Chapter 346: Jizhou Yuan Shang

It is said that Chen Gong covered his shame with his words, and left the lord and the white butterfly in Puyang. In his heart, Chen Gong had already felt his betrayal, and immediately made it clear that he had seen through the Dragon Ball as Chen Long's person, leaving his general Hu Che'er to witness Chen Liu's Yellow River waterway being handed over to the Montenegrin Army.

Chen Gong finally got on the boat and left, leaving behind the lord Lu Bu, who had been in a state of soul all day. Bai Butterfly knew that Chen Gong would not leave him face in Chen, and Zhang Liao, Zang Ba and others were not under her control, so of course they would not really return to Chen Liu with Chen Gong alone. Although White Butterfly was ready to give up taking charge of the Central Plains through Lu Bujun, he still needed the identity of Lu Bu's concubine in order to continue to stand in the Central Plains in the name of righteousness, so he stayed by Lu Bu's side for the time being, and all the ninjas disappeared and did not endure.

Man Pet and Xu Huang have been starving all the way since they crossed the mountains and mountains to the vicinity of Yecheng, and the White Tiger Army fled with death after ten stops, leaving less than five stops. Finally got to the border of Yecheng, Man Chong and Xu Huang pretended to surrender to Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao was not so easy to deceive, so he reluctantly sent some grain and grass over, and let Man Chong and Xu Huang report to Yuan Shang alone.

The White Tiger Army was half-starved and half-full, and Man Pet and Xu Huang naturally would not leave the army easily. Yuan Shao's strategists around him had already said in Yuan Shao's ears at this moment that he couldn't believe Manzhong, Yuan Shao angrily issued a military order, ordering Yuan Shang to come with a large number of soldiers, forcing Manzhong and Xu Huang to set up camps, leading the troops as vanguards, and killing the party.

The battle for the party suddenly began. And Chen Long was in Puyang, the Yellow River waterway was unblocked, and the news that Yuan Shao sent troops to the party naturally spread to Puyang quickly. Chen Long couldn't defeat Cao Cao in the north, and was thinking about how to attack Yuan Shao, but he had no excuse to send troops. Suddenly, Yuan Shao asked the third son Yuan Shu to lead the troops out of Huguan and attack Zhang Yan's lair, he was not surprised and rejoiced, and immediately ordered the three armies, and immediately the three armies rose up and rushed straight to Yecheng, leaving only Zhang Yan to defend the city. The rest of the generals, including Guo Jia, Zhou Budo, Guan Yu, Tai Shici, Wu Anguo, Gao Shun, Fu Tong, Zhang Niujiao, and Hu Che'er, all went to the front line, and the total number of troops, including many newly reorganized troops, was still 200,000, which can be described as vast, the lineup was at its peak, and the battle in southern Hebei suddenly kicked off.

Yuan Shu led the troops, went out of Hukou Pass, crossed the border of Maocheng, and drove the 50,000 Black Mountain Army who attacked Huguan back to Shangdang. At the same time, the troops were divided to cut off the communication between Shangdang and Guandu Ferry and Mengjin Ferry, and Man Chong and Xu Huang were the vanguards and camped thirty miles away from Shangdang.

Yuan Shao's third son, Yuan Shang, was tall and handsome, and was deeply favored by Yuan Shao, better than his two elder brothers. Yuan Shao has three sons, Yuan Tan is the elder, Yuan Xi is in the middle, and Yuan Shang is the youngest. The youngest son looks more like Yuan Shao, with a good demeanor, and Yuan Shao's wife Liu also likes Yuan Shang, so Yuan Shao wants to make Yuan Shang his successor.

In the official history, after the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao became ill with grief and anger, and he had a serious illness at the age of forty or fifty. The first two are Yuan Shang's gang, and the latter two are Yuan Tan's gang. Everyone held a meeting, and most of them agreed that "the elder is not the young." The judge muttered in his heart: I am Yuan Shang and his gang, if I set up my eldest son Yuan Tan, Xin Ping and Guo Tu will definitely not let me go in the future and will give me small shoes to wear. So the trial said that Yuan Shao liked his youngest son when he was alive, so he wanted to establish Yuan Shang. Lift the dead out and crush the living, and finally establish Yuan Shang as the lord of Jizhou.

Yuan Shao's wife, Liu, was jealous. Before Yuan Shao's bones were cold, she killed Yuan Shao's five favorite concubines, and gouged out their eyes and disfigured them. Yuan Shang was not idle, and killed all the family members of these favorite concubines.

Yuan Tan got the news of Yuan Shao's death, and hurried back to the funeral, of course, the purpose was to fight for Jizhou. However, in the end, he was not ordained, and he was unwilling, and he called himself the general of the Che Cavalry, and began to have a discordant relationship with Yuan Shang.

Cao Cao keenly saw the opportunity and led the army to the north to attack Yuan Tan. Yuan Tantun's army in Liyang sent people to Yuan Shang for reinforcements. Yuan Shang asked Feng Ji to lead a small army to support Yuan Tan, but Yuan Tan saw that there were few soldiers and asked his brother again. Yuan Shang was afraid that his brother would be a threat to him after winning Cao Cao and becoming strong, so he did not send troops. Yuan Tan was very angry and beheaded Feng Ji.

Cao Cao's army had arrived in Liyang and attacked Yuan Tan, but Yuan Tan couldn't resist the enemy, so he complained to Yuan Shang. Yuan Shang was also afraid that his lips would die and his teeth would be cold, Yuan Tan was really finished, and he would not have a good time, so he arranged for him to guard the city and personally lead troops to support Yuan Tan. However, Cao Cao's strength was too strong, and the brothers never fought Cao Cao in partnership, and retreated all the way to Zhencheng. Cao Cao then chased after him and captured Yin'an, and then withdrew his troops, because he decided to go south to conquer Liu Biao.

As soon as Cao Cao's army withdrew, the brothers Tan and Shang breathed a sigh of relief. After the situation eased, they began to fight against each other, and Yuan Tan was defeated and fled to the plains. Yuan Shang pursued closely and besieged the plains, intending to kill his brother. Yuan Tan had no choice but to send Xin Bi to Cao Cao to ask for help.

In October 203, Cao Cao's army turned north to rescue Yuan Tan. Of course, saving Yuan Tan was only an expedient measure, and Cao Cao's purpose was to eat Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang and seize Jizhou. Yuan Tan also has his own little abacus, he wants to use Cao Cao's power to kill Yuan Shang first, and then deal with Cao Cao calmly.

Yuan Shang learned that Cao Cao drove troops to rescue Yuan Tan, and immediately withdrew the troops from the plains and returned to Tuncheng City. Seeing that the situation was not good, the generals Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang betrayed Yuan Shang and surrendered to Cao Cao. Yuan Tan secretly engraved two general seals and gave them to the two brothers of the Lu family, enveloping their hearts and preparing for the future attack on Cao Cao. After Cao Cao found out, he felt that it was not the time to publicly turn his face with Yuan Tan, so he married Yuan Tan to calm his heart.

After that, Cao Cao withdrew his troops again. As soon as Cao Cao's army left, Yuan Shang was impatient, and arranged for the trial and Su You to guard the city and attack Yuan Tan in the plains again. Cao Cao's army returned, approached Chengcheng, and reached Huanshui, which was fifty miles away from Chengcheng. Su You wanted to surrender to Cao Cao, and sent someone to tell Cao Cao to tell him to attack the city, and Su You responded internally. But the premeditated leak was discovered by the trial. After a fierce battle in the city, the trial was won, and Su You was defeated and fled to Cao Cao's camp. Cao Cao then led a large army to besiege Zhencheng.

Cao Cao sent people to dig tunnels to attack the city, and the trial was matched to dig a deep ditch in the city to turn the situation into safety; Feng Li, the subordinate of the trial, rebelled, opened the gate and wanted to bring 300 Cao soldiers into the city, but was discovered by the trial, and the trial threw a big stone down from the city, the gate was blocked, and the 300 people survived; Cao Cao attacked the city, and the trial ordered people to release arrows, the arrows were like flying locusts, and Cao Cao couldn't attack them for a long time; Cao Cao wanted to divert the water of the Zhanghe River to irrigate the city, and dug a ditch outside the city for forty miles, and saw it in the city, the ditch was dug shallow and narrow, and the trial laughed: to irrigate the city, the ditch must be deep and wide, so the trial did not care. This is actually Cao Cao's trick and release*. That night, Cao Cao sent more people, and overnight, the ditch was deep and the water was urgent. When I woke up the next day, I regretted that there was water everywhere in the city. In the next three or four months, there was a flood in the city, and more than half of the people died of starvation.

Yuan Shang learned that Chengcheng was in an emergency, and hurriedly led more than 10,000 people to rescue, and the army rushed to Yangping Pavilion, which was seventeen miles away from Chengcheng, and raised a fire. The judge knew that the reinforcements had arrived, and he also raised a fire in the city.

The trial was to assemble an army in the city, wanting to join forces with Yuan Shangli to attack Cao Cao and break out of the encirclement. Cao Cao divided his troops into two routes, drove the trial all the way back to the city, and defeated Yuan Shang all the way. Yuan Shang fled to Quzhang and set up camp, Cao Cao wanted to surround Quzhang, but before he could besiege it, someone outside the camp asked to see him. Called in to see, it was Yuan Shang's subordinates Yin Kui and Chen Lin, who had come to beg for surrender. Cao Cao was not allowed. The two men went back in disgrace. Yuan Shang had no choice but to flee again, fleeing to Yankou, Cao Cao besieged Yankou, and the military situation was very urgent. At the time of the battle, Yuan Shang's general Ma Yan and others surrendered to Cao Cao, and the dragons were leaderless and Yuan's army was defeated. Yuan Shang was caught off guard and continued to flee in defeat. Seals, talismans, baggage, and clothing are all high-end goods, all of which fell and belonged to Cao Cao. Cao Cao ordered people to display these things around, and the Yuan family's soldiers would collapse their confidence.

The nephew of the trial was on duty at the east city gate, and opened the city gate that night to let Cao Cao's army enter, and the trial was hurriedly led the army to fight with Cao Cao in the streets, and finally because of the lack of strength, the city was broken and captured.

The brothers Xin Ping and Xin Bi were Yuan Tan's subordinates. Xin Ping was in Zhencheng, Xin Bi was in Cao Cao's army at that time, heard that the city was broken, and hurriedly entered the city to rescue his brother Xin Ping's family, and the trial was resentful that the two brothers led Cao soldiers to attack Chengcheng, and they had already beheaded Xin Ping's family. Later, he was arrested and escorted to Cao Cao's Dazhai on the way, and was touched by Xin Bi, who was also resentful, and the enemies were very red when they saw each other. Xin Bi whipped the judge on the head with a horsewhip, and scolded while beating: "Dog slave, you also have today, and your time of death has come." The judge also scolded: "Dog, you brought Cao Cao to attack my Jizhou, I hate to kill you all and break your body into thousands of pieces." "On the way, I met Zhang Ziqian again, this is a native of Jizhou, and he has a bad relationship with the trial, so he surrendered to Cao Cao before. Zhang Ziqian was very proud when he saw the five flowers tied up in the trial, and said: "Trial, now you are not as good as me, right?" The judge said sharply: "You are a surrenderer, I am a loyal minister, even if I die, I am much better than you." ”

The trial was escorted to Cao Cao and refused to surrender. Cao Cao had no choice but to kill the trial in the end.

When he was about to be executed, the judge said to the executioner, "Let me die with my face facing north, because my lord Yuan is in the north." The judge's voice was fierce and unafraid, and the onlookers sighed.

The current situation in Jizhou: Yuan Tan surrendered to Cao, Yuan Shang was defeated and fled, Zhencheng was breached, and he was killed.

Gao Gan, Yuan Shao's nephew, who was previously sealed by Yuan Shao in Bingzhou, could no longer sit still at this time, and raised the whole state to surrender to Cao Cao. Cao Cao said: "Okay, then make you the assassin of Bingzhou and serve me." ”

When Cao Cao besieged Zhencheng, Yuan Tan was not idle, he also led the army to attack Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang fought on two fronts at this time, was unable to resist Yuan Tan, was defeated, and fled to Yuan Xi, his second brother Yuan Xi, and his soldiers were all absorbed by Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan's army was encamped in Longcuo. After becoming stronger, Yuan Tan began to disobey Cao Cao's words. After Cao Cao broke through Chengcheng, he led his army to Longcuo and asked Yuan Tan to open the door, but Yuan Tan did not do it. Cao Cao felt that the time had come, and he also turned his face, and getting married or something, it was all floating clouds. Ordered to besiege Yuan Tan, Yuan Tan was not Cao Cao's opponent at all, the army was defeated and fled to Qinghe, Cao Cao besieged Qinghe, Yuan Tan and Guo Tu were defeated, and they were all beheaded, which was a matter of 205 AD.

Now, Yuan Tan is defending against Gongsun Zan in the north, Yuan Shang is attacking the Shangdang Montenegrin Army in the west, and in addition to Yuan Shao, Yecheng has his second son Yuan Xi left. Suddenly hearing that the Puyang Black Mountain Army was moving, Yuan Shao ordered Yuan Xi to rush to the front line immediately. The war in Jizhou is about to break out.

Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.