Just when Cao Cao looked at Tao Ying in shock, Tao Ying also immediately said, "Gong Cao, don't say goodbye today." I hope that you and I Yanzhou and Xuzhou will never fight, and I will still help you if necessary! ”

After Tao Ying finished speaking, he reined in and returned, and Lu Bu and the others were still waiting in the cold wind outside Juye City. When he returned to Giant Wild City, he began to gather the generals to discuss the new policy.

After entering the city, Juye at this time was still a small city near the water's edge, the city walls were not very high, and the population was not very large. In the only relatively bright landlord's mansion, Tao Ying put on a few tables of wine banquets.

In addition to his own generals, the eight strong generals under Lu Bu came to the banquet. This time, even the Qingzhou envoy was not invited. At the banquet, Tao Ying first praised the merits of Lu Bu and others, and then rewarded them according to their merits.

After the reward was completed, Tao Ying said to Lu Bu beside him: "Wen Hou, yesterday there was news from Guangqi that Xiao Pei, where Wen Hou was stationed, had been captured by Cao Bao. Wen Hou has nowhere to be stationed, do you want to go back to Pengcheng with me now, or where do you want to station? ”

Tao Ying tried Lu Bu's attitude, although Lu Bu nominally took refuge in himself, but his arrogant personality would definitely not be willing.

Lu Bu drank all the jug of wine in front of the table, slammed the jug on the table and said, "Cao Bao'er, I am inseparable from him!" Lord, I am willing to lead the troops and horses of my headquarters to seize the country for the lord, please approve it! ”

Tao Ying nodded, now that Pengcheng has run out of grain and grass, it is not only necessary to prepare food for the winter, but also to prepare grain for the coming year, so there is not much to use for war.

Therefore, Tao Ying said again: "Wen Hou is eager to save his family, this matter is understandable." It's just that now after the war, our army's grain and grass are compact, so it is better to return to Lu to station first, the land of Lu is fertile for thousands of miles, and there are not many major wars, so the fertile land is less destroyed. When the wheat is ripe in the next year, I will send the grain and grass of the Lu country to Wen Hou, and it will not be too late for Wen Hou to send troops at that time! ”

Hearing that Tao Ying temporarily rewarded Lu Guo to himself for stationing, Lu Bu gratefully cast a grateful glance at Tao Ying. In order to comfort Lu Bu's heart, Tao Ying said again: "As for Xiao Pei's matter, I will definitely write to Lord Zhou Mu and ask him to release Wen Hou's family." ”

Lu Bu hurriedly got up and thanked him.

The banquet lasted until the afternoon, and when the banquet was over, Tao Ying reappointed a new general. Regained Shanyang County, Shanyang County is in ruins, and now there will be no war in Shanyang County for a while and a half, so Tao Ying is ready to transfer Pi Chen Gui and his son to serve as Shanyang Taishou.

In Bianliang City and Fengqiu, there is no better candidate at this time. Bianliang is a big city that he plans to build behind enemy lines, and there are enemies all around, so he needs a fierce general to station. But as for the fierce generals around him, they are all too young, and they need to guard their old nest Pengcheng at all times.

Tao Ying is thinking about the most thing now, which is to quickly defeat Yuan Shu, and then go south to find Tai Shi Ci, who is the most suitable to serve as the Taishou of Bianliang and the commander of Fengqiu County.

And then there is the navy, Qingzhou ceded the city to himself, and renamed it Qingdao, Tao Ying is ready to build a naval base there, one of the three major naval bases, such an important work, Tao Ying must not be handed over to outsiders.

On the way back, Tao Ying thought about it, who could be around him who was familiar with water warfare? It seems that above history, those who are good at water warfare are all generals of Eastern Wu, and when he thought of animal generals, Tao Ying suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted: "Why did I forget my second brother!" ”

The second brother Xu Sheng is also an animal general, he is so good at water warfare in the later period, isn't it a good time to train him? So Tao Ying called Xu Sheng, who was on the expedition with him, to his side.

Two horses and a large army had traveled day and night, and now it was dark night, and a full moon overhead let people know that the month was halfway over.

Xu Sheng rushed to Tao Ying's side, and the moonlight sprinkled on Tao Ying like mercury, reflecting the silver-white brocade robe on Tao Ying's body, making Tao Ying look like a beautiful man.

"Big brother, why did you call me?"

Seeing that Xu Sheng was coming, Tao Ying was busy filling the footsteps of the horse.

"Second brother, now Qingzhou has allocated Qingdao City to me, although I have never been to Qingdao City, but I know that it is a natural port. I want to make him the largest naval army base in the north, so the second brother, Qingdao is too guarded, and the second brother needs to go out. ”

Seeing that Tao Ying let himself go to a place where birds don't, Xu Sheng was a little unhappy in his heart. In this battle, he made the most contributions, so he originally thought that Tao Ying would at least let him be the Taishou in Shanyang County, but he didn't expect to transfer himself away from Pengcheng and go to Qingdao City, which is not in line with Pengcheng.

And although it is said to be too guarded, Qingdao City is only the jurisdiction of a county, where is it compared to Shanyang County?

"Big brother, I want to stay in Pengcheng."

No one wants to suffer, Xu Sheng whispered, Tao Ying knew that he was unwilling, so he hurriedly comforted: "Second brother, I know you don't want to do it." But you have to know that the eldest brother cares about Qingdao very much, and Qingdao is no less than Pengcheng in the eyes of the eldest brother. Therefore, although the second brother goes, I will take out 10,000 taels of silver every year to support the construction of the Qingdao Navy Base. At that time, a school will be built there, and in less than five years, Qingdao will become a prosperous city like Pengcheng! ”

Tao Ying comforted, and when he heard that Tao Ying attached so much importance to it, Xu Sheng lowered his head embarrassedly and said, "My brother was reckless just now, everything is arranged by my eldest brother!" ”

After taking care of the affairs in Qingdao, the two of them rode horses and talked side by side.

From Juye City, I rushed all the way south to Guangqi, and it took nearly three days to reach the vicinity of Xiaopei. At this time, Xiao Pei was occupied by Cao Bao, a subordinate of the pottery merchant, and needless to say, the Diao Chan with the appearance of a fallen city must also be among Xiao Pei. Tao Ying suddenly realized that Xiaopei was really a good place!

The battle report from the front bypassed Xiao Pei and came from Guangqi, and after the army of Ji Ling of the Forbidden Dao was defeated in Sterqiu, it readjusted again, and Yuan Shu increased his troops by 20,000 and began to attack Sterqiu City again.

At this time, there were less than 8,000 soldiers and horses in Yongqiu City, and if it weren't for the high number of soldiers and soldiers, it would have been broken by Ji Ling a long time ago. Therefore, Yu Ban was busy and asked Tao Ying to quickly dispatch troops and horses to support.

Originally, Zhang Zhao wanted to transfer Guangqi's or Xiapi's soldiers and horses to support, but at this time, Zhang Zhao got the news that Tao Ying had already attacked Pengcheng with Yuan Shu.

Therefore, in order to keep the north gate and west gate of Pengcheng, Zhang Zhao did not dare to move the military horses of Shiting Town and Xiapi and Guangqi. Therefore, the last 3,000 Golden-Winged troops of Pengcheng could only be temporarily transferred to meet the battle, but the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses still looked so weak and vulnerable in front of the 70,000 army.