After coming out of Cao's Mansion, Shi A led the horse and walked away slowly from the street. His expression was still very calm, as if nothing could change his color. He was a famous swordsman in Ye City, and he walked away
Many people recognized him on the street, but seeing his repulsive attitude, people just pointed in the distance and said in an envious tone: "This is Shi'a!
"
Shi'a was indifferent to everyone's pointing and comments, and led Shi Shiran away with his horse.
After Shi A left, Cao Ang said to Xiahou Dun: "Uncle, is Shi A's swordsmanship enough to assassinate Chen Thief?"
Xiahou Dun frowned and said, "It's hard to say."
"Why?"
"Shi'a's swordsmanship is the only one I've seen in my life, but assassinating a general must be extremely dangerous. Even if he succeeds, he will probably die on the spot. Why should we let him die?"
"This..." Cao Ang thought for a moment and said, "How about punishing him with justice?"
Xiahou Dun laughed and said: "How can those rangers be restrained by justice? If you really want to drive Shi A, you have to do what Prince Yan did to Jing Ke."
Cao Ang raised his eyebrows and said: "Then I will go look for famous swords, beauties, and BMWs!"
Not long after, Yuan Shao heard what Cao Ang said about this and was very interested. He ordered people to summon Shi A to meet him. The pomp of Jizhou Mu was naturally beyond the reach of a down-and-out young man from the Cao family. The dishes were all exquisite and the drinks were exquisite.
Not sweet, but Shi A just drank a few glasses and then stopped.
Yuan Shao saw this and asked, "Is it because the wine is not to your liking?"
Shi A shook his head and said: "If you drink too much, the sword will be slower. I don't usually drink. I only drink some when I go to banquets."
Yuan Shao put down his wine glass and said with a smile: "I see. I heard that I am the number one swordsman in Ye City, but I don't know where I am from?"
"Liaodong Youbeiping."
"There are many Kanggai tragic men in Yanzhao, no wonder they have such a reputation. But I don't know if I dare to compete with my generals in swordsmanship?"
Shi Adao: "The sword has no eyes, and the body will turn white next time. It doesn't matter whether you are injured or dead, but it would be bad if you hurt a general under Zhou Mu's command."
Yuan Shao smiled and said, "If you can really defeat my generals, I will only reward you heavily and will never blame you."
He turned around and said to General Hengha behind him: "Which one of you is going to play with Shi'a?"
Yan Liang and Wen Chou looked at each other. Wen Chou took two steps forward and muttered: "I'll do it!"
Wen Chou was eight feet tall, half a head taller than Shi A, and far more majestic. A ferocious smile appeared on his face, and he shouted: "Put on your armor, lest I accidentally kill you!"
When Wen Chou stood up, Shi A had already left the table and stood up, keeping a distance of two feet from him. When Wen Chou asked him to wear armor on the boat, Shi A shook his head and said, "I learned the swordsmanship of the ranger. I don't need it."
Wear armor.”
"Hey, you brought this on yourself, don't regret it if you get killed later!"
Wen Chou pulled out his horizontal sword, shouted loudly, and rushed forward. A white light flashed in Shi'a's hand, and the long sword was unsheathed. He took a step to the right, held the blade across his chest, and slashed to the left.
"when!"
The horizontal knife collided with the long sword, making a crisp sound. Wen Chou was stronger and swung Shi'a's long sword away. However, Shi'a was not wearing armor and moved faster than him. When the sword was sheathed in the exchange, the man had already arrived.
On his left side, Wen Chou felt unspeakably awkward, but he didn't think too much and turned around to continue attacking.
However, Shi'a had already changed his move first. He continued to jump out to the left and kicked Wen Chou behind the knee. At the same time, he crossed his sword to his left hand and smashed the hilt of the sword against the back of Wen Chou's head.
"Poof!" "Bang!"
Wen Chou was kicked in the knees and hit by the hilt of the sword in the back of the head. His feet went weak and he staggered forward four or five steps before finally regaining his balance. His face turned red and he turned around with a roar.
, the little bit of joking that originally existed in his body disappeared, replaced by overwhelming anger and murderous intent.
"stop!"
Yuan Shao shouted loudly and stopped the fight between the two. Yuan Benchu had just seen clearly that after Shi A hit Wen Chou, if he stepped forward to make up for it with a sword, Wen Chou would definitely die. Although he was wearing
A full set of armor, but judging from Shi'a's performance, it shouldn't be difficult to stab the joint between the helmet and the armor.
"Well, what a Shi'a, what a great swordsman in Yecheng!"
Yuan Shao clapped gently and said with a smile: "When I saw him today, his swordsmanship is indeed unparalleled!"
Shi A bowed slightly, then straightened up and said calmly: "Zhou Mu is so complimentary!"
"I heard that Cao Ang wants you to assassinate Chen Cheng?"
"Master Cao did have this intention, but I did not agree."
"Hey, what effect can a low-level method like assassination have?" Yuan Shao looked at Zixiong, "If you want the world, just go and capture it!"
Shi Adao: "After all, Mr. Cao is not as good as Zhou Mu."
Yuan Shao laughed, pointed to a young man next to him, and said, "This is my youngest son. He has grown up. I originally wanted to find him a swordsman in the army. But since I want to find one, why not find the best one?"
Where's my son? Shi'a, are you willing to stay with me and teach my son swordsmanship?"
Shi Abai fell to the ground and said: "I have my wish, but I dare not ask for my ears!"
When Yuan Shao saw the other party bowing his head, Yuan Shao felt even better. He pulled his youngest son Yuan Shang over and said, "You saw just now that Shi'a's swordsmanship is even better than that of General Wen Chou. From now on, you can learn swordsmanship from him!"
Yuan Shang was very beautiful, a bit more beautiful than Cao Ang, but he had a bit more weakness and less simplicity and strength. He stared at Shi A with his beautiful eyes and asked: "What did you do just now?"
Defeat General Wen Chou?"
Wen Chou was beside him, his face turned red with anger, and he said angrily: "I just made a mistake, I want to compete with him again!"
Yuan Shao snorted and said: "If you lose, you will lose. How can you become a general if you don't have this bit of courage? If you keep making noise, I will kick you out!"
The muscles on Wen Chou's face twitched. Although he was extremely reluctant, he could only endure it.
Yuan Shao put a smile on his face again and asked Shi Adao: "You guys fought too fast just now, and I didn't see clearly how you won."
Shi Adao: "General Wen Chou used martial arts in the battle formation, which focused on opening and closing. He is extremely powerful, wears steel armor, and uses sharp weapons like a horizontal sword. He is indeed invincible on the battlefield.
It's always bad. But when fighting alone, the one with the fastest attack has an advantage. There is only one reason why General Wen Chou lost to me, and that's because he was too slow."
"No wonder you don't wear armor," Yuan Shang asked curiously, "What if Wen Chou doesn't wear armor either?"
Shi A replied: "The success or failure is yet to be determined. Young Master, a ruler is short and an inch is long. What I am good at is the martial arts against a single person, so I have a slight advantage. If it were on the battlefield,
Go ahead, I'm afraid General Wen Chou can kill me in just one turn."
Wen Chou beside him said angrily: "Maybe it will take two rounds!"
Yuan Shao couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and Yuan Shang also laughed.
The second year of Xingping passed like this, and the world was still in chaos. After the imperial court moved to Chang'an, apart from issuing edicts to ask the princes to exercise restraint, it didn't seem to want to interfere too much. Only Cao Cao massacred the city everywhere in Xuzhou, which caused
The general personally carried out the attack on Yanzhou. After defeating the main force of Cao's army, the imperial troops also withdrew, as if they were really living a peaceful life in Guanzhong and did not want to pay attention to the bloodshed and killings all over the world.
The following year, the imperial court still ignored the fighting between the heroes of Guandong, and only changed the reign name from "Xingping" to "Jian'an". This was also expected, as the reign title of "Xingping" was the title of the previous emperor.
It was given when General He Jin was in power. After Chen Cheng became the general, he naturally had to change to a new era name to show that he was different from the previous one. Being able to have Xingping in the second year was already very surprising to the world.
It was unexpected. I didn't expect that the new general was very stable and waited until the third year before changing his position.
In the first year of Jian'an, nothing happened in Liangzhou and Guanzhong, but wars were still raging all over the country. Zhao Yun, the pastor of Bingzhou, used the policy of "free land distribution and 10% of taxes" to seduce the people under Zhang Yan's rule, and led the Montenegrin army to march westward.
The reorganized Bingzhou Army fought several battles. However, the loose structure of the Black Mountain Army meant that the more they had, the worse their organization would be.
In the mountains of Bingzhou, Zhao Yun took the lead, led his soldiers over the mountains and ridges, launched five consecutive attacks, cut off the retreat of the Black Mountain Army, killed and captured more than 10,000 people, and the Black Mountain Army did not dare to go further into the hinterland of Bingzhou.
On the other side, Yuan Shao also took advantage of the opportunity when the Black Mountain Army invaded Bingzhou and sent generals Ju Yi, Gao Lan, Zhang He and others to attack the Black Mountain Army and regained a lot of lost ground.
In addition, the Wuhuan people were harassing Youzhou from behind. As a result, the once powerful Zhang Yan-Gongsun Zan coalition army gradually declined. After changing from a strategic attack to a strategic stalemate, it turned into a strategic defense. Yuan Shao's Hebei Army
Taking the initiative in the battle, he frequently launched offensives against the Montenegro Army and Gongsun Zan Army.
Limited to the siege technology of this era, as long as the defenders have sufficient strength and a strong will, the attackers do not have many good options. They can only rely on siege and starvation to make the defenders surrender.
Yuan Shao's army suppressed Gongsun Zan's army and fought for a year, but they only captured a few cities and were still far from complete victory.
In view of the fact that the imperial court was recuperating and the strength of Guanzhong was recovering, Yuan Shao once wrote to Gongsun Zan, saying that he wanted peace and not war. It would do no good to fight back and forth. It would be better to call a truce. This would be good for you and me.
Everyone is good.
But in view of what Yuan Shao had done before, Gongsun Zan quickly rejected Yuan Shao's proposal. Even if he was at a disadvantage, Gongsun Bogui was unwilling to maintain peace with Yuan Shao. Because Yuan Shao was pretending to be peaceful and was really preparing for war. Gongsun Zan
He was deceived by Yuan Shao before and even his own brother was killed. He would never trust Yuan Shao again.
Maybe Yuan Shao really wanted peace, or maybe he wanted to do something else under the guise of negotiating peace, but no matter what, after Gongsun Zan rejected the peace proposal, Yuan Shao immediately resumed his attack on Youzhou. As for Hebei
It is said that Youzhou is like a sharp sword hanging over the head, and it must be lifted to feel at ease.
Not everyone is like Zhao Guangyi, who can let Youzhou be in the hands of the enemy.
