After finding out that there was no foreign enemy in Liyang, but it was so abnormal, and there was no grain to send across the river, Yuan Shao and the trial were all panicked.

At this time, Cao Cao's army had approached directly, and when the two armies looked at each other from afar, Cao Cao re-stationed his military horses, only to shoot hundreds of letters into Yuan's camp.

The sergeant picked up the letter and sent it to the big tent, Yuan Shao and others watched together, and wrote that Guo Tu had secretly surrendered to the Cao family, and the back road of the Yuan army was cut off, and he was about to run out of food, and persuaded him to surrender.

After reading it once, the trial and so on knew that the things in the letter were true, Yuan Shao was so frightened that the six gods had no master, and the army was also in an uproar, and the matter was widely reported. Xun Chen was also in the army at this time, after Xun Yu switched to Cao Cao, he had completely broken with the Xun family, and everyone else in the Yuan army could surrender to Cao, but he couldn't, and said to Yuan Shao anxiously: "Although Wen Chou is dead, there are still more soldiers in our army than Cao Cao, it is better to gather the three armies, first break the Cao army, take its grain and grass for use, and then return to Hebei to ask Guo Tu!" ”

The same is true for the trial.

Guo Tu rebelled according to Liyang, and immediately put the army in a desperate situation, Xun Chen's words were reasonable, Yuan Shao hurriedly ordered Zhang He, Gao Lan, and all the armies to come forward tomorrow, and they must fight to the death with Cao Cao, and those who dare to retreat will be beheaded.

But I don't know that Zhang He and Gao Lan, the second general, Cao Cao has made many people lobby in the winter of last year, and he secretly lured his heart with the Jiupin family method, so he has not moved before, because the family is still in Hebei.

Before Yuan Jun crossed the river, Zhang He and Gao Ran had been secretly told by Cao Cao's envoy to move the family to Liyang.

At this time, I heard that Liyang already belonged to Cao Cao, wouldn't he have no worries?

Wait for Yuan Shao's order to arrive. Gao Ran and Zhang He killed the messenger. He led the army to Cao Cao's camp to surrender. The two of them know a little bit of shame. did not directly wave the division to attack Yuan Shao's army.

Since the escape of Liyi, among the generals in Hebei, Chun Yuqiong and Yan Liang have already died in battle, and now Wenchou is dead again, Zhang He and Gao Ran have rebelled again, and they have been completely damaged, and there are some Jiang Qi and others left, which are not of great use.

Before, Dong Zhao, Zhu Ling, the Xin brothers, Xun Yu, Guo Jia, and Xu You abandoned him one by one and went south. has slapped one palm after another on the original face of the conceited and virtuous and famous, and now even Guo Tu, Zhang He, and Gao Ran are like this!

Among the three people, Guo Tu was in charge of the fine work, Zhang He led the elite Euphorbia before the expansion of the Euphorbia, and Gao Ran was also one of the four court pillars, all of whom were highly trusted.

Such a trusting and reusable person, all abandoned it, how is my Yuan Shao inferior to Meng De?

It turned out that Cao Mengde was setting up a dead end and luring my army to cross the river and start a war!

In today's northern situation, if you want to be the king. Deng Ji is the most difficult and fundamental enemy, and he has not been able to recover after the battle of Sizhou last year. Swallow Cao Cao first, and then have the strength to compete with Guanzhong in the future.

But now, the land of Hebei is about to be swallowed by Cao Cao?

After learning the news, Ben was stunned for a long time, but suddenly a mouthful of blood spurted out and fell to the ground.

Judging and matching, Yuan Shang hurriedly helped to visit, and he had already fainted to death.

Zhang He and Gao Ran's consulates defected, and there were only 20,000 horses and some people left in the junior army, and the situation was reversed in an instant, but it was not as much as Cao Cao's army, and the morale was even more powerful, how to deal with this endgame?

After a while, I had to wake up slowly, and my eyes glanced back and forth on the faces of the judges, Yuan Shang, Xun Chen, etc., for a long time, and finally said softly: "After the gathering of the halberds, the whole army will go to Yan County to meet with Xianyi." ”

Cao Cao was only afraid that the war would start in one or two days, the white horse could no longer be defended, and the enemy was on the side, the back road was cut off, and it was impossible to cross the river to the north bank.

It's just that at this time, how can Cao Cao not chase and kill?

One side is like a lost dog, and the other side is morale like a rainbow. Under the pursuit of Cao's army, the broken halberd warriors were defeated after only slightly resisting one or two, and many people dismounted and asked for surrender. Then, under the pursuit of the tiger and leopard cavalry, a large number of soldiers and civilians abandoned their weapons and knelt on the side of the road to survive.

The Yuan army was defeated, and the army was all over the mountains, and the Cao army in Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, etc., rejoiced infinitely, and gathered and surrendered the people everywhere.

In the end, Xianpei, Yuan Shang, and Xun Chen only led less than 3,000 horsemen to escort Benchu and fled to Yuan Xi's army in Yan County, and the rest of the sergeants either surrendered or fled to the countryside, and all of them were lost.

The army was defeated so quickly, and Yuan Xi was also dumbfounded and unbelievable when Yuan Shang and others arrived in Yan County.

The situation deteriorated, and it was impossible to fight Cao's army again, and he did not know how to cross the Yellow River and escape back. rushed to Yan County, Yuan Shao still woke up from time to time, and when he woke up, he suggested that "although Deng Muan is in a hurry to establish a country, it is better to go west to ask for help if we don't watch our army die in Yanzhou and make Cao Cao swallow Hebei!" ”

Yuan Shao reluctantly nodded in agreement, and Yuan Xi took advantage of the fact that the main force of Cao's army had not arrived, and the whole army pulled out the camp and headed for the southwest Chenliu Suzao County.

Escape the sour jujube in order to reach the boundary of Henan County.

Yu Ban has been rewarded with a great victory on the White Horse, Yuan Xi's army moved, and he also chased after him, but the number of his soldiers was small, and Yuan Xi broke off with a fine horse, and slowly retreated, and Yu Ban could not stay.

Cao Cao left Cao Ren, Zhang He, and Gao Ran to continue to accept the surrendered army, and led more than 10,000 troops to chase Yuan Xi again.

With more tigers and leopards and Xiahou Yuan, Yuan Jun began to be difficult, and was gradually bitten, and Yuan Xi and the others could only take turns to break off and fight to the death.

Before arriving in Suozao County, Yuan Shang, who had opened the way for the fleeing team, suddenly saw a lot of smoke and dust in front of him, and soon after, a large number of cavalry troops appeared in his field of vision.

Just at a glance, the painful lesson of the past told Yuan Shang that it was the only Sizhou army in the world, but it was difficult to know whether he was friend or foe, and if the other party also plotted against his own remnant army, there would really be only one way to die.

There were chasing soldiers in the back, and the evil tiger was encountered in front, and the sergeants around Yuan Shang were all shocked.

The black-robed halberd riders rushed closer and closer, and the Yuan sergeant in front of him quickly saw the downhill tiger embroidered on the opponent's military flag.

Fortunately, when this Sizhou army rushed to the front, a burly armor soldier stopped the team by waving the flag, and came out of the column to ask: "A certain is the captain of the Huya Army under the command of Duke Deng, Captain Guan Hai!" Where is the Cao thief chasing the army, our army can stop you and others! ”

The nightmare of the past can become a savior today, hear this. Yuan Shang suddenly had a big heart. Hurriedly pointed behind him: "It's still ten miles later, and my second brother will be in battle!" ”

The entire Huya army galloped past the Yuan army. Rumbling rushed to the place of battle, Yuan Shangjian also turned around and informed Yuan Shao of the news, trial matching, etc., to stabilize the morale of the army.

Sizhou had already prepared, and decided not to let Yuan Shao swallow Cao Cao, nor to make Cao Cao swallow Yuan Shao, Yuan Cao's two families fought to defeat both sides to be in Sizhou's interests, after the war in the eastern part of the country, in order to facilitate the intervention in the war. The Huya Army moved out of Bishui Pass and stationed in Yuanwu County, the easternmost part of Henan, which Deng Ji had abandoned.

Although it was known that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were secretly guarding against Sizhou's troubles, no matter Deng Ji, Tian Feng, Jia Xu, or Xu Shu, no one expected that Cao Mengde would be able to secretly persuade Guo Tu, Zhang He, and Gao Ran to surrender, and almost overnight, Yuan Shao was defeated.

Near Baima County, there were scouts sent by the Huya Army to report the military situation every day, but Yuan Shao was defeated so quickly that Tai Shici immediately sent troops from Yuanwu after learning about it, and it was still a little late.

Fortunately, Tai Shici still had to retain the last trace of Yuan Jun's vitality. Wait for the Huya army to rush to the battlefield where they are still fighting. was quite unreasonable and rushed into battle, killing Xiahou Yuan, Yu Ban, and Cao Chun. None of the three dared to chase after them.

Tai Shici didn't want to lose too many soldiers for Yuan Shao, so after retreating to pursue the soldiers, he escorted Yuan's army to retreat to Henan.

When Cao Cao learned that although he was annoyed that Si Gong had not completed the whole work, he was helpless, and he was afraid that he would lose his new strength to the Sizhou army again, so he had to withdraw his troops and no longer chase after him.

Three days later, Cao Cao sent Xiahoudun again, collected Liyang's troops and grain in the forbidden river, and then went north to besiege Yecheng.

In mid-April, Yuan Tan learned that Yuan Shao's army had been defeated, and he hurriedly led his troops back to Qingzhou, and the siege of Jibei was resolved.

Cao Cao ordered to stay in Liyang, recruit Xiahoudun and Guo Tu, so Cao Ren sent troops to attack Pingyuan County far away from Sizhou, and then supplemented Lejin's army, so that it sent troops from Beihai to attack Le'an, Jinan, and Qi.

Qingzhou Assassin Yuan Tan mobilized under the rule, but could not resist the two-way attack, and finally could only retreat into Yecheng, and the land of Qingzhou was occupied by Cao Cao for a month or two.

It was also in mid-April that Deng Ji personally rushed to Juan County, and after Li Dao, Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, and Han Sui, he had to meet Yuan Shao, another hero in the troubled times.

At this time, there was no longer the slightest heroic appearance, lying on the couch sickly, dying as if he was going to die at any time, although he looked miserable, Deng Ji would not sympathize with him, and only said with a straight face: "Yuan Gong's army wants to return through Henan and Hanoi, and wants to borrow our army to protect Yecheng from losing, so he only needs to do two things!" ”

He was already defeated, Deng Ji still had to rip off the bamboo, Yuan Shao didn't even have the strength to be angry, he only said: "Let's say." ”

Deng Ji bowed his head and said: "First, no matter the soldiers in the army, the civil and military, or the rout soldiers who came later, anyone who wants to stay in Sizhou needs to be allowed, and they must not stop their family members from coming in the future!" ”

Now that Cao Cao's power has risen sharply, if he wants to keep Jizhou, he has to borrow the power of Sizhou to form an alliance with Deng Ji instead, Deng Ji will not weaken the strength of Youji too much, hearing this condition, Yuan Shao agreed: "Yes!" ”

Deng Ji said again: "Yuan Gong is getting older, so he must be prepared for what is behind him. The public has been greatly defeated by the white horse, if there is another civil strife in Yecheng, how can it resist the Cao army? The second thing is that I hope that Yuan Gong will establish the latter here, and Deng Muan is willing to be a witness! ”

The judge was furious when he heard this, and glared and reprimanded: "The thief is so daring! What does this Yuan Gong's family matter have to do with Sizhou? ”

It is also difficult for Yuan Shang to control his emotions, but he needs to avoid suspicion on this topic and cannot speak.

Dian Wei, who was behind Deng Ji, raised his right hand with a forty-pound iron halberd, and asked, "Do you want to die here?" ”

The temperament of the judge is not able to judge the situation, and he was scolded by Dian Wei, and he was even more angry, and scolded him bitterly, Tai Shici, Guan Hai and others were also angry, and they drew their swords and wanted to follow Dian Wei to come forward and kill him on the spot.

Deng Ji's proposal had seriously interfered in the internal affairs of Jizhou, but Yuan Shao understood what Deng Ji meant, because he was afraid that after his death, the princes would fight among themselves, so with the support of Sizhou, it would be difficult to stop Cao Cao's northern invasion.

Looking at the dried blood stains on his collar and feeling the faint fishy smell in his throat, Yuan Shao sighed lightly on the couch: "That's it! Don't do too much to judge the south, I'm afraid my life won't last long, it's time to set up an heir! ”

The trial hated and hated, and Deng Ji drank back to Dian Wei and others.

Yuan Shao glanced at Yuan Xi, this son is a really kind person, there is no mistake in the shepherd's side, but he is less decisive, and he cannot be the master; Look at Yuan Shang again, his appearance is handsome and painful, but it is a pity that Jinyang was defeated and captured, and his subordinates did not accept him.

Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang are no longer able to be established as heirs, Yuan Shao sighed softly: "I, Yuan Shao, have now set up my eldest son Tan as my heir, and I still hope that the public will not give up!" ”

Deng Ji said: "No! From now on, Sizhou should do his best to help Yuan Xiansi, so that he will not be deceived by Cao Mengde! ”

(I drank the same thing today, and I couldn't make up for it.) ）

(Another monthly pass, recommended ticket, some brothers generously to the tiger, thanks) (to be continued.) )