Yuzhou, in the middle of the world, since the three emperors and five emperors, is a major grain production area.

Jian'an 8th year, July.

Under the blazing sun, there are streams cut off, and there are barren fields, which are condensed and cracked.

The once fertile soil has decayed, the seedlings have dried up and turned yellow, and even the weeds that have been burned by the wildfires have not survived.

This is a natural disaster, and it is also a human disaster.

Nature's power is so vast that even the slightest change can cause catastrophe.

The government's inaction will infinitely magnify this disaster.

On both sides of the road, there were jagged white bones, in different postures, and after the wind and rain, the already shabby clothes had long since turned into rags.

In the bushes, among the overgrown weeds, there were broken carriages, rusted weapons, rare and beautiful patterns, and traces of swords and slashes.

The poor people and the nobles of the noble clan died in one place, and from the scattered weapons, it can be seen that they must have gone through a fierce battle, and no one knows the final victor.

Perhaps, in such a world, there is no winner, and in the end all you get is the ultimate fairness, and all you get is death.

Let you be glorious and rich in life, and at this moment, you will also die with infinite regret.

On this overgrown road, where no one had come for a long time, there was the sound of horses' hooves at this moment, and at the end of the road, three hundred knights, all with one man and three horses, led by more than a thousand foot soldiers and auxiliaries, appeared at the end of the road.

These knights were all dressed in the costumes of the forbidden army of the imperial court, and they were the tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao, and the leader of this group of cavalry was Cao Ren, the most outstanding person among the generals of the Cao clan under Cao Cao.

Cao Ren rode his horse in, looked at the situation in the road, and then said to the palm next to him: "Remember the letter, convey to the lord: this road is barren, Yuan Shu has not used this as a food road for a long time, and more than 1,000 horses have to enter with this, and Yuan Shu cannot be royal." ”

The confrontation between Cao Jun and Yuan Shu has been not short, there have been several battles between the two sides, and Yuan Shu has suffered several losses, but in the face of Yuan Shu, who is like an iron bucket array, the effect is not great.

Cao Yingzhong.

The atmosphere is solemn, Xun Yu is no longer here, and the confrontation is a competition for food and grass and troops.

Xun Yu, who is Shang Shuling and the chief of logistics, has returned to Yingchuan and Yanzhou to raise more grain and grass for Cao Cao, and even strong women to participate in the war.

Zhong Miao was taken away by Xun Yu to deal with the government affairs under Cao Cao.

At this moment, he received a letter from Cao Ren, and after Cao Cao read it, he immediately handed it to Xun You and others.

He had long wanted to go to war, but he had been held back by a few strategists, saying that now was not the best time.

After a few strategists hurriedly looked at it, Xun You began to calculate all the information for several months, and Guo Jia, Dong Zhao, Xi Zhicai and others also counted the information revealed in the information.

Cao Cao asked a little anxiously, "Gongda, is now the right time?"

Our army's food and grass are about to run out, this damn Yuan Highway, 200,000 soldiers eat horses and chew, how did he carry it? ”

The essence of Yuan Shu was not revealed until this moment.

With more than twice as many troops, Cao Cao's grain and grass can't bear it, but Yuan Shu can still carry it.

Xun You's mental arithmetic ended, and he slowly opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Lord, Yuan Shu's grain and grass are about to be cut off." ”

Cao Cao suddenly shone and said, "Gongda! ”

Xun You raised his voice and said: "My lord, according to intelligence these days, several grain roads in Yuan Shu's army have been deserted, and there are also newly discovered grain roads in our army.

The desolation of these grain routes proves that Yuan Shu no longer uses these grain routes, but the grain and grass consumed by the army will not decrease.

Now the only thing that Yuan Shusu can transport grain and grass is the three largest grain routes.

However, according to You's calculations, the grain and grass that passed through those three grain routes every day was not enough to sustain the consumption of Yuan Shu's army.

In other words, although Yuan Shu has always had new grain and grass entering the barracks, the grain and grass in his barracks has continued to decrease.

These days, Yuan Shu still took the initiative to go out of the camp to engage in some small-scale battles with our army, which is enough to prove that Yuan Shu began to be impatient.

This shows that the grain and grass in Yuan Shu's camp are likely to be less than a month, otherwise he would not be in such a hurry. ”

This is a fairly simple arithmetic problem.

Yuan Shu had an army of 200,000, but the grain and grass delivered every day was only enough for 190,000 people to eat, and the remaining 10,000 people could only eat and store grain.

No matter how much grain is stored, it can't withstand such a person's eating and chewing, so Yuan Shujun's lack of grain and grass is inevitable.

Cao Cao was puzzled: "But why did Yuan Shu suddenly start running out of food?"

That's Runan County, the richest county in the world.

The grain and grass produced in one county can even surpass the grain and grass in a state in the bitter cold land of Youzhou and Bingzhou. ”

Cao Cao was born in Yuzhou, and he really knows too well how perverted Runan County is.

Xi Zhicai said excitedly: "Lord, Yuan Shu is not just short of food, Yuzhou first has a big flood, and then a big drought.

The land was barren, and Yuan Shu transferred the green and strong scale of Runan County, and there was a lack of green and strong farming, and the land was further barren.

Yuan Shu also extorted from large households in Runan County, asking them to donate a large amount of military supplies.

But where in the world can there really be a rampant extortion on the big households, and in the end, it will naturally fall on the heads of the people.

Have you forgotten that some time ago, you received a report that there were even people in Runan County who rebelled and attacked Yuan Shu's back road?

It's just that he was suppressed by Yuan Shu, who held the army.

But the damage of that rebellion against Yuan Shu must have been huge, because only half a month after that time, there was a grain channel that Yuan Shu voluntarily gave up.

The people are like fire, fierce and fierce.

No one in this world is willing to be oppressed to death.

As long as Yuan Shu continues like this, then the resistance will be endless, and will Yuan Shu change?

Won't change!

He will never recognize his faults, but will attribute all them to the people and the unworthy heroes.

Lord, this is where our opportunity lies, Yuan Shu is worried about internal and external troubles, how can he be undefeated? ”

Cao Cao was first excited when he heard this, and then he felt a little tingling all over his body, just like the feeling he felt after Guo Jia finished speaking last time.

He always felt that when these strategists belittled Yuan Shu, they were also pointing at him.

Because when he was confronting Yuan Shu, there was also a small rebellion in his rear, but it was quickly resolved by Chen Gong.

Dong Zhao suddenly said loudly: "Lord, Yuan Shu is brutal in Runan County, it's time for Liu Biao and Gongzi Chu to send troops together."

They are all close to Runan County, and they know better about the affairs of the county than we do.

If they are unwilling to attack at this time, it can greatly damage their prestige.

If you are willing to attack, it is in line with our strategy.

We can get more with less losses.

Finally, we will carry out our previous plan. ”

Cao Cao was unwilling to involve Liu Biao and Luo Chu from his heart.

It is easy to please God, but it is difficult to send God.

If you invite these two into Yuzhou and then want to drive them away, it will not be easy.

But at this time, there was no other way, Cao Cao only felt that his head began to ache faintly again, so he had to sit down and say to Xun You: "Gongda, you will write the letters to Liu Biao and Luo Chu."

It's July, Gongda, when do you think it's appropriate for us to attack? ”

Xun You had already calculated when he was thinking about it just now, and when he heard Cao Cao's question, he immediately said: "Now the grain and grass in our army can still last for half a month, and Shang Shuling is still sending grain and grass in a steady stream, but now the rear is gradually drying up.

According to the calculations, you can confront Yuan Shujun for another month, observe the situation of Yuan Shujun, and then scatter the army and ambush the strange soldiers.

Although our army is not as many as Yuan Shu's soldiers, it is more elite, as long as Yuan Shu is short of food, he will attack fiercely, he will definitely be defeated. ”

Xun You's outlook for the future, Cao Cao was noncommittal, he only heard that he needed to confront Yuan Shujun for another month, and a breath of air rose in his body again.

A month?

Cao Cao took a deep breath, in his life, from an ordinary son of a powerful man to the current princes, he has experienced not a few wars, but the real Armageddon is not too much.

After all, there are too few people in this world who can be evenly matched enemies.

Although Yuan Shu is not a hero, he relies on his strong family background, and his background is terrifying.

It is indeed the strongest opponent that Cao Cao has encountered at present, except for Liu Bei, and the rest of the small princes are inferior to Yuan Shu.

This battle of Yuan Shu is very important to Cao Cao, and whether he can become the overlord of the Central Plains depends on this battle.

The waiting time always feels slow but unwavering to move forward.

It felt uncomfortable to watch the food and grass run out little by little, and Cao Cao wanted to take the initiative to attack countless times, but was stopped by Xun You and a few people.

The same is true for Yuan Shu, the frequency of attacks is increasing, the number of troops is increasing, and the anxiety in his heart is perfectly played.

This made Cao Cao feel a little relieved, knowing that Xun You and the others were not wrong in their guesses.

Yuan Shu did not have food and grass, so he was desperately seeking a decisive battle.

In fact, the situation in Yuan Shu's army was even worse than expected, and some of the people who transported grain and grass and the soldiers who served as auxiliaries had begun to reduce the supply of grain and grass.

But in this case, the quartermaster didn't dare to talk to Yuan Shu at all, because he was already Yuan Shu's third quartermaster.

Yuan Shu didn't believe that he didn't have food and grass at all, because it was always others who lacked food, and Yuan Shu never lacked food.

For Yuan Shu, this situation is almost like a fantasy.

Cao Cao and the group of strategists under his command were completely wrong, and they were speculating on abnormal people with normal people's thinking.

The reason why Yuan Shu attacked frequently was simply because he felt unhappy, that is, he simply wanted to fight Cao Cao quickly, he couldn't wait to defeat Cao Cao, and then brutally abused Cao Cao to avenge his son.

As for losing to Cao Cao, Yuan Shu didn't think about this possibility.

The previous defeat was only because he did not completely withdraw his hand, and now he mobilized the whole army.

Who else is his opponent in the world?

What is it with Cao Cao?

But reality is never shifted by human fantasies.

Yuan Shu only circled around his tent all day long, and all the soldiers he saw were the most elite soldiers, and the food of these soldiers naturally did not dare to be a little deductive.

But an army of 200,000!

The camp alone stretched for more than ten miles, occupying almost all the suitable places for camping, and running from one end to the other, even on horseback had to travel for a long time.

Yuan Shu hadn't even seen where those people and auxiliaries were, and he didn't know what it was like at all.

I didn't know that there had been several small-scale mutinies, but they were all caused by some starving people.

In the suppression again and again, those people and soldiers who had long been unable to bear Yuan Shu could no longer endure it.

Yuan Shu went on a rampage for this war, and he completely regarded himself as the master of this land.

The enslavement of the people is like that of all the tyrants of the past.

He's not even a monarch!

The people who transported grain and grass for the army were originally forcibly conscripted to participate in military service and conscription, but they didn't expect Yuan Shu to be completely denied a way to live.

Seeing that sooner or later they would starve to death if they continued like this, these soldiers and people directly mutinied again!

And it was not a random mutiny, but a mutiny in the way in King Su's story.

Kill those who don't want to mutiny first.

Everyone will either mutiny or die.

It's impossible to take advantage of following behind them who are making trouble.

Luo said that before rebelling and doing great things, he should first kill the soft bones and smart people in his own people.

Kill the soft bones, and no one will always think about surrendering.

Kill the smart people who let others die first, and others will become brave.

In Lowe's propaganda, this is the only way to win, and if you don't, you will definitely lose in the end.

Although these people have no culture and do not understand many truths in books, they have heard these stories under the tireless propaganda of Luo's tireless publicity.

Now together with righteousness, we can immediately act on these propaganda.

With such a large army, once the information is not smooth, any little chaos will quickly expand, and most people don't know how the chaos started.

Yuan Shu heard the noisy sound and thought that Cao Cao had called, but until now he didn't know that another mutiny had happened in his heart.

Cao Cao keenly noticed the noise and chaos in Yuan Shu's camp.

The super-god's wisdom took over his brain for a moment, and the super-monarch's instinct made him tremble.

"There is a big chaos in the Yuan Shu military camp, I'm afraid there is a mutiny!"

Without waiting for the strategists to analyze it, Cao Cao analyzed it with his intuition about the war.

"The cavalry of the whole army is on the horse, gentlemen, this is our perfect opportunity to defeat Yuan Shu in a battle, at this moment!"

Cao Cao waved the sword in his hand high and said loudly: "Whoever kills Yuan Shu, I will keep a position for him in front of His Majesty!" ”

At this moment, even Guan Yu's eyes lit up, and Danfeng's eyes, who had been squinting, were shining.

Today, only the marquis titles of the Han dynasty are hard currency.

Although Guan Yu didn't care about a lot of things, the Marquis Lie's title still cared.

Cao Cao personally charged ahead, Dian Wei protected his side, he was not good at commanding the army, he had always been Cao Cao's escort captain, responsible for protecting Cao Cao's safety.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed when he saw that Cao Cao dared to lead a large army to directly attack his camp, and immediately opened the gate of the camp and led the army to fight fiercely with Cao Cao.

But he didn't care about the fire in his rear at all.

And it's not just that there is an enemy attacking from the rear, but his own people are opposed, which is equivalent to someone sticking a knife in his stomach all the time, and he has no power to fight back at all.

Yuan Shu's excited voice made the soldiers move forward, but he heard a whistling sound behind him.

Cao Cao pressed the whole army up, and almost instantly pulled the situation of the war to the most intense stage.

Cao Cao's army has been integrated, and Yuan Shu's army is a rabble, and a simple battalion and battalion are still capable of fighting, but it is almost impossible to cooperate.

In the face of Cao Cao's elite, the soldiers at the front died, and the soldiers at the back listened to this voice, and even felt that there were enemies all over the mountains.

The soldiers who came from the rear were scattered by those who rebelled, and immediately began to attack from the back to the front, and Yuan Shu's army was equivalent to being attacked on the back of the enemy.

Moreover, the rear is already equivalent to completely bombing the camp, and the front cannot withstand Cao Cao's army.

Cao Cao's generals led the army forward, and he only felt that he had never fought such an easy battle in his life.

Now anyone with a little strategic vision can see that Yuan Shujun is about to be defeated.

Easily defeated!

It's a complete one-touch collapse!

It's all over!

Looking at the soldiers who were scattered and fleeing, Yuan Shu's whole person was about to collapse.

He never expected that he was not defeated by Cao Cao in the end, but was betrayed by these pig-like pariahs.

And then lead to your own defeat, which is really ridiculous.

"Untouchables!"

"How dare you betray!"

Yuan Shu roared and cursed, and with a sharp sword in his hand, he slashed a man to the ground, spurting blood and splashing his face.

made his hideous face look more and more terrifying, just like a ghost coming out of the yellow spring, looking at it makes people chill.

Looking at the battlefield where the army was defeated, Yuan Shu hurriedly fled under the protection of the guards, believing that as long as he escaped back, he would definitely be able to make a comeback.

He was born in the fourth generation and the third duke, his protégés are all over the world, and the family background is extremely deep, so it is not a problem to stand up again.

"Master, where are you?

Don't leave your concubine behind. ”

Yuan Shu, who was in a state of madness, suddenly heard a familiar soft voice, and when he turned his head, it turned out to be the woman who regarded him as the master, who was running towards him with her skirt at the moment.

Between the blood everywhere, among the countless blades, and the corpses strewn all over the ground, a beautiful woman stumbled towards him.

Her abdomen was slightly bulging, and inside was Yuan Shu's child, and she gained Yuan Shu's trust with this.

How so?

Yuan Shu was a little stunned.

The guards who were protecting Yuan Shu around were about to stop them, but they were reprimanded by Yuan Shu, so they let the woman go.

The woman ran to his side, her face full of worry, and asked gently, "Master, are you okay?" ”

As he spoke, he cried directly and said, "Master, why is there blood on your armor, are you injured?" ”

Yuan Shu looked at this shameless woman in his eyes for glory and wealth.

He never imagined that at this time, it would be the woman in front of him to comfort him.

He watched in a daze as the woman unarmoured his side, and he wanted to tell her that he was protected by armor and that he was not hurt.

But in this moment of betrayal, he didn't want to talk like that.

He needed someone to tell him that he wasn't wrong.

There are still people who are willing to follow him, even if it is the shameless woman in front of him.

The woman stretched out her hand to untie the armor, she had learned the method of untying the armor for a long time, so Yuan Shu did not feel the slightest discomfort, she reached out and stroked Yuan Shu's side without the slightest trace of blood, and put her mind at ease.

"Master, it's good that you're not hurt!"

Yuan Shu was intact now, and there was undisguised joy in her eyes.

Even people like Yuan Shu couldn't help but be a little happy when they saw this joy that was not mixed with any impurities.

He decided to give the woman some status in the future, and upgrade her from a lowly maidservant to his own concubine.

"Poof!"

It was the sound of a dagger stabbing into flesh.

A tingling pain came from the intercostal space, and Yuan Shu froze his expression in an instant, and the feeling of sharp pain spread throughout his body almost instantly.

"You ......"

The woman's voice no longer had any tenderness in the past, but a cold chill, even the coldest glacier on the Tianshan Mountains, even the cold spring under the Nine Shadows could not compare to her.

Because this chill is full of hatred, the last voice of a woman whose family is ruined, who can understand the pain and torment of her day and night with her body as a thief?

"Yuan Shu, it's good that you're not injured.

I once swore that I would kill you with my own hands to avenge my blood.

I'm so scared that someone else will kill you first, I'm scared! ”

She stabbed twice while talking, she stabbed into the ribs and directly injured her heart, Yuan Shu would die, so she dared to talk nonsense here.

Yuan Shu completely lost the strength to push the woman away, and could only ask intermittently, "Why?"

Isn't it good to follow me and enjoy the glory and wealth?

There are many women in this world who remarry others, why don't you want to?

I killed your child, but you have a new child. ”

The woman said in a cold voice: "King Su's gods are in the sky, and I once made an oath with my husband in front of Luoshen, why do you say?"

How can you magnates understand?

King Su and Roselle have given us free souls that will never be enslaved.

This child in my womb?

You wicked person who deserves eternal life and eternal punishment in the Yellow Springs is not worthy of children, he is a seed of iniquity, and he is not qualified to appear in this world.

You should cut off your children and grandchildren, and you should become a lonely ghost, and you will never receive the offerings of blood and incense. ”

Yuan Shu's eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief, "Do you purely believe in King Su?" ”

The woman said proudly: "Yes!

Go to hell! ”

Yuan Shu never expected that the woman in front of him would be a person who rarely sees pure belief in the world today.

This kind of person basically only appears in these places in Zhaocheng, with the family as the main body, does not spread outward, and only reproduces within the family.

If Yuan Shu had known, he would never have taken this woman to his side, because this kind of person is an extremely unstable element.

Almost all the princes avoided it.

"I died at the hands of a woman!"

Until the end, Yuan Shu was still wailing, he didn't expect that he didn't die in the hands of Cao Cao, but in the hands of a woman.

He was aggrieved to the extreme.

Yuan Shu's blood flow is enough, and the toxicity penetrates deep enough.

His head hung down like a dead dog.

"Noble and famous?"

"But that's it!"

The woman let go of Yuan Shu and looked at the panicked guards who pounced on her, she indifferently judged herself in front of everyone, and a flower of blood bloomed in her heart.

She was still so beautiful, and although her face was bloodstained, she was clean.

The guards who rushed over looked at Yuan Shu and the woman's corpses, not knowing what to do, and then the first person fled, and the others dispersed in a hurry.

The dignified sister-in-law of the Yuan family didn't even have a person who was willing to collect his body for him.

Or perhaps those who were willing to collect his body had died on the battlefield.

The white clouds were long, and a few birdsong sounded, bringing a burst of loneliness.

Life and death are just as simple as that.

Let you have thousands of troops and horses, let you dominate the world, close your eyes, no longer open them, and there will be no more your name in the world.

After a long time, Cao Chuncai led the tiger and leopard rider to chase here.

His face was full of remorse, he didn't have any hope, he never expected that he would chase after the wrong one, causing Yuan Shu to run away.

Such a good opportunity to avenge Zilian would be missed directly.

"General! Is it Yuan Shu in front? ”

Suddenly, the soldier pointed forward, Cao Chun hurriedly rode his horse over, and when he looked at it, it was Yuan Shu's corpse, hideous and terrifying, and he couldn't see it.

Looking at the dagger quenched by the woman's heart next to him, Cao Chun knew what was happening.

For a while, it was regret and happiness.

Although he didn't kill Yuan Shu with his own hands, he didn't let him escape, which was a blessing in misfortune.

He sighed here, the sound of horses' hooves came, and several generals went to kill or surrender the soldiers of Yuan Shu, and the rest of the people came here.

Killing Yuan Shu was by far the most critical thing in Cao Cao's camp.

It can be said that Yuan Shu will not die, and it will take at least more than a year to pacify Runan County.

But Yuan Shu is dead, and Runan County can even be passed on, which is the importance of a political figure's life and death.

In particular, Yuan Shu now has no heir, and even if he still has some loyal ministers, no one can hold up the banner.

Cao Cao was dressed in armor and a bright red cloak, his face was full of spirit, and he rode his horse.

Looking at Yuan Shu's hideous corpse, he couldn't help but raise his head and laugh, this time he could finally laugh unscrupulously.

"Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu, is this the sister-in-law of the third prince of the fourth world?

But that's it!

But that's it! ”

From Yuan Shu's body, what Cao Cao saw was not that one person died, but that the entire Runan would be in his hands, and he Cao Cao would become the overlord of the Central Plains in Erzhou.

Such a force is not half a point weaker than any prince, unless Yuan Shao can take the complete Youzhou, he can defeat him.

The most important thing is that because Yuan Shu was defeated too quickly and simply, Cao Cao's losses were completely acceptable, and Luo Chu and Liu Biao probably did not react.

He had enough time to confront Luo Chu and Liu Biao and prevent them from entering Runan County.

"This woman killed Yuan Shu, which is regarded as eliminating harm for the people and burying her well, just write on the tombstone, 'The person who killed Yuan Shu is buried here'."

Cao Cao didn't know who this woman's surname was, and being able to do this was already considered benevolent and righteous.

Cao Cao turned his horse's head and said: "Take Yuan Shu's corpse with you, go back to pay tribute to Zilian's heroic soul, so that his soul in the sky can rest in peace, and his brothers have not broken their promises and avenged him."

Cut off his head and pickle it, and give it to him when the child of Zilian is grown. ”

The army came like a wind, and then left like the wind, leaving only a lonely grave by the roadside and blood all over the ground.

The smoke and smell of blood condensed in the wind slowly dissipated.

A new chapter has been opened.

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Yuan Shu's life is arrogant by nature, arrogant and famous, self-conscious and forgetful of the country, and pseudo-self-esteem.

There is no size of the skill, the goodness of the mustard, but the words are frugal, but the extravagance and prodigality, especially the nobility, the concubine hundreds, all decorated with preciousness, and the people are hungry and poor, do not know how to compensate, and abuse in parallel, and the remnants of the people destroy their homes.

The people are unbearable, Cao Cao takes advantage of the situation to raise the whip, and the undead are not?

Cao Caohu?

Definitely!

O all the people of Runan!

And the woman raises the sword with hatred, holds the way of the people, knows the holy words, and the art is still sad to herself, how fallaous, the dry bones in the grave, laughing for the history! ——"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Liu Yan, Liu Biao, Liu Yu, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, and the Biography of Sun Zhan"

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