Chapter 1224 Midline Emergency

Shang Ji and Chen Gong had no enmity before. On the contrary, Shang Ji's army had cooperated closely with Lu Bu's army long before the Northern Expedition to Xianbei. The relationship between the two parties has always been good.

However, things are always changing. In fact, as early as a few years ago, Chen Gong began to hate Shangji extremely, wishing to peel the skin and eat it.

There is no other reason, but because of Shang Ji's "no way".

After Shang Ji conquered Youzhou and Qingzhou, he issued a forced relocation order, and Youzhou, Qingzhou, especially a large number of aristocratic families in Qingzhou were forcibly relocated.

In this process, there will naturally be unpleasant voices, and many aristocratic families whose interests have been damaged have directly resorted to armed resistance, attempting to launch a riot to overthrow Shang Ji's rule in Qingzhou.

In the end, all of them naturally ended in failure, and all the aristocratic families who participated in the armed resistance were all accused of treason, and their families were ransacked and exterminated!

In this process, a large number of "celebrities" were implicated, and the celebrities who died under the saber of Shang Ji could form a company.

In this way, combined with Chen Gong's historical performance, we can understand why he tried his best to break with Lu Bu, and even forced Lu Bu to fight Shang Ji at the cost of his colleagues.

In history, Chen Gong served as an official of Cao at the beginning, and helped Cao, who was only the prefect of Dongjun at that time, take Yanzhou by diplomatic means. Afterwards, Chen Gong was appointed as the garrison of Dongjun, which can be described as the most respected and favored.

However, under such circumstances, Chen Gong resolutely betrayed Cao, pulled Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao, Wang Kai and others to rebel, and welcomed Lu Bu as Yanzhou Shepherd, and almost beat Cao to death with a stick.

Get to the bottom of the reason for Chen Gong's betrayal——Cao killed several celebrities who criticized the eunuch Cao's kinship!

Well, the reason seems so ridiculous. You must know that Lu Bu rebelled several times at that time, and his reputation had already been ruined, and Chen Gong was even willing to support such a person in order to avenge Cao.

In terms of the number of celebrities killed, Shang Ji's side is several times or even dozens of times that of Cao in history. With Chen Gong's ideal personality, he naturally hates Shang Ji so much.

As early as the "relocation order" was issued, Chen Gong had encouraged Lu Bu to crusade against the merchants, but at the beginning, the merchants were in full swing, and Lu Bu's generals collectively opposed it, so it didn't matter.

However, Chen Gong has never given up on the idea of ​​taking revenge on Shang Ji. In the current environment where the princes are discussing with each other, they even took advantage of Lv Bu's trust in him to force Lv Bu and Shang Ji by such extreme means as passing false military orders and killing envoys without authorization. decisive battle.

In fact, that’s all, this is a class struggle. If it weren’t for Shang Ji’s implementation of the harsh policy of suppressing family members, it is estimated that when facing Shang Ji, who has an absolute advantage, many princes would have surrendered without a fight, or even if the princes wanted to In the bloody battle to the end, those powerful figures within the vassals will also force the vassals to surrender, just like in history Liu Cong surrendered the land of Jingzhou to Cao Cao under the "persuasion" of Cai Mao and others.

In the border of Youzhou, Gao Shun was surrounded by people, and the fighting had been going on for some time.

According to the order of Chen Gong's family biography, Gao Shun attacked a garrison point of the Shang Ji army outside, and then because the retreat route was deliberately exposed by Chen Gong, he was ambushed, and more than 100,000 Shang Ji troops surrounded Gao Shun. On a hillside, the situation is very critical.

But soon, with Lu Bu personally commanding the troops, ten thousand Bingzhou demon wolves came galloping, and it took less than half an hour to successfully arrive at the scene of the incident.

Because of this loss, Lu Bu had no intention of embarrassing Shang Ji's army. He just broke through the encirclement net like a broken bamboo, rescued Gao Shun from the encirclement, and then led his army to retreat.

The generals of the merchant army who besieged Gaoshun, because of Lu Bu's prestige, did not lead their troops to pursue, but also withdrew their troops.

Although the scale of this conflict is not large, and the cumulative casualties on both sides are less than 10,000, the quality is extremely bad. Because at this time, the princes who were discussing the business shouted loudly, but Yuan Shao was the only one who actually did it, and Lu Bu directly became the second because of Chen Gong's actions!

Because it was Lu Bu who took the initiative to attack across the border,

The Shangji army immediately blew up the nest, and the Shangji army assembled in Gaoliu City asked for a fight one after another.

However, Shang Ji could hold his breath. On the one hand, he continued to send troops to Gaoliu City, and on the other hand, he strictly ordered the troops to stay out.

This work made many people feel a little confused. Some people thought that Shang Ji was afraid of Lu Bu's reputation and did not dare to act rashly. But really smart people don't believe this kind of statement, even Lu Bu himself doesn't agree with it.

It's okay to say that other people were intimidated by Lu Bu's name as God of War, but Shang Ji's name can only be said to be more resounding than Lu Bu's, so it makes no sense to be afraid of Lu Bu.

But immediately after, everyone saw some clues from Shang Ji's next move.

First of all, most of the troops sent by Shang Ji to the front line of Gaoliu were county soldiers. Although the number was huge, their combat effectiveness was limited.

Secondly, while frantically dispatching troops to the front line of Gaoliu, Shang Ji also "covertly" sent eight combat legions, including the First Army Corps of Wei, to the North New City of Zhuo County, and even Shang Ji himself and the faint Shang Ji Army's No. Himihu, who is famous for his combat power, has all arrived in Zhuojun.

Of course, this concealment is relative to the high-profile Gaoliu line. After all, it is the dispatch of millions of troops. No matter how secret it is, it is impossible to completely hide it from the alliance's spies.

So far, Shang Ji's strategic intentions have been completely exposed to the eyes of the alliance.

It is nothing more than holding back Lu Bu with a huge corps and complete defensive facilities on the northern line; on the southern line, relying on the cooperation of a small number of elite troops and navy to hold back Cao, Liu Bei, Qu Yi and others; the central corps concentrated a large number of elites Forces, stormed Yuan Shao's troops, defeated the anti-business vanguard Yuan Shao immediately, cut off the connection of the three armies, and finally defeated them one by one.

Of course, this is Shang Ji's strategic intention in the eyes of the alliance.

In fact, Shang Ji's strategic intentions are roughly the same as those inferred by the coalition forces, with only minor differences in details.

As the Shang Ji army personally led heavy troops to Zhuojun, Yuan Shao's pressure suddenly increased.

Although Shang Ji only brought eight combat legions, the total force was not even one-tenth of Yuan Shao's army in Youzhou battlefield, but Yuan Shao was really scared!

The shadow of a famous tree, Shang Ji has been invincible since his debut, and even Lu Bu would feel terrified if he met him. How could Yuan Shao not be afraid?

After probing and attacking, Yuan Shao found that he might be a little early to be afraid, and the combat effectiveness of the Shangji army was even higher than expected!

The eight legions are Greedy Wolf Legion, Yanhu Legion, Crazy Saber Legion, Zhanhu Legion, Berserk Legion, Flying Cavalry Legion, Huben Legion, and First Guard Legion. If one comes out, it can compete with Yuan Shao's most elite guards.

On the battlefield in Zhuojun, the most common scene is that the merchant army of different sizes chased Yuan Shao's violent hammer, which had ten times as many people as them. They fought 13 times in three days, and Yuan Shao lost ten times in a row. In the three games, not to mention the casualties, the morale of the whole army plummeted, and there were even a lot of fleeing.

Faced with this situation, on the one hand, Yuan Shao spent a lot of money to reward the soldiers, and bluntly used money to boost morale. On the other hand, he frantically asked his allies for help, especially hoping that Lu Bu would break through the Shangji army on the front line of Gaoliu as soon as possible, and then attack Yuan Shao from north to south. , Eliminate or at least contain the elite main force of the Shang Ji army in Zhuojun County, and provide guarantee for Cao, Liu Bei, Qu Yi and others to break through Qingzhou.