Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 97
Jieqiao (the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou)

"Brother Bogui, you are safe and well!" Yuan Shao smiled and looked at Gongsun Zan on the other side of the bridge, and greeted him politely.

"Yuan Benchu, if you have something to say, don't be hypocritical here." Gongsun Zan looked at Yuan Shao and shouted.

"Hey, brother Bogui's temper is still so hot, so I'll stop gossiping." Yuan Shao put away his smile, looked at Gongsun Zan seriously, and said, "Congratulations, brother Bogui, for his new acquisition of Youzhou. Brother Gui must have plenty of horses, Yuan Shao came here today to borrow horses."

In fact, Yuan Shao said nicely that he was borrowing a horse, but in fact he wanted a horse.How can I return it when I get it.

"What? Borrow a horse! Yuan Benchu, why should I lend you a horse? You have newly acquired Jizhou, and Jizhou has a lot of money and food, so should I borrow food from you?" Gongsun Zan also heard that Yuan Shao wanted to blackmail him.

"Hmph, my Jizhou was given to me by Han Fu, not like your Youzhou. You know exactly how your Youzhou came to be, so I will ask you whether you want to borrow it or not?" Yuan Shao was straightforward. No nonsense.

"If you want horses, you can exchange them with money and food!" Gongsun Zan shouted.

"So you don't want to borrow it?" Yuan Shao narrowed his eyes and asked viciously.

"Hmph!" Gongsun Zan didn't answer, but just let out a cold snort.

At this moment, Yuan Shao was heard shouting: "Gongsun Zan killed the officials of the imperial court without authorization, and he was disobedient in occupying Youzhou. Today, I will pay the treason for the imperial court and avenge Liu Youzhou."

"Huh?" Gongsun Zan stared round, glared at Yuan Shao, and shouted, "Yuan Benchu, do you want to die?"

It turned out that in order to avenge Liu Yu, the surviving Liu Yu's subordinates in Youzhou secretly contacted Yuan Shao, and planned to join forces with Yuan Shaoli to attack Gongsun Zan.But the Youzhou name that Gongsun Zan got was unfair and was snatched from Liu Yu. When Yuan Shao said that, he immediately became angry.

"Hahahaha, Gongsun Bogui, if you dare to kill the imperial court official without permission, you are courting death, not me." Yuan Shao looked up to the sky and laughed.

"Then let's see the real chapter under my hand." Gongsun Zan waved the dragon pattern halberd.Lead Bai Mayi to rush to the opposite side of Xiangjie Bridge.

"Retreat, don't fight Gongsun Zan's Baima Yicong." Yuan Shao saw Baima Yicong rushing across the boundary bridge, and hurriedly ordered to retreat.

After retreating for twenty miles, Yuan Shao ordered the soldiers to hold their ground, and the generals formed three teams and surrounded them in a semicircle.

"Pierce through, pierce through!" Gongsun Zan took the lead, shouting and leading Bai Mayi to rush forward.

"Hold your ground." Yuan Shao also directed his soldiers to defend.

In the blink of an eye, the two armies were fighting together. Baima Yicong was a warrior of hundreds of battles, and his mobility was extremely strong. He directly broke through Yuan Jun's defense and pierced Yuan Jun. Although Yan Liang, Wen Chou resisted desperately, but the two Although brave, it is only the courage of one person.How can they resist Baima Yicong who has nearly ten thousand people.

"Pierce through! Continue to penetrate!" Seeing that Yuan Jun's formation was in disarray, Gongsun Zan continued to lead Bai Ma Yi to charge back and forth, disrupting Yuan Jun's formation.

At this time, Gongsun Zan's infantry also arrived, and they killed Yuan Jun for a while, and Yuan Jun was defeated. Gongsun Zan led his army to chase and kill for dozens of miles before returning to the army.

That night Gongsun Zan rewarded the army by slaughtering cattle and sheep.

Just as the Youzhou army was celebrating, the Jizhou army camp.

"I'm angry! I'm angry!" Yuan Shaozai kept walking up and down in the tent, cursing Gongsun Zan and reprimanding the generals for their incompetence.

"My lord, I can't completely blame the generals for this matter. The main reason is that Gongsun Zan's Baima Yicong is too powerful. And we don't have strong cavalry to resist them." Yuan Shao's adviser Xu You said.

"Then tell me, how can we defeat Gongsun Zan?" Yuan Shao asked.

"My lord, although we can't defeat Gongsun Zan, his white horse righteousness is only suitable for field battles, and he can't take down our city, so the most urgent task is to form a cavalry that can compete with the white horse righteousness." Xu You said again.

"Forming cavalry, you said lightly, where can I find so many horses to form cavalry? And it takes at least a year to train a cavalry." Yuan Shao complained.

"My lord, we don't have horses. Don't the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuheng don't have them? These grassland peoples lack everything, and the most important thing is horses. As long as they take out the supplies they need, the horses will come."

"Do you need to say that? If it worked, I would have bought it a long time ago. I sent high officials to buy horses from the Xiongnu last month, but the Huns would not sell me any horses. Only some small tribes would secretly sell them to us. There are dozens of horses, but these horses are not enough to fit between the teeth!" Yuan Shao said helplessly.

"Hey, why didn't the Huns buy horses for us? Could it be that their brains are broken?" Xu You wondered.

"Not only the Xiongnu, but even Xianbei and Wuheng no longer sell horses to anyone, even eunuchs." Yuan Shao sighed.

"Why is that?" Xu You felt unable to turn his head.

"Isn't it because of Liu Wei? Liu Wei has already issued an order that people on the grassland are not allowed to sell horses to any Han people except Liaodong, and the tribes on the grassland are scared by Liu Wei. They dare not listen to his words. Only some daring tribes dared to secretly sell war horses, but after Liu Wei found out, he sent troops to uproot them. The whole tribe was slaughtered." Yuan Shao said bitterly.Yuan Shao didn't hate Liu Wei for slaughtering the tribes on the grassland, but he hated Liu Wei's order not to let the tribes on the grassland sell horses to them.

"Hahahaha." Hearing what Yuan Shao said, Xu You burst out laughing.

"Why is Ziyuan laughing?" Now it's Yuan Shao's turn to not understand.

"My lord, I laugh that the King of Liao, who is a big man, is actually a man in the well market. Liu Wei's move is just to let us buy horses and weapons and armor from him. The king of the big man, who stands side by side with the word, is actually out of the well." Isn't it funny that only a city person can do it!" Xu You showed a look of disdain.

"In this way, we can make peace with Liu Wei? But will he really sell me weapons, armor and war horses?" Yuan Shao still didn't believe it.

"If the lord does not give up, this subordinate is willing to go to Liaodong for the lord, and discuss the matter of alliance with the Liao king Liu Wei." At this time, the judge stood up and asked for instructions.

"Okay, I can sit back and relax now that Zhengnan is here." Yuan Shao laughed when he saw the examiner stand up.

"My lord, I expect Liu Wei will blackmail us, so please be prepared to bleed a lot, my lord." Guo Tu also stood up and said.

"Haha, the Lord is too worried. If you can get Youzhou, it doesn't matter if you bleed some. Besides, Jizhou is rich, why can't you afford some horse armor!" said the examiner.

"Okay, you can set off tomorrow, and I'll wait for your good news." Yuan Shao said to the judge.

"Yes! I am destined to live up to my lord's life."

(End of this chapter)