun Xu as a kind of cowardice, making Gongsun Xu think that Gongsun Shu was afraid of him. Therefore, Gongsun Xu's behavior became more and more unscrupulous. At the same time, he was also frantically testing Gongsun Shu's bottom line.
After reaching the point where he couldn't bear it anymore, Gongsun Shu did not coddle Gongsun Xu. He had always wanted to be the boss. However, Yuan Shao's sudden attack made him temporarily decide to let Gongsun Xu climb to that position first to concentrate all his efforts. to counter Yuan Shao's attack.
But now, since he had decided to deal with Gongsun Xu, Gongsun Shu was even more violent and showed no mercy in his attacks. He led his cronies to raid Gongsun Xu's camp that night, hoping to completely eliminate him and Gongsun Xu before Yuan Shao could react. fight between.
Gongsun Xu had been under the protection of Gongsun Zan before. As an eagle that had never experienced the wind and rain, how could he fight against the evil wolf Gongsun Shu. Just when Gongsun Xu was dreaming of making Gongsun Shu completely surrender and take sole control of power, reality slapped him hard on the face.
That night, Gongsun Shu launched a surprise attack, but the ambitious and talented Gongsun Xu didn't have much preparation for this, and Gongsun Shu successfully picked off his head along the way.
After a night of fighting, the results of the battle between the two sides came out. Among the large and small civil and military circles that originally supported Gongsun Xu, only Gongsun He led the few hundred remaining white-horse righteous followers after the original battle to escort Gongsun Zan's daughter Gongsun Baoyue to escape eastward. The remaining civil and military officials all turned to support Gongsun Shu very well.
Yuan Shao was very happy to see the dog-eat-dog fight between Gongsun Xu and Gongsun Shu. After the outcome of the fight between the two men came out, Yuan Shao took advantage of Gongsun Shu's failure to fully integrate all the power of Gongsun's forces and continued to attack in one go.
Gongsun's power suddenly changed greatly, and two consecutive lords died one after another. At this time, facing Yuan Shao's fierce attack, it can be said that he was defeated in succession. Gongsun Jie, Gongsun Fan, Tian Kai, Guan Jing and other famous generals were killed one after another. Even the territory they belonged to was lost, and only Gongsun Shu and Gongsun Xiong, together with a group of generals, were still struggling to support them unwillingly.
Although Gongsun Shu has not been completely solved yet, Yuan Shao is confident that he can complete the finishing work in up to a month, and then he can truly unify the entire Jizhou.
As the saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs, and misfortunes never come alone. Just when Yuan Shao was high-spirited and ready to continue to completely eliminate Gongsun Shu, the results of the Qingzhou Battle reached Yuan Shao's ears again.
Liu Bei and Dou Jiande both suffered losses to varying degrees, and these two people once again expanded too much territory, far from turning it into real strength, and the hearts of the people in these newly acquired territories have not been recovered. It was when they were both at their weakest.
But for Yuan Shao, it was an opportunity, almost like a pie that fell to him, just waiting for him to send troops to get it.
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