The enemy ships were withdrawn when all the battleships returned to Yingkou Harbor. Tao Ying rewarded the naval soldiers, only to find out that in this battle, Tao Ying lost not only the Juye, but also two small frigates. In this water battle, Tao Ying's sacrificial sailor army had nearly 500 people. And the most angry over there is Gongsun Du. Gongsun Du's plan was to attack Yingkou with a water army, cut off its rear road, and then crush Tao Ying's army in one fell swoop by flanking up and down on land.

Now in a battle at sea, more than 150 of his own warships against 11 warships, the result of the battle is that the main ship of his navy was sunk by the Xiapi, and the governor of the navy was captured by the next batch. The naval army that he had worked so hard to build was wiped out in this way.

Although more than 50 ships escaped, the next day before dawn, these 50 ships were gone. The reason is that the surrendered naval governor wrote a letter to recruit them all, and they were already a little dissatisfied with Gongsun Du, and these happened to all betray Gongsun Du.

The navy was stationed at Yingkou for three days and lost more than 500 sailors, Tao Ying reorganized nearly 3,000 sailors from Gongsun Du's navy! This calculation doesn't seem to be a lot of loss, but a Juye ship in this battle is worth nearly a million taels of silver! And so many cannons sank to the bottom of the sea, and ammunition, and coal for a dozen ships!

Coupled with the pensions of more than 500 soldiers, Tao Ying of Fire was eager to disembowel the surrendered naval governor on the spot! However, everyone persuaded him, and the governor still had the intention to repent and reform himself, and what was even more hateful was that this person actually knew his subordinate Tai Shici!

Tao Ying summoned the governor of Nadu to inquire, and only then did he know that this person's surname was Liu Mingzheng. He has the same courage and heroism as the famous soldier Bing Yuan, and after Gongsun Du took office as Taishou, he was very jealous of him, so he wanted to kill him. Liu Zheng took the opportunity to escape, and when he was desperate, he took refuge in Bingyuan, a famous man in the same county. Bingyuan hid him at home for nearly a month. During this period, Gongsun Du also ordered to dare to hide Liu Zheng and Liu Zheng were on the same crime.

So when Tai Shici was about to return to Donglai's hometown, Bing Yuan entrusted Liu Zheng to Tai Shici again. Later, Bing Yuan went to tell Gongsun Du that the general wanted to kill Liu Zheng because he was worried that he would harm you, and now that he has escaped, the scourge does not exist. Gongsun Du nodded, and Bing Yuan said that you are afraid of Liu Zheng because he has a plan, and now that Liu Zheng has been dismissed, his resourcefulness is useless, you should pardon him!

In the end, Gongsun Du pardoned Liu Zheng, and he didn't want to cross by himself, so why did he let Liu Zheng run back to Gongsun Du as the governor of the navy. Thinking about it, this person is good friends with Tai Shi Ci, Tai Shi Ci is so powerful, and he is regarded by the people as brave and heroic, and he must also be a dignified man. Maybe he didn't leave a name in history, that's because he didn't take refuge in anyone, and he lived incognito at home!

And in the battle with his own naval army, he did show his resourcefulness. Therefore, after thinking about it, Tao Ying still did not disembowel Liu Zheng, but wanted to use his fame to recover Liaodong and recruit the scholars of Liaodong.

In the camp, Liu Zheng knelt on the ground, and Tao Ying asked him to get up. Tai Shi Ci was also there, and the two gave gifts, and Tai Shi Ci asked Bing Yuan if he was okay now. Liu Zheng sighed and said, Bingyuan is now a Taishou in Changli, a subordinate country in Liaodong, and now he can't be reused by Gongsun Du, and it is also a corner of peace. Hearing that Bing Yuan was the same as Liu Zheng, Tao Ying knew that if he wanted to break through the vassal states of Liaodong, he might have to pay a considerable price.

Now that he knows that Liu Zheng is friendly with him, why don't you let him go to Liaodong to persuade Bingyuan? So, Tao Ying said to Liu Zheng: "I see that you are also a talent, why don't you help me to say that Bing Yuan has surrendered?" On the other day, after capturing Liaodong, how about I appoint Liaodong to two positions? ”

After Liu Zheng heard this, he was overjoyed. Scholars all have the heart to serve the country, but they can't be reused, if they have to be reused, who still wants to go into seclusion? How can you miss this opportunity now?

So Liu Zheng asked Tao Ying and Tai Shici to go together, and then asked Tao Ying to canonize Bing Yuan as the Taishou of Liaodong. Tao Ying agreed, and then named Liu Zheng as the Taishou of Lelang. At this time, Gongsun Du had already occupied the two counties of Liaodong and Lelang. In history, Lelang was occupied by Gongsun Kang, and now it is advanced for some reason.

So, when the sun was not too warm in spring, Tao Ying rode a horse accompanied by Zhou Tai and went to visit Bingyuan with Liu Zheng. March passed quickly, and in April, Liu Zheng persuaded the celebrity Bing Yuan. Bingyuan surrendered to Tao Ying and promised to raise troops to help attack Xiangping from the west.

Before leaving, Bing Yuan offered another suggestion, it is better to recruit people who have enemies with Gongsun Du in Liaodong as internal response, so that the inside and outside should be combined, and Xiangping will be able to break through in one fell swoop! Speaking of people who have enmity with Gongsun Du, the first thing to do is Gongsun Zhao, the former commander of Xiangping County. He made Gongsun Du's son the commander of the army, and after Gongsun Du took office, he tied Gongsun Zhao to everyone and beat him to death with a whip.

So his family hated Gongsun Du and couldn't wait to eat him, and there were also Liaodong wang clans such as Tian Shao, who were killed for no reason. In this way, there were more than 100 families killed, and when he heard about the Great War in the Central Plains, Gongsun Du said to his subordinate Liu Yi that the Han royal family is about to fall, and it is time for me to discuss with you about plotting for the throne!

Gongsun Du Yanran regarded himself as the king of Liaodong and was opposed by many people. So, this is just the right opportunity. Bing Yuan and Liu Zheng went around to contact all kinds of anti-Gongsun Du people, and the time was until May, seeing that Tao Ying had not moved, Gongsun Du personally recruited to Yingkou to fight Tao Ying. After Gongsun Du left the city, Bing Yuan led the troops and said that he would come to help defend Xiangping.

At this time, it was his son Sun Kang who was guarding Xiangping. Gongsun Kang asked Bing Yuan to be stationed outside the city and did not let him enter the city. At ten o'clock in the night, the anti-Gongsun Du alliance in the city opened the city gate and let Bingyuan enter the city, Bingyuan broke through the Taishou Mansion in the middle of the night, and captured Gongsun Kang alive who was in bed ~ on the lewd pleasure.

After capturing Gongsun Kang, Bing Yuan wrote another letter to Tao Ying. The scouts found out that Gongsun Du raised more than 40,000 troops to resist him, so Tao Ying hurriedly summoned Zang Ba and others to gather around the map to discuss countermeasures.

Nowadays, Tao Ying knows the map of the Yingkou area well. So at the suggestion of Zang Ba and Liu Ye, Tao Ying asked Zang Ba to arrange his troops. June, harvest season. But the wheat in the north is not yet fully ripe. Gongsun Du led the troops all the way to the mountains near Yingkou, and there were only trees left around except for the endless trees.

An official road opened up by the iron city stretched into the mountains, and Gongsun Du wanted to walk along the official road, but he was afraid that there would be an ambush around. But if you want to cross the mountains and reach the camp, the soldiers are tired. Just when Gongsun Du was in a dilemma, his subordinate general admonished: "Tao Pifu is new to the terrain, so he doesn't dare to go rashly. It's better to walk along the official road, cross the mountains, and then go straight to the tiger's den! ”