Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 106 Dilemma
In less than a day, Pingyuan City was breached.

Of course, this city is not an important place, and the reason why Yuan Jun has an absolute advantage over the defenders has a lot to do with Yuan Tan's command.

He first used a large number of migrant workers to carry the soil, ignoring the losses, and consumed the defenders' arrows and wood and other weapons, and then showed fatigue on the opposite side.

Yuan Xi thought to himself, is this big brother so strong?
If this was the case, would he still be unable to defeat the Yellow River and be forced to confront Tian Kai for two years?

When Yuan Xi and Zhao Yun escorted the captives back, they shared this idea with Zhao Yun, but Zhao Yun thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Yuan Tan, it must have changed."

Yuan Xi wondered, "Why did it change?"

Zhao Yun talked about Yuan Tan's actions in Beixin City for more than a month, including the matter of being humiliated by Tian Yu.

Yuan Xi has been busy making arrangements in Ye City, because Zhao Yun is in Beixin City, he is very relieved, and has not asked much about the affairs there.

After hearing Zhao Yun's words, he realized that after he left, Tian Yu actually came back.

Yuan Xi was glad that he ran in time, because Tian Yu is not an ordinary person!

In the history of later generations, Tian Yu beat Wuhuan Xianbei far away from the Great Wall, shocked the northern border, defeated and suppressed Gongsun Yuan, and repelled Sun Quan's [-] troops in Hefei New City.

Later, he led the general of Xiongzhong Lang who held the festival and protected the Xiongzhong, and the governor of Bingzhou. The Hu people in Senai and outside the Great Wall were frightened by him, and they came to pay tribute one after another.

Moreover, Tian Yu was highly valued by Liu Bei. Apart from being brave in battle, he was also good at using tactics and had few defeats in his life. Yuan Xi didn't want to meet such a person now. Unexpectedly, Yuan Tan was unlucky, but he met him for himself.

At the beginning, Yuan Tan wanted to fight Tian Yu fairly, but he suffered a loss when they met. Later, Yuan Tan asked Zhao Yun for advice humbly, and realized that it was almost done, so he went out of the city to fight again, but he still couldn't beat Tian Yu.

After Yuan Tan was depressed for a few days, he suddenly figured it out one day.

The art of war is to use all the advantages of one's own side, why can't I think about it so much?

After Yuan Tan became enlightened, he immediately dispatched [-] soldiers from the plain hundreds of miles away to face Tian Yu for the third time.

Tian Yu saw what was going on, and immediately ran away with hundreds of white horses.

So Yuan Tan took advantage of the situation and captured the two cities, which can be regarded as revenge.

After Yuan Xi heard what Zhao Yun said, he was a little speechless. Did Yuan Tan grow up in the process of facing Tian Yu?

No wonder the whole army of Yuan Tan in Pingyuan City is pressing, it seems that he has enjoyed the sweetness!

However, using more to win less is indeed the kingly way on the battlefield. There is no way to win more with less, so it is a last resort.

Although it is easy for the opponent to find a flaw in an all-out attack, it is enough to deal with Tian Kai without the help of Liu Bei Gongsun Zan.

Yuan Xi thought to himself that if he were Tian Kai, he would scold her too.

Several allies have problems.

After Gongsun Zan returned to Yi Jing, he no longer cared about the affairs of Qingzhou.

Liu Bei was in Xuzhou, the situation was unstable, and he couldn't catch up.

Kong Rong of the Beihai Kingdom behind him is a man who can only talk and can't fight.

There are still hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou.

Yuan Xi thought about it from Tian Kai's perspective, and his head felt dizzy in an instant.

Seeing that all the city gates here have been cleared, he just wanted to go back to the camp to hand over hundreds of Xuzhou soldiers captives, have a meal and sleep well, so he asked Zhao Yun to lead his troops to block the gates and wait for orders. He and Zhang Yun returned to the camp. After entering the camp, you can see the generals arguing about something.

It was Ju Shou who spoke, and there was a lot of blood on his armor, obviously he went into battle himself.

Ju Shou said in a deep voice: "Young master will govern Qingzhou in the future. If the city is massacred, I am afraid that the remaining counties will resist wholeheartedly."

Yuan Tan walked back and forth in the camp, saying, "Tan disagrees with what you say, sir."

"Thinking that Cao Cao will be slaughtered when he goes down to the city. When he attacks Xuzhou, the resistance of the cities behind him will be weaker, and there will be deserters from time to time. Doesn't this mean that massacring the city can reduce losses?"

When Jushou heard Yuan Tan mentioning Cao Cao, his face was full of disapproval, "I like to teach you a lesson, Cao Cao's massacre of the city is only for temporary self-interest."

"What he did was mostly to weaken Tao Qian. He didn't even think about how to govern in the future. He just took advantage of it. Although he could suppress the resistance for a while, disasters would follow."

"Young master's attack on Qingzhou is for his own use. The people's hearts are the same. You should not ignore it."

After hearing this, Yuan Tan hesitated: "But if this is the case, the soldiers will be of no benefit. How will the morale be maintained?"

Ju Shou also pondered. Although he opposed the massacre of the city, he really had no good way to reward the soldiers.

Yuan Xi blurted out: "Divide the wealthy households in the city?"

Everyone looked over in unison, only your second son could do the heart, we still want to be famous!
The fact that Yuan Xi made the patriarch of the gentry to stand at the top of the city as a punishment is well known to the officials of the Yuan family, but they really can't learn it.

Yuan Xi saw the strange eyes of everyone staring at him, and thought to himself that you people don't have the consciousness of betraying your own class.

Do you know why you like Zhen Mi? She knows how to open a warehouse to give food to the poor when she was ten years old!
Landlords who can reflect on themselves are rare in this era!
However, Yuan Xi also said that if he wants to rule a place, he cannot do without the support of the gentry. Cao Cao was first supported by the Yanzhou gentry and then betrayed, but he didn't get enough cake for the opponent.

No good, who will support you?
In the end, Yuan Tan still decided to go to the city tomorrow to loot for a day.

Yuan Tan was the chief general, and Yuan Xi couldn't interfere with what he said and did. At any rate, this left a way for the people in the city to survive.

As for what happened during the day, there was nothing he could do.

As for the captured Qingzhou soldiers, they were all exiled to the army. Except for a few strong soldiers who were scattered and organized into various ministries, the others were rushed to be the lowest-level civilian soldiers.

The next time they attack the city, they will be the ones who will rush to the forefront.

Of course, it is easy to stand up, and you can become a formal soldier by following the first troops to the top of the city.

After working until midnight, everyone came to light a fire and cook. At this time, Yuan Xi was already hungry.

Yuan Tan left all the generals in the camp, went to his own soldiers to get some rice noodles, and boiled the pot.

Everyone sat around the pot, drank a few bowls of miso, and there was another commotion in Pingyuan City in the distance. It turned out that several troops had rushed into the city in advance.

Yuan Tan stood up, took a few glances, and said nonchalantly, "Forget it, let's talk after eating."

Everyone is also a look of not being surprised.

After the meal was over, Zhang Yun came out with Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi asked, Zhang He explained a few words, and Yuan Xi gradually understood.

Yuan Tan's army has not been very disciplined in the past two years. Although Jushou has been working hard to manage the army, people will be hungry.

Yuan Tan confronted Tian Kai with tens of thousands of people, and Jizhou couldn't supply food at all, so he often sent troops to grab food.

After a long time, the soldiers have tasted the sweetness, and they always try to sneak in. It is estimated that this situation will not be reversed for a while.

The law does not blame the crowd, if a few soldiers can still be punished, how about thousands of soldiers, can't they all be killed?

After hearing what Zhang Yun had said, Yuan Xi became alert.

Yuan Tan's situation at this time was very similar to what he was facing in Beixincheng, but Yuan Xi had few soldiers at that time, and he could save some food by tightening his belt.

What should I do if I bring an army of tens of thousands and run out of food?
Apart from robbing, there is no other way. Can I let the soldiers starve to death?
The cruelty of troubled times is that people are forced to make difficult choices, and each choice is related to the survival of different lives.

If you want to end the troubled times, you have to face such choices countless times.

Yuan Xi knew that sooner or later he would face the same problem as Yuan Tan and Cao Cao.

The cruel part of the dilemma is that no matter how you choose, you can't be perfect.

But its most meaningful point is that it can let people know the cruelty of the choice in advance, so as to try to avoid the possibility of facing this kind of problem in the future.

It's hard, but not everyone has done it.

In the long history of thousands of years of feudal society, at least Yue Fei did it.

This alone gave Yuan Xi confidence.

After a day of looting, Yuan Shaojun left hundreds of garrisons, and the army left Pingyuan City to cross the Yellow River.

As for the cries that filled the city, not many people cared about how many people died during the looting, how many people were displaced, and how many people lost their relatives.

In fact, compared to other princes, except for Liu Bei, the Yuan family is already the tallest among the dwarfs.

The Yuan family studied "Meng Shi Yi" during their time, advocating self-cultivation and morality, restraining words and deeds, obeying the laws of nature and awe of the way of heaven in doing things. This is one of the important reasons why the Yuan family is famous among the clan and has achieved four generations and three generations.

Now, in order to win the name of benevolence and righteousness, the Yuan family does not dare to massacre the city like Cao Cao, but the news of looting Pingyuan City still spread throughout Qingzhou, and the counties and counties south of the Yellow River Jishui began to panic.

At the gate of the city of Yuling County on the south bank of Jishui River, people from the surrounding villages fled to the city one after another, forming a long queue, including a family of three waiting to enter the city.

The couple are both in their 20s, and they have a seven or eight-year-old girl with them.

The young woman was puzzled and said: "When we enter the city, we will be forced to defend the city and fight. Why don't we flee to the East China Sea?"

The hostess said disdainfully: "What do you know about women's views!"

"No matter how fast you run on two legs, can you outrun other people's four-legged horses?"

"Besides, if you meet the Yellow Turban bandits, will you be able to survive?"

"Anyway, Yuan Jun will not slaughter the city!"

It is true that women do not slaughter cities, but it is difficult to say whether to rob things or not to want women.

She pulled the girl and became more and more worried.

There was a faint commotion in the front line, a man and a woman brought two girls and quarreled with the city guard.

The man said angrily: "We are all from the plains, why don't you let us enter the city?"

The city guard sneered and said, "Now that the city lacks men to guard the city, it is impossible for everyone to have food to eat!"

"A man can only bring one woman in!"

"If you want to go in, you have to leave those two girls behind!"

"Of course, I have no objection if you want to bring your children in."

The man was furious and wanted to speak, but he was pushed and staggered, and fell to the ground. The woman hurriedly took the girl up to check, and began to cry.

The city guards showed disdain, they didn't enter, some people did.

The young couple in the back panicked, and they also brought a girl with them!
As the team slowly moved forward, the two of them were in a state of panic, when a boy's voice sounded from behind: "I am alone, if you want, you can pretend to be your children and enter the city together."

(End of this chapter)