1. River of Time

"It's a beautiful view."

At this time, it is drizzling, holding an oil-paper umbrella, looking at the surrounding lush and vibrant scenery, although this is not the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is a little more calm and leisurely than the Jiangnan at this time, occasionally meet a few hard-working farmers in the field, but also full of smiles, although it can not be said that the face is oily, but there is no slightest dish, obviously there is a rich family.

Gently hugging Xiao Zhenqing's delicate body, the two of them snuggled under the same oil-paper umbrella, their expressions full of ease and comfort.

The man is tall, although he is not handsome, but his face has become full of majesty after the precipitation of experience, and the excellent physique that has been tempered unremittingly makes him full of masculine spirit.

The woman snuggling next to the man, with affection in her eyebrows and a spring face, the seductive posture of a young girl and an emotional young woman makes the woman who already has a beautiful flower and a proud figure even more charming, coupled with the appropriate, queen-like arrogance melted by the man's chest, so that the woman becomes more attractive in temperament.

Time is like the best artist, allowing two jades to be carefully polished into dazzling gems.

"The same scenery happens every year, but you don't get bored every year."

"Because hope is sown into the land, and these green scenery not only represents life, but also represents the hope of thriving, am I right, Li Lang~"

"That's right, my little Qing'er is so smart."

"Then what reward does my husband-sama have~"

"Well, let me think about it. Then reward my little Qing'er for playing wrestling with your father-in-law tonight. ”

Looking at the eyes that seemed to be able to drip water, Li Shushi's hand holding the girl's slender waist couldn't help but move upward, and such a strange move naturally got the coquettishness of the beauty in his arms. There is no attack power, but it makes people have the illusion that their bones are about to be crisped off, and then they think of the various customs of this haunting little goblin at night, and suddenly an evil fire rushes straight to the brain.

After Su Xiaololi's exercise, Li Shushi's self-control has been greatly exercised, and it is just a matter of teasing the girl in his arms, and it is more appropriate to go back and do it further. Even if it's a picnic or something, it's a different flavor, but this kind of shameful play under the crowd is really a little too high.

After another lingering, Xiao Zhenqing seemed to remember something. suddenly broke free from Li Shushi's embrace. Seeing that although the other party was flushed but tried to pretend to be serious, Li Shushi was not too uncooperative, and he was also a lot more positive.

"Recently, my eldest sister and I received letters from several sisters from Jizhou."

"From Jizhou......"

Li Shushi smacked his lips and didn't continue to say anything. Xiao Zhenqing just looked at Li Shushi with a charming smile. also didn't continue to say anything, for two people who have been together for a long time, although they can't achieve the same heart-to-heart connection (in various senses) as Li Shushi and Su Xiaololi, there is still no problem with this tacit understanding.

However, after Li Shushi returned to the mansion, he still asked Jia Xu to send a copy of the information from Hebei and the Central Plains.

And from the latest information that has come one after another, Li Shushi can clearly feel that from Hebei to the Central Plains, and even Jiangdong in the south. The dynamics of the situation in various places are truly dizzying, but they are also interconnected. Thought-provoking.

Yuan Shao died after all.

Although Li Shushi's arrow failed to kill him on the spot, but Yuan Shao, who was held hostage by Gongsun Chan at that time, had no ability to dodge Li Shushi's blessed soul's arrow, and with the efforts of Gongsun Zhan, the feather arrow shot Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, two old enemies who had been killed for a long time, and Yuan Shao was shot through the part that was probably the heart area, and although Gongsun Chan avoided the heart point, he was still hit hard.

However, in the end, Yuan Shao was seriously injured and Gongsun Zan died tragically.

After all, although Yuan Shao's side at that time was a little chaotic because of Gongsun Zhan's surprise attack, which gave Li Shushi an opportunity, they immediately reacted after Yuan Shao's heavy arrow and protected the seriously injured Yuan Shao from the battlefield.

As for Gongsun Zhan, the feather arrow connected him to Yuan Shao's body, and no matter what action he did, the feather arrow that pierced deep into Yuan Shao's body would thrust back and forth to affect any action that affected him, just like a girl locked by a "two-headed dragon". This state of being unable to move was naturally inevitable when Yuan Shao's personal guards reacted.

Even, none of Gongsun Chan's corpses were recovered, and all of them were taken by Yuan Shao's sons as the best tribute to his father—although for the entire situation, whether Gongsun Chan was dead or alive at this time would not have any effect.

People are more concerned about Yuan Shao's physical condition and the struggle for the inheritance of the Yuan family after Yuan Shao's death.

Originally, since Yuan Shao did not die under Li Shushi's arrow, he could basically recover as long as he was given half a year, after all, with the background of the Yuan family, it should not be a problem to get a magical immortal peach. Thinking that a fairy peach that was divided and divided back then could save several fledgling fierce general embryos from a near-death state, then replacing it with a complete peach, even if Yuan Shao's physique was definitely not as good as those young fierce brothers, there should be no problem when I think about it.

Of course, Yuan Shao is not young, and this time he hurt his vitality again, and it is not easy to get his body back to his old days, but as long as Yuan Shao does not die, there will be no problems in the Yuan family, so in the face of the peeps of Cao Cao and the Bingzhou army, Yuan Shao still has the strength to fight.

But, but, but......

Yuan Shao died.

Died in vain.

The death was extremely strange.

In fact, the news originally came from Jizhou, Yuan Shao has recovered most of the time after Xiantao's recuperation, but for some reason he can't put into work, although Yuan Shaojun at that time was a little decadent because of the defeat in the war, but there is no lack of bright spots, such as Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi brothers performed well in handling various official duties when Yuan Shao could not be a director, and Yuan Tan and Yuan Fang cooperated with each other. succeeded on the Eastern Front and made Zang Ba lose consecutive battles and had to withdraw from Qingzhou, and even Lang Xie looked precarious.

Just when people speculated whether Yuan Shaojun would take advantage of the fact that the Bingzhou army would concentrate all its efforts to encircle and suppress the enemy in Guanzhong, and Cao Cao's army needed to lick its wounds and clean up internal problems, it would regroup. When the situation in the north continued to be in a stalemate, a series of bad news struck one after another.

First of all, Yuan Tan was shot in the face by a stray arrow in a pursuit battle that can be said to be victorious, and fell from his horse and died.

Of course, these soldiers of Zang Ba's department, who had reaped the unexpected joy, were not happy for long before they were dismembered by the angry Yuan Shaojun soldiers.

Because of this change, Yuan Fang could only shrink temporarily when he was caught off guard. And in the next two months of fighting, the loss of troops made the originally good situation become tense again.

But fortunately, Yuan Fang is not like Yuan Tan, he knows how to deal with the relationship with the people. At the same time, he also knew how to balance the interests of those people and officials, as well as the powerful of the family, so Qingzhou changed the decadence of Yuan Tan's morale, and all places gave Yuan Fang great support. And the county guards and county orders sent by Yuan Fang to various parts of Qingzhou also performed well. Actively provided Yuan Shaojun with soldiers and supplies. Although Ling Zang Ba seemed to be majestic on the battlefield, it was difficult for him to find a foothold in Qingzhou.

If he didn't pay attention to it, he let Yuan Fang use a strategy to turn against some officials and Haoqiang families behind him, cut off the grain route or spread rumors, so that even if Zang Ba wanted to forcibly continue to expand the results of the war, he would only fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness.

If Yuan Tan's death did not bring earth-shaking changes to the war situation in Qingzhou, then the blow to Yuan Shao was unprecedented.

As Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan was once given great expectations by Yuan Shao. He was once regarded as Yuan Shao's natural successor.

Even now, many people can clearly feel that Yuan Shao has shifted more attention from Yuan Tan to his third son, Yuan Shang. Whether it was to replace Yuan Tan with Yuan Fang as the first commander of the Eastern Front, or to entrust Yuan Shang with full power in domestic affairs during the period of recuperation, so that he could exercise the same powers as the prince of the prison state, and at the same time give Yuan Shang a lot of necessary guidance behind the scenes, it can be said that Yuan Shao was ready to hand over the shift to Yuan Shang, if his body really could not support it.

But even so, Yuan Shao still did not intend to give up Yuan Tan, he turned a deaf ear to Yuan Tan's move to win over important ministers in both the military and political in private, and constantly connived at the attack and annihilation of each other between the eldest prince faction led by Guo Tu and the third prince faction led by Feng Ji, perhaps Yuan Shao hoped to arouse the ambition of the removed Yuan Tan in this way, so that Yuan Tan could show more things.

This may be the final test that Yuan Shao gave Yuan Tan, or maybe he thinks that he still has enough time to deal with the relationship between the two brothers after being completely disappointed in Yuan Tan, in short, he has not completely lost his expectations of Yuan Tan.

But it was precisely because of this kind of licking of calves that Yuan Shao suffered great pain after hearing the news that Yuan Tan had died in an accident.

However, compared with Yuan Shao's pain, his words after hearing the news are more evocative:

"Perhaps it was my fault, for I personally delivered my son into the hands of the God of Vengeance, and I am to blame."

Of course, compared with the news that Yuan Shao suddenly died three days later, this sentence is really insignificant.

Probably, only people with a heart will really understand the meaning of this sentence, instead of caring about what kind of grievances and hatred the maid who is said to have poisoned Yuan Shao and Yuan Shao.

Although in Jia Xu's view, this matter seems to have a deeper connection with this sentence.

It's a pity that the servant girl is dead, and even if there is a big conspiracy behind it, it has become an unsolved case with the interruption of clues.

Attention began to focus on the struggle for power in Hebei in the post-Yuan Shao era.

Originally, with Yuan Tan's accidental death, Yuan Shang, as the biggest beneficiary, naturally became Yuan Shao's only definite heir, and his brother Yuan Xi would not compete with his younger brother for this position, in fact, Yuan Xi had already made such an attitude clear a long time ago, and this also made the relationship between him and his two brothers in law very harmonious.

But in the end, the team left by Yuan Shao was still divided, and what caused all this was a person who was not valued before but suddenly jumped on this big stage - Yuan Fang, the supreme commander of Yuan Shaojun's Eastern Front.

is also Yuan Shao's son, but he is just a concubine. From a legal point of view, he should have no possibility of inheritance when his son-in-law has not died. But the reality is that Yuan Shao died suddenly. did not make a political will to whom the heir belonged, and did not set up a certain son-in-law as his own son before, even if Yuan Shang essentially served as the prince of the prison country during Yuan Shao's serious illness, but it was just a real name after all. All of this gives the person with the heart room to maneuver.

Under the management of Yuan Shao's three sons-in-law (there is also a fourth son Yuan Mai, but no one cares about the meaning of his existence for this little guy who can just climb), Yuan Shao was buried in a beautiful place on the outskirts of Xindu.

Yes, in addition to Yuan Shao's three sons-in-law and important ministers in both the military and political aspects, who participated in this funeral. The Eastern Front Army, which was an important part of Yuan Shaojun's army, did not send a representative to participate in this politically significant funeral.

As Yuan Shao's heir, Yuan Shang gave the official statement: The war is tense, and the main generals cannot leave their posts.

Such a statement seems to make a lot of sense, although Zang Ba was unable to attack Qingzhou for various reasons. But during this time, he has always been able to take the initiative on the battlefield, and I am afraid that no one can predict whether he will break through the obstacles in the next moment.

But soon there were a large number of messages in faith, the content of which was nothing more than that Yuan Shang, as Yuan Shao's successor, was jealous and jealous, and was afraid that the talented brother would come back to seize power, after all, Yuan Shang's position was originally snatched from his eldest son. Care. Naturally, I fear that my position will one day become a spoilt in the hands of others.

Of course, at the same time, when Yuan Xi was serving as the assassin of Youzhou, all kinds of "persecution" of Yuan Fang's old background and black materials were also poked out, and everyone finally noticed how the second son of the Yuan family, who was weak and obedient to the woman's words, treated his brother who had a blood connection, and then gave birth to many unique "Yuan Xi ambition theory", "Yuan Xi crossed the knife to snatch love", "Yuan Xi secretly believed in the persecution of his brother", and "Yuan Xi secretly persecuted his brother"...... All kinds of things, all kinds of things. It's hard to tell the real from the fake.

These messages circulated in the market together with black materials, which made Yuan Shaojun, who was already at a historical low in cohesion because of Yuan Shao's violent death, even more uneasy. Especially the soldiers on the Eastern Front, who felt that their future was uncertain because of Yuan Shao's death, they now felt that a guillotine seemed to be hanging above their heads, and it depended on when Yuan Shang would make a move on Yuan Fang and fall.

Constant rumors of officials and generals stationed in Qingzhou coming into contact with Cao Cao's army made Yuan Shang extremely uneasy and highly vigilant.

So in this case, Yuan Shang had to urgently recruit Yuan Fang and several of his cronies to report to Xindu.

It's a pity that what was waiting for was an official letter rejected by Yuan Fang on the grounds that "the front-line war is tight".

Of course, at the same time, Xindu also began to circulate new jokes, such as Yuan Shang ambushed 500 knife and axe men in the palace, just waiting for Yuan Fang to come back, just like the general He Jin who Yuan Shao once served, he was chopped to death by a random knife, and his henchmen were naturally wiped out, and there were even rumors that Yuan Shang had secretly dispatched tens of thousands of elite soldiers to quietly cross the Yellow River, preparing to carry out a large-scale purge of Qingzhou after Yuan Fang left.

Of course, all of the above was news from a month ago.

I have to say that because of the amount of information recently, no matter how diligent and hard the intelligence department is not lazy, it is quite difficult to select useful things from the massive amount of various intelligence, or to summarize some useful things based on the information so that the strategists and staff officers can analyze and take targeted measures, so it is understandable that there will be a delay in intelligence unless there is a major incident.

Although Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Fa Zheng and others will probably still feel a little dissatisfied with this situation.

After all, it was precisely because of such a delay that the Bingzhou army failed to notice Yuan Fang's next means, no, Yuan Fang's next means should have exceeded everyone's expectations.

On a night when the wind was not strong and the night was not dark, Yuan Fang led the elite of his department to raid Zang Ba's camp in the Qingxu border area, and I don't know what means Yuan Fang used, so that Zang Ba's department could not find the traces of this army in advance - perhaps because the successive victories made them relax their vigilance, and finally they were caught off guard and could not organize effective resistance at all.

Except for Zang Ba, who returned to Kaiyang County in the south (that is, north of Linyi, Shandong) in the south of Langxie County for some things, and did not escape a catastrophe in the army, the rest of the generals of Zang Ba's department, such as Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Chang Feng and others, all became the souls of Yuan Fang's subordinates, and only Sun Kang and Yin Li, the two main generals, because the location of the garrison was far away from the area that was raided by the enemy, especially Sun Kang, who had his brother Sun Guan to help resist the fierce attack of the enemy, so he had the opportunity to retreat calmly with the remnants.

After months of stalemate, and a passive defense in an unfavorable situation, it only took one battle to successfully reverse the offensive and defensive momentum, Yuan Fang almost reproduced the scene of the battle of Guandu that day, but the position between Yuan Cao was completely reversed, which was really embarrassing.

Without Zang Ba, the roadblock guarding the gateway to Xuzhou, the gate of Xuzhou can be said to be completely open, and the vast and rich land of Xuzhou is almost all in Yuan Fang's pocket.

It was also at this time that Sun Quan, who originally accepted the emperor's reward and seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding with Cao Cao, also brazenly tore up the previous agreement between the two sides at this time, and once again sent troops to the north, aiming at Guangling, an important town in the south of Xuzhou.

In the history of another plane, because of Chen Deng, the "peerless national warrior", Guangling was still as stable as Mount Tai even in the face of the successive invasions of the "little overlord" Sun Ce, which made Sun Ce's plan to go north return repeatedly.

But in this time and space, Chen Deng has been "snatched" by Li Shushi to merge the state, and after that, even most of the Chen family has migrated under the wings of this emerging force. After reaching a tacit understanding with Sun Quan, Cao Cao was more than half of the elite troops guarding the south and transferred to the north to support the front line of Guandu, only relying on some county soldiers and powerful troops to resist the tiger and wolf division in Jiangdong, and there was a menacing Youji tiger in the north, even if Xuzhou had not completely fallen, but everyone had regarded Xuzhou as the hunting ground of these two forces.

The only question is how these two armies will deal with their borders with each other, but there is nothing left to do with Cao Cao's army.

Pan Sen: What about this volume, the brain hole may be more open, maybe it will be bigger, and it may even be thunderous, please bring your own lightning rod, don't say it is unpredictable~ (To be continued......)