Chapter 702

But nowadays, of the eight people in the past, those who died died, those who surrendered surrendered.

Even Xun Chen, the only one who did not surrender, also used the excuse of illness not long ago, but actually went south to defect to Xun Yu.

For a time.

A sense of loneliness swept through Yuan Shao's heart.

"Perhaps... this is the ending of this Great General?"

Yuan Shao naturally could not be willing to submit.

But... when he was at his peak in the past, he was not Gu Yi's opponent.

Nowadays, in a state of lingering on his last breath, what should he do?

"Forget it, forget it, as a person of the Yuan family, dying on the battlefield is always better than dying in a cowardly way."

In Yuan Shao's heart, many memories flashed by.

Those fragments, there were those of his father Yuan Feng, those of his eldest uncle Yuan Cheng, and those of his second uncle Yuan Wei.

Even more... those of his third younger brother Yuan Shu!

Our Honey Water Brother is Yuan Shao's own younger brother.

It is just that he has never recognized Yuan Shao as his elder brother in his heart.

After all.

Yuan Shao was born to a concubine.

In a big aristocratic family, what does a concubine count for?

Only a legitimate son born to a legitimate wife is called valuable.

However.

The glory that once belonged to the Yuan family is now on the verge of dissipating.

Yuan Wei, Yuan Cheng, and Yuan Feng have all passed away.

Yuan Ji, Yuan Yi, and Yuan Shu, who were of the same generation as Yuan Shao, have also died successively.

Bearing the final inheritance of the Yuan family, one can imagine what kind of sadness is in Yuan Shao's heart.

Just when Yuan Shao's thoughts were drifting away.

The captain of the personal guards walked in from outside and reported:

"My lord, the Young Master and General Yan Liang have returned."

Speaking of this, the expression on the captain's face suddenly became extremely evasive.

Yuan Shao has been a lord for so many years, his basic ability to observe expressions naturally still exists.

Seeing the unnatural expression on the captain's face.

His heart could not help but thump violently.

Soon.

Yuan Xi, with a decadent face, brought Yan Liang, who was covered in burns, and walked in from outside.

No, this statement is inaccurate.

Strictly speaking, Yan Liang was carried in.

After all.

Seriously injured, he had already lost his ability to act in a short period of time.

"Xianyi, what is going on?"

Yan Liang followed Yuan Shao for the longest time.

While being loyal, he was also the only surviving great general in the Yuan camp.

Nowadays, seeing Yan Liang suffer such a serious injury, Yuan Shao naturally felt quite uncomfortable in his heart.

"Father, that defending general of Hehe City, Hao Zhao, is simply a devil!"

Speaking of this, Yuan Xi finally could not hold on.

Extremely sad, he poured out the bitterness in his heart to his father.

Originally.

When hearing that Yuan Xi relied on a numerical advantage of several times, but still could not do anything to a mere Hehe City, it was naturally impossible to say that Yuan Shao was not angry in his heart.

But now, the anger in Yuan Shao's heart had been replaced by calmness.

Yes, it is calmness.

The kind of calmness that is calm to the extreme.

He understands that this defeat cannot blame Yan Liang, nor can it blame Yuan Xi.

To put it bluntly, it is because the enemy's defending general was too cunning.

Plus these soldiers of the Yuan camp were all people who were forcibly conscripted to make up the numbers, so naturally they could not be the enemy's opponents.

Furthermore.

Yuan Xi and Yan Liang retreating now is actually a good thing.

Otherwise.

Once Lu Bu and Zhang Liao lead the army to arrive here.

Relying only on the mob under Yuan Xi and Yan Liang, they could not be opponents at all.

At that time.

The few soldiers left in Bohai City would completely become a joke.

Of course.

Actually, until now, including Yuan Shao, the clear-eyed people in the Yuan camp were basically in a state of being about to accept their fate.

"Organize defense around Bohai."

Throwing down such a sentence.

Yuan Shao gently rubbed his forehead that was aching unbearably and went back to his room to rest.

In the face of absolute power.

No matter how many steps there are, it seems that they are just redundant dying struggles.

……

However.

The direction of things exceeded Yuan Shao's expectation.

The elite under Gu Yi led by Lu Bu and Zhang Liao did not attack Bohai Commandery, but went around it directly.

On the contrary.

They headed towards the Youzhou region further north.

Facing the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, Yuan Shao did not dare to take the initiative to pursue.

Therefore, it was equivalent to letting Zhang Liao and Lu Bu go to Youzhou.

As the saying goes.

A bear of a soldier is a bear, a bear of a general is a bear of a nest.

Yuan Shao adopted an appeasement attitude, so how could the defending generals of various cities in Youzhou actively fight the enemy?

In just a few days, those who opened the city and surrendered were countless.

There were also a few stubborn people, but they did not last long before being defeated.

The several commanderies in Youzhou that were in Yuan Shao's hands fell one after another at a very fast speed.

In less than half a month.

Youzhou, besides the two commanderies of Liaoxi and Youbeiping that were in Cao Cao's hands.

The remaining commanderies were all equivalent to belonging to the expedition army of Zhang Liao and Lu Bu.

Bohai also fell into siege after Youzhou fell.

The soldiers inside the city, besides that group of able-bodied men who were forcibly grabbed.

Even those veteran soldiers now had no spirit.

By now, who does not know what kind of things they will face next?

Placed in the ancient feudal dynasty.

After the city falls, the options left to ordinary soldiers are nothing more than two.

The first is to surrender.

The second is to die in battle.