Yuan Xi hurriedly jumped out of the carriage, called Qu Yi and went straight to the military camp. Before leaving, he asked Wu Zhao to return home by himself.
Wu Zhao stood there stunned, getting messy in the wind, and then left right away?
Mr. Yuan always does things unexpectedly and in a hurry, as if there is never enough time.
In desperation, she had no choice but to pull up the bridle, try her best to control the horse, and return to the castle guard's mansion.
As she walked, she discovered something unique about this city.
There are no beggars in this city.
Even in the prosperous Luoyang, this was unimaginable.
Her doubts were mixed with curiosity, so she stopped the carriage and asked a few passers-by, and finally figured out the difference between this Beixin City and other places.
Because of the years of war, most of the food was transported from outside the city. The sale of food was prohibited in Beixin City, and the distribution was controlled by the city lord's government.
The farmland outside the city has been cultivated a lot in recent years, but for some reason, it is now all managed by the city lord's palace.
The city will provide everyone with a basic, but difficult to satisfy, ration.
Excess food will be taken out and distributed according to the work done by residents.
If you want to eat enough, you have to work hard to earn the rest. If you get a relatively important or dangerous job, such as building a city, making city defense utensils, and various craftsmanship, you will be allocated additional food.
The more you have, the more you can feed your family.
Wu Zhao understood that this kind of allocation seemed simple, but in fact it was a lot of laborious work, which could easily be criticized and considered thankless.
Of course, there are also advantages, that is, it can prevent the hoarding of food for reselling during wartime, as well as famine and turmoil in the city.
This second son of the Yuan family seems to have carefully thought out every move he makes, and is completely different from ordinary noblemen.
This made Wu Zhao even more curious.
Zhao Yun is leading his team back to Yijing.
After Gongsun Zan was defeated by Yuan Shao at Jieqiao, although he often sent his generals to counterattack, he himself was hiding in Yi Jing and could not come out.
"The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms. The Biography of Gongsun Zan" has ten layers of enclosures, and the capital was built in the trenches, all five or six feet high, with towers above them; the middle trench was the capital, which was ten feet high, with a self-contained area, and accumulated three million dendrobiums of grain. Zan
He made an iron gate and lived upstairs, with screens to the left and right. His maids and concubines waited beside him, drawing up documents.
He was surrounded by maids and concubines, and there were no men. The soldiers had to guard outside, and the maids and concubines had to drag the official documents up from the city with ropes.
It can be seen that Gongsun Zan has no direct contact with his subordinates, but even so, he can withstand Yuan Shao's several attacks. He can be said to have a strong family fortune and is worthy of being a person who has the potential to dominate the world.
But Zhao Yun knew that Gongsun Zan was finished.
He has lost his ambition and is trapped in one place. Even if he can repel Yuan Shao's attacks several times, he will be completely destroyed if he fails once.
Zhao Yun did not think about whether Gongsun Zan had colluded with the Southern Huns. He only needed to look at the expressions of the soldiers behind him to know what the soldiers were thinking about during yesterday's battle.
Yesterday he only led a hundred people. Now those who participated in yesterday's battle are happily bragging to those who did not go, while those who did not participate in the battle are beating their chests and regretting it endlessly.
This group of soldiers, who had become increasingly sluggish because Gongsun Zan was trapped and unable to escape, became revitalized because of yesterday's battle.
No matter how the Han Dynasty declined internally, when faced with foreign invasion and conquest, the sons and daughters of the Han family could always burst out with amazing strength and rise up to resist.
Zhao Yun and his team were almost at the foot of Yijing City. He put his hands up and looked around, his expression becoming solemn.
Outside Yijing City, there seemed to be hundreds of cavalry troops rushing towards Zhao Yun!
Zhao Yun came out first and said: "Master Cavalry Master Zhao Zilong, may I ask who is here?"
One of the generals in front sneered: "Zhao Yun, you are no longer the main knight!"
"You actually openly colluded with Yuan Xi in Beixin City, which shows that you have betrayed General Gongsun!"
"Those who know the truth will be captured without hesitation and come with me to Yijing to plead guilty to General Gongsun!"
Although Zhao Yun is loyal, he is not stupid. He knows that if he enters the city, he is afraid of disaster.
Now Gongsun Zan is extremely sensitive to everything, and he usually doesn't even see his generals. How can he give Zhao Yun a chance to explain face to face?
Thinking of this, Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said: "Please reply to the general. Yun has no intention of betrayal. Please allow my subordinates to station here. I am the only one who can enter the city and plead guilty to the general."
Strictly speaking, these soldiers under Zhao Yun were private soldiers that Liu Bei asked Zhao Yun to raise, and were not completely under Gongsun Zan's jurisdiction. Therefore, Zhao Yun did not allow them to enter the city in order to give Liu Bei an explanation.
The general Gongsun Zan sneered and said: "No, the general is ordered to arrest them all!"
As soon as Zhao Yun saw him, he knew that Gongsun Zan wanted to catch everyone in one fell swoop, so he immediately said: "Now that the general is suspicious, Yun has no face to serve under the general, so he bids farewell."
After saying this, Zhao Yun turned the horse's head and left.
When the general saw him, he shouted: "Where are we going?" He straightened up his spear, rode over, and stabbed Zhao Yun in the vest.
Zhao Yun'er heard the wind behind him, turned sideways to avoid the spear from the opposite side, and shouted: "For the sake of the general, I will spare you once, but you should go back quickly!"
The soldier pierced the air with his spear, but felt his face was dull, and shouted loudly: "Zhao Yun! You have been surrounded, accept your fate obediently!"
He accelerated his horse and stabbed Zhao Yun in the chest again!
At that time, soldiers on both sides started shouting. As soon as Baima Yicong saw it, he rushed into Zhao Yun's army formation and charged and killed Zhao Yun's men. Zhao Yun's men were caught off guard, and dozens of them were killed immediately.
Zhao Yun was furious. Seeing that the general was unwilling to give up and only wanted his own life, he immediately mounted his horse to meet him, firing his spear with lightning.
The two horses passed each other, and the general threw away his spear, covered his throat, blood spurted out from between his fingers, and fell under the horse and died.
When Baima Yicong saw it, he immediately shouted and surrounded him. Zhao Yun raised his spear and shouted: "If you are willing to follow me, follow me to break out of the encirclement!"
His soldiers immediately shouted: "I am willing to follow the general!"
Half a day later, the horse that Zhao Yun dismounted began to stagger and became unsteady.
Zhao Yun stabbed more than a dozen of the White Horse Yi Cong to death with a silver spear and rushed out with his team. However, the White Horse Yi Cong was worthy of being a strong soldier in the world. Under the leadership of another general, he followed relentlessly in pursuit.
Zhao Yun fled for dozens of miles in the past half day, and many of his subordinates died in the pursuit of the white horse Yi Cong. Now he is tired of horses and is about to be overtaken and surrounded by the opponent.
If he hadn't made a decisive attack earlier, which frightened the white horse Yi Cong, so that they only dared to stay far away, I am afraid that his entire army would have been wiped out by now.
However, if he keeps running like this for ten miles, his horse will die of exhaustion.
Zhao Yun's subconscious direction of breaking out was towards Beixin City, but it was still dozens of miles away, and even if Yuan Xi learned about it now, it was too late to help him.
What's more, I'm not familiar with the other party at all. Would the other party risk facing hundreds of loyal followers to save me?
Zhao Yun shook his head, seeing that all the subordinates around him were exhausted, he thought, are they going to die here today?
He looked to the rear. In the distance, Baima Yicong had begun to speed up, preparing to attack Zhao Yun's team and deliver the final fatal blow.
Since there was no way to escape, Zhao Yun sighed and ordered his men to form a formation. He then moved to the front of the formation, with his horse blocking the front.
But at this moment, Bai Mayi gradually slowed down from the beginning, and finally stopped a few hundred feet in front of Zhao Yun.
While Zhao Yun was wondering, he heard the rumble of horse hooves behind him.
He looked back and saw an army under the banner of Yuan Jun, approaching rapidly!
Zhao Yun put his hands together and looked around, and found that the leading general was Yuan Xi!
Yuan Xi also spotted Zhao Yun, waved and laughed, "Brother Zilong, I'm here!"