Outside Nanpi City, Bohai County, Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops are besieging the city. If one after another, the corpses in front will almost fill up the moat, but Nanpi City is still strong, and the top of the city has been repelled. Wave after wave of enemies came up.
The battle losses on both sides were terrible, and the smell of killing attracted all the vultures in the sky.
"My lord, I can't fight like this anymore!" Le Jin finally couldn't take it anymore, and begged Cao Cao. This is simply a meat grinder. A team of 5,000 people went up for two or three hours, and it was gone. Le Jin's hundreds of thousands of soldiers are now less than 100,000, and there are even more wounded. If this continues, this soldier will be considered useless.
"En!" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, full of killing intent. Although Le Jin was timid, he still forced himself to look at Cao Cao, "My lord, if this continues, our soldiers and horses will be finished if Nanpi City is not breached!"
The attacking side always suffers more casualties than the defending side. This is a law, because the city wall acts as a solid layer of defense to allow the defenders to condescend to cause damage to the enemies below the city.
Le Jin's original bodyguard of 500 people now has no more than 50 people, and they all died on the city wall. Even a general like Le Jin has lost so much, so he can know the others.
"Hey!" Cao Cao also sighed. He really didn't expect that his elder brother Yuan Shao could fight so well. I can't bear it, because half of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are the children of Guanzhong. The children of Guanzhong followed Cao Cao to Hebei because they valued Cao Cao. If Cao Cao wants to take their meritorious deeds back, they can't just return with their ashes.
"Thank you, my lord. Thank you, my lord!" Le Jin quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Cao Cao.
"Huh!" Cao Cao shook his head and entered the camp. The two sides outside the city are packing up the corpses of each other. The corpses are no longer carried by carriages, but by carriages. The big pit over there was dug out overnight by thousands of people, but these corpses are still It can't fit, so it can only be burned. It's better now that the weather is cold. If the weather is hot, it may bring plague.
"Come here, send me a letter to Miaocai, and tell Miaocai to leave camp immediately and bring the army to Bohai County!" Cao Cao said to Le Jin, Xu Huang and others under his command.
"En?" Everyone was taken aback, let Xia Houyuan's army withdraw from Fanyang County and come to Bohai County? Isn't this just chasing after the end. Everyone didn't understand Cao Cao's thoughts. Now it was hard to encircle the Yuan family in Fanyang County. As long as Fanyang County was taken down, the Yuan family brothers would be finished. The words brought by the army. Then Fan Yang's siege will be destroyed by itself, and there will be a tendency to be robbed by the Yuan brothers on the way.
"Fan Yang can be lost. This Bohai County must not be lost!" Cao Cao said with serious eyes. To be honest, the Yuan brothers did not regard them as opponents of the same level at all. If Yangzhou did not intervene One tank, and a steady stream of weapons and food were transported to the hands of the Yuan family brothers, Fan Yang City may have been breached long ago.
But now that Yuan Shao appeared, it was different. Yuan Shaoke had always been regarded by Cao Cao as the greatest enemy in his life. Even after defeating Yuan Shao, Cao Cao did not relax in the slightest.
Because if Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu were easy to deal with, he would not be the boss of Cao Cao. You must know that Yuan Benchu is not the eldest son of the Yuan family, but if he can stand out in the Yuan family, you can know how powerful he is.
Cao Cao is another but none of the 300,000 troops can go back, and he also wants to leave Yuan Shao's life behind.
"Yes!" The people over there took orders and left, but Xu Huang over there came back soon.
"Gongming, have you sent someone to deliver a letter to Miaocai?" Cao Cao looked at Xu Huang and asked.
Xu Huang's expression was very strange. He looked at Cao Cao and said, "My lord, maybe, maybe General Xia Houyuan won't be able to come!"
"En?" Cao Cao frowned. Could it be that the Yuan family brothers over there seized this opportunity and caught Miao by surprise? No, the soldiers and horses in the hands of Miaocai are not as few as Cao Cao's. In order to prevent the second son of the Yuan family from counterattacking, Cao Cao left hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under Fanyang City, and the general of the garrison was Xia Houyuan, because Xia Houyuan was calm.
"Bring it!" Cao Cao took the letter from Xu Huang's hand, and was stunned after seeing it.
His eyes widened as if he couldn't believe it, "Miaocai, broke Fanyang City?" Cao Cao looked at the letter while looking at Xu Huang over there.
"The last general doesn't know either!" Xu Huang also shook his head, he just got the information from Fan Yang.
"Quick, quick, send me a letter to Miaocai, let people hurry up, and hurry up for eight hundred miles, I want to confirm the news!" Cao Cao immediately said to the people under his command, he was a little excited and also worried, this excitement Yes, if this matter is true, then it will be really fun. If Fan Yangcheng is taken down, it can be said that the overall situation in Youzhou has been settled. If Fanyangcheng is not taken down, then this letter may be a deception sent by the enemy He Cao Cao's letter, then Xia Houyuan's army may be in danger.
"Yes!" Xu Huang nodded and went out again, but he came back soon.
"So fast?" Cao Cao felt that Xu Huang was a bit abnormal today, and the efficiency was too high. As soon as Cao Cao issued the order, Xu Huang completed it here.
Cao Cao saw that Xu Huang didn't come in empty-handed this time, and he still had a letter and a shelf in his hand.
"My lord, there is no need to send someone to General Xiahouyuan anymore!" Xu Huang handed over the letter in his hand, and Cao Cao took it. Although there were only a few sentences on the letter, Cao Cao believed his truth, because It has Xia Houyuan's handsome seal on it.
Even if Xia Houyuan was defeated, he would not abandon this thing.
"How could it be!" Cao Cao stood up immediately, a little in disbelief. His 300,000 troops failed to break through Fanyang City. Now Cao Cao took away the elite soldiers, horses, tigers, leopards and others, but broke Fanyang City. Isn't this slapping Cao Cao in the face!
"My lord, I heard that the Yuan family brothers in Fanyang City over there are fighting among themselves!" Xu Huang said to Cao Cao who was beside him.
"Infighting? Impossible! Isn't there still Yuan Xi?" Cao Cao didn't believe that the Yuan brothers would have infighting.
"Yuan Xi?" Xu Huang shook his head and smiled wryly. The reason for his wry smile was that it seemed that Fan Yangcheng's great contribution was about to fall on Brother Xiahou. Xia Houyuan was fine, but if that Xiahou Chun got the credit again, he would probably have to embarrass himself in front of them again.
"My lord, the second son of the Yuan family is here!" Xu Huang said and handed over a box in his hand.
Cao Cao took the box, opened it, and his eyes widened. It was a huge human head, sealed with lime. But it can still be seen that this is the look of death.
"Yuan Xi,?" Cao Cao thought for a while. Although he had never seen Yuan Xi, he could get a general idea of what he looked like, because the appearance of this head was still very similar to Yuan Shao's.
Only then did Cao Cao know why the Yuan Family Brotherhood had internal strife. It turned out that Yuan Xi had died. According to the news from Xia Houyuan over there, this Fanyang City was opened by Mr. Yuan Xi.
"It's a pity, a talent!" Cao Cao shook his head and sighed bitterly. With Yuan Xi's ability, it is more than enough to be an official or a general. It can even be said that he is more insightful than any general under his command, and the most important thing is that Yuan Xi is young. It's a pity, it's a pity that such a young and promising person died not at the hands of his enemy, Cao Cao, but at the hands of his own brother.
Yuan Xi's head was not obtained by Xia Houyuan, but was thrown down by Yuan Tan's army when Xia Houchun was chasing Yuan Tan.
"Master, do you want to bury this Mr. Yuan Xi?" Xu Huang asked Cao Cao beside him. After all, Mr. Yuan Xi opened the south gate of Fanyang City. Although Mr. Yuan Xi wanted to let Cao Cao's army disrupt the situation, he said so Also a benefactor.
"En!" Cao Cao nodded, Xu Huang was about to take it down for a grand burial, but was stopped by Cao Cao, "Not now!"
Xu Huang didn't understand what Cao Cao meant.
"Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi, if it really counts, I, Cao Cao, are still your uncle. Since you helped my uncle open the gate of Fanyang City, you will also open the gate of Nanpi City!" Cao Cao said Then he shouted to the people under his hands, "Come here, pass on my military order, and the whole army will pay tribute!"
"Ah!" Xu Huang and the others were completely dumbfounded. What is this whole army mourning? Although the battle has been very harsh these days, no general in their army died in battle.
"Just do it!" Cao Cao waved his hand and said to Xu Huang and others.
Soon the entire barracks of Cao Cao's army began to hang white flags and white cloth strips.
"My lord, my lord, look, look!" Yuan Shao had just returned to the city to take a rest, when Wen Chou shouted at him because Cao Cao's army was very abnormal.
Wen Chou is good at fighting, but he is not Cao Cao's opponent when it comes to tactics, so when he discovered the abnormality of Cao Cao's army, Wen Chou's first thought was to wake up Yuan Shao and let Yuan Shao take the initiative to judge.
Yuan Shao's eyes were bloodshot, and his body was also covered with blood. It can be seen that the battles in the past few days were cruel. When it was fierce, he, the master, Yuan Shao, would go to the front in person.
Yuan Shao was awakened by Wen Chou. Yuan Shao had a little bit of dissatisfaction at first, but after seeing the appearance outside the city, it disappeared completely.
"Hang up the white cloth and approve the white banner!" Yuan Shao looked at the appearance of Cao Cao's army below. Could it be that someone in Cao Cao's army died in battle
Because this is just wearing sackcloth and filial piety, and the whole army wears sackcloth and filial piety, which means that some generals in the army must have died in battle.
"Did General Cao Cao die in battle these few days?" Yuan Shao was a little bit convinced, and asked Wen Chou beside him.
"My lord, I don't know about the city. I only know that I haven't beheaded any enemy general since I left the city!" Wen Chou shook his head. But the enemy also has tiger and leopard riders, and those heavy armored steps are not vegetarian.
"Master, let's go!" Wen Chou was dissuading his master over there. Although Nanpi City is strong, it is not a long-term solution. It will be breached sooner or later. Now Wen Chou thinks that his lord will abandon Nanpi City, relying on the Euphorbia warriors and Xian Dengying to break out of the encirclement, and return to Jizhou and Bingzhou after disaster. The gentry over there are all looking forward to Yuan Shao. If Yuan Shao arrives, he will definitely get their support. Open the city gate to welcome Yuan Shao, at that time they will have the capital to fight Cao Cao.
"Let's go?" Yuan Shao was also a little shaken. After all, he had too few soldiers and horses. If he didn't rely on the common people to stay in Nanpi City, he might have been defeated by Cao Cao long ago.
But after thinking for a while, Yuan Shao still shook his head, "No, I can't go, at least not now!" Yuan Shao is also a face-saving person, he Yuan Shao lost, but Yuan Shao refused to admit defeat. He wants to teach Cao Cao a good lesson under Nanpi City, telling him that although I haven't been the boss for many years, the boss is the boss, and Yuan Shao will leave only if he wins Cao Cao a little and saves the lost face. Nanpi City.
"Did you send scouts to ask Fan Yangcheng for help?" Yuan Shao asked Wen Chou beside him.
Yuan Shao was waiting for Fan Yangcheng's reinforcements. As long as Fan Yangcheng's reinforcements arrived, with his Yuan Shao's ability, he was confident to fight Cao Cao.
"It's been dispatched, and it's already the fourth batch. But there is no news!" Wen Chou shook his head.
"Hmph!" Yuan Shao could not help but snorted coldly because he thought of his rebellious sons.
"Cao Cao's army is now wearing sackcloth and filial piety. It must be the loss of the generals in the army, and the morale must have dropped. This may be our chance!" Yuan Shao said to Wen Chou. "I'll go down and rest for a while, call me later!" Yuan Shao couldn't hold it anymore, his eyes were already bloodshot.
Yuan Shao rested for less than an hour, and Wen Chou over there called him up again, but this time Yuan Shao did not blame Wen Chou, because it was Cao Cao's army from the city who came to shout.
I saw Cao Cao coming in hemp and filial piety, with white cloths hanging on his horses, and hundreds of cavalry under his command walked to Nanpi City.
"My lord, do you want us?" Wen Chou was ready to let the sharpshooter in the army prepare to see if he could kill Cao Cao in the city at once. If Cao Cao was shot to death, then Cao Cao's army would be leaderless.
"No need!" Yuan Shao shook his head, he knew this fat man Cao Hei, and he was terribly afraid of death. Before taking any action, this fat man Cao Hei had prepared his way out. If he could kill Cao Cao all at once, what would Yuan Shao do? Maybe he didn't want to, but if he couldn't kill him, he would be the one who would be ashamed, Yuan Shao, who came out to shout, and you shoot arrows secretly, isn't it a joke.
"Brother Benchu, let's have a truce!" That's what Cao Cao said when he came up.
"A truce, why do you want a truce?" Yuan Shao looked at Cao Cao below with a smile and said, "Could it be that Meng De is going to surrender?"
"Big Brother Benchu, I can't fight anymore. If you continue to fight, so many people will die again. Alas, alas, ah, a general in our army, a talent of my man, you died so badly, you are going to die at such a young age In the troubled times, it was supposed to enter the palace, to show off its style in the court, but died on the battlefield. Brother Benchu, how can you bear it, we should end the war as soon as possible, and return the world as one Peace!" Cao Cao cried so miserablely, if Xu Huang and others didn't know something, they would have thought that Cao Cao's father was dead.
"Change the world to peace? Cao Mengde, what a big hat, you have to put it on my head. If you hadn't swung your army here, if it hadn't been for your ambition, why would my Hebei be like this? The people of Bohai County Why is this so!" Yuan Shao is not a lamp of divine oil, so he confronted Cao Cao over there.
These people in Hebei really don't understand what the world is unified, what is the peace and prosperity, but they know that they lived and worked in peace and contentment when Yuan Shao was there, and it was the arrival of Cao Cao's army that brought the war to them.
"Cao thief get out, Cao thief is uneasy and kind!"
"Get out, get out!" The common people on the top of the city didn't like Cao Cao at first. In addition, there were countless casualties during these days. These were all caused by Cao Cao's army. How could they treat Cao Cao's army? It's a good feeling again, roaring loudly over there.
"Hey! My big man's talent is not serving the country at the border, not guarding the country's gates, but in the midst of internal friction, ah, ah, ah, ah!" Cao Cao yelled again.
"Cao Mengde, don't be hypocritical. Your generals live and die because you let them go to the battlefield. If you want your generals to survive, as long as you retreat!" Yuan Shao shouted to Cao Cao on the city wall.
"Brother Benchu, that's my hero, why are you so inhuman?" Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao and asked.
Yuan Shao couldn't help being a little funny. Cao Cao's general is dead, why should I, Yuan Shao, still cry? Your General Cao Cao wants my life, Yuan Shao's. he died. It's not bad that Yuan Shao didn't release him and laughed.
"Today, I, Cao Cao, Cao Mengde, am here to sacrifice for Youzhou, for Hebei, for the world, and for this great man! I am the hero of the great Han, the governor of Youzhou, after the fourth generation and third prince..." Cao Cao suddenly turned towards Tianji Kneeled up.
Yuan Shao was happy at first. But the more I listened, the worse it became.
"The governor of Youzhou? Four generations and three princes?" Yuan Shao's eyes widened. If Yuan Shao heard correctly, then this person is him!
Yuan Xi, Yuan Xianyi!
"Cao Aman, what nonsense are you talking about! Xianyi is in Fanyang City, he is alive and well, why are you sacrificing him here!" Yuan Shao was anxious, and shouted at Cao Cao below, to know what it means to see the truth in adversity , What does it mean to see people's hearts after a long time.
This is how Yuan Shao thinks now. Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, one is Yuan Shao's favorite son. One was Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Shao thought he had never treated them badly, but what did the two of them bring to Yuan Shao in the end!
One usurped the throne and the other seized power, almost killing his father and Yuan Shao, but Yuan Xi, who was unknown to Yuan Shao and didn't care much about him, was always fighting for the great cause of the Yuan family, not like his two brothers. That's how you know about power.
During those days under house arrest, Yuan Shao was also regretting, he thought of every bit of Yuan Xi.
When he was young, Yuan Xi was not treated by Yuan Shao, he wanted to respect his elder brother, he wanted to let his younger brother down, but Yuan Xi still had no complaints.
Yuan Shao has already made a plan. Waiting for this time to break through and make a comeback, then the final position will be passed on to his second son, Yuan Xi. Yuan Shao will not be able to deal with those two rebellious sons. At most, he will let the two One is a rebellious son, and the other is idle.
But now Cao Cao actually said that Yuan Xi was dead, isn't this a rumor.
"Big brother, Fan Yangcheng, Fan Yangcheng has been taken down by Miaocai accidentally!" Cao Cao explained to Yuan Shao on the city wall. "But it was thanks to Mr. Yuan Xi that he was able to win Fanyang City!" Cao Cao told Yuan Shao that Yuan Xi sent someone to help Xia Houyuan open the south gate of Fanyang City, allowing Cao Cao's army to enter the city proudly.
"Impossible, impossible!" Yuan Shao didn't believe it at all because Yuan Xi was always a person who put the overall situation first, how could he open Fan Yang's south gate.
"Brother Benchu, you can't blame Mr. Yuan Xi for this. He is a good boy. He gave his two elder brothers a safe haven in Youzhou, but in the end, they were calculated by the two elder brothers. They were afraid that Ben Chu Brother, come back, I am afraid that you will take them both, brother Benchu, that's why they have planned to deal with that child Yuan Xi!" Cao Cao looked like he was crying, as if he was begging for Yuan Xi. Back to justice.
"No. No, no!" Yuan Shao has never been able to become impossible, which means that he has already believed what Cao Cao said, and it is indeed possible to do it with the urinating nature of those two rebellious sons. It is possible to kill the father and brother.
His own appearance had already terrified them. Under such fear, they wanted to kill Yuan Xi. In this way, he, Yuan Shao, was left with two sons, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan. It is their calculation that one or even two people must be left behind.
"Hehe, hehe!" Yuan Shao smiled wryly, what did he Yuan Shao do, God you want to punish me like this.
"Brother Benchu, it's all my fault. It's all my fault. I couldn't stop them in time, and I couldn't save that child Yuan Xi!" Cao Cao blamed himself below, and even slapped himself in public, "My lord! !"
Xu Huang and others nearby stopped Cao Cao from slapping him.
"Fuck is incompetent, I couldn't save that child Yuan Xi, so I can only bring this back to you, Brother Benchu!" Cao Cao took out a black box as he said that, wasn't that black box brought back by Xu Huang.
Cao Cao's men sent the black box to the base of the city, and naturally a hanging basket was put down on the top of the city, and the black box was pulled back.
"Master!" Wen Chou handed the black box to Yuan Shao.
As soon as Yuan Shao opened it, his whole body was in a bad state, his eyes were full of blood, "Xi'er, Xi'er!" Yuan Shao shouted loudly, and the blood rushed to his forehead: "Pfft!" Yuan Shao couldn't hold back a mouthful of blood and spurted out. It was dark before his eyes and passed out. (to be continued..)