Yuan Shu and Liu Zheng's banquet had not long ended.

Sure enough, there was a fire from the direction of Shouchun, and the spies sent out below quickly told Liu Zheng the news of the fire outside Shouchun City.

Although Liu Zheng knew that something must have happened in the direction of Shouchun City, his meticulous work had not yet completely penetrated into Cao Cao's army and Liu Dai's army, and he did not know what was happening.

However, Liu Zheng knew that outside Shouchun City, there would not be a fire for no reason, there must be something going on, what happened, and when the spies found out the news early tomorrow morning, Liu Zheng would naturally be able to understand.

Day 2.

The news that happened outside Shouchun City basically reached Liu Zheng's ears in 1510.

Liu Zheng also knew about Shouchun's situation.

Cao Cao took advantage of the night and directly led his soldiers and horses to leave Shouchun and return to Yanzhou. Zhang Miao directly destroyed Liu Dai, occupied Shouchun City, and in the second half of the night, he also brought people back to Yanzhou, intending to take the opportunity to occupy Yanzhou.

The current Shouchun has been occupied by Zhang Miao, although Zhang Miao left, but he only left his younger brother Zhang Chao, leading 15,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Shouchun.

At the same time, he went back to Yanzhou and began to work on the matter of bringing Yanzhou Yanzhou into his own hands.

After the news came out, Liu Zheng was surprised. Not only Liu Zheng was surprised, but Yuan Shu, who was in Liu Zheng's military camp and had a short rest, was also extremely surprised.

Because he left Shouchun with his front foot, those who besieged Shouchun with his back foot actually had a big battle themselves.

When Liu Zheng used the discord plan before, he also thought that what he was thinking about was that Cao Cao, a careerist, would definitely seize the opportunity to take over Liu Dai's men and territory.

But what Liu Zheng didn't expect at all was that it was not Cao Cao who killed Liu Dai, the Yanzhou pastor, but Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao, a person who is not particularly famous in history, actually made Liu Zhenggao look at it all of a sudden.

He recalled his understanding of Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao was one of the princes of the late Han Dynasty, and he was originally Chen Liutaishou, and in history, the main reason why he was a little famous was to fund Cao Cao.

Because Cao Cao fled to Chenliu after the failure of assassinating Dong Zhuo, Zhang Miao ordered his subordinate Wei Zi to fund Cao Cao's army, so that Cao Cao recruited the first batch of men and horses in Chenliu.

Although it is a person named Wei Zi who funded Cao Cao, most of the money should be from Zhang Miao.

In addition to Chen Liutaishou's position, Zhang Miao's family is also very rich and is listed as one of the eight chefs of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The eight cooks are the eight people who are righteous and generous!

Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou who raised troops in Jizhou before and supported the little emperor Liu Wei, is one of the eight kitchens.

Zhang Miao funded Cao Cao to start a family, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were friends, but he finally offended Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, betrayed Cao Cao, and died at the hands of Cao Cao.

There aren't too many deeds about him in history, but he is still a bit famous.

Now, Zhang Miao has successfully killed Liu Dai, but he is afraid that Yanzhou will fall into the hands of Zhang Miao sooner or later, but I don't know how Cao Cao will feel.

Of course, such a big thing happened, which is exactly what Liu Zheng wants to see.

After all, he tried his best, didn't he just want Liu Dai, Cao Cao, and Zhang Miao to dissolve the three-person alliance.

Although Zhang Miao has done these things now, it is exactly in line with Liu Zheng's thoughts.

Just when Liu Zheng was about to lead the soldiers and horses to kill Shouchun City again, a piece of news came, which made Liu Zheng's face ugly.

From the border between Poyang and Danyang, Xu Yu sent the news urgently for 800 miles, Zhou Xin and Wang Lang, who were hiding in Danyang, finally couldn't sit still, and a day ago, they sent troops and killed them in the direction of Poyang.

A day ago, it was Liu Zheng who led people to attack Shouchun, and it was also a few days after Liu Zheng transferred Poyang and Yuzhang's soldiers and horses away, I am afraid that Zhou Xin and Wang Lang finally received the news and knew that Poyang and Yuzhang were now empty, and wanted to take the opportunity to cut off Liu Zheng's retreat.

If it was another time, Liu Zheng was really not afraid of Zhou Xin and Wang Lang's attack, after all, although they had about 30,000 soldiers and horses here, Wang Lang and Zhou Xin were not very capable people, and when Liu Zheng cleaned up Huainan County, it would be okay to go back and compete with them.

But now, Liu Zheng has transferred all the soldiers and horses of Poyang and Yuzhang to Huainan, and there are only a few thousand newly recruited county soldiers left in Poyang and Yuzhang, and there is no general to defend it, so it is more difficult to block the attack of Wang Lang and Zhou Xin.

In addition, Xu You, Lu Jun and others are still in Yuzhang and Poyang, it is impossible for Liu Zheng to give up on them, Huainan can not do it, but Yuzhang and Poyang are the top priority.

At that moment, Liu Zheng made a decision to return to Poyang first to clean up Wang Lang and Zhou Xin, and when the affairs of Danyang County were settled, he came to capture Huainan County.

Since Liu Zheng wanted to return to Poyang, and Yuan Shu originally wanted to attack Shouchun and regain what he had lost, but Liu Zheng couldn't go, so Yuan Shu naturally couldn't go.

After all, although Zhang Miao and Cao Cao are gone, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Zhang Chao in Shouchun, but now Yuan Shu only has a few thousand remnants of soldiers who escaped from Shouchun.

He can only return to Runan, reorganize his men, and maybe have the strength to fight.

Although the battle for Huainan failed this time, Yuan Shu did not blame Liu Zheng, but only put this reason on Cao Cao and Zhang Miao.

After all, if it weren't for these two people, he would probably be the emperor in Huainan by now.

At this point, Yuan Shu thanked Liu Zheng again, and then the two parted ways in the camp, Yuan Shu returned to Runan and rested for the time being, while Liu Zheng hurried back to Poyang to prepare to deal with the attack of Zhou Xin and Wang Lang.

He didn't need to worry too much, although Wang Lang and Zhou Xin had already raised troops to rush to Poyang, but before Liu Zheng came to Huainan, he had already sent Xu You to Yan Baihu's side to walk around, thinking about it, Yan Baihu would not help him.

But when Liu Zheng led his troops and horses to leave Huainan and the army returned to Poyang, he heard bad news.

Zhou Xin and Wang Lang, the soldiers and horses went all the way unimpeded, directly connected to the three cities of Poyang, and approached the county seat of Poyang.

Yan Baihu did not send a single soldier to stop it, but took the opportunity to send troops from Huiji County, went directly south, and attacked most of Huiji County, which was originally subordinate to Liu Zheng.

Within three days, he directly broke the thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in Huiji and killed in the direction of Jiaozhou.

When this news reached Liu Zheng's ears, Liu Zheng was furious!