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With the help of Chen Zhi, Liu Bei quickly pacified Liu Pi in Runan, and the atmosphere of the entire Runan County was solemn, but for the rise of Cao Cao, Liu Bei also saw it, from the East County Taishou, he controlled the entire Yanzhou in his hands in a few months, and this political and military talent was far above Sun Jian and Liu Bei, and even Gao Yi was not far behind.

However, soon, another shocking news came, Cao Song, who had taken refuge in Langya, knew that his son Cao Cao had become the assassin of Yanzhou, so he packed up several carts of gold, silver and jewelry and brought his family to Juancheng to join Cao Cao, Tao Qian had several military conflicts with Cao Cao before, so he wanted to be a good person, and sent Taishan Taishou Ying Shao to escort Cao Song all the way back to Juancheng, but what was unexpected was that it was this escorted military general Zhang Min who saw the wealth and killed Cao Song's family, and went to Mount Tai to fall into the grass。

Tao Qian has deliberately managed this place since he was appointed as the assassin of Xuzhou a few years ago. Xuzhou is rich in products and has a solid household registration. Taking the opportunity to recruit an army called Baocheng and defending the country is actually secretly accumulating force and financial resources and waiting for the opportunity to fight for the world, Dong Zhuo did not join the Qinwang army at all when he was in power, but secretly supported Yuan Shu, in the final analysis, it was to preserve his strength, and the title of Xuzhou Mu was still sealed by Dong Zhuo.

A few months ago, taking advantage of the decisive battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, he also wanted to make a profit and at the same time "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes", which was exactly the suggestion put forward by his staff Wang Lang and Zhao Yu a few years ago, but unfortunately Tao Qian did not adopt it at that time, but fortunately, it was not too late to make amends, but Tao Qian ignored an important thing that Cao Cao is no longer the Cao A who will only defeat Xingyang. After several rounds with the Qingxu Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao finally forced millions of Yellow Turbans to surrender, and later accepted their elite number as "Qingzhou Soldiers".

Chen Gong, Wan Qian, Bao Xin and others took the opportunity to promote Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou, and almost overnight, Cao Cao reached the status of being on an equal footing with Tao Qian, and Tao Qian, who was adjacent to Yanzhou, of course, had to make some moves.

But Tao Qian, as the governor of a state, naturally can't be unknown, so he created a puppet regime Que Xuan, let him be called the emperor in Xiapi under his jurisdiction, Tao Qian first pretended to be a good faction and had always had a clear name to engage in Zhao Yu to pacify, in fact, he let Zhao Yu die, and then "quelled the chaos" in the name of rebellion, so he was out of control, and successively captured the southern part of Yanzhou and the western part of Qingzhou, preparing to occupy Sili and implement his almost fantastical plan of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes".

Others think that Tao Qian is just like his name: gentle and courteous, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Tao Qian wants to take this opportunity to dominate the world and win the Central Plains!

But what kind of person is Cao Cao, will he not look at Tao Qian's little tricks? He is just waiting, waiting for the expeditionary army in Xuzhou to march far enough, and waiting for the defenders in the city to be carried away by the frequent good news before resolutely ordering: Send troops!

So dozens of cities in Xuzhou fell, Xuzhou was in danger, Tao Qian panicked, ordered the expeditionary force to come back in the starry night, and Cao Cao's army met in a field north of Pengcheng City, Xuzhou army was mostly a farmer and not good at riding tens of thousands of infantry swinging away, Cao Cao did not say a word to command the most destructive tiger and leopard cavalry just trained in Cao's camp to assault the past, the scene must be as simple as a tiger into a flock of sheep, chopping melons and vegetables.

"The Art of War" says: "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles." "Tao Qian is good, it's just that he doesn't know him, he doesn't even know himself, and he is undefeated?

Now that Cao Song has been killed, the ghosts know what will happen next.

Cao Cao quickly launched the second crusade, vowing to set foot in Xuzhou, the act of slaughtering the city was of course crowned with a justified excuse: revenge, but the real effect has achieved the shortest possible time to minimize the morale of the military and civilians in Xuzhou, this is tantamount to hooligan-style expansion of the territory is to give Tao Qian a few slaps and let him suffer a dumb loss, although Cao Cao is also a temperamental, although he tearfully wrote the sacrificial text "Good Deeds" for his father Cao Song, although he did not without heartache in Xiapi to build a Cao Gong Temple to commemorate his father's murder......

"Second brother and third brother, gather soldiers and horses, and prepare to go to Xuzhou with me to rescue Tao Qiangong!"

After understanding the ins and outs of the incident, Liu Bei immediately made the decision to go to Xuzhou with his entire army.

Zhang Fei was naturally very happy when he heard that there was a battle to fight, but Guan Yu hesitated a little: "Brother think twice, Runan has just settled down, if we send troops at this time, it is difficult to ensure that Xiaoxiao will not repeat it again, Runan County is no better than the land of the plains, whoever stays and who goes, must not be cautious!"

Liu Bei thought for a while and said: "Just order Chen to stay behind and let Xiahou Bo and Jian Yong help deal with military and political affairs, which will definitely be reassuring!"

Guan Yu thought about it and felt that there didn't seem to be any problem, so he nodded: "That's very good, then my third brother and I will go and straighten out the soldiers and horses!"

That night, Liu Bei transferred Chen Zhi from the ancient city to Pingyu, and entrusted him with the task of staying behind, Chen Zhi was about to resign, Liu Bei repeatedly refused, and Xiahou Bo and Jian Yong persuaded each other, so they reluctantly agreed.

The next day, Liu Bei raised 5,000 troops, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei went to Xuzhou through Yuzhou.

Tao Qian is now cowering in Tancheng, a few days ago the expeditionary force captured the Taishan Hua, Fei and Yannan Rencheng three cities gained and lost, not to mention, even Pengcheng, Xiapi, Xiaopei and other military towns are gone, fortunately, Tancheng city defense is strong The army and the people worked together to capture the Cao army, but he was also terrified day by day when he saw the people of Xuzhou being slaughtered, recalling that he had cleared his name all his life, and he failed to keep the evening festival when he died.

"Report! Don't drive Mi Zhu, Changshi Chen Deng is back. ”

"Zizhong, Yuanlong, you are finally back, I will really take the people to Danyang for refuge in a few days later!"

"Let the Fujun wait for a long time, I asked Tiankai, the assassin of Qingzhou, to help this time, and I am now camping with Beihai Xiangkong Rong in the north of the city twenty miles to listen to the dispatch of the Fujun at any time. "The person who spoke was in his thirties, and it was Chen Deng Chen * Yuanlong of the Xuzhou clan.

"I also lived up to the trust of the lord this time, not only invited the Minister of Confucius to help, but also got a message on the way, saying that Liu Xuande, the Taishou of Runan, had led 5,000 troops on the road, and he would come to help in the near future. Mi Zhu said unhurriedly.

"Liu Xuande? Great! The two of you have worked hard, I have already set up a banquet, and we will analyze the situation in Tancheng while eating. ”

Xuzhou Council Hall.

"In the past few days when you went to move the rescue troops, I also studied the characteristics of Cao's army's operations in the city, let's see," Tao Qian pointed to a map on the table to Zhongwen Wudao, "When Cao's army fights, it often charges with cavalry first, and then launches a second charge with infantry after disrupting the opponent's position. ”

Chen Deng nodded and said: "Fu Jun is really keen, but the strongholds near Yancheng have been broken by Cao Cao, and it is not easy for us to contain Cao's army!"

"Don't worry about this, a few days ago, I ordered people to build a new city of Xiangcheng twenty miles northwest of Tancheng, and deploy the expeditionary force that will have time to withdraw in the future in the city to contain the enemy army.

Tao Qian was a little confident, and then said: "I heard that Liu Bei's subordinates Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are all tiger generals in the world, but after their arrival, teach them to invite Cao Jun in the east of the city, I can quickly send two armies in the city, one to meet the friendly army, and the other to escort grain and grass to help them, I believe that in a few months, the enemy army will definitely retreat due to the lack of food, and then maybe you can take the opportunity to recover the lost city, if it can't succeed, then it will be God to kill my Xuzhou." ”

"The prince of the palace is wise, but I don't know who is stationed in Xiangyun?" Mi Zhu said.

"It's Cao Bao, what's wrong?"

"What? Cao Bao is not skilled in martial arts, and he is warlike by nature, and he insisted on fighting Xiahoudun last time, if it weren't for the sudden storm, he would still have the life to return to the city?

"When Cao Bao left, I had already told him a thousand times, no matter how bold he was, he would not violate the military order, right?" Tao Qian was a little disapproving.

"My brother Mi Fang has always been serious, it is better to send him to reinforcements, or it can be guaranteed. ”

"Then I'll leave it to you. ”

"Please rest assured!"

"Deng Yi has a word, I don't know if I should say it?" Chen Deng kept frowning, obviously realizing something.

"Yuanlong, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

"Cao Cao's soldiers are fierce, and he has both drama talents, full favors, and Mao Jue wise men to plan for it, he sees that the strong attack is not successful, he may not change to other combat methods, the reinforcements are reliable but not necessarily reliable, not to mention that although the people are numerous and the heart may not be united, the anti-Dong alliance is the best example, what I am worried about is whether Cao Cao will use various methods to destroy the army outside the city first to isolate Tancheng, then it will be a big trouble!"

"Ahem, ahem!" Tao Qian just took a sip of tea, but was coughed violently by Chen Deng's words.

Outside Tancheng, Cao Jun's camp.

Cao Jun's camp was all white, the whole army was vegetarian, white horses and white tents, and even the weapons were glowing with a silvery cold light.

"Tao Qian's death is approaching, and he is still dying. "Cao Cao is dressed in white filial piety, and he is not angry and arrogant.

"What the lord said is very true, but it seems that Tao Qian has invited a lot of rescuers, and I am afraid that it will take some time. Xi Zhicai was originally white-haired, and he was even whiter when he wore white clothes and white armor, he took Cao Cao's words and said.

"Why is Zhicai cowardly? I think that my tens of thousands of elite soldiers to take Xuzhou are not yet captured, and the soldiers of Qingxu have not been in war for a long time, naturally they have no combat effectiveness, and when we have Yanxu Erzhou, we will have the capital to compete with those big princes for domination of the world. ”

"Even so, I hope that the lord can win by surprise and achieve the maximum result with the least loss. Xi Zhicai reminded kindly.

After listening to Xi Zhicai's words, Cao Cao didn't dare not turn his ears, although he fought repeatedly, he was not carried away by the victory: "What is Zhicai's opinion?"

"In my opinion, take advantage of the arrival of other reinforcements before the first full force to capture Xiangcheng New City, I observe the guard general Cao Bao unscrupulous, should be used to lead him to battle, and then to ambush the army to pretend to be defeated to earn the city, at that time the reinforcements have arrived, the lord can gather heavy troops to break it, and at the same time pretend to be the main force to attract the main force of the Tancheng defenders, as long as we stick to the camp, at that time the city is isolated, and it will be self-defeating. ”

"Do you have any opinions?" Cao Cao looked at the others.

Everyone said yes.