As Lujiang County became more and more stable, Yuan Yao also came up with the idea of ​​returning to Shouchun with his team.

Since the main forces of the Yuan army followed Yuan Yao from the Liyang crossing the river to Pingjiang East in early May, they have been fighting continuously for more than half a year.

The fierce battles have already made the soldiers exhausted and urgently needed sufficient rest.

on the other hand.

Currently, several counties in Jiangdong also need to have a buffer time to digest to expand the fruits of victory.

And commend the generals who made outstanding achievements in this battle formation.

The most critical factor is naturally the battle between the Central Plains.

According to the news from the previous work, it was said that Lu Bu, who attacked Cao Cao and was the leader of Yanzhou under the joint support of the group led by Chen Gong, a scholar in Yanzhou, had fought with Cao Cao, who had returned to his army and had only three counties left for several months.

At first, with his bravery, Lu Bu still won more than defeated.

For a moment, Cao Cao's situation could not be opened at all. He fell into a dilemma and despair, and wanted to move his family to Yecheng in Jizhou and defect to Yuan Shao's command.

However, in the subsequent stalemate battle, Cao Cao and his advisers also took the opportunity to find many favorable military information, thus breaking several fields of Lu Bu's army and bringing this situation back to the normal confrontation between the two sides.

Because Lu Bu and his many Yu Cheng family were defeated by the villagers led by Li Jin, a native of the village.

Helplessly, he had to temporarily extinguish the territory in Puyang and annex the territory east of Puyang, and then retreated to Shanyang to garrison the troops.

Because in August and September, a locust plague suddenly occurred in Yanzhou, and the crops planted in the fields suffered one after another.

Until the autumn harvest season, there were almost no grains in the entire Yanzhou area.

The arrival of this natural disaster made the people of Yanzhou suddenly in dire straits.

The states of Yan and Yu were robbed by the Western Liang army after Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, which caused all the two states to suffer great harm.

Later, it was attacked by millions of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, causing trouble to Yanzhou.

Although Cao Cao and his people were timely pacified and incorporated them.

However, Yanzhou has experienced several changes, and its level of prosperity has long been different from the past.

Now, Cao and Lu fought for Yanzhou. The frequent military disasters were like the shackles worn by the soldiers and people, and the heavy labor service gradually worsened...

The people of Yanzhou are already overwhelmed.

Originally, the people of the whole province were still looking forward to the autumn harvest this year to usher in a bumper harvest and overcome difficulties.

But the overwhelming locust plague has left the crops in the fields almost without any harvest.

This has become a nightmare among all the scholars and the people.

At this moment, many people have begun to lose food at home, and gradually fall into the tragic situation of eating each other or changing children.

In the face of such incidents, the originally in full swing of war between the Cao and Lu families came to an end because they could not collect enough military rations and the cold winter. They had to place troops on the border to wait for the battle to begin spring next year.

Although Cao Cao and Lu Bu families have temporarily entered a confrontation stage.

However, Yuan Yao was not optimistic about the situation of Lu Bujun.

At the latest spring of the following year, Lu Bu will inevitably be defeated by Cao Mengde, who has always been famous for his cunning.

It is not just that which prompted Yuan Yao to quickly return to Shouchun!

There is another more important factor.

That is the change in Xuzhou.

According to reports, Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian has been entrusted with Xuzhou Yu Liu Bei twice in a row.

Although Liu Bei refused sternly, Yuan Yao, who is familiar with history, knew very well that if he followed the trajectory of history, Tao Qian's life would soon come to an end.

By then, Liu Xuande, who has always been benevolent and righteous, will be unanimously supported by the scholars and citizens of Xuzhou and the great families, and will be supported as the leader of Xuzhou.

This is the top issue that Yuan Yao had to guard against.

After all, the land of Xu Si is closely connected with the Huainan region, and there are only several water systems such as Si Shui and Huainan.

The two armies are so close that if one side of Xuzhou suddenly develops hostility towards Huainan and rises up to invade, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Although Tao Qian and Yuan have established friendly relations, the two armies can be said to be the best water in the river until now.

But if Liu Bei commanded Xuzhou, it would not be certain.

Yuan Yao, who is familiar with history, knows that Liu Bei is more inclined to make friends with Yuan Shao and denounces Yuan Shu.

In history, Liu Bei had an opportunity to pick up Maocai, but he did not leave it to himself, nor to any of his civil and military personnel. Instead, he unexpectedly recommended Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan as Maocai.

It was precisely because of this great kindness to repay his kindness that after Xuzhou was defeated by Cao Cao and his people, Qingzhou Governor Yuan Tan couldn't help but bring his troops to greet the Qingxu border.

Not only that, after hearing about Liu Bei's visit, Yuan Shao also showed great enthusiasm and personally rushed from Yecheng to Qingzhou to welcome Liu Bei.

At this time, the information of these scenes and the various events that occurred in the original history gradually coincided with Yuan Yao's mind.

It can be said that who will fall in the battle in Yanzhou and the ownership of the Lord of Xuzhou will be a huge change that will occur under the current situation of the Central Plains states.

In turn, it will affect the world pattern.

Thinking of these, Yuan Yao secretly urged himself to make up his mind to return to Shouchun early and make changes in response to the changes in the Central Plains in advance.

At first, Yuan Yao tried his best to oppose the battle with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao for the Central Plains states.

That was based on the fact that there were no excellent generals on the one hand of our army, which resulted in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the army being too weak to resist the enemy's attack.

Based on this consideration, Yuan Yao tried his best to persuade his father Yuan Shu to retreat to the southernmost part of Yuzhou, Runan County and occupy the Huainan area as the foundation, so he secretly accumulated strength.

But this does not mean that Yuan Yao does not want to advance to the Central Plains states.

It was really not suitable to attack the Central Plains at that time.

But the current situation suddenly became very different.

Our side has already captured several counties in Jiangdong, covering the entire territory of Yangzhou, and occupies the southeast half of the wall.

What's more, under the continuous battles of Yuan Yao and his many people, his reputation was gained, and there were endless talents coming to join him.

At this time, there were countless generals gathered under the Yuan family.

On the other hand, naturally, after more than half a year of battle, the main troops of Yuan's army have been different from before and have been completely reborn.

Now it is time to go north to compete with all the heroes in the Central Plains.

A mood gradually surged into his heart, and Yuan Yao suddenly felt a murderous intent.

He had been waiting for this day for too long.

"Cao Cao and Liu Bei are finally going to compete with you and others."

"You are ready to be the foundation stone for my fame."
Chapter completed!