"My lord, what do we do now? Is it just here? In Pengcheng, Zang Ba asked Tao Qian.

"There's no way Li Wu, you can see what the opponent's combat power looks like, with the strength of my current hands, it is not an opponent at all." Tao Qian said to Zang Ba very helplessly.

"General, although we will not be their opponents, but if we really want to fight, we may not be afraid of them, so I will lead my troops to kill him and turn the world upside down." Zang Ba said very unconvinced.

"General Zang Ba, I believe you are also aware of that guy's ability to command troops today, that Gan Ning is just a newcomer in Lu Rui's army, at least it hasn't been truly reflected yet, it's not Lu Rui's main army, it's just that a newcomer is so powerful, I really can't imagine the combat effectiveness of their main army, General Zang Ba, let's not go to fight with them." Tao Qian said helplessly.

"My lord, can we just swallow our anger like this?" Zang Ba asked Tao Qian.

"I have a solution, and I want to send someone to carry it out now." Tao Qian said to Zang Ba.

"I wonder what you can do?" Zang Ba asked Tao Qian when he heard this.

"Please help the soldiers, you go and call all my cronies immediately, and I will assign them a mission immediately." Tao Qian said to Zang Ba.

Hearing this, Zang Ba didn't say a word of nonsense, and immediately went down to call Tao Qian's many cronies, Tao Qian assigned tasks to them separately, and then asked these cronies to go for help immediately.

It's just that the Lu Rui Army, which had already been prepared, would not let these cronies leave here so easily, after those cronies left, they were already caught by the ambush soldiers arranged by everyone, and they were beheaded on the spot and brought back, as for the heads, everyone sent someone to send them back.

Looking at the bloody heads in front of him, Tao Qian couldn't help but sit on the chair and scolded: "This Lu Rui child is simply too deceitful, and I, Tao Qian, are inseparable from him." ”

"What do we do now, my lord?" Zang Ba asked Tao Qian.

"Alas! Now Lu Rui and I have reached the point of no relief, I'm afraid that there is no hope to talk about, it's just that, I will immediately send troops to surrender, and I can also avoid the destruction of the lives of Pengcheng, which can be regarded as the last thing that I, Tao Qian, can do for the people of Xuzhou! Tao Qian sighed, slowly stood up, and said to Zang Ba.

"My lord, this must not be done! Now that you've gotten into such trouble, do you still think that Lu Rui will let you go just because you surrendered? He didn't intend to let you leave Xuzhou alive from the beginning. Zang Ba's face couldn't help but change when he heard this, and he immediately knelt down on one knee and said to Tao Qian.

"I naturally know this, but if I can exchange my life for the lives of tens of thousands of people in Xuzhou, I will be worth it." Tao Qian said to Zang Ba.

"My lord, even if you don't think about yourself, please think about a few sons! Don't you care if they live or die? Seeing that Tao Qian had made up his mind to die, Zang Ba knew that no matter how much he said, it would be in vain, so he couldn't help but flash such a sentence in his heart and said to Tao Qian.

Sure enough, after hearing Zang Ba's words, Tao Qian's decision was obviously loosened a lot, and after thinking carefully for a while, he finally stopped his steps.

"General, as long as we desperately hold this place, it will definitely not be so easy for them to capture it, even if we die, we will definitely be able to severely damage Lu Rui's legion." Zang Ba came to Tao Qian's side and said to Tao Qian.

"Alas! I'm afraid that this Lu Rui doesn't want to spend it with us at all! The food in Pengcheng is limited, if this Lu Rui plans to spend it with us all the time, we will definitely not be their opponents! Tao Qian said to Zang Ba.

"My lord, this may not be, have you forgotten that our food and grass are limited, but this Lu Rui does not have his own fiefdom, that is to say, the current Lu Rui is still fighting without a rear, presumably this Lu Rui can't afford to consume compared to us, or it won't be long before he can hold on." Zang Ba said to Tao Qian.

"Well, what you said makes sense, okay, then in that case, let's spend it with them and see who can consume whom." Hearing this, Tao Qian thought it was very reasonable, so he also said ruthlessly.

So, in the next few days, both sides seemed very stable, and during this time, Jing Si and Pei Yuanqing's side also won a lot of cities, of course, many of them were not taken by force, don't forget, Lu Rui now has a token issued by the imperial court himself, and in some cities, as long as his own token is revealed, it can play a very good role, and it is really not too late to use force!

And on this day, a soldier came to Lu Rui's tent and said to Lu Rui: "Lord, there is a young general outside who asks to see him, and he is Cao Mengde's son, Cao Ning. ”

"Cao Ning? Why did he come to me, let him in. Lu Rui couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, I don't know why this Cao Ning is here? Could it be that he wanted to kill his own father like he did in his previous life to take refuge in himself? That's not right! As far as the current situation is concerned, there is almost no possibility that he will betray Cao Cao, what kind of calculation is this Cao Mengde.

After Cao Ning came in, he immediately said to Lu Rui: "Cao Ning has seen General Lu. ”

"Hehe, Brother Cao, don't come unharmed! I don't know why you're here? Lu Rui asked Cao Ning.

"I have come here at the behest of my father to hand over this letter to you." Cao Ning took out the letter, handed it to Lu Rui and said.

"Oh? I don't know what Mr. Meng De is talking about, but his hometown Cao Gongzi personally sent it over. Hearing this, Lu Rui couldn't help but be stunned, then opened the letter, and after reading it carefully for a while, a smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe, this He Jin is also bold enough, just with those straw bales under his hands, he also wants to assassinate me, hehe, in this case, then I will come and play with him." Lu Rui thought to himself in his heart, and then said to Cao Ning: "Thank you Mr. Mengde for your prompt this time, I will definitely be careful, and please ask my son to treat me and thank my father." ”

At this time, Lu Rui didn't dare to say that the next grace would be reciprocated in the future, He Jin wanted to harm himself, but he Cao Cao Lu Rui would not believe that he had a good heart, and now he came to inform himself because he still needed himself, if he encountered something in the future, Lu Rui dared to guarantee that the first person to stab the knife was definitely this big traitor, therefore, for this big traitor, Lu Rui had a vigilant mood in his heart, and he was also very careful when he spoke.

"So my mission has been completed, by the way, I see that General Lu's army is stationed outside this Pengcheng, I don't know what happened here?" Cao Ning is a military general in the end, and he doesn't have as much careful thinking as Wenchen, so he didn't hear anything wrong from Lu Rui's words, but just asked Cao Cao.

"Alas, this matter is a long story, after I came to Xuzhou......" Lu Rui didn't know what the idea was, so he temporarily compiled a set of rhetoric in his heart, and told Cao Ning about Xuzhou Tao Qian's blocking of himself, of course, Lu Rui didn't tell Cao Ning about the time change, and all other things were not necessarily the truth.

"What! This Tao Qian is really not a person, he actually wants to destroy General Lu and continue to occupy Xuzhou, this guy is absolutely not at ease with the imperial court, and he has not been met by the master, since he has been met by me, how can he sit idly by, General Lu, you can rest assured! I won't leave during this time, if I have any orders, even if I open my mouth, I Cao Ning will teach this Tao Qian a little lesson. No one knows what Lu Rui said to Cao Ning, but Cao Ning said a lot of this after hearing Lu Rui's words, and it seems that the effect is still very good, at least let Cao Ning help him fight. (To be continued.) )