Ten years of Yuan Shu, the city to the emperor, territorial and strategic changes
On the road of entrepreneurship, Yuan Shu has experienced ten years of hardships. He started with a city and went through various strategies, only to find that it was all just a dream. We can follow in his footsteps, witness his conquest in the Central Plains, Jingbei, and Huainan, and understand his dreams and efforts in the past ten years.
This is a 7594-word essay that requires patience to read, but you will be fascinated by Yuan Shu's story. He was promoted from General Hu Ben to General Hou, but he saw the situation clearly and resisted **.
He fled to Nanyang County, Jingzhou with 800 tigers, and then guarded the Nanyang gateway for Dong Zhuo's newly appointed Nanyang Taishou Zhang in Luyang City in the north of Nanyang Funiu Mountain. It's a story full of challenges and opportunities, and it's worth exploring in depth.
Luyang, a city located in the Central Plains near Yuzhou, was the starting point for Yuan Shu to join the Dong coalition army. In the first month of 190, Yuan Shu became the leader of the Southern Road Coalition Army.
Due to Dong Zhuo's unpopularity, as well as the prestige of the Yuan family and the allied forces in Yuzhou, Yuan Shu received strong support from the people of the Yuzhou Shi clan, and his strength increased greatly. His strategic goal was to crusade against Dong Zhuo.
And Sun Jian's going north to ask Dong also gave Yuan Shu a chance. Sun Jian's exploits allowed Yuan Shu to recruit troops, collect grain and grass, and expand his strength. Yuzhou is the territory of the coalition army, after Kong Ling's death, the coalition army did not allow the people sent by Dong Zhuo to do this assassination history, so Yuan Shu cousin Sun Jian for the assassination history of Yuzhou, nominally belonged to Yuan Shu, the leader of the coalition army South Road.
However, at this time, Yuan Shu only had one Luyang City, and Dong Zhuo successively sent Lu Bu and others as the Taishou of Yuzhou, and Nanyang still supported Zhang Shi's army. On the one hand, Yuan Shu needed to fight for and digest Nanyang and Yuzhou, and more importantly, on the other hand, he needed to resist Dong Zhuo's attack.
During Sun Jian's crusade against Dong Zhuo, he successfully took control of Yingchuan County. He used ingenious tactics in Luyang to successfully resist the attack of Dong Zhuo's tens of thousands of cavalry. Then he marched to Sili Henan Yin, and fought a fierce battle with Dong Zhuojun in Heyang, east of Liang County.
Although the battle was extremely difficult, Sun Jian, with the help of Zu Mao, defeated Dong Zhuo's famous Xiliang general Hua Xiong and finally won. In April 191, Dong Zhuo fled to Chang'an, and Sun Jian entered the ruined Luoyang, filled in the excavated imperial cemetery, and swept the temple, and then returned to Luyang with his troops.
During Yuan Shu's crusade against Dong Zhuo, he achieved effective control over Yingchuan County. His Southern Route Army was the only one of the coalition forces to make achievements, and his and Sun Jian's prestige in Nanyang and Yuzhou reached its peak.
However, Yuan Shu's efforts were ultimately rewarded with the betrayal and collapse of the coalition forces. Although the Southern Route Army was still fighting Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao attacked Yuzhou behind his back and appointed Cao Cao's military advisor Zhou Qiao as the assassin of Yuzhou.
Sun Jian** Yangcheng, Dong Zhuo's important stronghold, became Yuan Shu's next target. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Gongsun Zhan", it is said that it was Zhou Ang who attacked Yangcheng, but Pei Note quoted "Classics" but said that Zhou Ang was the assassin of Yuzhou.
Although there are contradictions in the two accounts, it is certain that one of the three Zhou brothers participated in the battle of Yuzhou. Yuan Shu kidnapped Liu He, the son of Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, before, and obtained Liu Yu's thousands of Youzhou iron horses.
In order to form an alliance with Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zan also asked his cousin Gongsun Yue to bring more than 1,000 white horses to Yuzhou for his dispatch. Yuan Shu asked Sun Jian and Gongsun Yue to attack the Zhou brothers and recapture Yangcheng.
In the battle, Gongsun Yuezhong was killed by an arrow, and Gongsun Chan turned against Yuan Shao. Zhou Qiao was defeated repeatedly, and finally withdrew from Yuzhou, and Yuan Shao's plan to attack Yuzhou also failed.
Liu Biao and Yuan Shu's battle for Jingzhou) After the Kwantung Coalition Army was divided into two factions, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao formed a confrontation situation with Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, and Yuan Shu. At this time, Liu Biao, who had just arrived in Jingzhou, paid tribute to the imperial court (Dong Zhuo) and Yuan Shao, the leader of the coalition alliance, and formed an alliance with Yuan Shao.
Although Yuan Shu's main enemies were Yuan Shao in the north and Cao Cao, who had just arrived in Yanzhou, he found that Yuan Shao was tired of dealing with Gongsun Zan and Cao Cao's eastern county was not yet stable, so he decided to deal with Liu Biao in the south first, so as not to have a hidden danger of Yuan Shao's faction behind him.
This battle for supremacy in Jingzhou lasted from the end of 191 to the beginning of 193. Liu Biao was appointed by Dong Zhuo as the assassin of Jingzhou in 190, but his path was blocked and he had to sneak into Jingzhou incognito.
With the support of the Xiangyang clique, he took control of Nanjun and allied himself with Huang Zu, a local wealthy clan in Jiangxia, to stabilize Jiangxia. At this time, Liu Biao's control in Jingzhou was limited to these two counties, which was the best time to attack.
However, Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian, who was the most capable of fighting, to attack the north of Xiangyang, and although he had the advantage in the early stage, he was eventually killed by the combined forces of Liu Biao and Huang Zu. Yuan Shujun continued to attack, but the result was that it changed from a strategic offensive to a strategic defense, and was finally cut off by Liu Biaojun's grain route and lost the entire Nanyang.
Losing Nanyang's strategy to the north, Jingzhou's failure to compete for hegemony and Yuan Shu was not because his strength was inferior to Liu Biao, but because his focus was still on dealing with Yuan Shao. In the summer of 192, when the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans entered Yanzhou, Cao Cao was invited to Dongping and Jibei to resist the Yellow Turbans.
Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan successively fought the Battle of Longcuo and the Battle of Juma Water, each with its own victory and defeat, and could not be separated. Yuan Shu had already gained a firm foothold in Yuzhou at this time, and Yingru Yellow Turban worked for him, driving out Xu Xuan, the Taishou of Runan, who was appointed by the imperial court, and taking Sun Jian's descendants Xiang as the Taishou.
Yuzhou is basically under the control of Yuan Shu. Therefore, when he was in a passive situation towards Liu Biao, Yuan Shu decided to abandon Nanyang, unite Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, and the Yellow Turban of Montenegro and the Xiongnu in Fuluo, and gather the main force to attack Yuan Shao with all his might.
The Battle of Fengqiu, counting the time when the allies assembled, the time of this great battle was from the end of 192 to the beginning of 193, and it was a comprehensive counterattack by Yuan Shu against Yuan Shao. Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao had a gap, so Yuan Shu asked Gongsun Zan for help.
Gongsun Zhan sent Liu Bei to be stationed in Gaotang, Shan Jing in the plains, and Tao Qian to be stationed in Fagan to persecute Yuan Shao. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao joined forces and attacked together, both of which were victorious.
On the eastern front of the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Wu's Yanzhou Thorn Shishan was stationed in Pingyuan City, Liu Bei was stationed in Gaotang, and Tao Qian used the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to make trouble in Yanzhou, crossed the Yellow River and stationed in Fagan, north of Dongwuyang, Dongjun County (now Maqiao Village, Hedian Town, Shen County, Shandong).
On the Western Front, Yanzhou Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao had been friends with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu since childhood, and at this time he was not officially subordinate to Cao Cao, so he took a neutral position, and the main battlefield was in his territory, but he never showed up.
In early 193, Yuan Shu's main force officially went north to Chenliu and was stationed in Fengqiu (southeast of present-day Xinxiang City, Henan Province). Ren Liu Shen was the general, and he commanded the troops and the Montenegrin and Xiongnu coalition forces to be stationed in Kuanting (southwest of present-day Changyuan County, Henan Province).
Yuan Shu was defeated in Kuangting and Fengqiu, and then was chased and beaten by the combined forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao all the way, and fled to Yuan Zhong's Peiguo through the Liang State of Yuzhou, and the Ningling area in the north of the Liang State fell into the hands of Cao Cao.
Yuan Shu learned that Yuan Zhong fled before him because Yuan Zhong had planned to bring Cao Cao to justice, and later learned that this time Cao Cao sent troops to Chen Liu, and executed Bian Rang, a famous scholar who had despised and belittled him.
Now he has been chasing Yuan Shu, afraid that Cao Cao will deal with him after chasing Peiguo, so he abandoned the official and fled to Huiji. (Pei's note, "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Emperor Wu", quoted in "Cao Concealment") Several other allied forces were also broken by the Yuan and Cao coalition forces one by one.
Yuan Shu sent Yuan Zhi to assassinate Yangzhou History, but was repelled by Yuan Shu's troops on the way, and Yuan Zhi was killed by his subordinates on the way to Yuan Zhong. Yuan Shu invited Chen Yu to assassinate the history of Yangzhou, and together with Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Chen Yu of Yangzhou, he eliminated Yuan Shao's Erzhou forces and established the rear.
Yuan Shujun was intercepted by Chen Yujun on his way to Shouchun in Jiujiang County, and Chen Yu's Yin Tomb was Zhou Ang's Jiujiang County Governor's Office. Tao Qian used the state of Lu in Yuzhou and the city state of Yanzhou in Cao Cao as the only way to seize Yuzhou.
Sun Jian's nephew Sun Ben returned to Yuan Shu's office, and Yuan Shu ordered Sun Ben to attack Zhou Ang's Yinling City, and Zhou Ang came to help, but Yinling City was still captured. Yuan Shu's scattered troops assembled in the north of the Huai River and marched to Shouchun again, Chen Yu fled back to his hometown, and Yuan Shu established himself in Jiujiang County.
Yuan Shu's Seizure of Huainan: From Betrayal to Betrayal Yuan Shu, a cunning and cunning man, has been betrayed many times in history. He turned against Tao Qian, and separating Huainan became his new strategic goal.
He called himself the pastor of Yangzhou and led the Xuzhou Bo, ostensibly to help Tao Qian manage the part south of the Huai River in Xuzhou, but in fact he was using his power to extract benefits. He sent Sun Ben to assassinate the history of Yuzhou, and used his identity as an envoy of the imperial court to perform various manipulations until he squeezed Ma Riyan to death.
Under Yuan Shu's control, Zhou Xin, the Taishou of Danyang in the south of Jiujiang County in Huainan, also became Yuan Shao's man. Yuan Shu sent Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing to capture it and let him be the guard, solving his worries.
In the autumn of 193, Tao Qian was counterattacked, and Cao Cao, in the name of avenging his father, attacked Xuzhou on a large scale, and ** hundreds of thousands of people in the five counties of Pengcheng and Xiapi.
The Buddhist leader, Xiapi Xiangrong, fled south with his followers to Guangling County, where he was warmly welcomed by Zhao Yu, a celebrity and a celebrity. However, after killing Zhao Yu at a banquet and plundering Guangling, he fled across the Yangtze River to Jiangdong again.
Cao Cao and Tao Qian fought in the north of the Huai River in Xuzhou, and the toss south of the Huai River was also a mess. Yuan Shu took this opportunity to send troops to most of Guangling County in Huainan, Xuzhou, and the southern part of Xiapi State.
Yuan Shu attacked Guangling and borrowed grain from Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang in Yangzhou, but Lu Kang of course refused. So Yuan Shu sent Sun Ce to attack Lujiang County and defeated Lu Kang in 195.
When Yuan Shu attacked Liu Bei in 196, he confronted Liu Bei on the Huaiyin and Xuyi lines on the banks of the Huai River, indicating that before this, Yuan Shu had achieved control over most of Guangling and southern Xiapi in Huainan, Xuzhou.
Yuan Shu thus realized the division of the three counties of Huainan, Jiujiang, Lujiang, and Guangling (including the southern part of Xiapi).
When Jiangnan was not yet prosperous, Huainan was independent because of its natural geographical location. Yuan Shu appointed his very important Shu Zhongying as Pei Xiang, and cooperated with the Runan Yellow Turban to compete with Chen Qi for control of Peiguo.
Gongsun Chan and Tao Qian were allies, and in February 194, Liu Bei, the prime minister of the plains, followed Gongsun Zhan's Qingzhou assassin Shi Tian Kai to Xuzhou to help Tao Qian fight Cao Cao. After Cao Cao withdrew his troops, Tao Qian used 4,000 Danyang soldiers to leave Liu Bei's Xiaopei stationed in Peiguo and appointed him as the assassin of Yuzhou.
This meant that Liu Bei of Xiao Pei not only had to help Tao Qian resist Cao Cao's first-line attack, but more importantly, he had to assist Pei Xiang Chen Qi to resist Shu Zhongying's attack and attack Yuan Shu throughout Yuzhou.
Zhuge Liang's uncle Zhuge Xuan served as Yuzhang Taishou, and the "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhuge Liang" recorded Yuan Shu's appointment, while "Emperor Xian's Spring and Autumn Period" recorded Liu Biao's appointment. Zhuge Xuan had old friends with Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, so it was not impossible for them to appoint him tacitly with each other, which can also be seen as a truce agreement between Yuan Shu and Liu Yan, using Yangzhou Yuzhang County as a buffer zone between the two sides.
Yuan Shu seized Huainan, the situation in Xuzhou reversed, and Liu Bei, with the support of the Xiapi Chen family, moved closer to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shu's strategic direction also shifted from Liu Bei's Xuzhou to the secession of Huainan, but his character problems led him to retaliate and he had to abandon his strategy to attack the battered Xuzhou in favor of Liu Xuan's attack.
In the battle of Jiangdong, due to Liu Xuan's strong appeal, he drove away Wu Jing and Sun Ben in Danyang, and sent Zhang Ying and others to attack Jiujiang across the river.
Liu Xuan's army encountered difficulties in attacking Jiujiang, the base camp of Huainan was breached, and Yuan Shu sent Wu Jing and Sun Ben, as well as his recommendation of Yangzhou Assassin Shi Huiqu and Xindanyang Taishou Zhou Shang, but for more than a year they were unable to successfully defeat Liu Xuan's army that landed in Jiujiang.
Finally, in 195, after Sun Ce defeated Lujiang County, he successfully repelled Liu Xuan's army and crossed the Yangtze River to occupy the three counties of Danyang, Wu, and Huiji in Jiangdong. Liu Xuan was forced to retreat to Yuzhang, and he ordered Zhu Rong to help Zhu Hao drive out Zhuge Xuan, but Zhu Hao was killed by Zhu Rong, the banquet killer.
Liu Miao finally succeeded in exterminating Zhenrong, and then established himself in Yuzhang County. "
Yuan Shu's strategic center of gravity was in the Central Plains, and although Sun Ce occupied the three counties of Jiangdong, these places did not have much strategic significance for Yuan Shu. In 194-195, Cao Cao was fighting with Lü Bu for Yanzhou, and Yuan Shao was busy uniting with Liu Yu's old ministry **Gongsun Zhan.
Compared to missing this excellent opportunity to attack Liu Bei, Sun Ce's results really couldn't make Yuan Shu happy. Liu Bei could no longer be given time to recover Xuzhou, and the schedule for attacking Liu Bei, who had defected to Yuan Shao's faction, had been intensively arranged.
In the first month of 196, Cao Cao, who had driven out Lü Bu, marched into Wuping, Chen, Yuzhou, and Yuan Shu's Chen Xiang Yuan Si surrendered, and Yuan Shu lost the lands of Chen and Liang. Cao Cao then continued his march to Yingchuan and western Runan, attacking Yuan Shu's ally, the Yellow Turbans of Yingru.
If Yuan Shu had gone west to rescue at this time, he might have been attacked by Liu Bei in the east, and it would have taken some time for Cao Cao to exterminate the Gepi Yellow Turban. Therefore, Yuan Shu decided to eliminate Liu Bei first according to the original plan to solve his worries.
Yuan Shu made a feud with Lü Bu) In June 196, Yuan Shu led an army north from the Huainan part of Xiapi to attack Liu Bei. The two armies fought a tug-of-war that lasted for a month on the Huaihe River, Huaiyin, and Xuyi lines, and they won and lost each other.
However, Liu Bei and Lü Bu's alliance broke down as a result. The reason is that Lu Bu took advantage of Liu Bei's absence to sneak attack Xiapi City, which made Yuan Shu gain unexpected benefits. Soon after, Lu Bu's subordinate Hao Meng rebelled, and Chen Gong also participated.
Gao Shun succeeded in quelling the rebellion, and Lü Bu did not hold Chen Gong responsible. However, Liu Bei was defeated on the way back to help, and could only take the remnants to the east to attack Yuan Shu's Guangling, but was defeated by Yuan Shu.
Liu Bei had no choice but to retreat to Haixi, on the northeast corner of Guangling County and on the north bank of the Huai River, and sued Lü Bu for peace. However, Lü Bu was worried that he would be used by Liu Bei again and rejected Liu Bei's request for peace.
Eventually, Yuan Shu interrupted his military food aid to Lü Bu, triggering Lü Bu's anger. In retaliation, Lü Bu agreed to Liu Bei's request for peace, and asked him to garrison Xiao Pei as the assassin of Yuzhou to fight against Yuan Shu together.
Yuan Shu's character problem once again caused contradictions, leading to hostility with Lu Bu. Although Yuan Shu defeated Liu Bei, his relationship with Lü Bu became even more strained.
In August 196, an earth-shattering event occurred, Cao Cao led the army to welcome Emperor Xian to Xudu. Yuan Shu realized that his enemies were Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. As early as 195, when the emperor returned to Caoyang, Yuan Shu once revealed the idea of becoming the emperor, but did not put it into action.
Now, Cao Cao "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes", in order to reverse the disadvantage politically and contend with it, Yuan Shu began to secretly prepare for the emperor. Sun Ce could not be dissuaded, cut off contact with him, and was in a semi-independent state.
Lü Bu had a grudge against Cao Cao, and if he maintained a hostile relationship, once he started a war with Cao Cao, Yuan Shu was worried about being attacked by Lü Bu. So, Yuan Shu sought Lü Bu's daughter for his son, and the two families re-formed an alliance.
Some people believe that since the Battle of Fengqiu, Yuan Shu was frightened by Cao Cao and did not dare to start a war with Cao Cao head-on. Yuan Shu claimed that the emperor was for a decisive battle with Cao Cao, and he was not timid.
The reason why the two did not clash head-on later was only because of the situation and strategy. In order to extinguish the last force of Yuan Shao between Yuzhou and Xuzhou, and to unite with the Taishan forces in the north of Xuzhou to encircle and suppress Lü Bu, Yuan Shu sent Ji Ling to attack Liu Bei of Xiaopei, but was persuaded by Lü Bu to return and defuse it.
At this time, Yuan Shu's strategy was to prepare to claim the title of emperor against Cao Cao, and ensure that Lü Bu was concentric with him, and if he did not concentrate, he would be eliminated. The reason why attacking Lü Bu and Lü Bu was an uncertain factor in Yuan Shu's strategy was that he had a capricious personality, and more importantly, he was in the position of the Chen family.
At the beginning of 197, Yuan Shu's secret claim to the emperor was only a kick away, and as long as he got the support of Xuzhou, he could openly fight Cao Cao. So, he took two actions.
First, Chen Jue, the head of the Chen family in Xiapi, was an old friend of Yuan Shu when he was a teenager, and Yuan Shu wrote to him hoping that he could help him achieve great things, but Chen Jue said that Cao Cao was the one who could make the world stable.
Yuan Shu kidnapped Chen Jue's second son, Chen Yingxiang, and threatened Chen Jue, who would rather sacrifice his son than be moved. Second, Yuan Shu sent Han Yin to Xuzhou to tell Lu Bu about being the emperor, and realized the previous marriage contract, and took Lu Bu's daughter back to Shouchun to be the crown princess.
Lu Bu agreed at first, but was later persuaded by Chen Qi to recover his daughter and let Chen Deng escort Han Yin to Xudu to denounce Yuan Shu's claim to be emperor, and Han Yin was beheaded in Xudu.
Chen Deng's trip, Xiapi Chen officially took refuge in Cao Cao, but Lu Bushang was in the dark. "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes"The power has come. Cao Cao did not personally crusade against Yuan Shu, but appointed Chen Deng as the Taishou of Guangling, and sent troops out of Sheyang County in the northeast corner of Huainan in Guangling County; Chen Yu was appointed as the Taishou of Wu County, and the troops went out of Haixi County.
and Xiapi Lu Bu and Jiangdong Sun Ce attacked Yuan Shu in four ways.
It turned out that this action was not to encircle and suppress Yuan Shu, but to provoke a struggle between Xuzhou and Yangzhou, so as to make Sun Ce completely independent. They first made Chen Yu of Wu County a taishou, which caused Sun Ce's dissatisfaction, and then sealed the Pi Chen clan and weakened Lu Bu's strength, making Lu Bu dissatisfied.
All this was within Sun Ce's plan, and in the end, Lü Fan eliminated Chen Yu's forces in Haixi, and Chen Yu fled to Yuan Shao. In the face of Lü Bu's betrayal, Yuan Shu sent the generals Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui to lead the army to attack Pi, but Lü Bu listened to Chen Jue's suggestion, plotted against Han Xian and Yang Feng of Zhang Xun's army, and killed more than a dozen generals in one fell swoop, Qiao Rui was captured, and Zhang Xun's army was almost wiped out.
Lü Bu's army pursued all the way across the Huai River, and then withdrew, "Tiger Step Jianghuai". Chen Deng, the Taishou of Guangling, attacked Guangling County from Sheyang and recaptured the entire territory of Guangling and the Huainan part of Xiapi Kingdom.
All this is in Sun Ce's plan.
Chen Deng occupied the south of the Huai River in Xuzhou, and Yuan Shu's vitality was greatly damaged. In 197, a natural disaster occurred in Huainan, which made him completely abandon the plan to claim the title of emperor and contend with Cao Cao, and turned to a strategy centered on grain and grass.
Lü Bu made the first contribution to the elimination of Yuan Shu in this war. Huainan, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou suffered drought and locust plagues in 197, with Huainan being the most severe.
Although Cao Cao was slightly affected by the disaster, and had implemented the tuntian system in various counties, he could transfer grain and grass from Yanzhou, which had not been affected by the disaster, but Yuan Shu lost a large amount of grain and grass in this battle, and was plundered and damaged by Lü Bu's army, resulting in a shortage of food in the army, and the people were not able to make a living.
Liu Chong, the king of Chen in Yuzhou, supported his troops and hoarded a large amount of grain and grass, which made Yuan Shu have the idea of taking him under the knife. Yuan Shu personally led the army to attack the state of Chen, borrowing grain from Liu Chong, but was refused.
So Yuan Shu sent the "legendary killer" Zhang Min to assassinate Liu Chong and Chen Xiang Luo Jun, and the Yuan army then ransacked the Chen state, resulting in the ruins of the Chen land.
In the autumn harvest of 197, Cao Cao went east to conquer the state of Chen, and Yuan Shu was affected by the disaster and had no harvest, so he could only leave the army and flee back to Shouchun. Leave Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui to defend Chen Guo and Peiguo. Cao Cao led Lejin, Yu Ban and other generals to besiege Chen Guokuxian County, beheaded Qiao Rui and other four generals, and Zhang Xun was forced to retreat.
Subsequently, Cao Cao went south to capture Qiyang, Yuan Shu's last important town in Yuzhou, and Yuan Shu's north of the Huai River was lost. In the same year, Sun Ce expelled Yuan Yin, the Taishou sent by Yuan Shu to Danyang, and officially became independent.
The End of Yuan Shu: Despair, Rebellion, and Collapse Yuan Shu's reign has entered the final countdown. The former overlord of Jiangdong can only struggle for survival now.
In 198, Lü Bu unified Xuzhou, and in order to contend with Cao Cao, he again allied with Yuan Shu. However, in December, Yuan Shu was hanged to death by Cao Cao at the White Gate Tower in Xiapi City.
He no longer has any strategy and strength, his army is hungry and cold, demoralized, and even some generals have led their armies to become bandits. Between the Jianghuai River, the people cannibalized each other, the desert is uninhabited, and the scene is desolate.
However, Yuan Shu and his harem still lived a life of luxury until their resources were exhausted. In 199, Yuan Shu burned down the palace and took the harem beauties, civil and military officials and the army to defect to the generals Chen Lan and Lei Bo who were bandits here.
As a result, they were rejected, and their followers fled. In the end, Yuan Shu wrote a letter to Yuan Shao to admit defeat and went north to Xuzhou to prepare to meet Yuan Tan who went south. However, they were intercepted and killed by Liu Bei halfway, and the group had to flee back south.
In Jiangting, they were desperate because they couldn't even find a mouthful of honey. Cao Cao sent Yan Xiang to enter Jiujiang County for Yangzhou Assassin History, and Yuan Shu's forces were left with Liu Xun, the Taishou of Lujiang.
In 199, Liu Xun was defeated by Sun Ce and took refuge in Cao Cao. This is the end of Yuan Shu, despair, rebellion and collapse.
The Fall of Yuan Shu: Although it is long, it clearly reveals the successes and failures of Yuan Shu in the past ten years. Yuan Shu is undoubtedly smart, capable, and deeply rooted. However, due to his poor character and unscrupulous means, he was repeatedly calculated and betrayed by others.
Moreover, he was greedy for pleasure and disregarded his subordinates, and eventually rebelled against his relatives and brought about his own destruction. We should learn from history, don't be complacent because of cleverness, once we leave a bad impression in the hearts of others, everyone will not hesitate to retaliate!
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