In the city, there are still more than 4,000 people, and it is already very difficult to stop Zhang Ming.

The guards struggled, but still opened the door and surrendered.

There is no hope.

Zhang Ming's whole army pressed up this time, the offensive was fierce, and their soldiers were very tired.

If there are reinforcements, they can hold on.

However, now there are no reinforcements.

Losing hope is the most terrible thing.

The gates slowly opened.

Zhang Ming's mood was unusually calm.

It all makes perfect sense.

"Zhang He, take control of the city."

Zhang Ming did not go in immediately, and Zhang He led 20,000 troops to go in first.

"Xu Rong, you immediately lead 30,000 troops, return to Qingzhou, and camp between Qingzhou and Xuzhou to ensure that our army's back roads and grain routes are unblocked, and threaten Yuzhou at all times."

"Subordinates receive orders."

Xu Rong did not enter the city, but left directly with 30,000 troops.

Now, there is no need for so many troops here for the time being, and it is necessary to prevent the enemy from sending troops from Yuzhou and directly cutting off the connection between Xuzhou and Youzhou in Qingzhou.

At this time, Qingzhou and Xuzhou were relatively empty, and they all needed to be guarded by generals and strong soldiers.

With Xu Rong here, Zhang Ming was completely relieved.

Zhang He entered the city and controlled the entire city, and then Zhang Ming entered.

After entering the city, Zhang Ming went directly to the governor's mansion.

Sitting in the governor's mansion, Zhang Ming said: "Gao Shun, give you 30,000 soldiers and horses, immediately take over the military affairs of the whole city, and strengthen the city defense." ”

"Yes."

"The rest of the armies shall rest outside the city and shall not disturb the people."

"Zhang He, you immediately collect Cao's army and surrender troops, disperse them, and merge them into your department."

"Whoa."

Then, Zhang Ming ordered Guan Yu to continue to train the miscellaneous soldiers recruited and recruited in Xuzhou.

Zhang Ming wants to train them into an army capable of fighting.

They each went to prepare, and Zhang Ming asked people to collect the documents in Xuzhou.

He wanted to figure out the current situation in Xuzhou.

Looking up, there are very few documents in Xuzhou, and they are very messy.

"I still have to come by myself, send more people, sort out county by county, and figure out the land and population."

There is no information, and the information is incomplete, and it is quite difficult for Zhang Ming to formulate policies.

Fortunately, the occupation of Xuzhou this time made a lot of wealth, and many government money was still there, and it was not transferred by the enemy in time.

In addition, some families who had festivals with Zhang Ming before directly confiscated their property.

A man may not be killed, but the land must be collected, and the wealth of the enemy must be collected.

In this battle, the Cao army lost tens of thousands of elites, and about 50,000 elites were wiped out by Zhang Ming.

This was definitely a major blow to Cao Cao.

"In a few days, when the army is rested, I will attack Yanzhou, and the battle is almost over."

Xuzhou could threaten Cao Cao's rear, but Zhang Ming didn't believe that he could ignore Zhang Ming's existence and dared to continue attacking Jizhou.

Now, Cao Cao has also made great progress in Jizhou, capturing the two counties of Zhangming and is killing the third county.

When Cao Cao learned of the battle situation in Xuzhou, he was very anxious.

Both sides had already suffered heavy casualties, and Cao Cao believed that he had an advantage in Jizhou.

Cao Cao called the generals and said to a few strategists: "Now, Zhang Ming's main army has fought so many battles, and there are only about 30,000 or 40,000 people, and after we increase our troops, there are still 80,000 people. ”

"Take this opportunity to go directly to Youzhou and force Zhang Ming to withdraw his troops, even if he doesn't withdraw his troops, he will not be able to send troops to attack our rear."

Cao Cao's purpose was the same as Zhang Ming's, to threaten the enemy's rear.

"Meng De, it can't be like this, Zhang Ming is not afraid at all, I have been to New Beiping City, it is extremely strong, it is very difficult to fight, Zhang Ming must be very happy that you went to fight Beiping City."

As soon as Cao Cao finished speaking, Xu Yu came out and slapped his face.

Fighting Beiping City, how long will this line of troops be?

When Zhang Ming sent tens of thousands of people from behind, cutting off the grain route, they were all wiped out.

Cao Cao actually understands this truth, if he really calms down, he won't really hit Youzhou.

At this time, Youzhou is defensive, at least tens of thousands of city defense troops are not fake.

Cao Cao made a faceless fuss.

But he didn't say anything, but the way Xu Yu spoke was too annoying.

"It's because I'm too impulsive, I'm so angry with Zhang Ming, we have to concentrate our forces now, break the army in Jizhou, occupy as many Jizhou counties as possible, and wait for us to operate for a period of time, based on these places, and attack Youzhou."

After the strategy was decided, Cao Cao took the initiative to seek battle.

Continue north.

Three days later, Cao Jun discovered the traces of Zhang Ming's army.

Xi Zhicai took the initiative to camp in the wild.

"Strategist, the Cao army will soon find out about us, and will really fight us here?" Zhao Yun asked.

Xi Zhicai is very determined.

"Yes, if Cao Jun continues to drag on, I'm afraid that the lord will make trouble in Xuzhou, and they will be in a dilemma at that time."

Xi Zhicai continued to analyze: "As long as the lord sends an army of 50,000 to attack Xuchang, this Cao Cao will have to give up all his previous achievements and return to help, and he will become a big loser." ”

"If he can destroy or severely damage our army, at least he can save the gains, and he only needs to send a small part of the army back, plus the surrounding army to block the lord's army."

With Xi Zhicai's analysis, several generals were relieved.

In fact, they are not afraid of a decisive battle with Cao Jun here.

"The 50,000 city defense troops trained by the lord before have been assembled, and we are camped here to wait for battle, Cao Cao will definitely be very cautious, but when our city defenders appear, this Cao army will be relieved."

Xi Zhicai began to prepare, let the 30,000 defenders move from other places, put them on the bright side, and the 20,000 defenders were in the dark.

50,000 troops came to support, so that the strength of the two armies was equal.

Sure enough, Cao Jun soon discovered the defenders who ran over to support.

When he set up camp at night, Cao Cao called several advisers.

"This drama is going to fight us, what does he rely on?"

Xun You said: "Don't be unguarded, your subordinates think that the other party may have other means." ”

Everyone thinks so.

Then the discussion began.

Other means are nothing more than a hidden army, or some ambush or something in the barracks.

Cao Cao has formulated several plans, and he still has to fight.

"We must fight a decisive battle, otherwise we will lose all this battle, Xuzhou will be taken, and the rear will not be safe."

Everyone carefully strategizes.

After some reconnaissance, the 20,000 troops hidden by Xi Zhicai were also discovered.

Now Cao Cao is more confident.

The 20,000 yuan is the back hand prepared by Xi Zhicai.

"Tomorrow we will continue to go."

The next day, the departure continued, after which the two armies approached, very closely.

Cao Cao set up camp thirty miles away from Xi Zhicai's camp.

After that, the scouts of both armies were intensively active.

Xi Zhicai dispatched special forces again to hunt and kill the other party's scouts.

Before the main drama between the two sides began, the scout battle was fought.

Both armies are making final preparations, and a decisive battle could begin at any moment.