Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2 This Bet Is A Little Big
In terms of height alone, Yuan Xi in this life is seven feet eight, only two inches lower than Zhao Yun in the city.

But Yuan Xi knew in his heart that the gap between the two was far more than two inches.

If he went out to fight in the city, he might not be able to stop one or two shots, and he would become a joke in the history books of later generations.

If you are lucky, you will leave a sad name, which proves the beginning of Zhao Yun's life.

Looking at Zhao Zilong in the city, Yuan Xi's heart was bleeding.

This Yunmei was originally mine!

More than three years ago, after he got the permission to come to Youzhou to defend the city, he traveled day and night, regardless of the sporadic fighting on the road, and left Yecheng at high speed.

He didn't go to Beixincheng, but went straight to Zhengding, Hebei, just to stop Zhao Zilong who was about to defect to Gongsun Zan.

In the end, it was still a step too late, Zhao Zilong had left half a month ago.

Missing Zhao Yun made Yuan Xi beat his chest and stamp his feet.

When he first read the history books, he wondered why Zhao Yun didn't vote for Yuan Shao, but instead voted for Gongsun Zan. He thought he had to fight for it, but he still failed.

Regret is useless, we can only find ways to remedy it.

In the past few years, he has been thinking about how to pull Zhao Yun over from the opposite camp.

He firmly believes that as long as the corner is dug well, Yunmei can also be pushed down.

Otherwise, in a few years, Zhao Yun left Gongsun Zan and went to join Liu Bei, what else would he do?
The current time point is very delicate, Cao Cao is attacking Xuzhou, Tao Qian asks Tian Kai for help, Liu Bei temporarily parted from Zhao Yun, and took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to Xuzhou to rescue Tao Qian, leaving Zhao Yun alone.

Have the opportunity!
At this time, Zhao Yun shouted under the city: "Yuan Xi! Why are you so timid!"

"Have the guts to go out of the city and see!"

Yuan Xi heard this, and shouted: "You promise not to kill me, I'll go out and talk!"

Zhao Yun: .
Soldiers at the head of the city: .
Yuan Xi didn't think that face was very important. In the future, all the cannon fodder who dared to challenge Zhao Yun over their limits were sent away one by one. Compared with face, life was more important.

He didn't think that he was better than those so-called cannon fodder.

Zhao Yun had no choice but to say: "Today, I was ordered by General Gongsun to persuade you to surrender!"

"You are a man who can guard the city alone for two years. General Gongsun has an order. As long as you surrender, the soldiers and people in the city will not be killed!"

Yuan Xi laughed and said, "Brother Zhao, as the son of the Yuan family, if I surrender, wouldn't I be an unfilial person?"

He changed the subject, "Go back and tell Gongsun Zan, who killed Liu Hou (Liu Yu) and plundered his own people, not to mess with our troops!"

"In the past two years, I have been able to defend this city because of the unity of the people. He wants to threaten me with the lives of the people in the city. Is it a man's doing?"

"Does Duke Xuande also agree with this move?"

"Under Liuhou Jiuquan, will he rest in peace?"

After hearing this, Zhao Yun was speechless for a while.

What Gongsun Zan had done in the past two years had become more and more insane, especially the killing of Liu Yu, which made Zhao Yun extremely conflicted, and he had long since given up on it.

Zhao Yun's actions have always been aboveboard, and Yuan Xi at the head of the city fought against Gongsun Zan under the banner of revenge for Liu Yu, which is said to be quite popular.

But the Beixin City in front of him was strictly ordered by Gongsun Zan to be brought down.

Gongsun Zan had received the news that Yuan Shao would probably send troops to attack Youzhou while Cao Cao was attacking Xuzhou.

The Beixin City in front of you is located in the westernmost part of Zhuojun County, Youzhou, and not far to the north is Wuruan Pass, which is an important passage leading to the outside of the pass.

Beixin City was stuck here, making it quite inconvenient for Gongsun Zan's army to mobilize, so Zhao Yun was ordered to take this city before Yuan Shao's army arrived.

On the other hand, it might not be that Gongsun Zan had a slight suspicion of Liu Bei, who had a heated fight with Tao Qian, and used this to test Zhao Yun.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun shouted: "Yuan Xi! If this is the case, I will attack the city!"

"At that time, swords and guns will have no eyes, and life and death will be up to fate!"

Yuan Xi's head protruded from the city wall again: "Brother Zhao."

"Don't call me Brother Zhao!"

"Okay, General Zhao, let's discuss something."

"You said."

"My father asked me to go back and get married. Can you wait for a year and a half, wait for me to fulfill my father's wish, leave a man and a half woman behind, and come back to fight you?"

Zhao Yun's face twitched, and he went back for a year and a half, leaving a man and a woman?
Do you give birth as a child?

He immediately snorted coldly: "Are you trying to leave the townspeople behind and run away?"

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "Of course not. How about we make an agreement that General Zhao will not attack the city after I leave?"

Zhao Yun's face twitched again, you really are shameless.

He has been dealing with Yuan Xi on the wall for more than two years, and the other side doesn't take hard things, and he doesn't have the demeanor of a rich man.

Any aggressive methods, insults, or tricks to leave the city, all of them don't work.

The opposite side is like a shrinking tortoise, hiding in the city, waiting for Gongsun Zan's army to come, he will stick to it, and when the army retreats, he will immediately come out to build the city.

Over the past two years, the city wall has become thicker, the moat has been dug wider and wider, the trenches have become deeper and deeper, and more and more refusal horses have been built, making Beixin City look like a hedgehog. He shook his head.

Seeing that his explanation didn't make sense, Zhao Yun waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him began to prepare to attack the city with soil ants on their backs.

Yuan Xi poked his head out again, "Brother Zhao."

"I told you not to call me Brother Zhao!" Zhao Yun was furious.

"Okay Brother Zilong, we are both Han family citizens, why bother fighting in the same room."

"How about we make a bet?"

"If you win, I will open the gates and surrender."

After hearing this, Zhao Yun felt a little moved, and said, "Say it!"

Yuan Xi cleared his throat, "Since Dong Zhuo's death, Luoyang in Chang'an was in great chaos. From time to time, Huns went south from Bingzhou to plunder. People were devastated along the way, and women and children wailed endlessly."

"Recently, I got news that hundreds of bandits from the Huns went to loot near Luoyang, and will return to Bingzhou via Beixincheng soon."

"The Xiongnu robbed women along the way, slaughtered people, and did a lot of evil. As a big Han general, shouldn't they let them go?"

"You and I will each bring a hundred people, limited to three days, counted by head, and see who kills the most Huns."

"If I win, I will go back to Yecheng to get married, and brother Zhao will leave."

"If I lose, I will open the city and surrender, and even give you my head!"

"Brother Zhao, do you dare to bet?"

The soldiers above and below the city heard the uproar, and Zhao Yun's heart was shaken violently.

The other party is trapped in the city, but he is still worried that foreigners will poison the people of the Han family!
Thinking of Gongsun Zan's indifference to foreigners who plundered Youzhou after losing to Yuan Shao, Zhao Yun's heart was shaken.

Moreover, the stakes in this gamble are extremely unfair to both parties. Is the other party betting on his own life, is it a desperate bet, or is there a fraud in it?

If it were someone else, such a cheap thing would have been agreed to earlier, but Zhao Yun acted frankly and hesitated instead.

Moreover, if he made a decision on his own and agreed to the gamble, he violated Gongsun Zan's military orders!
Yuan Xi seemed to have seen Zhao Yun's thoughts, and said with a smile, "Brother Zhao, if I made a false statement just now, and told me to be struck by lightning, I would die a terrible death."

"If I want to do unrighteous things such as fleeing at the opportunity and posing as a Hun as a commoner, let my whole family die!"

"Everyone in and around the city can be a witness!"

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers on both sides were silent at first, and then they all exclaimed in low voices.

In this troubled world, they have seen a lot of things like taking the lives of soldiers to fill the city, and slaughtering the soldiers and civilians in the city after breaking the city, but they have never seen a son of a rich family, using his family's life and reputation as a guarantee, betting his own life to save the people Things!
Only Yuan Xi knew that although the present moment was a crisis, it was also an opportunity.

If Zhao Yun cannot be brought under his command this time, even if the city is defended, it will be difficult to change the situation in Youzhou.

So he had to propose a gamble that Zhao Yun couldn't refuse.

He gambled with his life in order to force Zhao Yun to make a corresponding bet!
Besides, he didn't say whose head was on the item.

Can't the Huns do it?
(End of this chapter)