While hesitating, there was a sudden shout of killing behind him, and a messenger rushed to report:

"Report! Sir, Gongsun Zan's cavalry appeared behind our army, with a population of about 10,000! The general commander is Gongsun Zan's cousin, Gongsun Fan!"

Yuan Shao was shocked when he heard this! Wu Fan and Zhao Yun were fighting hard; while Yan Liang and Wen Chou broke into the enemy's formation, they did not inspire a single challenge with Gongsun Zan. The two were leading their cavalry to fight with Gongsun Zan and their military generals, and they were eager to suppress the enemy.

In this situation, the enemy army came from the rear and formed a front and back attack, and our army was in danger of being completely destroyed!

Yuan Shao made a little thought and immediately ordered: the entire army retreated, the archers were in front, and the cavalry was behind, and the full force was to break through Gongsun Fan's army. Do not allow the enemy to form a clamping attack!

The archers were originally a corpse of long-range attacks. Although they had the attribute of restraining cavalry, they were still at a disadvantage in melee combat against cavalry. Therefore, after the military order was issued, although Yuan Shao's army finally broke through the siege successfully, they paid a heavy price of nearly 5,000 casualties!

As a result, both Yuan Shao's army and Gongsun Zan's army were in a state of severe damage. After the two armies set aside, neither of them was willing to take the initiative to attack. After Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Fan's army joined forces, they returned to the other side of the Pan River and continued to confront Yuan Shao's army across the river.

The stalemate between the two sides lasted for ten days. It was not until Emperor Xian sent an envoy to make peace that Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan each stopped their troops and returned to the city. However, Gongsun Zan defeated his younger brother Gongsun Yue in this battle. When he retreated, Gongsun Zan raised his horse whip in his hand and pointed at the other side of the Pan River, gritted his teeth and said:

"Today's brother's grudge will be returned twice as much in the future!"

Yuan Shao also knew that Gongsun Zan would never give up. So after returning to Yecheng, he immediately issued a new ruling target: Yecheng and Nanpi were all in "army" states! He was ready to fight the Gongsun Zan's army at any time!

Since Nanpi is close to Gongsun Zan’s Beiping City, Yuan Shao specially transferred Yan Liang and Wen Chou to Nanpi City to strengthen Nanpi’s military strength.

...

But it was said that the night when Wu Fan returned to Nanpi City, the prefect of Guo Tu was in the house.

Through the window paper, you can see two figures in the bedroom discussing something, and sometimes there is a burst of spy laughter unique to Guo Tu.

"Don't worry, Lord Sun Qian, I accepted Liu Bei several times of heavy gifts, how could I do nothing? The reason why I didn't treat Wu Fan before was that Wu Fan could not catch him like a loach. Now he was in the Battle of Jieqiao, and he tied with an unknown person under Gongsun Zan. Lord Yuan Shao didn't know that Wu Fan was injured, so he was quite suspicious of this. I happened to have this opportunity to fabricate a charge and put Wu Fan into jail. As for the time being after being imprisoned, hahahahahahahahahahahaha..."

Amid Guo Tu's laughter, Sun Qian was overjoyed and said:

"It's so good! After the matter is done, Lord Liu Bei will thank you very much!"

Then, Sun Qian felt relieved and said goodbye to Guo Tu, walked out of the side door of the backyard of the prefect's mansion, and disappeared into the night. Guo Tu in the bedroom squinted his eyes and looked at a box of jewelry on the table, gently stroked it with his hands, his expression full of greed.

"Wu Fan, this time, you can't escape from my palm! Hahahahaha..."

But it was said that the backyard of the prefect's mansion was remote streets and alleys. Before Sun Qian had left, two figures wearing dark cloaks stood up from a pile of broken clay pots, looked at each other, and nodded. Then the two men quickly left in the opposite direction.

At this time, Wu Fan's courtyard was still brightly lit. Tian Feng, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were drinking with Wu Fan at the same table and having a great time talking.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou just arrived in Nanpi from Yecheng today. Wu Fan’s banquet was mainly used to greet the two. At the same time, he also took this opportunity to talk about the relationship with the three generals under Yuan Shao who were quite close to him.

Since they are both subordinate to the same force, there are fewer concerns in their conversation. When they are half drunk, Wu Fan changed his mind and asked the three of them: Who can compete for dominance in the world after counting all the princes in the world?

Yan Liang and Wen Chou are all fierce generals and their brain cells are not developed. The two of them only look at the soldiers and territory on this issue, so they both believe that Dong Zhuo, our ruler Yuan Shao, and Liu Yan in the northwest, all have the possibility of fighting for dominance in the world.

Tian Feng and their views were different. After thinking about it for a moment, Tian Feng believed that Dong Zhuo was at the end of his strength and Liu Yan had no ambitions. Neither of these two people were the material for fighting to dominate the world; only Yuan Shao was currently in a position to dominate the world, but...

Tian Feng wanted to speak but stopped. Wu Fan looked at his expression and seemed to want to comment on Yuan Shao's shortcomings, but he felt it was inappropriate. Wu Fan then took the speech and said:

"Yuan Hao feels that there is no one else to compete for the world except Lord Yuan Shao?"

Tian Feng put in another glass of wine and said:

"No! I look at Sun Jian, Liu Bei on the Plain, and Cao Cao in Chenliu and Cao Cao all have the ability to dominate the world!"

As soon as these words were said, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were very puzzled. Sun Jian, Changsha, could barely make sense. After all, Jingnan is mostly empty cities, and Sun Jian can expand a large sphere of influence without bloodshed. However, Chenliu and Cao Cao cannot see any strength at present, and Liu Bei in the plain is even weak and invincible. How can these two people have the ability to compete for the world?

Wu Fan smiled and stopped him, asking Yan Liangwen Chou not to interrupt, just listen to Yuan Hao's detailed explanation. In fact, he took this opportunity to see what Tian Feng would evaluate Cao Cao. If Tian Feng had a very bad impression of Cao Cao, it would take some effort to take him away. If he had an ordinary impression of Cao Cao or even preferred it, he would save himself a lot of trouble.

After all, I have been delaying too much time in Hebei, so it is time to hurry up and deal with this issue.

So, Tian Feng talked freely, mainly from the three aspects of the time, place, and people. When talking about Cao Cao, Wu Fan listened carefully and felt that Tian Feng had no desire to be disgusted with Cao Cao. Even because Cao Cao issued a proclamation to join forces with various officials to attack Dong Zhuo, Tian Feng felt that Cao Cao's move was both loyal and righteous, and in terms of strategy and vision, Cao Cao was really a well-deserved leader among the many officials.

This evaluation made Wu Fan's concerns all his heart were relieved and he was in a good mood. He asked Ling'er to serve the food again. Today, your master will be drunk with three friends before he can stop!

The next morning, just after drinking the soup, Wu Fan walked out of the house and headed to the palace.

At present, Nanpi is in an armed state. As long as all military generals are not seriously injured, they must arrive at the palace city every day and wait for the prefect to send.

After rushing to the main hall of the palace, Wu Fan sat down with his official title, not sitting by the door and holding the wind like before, but sitting in the middle.

Standing on the center of the main seat, Guo Tu's sharp voice made Wu Fan feel the urge to block his ears. After finally enduring it for a while, the other civil and military officials who were originally sitting in the main hall had already received the orders and walked out, leaving only Wu Fan and Guo Tu.

There were dozens of other palace guards standing on both sides of the main hall and under the corridor outside the door.

"Wu Fan!"

Guo Tu's sharp voice suddenly rang.

Wu Fan turned around and arched at Guo Tu, saying:

"What order does the prefect have?"

But Guo Tu threw the bamboo slips in his hand on the table, leaned against the seat, and hummed:
Chapter completed!