Three Kingdoms: Beginning To Replace Liu Bei And Marry The Mi Family

Xudu, the imperial palace.

In the Golden Palace, Yuan Shao leaned on his seat, sipping fine wine and enjoying the singing and dancing in front of the palace.

Wine is the royal wine of the emperor, and dance is the dancer Cao Cao hastily withdrew and had no time to take away.

At this moment, Yuan Shao seemed to be intoxicated by the feasting, singing and dancing, completely forgetting that his eldest son, Yuan Tan, was leading an army to a decisive battle with Liu Wu hundreds of miles away.

Ju Shou Tian Feng, who was sitting with him, looked at each other secretly, but shook his head and sighed.

"Gongyu, Yuan Hao, isn't this wine fragrant? Why don't you drink it?"

Seeing that the two of them were not moving their cups, Yuan Shao asked with a smile.

Ju Shou hesitated again and again, then cupped his hands and said: "My lord, with all due respect, now is not the time for my lord to enjoy singing and dancing, and it is really inappropriate for my lord to do something like this!"

Yuan Shao's face darkened, and he said displeasedly: "I have worked hard for half my life, and now I can finally win the Central Plains, drink wine, enjoy dancing, so why not reward myself.

"My lord!"

Ju Shou stood up, and said solemnly: "Cao Cao is still here, the decisive victory between the eldest son and Liu Wu is unknown, and the world is not yet determined. It's not the time to take fun!"

"Cao Cao is already useless, and can't make any waves."

"Tan'er has an army of 100,000, and there are still 10,000 cavalry in his hands. There is no suspense in defeating Liu Wu in World War I." "197""

"The rest of Liu Bei, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Ma Han in Guanzhong, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong and others are nothing to worry about. It is only a matter of time before the world settles down."

"Since the overall situation has been decided, why not relax a little and have a little fun."

Yuan Shao sipped his wine, said disapprovingly, his face was full of conceit.

Ju Shou was dumb.

Tian Feng had no choice but to stand up and advised: "My lord, the other princes are nothing to worry about, but Liu Wu has the courage of Xiang Yu and the wisdom of Han Gaozu. If the eldest son fights with him, he may not be sure of victory."

"boom!"

Yuan Shao slammed his wine glass on the case table, and said in a deep voice: "Tian Yuanhao, our army is about to fight Liu Wu, at such a critical moment, you say such words to shake the morale of the army, what do you want to do!

Tian Feng was strong, being scolded by Yuan Shao like this aroused dissatisfaction in his heart, and he wanted to contradict Yuan Shao on the spot.

At this moment.

The counselor Xin Pi broke into the hall in a panic, and bowed down in front of Yuan Shao.

"My lord, something is wrong!"

"The Eldest Young Master fought Liu Wu in Xinji. Because of Liu Wu, the 10,000 cavalry were almost the entire army, and the 100,000 infantry suffered heavy losses. They have already routed to Xudu!"

A thunderbolt from the blue sky rang in the Golden Palace Army.

Yuan Shao's dissatisfied expression instantly turned into unprecedented horror. He who was leaning on the seat was so shocked that he almost fell over.

Even Ju Shou and Tian Feng changed their expressions drastically and couldn't believe it.

"What did you say?"

Yuan Shao jumped up and asked hoarsely, "Yuan Tan has almost twice as many troops as Liu Wu, and I also gave him all the cavalry. How could he be defeated by Liu Wu!"

"That's right, even if Eldest Young Master lost to Liu Wu, wouldn't he be defeated so badly?"

"It doesn't make sense!"

Jushou woke up from the shock, and asked excitedly.

"My lord!"

"Our army had an absolute advantage, but Liu Wu secretly built 3,000 divine crossbows, but with ten shots from one crossbow, our army was caught off guard, and the cavalry suffered heavy losses."

"When the cavalry was routed, it broke the infantry formation and was killed by Liu Wu, which led to the collapse of the entire army and suffered a disastrous defeat!"

With a bitter face, Xin Pi explained the defeat.

"Divine crossbow?"

"Ten shots in one crossbow?"

Yuan Shao sat down, his eyes were as if he was listening to an Arabian Nights tale, it was extremely unimaginable.

Jushou and Tian Feng also looked at each other, with the same astonishment on their faces.

at this time.

The personal guards rushed in and shouted: "Report to my lord, every time I have been defeated and returned, I am asking to see you outside the palace!"

Yuan Shao came back to his senses and shouted urgently: "Quickly pass him in."

for a moment.

Feng Ji, with his face covered in blood, stumbled into the hall, weeping and knelt down at the foot of the steps.

Yuan Shao gasped, pointed at him and asked in a trembling voice: "Feng Yuantu, how did you become like this, where are your nose and ears?"

"It was Liu Wu, that brutal thief, who cut off my ears and nose, and asked me to bring back the eldest son's head to the lord!"

Feng Ji cried out in grief and indignation, and opened the bloody bundle in his hand.

A human head suddenly appeared.

That was Yuan Tan's head!

Yuan Shao was dumbfounded.

Like a statue, he froze in place, staring blankly at the head of his eldest son with a horrified gaze.

Just a moment ago, he was still enjoying wine and beauty, thinking that the world was in his hands.

In the blink of an eye, one hundred thousand troops were wiped out, and the bloody head of his son lay before his eyes.

The drastic changes in the sky and the earth happened within a few seconds, making Yuan Shaoguang think that he was still in a dream.

"My lord, that Liu Wu not only killed the eldest son, but also uttered wild words, saying that he would capture Xudu and destroy the whole family of the lord Yuan family!"

"My lord, please avenge the eldest son and your subordinates!"

Fengji wept in grief and indignation, and fell to the ground.

Feng Ji's weeping sound awakened Yuan Shao and made him realize that the cruel fact in front of him had really happened.

Liu Wu.

The enemy who killed his second son, Yuan Xi, has now killed his eldest son!

"Liu Wu——"

"You bastard, you killed my two beloved sons, if I don't crush you, I swear I won't be human—"

Yuan Shao's hysterical, almost crazy roar of grief and anger resounded in the hall.

He was furious, and with a hoarse scream, he collapsed on the seat and passed out.

"My lord!"

Jushou Tian Feng and others turned pale with fright, and all rushed forward.

Inside the hall, there was a mess.

Five days later, Liu Wu commanded an army of 60,000 troops and marched to the east of Xudu.

Qiao County was defeated, Xinji was defeated, and Yuan Shao lost nearly half of his troops.

The 200,000 troops he had when he went south had less than 100,000 left.

The most important thing is that Yuan Shao lost almost all of his cavalry, and at this time he had no more organized cavalry to use.

And Liu Wu expanded the number of cavalry to nearly 6,000 through the large number of horses he captured.

With iron cavalry in hand, although Liu Wu's troops are slightly inferior to Yuan Shao's, their overall strength is already higher than Yuan Jun's.

After the army arrived at Xudu, Liu Wu predicted that Yuan Shao would not dare to go out to fight, so he calmly set up camps on the southeast and southeast sides of Xudu, forming a semi-encirclement trend towards Xudu.

Qi battalion.

Liu Wu pushed Cao Cao up to the watchtower, and when he raised his eyes, he could have a panoramic view of Xu's capital city.

"I didn't expect that after leaving Xu Don for less than three months, I came back again!"

Cao Cao looked at Xu Du with emotion, feeling as if he had passed away...

After sighing, Cao Cao looked at Liu Wu beside him and asked, "Son-in-law, how do you plan to regain Xudu?"

"After the defeat of Xinji, Yuan Shao should be very clear that the trend of strength and weakness has reversed, he can no longer hold Xudu, and returning to Hebei is his wisest choice.

"But with Yuan Shao's conceited character, he must not be reconciled to losing face and just abandon Xudu and retreat northward, so I predict that he will stick to Xudu and stay in a stalemate with us."

"As for his 100,000-strong army, all the food and grass needs to be transported from Hebei. The thousands of miles of food roads are his fatal weakness."

"Yuan Shao's cavalry has been destroyed, so we can send cavalry to raid his food road without any scruples.

"When he runs out of food and grass, and the morale of the army is shaken, he can only choose to abandon the city and retreat north."

"Once these one hundred thousand Yuan troops leave the city and enter the plains, it's time for us to wipe them all out!"

Liu Wu stood with his hands behind his back, without stopping to say a single word, outlining the idea of ​​defeating the enemy in his heart.

Cao Cao's eyes admired, and he couldn't help nodding and said: "It turns out that my son-in-law has long thought of a clever strategy to defeat the enemy. This plan is very clever, so I let Yuan Shao have a taste of it. Back then in the battle of Guandu [the taste of my food and grass being cut off!"

The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing out loud.

The strategy was decided, so Liu Wu sent Zhang Liao, Wen Chou, Tai Shici and other cavalry generals to lead the Qi army's cavalry to the north to attack Yuan's army's food road.

Within one month, Yuan Shao lost 400 grain carts and nearly 300,000 grain and grass.

Without the threat of Yuan Jun's cavalry, Qi Jun's cavalry was free to come and go, haunted and haunted, and Yuan Jun couldn't stop their grain robbery tactics at all.

A few months have passed in a blink of an eye, and it is near the end.

Hebei had a good harvest of grain, but the mountain of grain could not be transported to Xudu smoothly.

There is obviously no shortage of food in the old nest, but Yuan Shao's 100,000 troops are caught in a food shortage.

Xu Capital City, the Imperial Palace and the Golden Palace.

"Liu Wu is a despicable and shameless little thief. He dares not attack the city, but only dares to rob the public grain road. It is really hateful!"

Yuan Shao looked at the report on the loss of grain and grass in his hands, and was so angry that he yelled at him.

Ju Shou sighed: "Master 0.6 Gong, our army's rations have been reduced by 30%, and the soldiers are complaining everywhere. If the food supply cannot be restored, our army will run out of food in at most one month, and the consequences will be disastrous!"

Yuan Shao frowned deeply.

Seeing this, Tian Feng took advantage of the situation to persuade him: "My lord, the situation has reached such a point, why don't the whole army abandon Xudu and return to Hebei.

"No refund!"

"No matter what, I will never give up on Xudu!"

Yuan Shao excitedly said: "If you abandon Xudu and retreat northward, it will be tantamount to announcing to the world that my lord's southern expedition ended in failure. How will the people of the world think of me and what will be my reputation!"

Tian Feng was speechless and could only shake his head silently.

Yuan Shao's anger subsided a little, and he said coldly: "Instead of trying to persuade me to abandon Xudu and retreat to the north, you should think about how to transport the millions of dendrobium grain and grass raised by Shang'er to Xudu!"

Ju Shou and Tian Feng remained silent, both helpless.

In the main hall, there was deathly silence, and no one could share Yuan Shao's worries.

Yuan Shao was about to get angry.

At this time.

A young counselor in the corner suddenly said: "My lord, I have a plan. Maybe I can fool that Liu Wu and transport millions of dendrobium to Xudu smoothly."