Guangling County, Xuzhou. Because of the former Xuzhou Mu Taoqian connived at the plundering of Yuan Shu's remnants, and made the surrounding Yangzhou, Xiapi junction of several rural counties almost ten rooms and nine empty, and spread a hundred years of great drought, it is difficult to recover in a short period of time, everywhere you see, are left only in addition to the eyes of a piece of ruins and broken walls, a hundred miles without rooster crow, white bones left in the wild, the only remaining people in the eyes are mostly sluggish, wooden, lifeless, with the famous in the anointing of the land Fu Min Feng said, incompatible.

"Lord, we are waiting for food and grass is less than three days, this time from Qu'a hurriedly withdrew, even after the past and did not meet a decent village and town to rest, the army has long been tired, if you continue to go around like this and do not attack the supply of Guangling County, I am afraid that it will ......" At this time, among an army of thousands of people marching in the county, a middle-aged general with a national face was said in a respectful tone with a heroic young man led by him, but the worry in his eyes could not be concealed, seeing that the young leader frowned and did not speak, With an embarrassed face, he paused slightly, and said with some hesitation: "Or, why don't you order the sergeant to 'replenish' on his own like the previous time?" ”

"Huh? Cannot! Yuan Gong had already done something wrong before! We are not wild thieves and thieves, but we have done such absurd things that even thieves despise, so that this place is almost inhabited, and there is no trace of the connection between villages and towns, and the smell of chickens and dogs, which makes someone feel ashamed of hindsight. Who would have thought that in less than a year now, if even the last hope of survival for these people is deprived of the last hope of survival due to the supply of our army, Demou, how do you say that they will deal with themselves in the future? When the young general heard this, he was stunned, shook his head irritably, and said.

"But, my lord, Yuan Gong's military order is to order us to take Guangling, and if it is not good, it will also disturb the rear of Xuzhou, so that Xiapi and things cannot take care of each other? And I didn't wait for it to be ...... before" This middle-aged general is one of the old generals of the Sun family who was "exchanged" back by Sun Ce with the jade seal of the country, Cheng Pu Cheng Demou, who got Yuan Shu's emergency military order this time, and with the young master Sun Ce withdrawing from the battlefield of Qu'a, which occupies an absolute advantage, he is being ordered to attack Guangling County. But it was only a few days after entering Guangling County, and the quartermaster came to report that the military rations were in short supply, and Cheng Pu had to come to report it.

At the beginning, Sun Ce only exchanged more than 1,000 veterans of the old department, but Yuan Shu saw the face of the artifact and allocated enough military rations for March, and then he was escorted on time, and there was never a shortage. But in the past half a year, Sun Ce's gathered troops have actually increased several times, and he is worried that he will be suspected by Yuan Shu and has not reported the truth, so even if it is strictly controlled, the military rations are actually overstretched. If there is no supply, there is no food, I am afraid that I have not yet met the Xuzhou generals, and even if our army has combat strength, it will face the danger of collapse.

"This time and that time! When he was under the command of Yuan Gong, he had to do it as a last resort, otherwise he would have violated the military order. If we do this again, if we spread the word, I am afraid that everyone in the world will regard us as thieves! Think of another way, never to disturb the people again! "Sun Ce is not a pedantic person, and the old Sun family does not have a good stubble. Otherwise, there would not be Sun Jian's secret heirloom jade seal, and Sun Ce used it in exchange for the army. It's just that when Yuan Shu teased Tao Qian and ordered his subordinates to sack the counties around Xiapi and Guangling, Sun Ce was just a junior general in the army, so he naturally had to obey orders, but now that he has the heart to stand on his own, he has to pay attention to the reputation of this thing. Sun Ce didn't want to have a reputation for his cowardly behavior if he didn't succeed in his great cause and didn't get any benefits. Therefore, at the moment, even if we know that there are only three days of food left, it will be a great blow to the morale of the army, and we have to take into account the consequences.

"The heart of the Lord's benevolence and righteousness is universally appreciated. But even so, I waited for this time to be ordered to capture Guangling, which was just an order, and it should not affect the reputation of the lord. Moreover, there are very few defenders in Guangling County, and it is very difficult to explain if Yuan Gong knows that we are not attacking now. Cheng Pu really didn't understand what his young master, who was known as the little overlord, was thinking, and this hesitation had not appeared in Sun Ce at all.

"Demou! Since the moment he handed over the jade seal of the country that his father sacrificed his life to obtain, Yuan Highway has already been friends and foes with us! Sun Ce's face flashed a little ruthless color that was extremely inconsistent with his resolute and handsome face, and said lightly: "Since Yuan Shao died violently in Hebei, Yuan Shu has no hindrance, and he actually wants to use 40,000 newly recruited soldiers to fight 70,000 elite soldiers, with the selfishness of vain soldiers, and the righteousness of fighting to protect the land, what are the odds of victory?" It's just Yuan Highway's way of death, do you want me to wait for death in vain to be his loyal servant of the Yuan family? Demou rest assured, and to stabilize the hearts of the soldiers, there is no need to worry about the matter of grain and grass, only within one or two days, a certain letter Gongjin must have a solution. ”

"Nuo ......" Cheng Pu is also one of the few wise generals in the Sun family, although Sun Ce's words are unknown, but Cheng Pu still heard a few different meanings. It seems that through the matter of passing on the jade seal of the country, Sun Ce is completely dead to Yuan Shu. Although he can't completely get out of Yuan Shu's control for the time being, he has to still obey orders and make a loyal appearance that he is willing to be Yuan Shu's pawn. But it seems that there is no "psychological barrier" for Sun Ce. Moreover, listening to Sun Ce's words, his attitude towards Lu Bu seems to have changed a lot, and he even has the idea of befriending Lu Bu to stabilize the rear and concentrate on conquering Yangzhou to create a foundation. Cheng Pu was the minister of the Sun family, and naturally agreed with the idea of his young master, and he also understood that Sun Ce, who had always been quite murderous, did not commit any crimes all the way after entering Guangling County, even for Guangling County, which only had hundreds of defenders. Take the order now.

This Sun Ceyang was carrying out Yuan Shu's battle orders in disobedience, but in fact he was selling Lu Bu in an attempt to ease the relationship between them, even if it was a military ration general, he refused to supply from Guangling County to show his sincerity, and there was almost no war on the eastern front. In Xiapi City, Cao Bao, who is the first general in Xuzhou and the old man of Qingzhou, is a little anxious because of the frequent incidents recently.

Among the world-famous Danyang elite soldiers, there were deserters! And there are more and more of them! At first, Cao Bao didn't care too much, after all, most of these soldiers in his hands were once the late Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian's troops, although they were both Xuzhou soldiers, and the soldiers were of the same origin, but there were many contradictions between them and their own original troops, and Tao Qian was dead, Cao Bao took advantage of the chaos in Xuzhou to seize the control of the nearly 30,000 Danyang soldiers, in order not to lose too much in front of his cheap son-in-law Lu Wenhou, Not being squeezed by the Qingzhou soldiers to whom Qin belonged, who was the son-in-law of his son-in-law, had no sense of existence, so he forcibly gathered more than 20,000 people who were already full of contradictions, and it was not surprising that someone who disobeyed him, the first general in Xuzhou, appeared.

But recently, especially in just a few days after Yuan Shu came over, among the Tao Danyang soldiers and Cao Danyang soldiers who had barely been able to coexist peacefully, several large-scale conflicts broke out one after another. Cao Bao didn't care much about it before, how big a wave could the Tao Danyang soldiers, who were already leaderless, make waves in the Xuzhou Governance Center where they were seriously ill? But with the escalation of the conflict step by step, when Cao Bao paid attention to it, he found that the two lines of Danyang elite soldiers had become an intractable trend, if it were not for the fact that there were still 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers in the city, who were well known in the army, I am afraid that the civil strife of these Danyang elite soldiers alone would be enough to make Xiapi City almost undefended in front of the attacking Yuan Shu army. Cao Bao was relied on by Tao Qian before, and he did have a few brushes, in order not to expose this matter and make the reputation of the Danyang soldiers discredited, and was despised by Lu Bu, and lost the position of thinking that he could "check" Qin Xu for his son-in-law Lu Bu, and he also wanted to vigorously rectify it, arrested a few ** captains, and almost checked the frequent occurrence of this series of incidents one by one, almost almost making the Danyang soldiers bomb the source of the rebellion.

But what Cao Bao didn't expect was that this move seemed to be a fuse, and he didn't know which string touched the hearts of these soldiers, and the Tao Danyang soldiers, who were already dissatisfied with Cao Bao's original opponent who seized military power, seemed to have made an appointment, and at the beginning Cao Bao was complacent about these people's sudden silence, thinking that the strategy would work, but before Cao Bao could laugh out loud, he received the news of the disappearance of those Tao Danyang soldiers. In just a few days, there were nearly 3,000 Tao Danyang soldiers who were missing, and among Cao Bao's tribes, soldiers began to disappear.

If one or two people get lost, they can still shirk and say that they are deserters, but when this war is about to break out and Yuan Shu's army is about to come to the city, such a thing suddenly happened, which makes Cao Bao, who always thinks that he is Lu Bu's father-in-law, who is a head taller than other soldiers in Xuzhou, and is usually almost transcendent, also panicked and became uneasy. This matter can't be suppressed, and as a last resort, I can only report the causes and consequences to the trusted Xuzhou Don't drive Zhang Zhao, engage in Zhang Hong, and be transferred back from Guangling by Erzhang, and reappointed Chen Deng, the eldest son of the Chen family, as Zhao Yu in Guangling. But because he felt embarrassed, he couldn't say it.

After Er Zhang and Zhao Yu received the news, they were also taken aback. Danyang elite soldiers are famous all over the world, and one of the reasons for their extremely high combat power is because most of these soldiers are from one place, and it is no exaggeration to say that among the 30,000 Danyang soldiers, regardless of the faction, if strictly speaking, almost all of them are related to each other, and there are not a few within the five suits. Therefore, it can be twisted into a rope and form a powerful combat power that is famous all over the world. The situation of this state of affairs mentioned by Cao Bao is simply impossible unless there is an extremely special reason.

At this time, in Xiapi City, because of this incident, more than 40,000 guards who were originally relieved suddenly became the source of unstable factors. Seeing that after Cao Bao, who wanted to evade responsibility, gave up, the chaos among the Danyang soldiers became more and more apparent, and the situation became more and more uncontrollable. Even Erzhang and Zhao Yu, who have the talent of prime ministers, as well as the two heads of the Chen family and the Mi family, also smelled the smell of danger, but because the matter was too well hidden by Cao Bao before, when he suddenly knew it this time, he was already in chaos and out of control.

And at this moment, an urgent report came that Yuan Shu's army was already less than thirty miles away from Xiapi City! (To be continued.) )