Sun Jian fought bravely for the national border, while Yuan Shao and Han Fu in the north struggled with internal strife. Yuan Shao, the "leader of the alliance", looks very beautiful, but in fact his heart is very weak.
He was stationed in Hanoi County, but he borrowed the place to guard Wang Kuang, which did not give him much security. And the large-scale Kwantung Coalition Army has disintegrated, and Yuan Shao has no place to manage, as for the titular title of Bohai Taishou, it looks good but useless.
Therefore, Yuan Shao's troops could only rely on the supplies given by Jizhou Mu Hanfu, and the reality was that they could only resign themselves to fate.
Providing such supplies for a long time made Han Fu feel distressed, and at the same time, he was even more jealous when he saw more heroes and heroes throwing themselves to Yuan Shao. Not long ago, Zhang Yang, the former former head of He Jin, led thousands of people to join Yuan Shao's camp, and a Southern Xiongnu exile Shan Yu also followed.
Han Fu angrily decided to reduce the supply of food to Yuan Shao's army in order to starve his army and force them to leave Yuan Shao to serve the imperial court, thereby weakening their strength.
Yuan Shao's life was originally stretched, but now he is hungry and cold, and he is disgraced. This situation is not conducive to his prestige and long-term interests, and he needs his own territory to achieve self-sufficiency, otherwise it will be difficult to gain a foothold in troubled times.
So the resourceful Yuan Shao's henchman Feng Ji said bluntly: "If you don't capture a state, you can't protect yourself." It means pointing to Jizhou. However, the problem is that Jizhou's soldiers are strong and strong, but their subordinates are starving, how to fight? If you lose, you won't even have a place to stay.
Feng Ji decided that Han Fu was incompetent, and proposed to let Gongsun Zhan, the fierce general of Youzhou, go south to Jizhou, and Han Fu must have panicked. At the same time, elite representatives were sent to lobby Han Fu to make him voluntarily abandon Jizhou.
Yuan Shao thought the idea was very good and personally wrote a letter to Gongsun Zhan.
History has not recorded the contents of that letter. However, we can imagine that Yuan Shao must have promised many attractive conditions. Perhaps he promised to give Gongsun Zhan a part of the territory of Jizhou, or to provide something of value. No matter what Yuan Shao promised, Gongsun Zan immediately decided to go south to Jizhou after receiving the letter, nominally to crusade against Dong Zhuo, but in fact to attack Jizhou with all his might.
Han Fu hurriedly responded to the battle, but after all, he was defeated by Gongsun Zhan.