In late August of the fourth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhongmu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yuan Shao received the news from Xiahou Yuan, they successfully burned the grain and grass camp of the Northern Xinjiang Army in the old city, but the 6,000 army was frantically pursued by the Northern Xinjiang cavalry in the process of retreating, and finally the 5,000 foot soldiers were wiped out, and he only led more than 400 light knights to retreat to the city, and suffered heavy losses.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed and anxiously awaited news from Cao Cao. If Cao Cao can also burn down the Wuchao camp, the Northern Xinjiang Army will not be able to support it on the Guandu battlefield for a few days.

Good news followed.

Cao Cao reported in a hurry, and the sneak attack on the black nest was successful, although he paid a heavy price for more than a thousand tigers and leopards, but finally completely turned the current tide of the battle.

The decisive battle can begin.

Yuan Shao's heart was full of joy, and while ordering a heavy reward for meritorious soldiers, he ordered the armies on all battlefields to immediately withdraw from the battle, seize the time to rest, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Northern Xinjiang Army.

The reason why Yuan Shao did not fight a decisive battle for the time being is very simple, burning the grain and grass that the Northern Xinjiang Army has accumulated in the old city and Wuchao does not mean that the Northern Xinjiang Army will have no food and ordnance now. According to the usual practice, each army should prepare at least three to five days of food, grass and ordnance in case of war, so the best time for a decisive battle should be after five days.

Of course, during these five days, if the Northern Frontier Army wanted to retreat, the army would take advantage of its unstable position and the army's morale to attack immediately.

After Yuan Shao's order was transmitted to the armies, the most anxious were Liu Biao and Cao Cao, and the two hurried to Zhongmu to advise.

Liu Biao was the first to arrive at Zhongmu, and he said to Yuan Shao: "Brother Benchu, now is the time to take advantage of the situation to attack, how can you let the army stop?" Don't you know that we have less and less food and grass? ”

When Xu You came back a few days ago, he said that there was chaos in the desert, and Li Yi deliberately returned to Handan from Guandu for this reason. In addition, it is also true that Zang Ba betrayed Hebei and re-joined us, right? What do these two things mean? It shows that the Northern Xinjiang Army has worries, Li Yi can't support it anymore, and he may have prepared to withdraw in advance. ”

"Now that we have burned the grain and grass of the Northern Xinjiang Army, the Northern Xinjiang Army has completely lost the possibility of defeating us, and they will withdraw immediately, so our top priority is to attack, keep attacking, and firmly drag the Northern Xinjiang Army in Guandu, so that they will not be able to withdraw if they want to, so that once they are cut off from food and grass, the army's morale will be in chaos, and collapse is inevitable."

Yuan Shao shook his head and refused, he said: "What we burned is only the grain and grass that the Northern Xinjiang Army has accumulated on the Guandu battlefield, they still have more grain and grass in Liyang, Baima, and Puyang, once we force too the Guandu battlefield and force them to fight to the death, then Li Yi can only give up the retreat temporarily, and instead do his best to send the grain and grass to Guandu, and continue to fight with us." ”

"The war has progressed to this point, do we still need to fight for attrition? Could it be that Brother Jingsheng is willing to bury his Jingzhou children on the battlefield of Guandu? ”

Liu Biao understood, Yuan Shao didn't want to fight at all. The purpose of his current stop and not fighting is to give the Northern Frontier Army time to retreat. As long as the Northern Xinjiang Army withdraws from Guandu and returns to Hebei, he will be able to pick up a big bargain. The world's meritorious deeds and the land of the Central Plains have become in the bag in a blink of an eye. No wonder he had to send the Son of Heaven to Nanyang, it turned out to be like this.

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Cao Cao returned to Guandu day and night, and Cheng Yu, who came out of the camp to greet him, said with a sad expression: "Ziyuan is dead." ”

Cao Cao exclaimed: "Yuan Shao killed? ”

Cheng Yu nodded and said, "After you and Miaocai successfully burned the grain and grass of the Northern Xinjiang Army, Feng Ji immediately led people to surround our camp and forced Ziyuan to death. ”

Cao Cao's hands and feet were cold, and he suddenly realized that he had made a fatal stupid mistake, and said secretly: "Yuan Shao is going to do something to me." ”

The tent was empty, and a faint smell of wine filled the sultry air. In the place where the table was originally placed, there was a pool of dried and eye-catching blood.

Cao Cao stared blankly at the pool of blood, a faint tingling in his heart, and a little guilty, but thinking of the bits and pieces of his past interactions with Xu You, he had a feeling of relief.

Cao Cao seemed to be muttering to himself: "You despise me and sneer at me all my life, you admire Yuan Shao and follow him all your life, but what is the final result?" For the sake of peace within the coalition, you betrayed him once with good intentions, but you caused yourself to be killed. ”

"You are a clever man, and you claim to be a superhuman in intelligence, but you have made a childish mistake in the matter of loyalty. I don't want to hurt you or kill your nine clans, I just want to take revenge on your hatred and mockery of me for so many years. Although I didn't want to keep you by my side, I didn't want you to return to Yuan Shao's side, so I ran to Yuan Shao and said a few words, which made me very chilled. ”

"For so many years, you have been loyal to Yuan Shao, helped Yuan Shao conquer the world, and laid a solid foundation for Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao treated you too thinly, he even ignored your friendship for more than 30 years, and through my words, immediately ordered to kill your nine clans and eradicate your protégés and old officials."

Ten years ago, Yuan Kui and Yuan Shao joined forces to kill the entire family of the former Sikong Xu Xiang in the Luoyang Rebellion, and almost uprooted the Xu valve forces in Kyoto. Today, he repeated his old trick and once again raised the butcher's knife to kill the Xu Lord's forces. ”

"I don't know why Yuan Shao became so ruthless, he was not such a person in the past, he has always been very loyal, and he has always flaunted himself as a benevolent and righteous gentleman, why is he so ruthless and unrighteous to you? Could it be because of the generational power struggle between your Yuan Valve and Xu Valve in Runan that made him kill? Could it be that he is so old and confused that he can't wait to usurp the Han and stand on his own, completely ignoring the overall situation, and killing his old subordinates who are busy opposing him one by one? ”

Cao Cao walked to the pool of blood and slowly squatted down, as if looking at Xu Yu lying dead on the ground, his expression was sad, and tears gradually welled up in his eyes.

"Yuan Shao is going to kill you, and he wants to punish you, an old friend who betrayed him, but you are still so persistent, you are still so loyal to Yuan Shao, and you insist on going to Hebei to carry out a counter-plot for him regardless of life and death. Actually, even if you don't go, I won't turn against Yuan Shao before the end of the war. ”

"Don't you know who I am? Since I was a child, although the good things that increase the face are all Yuan Shao's heads, and the bad things that damage my reputation are all on my shoulder, when have I ever suffered a loss? Even if I went to Zhang Rang's house to steal things and was beaten half to death by my father after knowing about it, I didn't tell you about watching the wind outside the house, even if we stole other people's brides together, in the end, I was alone and I was punished. ”

"In major matters, I am measured, until Li Yi's threat is lifted, before my biggest existential threat is lifted, I will not openly confront Yuan Shao. Over the years, I have repeatedly had disputes with Yuan Shao, but when did I break with Yuan Shao? ”

"For decades, you have been very righteous, although you hate and even hate me, but at the critical moment, you still treat me as a friend and come forward to save me, however, it is your temper that hurts you."

"In the past few years, don't you know what Yuan Shao wants to do? Why did he drive away the frustrated people, detain and interrogate them, and fight the Jizhou forces, and why was he unwilling to keep you by his side? Why does he want to kill me again and again? It's all for this piece of society, this country. His mind has moved, his desire is unquenchable, and whoever stands in his way is his enemy. ”

"He wants to usurp the world, but we people don't want him to get his wish, and we try to stop him from usurping. I know that if you want to stop Yuan Shao, you must have to deal with Dong Zhuo and Li Yi, pick up a war knife and fight with them, but you don't think so, you are the same as these people, thinking that with your own intelligence and the complicated situation in the world, you can successfully curb Yuan Shao's desires. ”

"At the end of the day, you still see him as your friend, not your enemy, and you want to turn things around on your own. You are too confident, so confident that you are almost crazy, Yuan Shao is going to kill you, you even went to Hebei to implement the counter-plot, do you really think you can turn things around? ”

"When you come back from Hebei, do you know how happy I am when I see that familiar face, the disdainful gaze and contemptuous sneer that you are familiar with? If you live, you can reduce the guilt in my heart, I hope you can live, you can have a few more children, and you can re-support your Yuan family, but you are still dead, and you will inevitably go to defeat. ”

"Your counter-plot succeeded, and you used your betrayal to leave me on the battlefield of Guandu, temporarily alleviating the fierce conflict between me and Yuan Shao, and allowing the coalition forces to temporarily work together. After you returned from Hebei, you gave us the news that we burned the grain and grass of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and your intention to fight a decisive battle with the Northern Xinjiang Army before the coalition collapsed due to internal strife was also realized. ”

"The decisive battle can inflict heavy losses on the Northern Xinjiang Army, can allow Yuan Shaoquan to take the Central Plains, can allow me to take the opportunity to go south to capture Xu Yang, and can realize the three-legged establishment of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and me south of the Yellow River, so that a check and balance can be formed, and Yuan Shao's attempt to usurp the Han Sheji can be completely dispelled."

"However, what you probably never expected was that when we burned the grain and grass of the Northern Xinjiang Army, burned the possibility of the Northern Xinjiang Army defeating us, and also burned Yuan Shao's determination, he saw the hope of winning without a fight from the raging fire over Wuchao and the old city, and saw the hope of taking the Central Plains without much effort to lay his own hegemony, so he gave up the decisive battle and gave up the decisive battle without hesitation."

"Yuan Shao raised the war knife on my head again, he wants to kill me, but he needs to find a perfect irrefutable reason to kill me now, otherwise, when I just led the army to burn the grain and grass of the Northern Xinjiang Army, he will be accused by all sides of the coalition army for killing me, he may anger some people in the coalition army, and he may bring unnecessary trouble to his own hegemony, so he thinks of you again. If you kill you, you'll have a reason to kill me. (To be continued.) )