Hearing that this urgent document came from Yecheng, and seeing that Yuan Shao's face was getting more and more ugly, the sixth sense made Xu You suddenly have an ominous premonition.

"Ahem...... My lord, what did Zhengnan say in his letter? Xu Yu coughed boldly and asked cautiously.

"How?"

Yuan Shao suddenly roared like a lion, and the expression on his face was like a fierce beast ready to choose people to devour, which startled all the civil and military staff present, they had never seen the lord so angry.

"See for yourself!"

Yuan Shao gasped loudly, his chest rose and fell violently because of anger, and the letter in his hand was slammed on Xu You's face.

Xu You has been with Yuan Shao for more than ten years, and the two were close friends when they were young, this is the first time that Yuan Shao has been angry with him in front of everyone, and Xu You's heart seems to sink to the bottom of the sea.

Bent down in a panic, stretched out his palm tremblingly, took the letter in his hand, and read it word by word, every time he read a word, Xu You's face was ugly......

"The lord spares his life, what Zhengnan said is untrue!"

Faced with the harshly worded impeachment of the trial, Xu You couldn't hold on anymore when he saw it halfway, and knelt on the ground with a "poof", and defended: "You are wronged, the lord can't listen to Zhengnan's words, he must have made a mistake!" ”

Yuan Shao's eyes were cold, and he snorted coldly: "Xu You, do you still dare to quibble?" In vain, I trusted you so much, and handed over all the money, grain, and baggage in Jizhou to you, but you were in charge of stealing and corrupting the law. I am disappointed to have embezzled so much belongings! The embezzled money and property have been seized, and your son Xu Ning has also pleaded guilty, do you still want to deny it? ”

Listening to Yuan Shao's words, the civil and military staff on both sides were all shocked, and immediately exchanged heads and ears.

Xu You has a prominent position in the Yuan group, second only to the three of judges, frustrations, and Fengji among civil officials, and because he is an old friend of Yuan Shao, he was entrusted with the important task of managing money and grain, and his power is not inconspicuous. The status is not unglamorous. I didn't expect it to be greedy and embezzled. This is really shocking news!

"Lord Mingjian, this matter must have been done by the dog Xu Ning, and you all know; Most of the things involved in the detention were torture that could not withstand the torture of Zhengnan. only to bend into a move. Please see from the Lord; There is no way to teach the son. But I really didn't do anything to enrich my pockets! ”

At this point, Xu You could only splash the dirty water on his son and wash himself white first. Then try to rescue the family. Otherwise, the Xu family can only wait for the ashes to be extinguished.

Being betrayed by someone he trusted, this feeling is very unpleasant, Yuan Shao's face was pale, he didn't want to look at Xu You more, and ordered: "Left and right, push Xu You down and behead him to make an example!" ”

When Xu You heard this, he immediately collapsed to the ground and couldn't say a word.

Chen Lin and Xu You had a very personal relationship, and hurriedly interceded for Xu You: "The lord temporarily calms the anger of the thunder, what Xu Ziyuan said may not be false, it may be that his inferior son took advantage of Ziyuan's absence from home to embezzle money, not necessarily." Please keep people under the knife, and after returning to Ye County and finding out the ins and outs of the matter, it is not too late to deal with it! ”

Xun Chen and Xu You are both from Yingchuan, and they also interceded at the moment: "Please calm your anger, our army is confronting the Cao army, killing the big soldiers, and the army is not favorable, and after breaking the Cao army and finding out the reason for the matter, it is not too late to make a decision!" ”

Yuan Shao took a sip of the tea bowl, suppressed the anger in his heart, and felt that Chen Lin and Xun Chen's words were also reasonable, killing a heavyweight like Xu Yu in battle, rumors would inevitably spread in the army, causing unnecessary consequences, or wait until he returned to Yecheng to settle accounts with him!

"Get out!" Yuan Shao angrily spilled the tea leaves in his hand on Xu You's body, "I don't want to see you again, let me roll out of the big tent, and when I return to Ye County, I will settle accounts with you!" ”

"Thank you for your kindness!"

Xu You didn't care about wiping the tea dirt on his body, and jumped out of Yuan Shao's big tent with a stream of urine, and returned to his tent in fear, kneeling in front of the table, his brows twisted into a rope, and he thought hard about how to get rid of his guilt.

"Yuan Benchu is narrow-minded, he will report if he is blind, and he is a person who refuses to give up easily, my Xu family is only afraid that it will be difficult to escape this time!" Xu You looked up at the white tent above his head and muttered to himself in his heart.

You say that you Yuan Shao is really not interesting, the old man who grew up together, you sit in the world, majestic and majestic, I Xu Yu will run for you, can't you let me get some money for the heirs? As for making such a fuss? I knew this was the case, I should have chosen Meng De in the first place, I really regret getting on your thief ship!

"The only way to do this is to go now, only by helping Meng De defeat Yuan Shao, a guy with a small belly, and soldiers in Ye County, it is possible to save my family......" Xu You pinched his chin and said to himself in his heart, "Even if you can't save your family, at least you can save my life, otherwise, I'm afraid that all of our Xu family will fall to the ground." As long as I, Xu You, are alive, our Xu family has hope of making a comeback! ”

After making up his mind, Xu You abandoned his bags, quietly came to the stable, led his mount, turned over his horse, and went straight to the gate of the village behind.

"Yo...... Is it Lord Xu? Where are you going? ”

The goalkeeper didn't know what was happening in the big tent yet, and asked respectfully about Xu You, who was prominent.

Xu You put away the mentality of panicking like a lost dog, took out his usual high-minded expression, coughed, and the horsewhip in his hand guided Zhang He's camp five miles away, "The lord asked me to go to Zhang He's camp to inspect!" ”

"I see, why don't you bring an entourage?"

The team led the concerned inquiry, unsuspecting. I would never have thought that such a heavyweight figure was ready to surrender to Cao Cao at this moment.

Xu Yu said impatiently: "I went to Zhang He's camp to check if anyone violated military discipline, drank and caused trouble, and hugged him with his entourage, can I catch the soldiers who violated discipline?" ”

"Yes, yes, what the adults said is very true, but the villains are too talkative!"

With a sincere and frightened expression, the team leader personally opened the gate of the village and sent Xu Yougong out of the camp.

"Whew...... The head has finally been saved, thank goodness! ”

After Xu You left Yuan Shao's camp, he breathed a long sigh of relief, reached out and brushed his violently beating heart, and whipped the horse's buttocks vigorously, "Drive ......"

The gray steed raised its hooves, rolled up a puff of smoke and dust, and gradually headed south, quickly past Zhang He's military camp, and disappeared on the post road leading to the south......

At noon, Yuan Shao's staff found that Xu Yu was gone, and a group of people suddenly exploded.

After Feng Ji went to Xu You's tent to inspect it, he decisively decided that Xu You had gone to Cao Cao: "Xu You's tent is not missing anything, but the mount is missing, obviously he rode away alone, and there is Zhengnan sitting in Yecheng, it is estimated that he does not dare to go back." Nine times out of ten, he has taken refuge in Cao Cao in the south! ”

Regarding Feng Ji's analysis, Yuan Shao completely agreed.

is also a person from Yingchuan, Xu You and Cao Cao knew each other even earlier than themselves, and their personal relationship is not bad.

"It's all your fault, if it weren't for your intercession, I would have cut off the head of this horseman!" Yuan Shao was anxious and angry, pointing at Chen Lin and Xun Chen, and scolded loudly.

Chen Lin and Xun Chen looked at each other, they couldn't imagine that Xu You would cheat like this, he was just dumb and ate Coptis chinensis, and he couldn't say anything about his suffering, so he could only lower his head and remain silent, letting Yuan Shao scold him.

Seeing that the strategists under the account were withering day by day, and the trial was not there, Guo Tu and Xin Ping went to Qingzhou, Fu Zhu and Tian Feng went to Bingzhou, and Xu You went south to Cao Cao; There were only second-rate strategists such as Chen Lin, Chen Zhen, Xun Chen, Pu Yangxing, Han Fan, and Linghu Shao left in the tent, and Feng Ji suddenly had a feeling of sadness that the rabbit was dead and the fox was sad.

The opponent who has been fighting openly and secretly with him is gradually moving away, what is the point of being able to act in front of these remaining second-rate strategists? It's just a chicken head!

"Gong Yuan, the matter has come to this, it's useless to complain again, let's try to minimize the evil consequences brought by Xu You's surrender to Cao!" Feng Ji sighed, looking worried about the country and the people.

With Xu You's experience, Yuan Shao didn't dare to criticize Chen Lin and Xun Chen too harshly, in case they also ran away, this battle would still be a woolen one, and he couldn't be a bare-bones commander himself, and he didn't even have a staff officer, right?

After an emergency meeting, Feng Ji believed that Xu Youtou's biggest threat to Cao Cao was to leak out the black nest where the grain was hoarded, and with Cao Cao's treachery, he would definitely send heavy troops to attack the granary, cut off the supply of grain and grass to the army, and disturb the morale of his own army.

So Yuan Shao decided to send Chun Yuqiong to lead 20,000 people to the north, and the superintendent led the troops to rush north to assist Su Yougong to defend the Wuchao granary and beware of Cao's heavy troops burning grain.

It is not enough to just guard against the black nest, Xu You knows the deployment of the troops of each battalion and each village, and the fortifications are well understood, and Yuan Shao ordered all the men and horses to quickly pull out the camp, move the geographical location, and choose a new place to re-establish the village to avoid the night attack of the Cao army.

The sergeants had to work to drive piles, re-dig trenches, and lay traps, and the workload was heavy and tiring. This made Yuan Jun complain, and when he knew that all this was caused by Xu You's surrender to Cao, more than 100,000 soldiers greeted the women of Xu You's family one by one, and there was a lot of scolding in the wilderness of Guandu.

The news of Xu You's surrender to Cao spread wildly, and the news was quickly captured by Yuan Mai's scouts, and the horse was quickly reported to the other side of the Yellow River.

"Shhh...... The most important moment in the Battle of Guandu is finally coming! ”

Yuan Mai stood on the bank of the Yellow River, stared at Wuchaoze on the opposite side, and decisively ordered: "Pass my military order to go down, let Zhang Liao and Wang Shuang move to the south of Wuchao, to prevent Cao's army from robbing grain." After dark, all the soldiers changed into the armor of the Cao army, and crossed the river before dark with the banner of the Cao army, aiming at the black nest! (To be continued......)