After being stationed by the Surabaya River for a few days, Tao Ying did not move, so Yu Ban led his troops back to Donghai County. After Yu Ban returned from Surabaya with his army, Cao Cao summoned Yu Ban at the camp. Now Yu Ban is already the person who has made the greatest contribution to Cao Cao's eastward expedition to Xuzhou, especially after defeating Tao Qian in the first battle of Pengcheng, his reputation is unprecedented.

In Cao Cao's tent, Cao Cao was sitting at a small table reading a book of soldiers, Yu Ban opened the curtain and came in, there was no one else next to him, Cao Cao beckoned him to sit down.

After the two sat down one after another, Cao Cao looked at Yu Ban and asked, "What if Wen Ruo is going here?" ”

Yu Ban replied: "My lord, the last general led the troops to the Surabaya area and really met Tao Qian's soldiers and horses. The leader of the troops was Tao Qian's youngest son, Tao Ying, who called himself Tao Tianshi and sent something to the lord. ”

At the mention of Tao Tianshi, Cao Cao took a breath and put the military book on the case.

"Tao Tianshi? With such a big breath, he shrank in Xia Pi and didn't dare to come out, and actually sent a yellow-haired boy to come, he really underestimated me Cao Cao! ”

Cao Cao threw the bamboo slip in his hand on the table and said, "What did the yellow-haired boy give me?" Take it and I'll take a look! ”

After Cao Cao finished speaking, the camp tent was opened, and a small soldier held a plate with a few pieces of paper on the plate. Xiao Bing walked to Cao Cao and put the plate in front of Cao Cao, Cao Cao waved his hand, and Xiao Bing withdrew from the camp with a sound.

Cao Cao picked up the paper in front of him and looked at it, at night, a gust of wind blew, the tent rattled, and the candlelight next to the desk was flickering, Cao Cao frowned, studied the gift that Tao Ying sent for a long time, and only asked after a while: "What is this?" Yu Ban hurriedly said: "That Tao Tianshi, oh, no, that yellow-haired boy said that this is called paper!" Later you can write the word on this, carry the aspect. ”

Cao Cao spread the paper on the table, and Yu Ban hurriedly walked to the table to polish the ink. Cao Cao picked up the pen and wrote two big characters of Xuzhou on the paper, the thick ink soaked the gray paper, and the two big characters were written vigorously but full of murderous spirit.

After writing, Cao Cao picked up the paper and looked at it again, smacked his lips and sighed and said, "What else did the yellow-haired boy say?" Yu Ban was busy like a salesman and replied: "The yellow-haired boy also said that if this thing is bought in large quantities, it can be cheaper!" ”

Cao Cao laughed after hearing this: "This kid is stronger than his Lao Tzu, when I break Xuzhou, I will ask him to make this thing with me in the future." ”

"That's good!"

Yu Ban was on the side, Cao Cao asked him about Tao Ying's deployment of troops, and Yu Ban replied: "The last general is not enough to see this person, Tan County is in danger, if the last general leads the troops, he will not shrink back." What's more, when the last general led his troops to the Surabaya River, this person had already broken the bridge on the Surabaya River and scuttled the wooden boats coming and going, so it seemed that he was not ready to cross the river to support Tan County! ”

Cao Cao nodded, he slaughtered several cities, it seems that the people of Xuzhou must be afraid of themselves, and those vulnerable Xuzhou soldiers are even more frightened!

In the early morning, a misty cloud rose on the side of the Surabaya River, and when Cao Cao's scouts began to wander around again, they suddenly found that the Xuzhou soldiers on the other side of the river had disappeared as if they had evaporated from the world!

The scout hurriedly reported to Tan County, and on the far border of Pengcheng, the capital of Pengcheng State, Tao Ying rode on his horse with a tired face. If it weren't for the cold morning, Tao Ying would have fallen asleep on the horse.

After a night of rapid marching, Tao Ying crossed the Surabaya River, and rushed to the territory of Peng Chengguo day and night, at this time Pengcheng was only a small city, Xu Sheng's military horses occupied Pengcheng and the Cao army outside the city had been facing off for three days.

After all, Xu Sheng was leading the troops for the first time, and looking at the crowded army outside the city, beads of sweat the size of beans hung all over his somewhat young face.

He successfully captured Pengcheng according to the strategy given by Tao Tianshi, but he never thought that the Pengcheng garrison was not as much as he imagined, maybe Cao Cao had calculated that Xuzhou would not dare to attack Pengcheng, or maybe the frontline battle was too tense, and the huge Pengcheng was only more than 400 people.

When Xu Sheng entered Pengcheng, he found that in fact, four hundred people were already too much, and Pengcheng was already empty, and there was no one left. In the battle of Pengcheng, Tao Qian was defeated, in order to intimidate the people of Xuzhou who continued to resist, Cao Cao ordered the slaughter of the city, and tens of thousands of people in Pengcheng were slaughtered!

After occupying Pengcheng, he originally thought that Tao Ying would come to take over Pengcheng, but he didn't want to wait for nearly four days, except for the endless Cao army, it seemed that there was no reinforcement coming at all, and even the food in the city was about to be eaten.

Tao Ying's army just arrived thirty miles outside Pengcheng, and a team of nearly 1,000 Cao troops appeared in the distance.

Tao Ying led nearly 5,000 men and horses to continue to hurry, and the fertile fields were all trampled by war horses, and the villages hidden in the green trees were also full of corpses, and everywhere was desolate.

Seeing such a scene, Tao Ying couldn't wait to break Cao Cao's body into pieces immediately! However, if he owes it, Tao Ying will definitely let him pay it back, this is his principle! The soldiers and horses are getting closer and closer to Pengcheng, and there are more and more Cao troops gathered in front, and the scouts sent out to report that at least nearly 10,000 troops and horses have gathered on the outskirts of Pengcheng!

Hearing this number, Tao Ying felt a little uneasy in his heart, especially Chen Deng, who was sent to Xiaopei, also had no news, and he didn't dare to rush forward for a while.

Cao Cao is the best at using soldiers, and his soldiers and horses are so strong, although he can't capture Tanxian for the time being, but it is more than enough to deal with his group of small characters who have just entered the battlefield, why don't Cao soldiers break through Pengcheng now but just surround him?

A series of questions lingered in Tao Ying's heart.

Tao Ying divided the nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses around him into three large battalions and stationed them in an unknown town outside Pengcheng, and the scouts began to go around to find information again.

After dark, suddenly a soldier hugged a soldier wearing Cao Jun's armor into the camp, and this small soldier was caught by the Xuzhou soldiers outside the Taoying camp.

Originally, he wanted to execute him, but he said that he was a messenger sent by Chen Deng, and asked him why he was wearing Cao Jun's clothes, and he could only come from Xiao Pei by wearing Cao Jun's clothes.

Tao Ying asked the messenger to loosen his bonds, and the messenger hurriedly delivered a letter to Tao Ying. The letter was rolled into a small roll and stuffed in a bamboo reed tube, written on the paper that Tao Ying had given to Chen Deng.

When he opened the small note, it was densely filled with small characters, to the effect that Chen Deng was ordered to lead his troops to support Pengcheng, and according to Tao Ying's strategy, he led his troops to pretend to attack Xiaopei to attract Pengcheng's garrison.

When Chen Deng led the army to Xiaopei City not far away, Cao Jun detected that the enemy army was coming, and saw that the flag was an unknown young general, so he fought Chen Deng outside the city.

Chen Deng shot an arrow in the chaotic army and killed Xiao Pei, the general led the soldiers and horses to break through Xiao Pei, Xiao Pei is a grain storage place of Cao Jun, after learning that Xiao Pei was breached, Cao Cao was furious, so he sent nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Xiao Pei.

As soon as the soldiers and horses entered Pengcheng, they learned that Pengcheng was actually broken by the Xuzhou soldiers, Cao Cao was shocked, and he was busy with nearly 10,000 soldiers who were forbidden to lead the troops, plus nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses who were originally stationed in Pengcheng, but went out to fetch food, and Cao soldiers came to Pengcheng in a mighty way.

Chen Deng wanted to lead his troops to meet Xu Sheng in Pengcheng, but as soon as he left the city, he encountered Cao Cao's elite cavalry.

Cao's army attacked Pengcheng, Pengcheng was high and relied on the majestic mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Xu Sheng fought to the death in Pengcheng, so the two stalemates continued.

Cao Cao wanted to lead his troops to Pengcheng in person, but in the past few days, he has been transferring troops everywhere, and Cao Bao seems to know that his rear is in chaos, and Cao Bao is a little ready to move for several days.

In order not to let himself suffer from the enemy, Cao Cao had to personally sit in Tanxian to deter Liu Cao's coalition army, and finally could only hand over the task of attacking Pengcheng to Yu Ban, the general of the Eastern Expedition.