Chapter 254 Yuan Shao: This is a conspiracy!
Although Yang Ji didn't know how Yuan Shao and the others were going to solve the problem of food shortage, there were only a few ways to solve the problem.
If we want to grab food from them, let alone how much combat effectiveness Yuan Shao's army, whose morale has dropped to the bottom, can exert now. If Yang Ji doesn't take their ideas, they should happily get out.
Now, Yuan Shao and the others should be praying that Yang Ji will not send troops to attack and harass them at this time. After all, given their current situation, it is very likely that Yang Ji's successive charges can defeat them. Break your troops.
That is to say, the entire Liu Bei administration is now overstretched. Otherwise, Yang Jiqiao will send troops to harass the retreating Yuan Jun, at least to scare them.
In addition to directly grabbing the grain and grass from Gongsun's camp, what Yuan Shao can look forward to is grain and grass transported from other places.
However, if grain and grass are transported from other places, it will take at least a month to arrive at Jieqiao.
If grain and grass were really transported from other places, it is estimated that when the grain and grass arrived, Sergeant Yuan would have turned into a starving ghost.
Yuan Shao and his core civil servants and generals, plus some elite enough soldiers, may not be affected by this food shortage, but ordinary soldiers will definitely starve to death.
In this case, there is actually only one way Yuan Shaoneng can choose, and that is to collect rations from local people to help Yuan Jun spend this month.
However, don't have too much hope in the integrity of the ancient army. When Yuan Jun was collecting food and grass from the people, bandits would definitely cross the border, and they were even more cruel than the bandits.
You can count the number of armies in history that can truly do no harm to the common people.
Yang Ji said to Liu Bei: "After the Yuan army on the opposite side has completely withdrawn its troops, let's move the people. Then we can save some effort to reason."
Liu Bei thought for a while. For a moment, he did not fully agree with Yang Ji's proposal, but looked in the direction of Yuan Jun's camp.
“I hope they will collect grain and grass as soon as they collect grain and grass, and not do anything to condone banditry and looting.” At this point, Liu Bei paused, his eyes flickered, and finally continued: “Ziyu, go Let's transfer Baima Yi from Pingyuan County here.
If there are really signs of bandits plundering, just eliminate those bandits without worrying about the overall situation. "
Perhaps it was Liu Bei's own lack of confidence, so he added a sentence later: "...Aside from thieves and bandits, will my Han army also rob the people? "
"No! "Yang Ji did not refute Liu Bei's order and directly accepted Liu Bei's arrangement. After all, what Liu Bei wanted to do was what he wanted to do.
Anyway, what they were annihilating was the gang of thieves who were robbing the people. It has nothing to do with Yuan Shao...
Well, the bandits are from the border of Jizhou. Speaking of which, they are still Yuan Shao's fault. Let's put the blame on Yuan Shao's head when the time comes.
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“To inform my lord, Yang Ziyu across the street has transferred a group of white-horse followers from Pingyuan County, and this white-horse followers have been watching our team collecting food and grass.
Lord, do you want to mobilize Xianden to clear them out?" Shen Pei walked in from outside the camp and reported to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao, who was eating, put down his rice bowl and saw that in addition to the steamed buns passed over from Taishan, there were several plates of meat and vegetables on the table in front of Yuan Shao, which was in line with Yuan Shao's usual eating habits.
Yuan Shao frowned and asked: "Have you figured out the reason why they transferred Baima Yi from Pingyuan County?"
Although Ju Yi and Xian Deng have removed the shadow cast by Baima Yicong over the entire Jizhou army, Yuan Shao is still wary of Baima Yicong.
Don't look at the Battle of Jieqiao, Ju Yi led the Death Soldiers and Euphorbia Soldiers and seemingly easily destroyed the seven thousand Gongsun Zan's fast white horses.
However, others don’t know the terror of Baima Yicong. Don’t they, who have been suppressed for more than half a year, not know the fighting power of Baima Yicong?
Indeed, today's White Horse Yi Cong, who has reached the first level of the double talent level, will still die as long as he is covered by a cloud of arrows, no matter what the legend of the fastest white horse is.
If I hadn’t experienced the night attack the day before yesterday, how dare a two-talented White Horse Yi Cong appear in front of me? See if I don't beat you until your ashes are spread.
But, the bad thing is that the Baima Yi from Pingyuan County never came at the right time, which is very embarrassing.
It's not that Yuan Shao and Ju Yi can't solve this white horse Yi Cong, but it's a question of whether it's worth it.
If Yang Ji mobilized Baima Yicong from the plains just to prevent them, then they could just ignore it. Anyway, it is impossible for Liu Bei to choose to go to war with Jizhou at this time.
If a war really breaks out, the first unlucky ones will be Yuan Shao and Jizhou, and the second unlucky ones will definitely be Liu Bei and his subordinates.
Maybe once Yuan Shao and Liu Bei start fighting in Jizhou, Yuan Shu in the south will send troops to capture Nanyang and Yingchuan, and Liu Biao in Jingzhou may also send troops to Xiangyang or Jiangxia County.
Liu Bei, who defeated Cao Cao and annexed Yanzhou, was really jealous. If Liu Bei's development could be slightly restricted and delayed, other princes would surely be willing to contribute. After all, it was Yuan Shao who was leading the way.
The judge pondered for a moment and said: "According to our observation, the white horse just looked at our troops collecting food and grass from a distance, and did not make any other movements."
Yuan Shao's frown deepened, Liu Bei...no, it was Yang Ji on the opposite side. What was he thinking? Why did he send Bai Mayi to monitor their movements?
Could it be that Yang Ji wanted to attack them during their withdrawal and now sent Baima Yicong to observe which legion was the soft persimmon?
"Hi~ha——" Yuan Shao touched his dull chest. Even if he tried hard, he couldn't figure out why the opposite Yang Ji sent the white horse Yi Cong.
Yuan Shao glanced at Shen Ping, who seemed to have something to say but seemed speechless, and couldn't help but ask: "Zhengnan, do you have any guesses?"
"Back to my lord, I and I Yuan Tu did have a guess about this." Shen Pei confirmed Yuan Shao's question, and he did have some guesses about Yang Ji's behavior.
"Oh, tell me quickly, what is going on on the other side?" Yuan Shao was slightly relieved after hearing Shen Pei's guess, and quickly urged Shen Pei, it is comfortable to have an unparalleled counselor. ah.
“We suspect that Fenggao is targeting the surrounding people.” Shen Pei said with a slightly uncertain tone.
Looking at Yuan Shao's shocked look, Shen Pei quickly explained: "If Liu Xuande only occupies Qingzhou and Taishan County, then they will not be short of population after taking over millions of Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou. But with the addition of Yanzhou, there will be a large population vacuum area under Liu Xuande's rule. There are not many people in the eastern counties of Yanzhou. "
"This..." Listening to the trial match's explanation, Yuan Shao's brows that had just relaxed a little furrowed again.
What is going on with Liu Bei’s generals? How could they think of coming to Jizhou to rob the people?
"Are there any countermeasures?" Yuan Shao asked Shen Pei. If Yang Ji just wanted to observe their withdrawal, Yuan Shao was too lazy to pay attention to him. At most, he would just have another fight.
However, Yuan Shao couldn't bear to let Yang Ji plunder the surrounding people and fill the sparsely populated eastern Yanzhou.
Even if I can't restrict your development, do you still have to fund a part of your population for development? Then what are my hundreds of thousands of troops used for?
At this time, Yuan Shao only felt a kind of anger, angry that Yang Ji dared to do this and did it openly.
You can do it secretly if you can. As long as you don’t let me know about it, just make it easier for me...
"Bang!" Yuan Shao became more and more angry as he thought about it. He directly covered the rice bowl on the desk, and then used chopsticks to put the rice scattered on the desk back into the bowl. At the same time, he said to the judge: "I'm fine, you continue to talk about your story."
" We have no countermeasures, this is a conspiracy," Shen Pei said with his head lowered.
"Yangmou, Yangmou!" Yuan Shao looked around to see if there was anything that could be smashed, then looked at the rice bowl in his hand, and finally put down the rice bowl gently without smashing his own rice bowl.
“Our soldiers who went to collect food treated the people very roughly, and even bloodshed occurred. The people were very resistant to our action of collecting food, and there have been many conflicts so far.”
The judge glanced at Yuan Shao and continued: "They must have had this idea in mind. After we withdrew our troops, they would use the excuse of giving them rations to trick those people into going to Yanzhou."
The judge's words made Yuan Shao was silent. What Shen Pei said just now was right. This was a conspiracy, a conspiracy that they could not crack now.
If they wanted to withdraw their troops slowly, they would have to collect rations from the surrounding people. How could the people hand over the rations they needed to survive this cold winter to the soldiers who came to ask for it?
What will happen between the people who are unwilling to hand over food and the soldiers who must get food from the people? Yuan Shao knew it very well.
[However, for the sake of my great cause, I’d better give you a hard time. My army needs your food, and I will double the compensation when the time comes. ] Yuan Shao thought in his heart.
"Tell the people below to try not to conflict with Baima Yicong when collecting food, and at the same time collect enough food as soon as possible." Yuan Shao said to Shenpei expressionlessly.
“Promise!” The judges bowed their heads in agreement and did not make any objections to Yuan Shao’s instructions. After all, in their minds, only Yuan Shao and his army were the most important, and the rest were just Minutiae.
As for leaving with these people? Sorry, this option has never appeared in the minds of Yuan Shaoshen, Pei Fengji and others.
What a joke, the reason why they wanted to collect rations from these people was just to enable his army to survive the period before he returned to Yecheng.
Bringing these people with them, I don’t know what effect it will have, but it will definitely increase their food consumption speed.
In this case, it is better to collect their rations, give them to their army, and then let Liu Bei move them away.
Liu Bei needed their population, they needed the rations in the pockets of these people, and both got what they wanted.
Isn’t it a solution that offers the best of both worlds?
Anyway, they have a large population in Jizhou, so losing tens of thousands is not a big problem at all. When the time comes, they can just move some people from other places to fill the gap.
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"It seems that they are aware of what we are going to do." Liu Bei, who was mixed in with Baima Yi, turned to Yang Ji beside him and said.
"Yuan Benchu has many resourceful people under his command. Considering our situation, it is not difficult to guess our purpose." Yang Ji said casually, looking at Sergeant Yuan who had restrained his movements a lot.
"Indeed." Liu Bei nodded. Even he could think of such a method, and it was not difficult for the resourceful people on the opposite side to guess the reason why they did this.
Although Liu Bei's original intention was just to let these people get a bite of food for the winter under his rule.
But if that’s what they think, then so be it, the result will be the same anyway.
"Fengxiao, how are the preparations for relocating the people? Judging from Yuan Jun's performance, they should withdraw their troops in these two days." Liu Bei turned to Guo Jia on the other side and asked.
"Back to my lord, things are almost ready. The food, grass, doctors and carriages needed for the migration are all in place." Guo Jia said to Liu Bei.
To be honest, when he received Liu Bei's order to prepare these things, Guo Jia thought they were for the 100,000 soldiers, but he didn't expect that they were for the surrounding people.
Although it is difficult to relocate people during this season, it is not very difficult for them. After all, Jieqiao is quite close to the plains.
After sending these people to the plains, Gan Ning's navy sent these people to Puyang by waterway. After resting in Puyang for a winter, they were scattered to the counties in the eastern part of Yanzhou.
It is not impossible to ask Zhao Yun to pick them up and disperse them directly to the counties in the eastern part of Yanzhou. At that time, the government will allocate relief grain.
When Liu Bei's order came to Guo Jia, a series of subsequent solutions had already appeared in Guo Jia's mind.
Moreover, at the beginning, Guo Jia thought that Yang Ji had come up with this wonderful idea for relocating the surrounding people.
Later, when he found out that Liu Bei had come up with this recipe, Guo Jia was in a daze for a long time. It turned out that his lord had grown to this point.
"Well, that's good." Liu Bei nodded, "By the way, after moving the people here, how do you plan to arrange these people?
You plan to send them first Should Pingyuan County be resettled first, or should they be sent directly to Yanzhou for Zilong's field troops to resettle?" Liu Bei asked Guo Jia about the subsequent resettlement of these people.
This is not something that can be easily fooled.
(End of this chapter)