After Xun You said that Gongsun Zhan would attack Yuan's camp, he immediately sent a messenger to Han Zhan to send a letter to inform him of the incident and ask him to send troops to attack Yuan Shao.

After Han Zhan received the letter, he discussed with Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, cousin Gongda sent me a letter, saying that Gongsun Zhan plans to attack Yuan Ying tomorrow morning, and asked us to send troops to attack Yuan Shao. What do you think? ”

After Guo Jia read the letter, he looked up and said to Han Zhan: "My lord, Jia thinks that we should send troops, and the whole army will be dispatched, as long as Yuan Shao is defeated, the territory he controls north of Guantao will be completely lost. ”

"The whole army is dispatched?!" Regarding Guo Jia's suggestion, Han Zhan couldn't help frowning: "We just collected thousands of soldiers and horses under Yuan Tan two days ago, and our loyalty is not too high. Let them go out with the army, there is a possibility of defection; Stay in the city, for fear they will make trouble. ”

"Don't worry, my lord." Guo Jia suggested to Han Zhan again: "Guangping City is not far from here, you can order General Zhang He to lead his troops in the starry night, and when his soldiers and horses arrive, it will not be too late for us to send troops to the boundary bridge." ”

"What Feng Xiao said is extremely true." Don't look at Zhang He's return not long ago, but Han Zhan was extremely relieved of him, so he said happily: "With Jun Yi and Yuan Hao staying behind, Jizhou must be impregnable." ”

By the time the messenger was sent, it was already dark. Guo Jia stood at the door of the main hall, looked up at the starry sky and said, "My lord, General Zhang He's army will arrive tomorrow morning, and Jia Jia needs to rush to the barracks immediately and tell General Zilong about the dispatch of troops." He walked a few steps outside, suddenly stopped, and asked Han Zhan with a mysterious expression: "Lord, didn't the rich businessman Hu Cha give you two singers a few days ago, have you been singing every night in the past two days?" ”

Hearing Guo Jia's question, Han Zhan couldn't help but say with a smile on his face: "Fengxiao, have you forgotten that Benhou is still in the period of heavy filial piety, how can he casually marry a wife and take a concubine?" The two women were just warming the bed, and when the bed was hot, they naturally let them leave. ”

"Two stunning beauties, you really only use them to warm the bed." Guo Jia shook his head, and said with a look of hatred that iron is not made of steel: "It's really a tyrannical thing, a tyrannical thing!" ”

Seeing Han Zhan's embarrassed look, he added: "In the past, when Emperor Wen was in power, he issued an edict to replace the moon with the day, which means that when the parents died, they only needed to observe filial piety for thirty-six days, instead of the usual three Chinese New Year's Eve and six months. ”

Emperor Wen of Han?! After hearing this, Han Zhan said in his heart, that is the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and now it is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is the edict he issued still effective? I was about to open my mouth to ask Guo Jia for advice, but I heard him continue: "Although you have resumed filial piety for three years now, as long as you don't marry a wife and concubine in these three years, even if you pamper a few singers, it will not hurt." ”

After Guo Jia left for a long time, Han Zhan still stood in the distance to digest what he said: as long as he does not marry a wife or concubine during the period of filial piety, and is just happy with the singer in the family, no one will gossip.

Han Zhan returned to his room and saw that it was Jade's turn to warm the quilt today, wearing only a red belly pocket, got out of the quilt, knelt in front of him, and said timidly: "Master Hou, the quilt has been warmed for you, you can go to bed." Probably because it was cold and she was dressed too little, her voice trembled slightly when she spoke.

Han Zhan helped the jade up, took it in his arms, and said lovingly: "It's cold outside, you better go back to the bed." ”

"Master Hou, the quilt has already warmed you up." Jade lowered her head and said, "The slave family will go back to their room." ”

"Stay," although Jade was her singer, Han Zhan still politely said to her, "Just stay with me tonight." ”

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The next morning, Han Zhan was awakened by the sound of a knock on the door outside, he gently removed the hands and legs that the jade pressed on his body, turned over and got down, put on a robe and opened the door.

Seeing that it was Han Zhan who opened the door, Patch couldn't help but be stunned, his eyes quickly glanced at the couch in the room, and saw Jade lying on the bed sleeping soundly, and hurriedly whispered: "Childe, Mr. Guo, they are waiting for you in the main hall, saying that General Zhang's army has entered the city." ”

"You go and tell them, and I'll go over at once."

"Whoa!" Patch said yes, and left quietly.

Han Zhan closed the door and was about to dress himself, but he didn't expect Jade who was lying on the couch to open his eyes. Last night, Han Zhan put the jade on the bed, and when he was doing the short thing of the spring night, he unexpectedly found that the jade was actually untouched. The two tossed and turned for a whole night, Han Zhan felt refreshed when he got up in the morning, while Jade felt that he was weak and didn't even have the strength to move his fingers. At this moment, she saw Han Zhan changing clothes by herself, and said a little embarrassedly: "Master Hou, wait for the slave family to change your clothes for you." As she spoke, she was about to sit up, but as soon as she moved, she let out an "ouch" and lay down softly.

Han Zhan hurriedly sat down on the couch, and after kissing her on the forehead, he said lovingly: "Jade, you better continue to sleep, I will change my clothes myself." ”

Han Zhan came to the main hall and saw that Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Zhao Yun, Zhang He and others were already lined up on both sides. After everyone saluted, Han Zhan said to Zhang He: "Junyi, I plan to lead my troops to the Jieqiao and attack Yuan Shao with Gongsun Zhan." This Jizhou City, I will hand it over to you and Yuan Hao. ”

"Please rest assured, my lord." Zhang He arched his hand and replied: "As long as Zhang still has a breath, he will never let Jizhou have a half-point difference." ”

Regarding Zhang He's statement, Han Zhan nodded with satisfaction, and then instructed him: "General Junyi, there are thousands of Yuan Shaoxin's troops in the barracks, and during the time I am not in Jizhou, I ask you to train them well, maybe they will be able to come in handy when the next war comes." ”

"Zhang He commanded!" Zhang He replied loudly.

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Just as Han Zhan's army was departing from Jizhou City, Gongsun Zhan's army, after eating breakfast, began to attack Yuan Shao's camp.

As early as when Gongsun Zhan's army was assembled, it was discovered by Yuan Shao's scouts, and immediately returned to the camp to report to Yuan Shao. After Yuan Shao heard this, he threw the helmet on the table on the ground of the big tent, and said angrily: "It's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, and Gongsun Zan is really bullying people too much." I haven't sent troops yet, and he actually sent troops first. What is Yan Liangwen's ugliness? ”

In the past few days, Gongsun Zhan's subordinates have been fighting outside the village, Yan Liangwen and Chou have long been unable to stand it, if it weren't for Frustration and trying his best to persuade the two of them to "make a big plan if they can't bear it", the two would have rushed out to fight with Gongsun Zhan's subordinates. You must know that even if all of Gongsun Zhan's subordinates are sent, they are not the opponents of the two of them at all.

At this moment, hearing Yuan Shao calling himself, the two hurriedly lined up: "Here!" ”

Yuan Shao took out an arrow, held it in his hand and said to the two: "The two of you will lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight, and you must kill Gongsun Zhan." ”

Just as the two of them were about to step forward to receive the order, Fu Zhu stood up and persuaded him: "Lord, no, don't fight!" ”

"Why?" Yuan Shao asked angrily.

"Gongsun Chan has an army of 50,000, while our army only has 10,000." Frustrated with a sad face, he said: "If we fight in the field, we are not their opponents at all. Please also ask the lord to be patient for a few more days, and when Xun Youruo's army arrives, we will go out of the camp to fight with Gongsun Zhan. ”

Usually after giving advice to Yuan Shao, Feng Ji would come out to sing the opposite, but today he still stood in place and didn't say a word, after all, he only saved his life a few days ago, and he couldn't turn his face and deny people so quickly.

Yuan Shao always felt that today's atmosphere was a little wrong, and after thinking about it for a long time, he found that Feng Ji did not come out to sing against the stage, he held the arrow and asked Feng Ji: "Yuan Tu, what do you think?" ”

"Lord Qiqi," Feng Ji thought about it, and felt that Frustration's proposal was the safest, and in the case of a huge disparity in troops, it was not the best strategy to stick to it, so he said to Yuan Shao: "What the Frustrated Prison Army said is extremely true, at present, the enemy is outnumbered, and it is indeed not appropriate to go out of the camp to fight with them in the field, or stick to it." ”

Seeing that Feng Jidu expressed his support for holding on, the judge hurriedly echoed: "Lord, Gongsun Zhan's army is strong, we need to avoid the edge for the time being, it is not appropriate to go out of the camp to fight with it, it is better to stick to the camp." ”

Yuan Shao saw that his advisers were all against going to war, and after hesitating for a long time, he said to Yan Liangwen again: "You two quickly go and gather strong crossbowmen and archers, and prepare to meet the attacking Gongsun Zhan army." ”

Gongsun Zhan's vanguard was led by Shan Jing, with three rows of sword-and-axe men armed with huge shields at the front, five rows of archers behind them, and eight rows of pikemen behind them.

Facing the Gongsun Zan army approaching step by step, Yuan Shao's camp remained silent. When there were still fifty paces left, a horn sounded in the camp, and the crossbowmen and archers hiding behind the wooden fence fired at the same time, and the arrows flew towards Gongsun Zhan's army like locusts.

"Raise your shield!" With a call from the queue, three rows of axe men raised their shields at the same time. For a while, only the sound of an arrow hitting the shield was heard. But a few arrows also fell into the queue behind, and the archers and pikemen who were hit fell screaming, but the soldiers who followed quickly filled their gaps.

In the queue of Gongsun Zhan's army, a loud order sounded: "Release the arrow!" With the order, the archers in Gongsun Zhan's army also stretched out their bows and arrows and released arrows into the camp. Pieces of feather arrows flew into the camp, and a series of screams came from behind the wooden fence, and it seems that many people in Yuan Jun were also hit by arrows.

The archers on both sides were firing their arrows, and at the end of each round of shooting, soldiers from both sides fell with arrows. Although the arrows fired from the Yuan army camp were dense and violent, and the Gongsun Zan army caused many casualties, they still approached the camp step by step.

When they reached the trench of the camp, Gongsun Zhan's army stopped. This trench was about one zhang wide and eight feet deep, and Gongsun Zhan's army could not cross it directly, so the soldiers stopped and waited for the improvised wooden bridge to cross the trench later.