At this time, Yuan Shao was concentrating his forces to give Gongsun Chan the final blow.

If he didn't take Youzhou and settle the rear, he didn't dare to expand southward rashly.

At this moment, Yuan Shao's army had broken through the gate of Gongsun Zhan's last line of defense, Yijing, and he was watching his Hebei soldiers fiercely pass through the broken city gate and enter the city.

As soon as this city is broken, Gongsun Chan has no way to retreat, and he will definitely be defeated.

The corners of Yuan Shao's mouth rose, revealing a faint smile.

"Congratulations, my lord!"

Guo Tu first said: "After this battle, Gongsun Zhan will die, and the lord completely owns the four northern states, and there are many generals, and then it is easy to expand southward." ”

"Good!"

Yuan Shao just liked to hear such words.

Guo Tu also knows how to say these flattering words to please Yuan Shao.

"My lord."

The judge stepped forward from the rear and said: "General Gao Gan asked people to quickly pass on a military information and come back, and Zhang Yan, a black mountain thief who wanted to save Gongsun Zhan, was repelled by General Gao, and now he has returned to Montenegro. ”

This is also good news, Yuan Shao was very happy in his heart, but when he thought of Zhang Yan, he gritted his teeth and said: "When I control Youzhou, I will settle accounts with those black mountain thieves." ”

Zhang Yan is Yuan Shao's most troublesome enemy, and he has always teamed up with Gongsun Zan to deal with him.

Montenegro is right on the Taihang Mountain Range.

Yuan Shao wanted to destroy them all more than once, but Zhang Yan relied on the advantage of Montenegro to repel Yuan Shao's army many times.

As soon as Yuan's army retreated, they were killed by the Black Mountain thieves.

When Yuan Shao was about to suppress the bandits again, the Montenegrin thieves immediately retreated into the mountains and went back and forth several times, making Yuan Shao lose his temper and helpless against these Montenegrin thieves.

But this time, he had to concentrate his forces and send troops from Jizhou and Bingzhou at the same time, and those Montenegrin thieves looked good.

"My lord."

Yuan Shao's subordinate general Ju Yi came out of the city at this time and said, "Gongsun Chan is still resisting, trapped by us in a tall building. ”

"Into town."

Yuan Shao got the good news, and he couldn't hold back anymore to enter the city, thinking that Gongsun Zan was nothing more than that.

If he wants to enter the city, it means that the whole army must enter the city.

Yi Jing was quickly controlled by Yuan Jun, and the army was protected by Yuan Shao's side, and they rushed to the high-rise building where Gongsun Zhan was trapped, and Wen Chou followed by him.

Yuan Shao was also afraid that there would be some extreme people in the city, and for the sake of Gongsun Zhan, he would assassinate himself, and Wen Chou was the best bodyguard.

But before they reached the tall building, they saw a fire rising into the sky, and thick smoke billowing into the sky.

"Lord, Gongsun Chan knew that he had failed and committed suicide by arson."

Another general, Jiang Yiqu, ran back and said.

Yuan Shao pondered for a while and said: "Fight the fire and try to capture Gongsun Zan alive." ”

The fire is burning, and it is definitely too late to put out the fire now.

When the fire in the high-rise building was extinguished, all they could find was Gongsun Zhan's body.

Seeing the enemy who had been against him for many years, so dead in front of him, Yuan Shao had a feeling of loneliness as a master, the strongest Gongsun Chan in the north was gone, who else in the south could be his opponent?

"Send Gongsun Zhan's head to Xu County to Cao Cao and give him a little warning."

Yuan Shao was not merciful to Gongsun Zhan's corpse, and said: "If Cao Cao doesn't want to die, come to Yecheng to see me as soon as possible and send them military power." ”

His next plan is to plan Henan.

South of the Yellow River, the first to face is Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao hoped that the soldiers would take Cao Cao's territory without bloodshed and strengthen his own momentum.

The people around him cut off Gongsun Zhan's head, quickly whipped up, and sent him south to Xu Du as fast as possible.

"Congratulations, my lord."

Guo Tu and them shouted again.

said a lot of flattering words that Yuan Shao likes to hear.

Yuan Shao felt a little fluttering, thinking that there was no one in the world who was his opponent.

——

Gongsun Zhan's head accelerated southward for 800 miles.

When Cao Cao received the family tree of Zhuojun and was about to arrange for someone to change it, the head was just delivered, and it was delivered almost at the same time as the family tree.

Seeing Gongsun Zhan's head, Cao Cao knew that Yuan Shao had completely taken the four northern states, and it seemed that the time for war against Yuan Shao was indeed getting more and more urgent, and the war was about to break out.

Thinking that Yuan Shu had been defeated by himself, and with Chen Zhou's assistance, Cao Cao was still full of confidence.

However, he called Chen Zhou again and showed Chen Zhou's head.

"Whose head is this?"

Chen Zhou had never seen Gongsun Zhan, and when he saw this human head pickled in lime, he felt disgusted and didn't want to take a second look.

Cao Cao said: "Gongsun Zhan's." ”

When Chen Zhou heard this, he understood: "The four northern states, even if they are all in the hands of Yuan Shao, we can soon start a war against Yuan Shao, even if we don't take the initiative, Yuan Shao will take the initiative." ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "What Du Zhi said is right, Yuan Shao actually wanted to warn me by sending Gongsun Zhan's head. ”

The meaning of the warning is also particularly obvious.

At the same time, it also brought a certain amount of pressure to Cao Cao.

"It's just a human head, he wants to warn, then let him be."

Chen Zhou said indifferently: "It's still the same sentence, it's easy to break Yuan Shao, but the genealogy has arrived, right?" ”

Cao Cao said: "It has been modified. ”

Chen Zhou said: "Solve Liu Bei first, so that we have no worries internally, and then declare war on Yuan Shao." ”

Even if Liu Bei can't escape from Yecheng, declaring war on Yuan Shao is inevitable.

It may not be possible to fight this year, but there is a high probability that it will be able to play next year.

"After the crossing, the two-step plan went smoothly."

Cao Cao trusted, as always.

Chen Zhou said: "Not necessarily, you need to pay attention to Chen Gong." ”

In the original edict incident, Chen Gong had already died.

Now Chen Gong will definitely get involved and intervene, which is beyond Chen Zhou's cognition, Chen Gong is not a simple person, and emphasized: "You must keep an eye on Chen Gong in Liu Bei's camp." ”

After thinking about the next thing, Chen Zhou said again: "After the genealogy incident is over, first control Liu Bei, and when the Son of Heaven makes an appointment with Dong Cheng in private, the plan will almost be completed." ”

"I know how to do it."

Cao Cao nodded.

Sent Chen Zhou away.

Cao Cao looked at the head again and decided to go to Liu Bei.

When he came to Liu Bei's mansion, Zhang Fei immediately glared at Cao Cao angrily, and Cao Cao thought he couldn't see it, and said, "Xuande, alas...... I have one thing to tell you, which is not so good. ”

Liu Bei's heart tightened, it wasn't a good thing, could it be that Guan Yu was killed?

He saw again that Cao Cao was carrying a burden.

In terms of shape and size, it looks like a human head.

Although he was a little dissatisfied with Guan Yu, he was also afraid that Guan Yu would really be killed.

"Xuande."

Cao Cao opened the burden and sighed: "Yuan Shao asked people, give this to me, you...... Silence! ”

A head appeared in front of Liu Bei's eyes.

"Senior Brother Gongsun!"

Although Gongsun Zhan's head was smoked black, and there was a layer of lime covering it, Liu Bei could still tell at a glance that this was Gongsun Zhan.

"Xuande."

Cao Cao said again: "The head is given to you, take it to a good burial!" By the way, the genealogy of Zhuojun, I have already taken it, and the genealogy of the Han nationality in Luoyang has also arrived in the hands of Dazong, see if you are free in a few days, and I will help you prove your identity. ”

With that, he strode away.

Liu Bei looked at Gongsun Zhan's head, was silent for a long time, and thought about the genealogy, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to really help him determine his identity.

But did Cao Cao really help him determine the identity of the imperial uncle?