The Yuan Family of the Three Kingdoms I call the shots

Chapter 601 Battle of the Kings

At the end of the 14th year of Jian'an, Yuan Shang surrendered the main force of the Cao army headed by Cao Zhi in Guandu, and then accepted Jia Xu's plan. After Sima Yi returned, he immediately raised his troops and went to Xuchang.

As Yuan Jun entered Xuchang, it also announced the complete demise of the Cao Group.

Yuan Shang sent troops to occupy various important places in Xuchang, but he did not do anything to the Cao family members. On the contrary, he kept his promise with Cao Zhi and Mrs. Bian, and took good care of the Cao family and Xiahou family. Give them food, fodder, gold and silk, and there is no crime in autumn.

After entering Xuchang City, Yuan Shang did not stop and immediately did several very important things.

The first thing was that he personally led people to the Cao's ancestral temple to pay homage to Cao Cao and the rest of Cao's relatives who died in Yuan Cao's battle, and asked Chen Lin to write a touching memorial article. Read aloud and cremated that day.

The second thing is that he sent flying cavalry to Fu County to recruit Li Dian and Le Jin, and released the captured generals Li Tong, Zang Ba, and Xu Huang, and returned to the army, all temporarily serving as partial generals. .

The third thing is to send Yuan Xi to inspect the counties and counties of Zhongzhou to appease the hearts of the officials and the people.

The fourth thing is to report to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to revoke the post of Prime Minister Cao Zhi and appoint him as Taifu.Of course, whether the imperial court approves it or not, Yuan Shang will take it as its approval.

The fifth thing is to arrange for all the Cao family headed by Tai Fu Cao Zhi, and the Xiahou family to go to Yecheng to live in peace, and bestow good farmland mansions to ensure that all of them are urns of rich families and will never be treated poorly.

The sixth thing is to appoint Cao Chong as the general of chariots and cavalry, and obey Cao Zhi to take charge of the old army and stay in the army for call.

The seventh thing is to gradually disrupt the original deployment of Cao Jun and disperse them into Yuan Jun. In the past, all the generals of the Cao Jun Zhongjun stayed in the tents of the Zhongjun. They were all appointed as partial generals.

The eighth thing is to transport rice and cattle from Hebei to restore production and appease the refugees.

In addition, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Luodong, Huainan and other places have a huge span. In order to bring them under his command quickly and comprehensively, Yuan Shang decided to temporarily use Xuchang as his general base of the front line, and set up a new base in Xu, Yan, and Luodong. In the four places of Huainan, each set up a governor to appease the army and the people.Among the governors, Xuzhou is Pang Ji, Luodong is Ma Teng, Yanzhou is Zhang Yan, and in Huainan, Yuan Shang intends to use Zhang Liao.

All of a sudden, there was an uproar. Pang Ji, Ma Teng, and Zhang Yan were nothing more than Yuan Shang's confidantes, but Zhang Liao had just surrendered and had no merit, and was Yuan Jun's old enemy. Border, in case something happens, how to clean it up?
In fact, Zhang Liao was placed in the south because Yuan Shang imitated Cao Cao's practice in later history books.In history, Zhang Liao was both brave and brave. He sat in the south of the border for Cao Cao and fought several northern expeditions of Soochow to no avail.

But now the situation is different from that in history, Zhang Liao is still the same Zhang Liao, but the overlord in the north has changed to the Yuan family.

Yuan Shang originally wanted to try his best to reject the opinions of the public, but after careful consideration, Zhang Liao's first resignation, if the delegation of power was too large, it would really be the case, so he withdrew his order and changed Gao Lan to be the governor, Zhuo Zhangliao was the deputy general, and the governor of Huainan military affairs. , Standing up against Soochow.

After finding out the general policy, Yuan Shang started to work on the next thing, something he had promised Cao Zhi.

Before surrendering, Cao Zhi said that he wanted to have a one-on-one duel with Yuan Shang.Although Yuan Shang sneered at Cao Zhi's force, he still agreed to the request due to friendship.

Of course, it's not something glorious after all, since it's still being done in secret.

The venue was chosen behind the post house where Yuan Shang temporarily stayed in Xuchang.

On the day of the duel, both Yuan Shang and Cao Zhi were wearing strong clothes with gauze wrapped around their hands, and there were not many guards around them, they were all inconspicuous little faces. There was only one person with the highest status, and that was Yuan Shang's right-hand man Sima Yi up.

Seeing the two bouncing back and forth to warm up in the arena, Sima Yi rolled his eyes helplessly, then cleared his throat, came to the middle of the two, and read aloud.

"In this competition, friendship comes first, and competition comes second. The two sides are not allowed to use weapons. They are only allowed to fight with bare hands. It is forbidden to attack the lower body and eyes, it is forbidden to insult the opponent, and it is forbidden to attack the throat! Do you understand?"

Yuan Shang glanced at Sima Yi indifferently, and said, "You missed one thing."

Sima Yi was taken aback when he heard the words, and said, "Which one?"

"No biting."

"Oh! That's right!" Sima Yi slapped his forehead suddenly, and then said: "Also, biting is forbidden!"

After reading the rules, the two slowly came to the arena and looked at each other.

Yuan Shang said helplessly: "Cao Zhi, I really don't understand, why do you insist on one-on-one with me? What's the point of doing this to you?"

Cao Zhi laughed and said, "Do you think this is meaningless? Maybe it doesn't mean anything to you, but it means a lot to me!"

Yuan Shang raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and said, "What do you mean?"

Cao Zhi took a deep breath and said: "For me, in this world, the person who causes me the most headache and scares me is you. On the battlefield, no matter how hard I try, how I use soldiers or strategies I can't beat you, but I'm not reconciled, if I can't beat you on the battlefield, then I will win you in a heads-up! Let's have a real battle of kings."

Having said that, Cao Zhi paused and said, "At least, I want to beat you once."

Yuan Shang laughed loudly when he heard the words, nodded, and said: "If you want to win me, you should be in poetry and poetry, if you are talking about fists..."

Having said that, Yuan Shang suddenly raised his leg, kicked out, and went straight to Cao Zhi's lower abdomen.

Cao Zhi couldn't react in time, and was kicked straight with a "bang".

Cao Zhi's stomach was hot, he bent down subconsciously, and staggered back a few steps.

Yuan Shang did not pursue, but stood there and looked at him with a smile.

"You can't beat me in terms of strategy, and it's the same in terms of martial arts."

Cao Zhi laughed lightly, rubbed the stomach that was kicked by Yuan Shang, and said, "That's not necessarily the case!" After finishing speaking, he stood up.

In Yuan Shang's mind, Cao Zhi's poems and prose are too famous in history, so in his heart, Cao Zhi is just a man of literature and ink who does not understand martial arts, and he can deal with him one-on-one.

But in fact, Yuan Shang didn't realize that he was wrong until the two got together.

The sons of everyone’s wealthy families have learned the six arts since they were young. In addition to Confucianism, bow and horse swordsmanship is also an important criterion for judging them. Just imagine that Cao Pi studied under Shi A, a master of swordsmanship, and Cao Zhangyong won the three armies. How can Cao Zhi meet too weak?It's just that his achievements in poetry are too high, so that later generations ignore his bow and horse.

Just imagine Cao Cao's son, how could he let his son be biased with the education methods of Lao Cao?
"Ping!"

Yuan Shang hit Cao Zhi's left eye with an old punch, and he was black-eyed immediately.

"Do you know? You lost to me not because you are stupid than me, but because you are too rigid, don't know how to adapt, don't know how to judge the situation, and stick to one pattern!"

Cao Zhi rubbed his eyes, and scratched Yuan Shang's neck with his claws, and immediately grabbed five bloody spots.

"Thank you for your advice, but I'm sorry I can't use such a cunning and treacherous strategy like yours!"

Yuan Shang touched the blood on his neck, sneered, kicked Cao Zhi back, and kicked Cao Zhi's stomach until he couldn't straighten up.

"Up to now, you are still obsessed with your obsession. You deserve to be wiped out by me!"

Cao Zhi straightened up and punched Yuan Shang straight in the chest.

"Yuan Shang, what are you! Why do you teach me!"

Yuan Shang laughed, rushed forward, hit and shouted: "What's wrong with teaching you, the winner is the king and the loser, I win and I am qualified to teach you...you little bastard!"

Cao Zhi didn't show weakness, and rushed forward to fight Yuan Shang: "Fuck you! Despicable villain! You and I are at odds!"

The two fought together, and for a period of time before the start of the fight, the two were still able to perform one move after another, and the moves could be regarded as orderly, but after three sticks of incense, the moves of the two changed. After four or five incense sticks of effort, the fight turned into a fight as the two of them were exhausted. You tore my clothes, I pinched your eyes, and rolled on the ground from time to time. It's no different from fighting with ordinary local scoundrels.

Sima Yi frowned as he watched from the side. As the two giants in the north who have been fighting for many years, it is really out of style to fight like this.

As for the rules and regulations set before the game, they have already been beaten to Java by the two of them.

Sima Yi kept announcing the foul, but it didn't work at all.

"Alas! Yuan Shang! Don't spit, it's a foul! It's a foul!"

"Cao Zhi, you forgot the rules! How dare you pick my lord's eyes! You will be deducted a point!"

"Yuan Shang! Don't think that you are my lord. This referee dare not speak against you. You set the rule that no biting is allowed! Look at what you are doing now! Are you a dog?"

"Cao Zhi, stop! Don't grab my lord's crotch!"
"…………"

The fight between the two was in full swing. At this moment, Ju Shou hurried in. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he was immediately dazzled by the battle situation in front of him.

Staring blankly at the two dog-biting dogs in the arena, Ju Shou turned to Sima Yi in surprise, and said, "Zhongda, what are they doing?"

Sima Yi glanced at Jushou indifferently, then looked up at the sky proudly, his eyes were full of deepness, and proudly said four words to Jushou.

"Battle of Kings!"

"........."

"Crack!" As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Shang raised his hand and gave Cao Zhi a slap in the face, until half of his face was flushed red.

Cao Zhi did not show weakness, and went to dig Yuan Shang's nostrils with his backhand, but when he saw Yuan Shang's nosebleeds, he immediately burst out.

Ju Shou was stunned, swallowed lightly, turned his head, glanced at Sima Yi suddenly, and opened his mouth to ask.

"You call this... the Battle of the Kings?"

(End of this chapter)