Li Su was clearly here to attack Yuan Shu, so why did he divide his troops to defend the retreat on Liu Biao's territory?

In the eyes of outsiders, he was worried about Liu Biao and Liu Qi, so he still did not forget to deal with his troops in the throat of his logistics food route during the expedition.

Some people would suspect that he had more or less the intention to attack Guo, and wanted to conspire to sneak attack and seize part of Liu Biao's land regardless of Liu Bei's reputation.

Only Li Su himself knows how hard and lonely he is. Some things cannot be explained after doing them, and there are no people around him who can discuss them.

Li Su did all this, actually based on his prediction, that is, he felt that "as long as Yuan Shu chose to overturn the table this time, whether he directly succeeded in completely removing the center or failed to succeed completely, he had to surrender to Yuan Shao. The world would obviously be gradually forced into the situation of the two emperors of the East and West."

The degree of cleanliness and destruction of Yuan Shu's work only affects the speed of the situation, but the general direction is already determined.

If Liu Xie is so incompetent, the world will definitely compete for hegemony in the future.

Under such a general environment, other princes of other surnames may be able to watch the situation, but it is not possible to be Liu Biao, an important minister of the royal family, who was once a primitive minister.

When there was an emperor, Liu Biao could wait and see, just like when he was in the Battle of Guandu in history, he did not help both Yuan and Cao.

But if the only emperor becomes a confrontation between things, Liu Biao will not be able to play this trick. He must choose one of them to express his opinion. This is impossible to avoid it. At that point, neither Liu Bei nor Liu He will allow Liu Biao to be vague.

Moreover, for Liu Bei, the land between Nanyang and Jingnan, which Liu Biao was sandwiched between Nanyang and Jingnan, has become an important obstacle to the north-south partition of Liu Bei's camp, making it impossible to achieve the strategic integration of north-south in Liu Bei's camp, and the mutual resource scheduling of the two territories is also very difficult.

Considering all this, Li Sucai thought that during the Northern Expedition to Yuan Shu, he would play a shot with no dates, which not only divided his troops to protect his food route, but also occasionally arranged a free chess move.

If it is really a critical moment and the situation in the world is clear, it is necessary to force Liu Biao to express his opinion. Li Su has more garrison troops around Liu Biao, which can directly prompt Liu Biao to think about it.

Secondly, when it is really time to break up, maybe you can play the game of "Ban Chao kills the Xiongnu envoys". If you find out that Yuan Shao sent an envoy to persuade Liu Biao, you will make a quick decision to kill all Yuan Shao's missions! Force Liu Biao to offend Yuan Shao, and you can only accept Liu Bei instead of Liu He!

Of course, Li Su was very sensible. What he hoped was to "let Liu Biao choose Liu Bei when choosing an emperor to admit it." This did not mean that Li Su wanted to take the opportunity to completely subvert the rule of Liu Biao's faction and snatch his three counties in Jingbei and even all the territory.

This is not conducive to local stability. Liu Biao is at least a good official who loves the people and is kind to the government. In the past six years, Jingbei has not fought in peace and contentment. The people have also reduced taxes and taxes and even the population has increased by more than 20% again! If Liu Bei directly took down Liu Biao's family's thunderous means, it would be too harmful to people's hearts.

What Li Su wanted was just an admission. As long as Liu Biao admitted that Liu Bei was the emperor, his high-ranking officials and generous salaries could continue, and his family's local power could also be limited to promise to inherit one or two generations of hereditary inheritance.

Even if Liu Bei's army did not recruit soldiers from Xiangyang and Nanjun for the time being, as long as they had the right to pass through with peace of mind and the northern and southern territories were combined, the benefits would be great.

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Unfortunately, all the assumptions in Li Su's mind were because the judgment that "I think the world in the future will be the battle for hegemony between the two emperors of the East and the West" was too rebellious and could not be told to outsiders.

So he can only be arbitrary and lonely, and has nowhere to talk about it. He has endured the darkest time before dawn. History has proved his judgment to be proud.

Fortunately, Li Su was very busy, because he could have stayed in Hanjinkou until February 23, and he would come to meet Zhao Yun and Gan Ning who was walking on the deep water from a long way.

As a result, just waiting for February 21st, and there was still two days before the date of the agreement with Zhao Yun. Another shocking news in the north that was extremely beneficial to Li Su and Liu Bei's camp was heard.

It was afternoon on the 21st, and Li Su, Gao Shun and Zhou Tai were having lunch in the temporary camp in Hanjinkou.

At that time, most of the ships of Li Suxi Road Army had sailed out of Hanjinkou and found an anchorage in the Han River to dock and moor. However, the last few 500-person fighting ships at the last day of the previous day were accidentally "stranded" at the estuary of Hanjinkou. Li Su and Gao Shun took the opportunity to find excuses to camp and garrison, and slowly dredge the ship to rescue them.

After all, the previous Jiangjinkou was the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Xia water, and the Hanjinkou here was the intersection of the Han River and the Xia water.

The Han River is shallower and narrower than the Yangtze River. The water level at Hanjinkou is shallower than Jiangjinkou, which is very reasonable, and it is completely in line with the objective facts of hydrology. Previously, Jiangjinkou could have stranded warships of 800 people, but Hanjinkou had to even 500 people, which was more reasonable.

It’s just that Liu Qi only knows how to deal with local governments, but does not organize the people to build water conservancy!

If Li Su had put down the years of governing Shu, he would take the initiative to rectify Dujiangyan and build Leshanyan, and dredge all the key river estuaries with many shallows in the waterway, how could there be so many things now?

Li Bing said hundreds of years ago: "To do a deep beach and build a low dam". If you don't have a deep beach, you should blame the local officials for doing nothing!

Less gossip, let’s talk about Li Sugao’s meal while he was eating in Zhoutai. A whistleboat flowed down the upstream, pulling the sails. He looked anxiously walking hundreds of miles a day and rushed straight to Li Su’s camp. The scouts on the ship went straight into the central army’s tent, and reported:

"Right General, Luoyang urgently reported it! Your Majesty was Bintian four days ago! It was the time when Yuan Shu's army attacked Yique Pass. Yuan Shu's army claimed that Dong Cheng was using the king to force Yuan Shu to withdraw his troops. Yuan Shu refused. Dong Cheng was so angry that he killed the king when he was surrounded. But all the officials with the steward seemed to have been killed. I don't know if it was Yuan Shu's army who sent someone to silence him."

Li Su rushed up "rubbed" and didn't even bother to eat: "Killing the lord? Your Majesty! I'm late to rescue you... Yuan Shu dares to say that Dong Cheng killed the lord? Haha, even if Dong Cheng killed the lord, Yuan Shu forced Dong Cheng to jump over the wall, regardless of His Majesty's safety, the crime was still quite serious.

Gao Shun, except for the stranded ships left at Hanjinkou, and the soldiers and horses on the stranded ships that camped ashore, the rest of them immediately followed me and didn't have time to wait for Zilong.

We have been stationed here for a day and a half, and Yuan Shu may not have been out of the way to go deep into Liubiao's territory to investigate the enemy situation in the south. If we wait any further, maybe Yuan Shu learned that we were going to attack him and would draw the troops attacking Luoyang back to defend Nanyang. If Yuan Shu's army was asked to go south from the Qingshui River to enter the Han Dynasty and gather large ships to fight with us, we would be passive."

Gao Shun said nothing and immediately ordered the troops to prepare for departing.

However, Zhou Tai, who was in charge of the water war, was a little worried: "General Right, but we were worried that the small boat would be unfavorable, so we asked General Zhao to lead the large boat to follow.

Now that the enemy situation has been cleared, Yuan Shu's army may also go down the clear water. Our wares alone will not be able to block Yuan Shu's fully equipped naval army."

Li Su: "You can't think so. Now I have heard that Yuan Shu is suspected of killing the monarch! We originally just expected that Yuan Shu would cause trouble to Henan Yin. In that case, Liu Biao had the right to stay out of the matter.

Now it is suspected of regicide. When we arrive in Xiangyang, there may be news that is even more unfavorable to Yuan Shu. At that time, Liu Biao will force Liu Biao to express his opinion and force Liu Biao to dispatch some naval troops in the name of fighting the throne of regicide, or at least support some large warships of the building ship-level battleship level. Liu Biao has no choice but to force him to send out some large warships of the tower ship fighting ship level in the name of fighting the regicide.

If he dares to push back, we can directly give Liu Biao a bad reputation as a ruthless father and sitting on the verge of rebels. Even if he takes the opportunity to capture Xiangyang, the king will not bear the bad reputation of harming the same clan at all."

Even if Li Su arrives at Xiangyang, he will definitely not be the opponent of Liu Biao and Yuan Shu.

But Li Su knew that Liu Biao would not dare to join Yuan Shu. That would only arouse Liu Bei's anger. Even if Li Su's 20,000 people were repelled, Liu Biao would definitely not be able to withstand the subsequent continuous attack on Liu Bei's army.

What Li Su brought was only the Changsha Army or Jingnan Army under Liu Bei's account. Liu Bei's total military force was more than seven or eight times that of the Changsha Army.

Zhou Tai figured out this truth and was not worried at once. He immediately organized the ship to continue north.

Li Su's fleet went north from Hanjin to Xiangyang, and there was a voyage of nearly 500 miles, because this section was upstream along the Han River and had to fight the flow rate of the river itself. The ship drove relatively slowly, and some sections could not drive a hundred miles a day.

Finally, it was February 28th that he arrived in Xiangyang. Zhao Yun, who was following him, arrived at Hanjinkou on the 23rd. He was told by the left-behind troops in the port camp that the right general had already rushed to the road and took the time to leave first. Zhao Yun had to travel day and night, but his ship was bigger and heavier and slow, and finally arrived in Xiangyang until the first day of March.

Along the way, Li Su could hear another "good news" for him or Liu Bei's camp almost every one or two days. However, he could only hold back his joy and not show it. If he showed it, it would be too rebellious.

On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, Liu Bei met with the two Yuan envoys Yuan Huan and Xin Ping on February 27th, and also instigated Yuan Huan to rebel on the same day and obtained the important evidence of Yuan Shu killing the monarch.

Of course, Liu Bei would not waste this major opportunity to hit the morale of the Yuan Shu camp, so while mixing sand in the sentry, some of Yuan Huan's confidants pretended not to be indicted and followed the sentry back to Wancheng.

The formal deputy envoy of the mission will, after the person arrives in Wancheng, will of course immediately inform Yuan Shu of the bad news.

When Yuan Huan left Chang'an, the sands that Yuan Huan was rewarded with several gold cakes by Liu Bei's men. After they arrived in Nanyang, they immediately escaped from the group and fled, looking for a boat to go from the Qingshui River to the Han River, and rush downstream to Changsha County to find the right general to report the news.

It is best to share the good news about the fight against the thief with the Right General. I believe that the Right General must have a way to use this kind of attacking material to make Yuan Shu feel like a bone in his throat.

Now, Li Su has brought the navy to Xiangyang and is about to go up from Fancheng on the north bank of Xiangyang and Deng County to Xinye to attack Yuan Shujun in Nanyang.

In the past few days, Li Su is negotiating with Liu Biao, hoping that Liu Biao will fulfill his responsibilities as a Han minister and give him some excellent and larger warships so that Li Su can fight against Yuan Shujun in the clean water.

Seeing that Yuan Shu's suspicion was already obvious, Liu Biao became increasingly afraid to offend Li Su and Liu Bei. He only said that the army was not prepared and needed to give him two or three days to prepare for the assembly of watercraft ships before he could "lent" Li Su to call. Of course, Liu Biao hurried in Xiangyang City throughout the whole process and did not come out, but only asked someone to reply to Li Su.

At this critical moment, the secret envoy sent back to report the news was directly hit by Li Su, who was intercepted and stationed in the water. The secret envoy heard that he didn't have to run to Changsha County, so he ran into Fancheng and Deng County and just completed the task ahead of schedule.

Li Su felt more and more confident when he saw the new news that "Yuan Huan had exposed Yuan Shu for falsely claiming that he didn't know that the emperor was in Yique Pass, but in fact he knew, so he deliberately indulged in a tacit condon of the emperor being killed." He was becoming more and more sure of his new news, and he happened to negotiate with Liu Biao again tomorrow.
Chapter completed!