Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 180

After hearing Wu Zhao's words, Yuan Xi nodded slightly, and then said in doubt: "I heard that after Lu Bu led his army into Hanoi County, he didn't leave. Obviously, he has joined forces with the prefect Zhang Yang."

"He was wary of the Yuan family. Could it be that he went to borrow money from Zhang Yang and was unwilling to negotiate with me?"

Wu Zhao lowered his head and thought for a while, "There is also this possibility."

"However, Hanoi County is not rich. Lu Bu's subordinates are mainly cavalry. These horses consume a lot of food."

"In a year or so at the latest, Hanoi will be sitting on nothing."

"At that time, the son will talk again, but the advantage will be even greater."

Yuan Xi calculated the time carefully, and said with a smile: "Indeed, that time is just right."

"Then we'll just wait and see how it gets better."

He calculated in his heart that even after Gongsun Zan's fall, the situation around Youzhou would still be extremely complicated.

He and Liang Zi of the Montenegro Army have formed a knot, the kind that will never die.

As long as the world is not peaceful, the Southern Xiongnu will immediately jump out to make trouble. If the world is a little more stable, they will immediately pretend to be honest and attached to the Han Dynasty.

Yu Fuluo is dead, and the position of the new Hu Chuquan is unclear. He will not be able to deal with such a force for a while, so he can only slowly figure it out.

Therefore, Lu Bu, as the force introduced by Yuan Xi, is an important force to balance the region. Yuan Xi has already made plans to make some concessions to Lu Bu. After all, the two forces of Montenegro and the Southern Huns are both tens of thousands of people , is not what I can eat now.

Then on the Youzhou side, the surviving large and small forces such as Yan Rou Xianyu Fu, Wuhuan Xianbei, etc. cannot be ignored.

The original backbone of this force was Liu Yu's son Liu He, but when he attacked Yijing last time, Liu He led the various ministries of Youzhou to attack from north to south, and Yuan Shao attacked from south to north, attacking Yijing, but in the end it was useless And back.

Then Liu He lost the news. Later, Yuan Shaojun also searched for his bones, but they couldn't find them. He probably died in the battle.

Yuan Xi shook his head, except for the forces left by Liu He, Youzhou and Gongsundu are really in a mess. If you want to completely control Youzhou, you may not be able to do it in ten or eight years.

However, the most urgent task is to capture Yi Jing, otherwise everything will be nothing.

Moreover, a quick battle was needed. The Black Mountain Army's three-way army, the North Road side was too underestimated, and was defeated by myself by luck, but the other two lines were not so easy to deal with!
Yuan Tan's journey should not be a big problem. After all, Yuan Tan has been fighting for a long time. What he is worried about is that Yuan Shang defends Yecheng. The Black Mountain Army alone cannot defeat it, but will Cao Cao take advantage of it?
However, even if there are changes in Yecheng, Yuan Xi can't help if he wants to. He can only try to help Yuan Shao take down Yijing quickly, and then return to Yecheng immediately.

Outside Yijing City, Yuan Jun's soldiers still used tunnels and ladders to constantly test the weak points of the defenders' defense in the city.

Now more than ten days have passed, and Zhang Yan's three-way army has not appeared all the way so far, which proves that they should all be blocked.

But as for what happened and how the battle was going, none of the three sons of Yuan Shao who guarded the three routes sent a letter back.

Inside the camp, the counselors all looked unhappy. They still underestimated the difficulty of attacking Yi Jing. The eight counselors gathered together, but they have not yet come up with an effective strategy to break the city. They can only keep filling in people.

And just now, there was commotion in the northwest direction, and it seemed that the enemy army in the uniform of the Black Mountain Army was infested. Yuan Shaojun had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return to the defense camp.

The scouts reported that hundreds of cavalry appeared in the west, all wearing the uniforms of the Black Mountain Army!

Looking at the direction the other party came from, it turned to the north. Is this a problem with Yuan Xin's road, or has Yuan Tan been defeated?

Seeing everyone's expressions, Xun Chen said, "If this continues, the morale of the army will be unstable. Shall we concentrate our strength and defeat all the invading Black Mountain Army first, and then deal with the enemies in the city?"

Ju Shou said: "What if the enemy in the city takes the opportunity to go out of the city and attack us?"

Xun Chen said: "That can only be divided into defenses. After all, fighting on both sides is difficult."

These words are very reasonable, everyone nodded after listening.

At the same time, Gongsun Zan in the city also received news of the arrival of the Black Mountain Army.

A general said happily: "General, the Black Mountain Army is finally here!"

"Although there are only a few hundred cavalry in the vanguard, the large army must be behind!"

"If we cooperate inside and outside, we will be able to repel Yuan Shao!"

Tian Kai said: "We need to be cautious about this matter."

"What if the enemy's trick to lure the enemy deliberately let them go, and then catch them all?"

"Or simply these people are Yuan Jun pretending to lure us out, so what should we do?"

He also thought of Tian Yu who never came back after leaving the city, and felt that this matter was not that simple, and the other party was probably playing tricks!

A general said: "Then what should we do?"

"If it's really Black Mountain reinforcements, if we don't save us, won't we be defeated by Yuan Jun one by one?"

After hearing this, everyone lost their minds.

Gongsun Zan looked at the wounded soldiers in front of him, and knew that if he missed this opportunity, he might really be trapped to death in the city.

I have been waiting here for a year, and things have not turned around at all. I thought wrong from the beginning.

But as long as Yi Jing doesn't break through, there is still a glimmer of hope, instead of sitting and waiting for death, it can only be a last-ditch effort!

He said: "I want to send a letter to the other party."

"But if it is an enemy, the person sent out will die."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, all the guards stood up one after another and said in unison: "General, I'll go!"

After hearing this, Gongsun Zan nodded slightly. He walked to the desk, took out some pieces of silk, and wrote some strange symbols on them.

He handed the silk cloths to several guards and ordered them to keep them close to him, and said: "Now ride out the encirclement on horseback, and I will send someone out of the city to lure the enemy away for you, as long as one person delivers the letter."

Several guards led the order to go downstairs, leaving Tian Kai and other generals looking at each other, thinking what if they were stopped by Yuan Jun?
Didn't the contents of the letter leak out?
But Gongsun Zan said, "This is the secret code I agreed with Zhang Yan before, and only a few of his confidant generals in the Black Mountain Army understand it."

"If there is reinforcement from Montenegro, there must be someone who understands code words and can understand them."

"Even if they are caught by Yuan Jun, Yuan Jun will not be able to understand them and will not reveal the secret."

"On the other hand, if the Black Mountain Army reads the contents of the letter, they will definitely take action!"

Only then did the generals suddenly realize that it was so!
Gongsun Zan waved his hand abruptly and said, "Everyone, go back and mobilize your troops. Wait for my order. When it gets dark, it's time for us to fight back!"

The generals were excited and shouted: "No!"

Guan Jing saw that the crowd was passionate, and knew that he was powerless to stop it at this moment, so he sighed inwardly.

However, he advised Gongsun Zan to stay on the defensive earlier, which made the situation even more unfavorable. In fact, he also doubted whether his suggestion was wrong.

What if it really turns defeat into victory?

Outside Yijing City, Yuan Shaojun saw the gate of Yijing opened, and dozens of cavalry rode out from the gate, fleeing desperately towards the west.

Yuan Jun, who was ambushing outside the city, surrounded them. After a while of chasing and intercepting, most of the cavalry of Gongsun Zan's army were killed, and only a small half of them escaped.

When Gongsun Zan saw this scene on the top of the city, his heart was heavy, and he wondered if there was a messenger among the fleeing people?
The night came, and the whole night, the outside of the city was quiet, and nothing happened at all.

Everyone waited anxiously all night, and they were all a little tired, so they had to take a rest during the day and wait for the night to fall again.

Gongsun Zan sat on the watchtower, he no longer drank, but recharged his energy.

As the night fell again, Gongsun Zan ate all the dinner for the first time, then put on all the armor on his body, and carefully wiped off the ring sword that had been with him for many years.

He closed his eyes, sat in front of the window, and closed the door to meditate. The maidservants around him didn't dare to disturb him when they saw him.

Gongsun Zan had now entered an unusually calm state. His ears were extremely sensitive, and he could clearly hear the footsteps of people around him, the cry of the baby in Hou's arms in the distance, and the cries of birds flying in the air.

When the moon is in the middle of the sky, it is the second watch time.

Suddenly, more than a dozen miles to the west of Yijing City, a fire rose up, illuminating the sky.

Gongsun Zan heard the exclamation of the soldiers at the top of the wall, opened his eyes suddenly, and strode down the watchtower.

In front of him were a group of righteous generals on white horses.

Seeing Gongsun Zan, he shouted: "Everyone follow me on horseback, break out to the fire, and meet the Black Mountain Army!"

Excitement appeared on the faces of everyone, and they suddenly accepted the order.

Their familiar White Horse General is back!

The gate of Yijing City was wide open, and thousands of cavalry swarmed out of the gate. What they had to do was to meet up with the Black Mountain Army at the location of the fire, and then attack Yuan Jun's camp together!
Gongsun Zan took the lead and sneered inwardly when he saw Yuan Jun's camp raising torches one after another.

Just let you be jittery for a while, when the time comes, join up with the Black Mountain Army first, take a detour to Yuan Jun's back stronghold, attack the camp dominated by civilian husbands, let them trample on each other and bomb the camp, thus affecting Yuan Jun's main stronghold!
He brought thousands of cavalry with him, seeing the flames in the mountain depression to the north, this was the agreed meeting place with the Montenegro Army, and he was about to charge in with his horse.

At this moment, Tian Kai who was beside him suddenly said, "Since it's a rendezvous, why isn't there a single soldier outside the col?"

"It stands to reason that there are always sentries, right?"

Gongsun Zan suddenly woke up when he heard this, and broke out in a cold sweat.

He abruptly reined in the horse and shouted, "Stop!"

"Go back!"

However, it was too late. There was a sound of drums on the mountains on both sides, and arrows rained down like rain, and the cavalrymen of Gongsun Zan's army were hit by arrows one after another!
An army rushed out from the mountain depression, Gongsun Zan saw that the leader was Zhao Yun, knew that he had been hit by the opponent's plan, and hurriedly turned around and left.

Soldiers rushed out from both sides of the road, armed with spears, and pinned the fleeing cavalry under their horses. Seeing this, Gongsun Zan felt extremely heartbroken. This was the last of his cavalry strength!
But up to now, he couldn't care less, so he had to run away in the direction of Yi Jingcheng.

He hated so much in his heart, why, why did he fall into an ambush!

You must know that the code in his letter cannot be deciphered by Yuan Jun, unless there is something wrong with the generals under Zhang Yan's command!

But is it possible?
(End of this chapter)