Therefore, he had to leave his beloved San Lang in Hebei, and refused when Da Lang repeatedly wrote to ask for his return.

Tian Feng persuaded him that abolishing the elder and establishing the young was the way to cause trouble, but Yuan Shao was noncommittal - as long as he looked at San Lang's face, he would think of himself when he was young.

At that time, he had to swallow his anger and mourn day after day for the sake of a good name. He wore coarse linen clothes, slept on rough straw mats, drank ice-cold water every day, ate coarse food, and did not stain a trace of meat. So everyone was moved by his pure filial piety, and his reputation gradually became louder.

San Lang will not need to live such a day in the future, Yuan Shao thought, he can secretly add two layers of silk clothes under the coarse linen clothes, so that the skin will not be worn out; You can sleep on a thick straw mat filled with cotton wool and burn the house warm; He can also order the cook to make him a steaming bowl of tofu soup, which can be boiled clear as water by a clever cook, but it tastes unusually delicious.

There will only be a group of subordinates loyal to him around him, and no one will dare to deny this lord of Jizhou, with the ability of San Lang, he will definitely be able to keep this foundation-

"The third prince has a majestic movement, and he will be the lord in the future, and he will be loved by the audience," Xu You had praised with his heart at that time, but after praising it, he sighed softly, "It's just ......"

"What is Ziyuan worried about?"

"It's just that Cao Mengde is ambitious," Xu Yu said, "I'm afraid that he won't be able to do it in the end." ”

How can such an uncle be left to the third son?

It was because of this that Yuan Shao made up his mind to drive Cao Cao to Longyou.

He was even ruthless, and he didn't even give the seal of a high-ranking official of more than 600 stones to his best friend!

Now he was sitting in Juancheng, thinking vaguely about the things of their youth, and sighed deeply when he thought about it.

Guo Tu had already sensed the sovereign's absent-mindedness, but Tian Feng was still speaking generously.

Regarding the direction of the attack, Tian Feng's point of view is very clear, taking advantage of the fact that Liu Bei has not yet completed the renovation, the troops will enter Xiapi.

This trick is more than one stone, first of all, the Son of Heaven is in Xiapi, the court is in Xiapi, the Son of Heaven is in distress, do you save it? If you don't save it, then you don't want any face!

Secondly, Xuzhou has developed well in recent years, and a large number of scholars have attached themselves to the past, some of them are sincere, and some are false, Yuan Shao has saved a cabinet of investment integrity here, and there is even a Xiapi Chen's! You must know that the Chen family is one of Liu Bei's most relied on families! Even Lu Lian had to do a disciple salute when he saw Chen Qi! If the Jizhou army goes, these warriors will turn against each other and surrender with Lilly, what kind of blow will this be to Liu Bei's military morale?

In the end, if you can hold Xiapi, you can divide Qingzhou and Xuzhou into two, now Lu Lian is leading the army in the west, Qingzhou is empty, and it doesn't take much force to get it all - Tianyu Fu takes, but suffers the blame!

To sum up, the army rushing over can trigger a series of chain reactions, which must be arranged!

When Tian Feng shook it to the end, Yuan Shao finally woke up from his trance.

His body moved uneasily, he knew that he had missed something, but it shouldn't matter, anyway, Tian Feng was just talking about the importance of Pi.

Well, Tian Yuanhao said that Pi should be defeated, and after Yuan Shao kept this matter in mind, he looked at Guo Tu again.

Guo Tu's round face looks very honest and comfortable at any time, and now his serious and thoughtful appearance also makes Yuan Shao feel comfortable - this is a good person, and there are some good ideas, but he is too honest and does not understand the sinister hearts of people, so he can't entrust the army to him.

He couldn't see the Dapeng bird that flew into the hall from a distance, he only heard Guo Tu speak in a very cautious voice:

"Don't drive what you say, but it's ......"

Tian Feng glared at him coldly, "Mr. Gongze, if you have something to say, just say it!" ”

The latter looked hesitant, and only spoke after a while, "Cao Mengde has also surrounded Xiapi ......"

"That's a fallacy!" Tian Feng immediately interrupted him, "Don't say that Cao Cao's soldiers are inferior to the lord, he captured Pi, and the Xuzhou Shishu all worked together to resist the enemy!" Is such a person worthy of being compared to the lord?! ”

Yuan Shao's mood became very good at once, and he turned his gaze to Tian Feng almost with a smile.

Today's performance is abnormal, Guo Tu scolded so secretly in his heart.

But he's not a clumsy man, though he occasionally deliberately makes that impression on others.

"I'm just scared of ......"

"What are you afraid of?"

"The people of Yanzhou are not attached, if Liu Bei and Lu Lian are not contained, they will get the grain and grass of this state......" Guo Tu lowered his eyebrows and pleased, and suddenly looked very remorseful, "Alas, alas, I am not as smart as others, Lu Lian has not tasted defeat, let's avoid her and take Pi lightly, it is naturally good." ”

"Guo Gongze!" Tian Feng was annoyed, "What are you alluding to, is it because I can't hear it!" ”

"I'm just worried about my lord...... If you go down to Pi, the first to take Xiaopei is blocked, what should you do? After more than 700 miles, if there is a shortage of grain and grass, what should I do? If reinforcements come from Qingzhou, what if you don't drive? ”

The smile on the lord's face stiffened again.

He stared at the two people below, as if he was thinking, as if he was in a daze, and seemed to be annoyed, annoyed that he could pick out two advisors at random, and they could have two opinions on any issue.

"Mr. Gongze, if you command the army, where should you go?"

Guo Tu's eyes rolled.

"The lord's soldiers and horses are so majestic, why should they be confined to one city?" He said very obediently, "Order a partial army to attack Xiapi in the south, Liu Bei will come to help, let's wait for him on the road!" ”

The two sides argued for a while, and finally Yuan Shao slapped the board and made a decent decision:

Let Yuan Tan lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to capture Pi, and he led the main force to Suiyang to fight a decisive battle with Liu Bei.

Tian Feng was still a little dissatisfied.

In his opinion, it is not so difficult to break through a city where Liu Bei is not there, as long as he breaks through Xiapi, he can not only get the Son of Heaven, but also further drain Liu Bei's blood - this is not easy.

And Lu Lian's blood is not so easy to release, she is a lowly person from Qianshou, this kind of background makes the family look down on her, but it also makes the peddler's pawn easily willing to die for her - so she can fight anywhere, whether it is Qingxu or Yanyu, there are always people sneakily running to help her.

Even if she fought Ju Yi in the swamp, there were shirtless and barefoot things hiding in the mud pond like ghosts, and when the Jizhou army passed by, she stretched out her two hands and dragged them down!

…… It's like a yellow turban thief!

…… No, it's even more terrible than the Yellow Turban Thief! Because the Yellow Turban thieves also looted the township after they became powerful, but Lu Lian was able to lead her army to starve, and she never robbed civilians!

Fighting against Lu Lian not only requires elite soldiers and strong generals, but also has to plunder the people within a radius of hundreds of miles into the people's camp.

Even if it only runs one, runs one child! Or an old woman with all her teeth gone! Who knows what they will say to Lu Lian!

Therefore, in addition to Xu Yu's stubborn battle, Tian Feng actually couldn't think of a better way to defeat Lu Lian. But he thinks that he should use both, on the one hand, to defeat her lord, and on the other hand, to continue to advance the front and continue to repair the village.

Until she froze to death this winter.

The military camps outside Juancheng were one after another, and some of the villages were still fenced up, flags were planted, and fireworks slowly floated.

The houses were simply repaired, for example, the roofs were repaired, curtains were added to the window openings, and the door panels were even smoothed out to keep them warm.

Some of them were from a family with virtuous women in the family who brought a lot of miscellaneous things, such as a quaint and beautiful copper lamp, such as a set of copper kettles and lacquer utensils that could be used to make tea and drink tea, such as various spices for repelling insects and epidemics, such as a small incense burner.

When he laid out the mat and poured the hot tea with oil, salt and ginger slices into the cup, as long as he took a shallow sip, let his mouth, nose and spirit be wrapped in this hot air, and he no longer had to worry about the arrival of winter.

Someone carrying hay walked outside the house, smelled the smell of tea, and couldn't help but look back.

Someone picked up a leather whip.

So the man carrying the hay hastened his pace and said nothing.

- That's his home.

The house was low and dilapidated, but it sheltered from the wind and rain, and his family had lived in it for generations, and the woman had children in it, and the babies croaked to the ground, and the old man took his last breath in it.

Even the cow that his family had raised when it was prosperous was reluctant to leave it outside in winter, so he brought it into the house to sleep!

So he was very familiar with every detail of the dilapidated house, including the moldy hay on the roof, the cracks in the walls, the window holes that littered the slag, the filthy smell of the livestock, and the leaky door.

Now it's changed, it's much cleaner and more comfortable, and there's even a smell from it that he couldn't even imagine.

Ah, if you live in a house like that in winter, you definitely don't have to worry about freezing to death!

The man seemed to be tirelessly busy in the village, until it was completely dark, and he finally returned to his present dwelling.

It was as if it were a big pit, filled with many people, some of whom had shacks, some of whom had no shacks, and some of whom slept on straw mats in the open air, and some of whom did not have even the last roll of straw mats, and when they had finished their work, they had to find a corner, curl themselves up, and lay on the ground like an old dog.

The man found his mat with great difficulty, his parents were gone, and three of his children had died, and seeing that the youngest could not feed him, the woman was still holding him tightly, as if she had some pitiful hope.

When the woman's dull eyes looked at him, he sat down and sighed deeply.

"I knew this was so," he said, "I should have listened to you, abandoned this place, and went to General Xiaolu." ”

"Yes, yes," his brother sighed again, "if we follow her, at least we won't have to worry about freezing to death." ”

They muttered like this, and it wasn't until a Jizhou person next to them turned their heads to look at them that they closed their mouths in alarm.

Those Jizhou people, the thieves who came south to plunder them, crawled hand and foot in the night.

"What kind of person is that General Lu you are talking about?" The people of Jizhou asked in a low voice, "Can she accept grass mustard like ours?" ”

Chapter 487

are also grass mustard, and these Qiantou in Xucheng are indeed slightly different from those in Juancheng.

They were just as ragged and scrawny, but they didn't have to be driven to work for the army, and they certainly didn't have the free food they needed to survive.

Whether it is the homeless people in the city or outside the city, they must get up before dawn and touch the wood knife first to make sure that the wood knife is still under them, and then the rope. First he tied the rope around his waist, then pinned the knife to him, and finally put on his shoes, and whispered a few words to the woman, who groped for a small half of the bread and stuffed it into his bosom.

This shack is like this, and the other shacks are similar, except for people who are too sick to get up, there are no lazy people. They will go together to the gates of the city.

As the hour drew on, the soldiers defending the city were changing their guards, and some yawned and muttered something to their companions. Some of the inhabitants of the city had risen earlier than the homeless people, and had already made fires to boil water, and now they could come to the gate of the city with clay pots and baskets, and ask the priests for a bowl of hot soup and a piece of bread. The soup is only a penny, but there are several kinds of cakes, including coarse pastry, fine pastry, and meat sauce, which can be sandwiched in it full, and a bite is a mouthful of oil. These treasures were covered with oilcloth and packed in baskets, and in the dull blue morning, they emitted an alluring white air, attracting the soldiers of the changing of the guard.

This morning, these vendors have been exceptionally busy.

In addition to the soldiers who changed the guard, there were also many nobles on horseback who also left the city when the city gate was opened.

Among them, a very ordinary-looking, but very amiable scribe jumped off his horse, bought a bunch of meatloaf and distributed them to the guards around him, among which he carefully selected one with a lot of meat and handed it to a big man in iron armor.

The big man's expression was a little subtle when he took the meatloaf, but the scribe was smiling and saying something beside him.

"But can't you get used to eating meatloaf? I also have a bag of dates there, which is the ...... brought by Ciyu."

…… The big man sighed, turned on his horse, and walked away munching on bread in the escort of a dozen cavalrymen.

The nobleman on horseback left, and the vendor was busy counting the money. The homeless people also passed by the vendors, but the vendors did not look at them, and let their eyes fall on the baskets, and there was no response.

So the poor people could only swallow a mouthful of saliva unconsciously, and then tie the rope around their waists more tightly.

They must hope that the weather will be colder and that the firewood they bring every day will be more expensive, so they will first buy their belongings, keep their shacks warm, and prepare their cloth and food, and then they may have the money to buy a meatloaf to eat.

Or if someone takes them into the camp and makes them a man who eats and lodging them, so that they don't have to work hard every day, that's good.

——I heard that everyone who went north entered Yuan Shao's military camp!

- Yuan Shao is naturally a big family, is the people under his command also so not worried about food and clothing? They only eat coarse wheat cakes, but those Jizhou people must eat them every day with thin noodles and meat sauce open!

- Don't just sandwich the meat sauce! That cake has to be sprinkled with flax!

This is how they came out with the creak of the gates opening, with the hope of sesame meatloaf.

And as they tried to move south through a wilderness to chop wood in the woods, an army gradually appeared in the morning mist in the distance.

…… It's not quite accurate to say that it's one.

It was actually a mixture of three soldiers and horses, with three types of soldiers' costumes and three flags, which looked a little chaotic when walking on the road.