Liu Zheng checked the news in Xuzhou first.

Under Lu Zhi's attack, Xuzhou was like a no-man's land.

In half a month, Xuzhou City was laid, and then, in half a month, Lu Zhi's men and horses swept the entire Qingzhou, and there were still many remnants of Tao Qian's forces in Xuzhou, and Liu Zheng did not really control Xuzhou during the time he got Xuzhou.

Therefore, Xuzhou did not have much resistance, and was soon occupied by Lu Zhi again.

Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, who retreated from Huainan City, also diverted to Xuzhou, where they joined Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses, which accelerated the loss of Xuzhou even more.

Regarding the loss of Xuzhou, Liu Zheng had already thought of it when he was in Huainan.

However, he did not immediately lead his people to fight back, but asked about the situation in Qingzhou again.

Originally, Liu Zheng thought that although the situation in Qingzhou was bad, it was not completely at a disadvantage, after all, at the last moment, Liu Zheng had already asked Tai Shici in Xuzhou to come to support.

But Liu Zheng still underestimated Yuan Shao, as a force that could compete with the imperial court, Yuan Shao naturally had strong enough soldiers and horses, Gao Ran and Ju Yi's vanguard army, and indeed did not defeat Qingzhou in the first wave of attacks.

But it was also a fatal blow to Qingzhou, and when Tai Shici's soldiers and horses went over to support Qingzhou, the speed was still a step slower.

As soon as Yuan Shao's rear tens of thousands of troops arrived in Qingzhou, they accelerated the defeat of Zang Ba and Guan Hai and others, and in the end, although Zang Ba and Guan Hai blocked the attack of Gao Ran and Ju Yi, they were unable to block Yuan Shao's attack.

In this way, when Yuan Shao's army was pursuing, Tai Shici's men and horses were late, and finally relied on the two counties of Donglai County and Beihai County to compete with Yuan Shao's army.

Originally, there were these two counties, which were enough to temporarily engage Yuan Shao's men and horses, but Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses, who occupied Xuzhou, did not kill Yangzhou, but changed their route to cooperate with Yuan Shao and attack the remnants of Liu Zheng's forces in Qingzhou together.

The purpose was to clear the remnants of Liu Zheng's army.

As a result, Tai Shici in Qingzhou was unable to change the situation, and after losing more than half of his soldiers and horses, Xu You had no choice but to let them evacuate temporarily.

With the help of Jiang Qin and these sailors brought by Xu You, they evacuated from the coast of Donglai.

When the remnants of Tai Shici and Zang Ba and others, using the ships of merchant ships and sailors, returned to Yangzhou, the soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, tens of thousands of troops, and only more than 10,000 people returned.

It is equal to the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, the bandit soldiers and horses, and even half of the elite of Tai Shici's headquarters, all lost.

Moreover, in order to cover everyone's retreat, Chu Yan delayed the enemy in the First Battle of Beihai, and finally died in battle.

When such a result reached Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng was no longer so sad.

After experiencing Mi Zhu's death, Liu Zheng has calmed down a lot, although Qingzhou has also been lost, but his generals are still there, and there is still one day to fight back.

lost two states in a row, this bad news, for Liu Zheng, although it is bad news, but there is no lack of good news.

Although he lost his territory, it also made Liu Zheng soberly realize his shortcomings.

In the past few years, his development has been too smooth, as if he has never encountered obstacles, and the heroes of the world, for him, are all ants and vulnerable.

What Liu Guanzhang, what Lu Bu, under him, are all defeated generals, which leads Liu Zheng to think that the world is too easy, after this battle, Liu Zheng clearly understands, it turns out that he underestimates the heroes of the world.

It's not that he Liu Zheng is strong, he just knows more about other heroes in the world, and occupies some innate advantages, so that today's situation is possible.

lost Xuzhou and Qingzhou, although the territory has decreased, but in fact, Liu Zheng's strength is not too far behind.

His defeat is like Cao Cao in history suffering the defeat of Chibi.

Although it was a failure, it made Cao Cao understand more and know more about what kind of strategy to use to deal with the court and Yuan Shao.

Jingzhou is still under Liu Zheng's control, and Yangzhou has now gathered all the elites of Liu Zheng, unless Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses attack, they can't beat it.

After all, Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao do not have their own elite naval army, and without a naval army, it is difficult to cross the Yangtze River.

July.

Tai Shici and others, who had retreated from Qingzhou, returned to Wu County.

In the lobby of Wu County's governance office, the main elite members under Liu Zheng's command gathered here.

In the main hall.

Liu Zheng sat silently in his chair, his face gloomy, and he never spoke.

On both sides, Xu Huang, Wen Ping, Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Pei Yuanshao, and others stood in turn.

In the middle, Tai Shici, Guan Hai, and Zang Ba knelt on the ground to plead guilty to Liu Zheng.

"Lord, the last few generals are incompetent and failed to hold the territory of Qingzhou, please punish the lord!"

Tai Shi Ci is the highest status among several people, so standing in front of him is also the most ashamed one.

Other people, at best, are accused of protecting Qingzhou's disadvantage, but Tai Shici not only did not have any credit for rushing to Qingzhou, but also lost Xuzhou, and the double blow made Tai Shici feel bad.

Liu Zheng, who was silent, did not punish Tai Shici and them for losing the battle, after all, this battle was not their reason.

But after all, this is not a good move, and Liu Zheng, who has clear rewards and punishments, can't help but punish them.

"Get up, the reason why we lost this battle is because we have too many enemies, and at the same time we are a little arrogant, and we have not figured out the situation between us and the enemy, if you want to say wrong, it is also my fault, and it has nothing to do with you."

"However, you have always lost your territory, lost your soldiers, and each of you will be fined one year's salary, and you will be a general under the leadership position, and you will be reinstated if you have meritorious service in the future!"

None of them had any opinion on Liu Zheng's punishment.

"Thank you, Lord."

"This time we have lost too many soldiers and horses, which is not conducive to continuing the battle, and we are ordered to hold the current territory with all our might, as long as we delay the battle, we will win."

appeased these defeated soldiers, Liu Zheng was not worried about them, he was even more worried about the dead soldiers.

In Liu Zheng's army, the salary and salary were higher than those of other princes, because Liu Zheng was a conscription system, not a conscription, and once he died in battle, Liu Zheng had to be compensated a lot of money by the families of those dead soldiers.

But this time, the dead were all the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army and the bandits, so Liu Zheng didn't lose much money.

Most of the soldiers and horses he needs to compensate for are the soldiers and horses lost under Tai Shici, and the soldiers who died in the Wenpin army when they were already in Huainan.