After Lu Chen captured the north gate of Yijing, Zhang Yan's reinforcements also arrived one after another, and the precarious Gongsun Zan was once again in a state of parity with Yuan Shao, and the Montenegrin army had a lot of troops, and the defense was to the north of Yijing, and the Yuan army was stationed in the southeast, facing each other across the city, and the war once again fell into a stalemate.

For a few days, both sides were also relatively restrained, and no one rushed to attack.

Yuan Shao's injuries were embarrassing, but not fatal, and he still commanded the battle strongly. The reason why Yuan Jun did not take the initiative to attack was because there was a shortage of food and grass, and he was waiting for Yuan Tan to send it. Originally, after they besieged the city, they were going to take Gongsun Zhan, so they originally thought that the hoarded grain and grass were enough, but unexpectedly, Lu Chen and the Montenegrin army attacked the camp one after another, and a lot of grain and grass were burned, and Gongsun Chan "deceived the corpse and returned the soul" with the help of Lu Chen, so there was naturally a shortage of grain and grass.

On Gongsun Zhan's side, he wanted to fight, but the 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city had been fighting for too long and his morale was low, so he could only wait for the newly recruited 20,000 soldiers and horses to come south before making a move. And Zhang Yan didn't have the idea of doing anything with Yuan Shao at all, in his opinion, dragging the two sides back like this is the best choice, Lu Chen didn't die and said that Cao Cao would send troops? That couldn't be better!

Eight days later, Wuji County, Zhongshan Country.

Yuan Shang rode crookedly on his horse, dressed very festively, and behind him was a team of well-dressed guards, he walked in front, followed by several carriages full of red silk, and at the end of the procession, there was Wen Chou, who was tenacious.

Originally, as the main and deputy greeting messengers, they had to wear red and hang colors in front of the front, but Yuan Shang looked at Wen Chou's egg and felt pain, and Wen Chou also hated Yuan Shang's bad luck, so they kept a safe distance.

Yuan Shang hated Wen Chou for a reason, and he originally hated Wen Chou for not dumping him, the most favored third son, and had a grudge in his heart. And Yuan Shang was demoted by his father to come here as a greeting messenger, he thought that it was also because of Wen Chou, it was precisely because Wen Chou's brain was open, and he offered a plan to repair the dirt road, so that Lu Chen's cavalry attacked the city, and it was precisely because of this that Yuan Shao fled overnight, and was finally slashed by Yuan Shang. Yuan Shang felt that he was demoted here entirely because of Wen Chou, a thing that crawls inside and out. This is the first time he has gone on an expedition with the army! He was originally going to go into battle to kill the enemy, but he cut down his father.

Wen Chou was also aggrieved in his heart, he still didn't know that he was being used by Lu Chen, he only felt that the strategy he offered was very good and obviously worked. However, Yuan Shang, the stupid donkey, with thousands of elite soldiers, failed to encircle and annihilate Lu Chen, but was taken around by him, and the last golden cicada came to the north gate and used the dirt road to go to the city. The reason why he was disgusted by the lord was because of Yuan Shang's animal.

The main and deputy envoys who complained to each other, each with a stick and a pro-soldier with a pouting mouth and frowning, made the atmosphere of this welcoming team also weird.

That's right, this is a welcoming team, and in the back carriage is the new wife of Yuan Shang's second brother Yuan Xi, who is the daughter of Zhen Yi, the head of the Zhen family in Zhongshan Kingdom.

Yuan Shangxiang is pretentious, he calls this a natural noble temperament, but in fact, he is a master and a low self-righteousness. This can't all be blamed on Yuan Shang, firstly, he is still young, only seventeen years old, and on the other hand, because Yuan Shao wants to dote on him too much, so it also makes him develop the habit of looking down on people. In his opinion, Wen Chou is just a dog of his Yuan family, and he dares not to wag his tail at him, which is a big rebellion!

Wen Chou is known as the first fierce general in Hebei, a real rough man, and his self-confidence is also bursting, in his mind, Yuan Shang's son and child, dare to look down on himself, even the lord treats Lao Tzu politely, are you a bird? In the future, when the eldest prince succeeds to the throne, he must torture and torture this fool. Wen Chou is now impartial on the surface, but in fact he has fallen to Yuan Tan.

"The third son is hard, and my father prepares a little courtesy, and I hope to accept it with a smile."

Just as Yuan Shang was thinking about how to make Wen Chou wag his tail, a handsome man rode a horse next to him, took out a red gold thorn post, and handed it to him with a smile on his face. This man is Zhen Yan, the second son of Zhen Yi, a wealthy businessman in Zhongshan, Zhen Yi's eldest son died young, so he is equivalent to the eldest son, that is, the elder brother of the woman in the carriage, Yuan Xi's eldest brother.

The Zhen family is the richest businessman in Hebei, and they have always contributed money and efforts to support Yuan Shao, and their relationship with the Yuan family is very iron, and it is almost inseparable from Mi Zhu, who supports Liu Bei.

Yuan Shaodu called Zhen Yi a brother and a brother, and Yuan Shang was not good at putting up a shelf for Zhen Yan, so he took the gift list with both hands and smiled and said: "Brother Shi is very polite!" This is for my brother to welcome his family, why do you have to say it? ”

Zhen Yan talked to Yuan Shang a few more words and said, "How happened to Yi Jing's death?" What's the good news for Xianfu? ”

In fact, the Zhen family is most concerned about whether Yuan Shao can win, after all, Zhongshan Kingdom was originally in Gongsun Zhan's territory, and Gongsun Chan also tried to win over Zhen Yi several times, but Zhen Yi refused. Therefore, Zhen Yi, who fully funded Yuan Shao, absolutely could not tolerate Gongsun Chan winning, and wanted to ask Yuan Shao to kill Gongsun Chan immediately. Now, Zhen Yi is going to marry his daughter to Yuan Shao's second son, and he has tied the entire family to Yuan Shao's carriage, so he also asked his son Zhen Yan to find Yuan Shang to find out a little inside information.

Yuan Shang said proudly: "Gongsun Zhan, it's just dry bones in the grave!" Sooner or later, my father will be captured alive! ”

Zhen Yan had always known that Yuan Shanghao was talking, but he didn't dare to believe all his words, and said: "Zhang Yan's 80,000 Black Mountain Army rushed to the aid of Gongsun Zhan, and now he is saving Gongsun Zhan at a critical juncture." Now that Yuan Gong and Gongsun Zhan have similar troops, I don't know what the odds are? ”

Yuan Shangdao: "Black Mountain Yellow Turban, local chickens and dogs!" On the first day of their arrival, they were defeated by our army, leaving behind more than 10,000 corpses! Moreover, it was not them who really saved Gongsun Zhan, but Lu Chen. ”

Of course, Zhen Yan knew about Lu Chen, so he asked: "Lu Chen's troops are all elites, although there are not many of them, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with, right?" I heard that Lu Chen's department has supplemented the white horse righteous servants of 1,000 Gongsun Zhan, and the number is even greater, it is said that they went out of Yijing and went south to attack and disturb our army's grain road, and they have succeeded many times! ”

Although Yuan Shang hated Lu Chen very much, he didn't dare to belittle their combat effectiveness, and said, "It's only 1,500 people, why make a fuss?" Su Muyan had already brought 10,000 Wuhuan cavalry south to Hejian County. As long as he dares to appear again, he will definitely die without a place to be buried! ”

"That's it!" Zhen Yan asked almost enough, kept it in his heart, and prepared to report to his father when he went back.

At this moment, Wen Chou's broken gong voice sounded, and Yuan Shang almost fell off the horse.

"Enemy attack! It's a tiger ben! It's Lu Chen's tiger ben! ”

This is Wen Chou's shout, Lu Chen's cavalry caught up from behind, so the scouts behind were the first to find out, after Wen Chou got the news, he immediately shouted that he was born, and took his own soldiers to kill the enemy in the past. His shout was to remind Yuan Shang to do a good defense, he was not many in number, it was impossible to destroy the enemy, he could only slow down the local speed and buy time for Yuan Shang, the soldiers and horses here listened to Yuan Shang, not him.

"Lu, Lu, Lu Chen? Isn't he in Riverland? How can it be? ”

Wen Chou overestimated Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang was already stunned, he didn't think of stopping the resistance at all, he just thought it was incredible, Hejian County, Zhongshan Kingdom and Yijing were an equilateral triangle, he felt that it was impossible for Lu Chen to attack and disturb the grain road to come here!

This is probably the fate of meeting thousands of miles away!

No one knew that Lu Chen was coming here, but Lu Chen's reason was very simple, he was originally going south this time to fake public and private interests, and it was too normal to come to Zhongshan Kingdom, this was a planned thing, because Changshan was not far to the west of Zhongshan Kingdom.