Chapter 278: Crisis

"My Lord, General Huang, news from over there: Lv Bu has suddenly left. The army outside Chenliu City only has Cao Cao left."

"In addition, General Shu, news from over there as well: Liu Bei's army is also a bit strange. They dispatched troops to attack the city, but Liu Bei's army actually slowly slowed down the intensity of their defense, and for this, they even retreated from several cities."

Guo Jia's face was heavy. As one of the people in charge of the Dark Owl, his main work was to summarize and organize the situation of the Dark Owl, obtain key information from it, analyze it, and then make better response plans.

He and Xi Zhicai—don't look at their authority, which was much worse than Xun Yu's current authority.

As the chief steward of Su Fan's civil official group, Xun Yu's status could be said to be the number one among civil officials.

He was even higher than the veteran Xi Zhicai, of course, in the eyes of outsiders.

In reality, those at Su Fan's core all knew that no one could replace Xi Zhicai's status, but Xun Yu was indeed in a high and powerful position.

If Su Fan truly obtained the world in the future, Xun Yu would inevitably be the Prime Minister.

Guo Jia's qualifications were not as good as Xi Zhicai's, and he did not have the power of Xun Yu and Xun You, but as one of the people in charge of the Dark Owl, he was Su Fan's closest person.

This was something many people could not compare to.

He could enter and leave Su Fan's mansion and camp at will.

Those who were familiar with him all knew Guo Jia's status.

Su Fan also did not doubt Guo Jia's ability, especially in terms of strategic planning. Guo Jia's talent, before the end of the Han and the Three Kingdoms, could be compared to only a few people.

"Then Feng Xiao, what do you think might be happening here?"

Su Fan, hearing this, also felt that something was wrong.

Not to mention anything else, Lv Bu, when the army had not yet retreated, suddenly started playing at disappearing.

This was not a simple matter; after all, Lv Bu was the commander-in-chief of those hundreds of thousands of troops.

If the soldiers below knew about it, one bad thing and the camp would explode, right?

So unless it was a last resort, Lv Bu would absolutely not leave the Chenliu camp without reason.

At the same time, the changes in Liu Bei and these people were also very suspicious. One must know that Taishi Ci and the others were now turning from defense to offense.

Previously, Liu Bei and Liu Biao were both desperately blocking Xu Province's army, but now they had suddenly slowed down.

He did not believe that Liu Bei was doing this to contract his forces and reduce losses.

If Liu Bei really did this, it wouldn't be long before Jing Province was gone.

One must know that now Taishi Ci and the others had already reached Nanjun.

If Liu Bei and the others were still defending, could it be that they didn't even want Xiangyang?

"This is not normal. Zhicai, what do you think? Is there some conspiracy in this?"

Xi Zhicai, hearing this, also fell silent. He kept thinking constantly.

"Is there any news from Yuan Shao's side?"

After a long time, Xi Zhicai finally said slowly.

Su Fan, hearing this, immediately signaled, and soon someone handed over the information brought back by the Dark Owl. Xi Zhicai quickly took it and kept searching for useful information among these messages.

After a long time, his face suddenly changed and he said: "Quick!"

"My Lord, I know what is going on."

"Quickly summon Old General Huang, General Zhao Yun, General Taishi Ci, and the others to return. General Xu Chu must also return together."

Xi Zhicai's expression changed greatly, which stunned both Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, but both were smart people.

"Zhicai, are you saying these people want to stake everything on one throw?"

Su Fan, hearing this, frowned. After Xi Zhicai's reminder, Su Fan also instantly woke up.

Whether it was the Imperial Court, Liu Bei, or Yuan Shao, their changes meant they wanted to unite and launch a decapitation strike against him.

"Yuan Benchu, oh Yuan Benchu, you failed with one scheme and came up with another."

A sneer appeared on Su Fan's face. He felt that if anyone had this ability, it was inevitably Yuan Shao. He had this ability and this appeal.

Plus, those few warlords were not fools either.

At present, his strength was the greatest, and Yuan Shao had been beaten into retreat by him, so his future defeat was just a matter of time.

So those warlords also felt the danger. As long as someone brought it up, others would inevitably respond.

And Yuan Shao's possibility was the greatest.

After all, if he were to be defeated first, Yuan Shao would be the first, so he was the most dangerous, plus he had a prior record; not long ago, he had sent an assassin to kill him.

The result was failure, so he came again this time.

This time it might be even more ruthless, gathering the power under the other warlords.

They wanted to achieve success in one battle. As long as they killed him, the forces under his command would inevitably be left without a leader and would very likely fall into internal chaos.

Because his greatest shortcoming was that he had no offspring; this was a very serious problem.

A monarch without offspring or a successor was quite unstable.

No matter how magnificent and talented you were as a monarch, without a successor, that force was quite dangerous.

This was a bloody lesson from history.

The First Emperor was how magnificent and talented? On the Emperor Ranking, he dared to claim second; who dared to say they were first?

But such a magnificent and talented master—the Qin Dada Empire in history only existed for a few decades.

It perished in the second generation.

This was related to Qin the Second, but could one say Qin the Great had no responsibility?

Clearly, he did. He had offspring, but he did not clarify his successor. Although the Imperial Court mostly believed Fusu was the Crown Prince of Qin Dada,

without Qin the Great's imperial edict, he did not have this title. The result was good: Qin the Great's sudden death allowed the powerful ministers to see an opportunity.

The subsequent outcome didn't need to be said.

Although there were various reasons for the Qin Dada's demise, if Qin the Great had determined Fusu's title earlier, then Li Si and Zhao Gao wanting to play that trick of faking the imperial edict would have been completely impossible.

Hu Hai would not have been able to ascend the throne. Without Hu Hai, with Fusu's ability, although he could not compare to Qin the Great, as a master of maintaining the status quo, it would have been no problem.

Thus, at the Imperial Court, there would not have been so much internal chaos, and those warlords at the end of Qin wanting to turn the tables would have been completely impossible.

In reality, at the end of Qin, the troops of the Qin Dada Imperial Court suppressing those rebel armies were not many; most of the elites were either at the northern border or in the south.

So in later generations, many emperors determined the position of the Crown Prince early, fearing the situation of perishing in the second generation.

Su Fan had no offspring; once he died suddenly, the great situation would likely collapse instantly.

Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai were both smart people and saw the danger in this, which was why Xi Zhicai's face became so ugly and anxious.

"Zhicai, don't be anxious."

Su Fan had a guess, and his heart slowly calmed down. Although Yuan Shao's conspiracy was dangerous, wanting to kill him, especially in his own base camp, was not so simple.

If previously, he hadn't assassinated him, in PY City, Yuan Shao didn't choose an assassin, but joined forces with other warlords' experts, the possibility was still quite high.

Now Su Fan had already returned to Donghai Commandery.

Then it was different.

Not to mention how many people Yuan Shao could contact.

In Donghai Commandery, Su Fan's strength was very powerful, especially the rune arrays arranged by those Mohist craftsmen here, which could also make those people suffer.

The garrison of Donghai Commandery was even more elite.

At the same time, as the base camp, there were even more literati here, and those at the Soul Refining stage were not few. These were all combat power. ===== CHAPTER 279 =====