Three Kingdoms: The opening incorporates Li Cunxiao

In the third year of Chuping, it was mid-July.

The trouble for the city in Beiping was finally resolved. Yuan Shao ordered the army to withdraw ten miles and open the four city gates.

The people and soldiers ran out and fled in all directions like frightened birds.

It was not because Yuan Shao wanted to retreat, but he finally relented.

After the vicious plan to wipe out every household, the plague spread throughout the city, turning the huge Youbeiping into a purgatory on earth.

Such a big city has a population of more than 200,000, and the water in the few wells in the city has long been dried up by the people.

The river water is polluted.

Either he would die of thirst in the city, or he would get sick from drinking water and die.

Despair filled the entire Youbeiping.

Every day, soldiers and people fled crying, and even worse, when the city gate was closed, they jumped directly from the high wall and fell to the ground and became a pulp.

The situation has evolved to this day, and Gongsun Zan has no qualifications to hold on.

Being in a different place, if Cao Cao were here, he would definitely laugh at Yuan Shao's cowardice.

To become a hegemonic person, you either don’t do anything, or you have to do it extremely well.

It was Yuan Shao who caused the disaster, and in the end, it was still him who couldn't bear it.

If you are concerned about your reputation and lives, don't do this inhumane thing. You have already done it. Now pretending to be compassionate and letting the sick people go will not only put the entire Youzhou into panic, but also completely ruin Yuan Shao's reputation.

If Cao Cao were forced to do this, he would definitely hold the butcher's knife high and leave no grass behind. When it comes to choosing one of the two benevolent, domineering and domineering, as long as Cao Cao makes his choice, he will not hesitate at all.

It's just that there is a variable like Zhang Wu in this time and space. Cao Cao has never experienced such a desperate situation, so naturally he will not act like this.

But after all, Yuan Shao was not Cao Mengde. He acted indecisively, looked forward and backward, and took into account the benevolence of women, but he still had good looks.

He was said to be vicious, but he couldn't bear to kill them all, and he was said to be kind, because he gave the order.

Beiping City, the prefect's mansion.

Gongsun Zan closed the door of his bedroom tightly. He looked haggard, his complexion was gloomy, his cheeks showed a sickly blush, and his shoulder blade was pierced by a crossbow. Although it was bandaged, blood could still be seen seeping out: "Cough, cough! ~ Cough cough cough!"

The doctor who was treating him in front of him was surrounded by linen. His hands were shaking at this moment, and cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

half an hour.

Gongsun Zan was impatient to wait:

"How is it?"

"General...general, I'm afraid..."

Gongsun Zan smiled miserably and waved his hands: "That's all, go out."

Outside the bedroom.

Gongsun Xu and Gongsun Baoyue were so anxious that they were running around in circles.

When he saw the doctor coming out, he rushed in anxiously, but Gongsun Zan stopped him:

"Don't come in! If anything happens, just announce it outside the door!"

"Dad!" Gongsun Baoyue screamed sadly, rushed into the bedroom regardless of it, and threw herself on Gongsun Zan: "Dad, what did the doctor say! You will be fine, right! What we have been drinking is the well water in the house. , you are not infected, right?"

Gongsun Zan frowned and stroked his daughter's forehead: "Go out, Baoyue. My father must have contracted the disease at the top of the city. It's not appropriate for you to stay here."

"Dad!!~"

Gongsun Xu saw his sister throwing herself at his father's wound. He took a step forward and pulled Gongsun Baoyue away. He shouted with a dark face: "Cry, cry, cry! Gongsun Baoyue, are you embarrassed! She had previously been clamoring to become a female general, and she had been fooling around for a while. A female soldier is wearing a certain uniform. See for yourself. You don't look like a general at all. You have the nerve to look down on this and that. You brazenly say that you would rather be a commoner's wife than a prince's concubine. Go and look in the bronze mirror. , you look like you are worthy of being a concubine to the champion? I’m afraid it’s too humiliating to be a maid!”

Gongsun Baoyue was speechless.

At this moment, her arrogance and disdain for the world were shattered.

The heroic father fell down.

The eldest brother, who was usually uneducated and unskilled in her eyes, was still able to kill the enemy at the top of the city without retreating until death, showing his true qualities as a man.

The second uncle Gongsun Yue is still at the top of Beiping City and has not returned yet.

Looking around, she was the only one in the house, like a joke.

The female soldiers she had painstakingly cultivated ran away screaming as soon as they reached the top of the city. Gongsun Zan killed them all on the grounds that they had disturbed the morale of the army.

The military strategies she had read were useless in battle.

Even when her father was seriously ill, she could do nothing but cry.

"Okay Xu'er, don't ridicule Baoyue. How is the situation in the city?"

Gongsun Xu lowered his head and whispered: "Yesterday, Yuan Shao retreated ten miles. The city gate captain opened the city gate. The people in the city fled in all directions. There were many defectors among the soldiers. Only Baima Yicong's troops were calm."

It's really the end of the road. Gongsun Zan sighed secretly but did not show any signs of it.

laughed and said:

"Hahahahaha! This general's old brother is still as reliable as ever. Come, Xu'er, and wear the armor for your father. I will go and collect the blood debt of this city from Yuan Shao, the dog thief!"

Gongsun Xu looked at the haggard Gongsun Zan and his eyes were also red: "Father..."

"Why, do you also think that I am sick, injured, and unable to fight?"

Gongsun Xu shook his head, raised the heavy armor beside the bed, and put on the armor for Gongsun Zan: "Father wants to fight, my child, please come with me."

"can."

Gongsun Zan turned to look at his daughter: "Baoyue, it is a man's fate to die in battle. He has nothing to do with women. When the white horse comes out of the city, you can find a fast horse and flee to the west. Although the champion doesn't like you, I We have always been friends with him, and even if he looks at my face, he will take care of me."

Hearing Zhang Wu's name again, Gongsun Baoyue seemed to have found some life-saving straw. He nodded hard, stood up, and ran out of the door without any concern for his image.

.........

"General, we have arrived at the lower reaches of the Cangjiang River. Fifty miles further west, we will reach Peiping."

"Take a short rest."

"promise."

At this moment, Zhao Yun was also covered in blood.

When he returned to Youbeiping, the most reasonable route was to take the Bingzhou road and pass through Shanggu and Yuyang.

With his relationship with Zhang Wu, there would be no problem if he just borrowed the passage.

But in that case, the marching distance would be more than five times longer.

His troops were a mixture of infantry and cavalry, and their marching speed was not very fast. If they took a further detour, the delay would be even longer.

Zhao Yun was worried about the war in Peiping, so he naturally did not want to march like this.

To return directly to the north, you need to cross the main land of Jizhou.

Zhao Yun fought all the way here. Of the 3,000 Youzhou soldiers he had brought out earlier, there were only less than 800 left, which shows how brutal it was.

riverside.

Zhao Yun was about to fill the water bag, but he smelled an undetectable odor.

How could a battle-hardened veteran not know that this was the smell of a rotting corpse?

"No, there's something wrong with the water!" Zhao Yun shouted loudly: "Stop repairing!"