The Cao army camp outside Chaoge City.

The Cao army, which attacked every day, was silent today.

The generals of the battalions were in their respective positions, and although they were silent, their voices were still violent. In the camp of the Chinese army, there was a fire.

Cao Cao sat on the handsome seat, his face sighed, and he was deeply worried about the future. Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others also had similar expressions at the scene.

There were three people standing in front of Cao Cao, it was Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, and Yuan Xi who escaped from Yecheng.

All three were in tears, sad and full of hatred. Yuan Tan took a step forward, bowed deeply to Cao Cao and said, "Uncle, my father is in danger. I also asked my uncle to send troops to the rescue. ”

"Hey." Cao Cao sighed and said, "Yuan Benchu is dead, and there is nothing the widow can do. ”

Even Yuan Shao was able to Zhang Shuang to ride 300,000 Han Hu iron horses across the north, and he could only avoid the edge and not compete with it. Not to mention Cao Cao.

At this moment, he already had the idea of retreating and returning to the Central Plains to make defensive arrangements for Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou under his command.

"Uncle!"

The three Yuan Qi were sad and knelt down.

"If you're tired, go down and rest first." Cao Cao sighed and glanced at Xun Yu. Xun Yu understood, said a few words of comfort to the three of them, and led the three of them down.

Soon after, Xun Yu returned.

"Yuan Shao is finished, Zhang Shuang Tieqi will definitely go south [.] We immediately pulled out the camp and went back to the Central Plains. Cao Cao decisively said.

"No."

Everyone agreed in unison, and then Cao's army immediately pulled out the camp and headed south.

The head of the song city.

Chen Deng, Wu Yi, and the Wu Ban brothers got the news and retreated like a tide.

Cao Jun retreated. The North must have won a big victory. The king's cavalry must have rushed to the rescue of Chaoge. General, we are not going out of the city to intercept. Strive to keep this part of Cao Cao's troops in Hebei? ”

Wu Ban hot-blooded youth. Clenched his fists and asked Chen Dengdao.

"We originally had 44,000 elite soldiers, and after defending the city for so long, the troops were greatly damaged, and most of the remaining were injured, what to use to intercept Cao Cao?" Chen Deng glanced at Wu Bandao.

"Thank God we can keep the song, be satisfied, boy." Chen Deng shook his head and turned to leave. He cheered, "I can finally get a good night's sleep." ”

Faced with the humor and wittiness of General Zhenbei. Wu Yi and Wu Ban looked at each other, and although they had worked together for a while, they still didn't get used to it.

Then the two of them were tired from the city, and the wounded soldiers gave up the idea of intercepting Cao's army.

The southern dynasty song is encircled.

……………

In the north, Zhang Shuang besieged Yecheng with heavy troops.

The art of war is tenfold and surrounded, and it is not simply a matter of guarding the gates of the four sides with large battalions from all sides. In order to achieve the purpose of besieging the city and cutting off everything.

So it was to be outside the city walls. Cast city walls.

And the city wall is cast outside the city, which is called "entrenchment".

Ten layers inside and outside, surrounded Yecheng.

"For me King Qi !!!"

The soldier general carried the earth and cast the earthen wall. In the dusty sky, the soldiers exhorted each other and were in full swing.

"Whoa!"

A handsome flag with the word "Qi" fluttered in the wind. Majestic.

At the head of Yecheng City, Yuan Shao and the only general under his command Gao Lan. and Tian Feng, frustrated. Feng Ji, Guo Tu and others stood at the head of the city to view the big building.

"The art of war is ten times surrounded, and now Zhang Shuang has divided his troops to save Chaoge, and there are only four or five hundred thousand soldiers and horses left, but he dares to surround him on all sides, intending not to let go of a person, which is really arrogant."

As a general, Gao Ran was very angry, and then bowed to Yuan Shao and said, "Your Majesty, please give the last general 30,000 elite soldiers and go out of the city to defeat Zhang Shuang." ”

In such a situation, although Gao Ran is heroic, it is synonymous with courage and resourcelessness.

Yuan Shao shook his head in his heart when he heard this, but thinking that there was only this one general left in his heart, he had to sigh and say: "Zhang Shuang's army is strong, surrounded on all sides, people's hearts are floating, and only the general can be relied on." If the general goes out of the city, the widow is afraid that someone will take the opportunity to kill the widow. ”

When Gao Ran heard this, he immediately felt that he was being reused, and he let go of the idea of going out of the city to fight.

"No."

Guo Tu, Tian Feng and others smiled bitterly.

They all know that Zhao Guo is finished. All that remains is to survive and fight with the trapped beasts.

Guo Tu, Tian Feng and others once said that Yecheng City is high and heavy, the grain can be eaten for three years, there are 100,000 elite soldiers, and there is the Yuan family's heavy grace and pension, which is the base camp of Zhao State.

It can be guarded for three years.

And used the example of the battle of Jinyang, when the three families were divided into Jin in the past, the Zhao clan faced the powerful alliance of the Zhi clan, the Han clan, and the Wei clan, and sat in Jinyang, the people changed their children and eaten, and the soldiers died on their pillows, and the people did not betray, and finally after holding on for a few years, they won a valuable victory to inspire Yuan Shao.

However, the examples of the previous generation may not be able to be taken out smoothly. What's more, the previous Zhao family was operated for several generations, caring for the people, and enriching the people, so there was no betrayal.

And Yuan Shao established the Zhao State, and it was not the people who appeased, but the scholars.

There is a good saying, "The kingdom of kings makes the people rich." The country of the hegemon, making the scholars rich. The only remaining country makes the country rich, and the country without Tao makes the country rich. ”

Back then, the Zhao clan was comparable to the kingdom of kings, and today Yuan Zhao is just the only remaining country, which cannot be compared at all.

The entrenchment is tenfold, the general betrays, and the people's hearts are scattered. Even if there is a strong power like Yuan Shao, and a general like Gao Lan, he can't stop it. On the third day of Zhang Shuang's siege of Yecheng, there was a betrayal by General Lu Fan.

"Yuan Shao blocked the king's division, blocking the way of the king of Qi, the advance and retreat were unknown, and there was a dead end. How can we bury him? Outside the east gate of the city, Lu Fan and hundreds of people on the left and right stormed the east gate.

Because of the surprise, Lu Fan had a lot of force. yelled violently, handsome soldiers, and finally slashed the door prominently, and went out of the city to see Zhang Shuang.

The next day, Zhang Shuang ordered Lu Fan to be the general and sealed thousands of households. Ordered him to lead the left and right to call for battle under the city of Yecheng.

and issued an edict.

"The traitor Yuan Shao coerced loyalty, favored the general Lu Fan's generals left and right, cut the door prominently, loyal and brave, and it was appropriate to be different, enter the marquis, and seal thousands of households. The leader of the troops is a sweeping general. ”

The general trend is coming, and the atmosphere is as silent as death.

Zhao is already like a Dead Sea that is bound to be evaporated by the fierce sun. Although some people are nostalgic for their homeland, they do not want to betray them. But many more are trying to escape the Dead Sea.

General Lu Fan was the first, definitely not the last.

After that, there were successive betrayals of Yuan Shao.

The big ones were the same generals as the general Lu Fan, and the small ones were thirty or fifty people, who quietly climbed down the city and defected to the Qi army.

Under the command of General Gao Ran, Yecheng had an internal curfew, and set up heavy punishments to deal with the betrayers, but the betrayers were like carp crossing the river. It's hard to kill.

After Zhang Shuang besieged Yecheng for two months, Yuan Shao's army dropped from 100,000 to 70,000. I could have eaten grain for three years, but now I can eat it for four or five years.

But only if there is no mold.

And as the number of troops declined, the hearts of the people were even more disrupted.

Even the officials around Yuan Shao began to betray. Under this trend, Yuan Shao already had a premonition that his death was approaching.

After another three months, Yuan Shao's troops were only about 60,000 left.

Even more panicked.

On this day, Yuan Shao had dinner in the palace, and although the meal was delicious, Yuan Shao was difficult to swallow. He ordered a bronze mirror to be taken. The physiognomy of the view.

The appearance he used to be proud of was aging at an abnormal rate.

Yuan Shao threw the bronze mirror on the ground and said angrily: "I, Yuan Shao, have today." ”

Death is near, and life is like years.

Yuan Shao turned his heart sideways. Turning back, inside a small box in the room, a bottle was removed. Hesitate. Yuan Shao pulled out the cork and drank it in his mouth.

In the expression of relief. Yuan Shao's face quickly turned pale, and his lips stopped. There wasn't much pain. It turned into a cold corpse.

"The King's !!!!"

Soon someone noticed Yuan Shao's strange appearance and shouted in panic.

The news spread throughout Yecheng in an instant.

"Yuan Shao is dead, let's go out of the city quickly to meet the king of Qi."

"Welcome the King of Qi into Ye !!"

Without the suppression of Yuan Shao's signboard, countless and countless people began to flock to the city gate to welcome the Qi army into the city. Including some of Yuan Shao's extremely encircled scholars.

However, Yuan Shao also had loyal ministers under his command, the general Gao Lan, the adviser Feng Ji, Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Guo Tu and others also lamented one after another, and each committed suicide.

When Zhang Shuang entered the city, in the palace of King Zhao, a row of corpses. There are more than ten generals, ministers, Yuan Shao and so on.

"It is the so-called Bandang who knows the loyal ministers, and the wind knows the grass. The fourth generation and the third duke of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao is good at winning people's hearts, and there are many henchmen and dead ministers. ”

Zhang Shuang sighed.

At this moment, only Dian Wei, Xun You, Li Hui, and Zhou Cang were accompanying Zhang Shuang. Zhang Shuang turned his head to Li Hui and said, "Cut off Yuan Shao's head and send it to Luoyang to invite merit." The rest of the people were buried together according to the etiquette of the scholars and generals. ”

"Kill the three clans of Yuan Shao, the old women are exiled to the border counties, and the young ones are given to the generals as wives." Zhang Shuang ordered again.

"No."

Li Hui promised and went down to deal with it.

After Zhang Shuang issued this order, he ordered Xun You to pass on the order, ordering the generals of each battalion to carefully guard the city gate in case some of the loyal ministers left by Yuan Shao caused a big disturbance.

He also sent Hua Xiong, Pang De and other cavalry generals to gallop in all directions of Jizhou to crusade against the county guards and county orders who were still loyal to Yuan Shao.

After doing all this, Zhang Shuang planned to find a good bedroom in this palace to sleep and rest. Although everything has been going well recently, Yuan Shao has not died.

Zhang Shuang couldn't let go of everything, he was very tired.

But at this moment, a soldier escorted the women of the Yuan family out. Kill the three clans, including Yuan Shao's daughter. The women of the Yuan family are actually just Yuan Shao's wives and concubines, and Yuan Shao's sons' wives and concubines.

Although these women spared their lives, they were all panicked and trembling, and some of them were really beautiful and I felt sorry for them.

Zhang Shuang is flanked by women who are all over the world, and their tastes are very tricky. But in this group of people, Zhang Shuang had a heart-warming figure, and he glanced at it.

"Who is this man?" Zhang Shuang asked, pointing to a woman.

This woman is as beautiful as a fairy, her skin is like congealed fat, she bows her head slightly, and her delicate face is full of panic, and I feel pity. (To be continued......)