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The Nine Gates fell, the left flank of the Montenegrin coalition broke the defense, the horns were lost, the good situation was reversed, and if it was not done well, it would be intercepted by the enemy of the Nine Gates. Zhang Yan's next nerve-wracking thing was not how to fight Yuan's army, but how to retreat so as not to be pursued by the enemy and cause a rout.

On the night of the end of the war, Gao Ran found Cangcao Zhenyi and asked him to find the group of Zhen children, especially the young man surnamed Ma. But the answer was: "I have returned to Wuji Zhen's Manor to resume my life." ”

Ma Han and his entourage have indeed left. The goal is achieved, the success is retired, and then staying in the Yuan army camp will soon attract the attention of people with a heart and reach Yuan Shao's ears, he doesn't want to meet Yuan Shao in this way.

As soon as Ma Han returned to Jiumen with his front foot, Yuan Shao sent a messenger with his back foot. The envoy was personally escorted by Zhao Yun - Zhao Yun led the volunteers and flying horses, and within one day, defeated more than ten batches of sentry sent by Zhang Yan, and captured dozens of foot horsemen. happened to meet the envoy sent by Yuan Shao, so he personally escorted him into the city.

Ma Han didn't know this messenger, but he had heard of his name: Jizhou Zhizhong engaged in history, leading the way.

Yuan Shao sent such a high-ranking staff member as an envoy, in addition to expressing goodwill, he also attached more importance to it. No matter which side attacked Jiumen, it was to strategically assist Yuan's army in breaking through the Montenegrin coalition army. It was this strange army that broke the balance between the Yuan army and the Montenegrin coalition army, so that a protracted battle that could be delayed for many months was decided in just a few days. Of course, on the other hand, this attention is also wary. Recruiting this trip also has the responsibility of observing and probing.

Ma Han met with him and only gave him a letter: "Give this letter to Yuan Gong." See self-explanatory. Then he sent people away. Ma Han didn't want to talk to Zhao in vain, and it was impossible to pull this person over anyway, so it was right to hurry up and let Yuan Shao send benefits. He's been in the Central Plains long enough, and it's time to go back.

Even a glass of wine and buttermilk was missing, and the buttocks were sent out of the city before they were hot, and the depression was gone.

When he returned to Xiaquyang to report, Yuan Shaozheng was discussing with the generals, and was very surprised when he heard it: "Zijing, come back so soon?" What's the catch? ”

He saluted with a wry smile: "I have to write a letter." ”

His own waiter received the letter and presented it, and Yuan Shao took the letter in his hand. But he was not busy unfolding, but only asked: "Who is the Nine Gates?" Geometry with soldiers and horses? ”

Qian Zhao thought for a while, and said: "I can't see many soldiers and horses, but halfway through the recruitment, I saw that a general belonging to the Nine Gates led dozens of black mountain thieves who chased and peeped into the Nine Gates from the horse, and they won a lot of captures, which shows the elite." As for the man of the Nine Gates, he is a young man with a weak crown. He claimed to be the cavalry captain of Liaodong County, and guarded the White Wolf City in Liaoxi for the Taishou Gongsun Shengji of Liaodong, as for the origin of his name, according to his words. It is all written on the letter, and the lord will know it when he sees it......"

Liaodong Cavalry Captain? How did you get here? And it did the army a great favor, isn't it......

Yuan Shao and Tian Feng glanced at each other, and each other's eyes lit up. At the same time, I thought of a place mentioned in the recruitment - Liaoxi. This is the most important part of Jizhou's strategy, doesn't this mean that I want to fall asleep. Someone brought a pillow?

Yuan Shao immediately unfolded the letter, and then, from Tian Feng and Zhao Zhao, all the generals saw a strange phenomenon: the lord's face was very strange, originally calm and unhurried, but suddenly became blood red, the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and a pair of leisurely and calm Danfeng eyes also suddenly widened; Then the blood faded and turned pale, and the lips were still a little trembling; Less leaning, the feelings slowly calmed down, and the complexion was uncertain. After closing the letter, he raised his head and took a deep breath, waved his hand, and motioned for the generals to retreat, but let Tian Feng stay.

After everyone withdrew, Yuan Shao stopped Tian Feng from asking in confusion, and directly handed the letter to him: "Yuan Hao doesn't need to ask, you can know at a glance...... Unexpectedly, it turned out to be him. ”

What turned out to be him? Is this man familiar with the lord? When Tian Feng received the letter, he didn't think about why the lord left him alone, and handed the letter to him, just because the lord wanted to ask him for advice. However, when he opened the letter and looked at it, he realized that it was not the case at all.

“…… Yuan Gongjie Bridge gift horse friendship, thinking of nothing to repay, now according to the nine gates, echoing with Gongyao, hitting Hu Zhangshui, will hunt Changshan, not also fast......"

Boundary Bridge Gift Horse! These four words are like Huang Zhong Dalu, which shocked Tian Feng's brain; It was more like a loud slap, which made Tian Feng's face hot and swollen and red...... Now he knows how hard the lord was "beaten".

It turned out to be him! I see! No wonder the lord deliberately left himself, not because he was the chief strategist, but because he was the only one who knew about it.

During the Battle of the Celestial Boundary Bridge, Yuan Shao was captured, and there were only two insiders, one was Han Meng and the other was Tian Feng. And Han Meng is dead, and Tian Feng is the only person who knows. As for some of the guards, these soldiers are soft-spoken, and no one will believe them no matter what they say - here refers to public opinion. Public opinion is always in the hands of the upper echelons, and the sergeant circulates it in private, and it is not even a rumor.

"It turned out to be him, the horse hummer and the dragon, who became the captain of Gongsun Shengji in just one year, and also had a town alone and fought against Liaoxi Karasuma." Tian Feng couldn't help but praise, "What Yifeng saw that day, this son is indeed a rare general, and Gongsun Taishou has a vision. If it was him who broke the Nine Gates of Black Mountain Thieves, it would not be surprising. ”

Yuan Shao paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and muttered: "According to what Yuan Hao saw, is Ma Jinglong's help to Gu Gu this time related to Gongsun Shengji?" ”

Tian Feng shook his head without hesitation: "Gongsun Shengji is more than successful, but he has no courage to peep south, if Gongsun Boqi doesn't beat him, he will already thank God, how dare he brush his tiger beard?" I expect that this son's grandson Shengji should be like Liu Xuande's Gongsun Boqi, but with other departments, he has his own behavior, and he is not completely obedient to Liaodong. ”

"Good!" Yuan Shao's eyebrows were raised, and there was no annoyance on his face, but a happy face, "How about inviting Ma Jinglong to come and thank you in person?" ”

Tian Feng smiled: "It should be so." Moreover, the lord must also take care of him. ”

Yuan Shao laughed, and all the previous unhappiness was swept away.

Just because Ma Han helped Yuan Shao win this battle, Yuan Shao is so grateful to Dade? Of course not! One qiē is just because of one location - Liaoxi.

If you ask Yuan Shao, who is the most powerful opponent in his life? There is no doubt that it must be Gongsun Zhan. At this time, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan took the Battle of the Boundary Bridge as a watershed, and Gongsun was strong and Yuan was weak. After this battle, the two sides have entered a stage of stalemate, each other has won and lost, and no one can help the other. So at this time, the most commonly used move in military affairs began: connecting horizontal and vertical.

Gongsun Zhan's continuous horizontal is Runan Yuan Shu, which made Yuan Lao Er drag Yuan Boss back to death, and it has indeed achieved remarkable results; Yuan Shao's indulgence is Karasuma - that's right, it's Karasuma! Liaoxi Karasuma King Badun and his winged three kings. In history, Yuan Shao tried his best to win over Karasuma, sending money, people, and fame.

Send money, this is the proper meaning of the question. Needless to say; gave it away, and married the daughter of the Yuan clan (some say that it is her own daughter) with Badun; Send the name, in the name of the imperial court, seal the Dun for Karasuma Dadanyu, and the rest of the kings such as Wuyan, Su Muyan, Nanlou, etc. are all sealed in the order, and given the seal. So much so that after the Battle of Guandu, the Yuan brothers were expelled from Hebei by Cao Cao, and they actually defected to Badun, and Badun also took revenge for Yuan. plundered Youyou and merged the two states, and plundered as many as 100,000 Han households. Nearly one million Li people who fled to Qing and Xu Zhuzhou under Liu Yu to avoid the war in the Central Plains fell into the hands of the Karasuma people......

The reason why Yuan Shao spared no effort to make friends with the Karasuma people is very simple: First, the Karasuma people are the sworn enemies of Gongsun Zhan. The enemy of my enemy is my friend; Second, the place where the Karasuma people are based is in the rear of Gongsun Chan. From western Liaoning to Mobei, almost all of it borders Youzhou. From the map, it can be clearly seen that Jizhou, Liaoxi, and Mobei have formed a tight pinching trend against Youzhou. No matter how strong and ruthless Gongsun Chan is. If it is attacked by such a combination of the north and the south, it will be difficult to escape defeat.

In fact, as time passed, Gongsun Chan faced an even more dangerous situation, he would face a three-sided encirclement: Yuan Shao in the south, Karasuma in the north, Liu Yu in the west, and the sea in the east...... Such a mortal situation, even if Cao Cao is thrown in, the ending will not be much better. And such a situation is the result of Yuan Shao's group's careful planning, which can be called Yuan's version of "Three Kingdoms". If Liu Yu hadn't died by himself and broke the game in advance, Gongsun Chan would definitely not have lasted that long.

Ma Han is a piece of unexpected joy in this nirvana.

However, as the saying goes, things are like a game, until the last moment, who is whose chess piece, and who can say for sure?

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On July 19, Ma Han was invited to go to Xiaquyang. He only brought Guan Hai, Xia Houlan and twenty wolf fangs flying horses. The Nine Gates were commanded by Tai Shi Ci, and Zhao Yun led a hundred cavalry to block the sentinel cavalry sent by Zhang Yan of Zhending. Although Zhang Yan had tens of thousands of foot cavalry, under the control of the Yuan army in Xiaquyang, he did not dare to launch a large-scale attack on Jiumen at all, otherwise once he was copied by the Yuan army, he would definitely die an ugly death. The only thing Zhang Yan could do was to continue to send a small force of several hundred people to test it to see if he could recapture the Nine Gates. As a result, four or five teams were sent out before and after, adding up to more than 2,000 men and horses, all of which were turned into meat buns.

Ma Han's outfit today is a little strange, with a helmet and armor, and he looks like he is about to go into battle. Xia Houlan followed Ma Han to death for several rounds, and has completed the surrender, although it is not finalized, but he has regarded himself as a subordinate, seeing this, carefully remind Ma Han that it is best to wear a dress to meet him, and he should also wear regular clothes if he is not good, such a military uniform, I am afraid that it will be contemptible and underestimated.

Ma Han smiled and said: "I don't know if others will underestimate me, but Yuan Gong knows what kind of person I am, and he will never have such thoughts." ”

More than 20 horsemen, under the guidance of the envoy sent by Yuan Shao, passed through the heavy patrol posts of Yuan Jun's thirty miles away, and entered Xiaquyang. The horse is riding a horse that has been taken from Tu Gehu, which is quite strong, in order to avoid stimulating Yuan Shao, there are extraneous branches, and the white horse and silver arrow must not be ridden.

Meet the general of the Che Cai, Jizhou Mu, Qixiang Marquis Yuan Shao, naturally can not be empty-handed, the gift of the horse is the best and the state army horses twenty, Tu Ge, Karasuma captured 100 people, as well as the lost seal of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King. Ma attacked the nine gates and obtained hundreds of horses from the state, except for the thirty horses used to give Zhen and twenty Yuan Shao, the rest were all collected by themselves. As for the captives, there were as many as a thousand, and these people, whether Han or Hu, were to be taken back to Liaoxi to atone for their sins as slaves.

In front of the hall of the official temple in Xiaquyang, the strategists gathered, the generals gathered, and under the aggressive eyes of the snow, the horse in armor took Guan Hai and Xiahou Langden Hall to meet.

Guan Hai and Xiahou Lan knelt down together, but Ma Han only bowed and saluted: "Liaodong County Riding Captain, leading Liaoxi White Wolf City to guard Ma Hu, I have seen Yuan Gong." The last general is in armor, and he will not be able to perform a big salute. ”

At this moment, Xia Houlan finally understood what Ma Han's "long and heavy" outfit meant, and she didn't know whether to praise Ma Han for being smart or shake her head at him.

The armor does not worship, everyone knows it, not to mention Yuan Shao, a Jizhou pastor, even if it is the emperor, it will be dealt with equally. Ma Han's hand, not to mention Yuan Shao and his subordinate strategists, even those corrective generals, can see that this guy is a heart.

Yuan Shao didn't care about these subtleties, after a lapse of recent years, he saw this person who had given him great humiliation, saying that he was indifferent and calm, it was dentures. But as a few heroes in the world, Yuan Shao's city government is definitely there, he just nodded to this unruly young man in military uniform, and smiled: "Liaodong County Riding Captain, hehe, how can it be like Jizhou Riding Captain?" ”

The strategists and generals are secretly wondering, this person is so rebellious, the lord is not only annoyed, but he is attracted by heavy duties, which is really rare.

"Xie Yuangong is heavy, and he deserves it." Ma Han looked at it and told the truth.

Hearing this, the thorn in Yuan Shao's heart was violently teased, even if he was elegant, the smile on his face froze, the corners of his eyes kept twitching, and the back of the hand holding the hilt of the sword was bruised.

Tian Feng hurriedly rescued the scene, and casually seized a reason to change the topic: "Captain Madu, you have armor on your body, it's okay not to bow down, but it's really not appropriate to be so dumbfounded, it's rude." ”

Of course, Ma Han didn't want to anger Yuan Shao, he came here to make friends instead of making enemies, and immediately saluted: "Liaoxi is contemptible, a certain is also a vulgar person, there is rudeness, please Yuan Gonghaihan." ”

Yuan Shao is worthy of being a hero, and quickly controlled the negative feelings, and waved his hand: "This small section of the ear, Yuan Hao doesn't have to be entangled, the dragon attacked the nine gates with surprise soldiers, and helped Lone to break through the left wing of the Black Mountain thief, and he made great contributions, and Lone Shi admired and thanked him." ”

Ma Han smiled: "When the Montenegrin coalition army went out of Taihang, the soldiers and horses were very strong, and their momentum was strong, but under the joint attack of a certain and the public, they were defeated. It can be seen that the enemy is strong again, and if the momentum of the first and last and left and right combined attacks can be formed, the strong enemy will not be able to escape defeat. ”

Yuan Shao and Tian Feng's eyes lit up suddenly, there was something in them! What etiquette and grievances, in the face of real interests, are all floating clouds. It seems that it is necessary to have a good talk with the White Wolf City Guard in Liaoxi.

Yuan Shao was secretly overjoyed, and was about to order the disbandment, and then feasted Ma Han, when he suddenly heard an urgent report: "Zhang Yan, a black mountain thief, led 5,000 cavalry and forced me to go down to the left wing camp of Quyang." ”

The generals were shocked for a while, what? Is this Zhang Yan brain-pumping, and if he doesn't hurry up to get out, he still dares to come to ask for wildfire?

Tian Feng suddenly laughed and saluted Yuan Shao with his sleeves closed: "Congratulations to the lord, Zhang rebels want to escape!" The overall situation of this battle is decided. ”

Hearing Tian Feng say this, including Ma Han, the generals of the Jizhou Army suddenly realized. That's right, this is a strategy to advance and retreat, Zhang Yan, I'm going to run away. (To be continued......)