Chapter 1: It would have been nice if I had traveled here five years earlier.
In the ninth year of Han Jian'an, in August 204 AD, Youzhou ruled Jicheng.
Midsummer passed, the scorching heat was not over, a cavalry hurried from the south under the scorching sun, to the city of Jicheng, he showed the official document in his hand, and said loudly: "Urgent report, urgent report, Yecheng was besieged by Cao Cao's army, and the general ordered the second prince to send reinforcements to the army!" ”
Suddenly, at the head of the city, a young man wearing a military robe and a noble face appeared. Hearing the news, he nodded, and motioned for the guards to let the cavalry who had come to give the order into the city. At the same time, he let out a soft sigh in his heart: "It would be great if I could have traveled here five years earlier." ”
This person is Yuan Shao's second son, named Yuan Xi, and the official worships the assassin history of Youzhou. Two months ago, Yuan Xi somehow suddenly got malaria, and the illness was extremely serious, just when everyone in Jicheng thought that he had no cure, and was about to report the nightmare to Yecheng, he was dying suddenly and without warning of his condition improved, not long ago, he was basically cured.
No one knows, in fact, Yuan Xi has died of illness before, and the current Yuan Xi is a brand new life. Coming from the 21st century, he was a firefighter who was knocked unconscious by a heavy object during a firefighting operation, and when he woke up, he found that he had traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and became Yuan Shao's second son, Yuan Xi.
It has been said that a person's origin is more important than hard work. There is no doubt that Yuan Xi is the kind of person born with a golden key, his father Yuan Shao, was once the first warlord in the world, and his wife Zhen Mi enjoys the reputation of "the first beauty of the Three Kingdoms" (Diao Chan is a fictional character), and himself, as early as five years ago, when he was only in his early twenties, was appointed as the assassin of Youzhou, and was the youngest feudal official in the Han world.
It's a pity that after a war, these glories have become a thing of the past.
Four years ago, a world-renowned battle of Guandu made the Hebei Yuan family, which was the most promising to dominate the world, suffered a heavy blow to the Yuan clan of Hebei, and Yuan Shao became ill because of this, and soon died suddenly. After the death of Yuan Shao, Yuan Xi's eldest brother Yuan Tan and the third brother Yuan Shang in order to compete for the position of the general left by Yuan Shao, did not hesitate to fight in the same room, and even led the wolf into the room, Cao Cao, who won a decisive victory in the battle of Guandu, after two years of rest, has put the unification of the north on the agenda, seeing such a cheap thing, he took the opportunity to lead the army to the north and intervened in the civil war of Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang.
The Yuan clan is about to perish, this is something that the blind can see, even if the newborn Yuan Xi is a human being and has the advantage of opening the eyes of the sky, he also knows that things have come to this point, he led the army to Yecheng at this time, and the chance of being able to keep Yecheng is not great. The Yuan family made it like this, and the biggest responsible person is the two brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, these two people are crazy to death, and they are not worthy of sympathy at all. But the innocent Yuan Xi, as the biggest victim of Yuan's civil strife, could not refuse Yuan Shang's order, not only because Yuan Shang was his lord, but most importantly, his wife was in Yecheng.
In his previous life, Yuan Xi doted on his wife very much, because Yecheng was as prosperous as splendor, Youzhou was deserted and bitterly cold, he had been in the military in Youzhou for five years, living a single life, and even until the end of his life, his wife was not around. The newborn Yuan Xi not only inherited the former's body, but also inherited his memories and emotions, and he knew what the consequences would be once Cao's army broke through Yecheng.
If he can't change history next, the peerless elegance and the "Luoshen" that made Cao Zhi shocked by heaven will definitely be killed by the ruthless Cao Pi more than ten years later.
"You gave me a second life, and I won't let you die without a blind eye."
Before leaving Youzhou, the newborn Yuan Xi said to Yuan Xi in his previous life in his heart.
Before Yuan Shao's death, he had been repeatedly jumping sideways between passing the position of general to his eldest son Yuan Tan or his third son Yuan Shang, swaying from side to side, which was also the root cause of Yuan's rapid transformation from prosperity to decline. But Yuan Shao didn't realize that the biggest consideration in choosing an heir should not be old (Yuan Tan) or handsome (Yuan Shang), but ability and morality.
In his previous life, Yuan Xi's moral character was not subject to the moment, in terms of ability alone, he was definitely the strongest among the three brothers.
Needless to say, Yuan Tan's ability must be the first to last - Cao Jun went north this time, he invited him to form an alliance with his father's biggest enemy, just to kill his brother, this is something that a person with an online IQ can do?
Compare Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi. According to the official history, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi were chased and killed by Cao's army and fled to Liaodong, where Sun Kang, the Taishou Gonggong of Liaodong, summoned them. Yuan Shang excitedly discussed with the second brother: "As long as we wait for the opportunity to kill Gongsun Kang and then occupy Liaodong, our Yuan clan can rise again." Yuan Xi decided that it was better not to see Gongsun Kang if he saw that he would die. Yuan Shang, as a general, ordered the second brother to go with him, but Yuan Xi had to obey. After entering the account, Gongsun Kang arranged an ambush in advance, surrounded Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang was still complaining that the ground was too cold, hoping that Gongsun Kang would give him a mat. Yuan Xi smiled bitterly: "Soon our heads will be sent thousands of miles away, why do you need a mat." ”
It's a pity that Yuan Xi in the history books has always adhered to his duty because of his brotherhood, and he has never coveted the position of a general.
Fortunately, Yuan Xi in the history books can't move in his previous life, which doesn't mean that Yuan Xi, a freshman in the 21st century, can't take it - he has read "Three Kingdoms", which is equivalent to opening his eyes to the sky, knowing that Yuan Shang is an embroidered pillow that can't be supported by mud on the wall, but he doesn't care about the life and death of this third brother. But the problem is that Yuan Shang, as Yuan Shao's heir, and most of Yuan's army are in Yuan Shang's hands, if he wants to save Yecheng and rescue his wife, he can only cooperate with him.
"Lord Qi, the army of the second son, is less than a hundred miles away from Yecheng."
"Great! Try to inform the trial and say that I have mobilized 100,000 reinforcements and are about to launch a counteroffensive against Cao Cao, so that he can support it for a few more days! ”
At this time, Yecheng had been surrounded by Cao's army for four months, and the city was exhausted, and nearly half of the people starved to death. The reason why Yuan Shang remembered to summon his second brother Yuan Xi to come to reinforcements at this time was because in the early days of the Battle of Yecheng, Cao's army had been besieging Yecheng without attacking, and Yuan Shang happened to be fighting with his eldest brother Yuan Tan in Qingzhou.
Yuan Shang's idea is very good, but he and Yuan Tan are two rookies pecking each other, which is easy to peck out the winner, so they fought for three or four months, Yuan Shang is still far away from taking Qingzhou, there is an official named Li Fu on the side of Yecheng, he saw that Yecheng was about to fall, Yuan Shang was still there and his eldest brother was consuming, he had to take three of his subordinates disguised as Cao Jun, risking death to break through the encirclement and send an urgent report: "The city has run out of food, the arrows have already been shot, if the reinforcements are not available within half a month, the judge has decided to apologize!" Only then did Yuan Shang understand the seriousness of the problem, and finally ordered the whole army to return to Yecheng, and summoned the second brother Yuan Xi to go south with the Youzhou army.