"Tell me, what's going on?"

Immediately after taking a seat, an attendant came to serve the food and drinks.

However, Cao Ren was obviously not interested in drinking, and he was more concerned about the credit mentioned by Liu Ping.

"The little nephew just took Xuzhou, but the four counties of Donghai, Xiapi, Langxi, and Guangling still haven't sent a letter of surrender, can my uncle work hard to take down these four counties?"

In fact, the defenders of each of the four counties only had about 2,000 people, and Cao Bao had long wanted to take this full credit, and personally led the Danyang army to attack these four counties.

But now that the 20,000 Xuzhou troops have not officially surrendered, how dare Liu Ping easily let the Danyang army leave Xuzhou?

Liu Ping judged that the reason why the guards of the four counties did not surrender was precisely because the 20,000 Xuzhou troops in the city did not make a clear statement, and the guards of the four counties also followed and watched.

The reason why the Xuzhou army in the city neither resisted nor surrendered was that they felt that there were more people than the Danyang army, so they could wait for the price to sell, sit and wait for Liu Ping to come to persuade them to surrender, and then put forward more favorable conditions.

But in the past two days, Liu Ping didn't pay attention to the Xuzhou army at all, let alone take the initiative to send people to persuade him to surrender, and seemed to have forgotten that there was still such a military horse in the city that had not clearly expressed his surrender.

In fact, how could he forget?

It's just that he feels that as long as Cao Ren's army enters the city, the matter will naturally be resolved satisfactorily.

After all, the 40,000 horses under Cao Ren can't beat people, and they can't be scary?

Coupled with Cao Bao's more than 10,000 Danyang troops, Liu Ping's men can mobilize 50,000 horses, and those generals will immediately have to obediently give their heads.

As soon as the Xuzhou army surrendered, the four counties naturally had to surrender, and letting Cao Ren take the four counties was just for show, purely to let Cao Ren pick up credit.

"Is Ping'er serious?"

After Liu Ping's explanation, Cao Ren's eyes suddenly lit up, like a hungry wolf seeing a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Even if the four counties did not intend to surrender, there were only 2,000 defenders in each county, and the army he led was certainly a new soldier, but after all, there were tens of thousands of horses, and it was not difficult to capture these four cities.

Cao Cao originally gave him the task of garrisoning Pengcheng to resist Liu Bei's sneak attack, but now he led the army to level the four counties of Xuzhou, what a great achievement?

"Haha, I'll run this trip myself, whoever dares to rob me, I'm in a hurry.

Ping'er, you're a good person...... Come on, come on...... Drinking......

Cao Ren smiled and stretched out his hand to point at Liu Ping, heartily picked up the wine bowl, and drank it all.

He naturally understood that this credit was deliberately left to him by Liu Ping, otherwise Liu Ping only needed to negotiate the conditions with the Xuzhou army, so that the Xuzhou army and the Danyang army could join forces, and the four counties could be easily taken down.

But Liu Ping didn't do that, but urged him to complete the final blow, and the purpose of this credit was already clearly revealed, and Cao Ren was naturally grateful in his heart.

You must know that in the past year, Cao Cao personally led his brothers to expand their territory in the Central Plains and conquer cities, but Cao Ren sat in Yanzhou this year and never fought at all, so naturally he had no merit in taking a shot.

Seeing that his younger brother Cao Chun and Xiahou Yuan, who was a little far away from Cao Cao, were rewarded by the Son of Heaven for their contributions to pacifying Yuan Shu.

But he, a party member like Cao Ren, stayed in Yanzhou, did not make an inch, and had nothing to do with the imperial court's reward, how could he hang on his face?

At this time, Liu Ping took the initiative to give Cao Ren all the credit for pacifying the four counties, and Cao Ren's gratitude in his heart can be imagined.

While the two uncles and nephews were having a good conversation, an attendant suddenly reported to the potter asking to see him.

Liu Ping recruited the potter.

Cao Ren didn't know the potter, and the smile on his face immediately put away, and his face became stiff, making the potter a little panicked.

The potter is still thinking about Liu Ping's promise, and the court appointed him as the pastor of Xuzhou.

He knew that Cao Ren was one of the top few people in the Cao Group, and if Cao Ren didn't like him, his future prospects would not be very beautiful.

"Prince Ping, the Xuzhou military general has spread the word, I want to return to the imperial court, and I hope that Prince Ping will accept it," the pottery merchant respectfully reported.

"Oh? I finally can't sit still, huh? Liu Ping raised his eyebrows, nodded and said, "You go and tell them that if they really want to serve the imperial court, I will naturally accept it."

In the future, I will not hesitate to ask for credit for everyone, but if they want to support the army and threaten before they have made an inch, they are looking for the wrong person. ”

"I'm going to tell them about it." The potter said, and secretly glanced at Cao Ren, who was pale, before bowing his head and retreating.

In fact, Liu Ping's guess was right, the Xuzhou generals originally wanted to wait for Liu Ping to send someone to persuade him to surrender, so as to gain the initiative in negotiations.

But I didn't come for a day, I didn't come for two days, but now it's Cao Ren's 40,000 troops who are waiting.

The Xuzhou generals immediately panicked, they didn't want to fight, and they didn't want to die.

After urgent discussion, he took the initiative to find the potters and asked them to match them in the middle and promote their uprising.

So there was the words of the potter just now.

After the potter went out, Cao Ren scolded and said: "Damn, I can't wait to surrender, can't I let Lao Tzu rest in Xuzhou City for a night?" ”

As he spoke, he slammed the bowl on the table, then stood up, removed his helmet and armor from the shelf next to him, and put it on for battle.

As long as the news of the surrender of the Xuzhou Army reaches the four counties, the four counties will probably also surrender.

But if Cao Ren hadn't led the army out of the city by then, it would be embarrassing.

In that case, even if it was said that the sky was broken, Liu Ping would not be able to give him the credit for pacifying the four counties, so he had to lead the army to the four counties overnight.

Even if the four counties fell on the way out, it can also be said that the four counties were pointed out by his soldiers, and the four counties fell in the wind.

"Thank you uncle," Liu Ping smiled and shook his head.

"There's nothing bitter or bitter, when I return to the army, let's continue to drink," Cao Ren laughed, he was too hard to pick up credit, it was too hypocritical.

As he spoke, he went out and stepped on his war horse, gathered the army, and marched overnight by the moonlight.

In fact, Cao Ren really went to pick up credit.

He led the army to march quickly, but one day to Donghai County, before the city, the Donghai guard took the initiative to send people to contact, surrender the city, and then Langya, Guangling and other four counties sent envoys to surrender.

Cao Ren was about to go crazy when he stayed in Donghai County.

Under Liu Ping's paving, his credit was too easy, but with 20,000 recruits and 20,000 miners, he forced the four counties to surrender without a battle, and quickly pacified the periphery of Xuzhou.

Thinking of this, Cao Ren couldn't help but sigh in his heart, fortunately he listened to Liu Ping's words and went to Xuzhou decisively, otherwise he would have passed by with this work.

……

At this time, a messenger from Xudu galloped to Xuzhou to meet Liu Ping.

"Newspaper—

On the order of the eldest prince, he came to summon the news, and the mother of General Lu Qi under the command of Prince Ping was critically ill, so he asked Prince Ping to make his own decision. ”

"Mother!"

Lu Qi cried out with a "wow" next to him.