On the third day of the capture of Taocheng in the Wushang, more than 50,000 military and civilians had already cleaned up the county town that had been occupied by Zhang Jiao for more than a year. In Zhao Xing's words, it is best not to leave a rafter to Yuan Shao, Jizhou when leaving. (eng.com) When Zhao Xing left Bingzhou, he only brought 50,000 civilians. Why did there be more than a few thousand people? It turns out that the extra ones were the Yellow Turban rioters who were relatives with Bingzhou who were fought over by the mass work team.

Zhao Xing adopted an unconventional siege method and broke through Taocheng without using it for half a day. This caught Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao off guard. When Zhao Xing entered the city, he captured all those who could be caught, all those who could be killed, all those who could be kidnapped, and all those who could be moved were moved. Only then did the two realize that the fruit of victory in Taocheng in Taocheng was swallowed by Zhao Xing alone!

The latest information sent by the Investigator shows that Zhao Xing had used 5,000 troops to migrate the population and escort property, which means that Zhao Xing's actual troops are less than 30,000 now. Regardless of how many troops are dispatched, Zhao Xing's benefit from Jizhou, just Zhao Xing's practice of sending troops to escort attracted the attention and calculations of Yuan Shao's advisers.

Staff Ju Shu offered advice Yuan Shao: Since Zhao Xing has a mysterious and powerful siege weapon and has such a big appetite, it is better to give the remaining Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao to him. As long as he occupy a city, he will send some troops back to escort the population and goods. Jizhou is so big, when Zhao Xing loots from southern Jizhou to the north, it is estimated that the remaining soldiers under him will be more than 10,000. At that time, if Zhao Xing is asked to encircle and suppress the black bandit Zhang Yan, no matter how he wins or loses, he will definitely suffer heavy losses. When Zhao Xing is the weakest, he will attack him!

Staff Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao: privately reveal the fact that the Taocheng ruins were destroyed to Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang in advance, so that they must not fight with Zhao Xing on the top of the city, and be careful of Zhao Xing's treacherous plan. As long as Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were not easily killed by Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing would definitely slaughter and fall under these two cities, at least a few teeth were knocked out.

The strategist Shen Pei also made a claim: Zhao Xing is good at bewitching people's hearts, and uses the division of ordinary people and the disintegration of the Yellow Turban fighting spirit in the city. If you want Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to persist for a while and increase Zhao Xing's military loss, you have to help Zhang Bao. Zhang Liang has more ideas and find ways to deal with Zhao Xing's public opinion and propaganda offensive.

The final result of everyone's discussion was that the best tool to deal with the public opinion offensive was still public opinion. As long as you have the right to speak, and before Zhao Xing arrived, they would spread rumors about Zhao Xing and "demonize" Zhao Xing, then the Yellow Turbans in the city would not be easily divided and disintegrated.

Considering that Zhao Xing always likes to eat alone, and his subordinates cannot defeat Zhang Liang, and any city occupied by Zhang Bao, Yuan Shao could only watch the huge benefits slip away from him and reluctantly agreed to Ju Su's suggestion. It would not be enough if Yuan Shao agreed. He had to convince Lu Zhi and let Lu Zhi agree with this opinion, so that the task of the two strong cities of Nanpi can be thrown to Zhao Xing.

There is a saying: "Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang." Ju Su, Xu You and Shen Pei are not cobblers, but first-class strategists, and Zhuge Liang is still a baby at present and does not belong to Zhao Xing. Therefore, Zhao Xing is likely to be plotted by Yuan Shao this time.

First, the siege of the city by thunder is indeed a powerful weapon, but its limitations are also obvious. Its explosion power is relatively small, and it depends entirely on the number to win. Zhao Xing went out of Jizhou this time, and the logistics supply of 70,000 to 80,000 people was a very heavy burden. If he had not made two portable load-loading transport vehicles like "unicycle trolleys" and "two-wheeled ox puller trucks" in advance, the food and grass for the people alone would be a big problem. Due to insufficient transportation capacity, Zhao Xing brought not many " thunder" this time. In order to cover up, he exploded twice on the river beach, and the Lu brothers took away some of it. Now the thunder he can use in his hands can also collapse another city gate hole.

Second, with Yuan Shao sending people to inform Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang, Lecheng and Nanpi's internal defense will be tighter, especially the two big bosses will not be easily sent to heaven by Zhao Xing. As long as Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang are alive, the Yellow Turbans in the city will have a backbone and are more likely to resist stubbornly to the end.

Third, Yuan Shao also helped Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to give them advice and teach them to "demonize" Zhao Xing through rumor, slander, malicious smear and other means, so that the Yellow Turban rioters in the city could produce "antibody" against Zhao Xing's mass public opinion offensive, and Zhao Xing's previous means of dismantling the enemy was difficult to work.

Fourth, others have seen Zhao Xing's weakness, that is, he likes to abduct the population. In the future, Zhao Xing will capture a group of Yellow Turban prisoners whenever Zhao Xing captures a city in the future. If the estimate is that more than 200,000 people need to be moved to the Shangjun County, Zhao Xing will have to arrange at least about 7,000 soldiers to escort the Yellow Turban prisoners to Bingzhou. If the land is diverted like this, Zhao Xing will use less and less troops in the end.

Fifth, Yuan Shao has begun to ambush a large number of dead soldiers near Heishan, preparing to take the opportunity to assassinate Zhao Xing. If he is unfortunately caught, the result will be even more unimaginable.

Not afraid of opponents like gods, but fear of teammates like pigs. Zhao Xing's opponent is not a god, but his teammates are trying to make them turn into gods. Zhao Xing's teammates are not a pig, but a poisonous snake hidden in the farmer's arms. Yuan Shao thought about it and felt that it was not an exaggeration to plan such a huge plan to deal with Zhao Xing. As long as Zhao Xing can be eliminated, his Yuan family can stand firm. Let Zhao Xing live one more day is a nightmare for the Yuan clan.

So Yuan Shao immediately wrote a letter, asking his subordinates to pass it to Luoyang quickly, and he personally went to Lu Zhi's tent to persuade him.

"What does Mr. Lu think Zhao Guochang?" Yuan Shao asked Lu Zhi.

"If you are loyal, you will be the most meritorious official of the Han Dynasty, and if you are treacherous, you will be the most traitor of the Han Dynasty!" Lu Zhi said something rusty. Lu Zhi also did not trust the Yuan family, so many of them were not straightforward.

"Then Mr. Lu thought that Zhao Guochang had stolen Bingzhou, did not pay tribute, and privately changed the ancestral system, appointed officials on his own, and raised tens of millions of troops. What was his intention?" Yuan Shao asked again.

"If there are chaos today, those who are a little wise are worried about protecting themselves. It is understandable that Zhao Guochang acts like this." Lu Zhi still didn't say the truth.

"I beg Mr. Lu to serve the country and the people and get rid of this thief with Shao!" Seeing Lu Zhi waiting for him to express his opinion first, Yuan Shao had to give up his efforts and explain his future intentions clearly.

"I wonder what good ideas I have?" Lu Zhi thought for a moment and asked Yuan Shao expressionlessly.

So Yuan Shao revealed the agreed strategy and not mentioning it except for the plan to assassinate Zhao Xing in the Heishan area.

"I have been outside for more than a year. Now the soldiers are exhausted. Tomorrow, I will submit a letter to the court and request to return to Luoyang to rest and rest. The plan to suppress bandits in Jizhou will be handed over to Benchu ​​and General Zhenbei!" Lu Zhi said an inexplicable sentence.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed after hearing this! Lu Zhi said he wanted to return to Luoyang, which means he would not interfere with the matter. However, as soon as Lu Zhi withdrew his troops, he would even push the burden of clearing out the Yellow Turbans to Zhao Xing. Isn’t this just a disguised agreement with his plan?

Half a month passed, and Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao did not take the next move, nor did they come to him to discuss the future military use. Zhao Xing was still thinking, "Is it too powerful that the thunder of the sky is so powerful that it will make Yuan Shao and Lu Zhi useless?" Just when Zhao Xing was puzzled, the court sent an envoy to highly evaluate and praise his actions to go out to Jizhou to wipe out the Yellow Turban, but the benefits were not given a single point.

The court stated that because Lu Zhi led his army to stay away for more than a year, the soldiers were exhausted and would withdraw back to Luoyang to rest in the future. Yuan Shao's soldiers had low combat power and could only barely protect the prefecture's capital Gaoyi from being captured by the Yellow Turbans of Heishan. In view of this, the heavy responsibility of destroying the thief chiefs Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang and attacking Zhang Yan in Heishan was given to Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing was also given the hat of "Youji to fight the thief envoy".

It has not been once Zhao Xing was united to plot against him, but this time he not only had enemies but also his original teammates. How should he face it?
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