From the world of martial arts

Chapter 264
"Gongsun Zan is defeated!"

The news came from the dark owl, it was already the beginning of the sixth year of Chuping.

In the fourth year of Chuping, Su Fan succeeded Tao Qian and officially became the governor of Xuzhou, although the court did not agree with Tao Qian's proposal.

But in fact, the local government is no longer the imperial court at all. If you have no ability to suppress the princes in various places, then the imperial court has no deterrence.

The place is completely autonomous, just like the Warring States period.

After getting Xuzhou, Su Fan didn't do anything except station his army in various places in Xuzhou.

At most, they would continue to send some grain and a small amount of weapons and equipment to Sun Jian.

He had been fighting with Yuan Shu for four years. The two sides were in Yangzhou. They had fought countless times and fought continuously. Sun Jian was short of food and armor, of course.

He is not Yuan Shu, he doesn't have Yuan Shu's background, he is equipped with armor and can be equipped quickly.

So in the face of Yuan Shu's endless consumption, Sun Jian persisted for several years, and he was about to be unable to support it.

Su Fan sent some food, grass and weapons. As for the soldiers and horses, Sun Jian prepared them himself. Fortunately, in this era, there is no shortage of people. As long as there is food, a batch can be brought in.

These days, there is indeed a saying that a good man does not serve as a soldier.

However, in troubled times, if you don't join the army, you can't survive.

Besides, if you don't join the army, someone will force conscription.

In order to resist Yuan Shu's army, Sun Jian had no choice but to recruit soldiers desperately. The young and strong were pulled into the army one after another, and they were sent to the battlefield without much training time.

Trained on the battlefield, experienced a few wars, and those who survived are veterans.

With Su Fan's support, Sun Jian reluctantly supported him. Over the past few years, Su Fan also learned through the dark owl that nearly a million soldiers were killed or injured on both sides.

Yuan Shu's strength has been weakened by at least [-]% to [-]%.

As for Sun Jian, it was even more serious. Without Su Fan's support, he might have to go back to his hometown in Changsha.

Sun Jian in the south was in danger, and Gongsun Zan in the north was defeated again. This defeat was a serious blow to his vitality.

Baima Yicong actually lost more than half of it.

"It is estimated that Yuan Benchu ​​will counterattack."

After receiving the news from the dark lord, several of Su Fan's advisers, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia and Xunyou, all came to the meeting hall of Su Fan's government office.

"My lord, Gongsun Zan cannot be defeated. Once he is defeated, with Yuan's influence, he will soon be able to control Youzhou. With Youzhou and Jizhou, Yuan Shao will become the number one vassal."

"Relying on Yuan's call, I am afraid that all the places in the North will test Yuan Shao."

Everyone is aware of Yuan's influence. Without Yuan's appeal, Yuan Shao can easily win the entire Jizhou.

Not to mention Yuan Shao's lack of ability, among the feudal lords at the end of the Han Dynasty, he can be regarded as a generation of talents, and in the early stage he was even considered to be somewhat talented.

It's just that there are flaws in character, and he didn't have his own opinions when he met the master, which caused the final defeat. Of course, there was also a reason for pride in the final defeat.

The Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi were both due to the arrogance of the lord, which led to the victory of many with less.

Yuan Shao in the early stage had some abilities, but without Yuan's support, he could swallow the entire Jizhou so quickly.

That is absolutely impossible.

Yuan's background made him take a big shortcut.

"If Youzhou is captured by Yuan Benchu, all the lands in the north will be swallowed up by Yuan Shao, and there will be a prince like Yuan Shu in the south. I am afraid there will not be many princes in the world who dare to resist."

Cheng Yu's words are indeed correct.

The same is true in history, but it is a pity that Yuan Shu made a bad move and ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in advance. If Yuan Shu had not ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

Yuan Shao ruled the north, and Yuan Shu also had the southern lands. The princes in the Central Plains, I am afraid that even Cao Cao will have no desire to resist.

Who can resist the combination of the North and the South.

Even if the two brothers have conflicts, but the elders of the Yuan family are still there, they can completely wipe out the other princes first, and finally the two will decide the winner.

So at that time, only their East China Sea Territory will fight alone.

Everyone naturally felt the pressure.

"Gongsun Zan cannot be defeated!"

Xi Zhicai also said firmly.

"Then what do you think? We can't send troops directly now!"

It is not impossible to send troops, but it will disrupt his layout. Once he does send troops, Cao Cao will definitely come to stop him. At the same time, if Yuan Shi is wise, he will definitely let Yuan Shu send troops to stop him.

In this way, Sun Jian will definitely be cultivated.

Su Fan wasn't afraid of Sun Jian, but if he recovered, it would cost him more to win him down in the future.

It's certainly not worth it.

It also conflicts with his previous layout.

"My lord, there is no need to send troops. General Guan Hai in Qingzhou has an elite force in his hand. He can go to Jizhou and attack Jizhou, so as to slow down Yuan Benchu's attack speed."

"Guan Hai has a soldier in his hand, but there are only [-] elite soldiers, I'm afraid it's not enough."

Because the East China Sea Territory needs a population, most of Guan Hai's originally million-strong army was sent back to the East China Sea Territory.

Su Fan asked Guan Hai to implement the elite soldier strategy.

So right now Guan Hai only has 20 soldiers and horses, of which [-] are elite, and the rest are strong and powerful.

"There is no need for General Guan Hai to really fight Yuan Benchu ​​to the death. My lord has forgotten that there is still a yellow scarf in the Taihang Mountains."

Guo Jia said suddenly.

Dark owls spread all over the world, and they found information about Taihang Mountain a few years ago.

Of course, it was also the Taihang Mountain Yellow Turban that haunted Jizhou, and was noticed by the dark owl, so they got involved in the investigation.

This investigation is also a bit shocking. There are tens of millions of Yellow Turban soldiers and civilians in the Taihang Mountains.

And Zhang Jiao's two brothers were among them.

At that time, Su Fan was a little surprised when he heard the news. No wonder he didn't hear any news about these two people after the Julu battle, and the court didn't follow up.

Unexpectedly, the two of them hid in the Taihang Mountains.

In history it was Zhang Yan, but now it has changed. The two brothers Zhang Jiao commanded tens of millions of soldiers and civilians of the Yellow Turbans, which is not a small force.

As soon as Guo Jia reminded him, Su Fan also remembered.

Zhang Jiao's two brothers are not weak either, they were able to fight back and forth with the officers and soldiers back then.

With these two people present, the leader of the Yellow Turbans was not as disorganized as in history, at least those who were not captured by the officers and soldiers all went there.

So in the Taihang Mountains, the strength of the group of yellow scarves is not weak.

"So what Feng Xiao meant was to ask Guan Hai to contact Taihang Mountain and ask them to send troops, but Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao are not fools, and they won't go out easily."

"That's natural, but there are tens of millions of yellow scarves in the Taihang Mountains, and the food consumption is also huge."

"In the past few years, there have been news from the dark owls that the Yellow Turbans of Taihang Mountain often come out of the mountain to attack all parts of Jizhou and rob food."

"It means that they are also constantly short of food, so as to lure them, I am not afraid that they will not move"

"Hmm! That's okay"

Su Fan nodded upon hearing this.

(End of this chapter)