Lu Bu seems to have a point, although he captured Northern Xuzhou, it is indeed not his own territory. Tao Ying saw that he was still so shameless, so he sneered: "In that case, do I want to thank you?" Then why did you open up your territory and expand your territory, why did you drive to the edge of my Guangqi City? ”

Everyone says that Lu Bu is brave and unstrategic, but Lu Bu is not. He can be a prince, and naturally he has his wisdom. Lu Bu calmly replied: "The whole world is not the king's land, and now the emperor has appointed me as the pastor of Xuzhou, and I have the responsibility to recover the land for the emperor!" ”

Lu Bu actually moved the emperor out, Tao Ying smiled and said: "Cao Cao played you like a monkey, how can you not know?" Since you are ignorant, I will let you know my means! ”

After the two of them finished speaking, they had the urge to fight, and Lu Bu believed that he was brave enough to win the three armies, so he pointed at Tao Ying and shouted: "You dare to fight me!" ”

Heads-up seems to be the unwritten rule of war in this world, but where is Tao Ying stupid enough to go head-to-head with Lu Bu? He didn't dare to hit the stone with an egg, so Tao Ying pointed to Zhang Liao behind him and said: "Exchange prisoners today, and after the exchange, I will fight with you!" ”

After Tao Ying finished speaking, he asked He Qi to push the bound Zhang Liao to the middle of the battlefield, and the tied Zhao Yun was also pushed to the middle of the battlefield. At this time, Zhao Yun, who had messy hair and stains, no longer had the arrogance he had before, but became much more modest. With his head down, he kept walking towards Tao Ying, and he was still thinking about how to apologize for insulting Tao Yingjun's undefeated record.

The two of them returned to their respective formations, and Zhao Yun knelt on the ground and shouted, "Big brother......"

Tao Ying just helped Zhao Yun up and said: "Third brother, today you should eat a lamp and grow a wisdom, and in the future, you should remember today's shame, don't be impulsive, you must be cautious in everything!" ”

Helping Zhao Yun up, after the soldiers cut the rope on Zhao Yun's body, Zhang Liao was also rescued over there. Lu Bu rode up to call for battle, Tao Ying was too lazy to fight him, so he waved his hand and shouted: "It's getting late today, fight again tomorrow!" ”

Lu Bu raised his head, the sunset had already set half at the foot of the mountain, and it seemed that night was coming soon.

On this day, the troops were withdrawn again.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's mid-August. It was getting hotter and hotter in the north, and the soldiers hid in the barracks and were thirsty. As time passed, Lu Bu's military rations gradually ran out. Lu Bu had to let Zhang Liao go to fetch grain, but the surrounding land, grain and grass were all taken by the people to other places.

And as soon as Zhang Liao left, Tao Ying sent a large army to attack Lu Bu, and the two sides fought nearly ten times outside the city, and there were no less than 10,000 deaths on the battlefield, but there was still no difference between victory and defeat.

In mid-August, the weather was already hot and dry, and news came from Tancheng that Cao Chun had led a large army to besiege Tancheng for nearly a week. Originally, Tancheng was the capital of Xuzhou, and the city was easy to defend, but the people in the city had missed the second son for a long time, so many big clans were ready to move.

In addition, when Cao Chun was attacking the city at this time, he used particularly advanced siege equipment, so the Tancheng defenders felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to defend the city. In order to quickly capture Tancheng, Cao Chun shot a letter tied with paper into the city. The letter said that if the defenders surrendered, they would all be spared death, otherwise they would be plundered after the city was broken.

Cao Chun only gave them three days, and as soon as the time came, Tao Ying had people use a catapult to light the jar filled with oil and throw it close to Tancheng County, and for a time the fire spread in Tancheng County. Seeing that Tancheng was on fire, the guard Hao Meng hurriedly asked people to put out the fire. But at this time, the family saw that Lu Bu's general trend had gone, and many people organized nearly 10,000 people to start attacking the government.

The attack on the palace was repelled by Cao Xing's troops, and the family began to attack the north gate, which was the weakest guard. Many of the sons and daughters of the great families were recruited into the soldiers and horses of Lu Bu, and they guarded the cities of Tancheng, and when they saw that there was a fire in the city, the family began to attack the defenders, so they were also busy shooting in and bringing the letter out.

Outside the city, Cao Chun received the letter and ordered a large army to attack the city. The soldiers began to attack the city with shields, and Hao Meng's army in the city wanted to resist, but the military horses composed of the people of Xuzhou in the city fought with Hao Meng's military horses in the city.

Cao Chun took the opportunity to start banging on the city gate, and the huge gate-breaking car began to bang on the south gate. The south gate was crumbling, not long after, the soldiers took advantage of the chaos to attack the city wall, the civil war in the city continued, and the city was also chaotic into porridge, Hao Meng saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to lead the troops to kill the defenders of the family from the north gate with Cao Xing and fled to the territory of Langya country.

Cao Chun captured the capital of Donghai County and hurriedly sent a letter to Guangqi. Lü Bu attacked Guangqi for less than a month, and the military horses suffered heavy losses, and at this time, whenever Lü Bu attacked the city, Tao Ying would defend the city, and Lü Bu wanted to leave, Tao Ying would chase after him. After a month of round-trip, when Hao Meng and Cao Xing led the troops to arrive at the city of Guangqi, they learned that Tancheng had been lost, and Lu Bu was furious.

Not only did he not take much in this battle, but he also lost so many cities, how could he not be angry! With the addition of Cao Xing and Hao Meng, Lu Bu recruited Xiaopei and Liu Bei to attack Guangqi together, wanting to break Guangqi and then capture Pengcheng in one fell swoop, and then share wealth with Liu Bei.

Liu Bei knew that Lu Bu didn't believe what he said, how could he believe him again? With Cao Xing's help, Lu Bu's siege became more and more fierce. Liu Beicheng was small and didn't want to offend the second son, so he could only stand by and watch. Tao should have Yuan Tan's help, how could Lu Bu fight alone? Therefore, at the suggestion of Chen Gong, Lu Bu sent a letter to Yuan Shu in Huainan.

When Liu Bei attacked Huainan, Lu Bu helped Yuan Shu, although in the end Yuan Shu played himself, but Chen Gong knew that Yuan Shu had won the jade seal, and wanted to go one step further in the position of the third prince of the fourth world. Therefore, Lu Bu promised to take the land of Xuzhou as a gift to Yuan Shu at that time.

The messenger set off for Huainan, and after Huainan asked Yuan, Yuan Shu, in order to prevent Lü Bu from cheating, asked Lü Bu to marry his daughter to his son at the suggestion of the strategist, and then he would be called emperor, and his son would be the prince, and Lü Bu's daughter would be the queen.

The messenger ran back to tell Lu Bu that Lu Bu's daughter was being detained by Tao Ying in Pengcheng, where could she send it to Yuan Shu? Therefore, Lü Bu asked Yuan Shu to send troops to Pengcheng to rescue his daughter.

Outside Guangqi City, Lu Bu and Tao Ying had their own victories and defeats. September is coming, after two months of stalemate, both sides have little food and grass, Tao Ying went out of the city several times to meet Lu Bu, but could not resist the courage of Lu Bu and Zhang Liao's military horses. What's more, the resourceful Chen Gong also led the army to help in the battle.

Due to years of fighting, news came from the rear at this time that Pengcheng State was running out of food and grass, the treasury was empty, and it was almost impossible to pay soldiers. Tao Ying asked Zhang Zhao to find a way, Zhang Zhao said that if you want to continue fighting, you must continue to recruit soldiers, and that conscription requires silver, and Peng Chengguo has spent money on building Pengcheng city walls and halls and various schools in recent years.

And to pay for so many schools, it is even more difficult to make ends meet. At present, although Pengcheng can print a large number of banknotes, but now the banknotes are seriously depreciated, and there is a banknote crisis.

If the people of Pengcheng know about this matter, there will definitely be a large number of gold and silver exchange boom, and then the economy of the entire Pengcheng will really collapse, Pengcheng will be operating in vain for so many years, and all the schools will have no financial support, and they will go out of business.

At the beginning of September, Cao Chun and Yin Libing fought in two ways until they reached the border of Langya. After attacking Donghai County, Cao Chun asked Li Dian and Yin Li to be stationed in Donghai County, and he led 10,000 troops to Guangqi to help in the war. As soon as Cao Chun arrived in Lanting, he was ambushed by Chen Gong's military horses, and after losing nearly a thousand soldiers and horses, Cao Chun had to retreat to Shiting Town to garrison.