Author: Ximen Yangzhou

"Can Mei Cheng agree?"

"Yan Xiang wants to recruit him, and I am willing to acquiesce in his existence. These thieves only look at the immediate benefits, so they will definitely agree."

"But Chen Duan will definitely not cooperate."

"Haha, I don't need his cooperation, I just want to borrow his name and his head."

"I can spare it."

Originally Sun Ce asked Li Shu to drive away tigers and devour wolves, but now Li Shu used the autonomy of Yan County and the empty food and salary as bait, and teamed up with Mei Cheng to trap and kill Yan Xiang, the tiger, and planned to frame it for Sun Quan.

Cao Cao once asked Yan Xiang to promote Sun Quan as a talented person. If the crime of killing Yan Xiang was placed on Sun Quan, the imperial court and Jiangdong would immediately become enemies, and Sun Quan would also be stigmatized as "deceiving his master and destroying his ancestors."

Li Shu also planned to regain the small forces in the northern part of Lujiang, and separatize the entire Huainan if he advanced, and completely control Lujiang if he retreated, so he frantically recruited troops during this period.

In addition to the above reasons, Li Shu also had practical considerations in trapping Yan Xiang. He had to increase his troops to fight against Jiangdong. Lujiang had experienced Sun Ce's looting last year, and the food in the county could not feed the huge army, so he could only turn his attention to the Shouchun official warehouse.

Yan Xiang was recommended by Xun Yu to serve in Yangzhou. In order for him to win the hearts of the people in Huainan, Xun Yu transferred relief grain last year.

Including Chen Lan, Mei Cheng, and Li Shu, everyone had the idea of ​​Shouchun Guancang.

One of the big cakes Li Shu painted for Mei Cheng also contained grain from the official warehouse in Shouchun.

Li Shu and Fu Yu planned for more than a month and finally led out Yan Xiang in late July.

Fu Yu sent someone to pretend to be Chen Duan, and went to Shouchun to say that Li Shu had gathered a crowd to rebel against Jiangdong. Chen Duan fled to Yaxian County to instigate a rebellion against the powerful Meicheng. He wanted to lead the people in Yaxian County to surrender to the imperial court, so he asked Yan Xiang to lead troops to Yaocheng.

The county receives soldiers and civilians.

Because Yan Xiang did not have enough troops, he treated Meicheng, Chen Lan and others in the north of Lujiang River mainly softly, so he sent envoys to Xian County to verify, and found that Meicheng sincerely surrendered.

Chen Duan personally reported the news, and an envoy went to Xian County to verify it. There was also Long Xiang who captured Junqiu without any bloodshed. Yan Xiang put down his guard and led 3,000 soldiers to receive it.

Yan Xiang was worried about being harassed by bandits on the road, so he mobilized all the ships and sailed southward, from Feishui to Shaopi and then to Xianshui, and finally landed in the west of Haoxian County.

The journey was going smoothly, but after walking a few miles ashore and just sighting the city, Li Shu's ambush troops on the mountain suddenly came out.

The mountainous terrain of Haxian County makes it easy to set up an ambush. The three thousand soldiers of Yanxiang were almost infantry. They retreated from the ambush and planned to escape back to the ship. As a result, the ship they brought with them had been captured by Mei Cheng.

Yan Xiang was one of the few who had a mount, but he was heavily besieged because he was too conspicuous.

Before being captured, Yan Xiang pointed at the enemy formation and yelled: "Chen Duan is a traitor and has put me in this predicament. You will not die well."

Li Shu wanted to use Yan Xiang's head to frame him, so neither Yan Xiang nor the cursed Chen Duan survived the summer of the fifth year of Jian'an.

Fu Yu brought ten thousand people from Wan County to participate in the ambush. Seeing the surge in Li Shu's troops, Mei Cheng was worried about Li Shu's strength, so he discussed with Fu Yu to "divide the spoils" again.

Mei Cheng planned to take advantage of Yan Xiang's death to seize Shouchun under Yan Xiang's banner, and cede the Yan County he occupied to Li Shu.

As the incident happened unexpectedly and Mei Cheng had already seized the ship first, Fu Yu was forced to agree.

Fu Yu led his troops back to Wan County. Li Shu was furious when he heard that Mei Cheng had changed his mind and cursed loudly: "Mei Cheng is a traitor. We worked so hard to plan, but in the end he married this villain. You should have been destroyed in the first place."

Got them."

"At that time, Mei Cheng's men had already seized the ship. If they tried to escape, they couldn't stop them. In addition, Mei Cheng also threatened that if we didn't comply, he would inform Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and he would eventually throw a rat weapon into his trap."

Fu Yu looked embarrassed after speaking.

After hearing this, Li Shu's eyes became even more gloomy, and he looked out the door and said coldly: "This guy wants to monopolize Shouchun's money and food. I'm afraid he doesn't have such a big belly and goes to the north to promote propaganda. Chen Lan, Lei Xu, Zhang Duo, they might be able to do it."

Go and say congratulations”

"Well"

Fu Yu reminded hesitantly: "In case Mei Cheng informs Cao Cao or Sun Quan."

Li Shu snorted coldly: "Even if Mei Cheng doesn't inform, will Sun Quan be willing to admit it? As for whether Cao Cao believes it or not, it doesn't matter. The worst we can do is submit to the imperial court. Can Sun Quan submit to the imperial court? The most important thing is to pour out the dirty water and Yan Xiang's escaped soldiers.

Will help him publicize”

"The heads of Yan Xiang and Chen Duan." Fu Yu started to speak but stopped.

Li Shuxu replied with eyes: "Yan Xiang's head is packed in an exquisite wooden box and will be sent to Xudu by horse tomorrow. As for the head of the 'culprit' Chen Duan, we will wait three to five days before sending it out to capture the murderer."

It has to take time.”

"I can spare it." Fu Yu nodded with his fists clasped.

In the same month that Li Shu trapped and killed Yan Xiang, hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Hebei Province crossed the Yellow River. Yuan Shao led the main force to gather in Yangwu, and the battle of Guandu slowly began.

Yuan Shao personally supervised the battle on the front line, and the battle effect was far better than that of the partial army.

Hebei soldiers set up camps in the sand, with the camp being tens of miles wide from east to west. When the soldiers from the north arrived at the Guandu battlefield, they were able to use local materials and seize the initiative on the battlefield from a high position.

Cao Cao organized many attacks, but all failed.

Yuan Shao ordered people to build towers and oars, and heaped earth as high as a hill. The soldiers fired arrows at Cao Ying. The defenders of Cao Ying could not resist and almost retreated and abandoned their positions.

At the critical moment, again on top of Yu Jin's troops, he encouraged the soldiers to stabilize their positions, otherwise Cao Cao would be ripped open in the defense at the beginning of the battle in Guandu.

While Yuan Shao was facing a head-on confrontation, other methods did not stop. During this period, good news came from his hometown in Runan. Liu Pi, a remnant of the Yellow Turban party, wanted to raise troops to respond. Yuan Shao was worried that Liu Pi would not be able to succeed, so he secretly sent Liu Bei south to help him in the uprising.

Then the Yuan and Cao armies continued to fight back and forth on the Guandu battlefield, using thunderbolt chariots, tunnel battles, hijacking camps, and attacking grain roads.

The Yuan and Cao families were fighting fiercely in Guandu. It was supposed that battlefield information would be spread to various places one after another, but in Hefei, where Long Xiang was located, the source of information had been cut off since the end of July or the beginning of August.

Yan Xiang, the governor of Yangzhou, was trapped and killed. The rogue bandit Meicheng led his army and took his seal to occupy Shouchun City. Xi Zuo, who was sent by Hefei, was forced to return.

According to the news from Xizuo, Sun Quan was attracted by Yuan Shao and ordered Chen Duan to trap and kill Yan Xiang in Xianshui, with the purpose of occupying Huainan and attacking Cao Cao's rear.

Long Xiang, Lu Su, Liu Ye and others were all shocked after hearing this, and Zhang Fei, who was waiting for the news, was even more uneasy.

He was seen pacing in place with his hands behind his back, shouting to everyone: "This is great. Shouchun has been occupied by a group of bandits. Where will the news about Runan come from in the future?"

Liu Ye consoled him: "General Yide, don't be anxious. There are only a few thousand thieves in Meicheng, so they will not dare to stay in Shouchun for a long time. The Yangzhou governor appointed by the imperial court has died. The imperial court will send a new governor soon, and the news will naturally be restored by then."

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"Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are fighting in Guandu. How can there be time to select a new governor? Today's emperor cannot be the master."

Zhang Fei frowned and shook his head: "If there is news about big brother, can't I go and help in time?"

"No one expected it to happen so suddenly."

After Long Xiang comforted Zhang Fei, he looked at Lu Su and Liu Ye in confusion: "Sun Quan's hand can be stretched far enough. He hasn't even solved Li Shu's problem, and he still has the mind to scheme against Yan Xiang? His

Will the soldiers reach Shouchun?

"The murderer is definitely not Sun Quan."
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