Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 432
Seeing Sun Ce's kind invitation, Qiao Rui refused, so he had to agree, and the three of them drank happily. Under the toast of Sun Ce's brother Zhou Yu, Qiao Rui got drunk after a while.

Zhou Yu took the opportunity to test the tone of the sentence, and found that Qiao Rui really didn't have any superfluous friendship with the fierce tiger. He and Sun Ce looked at each other, and the two were relieved.

Seeing that Qiao Rui was in a bad mood, Sun Ce said, "Mr. Qiao, you sent me an edict on behalf of the emperor. I'm afraid you have offended Yuan Gonglu. Why don't you stay with me?"

Qiao Rui said drunkenly, "I value Bofu a lot, but I have self-knowledge. I have broken big things several times, and I am embarrassed."

"Today I deliver the letter for Bofu, but there is still an explanation for Yuan Gonglu."

"So I'm going to leave for Shouchun tomorrow, ask Yuan Gonggong to resign, and then move my family to Wu County. If Bofu doesn't give up, he will definitely serve under his command."

Zhou Yu worried, "If Yuan Gonglu makes it difficult for Mr. Qiao at that time."

Qiao Rui waved his hand and said, "It's okay, if you want to come to Yuan Gonglu, you still want to miss some old love."

"I will keep my mouth shut about the imperial edict."

"By the way, the fierce tiger asked me to bring a message. What is it? He told Bofu to rest assured that he had no intention of plotting against Jiangdong, and wanted to make peace with Bofu."

He gradually became slurred, and finally fell asleep lying on the table.

When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu saw each other, they got up and left their seats. When they reached the courtyard, Sun Ce said, "Do you think Gong Jin's words are trustworthy?"

After hearing this, Zhou Yu said, "It should be possible, otherwise some of the links would be courting death. If it was really a tiger's eyeliner, it would definitely not be so reckless."

After hearing this, Sun Ce breathed a sigh of relief, "Is it true that he is going to see Yuan Shu? If Yuan Shu is suspicious, he may never return."

Zhou Yu said: "Mr. Qiao is very knowledgeable. If he doesn't return to his command, Yuan Gonglu will be suspicious of us earlier."

"Yuan Gonglu intends to stand on his own feet. If Duke Qiao is under his suspicion, it will be a disaster."

"But those who make big things don't stick to small details, Bofu will be broken when it is broken."

Sun Ce hesitated again and again, and finally made up his mind, sighing: "If something happens to him at that time, just take care of his family."

Thousands of miles away, in the hinterland of Montenegro, after a whole day of fierce fighting without regard to casualties, the corpses of the Black Mountain Army and the Jizhou Army were everywhere on the mountain slopes, and the blood in the mountain streams were dyed red.

Yuan Xi and Lu Lingqi stood on the watchtower for a whole day, until it was getting dark, and Yuan Shang had no intention of letting Yuan Xi participate.

Wen Chou, Zhang Yun, and Gao Lan led the soldiers, and finally occupied the most important hill before the sky completely darkened.

Seeing that the sky was completely dark, the Black Mountain Army retreated with gold, and the Jizhou Army took advantage of the situation to build camps and fortifications on the top of the mountain overnight to prevent the Black Mountain Army from counterattacking at night.

From the beginning to the end, Yang Feng did not show up, and was replaced by more than a dozen Black Mountain leaders, but he was no match for Wen Chou and others. After Wen Chou and the others killed two leaders together, the rest of them dared not come out again.

Lu Lingqi asked suspiciously: "General Wen Chou's blow was extremely heavy, so Yang Feng probably died, right?"

Yuan Xi thought that if he were himself, he would probably do it, but if it was Yang Feng, it would not be so.

He always felt that there was a secret in Yang Feng, and Zhang Yan and Yang Feng were the key to find out what Cao Cao had done in the Black Mountain Army.

Regarding the future trend of the situation and the decisions of the princes of all parties, Yuan Xi has no idea at all now. Because the general situation of the world has undergone a great deviation, Cao Cao has not been able to independently control the emperor Liu Xie, so his next plan , Yuan Xi couldn't predict it either.

He put himself in Cao Cao's perspective, and found that the best choice at this time was to secretly accumulate strength, expand the territory, and wait for Yuan Shu to die.

Now almost the whole world knows that Yuan Shu is going to rebel, and many princes are not optimistic about Yuan Shu's prospects, which makes Yuan Xi feel strange, where does Yuan Shu have the confidence to stand on his own, really think that he can independently fight against everyone in the world?

Or does he feel that if he raises his arms and calls out, the whole world will gather to respond like Zhang Jiao's uprising?

Yuan Xi faintly felt very awkward, but the coolness of the night made him preoccupied with another matter.

The weather is not right this summer!

Compared with the previous two years, it was too cool. It seemed that the whole summer had not come, and it was a smooth transition from spring to autumn.

It becomes cooler?
He immediately thought of something, and his complexion suddenly turned pale.

There were two major ice ages in the history of China, and the end of the Han Dynasty was the first minor ice age. Although it was not as powerful as the one at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it must be known that the level of science and technology at the end of the Han Dynasty was far inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty!
Under the severe cold, not only will it cause a large reduction in food production, but it will also cause a large number of people to freeze to death.

No wonder the locust plague that ravaged the Northland last year has disappeared this year. Is it affected by this?
A few years ago, the locust plague broke out in Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou, but Yuan Xi in Jizhou gave an early warning. Although there were losses, it was still within an acceptable range.

As for the Youzhou area, because the temperature is relatively cold in the north, the locust plague has not caused much impact, and the construction of water conservancy has helped, so there has been a good harvest in the past two years.

After the severe drought, there were locust plagues. Youzhou had a lot of water and the weather was cold. Although it affected the grain, it had a restraining effect on the locust plague. Moreover, although the climate in Youzhou was cold, as long as the irrigation kept up, the general natural disasters would not easily affect the grain. crop.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, the severity of natural disasters.

If it is the kind of severe cold that prevents pastures from growing outside the Great Wall, the grain harvest in Youzhou in the next few years or even decades will definitely be greatly affected!

Yuan Xi's body trembled suddenly, thinking that after the Battle of Guandu in later generations, sustained wars rarely broke out in the Northland, and all power struggles were concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River.

If it is said that there is the influence of the Little Ice Age, many abnormal things can be explained, because at that time, Cao Cao did not dominate the north, and there were often forces on the border that caused chaos. Until Cao Cao passed away, the Northland was not completely settled down.

Cao Cao, who used to kill people to frighten people, adopted a policy of appeasement in many areas. It should be that in those years, due to the impact of the Little Ice Age, the northern land was short of food and soldiers, so unnecessary wars should be avoided as much as possible.

In contrast, the climate south of the Yangtze River is relatively warm and less affected by the Little Ice Age, so the State of Shu and Wu State relied on their small territory to resist several attacks from Cao Wei in the north, and every time Cao Wei launched an army, it could not last long. , In the end, he was repeatedly beaten on the defensive, maybe there is no such reason in it.

Yuan Xi thought about it, and it seems that the layout in the south of the Yangtze River should be mentioned. If the climate really changes, Youzhou may only guarantee self-sufficiency. If you want to launch an army to compete for the world, you must go south in advance!

Therefore, if Youzhou wants to expand in the north, the focus of the next step is to abandon the swampy and bitterly cold land of Liaodong outside the Great Wall, and instead try to occupy the Hetao Plain in Bingzhou.

After all, the Hetao Plain is extremely fertile at this time. If we can grow cold-resistant wheat and barley, we will have a lot of confidence to deal with the risk of natural disasters.

Seeing Yuan Xi in a daze, Lu Lingqi wanted to beat him up, but she finally let go because she had already seen that Yuan Xi was really thinking about something.

My future husband is completely different from my father. Although he can also go to battle, he is more like a wise general who plans strategies.

After a while, Yuan Xi came back to his senses and said to Lu Lingqi: "Tomorrow will almost determine the outcome."

"We can't wait here anymore, call everyone now, regardless of Yuan Shang, we will fight our own."

"It doesn't matter if the pass is given to him, we'll try to find a way to cross it from the mountain in the north."

Yang Feng opened his eyes, feeling the darkness in front of his eyes, his heart tightened, could he be blind?

After groping for the straw under her body for a while, realizing that this was her previous bed, her eyes gradually adapted to the light in the tent, she saw the blurred outlines of things clearly, and a stone fell to the ground just now.

It turned out to be dark.

Looking at it like this, he was knocked out at the time, at least for a whole day?

She felt uneasy in her heart, what happened outside?

He is still alive, and his hands and feet are not shackled, so Montenegro should have not been breached by the opponent, right?
She groped and sat up, feeling as if all the strength in her body had been emptied, and a strong sense of hunger came from her stomach, which instantly made her heart feel like it was being burned by fire.

At this time, no breathing method would work, she tremblingly stretched into the bag in her arms, and found that the small half of the pancake was still there, as if it was still sticky.

Without even looking at it, she stuffed the cake into her mouth. A strong smell of blood came before she reacted. The cake was soaked in blood.

She didn't care if the blood was her own, she bit her teeth desperately, because of the blood, the pancakes became softer, and she swallowed half of it in a few mouthfuls before she regained her composure.

When her body recovered a little bit of strength, she stuffed the rest of the cake back. She looked around and found no one, so she called a few times, asking the guards to come over.

As a result, as soon as the words came out, a very low hoarse sound came out of her throat, and she realized that her throat could hardly make a sound.

Yang Feng stood up reluctantly, found half a bowl of water in the corner of the tent, and quickly poured it into her throat. The feeling of being alive finally returned to her body.

He sat for a while, then got up slowly, but he didn't find the iron gun, he was afraid that he had dropped it on the battlefield, so he got up, walked out of the tent with difficulty, and found that there was no one in sight outside the tent.

She was a little annoyed, even at night, the precautions were too careless, right?

She raised her voice and yelled a few times, because she was too forceful, and her throat felt tearing.

The next moment, a few personal guards walked out of the camp leaning on wooden sticks. When they saw Yang Feng, they were pleasantly surprised: "The commander is awake?"

Yang Feng saw that several people had injuries on their bodies, and couldn't bear to speak too seriously, so he frowned and said, "Where are the others?"

"Why is no one patrolling the camp at night?"

The guards were silent, and one of the guards showed pain on his face, and said slowly, "The others are all dead."

"There are only a few of us left."

Yang Feng was stunned.

The personal guard murmured: "The commander was knocked unconscious by the enemy general, we went up and snatched the captain back."

"The few of us carried the captain back to the camp. When we returned to the battlefield, none of the other dozens of brothers came back."

Yang Feng seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, and her body could not stand still.

The hundreds of confidantes she brought out from the Yellow Turban Army at the beginning, after all these years, under her command, the number has not been very small.

But after three battles with fierce tigers, almost all were killed and injured, only dozens of people remained.

Then in today's battle, I was injured and unconscious, and there were almost no casualties!
No more, nothing more.

Just when all her thoughts were lost, a black mountain army messenger appeared with his head poking his head, and said to Yang Feng: "Lieutenant, Zhonglang will invite you."

(End of this chapter)