Chapter 11: The Prologue to the Great War
Yuan Shu, who was vomiting blood, finally woke up, who knows, he heard such mocking words. When www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion heard this, he immediately shouted "bold" and wanted to get up. But on this day, first the march, then the big battle, and then the desperate escape, can be described as a tiring journey. In addition, he vomited a mouthful of old blood, and his body was too weak to sit up. Holding on to the edge of the bed, he fixed his mind, only to find that the person in front of him was gorgeously armored, but it was Cao Jun's person. Looking closely, this person is quite young, but there is quite a bit of Cao Cao's demeanor between his eyebrows. Seeing this, Yuan Shu already understood in his heart that he was afraid that he was already a prisoner of Cao Cao's army. I heard that Cao Ang was also in the army this time, and the identity of the person in front of him was about to be revealed.
Yuan Shu, who was still lying on the couch, was already pale at the moment, but Cao Ang, who was looking at him, was full of joy at the moment. Although Liu Bei failed to catch it, Yuan Shu still couldn't escape from his palm. Before the war was completely over, he asked Zhu Ling to divide an elite team and rest for a while. When everyone's physical strength has recovered to a certain extent, he immediately led his men and horses and tigers and leopards to chase after him. Although Yuan Shu ran fast, he was exhausted when he ran into this dirt village, and he could only rest here, which made Cao Ang and the others catch up with Yuan Shu's remnants so quickly. In addition, Yuan Shu was ridiculed by the soldier, vomiting blood and fainting. Many soldiers were even more disappointed in Yuan Shu, or just to find a way to survive, and begged to surrender when they saw Cao Ang's soldiers and horses coming. Cao Ang's battle was almost effortless, and Yuan Shu fell into Cao Ang's hands.
Yuan Shu, who was lying on the couch, was weak even to speak at the moment. His eyes stared at the ceiling in a daze, and he suddenly spoke: "The virtuous nephew is here to take my life?" ”
Cao Ang on the side smiled and said, "Don't dare." Lord Yuan and my father were friends in the past, and when Dong Zhuo was in turmoil, they fought side by side together. I haven't seen each other for many years, and my father also misses adults, so I specially ordered me to come and invite adults to talk about it. "The adult here is not the adult of the later Manchu Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, adults were often addressed to their elders and had nothing to do with official positions.
It's just that Yuan Shu is called a lonely widow in Huainan, and civil and military officials, soldiers and ordinary people have always been called His Majesty. Suddenly, when he heard someone calling him Lord, he was displeased. With a sneer, he said: "I have a jade seal of the country, and I am ordered by the sky!" How can you not be called Your Majesty? You are not young anymore, why are you so ignorant of etiquette! ”
Cao Ang immediately smiled when he heard this: "The jade seal is a sacred relic of the Son of Heaven, how can others have it?" Back then, Sun Wentai secretly hid the jade seal, and in the end, it was a fate of ten thousand arrows. You don't want to return the jade seal to Your Majesty, but you pretend to be the emperor, and you still can't avoid being defeated and captured. Look at how smart Sun Ce is, he exchanged this jade seal for the land of the five counties of Jiangdong and divided one side, which is a real prince! ”
"The jade seal has always been based on the virtuous, the Han Dynasty has gone through a mess of the yellow scarf, Dong Zhuo has been messed up, and his luck has been exhausted! When today's son is on the throne, he is even more murderous and kills the young emperor, how can such a virtuous person deserve to have a jade seal! Yuan Shu said lightly, although his tone was quite calm, but Cao Ang still heard a trace of anger. I don't know if he is angry, whether he is defeated now, or angry that people in the world do not want to recognize him as the emperor.
Cao Ang was about to speak, but he heard Yuan Shu let out a long sigh and said, "That's it, that's it." Anyway, the jade seal is going to become a plaything in Cao Agui's hands, so what's there to fight for? People are dying and their words are good, virtuous nephew, my Yuan Highway has never looked down on Yuan Shao all my life, let alone your father. But I didn't expect that today, I was finally defeated by your father and son, and I made people! Make people ......"
When Yuan Shu said this, as if he was thinking about something, he kept muttering something in his mouth, and Cao Ang couldn't hear it clearly, so Cao Ang could only listen quietly to what else he had to say. The silence didn't last long, and Yuan Shu suddenly raised his voice and said, "You go back and tell Ah Pu that he must win against Yuan Shao." Otherwise, wouldn't it seem that I, Yuan Highway, would lose to that concubine? ”
Cao Ang suddenly laughed dumbly in his heart when he heard this, who would have thought that Yuan Shu would actually think of this at this time? If Gao Ye is here, he must know in his heart, after all, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao have been fighting for almost a lifetime. From the time they were still teenagers, they were fighting for the position of the heir of the Yuan family. Later, he was fighting for the head of the Yuan family, and now he is fighting for the world. Now that Yuan Shu is coming to an end, if Yuan Shao defeats Cao Cao, who defeated him, then he will really lose to the Yuan family concubine who he has always looked down on. But if Cao Cao wins, he and Yuan Shao will continue to fight again when they go to the underworld.
However, Yuan Shu didn't say much, but struggled to pick up the brocade box from the side of the couch, opened the lid of the box with trembling hands, Cao Ang fixed his eyes and looked, what else could it be if it wasn't a jade seal of the country? Although Cao Ang had never seen it, he had already affirmed in his heart that this must be a jade seal. It's just that Yuan Shu didn't seem to have the intention of continuing to talk to himself at this time, but instead held the jade seal in both hands and held it straight in the air. Yuan Shu's eyes kept staring at it, his expression was happy and worried, and sometimes it was like he was in a daze.
Cao Ang had never seen a jade seal in his life, and at first glance, it was really extraordinary. It is rumored that the jade seal was made of beautiful jade and clan, and now it is really extraordinary. It's just that the gold-inlaid place is quite a fly in the ointment, as if a meal has eaten a worm, which makes people disgusted.
Cao Ang was still admiring, and suddenly heard Yuan Shu on the couch shouting: "If I haven't been passed on to the jade seal, what should I look like?" The voice was so loud that Cao Ang jumped. After all, since he woke up, he has always been weak when he speaks, even if he is angry, he can't express it in a more violent voice. Suddenly, this shout came out, full of anger, and even the guards outside the door probed in to investigate.
It's just that after Yuan Shu shouted this sentence, he spit out a long breath, as if he didn't have to inhale anymore. The brilliance in his eyes quickly dissipated, and by the time Cao Ang reacted, Yuan Shu was already dead. It's just that his hands are still holding the jade seal, and his empty eyes are still staring at it.
A generation of heroes has fallen, and even Cao Ang is embarrassed. Gently stretched out his hand, took the jade seal in his hand, and ordered someone to collect Yuan Shu's body, and then walked out of the earthen house, and the sky was already full of stars outside the house.
As Cao Ang returned to Yingdu with the jade seal, the news of Yuan Shu's death also spread completely. With the surrender of Lei Bo and Chen Lan, the land north of the Yangtze River almost fell into the hands of Cao Cao. Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao led the army to Shouchun, echoing Chen Deng of Guangling and dealing with Sun Ce in Jiangdong.
Far away in the high night of Qingzhou, I saw the military report of Yuan Shu's death, especially the words of Yuan Shu when he finally died, and his heart was also very sad. A generation of heroes has not been able to break the success or defeat until death, perhaps this is the greatest sorrow. It's just that after all kinds of military newspapers were gathered into his hands, there was one thing that made Gao Ye's heart beat a little drum. Now that the war is imminent, Yuan Shu is dead, and Jiangdong has become the number one force that threatens the rear of Cao's army. Moreover, Sun Ce has Zhou Yu by his side, once he is in trouble, the consequences are unimaginable. It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao, in order to win over Sun Ce, married his niece to Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Kuang, and let Cao Zhang marry Sun Ben's daughter. Moreover, Chen Deng of Guangling has also been calculating Jiangdong, funding the bandits and the remnants of Yan Baihu to make trouble in Sun Ce's territory.
However, Sun Ce in history still took advantage of the Yuan Cao War to raise troops and attack Guangling, although he finally died at the hands of assassins, but now history has changed a lot, who knows if Xu Gong's three disciples will still regard death as home and avenge Xu Gong. Perhaps, even if there are no disciples of Xu Gong, how many should we create?
However, fortunately, Yuan Shaojun still did not have any movement of the army marching, perhaps because the autumn harvest was imminent, and they were ready to wait for the grain and grass to be harvested before sending troops. Or maybe Yuan Shao was just waiting for Yuan Xi's Youzhou soldiers and horses to be in place to ensure that the east was safe before fighting Cao Cao. For a time, although there was tension on both sides of the Yellow River, no one had the intention of marching. Even Cao Ang's wedding on the ninth day of October was held in Yingdu as scheduled.
But the more this happened, the more nervous Gao Ye's heart became. Before the storm, it is always extraordinarily quiet. The longer the silence, the more violent the storm becomes. Now both sides are in full swing of preparations, and once the war starts, it will inevitably be an incomparably tragic battle! It is precisely because of this that Gao Ye in Qingzhou took advantage of this opportunity to make full preparations, not only the army was stationed in front, but the entire Jinan County was full of soldiers and horses ready to fight. The harbor of Tateshiki was repaired by nearly 10,000 people under the strict order of Gao Ye. Gan Ning now also took his naval army, starting from Jiaozhou Bay, preparing to bypass the Shandong Peninsula and temporarily camp in Tatecheng after entering the Bohai Sea.
Time flickered to the end of October, Gao Ye finally received a report from the scout, a large army was stationed in the plain city, and the banner must be Yuan Xi's troops and horses all here. Along with this news, there was also Yuan Shaojun's "Yuzhou Wen for Yuan Shaojun" distributed everywhere. Although history has changed because of his arrival, Chen Lin's literary style has not changed at all. Compared with the one in history, this article not only scolded Cao Cao's ancestors for three generations, but even he was not spared. Although his ancestors did not suffer, he was also scolded by Chen Lin.
Cao Cao, who was far away in Yingdu, had been in the air since Cao Ang's wedding not long after, and the weather had turned cold, and his head wind had been committed again. Although Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji conditioned his body, the pain was unbearable, and he could only rest in bed. Chen Lin is known for his talents, and Cao Cao is also a great writer, so as soon as Chen Lin's essay came, Cao Cao ordered someone to send it to the bed, and he read it himself. How do you know that after reading the whole article, I was shocked into a cold sweat. Suddenly, the head wind suddenly healed, and Cao Pi, Cao Zhi and Mrs. Bian, who were serving by Cao Cao's side, were all shocked.
I only heard Cao Cao sitting on the couch, and Dasheng smiled and said: "A good article can raise a dead person and flesh and bones, and I can't deceive me!" ”