"What does the general want?" Yuan Tan looked at Xia Houyuan, calmed down his panic, took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice.
"Young Master is the son of Mr. Yuan. Mr. Yuan and my lord are even friends. We should not be at war with each other. It's just that Mr. Master was instigated by a bad person and that's what happened today." Xia Houyuan looked at Yuan Tan and snorted coldly.
He said: "Although I want to kill you, my master cares about the friendship between the two families, and I don't want to do anything that will make your relatives angry and your enemies happy. Therefore, I want you to let me go. I hope you will take care of yourself!"
Yuan Tan still maintained the arrogance of a young man from an aristocratic family and was not intimidated. At this moment, he just cupped his fists and said, "Well, thank you so much, General. I admire the general's skill and I will definitely not do it again!"
When Xia Houyuan heard this, he smiled and said: "Brilliant? Not really. Why do you think I am ambushing you here?"
"What do you mean by this?" Yuan Tan's heart moved, and he frowned and looked at Xia Houyuan.
"Yesterday, an envoy from Lu Bu's army came to inform us that the young master will attack today, so that our army will have time to ambush in advance! Otherwise, our army is currently engaged in a decisive battle with Lu Bu, so how can we have the energy to divide our troops here?" Xia Houyuan looked at Yuan Tan and shook his head.
: "Young master is regarded as a sword wielder! No, swords don't count!"
"Chu Ziyan!" Yuan Tan reacted, a flash of anger flashed in his eyes, and he said angrily.
"Young Master, please take care of yourself. I will tolerate you once, but if you attack me again, don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless!" After Xia Houyuan said this, he glanced at the surrounding Qingzhou Army, snorted coldly, turned his horse and returned to his base.
After re-arranging the battle formation, they slowly retreated, not giving the Qingzhou Army any chance.
Yuan Tan did not pursue, and he had no way to pursue. He could quickly reorganize the battle formation, but his army was completely in chaos. Coupled with the gap in the general's ability, it would be much more difficult for him to reorganize the battle formation, at least he would not be able to recover for a while.
, and what are you chasing after? Are you going to die?
"My lord, the general is incompetent!" Cen Bi came back and said to Yuan Tan with a face of shame.
In Qingzhou, he is a powerful and invincible general in Qingzhou. He is invincible in all the counties in Qingzhou. He is always proud of this. Even after winning every battle, he will give birth to the idea that no one in the world can be my enemy, but only wants to be defeated.
The feeling of loneliness!
Following Yuan Tan on this expedition, he came with great ambitions and was determined to make a name for himself in the world through this battle.
But the road to becoming famous as a warrior is full of ups and downs. First, he suffered a rockfall in Taishan County. This can only be regarded as an accident. The alliance between Chu Nan and Yuan Tan made him a little disappointed. He originally wanted to use Chu Nan to become famous, but in the end, they formed an alliance inexplicably.
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But it doesn't matter, Cao Ying's remnant party also has one or two famous generals. In terms of reputation, these famous generals are much better than Chu Nan, who only knows that they are in the camp. When he left Taishan County, he rekindled his fighting spirit and became more powerful.
Defeat Cao's army to show his majesty.
Then he met Xia Houyuan, a general who was not very famous in the Central Plains. At least in Cen Bi's opinion, Xia Houyuan's reputation was average!
Although I am not too satisfied with the other party's reputation, it is enough as the first stepping stone on my own road to fame.
After all, in Cen Bi's heart, he who was invincible in Qingzhou should compete with peerless generals like Lu Bu and Guan Zhang. A minion like Xia Houyuan was just an excess.
However... in just one round, Xia Houyuan shattered all the self-esteem and pride he had built up before. He dealt with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, dealt with Kong Rong, and Tian Kai killed the enemies without the ability to fight back. He came to the first place in the Central Plains
In the battle, he faced the not-so-famous Xia Houyuan, but he couldn't even hold on for a single round. Even when Xia Houyuan gathered the power of ten thousand troops into himself, he still had the idea that the battle formation could still be used in this way.
Xia Houyuan opened a door for him to advance, but it also shattered all his dignity and pride. When he came back to face Yuan Tan, thinking of his arrogance and arrogance in the past, he felt like he wanted to wipe his neck and be reincarnated.
impulse.
"Let's go!" Yuan Tan didn't say anything. He also felt embarrassed, got on his horse, organized his troops, and set off to return to Qingzhou.
The shame that Xia Houyuan brought to him was actually not as strong as Cen Bi's. He had seen powerful generals, such as Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Han Meng and other famous generals in Jizhou. None of them was worse than Xia Houyuan, who had seen the world.
Even if a person is not very capable, his mental endurance is much higher than that of a mountain king like Cen Bi.
What really shocked him was what Xia Houyuan said just now. It made him feel like a plaything being played with by Chu Nan. He thought he was the chess player and controlled everything in this war. Who would have thought that?
Chu Nan is the one who truly masters the chess game.
When he thought that he was being played and plotted by Chu Nan, a man with a business background, he had the urge to crush Chu Nan to ashes.
But now, even if he is angry in all kinds of ways, he can only hold it in his stomach and lead his troops back. There is no fake way to conquer Guo as planned before. Since Chu Nan is plotting against him, he is worried that he is really playing a fake game.
Dao's plan to defeat Guo will be plotted to death by Chu Nan when he returns.
But this hatred, together with today's humiliation, was written on Chu Nan's head. He wanted to go back to train and work hard to become stronger. He had to wait for the opportunity to avenge today's humiliation!
On the hill, under the cover of Chu Nan's secret, Zhou Cang didn't hear what the other party said, but he could tell that Yuan Tan was defeated. Yuan Tan was so useless, he was beaten to the ground without even being able to hold on when they met.
Got off.
"Lord, what does Cao Jun mean? If he is defeated, it will be over?" Zhou Cang looked at Chu Nan in confusion, why didn't he just kill him?
"It seems that he doesn't want to completely offend the Yuan family, just like us." From such a distance, Chu Nan naturally couldn't hear what the other party said, but he could probably guess it.
"Then does Yuan Tan want to..." Zhou Cang made a gesture of wiping his neck.
"You're a bad learner!" Chu Nan looked at Zhou Cang in shock. Zhou Cang would never say such things before! What's going on? How could an honest man start having such thoughts? He won't be possessed by some real immortal.
Bar?
Zhou Cang: "..."
【Can you blame me!?】
"Only celebrities with no morals would do such a thing as assassination. Although I am not a good person, I am still moral! I disdain to do such despicable things." Seeing Xia Houyuan walk away, Chu Nan changed the battle formation again.
Fengzimi beckoned: "Let's go, catch up and lie to him again."
He had thought of killing just now. After all, Yuan Tan's death meant that the Cao family's options were cut off, but after a second thought, he gave up the plan.
Yuan Tan's death will certainly have this effect, but what about the future?
Cao Cao is dead, Cao Pi... maybe Chu Nan is arrogant. He feels that Cao Pi cannot achieve great things on his own, at least he is not worthy of being his enemy, so for him, the next opponent should be Yuan Shao.
If you focus on the future battle with Yuan Shao, Yuan Tan Bu Die seems to be of greater use to you.
Although this will give Yuan Shao a few more talents, Yuan Shao's problem has never been that he doesn't have enough talents. He has a lot of talents, and there are not many top ones. It's the same for everyone, but Yuan Shao has almost no talent below the top.
To the point of flooding.
Yuan Shao's real problem is that there is serious internal strife under his rule. The addition of the Cao family is more likely to add another faction to Yuan Shao, who already has many factions. This will increase the intensity and complexity of the other side's internal strife.
If Yuan Shao died after two years as usual in history, then Yuan Tan would be Chu Nan's sword to capture Jizhou. It was a very useful sword. If he hadn't died, Yuan Tan would have been disliked very much after this incident.
Tan Hui was even more despised by Yuan Shao, and he might be able to persuade him to kill his father and brother in the future.
When people's hearts are faced with the temptation of power, they can do anything. Regardless of whether they can succeed or not, they can still have a certain impact on the Yuan family.
In comparison, killing Yuan Tan now will bring much smaller benefits.
It's hard to say that Yuan Tan can be used again now, but Lu Qian has to suffer a bit.
"What are you stunned for? Let's go!" Chu Nan looked at Zhou Cang in a daze and frowned.
"Here!" Zhou Cang came to his senses, agreed, and followed Chu Nan in the direction Yuan Tan left, but his mental activity was extremely active.
[How many sins did this child commit in his previous life to make him meet the lord in this life?]
Now Zhou Cang really felt some sympathy for Yuan Tan, the unlucky boy.
Over there, Yuan Tan was organizing his troops to retreat. Suddenly a scout came to report that a group of troops appeared in the rear and was chasing them. Judging from the flag, it should be the Xuzhou Army.
"Xuzhou Army!?" When Yuan Tan heard this, a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
Not only him, but Cen Bi and Zong Wang were also filled with murderous intent at this moment. Through the conversation just now, they already knew that they had fallen into Chu Nan's plan. How dare they come now!?
"Get ready for battle!" Yuan Tan almost yelled these words. Just now he couldn't vent his anger on his generals, but now he finally found an outlet. If Chu Nan was in this Xuzhou army, he would
I want to capture Chu Nan alive and tear him into pieces!
No, he can't let him die so happily. He will use all the tortures he can think of to torture Chu Nan to death!
"Brother Xiansi!" From far away, Chu Nan's voice, amplified many times through the battle formation, was heard.
It turns out that Chu Nan is here!
Yuan Tan's eyes flashed with a cruel smile.
Beside him, Cen Bi also looked eager to try.
"Cenbi!" Yuan Tan yelled.
"The general will be here!" Cen Bi also promised loudly!
"With your five hundred men, let me capture this thief!" Seeing that there were not many people around Chu Nan, only one or two hundred men, Yuan Tan felt that five hundred men were enough to capture Chu Nan.
"Here!" Cen Bi shouted, mobilizing five hundred men and horses to rush fiercely in the direction of Chu Nan.
A long way away, Cen Bi had roared angrily: "You little thief Chu Nan! Come and die!"
Zhou Cang's expression changed, he looked at Chu Nan and said: "My lord, if the other party is not kind, it's better to retreat first!"
Chu Nan shook his head and said to Zhou Cang: "We will break this formation first."
He was not sure about defeating Yuan Tan's main force, but looking at Cen Bi's uncertain military formation, Chu Nan had the urge to defeat him. He immediately mobilized the power of thousands of troops to converge on Zhou Cang: "Go!"