Yangwu, Yuan Shao's camp.

Today's Yuan Shao has long lost his previous spirit, just a few days of effort, first Xu Yu defected, and then Cao Cao attacked his own grain storage heavy Wuchao, killing the generals Chun Yuqiong and Jiang Qi, almost at the same time, Zhang He and Gao Ran led an army of 20,000 to join Cao Cao, but their own side was robbed because of grain and grass, and the soldiers fled one after another, so that the 100,000 army is now less than 20,000 people.

Such a blow was undoubtedly fatal to the ambitious Yuan Shao, and in just one night, he seemed to be dozens of years old.

However, Yuan Shao's temper did not diminish in the slightest, and when he saw Cao Cao's victory, he roared loudly at Feng Ji: "Didn't you say it before? Liu Qi will definitely cooperate with me to attack Xuchang, but not only did he not help me, but he also drove away Guan Yu who attacked Xuchang, otherwise, how dare Cao Apu sneak attack my black nest overnight? The bold Feng Ji dared to deceive me and conspire with the enemy, I think you don't want to live anymore, come to someone, push me out, and behead. ”

After returning from Xiangyang, he originally thought that what Liu Qi said about the defeat of the Yuan army was pure nonsense, but in the past two days, he became more and more convinced, first of all, Xu You's betrayal, followed by Cao Cao's surprise attack on Wuchao, and then Zhang He, Gao Lan's betrayal, and now the situation on the battlefield of Guandu is obviously not favorable to his side: it is difficult to defeat Cao Cao when the army of 100,000 is over, and now the strength comparison has undergone a shocking reversal, This time, it was good that Yuan Shao was able to escape back to Hebei.

Therefore, Feng Ji expressed his heartfelt admiration for Liu Qi's prophecy, and now that he heard that Yuan Shao wanted to kill him, he decided that the bloody disaster that Liu Qi said had hit again, and he couldn't help but feel terrified in his heart, and he was convinced of Liu Qi's words.

So Feng Ji hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The lord has misunderstood General Liu." Liu Bei is a generation of traitorous males, and his threat is not much worse than Cao Cao, Cao Cao said to Liu Bei back then, the heroes of the world, only the king and the ear. Therefore, the last general believes that this time General Liu sent people to prevent Guan Yu from attacking Xuchang, which is understandable, Liu Bei was originally a relative of the Han family, and if he gets the Son of Heaven again, the threat to the lord may be greater than Cao Cao. What's more, although General Liu did not occupy Xuchang, General Liu swept away Xuchang's supplies, so that Cao Cao lacked military resources, and it was almost impossible to attack our Hebei in the future. Therefore, General Liu is thinking about long-term cooperation with our army. ”

Seeing that Yuan Shao was silent, Feng Ji stepped forward again and said: "Besides, General Liu is a relative of the Han family, how can he follow Cao Cao and sit on the matter of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes?" If we do, we will be in an alliance with him, and how can we be embarrassed to conquer his possessions and welcome back the Son of Heaven in the future? If the Son is still in Xuchang today, as long as we concentrate on internal affairs and train soldiers after we go back, as long as we have the opportunity in the future, there is still hope to capture Xuchang and welcome back the Son of Heaven. ”

Feng Ji peeked at Yuan Shao, and saw that Yuan Shao's face changed and changed, and finally had to sigh and say: "In this way, I have wronged General Liu." Okay, the general will listen to your words today, no longer care about Liu Qi's counterattack on Guan Yu, today we will work together, return to Hebei, diligently repair internal affairs, train soldiers and horses, and will definitely raise troops to deal with Cao Yu again in the future. Alas, this time Ben Jiang was defeated, in fact, he couldn't blame others, it was all because Ben Jiang insisted on going his own way, and regretted not listening to Tian Feng's words. ”

After seeing Yuan Shao forgive his sins, Feng Ji was grateful, and thought of Liu Qi reminding himself in the prophecy to save Tian Feng, and now seeing Yuan Shao mention Tian Feng, he said to Yuan Shao: "Lord, the last general heard that Tian Feng has been worried about the Lord in prison, and he has been crying all day long, and he is really loyal to his ministers." Na Tian Feng sent people to remind the lord many times not to fall for Cao Cao's evil, but it is a pity that the guards around the lord have been blocking him and not seeing the lord, otherwise, I am afraid that the lord will not have Zhang He and Gao Ran rebelling today. ”

But seeing that Yuan Shao was surprised when he heard this, he then asked, "Aren't you in trouble with Tian Feng?" How do you get to intercede for him today? ”

Feng Ji said with a straight face: "The ancients paid attention to the external move and did not avoid the enemy, and the internal move did not avoid the relatives, although the last general did not have the sage of the Jin doctor Qi Xi, but he also knew that for the sake of the great cause of the lord, Tian Feng was a talent, and the last general did not dare to hide it." ”

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao laughed when he heard this, took Feng Ji's hand and said: "Yuan Tu, there will be a loyal minister like you, why worry about the hegemony?" Although our army was defeated this time, Ben will believe that as long as there are ministers like you and Tian Feng, our army will definitely be able to make a comeback. ”

After that, Yuan Shao ordered Tian Feng to be pardoned, and then led the army to evacuate on his own initiative and returned to Hebei.

However, he said that Tian Feng was in Jizhou Prison and was worried about the shape of the battlefield, so he saw a jailer come in and said to him: "Congratulations to him!" ”

Tian Feng couldn't help but sigh and asked slowly: "I'm in prison now, why should I be happy?" ”

Then I saw the jailer and said: "The villain heard that the grain of the lord's black nest was burned by Cao Cao, Zhang He and Gao Ran surrendered again, and the lord has ordered people to return to Jizhou. ”

Tian Feng couldn't stop laughing, and finally sighed slowly: "I'm dead today!" ”

The jailer asked strangely: "Everyone is happy, why should you die?" ”

Tian Feng closed his eyes and said slowly: "General Yuan is wide on the outside and jealous on the inside, and he doesn't think about loyalty. If you are victorious and rejoice, you will forgive me; If I lose the war today, I am ashamed, and I don't want to live. ”

The jailer shook his head, incredulous.

Suddenly, the messenger arrived with Yuan Shao's token and conveyed Yuan Shao's order.

Tian Feng didn't panic when he saw the envoy, and said slowly: "The lord is here to execute Tian, right?" Tian has been waiting for this day for a long time, and today Tian does not work for the public. ”

After finishing speaking, he saw Tian Feng take out the sword from the envoy's waist and prepared to kill himself.

But seeing that the messenger hurriedly stepped forward to hug Tian Feng, gently took the sword from his hand, and then said with a smile: "Tian Beijia misunderstood, this time the lord sent a subordinate to see the lord, mainly to pardon the lord, and at the same time to restore the lord to his original position, the lord is now reused, and the grace is still better than that day, which is really gratifying." ”

"What did you say?" Tian Feng was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask eagerly, "What you said is true?" But how is this possible? I know that the lord is lenient on the outside and jealous on the inside, and he is not loyal to me, and now that he is defeated and ashamed of me, how can he be uncharacteristic and lenient with me? ”

But hearing the messenger sigh softly, Zhengse said: "My lord must not have imagined, this is caused by Lord Feng Yuantu's intercession with the lord, and when the lord talks about the loyalty of the lord, the lord is touched in his heart, and he orders to pardon the lord. ”

"What? Who do you say? Feng Yuan Chart? Chronicle? This, this is even more impossible, every time Ji Suri has a gap with me, hating me for dying unquickly, how can he intercede for me? Tian Feng's surprise in his heart was even worse, and he said with an incredible expression.

The envoy said with admiration: "Many adults did not expect that Lord Feng would have such a heart, and all the princes said that this is the blessing of the lord, and even the heavens do not want the lord to fail." ”

Tian Feng shook his head, he didn't believe in any providence at all, although his heart was full of doubts, but he had to wait until he saw Feng Ji in the future and asked, no matter what, Feng Ji saved his life, such a favor must be repaid.

Things will be even more wonderful in the future, Hugh said that it was Feng Ji, even Liu Qi, the initiator of this matter, did not expect that Tian Feng and Feng Ji would become a pair of friends in the future, and when he learned that it was Jingzhou Mu Liu Qi who let Feng Ji save him, Tian Feng's surprise in his heart was even more indescribable.

At this time, Cao Cao was immersed in the great joy of the victory in the battle of Guandu, he attacked Wuchao this time, burned the grain and grass gathered by Yuan Shao, so that the Yuan army collapsed without a fight, and got Zhang He, Gao Ran two generals, and also got 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in vain, at this time Cao Cao can be said to be complacent, looking at the world's heroes, what Liu Bei, what Liu Qi is not in his eyes.

However, Cao Cao did not lose his mind, he decided to accept Xun You's Jianyi, take advantage of the victory, and completely drive Yuan Shao's army out of Hebei, so he drove Yuan Shao's soldiers and ordered Zhang He, Gao Lan, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Xuan, Le Jin, Xu Huang, Man Chong, Lu Qian and other generals to lead the army and subdue the counties of Hebei by different routes, and at the same time, he personally led Cao Chun and Xu Chu to lead an army of 5,000 to attack the Yangwu of Yuan Shaotun's army.

But what Cao Cao couldn't imagine was that when he came to Yangwu, he found that it was already an empty city, and it turned out that Yuan Shao led the remnants of the city to retreat on his own initiative.

Cao Cao was anxious, knowing that as long as Yuan Shao successfully withdrew to Hebei, the remnants of his command would inevitably become the elite of Hebei again in the future, which would definitely add resistance to his future attack on Hebei.

Therefore, this time he must defeat Yuan Shao's main force at any cost.

After thinking about it for a while, Cao Cao immediately ordered Cao Chun to lead his 1,000 tiger and leopard cavalry to chase after Yuan Shao quickly, and ordered all military horses to intercept Yuan Shao's team at any cost.

This time, he also found an excuse for those Hebei soldiers under his command to die smoothly.

"I really didn't expect Yuan Shao to take the initiative to escape, it seems that I still underestimate him this time, in fact, Yuan Shao's escape is nothing, as long as I can absorb these soldiers in his hands and form a force of tens of thousands of people, I can pacify Hebei in less than three years, even if I don't need them to fight, just use them to settle the fields, it will definitely be able to make our army produce hundreds of thousands of more grains every year, but it's a pity that Xuchang's military rations were looted by Liu Qi'er, so I can't afford to feed so many soldiers, So today I had to order these soldiers to extinguish Yuan Shao's remnants, although they were helpless, these soldiers could be regarded as a well-deserved death. ”

Cao Cao's heart is very helpless, now Ren Jun died in battle, Xuchang grain and grass was taken away, and the economic system under his rule was about to collapse, so he had no choice but to decide, try his best to collect more taxes from the people, and promise to repay it next year, and at the same time follow Cheng Yu's example, send his henchmen to the battlefield to collect people's corpses, and mix a small amount of human dried meat in the military rations, which has solved the problem of food crisis.

In addition, Cao Cao also hit the idea of the Son of Heaven, and in order to solve the food problem, he had to find a way to "borrow" some grain and grass materials from the Son of Heaven from the palace treasury.

"Don't blame me for forcing you too much, it's really because your own family Liu Qi is too shameless and actually looted the grain and grass in my prime minister's house, otherwise I wouldn't use such a brain, if you want to blame Liu Qi."

Cao Cao sneered in his heart and said silently.