Chapter 1487 Lian Po’s belonging
Chapter 1485: Lian Po’s belonging
Before Yuan Shu launched a rebellion, he also prepared for failure in advance. After he failed to rebel and died, Yan Xiang, Ji Lingzhongchen and others protected Yuan Shu''s son Yuan Yao, as well as some generals such as Lian Po, and fled to Lian Po''s army.
Although Yuan Shu died, the 70,000 Henan troops outside Shouchun City were still there, but Lian Po was unable to completely control the army.
Shouchun fell, and the two Huai Rivers had all been under Zhu Yuanzhang''s hands. The families of the soldiers were all under his rule, and the families of the generals of the Henan army were all in the city.
Although Ji Ling rescued some of the generals'' families, most of them were still in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang used the soldiers'' families as a force, which naturally made the Henan army outside the city throw themselves into trouble and dared not act rashly.
As a result, surrender and opposition appeared in Lian Po''s army, and both sides also had their own opinions and argued endlessly about surrendering or not.
Lian Po naturally didn''t want to surrender, but most of the generals in the army wanted to surrender, and even Lian Po was about to be suppressed.
On the other hand, when Zhao Kuangyin learned that Lian Po had not returned to Shouchun, Yuan Shu could no longer bear it and surrendered, he was almost angry.
Yuan Shu''s voluntary surrender disrupted all Zhao Kuangyin''s arrangements. He thought that Yuan Shu would at least be able to persevere until Lian Po returned. At that time, the Yu army and the Ming army were defeated and injured, and he took advantage of the situation to seize the granary of Lianghuai, but he did not expect that Yuan Shu would surrender voluntarily.
Yuan Shu''s surrender means that Lianghuai and Zhao Kuangyin are completely out of the question, and all the previous preparations and plans are gone.
Zhao Kuangyin made too many plans to seize the granary of Lianghuai, but in the end he didn''t get anything. Instead, Zhu Yuanzhang easily occupied Lianghuai.
As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Kuangyin was even more furious and angrily called Yuan Shu a useless person and could not hold on for such a short time.
However, what Zhao Kuangyin did not expect was that Yuan Shu immediately rebelled after surrender, which gave Zhao Kuangyin the hope of seizing the two Huai Rivers.
In Zhao Kuangyin''s opinion, Yuan Shu''s rebellion would never be successful. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang is not an ordinary person, so how could he not beware of Yuan Shu''s rebellion?
In the end, even if Zhao Kuangyin expected, Yuan Shu failed to rebel and was killed by Luo Shixin, and the 70,000 Henan troops outside the city also became a bossless army.
Zhao Kuangyin realized that as long as Lian Po could be brought over and the Song and Yu army united, he might not be able to expel Zhu Yuanzhang from occupying the granary of the Lianghuai River, so he promised to give full profit to surrender Lian Po.
At the same time, Cao Cao also sent an envoy to recruit Lian Po under his command.
Nowadays, Lian Po is already a piece of fat. Whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kuangyin, or Cao Cao, they all want to eat it, but Zhu Yuanzhang is the most greedy and wants to swallow Lian Po in one bite.
Among Cao Cao, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Yuanzhang, the one Lian Po didn''t want to surrender to was Zhu Yuanzhang. After all, if Zhu Yuanzhang killed his lord, surrendering to him would damage his reputation.
As for Zhao Kuangyin, to be fair, Lian Po did not want to defect to him. Although the two had a good personal relationship at the beginning, Zhao Kuangyin had a variety of despicable means to deal with Lian Po. Not only did he hurt Lian Po, he almost harmed Lian Po''s family. The private affair between the two disappeared.
Therefore, Lian Po looked down on Zhao Kuangyin so much, and among these three families, Lian Po was more inclined to Cao Cao.
After seeing that Lian Po had ignored his former friend after his old master''s death, Zhao Kuangyin couldn''t help but feel a little panicked. Zhao Kuangyin also realized that his original methods had passed a little, so that Lian Po went further and further away from him, but he had no choice at that time. Lian Po did not talk about any affection, and had completely forced him into a dead end. If he had not used dirty means, he would not have survived now.
It is naturally too late to say this now. Zhao Kuangyin must keep Lian Po so that he has the opportunity to seize the Jianghuai River. At this time, military advisor Zhao Pu came up with a plan for him.
Zhao Pu made a statement that the standards could be lowered, and there was no need to recruit the Henan army, and only cooperated with the Henan army. After success, the Jianghuai army divided into two parts, the Song army won the Huaibei and the Henan army''s Huainan.
Previously, the Song and Wei families wanted to incorporate Lian Po. Now Zhao Pu advised Zhao Kuangyin to lower the standards and change the inclusion into cooperation, so that Lian Po can guarantee independence and continue to support Yuan Yao. The capital is much heavier than Cao Cao, so I am not afraid that Lian Po will not be moved.
As Zhao Pu expected, compared to Cao Cao''s recruitment, the cooperation was undoubtedly more clever, which made Lian Po very moved.
In the end, Lian Po decided to cooperate with Zhao Kuangyin to expel Zhu Yuanzhang from Jianghuai and reject Cao Cao''s recruitment. However, he did not dare to reject Zhu Yuanzhang, because if he refused, it would mean that there would be no room for ease with Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang would probably call him directly.
Lian Po wanted to hold Zhu Yuanzhang first so that he could sort out his internal affairs and take charge of the army completely and delay time.
How smart Zhu Yuanzhang was? How could he be deceived by Lian Po? He could see at a glance that Lian Po did not want to surrender, but was just delaying time. So he pretended to believe Lian Po, but secretly grabbed the surrender factions in Lian Po''s army, preparing to wait for the opportunity to secretly give Lian Po a fatal blow.
Lian Po is indeed a good move in war, but his means of fighting for power and profit are far inferior.
Although Lian Po also killed many surrendered factions to establish his authority, but there were too many surrendered factions in the army and they could not kill them at all.
In the end, internal struggles broke out between 70,000 Henan troops, and even Lian Po could not control the army in the internal struggle, while Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to lead the army out of the city to help the surrendered factions attack the opposition.
The surrendered faction naturally gained an absolute advantage under the internal and external cooperation, while the opposition led by Lian Po fleeed in disgrace.
Seeing Lian Po running away, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the army to pursue him just to capture Lian Po, a famous general. However, Lian Po was too cunning. Even Zhu Yuanzhang could not keep him when he was determined to escape.
In the end, 40,000 Henan troops surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, while Lian Po protected Yuan Shu''s family and led less than 10,000 remaining troops to surrender to Zhao Kuangyin, whom he least wanted to surrender.
Previously, Lian Po had 70,000 Henan troops, so he was naturally qualified to say no to Zhao Kuangyin, but after rejecting Cao Cao''s recruitment, there was only Zhao Kuangyin''s last retreat, and there was no one else to vote for Lian Po except Zhao Kuangyin.
Zhao Kuangyin was leading his army to Shouchun, but before the army arrived, he received news that 40,000 Henan troops surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang and Lian Po led the remaining troops to surrender to him.
If Zhao Kuangyin had learned that Lian Po had come to vote before, he would have been so happy. Although he is a little happy now, he is far from being excited.
Lian Po’s investment in this way means that he fails to control the army, and it also means that the plan to retake the two Huaihe Rivers has completely failed.
?This chapter makes up for the guaranteed chapter that was missing yesterday
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(This chapter ends)