Lu Dynasty

Chapter 305 The Death of Gongsun Zan

Although Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan, he was also seriously injured.So Yuan Shao wrote a letter to reconcile with Gongsun Zan.But Gongsun Zan who received the letter thought it was Yuan Shao's trick again, so he didn't reply, and stepped up his guard.Yuan Shao saw Gongsun Zan's movements and thought he was unwilling to reconcile, so he raised troops to attack Yi Jing.

Although Gongsun Zan and his generals and advisers were somewhat alienated, it was still difficult for Yuan Shao to capture Yi Jing.But a small incident happened during the period, which accelerated Gongsun Zan's defeat.It turned out that when Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Zan, he surrounded a general under Gongsun Zan's command, and that general asked Gongsun Zan for help.After Gongsun Zan received the call for help from his subordinates, he didn't even send troops to rescue him, and said, "If you save him, everyone will just wait for the rescue and not fight hard!" As a result, the general died in battle.When Yuan Shao besieged Yijing, the other generals knew that Gongsun Zan would not rescue them if they were besieged by Yuan Shao, so Gongsun Zan's generals ran and fled, and some even surrendered to Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zan realized that the situation was not good, so he sent his son to seek help from Zhang Yan in Heishan.Zhang Yan had long surrendered to Yuan Shao so that his Yellow Turbans could have enough to eat.When Gongsun Zan's son came to ask for help, Zhang Yan immediately notified Yuan Shao.

After Yuan Shao received the news, he originally wanted Zhang Yan to send Gongsun Zan's son here, but the counselor under his command tried to persuade him, "Yi Jingcheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so why don't we follow the plan and let Zhang Yan pretend to support, but actually go to the city as a vanguard?" Attack Yijing. This way we can save our troops and consume Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army, so why not do it?" Yuan Shao felt very reasonable after hearing the trial's plan.Guo Tu, Feng Ji and others also felt that this plan was good, so they asked Zhang Yan to promise Gongsun Zan's son to rescue Gongsun Zan.

Although Gongsun Zan sent his son to Montenegro to ask for help, he still wanted to lead his troops to break out of the siege, occupy the Southwest Mountain, and rely on the Black Mountain Army to cut off the retreat of Yuan Shao's army. In this case, Gongsun Zan still had hope of defeating Yuan Shao.Guan Jing, the chief official, persuaded him: "My lord, your soldiers have already harbored rebellious hearts, and they have long been unable to fight anymore. The reason why they can stick to it is to cherish their hometown, young and old, and regard you as the backbone. General If he can hold on for a long time, Yuan Shao will naturally retreat, and the armies of the four directions will definitely be able to reunite again. If the general abandons Yijing now, the army will lose its back town, and Yijing's collapse is just around the corner. The general loses his foundation and lives in the wilderness, what else can he achieve? ?" After hearing Guan Jing's words, Gongsun Zan decided not to leave Yi Jing, and waited for his son to move in to rescue troops, and attacked Yuan Shao internally and externally.Gongsun Zan was also unlucky. He didn't know that Zhang Yan had surrendered to Yuan Shao long ago, and he was counting on him to rescue him.

In order to stabilize Gongsun Zan's son, Zhang Yan pretended to be a soldier and divided into three groups to rescue Gongsun Zan.Gongsun Zan was impatient, so he couldn't wait for Zhang Yan to come to rescue him, so he sent someone to send a secret letter to Gongsun Xu, asking him to lead five thousand cavalry in Beixi and raise torches in response, and Gongsun Zan went out to fight from inside the city.Yuan Shaojun robbed the letter by mistake, and raised the torch as scheduled.Gongsun Zan thought that reinforcements had arrived, so he led his troops to attack.Yuan Shao set up an ambush to attack Gongsun Zan. Gongsun Zan was defeated and returned to the city to stand firm.

Standing on the tower, Gongsun Zan looked at Yuan Shaojun's dense crowd, feeling really worried.After Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan again, he summoned his generals and wanted Zhang Yan to kill Gongsun Zan's son.In Yuan Shao's view, Gongsun Zan was already the bastard in the urn, and he could kill him any way he wanted.

The judge said with a smile: "Master, since Gongsun Zan has reached such a point, why should we waste our troops on him? When General Zhang Yan attacks, isn't the head of Gongsun Zan's family still an ornament on your table?" Yuan Shao thought What the judge said was very reasonable, so he didn't insist on his own opinion.

Gongsun Zan's son brought Zhang Yan to the gate of Yijing. Gongsun Zan saw that reinforcements had arrived.He ordered people to open the city gate and let Zhang Yan and the others in.But when the city gate was wide open, Zhang Yan actually beheaded Gongsun Zan's son with one knife and ordered to attack the city!Gongsun Zan was so shocked that it was too late to order people to close the door.It was also thanks to Zhang Yan's relatively weak Black Mountain Army that Gongsun Zan retreated into the inner city.Yuan Shao saw that Gongsun Zan had only one inner city left, so he ordered the diggers to dig tunnels and attack the inner city.Slowly, Yuan Shao's digging army was about to dig into the mound in the center of Yijing. Gongsun Zan saw that Yuan Shao's army was about to invade, and knowing that he would die, he killed all his wives. The food he hoarded set himself on fire!

Yuan Shao looked at Gongsun Zan's self-immolation, and felt a little pity. He still wanted to kill this brave general with his own hands.Yuan Shao, who got Youzhou, was immediately a little complacent.But when his subordinates told him the news that Gongsun Zan set himself on fire and even burned the army rations, he yelled at Gongsun Zan, but it was a pity that Gongsun Zan was dead, and Yuan Shao would never hear Yuan Shao scolding him again.

Yuan Shao was depressed and left his eldest son Yuan Tan to guard Youzhou, and returned to Jizhou with his troops.Now that there are two prefectures in Hebei and Youzhou, Yuan Shao started to think about Qingzhou and Bingzhou.He summoned his advisers to ask whether it would be better to attack Bingzhou first or Qingzhou first.Guo Tu asked, "My lord, do you want to fight against Cao, or against Lu Feng?"

Yuan Shao laughed and said, "Lv Feng and I have never been on good terms. There is no question of whether we should be friends or not. As for Cao Aman, he can be regarded as my friend!"

Guo Tu said: "In this case, let's attack Bingzhou first! Bingzhou is Lu Feng's territory. Anyway, the lord and Lu Feng are against each other. We don't even need a reason to attack him! And if the lord takes Qingzhou, we will fight with Cao Cao next time." We met in arms."

"Then capture Bingzhou!" Yuan Shao said with a smile: "Then Lu Feng has always looked down on me and Gonglu, this time I want to show him some color! Let him know that the people from our Yuan family are all great talents in the world !"

But Feng Ji stood up and said: "My lord, the decision to attack Lu Feng is right, but you must not use unjust soldiers! We can declare that Lu Feng disrespected the royal family and committed a crime of disrespect. The reason why we can use this reason Attack him because he did not kill Li Jue and Guo Si who committed the rebellion!"

Seeing Feng Ji coming out to fight against him again, Guo Tu was furious. Guo Tu said: "Lu Feng is just a good family member, what is he talking about about righteousness and fame? Yuan Tu is too flattering on him! "

Yuan Shao had always looked down on my family background, Guo Tu's words were exactly what he meant, so Yuan Shao slapped the table and said, "Your Majesty's words are justified, send me an order! Send troops to merge the state!"

(End of this chapter)