The straight-line distance from Shouchun City to the Quyang battlefield is less than forty miles, and the contact is not only generally convenient, so the order of Xiao Yuan Sangong to let Uncle Liu Huang go south to block the main force of Xuzhou was sent to the Quyang battlefield by Yuan Yin, the younger brother of Xiao Yuan Sangong, and sent to the Liu Yuan coalition army that was besieging Quyang, but Yuan Yin, who had a ghost in his heart, did not dare to enter the Liu camp to pass the order, so he invited the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang to the camp of the Yuan Shujun controlled by Qiao Rui and Lei Bo, and read the order of the little Yuan Sangong to the three Taozi brothers in his own Chinese army tent.

After listening to the order of Xiao Yuan Sangong, Uncle Liu Huang, who was very deep in the city, could still hold it, except for the fist on his knees that clenched his knuckles white, his face barely changed, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei standing behind Uncle Liu were not good, Yuan Yin's words were not all finished, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had already yelled together, "What? Tell us to intercept Tao Ying's thief's army of reinforcements? This time we fought Quyang, and we have lost tens of thousands of troops in a row after several days and nights, and most of the remaining troops are exhausted, what can we do to intercept the main army of Tao Ying's thieves? And how to intercept his main army?! ”

"General Guan, General Zhang, don't be anxious, please listen to what you will say." Yuan Yin stubbornly said: "My lord also knows that your troops have suffered heavy casualties and the soldiers are exhausted, but now that Tao Ying's thief is about to return to his division, if he doesn't send an army south to block it, then the sacrifices made by your two armies under Quyang City will be wasted, so there is no way, my lord can only ask Xuande Gong to work hard." ”

"Then your lord won't let your Huainan army intercept it?" Zhang Fei roared angrily: "In the past few days, Quyang has been fighting, and the hard and bloody battles are all our army's round, and your Huainan army is hiding behind to watch the excitement!" Now intercept Tao Ying's main reinforcement force, and want our army to fight a tough battle and bloody battle in front, and you are hiding behind to watch the excitement, you want to take all the good things in the world?! ”

"Brother, this battle can't be fought!" Guan Yu also roared angrily: "Brother, you are kind enough to lead the army to save Huainan, but Yuan Shu just wants to push us to the front and send us to death, without the slightest sincerity to join hands, we can't afford to stick a hot face to his cold ass anymore, let's go, go back to Runan and make another big plan!" ”

Not to mention, Uncle Liu Huang really wanted to listen to Guan Yu's angry words and lead the army back to the north, and would rather go back to Runan to eat chaff and vegetables, rather than go south to meet the main force of Xuzhou where the army was flourishing and sent to death in vain, but considering that this time the southern crossing of the Huai River had already lost tens of thousands of troops, not to mention the abandonment of his previous efforts, and it would be greatly damaged to his own benevolence and righteousness, so Uncle Liu Huang finally dispelled this idea, just looked at Yuan Yin gently, and looked at Yuan Yin with the most sincere and pure eyes, while using such a gaze to make Yuan Yin embarrassed. While nervously calculating countermeasures.

Forced by Uncle Liu's sincere gaze that was so pure that it seemed to have no impurities, Yuan Yin, who was ashamed in his heart, became more and more embarrassed, and said: "Xuande Gong, please rest assured, if your army can break the Xuzhou thief army led by Tao Ying's thief, or can stop Tao Ying's thief for a few times, and persist until our army breaks through Quyang, then my lord will definitely have a good reward, war horses, money, food, and ordnance, and he will definitely be rewarded heavily." ”

Uncle Liu Huang still didn't speak, and Qiao Rui and Lei Bo next to him didn't speak either-although they felt that their lord had done too much, but considering that the lord was also doing this for the sake of the interests of the Huainan army, he simply acted as a stuffy gourd, and in the military tent of Nuoda, only the heavy wheezing voices of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two peerless fierce men, remained.

After a long time, Uncle Liu Huang finally spoke, and said lightly: "Before preparing to cross the river, there was an agreement with Yuan Highway, and after the army crossed the river, he obeyed Yuan Gong's dispatch. ”

Yuan Yin was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Uncle Liu Huang again and again, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were dissatisfied but it was inconvenient to speak against it, Lei Bo had nothing to do with his own fake politeness, Qiao Rui was in a complicated mood, his lips trembled for a long time, and he couldn't help but say: "Xuande Gong, please be careful, if you can block it, you can block it, if you can't stop it, you can't stop it, just ...... it, and the camera acts." ”

Uncle Liu Huang smiled and nodded to Qiao Rui, didn't speak, got up and led Guan Yu and Zhang Fei out of the big tent, and when he walked to the front of the big tent, Uncle Liu Huang turned around and said to Yuan Yin calmly: "Please report to Yuan Gong, in order to fight against the hypocrite army of Tao thieves, you need a thousand hard crossbows, 30,000 crossbow arrows, and a month's grain and grass. ”

"A month's worth of grain and grass?" Yuan Yin's brows furrowed slightly, and his heart said What do you want so much food for? There are only 220 miles from Quyang to Hefei, and it is very easy to supply grain and grass, so can you bring so much grain south? Doubts are doubts, but since Uncle Liu Huang has already agreed to go south to die, Yuan Yin will not be able to refuse Uncle Liu's request for money and food on the spot, so he nodded and replied: "Duke Xuande, please rest assured, I will send someone to return to Shouchun overnight to pay tribute to the lord, and ask the lord to do his best to allocate it." Uncle Liu Huang stopped talking, and led General Guan Zhang to stride out of the tent, leaving Yuan Yin, Qiao Rui and Lei Bosan to whisper in the big tent.

Silently returned to his own camp, Uncle Liu Huang's ass had not yet sat firmly, Zhang Fei couldn't wait to scream, "Brother, Yuan Shupifu is so ruthless and unjust, why do you still agree to intercept Tao Ying's thief for him?" With our current situation, going south to fight the main team of Tao Ying's thief won't let the soldiers die in vain? ”

"Brother Xian, how can you not know that our army is not the opponent of the main force of the pottery thief?" Uncle Liu Huang replied calmly: "But I went south to rescue Huainan this time, one is to save the people of Huainan, and the other is to eliminate the annihilation for the country, and help Yuan Highway to eliminate the Tao Ying thieves who poisoned Huainan. ”

"Although my brother is reasonable, the strength of our army is still too far behind the main force of Tao Ying's thief. Guan Yu reminded and said: "Besides, Yuan Shu Pifu bullied our army so much, even if our army is lucky enough to stop Tao Ying's thief for a while, or save a certain strength to withdraw to Shouchun Yin Mausoleum, in the future, I am afraid that Yuan Shu Pifu will repeat his old tricks and push our army to the front line again and again, until our army is completely damaged, and then kick us away." ”

"That's why I asked Yuan Highway for a month's grain and grass." Uncle Liu Huang replied solemnly: "Quyang is only more than 200 miles away from Hefei, the supply of grain and grass is easy, our army does not need to carry so much grain and grass to stop Tao Ying thieves, I deliberately asked for a month of grain and grass, in fact, it is to test the sincerity of Yuan Highway's cooperation, if Yuan Highway is replenished, it proves that he is sincere to cooperate with our army, and our brothers are worth it no matter how much they suffer in sending troops to fight." ”

"What if Yuan Shupifu refuses to provide the full amount, or simply doesn't give it at all?" Guan Yu asked.

"We have done our duty as allies to attack the city and destroy the enemy for Yuan Highway, working hard and losing more than 10,000 soldiers." Uncle Liu's tone was slow at first, but suddenly his voice changed, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he said ruthlessly: "If Yuan Highway accumulates wealth and is stingy, why should we serve him?!" It's better to strike a blow back and take this breath of bird's air! ”

Guan Yu Zhang Fei, who had never seen Xiao Yuan Sangong's eyes, applauded, and even called his brother wise, while Uncle Liu Huang smiled slightly, and continued to think in his heart, "I can only take one step at a time, if Yuan Highway really treats me as an ally, of course it is the best." If it really doesn't work, with Tao Ying's shrewdness, I must also weigh whether it is better to force me to Yuan Shu's side to be hostile to him, or to use my strength to join forces to discuss Yuan Shu. ”

…………………… In the early morning of the next day, Uncle Liu Huang, who was true to his word, really did his best to raise his troops and horses, pulled the camp south to intercept the main force of the Xuzhou army, and when he set off, Xiao Yuan Sangong also asked Yuan Yin to send Uncle Liu Huang from Qiaorui and Lei Bo to ask for grain and grass weapons, but Uncle Liu asked for only ten days of grain and grass in January, and there were only 300 crossbows and 10,000 arrows for 1,000 strong crossbows and 30,000 crossbow arrows. Then Yuan Yin tried his best to explain, saying that it was difficult to raise all the grain, grass and weapons that Uncle Liu asked for, so he could only give these first, and the rest would be supplied in installments.

Tens of thousands of corpses were left behind on the battlefield of Quyang, but they only got such a little food and weapons, not to mention Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had a bad temper, even Uncle Liu's new friends Gong Du and Liu Bi were also furious, and they pulled out their knives on the spot and scolded their mother, which frightened Yuan Yin and retreated again and again, and the team brought by Yuan Yin also showed their weapons. However, Uncle Liu Huang remained silent, while drinking Gongdu Liu Pi, he apologized to Yuan Yin again and again, and at the same time tried to restrain the team that began to stir, and ordered the whole army to immediately go south, and rush to Hefei at full speed to intercept the main force of Xuzhou led by Tao Ying himself.

At the same time, after a short rest of the day, Deputy Director Tao, who was worried about the battle in Quyang, threw down the city of Hefei, which had not been defended much, and did not dare to attack, and immediately led the main army back to the division, and said that he would return to Quyang for rescue after traveling fifty miles, Tao Ji, Chen Zhi and Chen Ying and others all advised Tao Ying to speed up and rush back to Quyang for rescue as soon as possible, Tao Ying replied with a smile: "This time there is no need to worry, after Yuan Shupifu received the news of the war in Hefei, even if he did not send the big-eared thief south to die, he would definitely not dare to continue to attack Quyang at any cost. We have plenty of time, and walking slower will help the soldiers regain their strength. ”

Tao Ying in order to let the Xuzhou soldiers retain their physical strength, deliberately slowed down the speed of the north, but Uncle Liu Huang, who had been quite tired in the battle of Quyang, was unconventional, just urging the army to speed up the south, that day he actually went south in one breath and walked eighty miles, and the distance from the main force of Xuzhou was only forty miles away, after the scouts of the Xuzhou army reported the situation to Tao Ying, Tao Ying was overjoyed, and it was inevitable that he was confused, "The big-eared thief is crazy?" Most of his team was originally a rabble, and he was exhausted from successive battles in Quyang, so he dared to march eighty miles in a hurry? Was he afraid that he would not die fast enough? ”

Deputy Director Tao's doubts were soon answered, after the camp of the Xuzhou army was settled, Tao Ying had just finished his routine personal patrol of the camp, and the scout outside the camp came to report, saying that he had caught a scribe who rode south, claiming to have a confidential military situation to play Xuzhou Assassin Shi Tao Envoy, and asked Tao Ying to meet, Deputy Director Tao did not hesitate, and immediately nodded and agreed to meet - although the two armies were about to fight when the sudden messenger came, it was a trick and a poisonous trick, but when it came to fraud, I was deceitful, Deputy Director Tao, a highly talented student who graduated from our public servant school, really didn't fear anyone.

To Tao Ying's surprise, this mysterious messenger in his forties turned out to be very familiar, and after carefully recalling it for a while, Tao Ying quickly recognized the identity of the messenger, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Sun Qian? You are Liu Bei's engagement, Sun Qian, Sun Gongyou! ”

"Make the gentleman remember the surname, and the cheap name is insulting, and it is Sun Qian." Sun Qian replied with a wry smile: "Although I have never met the envoy in Xia, I heard that the envoy once sent someone to pinch the head of the person below, and I didn't expect that the envoy could remember the appearance of a wheat noodle head, which is really admirable." ”

Tao Ying laughed and hurriedly invited Sun Qian to take a seat, after the guard served tea, Tao Ying also vaguely guessed Sun Gan's intention, and Suo took the initiative to laugh: "Mr. Gongyou, Xuande Gong invited you to come this time, you want to join forces with me to destroy Yuan Shu, right?" What excuse is used? ——Dissatisfied with Yuan Shu'er sending your army south to die, this excuse doesn't seem to be very tenable, and it is not quite in line with Xuande Gong's consistent style of acting. ”

Sun Gan opened his mouth and stammered, and only shook his head and sighed for a while: "The king is really clever, no wonder my lord Xuande Gong has been repeatedly defeated by the hands of the envoy, this ability to anticipate the enemy's first, my lord is really hard to chase, since the envoy guessed, then he didn't dare to deceive - our army lost more than 10,000 troops under Quyang City, Yuan Shu not only did not give a reward, my lord asked for a month of military rations, Yuan Shu only gave ten days of food, our army soldiers were furious, and my lord Liu Envoy Jun was also annoyed that Yuan Shu was ruthless and unrighteous ....... ”

"Sure enough, it's this set again." Tao Ying smiled again and said, "Mr. Gongyou, can your father-in-law change a set of tricks?" Last time he played this trick in Xuzhou, he was not miserable enough by me, wasn't it? ”

"You misunderstood." Sun Gan hurriedly shook his head and explained: "My lord Liu Yuanjun is really not indiscriminately blackmailing, our army soldiers were born and died for Yuan Shu, and lost more than 10,000 soldiers, but Yuan Shu's puppeteer did not even have enough food and grass at one time. ”

Tao Ying smiled again, he didn't bother to study the thickness of our Uncle Liu Huang's skin, and Sun Qian lowered his voice and said: "Envoy, my lord has a word to be played to you in the next secret - when Duke Meng De ordered my lord to go south to Runan, the task given to my lord was to disturb and cut off the grain route of your army, but my lord did not do this. ”

Tao Ying suppressed his smile, glanced at Sun Gan, and said with a smile: "I believe that sending troops to harass and cut off our army's food supply has no benefit to Xuan Degong himself, and of course Xuan Degong would not do such a stupid thing." ”

Sun Gan's expression was even more embarrassed, and he said: "It's good for you to understand the goodwill of my lord, but I don't know what the envoy means to the little envoy?" Although Yuan Shupifu is not the opponent of the envoy, he has a lot of soldiers and horses, and the envoy's strength is not very sufficient, so he doesn't want to have an additional right-hand ally on the Huainan battlefield? Charge into battle for the envoy and kill the enemy bravely? And Jun is about to return to Quyang, Yuan Shu Pifu will definitely return to Shouchun to wait for help, doesn't Jun want to have a team to block their way before Yuan Shu's team returns to Shouchun? ”

"What does Xuande Gong want?" Tao Ying asked without blinking his eyelids.

"After the matter is completed, my lord will only use Yangzhou County to gain a foothold." Sun Qian cautiously replied: "It is better to conclude an alliance with the envoy and form an alliance forever." ”

Deputy Director Tao blinked his small eyes in the Evil Triangle, and began to think in his stomach, which had never been loaded with good things, "It's good to have a team that can fight tough battles and dare to fight hard as cannon fodder, but this Yangzhou county is ......, no matter which county in Yangzhou falls into the hands of big-eared thieves, my Jiangdong will be in danger." (To be continued)