In fact, the sergeant who reported to Cao Cao was right, but Liu Qi could be regarded as flying over Guangling.

Because Liu Qi has been acting very low-key in the past two or three years, even during the Battle of Guandu, he has a very tacit understanding with Cao Cao, although he looted Xuchang's materials, which is a big advantage, but no matter what, he still returned Xuchang to Cao Cao, so this makes Cao Cao think that Liu Qi has actually been mainly concerned about the interests of the south.

At the same time, in order to guard against Liu Qi's forces, Cao Cao even strengthened his forces in Xuchang and Chengde, and even specially strengthened the defense of Guangling Chendeng, sent a large amount of supplies, and allowed him to expand his army.

Because of this, Cao Cao did not worry too much about Liu Qi in the south, so he was relieved to fight against Yuan Shao.

But he didn't expect that this time Liu Qi would exceed his expectations and directly send troops to occupy Xuzhou.

Of course, Cao Cao couldn't have imagined that as early as when he borrowed from Guangling, Liu Qi had the idea of occupying Xuzhou. Because of this, he deliberately kept a low profile in the Battle of Guandu, and returned the occupied Xuchang to Cao Cao, which finally made Cao Cao relax his vigilance against him, and thus attacked Xuzhou by Shun.

In fact, according to the ideas of Liu Qi and Jia Xu, Zhou Yu and others, the significance of returning Xuchang is far more than that, because Yuan Shao's strength during the battle of Guandu was strong, and he was even more on the third prince of the Yuan family in Runan, and his protégés were all over the world, if he helped him defeat Cao Cao and occupy Xuchang, I am afraid that Yuan Shao will definitely unify the north with absolute strength, and it will be difficult for him to have a chance to get involved in the Central Plains at that time, so he wants to use Cao Cao's power to defeat Yuan Shao, because in this way, he also has the opportunity to plot against the Central Plains.

It was also at that time that Liu Qi, Jia Xu and Zhou Yu returned Xuchang to Cao Cao, which allowed Cao Cao to fight against Yuan Shao with peace of mind and won the battle of Guandu.

Just before the outbreak of the Battle of Turbidity Deer City, Yuan Shao sent Feng Ji to contact him again, asking him to send troops to Xuzhou to contain Zang Ba in Qingzhou, plus the previous gambling agreement with Chen Deng was about to expire, Liu Qi, Jia Xu, Zhou Yu and others felt that the conditions were ripe for the capture of Xuzhou.

Therefore, Liu Qi happily agreed to Feng Ji's request and promised to send troops to Xuzhou within a month.

Although Feng Ji left Xiangyang very satisfied, he did not believe in Liu Qi's so-called guarantee, because during the battle of Guandu, this person did not keep his promise and help him take Xuchang in time, but returned Xuchang to Cao Cao.

So when he reported to Yuan Shao again this time, Feng Ji decided that he must not talk too much like last time, but said that Liu Qi said that he would definitely try his best to help him.

Watching Feng Ji leave Xiangyang with a suspicious face, Liu Qi and Jia Xu and others couldn't help but look at each other and smile, because this is the effect they want, even the party Feng Ji didn't believe that he would send troops to Xuzhou, so Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's spies naturally didn't believe it even more, and only in this way could their sneak attack be effective.

After hearing the news of the outbreak of the Battle of Turbid Deer City. Liu Qi immediately personally led an army of 20,000, as well as Jia Xu, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Liu Pan, Liu Shi, Zhang Tong, Huo Jun, Mi Fang, Jiang Wan, Zhuge Jin, Kan Ze and others from Xiangyang, led the army to Hefei, and then in order to divert the attention of the war, he ordered Yangzhou to assassinate Shi Xu Shu, and led Lu Meng, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng, Liu Ye and others to raise 30,000 troops to attack Chengde, where Zhang Liao was stationed.

Then Liu Qi took advantage of the battle between Xu Shu and Zhang Liao in Chengde City, quietly left the battlefield at night, and entered the Tangyi of Guangling through Guò Quanjiao.

Due to the secret terms between him and Liu Qi before, the garrison of Guangling Taishou Chen Deng in Tangyi was Chen Hao, a close confidant of Guangling Taishou Chen Deng, who had already known the relationship between Chen Deng and Liu Qi, so when Liu Qi's army arrived, he announced "surrender" without any resistance.

Liu Qi ordered Chen Hao to continue to garrison Tangyi, but he led the army, passing through Dongyang, Wei County and other places in Guangling County, and then entered the territory of Xiapi through Guò County, and the army marched all the way, from Wei County to Xiapi more than 100 miles away, Wei Yantong led 10,000 light cavalry troops arrived in only one night.

In recent years, Liu Qi has continuously exchanged a large number of horses from Gongsun Du in Liaodong, and built several horse farms, and there are already 20,000 or 30,000 adult war horses in the army, Liu Qi used these war horses to form a heavy cavalry team and a light cavalry team, which were respectively commanded by Zhang Xiu and Wei Yan.

This time, Liu Qi's expedition to Xuzhou was led by Wei Yan's 10,000 light cavalry, relying on an astonishing speed advantage to win by surprise.

When the 10,000 cavalry led by Wei Yan came to the city of Xiapi, Liu Dai, the assassin of Xuzhou, had no guard at all, and when he was shocked to hear that Wei Yan's soldiers were approaching the city, he had already been shocked that the six gods had no master, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to defend the city.

But the soldiers in Xiapi City have been in peace for five years, where would they have thought that the enemy army would come to the city overnight? After receiving the order from the upper peak, some of them went up to the city wall without even having all the weapons and equipment.

Although Cao Cao had ordered Liu Dai to defend Xiapi well, Liu Dai relied on his Pi to have Guangling Taishou Chen Deng as a barrier, and Wang Zhong, the minister of Xiapi, had tens of thousands of troops stationed in Dongcheng, and he heard that Liu Qi's main force in Yangzhou was distributed in Hefei, and he had no spare strength to deal with his Xiapi, so he didn't take Cao Cao's order seriously at all, but symbolically built some city defense equipment.

In addition, there are only more than 3,000 defenders in the city, and when they see the cavalry team of the opponent's black pressure, they have long lost their fighting spirit, and they have already broken through the city gate with just a cup of tea.

When Wei Yan's army entered the city, Mi Fang, a representative of the Mi family who had always been famous in Xuzhou, immediately used his fame to persuade the soldiers defending the city to surrender.

Liu Dai, the assassin of Xuzhou, saw that the general trend had gone, and in desperation, he wanted to escape, but was captured by his soldiers and sent to Wei Yan.

Unexpectedly, this Liu Dai couldn't fight, he was still a bloody man, and he resolutely refused Wei Yan's persuasion to surrender, and calmly killed, Wei Yan respected him as a loyal minister, so he ordered someone to bury him.

After Wei Yan pacified Xiapi, he left Mi Fang to lead 5,000 cavalry to guard Xiapi to appease the people, and he personally led a large army to conquer Wang Zhong stationed in Dongcheng.

When Wei Yan commanded the army to return to Xiapi, Liu Qi had entered the city with an army of 10,000, Wei Yan hurriedly visited, but saw that Liu Qi praised him well, rewarded him with millions of money and a thousand silk horses, and then appointed Mi Fang as the general of the Fu army, and the East China Sea was too guarded, so that he could go to recruit Donghai County, and ordered Wei Yan to lead an army of 8,000 to attack Pengcheng, and Huang Zhong led an army of 8,000 to attack Langya.

The development of things is very smooth, Mi Fang was originally a big clan in the East China Sea, and naturally has a very high prestige in the East China Sea, the original East China Sea Taishou saw Liu Qi's army of tens of thousands coming violently, and knew that nothing could be done, so in order to avoid the people of a county suffering from the war, he had to order surrender.

Although Pengcheng and Langya are both military strongholds, but because most of the troops were requisitioned to Zang Ba in Qingzhou, there were only two or three thousand people in the city, and they were unable to resist at all.

Huang Zhong led the team to attack, met with the stubborn resistance of the other party, and could not break it for a while, at this time, Huang Zhong's military advisor Kan Ze offered a plan, and ordered the sergeant to invite Wang Xiang's father to the army and write a letter to persuade him to surrender.

Wang Xiang is extremely filial, is one of the twenty-four filial pieties in history, the protagonist of the famous allusion "lying on the ice for carp", and is also a famous representative of the famous Langya Wang clan in history, and his younger brother Wang Lan is the fifth ancestor of the sage Wang Xizhi. This person is famous for filial piety, was cited as filial piety, and later was expected to return, was recommended as Langya Taishou, with his own virtue to influence the people, and then educate the great line, the people do not fight, the road is not forgotten, and the night is not closed.

It is precisely because of Wang Xiang's virtue that the people of Langya desperately defended the city, and although Huang Zhong had 8,000 people, he could not capture the city.

Wang Xiang is a native of Langya Linyi, and Langya Taishou is located in Kaiyang, fifty miles away, Wang Xiang originally wanted to take his father to live in Kaiyang, so as to practice filial piety day and night, but his father resolutely disagreed, Wang Xiang even resigned from the post of Taishou for this reason, but was not allowed, so he had no choice but to give up.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Zhong had an opportunity to invite Wang Xiang's father over, Huang Zhong did not embarrass Wang Xiang's father, but personally went out and politely took it to the camp, and persuaded him with good words, Wang Xiang's father was very moved by this, so he wrote a letter of persuasion quite cooperatively.

After receiving his father's letter, Wang Xiang did not hesitate to surrender Kaicheng.

In this way, Liu Qi was almost bloodless, taking Xuzhou lightly, and his strength had extended to the hinterland of the Central Plains, threatening Cao Cao's Yuzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and making Cao Cao's Central Plains face threats again.

After Liu Qi, who was in Xiapi City, heard the news of Langya and Peng Cheng, he was also overjoyed, and immediately let Zhang Fan and Wang Xiang still serve in their original positions, and at the same time ordered Wei Yan and Huang Zhong to establish defenses at the border between the two counties and Cao Cao to prevent Cao Cao's counterattack, especially for Langya's defense, because he knew that Zang Ba, who was stationed in Qingzhou, would definitely lead his troops to counterattack, and only after defeating him could Cao Cao be forced to sit down and make peace with him.

At this moment, Liu Shi suddenly came in and reported to him: "Guangling Taishou Lord Chen asks to see him." ”

"Oh? Invite him in. Liu Qi smiled, sat on the handsome seat, and said lightly.