Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 172 The Battle Stalemate
At this time, Yan Shi and Lu Bu were talking about Lu Lingqi's marriage.

Hearing Yan's rambling, saying that Lu Lingqi had reached the age of marriage, Lu Bu couldn't help feeling a little impatient, and said: "Lingqi is still young, and as my daughter, now the princes of the world, how can I find a suitable one in a short time?" ?”

The Yan family said: "Why not? I heard that the Yuan family, the Cao family, and even the Jiangdong family all have unmarried children?"

"Besides, my concubine heard that Yuan Gonglu had an only son. A few days ago, she sent someone to marry Lingqi for her son. He has four generations and three males, and he has the ambition of the world. Isn't it appropriate?"

Lu Bu said displeased: "What do women and Taoists know? Yuan Shu harbored evil intentions and rebelled against the Han Dynasty. It is expedient for me to join forces with him. How can I harm Lingqi?"

After hearing this, Yan said unconvinced: "Your husband still misses the Han Dynasty?"

"Isn't my husband's situation all caused by the Han Dynasty?"

"The collapse of the Han Dynasty is imminent, and Yuan Gonglu has ambitions for the world. If his prophecy comes true at that time, Lingqi will be the crown princess and the queen in the future. Is there a better choice?"

Lu Bu hesitated after hearing this, because Chen Gong also said similar things.

Chen Gong believed that Lu Bu had offended Yuan Shao and went to Bingzhou, which would inevitably anger Yuan Shao again, so it is better to link up with Yuan Shu to control Yuan Shao.

Marrying a daughter is currently the most effective means.

Lu Bu vaguely felt that something was wrong. In fact, he usually relied on the Yan family for most of his family affairs, but he only had one daughter, Lu Lingqi, and he naturally loved him very much. Now he was hesitant to marry her far away.

Lu Bu thought for a while, and finally said: "The prefect of Hanoi, Zhang Yang, and I have a very close relationship. In the past few days, I will go ask him first, and listen to his thoughts."

After hearing this, Mrs. Yan knew that Lv Bu couldn't make up his mind for a while, and it was hard to say anything, so he had to let it go.

Lu Lingqi next door moved her ears away from the wooden wall, left quietly, and went back to her room, where she sat by the window in a daze.

After a while, Mrs. Du came in with a wooden tray with a plate of meat and a bowl of porridge on it, and she said, "Girl, the meal is ready."

Lu Lingqi said sullenly: "Don't eat, I won't practice martial arts tonight, you can eat for me."

Seeing Lu Lingqi's expression changed, Mrs. Du didn't dare to ask, so she sat aside.

Seeing Mrs. Du's appearance, Lu Lingqi said, "Mrs. Du, you said that if a woman is married, she can't do things as she pleases?"

After hearing this, Mrs. Du said, "What does the girl want to do?"

Lu Lingqi sighed: "I don't know, but seeing Madam's situation, I always feel that it's not good to be married, and I'm far less comfortable than I am now."

Du smiled wryly and said: "Women always want to marry, and girls will definitely find a good husband."

"A concubine is just an unkind person. As a noble lady, a girl will definitely not be like a concubine. Who in the world dares to treat a girl badly?"

Thinking of what happened to her, although she comforted Lu Lingqi on the surface, she also felt sad in her heart.

Ex-husband Qin Yilu didn't protect him, so he just married someone else while he was on an envoy, and abandoned him!
When Du Shi thought of this, his heart felt ashamed, obviously he had done nothing wrong!
Seeing Du's expression, Lu Lingqi knew that she had been having a hard time recently, so she could only comfort her: "General Qin has no eyes, so it may not be a good thing for Madam to reconcile."

Lu Lingqi was also a little ashamed, she somewhat understood the cause and effect of Du Shi's affairs, and she was inseparable from her father. Du Shi stayed by her side now, which was also a precautionary measure taken by her mother Yan Shi to guard against Lu Bu.

As a daughter, Lu Lingqi is naturally ashamed to speak out about such things, she is a little bit aggrieved, and wonders, are all men in the world so lustful?
For some reason, she suddenly thought of that nasty hidden tiger again, couldn't help but tighten her legs, and blushed.

I don't know where this bastard is now, if I meet him again, I will definitely make him look good!
She also didn't know that the current Yuan Xi had an ugly face.

The city has been sieged in the past few days, and the loss is too great!
Every day, Yuan Jun recklessly stuffed people under the city wall, soldiers died one after another, and often had to exchange several lives for one life of the defenders.

Yuan Shao personally issued orders in front of the battle, and the vanguard generals rushed up with their lives. Only then did Yuan Xi realize that he was still not mentally prepared to be a lord.

Siege at this time, in the eyes of the coach, soldiers are just numbers, and it is only meaningful to change with the opponent!
Yuan Xi found out that he was too naive before. He farmed and slept with the soldiers, treating them as family and friends. This kind of relationship has no meaning on the battlefield.

What the soldiers really need is for the commander to win at the least cost through ruthless calculations, so that fewer people will die and more people will survive.

When going into battle, what the soldiers have to do is to kill the enemy in front of them as much as possible. Even if they die, they can get more pensions to support their families.

Yuan Xi somewhat understood why many princes wanted to massacre the city after capturing the city.

Soldiers have accumulated a lot of resentment and madness in the process of fighting to the death. If they are not allowed to vent, it will be difficult to stabilize the morale of the army.

After all, in this era, for soldiers who were barely literate, what they followed was the most primitive human nature, and they didn't pay attention to those complicated things of later generations.

ten years.

Tang Zong Mingzu, Qin Huang Gaozu, these are the average time for the founding emperors from raising troops to conquering the world.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who took the longest time, spent 13 years, while Liu Bang, who took the shortest time, only took seven years.

The big world is not as difficult to fight as some people imagine.

As far as the law of historical trends is concerned, the key historical trends of most of the feudal era were not in the hands of common people and soldiers who could not read a single word, but... the big landlord class.

With the different times, they can be princes, nobles, gentry, aristocrats, or gentry. They hold knowledge and land, and control the fate of the lower class in their hands.

Ironically, in a feudal society, it was often not the peasants who launched peasant uprisings, but the landlords.

Peasants occasionally had them, but within a very short period of time, they joined the gentry class.

Including Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who were the first to lead the peasant uprising and called out princes and generals, they are not farmers.

They used the shell of the peasant uprising to induce the people to revolt, but in the end their goal was to occupy the highest position of the landlord class.

In the feudal society for thousands of years, there seems to be only one person who dared to betray his own class and turned his blade against the landlord.

Thousands of years of reincarnation naturally include today's late Han Dynasty.

Yuan Xi looked at the soldiers who were driven by an unknown force. They shouted and slashed the weapons in their hands towards each other under the city. What drove them might be hatred for the enemy, their family members, or their parents. Cravings for life, maybe even a full meal tonight.

Driven by these countless desires, they don't ask right or wrong, don't ask morality, just to survive.

The cries of 10 people in Yijing City and the clanging of weapons together formed a small note on the vast land.

In the past and in the future, at different times and in different places, millions of people in the thirteen prefectures at the end of the Han Dynasty played notes of different heights, jumping and intertwining, forming a tragic and magnificent movement full of helplessness.

Until the last moment, no one will know who will play the rest.

The day's siege battle ended under Yuan Xi's watchful eyes.

After discussing with Guo Jia earlier, he divided the soldiers under his command into several reserve teams of hundreds of people, led by Tai Shici and Zhao Yunlun. .

This method has indeed greatly reduced casualties. Only a hundred people died in battle that day, which is so insignificant compared to the tens of thousands of casualties on the entire battlefield, but it is still too heavy for him.

Yuan Xi was a little anxious. He had been fighting for nearly ten days. If this continued, his soldiers would be wiped out sooner or later!
Every day he stood at the gate of the camp and watched the soldiers return, feeling very uncomfortable.

Because he had farmed and planted the fields with the soldiers, he remembered the faces of most of them, and he could even call many of them by their names.

But now many familiar people never came back.

Lao Xu who once squatted under the city wall with him and had a meal, Da Lang who carried the corpse, Er Gou who survived being bitten by a snake while farming, Da Zhuang who worked harder than a donkey when grinding noodles... all kinds of people Yes, after a certain day, they never appeared again.

The remaining living people still have to face the unknown fate of tomorrow.

Although Yuan Jun had already broken through three city walls, it became more and more difficult to attack as he went in. Many times, the soldiers on both sides had no way out, and there was a situation of endless death.

Then it rained for three days, most of the tunnels that Yuan Jun had worked so hard to dig were submerged, and the siege was forced to stop.

Compared with Gongsun Zan's army hiding in the city, Yuan's soldiers in the mud were obviously at a disadvantage. Their clothes were wet and it was extremely difficult to light a fire, so they had to eat some dry food.

In ancient wars, few fought in the rain, because it would kill people when it rained.

Rainwater can not only destroy weapons and armor, but also make soldiers' clothes drenched. Combined with the cold weather, the human body can lose temperature quickly. In addition, the physical energy consumption of fighting is huge, and many people can't bear it at all.

Yuan Jun's soldiers who didn't have a tent were all trying to keep out the rain. Some used branches and leaves, some dug holes in the ground, and some hid under the siege equipment, cursing the damn weather.

Low morale is inevitable. After all, these days, there are many casualties, and many people are starting to feel timid.

The soldiers under Yuan Xi's command were not bad. Although many died in battle, the families of the dead soldiers could get a piece of private land enough to make ends meet, so the survivors were in good condition.

Yuan Xi felt the powerlessness of not being able to control the situation. The variable he was waiting for had not yet appeared. If it continued to rain like this, the Black Mountain Army would come.

Two days later, the rain finally stopped, but the weather suddenly turned cold again. Many people began to cough, shivering in the cold wind, and people kept falling down.

The water stains on the ground and walls have not yet dried, and the accumulated water in the dug tunnels has not yet been discharged. The news finally spread from the Taihang Mountains.

Ping Nan Zhong Lang, Zhang Yan, personally led the Black Mountain Army with 10 troops, and sent troops to support Yi Jing in three ways!
(End of this chapter)