"Mr. Wenhe is really clever, Yuan Shaoguo did not dare to cross the river from the white horse as Mr. said." Cai Ji stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the chaotic array of Yuan soldiers and horses in front of him, and sincerely praised Jia Xu who was standing side by side beside him. It must be known that Cai Ji originally planned to set up an ambush in Baimajin to kill Yuan Shao's father and son, who had withdrawn from Guandu. But who knew that Guan Cheng and Gao Shun attacked Baimajin in advance, causing the Qi army's naval division to expose its strength prematurely, thus making Yuan Shao's retreat route full of variables.

Is it still running from Hakumatsu? Or take a detour to the other route? Or simply not to the river? The Qi army has limited strength now, and if you guess wrong, you will be in big trouble. After all, the reason why Cai Ji's various ministries were able to drive straight into Jizhou to occupy a large number of counties and counties was to some extent because Yuan Shao's expedition was outside, and the various ministries in Jizhou were not under each other's control. As soon as Yuan Shao fled back to Yecheng, Yuan Jun in Jizhou had a backbone. Cai Ji's troops will inevitably fall into a bitter battle, and they will even be recaptured by the other party. Therefore, Yuan Shao was killed by Cao Cao in Guandu, which was the best. If Cao Cao's work is not clean, Cai Ji must not sit idly by and watch Yuan Shao's father and son flee to Jizhou.

Just when Cai Ji didn't know where to ambush Yuan Shaohao, Jia Xu analyzed for him that Yuan Shao was suspicious and less decisive, and he was more likely to cross the river from Yanjin than Bai Maqi. In fact, Cai Ji is also very aware of Yuan Shao's temperament, otherwise she would not have succeeded in trapping Yuan Shao again and again. It's just that in the stalls that are critical to success or failure, sometimes it is really necessary for top strategists like Jia Xu and Guo Jia to add a boost to the trouble. Facts proved that Jia Xu's judgment was very accurate, and Yuan Shao did make a detour to Yanjin to cross the river. If it weren't for that, Cai Ji would probably miss the opportunity to intercept Yuan Shao in a hesitation.

Regarding Cai Ji's praise, Jia Xu himself is quite humble. In fact, this famous poisoner in the late Han Dynasty was also known for his low profile in history. At this moment, seeing that part of Yuan Shao's troops had landed on the shore, Jia Xu said to Cai Ji, "Don't hesitate, please ask the Lord to quickly clear out Yuan's army, and don't let it build a barrier on the shore." ”

Cai Ji nodded solemnly, and immediately pointed at Yuan Jun with the command flag in his hand. "Kill!"

With Cai Ji's coquettish voice, countless black spots rose in the sky and fell directly on the head of Yuan Jun, who was struggling to cross the river. The scream resounded throughout the water, and the soldier with the arrow twisted his painful body and fell into the river. However, this is only the appetizer of the bloody slaughter. Ten ships led by the Qi army. Each ship was equipped with a catapult. Although its size and power are not as large as those of trebuchets and thunderbolts on land, the projectiles used by the Qi army are unique weapons in this era. It is a round ball wrapped in paper and hemp skin, weighing about five catties. The exterior is coated with natural asphalt and yellow wax, and the inside is a mixture made of sulfur, wohuang, flame nitrate, hemp ru, dry paint, arsenic, fixed powder, bamboo ru, yellow dan, yellow wax, clear oil, tung oil, pine resin, and concentrated oil. A hemp rope that is one foot long and two feet long and weighs half a catty is a string.

Taking advantage of the aftermath of a round of arrow rain, a group of Qi troops on the building ship pulled the rope of the catapult with all their might, and the tip of the cannon flipped over violently, popping out the projectile in the leather nest and shooting directly at the enemy ship. Only a few loud noises were heard, and several fires rose from the Yuan army's warship. In an instant, a fire burned on the deck. Yuan Jun, who was already frightened by the loud noise and the firelight, would have the heart to rush to extinguish the fire. On the contrary, he was frightened by the heavenly fire that fell from the sky, and he rushed around, squeezing the robe on the boat into the river.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of people disappeared into the rushing river. But this also pointed out a "way out" for other Yuan Jun. Yuan Jun, who thought that jumping into the river could escape the fire of the sky, immediately began to jump into the river and abandon the boat. However, the water of the Yellow River in April was still cold and biting, and many of the soldiers who jumped into the river did not swim far before they were frozen to cramp their hands and feet, and how to swim to the other side.

This isn't the first time Cai Ji has been in battle, nor is it the deadliest battle she's fought in six years. At that time, there were far more corpses piled up outside Yijing City than the total number of Yuan Jun on the other side, and the smell of corpses that accompanied Cai Ji even better. It's like this, Cai Ji still hasn't vomited once under Yijing City. But at this moment, I saw countless people who had fallen into the water fluttering in the river, and finally turned into corpses and flowed past their boats. But it made Cai Ji have an urge to vomit.

Holding back the churning stomach acid, Cai Ji muttered with a pale face, "Huang Quan is nothing more than that. ”

"Cruel?" Jia Xu stepped forward and asked tentatively in Cai Ji's ear.

Cai Ji looked back at Jia Xu, but saw that there was a hint of exploration in the old man's eyes. Cai Ji immediately turned his head. Looking directly at the battlefield, he said proudly, "If the world is uneven, it is cruel." ”

Yuan Shao's warship was also hit by the Qi army's firebombs and fell into a sea of fire. In a panic, he escorted Yuan Shao and jumped off the warship and climbed onto a nearby boat. This Emperor Da Chen, who used to be well-dressed and well-fed and popular with noblewomen in Yecheng, is now covered in mud and water, his hair is scattered, and he is like a chicken in soup and a personal guard, rowing a small boat desperately to the north shore.

Yuan Tan on the north shore was also anxious when he saw Yuan Shao's warship on fire. It's a pity that the battle situation on his side is not much better than on the river. As soon as the Qi army landed on the shore, they launched a fierce attack on Yuan Tan's troops. And Yuan Tan relied on the soldiers and horses around him to fight back, all of which were the elite of the Yuan family. At first, Yuan Tan was still able to intercept half-crossing, but as more and more Qi troops landed, the group had to retreat into the fence that had been built with small boats to barely defend. It's just that in this way, even if Yuan Shao went ashore, he fled south to be surrounded and suppressed by the Qi army. What's more, it's hard to say if he can't get ashore.

Thinking of this, a cold light suddenly flashed in Guo Tu's eyes. saw him running to Yuan Tan with his waist bent, clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty." Your Highness, please evacuate quickly! ”

Yuan Tan, who was still leading the troops to resist, heard Guo Tu say this, and immediately widened his eyes and pointed to the river and stammered, "Father is not yet."

But Guo Tu patted Yuan Tan's hand, stared at his eyes and said word by word, "Your Majesty's warship has been burned, and Your Highness, as the crown prince, should inherit His Majesty's will and save Da Chen from death." ”

Yuan Tan was stared at by Guo Tu, especially the sentence "prince" tickled something hidden in his heart. Yuan Shao has not yet been canonized as the crown prince since he ascended the throne. Although Yuan Tan is the eldest son, he does not like Yuan Shao. So much so that in the eyes of many civil and military officials, Yuan Tan had nothing to do with the prince at all.

If my father is in Yanjin and there is no edict, then I can inherit the unification as the eldest son - a seemingly rebellious idea in Yuan Tan's heart was provoked by Guo Tu, but when the words came to his mouth, he became a question, "Mr. Gongze wants to trap Tan in unfilial piety?" ”

Guo Tu listened to it and snorted disapprerovitously. Rhetorically asked, "Does Your Highness want to sit back and watch the three Highnesses inherit the unification under the Yellow Spring?" ”

Another blow to the hearts of the people. Yuan Shao's preference for Yuan Shang has always been an indescribable pain in Yuan Tan's heart. Yuan Tan didn't understand Yuan Shang's appearance except for his appearance. What is there that deserves such attention from my father? The second brother was able to garrison the border for his father, and he took Qingzhou for his father, and although he went south to fight all the way. On the other hand, Yuan Shang guarded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Yecheng. But he sat back and watched the Qi army go deep into Jizhou, and finally led his father to suffer the enemy. The plan to defeat Cao was defeated. Why did he have to die on this barren beachhead with his father, but Yuan Shang's kid could sit back and enjoy it!

Guo Tu saw that Yuan Tan's expression changed from solemn to hesitant, and then from hesitation to unwillingness, knowing that his words had worked. So without waiting for Yuan Tan to make a decision, Guo Tu took the lead and shouted loudly towards Guan Tong, "Your Majesty has already made a decision!" Wait for the speed to protect His Highness to break through! ”

Guan Tongzheng led the troops to fight fiercely with the Qi army, completely ignoring the conversation between Guo Tu and Yuan Tan. I don't know what happened on the Yellow River behind me. was shouted by Guo Tu, he hurriedly looked back, and really saw that the warship that Yuan Shao was riding was sinking. Frightened, the management commander hurriedly took the men and horses, and together with Guo Tu, helped the half-pushed and half-finished Yuan Tan onto the war horse.

So Yuan Shao, who was still rowing desperately at the next moment, saw at a glance the soldiers and horses on the tidal flats who had originally received him, and they were embracing Yuan Tan to break through in the northwest direction. The relatives on the small boat raised their hands and shouted to the shore, but Yuan Tan and the others ignored them at all, and still rode away.

Poof! The oar fell from Yuan Shao's angry and trembling hands and was transferred into the river, and the once elegant face was instantly distorted into a terrifying ghost face by the poison called "Anger", and a trace of desperate curse was immediately squeezed out of his throat, "Animal ...... Bear! Brute!!! ”

Yuan Shao's entourage around him was also shocked by the changes in front of him, and he didn't know what to do. No one would have thought that Yuan Tan, who was the son of man, would dare to abandon his father and run away on his own. And Yuan Tan's run undoubtedly killed a cadre of people who were still on the river. After the initial shock. Everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to Yuan Shao.

"陛xià...... 陛xià? ”

Yuan Shao, who was sitting on the boat, was familiar with the call of his relatives and the shouts of killing around him. Time seemed to freeze in this moment. No one knew what Yuan Shao was thinking in his heart, and no one dared to disturb this doomsday hero. After a while, Yuan Shao's shoulders suddenly trembled. The relatives on the side thought they were crying, and just wanted to step forward to persuade him. only to find that his master was laughing. The laughter went from light to loud, from slow to urgent, and finally turned into a burst of applause in Yuan Shao's mouth, "Ten years of hegemony, ruined overnight!" After I am the fourth and third dukes, I must not fall into the hands of a! ”

Yuan Shao's hoarse shouts were finally hidden in the surging river. At the same time, on a hillside not far from Yanjin, a young man was watching with cold eyes as the former overlord of the Northland was stepping towards the abyss of destruction. If you have attended the engagement banquet of the Qihou Mansion, you can recognize this person at a glance as Sima Xin, a grain merchant from Hanoi. However, at this time, Sima Xin's eyebrows completely lost the humility he had when he was in Longkou. But I saw that his hands were folded on his sleeves, standing like a green pine, his robe was fluttering in the wind against his slender body, and his fair face was full of rebelliousness that looked at the world.

"Have you seen enough, husband?" A richly dressed young woman stepped out of the carriage behind the man. If it is a famous family in Hanoi, you will definitely be able to recognize this woman as the bride of the Sima family in Hanoi, Zhang.

That's right, the young man in front of him is Sima Yi, the second son of the Sima family in Hanoi. Taking advantage of the business relationship between his wife Zhang Chunhua's family and the Zhen family in Zhongshan, Sima Yi disguised himself as a grain merchant and walked with Zhen Yao and his party to Donglai Longkou. Originally, Sima Yi just wanted to make up for the excitement of Cao Cai's marriage and see what kind of character the female prince who dared to cooperate with Cao Cao to deal with Yuan Shao was. But who would have thought that what Sima Yi saw and heard all the way in Beihai and Donglai counties was far more shocking than Cao Cai's marriage.

In other words, the Sima family can be regarded as a family that is more capable of running in troubled times. In particular, Sima Yi's brother Sima Lang not only collected the displaced people in his hometown Pinggao and reclaimed the wasteland, but also put down the reserve of the family and actively married with the wealthy and powerful places such as the Pinggao Zhang family. However, this qiē pales in comparison with Cai Anzhen of Donglai. Cai Anzhen, as an orphan girl, was able to set up a hegemony in Donglai Border County, which has no foundation, which is really an unprecedented miracle. Sima Yi is conceited and reads poetry and books, and has the ambition to govern the country and level the world, but he can't see Cai Anzhen's routine. If Cai Anzhen studied under Guan Zhong, then why are there so many people in the world who read "Guanzi", and why is there no one who can make a hegemony like Cai Anzhen? Is it really as rumored that this woman can do witchcraft? Sima Yi has never believed in ghosts and gods, so he naturally scoffs at this statement.

However, compared with Cai Anzhen's pipe skills, what moved Sima Yi the most was this woman's ambition for the world. Because if Cai Anzhen only has the talent to manage Zhong and has no heart to chase the deer, then she is at best a capable minister, and she will not be able to become a climate in troubled times. But if Cai Anzhen relies on Guan Zhong's talent, the situation in the world will be interesting. With his keen observation, Sima Yi sniffed out early in Donglai that Cai Ji would send troops to attack Yuan after the marriage. So after he broke up with Zhen Yao and others, he did not go back to Hanoi directly, but turned around and sneaked back to Donglai secretly, and followed Cai Ji's soldiers and horses all the way west. This can be regarded as an eye-opener for Sima Yi, and Qi Jun vividly displayed the words "Qi Zheng complements each other". The more I watched it, the more interesting Sima Yi became, so he followed Cai Ji all the way to Yanjin. No, to be more precise, it should be Sima Yi who calculated that Yuan Shao would cross the river from Yanjin, so he specially came to watch the big show.

Seeing that the battle on the Yellow River was gradually coming to an end, Sima Yi stretched out with satisfaction, "It's time to go back to Hanoi." ”

"Huh? Won't the husband go to Guandu to meet the eldest brother? Zhang Chunhua said strangely. In her opinion, Sima Lang almost lost his life just after experiencing the vicious battle of Guandu, so it makes sense that Sima Yi should go to see his brother and ask for safety.

Who knew that Sima Yi turned his head disapprovingly and walked aisle, "Big Brother Ji has his own natural appearance, and if he wants to come here, he will definitely be able to add an official to the knighthood." If you let him know that Yi is here to watch the battle, I am afraid that it will be another nagging. ”

Zhang Chunhua shook his head angrily and said, "There is a saying in Donglai that paper can't contain fire, and I'm afraid that my husband's move can't be hidden from my eldest brother." ”

"yes." Sima Yi made a distressed look, and then shrugged his shoulders and walked quickly to the carriage, "If you know, you know." I had to go back to Hanoi to recuperate. ”

"Husband still wants to recuperate?" Zhang Chunhua hurried to catch up. These days, seeing Sima Yi following the Qi army all the way with such great interest, she thought that her husband had the heart to go out of the mountain.

Sima Yi suddenly stopped, and instead glanced back at Yanjin, which was filled with gunsmoke, "Chunhua, this world is extremely dangerous. (To be continued)