Shan Fu on the side of the Great Wall did not wait for Yuan Shao's army, only waited for the victorious division of the Shu army, he understood that as long as Yuan Shao was not an idiot, he would definitely not attack again in the short term, so he ordered Yu Ban to lead the fourth cavalry division, the twelfth infantry division, and the seventeenth infantry division to garrison the Great Wall, and he led the rest of the troops back to Yuanxian.

Shan Fu knew that although he had temporarily dismissed Yuan Shao's plan to attack, Yuan Shao would inevitably raise troops to attack again in the near future, and the troops at that time would be far stronger than now, and he must start thinking about how to stop Yuan Shao from now on.

For Shan Fu, the most perfect situation is to use the ruins of the Great Wall of King Zhao Wuling to block Yuan Shao in the east of the Great Wall, but the ruins of the Great Wall more than 500 years ago are inevitably vulnerable under the fierce attack of Yuan Shao's army, and if you want to block Yuan Shao, you must seize the time to repair it. Shan Fu once again offered the method of cash-for-work, and recruited nearly 100,000 young men and women from Xihe County, Loufu County and Yuan County to begin to repair the old ruins.

The front line of Bingzhou tends to be calm, but the war in Xuzhou has begun to spread.

Knowing that Cao Cao and Yuan Shu formed an alliance to attack, Tao Qian was shocked and frightened, and he couldn't afford to get sick, and Xuzhou, which was in a mess, resisted under the organization of Zhao Yu and Chen Jue in Zhizhong, but the difference in strength between the two sides was huge, and Tao Qian couldn't afford to fall ill after Xuzhou and rumors were everywhere, and people in Yaoya, Donghai, Xiapi, and Guangling were panicked, and the civil and military people at all levels were moved, and they disobeyed Zhao Yu and Chen Qi's orders, and many towns surrendered without the slightest resistance when Yuan Shu's army was in the city.

In the face of Cao Cao's army, the defenders' performance was diametrically opposite, they often chose to resist desperately, fighting to the last soldier and not retreating half a step, and many local people also spontaneously assisted the defenders to defend their homeland. The reason why Yuan Shu and Cao Cao will suffer such different treatment, all because of the inhumane slaughter of the city when Cao Cao's army twice attacked Xu, deeply stabbed every Xuzhou people, at that time, Hou Cao's army passed through the place can be described as corpses all over the field, chickens and dogs are not left, many Xuzhou towns because of Cao Jun's crimes to the order of desertion, become a ghost town, it is said that because there are too many souls in the city, even the noon sun can not shine into the city. Every citizen of Xuzhou always remembers that after Cao Cao broke through Pengcheng, he drove hundreds of thousands of people into the Surabaya River and drowned, because there were too many corpses, and the Surabaya River was once cut off.

For all the people of Xuzhou, Cao Cao is a demon from hell and underworld, and letting Cao Cao's army enter his homeland is like digging his own grave! Because of this, in the face of Cao Cao's army, the soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou often choose to fight to the death. The courage of the military and the people of Xuzhou is commendable, but due to the disparity in troops, the military and civilians in Xuzhou do not have a unified coordination and command, and often can only fight separately, and the Cao army, under the command of Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, gathered several times the enemy's troops and adopted the tactics of annihilation one by one. Because of the desperate resistance of the local soldiers and civilians, Cao Cao began to reflect on whether the slaughter of the city was appropriate, once the wise and wise Emperor Wei Wu calmed down, it was of course very simple to draw the right conclusion, Yanzhou after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the population plummeted, the situation of barren fields was very serious, the limited population and taxes greatly limited Cao Cao's development and growth, and the strong enemies around Yanzhou looked around, Liu Zhang, Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Yuan Shao, each of them is not easy, Cao Cao wants to develop and grow, The land of Xuzhou must be controlled in hand, and the most important thing to control Xuzhou is not the land, but the population. With the population farming, there is a harvest, in order to obtain grain and taxes, but how rough his practice has been since he cut down Xu three times, even if he let him kill the entire Xuzhou, but the people of Xuzhou have been killed by him, what is the use of him keeping this land? The blind killing has pushed the entire people of Xuzhou to his opposite, look at the encounters along the way, and then compare the encounters of Yuan Shu, can't it still explain the problem? Even if he defeated Tao Qian and Yuan Shu, but he couldn't get the recognition of the people of Xuzhou, how could he gain a firm foothold in Xuzhou? Isn't that the opposite of his original intention? It is understandable to avenge his father, but it implicates millions of innocent people in Xuzhou, think about it, the number of people who have died under his butcher's knife since the three times against Xu has reached millions, can he still be justified? Millions of people, if necessary, he could even levy an additional army of 100,000, but now? In addition to mass graves and millions of unjust souls, what did he get? He received a deep hatred and fear from the bottom of his heart from the Xuzhou army and people; got the butcher's knife in the face of him, and the soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou put them to death and then fought back; got one battle loss after another of his army; Whenever his army met with stubborn resistance, he and his generals would often retaliate by ordering the slaughter of the city, and as a result, he obtained more corpses of Xuzhou soldiers and civilians; Got the reputation of a butcher, and his army became known as the Beast Army; In addition, he has also received the hatred of several generations of Xuzhou people, and this hatred may be passed on by word of mouth, and it may not be resolved for several generations or dozens of generations.

Cao Cao, who came to his senses, immediately ordered the whole army not to persecute the soldiers who laid down their arms, not to kill the people for no reason, not to plunder the people's property, not to destroy the people's houses and farmland, and to ensure the safety of their lives and property for officials at all levels in Xuzhou who surrendered, and to retain them as appropriate, and to exempt them from paying taxes for one year if they automatically opened the city and surrendered the city. Emperor Wei Wu deeply knew the beauty of a carrot in one hand and a big stick in the other, and after the carrot naturally erected a big stick, participating in the officials at all levels who ordered recalcitrant resistance, once they were captured, they were immediately beheaded, and their families were used as official slaves, and the accomplices were guilty of the same crime......

Cao Jun changed from a beast army overnight to a "people's soldier" who did not commit any crime against the people, but the two sides had a deep grudge, and the people of Xuzhou did not want to believe Cao Cao, the white-faced king of Hades, and still chose to confront. But when Cao Cao broke through four cities in succession, and sure enough, after sitting down on what he promised, the concept of Cao Cao of the military and people in Xuzhou changed slightly, of course they did not support or welcome Cao Cao, but then when they faced Cao Cao's army, knowing that resistance was only a dead end, and surrender could save their lives and their families, many people had no choice but to surrender, although they still had a deep hatred for Cao Cao, but in the face of reality, they had to choose to obey.

After changing the concept, Cao Cao's progress was more rapid, and by the end of October, Yaoya and Donghai had all been captured by Cao Cao's army, and Yuan Shu also conquered the entire Guangling at this time, and the dignified Xuzhou Mu was controlled, and the territory controlled was only one county in Xiapi.

On the last day of the end of October, Tao Qian, who had been ill for a long time, died on the sickbed, and Zhao Yu, Chen Qi, Mi Zhu and others helped their son Tao Shang inherit the post of Xuzhou pastor. The potter is over forty years old, although there is no great talent, but he is a benevolent and filial piety person, seeing the people of Xuzhou suffered from the disaster of no reason, millions of people died in the hands of Cao Cao for no reason, and his father also died because of Cao Cao's hard work, regarded Cao Cao as the enemy of the sky, although there is only one place left, but he would rather die in battle, and never surrender, he is determined to avenge his father in Xiapi, and hate the people of Xuzhou, even if it will fail in the end, but before that, he will let Cao Cao's head break and bleed, and his strength will be greatly damaged, And then he was defeated at the hands of others when the princes were competing for deer!

The pottery merchants actively prepared for war in Xiapi, vigorously publicized Cao Cao's brutality, called on the people to voluntarily join the army to resist Cao Cao, and on the other hand, discussed with Zhao Yu and others, abandoned some minor places, concentrated their forces in key areas, and vigorously built fortifications. At the same time, in order to avoid the slaughter of the people, he posted notices everywhere, hoping that the people would take refuge in Yangzhou.

There is no need for potters to exaggerate, because no one in Xuzhou does not know the hundreds of thousands of unjust souls in the Surabaya River. And during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, his father Tao Qian was ordered to lead the Xuzhou Thorn History, and used it together, and in a short period of time let the Yellow Turban thieves disappear from Xuzhou, so that the people of Xuzhou were saved from the long-term war, and then implemented Tuntian in Xuzhou, resumed production, so that everyone in Xuzhou could live and work in peace and contentment, and repay the peach, and the people naturally remembered their virtues. Of course, there are also many people who are afraid of the war, drag their families to Huainan for refuge, and as far as the eye can see, the road from Xiapi to Huainan is full of countless people fleeing like ants moving all day and night. For these fleeing people, Yuan Shu is not embarrassed, these are potential sources of soldiers and taxes, if Cao Cao is killed, Xuzhou will not become a chicken rib?