This chapter is anti-piracy.

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Hao Meng did send troops to Xuzhou.

On the eve of the Shangyuan Festival, Hao Meng finally walked out of Wenrou Township and led more than 50,000 soldiers and horses into Xuzhou.

Before Cao Cao and other princes in the world received the battle report, Hao Meng had already arrived in Xuzhou City.

In fact, in the half month before and after the New Year, taking advantage of the attention of everyone in the world to be attracted by the big news made by Li Chou and the three of them, ten of the fourteen soldiers and horses under Hao Meng's command gathered in Mengshan in Taishan County.

Hao Meng is going to use soldiers at the beginning of the year, but when there are soft persimmons, Hao Meng doesn't mind pinching the soft persimmons first.

Besides, although the invasion of Yanzhou is politically clear, Hao Meng knows it even if he is a cow, and together with Cao Cao's war, it will definitely not be able to end in a year and a half.

During this period, it is also very likely that there are other forces and princes who will either support Cao Mengde, or surround Wei to save Zhao and pull his Hao Meng's hind legs.

Also, Cao Cao has various sources of materials, but Hao Meng can't even support grain and grass for half a year.

Therefore, before attacking Yanzhou, taking Xuzhou and Tao Qian's old man's treasury grain and grass is what Hao Meng must do.

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Xuzhou, Langya County is still in the hands of Hao Meng, and it is not too easy to enter Donghai County from Taishan County.

Along the way, there was almost no need for Hao Meng to conquer the city, and there were county orders or county lieutenants in each county to surrender.

The officials and gentry of Xuzhou, before Hao Meng unified Qingzhou, most of them had long expected that there would be such a day, and there were not a few big families who secretly lost their sincerity to Hao Meng.

Now Hao Meng is attacking Xuzhou, and it is not an exaggeration to use the sentence "Those who have attained the Tao have more help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help".

When Hao Meng's soldiers besieged the city of Xuzhou, in addition to the capital of Xuzhou, only Xiapi was still in the hands of Liu Bei, and even Guangling County, which was adjacent to Yangzhou, was also thrown into Hao Meng's arms.

Under the city of Xuzhou, looking at the Sensen arrow array on the city wall, Hao Meng waved his hand, and a personal guard escorted one person up.

"Master Tao, Ben Hou will let you into the city."

"As long as you can persuade Father Er to surrender, not only will Ben Hou not pursue the events of the day, but he can also allow you a county, how about it?"

"Of course, after Tao Gongzi returns to the city, he can also help his father to defend the city."

"In this way, when the city is broken, the soldiers and civilians in the city can still say that your Tao family must be killed completely."

Looking at Tao Ying, who was trembling under the horse, Hao Meng had to sigh a tiger father and a dog.

On the same day, when Hao Meng got married, this Tao Ying was about the order of his father and took Zhang to participate in the Jinan Incident.

It's just that he didn't expect the incident to fail, Zhang died in the chaos in the city, but Tao Ying followed Cao Ang and them, and withdrew from Jinan City early to wait.

In the end, when Hao Meng attacked Lu County overnight, Cao Ang died in the war, but Tao Ying was captured.

"Don't worry, the prince will definitely persuade his father to surrender to the prince."

"Please stay outside the city for a while, and come when you go down!"

Knowing that he was not going to be sacrificed, Tao Ying's fear was finally relieved. As for convincing his father's work, Tao Ying believes that it is not a difficult task.

Perhaps, his father was not very willing to surrender to Hao Meng, but at this moment when the city was about to be broken, the attitude of Xuzhou Thorn Shi was not very important.

Do you really think that the densely packed defenders on the city wall are willing to live and die with Xuzhou?

This way from Taishan County to Xuzhou, Tao Yingke has seen what "the people eat pot pulp to welcome the king"!

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Looking at the back of Tao Ying going to Xuzhou City, Hao Meng ordered: "The whole army will rest for two hours!" ”

"Two hours later, if Xuzhou City does not fall, we will break through the city!"

Tao Ying, who rode his horse to Xuzhou City, seemed to have heard this, his body trembled for a moment, and then he flew to the gate of Xuzhou City.

In fact, it is not difficult for Hao Meng to break the city. Twenty dragon artillery guards went to a station a thousand steps outside the city, and only ten rounds of artillery bombardment were needed, and the city wall of Xuzhou City would be reduced to rubble.

It's just that if Xuzhou City is really broken like this, the capital of Xuzhou will be ruined, not to mention, not to mention those Xuzhou elites on the city wall, there will not be many survivors.

You must know that on the city wall of Xuzhou at this time, there are Tao Qian's elite henchmen, including the world-famous Danyang pawn.

Hao Meng now has fourteen soldiers and horses, although they are known as elites, but most of them have been in the army for less than a year.

Therefore, Hao Meng not only wanted to seize Tao Qian's Xuzhou, but also wanted to swallow Tao Qian's elite soldiers and horses.

What's more, the entire Xuzhou tax money and grain are in the city's treasury. If Tao Qian goes out of the city and surrenders, there will definitely be not much loss of grain and grass, and Hao Meng will be able to attack Yanzhou.

If Tao Qian did not surrender, these grains and grass would inevitably be burned by Tao Qian before he died.

This is the reason why Hao Meng didn't want to break the city in the first place!

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In the city of Xuzhou, in the middle of the Assassin's House.

Tao Qian didn't know whether he was in a hurry or really old and frail at this time, and he was actually sick.

In other words, will the generals get sick too?

"Lord, the eldest prince is back!"

When Tao Qian was lying on the bed sighing, the housekeeper of the Thorn History Mansion came to report that the eldest son Tao Ying was back.

"Well, isn't Tao Ying being imprisoned by Hao Meng?"

Thinking so, Tao Qian was in good spirits, wanting to see what news the eldest son brought back to Hao Meng.

After a while, Tao Ying rushed into the bedroom, and when he saw his father on the sickbed, he didn't have time to greet and condole, so he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Father, let's go out of the city and surrender quickly!" ”

Before Tao Qian could speak, the second potter who was standing on the side jumped out and scolded.

"Presumptuous!"

"Our Xuzhou city is strong, there are still 20,000 elites stationed, and there is enough food and grass, why do you want to send down Hao Yixing, who is ambitious for wolves?"

"Big brother can't be in collusion with Hao Meng's thief, right?"

The old father is terminally ill, this Xuzhou city is about to change, as long as the boss is disgusted by his father, this Xuzhou thorn history can only be his pottery merchant!

At such a critical moment, how could the potter let go of the opportunity to strike at the boss?

"Father, there is a team of dragon cannon guards under Hao Meng's command, and no matter how strong the city is, it will collapse in front of the dragon cannon guards."

"Let's go out of the city and surrender, maybe we can still be like Nakong Beihai, and we can continue to be a county guard."

"If we resist to the end, Hao Meng even dares to kill Sun Ce and Cao Ang, when the city is broken, will our Tao family still be able to end well?"

Tao Ying ignored the second child's attack, because Hao Meng didn't give him much time, and instead of spending time on attacking each other, he might as well try his best to convince his father.

Tao Qian was ambivalent at this time.

As the eldest son said, after Hao Meng was lowered, he could still keep his family and wealth. However, after being the master of the people for so long, once he had to worship in the north, Tao Qian really couldn't change.

Tao Ying knelt on the ground and continued, "The child knows that my father is still counting on other princes to come to our rescue. ”

"However, has my father ever thought that Cao Cao of Yanzhou was killed by Hao Meng, and his eldest son Cao Ang didn't dare to squeak, would he come to the rescue of our Xuzhou? Does he dare to come to the rescue of Xuzhou? ”

"Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Gongsun Zan of Youzhou have started a big war again, where can they care about rescuing Xuzhou?"