Chapter Seventy-One: Tanxian Joins Forces
As soon as they heard that it was forbidden, everyone was shocked. Tao Qian looked at Yu Ban, and couldn't wait to eat him immediately! At the beginning, it was Yu Ban who led the troops to defeat him in Pengcheng, but at this time, looking at Yu Ban carefully, Tao Qian actually laughed. At that time, he was an enemy, and he never thought about it, but today he is under his own account.
It's really better than blue. Tao Ying seems to have gradually surpassed himself, more and more people have taken refuge in him, first followed his own Zang Ba, and now even the enemy generals are serving under him, maybe by such a person to inherit his position, Xuzhou may really have hope.
"Second son, he is Cao Cao's general, if he strikes back in front of the battle, how can I wait!"
Seeing that it was forbidden, many Tao Qian veterans opposed it. The first person to stand up against it was Sun Qian, and the others followed suit. Tao Ying shook his head and said: "Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious, if Wen is really rebelling against me, I don't have a word!" ”
As soon as Tao Ying finished speaking, Yu Ban suddenly knelt down and said: "Don't worry, my lord swears to the sky, if there is a violation of the grace of the lord's knowledge, I will hit five thunderbolts in the forbidden sky!" ”
Tao Ying's eyes were full of trust, and he helped him up, and then Tao Ying asked again: "How is the war in Xuzhou now?" ”
After the greetings, it's finally time to get to the point. Liu Bei hurriedly said: "Second son, Cao Cao has attacked several cities, only Xiao Jian in the north occupies Langya County and has not been breached, and the others are all broken!" ”
Tao Ying nodded, Xiao Jian is a talent. Liu Bei introduced the situation in Xuzhou again, a few days ago he fought with Cao Cao, but the morale of the soldiers was low, so he was defeated. Now Cao Cao has occupied the west of the Tiger City, the situation is one-sided to Cao Cao, these days Cao Cao attacked the north gate very fiercely, many times the north gate was almost broken by Cao Cao.
After listening to everyone's report, Tao Ying suddenly asked again: "Father, I expect Cao Cao to retire after two months, but now as long as he holds on, when the time comes, when he retires, he will not dare to commit Xuzhou again!" ”
Tao Qian nodded, and Tao Ying asked again: "Cao Cao personally attacked the north gate, I am willing to defend the north gate with General Liu, and General Cao Bao guards the west gate. ”
Hearing that Tao Ying was willing to defend the city with him, Liu Bei was also very happy. Now the morale of the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou is not good, but after the arrival of the second son, I heard that the second son is coming, and the morale of the Xuzhou soldiers will be greatly boosted. If he defeats Cao Cao again, he will definitely make his reputation to the next level this time!
In fact, there is a reason why Tao Ying chose to cooperate with Liu Bei, the first Liu Bei's subordinates are related to the second master, there is Zhang Fei, these are all fierce generals in the world! Moreover, if he offended the Cao family, if he ran to be with Cao Bao, what would Cao Bao do if he wanted to shadow himself behind his back?
After Tao Qian approved Tao Ying's suggestion, Tao Ying led his soldiers and horses towards the south gate, while Liu Bei rode with him. After the two led the troops to the south gate, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were already guarding there. Seeing Tao Ying coming, Zhang Fei snorted again and didn't come to visit.
Guan Yu rode over, and reluctantly rushed to Tao Yingyi and said, "I've seen the second son!" ”
Liu Bei hurriedly shouted Zhang Fei, and Tao Ying hurriedly persuaded: "It's okay, it's okay, General Zhang has a hot temper, he is righteous and eloquent, and he bravely crowns the three armies, which is really General Liu's blessing general!" ”
Liu Bei also smiled awkwardly, he knew his third brother's temper, Zhang Fei just couldn't get along with Tao Ying.
More than 10,000 soldiers and horses want to enter the city and have nowhere to place, rather than passively defending the city, it is better for the two armies to form horns, so that they can attack and defend both. So Tao Ying led his troops and stationed them in the camp outside the south gate. said that he was stationed, Tao Ying also knew that he would definitely not be able to be stationed outside the city, because if Cao Cao came to attack him, Zhang Fei's virtue would not be able to close the city gate and not come out, wouldn't he be beaten by Cao Cao?
He just asked the soldiers to be stationed outside the city temporarily, and he hurried to find a camp in the city, and then hurried to lead the troops into the city at night.
After being stationed, Cao Cao did not dare to act rashly because of the rescue troops from Tan County. Zhang Fei was idle, deliberately finding fault, Tao Ying came to Zhang Fei and said: "Big brother, our soldiers and horses have been exhausted after guarding the city for several days, and now that the second son is here, why not let the second son's army go to defend the city immediately?" ”
Guan Yu dragged Zhang Fei next to him, Zhang Fei was a little rude, seeing Tao Ying's unhappy face, Guan Yu hurriedly relieved Liu Bei.
"Third brother, the second son's military horse came from afar, and he is also tired, why don't you let the second son rest for a while?"
After Guan Yu finished speaking, he didn't want Zhang Fei to be wild: "Second brother, why are you speaking for outsiders, could it be that he let you go once in Xiapi that day, do you still remember his kindness?" ”
Liu Bei suddenly shouted: "Third brother, have you drunk too much wine again?" Run off at the mouth! ”
After Liu Bei finished training, Zhang Fei stopped talking.
Tao Ying smiled awkwardly and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'll come to defend the city today, and General Zhang will lead the soldiers to rest for two days!" ”
Zhang Fei snorted and left, and Tao Ying said to Liu Bei again: "General Liu, before I go to the city, I want to ask you to help me with something!" ”
"What?"
Tao Ying whispered a few words in Liu Bei's ear, Liu Bei's expression was startled at first, and then he regained his calm after a while. Before lunch, Yu Ban selected a camp in the city, and led 10,000 soldiers and horses into the city before it was dark.
When the lunch began to smell fragrant, Liu Bei at the south gate, as the host, invited Tao Ying and Yu Ban to dine with the generals, Guan Yu accompanied, and wanted to invite Zhang Fei to come, but Zhang Fei was reluctant to come to Tao Ying for taking Liu Bei's concubine Gan, so he went to the city alone to defend the city.
When everyone was drunk, Tao Ying suddenly said: "The person I Tao Ying hates the most in my life is the one who robbed the people's daughters, but when I see this person who destroys this ceremony, I will kill him!" ”
After Tao Ying finished speaking, he reached out and threw the cup to the ground, and suddenly nearly a hundred axe hands appeared in the tent. Cao Cao's nearly 20 generals, who had just surrendered, just wanted to resist when they saw this, Guan Yu stepped forward and caught one of the leaders of the leader, and the knife and axe hand stepped forward to tie up more than 20 generals.
Yu Ban was also shocked, looking at Tao Ying with sweat, Tao Ying drank another glass of wine and said: "Wen Ze, you go back to the barracks first and tell the soldiers that they violate military discipline and will be killed." The general is guilty, the soldier is forced to be helpless, the crime is forgiven, if someone commits it again, he will be killed! ”
Yu Ban hurriedly got up and retreated, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead when he arrived at the door. Let Yu Ban announce the news, the first thing is to comfort Yu Ban, let him know that Tao Ying will not deal with him, he trusts him, and at the same time warns him once.
When Yu Ban arrived at the barracks, he first asked the soldiers to tie up all the personal soldiers of more than 20 generals and behead them on the spot. Just when the surrendered soldiers were at a loss, Yu Ban shouted to the crowd: "The lord has an order, the general kidnaps the people's daughters is a capital crime, and the soldiers are exempted from the crime, and if there is a repeat offender, they will be killed!" ”
Seeing this, the soldiers hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and the leaders were all dead, and it was impossible for them to bring harm to the world any longer. Yu Ban also scattered all the Cao soldiers in the ranks of Minzhuang, so that everyone did not know each other, but it was easy to manage.
After throwing the cup as a signal and seizing the military power of Cao's soldiers, Tao Ying let Yu Ban lead the soldiers to the city to guard. Tao Ying personally climbed the city wall, looking far away from the city gate, large camps were all over the land of Tan County, and the large camps in the distance were connected to the sky, making people not know how many soldiers and horses were coming.
At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Cao Bing had already retreated, and Tao Ying asked people to replace all the banners in the city with their own banners. Just after lunch, Cao Cao led the troops to attack the city, and suddenly saw that the military flag was changed on the city gate, and the soldiers were busy telling Cao Cao, Cao Cao personally came out to check, and saw the familiar flag, Cao Cao sighed.
Cao Ren saw Cao Cao sighing and asked puzzledly, "Why is the lord sighing?" ”
Cao Cao said: "The old opponent is here, Tan County is not easy to fight!" After Cao Cao finished speaking, sure enough, the city gate was opened, and a cavalry came out of the city and ran towards Cao Cao's camp with a white flag, which was a messenger sent by Tao Ying.
The envoy arrived at Cao Cao's camp and handed over a letter from Tao Ying to Cao Cao. Cao Cao opened it and looked at it, and then looked at the city gate, Tao Ying stood on the city tower and looked at Cao Cao outside the city with a cold face, Cao Cao bowed his head and said to the envoy: "Tell your general, I would like to meet him!" ”