Ji Feng's plan is indeed quite vicious, which is equivalent to cutting off Liu Zheng's back road.

After defeating Guangling County, there was the Yangtze River natural danger as an obstruction, even if Liu Zheng wanted to send troops to support, as long as he held the Yangtze River line, it would be difficult for Liu Zheng to send troops and horses back to Guangling.

The soldiers and horses in the Xuzhou area can only become the turtle in the urn, either lost to Liu Bei, or annexed by Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses.

In this way, Liu Zheng and Liu Bei will definitely suffer heavy losses, and Yuan Shao can also take the opportunity to annex the whole of Xuzhou.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao's face couldn't help but start to be a little excited, according to what Ji Feng said, he really had a high probability that he could take the opportunity to take Xuzhou.

It's just that it's not the time yet, firstly, his soldiers and horses in Qingzhou have not yet arrived in Tan County, and secondly, the battle between Liu Zheng and Liu Bei has not yet entered the heat, and after the two of them have a winner, it will be Yuan Shao's turn to appear.

So although he had understood what to do when he came down, Yuan Shao did not act rashly.

Of course, he didn't act rashly, not that he didn't take any action, Yuan Shao quickly issued another order to Wen Chou and the others.

"Wen Chou, Xianbeier and others quickly sent a large number of spies to investigate the specific situation of Liu Zheng and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, don't let go of any bit of information, we must make sure that we know enough information, attack before Liu Zheng and Liu Bei's battle, and lay the situation in Xuzhou in one fell swoop."

Although Yuan Shao did not plan to send troops to deal with Liu Bei and Liu Zheng now, he had to grasp the situation of Liu Zheng and Liu Bei in order to successfully defeat them in one fell swoop at the best moment.

Intelligence is particularly important to him, but fortunately, Yuan Shao has a large number of cavalry, and using these cavalry as scouts and spies can grasp a lot of information.

Wen Chou and the two of them were in awe after hearing Yuan Shao's words, and immediately nodded in agreement.

"Yes, my lord."

At that moment, the Yuan army here in Tanxian County began to deploy in full swing, and a large number of spies and scouts were dispatched from the city to various places in Xuzhou.

Two days passed quickly.

Liu Zheng led the army to camp outside Xiapi City for two days, which can be regarded as recuperation.

Although it was to recuperate, he did not relax his vigilance at all, on the one hand, he constantly sent his scouts to the vicinity of Xiapi City to inquire about various news, and on the other hand, he focused on the situation of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun who escaped, he was very concerned about Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, but there was no news of these two people.

However, they didn't find any news about Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, which is also a good thing for Liu Zheng, so it is impossible for them to appear outside Xiapi City and support Xiapi City, then this Xiapi City, as soon as the time comes, they can only open the city and surrender.

As soon as the two days arrived, Liu Zheng immediately brought people back to Xiapi City, and he wanted to get Xiapi City as soon as possible to avoid changes later.

After Liu Zheng led his soldiers and horses to Xiapi City again, Sun Shao on the city tower also arrived as promised.

After seeing Sun Shao on the city tower, Liu Zheng took the initiative to stand up and shouted at Sun Shao on the city tower.

"Mr. Sun Shao, two days have arrived, and the reinforcements you were expecting have not arrived, should you also go out of the city and surrender as agreed?"

Sun Shao's face was not very good-looking, although he expected Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and others to lead the soldiers and horses to arrive here, but. There was not even a ghost for two days. Sun Shao also understood that it should be unlikely that there would be reinforcements in Xiapi City.

Not to mention Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and other reinforcements, even Xuzhou did not send soldiers and horses to support Xiapi.

Xuzhou is not far from here. I had already sent news to Xuzhou to convey the order for help, but unfortunately time had passed, even if Liu Bei's mobilization of troops and horses was slow in four or five days, four or five days had passed, and people should have been sent here.

Since no one appeared outside Xiapi City for four or five days, Sun Shao himself gave up.

He knew that the reinforcements from Xiapi City should no longer be able to come.

Anyway, there is no way out, and relying on these thousands of old and weak soldiers in Xiapi City at this time, there is no way to stop Liu Zheng's attack.

Sun Shao naturally had no choice, and took the initiative to respond to Liu Zheng after Liu Zheng's inquiry.

"Your Majesty Liu Zheng, my Sun Shao is a trustworthy person, since I promised you, I will surrender in two days, and I will not break my promise, you get out of the way, I will order someone to open the city and surrender."

After that, Sun Shao did not say much to Liu Zheng on the city tower, but immediately withdrew from the city tower and took the initiative to order someone to open the city gate of Xiapi City.

This Xiapi city was thus given to Liu Zheng.

It's not that Sun Shao is a spineless person, but as a literati, he is not good at marching and fighting, and there are no reinforcements at all, this situation really has no hope for him to defend it, and for the sake of the people in the city, he can only helplessly make such a move.

Liu Zhengfeng Zang Ba took over all the defense of Picheng.

After entering Xiapi City, he immediately let all his soldiers and horses enter Xiapi City, and at the same time treated Sun Shao and the horses who surrendered to him with Sun Shao.

Although there are not many of these horses, and some of them are still local families, many of them have betrayed Liu Zheng before, but Liu Zheng does not correct the past and chooses to forgive.

After all, when Liu Zheng occupied Xuzhou, these families chose to take refuge in him, and later Xuzhou was defeated by Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, and those families chose to take refuge in Liu Bei again, in fact, this can't be blamed on these families, but also on Liu Zheng's failure to defend Xuzhou.

Now that Liu Zheng is in control of Xuzhou again, these big families are really afraid, and they are really worried that Liu Zheng will be angry with them.

However, it is obvious that Liu Zheng was not long after he became the emperor, and when he needed to win the hearts of the people, if he was angry with these Xuzhou families, he would inevitably lose the hearts of the local people in Xuzhou.

Liu Zheng even wanted to recruit Sun Shao, after all, Sun Shao was also a first-class figure of Prime Minister Wu in the future, and it was impossible to say that he did not have it, although Liu Zheng had Zhang Zhao, Chen Deng and others under him at this time, but there was not much more Sun Shao.

However, Sun Shao had just taken refuge in Liu Bei, and if he took refuge in Liu Zheng after defeating at this time, it would inevitably seem a little too unreasonable, and after Liu Zheng proposed to solicit, Sun Shaowan rejected Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng knew that they would not surrender easily, unless Liu Zheng could completely defeat Liu Bei and let them lose their last sustenance, it would be difficult for them to surrender directly.

For this reason, Liu Zheng didn't mind, but just arranged for Sun Shao to go directly to Jianye and arrange a place for him to live, and slowly they would naturally choose to take refuge.