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Yecheng changed hands, and the Yuan family's rule in Hebei officially collapsed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info (genius only needs 3 seconds to remember d.)

The city was a bleak and withered scene, besieged by Cao Cao's army and cut off from the outside world for three months, and the huge Yecheng alleys were full of hunger.

After entering the city, Cao Cao dismounted and walked on foot, accompanied by Cheng Yu, Li Dian, Yu Ban and the guards, towards the Yuan family's general's mansion.

Cao Cao walked forward with his hands in his hands, admiring the scene of Yecheng pavilions with great interest.

Although the soldiers and civilians in the city starved to death, Yecheng has been operating and developing for more than ten years since Yuan Shao conquered it, and it can be called the first heavy city in Hebei, and the wealthy families of Hebei are building a lot of buildings here, and the prosperity of the Yecheng building complex allows Cao Cao to vaguely see the shadow of Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty.

The desperate and helpless people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, praying that Cao Cao could give them a way to live, and the fierce and indignant people used their last strength to fight with Cao's army, but they were all mercilessly slaughtered.

In front of the Yuan family's mansion, Cao Cao stopped and watched.

What a magnificent mansion!

The door is high and wide, solemn and generous, Yuan Shao is very happy, naturally he will not let his own house show a shabby state, this mansion in the city is built is the majestic building of the top in the city.

The Yuan family in the mansion has already fled, and those who have no blood relationship with the Yuan family fled from the house when Yecheng was besieged, and there are actually few people who have a blood relationship with the Yuan family.

Yuan Shao's sons fought among themselves, and Yuan Shao's wives and concubines were poisoned by Yuan Shang's mother one by one after Yuan Shao's death.

Cao Cao looked at the magnificent mansion in front of him, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, the air in Yecheng was not fresh and pleasant, but Cao Cao felt very comfortable.

Walking into the mansion, Cao Cao walked straight towards the main hall, and said softly without looking back: "According to Chen Changwen, Guo Jia has a mansion comparable to a palace in Chengdu, which was built by Liu Yan after entering Yizhou. ”

Cheng Yu, Li Dian, and Yu Ban laughed without saying a word.

Those ambitious people are so ambitious, and in the end they always make wedding dresses for others, which is really ridiculous in the world.

In the main hall with luxurious style and exquisite utensils, Cao Cao admired it left and right, and a disdainful smile rose at the corner of his mouth.

Flashy, hypocritical and flashy.

This kind of extravagant decoration to the subtleties, Cao Cao doesn't like it.

Walking to the main seat in the hall, Cao Cao stretched out his sleeve robe and knelt down on his knees, closed his eyes with his head held high, and a sense of accomplishment spontaneously arose in his heart.

From his emergence as an official to the battle of Guandu, he was subordinate to Yuan Shao.

This is true for officials in Luoyang, and it is also true when the princes divide their territories.

And now, when the towering giant of the Yuan family has fallen, everything in the Yuan family has been replaced by Cao Cao.

He had reason to be complacent.

More than half of the rivers and mountains from the Central Plains to Hebei are about to fall into the palm of his hand, and Cao Cao deeply understands that after swallowing Hebei, he no longer needs to fear anyone, including Guo Jia.

It's time for him to sit on the throne of the first prince in the world.

Just as Cao Cao was immersed in the intoxication of victory, Cheng Yu walked closely, followed by several guards carrying wooden boxes in pairs.

"Zhongde, what is this?"

Cao Cao looked at the few wooden boxes put down by the guards suspiciously, it could never be gold and silver treasures, Hebei will soon be all Cao Cao's, could Cheng Yu come and present them to Cao Cao because he scavenged a few boxes of treasures?

Cheng Yu's expression was solemn, he closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Lord, this box is full of letters exchanged privately between Xuchang officials and Yuan Shao. ”

Cao Cao was not surprised at all, and looked at the wooden boxes thoughtfully.

What do the letters in these boxes represent?

It's a talisman!

Cao Cao didn't need to see it to know that there were not a few people who had secretly corresponded with Yuan Shao and even defected to Yuan Shao, including the imperial party in Xuchang, the disgruntled scholars under his rule, and the cowardly people who fell to Yuan Shao on the eve of the Battle of Guandu to save their lives.

This matter has to be dealt with, that is, there are two extremes, either kill or kill cleanly, because if only a few people are killed to set an example, it is unfair, everyone is accused of collaborating with the enemy, why do some people survive and some people want to die?

But can Cao Cao be killed?

Cao Cao's face sank like water, and his mind turned sharply.

He can't wield a butcher's knife!

On the one hand, the attack is too wide, and the killing starts, not to mention that he can't distinguish people to govern Hebei, which is about to arrive, and even the counties under his rule in the Central Plains will fall into chaos in governance, not because they are afraid that some people will rebel, but because they are afraid that the government will be wasted and the talents will be insufficient.

On the other hand, the Yuan family was defeated, who else could these officials who fell to Yuan Shao count on? In addition to honestly continuing to work hard for Cao Cao, what other way out do they have? Do you want to take refuge in Guo Jia, who won the imperial examination? Or do you want to flee to Jingzhou, which sooner or later will inevitably be conquered by Cao Cao or Guo Jia or Sun Quan?

With these two considerations, Cao Cao can not kill people, and he also has to win people's hearts and be a good person.

"Seal these boxes, no one is allowed to open them without authorization, bring them back to Xuchang and burn them in front of hundreds of officials."

Cao Cao waved his hand and gave the order.

Cheng Yu seemed to have foreseen it, smiled lightly, and nodded in obedience.

The chaotic Yecheng returned to calm after dusk, and Li Dian and Yu Ban led their troops to clear Yecheng, while Cao Cao was reinstated.

Seeing that the dust of the war in Yecheng had settled, Xu Huang couldn't bear the loneliness, and rushed to meet Cao Cao in a hurry.

Cao Cao was looking at the map, the three generals came over, Yu Ban first hugged his fists to report the situation of Yecheng to Cao Cao, and then Xu Huang said: "Lord, it's time for me to fight, right?" ”

Li Dian and Yu Ban were slightly stunned, fighting?

Is there any battle to be fought?

Cao Cao looked down at the map and raised his hand to make a downward motion.

"Yuan Tan is really overwhelmed, I captured Yecheng, he dared to occupy the northern counties of Jizhou, is this considered a robbery while the fire is burning? Hehe, Li Dian, send an order to Xuchang, return the daughter sent by Yuan Tan to Qingzhou, the marriage of the two families of Yuan Cao, stop it, I will personally write a letter later, Xu Huang, you take 30,000 soldiers and horses to Zhongshan Kingdom, give this letter to Yuan Tan, if he resists, he will kill, if he escapes, then wait and see what happens, if he reconciles with Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, you will return to Yecheng first, if he flees back to Qingzhou, then you will directly enter Qingzhou. ”

Cao Cao raised his head, his smile a little gloomy.

Xu Huang didn't care so much, and excitedly took the military order.

Ten days later, Xu Huang went to Zhongshan with soldiers and horses and Cao Cao's handwritten letter, and sent the letter into Yuan Tan's military camp.

Yuan Tan was furious after reading this letter!

Why?

Because Cao Cao now accused him in turn of ignoring his sibling affection and forcing Yuan Shang to go to Youzhou.

It seems that Cao Cao is more enthusiastic about the family affairs of the Yuan family than anyone else, and hopes that the three brothers of the Yuan family will be safe and sound.

Turning your face is faster than turning a book!

Xu Huang came with soldiers and horses, and Yuan Tan knew that Cao Cao was already going to do something to him, especially since Cao Cao had openly canceled the marriage with his children.

Fleeing in a hurry, Yuan Tan fled all the way back to Qingzhou from Zhongshan with his soldiers and horses, and the territories of several counties in Jizhou that had just arrived were lost.

Xu Huang followed Cao Cao's instructions to watch Yuan Tan's escape route, for Cao Cao, in fact, he was no longer afraid of the three sons of the Yuan family uniting together, but it was better for these three brothers to be divided than to unite.

So Xu Huang ignored Yuan Tan and fled back to Qingzhou.

At the same time, Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan surrendered, and Cao Cao still appointed Gao Gan as the assassin of Bingzhou.

Jizhou and Bingzhou, among the four states of Hebei, fell into the hands of Cao Cao in the autumn of the ninth year of Jian'an.

Yuan Tan, who fled back to Qingzhou, only postponed the time of destruction.

Cao Cao's army rested in Yecheng for several months and spent the winter, in the spring of the tenth year of Jian'an, the army came to Qingzhou!

Yuan Tan abandoned the plains and retreated to Nanpi.

But the general trend has gone, and in the face of Cao Jun's overwhelming momentum, there is no power to return to the sky!

Outside Nanpi City, the two armies clashed, Yuan Tan's army was defeated, he suddenly pretended to be crazy and stupid and rode a horse to escape, but was cut off by the soldiers around him, cut off his head and presented it to Cao Cao.

Within half a year, Cao Cao won Qingzhou again!

The three states of Hebei have fallen, can Youzhou be left alone?

After Cao Cao subdued Qingzhou, officials from all over Youzhou thought that Cao Cao would soon come to Youzhou.

So all parts of Youzhou rebelled, and Yuan Shang and his second brother Yuan Xi, who arrived in Youzhou and did not settle down for a few days, encountered the combined attack of the rebel generals Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan, and fled from Youzhou in embarrassment, fled to Liaoxi, and attached to Liaoxi Wuhuan's Gang Dun Shan Yu.

Liaoxi Wuhuan belongs to the East Hu species, in the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, Liaoxi Wuhuan leader Hao Dan once led the chiefs of the Wuhuan tribe to Luoyang to meet the Son of Heaven, expressed his willingness to naturalize, Liu Xiu at that time named eighty-one people as the king as a marquis, since then let them live in the south of the Great Wall and live with the Han people, using them to resist the Xiongnu.

In the following period, Wuhuan was relatively peaceful, but with the internal affairs of the Han Dynasty not repaired and the centralization of power was divided, the civil and military officials in the frontier were also unable to control these Wuhuan people who were gradually out of control.

By the time Emperor Ling ascended the throne, Wuhuan had developed into a force that threatened the border counties of the Han Dynasty.

Among them, there is the Wuhuan leader of Shanggu County, Nanlou, who is the most powerful, and there are more than 9,000 tribes under his command to obey his orders. Wuyan of Beiping County on the right has 800 tribes under his command. The leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi is Qiu Liju, with more than 5,000 tribes under his command. Liaodong has Su Muyan, with more than 1,000 tribes under his command.

In the early peace period of Emperor Xian, that is, when Dong Zhuo caused chaos in Beijing, Qiu Liju's nephew Bun Dun became the leader of Wuhuan in the three counties of Liaodong and Liaoxi.

From Wu Huan's point of view, there was a character they feared at that time: Gongsun Zhan!

Gongsun Chan was defeated by Yuan Shao in Hebei, and another factor was that Gongsun Zhan's strategy against Wuhuan was to kill them all, while Yuan Shao wooed and appeased Wuhuan.

In the name of Yuan Shao's "inheritance" of the emperor, he sealed the difficult buildings of Badun, Wuyan, Sufuyan and Shanggu County as Shan Yu, and Wuhuan helped Yuan Shao deal with Gongsun Zan together.

The attitudes and past intersections between the Yuan family and Wuhuan led to Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi daring to take risks and run to Wuhuan to seek refuge when they were desperate.

When Cao Cao had not officially taken over Youzhou, Youzhou belonged to the borderless land, and there was great chaos in the territory, and at this time, Badun was the main one, supplemented by Su Fuyan and Wuyan, Wuhuan crossed the Great Wall in a big way, harassed it wantonly, and besieged Qianping.

Just as Cao Cao was about to go to the rescue of Qianping, a clown who jumped off the beam suddenly threw a cold arrow at his back.

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