Chapter 469 Onozawa (II)

Cao Cao was indeed defeated...

Even Yuan Shao did not expect that the Puyang Battle, which lasted for nearly a year, would end with such a bizarre ending.

In early May, Yuan Shao received news that due to geographical reasons, the food and grass that supported Cao Cao's battle in Puyang mainly came from two places. One was from Yuzhou, and was imported into the Yanzhou battlefield through Xingyang, a free trade place originally established by Cao Cao and Dong Qi. This batch of food and grass was transported by merchants to Changyuan (now Changyuan County, Xinxiang, Henan), and then distributed to various passes.

Another source of food and grass is through Qingzhou and stored in Juyang (now northeast of Heze, Shandong).

After learning the news, Yuan Shao was also very hesitant. After dealing with Cao Cao for so long, he knew very well that Cao Cao was a person. Cao Cao liked to rob people of food. Previously, Yuan Shao suffered a loss on this battlefield in Qingzhou.

How could a master who likes to rob people of food and food without guarding?

However, Sima Xinpi of the army said: "The reason why we were able to find out about Cao Cao's grain storage is because the grain and grass on the west road was transported by merchants in Xingyang. We managed to bribe the merchants in Xingyang responsible for this matter, so we got this news. It is said that since merchants transport grain and grass on the west road, that is, the sour jujube area, was not very rigorous. If we could..."

Smart people will never tell the result, but will leave a line of opportunity for their master to play.

Only a straight guy like Tian Feng who doesn't know how to turn around will not estimate the master's feelings and will be unscrupulous when making suggestions.

There is no doubt that Xinpi is a smart person. Yuan Shao is not a fool. He quickly understood what Xinpi meant and couldn't help but smile.

"What George meant was to take a detour to Xingyang and attack Changyuan?"

Xinpi hurriedly intervened and bowed, "The lord is indeed a wise man. Before his subordinates could speak, the lord is already in his heart."

It was obvious that there was a flattery in these words, but Yuan Shao was still very happy and did not care about Xin Bina's exaggerated actions at all.

"Lord, my subordinates have found out that the food station in Juyang directly supplies the Cao army in Puyang, so the defense is relatively strict. However, Changyuan is different. As far as my subordinates know, even the food and grass in Juyang also need the support of Changyuan. The guards from Xingyang to Changyuan were relatively lax. Moreover, the people who escorted the food and grass were mostly the guards of Xingyang merchants, and the Cao army did not conduct strict inspections of the caravans."

"Very good, very good... George is very good at this plan!"

Yuan Shao was covered in spring breeze and nodded repeatedly. After a year of hard battle, Yuan Shao was a little impatient. In addition, the drought in Jizhou this year is severe, and some of the reserved grains are no longer available. Most importantly, Yuan Shao has been hollowed out for this war.

If the Puyang War cannot be ended before winter comes, Yuan Shao can only withdraw his troops.

Xin Pi's plan was indeed a timely help. Yuan Shao immediately ordered the general Han Qiong to be the main general, and Xin Pi as the army Sima, and took advantage of Hanoi to move to Xingyang. As for what kind of requests Dong Qi would make, it is no longer important. What is important is to end the war as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Dong Chu did not make excessive demands.

When Yuan Shao's envoy arrived in Chang'an, Chen Gong said: "It is not difficult to borrow the road. However, King Liang Qiansui heard that Mr. Yuan had a Tian Feng under his command and insulted King Liang Qiansui in public many times. Qiansui was very unhappy about this. If it weren't for the friendship with Mr. Yuan, he would have fought to Yecheng long ago... Now Mr. Yuan wants to borrow the road, so he handed over the Tian Yuanhao to us and let us deal with it if we are alive. Otherwise, this matter... is not discussed."

When the envoy reported to Yuan Shao, he said that he had not seen Dong Qi.

But looking at the gritting teeth of the people in Chengming Palace, it must have caused Tian Feng to hate him to the core, so he made this request.

Yuan Shao didn't like Tian Feng at first, but was just afraid of the crime of killing his aide.

Now that Dong Qi wants to take over this hot potato, Yuan Shao will naturally not object. However, he asked Dong Qi to release Yuan Shang back.

Dong Chu has no objection to this.

In early June, Yuan Shao drew out three thousand elliptical soldiers, led by Han Qiongxinpi, and transferred from Yanjin to Xingyang.

Then he got into Xuzhou merchants who had already been bribed, and escorted food and grass to arrive quietly at Changyuan. He attacked him late at night and burned Changyuan.

Hundreds of thousands of stones of food and grass in Changyuan were burned to pieces.

The Cao army on the west side became in chaos first. Yuan's army took advantage of the situation to capture the white horse again, occupied the sour jujube, and pointed directly at Chenliu.

Lu Su, the commander of the Western Route Army of Cao's army, had no choice but to retreat to Chenliu. As soon as the Western Route Army was defeated, Puyang could not resist the attack launched by Yuan Shao's army from the flanks. After persisting for more than ten days, he withdrew from Puyang, threw away his armor and armor along the way, with countless food and supplies, and retreated to Juye.

The commander of the Eastern Route Army, Xiahou Dun and Cheng Yu, could not withstand the attack of Yuan's army after the fall of Puyang.

After persisting for a few days, the army was defeated and retreated from Cangting in Dongjun to Dongping. With Xuchang (now Dongping Lake in Dongping City, Shandong Province, also known as Liangshan) as a barrier, he finally stabilized his position and could not stand it. He once again formed a stalemate with Yuan's army.

In this battle, Yuan Shao captured nearly 50,000 troops from Cao's army and seized countless supplies.

Once Puyang was defeated, the river barrier that Cao Cao was once a barrier no longer existed. Yuan Shao took advantage of the victory to pursue the army, and his army rushed straight to Juye, confronting Cao Cao here.

At this time, it is late summer and early autumn!

The autumn test in Chang'an is about to come.

This day was a good day for Liu Bian's eldest son to be two years old.

Liu Bian set up a banquet in Weiyang Palace to entertain officials of all sizes and big and small in Chang'an. Dong Qi was naturally also among the invitations and was in the chief.

Liu Bian is already in his thirties.

Although he was the emperor for a long time, he had no luxury at all. Two years after he ascended the throne, that is, at the beginning of the third year of Taiping, Fang Li, Empress.

The origin of this queen is not very noble.

The key is gentleness, skill and temperament. However, this queen who is a mother of the world is not very good. After giving birth to a son at the end of the third year of Taiping, she passed away. But no matter what, the queen finally left Liu Bian with blood, named Liu Tong.

Liu Bian had just lived a normal life for two years and suffered such a change.

He became more negative, ignored the government all day long, and studied Buddhist scriptures in Taichung, Bailiang, and basically no longer showed up in public. Every ten days, Dong Qi would enter the palace to talk to Liu Bian. At this time, Liu Bian would show some smiles. In addition, he would only be happier when he saw his son Liu Tong. Most of the time, he would be like an old monk entering into a meditation, without any waves in the ancient well, and even not talking much.

Liu Tong was two years old. Although Liu Bing didn't want to handle it, his ministers refused to agree.

So the banquet ended from noon until after night. Dong Qi was very happy and drank happily at the banquet, so he was already a little drunk at the end of the banquet.

After leaving the imperial city, Dong Qi took his saddle and got on his horse and walked home...

The night wind was gentle, and a burst of alcohol surged up to his head, and Dong Qi became a little drowsy.

Since it was in Chang'an, Dong Qi did not bring too many entourages. Apart from more than a hundred personal guards, there were no one else. Now, Chang'an officials no longer ride in carriages and other tools, but have changed into a new type of thing, namely, the eight-carrying sedan chair.

This sedan chair was something that Dong Qi tidied out when he retreated into Nanshan.

After the situation in Chang'an stabilized, many people began to like this kind of transportation tool. Moreover, the sedan chair was divided into different levels.

For example, Liu Bian was the emperor, and there were 108 people carrying sedan chairs, called the Imperial Chariot.

The royal family and the royal family were carried by sixty-four people, called the royal chariot; the three dukes and nine ministers carried by thirty-two chariots; the rest were like this.

According to Dong Qi's official position, you should use a royal chariot. However, Dong Qi is used to riding a horse, and he always feels uncomfortable when he sits in a sedan chair, so most of the time, he still mainly rides a horse. On this day, the night wind is gentle, and the smell of camphor wood is filled with the city of Chang'an, which feels very comfortable.

Dong Qi immediately swayed, looking a little unsteady.

The personal troops who were escorting their guards often relaxed their vigilance. After all, this Chang'an City is Dong Qi's territory, so things are unlikely to happen.

But just as he turned around Zhaomingfang Street, Dong Qi's mount was suddenly anxious and restless.

Immediately afterwards, more than ten cold lights rose from the roofs on both sides of the street, and someone shouted sternly: "Dong Zhe, today I want you to pay my father's life!"

The sword light is fierce and the cold is overwhelming.

More than a dozen black-clad assassins rushed out, and one of them rushed towards Dong Qi.

These assassins seemed to have been trained. Ten people blocked the way to protect Dong Qi, and three of them were left, obviously the main force in assassinating Dong Qi. If we were to say, not to mention ten assassins, even twenty or one hundred might not be able to do anything to Dong Qi.

But today, Dong Qi was already drunk and drowsy.

And in Chang'an City, how could he have thought that someone would dare to assassinate him?

The three assassins were extremely skilled and had very ruthless tricks. They stabbed Dong Qi straight into the chest.

Fortunately, Dong Qi was drunk, but the war horse under his crotch was extremely spiritual.

Xi Yuyu's long neighing, overturning Dong Qi, who was caught off guard, suddenly. The sword light swept, and the war horse neighed miserably and fell into a pool of blood. Dong Qi even fell to the cold ground. Although the fall had subsided his alcoholic desire, the dizzy feeling still made him unable to react normally.

An assassin, holding a short spear, stabbed Dong Qi with a cry.

Dong Qi grabbed the short spear, roared, and threw the man away. He jingled twice and opened the swords of the other two assassins.

But at this moment, the assassin who was thrown away suddenly turned over and hugged Dong Qi from behind.

"Do it quickly, don't worry about me!"

Two assassins held swords and stabbed Dong Qi's personal guards in the distance also woke up and shouted that they wanted to come and rescue Dong Qi. However, after the ten assassins' desperate interception, they could not pass for a while. More than a dozen people were seriously injured and fell into a pool of blood.

Dong Qi roared, and the assassin's sword penetrated into his chest, blood splattering.

The assassin who was holding him was thrown away by Dong Qi, and he staggered two steps. Just as Dong Qi was about to fight back, two sharp swords penetrated his body again.

The blood immediately dyed his clothes red...

This sudden assassination lasted for about a cup of tea. The city guards rushed over and saw Dong Qi lying in a pool of blood. When they saw Dong Qi lying in a pool of blood, they were immediately panicked! If Dong Qi was dead, the entire city guards would be in trouble. So, in a fierce battle, all the assassins were captured, and Dong Qi was hurriedly sent back to the Liang Prince's Mansion by his personal side, and the whole Chang'an suddenly became boiling!

After receiving the notice, General Zhao Yun of Lanchi mobilized Lanchi's garrison and quickly replaced the defense of the Chang'an Guards, blocking Chang'an into airtight.

When Dong Ji was notified, he was painting with Lu Xin at General Wei's mansion.

After hearing the news that his father was stabbed, he hurried back to the mansion... Gao Shun even allocated the general of General Guard's mansion to Dong Ji, and escorted him along the way.

When Dong Ji returned to Prince Liang's Mansion, he saw that many people had gathered at the door.

It is said that even Liu Bian was notified and sent Yang Qian to check and explore. Officials from all sides surrounded Ju Mansion and urgently transferred from Lan Chi, four or five thousand people guarding the Liang Prince's Mansion. Seeing Dong Ji back, a big man ran out of the mansion and said in a crying voice: "Big Master, Big Master... Qiansui He..."

"Ihiko, stop talking!"

Dong Ji shouted loudly, "Father is the bravest of the three armies, and he is the best general in the world. How can a mere stupid thief hurt my father's life?"

After saying that, he glanced at the people outside the mansion with a cold gaze.

"Sir, it seems that some people want to do something before the autumn exam... The father will not have any trouble, please go back to the mansion first. Yuan Zhi immediately sent someone to Duyoubao Castle and transferred the inspector to Chang'an. He notified the Tingwei and said that the matter will be taken over from now on by the inspector. All assassins will be transferred to the inspector... No one can make any comments before the matter is found out."

"Here!"

Yuan Zhi mentioned by Dong Ji is not Xu Shu.

This Yuan Zhi is Zhou Buyi. It is coincidental that Zhou Buyi's word was decided by Zhou Chao long before he was born.
To be continued...