In Huainan, 100,000 Yuan troops were waving flags and gongs and drums, and they were rushing to the Huai River.

Yuan Shu originally wanted to attack Xu Du, at least to take down Chen Guo near Xu Du.

It turns out that in history, Yuan Shu saw that Chen State was well-fed under the rule of Luo Jun, and sent people to Chen State to borrow grain from Luo Jun. However, Luo Jun ate the salary of Liu Han's court. Yuan Shu tried to claim that the emperor regarded Liu Han as his enemy. As Liu Han's minister, how could he use Liu Han's food to help Liu Han's enemies to destroy Liu Han? Therefore, Luo Jun refused Yuan Shu's request to borrow grain from his envoy.

Yuan Shu couldn't borrow food, and was so angry that he sent Zhang Kai, who had previously been killed by Cao Cao's father Cao Song (I didn't expect this guy to appear again), pretending to be a representative of the disaster victims who were rescued by Chen State, and took wine and meat to Luo Jun's residence, lied to thank him, and poisoned Luo Jun to death. When he heard the news of the murder of the prime minister in Chen State, the whole country was sad. Yuan Shu took the opportunity to attack Chen State overnight, conquered Chen County, killed Chen King Liu Chong, searched for food and robbed property.

Luo Jun's wife remarried to Hua Xin, who later served as the prefect of Yuzhang. In the fifth year of Jian'an, Luo Jun's son Luo Tong was 8 years old. With the help of his family, he returned to his hometown in Wushang County, Kuaiji County, and later became a famous general of the Eastern Wu.

Now, Yuan Shu is preparing to march into Chen State when he suddenly received a joint letter from Fan Jian of the Fan family of Yiyang and Kuai Yue of the Kuai family of Kuai Yue, saying that Wei Yan's army is now in Wancheng, and Yiyang County's defense is empty, and Yiyang County's food is more abundant than Chen State.

Yuan Shu remembered that Yang Feng, Han Xian, who had been preparing to defect to him, was defeated by Wei Yan and sent Yang Feng, Han Xian to Xudu. Cao Cao killed Yang Feng, Han Xian. He also remembered that he had sent Zhang Xun, Lei Bo, and Chen Lan to attack Wei Yan before, but was flooded by Wen Pin, the general under Wei Yan, and almost destroyed the entire army. In addition, Wen Pin and Gan Ning, while their main force confronted Liu Bei, broke into Huainan and looted hundreds of thousands of people.

So, Yuan Shu decided to take Yiyang first, defeat Wei Yan, and then fight Chen State!

But he remembered that the 50,000 troops could not do anything to Wei Yan's 20,000 troops, and was destroyed by someone. If he sent another 50,000 troops, it would probably not work, so he decided to expand his troops again.

Then, he began to recruit soldiers, and the recruitment ratio reached a crazy two-year-old man, which was to choose one of the two middle-aged men to join the army. In addition to military service, other corvee and taxes also reached the maximum load as the war broke out. After this battle, it would be fine if he won, but if he lost, Huainan would be defeated in a disastrous manner!

Yuan Shu could no longer take care of so much. He wanted to defeat Wei Yan and Luo Jun and get a lot of food. He felt that as long as the food was abundant, there was no worry about no one. A lot of hungry refugees were willing to follow him, but he didn't know that agricultural production was corrupt. Even if there was food now, after eating it, this was the simple brain of the children of aristocratic families who never knew what crops were.

In fact, most of the children of aristocratic families who do not know the sufferings of the people will impose excessive taxes and do not cherish the people's strength. Just like Yuan Shao in Hebei, it may be because his territory is larger and not as obvious as Yuan Shu.

But when he was recruiting troops, the original soldiers took the opportunity to plunder. The people of Huainan fled in various places. It took him half a month to piece together the 100,000 people. At this time, Wei Yan was about to return to Yiyang New City.

When Wei Yan heard Yuan Shu’s army coming to Yiyang New City, he was furious: “I finally developed Yiyang, but everyone regarded this place as fat. Made, even if it was fat, you would still break your teeth if you wanted to eat it!”

According to the detailed report from Yuan Shu's army, Yuan's army first passed the Huai River from Shouchun, then headed westward, preparing to pass the Ru River, first captured the counties of Runan occupied by Wei Yan, and then marched into Yiyang New City.

Wei Yan quickly ordered Fu Tong, who was gathered in Ancheng County, an area of ​​the Rushui River, to build a dike and intercept the Rushui River.

When Xu Shu heard the military order, he was amused and crying: "Lord, last time you ordered the generals of Gan Ning to use the trick of flooding against Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu will definitely not be fooled this time."

Wei Yan smiled and said, "Did I say to use the trick of flooding against Yuan Shu?"

Xu Shu said in confusion: "Then lord, what strategy are you going to use to deal with Yuan Shu?"

"Old thief Yuan Shu, over the years, has been entrusted with heavy taxes and recruited troops in Huainan, and has ruined 200,000 to 300,000 people. Now most of these 100,000 people are recruits, and new recruits are likely to be timid..." Wei Yan said his plan in detail, but it is not actually a particularly powerful plan. He just took the countermeasures of the Han people who had never happened in history and tried it.

When he finished speaking, not only Xu Huang and other generals admired each other, but also Xu Shu was amazed.

However, Xu Shu immediately thought of a question: "There are no problems with the others, but what about that inner support?"

Wei Yan smiled and said, "Previously, Yuan Quan, the head of the Yuan family in Nanyang County, was under Yuan Shu's command, and his wives, concubines and children were all in Yiyang New City. Yuan Quan received financial support from us and bribed Yuan Shu, and now he is well appreciated by Yuan Shu."

...

When Yuan Shu led a 100,000 army to the east coast of Rushui.

Wei Yan also led 30,000 elite troops to the west bank of Rushui, and the two sides confronted each other across the river.

Dozens of Yuan army generals surrounded Yuan Shu and came to the Rushui River.

Yuan Shu wore a golden helmet and golden armor, and was wearing dragon, phoenix, sun, moon and flags, four doves and five directions of flags, golden gourd, silver axe, yellow axe, white tassels, and yellow Luo under the golden umbrella. Although he had not yet been elected as emperor, he had already had the emperor's pomp.

Although he has been defeated repeatedly over the years, it would be fine if he could not defeat Cao Cao. Even Liu Bei, a shoe dealer whom he always looked down upon, still did not lose his conceit. He felt that he was still the legitimate son of the Yuan family of Runan, the grand clan of the three noble families of the four generations, and he was still noble. He was still destined to be destined. Just Cao Cao and Liu Bei would be wiped out by him sooner or later. As for the young boy Wei Yan, he was even more despised.

He looked back at his military camp. There were more than ten miles of people and horses, and the flags covered the sky and the sun. Looking at the other side of the Rushui River, Wei Yan's men had only 30,000 people, which seemed a lot shabby.

Yuan Shu suddenly became very proud, drew his sword in his hand, and shouted to the sky: "My Yuan Highway is the destiny of heaven!"

Chief Yang Hong hurriedly shouted: "The destiny of heaven is coming!"

The other generals agreed and said, "The destiny of heaven is coming!"

"The destiny of heaven is coming!"

Ji Ling frowned, but had to shout, "The destiny of heaven is coming!"

At this moment, the Wei army across the Rushui River shouted in unison: "Yuan Gaolu returns to the west!"

"Return to the West!"

"Return to the West!"

Yuan Shu was furious: "The soldiers of the three armies obeyed the orders and immediately crossed the river to attack and kill Wei Yan!"

Ji Ling hurriedly stepped forward and advised: "Lord, do you remember the defeat of Zhang Xunlei Bo and Chen Lan a few months ago?"

Yuan Shu suddenly remembered and couldn't help but feel shocked: "Zhang Xun's 50,000 army was annihilated by the Wei army with a flooding strategy."
Chapter completed!