For the arrival of Cao Cao's army, Tao Qian had also made corresponding preparations the day before.

Tao Qian first resolved the grievances between him and Que Xuan, and then recruited the people to urgently strengthen the city wall, repair the city, and garrison the army. However, after all, Cao Cao arrived quickly and did not give him enough time to prepare, so it was a bit urgent for him to face Cao Cao's army of more than 30,000 in a hurry. On the day of the arrival of Cao Cao's army, Tao Qian's men and horses stationed outside the city first competed with Cao Cao for a while. This battle was the first official confrontation between Tao Qian and Cao Cao, and everyone knew that it was a matter of morale, and it was really sloppy.

As a result, Cao Cao dispatched Xiahoudun, Cao Ren and other generals on the side, and almost all his troops were put into the battlefield. On Tao Qian's side, there were originally a lot of people, and there were more than 40,000 people before and after, and at the moment, Liu Bei, Cao Bao and others were the generals to set up their wings and compete with Cao Cao. At the same time, Tao Qian was interested in breaking Que Xuan's morale, so he deliberately let Que Xuan go out with the army. Que Xuan didn't have many people on his hands, so he was naturally reluctant to let him send troops at this time. What's more, he had already fought with Cao Cao before, and he was defeated by Cao Cao several times, and he was also afraid of Cao Cao, and he was cowardly without a fight. However, even if he had the intention to disobey Tao Qian's order at this time, he was afraid that he would not be able to get it. He and Tao Qian had a dispute before, and in order to make up for his mistakes, he also apologized to Tao Qian in person. The relationship that was finally made up for it can't be broken again because of this incident.

Que Xuan thought left and right, put down the respect of the 'Son of Heaven', and followed Tao Qian's order to go to battle with the team. Of course, he has already made up his mind in his heart, and when he arrives on the battlefield, if the spearhead is wrong, it is a big deal to sneak away and not engage the thieves. Tao Qian saw that he had been ordered, and his heart was relieved. In Tao Qian's opinion, although he and Que Xuan have temporarily reconciled, Que Xuan is a disaster after all, and he can't be left behind, so he must try his best to break his wings. Since he was ordered, he didn't have anything to say, so he immediately assigned him a task.

The men and horses of the two sides were laid out in a mighty manner under the city of Peixian, and a fight began with the sound of drums. Cao Cao's side, not to mention, although they were slightly inferior to Tao Qian in terms of numbers, they came with a sharp spirit, their morale was strong, and the fight was naturally unambiguous. As for Tao Qian's side, although he has the elite soldiers of Danyang, he does not have a good general, and it is inevitable that the battle will be confused. A Cao Bao will not say, he has left without a fight before, and was killed by Cao Cao thousands of his men and horses, Cao Bao still has not breathed, although he is reluctant to fight, but he does not dare to fight hard, just a little temptation to test Cao Cao's army, if he can win, he will fight, and if he can't win, he will go. As for Liu Bei, another general in command, he didn't fight very well, and he was still a famous runaway general, although he had two tiger generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in his hands, he couldn't stand the army of thieves, and he was also an expert at seeing the wind and making the rudder, and his mind was even more old and spicy than Cao Bao, so he couldn't count on him.

As for the other generals, there are really people who are good at fighting, and this battle is actually doomed to be a defeat.

Tao Qian responded to the battle in a hurry, he was already in a weak position, and the selection of the commander and general was not human, which was even more unbearable. After a big battle, Tao Qian's front army Cao Bao was defeated first, affected by the front army, Liu Bei and the thieves engaged for a while, and was disturbed by Cao Ren's light cavalry from behind, the rear army was in chaos, Liu Bei thought that the general trend had gone, and he didn't have time to talk to the two brothers, so he left them and led the men and horses to flee to Pei County. However, Liu Bei's two younger brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, were in the midst of the chaos, thinking that the eldest brother had not come out yet, and they killed them several times, wanting to save their eldest brother. Wait until...... When they heard that the eldest brother had gone back, the two of them made up their minds, and they didn't forget to joke: "My eldest brother is good at everything, but it's too worrying, and he won't say a word when he leaves." There were no complaints, and seeing that the eldest brother was gone, they unceremoniously led the rest of the men and horses back to the city.

Tao Qian sat in the middle army, looking at the rout of the front army and the defeat of the two wings, he naturally had nothing to say here, and fled back to Peixian in a hurry with his men and horses. Outside the city of Napei, after the previous battle, the corpses were left everywhere, and the blood became a drain, crying and roaring. Cao Cao's side, won a big victory, so he didn't raise his eyebrows, and then called for a battle outside Pei County, and his voice shook Pei County, as if he wanted to lift the house and fly tiles.

Tao Qian stood at the head of Peixian County, and when he saw Cao Cao's victory under the city, his heart palpitated. He doesn't ask anything else, he only asks where Que Xuan is. Some people on the left and right knew, and immediately reported to Tao Qian, saying that Que Xuan was one step behind Liu Bei, one step ahead of Cao Bao, and had already fled into Peixian County. Tao Qian listened, he didn't annoy Liu Bei, but he pointed directly at Que Xuan, and roared: "What a thief, he caused a big disaster, I just wiped his ass for him, now that the thieves are attacking, he is not good at fighting with the thieves, but he walks away without a fight, affecting the morale of our army, and affecting our army's victory." Where is this thief, bring it now! ”

At that moment, Tao Qian returned to the official residence in the city and asked people to find Que Xuan. Que Xuan didn't dare to say anything, and went to see him at the moment, not wanting to be taken down by Tao Qian's personal guards on the left and right as soon as he entered the mansion. Que Xuan's face turned pale, and he hurriedly pleaded with Tao Qian. Tao Qian had already intended to kill him, and took this opportunity to blame him for the defeat of Peixian, and reprimanded him in front of all the soldiers, so that the world could see him Tao Qian acting fairly. Que Xuan just called it wronged, saying that he was also fighting hard, otherwise he would not have almost exhausted all the men and horses in this battle and would have returned alone.

Que Xuan said that he had exhausted almost all of his men, of course, it was not a lie, but it depended on how to understand it. When it was, Que Xuan's troops were behind, seeing that the Cao Leopard army in front of him was defeated first, he was already frightened, and then he saw that Liu Bei's men and horses were also defeated, and the whole army was almost in chaos, and he saw the thieves rushing towards him, he didn't dare to fight, turned around and left directly, and lost all his subordinates to the thieves. In this way, there are not many people who return to Peixian County with him in the end, and naturally, as he said, the first battle almost exhausted all his men. Of course, this kind of dishonorable thing Que Xuan is also difficult to say to himself, hearing Tao Qian accuse him with this, he had no choice but to carry it out, in order to refute Tao Qian's point of view, so that Tao Qian knew that he had fought, but it was only because of poor performance that he fled, not without a fight.

When Que Xuan said this, he deliberately faintly accused Cao Bao and Liu Bei, saying that he also saw that there was an example in front of him when he left, even if he wanted to punish the crime, Liu Bei and the others should admit their mistakes first. Liu Bei and Cao Bao were ashamed of being said by Que Xuan, but Liu Bei was quite thick-skinned, saw the situation clearly, was too lazy to argue with Que Xuan, and watched the play freely. However, Cao Bao was ruthless in his heart, and became rude, accusing Que Xuan of being a 'son of heaven', and deliberately said that the reason why Tao Qian recognized his identity as the 'son of heaven' was because he had no choice but to be a hypocrisy, and he was waiting to clean him up with his own hands in the future. Today, since he doesn't know what to do, he will kill him for Tao Qian and punish the traitor for the world! As soon as he finished speaking, he glanced at Tao Qian, and saw that Tao Qian did not come forward to stop him, so he immediately took a step forward and chopped off Que Xuan's head with a knife.

Poor Que Xuan, where did he know that Cao Bao really wanted to kill him, it was too late to pull out his weapon, and he shouted to both sides that it was Tao Qian's people, he was in a hurry, and he turned around and was about to flee, not wanting to be chopped in the neck by Cao Bao with a knife, and he was killed immediately. Cao Bao cut off Que Xuan's head, held it in his hand, and said to Tao Qian: "The thief is here because of this, today he will punish the rebel thief, and send the head to Cao Cao, Cao Cao can retreat!" ”

Tao Qian did not stop Cao Bao, he wanted Cao Bao to be this wicked man, at this time, seeing that he had such words, he immediately said to his heart, thinking that if he could dedicate Que Xuan's head to Cao Cao, Cao Cao would retire because of it, it would be no better. At that moment, he glanced at everyone, and everyone was well-behaved and agreed with Cao Bao's point of view. Tao Qian saw that there was no objection, so he nodded and asked Cao Bao to order someone to send Que Xuan's head out of the city, and wrote a letter to Cao Cao, stating that the reason why he raised troops was because he was bewitched by Que Xuan's thief, and hoped that Cao Gong Haihan would kill this fang today to eliminate the harm for Cao Gong, so that there is no need to blame, and the two families can repair Yunyun in the future.

Cao Cao got the book, but he ignored it, but reprimanded Tao Qian, saying that when Que declared the emperor, you Tao Qian was the biggest culprit, although Que Xuan died, the culprit was not removed, and he still could not retreat. Tao Qian got the book, and he was anxious, but he defended himself with the book, saying that the reason why he recognized Que Xuan's identity was because he had no choice but to do so. Cao Cao was bent on using this as an excuse to attack Xuzhou, where was he willing to listen to Tao Qian, and immediately ignored Tao Qian's letter, and immediately stepped up the deployment of troops and horses, manufactured siege equipment, and prepared to launch a vicious attack on Peixian County.

Tao Qian was panicked, and when he saw that Cao Cao didn't leave, he was helpless. Here, he saw that Que Xuan was killed, and on the other hand, he also eliminated the few chaotic parties that Que Xuan brought into the city. Que Xuan's death, the Xiapi Rebellion Party where he was located, there were only a thousand people, and he was frightened when he heard it, and he didn't wait for Tao Qian's army to conquer it, he dispersed first, and Xiapi returned to Tao Qian's hands again. That's just for later. However, at this time, Tao Qian was already very busy, writing a book to Chen Deng in Tan County, asking Chen Deng to gather soldiers and horses to prepare for a big battle, and on the other hand, strengthening Peixian County, vowing to fight to the death with Cao Cao.

However, it is good for Tao Qian to have this determination, but after a previous battle outside the city, his men and horses have lost their morale, and then ask them to harden up, where is it so easy? What's more, the city wall of Peixian County is not tall in the first place, and no matter how it is strengthened for a while, no matter how much it is repaired, it will not be able to resist Cao Cao's victorious soldiers. In the face of Cao Cao's frantic attack of tens of thousands of troops, Tao Qian defended to the death after a round, and finally lost thousands of soldiers, which was able to withstand Cao Cao's first wave of attacks. And then, Cao Cao, after exhausting Tao Qian's elite, once again launched the next round of attacks on Pei County.

This time, the storm faced by Peixian County will be even worse.