Zhang Ming was still in the county seat in the distance, and he had already controlled many county seats.

Receiving Gao Shun's battle report, Zhang Ming was very pleased.

"Cao Cao is really unpopular in Xuzhou."

is unpopular, a big reason is that Zhang Ming has done a good job.

His newspaper had a great influence in Xuzhou and recruited many people to read the newspaper.

Cao Cao also wanted to ban newspapers, but after a period of banning, he found that the situation was more serious.

Zhang Ming's newspaper can come in from the shadows, and the streets will be full of gossip at that time.

The grapevine is more communicative and tends to be distorted.

A lot of gossip spreads that the messenger has changed, and it can cause panic.

Later, Cao Cao could only publish his own newspaper to fight.

However, publishing a newspaper is a big burden for him.

Zhang Ming's newspaper is rich in content, and the people like it, especially a few of them, which have become popular.

Serialize two books at a time, one is only two pages, the words are very small, and there are only a few chapters.

's serialization made Zhang Ming's newspaper very popular.

In many places, the profession of reading newspapers has appeared.

It is also difficult to say whether there will be a profession of storytelling in the future after reading newspapers and receiving some rewards.

After taking Pengcheng, Zhang Ming planned to garrison Pengcheng first, and then capture other places.

The surrounding county seats, hearing that Pengcheng has fallen, fled and surrendered.

The entire Pengcheng County was taken by Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming led people to Pengcheng.

"Gather all the troops and put them all in Pengcheng, and recruit some more soldiers and horses."

Zhang Ming ordered, and Gao Shun immediately arranged for the soldiers to do it.

After that, Gao Shun came to Zhang Ming on purpose.

"My lord, the surrendered troops and the newly recruited soldiers and horses can't fight with the elite of the Cao army at all."

After Gao Shun finished speaking, Zhang Ming laughed with his hands behind his back.

"Naturally, these soldiers and horses are not used to fight, they are to wave our flags and shout to scare people."

Gao Shun didn't say anything more, since Zhang Ming understood, he would naturally deal with it, and there was no need for him to worry too much.

After understanding, Gao Shun has also been busy.

A few days later, Gao Shun and the others had recruited more than 20,000 people.

This made Zhang Ming also very surprised.

About 10,000 people were found in the warehouse, and the other 10,000 people temporarily prepared a wooden stick for them.

Zhang Ming sent 2,000 soldiers to manage these armies and retrain them.

Of course, it is only necessary to train the order, let them walk through the queue, and follow the command.

These people, Zhang Ming didn't expect them to help much.

For a few days, Cheng Yu was quite happy, and his role was to delay time.

Now, Zhang Ming's army has been successfully held back by him.

Cheng Yu felt that his goal had been achieved.

Zhang Ming was in Xuzhou, and it took nearly ten days to take Pengcheng County.

At this time, Cao Cao's army killed Jizhou.

Xi Zhicai led the army and fought with Cao Cao's army several times in the wild.

The two sides fought hard, and each suffered great losses.

The loss of more than 30,000 people on both sides can be described as a great damage.

Cao Cao began to besiege Zhang Ming, and they set up a camp outside Yecheng.

After three days of fierce attack, Xi Zhicai and they lost more than 6,000 people, so they took the initiative to retreat and evacuate to the surrounding counties.

Cao Cao took Yecheng, but it was just a ruin, and he did not feel any joy, but planned to continue to pursue Xi Zhicai.

Breaking the camp of Xi Zhicai, his loss is twice as much.

Cao Cao continued to pursue Xi Zhicai, but Cao Cao was cautious and the pursuit was not fast, because he was also worried about being ambushed.

And Zhang Ming's side has wasted a lot of time, and now he has only occupied a county.

Cheng Yu doesn't care about the loss of land, as long as he blocks Zhang Ming's army.

The two sides confronted each other.

At this time, Zhang Ming was ready.

He left Gao Shun with 5,000 men, of which 3,000 were trapped in the camp, ready to resist Cheng Yu's army when necessary.

And he himself led the army mightily down.

It's really huge, because there are a lot of newly recruited troops in between.

The newly recruited army does not know what the combat effectiveness is, but the momentum is absolutely huge.

Zhang Ming led the army to the east.

It's immense, it's spectacular.

Zhang Ming went to Donghai County, and many cities along the way directly opened the door and surrendered.

Zhang Ming's more than 30,000 people are so powerful.

Zhang Ming attacked the city and occupied half of the city in Dongjun in a few days.

After the occupation, Zhang Ming began to leave some troops behind, and then let them start military training on the spot.

Zhang Ming would leave dozens of people behind with his own army to train them.

Zhang Ming reorganized and recruited some troops, and the team continued to grow.

The strong team continued to sweep towards the other cities of the East County.

The defenders of Dongjun were already very good, and at this time they began to revolt one after another.

The army advanced and advanced to Yancheng.

The county town of Yancheng has 3,000 defenders.

They had been prepared the other day.

The army of Yancheng refused to defend the city and did not open the city gate.

"Listen to the army inside, you have been surrounded, immediately lay down your arms and surrender."

"If you stubbornly resist, when our army enters and survives, you will be caught on the construction site and build roads for five years."

Zhang Ming asked the soldiers to shout under the city, and shouted dozens of times in a row.

"In the last half hour, if the city is not opened, wait for my king to enter the city, the county guard and the guards, kill the head in public, and the rest of the road will be repaired for five years."

Wait, wait, wait.

The guards in the city and the county guards are all stubborn families.

They didn't have a good impression of Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming is a demon in the family.

Therefore, they are holding on to the luck mentality and will not open the city.

Half an hour passed quickly.

"The whole army attacked from all sides, and took Yancheng in half an hour."

Zhang Ming gave an order, and the four city walls attacked together.

Now, he has a lot of siege equipment, because he now has a lot of people who can help him carry the ladder, and these newly recruited troops, as long as they manage it well, can still do a lot of things.

The siege began on all sides, but the defenders in the city were not given, and in about half an hour, Zhang Ming and they entered as scheduled.

Opening the city gate, Zhang Ming basically controlled another county.

Taking control of the city, Zhang Ming began a big cleanup.

The families involved in it directly confiscated all their property and disbanded their family guards.

In addition, several officers were all killed by Zhang Ming.

The county guard was also arrested and killed in public.

As for the few remaining soldiers, Zhang Ming temporarily imprisoned them.

Then, Zhang Ming began to release grain again, and distributed the excess grain directly to the people.

After receiving a wave of popular support, Zhang Ming sent thousands of troops to collect the surrounding cities, and he began to train troops outside the city.

Zhang Ming trained directly on the spot, training from morning to night, and training for several days.

This is effective, and these armies will at least improve in terms of discipline.

Cheng Yu received the news and didn't know what Zhang Ming was going to do.

Zhang Ming wanted to attack these places, and they had judged before that they would not be able to defend the places, and they did not dare to defend them.

Defending the city is no longer the best policy, it will only allow Zhang Ming to take the opportunity to destroy their living force.

At this time, Cheng Yu was not in danger of being surrounded, he could run to Yuzhou, so he was not worried about his safety.