Yuan Shang wrote three letters and had people rush to send them out.
They were given to my two brothers and my cousin who was a senior official respectively. I was emotionally moved and told them rationally that we should deal with foreign enemies first and then deal with our internal problems.
If the Yuan family is still not united and continues to fight among themselves and fight among themselves, then the Yuan family will be gone.
In the evening, when Yuan Tan got the letter, he was silent for a long time. He thought that what Yuan Shang said was very reasonable. At this point, he should save the Yuan family first. Otherwise, everything would be lost. What's the point of them fighting among themselves?
Meaningless!
"Defeat Cao Cao first, and then decide who can succeed my father."
Yuan Tan called for Guo Tu and the others, told them the contents of the letter, and said: "Two gentlemen, I still want to go to Yecheng first, meet up with Xianfu and the others, and then concentrate our forces to deal with Cao Cao together. What do you think? "
In fact, he was still worried that if he went to Yecheng, he would be gone, and his soldiers would be devoured by Yuan Shang, leaving him with nothing.
There is some hesitation in my heart, so let's see what Guo Tu thinks.
Guo Tu and Xin Ping were thinking that the cooperation between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang must not be successful. They were not worried at all about Yuan Shang's letter.
"If the eldest son is hesitant or even worried, it's actually very simple."
Xin Ping said: "After we arrive at Yecheng, the young master must stay in the army. You must not go to see the third young master alone. You must go to see him if it is not necessary. There must be enough people around him to protect him. He will not be able to do anything to the young master." "
Guo Tu added: "We went to Yecheng just to fight Cao Cao, not to reminisce about the past. Master, you should be vigilant and take precautions just in case."
"I see!"
Yuan Tan said solemnly.
This is a critical period. No one knows what Yuan Shang thinks. He knows he cannot let go of the caution he should have.
After deciding to go to Yecheng, Yuan Tan felt a little more relaxed. After the discussion was almost done, he asked Guo Tu and Xin Ping to go back to rest. It was almost time for him to rest.
I will reply to Yuan Shang tomorrow and explain that I can bring troops back to support him. There is no need to rush back from camp just yet.
After finishing this, Yuan Tan was ready to rest and extinguished the candles. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard something coming from outside.
It seemed like a soldier accidentally dropped it to the ground, making a sound.
"People outside, please stop making noise!"
Yuan Tan was woken up and shouted outside unhappily.
The sounds outside were temporarily quiet, but the sound seemed to be deliberately made to wake up Yuan Tan. After a while of silence, two figures crept towards Yuan Tan's military camp.
Yuan Tan's guards outside were all turned into corpses at this time.
He fell to the ground in a mess.
Yuan Tan was about to continue sleeping, but soon he felt something was wrong. There seemed to be a faint smell of blood coming in from outside. The smell was particularly pungent. He also often went to the battlefield to fight, so he was quite sensitive to blood.
"wrong!"
Yuan Tan jumped up suddenly and looked outside.
He saw two sneaky figures opening the curtain of his tent to come in. He immediately shouted: "Who is outside?"
The people outside moved for a moment, looking surprised to be discovered, and then rushed in. In Yuan Tan's sight, he saw a flash of a knife and a figure approaching him.
"assassin!"
These two words appeared in Yuan Tan's mind for the first time.
That's right, it's an assassin!
There was actually an assassin coming here. Yuan Tan was furious. He picked up the knife beside him and blocked the assassin's blow.
At the same time, the second assassin also came in.
With one against two, Yuan Tan didn't have much confidence.
He shouted angrily, deflected the knives of the two assassins, then used the knife to break open the tent and went outside, shouting: "There are assassins, there are assassins, there are people..."
When he got outside, he could see the guards standing guard outside, all dead.
The assassin then chased out and chased after Yuan Tan.
When they were discovered, they showed a very anxious look, fearing that the other soldiers in the barracks would be awakened and surrounded later and lose the best chance of assassination, so they hurriedly chased after Yuan Tan.
Yuan Tan's skills are not bad. Although the two assassins are not weak, he can block them and kill one of them.
The remaining assassin was in a daze when he saw his companion being killed. Then he gritted his teeth and turned around to run away. But at this time, he could no longer run away. The other soldiers in the military camp came over and blocked the way.
This assassin stabbed himself in the stomach and died in the end.
"Eldest Young Master!"
Yuan Tan's general Guan Tong rushed over with his troops and was relieved to see that Yuan Tan was safe and sound.
Another general, Cen Bi, quickly led his troops to protect Yuan Tan, and the entire military camp was awakened to conduct a thorough investigation to see if there were any other assassins who had sneaked in.
Xin Ping and Guo Tu arrived late and pretended to be surprised when they saw the scene in front of them.
"How come there are still people who dare to assassinate the eldest son?"
Although they already knew what happened, Guo Tu still looked surprised.
Yuan Tan said coldly: "Search them for me and see if there is anything on them that can prove their identity. Also check them for me. I want to know who it is. They want me to die so much!"
When the soldiers around him heard this, they immediately took action.
But soon, a token was found from the assassin.
"The eldest son is Cao Cao's token!"
Cen Bi picked up the token and said.
"Cao Cao?"
Yuan Tan took the token, looked at it in his hand for a while, and said angrily: "You want me to die? It's not that easy. I will go to Yecheng as usual tomorrow. I will send troops to avenge Cao Cao!"
Yuan Tan was very angry when he was assassinated in his own military camp.
"Eldest son, not necessarily!"
Xin Ping happened to say at this time: "If Cao Cao wanted to assassinate the eldest son, why would he let the assassin carry something to prove his identity? It is completely unnecessary. Wouldn't it be good to assassinate him quietly?"
Hearing this, Yuan Tan felt that it made sense.
His excitement slowly calmed down and he asked: "What should we do?"
Guo Tu looked at the people around him and said, "Sir, can you go to a quiet place to talk?"
Yuan Tan's tent had been destroyed just now, but it was not a problem to accommodate people temporarily. He asked Cen Bi and Guan Tong to lead troops to guard it outside. Worrying that there were assassins, he brought Guo Tu and others into the tent.
"Sir, what did you think of?"
Yuan Tan asked.
Guo Tu first said: "We feel that this assassination is not that simple!"
"Why?"
Yuan Tan asked again.
Xin Ping said: "If the eldest son dies, who will benefit the most? The person who will benefit the most is definitely not Cao Cao. If it was really Cao Cao who did this, there is no need for the assassin to bring something that can prove his identity. Isn’t this unnecessary?”
After listening to their words, Yuan Tan thought deeply, and suddenly his face turned pale, as if he thought of something, a particularly terrible thing, and who would benefit the most!
