Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 299 Yuan Shu votes Yuan Shao

"Your Majesty, Cao Cao's army has not yet retreated, and they are still stationed under Shouchun City. Our food and grass will soon run out!"

In Shouchun City, Yuan Shu sat slumped on his dragon chair in the standard Ge Youtan posture. After hearing Qiao Rui's words, he became even more decadent, and kept muttering: "My country is about to disappear? It's over? No, no, no, it's impossible, Qiao Rui, you must have lied about the military situation, Cao Cao has already retreated, right, he has no food before me, right!"

At this time, Yuan Shu's spirit was a little abnormal, and he yelled hysterically at Qiao Rui in front of him.

This also cannot wish Yuan Shu, anyone who is about to be overthrown less than two months after ascending the throne, loses all the glory and wealth he has, will be mentally abnormal, this is human nature.

Qiao Rui didn't care about Yuan Shu's hysterical appearance, and continued: "Not only that, most of your Majesty's soldiers have fled these few days, and even the great general fled to Jiangdong with Zuo Prime Minister Yang Hong yesterday to join the little bully Sun Ce. "

"Whoosh, whoosh!"

Yuan Shu panted heavily, his eyes were red, and he looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, this world belongs to me, no one can take it away, no one can take it away!"

"His Majesty!"

Seeing Yuan Shu's appearance like this, Qiao Rui wanted to persuade Yuan Shu.

But Yuan Shu couldn't listen to what he said, he continued to laugh and walked towards the harem.

"Oh, Prime Minister You, Your Majesty looks like this, what shall we do!"

Qiao Rui looked at Yan Xiang and asked.

"I have already persuaded His Majesty not to proclaim himself emperor. When he sent troops, I also persuaded His Majesty, but even if he refused to listen, there is nothing I can do about it. At this point, I can only resign myself to fate!"

Yan Xiang shook his head helplessly, then took a step forward and walked out.

Outside Shouchun City, in the camp of Cao Cao's army, Cao Cao sat in the commander's seat with a happy face, looked at Xi Zhicai and said admiringly: "Zhicai is a good strategist, we surrounded but did not attack, and Yuan Shu's army was in chaos because of lack of food. Now there are only tens of thousands of Yuan Shu's troops left, and the day after tomorrow we can break through Shouchun City and capture Yuan Shu!"

"Hehe, the lord has won the prize. The reason why we can surround this Shouchun City is thanks to the food and grass sent by Wen Ruo!"

Although Xi Zhicai spoke modestly, he still couldn't hide the smug look on his face.

"My lord, although we have captured Yuan Shu's Huainan, Yuan Shu has occupied Huainan these years, expropriated and expropriated the people, and the people in Huainan have been miserable. Taking Huainan is unlikely to increase our taxes. Maybe because of this big war, we have to save the people in Huainan!"

Cheng Yu, who went out with the army, walked around the county town next to Shouchun several times in the past few days, and found that all the people in Huainan looked hungry, which was enough to tell that the people in Huainan were not living well.

"So, after we put down the rebellion in Huainan, I'm afraid we have to correct it for a while, and we can't use troops anymore?"

Cao Cao asked.

"That's right, my lord has wiped out the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, then defeated Lu Bu, captured Liu Bei, and recaptured Xuzhou in the past few years. I have used troops several times, and the soldiers are also war-weary, so it must be repaired for a while!"

Xi Zhicai also spoke.

"Ok!"

Cao Cao also nodded...

"Your Majesty, the two ministers have something to say!"

Outside Yuan Shu's bedroom, Yuan Huan and Yuan Yi knelt down on the ground and said loudly to Yuan Shu inside.

"What's the matter, I'm already asleep. Let's talk about it tomorrow!"

After a pause, Yuan Shu said again: "I don't know if I can still see the sun tomorrow, so please speak up if you have something to say!"

"Your Majesty, the two of us would like to ask Your Majesty, do you think it is more important to be an emperor or to live?"

Yuan Yi asked loudly.

"Hehe, could it be that if I don't become the emperor, Cao Cao can stop killing me?"

Yuan Shu didn't know if he said this to himself, or to the two younger brothers of the same clan outside.

"Brother, if you can give up the title of emperor, we two brothers have another plan, maybe you can save your life!"

Yuan Huan also spoke.

"What strategy? Could it be that the two of you came up with a strategy to defeat Cao thief?"

Yuan Shu inside was quite excited, and his speech speed accelerated.

"Well, sorry for our stupidity, we still can't think of a way to defeat Cao Cao! But big brother, don't forget the second brother. The second brother is now in Hebei, and Cao Cao doesn't dare to peep at the second brother. If you can give up the title of Emperor, you can tell the second brother Lower your head, the three of us gathered the gold, silver and other valuables overnight, took our family and our own soldiers to sneak open the gate of the city, and go to Hebei to join Brother Shao!"

Yuan Huan and Yuan Yi spoke together.

"this!"

Yuan Shu, who was sitting in the room, also had his eyes brightened, but then it dimmed again. He and Yuan Shao had never dealt with each other since childhood, especially after the crusade against Dong Zhuo, the two of them almost had no correspondence with each other. He bowed his head and went to join Yuan Shao, which made Yuan Shu feel very humiliated.

Seeing that Yuan Shu in the room stopped talking, Yuan Huan and Yuan Yi outside were anxious, and said, "Elder brother, no matter how you say, you and second brother are half-brothers, and all the blood on your body is from the Yuan family. Blood, everyone is a family, not to mention that my uncle's family was killed by Dong thief, how many people are left in the direct line of the Yuan family, brother, do you want to see the Yuan family become thinner and thinner!"

"Brother, whether you leave or not, Yuan Yi and I must leave tonight. I heard from Ji Ling that there are already escaped soldiers in your Imperial Forest Army!"

Yuan Shu in the room was constantly struggling in his heart, either he wanted to save his face, or put down his face and go to Yuan Shao.Yuan Shu was caught in a tangle.

In the end, the desire to survive overcame his face, and Yuan Shu said, "Okay, let's go to Hebei, and you go back to clean up. I will gather the army and break through from the south gate tonight, and then take a big boat. Take the sea route to Donglai, Qingzhou Landing!"

"Brother, we will listen to you which way to go, as long as we leave here. Otherwise, our brothers will all die here!"

As soon as Yuan Shu agreed to go to Hebei, Yuan Huan and Yuan Yi hurried back to the mansion to collect the gold and silver.

"Ji Ling!"

"The last general is here, what orders does His Majesty have!"

"Don't call me Your Majesty from now on, go to the south of the city and gather all the ships for me, and then gather all the soldiers and horses, and prepare to break out from the south gate!"

Yuan Shu didn't wear any dragon robes any more, but put on the armor he had used in his early battles, and then called his wife and son, ready to flee for his life.

After a while, Ji Ling gathered the remaining [-] soldiers and horses in the city, including the Imperial Forest Army, outside the palace.

Yuan Shu looked around, and the generals in front of him were Ji Ling, Lei Bo, Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Le Jiu, and Yan Xiang. The rest of them ran and surrendered.

"Let's go, let's take advantage of Cao's unpreparedness and set off overnight!"

Yuan Shu looked at the gold and silver treasures in several cars behind him, and felt a little comforted in his heart, and then a group of people quietly left the south gate, boarded the big boat, and headed straight for Qingzhou.

(End of this chapter)