At the end of the fourteenth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shang surrendered the main force of the Cao army led by Cao Zhi in Guandu, and then accepted Jia Xu's plan, and then waited until Sima Yi returned, and then immediately raised troops and went to Xuchang.

With the entry of Yuan's army into Xuchang, it also announced the complete demise of the Cao group.

Yuan Shang sent troops to occupy all the important places in Xuchang, but he did not do anything to the Cao clansmen, on the contrary, he kept his promise to Cao Zhi and Mrs. Bian, and took good care of the Cao family and the Xiahou people, and distributed them with grain, straw, gold and silk, and Qiu did not commit any crimes.

After entering Xuchang City, Yuan Shang did several very important things at once.

First of all, he personally led people to the Cao Clan's temple to pay homage to Cao Cao and the rest of Cao's relatives who died in Yuan Cao's conquest, and asked Chen Lin to write a touching memorial text, which was read aloud and cremated on the day of the worship.

The second thing is that he sent flying horses to Fuxian County, recruited Li Dian and Le Jin, and released Li Tong, Zang Ba, and Xu Huang's captured generals, and returned to the army, all of whom temporarily occupied the position of partial generals.

The third thing is to send Yuan Xi to inspect the counties and counties of Zhongzhou to appease the officials and the people.

The fourth thing is to report to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to revoke Cao Zhi's position as prime minister and appoint him to Taifu. Of course, whether the court is allowed or not, Yuan Shang will take it as accurate.

The fifth thing is to arrange for all the clans of the Cao clan headed by Taifu Cao Zhi, and the Xiahou clan to go to Yecheng to settle down, give them a good land mansion, and ensure that they are all urns of rich families, and they will not be treated slowly.

The sixth thing is to appoint Cao Chong as the general of the chariot cavalry and obey Cao Zhi's old army. Remain in the army to be called.

The seventh thing is that the original deployment of the Cao army was slowly disrupted, dispersed and merged into the Yuan army, and all the generals of the Chinese army in the former Cao army were left in the Chinese army account for use, and the military rank and salary remained unchanged, only the positions were all adjusted, and they were all appointed to the posts of partial generals.

The eighth thing is to bring rice and cattle from Hebei to restore production and pacify the displaced people.

Other than that. Xuzhou. Yanzhou, Luodong, Huainan and other places have a huge span. In order to quickly and comprehensively bring them under his command. Yuan Shang decided. For the time being, Xuchang will be used as the general base of his front-line base, and he will be in Xu, Yan. Luodong and Huainan set up assassins to appease the military and civilians. In the history of each thorn, Xuzhou is the Ji Dynasty, Luodong is Ma Teng, Yanzhou is Zhang Yan, and Huainan Land, Yuan Shang intends to use Zhang Liao.

At this moment, it immediately caused an uproar, Xiao Ji, Ma Teng, and Zhang Yan are all Yuan Shang's henchmen, but Zhang Liao has just returned to Shun, he is defenseless, and he is Yuan Jun's old opponent, and the land of Huainan borders Eastern Wu, in case something happens, how to clean it up?

In fact, Zhang Liao was placed in the south entirely because Yuan Shang imitated Cao Cao's practice in later history books. In history, Zhang Liao was brave and brave, and he sat in the south of the border for Cao Cao, and fought several northern expeditions of Eastern Wu to no avail, and his reputation spread far and wide.

But now the situation is different from history, Zhang Liao is still the same Zhang Liao, but the overlord of the north has changed to the Yuan family.

Yuan Shang originally wanted to override the public's will, but then pondered carefully, Zhang Liao's initial surrender, if the power was too great, it was really like this, so he withdrew his order and reappointed Gao Ran as the assassin Shi, Zhuo Zhang Liao as his deputy general, the governor of Huainan Military Affairs, and the Eastern Wu stood against each other.

After feeling the general policy, Yuan Shang began to work on the next thing, something he had promised Cao Zhi.

Before Cao Zhi surrendered, he said that he wanted to have a one-on-one heads-up with Yuan Shang. Although Yuan Shang scoffed at Cao Zhi's force, he still agreed to the request.

Of course, after all, it is not a glorious thing, and it is still carried out in secret.

The venue was chosen behind the post house where Yuan Shang was temporarily staying in Xuchang.

On the day of the duel, Yuan Shang and Cao Zhi were both wearing strong suits and wrapped gauze in their hands, and there were not many guards around them, they were all inconspicuous little faces, and there was only one person with the highest status, that was Yuan Shang's right-hand man Sima Yi.

Looking at the two people who were bouncing back and forth to warm up in the field, Sima Yi rolled his eyes helplessly, then cleared his throat, came to the middle of the two, and read aloud.

"In this competition, friendship first, competition second, both sides are not allowed to use weapons, only bare hands are allowed to fight with fists and feet, it is forbidden to attack the lower body and eyes, it is forbidden to insult the opponent, and it is forbidden to attack the throat! Do you understand everything? ”

Yuan Shang glanced at Sima Yi indifferently and said, "You said one less." ”

Sima Yi was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Which one?" ”

"No biting."

"Oh! Right! Sima Yi suddenly slapped his head, and then said: "Also, it's forbidden to bite!" ”

After reading out the rules, the two slowly came to the room and looked at each other.

Yuan Shang said helplessly: "Cao Zhi, I really don't understand, why do you have to fight with me once?" What does this mean for you? ”

Cao Zhi smiled when he heard this: "Do you think this is meaningless? Maybe not for you, but for me, it means a lot! ”

Yuan Shang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Cao Zhi took a deep breath and said: "For me, in this world, the person who gives me the most headache and makes me afraid is you, on the battlefield, no matter how hard I try, with troops or strategy, I can't beat you, but I'm not reconciled, if I can't beat you on the battlefield, then I will win you in heads-up!" Let's have a real battle of kings. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Zhi paused and said, "At least, I want to win you once." ”

When Yuan Shang heard this, he laughed, nodded, and said, "If you want to win me, you should be in the poetry and songs, if you are talking about fists and feet......"

Speaking of this, Yuan Shang suddenly raised his leg and kicked out, heading straight for Cao Zhi's lower abdomen.

Cao Zhi couldn't react, and was kicked with a "bang".

Cao Zhi's stomach was hot, and he subconsciously bent his waist down, staggering back a few steps.

Yuan Shang did not pursue, but stood in place and looked at him with a smile.

"You can't win against me in terms of strategy, and it's the same in terms of martial arts."

Cao Zhi chuckled, rubbed his stomach that was kicked by Yuan Shang, and said, "That's not necessarily!" "Come on, stand up.

In Yuan Shang's thoughts, Cao Zhi's poetry is too famous in history, so in his heart, Cao Zhi is just a person who does not know martial arts.

But in fact, when the two were together, Yuan Shang knew that he was wrong.

The sons of everyone's wealthy families have learned the way of the six arts since childhood, in addition to Confucianism, bow and horse swordsmanship is also an important criterion to measure them, imagine Cao Pi studied under the swordsmanship master Shi A, Cao Zhangyong crowned the three armies, Cao Zhi and Yan will be too weak? It's just that his achievements in poetry are too high, so that later generations ignore his bow horse.

Imagine Cao Cao's son, with Lao Cao's education methods, how can he let his son be biased?

"Ping!"

Yuan Shang hit Cao Zhi's left eye with an old punch, instantly knocking him into a black eye.

"You know what? You lost at my hands, not because you were stupider than me, but because you were too rigid, didn't know how to be flexible, didn't know how to judge the situation, and stuck to one style! ”

Cao Zhi rubbed his eyes, and scratched Yuan Shang's neck with a claw, and immediately grabbed out five bloody pieces.

"Thank you for the advice, but I can't do it with such a treacherous and treacherous strategy like yours!"

Yuan Shang touched the blood stains on his neck, sneered, kicked back, and kicked Cao Zhi's stomach again, kicking him so straight that he couldn't straighten his waist.

"Until now, you are still obsessed, you deserve to be destroyed by me!"

Cao Zhi straightened his waist and punched Yuan Shang in the chest.

"Yuan Shang, what are you! Why do you teach me? ”

Yuan Shang laughed, flew up and rushed up, then shouted and shouted: "What's wrong with teaching you, become a king and lose a villain, I am qualified to teach you a lesson if I win...... You little bunny! ”

Cao Zhi did not show weakness, and rushed up to fight with Yuan Shang: "Let go of your shit!" Despicable villain! I don't share the sky with you! ”

The two fought in one place, in the period before the start of the fight, the two of them could still play a trick and a style, and the tricks were also considered to be clear-eyed, but after three sticks of incense, the moves of the two were deformed, and after the kung fu of four or five sticks of incense, as the body of the two was overdrawn, the fight also became a fight, the two of you tear my clothes, I buckle your eyes, and roll on the ground from time to time, which is no different from an ordinary ground scoundrel fight.

Sima Yi frowned at the side, as the two giants of the north who had been fighting for many years, it was really unseemly to fight like this.

As for the rules and regulations set before the game, they had already been beaten to the country by the two of them at this moment.

Sima Yi vigorously announced the foul next to him, but it didn't work at all.

"Alas, alas! Yuan Shang! No spitting, foul! Fouled! ”

"Cao Zhi, forget the rules! How to pick my father-in-law's eyes! Deduct a point for you! ”

"Yuan Shang! Don't think that you are my lord, this referee will not dare to say you, the rules against biting are set by yourself! Look what you're doing now! Are you a dog? ”

"Cao Zhi, stop! Don't grab my master's crotch! ”

“………………”

The two of them were in full swing, and at this time, Fu Zhi hurriedly stepped in, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he was immediately blinded by the battle situation in front of him.

Looking at the two people in the field in a daze, he turned to Sima Yi in surprise and said, "Zhongda, the two of them, what are you doing?" ”

Sima Yi glanced at Fu Zhu indifferently, and then looked up at the sky proudly, his eyes were full of depth, and he proudly said four words to Fu Zhu.

"Battle of Kings!"

“…………”

"Smack!" As soon as the words fell, Yuan Shang raised his hand and gave Cao Zhi a big-eared thunderbolt, which made half of his face red.

Cao Zhi did not show weakness, and went to dig Yuan Shang's nostrils with his backhand, but saw that Yuan Shang's nosebleed suddenly rushed straight up.

Frustrated and stunned, he swallowed lightly and spit, turned his head to look at Sima Yi suddenly, and opened his mouth to ask.

"You don't care about it...... Called the Battle of Kings? (To be continued......)