In Shouchun, Yuan Shu drank and had fun in his palace. The dancers in the palace had soft waists, danced gracefully, and sang and danced to peace.

At this moment, a civil servant under his command came forward to report: "Your Majesty, according to the frontline war report, Pei Qing is now in Xuzhou, confronting Cao Cao, with dozens of battles between him and his big and small. Although the casualties are unknown, it seems that the war between them has begun and he has no time to care about us at all."

Yuan Shu was overjoyed when he heard this, "Oh? Haha, now I feel completely relieved. Pei Qing's son relies on his many soldiers and widespread generals to cause trouble everywhere, and bite everywhere like a mad dog. The old thief Cao Cao has always formed an alliance with my slave and went against me. Now that they are biting dogs, we will reap the benefits of fishermen at that time. This is what I am most happy to see."

Then Yuan Shu announced the good news loudly. Now that the threat from Pei Qing was lifted, Yuan Shu was naturally more at ease to enjoy himself. However, at this time, he remembered Sun Ce's incident and said with an unhappy face: "A war broke out between Pei Qing's son and Cao Man, and their strength will definitely be greatly damaged. This means that I will not be able to occupy the four prefectures of Henan, Yan, Qing and Xu in a long time, and then enter Luoyang, advance into Guanzhong, and destroy the two thieves. In this case, Sun Ce's son did not surrender. It is really hateful. I plan to launch an army to conquer, but I don't know what the ministers think?"

However, the chief minister Yang Hong said, "This matter is absolutely impossible. Lord, although the battle between Pei Qing and Cao Cao will definitely lose their troops, once our army crosses the river to fight Sun Ce, the soldiers will not be able to get a rest. At that time, even if Cao Cao and Pei Qing are both injured, we will not have the strength to deal with them in time. Therefore, for the sake of the present, we should just keep our troops in a standstill and wait for the changes in the current situation before responding to the situation..."

And just then, the general Qiao Rui entered the hall and said with a hurried look on his face: "Your Majesty, I have received the news that Yuan Shao of Jizhou ordered an attack on Cao Cao, and the alliance between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao was broken."

"What? Good! Haha, now even the slaves are all wrapped up together. The three of them fight to the death, which is something I am happy to see." Yuan Shu became even more proud after hearing this and said to Yang Hong: "Now you don't have to worry that we don't have the strength to deal with them in time, right? The three of them fight to the scene, and we have more time to deal with Sun Ce's son."

"But in this way, Cao Cao's power will be dispersed, making it more difficult to balance Pei Qing. Once Pei Qing leads his army to launch a surprise attack on us, how can we resist? So the subordinate asked the lord not to conquer Sun Ce again, and it is best to lead the army to defend Huainan..."

"Haha, Yang Aiqing, you are too worried. Cao Cao's fundamental attack was attacked. He will definitely lead the army to support him. In this case, Pei Qing will naturally choose to occupy Xuzhou first. He wants to occupy Xuzhou and defend Cao Cao's attack. How much force will this involve him? He can't even want Xuzhou, but he will attack my Huainan, right?"

Yuan Shu didn't care about Yang Hong's concerns at all, which strengthened his determination to attack Sun Ce. So he ordered the prefect of Lujiang Liu Xun as General Hengjiang, and Mei Cheng, Lei Xu, Mei Qian and others as deputy generals to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Qu'a.

Seeing that Sun Ce insisted on this, Yang Hong sighed: "Pei Qing's movements are unknown, and Chen Deng is still in Guangling's movements are unknown. Once he surrenders to Pei Qing, it will pose a greater threat to our army."

When Yuan Shu heard this, he smiled and said, "You reminded me that the last time Zhang Kai rebelled, the attack on Guangling failed. This made Chen Deng's son pick up a ready-made bargain, but he really thought our army could not take him?"

Then Yuan Shu ordered Zhang Xun as the main general, Qiao Rui, Li Feng and Lei Bo as the deputy generals, and led a 30,000 army to attack Guangling.

When Yang Hong heard this, he smiled even more bitterly. He had already felt that the defense power was insufficient. Now Yuan Shu actually sent troops to attack Guangling. As a result, he could only speed up Chen Deng's reversal towards Pei Qing, and at the same time further dispersed his own power. If Pei Qing launched an attack at this time, even the gods would not be able to defend Huainan?

Yuan Shu ignored Yang Hong's worries and insisted on sending his subordinates to fight. In fact, this cannot be blamed on Yuan Shu's expansion, because he still has more than 30,000 troops in Huainan. He believed that once Pei Qing and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought to the death, he would be enough to occupy Yuzhou and Xuzhou with these 30,000 troops alone.

"Now, Cao Man, the slave and Pei Qing's son are having a lot of fun fighting in the Central Plains, but I watch it here and drink and have fun. It is really a joy in life. After they fight, I will reap the benefits of the fisherman. This is the ultimate joy in life. In the words of Pei Qing's son, what is it called? By the way, this is called 'make a wedding dress for others', and it is also called making marriage for others. I have to say that the words of this child are really appropriate."

Yuan Shu was very proud and ordered that the ministers not leave, and then he set up a banquet to make a drunken plan with the ministers.

After that, Yuan Shu drank and had fun every day, and was drunk and dreamed. The counselor Yang Hong tried to persuade him many times, but he didn't care at all and still had his dreams.

However, just when he was drunk and dying, Pei Qing had already led the army into Huainan. Along the way, Pei Qing's 20,000 army was unstoppable and easily broke through the defense line deployed by Yuan Shu in Zhongli County, killing Yuan Shu's general Chen Ji and others, and more than 2,000 soldiers, and capturing more than 5,000 alive.

Then Pei Qing's army went straight to the road without any rest and arrived at Yinling City within half a day. This Yinling City was originally the county seat of Jiujiang County. Although Jiujiang County no longer exists and has become the Huainan Yin, Shouchun naturally became the capital of Huainan Yin. However, Yinling's defense was still more attentive. This was mainly because Yan Xiang, the former chief of Yuan Shu, was worried that he would be attacked by Pei Qing's army after being demoted here, so he built it here.

With its strong defense, Yan Xiang was crazily recruiting soldiers in the city. Now there are nearly 20,000 soldiers in a small county town. So many soldiers are caused by Yan Xiang forcing the local people to join the army, which has led to almost all male men in Yinling County being summoned to the army. If Yan Xiang had not always had prestige here and resolutely suppressing those people who dared to make trouble, it would be estimated that the people would rise up without attacking here.
Chapter completed!