Chapter 169: The princes who don’t want to end up
Although Yang Ji and Chen Xi have left time for the surrounding princes to enter, they have also given them an excuse to intervene in this annexation.
After all, if Mount Tai successfully annexed Yanzhou at this time, then Liu Bei would be a great prince occupying the two states.
Oh, by the way, we have to add Bingzhou. No matter what, the material support Chen Xi assigned to Bingzhou is not fake.
Although the Bingzhou that Lu Bu currently controls is not a complete Bingzhou, with Lu Bu's character, as long as the logistical problems are solved, he will definitely take the Hetao area back from the hands of the barbarians.
By then, the Han Dynasty will have a grain-producing area in Northern Xinjiang. When the Battle of Northern Xinjiang breaks out, their logistical pressure will not be so great.
Talking back to the battle of Yanzhou, Chen Xi still maintained the normal marching speed of this era, without adding a single military formation.
Relying on the quality of the soldiers themselves, while maintaining complete combat effectiveness, they demonstrated the marching speed that an elite unit should have.
At this time, Chen Xi had passed by Kunyang and entered Yuzhou again.
Chen Xi also waited for Yuan Shu outside Kunyang City for a day, just to see if Yuan Shu wanted to participate in the battle of Yanzhou.
As a result, Yuan Shu made no movement at all and was busy dealing with the internal affairs of Yuzhou, as if there were countless internal affairs to be dealt with in Yuzhou.
Yuan Shu was not even willing to send a single scout, so Chen Xi had no choice but to send the white horse out to say hello to Yuan Shu.
As a result, Yuan Shu just replenished some food and grass for the white horse going to Pingyu to deliver the message, and then sent the white horse's gift out of the city.
For a while, even Jia Xu, who had turned on his spiritual talent, couldn't figure out what Yuan Shu wanted to do.
Logically speaking, given Yuan Shu’s character and Chen Xi’s provocation, should Yuan Shu immediately send troops to stop Chen Xi’s army?
However, what is the situation now? Yuan Shu is standing still, but Liu Biao of Jingzhou is making frequent moves.
However, it is not a big problem for Yuan Shu to stand still. After all, Chen Xi and the others’ main target is not Yuan Shu and the surrounding princes.
Besides, maybe it was Yuan Shu who had great luck, and like Liu Bei, he picked up a super invincible guy with unparalleled intelligence and dragged him to the sky.
In other words, it may not be that Zhou Yu and Sun Ce reminded Yuan Shu to be careful of the temptation of the devil Chen Xi after recognizing their adoptive father.
"It seems that in the end, only our two families will perform on the stage in this scene." Chen Xi said with disappointment after seeing the information that Yuan Shu did not move.
Jia Xu sneered, "Who told your play to be so fake? Now that people don't recognize it, you blame the audience."
Jia Xu originally thought that Yang Ji and Chen Xi were real. He planned to drag Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao into this battle of Yanzhou, but it turned out that this guy was just trying to intimidate others, or he was pretending to be real.
Let’s talk about Yuan Shu first. After all, Yuan Shu is the easiest to send troops, and there are almost no constraints behind Yuan Shu.
Even though Jingzhou is making many moves now, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are not free earners.
Although the quality of Yuzhou's civil and military affairs is not very top-notch, Yuzhou can still produce a lot of civil servants and generals who are below the first-class level.
As long as Yuan Shu wants to fight, then Yuan Shu can mobilize most of the forces in Yuzhou, whether it is to stop Chen Xi, or directly send troops to Taishan or Xuzhou.
In the territory of Yuzhou, as long as Yuan Shu wants to, no matter which direction he fights, he can involve part of Taishan's energy.
Oh, except for Jingzhou and Yangzhou. After all, these two places have basically nothing to do with Mount Tai.
Although Liu Bei and Liu Biao are both members of the Han clan, Yuan Shu adopted Sun Ce as his adopted son, so when Yuan Shu sent troops to Jingzhou, Liu Bei seemed to have no reason to stop him. As a result, Yuan Shu was stunned and did not move, making it difficult for Chen Xi to find more actors for the big drama he was directing.
It can only be said that Chen Xi's acting skills this time are really unsatisfactory, making it easy for people to see through the trick.
As for Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao saw the 50,000 troops arrayed on the plain and Gongsun Zan who was moving frequently.
If Yuan Shao dared to make a move, Gongsun Zan from the north would probably dare to lead his white horse straight to Yecheng.
Although Jizhou, which has many soldiers and generals, is not afraid of fighting on two fronts, Gongsun Zan's white horse is so fast that he can't even see his shadow.
As long as the White Horse is not completely destroyed, it will not be easy for Jizhou to seize Gongsun Zan's flaw.
Unless Jizhou can allow Liu Yu to cut off Gongsun Zan's food and grass and defeat Gongsun Zan logistically.
"By the way, how did you convince Liu Youzhou to continue to provide food and grass to Gongsun Bogui?" Jia Xu frowned.
Chen Xi blinked, "I didn't convince him to continue to provide food and grass to Gongsun Bogui."
"Huh?" Jia Xu was stunned, since it was not Liu Yu who provided food and grass to Gongsun Zan. Could it be that the food and grass produced by him were produced by his own family?
Chen Xi is so generous that he would use his own food to start a war for others?
"Liu Youzhou and I bought it, and then asked him to send someone to Gongsun Bogui." Chen Xi said with a smile.
"Huh?" Jia Xu was even more confused at this time. He bought grain from Liu Yu and asked Liu Yu to deliver it to Gongsun Zan.
He didn’t understand why Chen Xi would do such an operation. Even if they didn’t buy food from Liu Yu, Liu Yu would still have to provide food and grass to Gongsun Zan, although Liu Yu might be able to cut off Gongsun Zan. of food and grass.
【Wait a minute, could it be that Chen Zichuan cut off Gongsun Bogui's food and grass in order to prevent Liu Bo'an from finding an excuse?
However, if Liu Boan really wanted to cut off the supply of food and grass, there would be no need to make excuses. 】
Jia Xu looked at Chen Xi, "What do you think?"
Chen Xi shrugged, "What else can I think? Of course I want Yuan Benchu not to send troops.
After all, even Yuan Benchu, who is sitting in Jizhou, will feel afraid of Youzhou after Gongsun Bogui and Liu Youzhou cooperate."
Chen Xi dared to swear that he really didn't think so much, and he just wanted it at the beginning. Talk to Liu Yu and see if you can trade some barbarian slaves.
Unexpectedly, Liu Yu only made one request. The Hu slaves he sold could only be the captives brought back by Gongsun Zan.
Chen Xi thought for a while, and on the premise that Lu Zhi was still alive and well, it was still very possible to persuade Gongsun Zan to use the surplus value of the Hu slaves to develop Youzhou and bring a better life to the people of Youzhou.
Although Gongsun Zan believed that only dead barbarians are good barbarians, he also wanted the people of Youzhou to live a better life.
Thus, the people of Youzhou live a better life = the support of the people of Youzhou = living Hu captives = Hu slaves used to develop Youzhou = Liu Yu who does not cause trouble for him.
Anyway, what Liu Yu wants is only the living Hu people, as for the living Hu people to become slaves or something.
Chen Xi said that this is practicing the philosophy of the enlightenment sect.
(End of this chapter)