However, after only half a month after Liu Xie led his army to surround Yecheng, the news that Yuan Shao ordered Yan Rou to lead the Wuhuan and the Xianbei tribes to go south to help lift the siege of Yecheng had already spread.

At the same time, Yuan Shao's army had actually given up the idea of ​​a quick decisive battle with Cao Cao and ordered his confidant general Chunyu Qiong to lead a 30,000 infantry and cavalry coalition to return north, intending to help Wuhuan and Xianbei.

It is said that after learning about this, the emperor cut six tables with the emperor's sword in one breath, scolding Yuan Shao for dying

This news was not discovered by Liu Xie's Han army himself, but was a direct rebellion from some bureaucratic classes in Jizhou.

After all, if Yuan Shao wants to lead the Wuhuan people to the south, the government orders must be conveyed layer by layer. Someone must guide the Wuhuan people and Xianbei people. Someone must be responsible for opening up the pass. Someone must be responsible for raising food and grass for them.

However, the same is true. Yuan Shao's rule in Jizhou did not actually go deep into the grassroots governance. Most of the local officials in the county and below were actually the original Han Dynasty officials. After changing his skin, he became Zhao officials. How loyal can he be to Yuan Shao?

The Hebei gentry class, which complements the bureaucratic system but is nested with each other, naturally learned such a news earlier than Liu Xie. When the gentry class knew, the powerful class knew it soon, and when the powerful class knew it, the people also knew it.

For a moment, there were endless teams of people who were seeking Han in Jizhou, without any beginning or end, especially those who did not have much land, such as refugees, tenants, tenants and other white-haired classes. Many of these people were originally the people of Sili and Yanzhou. In order to avoid the war, they moved to Jizhou.

They had long heard that there was no head tax in the Han Dynasty ruled, and they were yearning for it, but they didn't know whether it was true or false. After Liu Xie's army entered the Jizhou Plain, their unrestrained style had already captured the hearts of the people of Wei County and even the entire southern Jizhou in just a few days.

Almost all the people who had escaped from the Central Plains to Hebei were self-conceived by grain and grain, and ran south with their families. Many local Wutian white bodies also followed in a confused manner. Such a large-scale escape from the south further caused social turmoil. Many tenants who fled south had no food, so they simply discussed with each other before escaping and killed their own landlords. In addition, the slaves who killed their masters, the land of Jizhou was obviously not yet here, but bandits were already everywhere.

As for the Arita class, especially the powerful class, they gathered their clan soldiers and nearby villagers to form Wubao to defend themselves. Some of them simply took the banner of Han. Although most of the powerful people did not change their banners directly, they also refused to accept all the recruitment from the Zhao court. They turned into veritable clan thieves, and more than a dozen powerful people attacking the county town also emerged.

It can be said that Yuan Shao's ruling foundation in Jizhou has been completely ruined by his own order.

But don’t you think Yuan Shao knows the price of doing this? What can he do if the situation is like this?

The withdrawal of troops was waiting for death. The urgent attack on Cao's camp and the lead of Wuhuan cavalry south were all seeking death. As a hero, it was not natural to choose to seek death between waiting for death and seeking death?

But as a young man from a noble family, Yuan Shao, who seemed to be magnificent, had been going so smoothly that when things came to an end, he had no courage to burn his boats according to Zhang He's words and strive for a lifetime in the midst of death. He knew that there was no hope of breaking Cao's camp quickly. Apart from leading Hu Nan and driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf, would he have any other way at this time?

After all, if this battle can be won, the court's troops will inevitably be destroyed by food shortage in half a year. He will be the final winner of this war. Repeating the old story of Guangwu is just around the corner. By then, what's the relationship between the people in Jizhou's hearts or not? As long as he is given more time, the lost hearts will eventually be reassured.

If this battle is defeated, the so-called people's hearts will have nothing to do with him. More than 40,000 people in his family were slaughtered by Lu Bu. Do you still care about leaving your name in history?

However, for Yuan Shao, this may be just a matter of names in history, but for the five or six million people in Jizhou, including the hidden population, which is very likely to exceed 10 million, these are their life and death!

(I read a paper two days ago, saying that the Eastern Han Dynasty had extremely large hidden populations, so many that other dynasties could not even imagine)

To be honest, Liu Xie did not take the Wuhuan people and the Xianbei people seriously at all. Although he only had 80,000 people in his hands, these people were carefully selected elite soldiers and generals. If the armor was included in the vine armor, the armor rate was as high as 100%, and it was a soldier and horse armor.

To be honest, everyone on Liu Xie believes that the probability of winning is actually far lower than that of Yuan Shao himself who broke Guandu in three days after coming from afar.

With this turbulent hearts, it became easier for Liu Xie to recover the Wei County. He was even afraid that rumors were already spreading in Ye City. He was afraid that the local representative of the Wei County gentry, Shen Zhengnan, began to hesitate at this time. It seemed that it was no longer impossible to go to Ye City within April.

However………

"Are people all together? I'm going to say a resolution"

Liu Xie took a deep breath, looked at the generals in the army and said slowly: "I decided to give up besieging Yecheng, Zhang Xiu, I and you will be in charge of Wei Yan and Chen went to two Nanyang soldiers and refused to defend along the Zhang River. There was no need to attack the city anymore. Just make sure to cut off the food and grass in Liyang. The rest of the people will follow me north to fight against Hu Jiao."

"Your Majesty, this is a God-given opportunity, how can you..."

Liu Xie interrupted directly: "I know, I know, I know, I know, I know this is a good opportunity. I know that as long as I persist in fighting and breaking Yecheng, there is hope. Even if I don't know the military, can't I see such a simple situation? However, the same thing is true. Wei County is located at the southernmost end of Jizhou. Wuhuan came from the north and went here to fight them. The entire Jizhou will be completely damaged by them!"

But Zhang Yan, who had just surrendered and had no intuitive understanding of the emperor's kindness, couldn't help but mutter when he heard this: "In this way, aren't we fighting for Yuan Shao and protecting the country and the people for him?"

When Liu Xie heard this, he couldn't help but angrily scolded: "I am fighting for Yuan Shao? When did the court recognize the legal status of Zhao? Are the people of Jizhou not the people of our Han Dynasty?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yan quickly knelt down and apologized.

"As for Yuan Shao, I think he is already a dry bone in the tomb. We won't fight Yecheng this year. Next year, the year after year, and the year after year, what's the difference? But if Wuhuan doesn't fight this year, how many people in Jizhou will suffer from it?"

"I have decided to send me an order to lead Zhang Liao and Zang Ba to lead the army north and block Chunyu Qiong from him. Zhang Xiu stayed behind the Zhang River and continued to cut off Yuan Shao's food route. Zhang Fei guarded Dangyin and cooperated with Zhong Yao to be responsible for the migration of the people of Jizhou south. The rest immediately followed our army north. It is my duty as the emperor to conquer Hu Jiao and defend the land and safeguard the people!"

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