Early on the next morning, while Yuan Shao was still waiting for news about Qu Yi, the cavalry patrolling western Liaoning came to know that a group of people came from the east, claiming to be Gongsun Du's envoy, and wanted to ask to see Yuan Shao. After hearing this, Yuan Shao was overjoyed and smiled at everyone: "It seems that destiny is with me. I don't need to use weapons after all."
So Gongsun Kang was allowed to come to see him.
After Gongsun Kang entered the camp, he immediately bowed to Yuan Shao as a minister, kowtowed on the ground repeatedly, called himself "the guilty minister", and then presented a silk book, which contained Gongsun Du's words of sin against himself, and attached Gold and silver gifts for this trip.
Yuan Shao quickly finished reading it. Even though he was happy in his heart, he didn't show any signs of it on his face. After being silent for a moment, he loudly rebuked Gongsun Du for his crimes, accusing him of killing celebrities indiscriminately, tying up thieves, and becoming the king of Pingzhou without a country. He continued until Gongsun Kang fell to the ground and trembled all over, then he said: "But now that the country is in danger, and your father still has some desire to serve the country, I can ignore these previous mistakes, but my father must send thousands of troops to atone for his sins."
Gongsun Kang was overjoyed when he heard this. He knew that the military disaster was over and his mission had been accomplished. He then thanked Yuan Shao repeatedly. When he stood up, he realized that his clothes were already soaked. He sighed to the generals of Yuan's army and said, "Young Master Yuan has a royal spirit. How can ordinary people not be afraid of him?"
At noon that day, he was invited to have a banquet with Yuan Shao. At the banquet, Yuan Shao ordered the people to carve the seal of "Pingzhou Prefecture Mu" and handed it to Gongsun Kang in public. He also asked how his family was doing. There was a hint of a marriage threat in his words. meaning. Gongsun Kang was over thirty years old and had already married. He had two sons, Gongsun Huang and Gongsun Yuan, but they were both too young. Only his younger brother Gongsun Gongshang was available for marriage. After Yuan Shaode heard about it, he said, "I have a daughter who is considered a virtuous and virtuous woman. I can marry the two families!"
Gongsun Kang did not dare to make a decision, so he said that he would first send his entourage back to Liaodong to report the news and ask for your opinions. His words and attitude were very sincere, and Yuan Shao was quite satisfied with this. He thought: At least there will be no more trouble in Liaodong when fighting Bafu.
After lunch, the rain that had lasted for more than ten days had stopped, and light gradually came out from the sky. Everyone came out of the camp and looked around. They saw that under the sunshine, the stretching green mountains seemed to be covered with a layer of moist gold, covering the mountains to the north. The sky can't help but be amazed.
At this time, they saw a team coming slowly from the south in the far distance and setting up camp on the edge of the army. After a while, a small group of people drove their carriages and horses through the camp, and everyone gradually saw their flag clearly. It turned out to be the red-edged bear-head flag of the Quyi tribe.
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The leading knight is naturally Qu Yi. He is majestic and majestic. He is riding on a horse and wearing black armor, just like a bear riding on a horse. Although his horse is already a yellow electric horse with four iron hooves, when ordinary people see Qu Yi for the first time and observe his words and deeds, they think that he is more like a ferocious beast than his mount. Watch him come closer. When he dismounted and walked over, many generals were afraid of Qu Yi's military prowess and took the initiative to make way for him.
Qu Yi walked up to Yuan Shao, immediately prostrated himself, and said to Yuan Shao: "Although Qu Yi is late, he can still catch up with the Eastern Expedition! If Ming Gong does not give up, Qu Yi is willing to be the first to ascend, and he will take the heads of his father and son, and return Dedicated to everyone!”
As soon as these words came out, Gongsun Kang on one side changed his color after hearing this, and Ke Bineng, who was a guest, could not help but frown, secretly weighing who in the country could compare with Qu Yi. Yuan Shao saw all this, he smiled and helped Qu Yi up and said: "General, you are just a hair's breadth away. If you had arrived yesterday, I'm afraid it would have been okay, but today there is no chance." After that, he pulled him to the In front of Gongsun Kang, he slowly explained the current situation.
Qu Yi suddenly looked annoyed, but Yuan Shao said: "The border areas in the east of Liao are not of concern. The general should aim at Henan to get rid of the national traitors!" That day, Qu Yi was left in the tent, and everyone drank happily. After the banquet, Qu Yi presented Yuan Shao with a big crimson horse with a head as long and slender as a dragon. Yuan Shao called it Zhulong and obviously loved it very much.
After Qu Yi returned to camp, Yuan Shao said to Tian Feng: "Qu Yi knows the general situation so well. If I still treat him poorly, wouldn't it make the whole army feel cold? You should go get some belongings and come with me to his camp tomorrow to reward him." "Tian Feng lowered his head and remained silent. He just accepted the offer.
In the early morning of the next day, Yuan Shao led his generals in the tent, accompanied by Jiang Yiqu, Tian Feng, Chunyu Qiong, Jiang Qi and others as well as 500 troops and light cavalry. They set out from the main formation and went south to meet Qu Yi with several boxes of gold and silver.
When Yuan Shao and his party passed by a high cliff, two large eagles flew down from the cliff, holding a white deer under their giant claws. Two eagles competed for prey, refusing to let go of each other, and fell from a high altitude together. When the generals saw it, they all wanted to shoot them down, but Yuan Shao did not issue an order, and they did not dare to steal the spotlight. I watched helplessly as the two eagles landed on the ground nearby, tearing at each other, and then fluttering again. For a while, sand and rocks were flying, and feathers fell all over the ground.
Yuan Shao remembered Tian Feng's performance of stabbing tigers when he was a fox slave, and felt itchy at this time. He took out his strong two-stone bow painted red from his bow bag, and attached it to an extremely long carved feather armor-piercing bow. arrow. He secretly prayed in his heart: "The sky, the earth, the gods, and the ancestors are above me. Since I fled Luoyang, I, Yuan Benchu, have been practicing martial arts and archery every day, and I have never dared to slack off. If I were to hit the big target today, Diao, please bless me to defeat Liu Chen, bring peace to the world, and create the foundation of immortality! If I get what I want, I will open a temple and sacrifice a thousand heads to enjoy it!"
After saying that, he shot an arrow at the struggling flying eagle, and it hit the target as expected. The two eagles connected with the prey and fell down the nearby slope together. The followers around him hurriedly went down and lifted the eagles up. When everyone saw that the arrow actually penetrated the two eagles, they all couldn't help shouting in unison. The confidants said to each other: "Ming Gong's archery skills are like gods, no one can compare with him." !”
Yuan Shao laughed loudly, pointed his bow at the generals around him and said: "These men are all the best marksmen in a thousand. No one can shoot down! It's just that it's inconvenient to fight with me." Then he asked people to rest here, While plucking out the eagle feathers to reward everyone, he lit a fire to roast the white deer and eat it.
When everyone set off again, it was already close to noon. Yuan Shao said to Tian Feng again: "I shot the two eagles this time. Isn't it God's blessing? Yuan Hao doesn't have to worry. When he goes south after a month, there will be plenty of time for you to use his tricks. ." Tian Feng heard this and squeezed out a smile, but his expression was still sad and he didn't know what he was thinking.
An hour later, Yuan Shao finally arrived at the Quyi camp. There are about 4,000 people in Qu Yi's army, but unlike other generals, these 4,000 people are his personal troops. They are elite soldiers who have been carefully selected by Qu Yi and trained in Qiang fighting skills. When Yuan Shao saw his camp, he often felt that these soldiers were in strict military discipline, but it was a pity that they were not used for his own purposes. But seeing him again today, he was only happy.
When Qu Yi heard that Yuan Shao was coming, he immediately came out of the camp to greet him and took Yuan Shao on a tour of his camp. This went on until dark, when Qu Yi invited Yuan Shao to have a banquet in his main tent, saying that he wanted to ask his lord for advice on how to fight against the Ba Mansion. Yuan Shao happened to also want to ask Qu Yi for his opinion, so he readily agreed.
Qu Yi's main tent was set up under a broken wall, with only a camp gate in front. Tian Feng and others were arranged under the cluster tent in front of the main tent. His cronies Jiang Yiqu, Chunyu Qiong and more than ten sergeants were waiting outside the tent. They heard the sound of drinking and gambling in the tent, which turned into whispers and gradually became inaudible. At this time, the moonlit night was deep, and many military tents had their fires extinguished, which made them a little drowsy.
They don't know how long it took, but suddenly, they saw Qu Yi running out of the tent holding his stomach, looking like he was in a hurry to go to the toilet, and ran to the left in a panic.
At this time, Yuan Shao was the only one in the tent.
He was sitting on the bed, thinking about Jinyang Ba Mansion. Suddenly, he heard a little noise behind him, but he did not look back. He thought it was some field mouse jumping in the wilderness. This was really a normal thing during the march. But in this very brief moment, he lost his chance to survive.
When he heard the heavy footsteps behind him, he looked back and saw a tall man in leather armor coming in from somewhere behind with a knife. He knew this man, he was Qu Yi's eldest son Qu Neng. When he saw Qu Neng dressed up like this and approaching with such force, he secretly screamed in his heart and got up in shock.
He reached over several tables, knocked over the chessboard and drinks, and held the sword and bow bag in his hands. But it was too late, and he had no chance to draw his sword or draw his bow, so he could only use his scabbard and bow bag to block. Qu Neng slashed at Yuan Shao with his sword randomly. First, three of Yuan Shao's fingers were chopped off, and then he was stabbed twice in the leg. He was unable to move even if he wanted to run.
At this time, Yuan Shao was severely injured and knew that he would not be spared. He turned over and lay on the ground, shouting outside the account: "Come here! Qu Yi will harm me! Qu Yi will harm me!" Qu Neng stepped forward and shouted He stepped on Yuan Shao's back and grabbed his hair with his hands. With a strong force, Yuan Shao's neck was exposed.
At this moment, Jiang Yiqu and others outside the tent heard Yuan Shao calling for help, and finally opened the tent door, preparing to rush in. They happened to see the last moment of Yuan Shao's life.
Qu Neng grabbed their master like a sheep, and the bleeding blade was already pressed against Yuan Shao's neck. The guards had no time to do anything, and they saw that as soon as Qu Neng cut Yuan Shao's throat, large amounts of blood spurted out and dripped on the bed, the table, the ground, and the person's clothes.
Seeing this scene, the cronies couldn't help but lose their voices, as if the knife cut off not Yuan Shao's throat, but their necks.
But Qu Neng turned a blind eye to them. After killing Yuan Shao, he raised his knife and chopped it several times. Finally, he cut off Yuan Shao's head and held it in his hand bloody.
Then a flood of footsteps sounded outside the tent. Chun Yuqiong, who was standing outside the tent, looked over and saw that the sergeants who were supposed to be sleeping were all awake at the moment, and they were surrounded under the leadership of Qu Yi. Not far away from them, the camp of Tian Feng and others was also surrounded.
Fa Zheng came out from the soldiers with the edict and said to these bereaved dogs: "The imperial court has an order, but the first culprit will be punished and the rest of the crimes will not be ignored." He showed a smile that has determined that the world has decided, and added: "If there are those who don't follow, they will be punished." How about going under the Nine Springs to be with Yuan Benchu!"
