Yecheng.
After Yuan Shao came back, he was high-spirited for a while. He sent people to forge weapons, stock up on food and grass, and train troops, preparing to fight Cao Cao again and reverse the defeat of Guandu.
However, after the enthusiasm passed, Yuan Shao fell silent again.
Maybe he didn't expect that even Cao Cao couldn't defeat him, and then he heard people outside talking about him.
The content of the discussion was probably that Yuan Shao was not as good as Cao Cao, and the background of the Fourth and Three Dukes was nothing more than that.
Yuan Shao easily gets depressed after listening too much.
At the beginning, he could kill a few more people to scare those who were talking nonsense, but by the end of the killing, he was completely numb. No matter how they talked about it, there was no wave in his heart.
Yuan Shao was upset and ignored political affairs, but he asked Yuan Tan, Gao Gan and others to return to their own territory to defend, prepare soldiers and food, and then handed over all matters to his son Yuan Shang.
However, in his heart, Yuan Shao still wanted to fight Cao Cao again, but he was depressed. While asking people to prepare troops, food and weapons, he was too depressed to lift his spirits.
Once a person becomes depressed, like Yuan Shao, he loses all hope and feels nothing.
Yuan Shang was in charge of Jizhou affairs, and his mother Liu was deeply loved by Yuan Shao.
At this time, Mrs. Liu saw that her son was in power, so she had special thoughts.
Normally, Yuan Shao's heir is his eldest son, Yuan Tan.
However, normal operations are required before it is Yuan Tan's turn. Some are normal, and of course some are abnormal.
The Liu family proposed to make her son Yuan Shang his heir and the heir of the Yuan family, but kicked Yuan Tan away.
Yuan Shao favored the Liu family and hesitantly had the idea of agreeing, but he was not sure, so he called Shen Pei and others to discuss and asked what should be done.
"My lord, the eldest son is the eldest son, and now he is living abroad. He governs Qingzhou well and has made outstanding achievements many times, and both the army and the people obey him."
"If my lord abolishes the elders and establishes younger ones, I'm afraid there will be chaos!"
The first person to object was Guo Tu. He and another counselor named Xin Ping were more inclined to Yuan Tan.
As for the pairing of two people, they tend to be more inclined to Yuan Shang.
There are many factions under Yuan Shao's command.
Now that Tian Feng Jushou is gone, different teams have formed internally, and people in those different teams have different conflicts. This is how the struggle has been formed.
"That's wrong!"
When the judge heard this, he went toe-to-toe with Guo Tu and retorted: "Although the eldest son has good abilities, he just kills for human nature and is not a human master! The third son has the appearance of a hero, respects the virtuous and scholars, and is more suitable as an heir."
Feng Ji echoed: "The third young master is the most like the lord!"
Yuan Shao was not angry that Shen Pei commented on his eldest son like this, because Yuan Tan was like that.
However, after hearing Feng Ji's words, Yuan Shao narrowed his eyes and said these words into his heart.
He likes Yuan Shang more, mainly because Yuan Shang is very similar to him and is as handsome as him.
He also prefers Yuan Shang and dislikes Yuan Tan.
What is tangled in my heart is the issue of elder and younger.
I don’t know whether I should abolish the elder and establish the younger.
Xin Ping heard that Feng Ji was so shameless and even used the reason that Yuan Shang was more like Yuan Shao, which really touched Yuan Shao's heart. When he was about to refute again, Yuan Shang hurried in.
"Father, it's not good!"
"Cao Cao led his troops to sneak across the Yellow River from Cangtingjin and attacked our Wei County!"
Yuan Shang came in and said anxiously.
They were defeated by Cao Cao last year, and it has not been a year yet.
Cao Cao came to kill him again so quickly. Now the whole Yuan army was afraid of Cao Cao. When they heard that Cao Cao was coming, they felt afraid to fight.
"What?"
"That abominable Cao Ah Man, he is looking for death!"
Yuan Shao stood up and said angrily: "Send me an order to assemble the three armies. I want to avenge last year!"
When he heard Cao Cao's call, his depression was temporarily put aside.
While I was a little in awe of Cao Cao, I also felt excited. Cao Cao must be so good-looking that Cao Cao would regret it.
Just as he was giving the order, a soldier came in and said a few words in Guo Tu's ear.
Guo Tu immediately said: "My lord, the eldest son's scouts have discovered Cao Cao's movements in advance. Now they have led Qingzhou soldiers to transport food and grass southward, preparing to assist my lord in destroying Cao Cao!"
As he said this, he was thinking that Yuan Tan came just in time, just when Yuan Shao needed him most, so that he could gain favor with him.
Yuan Shang had long thought of seizing the heir. When he heard this, he rolled his eyes. How could he let his eldest brother take the lead? He said loudly: "Father, I am willing to go out with the army to help father destroy Cao Cao and wash away our humiliation last year!"
When Feng Ji and the two met, they smiled slightly, thinking that the third young master was not confused and knew how to fight back.
In the face of a powerful enemy, they will still fight for their own interests among themselves.
"good!"
When Yuan Shao saw his sons taking such initiative, father and son worked together to kill Cao Ah Ma, and shouted: "Send someone to contact Xian Si immediately and send troops to Cangting together!"
In last year's battle, Yuan Shao lost his troops and generals, but the four northern states were vast and had a large population.
Yuan Shao wants to recruit troops and grain again. After last year's autumn harvest, it is not difficult.
Preparations were quickly completed, and Yuan Shao personally led his troops and rushed to Cangting.
This is the scene where Cao Cao just crossed the river and found Yuan Shao's army fifty miles away from Cangting.
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Cangting.
Cao Jun crossed the river in full force.
According to the information gathered by the scouts, Yuan Jun was less than twenty miles away from them at this time.
Yuan Shao was anxious to take revenge, so as to prove to the princes of the world that he was not inferior to Cao Cao, and he did not even care about his depression. In addition to Yuan Tan, his nephew Gao Gan and Yuan Xi also brought troops to help him on the way. He was full of momentum and confidence.
Cao Cao was not in a hurry and planned to make steady progress. This time he was well prepared and could take his time with Yuan Shao.
However, Yuan Shaogang arrived and took the initiative to challenge Cao Cao's army. Chen Bing deployed in front of Cao Cao's army.
In the past half year, Yuan Shao's weapons have also been updated.
They recruited blacksmiths from the north to study and improve forging technology, which had certain results.
Coupled with the Yuan family's huge financial resources, it would not be a problem to update all the weapons in a short period of time. Yuan Shao believed that he could compete with Cao Cao, and he still had confidence in the battle.
"Yuan Shao, it's urgent!"
When Cao Cao received the news of the challenge, he laughed and said: "But he is very impatient. The more impatient he is, the easier it is to reveal his flaws. Give me the order and the whole army will fight!"
Cao Jun came out of the camp and confronted Yuan Jun.
When Cao Cao came to the front of the battle, he could see Yuan Shao, his father and his son, plus a nephew, and other civil and military personnel. He said loudly: "Yuan Benchu, you have exhausted all your plans, why don't you surrender? Wait until my sword falls on yours." It's too late to regret it!"
When Yuan Shao heard this, he said angrily: "Who can go out to fight and boost the morale of our army?"
"I come!"
Yuan Shang wanted to show off his abilities in front of his father. After listening to Yuan Shao's words, he picked up his sword and rode his horse out of the battle. He walked back and forth and provoked Cao's soldiers. He felt like he could challenge all the generals in Cao's camp.
"Who dares to fight in Cao's camp!"
Yuan Shang shouted.
Yuan Tan originally wanted to go out, but when he saw Yuan Shang taking the lead, he could only cry out that it was a pity and helplessly wait for the next opportunity.
In fact, he could feel that Yuan Shang wanted to compete with him.
Yuan Shang wants to fight, but that doesn't mean he is indifferent.
They all wanted to show their bravery and ability in front of Yuan Shao and gain the advantage of seizing the throne.
