Yuan Tan was shocked.

Defecting to Cao Cao was something he had never thought about before, but now that Guo Tu brought it up, he felt that it might not be a way out.

After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao was strong, and Hebei no longer had the strength to compete with Cao Cao. Now that Yuan Shang has stopped him outside Jizhou City and sent him to death, since Yuan Shang is so unjust, why can't he take refuge in Cao Cao and help Cao Cao capture Jizhou City?

Immediately, Yuan Tan asked Guo Tu to contact Cao Cao to test whether Cao Cao could accept his surrender.

When Cao Cao got the news, he couldn't help but be stunned: "I was starting to recruit Yuan Tan to surrender, and I was afraid that he would not come to surrender if he had some backbone, but now Yuan Tan took the initiative to surrender, hehe, it's really ......."

Cao Cao was extremely disdainful: "Yuan Shao is incompetent, and the sons he raised are indeed waste materials, and in the battle of Guandu, he lost to me, which is really due rather than heaven's help." ”

Cheng Yu said with a smile: "Prime Minister, since Yuan Tan has taken the initiative to surrender, it is always a good thing to avoid the Prime Minister from bothering to surrender." ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "But I still have to dry him for a few days before agreeing to his request." ”

Xu You complimented: "The prime minister's move can make Yuan Tan worried, and he doesn't dare to disobey the prime minister's words after he descends, the prime minister is smart, and I might as well wait for the prime minister." ”

Cao Cao laughed, although he didn't like Xu You's whiskers and horses, and his utilitarianism was too strong, but who didn't like to be complimented, Cao Cao was no exception.

Three days later, Cao Cao sent someone to reply to Yuan Tan and allow Yuan Tan to surrender.

Cao Cao made Yuan Tan the vanguard and re-besieged Jizhou City.

Seeing that Yuan Tan actually took refuge in Cao Cao, the defenders of Jizhou City were really shocked, and their morale and will were sharply reduced. And Yuan Tan is responsible for contacting his old department in Jizhou City, so that they can cooperate with each other.

It took five days, and Cao Cao finally succeeded in attacking the city of Jizhou with the help of Yuan Tan.

"Hahahaha, Jizhou is my Cao Cao's!" Cao Cao laughed.

"Kill!" The one-eyed Xiahoudun took the lead, led a team of tigers and leopards to ride into the city of Jizhou first, and began to clear Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi's Jizhou defenders.

With Yuan Tan in charge of surrendering, and the city was broken, the defenders of Jizhou rarely resisted, and most of them surrendered directly.

Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi, and Gao Gan escaped from Jizhou City from the north gate with only more than 1,000 remnants.

Among them, Gao Gan fled to Bingzhou, Yuan Shang fled to Zhongshan and Gaoyang in the north of Jizhou, and Yuan Xi fled directly to Youzhou.

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After Cao Cao captured Jizhou City, he not only captured a large number of Yuan's ministers, such as Fengji and trial, but also captured Yuan Shao's old mother, and the wives and concubines left behind by Yuan Shao after his death, as well as the wives and concubines of Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi.

After all, they are all a group of women and children, and the protégés of the Yuan family in Hebei are all over the place, and if Cao Cao wants to rule Hebei, it is impossible to kill the Yuan family, so he did not embarrass Yuan Shao's old mother and wife, nor did he embarrass the wives and concubines of Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, and only sent someone to send them to Xudu to be placed in custody.

Next, Cao Cao surrendered the officials of Jizhou.

These Jizhou officials, Feng Ji and the trial are the most talented, and Cao Cao met with Feng Ji and the trial alone.

As soon as Feng Ji saw Cao Cao, he bowed down in fear and begged to surrender, spineless.

Cao Cao smiled disdainfully: "You are so greedy for life and afraid of death, when you assist Yuan Shao, you have a lot of self-interest and deception, and exclude dissidents, like you and others, I don't dare to use it." ”

After speaking, Cao Cao ordered Feng Ji to be beheaded.

Cao Cao saw the trial again, although the trial assisted Yuan Shao and Yuan Shang when they were also selfish and selfish, excluding dissidents, but the trial of this person was far more backbone than Feng Ji, and he scolded Cao Cao when he first saw him, even if Cao Cao threatened, he would not die.

Cao Cao made a speech to solicit, but the judge said: "I was born as a minister of the Yuan family, and died as a ghost of the Yuan family, and I don't disdain such sycophants, but I can be killed quickly!" ”

The trial refused to surrender, and Cao Cao was not a pity, and ordered the trial to be beheaded. Jiujiu Library

Subsequently, Cao Cao met with other Jizhou officials, recruited most of them, and Jizhou was decided.

Three days later, Cao Cao went to Yuan Shao's grave to pay respects.

It is said that Xu You thought that Cao Cao was able to break through Jizhou City because of his strategy, and he was also the first to make the battle of Guandu last year. Therefore, after entering Jizhou City, Xu You has always been extremely proud, a faction of great heroes, except for Cao Cao, he does not put anyone in his eyes, which really makes Cao Jun's civil ministers and generals disgusted.

Near the east gate of Jizhou City, Xu You met Xu Chu.

Speaking of which, among Cao Ying, Xu Chu is the most unpleasant to the eye is Xu Chu, because Xu Chu has an upright temper, and he usually does not hide his dislike for Xu You at all, and looking at Xu You is the same as looking at a lump of *, which makes Xu You feel extremely uncomfortable.

Xu Chu originally disdained Xu You, but Xu You was extremely dissatisfied with Xu Chu's attitude, so he stopped Xu Chu.

Xu You said: "If you don't have me Xu You, An can enter this Jizhou City, why do you always treat me with disrespect?" ”

Xu Chu was furious: "We fought a thousand bloody battles and captured the city, you dare to boast like this." ”

Xu You said disdainfully: "You are all horsemen, what a way!" ”

This remark, not only Xu Chu was angry, but the other Cao army generals next to him were also extremely angry, but Xu You's faction didn't take anyone seriously, and said that even if Cao Aman was in front of him, he would have to respect him and let him score three points.

disrespecting Cao Cao like this and insulting the generals, where can Xu Chu bear it, he will cut off Xu You's head when he draws his sword.

After killing Xu You, Xu Chu carried Xu You's head to Cao Cao to plead guilty.

"You, you killed Xu You?" Cao Cao's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Who asked you to kill Xu You, you bastard, I want you to pay for Xu You's life!" Cao Cao was furious and said that he would behead Xu Chu and pay for Xu You's life.

It wasn't because of how much Cao Cao looked at Xu You, in fact, Cao Cao was extremely disgusted with Xu You's flattery and gangsterism, and he couldn't wait to kill Xu You in his heart, so as not to cause discord in his army because of Xu You. But in the end, Xu You was the first hero who helped him defeat Yuan Shao and capture Jizhou, and now that Jizhou City has just been captured, Xu You has been killed, what will the people of the world think of him? How can you make him not angry!

"The prime minister is angry!" Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and other generals pleaded for Xu Zhu.

"That's it, I want everyone to intercede, spare you for the time being!" Cao Cao was reluctant to kill Xu Chu in his heart, and finally forgave Xu Chu, only demoted Xu Chu by three levels, and ordered Xu Yu to be buried thickly, and the matter was over.

Another day later, Yuan Tan heard that Cao Cao had taken the Jizhou pastor in front of Yuan Shao's grave, which indicated that it was impossible for Cao Cao to grant him the position of Jizhou pastor, and Guo Tu asserted that Cao Cao must have been preparing to unload the mill and kill the donkey.

Yuan Tan was frightened, taking advantage of Cao Cao's inattention, he led the 30,000 original Yuan Shang soldiers and horses that had been surrendered to escape from Jizhou City, and plundered Bohai, Lezhang and other places.

Yuan Tan rebelled, Cao Cao didn't care, after he captured Jizhou City, he was indeed ready to ask for the lives of Yuan Tan and Guo Tu, and Yuan Tan's rebellion just gave him an excuse.

After letting the army rest in Jizhou City for ten days, coupled with the news from Guanzhong, Liu Yu attacked Qiang and Di with heavy troops, which was like destroying the Huns, and wanted to completely destroy Qiang and Di Erhu, and it was impossible to threaten Xu Du in the east, Cao Cao was relieved, and continued to lead the army to pursue and destroy Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi, Gao Gan, etc.

In order to capture the entire Hebei before Liu Yu destroyed Qiang and Di, Cao Cao's troops divided into three routes, all the way to attack Bingzhou, all the way to encircle and annihilate Yuan Tan, all the way to the north of Jizhou and Youzhou, and attack Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi.

First of all, Yuan Tan, in order to resist the Cao army, regardless of the life and death of the people, drove a large number of people to attack the Cao army, resulting in countless deaths and injuries of the people, and the people's hearts were lost, and the generals rebelled, opened the city gate, Yuan Tan was defeated, and Guo Tu was captured together, and was later beheaded by Cao Cao's order.

The second is Yuan Shang, Cao Cao personally led an army of 200,000 troops, and went to Zhongshan to defeat Yuan Shang and forced him to flee to Youzhou, and the thirteen counties of Jizhou were occupied by Cao Cao.

Then, Cao Cao led the army to chase Yuan Shang into Youzhou, how could Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi stop Cao Cao, they were defeated by Cao Cao, and had to abandon Youzhou, Beitou Wuheng went, and Cao Cao captured Youzhou.

In the end, Cao Ren and Yu Ban attacked and merged with the state, and also defeated Gao Gan at Hukou, and soon captured the state, Gao Gan fled to the south, wanting to go to Guanzhong to vote for Liu Yu, but before entering the Guanzhong, he was beheaded by the following generals and presented his head to Cao Cao.

Hebei, You, and the three states were all captured by Cao Cao, because there was no persuasion from Guo Jia, Cao Cao did not chase to the north of Yanshan to attack Wuheng, plus I heard that Liu Yu in Guanzhong had completely pacified Qiang and Di Erhu, afraid that Liu Yudong would threaten Xu Du, Cao Cao ordered to return to Xu Du, and finally failed to completely solve Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang.

Cao Cao had just crossed the Yellow River, and news also came from Qingzhou, Xiahou Yuan and others captured Qingzhou, which lasted nearly five months before and after, and Cao Cao even merged Hebei, You, Qing, and four states, and his power and strength increased greatly.

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