Chapter 43: The Battle of Shao Zhan

After the dissolution of the alliance, Yuan Shao returned to Hanoi, and with the increase in troops, the contradiction of lack of food and grass began to be exposed. Jizhou Mu Han Fu, after knowing the situation, sent someone to send some grain and grass over to express his heart, but the grain and grass still could not solve the urgent need, so Yuan Shao's adviser Feng Ji suggested: "The big husband should dominate the world, how can he rely on other people's relief to live!" Besides, Jizhou is originally a place where grain is produced, and the general should take the initiative to attack and get grain and grass by himself! ”

Yuan Shao smiled and said, "I also have this idea, but I haven't thought of a proper way yet." ”

Feng Ji nodded and said: "You can secretly send someone to send a letter to Gongsun Zhan, let him enter Jizhou, and make an appointment with him to attack, Gongsun Chan will definitely take the initiative to send troops for this benefit, and Han Fu has no strategy, he will definitely ask the general to go over to help, and when the time comes, the general will be invited to garrison his territory, and then we will take Jizhou easily, it will be easy." ”

This strategy is very good, Yuan Shao was very happy, and immediately sent someone to write a letter to Gongsun Zhan, after Gongsun Zhan received the letter, he saw that the letter said that Jizhou would be attacked and the land would be divided equally, he knew that Jizhou was the source of food, and he did not want to miss such an opportunity, so he immediately sent troops.

Here Yuan Shaoyou secretly sent someone to find Han Fu, Han Fu hurriedly found his advisers Xun Chen and Xin Ping to discuss together, Xun Chen said: "Gongsun Chan is not trivial, and he also invited Liu Bei and Guan Yu to bring it, the edge is unstoppable, it is difficult for us to resist, now Yuan Shao is brave and brave, and there are many generals and civil officials under his command, we can borrow his strength and let him temporarily come to represent our place, so there is no need to be afraid of Gongsun Zhan." ”

Han Fu took this suggestion, and asked people to go to Yuan Shao and explain the situation, but there were also different opinions, Changshi Geng Wu admonished: "Yuan Shao is not a good person, invite him over, it's like a baby in the palm of someone else's hand, if he is weaned, he will starve to death, why give him the territory as an agent?" This is to call the tiger into the flock. ”

Han Fu smiled and said: "Don't have such concerns, I am Yuan Shao's old minister, we have a friendship, and my talent is not as good as Yuan Shao." In ancient times, those who chose to be virtuous were humble, so why should you be jealous? ”

Geng Wu sighed: "In this way, our Jizhou will be finished!" ”

There were more than 30 people with Geng Wu, who resigned from their official positions and left Jizhou on the same day, but Geng Wu and they did not leave when they arrived outside the city gate, but ambushed there, hoping to wait for Yuan Shao to come over and kill him.

A few days later, Yuan Shao really came with a pair of people, Geng Wu and Guan Chun drew their knives and wanted to stab Yuan Shao to death, but the other party had a general Yan Liang by his side, and immediately reacted and killed the two, Yuan Shao successfully entered Jizhou, and crowned Han Fu as the general of Fenwei, so that Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Xu You, and Feng Ji were in charge of Jizhou's politics, and took away all the power of Han Fu.

Gongsun Zhan was originally going to send troops, but when he learned that Yuan Shao had already obtained Jizhou in advance, he was a little dissatisfied, so he asked his younger brother Gongsun to come to see Yuan Shao and wanted to divide the land of Jizhou.

Yuan Shao said: "You can invite your brother to come by himself, I still have some important things to tell him." ”

So Gongsun Yue returned, ready to tell Gongsun Chan about the situation, but after walking about fifty miles, a pair of people suddenly came out and said, "I am Prime Minister Dong Cheng's general!" Then he couldn't help but say that he killed Gongsun Yue. Some soldiers took the opportunity to run back and saw Gongsun Chan and explained the situation.

Gongsun Zhan knew that it was a ploy, and felt very angry, and said: "Yuan Shao deliberately asked me to send troops, and then secretly occupied Jizhou, and now he pretends to be Dong Zhuo's general and kills my younger brother. "Immediately took the people of the headquarters and went to the direction of Jizhou to kill the generals.

Yuan Shao knew that this was such an ending, and immediately led the army to meet the battle, the two armies met on the Pan River, Yuan Shao's army was on the west side of the Pan River, and Gongsun Zan was on the bridge, shouting at Yuan Shao: "You treacherous man, you dare to play me!" ”

Yuan Shao replied with a smile: "Han Fu has no talent, he is willing to give me the land in Jizhou, what does it have to do with you?" ”

Gongsun Chan shouted: "I thought you were a loyal and righteous person before, so I calculated that you were the leader of the alliance, and your behavior today is a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs, what face do you have to live in this world?" ”

This sentence angered Yuan Shao, and said, "Which of you dares to help me capture him alive!" ”

Before he finished speaking, Wen Chou drove the horses and attacked with guns, and Gongsun Chan fought with him on the bridge for more than ten rounds, and Gongsun Chan couldn't resist it, so he fled back. Wen Chou took this opportunity to catch up, and the four generals under Gongsun Chan all came out to fight, but the martial arts were too low, and they were assassinated by Wen Chou with one shot, and the other three generals were so frightened that they fled.

Gongsun Chan didn't expect this situation, and kept running behind, while Wen Chou kept chasing, Gongsun Chan fled in the direction of the valley, and Wen Chou shouted while chasing: "Don't run away, let's go down and surrender obediently." ”

Gongsun Chan was very embarrassed at this time, the helmet fell off, the bow and arrows were gone, the cloak was scattered, and suddenly the horse's leg was tripped by something, Gongsun Chan fell off the horse, Wen Chou realized that this was an opportunity, ready to assassinate from behind, suddenly a young general came out of the grass, Pegasus was very strong, and rushed directly to the direction of Wen Chou, Gongsun Chan lay on the hillside, looking at the young man, he was born eight feet long, thick eyebrows and big eyes, broad face, majestic, and Wen Chou fought for fifty or sixty rounds in a row, and the winner was not distinguished.

Gongsun Chan got reinforcements coming, Wen Chou immediately turned the horse's head and fled, the young man did not chase again, Gongsun Chan immediately went to thank, asked the young man's life, and replied: "I am Changshan Zhending, surnamed Zhao, named Yun, and Zilong." Originally, he defected to Yuan Shao, but because he saw that Yuan Shao did not have the heart to be loyal to the king and save the people, he abandoned him and voted for His Excellency, but he didn't expect to meet here. ”

Gongsun Zhan felt happy, took him back to the camp with him, reorganized the soldiers and horses, and prepared to fight Yuan Shao again on the second day.

Gongsun Zhan divided the generals and horses into two teams, left and right, like wings. There are more than 5,000 horses, most of which are white horses. Because Gongsun Hao once fought with the Qiang people, he chose Baima as the vanguard and was called the White Horse General; The Qiang people walked away when they saw the white horses, so there were many white horses.

Yuan Shao made Yan Liang and Wen Chou the vanguard, each with a thousand crossbowmen, and was also divided into two teams, left and right; It was ordered to shoot the right army of Gongsun Hao on the left and the left army of Gongsun Hao on the right. Then he ordered Lu Yi to lead 800 archers and 15,000 infantry in the array. Yuan Shao led tens of thousands of horses and infantry troops to respond later.

Gongsun Hao got Zhao Yun, he didn't know his character, so he didn't reuse it, but ordered him to lead an army in the rear. Sending the general Yan Gang as the vanguard, Gongsun Zan himself led the Chinese army, set the battle flag in front of the horse, and began to beat the drum from the time of the hour to the hour, Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses have not moved, and did not continue to advance to the front.