In the first month of the spring of the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao garrisoned. Then he went to Junyi, repaired the Juyang Canal and sent the ether to worship Qiao Xuan. Enter the officer's crossing.

Yuan Shao was ashamed of the defeat of the army, and he vomited blood.

At first, Yuan Shao had three sons, namely Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang. Yuan Shao's wife Liu favored Yuan Shang. often praised him in front of Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao wanted to think of it later, but he didn't make it clear. So after Yuan Tan succeeded his brother, he became the history of Qingzhou Thorn. He said: The world says that ten thousand people chase rabbits, but only one person gets it. The greedy can only stop. This is because the name has already been determined. Yuan Tan is the eldest son and should be the heir. but they rebuked him, and made him a foreign officer, and evil began there.

Yuan Shao said: I will let the sons each have a state, so as to judge their abilities. So the neutron Yuan Xi was the history of the Youzhou Thorn, and the nephew Gao Gan was the history of the Bingzhou Thorn. In the past few years, the trial has been ill by Yuan Tan, Xin Ping, and Guo Tu are all attached to Yuan Tan. And there is a gap with the trial and matching. and Yuan Shaoxu, everyone thought that Yuan Tan was the eldest son and wanted to establish it, and the trial was afraid that Yuan Tan would be harmed by Xin Ping, so Yuan Shao was ordered to serve Yuan Shang as the heir. Yuan Tan was unable to stand and claimed to be a general of the Che Cavalry. Garrison Liyang. Yuan Shangshao fought with him, and made Xiao Ji follow. Yuan Tan asked for more soldiers, but he refused to give them after reviewing and matching. Yuan Tan was angry, killing Ji Ji,

In autumn and September, Cao Cao crossed the river to attack Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan was anxious for Yuan Shang. Yuan Shang stayed in the trial and assigned the generals to help Yuan Tan, and rejected Cao Cao. In several battles in a row, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were defeated. Hold on to it because of retreat. Yuan Shanggang placed Hedong Taishou Guo Yuan and Gao Gan, and the Xiongnu Nandan Yu attacked Hedong together. Sent an envoy and Ma Teng, the generals of Guanzhong, and other soldiers, Ma Teng Yin Xu Zhi, and Guo Yuan passed through the cities. Jia Kui, the official of Hedong County, guarded the Jiang, Guo Yuan attacked very urgently, the city was about to collapse, and the father and Guo Yuan made an appointment to surrender without harming Jia Kui. Guo Yuan Xu Zhi. Guo Yuan wanted to make Jia Kui a general, because he hijacked him with soldiers. Jia Kui was unmoved, and led Jia Kui left and right to make him kowtow, and Jia Kui scolded them and said: How can there be a matter of a state governor kowtowing to a thief?

Guo Yuan was furious and was about to kill him, someone lay on him and wanted to save him, and the people of Jiangcheng heard that they were going to kill Jia Kui, and they all shouted in Chengcheng: If you want to make a promise, kill my virtuous king, and would rather die with him. Under pressure, Guo Yuan imprisoned him in Huguan City, locked him in a cellar, and covered the entrance of the cave with a wheel. Jia Kui said to the guard: Isn't there a real man here? Is it really that the righteous should die in the cellar? And one of them, whose name was Zhu Zhengdao, heard his words. So he took advantage of the night to rescue Jia Kui, opened the restraint for him and let him go, without revealing his name. Cao Cao made Si Li's lieutenant Zhong Xuan surround Nandan Yu in Pingyang. Saved without pulling out. Zhong Xuan made Xinfeng order Feng Yizhang to lobby Ma Teng and point out the benefits and disadvantages for him. Marten hesitated. Fu Gan said to Ma Teng: The ancients had a saying, those who are virtuous prosper and those who rebel against virtue die, Cao Gong is in the Son of Heaven to punish the riots, the law is political, and the life is used up and down, which can be called a way. Relying on its strength, the Yuan clan betrayed the king's order and drove Hu Lu to China, which can be called anti-morality. Today's general has a way to do things, but he has both ends of the spectrum and wants to sit back and watch success or failure. I'm afraid that success or failure is decided, Cao Gongfeng resigned, and he was going to take the general first.

So Ma Teng was afraid, and Fu Ganyin took the opportunity to say: The wise man turned disaster into blessing, and now Cao Gong and Yuan are holding each other, and Gao Gan Guo is attacking Hedong together, although Cao Gong has a perfect plan, he cannot prohibit Hedong from becoming a dangerous place. If the general can lead troops to fight Guo Yuanyin, he will inevitably take it in one fell swoop. This is the general who broke Yuan's arm in one fell swoop, solving the urgency of one party, Cao Gong will definitely be grateful for the general's virtue, and the general's fame will be incomparable.

Ma Teng then sent his son Ma Chao to meet Zhong Xuan with more than 10,000 soldiers. At the beginning, the generals Guo aided the people, and wanted to give up Pingyang and leave, Zhong Xuan said: Yuan's Fang is strong, Guo Yuan is coming, Guan Zhongyin is communicating with it, the reason why he did not all rebel is because he is afraid of my prestige, if he abandons the city and goes away, showing weakness, the people where he is, who is not a grudge? Even if I wanted to return, how could I do it? This is the so-called self-defeat before fighting. Moreover, Guo Yuan is stubborn and competitive, and will definitely despise our army, if it crosses the Fenshui as a battalion, we can take advantage of its halfway crossing to attack, so that we can defeat the enemy army.

Guo Yuanzhi really went straight to cross the Fenshui, everyone stopped and did not obey, and before half of the water was helped, Zhong Xuan attacked and broke it. At the end of the war, everyone said that Guo Yuan was dead, but he did not get his head. Guo Yuan is Zhong Xuan's nephew. After a long time, Ma Chao's lieutenant Nan'an Pound took out one in the sheath, and Zhong Miao cried when he saw it. Pang De apologized to Zhong Xuan, and Zhong Xuan said: Although Guo Yuan is my nephew, he is also a national thief, why should Mr. thank me?

Nandan surrendered.

Liu Biao made Liu Bei invade north to Yexian, and Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun (du

), and refused to do so. Liu Bei burned the camp early in the morning and retreated, and Xiahoudun and others chased after him. General Pi Julu Li Dian said: The thief withdrew for no reason, I suspect that there must be an ambush. The south road is narrow, the grass and trees are deep, and it cannot be chased. Xiahoudun and the others did not listen, so Li Dian stayed behind and chased after him. Sure enough, he entered Liu Bei's encirclement and was defeated. Li Dian went to the rescue, and Liu Bei retreated.

Cao Cao ordered Sun Quan to send protons to his children, and Sun Quan convened a meeting of the group of officials. Zhang Zhao, Qin Song and others hesitated. Sun Quan led Zhou Yu to Mrs. Wu to make a decision. Zhou Yu said: At the beginning of the Chu State, the land of less than a hundred miles was inherited, and the heirs were able to open up the territory, so they occupied the land of Jingyang, and passed on the industry for more than 900 years. Now the general inherits the surplus funds of his father and brother, and has the people of the six counties, and there are many soldiers and food, and the soldiers use their lives. The cast mountain is copper, the boiled sea is salt, and the territory is rich. If people are not confused, what is the persecution that they have to give hostage to others? As soon as the proton entered, he had to advance and retreat with the Cao family, and if he was called, he had to go, so that he was able to see the people, at most he would only seal a Hou seal, and there were more than ten servants, the number of cars, and the number of horses, how could it be the same as the south called Lonely? It's better not to send the quality and watch the changes. If the Cao clan can lead the righteousness to uphold the world, it will not be too late to be military. If it is a riot, he will die by himself, how can he harm others?

Mrs. Wu said to Sun Quan: Gong Jin is right, Gong Jin is the same year as Bo Fu (Sun Cezi), just one month younger, I regard him as a son, you should treat him like a brother. So he did not send a pledge to Cao Cao.

In the spring and February of the eighth year, Cao Cao attacked Liyang and fought with Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan under the city, and Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan were defeated and returned to Yecheng. In the summer of April, Cao Cao chased to Ye, harvested the wheat of the Yecheng wilderness, the generals wanted to take advantage of the victory to attack, Guo Jia said: Yuan Shao loves the two sons to the point where they don't know who to set up as the heir, now they are equal in power, each has its own henchmen, the attack is urgent, then the fight is up, now it is better to go south to Jingzhou, in order to change. Turning into and then hitting it can be done in one fell swoop. Cao Cao said: Okay.

In May, Cao Cao returned. Leave his general Jia Xintun soldiers in Liyang. Yuan Tan said to Yuan Shang: I am not well armoured, so I was defeated by Cao Cao the day before yesterday, and now Cao Cao's army is retreating, people have different ambitions, and they have not crossed the river, and they sent troops to cover the attack, which can make it a big rout. Hopefully this strategy can be used.

Yuan Shang was suspicious, and did not send additional troops and horses for him, nor did he change his armor, Yuan Tan was furious. Guo Tuxin commented on Yuan Tan and said: The reason why the first prince was appointed as a general was planned by the judge. Yuan Tan was furious, so he led his troops to attack Yuan Shang and fought outside the city gate. Yuan Tan was defeated and led troops back to Nanpi. Don't drive Beihai Wang Xiu to lead the people from Qingzhou to rescue Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan wanted to attack Yuan Shang even more, Wang Xiu said: Brother is the right and left hand, if a person will fight and cut off his right hand, saying that I will win, is this possible? If he abandons his brother and does not kiss, who in the world will be close to him? Those slanderers divide flesh and blood, in order to seek the benefit of one day, may the young master not listen. If you kill a few ministers, and the brothers are in harmony with each other to control the Quartet, they can run rampant in the world.

Yuan Tan did not follow. Yuan Tan raised an army against Yuan Tan in Luoyin. The cities responded. Yuan Tan sighed and said: Now that the whole state is rebellious, is it lonely and has no virtue? Wang Xiu said: Although Donglai is too guarded and in charge of the sea, this person is not opposed. will definitely come to the young master. Later, more than ten days later, Guan Tong really abandoned his wife and came to Yuan Tan, and his wife was killed by thieves. Yuan Tan is even more in charge of Le'an.

In autumn and August, Cao Cao attacked Liu Biao and garrisoned in Xiping.

Yuan Shangzi will attack Yuan Tan and break it. Yuan Tan ran to the plains, and the infant city was fortified. Yuan Shangwei was in a hurry, and Yuan Tan sent Xin Ping's brother Xin Bi to see Cao Cao for help. Liu Biao wrote a letter to Yuan Tan and said: A gentleman is not suitable for the enemy country when he violates difficulties, and he will never make a bad noise, let alone forget the hatred of his ancestors and abandon the good of his relatives? This is a ring for eternity, and a shame for the alliance. If Jizhou has the pride of not being a brother, Renjun should lower his will and humiliate himself, and take helping the world as his business. After the matter is decided, it is also a high righteousness to make the people of the world straight. He also said to Yuan Shangshu: gold, wood, water and fire, with the combination of rigidity and softness, and then the sum of it can be used for civil use. Qingzhou (Yuan Tan) is in a hurry by nature, obsessed with straightness, and Renjun has a wide degree, which is more than enough. We should use the big package to the small, the good to tolerate the bad, first get rid of Cao Cao, to repay the hatred of the first public, and then discuss the merits after the matter is decided. Isn't it great? If you don't return, even Hu Yi will have ridicule. How much more are you and I allied. How can we work together? Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang did not follow.