"Lord, in fact, we can completely wipe out Zang Ba's team, why did the lord choose to give up?" Looking at the back of Zang Ba in the distance, Wei Yan, the newly appointed Xuzhou Thorn Shi Wei Yan, couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

But seeing Liu Qi laughing: "Wen Chang doesn't know, Zang Ba is also a famous general under Cao Cao's account, it is easy for us to defeat him, if we completely annihilate him, I am afraid we will also have to pay a heavy price, and in this way, our strength in Xuzhou will be severely weakened, in addition, we will completely provoke Cao Cao, this person will not hesitate to fight with us at the cost of qiē, in this way, both of us will be weakened, and Liu Bei and Yuan Shao will take the opportunity to develop and consolidate, which will not be beneficial to us at all, On the contrary, it is to make wedding dresses for others, and it is different to let go of Zang Ba, now Cao Cao has just defeated Yuan Shao, and is thinking about taking Jizhou in one go, and there is no time to fight with us, and as long as we know how to advance and retreat, Cao Cao will definitely suffer this secret loss. ”

Liu Qi guessed correctly, Cao Cao couldn't help but be angry after hearing the news of the loss of Xuzhou at first glance, and he couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and he couldn't wait to immediately raise troops to Xuzhou and snatch Xuzhou back, but he heard that Zang Ba also returned to Qingzhou with more than 10,000 troops, and when Qingzhou was fortified to prepare for Liu Qi, the angry mood began to regain a trace of calm.

He naturally knew that Liu Qi was not an easy figure to deal with, and the threat to himself was greater than Yuan Shao, but he also knew that at present, Yuan Shao's new defeat and strength had not recovered, it was the best time to attack, once he missed it today, he would probably be more than ten times more difficult in the future.

In addition, he didn't suddenly remember that Chen Deng and Liu Qi were cousins until now, and he was unguarded, and it was understandable that Xuzhou was calculated by the two, and he could only blame himself for not wanting to transfer Chen Deng from Guangling in the first place, so that today's scene appeared.

Fortunately, this person did not completely eliminate Zang Ba, nor did he take advantage of the situation to enter Qingzhou, and he also learned that Liu Qi had thousands of cavalry and those mysterious powerful crossbow machines that ambushed Zang Ba's army, which made him worry a lot, and decided to suffer a dumb loss for the time being, and then find a way to deal with this insidious guy after he pacified Hebei.

In the end, Cao Cao made up his mind to do so after he was shocked to hear the news of Yuan Shao's imminent death.

As the only force of the Yuan clan in Runan, the world's leading clan, Yuan Shao had too much helplessness and resentment in his heart, and he never thought that he would be defeated in the hands of Cao Apu, a eunuch descendant.

The first battle of Guandu, if it weren't for the traitor Xu You, there would definitely be no defeat of Wuchao, not only that, maybe he would have already attacked Xuchang by now.

Even if Zhang He Gaolan's two traitors did not betray, he might have broken through Cao Cao's camp and cut off his way back, thus ensuring the victory of the Battle of Guandu.

And in the last battle, he felt that he had lost even more wrongly, his army won frequently, and finally Cao Cao shrank into the shooting dog city and did not dare to come out, seeing that there were still a few days to capture the city, but unexpectedly fell into the enemy's poisonous plan, throwing a large number of rotting corpses into the army, which caused a strong plague, most of the officers and soldiers in the army were infected with the epidemic, and were robbed by Cao Cao, and only a few hundred of the 70,000 troops survived.

The senior cadres on the battlefield on the Western Front were originally cooperating with Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Hu Chuquan and others, and the army invaded Hedong, which could threaten Cao Cao, but he didn't expect Han Sui of Xiliang to suddenly send troops to kill Ma Teng, and Liu Bei and Ma Chao all waved troops to save them, but Ma Chao's entire army was annihilated, and Ma Dai, Ma Tie, Pang De and others only survived, and Liu Bei's army also withdrew to Chang'an. Hu Chuquan suddenly withdrew for some reason, leaving only Gao Gan all the way, but in the end he was held by Cao Cao's Hedong Taishou Du Ji, and later took advantage of the army to rob the camp at night when the army was not on guard, and as a result, Gao Gan was defeated, so that Cao Cao successfully recovered all the lost territory.

The fiasco of these two wars was an extremely heavy blow to Yuan Shao, think about how high-spirited he was at the beginning, he served as the lieutenant of the middle military in the eight captains of the West Garden at a young age, and his status was limited to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty's cronies, the captain of the military academy.

Later, when the general was killed, he led the army into the palace and cut off all the eunuchs, completely ending the dictatorship of eunuchs that was difficult to eradicate for decades in the history of the Han Dynasty. Later, Dong Zhuo's dictatorship, in order to harm the world, it was he who gathered the world's volunteers, led the princes' armies and horses as the leader of the alliance, and led the world to crusade against Dong Zhuo.

After the demise of Dong Zhuo, he Yuan Shao was even more eloquent, with a small Bohai county and Jizhou, grabbed the state, attacked Youzhou, and unified the entire land of Hebei, such talent, such speed, such prestige Who in the world can match?

But he is such a heroic figure, and in the end, he hated Cao Cao twice after being emasculated, but he shattered all the glory and pride of the past.

Yuan Shao really couldn't stand such a blow, and after barely escaping back to Yecheng, he couldn't help vomiting three liters of blood, fell seriously ill, and was already dying after only ten days.

Yuan Shao's wife, Liu, saw that Yuan Shao was critically ill, and urgently asked the two of them to go to Yuan Shao's bed to discuss the future. These two people are her biological son Yuan Shang's faction, and now only two people are invited, but Guo Tu, Xin Ping and others from the eldest son Yuan Xi's faction are obviously other plans.

Mrs. Liu saw Yuan Shao crying, but she couldn't say anything with her fingers, knowing what he meant in her heart, she hurriedly asked, "Is it still possible to succeed the heir?" ”

Seeing Yuan Shao nodding, he originally intended Yuan Shang to be the heir, so he wrote a will before the bed, so that Yuan Shang succeeded to the throne, and entrusted the orphan to Feng Ji and the trial.

Yuan Shao looked at the suicide note, nodded, then turned over and screamed, vomited blood and died.

Yuan Shao died, and presided over the funeral in the trial and discipline, and first set up Yuan Shang as the general of the Great Sima, and the pastor of Ji, Qing, You, and the four states, and then notified Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan and second son Yuan Xi to come to the funeral, and at the same time ordered someone to send an obituary to the world.

At this time, Yuan Tan had returned to the plains, and had just heard the news that Liu Qi had seized Xuzhou and broken Zang Ba, and felt that this was an excellent opportunity to recover Qingzhou, so he was ready to build a military service to his father Yuan Shaojian, forcibly levy military service, and join forces with Liu Qi to take Qingzhou, but unexpectedly got the news that his father was dead and Yuan Shang was the master, and he couldn't help but feel sad and indignant.

"I, Yuan Tan, as my father's eldest son, have fought the world with my father for so many years, and have made great contributions, Qingzhou was just a corner of the plain, but I expanded to the entire Qingzhou region, if it weren't for my father's defeat in Guandu the year before last, the entire Qingzhou may not be lost, and Xianfu is not only handsome, what credit does it have? What's more, the ancients did not establish a virtuous person, and his father was from a big family, so how could he not know the reason? This is obviously caused by the private change of his father's will by the discipline and trial of the criminals, how can I Yuan Tan be convinced? ”

But I heard Guo Tu persuade: "Now Jizhou is in the hands of Xianfu, and the flow of discipline and trial control of the military, we can't forcibly resist it, the lord should first ask the court to be the general of the chariot and cavalry, and then the lord sits on the plain, in the name of recovering Qingzhou, he asks for food from Xianfu, as long as the lord has the brother soldiers and rich military rations, it will not be difficult to try Jizhou in the future." ”

Yuan Tan sighed, and had no choice but to follow Guo Tu's idea, please be the general of the chariot, and apply to Yuan Shang for army food and grass.

As soon as Yuan Shang ascended the throne, he appointed Shi as the head of the general's mansion, Feng Ji as Sima, and sent people to write an enthusiastic letter to his second brother Yuan Xi, who was sitting in Youzhou, and his cousin Gao Gan, who had just returned to the state after defeat, asking them to support him.

In order to appease Yuan Tan's feelings and prevent him from rebelling now, Yuan Shang agreed and decided to send 5,000 troops to the plain and send 50,000 grains, but he was afraid that Yuan Tan would not return the army after he got the army, so he ordered Feng Ji to go to supervise the army.

After Feng Ji received the order, he went back to pack up and prepared to overseer the army to go to the plains, so he told Tian Feng, who lived in his mansion, about it.

At the beginning, Tian Feng got Feng Ji's words after the Battle of Guandu, and he accidentally saved his life, and later heard that it was the credit of Feng Ji's persuasion, so he abandoned the old grievances and became friends with Feng Ji.

When Yuan Shao was preparing to raise troops to recruit Cao Cao again, Tian Feng had bitterly advised Yuan Shao not to act rashly, but he was snubbed again, and then Yuan Shao was really defeated, and he wanted to kill Tian Feng in shame, but he fell ill before he could issue an order, thanks to Feng Ji hiding the order, which saved Tian Feng's life.

Later, Yuan Shang succeeded to the throne, and Tian Feng, who expected Yuan's imminent civil strife, was disheartened, so he resigned, but was forcibly left in the mansion by Feng Ji as a staff officer, because Feng Ji has been worried since he got Liu Qi's "prophecy", and now he sees that the lord Yuan Shao is dead, and the chaos in Jizhou has been decided, and his heart is naturally worried.

Although Tian Feng was reluctant, he had no choice but to obey his old friend's life-saving grace twice, originally he felt that he was just symbolically staying for a few days before leaving and returning to his hometown, but he didn't expect that he actually saved Feng Ji's life.

After hearing the news that Feng Ji was going to the plains to supervise the army, Tian Feng immediately said categorically: "Yuan Tu, it's not the old brother, I rely on the old man to say a word about you, if you really go this time, I'm afraid you will be more auspicious, the light ones will be imprisoned, and the heavy ones will even have to worry about their lives." ”

"What? Yuan Hao, what did you say? Although Feng Ji is wise, he also knows that Tian Feng is actually more visionary than him, and Liu Qi has reminded him in the prophecy that only Tian Feng can save himself, so he couldn't help but say with a pale face: "Can you tell me specifically?" ”

But Tian Feng said: "Yuan Tu, think about it, Yuan Tan asked Yuan Shang for reinforcements, and his desire to seize the army is already very obvious, but Yuan Tu is an important minister under Yuan Shang, so naturally he will never hand over the power to Yuan Tan, so what if Yuan Tan doesn't kill you?" You are equivalent to a boy who loses money in the downtown area, how can you not be robbed? Let's not talk about anything else, it's just that Liu Bei attacked and killed Che Zhou and seized military power in the first few years, you should know, right? ”