Chapter 15: The Great Chaos in the North, Wang Huan abdicated
Yuan Shao, who is far away in Jizhou, is actually not having an easy life now.
With the help of his adviser Feng Ji and others, he brought Gongsun Zan together.
Let Gongsun Zan attack Jizhou together to put pressure on Han Fu.
Han Fu didn't have any great abilities and was quickly defeated.
After Han Fu was defeated, Yuan Shao sent people to lobby Han Fu, intending to make him see the situation clearly and give up Jizhou.
Yuan Shao finally deceived Han Fu and Gongsun Zan with a plan of killing two birds with one stone, and became the new lord of Jizhou.
Gongsun Zan, who can be regarded as one of the birds by Yuan Shao,
But he is not someone like Han Fu who is easy to bully.
Gongsun Zan, who was happily waiting for Yuan Shao to carve up Jizhou's territory,
Seeing that Yuan Shao had not made any plans to divide the spoils after he captured Jizhou,
So he sent his younger brother Gongsun Yue to Jizhou to negotiate with Yuan Shao and demanded that Jizhou be divided equally.
However, how could Yuan Shao vomit out the fat that he had eaten?
In the end, Gongsun Yue was only sent away by Yuan Shao: "You have to go back and invite your brother to discuss this matter."
Gongsun Yue had no choice but to turn around.
However, when he was halfway there,
However, they were suddenly attacked by a group of men claiming to be Dong Zhuo's generals.
When these "Dong Zhuo generals" saw Gongsun Yuehou, they fired a volley.
Gongsun Yue was caught off guard and was eventually shot to death by random arrows.
However, one of Gongsun Yue's men managed to escape with his life, and reported the circumstances of Gongsun Yue's attack and death to Gongsun Zan.
Will there be generals from Dong Zhuo’s family in Jizhou? Fortunately, the one who is still alive happens to know Gongsun Yue?
Who believes it?
Gongsun Zan didn’t believe it anyway.
After hearing that his brother was killed in an attack,
Gongsun Zan was so angry that he was shaking all over, gritted his teeth and cursed:
"Yuan Shaoshuzi! Not only did he trick me into raising an army to attack Han Fu, he took the opportunity to monopolize Jizhou. He even used the name of Dong Zhuo's family general to kill my younger brother! This is unbearable!"
Yuan Shao's plan of killing two birds with one stone has to be said to be very beautiful.
But for Gongsun Zan, who was played like a bird,
Yuan Shao's behavior can be said to be extremely harmful and insulting to him.
Gongsun Zan had just defeated the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans and suppressed the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
The army is strong and the reputation is great,
How could Gongsun Zan, who already had a very good reputation, endure such a tone?
Whether it's for my brother or for face,
Gongsun Zan did not hesitate to mobilize all his troops and launched a brazen attack on Yuan Shao, who had newly won Jizhou!
The princes have gradually torn off their masks of hypocrisy,
He began to show his ferocious fangs to his former allies who were seeking Dong.
...
The princes who had an alliance in the past,
Some died,
Some were tricked,
More often than not, they turn against each other and attack each other.
However, Cao Cao was not in the eyes of the princes at all now.
In the eyes of the princes,
He, Cao Cao, was just a local force making small troubles.
The first battle after coming to Dongjun,
Zhao Yun restrained him from the front, while Cao Cao attacked from behind.
Bai Rao and his 20,000 Yellow Turban Army were carelessly destroyed by Cao Jun in one battle. Bai Rao himself became the soul of Zhao Yun's gun.
In this battle, Cao Cao not only surrendered nearly 2,000 surrendered soldiers, but also seized the food and property that the Yellow Turban Army had looted along the way.
By the time we finished cleaning the battlefield, it was already broad daylight.
Under Puyang City, the seat of Dongjun County,
Wang Gong personally led the officials, large and small, to greet the victorious Cao army outside the city gate.
Since hundreds of thousands of Black Mountain Yellow Turbans invaded Wei County and attacked Dong County,
The prefect Wang Hu and his large number of officials never had a good night's sleep again.
Now Cao Cao's army defeated the Yellow Turban vanguard as soon as it arrived.
This made Wang Gong and others feel at ease from the bottom of their hearts.
Seeing Cao Cao come back,
Wang Gong took a step forward, raised his hands and said loudly: "Congratulations to Mr. Cao on your victory!"
When Cao Cao saw him, he dismounted and quickly came to Wang Gong and said:
"Thank you, Your Majesty!
In this battle, our army defeated more than 20,000 Yellow Turbans.
General Zhao Yun beheaded Bai Rao, the three-headed leader of the Yellow Turbans.
Kill four thousand enemies and capture two thousand!"
"Ah! Bai Rao was killed!"
"Gong Cao used his troops like a god and actually killed the leader of the Yellow Turbans in the first battle!"
"As expected of Cao Cao, Cao Mengde, who broke the Tiger Prison and drove Dong Zhuo away. I admire you!"
...
I heard that Cao Cao killed Bai Rao and defeated the Yellow Turban Pioneers,
All the officials in Dongjun City were delighted and slapped rainbow farts on Cao Cao.
But the smile on Cao Cao's face quickly disappeared.
He raised his hands and made a downward gesture, and when everyone present saw this, they all shut their mouths in awe.
Just listen to Cao Cao say:
"Everyone, although the Yellow Turban Pioneers were defeated by Cao,
But the main force of the Yellow Turbans still numbers hundreds of thousands.
The situation is still critical, and I hope you will continue to support Cao and work together to completely drive the Yellow Turbans out of Dongjun..."
Cao Cao's words undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on the heads of the officials in Dongjun County, and it was also the kind with ice in it, so cold that it bit the bones...
Of course Wang Gong also knew about the situation of the Yellow Turbans,
There was a look of struggle on his face,
It seemed that it took a lot of courage to make the final decision.
Seeing Wang Gong's expression changed, Cao Cao asked with concern: "My lord, are you feeling ill?"
Wang Gong heard this and said to Cao Cao:
"Gong Cao really knows how to see fire.
Wang has been worried recently because of the Yellow Turban invasion and massacre of people.
You don’t know,
I've been having trouble eating recently, I can't sleep at night, and I'm afraid that I'm not going to die soon..."
"Ah! Is it so serious?" Cao Cao held Wang's arms with concern and asked, "Then what can Cao do for the king?"
Zhao Yun was dumbfounded as he watched Cao Cao try his best to cooperate with Wang Gong's performance, and thought to himself: "Cao Cao, your acting is so fake!"
Although Wang Hu was deeply reluctant to give up,
But glory, wealth, beauty and power are naturally not as important as one's own wealth and life.
So Wang Gong no longer hesitated, he gently broke away from Cao Cao's hands, took a step back, bowed his hands and said:
"The king was incompetent and could not resist the invasion of the Yellow Turbans, which resulted in the bandits wreaking havoc, devastation of life, and the mourning of the people everywhere..."
Maybe he really thought of the miserable situation of the people,
Wang Hu's eyes filled with tears unconsciously, and his voice also sounded like crying.
"For the people of Dongjun, for the Han Dynasty, and for the common people at dawn,
Please also invite Mr. Cao,
Can take over Wang’s post as East Commander’s Governor!”
Although Cao Cao had some premonitions, when Wang Gongming said that he wanted him to take over the post of prefect, he felt that happiness came too suddenly...
Cao Cao looked up and said,
Seeing that the expressions of Wang Gong and the officials behind him did not seem to be fake, and even a little eager,
Although Cao Cao wanted to agree immediately,
But the tacit understanding of three suggestions and three rejections still has to be done in full.
Wang Gong persuaded Cao Cao twice,
They were all rejected by Cao Cao because he could not take advantage of others' danger.
When Wang Gong and the officials of Dongjun persuaded Cao Cao for the third time to take over as the governor of Dongjun,
Cao Cao then "reluctantly" accepted the post of governor of Dongjun.
As for Wang Gong, he was a subordinate of Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou. After resigning from office, he returned to Yanzhou.