After listening to Guo Jia lightly said the first sentence, has not been informed of the name of the traitor Yan Qing, or quite incredible.
Not that Yanzhou has been so peaceful and amicable since they took it from Cao Cao.
Contrary to this, after the initial unrelenting bloodbath of Lu Bu's meal, which cleared out those most die-hard loyal to Cao Cao, the remnants of the party that hated him with a passion were often in minor rebellion.
But Lu Bu's climate has been established, and his authority is deep and heavy, against this kind of trivial resistance, there is no need to bother him, not to mention that even Gan Ning, who is responsible for going to crusade to suppress it, has never put it in his eyes.
And after the locust plague came, when the crisis was at hand, the people who begged Lu Bu to open the barn to provide relief didn't listen to their incitement anymore, and even more gradually subsided.
When Lu Bu deployed Yanzhou's defenses and decided to keep his men in place, he didn't give them much thought at all, only arranging his main forces to guard the bordering areas with Ji and Qing states, both in case Yuan Shao jumped over the wall in a hurry, and also to guard against Gongsun Zan's muddy waters.
But I didn't realize there was a small mess inside first.
How lucrative must the benefits be to make this traitor willing to take such a big risk?
What surprised Yan Qing was never the rebellion itself, but that since it could startle Lu Su to write a letter and make Guo Jia solemnly ask them to discuss it together, it must not be a minor character whose weight was so light that it could be ignored.
Why the betrayal?
If you are not a defeated general or a prisoner, if you are dissatisfied with Lu Bu, you can write a letter of resignation and leave in style to find another master in your heart, so why do you need to betray and completely tear your face off?
After all, the group of heroes to serve as a staff of wise men, more than follow this principle of action: when the time to do their best, not to abandon it and go.
But looking at the world, all the lords, who can still fight with Lu Bu without losing? Even if the promise of a high official salary, discerning people can see, but it is just empty talk nonsense, the air loft just.
Yan Qing thought a lot, but only a short time passed.
At this moment, he began to think that his own ideas are too biased: it is not necessarily that the other party has no eyes and eyes, the brain suddenly into the water, want to manually increase the degree of difficulty, and by the way, to find their own way to death; it may be too much less than expected, the psychological gap between a large, but not inevitably moving the wrong idea; or even may be the heart of the wrong way, such as Zhang Song that, although the agile talent, the ability to recite, but because of their own personal grudges, and even treated him not The main body of the Lord Liu Zhang also unceremoniously betrayed; or in the Lord feel the killing intent, would rather strike first, as Cao Cao's best friend Zhang Miao; and may be Guan Yu Huarong Road to release Cao Cao to pay off the grace of that, by the love of righteousness is trapped, had to go.
In short, no generalizations should be made.
The room was silent, several ministers were all solemn and gazed at the speech style of a rare four calm, a throw off the usual dangling Guo Jia, not half a bit of urging, not half a bit to interrupt him to tell the meaning of the story.
After hearing the name of the rebel, Yan Qing could not help but come to a sudden realization, only to feel that although it was unexpected, it made sense.
--that is, Zhang Miao, Chenliu's best friend, who betrayed Cao Cao.
The historical Zhang Miao did a much more thorough job than this time around, this time around it was just when Lu Bu had just attacked Yanzhou with great fanfare, and as soon as Chenliu was surrounded, he didn't do any of the face-saving work of resisting, and surrendered on the next day in obedience to his will.
He then not only helped the officials in the neighboring counties, who were hesitant to resist or give up, to surrender to Lu Bu, but also offered the family members of his good friend Cao Cao, who had been put at ease in his place, so as to gain Lu Bu's trust.
But after that time, Zhang Miao lived in a state of sadness and depression.
His ability is no more than a little, and with Lu Bu's friendship, even call a common is very reluctant, although and Cao Cao relationship once a million close, but then did the unpardonable sin of turning his back on his best friend ......
It's also tough to get ahead in the future.
Even if Lu Bu listens to the advice of Yan Qing and other strategists and gives him extremely large rewards and kind words to show the rain after the thunder, Zhang Miao is not blind and is clear that he
Zhang Miao is not very ambitious, and before he threw his weight around and decided to surrender to Lu Bu, he was just trying to keep his little life well.
But without the bloody knife hanging over his head, and without being reused, leisure time became more plentiful than ever before.
Idle for a long time, it is easy to be sentimental. Especially Zhang Miao is looking at the former scenery of friends, indirectly because of him, down to the fringe, the seams of the situation, the more not the taste.
How could he be so obsessed that he stabbed a friend who trusted him so much for some unknown worry?
Unfortunately, there was no turning back from the bow, and it was already too late for him to regret it.
It is said that Cao Cao, who has been strategizing and planning his plans to sneak into Chencang, kill with a borrowed knife, and attack the west, has fallen into the hole dug by Zhou Yu before he left.
The original thought is to take advantage of the front of the war is in full swing, seize the densely populated Qingzhou for their own use, with the straw bag Tian Kai, and Yuan Tan that short-sighted waste, is absolutely impossible to be his opponent, but unexpectedly also killed out of nowhere with 10,000 left in Yecheng Yuan pawns Yuan art to come.
Cao Cao subconsciously thought that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the two brothers, were only fighting on the surface, but had actually joined forces in secret, pretending to listen to his advice to crush Lu Bu, but in fact, their real intention was to fight for Qingzhou.
Cao Cao hesitated a little and missed the best time for a quick battle.
But as long as Yuan Shao doesn't withdraw his troops from the front and continues to stall Lu Bu, he's still winning.
As a result, Cao Cao had just gained the absolute upper hand in a war of chaos that called for confusion, killing the other three parties and sending them into retreat, when the damn locust plague came without warning.
Their military food was not much, and they had thought of dragging it into the fall of the harvest, but the natural disaster had cut off Cao's army's way of cutting wheat on the ground and filling it up with military food.
Cao Cao has been suffering from a headache for many years, and he can't get off the couch for a whole day, but he can only endure it.
When he was a little better, the play came begging for an audience.
Cao Cao sighed deeply, "Do you think, sir, that this situation can still be saved?"
Play Zhicai coughed a few times, only weak and powerless said: "Lord Gong do not discourage. According to my view, at this time, but there is a person, can help Lord Gong a arm."
Cao Cao swept away the disheveledness of the party and eagerly got up, clasping Play Zhicai's hand tightly, saying, "Cao is untalented, so please teach me, sir!"
"Lord may wish to try and write to Zhang Miao immediately?" Play Zhicai will Cao Cao's suddenly darkened face in the eyes, but still said: "If a certain expectation is not wrong, Zhang Miao at this time is the Lord of the deep guilt, but also for the unrecognized talent and depression, it is the re-drawing together over the ......"
Although Yan Qing and the others have no way of knowing the specifics of the exchange of letters between Cao Cao and Zhang Miao, the results alone suggest that the plan of play Zhicai did hit the mark.
Zhang Miao's rebellion, in addition to driving several clans that did not submit to Lu Bu's suppression to take advantage of the chaos and rebellion, there are also 70,000 to 80,000 ex-Qingzhou soldiers who were cut down by Cao Cao's streamlining of the army in Xuzhou.
Knowing that Lu Bu's thunderous retaliation would come, Zhang Miao acted very quickly, emptying all the granaries and armories in Chenliu, taking his 5,000 troops with him, and immediately leaving Chenliu, heading to Qingzhou without a moment's delay.
Zhang Miao followed Cao Cao's instructions in the letter and led the thousands of people across the country without hiding their tracks.
The soldiers of the counties along the way, after spying from afar from the city, knew that it was Zhang Miao himself, and did not raise any suspicion.
When he heard Zhang Miao's claim that there was an urgent matter, he also opened the city gate believing it, and then he was taken by surprise.
If Zhang Miao had been in Yangzhou, Henan Province, where the Tuantian Law was implemented earlier and more grain was stored, he would not have needed to go all the way to trick those city gates, just to rob some more grain and grass.
The trick that went so smoothly that Zhang Miao marveled at it was strictly required by Cao Cao to use it only three times.
After three times, it just begs to leave quickly.
If it were usual, Yan Qing would not be able to help but admire Cao Cao: although he did not know that they had a flying pigeon to send a message, but also vaguely figured out the approximate time needed, only let Zhang Miao delayed two and a half days, just too late to let the soldiers guarding in the direction of the Qingzhou receive the message that Zhang Miao is already a rebel.
So let Zhang Miao completed the good play of the prodigal son's return, and went out of Yanzhou in a bright and honorable way.
Fortunately, the loss was not great, in the end, it was just some grain stocks. However, being teased like this inevitably brought down some of Lu Bu's prestige, which still made Yan Qing quite annoyed.
It would be better to be more careful in the future in the disposition of surrendered generals.
Guo Jia has just finished his narration, Lu Bu walked in with a tiger's vigor, and seeing this battle, he was only accustomed to it, lifting the corner of his robe and settling down in the main seat.
"Bong-"
Jia Dang's questioning had only spat out one word before he instantly braked, subconsciously looking towards Yan Qing.
Yan Qing was so engrossed in his thoughts that he did not notice, and it was only now that he realized that not only Lu Bu, but Guo Jia, Jia Dang, Chen Gong, and Liu Ye, including him, were all gleaming and staring at him for some reason.
Yan Qing froze for a moment before realizing that this was urging him to speak.
I don't know when the crowd got into the habit of always waiting for him to be the first to voice his opinion before officially opening up the discussion.
Yan Qing did not push back, and after pondering for a moment, he looked at Guo Jia, but asked, "Are there any movements at Gongsun Zan?"
Guo Jia said cheerfully, "Yes. He has raised 50,000 troops and is heading straight for Yecheng."
Yan Qing's eyes showed a look of understanding, but Lu Bu was stunned: "Not Qingzhou, but Yecheng in Hebei?"
Guo Jia gave Yan Qing a wink without a trace, Yan Qing nodded slightly and said with a smile at Lu Bu: "Gongsun Zan did nothing before, because he wanted to borrow this sword from us to kill his enemy Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao has escaped, and even though his vitality has been greatly injured, he will be able to come back in a few years. Gongsun Zan, on the other hand, is a stick to beat a falling dog, not to mention."
Lu Bu wondered, "He has plenty of grain?"
"Only strange." Yan Qing smoothly picked up, then turned his head sideways and looked at Guo Jia again, "Could it be ...... an alliance?"
Guo Jia nodded with a smile, "It was Shiguang's guess again."
Lu Bu was both puzzled by their headless words, and by the day when their . Seamless tacit understanding between them evoked unhappiness, and forced himself to hold back, only asking, "Another alliance?"
Yan Qing smiled a little, ''Precisely. However, this time, it is not a side alliance to deal with us, but rather Gongsun Zan has something to ask for. If he is unable to attack in a hurry, and will soon be forced to withdraw due to a lack of food and grass, how will he be willing to do so?"
Gongsun Zan is not like Yuan Shao, Lu Bu and Cao Cao, who generally have the ambition to pursue the world, but is more inclined to remain isolated, and I'm afraid he's slightly more interested in attacking foreigners outside of the Seychelles.
The Yuan family in Hebei is so prominent, and Jizhou is so vast that even if it is hit hard by Lu Bu this time, it can be called a hundred-footed insect that dies but never falls down.
Because of not coincidentally killed his brother, completely incurred Gongsun Zan this crazy awesome, regardless of the overall situation of gain and loss, Jair revenge enemy, Yuan Shao is also down on his luck.
Only Gongsun Zan himself knows best that his goal nowadays has never been anything but to fight to the death with that fratricidal enemy.
Now it's Lu Bu's turn to make a choice: whether to continue to press the troops to keep their strength and watch the tigers at ease; or to send troops to Qingzhou to eliminate Cao Cao's powerful brigade that dares to stroke the tiger's whiskers; or not to directly come forward, such as initially, only to provide food and grass, and wait for the fruits of the war with Gongsun Zan to be divided up?
Author's comment: eyes half-open to write, too sleepy too sleepy, if there are serious bugs tomorrow to catch it, I want to sleep ......
I'll have to smooth out the pacing tomorrow, this chapter felt too light!