Chapter 159: Declaration of War
Yuan Shao was also very ruthless this time. He retreated his army 30 kilometers and directly issued a declaration of war to Guo Hao, inviting Guo Hao to fight a decisive battle in the wild.
The declaration of war was written by Chen Lin, and it was extremely sharp, as if Guo Hao would be sorry to the people of the world if he did not accept it.
Moreover, the declaration of war was widely circulated. Overnight, it was circulated in Luoyang, Liangzhou and other places .
Yuan Shao claimed that he was concerned about the people of the world and was unwilling to start a war, so he directly scheduled three battles.
They are fighting generals, fighting soldiers, and fighting armies.
A fight between generals involves a round-robin battle to see which side surrenders first. A fight between soldiers involves sending legions to fight each other to see which side surrenders first.
If the first two items are intended to boost morale, they can be considered appetizers.
Fighting the army is the final killing move. Both sides will send out 150,000 troops to fight on the selected battlefield.
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
Yuan Shao had a good plan. With the information from Jia Xu and Li Ru, Chen Xi could tell at a glance what Yuan Shao was planning.
On the surface, he was using public opinion to force Guo Hao to accept the challenge, to make a desperate move and to make a big gamble with Guo Hao.
In fact, there are not only tricks to conceal the truth and lure the tiger away from the mountain, but also counter-espionage and chain tricks.
Chen Xi was amazed. Yuan Shao was worthy of being Yuan Shao. The civil servants behind him were incredibly powerful.
The wisdom and strategies of Xun Chen, Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Xu You, Shen Pei, Guo Tu and others are absolutely the best in the world, and their steady and solid strategies are irresistible.
Yuan Shao’s only weakness may be his military generals. Although Yuan Shao has no shortage of good generals who can lead troops in battle, he lacks peerless and powerful generals.
Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou were also powerful generals of the time, there was still a gap between them and the top few.
Apart from anything else, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Xiong Kuohai under Liu Bei alone are enough to defeat the so-called Four Pillars of Hebei.
That's why Yuan Shao recruited generals from the coalition forces. He could have done it more quietly, but the pressure brought by Guo Hao left him no time to consider the psychology of the princes.
Guo Haoming knew that this was a trap, but he had to jump into it. This was a blatant conspiracy.
"Like public opinion guidance? Interesting!" Guo Hao smiled as he looked at the letter of challenge.
"Arrange people to spread Yuan Shao's declaration of war throughout the world . I want to see how he will deal with it after losing the battle."
Guo Hao readily replied with a declaration of war. Since Yuan Shao dared to fight, why shouldn't he be afraid?
Yuan Shao’s invitation to battle was very strong, and even the Yuan family was involved, which could be described as a desperate move.
If Guo Hao can really win, it can be said that the world is basically firmly controlled in his hands.
If Li Ru and others had not noticed the little tricks of the aristocratic families, Guo Hao would have really looked up to Yuan Shao.
After all, Yuan Shao behaved like a gambler, betting almost everything, even dragging other princes of the coalition to join him in betting.
Now it seems that he is hiding evil intentions and is secretly planning to kill him.
However, Guo Hao accepted it readily.
There is no other reason. Guo Hao is very confident that all conspiracies and tricks will be vulnerable in the face of absolute strength.
He didn't need to pay attention to the little tricks of the aristocratic families. Jiang Wei, Di Qing and Pang De would assist Li Ru and Jia Xu to deal with them. He only needed to defeat Yuan Shao head-on.
As long as Yuan Shao was defeated head-on, even if Luoyang became a mess, it could still suppress it.
He had always been troubled by the fact that he could not accomplish his goal in one battle, and now that Yuan Shao was willing to give him this opportunity, how could he not accept it?
Both parties agreed on a good time and place, and then began to prepare.
No matter how much Guo Hao despised the coalition forces, that was only strategic. He still had to pay more attention to tactics. He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of Guandu and Chibi.
Being on the pillar of shame is not a good thing.
On the other side of the coalition, Yuan Shao had made proper arrangements for the civil and military officials of the princes.
If the coalition forces are viewed as a whole, there is nothing wrong with Yuan Shao's arrangement. He absolutely appoints people based on their merits, and everyone can play to their strengths.
But the coalition was just a coalition after all. A group of princes were squeezed out of the core circle quietly, as if they were just some military generals who came to participate in the war. The identities of the princes seemed to have been deprived of them without any sound.
After the coalition meeting was over, a group of players secretly started the alliance meeting.
"What the higher-ups mean is that we should act according to circumstances. Our current task is to preserve our strength and lay the foundation for the players who will arrive later." Sima Bozhong said helplessly.
"Now, apart from the 4,000 elite soldiers under brother Zhang Su, we only have a few soldiers left. If there were no recruitment order, I'm afraid we would have lost everything now." Li Lan complained. His situation couldn't be any worse.
"Yuan Shao is not a fool. We all know what we have done to each other. Even if Yuan Shao wants to let us go, his civil and military officials must agree."
The same goes for Guo Ye on the other side. They are now really being played to death by Yuan Shao.
The inflated sense of control over the direction of history had long since disappeared without a trace, and Yuan Shao proved it to them with his actions.
They can't beat the aristocratic families in their rules of the game.
If they weren't needed as cannon fodder, they would have been locked up long ago.
It is true that players can be resurrected, but people like Yuan Shao are not fools and have already figured out how to deal with aliens.
As long as the player is controlled and turned into a human comb, resurrection is basically impossible and the only option is to cancel the account.
Now they can only pray that Guo Hao can help and take down Yuan Shao in one wave, otherwise they may have to start all over again.
Yuan Shao, the pillar of the South, truly made them understand what it means to leave a name in history.
Yuan Shao rationally used the rules of the game set by the aristocratic families and successfully killed them all.
"If Yuan Shao takes us with him to the decisive battle, I'm afraid we won't be able to protect this small number of troops by then." Zhang Su sighed to the sky. They were really not good at political struggles.
"You're treating us like princes again now. Didn't you emphasize before that everyone should obey your orders?" Wei Bi sighed helplessly. He couldn't win. He really couldn't win.
The forehand calculations and the backhand righteousness made them breathless.
Even though they had a big supporter behind them, the General Staff had no better solution and could only wait for Guo Hao and Yuan Shao to be defeated, so that they would have a chance of survival.
The most crucial thing is that they couldn't find Guo Hao. After checking all the game players, it turned out that none of them was Guo Hao. If Guo Hao hadn't been in the Huaxia district, they would have doubted whether Guo Hao really existed.
They all wanted to contact Guo Hao, but unfortunately no matter what method they used, they still couldn't contact Guo Hao.
They couldn't control the game world either, so they could only hope that Zhang Su and the others could contact Guo Hao in the game.
But there has been no news so far, which makes them suspicious every day.
They once suspected that Guo Hao was an NPC created by the game system, who was using the name of a player to sell dog meat under the guise of mutton.
Otherwise, how could Guo Hao be so far ahead of others?
