Yuan Shao has been ill since the battle with Cao Cao in White Horse City, and he has never gotten out of bed again.

But he still had a firm grip on the army, and every day information was passed on, and no one dared to hide it.

This time, the information of the internal riots of the Xianbei people in Youzhou and Bingzhou was also transmitted to him as soon as possible.

Yuan Shao took a long breath and said, "Can Kebi die?" Good death. The grassland melee, when it is reunified again, I am afraid it will be at least 10 years later! Our borders can be at peace for another 10 years. ”

No one expected that after only two months, the Xianbei ethnic groups in civil strife would let go of their prejudices. Although there is no unity, there is no unity, and they are still fighting separately. But the place of the battle was placed in Youzhou and Bingzhou.

Like wolves, they poured into Yuan Shao's territory, grabbed a handful and ran.

When Yuan Shao's army did not react for a long time, the Xianbei people became more and more emboldened, and they even began to besiege those county towns on the border.

Yuan Shao was so angry that he vomited two mouthfuls of blood on the spot! He scolded the intelligence officer: "Xianbei is in the coward, why did you report such a big matter to me now?" ”

The intelligence officer replied: "We thought they were just beating the grass valley and grabbing a handful and running, so we didn't report it." ”

Yuan Shao closed his eyes, didn't bother to ask again, waved his hand, and the guards under the tent set up the intelligence officer, pulled him out and cut off his head!

This big matter, without his own sons to stop it, the intelligence officer would never dare to hide it. Yuan Shao knows this. But the sons are also thinking about their own health, so they can only use the intelligence officer as a scapegoat.

"There are capable people in the grassland!" Yuan Shao said: "I turned internal contradictions into external aggression. ”

In the account, next to Yuan Shao's couch, there were still several of his major strategists: Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Guo Tu, Xianbei, Feng Ji, and Xu You.

Geng Zhi said in frustration: "The lord needs to send troops quickly to rescue the border city. ”

Guo Tu also said: "Around us, Cao Cao is no longer able to fight, Gongsun Kang is obsessed with cultivating immortals, and he will not attack us for a while, just so he can take the opportunity to clean up the Xianbei tribe." ”

"It's difficult," Yuan Shao sighed, "The Xiongnu homeland occupied by Xianbei is the same area as my Han Dynasty. Even if we repel them this time, we won't be able to clean them up. ”

Xu You and they wanted to say something, but Yuan Shao waved his hand and asked his sons to come forward.

He said: "Our Yuan family must be united. Each of you will take an army and go separately to aid the border! Whoever has great achievements in battle will be my successor! ”

Yuan Shao has always liked his youngest son, Yuan Shang, and thinks that he looks most like himself. It has always been interesting to pass on the throne to Yuan Shang.

'The eldest son, Tan, is just killed by human nature; The second son, Xi, is soft and cowardly; The three sons are still heroes, there is a hero's appearance, courtesy and respect, I want to establish it'. It can be seen that Yuan Shao is the third son of Yuan Shang.

Now Yuan Shao can make a decision: Whoever has great achievements in war will be my successor. It can be said that it is his last wisdom!

The sons were overjoyed, and each selected the strategists and generals of their own faction, and with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, they went to the borders of various places to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

Yuan Xi is the assassin of Youzhou, and Gao Gan is the assassin of Bingzhou, and they are responsible for protecting the family and defending the country.

Among the generals, Zhang He is in Hanoi County, and Gao Ran is in Pingyuan County. So Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang to help Yuan Xi, and Wen Chou to help Gao Gan.

Let's talk about Yan Liang's way, because Yan Liang is relatively arrogant, so he doesn't need any strategy, just punch and rush.

He was facing the Eastern Xianbei. The larger tribes are: Duanbu, Murong Ministry, and Yuwen Ministry, and they can bring tens of thousands of armor every time they send troops.

Yan Liang only had 3,000 cavalry, and the remaining 20,000 horses were infantry.

In the few months that Yan Liang entered Youzhou, he defeated dozens of large and small tribes and killed more than 60,000 Xianbei cavalry!

And Murong Ke has always avoided confrontation with Yan Liang, and in the past few months, he has been avoiding Yan Liang to rob the Han people.

Every time Yan Liang defeated an invading soldier of a tribe, Murong Ke could always rush to the stationplace of that tribe as soon as possible to carry out a ruthless annexation.

The reason is that Liaodong sprinkled ubiquitous meticulous work, which provided Murong Ke with timely information every time.

Although Murong Ke is young, he is truly ruthless. For the tribes that have been annexed, it is absolute that those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me perish.

In a few months, with Yan Liang's unintentional cooperation, Murong Ke fully annexed more than a dozen large and small tribes. The ruling population also swelled to 500,000!

It is certainly a good thing that the ruling population is larger; But to feed such a large population, more food and goods must be snatched. In this way, it will be impossible to avoid Yan Liang again. You have to have a tough battle with Yan Liang.

In the past few months, Yan Liang has played with majesty and morale, and the Xianbei knight has been awakened to distant memories, and he is not afraid of Yan Liang. Murong Ke encouraged the soldiers in advance, pointing out that Yan Liang was brave and unstrategic, and his army was running around, and it was already hungry and exhausted, and it would definitely be broken.

It's not enough to just talk in the open air, Murong Ke has made many preparations.

First of all, the location of the decisive battle was chosen on a prairie in the upper valley.

Murong Ke sent tens of thousands of soldiers and captured more than 5,000 Han Chinese in Shanggu. He escorted them to the flat ground of the upper valley grassland before stopping.

Yan Liang got the news and rushed to the rescue.

Murong Ke divided the Xianbei cavalry army into three divisions. Murong Ke led the Chinese army, selected 5,000 good marksmen, and marched forward in a phalanx with iron locks and war horses, and the other two divisions were each placed on one side to cooperate with the main force to attack.

Yan Liang bravely underestimated the enemy, and sure enough, he hit the plan and went straight to the iron horse phalanx in the middle of the Xianbei cavalry.

Murong Ke ordered: "Shoot!" ”

The 5,000 good archers of Xianbei fired arrows together, and like rain, the arrows flew towards Yan Liang's soldiers and horses.

Yan Liang danced the knife, brushing like a flywheel. The wind and rain were impenetrable, and not a single arrow could reach him.

But the soldiers behind him did not have such good martial arts as him, and they fell to the ground one by one like harvested wheat.

At the cost of thousands of people, Yan Liangcai rushed to the front of the iron horse phalanx with 2,000 cavalry.

Yan Liang waved his sword. No one of the Xianbei soldiers is his enemy. With a bang, several big heads were slashed by him.

However, the first few rows are all war horses connected by iron chains. Yan Liang killed the Xianbei soldiers in the front row, but he couldn't rush into the battle array.

Yan Liang struggled and killed a few more war horses. The war horse fell to the ground, but it was still lying in front of the second army.

At this time, the flank troops of the Xianbei army attacked from both sides, and more than 20,000 Xianbei cavalry rode high-headed horses and rushed towards more than 10,000 infantry behind Yan Liang with scimitars. Cavalry against unsheltered infantry is a massacre!

In this battle, Murong Ke defeated Yan Liang's army and killed more than 7,000 people.

Yan Liang had no choice but to break through with the remnants of his cavalry and infantry. After walking more than 20 miles to the east, countless arrows suddenly shot out of the grass, killing Yan Liang's mount at once. It turned out that Murong Ke had already ambushed tens of thousands of Xianbei soldiers and ambushed him on Yan Liang's return road.

Yan Liang pushed aside the dense arrows, changed his warhorse, and continued to flee. His cavalry again wounded a few hundred people. The infantry were all killed and captured. Yan Liang himself was also shot with a few arrows, but fortunately, it was not deep into the flesh, which was considered a minor injury.

In this battle, Yan Liang finally only had more than 1,000 cavalry left to flee back to Shanggu County. More than 20,000 people were killed and wounded and captured. It can be described as a fiasco.

At the same time, Wen Chou was also dragged down by the Xianbei cavalry of the grassland with the tactics of kite flying and was defeated. More than 10,000 people were killed and wounded.

When Yuan Shao heard the report, he screamed, vomited blood and died!

He was already in poor health, and he was already a man in his last years and running out of oil. Now when I hear the bad retribution of the fiasco, I am angry to death.

Because Yuan Shaoping was known for his virtue and politics, when he died, the people of Hebei did not grieve without grief, and tears were shed in the alleys of the city, as if they had lost their relatives.

But because he hadn't had time to give his last words, he didn't say which son he would let inherit the family business. Therefore, several sons disagreed with each other, saying that they had the greatest military achievements and should inherit the position of general.

As a result, Yuan Shao's territory was divided, and Gao Gan occupied and annexed the state; Yuan Shang occupies most of Yizhou; Yuan Xi occupies Youzhou; Yuan Tan occupies part of Qingzhou and part of Yizhou. Several sons and nephews lived in the same place, and even began to attack each other. The Central Plains is at war again!

(End of chapter)