: Slashing Gongsun Zan alive

In the autumn of the sixth year of Jian'an (193), the general Yuan Shao raised an army of 150,000 to attack Youzhou. Gongsun Zan, the governor of Youzhou, appointed his relative Gongsun Fan as the general, Tian Kai and Shan Jing as the deputy general, and gathered 20,000 troops to station in Fanyang, and confronted the Hebei army across the lonely water. The Youzhou army had deep ditches and high bases, and could not stand out, and the Hebei army's offensive was frustrated.

Yuan Shao’s central army tent.

Jiang Qi, Han Meng, Zhang Yan, Chunyu Qiong and other generals were all dejected and did not dare to look at Yuan Shao's gaze. Yuan Shao scolded the generals but his anger was not gone. He slapped the table and said angrily: "The 150,000 army is strong and powerful, and there are all kinds of siege equipment, but he can't even take down a small Fanyang City. Do you still have the face to return to the camp to see this general?"

The generals were silently opposed.

Feng Ji went out and said, "Lord, if Fan Yang can't take it down, you can't blame them all."

"Don't they blame them?" Yuan Shao turned around suddenly, stared at Feng Ji straight, and said coldly, "Can you blame me for not being able to?"

Feng Ji looked calm and said loudly: "Ten days after siege, all kinds of siege equipment have taken turns to fight, but they were defeated one by one by the Youzhou army. This can be concluded that Gongsun Zan has been in Fanyang for a long time. In other words, Gongsun Zan had expected from the beginning that there would be a battle with his lord, and he stepped up preparations, so that he had the current situation."

Yuan Shao frowned and said, "In your opinion, how should our army crack it?"

Feng Ji said: "Since Fan Yang is desperate and difficult to capture, why don't the lord keep a small army to trap the city and lead a large army around Fan Yang to take Ji County? Fan Yang's defense is strong, and Ji County may not be as strong as Ji County. As long as Ji County takes it, Gongsun Zan's power will collapse and the Battle of Youzhou will end."

"Um~~"

Yuan Shao nodded slightly when he heard this, as if he was intentional.

"Lord, no!" Shen Pei hurriedly stepped out of the line to stop him, "There are hundreds of miles from Fanyang to Jixian, and there are no less than ten cities on the way. If each city is divided into troops, how many troops can be left under Jixian? Gongsun Zan defends Fanyang with 20,000 elite troops, with the purpose of delaying time so that he can draw troops from Liaodong and western Liaoning to aid. Once the reinforcements in Youzhou arrive, our army will no longer have the advantage of military strength, and the outcome is unpredictable."

After the hearing said this, Yuan Shao began to hesitate again.

"It's ridiculous." Feng Ji saw this and retorted sternly, "Although there are more than a dozen cities on the way to Ji County, how could there be a large army in every city? The lord doesn't have to surround every city!"

Shen Pei said tit-for-tat: "How can you know that there are no elite soldiers in Youzhou in the city? If you don't siege the city, what should you do if the lord's army passes by, and the elite soldiers in the city go out to intercept our army's food, grass and supplies? I think that the best strategy for attacking You should be promoted step by step, and steadily steadily is the best strategy. If the enemy is underestimated, it may be taken advantage of by the enemy."

Feng Ji said hungryly: "A guide to the city and the land, can you only reach Ji County in the year of the monkey and horses in the month?"

Shen Pei said: "That depends on what tactics our army uses!"

Feng Ji said: "Shen Pei, don't be slapping. Today, in front of the lord, my military advisor will stack the words here. If your plan can really capture Fan Yang, the position of this military advisor will be yours."

Shen Pei said: "The military advisor is appointed by the lord, how can you give up just by wanting?"

Feng Ji was speechless and said angrily: "You..."

"Lord." Shen Pei ignored Feng Ji and said to Yuan Shao, "Lord, I have a plan to go to Fan Yang."

"Oh?" Yuan Shao said happily regardless of the quarrel between the two major strategists, "Zhengnan (shenpai Table) quickly."

Shen Pei said: "Why don't you need to dig a sub-scout to attack the city?"

"Digging the sub-army?" Yuan Shao's eyes lit up when he heard this and said happily, "What a plan! Jiang Qi, where is Han Meng?"

Jiang Qi and Han Meng flashed out of the line, clasped their fists and said, "The last one is here."

Yuan Shao said quickly: "Select elite soldiers immediately and dig tunnels from the underground to lead directly to Fanyang City!"

Jiang Qi, Han Meng: "Abide by the order."

Fanyang city entrance.

Gongsun Fan held the female wall with his hand and looked at Shan Jing. Tian Kai said: "After Ju Yi's death, no more famous generals in Hebei, the Jizhou army is just like this, hahahaha~~"

"What the general said is very true." Shan Jing echoed, "Only Zhang He, the generals under Yuan Shao, were considered a general, but they were sent by Yuan Shao to Zhongshan National Defense to prepare for Zhang Ji and Ma Butcher. Except for Zhang He, the rest of them are like Jiang Qi, Han Meng, Chunyu Qiong, Zhang Yan, Han Juzi, and Zhu Yuanjin, all of them are incompetent."

Gongsun Fan said: "What our army is really afraid of is not Ju Yi or Zhang He, nor Yuan Shao's man, but Yuan Shao's military advisor Tian Feng. Although the defeat of Zeguo was due to Ju Yi's first landing camp, and even more because of Tian Feng's plan, if Tian Feng was here, I'm afraid Fan Yang would have been lost for a long time!"

Shan Jing smiled and said, "Although Tian Feng is powerful, he can't be a human being. He has been sent to prison by Yuan Shao."

Tian Kai advised: "General, although Tian Feng was sent to prison by Yuan Shao, he can be tried and approved. Feng Ji, Xun Chen, Gao Gan and others are not easy-to-efficient. Our army should be careful to avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy."

Gongsun Fan disagreed and said, "All eighteen weapons of the Hebei Army have been unveiled and have been defeated by our army one by one. What other tricks can we use?"

Tian Kai said: "Fan Yang is located in the plain, with soft soil. The Hebei Army's offensive was setback and would not give up. Finally, the generals were worried that Yuan Shao would send a sub-digger to dig tunnels to attack the city."

"Digging the tunnel?" Gongsun Fan suffocated and said in a terrifying manner when he heard this, "I have to be careful."

Ji County, the governor's office.

"Father!" Gongsun Xuxing rushed into the hall, waved the book in his hand and said to Gongsun Zan, "Father, there is news from Fan Yang that has been passed back."

"oh?"

Gongsun Zan suddenly stood up, took the book from Gongsun Xu and read it in a hurry, and then he was delighted.

Gongsun Xu said: "What did my father and uncle say in the letter?"

Gongsun Zan said: "Xu'er, Uncle Ru said in the letter that he had blocked the attack of the Hebei army. The Hebei army attacked Fan Yang for ten days and was defeated. Yuan Shao's husband had no choice but to do anything, hahaha."

Gongsun Xu said: "Congratulations to my father, such a child."

"Report~~" Gongsun Xu finished speaking, suddenly a small school walked into the room and knelt down, saying loudly, "Immediate report from Liaoxi."

Gongsun Zan said: "Tell me!"

The little school said: "Xianyu Chao, Xianbei in the eastern part, and the two kings of Loulan each led 5,000 cavalry to reach Feiru! The prefect of Liaodong Zou Dan led a 20,000 army to pass the branch, and there were three thousand servants of Mahan Guiyi Marquis. In addition, the horse thieves on the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain are becoming more and more rampant, and are now robbing the cavalry of Yuyang."

"The enemy is in front of you, so don't worry about the horse thieves." Gongsun Zan said loudly, "Fortunately, reinforcements have finally arrived!"

"Father!" Gongsun Xu also said excitedly, "Now you can fight to the death with the old thief Yuan Shao."

"Well, there is no hurry for the time being." Gongsun Zan said in a narrow voice, "Since Fan Yang is as solid as a rock, you might as well use this to consume the spirit of the Hebei army. When the Hebei army fails to attack repeatedly and slams its spirit, he will lead the army south to fight against Yuan Shao's death. He will definitely defeat the enemy in one battle, hahaha."

Gongsun Xu said: "Father is wise."

Yuyang.

"Boom~~"

The horse's hooves were galloping, and the loess was rolling. A group of 300 horse thieves were sweeping past the official road like locusts. The faces of these horse thieves were covered with pot ash, looking like ghosts, dark and ferocious. The people nearby saw them from afar and retreated from afar, fearing that they would suffer a catastrophe.

When Lu County was fifty miles away, the group of horse thieves suddenly turned west and turned into the deep valley. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared in the lush deep mountains and dense forests. The county magistrate of Lu County received an urgent report and hurriedly ordered the people around the county to be brought into the city, and at the same time ordered to strengthen vigilance.

The Lu County Magistrate did not send anyone to report the emergency to the prefect of Yuyang.

Around the end of last year, more than a dozen large and small horse thieves appeared in the north and south of Yanshan Mountain. These horse thieves came without a trace and went without a shadow. When they gathered, they set fire to kill people, raped and plundered. When they scattered, they immediately became herders and ordinary people. The government had no way to pursue and suppress them. At first, Gongsun Zan also suspected that these dozen horse thieves might be the cavalry of Ma Yue, Qiao Zhun.

But later, Gongsun Zan's spies discovered that these horse thieves not only robbed Youzhou, but sometimes crossed the grassland to rob Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang's tribe. From this point of view, they did not look like Ma Yue's cavalry. Moreover, these dozens of horse thieves were not large in number, and the largest group was only 200 cavalry, and it might be only a thousand people to add one piece.

Gongsun Zan didn't care much about it. He sent troops to chase and suppress the enemy several times but let them go. The county magistrates of each county responded countless times, but they didn't see any action from him. Later, they simply stopped reporting the news. In addition, Gongsun Zan is now in a great enemy, and it is impossible to draw troops against the horse thieves, so the county magistrate of Lu County is getting more and more lazy to report.

Deep mountains and valleys.

"Well~~"

The thief leader slowly strangled the war horse, raised his right arm suddenly, and the more than 300 cavalry rushing in behind him began to slow down. Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves sounded in the dense forests on both sides. A dozen horse thieves with the same makeup turned out from the dense forest, entered the front of the thief leader, clasped their fists and said, "See Major General!"

"Um~~" the leader of the horse thief nodded slightly and said in a low voice, "Are all brothers here?"

A dozen horse-riding thieves replied in unison: "All are here!"

"Yeah." said the horse thief leader, "Send the order, let the brothers hurry up and rest!"

"Affect the order."

A dozen horse-riding thieves responded, turned around and got into the dense forest again. There was no doubt that these horse-riders were not ordinary horse-riders, and were clearly pretended to be soldiers.

Ji County, the history of the prefecture.

When Gongsun Zan was talking to Gongsun Xu, he suddenly heard the noise of gongs and drums outside the mansion and the sound of people was rippling. He couldn't help but summoned his personal soldiers and asked, "What's going on outside the mansion?"

The personal soldier said, "Go back to the lord, he is the concubine of the Hou Dahu family."

"House Dahou?" Gongsun Zan frowned, "Which Hou Dahou Dahou?"

The personal soldier said: "It is Hou San, a horse dealer who travels between Mobei, Youzhou and Central Plains to do business."

"It's Hou San." Gongsun Zan showed a knowing expression on his face and cursed with a smile, "No wonder, this guy has no other hobbies, he likes to show off. He can catch a concubine for more than ten or twenty days. He insists on making it known to everyone. He really doesn't take money as a money man. Hey, let me prepare a gift for me to send it to me."

"Affect the order."

The personal soldiers agreed and took the order and left.

After his personal soldiers left, Gongsun Xu said, "Father, this Hou San is rich. There are thousands of Hakka slaves raised in the mansion alone. Moreover, this guy has a horse farm in Liaodong and western Liaoning. I also heard that there are his horse farms in Mobei and Xianbei people. He is rich and powerful. Should he be bleeding when fighting Yuan Shao this time?"

Gongsun Zan nodded happily and said in harmony: "Xu'er, my father has blackmailed three thousand war horses from Hou San. You can't ask for it anymore. Otherwise, Hou Sanyi would be in a hurry to pat his butt and leave, and then our father and son would lose a God of Wealth. Even if we want to blackmail him, we can't find him."

Gongsun Xu said, "What my father said is right."

The north of Jixian County is Hou Dahu Mansion.

In the secret room, Hou San turned over and bowed to a mysterious man in black, and sang: "Little man Hou San, see the lord."

The man in black slowly turned around and showed his true face under the dim candlelight. He was the notorious butcher of horse! A big man like an iron tower stood behind the butcher of horse. The big man was covered with only a thin straight body, and his ancient body-colored skin was completely exposed. This big man was Dian Wei.

If Gongsun Zan knew that Ma Butcher was in Jixian Town at this time, he would definitely be so shocked that he jumped up!

The butcher Ma waved his hand and said calmly: "Hou San, get up."

"Thank you lord."

Hou San bowed and thanked him again, stood up and stood on one side.

Butcher Ma said, "How are you ready?"

Hou San said: "Don't worry, lord, all eight hundred elite soldiers have been arranged. Five hundred elite soldiers besieged the governor's mansion and were responsible for capturing Gongsun Zan's family alive. Two hundred elite soldiers sneaked into the east gate to welcome the major general and three thousand iron cavalry into the city. The remaining one hundred elite soldiers were responsible for setting fires in the city and spreading rumors. It would be hard for Gongsun Zan to die this time."

late at night.
To be continued...