Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 183
Yuan Xi stood on the top of the cloud tower, held the letter written by Yuan Shao, and shouted out loudly.

The people in the watchtower who were waiting to die with their eyes closed, when they heard what Yuan Xi said, their faces immediately showed joy, and even Hou's eyes shone with a gleam of light.

Who wants to die if they can survive?

Moreover, Yuan Shao treated the gentry quite leniently, had a good reputation, and sent his son to visit him, obviously very sincere, and at this moment hope was ignited in everyone's hearts.

However, Gongsun Zan showed contempt on his face: "Things have come to such a point, why should Yuan Shi be hypocritical?"

Yunlou pushed it to the place where the gathering tower was a few feet away, and just now it stopped, Yuan Xi tied up the handkerchief and silk, aimed at the window, and threw it hard.

The silk flew out of Gongsun Zan's side, landed on the floor, rolled for a certain distance, and stopped not far from Hou's feet.

Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Hou bit her lip, hugged the swaddle tightly with one hand, bent over to pick up the silk with the other, walked to Gongsun Zan hesitantly, and handed the silk over.

Gongsun Zan snorted coldly, and grabbed the silk from Hou Shi's hand. Hou Shi was caught off guard, and stepped back a few steps. The child in his arms started to cry.

Hou shook the swaddle in a hurry. The crying of the child made Gongsun Zan even more upset. He tore apart the silk, and there were thousands of words on it.

He took a quick look and found that Yuan Shao's words were very different from Yuan Shao's previous letter persuading him to surrender, and it was still the same rhetoric.

Yuan Shao said ten reasons in that letter, and Gongsun Zan still clearly remembered that these reasons were born in such a high-sounding way that Gongsun Zan couldn't refute them, and he was suffocated.

One is that the two sides have a mutual friendship to challenge Dong, the other is that Gongsun Zan, as a prince, has a lot of trespassing actions, the third is that the death of Gongsun Zan's brother is not the responsibility of Yuan's, and the fourth is that Gongsun Zan ruined the people, and the people are in dire straits.

The fifth is that the outcome of the Battle of Jieqiao was determined by the Yuan family, and the sixth is that Gongsun Zan is already an enemy of the world, not only the Han people, but also other ethnic groups have become his enemies.

Of course, the tenth point in the last letter was written by Yuan Shaojiu after attacking Yi Jing, asking for peace with Gongsun Zan, and a truce between the two sides to deal with other princes.

At that time, Gongsun Zan felt that he still had the upper hand, so he dismissed it, but now the condition of this letter has changed from repairing it to surrendering, and Yuan will save the lives of Gongsun Zan's family.

Gongsun Zan was furious. If he surrendered, he might save his life, but nine times out of ten, he would be imprisoned in Yecheng for the rest of his life and become the laughing stock of the world.

Yuan Shao will never let him return to the Northland and make a comeback!
Better to be dead than to live like a dog!

He turned his head to look at his sister's body on the ground, and his expectant family members. With five fingers, he squeezed the silk in his hand into a crumpled ball.

He raised his hand and threw the silk out of the window. The silk stretched and rolled in the air, like a butterfly, and disappeared with the wind.

Everyone's faces turned pale, and they saw Gongsun Zan slowly lift the long knife beside him and walk towards his family members.

Seeing Gongsun Zan approaching, a young woman hugged the five or six-year-old boy in her arms and cried, "Second brother, this is your nephew!"

"Big sister was killed by you just now, do you still want to kill us?"

Gongsun Zan raised the saber in his hand high, and said coldly, "If you fall into their hands, life would be worse than death!"

The woman shouted: "Everyone heard it just now, the opposite is Yuan Benchu's son, he will not lie to us!"

"Your brother-in-law died at the top of the city a few days ago, so you can leave some blood for him!"

The long knife in Gongsun Zan's hand paused for a moment, and the moment the woman's face showed hope, he slashed down.

The woman hugged the boy and fell into a pool of blood, dying at the same time.

The family members were suddenly in a state of confusion. Hou sat on the ground with her baby in her arms, her eyes glazed over.

Gongsun Zan went down a few times and hacked several people to death, but his eyes turned to the young man who was tied up.

He pulled him over, put the blood-dripping long knife on the man's neck, pulled it to the window, and laughed wildly: "Yuan Shao is just a hypocrite!"

"The last time Yuan Shao and this Liu He attacked Yijing together, Liu He attacked the city, but Yuan Shao took the opportunity to run away, obviously using a knife to kill someone!"

"He, Yuan Shao, is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and he covets Youzhou and even the world. He talks nicely, but he is actually a person who deceives the world and steals his name!"

Yuan Xi was stunned. He had heard of this young man's name before, and he was the son of Liu Yu!
Because of his sensitive identity, he was detained by Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao successively, and finally joined Yuan Shao, but disappeared when he and Yuan Shao jointly attacked Yi Jing, and his whereabouts are unknown.

It turned out that he was captured by Gongsun Zan and kept in Yijing City!
Liu He said: "If you want to kill, kill, why bother talking so nonsense!"

He turned to Yuan Xi and said, "I know that I will die today, so please send a message to Shijun Yuan. I, Liu He, have never had the will to stand on my own, and I have made you a villain in vain."

When Yuan Xi heard it, there was really something inside!

He thought for a moment that Yuan Shao might be able to do Liu He's arrest!

Liu Yu had a very high prestige in Youzhou during his lifetime. After Liu Yu was killed by Gongsun Zan, his former subordinates Xian Yufu, Qi Zhou, Xian Yuyin and others promoted Yan Rou as Karasuma Sima.

They gathered the troops from Karasuma and Xianbei, plus tens of thousands of their own people, and took Liu Yu's son Liu He as the banner to attack Zou Dan, the prefect of Yuyang under Gongsun Zan, and finally killed him. To Yijing City.

Yuan Xi guessed, was it because Yuan Shao was worried about Liu He's power, that's why he decided to die in the last battle of Yi Jing?
Seeing that Gongsun Zan's blade was on Liu He's neck and was about to stab him hard, Yuan Xi hesitated for a moment.

If Liu He is saved, will Yuan Shao's affairs be ruined, and at the same time affect the layout of his Youzhou?

But if not saved....
He couldn't help turning his head slightly, looking at Zhao Yun who was beside him, and found that there was an extremely complicated expression on his face.

At this moment, he suddenly woke up and shouted: "Save people!"

Liu He must be saved!

Otherwise, I'm just a hypocrite who can only speak beautiful words. Who will trust me in the future?
Hearing Yuan Xi's roar, Zhao Yun showed a relieved expression on his face. He tore off the longbow from behind, bent the bow and set an arrow, and shot the arrow in an instant!
The arrows shot at Gongsun Zan, not one, but three!

Tai Shici and Sun Li, who were hiding behind, shot arrows at the same time at this moment!
With two puffs, Zhao Yun's and Tai Shici's arrows respectively shot into Gongsun Zan's right arm holding the saber. Gongsun Zan let out a loud cry, and the long saber fell to the ground.

At this time, Sun Li's arrow was half a beat behind, and hit Gongsun Zan's left shoulder.

Sun Li scolded, "Damn it, the shot missed!"

people....
Gongsun Zan took a few steps back, and finally sat down on the ground powerlessly, bleeding from his arms, Liu He took the opportunity to escape.

Yuan Xi said in his heart that he was hit sideways, looking at the injury, Gongsun Zan could no longer use a knife with both hands.

He straightened up and said to Gongsun Zan who was sitting on the ground, "Jihou, the general situation is over, let's surrender."

"My father will not lie to you, I will use the reputation of the Yuan family to guarantee the safety of Jihou and his family."

In fact, Yuan Xi understood that killing Gongsun Zan was beneficial, and it was justified to avenge Liu Yu, but there was no need to harm his family.

In fact, in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, except for the Sima family, other great gentry clans would hardly do this kind of thing for the sake of reputation.

So when he saw Gongsun Zan killing his family members from the Yun Tower, he couldn't figure it out. Why did Gongsun Zan think that Yuan Shao would kill grass and roots?

But if the Yuan family falls into the hands of Cao Cao, it will be difficult to say.

When Cao Cao attacked Yecheng in later generations, there are two records.

"Three Kingdoms" - Gong came to sacrifice Shao's tomb, crying tears; comforted Shao's wife, returned his family's treasures, gave miscellaneous cotton wool, and ate it.

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" - Cao Cao attacked and slaughtered Yecheng, and Yuan's wives often invaded.

Yuan Shao's wife was Mrs. Liu, and she died well because she dedicated Zhen Mi to Cao Pi.

The other female family members of the Yuan family were not so lucky.

The so-called aggression generally means being plundered and robbed, just like Liu Bei's Chang Banpo was defeated by Cao Cao in the later generation, and his wife and daughter were captured.

By the way, this is not the first time Cao Cao has done such a thing. Before Liu Bei captured Madam Mi during his Eastern Expedition, Madam Mi's whereabouts have not been found in history books since then.

Compared with Lu Bu who attacked Xiapi by surprise and captured Liu Bei's family but returned him, it can be said that Cao Cao did a better job than Lu Bu.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xi suddenly understood Gongsun Zan's thoughts. In Gongsun Zan's eyes, the two sides were already in an endless situation. How could Yuan Shao let his family go?

Therefore, people have very different ideas and it is difficult to understand each other.

Gongsun Zan suddenly burst out laughing. He stared at Zhao Yun closely and shouted, "Zhao Yun, I still misjudged you!"

Zhao Yun took a step forward and said in a deep voice, "Yun has never been sorry to the general, it is the general who has been sorry to Liu Hou!"

Gongsun Zan shouted, "What do you know!"

"Do you understand the hardships of a person like me who climbed up from the bottom?"

Zhao Yun said coldly: "The general is wrong."

"There are many injustices in the world, but some people use the injustices as an excuse to become bandits and harm the people, while others save the people from fire and water with their own lives."

"Righteousness and morality are at home in the hearts of the people, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, high or low, everyone has a ruler."

"In the past, the prefect of Zhuo County married his daughter to the general, and the general was able to rise to power. Now the general wants to kill all his wives. Isn't it ungrateful?"

"The Han Dynasty gave the general the grace of being a marquis, but the general killed the Zongzheng of the Han Dynasty arbitrarily. Didn't he forget his origin?"

Yuan Xi said well, when did Zhao Yun become so reasonable?
Gongsun Zan's face turned red and then turned pale, and he stood up unsteadily, with blood streaming down his arms.

Seeing this, Hou rushed up to help her, but was kicked away by Gongsun Zan, who fell to the ground even with her baby in swaddling clothes.

He laughed wildly: "Go away, everyone betrayed me!"

"Bitch, you can just bow your knees to please Yuan Shi!"

"But first you have to survive!"

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he knocked over the oil lamp beside him on the ground, and the fire suddenly sprang up and spread to all directions.

Zhao Yun's eyes turned cold, and he said to Yuan Xi: "He poured kerosene in the room in advance!
(End of this chapter)