Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 503
When Yuan Xi shot that arrow, he frightened Jushou and Lu Xun behind him half to death. They were afraid that Cao Jun would become angry and turn around to attack. If that happened, the Youzhou army might immediately reveal their true colors.

Fortunately, perhaps because of Yuan Xi's actions, Cao Jun could not judge the reality of the Youzhou Army, so he retreated.

In fact, both sides don't know. For this sake, both armies have reached their limits.

At this time, everyone in Cao Ying was also wiping the sweat from their foreheads, and the medical staff pulled out the arrow from Cheng Yu's arm in the carriage, and Cheng Yu couldn't help but screamed loudly.

He was very heartbroken. Originally, Cao Cao let him, who is a very counselor, go to the battlefield just to make a final decision. He didn't expect to end up in a situation where both sides were hurt. Not to mention, the fierce tiger, as the coach, even shot and killed himself who was passing the message, which is too gentry Style!
The world is getting worse, people are not ancient!

But when Yuan Xi took action just now, everyone in Cao's camp was frightened, fearing that it was a signal from the Youzhou army to attack. If another army came out, Cao's army would have to show up here!
In this battle, several days before and after Cao Jun's departure, only half of the tens of thousands of people returned, but it was still not considered a serious injury.

Because Cao Cao took advantage of Yuan Shu to attack Chen State in Yuzhou and drove Chen Wang Liu Chong away, he raided Yuan Shu's army from behind and repelled them, and obtained tens of thousands of soldiers from Chen State.

Most of the casualties in this battle were Qingzhou soldiers. They were numerous, unruly and difficult to control. After killing and injuring tens of thousands of Qingzhou soldiers, their power was weakened. This could temporarily make them more honest and save a lot. Military rations.

This is not a bad thing for Cao Cao who is about to attack Yuan Shu.

The generals looked at Cao Cao with a calm face, and his heart made him more and more lord-like. Today's Cao Jun has rapidly become stronger in battle after battle, and the waves wash away the sand. In the end, all that is left is real gold!
Cao Cao felt very uncomfortable, all the generals were busy, except for a few people, none of them could compare with Zhao Yun and Guan Yu, the other generals!

My next step is to think carefully about how to recruit powerful heroes!
Yuan Xi commanded his personal guards to carry the wounded soldiers onto carts and transport them to the rear for treatment. He also sent people to search for the people hiding in various places and asked them to take refuge in Haixi.

After a while, Guan Yu came over, and Yuan Xi paid his respects: "Thank you, general, for saving me."

Guan Yu waved his hand and said, "Yu always remembers the kindness of envoy Jun Guangling who saved his life earlier."

He told Yuan Xi about Liu Bei, and Yuan Xi sighed: "Now that Cao Jun is going to occupy Tancheng, it will be difficult for the people in Xiapi to come here again."

"There is Ling County between Guangling and Xiapi. It is the closest to the place where the envoy disappeared. If the general does not abandon it, he can temporarily station there. At the same time, he and General Zhang will continue to search for Liu Yuzhou."

He took out a token and handed it to Guan Yu, "General, take my token, and Ling County can open the city to welcome the general."

"As for Madam Jun, she is seriously injured and should not travel far. I am looking for someone to treat her. After her injury is healed, I will send someone to Ling County."

Guan Yu thanked him and said, "Your kindness will never be forgotten by Yu Toothless."

Yuan Xi replied: "General, you are being polite. If it weren't for the general's help today, it would be very difficult for me to stop Cao Jun."

Guan Yu was eager to find Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, so he bid farewell to Yuan Xi and went to Ling County with his soldiers.

Yuan Xi sent Guan Yu away, feeling extremely tired, his body was about to fall when he swayed, Lu Lingqi saw it and reached out to help her, but she lost her strength, and the two of them fell to the ground together.

Seeing each other's blood-stained mess, the two couldn't help but smile wryly at each other.

The two found a big tree, leaned their backs on the trunk, and couldn't help panting. On the battlefield in front of them, the soldiers silently cleaned the battlefield, stripped off the armor of their own soldiers' corpses, and then buried the corpses on the spot.

Yuan Xi's heart was bleeding. Many of the soldiers who died in battle were the seeds he cultivated with great difficulty. After the battle in the past few days, it is roughly estimated that there were at least a thousand casualties, and the loss was not small.

But this battle had to be fought because it was in Xuzhou.

As long as Yuan Xi bears Xuzhou's pastoral name for the first day, he must be responsible for the people of Xuzhou.

If he is a lord like Yuan Shu who doesn't care about the life and death of the people under his rule, he will be abandoned by the people sooner or later.

He supported the tree trunk and stood up with difficulty, stretched out his hand to Lu Lingqi, and said, "Let's go, let's go back."

The inside story of the Battle of Xuzhou spread all over the world soon after, and those who knew the inside story were all stunned.

Yuan Shu aggressively attacked Liu Bei. The timing was really good, and he attacked Xiapi in one fell swoop, allowing Yuan Shu's forces to finally enter Xuzhou.

This was a powerful counterattack for the Han court to seek Yuan's edict, like a resounding slap in the face, which made many officials of the Han court feel hot.

Yuan Shu is powerful, and it is not surprising that Liu Bei, who is alone and alone, was defeated, but as a member of the edict of Yuan Shu, he did not get help from his allies from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, he was attacked by surprise. The alliance is still infighting!

This slap in the face was worse than the previous one. The Han court was full of quarrels. What Liu Xie faced in the past few days was the endless quarrels and impeachment of the ministers.

Kong Rong was vomiting and talking eloquently, "Cao Mengde was ambitious and blatantly attacked the loyal ministers of the Han court. He was extremely audacious and unforgivable!"

"When Liu Yuzhou resisted Yuan Shu, the bandit Cao stabbed him in the back and blatantly invaded his city. It is beyond conscience!"

As soon as this remark came out, Brother Zhang Miao from Kong Rong's family also stood up to help, and Ding Chong hurriedly came out and said: "It's a bunch of nonsense!"

"It's because Liu Yuzhou can't stop Yuan Shu by himself, so why should he have anything to do with Mr. Cao!"

"Liu Yuzhou was defeated and disintegrated. If Mr. Cao didn't take over his city, wouldn't he just hand it over to Yuan Shu for nothing!"

Kong Rong sneered and said, "It's just farting!"

"Ding Chong, you are a heartless thing. Then Cao's thieves attacked Liu Yuzhou's retreating soldiers and the people's fleeing team, also to guard against Yuan Shu?"

Ding Chong argued forcefully: "Who knows the inside story?"

"Maybe Tian Hei made a mistake at the time, or those people were originally Yuan Shujun's posing!"

Kong Rong was furious: "Open your eyes and fart!"

"Which of your eyes saw that it was Yuan Shujun?"

Ding Chong asked back, "Which eye saw Mr. Wen Ju?"

"Wouldn't Mr. Wen Ju be there at the time?"

Kong Rong didn't expect Ding Chong to be so shameless, so he was furious. He immediately vomited fragrance, quoted scriptures, and began to expose Ding Chong's old background and scolded his ancestors for eighteen generations.

Seeing that people from both sides continued to join in the scolding battle, Liu Xie in the seat secretly scolded that the success was not enough, and the failure was more than failure. Speaking of which, he also regretted that Liu Bei was tricked by himself.

The edict he issued was too hasty and hasty.

Announcing the names of the members of the Allied Army against Yuan to the world in advance, wouldn't this allow Yuan Shu to attack the weakest target?
But Liu Xie didn't expect that Cao Cao and Yuan Xi had such a big conflict in private. The two armies fought without any hesitation, without paying attention to the overall situation of the crusade against Yuan Shu!

This made Liu Xie not only very unhappy, but also in a dilemma.

Because the crusade against Yuan Shu was led by him, and he intended to attack in multiple ways, so that Yuan Shu could lose sight of the other, so the first way to start was Lu Bu who was in Huaicheng.

Half a month ago, Lu Bu led Zhang Liao and other generals, and tens of thousands of soldiers recruited in Sili went south to Yuzhou to attack Yuan Hou's rear.

Liu Xie's intention was to let Lu Bu pull Yuan Shu's defense line and let him use some of the heavily stocked Shouchun Equinox to defend, thus reducing the pressure on Liu Bei's offensive line.

At that time, the news of the battle of Xuzhou had not yet come, so counting the time, Lu Bu should have entered Yuzhou.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shu made the first move at this time, Liu Bei's whereabouts were unknown after being defeated, and Yuan Xi and Cao Cao were fighting among themselves. It became a joke to discuss Yuan's alliance, and even the edict of the Han court became a joke!
And the ultimate joke became Liu Xie himself.

Before the fight started, there was internal strife. What did this make him, the emperor, face?

Liu Xie looked at the people who were arguing endlessly in the hall, suppressed the irritability in his heart, raised his hand and said: "My dear friends, quarreling can't solve the problem, now I want your advice, how to deal with it next, and how to remedy it!"

When all the ministers heard this, they all went back to sit down. Zhong Yao took the opportunity to come out and said: "The Tian family is wise. It is difficult to reach a conclusion about who is right in Xuzhou. It is better to reconcile the two sides and let them turn the hostility into friendship."

As soon as these words came out, Kong Rong and others cursed shamelessly, and Xuzhou was smashed. It is said that tens of thousands were killed and injured on both sides, turning hostility into friendship?Easy to say!
Kong Rong said strangely, "Mr. Yuan is the shepherd of Xuzhou, but Cao Cao seized more than half of Xuzhou. It's beyond ordinary people's ability to turn hostility into wealth."

"How about Zhong Shilang going to Xuzhou as an envoy to mediate this matter?"

Zhong Yao cursed inwardly, do you want me to die?

It is said that the ferocious tiger has no noble demeanor at all. If he gets angry, he might really chop off his own head!
He forced a smile and said: "Mr. Wen Ju was joking, and the fierce tiger may not be wrong. It may be that he harbored evil intentions and took the opportunity to annex Yanzhou, so he fought with Cao Shijun."

Kong Rong said coldly: "The thief calls for catching the thief. Only a villain can judge a gentleman's belly with his own heart."

Zhong Yao's face was dull, and a murderous intention secretly appeared in his heart, he thought to Kong Rong, just jump, Lu Bu won't be able to come back for a while, there are plenty of ways to deal with you!
Zhong Yao has already received a promise from Cao Cao, and when he succeeds Cao Cao as the captain of Sili and has the power to command the army, he will cooperate with Zhang Yan and kill Kong Rong as easily as killing a chicken!
But Zhong Yao knew that the time was not yet ripe, so he suppressed his anger and said to Liu Xie: "The overall situation is the most important thing, and the most urgent task is to eliminate Yuan Shu."

"The Tian family can issue edicts to appease all parties separately, which is a proper strategy."

As soon as the words came out, all the ministers agreed with them one after another. After all, things have become like this, so what else can they do?
You can't favor one side and provoke conflicts between the two sides again and let them attack each other, right?

If this continues, it will really become a joke to ask for Yuan's imperial edict!

So sometimes the truth is not important, nor is it important who is right or wrong. What is important is how everyone settles the matter and saves face and current position.

After all, how many people died in Xuzhou, and what does it have to do with their Han court officials?

Mi Zhen opened the door and saw Yuan Xi standing at the door, she quickly lowered her head and said, "I have seen the envoy."

Yuan Xi returned: "I have seen the girl, how is Mrs. Liu Yuzhou?"

Mi Zhen said in a low voice: "It's very bad, I've been having a fever all the time, and it's hard to open my eyes today. The doctor said that those few knife wounds hurt the internal organs, I'm afraid."

After Yuan Xi heard this, he sighed and said, "Since that's the case, I won't bother you, just tell Madam that I've been here."

"By the way, please ask, Madam, if you have any other requirements, I will find a way to meet them."

Mi Zhen said quickly: "Please wait a moment."

She turned back and went into the room, and came out after a while and said, "Madam, please let me in."

(End of this chapter)