They say that when a house leaks, it rains all night. The ancients do not deceive me!
After Jiang Xiaobai and Li Mi, another piece of news caused a huge earthquake in Yuan Shu's power. Wang Mang surrendered to Cao Cao!
With Wang Mang surrendering to Cao Cao, the entire Chen County fell into Cao Cao's hands.
And this news was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Yuan Shu's forces completely changed their minds. If there was just an idea before, these people may have put it into action now.
For a time, I don’t know how many people came up with various ways and how many roads they wanted to take in order to build bridges with several princes.
In just half a month, the troops of Cao Cao, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhao Kuangyin had already invaded Runan. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang himself did not come in person at this time. He was still Zhu Di. Zhu Yuanzhang himself could not care about one now. Yuan Shu! At the same time, Li Mu is also indispensable!
In fact, not only Li Mu, but also Li Xiang entered Runan from Nanyang under the escort of Xing Tian, Sun Mei and other generals.
Although Li Xiang's side did not unite as early as Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Cao Cao. However, after all, Li Xiang still represents the Han Dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with crusading against rebellion! Moreover, no one can find anything wrong with it!
The slogans used by Zhao Kuangyin and Cao Cao were all used by the Han Dynasty to defeat the puppet dynasty. Naturally, it was impossible to stop Li Xiang, who best represented the Han Dynasty, from coming!
Of course, Li Xiang did not come here to fight, and he was not planning to occupy the land here, so there was no need to help them fight Yuan Shu again. The battle we fought before was just for the talent of Xian Zhen.
On the contrary, Li Xiang not only did not come to fight, but instead came to delay time. Li Xiang personally led his troops here, but he did not participate in this battle. For those princes, it was the biggest deterrent, preventing them from using up all their energy to attack Yuan Shu.
The most fundamental reason why Li Xiang wants to delay here is that the population migration has not yet been completed.
Runan is a county with a large population. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it had a population of 2.1 million. Even some states cannot compare with this population, let alone in counties.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, apart from Nanyang, Runan County had the largest population. These two places are also two of the most garrisoned places in the Han Dynasty.
This is also the reason why Yuan Shu had so much confidence to start war everywhere even though he didn't even capture the entire Yuzhou!
Of course, Runan now cannot be compared with Runan before. After Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, at the suggestion of officials such as Li Mi and Yan Xiang, Runan was divided into four counties including Runan and Ruyin.
Although the current Runan still occupies the most essential part of the previous Runan, after this division, it cannot be compared with the previous Runan.
However, fortunately, Yuan Shu himself was not very effective, but his ministers were very effective and managed the various places well. Coupled with the annual population growth of the system, there is still a population of nearly 2 million.
If Li Xiang wants to move all the population of the small half of Runan County he conquered before, it will definitely take a certain amount of time. Relocating the entire population of nearly 700,000 cannot be accomplished overnight.
Nearly 700,000 people are indeed nothing to the current population of Li Xiang, but it is very important to those princes! Grabbing all these people may not bring much improvement to Li Xiang's strength, but it can at least affect the strength improvement of several other princes.
After Li Xiang has completed the relocation of all these people, he will throw out the territory of a few small half counties. The princes can grab it if they like! After all, there is no population, so what’s the use of just having land!
When they move the population from other areas under their rule there and slowly develop, this process will probably cost a lot of manpower and material resources!
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Compared with the vigorous advancement of several princes outside, Yuan Shu, who was trapped in the isolated city, was obviously demoralized.
Nowadays, Yuan Shu, who was once full of talents, only has three or two big cats and kittens left here. Only Pei Xingyan, Ji Ling, Yuan Wei, He Qi, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong, Yuan Sheng, Yuan Huazhong, Dong Guo Ya, Yi Ya, Shu Diao, Kaifang, Yang Ren, Shi Tuo, Li Chunfang and Yuan were left among the civil and military personnel. Tiangang people.
Even if it is only the remaining part, how many of them are truly loyal to Yuan Shu is probably unknown. At least, Pei Xingyan, Yang Ren, Shi Tuo, and Li Chunfang alone belong to Li Xiang.
Part of the reason why they continue to stay with Yuan Shu is to help Yuan Shu support him for a while and buy time for Li Xiang to transfer the population here.
Anyway, Li Mu's army has already arrived at this time, and they can leave at any time if they want. Besides, the identities of these people have been well hidden for the time being, and Li Xiang doesn't want them to return like this.
Except for Pei Xingyan and a few others, even those people are left. There are really a few people who are willing to be loyal to Yuan Shu until death!
As for Yuan Yin, Chen Jizhi and others, they had already perished in the previous battle. Yuan Da, Pang Nuan and others were captured by Cao Cao because they were tricked by Wang Mang. However, Yuan Shao's people obviously moved quickly enough. Cao Cao wanted to persuade him to surrender but he had not yet Before he could implement it, Yuan Shao's people had already come to ask for his help. Therefore, these two people are now in Yuan Shao's hands.
And next, we have to talk about Cao Cao's huge gains, Wang Mang, Big Mac, Liang Lin, Liang Fang, Su Xian, Wang Chang, Wei Si, Wei Cheng, Wei Ji, Wang Feng, Wang Yi, Zhang Mei, etc. All the generals followed Wang Mang into Wei.
Of course, for Cao Cao, while this is a huge gain, you also planted a huge bomb for him. Wang Mang, this is never a peaceful person!
Of course, if help can be suppressed, needless to say, it will definitely be of great benefit.
Among those who entered Wei from Wang Mang, Big Mac alone was already a god-level military general. With his strength, he is still very marketable in today's world.
Except for Big Mac, although Liang Lin, Liang Fang, and Wang Feng have not entered the ranks of god-level generals, they are already among the best among peerless generals!
In addition to these people, there are also some superb or even peerless warriors left.
In addition, as the founder of the Wei State during the Warring States Period, Weiss was equally capable in all aspects. Of course, Wei Si, like Wang Mang, can use others if he wants, but only if he can suppress them!
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