Han Zhan stayed in Guangzong City for a whole night. As soon as dawn, he took Guo Jia, Xun You, Xiahou Lan and others to go out of the city. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the inn, he saw Gongsun Zan's soldiers coming with a group of captured Yuan soldiers, and everyone had to stop.

The army marquis, who led the team, saw Han Zhan and others coming towards him, quickly ordered the troops to stop and drove the surrendered troops to the side of the road, making a pass for Han Zhan and the others. The army marquis also stepped forward and said in a pleasing manner: "Mr. Ting, please ask first!"

Han Zhan smiled at the other party and led Guo Jia and the others to continue walking forward. Just as they passed by the surrendered soldiers, one of the surrendered soldiers rushed out of the queue, rushed to Han Zhan's horse, grabbed the bridle, and shouted: "Mr. Ting, save me!"

Facing the surrendered soldiers who suddenly rushed out, Han Zhan drew out the long sword from his waist and pointed it at the other party. But when he saw the other party's face clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned. He said, "You are not Yuan..." But when he saw the other party wavering his head at him, he swallowed the words behind him.

The military marquis was frightened to death when he saw the surrendered soldiers ramming Han Zhan. If something happened to Han Zhan, his life would be lost. Therefore, he drew his sword in his hand, walked angrily to the surrendered soldiers, and raised his sword to chop. Han Zhan quickly shouted to him: "June, wait!"

The Junhou's sword was raised high in the air, staring blankly at Han Zhan sitting on the horse's back. He didn't understand why the Zhangshuiting Hou refused to let him deal with the surrendered soldiers who had hit him?

Han Zhan quickly explained to him: "Mr. Jun, this is an old friend of mine."

"Yes, yes, yes," the surrendered soldier standing in front of Han Zhanma also nodded and bowed to Junhou, "Mr. Ting and I are old friends, old friends."

Although Junhou was confused, he still put away his sword. He stepped forward and grabbed the surrendered soldiers' arms, and wanted to pull him back to the surrendered soldiers' team next to him. However, Han Zhan stopped him: "Junhou, this person is an old friend of this Hou. I wonder if I can take him away?"

"Is this?" Junhou scratched the back of his head and began to feel troubled.

"If the Junhou felt embarrassed, I would ask General Gongsun now. I guess he would give me a slight face and hand this person over to me for disposal." After Han Zhan said that, he turned his horse's head and acted as if he was going to the prefect's mansion to find Gongsun Zan.

"Home on Tinghou, wait." Junhou might feel that it was inappropriate to alarm Gongsun Zan for the sake of a small surrendered army, so he hurriedly grabbed Han Zhan's horse bridle and said with a smile: "Since this person is an old friend of Tinghou, then the young man will just hand him over to Tinghou to take him away. There is no need to alarm my lord for such a trivial matter!"

Seeing that the Junhou agreed to hand over the surrendered soldiers to him, Han Zhan immediately ordered a cavalryman behind: "Give the horse to this brother."

The cavalry agreed, turned over and dismounted, handed the reins of the surrendered soldiers, and went behind to squeeze a horse with his familiar brothers.

Everyone left Guangzong City, a stone's throw away from the city, Guo Jia came to the horse of the surrendered soldiers, snorted softly and asked, "Second Master Yuan, why are you here?"

"Oh, it's hard to describe it." It turned out that the surrendered soldier was Yuan Xi, the second son of Yuan Shao's unknown. He said to Guo Jia with a sad face: "I have been staying in Guangzong City recently. Yesterday I heard the chaos outside, and heard someone outside shouting: The city is broken, the city is broken. I felt like I had changed into the clothes of a soldier and was about to scramble out of the city while the chaos was in chaos. Who knew that when I saw that Gongsun Zan's cavalry was guarding it there, I had no choice but to surrender with the surrendered soldiers and find another opportunity to escape."

When Han Zhan heard this, he couldn't help but sneer, and then said, "Second Young Master, it seems that your reputation in the stroke is far less than that of your elder brother."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi said in confusion: "What does this have to do with my elder brother?"

"A few days ago, we ambushed your elder brother in the canyon. After his defeat, he also put on his makeup and fled as a soldier." Han Zhan recalled the situation that day: "He stood in the queue of surrendered soldiers, and the rest of surrendered soldiers immediately recognized him and took the initiative to keep a distance from him, so that my subordinates could recognize him as a big man at a glance. And you, Mr. Yuan, from being captured yesterday to now, for such a long time, no subordinates knew you. Does this mean that you are a failure in life?"

Han Zhan's words made Yuan Xi quite embarrassed. After blushing for a while, he said nothing: "Mr. Ting, thank you for saving me, otherwise I might have lost my life if I have a few more days."

"Why do you say that?" Yuan Xi's words aroused Han Zhan's curiosity: "Does Gongsun Zan have the habit of killing prisoners?"

"It's not about killing prisoners," Yuan Xi shook his head and continued, "I heard the guards say last night that the Xianbei was ready to move in the north, and Gongsun Zan was preparing to return to the army to attack them. Even if we were organized into the team, we could only act as a death-sending role. So I want to say thank you." After saying this, Yuan Xi paused for a moment and added: "In this way, what we owed each other will offset each other."

"I don't think I owe you a favor, right?" Han Zhan said in confusion: "But you have been owe me a favor, and I have let you go more than once."

Yuan Xi did not answer this question immediately, but asked back: "Mr. Ting, I think you may still remember that you should have received a piece of information before you led your troops to ambush my elder brother, right?"

"Yes, I did lead my army to ambush Yuan Tan after receiving a piece of intelligence. How did you know..." Before Han Zhan finished speaking, a terrible thought suddenly appeared in his mind. He stared at Yuan Xi and asked in surprise: "Is it the information you sent to send?"

Seeing that Han Zhan guessed the truth about the matter, Yuan Xi showed a proud expression on his face: "It seems that Marquis Ting is not stupid yet. He can actually guess that it was a letter I sent to send."

"Why did you do this?" If it were the information sent by someone else, Han Zhan would understand it somewhat no matter what the purpose was, but now Yuan Xi betrayed his elder brother Yuan Tan, which made Han Zhan puzzled.

"What else can I do?" Yuan Xi blushed when he heard Han Zhan's question, "Don't look at everyone calling me the second son of Yuan, but no one in the Yuan family respects me. The eldest brother is one year older than me, but he is destined to be the successor of my Yuan family. Whether in the mansion or in the army, everyone flatters him and pleases him, but ignores me. If my father's position is a hundred years later, the person who takes over him will definitely be the eldest brother."

"Yuan Xiansi is the eldest son and grandson of the Yuan family. He will inherit Yuan Cheqi's foundation. This is very reasonable." Han Zhan looked at Yuan Xi and asked curiously: "This is not the reason for you to kill someone with a knife, right?"

"The counselors Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Xin Pi and others under my father are all the elder brothers. Feng Ji, Shen Pei and others are from my younger brother Yuan Shang." Yuan Xi said gritted his teeth and said, "No matter who will inherit the Yuan family's family business in the future, I will never have a chance to make a comeback. Since that's the case, why don't I kill someone with a knife and remove the thorns in my eyes early?" After that, he sneered.

Hearing Yuan Xi's laughter, Han Zhan couldn't help but shivered. He only knew that after Yuan Shao died, in order to compete for the power of Jizhou, the three Yuan brothers fought to the death and even invited Cao Cao to help the war. Unexpectedly, their brothers fought against each other and laid hidden dangers shortly after Yuan Shao entered Jizhou.

He asked casually: "Second Young Master, I wonder how old your youngest brother Yuan Shang is this year?"

"Fourteen years old," Yuan Xi said coldly: "He is still so young, but his father actually arranged for Feng Ji and Shen Pei to assist him, and ignored me, the second son."

"Second Master Yuan," Guo Jia couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Do you think that by borrowing our hands and getting rid of your elder brother, you can inherit the Yuan family's foundation?"

"Isn't it?" Yuan Xi raised his eyebrows and asked back, "My father will not depose the eldest son and establish the youngest son. Let my younger brother inherit the foundation of Jizhou, right?"

"Second Young Master, this is not accurate." Although Han Zhan has been trying to kill this potential rival, he has great use at present, so he can only give him a false voice: "Feng Ji and Shen Pei are Yuan Cheqi's capable strategists. Since he was sent to assist Yuan Shang, it means that he loves this son very much. So what's wrong with letting him inherit his family business in the future?"

As soon as Han Zhan said something, let alone Yuan Xi was stunned, even Guo Jia and Xun You felt incredible, thinking that how could Yuan Shao do the job of abolishing the eldest son and establishing the young? But they never dreamed that Han Zhan was actually a time traveler, and no one could know the ending of everyone better than him.

However, he did not intend to continue to get entangled in this matter, but adjusted the topic in time and said to Yuan Xi: "Second Master Yuan, I want to tell you that your elder brother is fine. Now he is in Jizhou and is locked up with Chunyu Qiong. When we arrive in Jizhou, I will send you to reunite with him."

When Yuan Xi said that, he always thought that Yuan Tan had died in the ambush. At this moment, he heard that Yuan Tan was not dead yet, and was shocked to sweat a lot. He raised his hand to wipe away the cold sweat from his forehead and asked in a pleading tone: "Mr. Ting, can you stop locking me and my elder brother together? I am worried that if you stay with him for a long time, you will reveal your flaws."

Seeing Yuan Xi's guilty look, Han Zhan smiled faintly, nodded and said, "Yes, I can't lock you up together. But I have a condition."

"Mr. Ting, please say whatever conditions you have." Yuan Xi heard Han Zhan say this and grabbed a life-saving straw and hurriedly said: "Don't talk about one condition, even ten conditions, I agree to you."

"I want to negotiate a major event with Lingzun, but unfortunately there is no suitable person to deliver a letter to me." Han Zhan said this, turned his head and looked at Yuan Xi and asked, "I wonder if the second young master can work hard to be a messenger for me?"

"Xi should have no choice but to send a letter to Marquis Ting." Yuan Xi said with some embarrassment about Han Zhan's request: "But if it was to kill Feng Ji, I would advise Marquis Ting to die. Feng Ji is very good at flattering and is deeply trusted by his father. It is almost impossible to kill him. Last time I returned to Jieqiao, I once persuaded my father to kill him, but my father's ears were soft. He heard Feng Ji crying a few times, and with the persuasion of several advisers, he gave up the idea of ​​killing Feng Ji."

"Don't worry, the second young master." Han Zhan had known for a long time that Yuan Shao would not kill Feng Ji, so he did not intend to waste time on this matter. "I asked you to be a messenger this time for something else." In order to dispel Yuan Xi's doubts, he also added, "Don't worry, it's definitely a good thing."

"It's a good thing," Yuan Xi raised his hand again and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said with a wry smile: "That's good, that's good, hahaha." Although he was laughing, the expression on his face was even worse than crying.

After a while, Yuan Xi bowed to Han Zhan and asked, "Mr. Ting, I don't know when you plan to send a letter to your father."

Han Zhan waved his hand to him and said, "Second Young Master, don't worry. Now I don't know where the Marquis of the Bingxiang have gone. Even if I want to deliver a letter to him, I don't know where to deliver it to him. We will go back to Jizhou for a while first, and when we find the whereabouts of the Marquis of the Bingxiang, it will not be too late to send him a letter."

Guo Jia and Han Zhan sent someone to send Yuan Xi to Zhao Yun's army first, then stepped forward and walked with Han Zhan, and asked curiously: "Lord, I wonder what letter do you plan to send the second young master Yuan to Yuan Cheqi?"

"Fengxiao," Han Zhan turned his head and looked at Guo Jia, and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten what I once proposed, first gaining a foothold in Jizhou, then attacking Qingzhou in the east, and Bingzhou in the west, and Youzhou in the north?"

"Remember." Guo Jia nodded vigorously and then asked, "But what does this have to do with you sending Yuan Xi to Yuan Cheqi to deliver a letter?"

"Jizhou City is too close to Guangzong City occupied by Gongsun Zan." Han Zhan turned his head and looked at Guangzong City in the distance, and continued to say: "When we both are allies, there is no danger yet. Once we turn against Gongsun Zan, he only needs to send troops from Guangsun Zan to reach the city of Jizhou in just a few hours. By then, we don't even have time to deploy defenses.

Therefore, after occupying Jizhou, I plan to move the capital to Yecheng. The city is high and deep, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the military rations in the city can be used for ten years. As long as I occupy it, I can be in a favorable situation where I can advance, attack, retreat or defend."

After hearing Han Zhan's explanation, Guo Jia immediately understood what was going on. He nodded and said, "Lord, I understand. After Yuan Shao was defeated from Jieqiao, seven out of ten fled to Yecheng. If our troops attacked the city, it would be long-lasting. And you plan to send Yuan Xi to persuade Yuan Shao to give up Yecheng."

Seeing that Guo Jia could guess his intention, Han Zhan nodded with a smile: "That's right, that's how I think about it."

"Lord, please forgive me for being frank." Xun You, who was following the two, couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "How do you determine that Yuan Cheqi will take the initiative to give Yecheng to us after seeing Yuan Xi?"
Chapter completed!