The sun is setting and the night is approaching.

Wuji County, outside the West City Gate.

Click!

In the sound of the roaring horse, Yuan Shao rushed to the outside of the city gate first, immediately lifted the reins of the horse, and raised his hand to signal the army behind him to stop slowly.

"When Fang Zhiyou, before the time to close the city gate, Wuji County closed the city gate, what happened?"

Seeing that the city gate in front of him was closed, Yuan Shaolema stopped outside the city gate, frowned, looked very displeased, and asked in a deep voice.

The people who followed Yuan Shao were Yiwen and Wu, the scribe was Guo Tu, the strategist under Yuan Shao's account, and the military general was Ju Yi, the general of Jizhou who came to Zhen's house with Yuan Xi three days ago to "borrow grain". In addition, behind the two of them, there are two of Yuan Shao's most important tiger generals, Hebei General Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

This time, Yuan Shao personally led 10,000 ironclad guards to Wuji Zhen's house, and the accompanying guards were Yan Liang and Wen Chou. And Ju Yi was not included in the entourage, but because of Guo Tu's advice, Yuan Shao temporarily decided to come with Ju Yi.

In fact, two days ago, Yuan Shao had ordered the army to pull out the village and withdraw its troops, and tens of thousands of troops withdrew to Yecheng one after another. That is, in the early morning of the second day when Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and Ju Yi led 1,500 armor soldiers to Wuji Zhen's house, Yuan Shao's army had already withdrawn from the Changshan camp.

In this battle against bandits, Yuan Shao personally took command, led an army of 50,000 and confronted the Montenegrin bandits for more than two months, and successively experienced more than ten battles, large and small, annihilated more than 30,000 Montenegrin bandits, and lost tens of thousands of horses. In the past half a month, the Montenegrin thief Kou Yishan has been guarded, and no matter how Yuan Shaojun provokes and invites the battle, the Montenegrin thieves have all avoided it without fighting, so that the morale of the army has become increasingly depressed and depressed, and the soldiers have become old. In view of this, Yuan Shao and his advisers and generals all thought that it was useless to continue the confrontation with the Black Mountain thieves, and they were just trying to waste money and food, so it was better to give up. Withdraw the troops and return to Yecheng, wait for a powerful fighter to find a powerful fighter in the future, and then send troops to completely exterminate the Black Mountain bandits.

Under the words of the public, Yuan Shao made a decision and resolutely ordered the withdrawal of troops. Then more than 20,000 soldiers and thousands of wounded soldiers took the lead in withdrawing to Yecheng, while Yuan Shao himself and his own guards were behind, and waited for Yuan Xi and Feng Ji and others to escort back from Zhen's house to escort grain and grass.

On the day of the withdrawal of the army, Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and more than 1,000 personal soldiers did not return, and at noon, Ju Yi returned to the camp with more than 100 personal soldiers.

After some inquiry. Yuan Shaofang knew that he was suspicious, and the Zhen family had no disagreement with him, but Zhen's maiden cousin "Zheng Feng" was in the way, which caused the matter of borrowing grain to be complicated. However, this kind of trivial matter is not worth mentioning in Yuan Shao's eyes, after all, the Zhen family is a family of businessmen. took advantage of his own request to the Zhen family and took the opportunity to bargain. Trying to fight for the greater good. Such snobbery. How could he hide his Yuan Benchu's eyes, he naturally knew it and was very disdainful, but he also knew that it was reasonable for businessmen to pursue profits, "it was normal". So Yuan Shaozhongjun stayed in the camp and waited all day. Wait for Yuan Xi and others to escort the grain and grass back.

But that night, Yuan Shao was a little restless, and he vaguely felt that he had neglected something, and it was difficult to sleep while lying on the couch. I also had a burst of heart palpitations inexplicably, and I had a premonition that something big seemed to happen. has been in the top position for many years, Yuan Shao firmly believes in his hunch, and always feels that the affairs of the Zhen family in Zhongshan are a little strange, but he can't say what is abnormal. Maybe it's because the messages that Ju Yi fed back are normal, but it makes him feel a little abnormal.

Because the Zhen family and the Yuan family have been friends for many years, they have often cooperated with each other in the past, the Yuan family has power in their hands, and the Zhen family has money in their hands, and the two families cooperate with each other, so they are naturally invincible. However, since the untimely death of Zhen Yi, the head of the Zhen family, and the widow Zhang took over the family business, the relationship between the two families has gradually become estranged, and there are fewer and fewer mutually beneficial cooperation, and there seems to be a lingering estrangement invisibly.

Immediately afterwards, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang to control the court and acted perversely, while Yuan Shao angrily reprimanded Dong Zhuo in front of the court and then fled to Bohai County. Later, Yuan Shao responded to Jiao Zhao and raised troops to crusade against Dong Zhuo, although he became the leader of the princes, but Dong Zhuo was annoyed and ashamed to kill him, and showed the heads of more than 200 members of the Yuan family in Luoyang.

As soon as this incident came out, almost all the most famous elders of the Yuan family and the famous people in the clan were killed by Dong Zhuo and died tragically. Although Yuan Shao was elected as the leader of the princes' alliance, he was famous, but he invisibly lost the help of the family elders. However, it was he who led the army of princes to coerce Dong Zhuo, and led the Yuan family to die tragically. This matter then spread far and wide, spread all over the country, and became widely known.

The Eastern Han Dynasty governed the country with filial piety, and Yuan Shao became the leader of the princes, although it was not intentional, but after all, it was implicated in the Yuan family and was executed. This point can never be erased, although Yuan Shu was also involved in this matter, but the leader of the princes alliance is Yuan Shao, and he is still the son of the Yuan family, so this unfilial name will always be recorded on his head, and it has little impact on Yuan Shu.

After this incident, some people think that Yuan Shao's move is deeply aware of the righteousness and serves him, and some people are worried about it, and they respect him and stay away from him. Some of these century-old families were even more sad about this, thinking that Yuan Shao was cold by nature and was deeply ashamed of him, unwilling to fund and support him, nor willing to send the children of the family to serve under him. For example, the Sima family in Hanoi, the Chen Liuwei family, and the Yingchuan family and the century-old Wang family in Sili, and even Yuan Shao suspected that the Zhongshan Zhen family might also be dissatisfied with him because of this.

That night, Yuan Shao stayed awake all night, and many old things that had gradually faded away came to his mind and lingered.

In the early morning of the next day, that is, this morning, Yuan Shaosi still felt uneasy after thinking about it, and Yuan Xi and Feng Ji led the troops to Zhen's house for three days and did not return, which further strengthened his suspicions, prompting him to believe that his hunch was right, and something big must have happened to the Zhen family in Zhongshan. So he immediately rushed to Zhongshan with his own soldiers of the Chinese army to find out, anyway, he had to withdraw his troops and return to Yecheng, and go to Zhen's house to have a look before leaving. If the Zhen family is as good as before, then he should be a stop by and walk around to exchange feelings; If the Zhen family really has different intentions, then don't blame him for being ruthless, and this time he will level the Zhen Mansion in one fell swoop.

At the gate of Lema City, no one could answer the questions raised by Yuan Shao, because they were as confused as Yuan Shao and didn't know what was going on in the city.

However, when everyone else was silent, there was one person who couldn't help but speak, and that person was Ju Yi, who had been to Wuji City the day before yesterday.

"My lord, when the last general followed the second prince to this city the day before yesterday, there was nothing abnormal here. However、、、 after the second prince entered the city with the last general and others, he drove all the county soldiers who defended the city back to the county office, and the soldiers took over the city, guarded the city gates, and strictly ordered the four gates to be closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave、、、、、、"

"This rebel dares to be so presumptuous, my Yuan family and the Zhen family have been friends for decades, how can he allow a junior to be so bold and reckless!" Without waiting for Ju Yi to finish speaking, Yuan Shao angrily scolded Yuan Xi for not knowing the severity, acting recklessly, and being rude.

Yuan Shao, who burst into foul language, suddenly felt that the long-suppressed depression in his chest was much easier, and then he turned his head to Ju Yi and asked, "Why did you hide these things before?" ”

"This 、、、 general is worried that the lord will be angry, so he doesn't dare to say it directly." Ju Yi hesitated for a moment and said truthfully.

Then seeing Yuan Shao's gloomy face softened slightly, Ju Yi said softly: "It stands to reason that when the soldiers in the city see the lord marshal banner and the lord himself, they must open the city gate as soon as possible to welcome the lord into the city. But I don't know why it's so strange today, there is not a single defender at the head of the wall, and there are no pedestrians entering or leaving, but the city gate is closed? In the end, the general is foolish, I don't have to wait any longer, just rush into the city to have a look, and I will naturally understand. ”

"Hmm." Yuan Shao bowed slightly, and immediately waved his right hand, signaling Wen Chou to lead the troops into the city, while he himself did not move.

Wen Chou, who was nine feet tall, did not hesitate for a moment after receiving the order, and immediately led a school of people behind him to rush straight to the city gate. However, to Wen Chou's great surprise, although the city gate was closed seamlessly, there was no latch, so that he rushed through the city gate with his troops and entered the city unhindered.

After a cup of tea, Wen Chou came back and rode his horse to Yuan Shao, and said urgently with a panicked expression: "Lord, lord, the people in the city have closed their doors for some reason, there is no one on the street, and the Zhen Mansion is also empty, no one!" ”

"What? There was no one in the huge Zhen Mansion? Yuan Shao's expression changed greatly, and he exclaimed with a shocked face.

After hearing Wen Chou's words, not only Yuan Shao's expression changed greatly, but Guo Tu, Ju Yi, Yan Liang and others were also taken aback, and their faces showed surprise.

"Exactly!" Wen Chou nodded and said: "The Zhen Mansion is empty, and the members of the Zhen clan, the servants and miscellaneous servants are all missing. Not only that, but even the second son, Mr. Feng Ji, and the 1,500 armor soldiers were nowhere to be found, and there were no dead or dead people. Also, the courtyard of the Zhen Mansion is very messy, and the utensils in the main hall of the front yard and other thousands of rooms, large and small, are all gone, empty, and there is nothing! ”

"Ahh This 、、、、、、" Listening to Wen Chou's words in his ears, Yuan Shao only felt that his head was "buzzing" in chaos, and he couldn't speak when he opened his mouth.

"The premonition has really come true, the Zhen family really has different intentions, betrayed themselves, and moved away to other princes!" At this moment, Yuan Shao only had this one thought in his mind, and other than that, his mind was in chaos, and he couldn't even think of the words of scolding, and he didn't have the mood to scold.

After standing still for a long time, he rode into the city in such a daze, not knowing whether the people behind him had followed, let alone what they were thinking.

At this moment, Yuan Shao just wanted to hurry up to the Zhen Mansion to see with his own eyes whether what Wen Chou said was true, whether the Zhen family really abandoned him and moved away.

―――――――――――― (To be continued)(To be continued......