There was a large table of good wine and food in the room, Yuan Shao looked at Yuan Shu, whose face was a little swollen, and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that along the way, Yuan Highway has suffered a lot!" ”

Yuan Shu gobbled it up and said vaguely: "Yes, it's terrible to gnaw on dry food every day!" ”

He grabbed the wine jug and poured it directly into his mouth, "Gurgling", a pot of wine went down to his stomach, Yuan Highway came to life again, he patted the table and said: "On the way to Hebei, I didn't even drink honey, and I almost died of thirst!" ”

When Yuan Shao heard this, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. He didn't expect Yuan Shu to become like this. Just as he was about to speak, there was a sudden sound of shouting and swords outside, Yuan Shao's face changed slightly, and he turned his head to look at Yan Liang and Wen Chou behind him, and then put his mind at ease.

Yuan Shu was stunned for a moment and asked; "Why does it look like there's someone fighting outside?"

Yuan Shao smiled: "Then you must have heard it wrong, this is Hebei, who dares to be presumptuous?" ”

Yuan Shu stood up and said affirmatively: "That's right, someone is fighting." ”

So saying, he opened the door and walked out. Yan Liang and Wen Chou looked at Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao shook his head, also stood up, and walked out together. Under the eaves of the verandah in the backyard, there stood many armor soldiers, all neatly draped, and carrying weapons such as ring-headed knives, large shields, and bows and crossbows.

A man covered in blood slammed open the armor guarding the door of the hospital and rushed in. After seeing Yuan, the man shouted: "Lord, go quickly, Yuan Shao wants to kill you!" ”

When Yuan Shu saw that person, he exclaimed, "General Ji Ling! ”

The person who came was eight feet tall, with wide shoulders and a wide body, who was it if it wasn't Ji Ling? He had been wounded in many places all over his body, and he had a crossbow bolt stuck in his back, but it was even more vicious. Ji Ling shouted again: "Lord, go quickly!" ”

Yuan Shu swallowed his saliva, turned his head to look at Yuan Shao on the side, a sudden look appeared on his face, and he screamed, "Yuan Benchu, you want to kill me?" ”

Yuan Shao didn't pretend to be now, and sneered: "It's not that I want to kill you, it's that everyone in the world wants to kill you!" ”

Yuan Shu shouted frantically: "We are the descendants of the Yuan clan in Runan, you can't kill me!" ”

In the courtyard, Ji Ling swung the ring-headed knife, cut off a spear that had been stabbed, and ran forward two steps. The bowstring shook on the side, and a dozen arrows and crossbows flew together and pierced him, but they could not stop him from moving on. Seeing that Ji Ling had already run out of more than ten steps, and was about to reach the bottom of the eaves, Yan Liang pulled out the horizontal knife he was wearing and jumped down.

Yan Liang is also a strong man with a height of eight feet, and the weapons in his hands were bought from Guanzhong at a high price. The current general Chen Cheng is a money fan, he sells everything, let alone a horizontal knife, as long as he has money, even if it is steel armor, he will sell it out. However, now Chang'an only recognizes the silver coins and copper coins issued by the Xiliang people themselves, and it is said that Chang'an Bank has also issued gold coins, but few people have seen them.

"Get out of the way!"

Yan Liang shouted loudly and walked up with a horizontal knife. Ji Ling was covered in blood, not only his own, but also his enemies. Every step he took was a bright red footprint under his feet. The soldiers on the side even wondered if this man would fall to the ground and die the next moment after shedding so much blood.

Seeing Yan Liang coming up, Ji Linghu roared, raised his knife and rushed forward, and Yan Liang also raised his knife and slashed over.

The sword flashed like a sword, and the two men each took a few steps forward. After Yan Liang stopped, he maintained a posture of swinging the knife forward. He looked at the iron armor that had been cut by the blade under his ribs, and said regretfully: "The martial arts are good, but it's a pity!" ”

Behind him, there was a "pop" sound, and Ji Ling's body fell weakly in the dust.

Yuan Shu saw Ji Ling dead, and became even more flustered, he knelt down with a "poof", and shouted with a handful of snot and tears: "Originally, you can't kill me!" I'll give you whatever you want! I'm going to write letters to those people in Runan and teach them to serve you as their Lord, okay? ”

Wen Chou looked at Yuan Shu with disdain, and said in a low voice: "It's really not worth it for Ji Ling!" ”

Yuan Shao looked at Yuan Shu with pity and said; "Highway, decent!"

He pulled out his sword, threw it in front of Yuan Shu, and said, "For the sake of us all surnamed Yuan, you can cut it off yourself!" ”

"Huh?"

Yuan Shu stretched out his hand tremblingly, and as soon as his fingers touched the handle of the knife, it was like touching a red-hot piece of iron, and he quickly retracted it. He fell to his knees and began to weep bitterly.

After crying for a while, Yuan Shu stepped forward on his knees and stepped forward to hug Yuan Shao's thigh, but was kicked out by Wen Chou.

"I don't want to die, woowoo....... Yuan Shao, is it okay to spare my life? ”

Yuan Benchu looked at the slug-like Yuan Shu with some tiredness, and said to Yan Liang: "Go help him!" ”

Yan Liang said "hey", stepped forward and stepped on Yuan Shu under his feet, and the horizontal knife was wrapped around his neck, and the head of Liuyang rolled from the floor to the courtyard with a "grunt". Yuan Shu's head spun around on the ground a few times, stained with a lot of dust, and finally stopped in front of Ji Ling, who was angry and wide-eyed.

Yuan Shao said a little unhappily: "I asked you to help him, what are you doing by cutting off his head?" No matter how unbearable Yuan Highway is, he is also a member of my Yuan family, how can he treat him like this? ”

He looked left and right and said, "Come on, find a good coffin, and restrain Yuan Shu!" ”

As soon as Liu Bei led his troops to the border of Hebei, he heard about Yuan Shu's death. After inquiring in detail about the envoys sent to Chang'an by Yuan Shao, Liu Bei could only return to Hongnong with his troops.

As a result, the Yuan Shu power, which once shocked the world and made all the princes fearful, collapsed. But that's just the beginning, it's far from the end, not even in midfield. With the end of the autumn harvest, a new round of war has begun in the world.

The flames of war burned from Shuzhong to the shores of the East China Sea, and tens of millions of people were involved. Countless money, food, and lives were involved, turned into ashes, but nothing was left.

In the autumn of the first year of Xingping, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan died of illness, the first person to promote the "establishment of the state pastor", after many years of peaceful life in Shuzhong, he was finally able to die of old age on the sickbed, which can be regarded as the end of his life. When he was alive, he relied on his superb wrists, subdued the heroes and scholars of Yizhou internally, and supported Zhang Lu of the Wudoumi Sect externally.

But as soon as Liu Yan died, his original plans came to naught. Liu Zhang, who succeeded to the throne, did not have the strength and skill of his father, and as soon as he seized the power, he attacked Zhang Lu, who was entrenched in Hanzhong and Dongchuan, and prepared to eliminate the Wudou Mijiao and swallow both Dongchuan and Hanzhong.

As a result, Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang continued to fight. The Hanzhong army was not strong, but its morale was very high. Liu Zhangjun's combat strength is average, and his morale is not bad. The two sides pecked each other with rookies, and the fight went back and forth. But no matter how rookie it is, it is a great force that can mobilize 100,000 people.

According to Zhang Hengtong from Wudu County, after Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang fought, he was a little nervous, but as soon as he heard that the five rice thieves were armed with so many soldiers, he immediately shrank back. What are you kidding, he is only 6,000 black armor troops now, and he can deal with 30,000 people when he reaches the sky.

In the war between the princes of Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, it is better for him to be less involved.

At the same time, after the annexation of part of Yuzhou, the power of Yangzhou Mu Liu Miao soared. He left the general Tai Shici to guard the north to resist Cao Cao, and he turned around with his soldiers and horses to fight with the local tyrants in Jiangdong, but there is one thing to say, Liu Xuan's skills in fighting are a bit trendy, and I don't know if it is because the humidity in the south is too heavy.

The Yangzhou Army and Yan Baihu and others were also rookies pecking each other, and they fought back and forth. The terrain in the south is divided by mountains and rivers, and there are broken terrain everywhere, so it is rare to fight hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, as in the north. The fighting in the south was dominated by skirmishes.

It is said to be small-scale, but each time there are 20,000 or 30,000 people fighting together. Because of the terrain, the cavalry in the south cannot be said to be ineffective, but compared with the north of the Huai River, the role of the cavalry is greatly weakened. In the battle in Jiangdong, it was more relied on boats to transport grain and grass and transport soldiers.

In Hebei, after Gongsun Zhan had some grain and grass in his hands, he attacked Yuan Shao again. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Gongsun Bogui's attack momentum is getting weaker and weaker. Of course, Bai Ma Yicong is a first-class strong soldier, and after adding new cavalry equipment, the impact has become stronger. However, Gongsun Chan was not good at handling internal affairs and did not have enough supplies to maintain the strong army under his command.

After fighting Yuan Shao for two years, the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army that Gongsun Zhan incorporated were consumed, and they ran a lot. The army in his hands is getting weaker and weaker as it fights. On the contrary, Yuan Shao's strength continued to become stronger in battle. By now, Yuan Shao of Hebei has surpassed Gongsun Zan in strength, and even in the field, Jizhou's armored cavalry can compete with Youzhou Tucai.

However, Yuan Shao's strength has just overtaken, and he has more than enough defense and insufficient offense. Gongsun Zhan killed him and robbed food and people everywhere, which also made Yuan Shao's head extremely big, and he had to send troops to fight fires everywhere. Zhang Yan, who was trapped in the Taihang Mountains, was not willing to be lonely, echoed Gongsun Zan from the west, and repeatedly sent troops to attack Hebei, causing great trouble to Yuan Shao.

Even last year, he once attacked Yecheng, if it weren't for Tao Sheng, the leader under Zhang Yan, who surrendered to Yuan Shao, I am afraid that now Zhang Yan is fighting with Gongsun Zhan for Hebei. After that, Yuan Shao sent troops to attack the territory of the Montenegrin army, broke the barrier and then slaughtered 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Although the battle in Hebei was also fought back and forth, it could not be regarded as rookies pecking each other. Whether it is Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zhan, or even Zhang Yan, they can pull out more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the battle will be overwhelming, shaking the mountains and rivers. But no matter how hard they fought, they were still in a tug-of-war, fighting back and forth, consuming a lot of money and food, and losing a lot of soldiers, but the battle line did not change much.

When the surrounding circle was full of bad battles, Cao Cao's performance was simply like divine help.

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