Let's go back and take a look at the situation of our Deputy Director Tao, our capricious Deputy Director Tao's fickle mind, this time he was finally fed by Zhuge Liang once, after learning that Uncle Liu Huang was in the Xin Ping team, after hesitating for a long time, for the sake of the face of Yuan Sangong, conscience found that Deputy Director Tao, who had decided to open up the Xin Ping team, really changed his mind, not only decided to send 40,000 troops to chase and kill to the end, but also selected 10,000 cavalry elite soldiers from each army, and personally led the team to chase and kill Xin Ping.

Deputy Director Tao also can't help it, no one knows Uncle Liu's dangerous surname better than Deputy Director Tao, and no one knows better than Deputy Director Tao how good Uncle Liu is at seizing the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, knowing that once Uncle Liu Huang enters Jingzhou with Emperor Han Xian and Da Yuan Sangong, it will inevitably lead to unpredictable huge dangerous consequences, and at the same time, it will also allow Uncle Liu to get more political capital and opportunities to fish in troubled waters, so Deputy Director Tao, who originally chased or not, immediately changed his attention. decided to snatch Emperor Han Xian and his father-in-law back in everything, and would rather spend more money and food to support him, rather than bring Uncle Liu Huang to Jingzhou to swagger and deceive.

Deputy Director Tao made up his mind a little late, and when he decided to send troops to pursue, Yuan Tan's army had already withdrawn across the west bank of Lishui, and at the same time, the mountainous and forested terrain west of Lishui was also extremely unfavorable to the rapid pursuit of the Xuzhou army, and it was not suitable for the most powerful gentleman army in the Xuzhou army to march and fight, so it took more than a day for the Xuzhou front army led by Deputy Director Tao to catch up with the rear team of Yuan Tan's army in the east of Rushui, and was also stubbornly blocked by Yuan Jun's palace.

Fortunately, although the palace team led by Cen Bi, the general of the Yuan army, resisted stubbornly by virtue of the favorable terrain of the narrow road, and once blocked the advance of the Xuzhou army, but the elite Jizhou army was far from being the opponent of the Xuzhou army in terms of quality and quantity, and the 10,000 former army led by Deputy Director Tao was the absolute elite selected from the main forces in Xuzhou, and the combat effectiveness was strong enough to crown the world, no less than any of the world's male soldiers. So after the Cen Bi team barely supported it for a while, it was finally defeated.

For the Xuzhou army to break the deadlock is the Danyang soldiers selected from Wei Yan's team, since childhood in the mountainous and forested Danyang territory grew up in the Danyang soldiers not only brave, but also very good at rapid maneuvering in the mountainous environment, Cen Bi's team used the narrow terrain to resist stubbornly, Wei Yan's deputy Zhou Hui led two thousand Danyang soldiers from the side of the detour, relying on the guide of the local soldiers in Xuchang, in the night environment miraculously turned over the two mountains and marched more than ten miles, the divine soldiers descended to the rear of the Cen Bi team, and the main force before and after the front and rear of the Cen Bi team, I never dreamed that the Xuzhou army would outflank the Cen Bi team so quickly suddenly in chaos, the commander of the army Cen Bi took the lead in fleeing for his life, and the soldiers rushed to run, and the Xuzhou army took the opportunity to destroy the temporary fortifications built in a hurry by Yuan Tan's army without much effort, killing and scattering the enemy and continuing to march forward, chasing and killing the Xin Ping Chinese army that was carrying Emperor Han Xian and the three princes of Yuan.

However, after such a delay, the Xuzhou army also missed the opportunity to stop the Xin Ping Zhong army in the north of the Yanshui, when the former army led by Deputy Director Tao chased to the north bank of the Yanshui, the Xin Ping team had all crossed the Yanshui, and the Liu Panjun team of Ye County was in a division, and the garrison held the Ye County ferry, so that the Xuzhou army could not quickly cross the river at the slow water ferry. At the same time, Liu Pan also put the Xuzhou envoy Jiang Gan back into the Xuzhou army, and let Deputy Director Tao know the news of Cao Laoda's accidental defeat, and also knew that Liu Pan had accepted bribes from his own army, and indeed did his best to prevent Cao's army from breaking through the Xuzhou army's request.

"Liu Pan actually defeated Cao Thief? He also robbed the camp and burned all the grain and grass of the Cao thief? This, how is this possible?! When he heard the news of Cao's defeat, Deputy Director Tao, who had been entangled with Cao Boss for many years, suddenly widened his eyes, and he was so surprised that he almost suspected that he had heard it wrong-don't look at Boss Cao is now at the end of his rope, but when the strength is basically equal, even Deputy Director Tao is not very sure that he can beat Cao Boss so badly.

"My lord, it's true, your subordinates are in Yexian City, and you saw with your own eyes that the defeated army of Cao Thief left behind his family, his wife and children and all the grain and grass to flee north."

Mr. Jiang Gan's tone was a little excited, and he truthfully explained what he had seen and heard and what had happened, and especially explained that Boss Cao was defeated because of Pang Tong's serial scheme. And Deputy Director Tao finally came to his senses, and said with a sneer: "It turns out that Liu Pan's army also has capable people, but Cao Thief is obviously careless about the enemy, and he only thinks about the plan, and he never thinks that the enemy has a plan to destroy it." ”

"Yes, that Mr. Pang Shiyuan is indeed good, I heard that he is also a proud disciple of Mr. Shuijing, a famous scholar in Xiangyang, and his Taoist name is Feng Xiao, and he is highly respected by Xiangyang scholars." Jiang Gan nodded stupidly in agreement, and said: "Lord, General Liu Pan asked his subordinates to come back, to tell you that he has fulfilled his promise to stop Cao Thief, and asked our army to also fulfill his promise, not to cross the water to avoid conflict with Liu Pan's team, and wait for the result of the negotiations between our army and Liu Jingsheng." ”

"This is Mr. Pang Shiyuan's idea again, right?" Deputy Director Tao asked with a sneer.

"I don't know." Jiang Gan replied truthfully: "When His Majesty saw Liu Pan, there were not only Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan standing beside him, but also Liu Bei and Xin Ping and others, so His Majesty couldn't judge whether it was from Mr. Pang Tong's plan. Oh, by the way, General Liu Pan also said that the Cao thief has fled to the northwest of Ye County, and if the lord wants to chase him, he can rest assured that he will chase and kill, and General Liu Pan will not stop him. ”

Looking up at the mountains and mountains in the northwest, Deputy Director Tao decisively dispelled the idea of chasing and killing Boss Cao in person, because not only was there little hope, but it would also give Uncle Liu Huang, who was also dangerous, a chance to slip away. After a little more calculation, Deputy Director Tao instructed, "Ziyi can go back to Yecheng to negotiate with Liu Pan and tell him that as long as he does not interfere in the war between our army and Yuan Tan's remnant army, and does not prevent our army from rescuing the Son of Heaven, the Empress and the old Ji Hou, I will double the gift I gave him last time." Besides, tell Liu Pan clearly that if he dares to take in the Xin Ping team and obstruct our army's rescue and escort, don't blame me for fighting with him! ”

"Ahh The honest Mr. Jiang Gan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "My lord, but General Liu Pan has fulfilled his promise and blocked the Cao thief team from breaking through for us?" ”

"If Liu Pan says so, you tell him like this." Deputy Director Tao pointed out: "Let's just say that our army asked him to block the Cao thief team on his behalf, at the cost of giving him a rich gift, and he has accepted the gift, and then although he failed to prevent the Cao thief himself from fleeing to Sili, our army is magnanimous and knows that he has tried his best, so he doesn't care, and the relationship between our army and him has been cleared." Our army can also get along with his team amicably, but Xin Ping's team is the enemy of our army, and they have robbed the Holy Driver and Lao Jihou, our army must be pursued to the end, so if he Liu Pan wants to get along with our army, it is best not to interfere in the war between our army and Yuan Tan's remnant army, otherwise our army can only declare war on him! ”

"Lord, this ......, this seems to be a bit of a strong word?" Mr. Jiang Gan said with a wry smile.

"It's also reasonable to use strong words, we still have some reasoning, and when Jin Xian's public vacation was destroyed, he didn't even talk about reason." Deputy Director Tao snorted coldly: "Go, go and negotiate with Liu Pan, just say that I will only give him one day, and if he does not give an answer before the fall, promise and promise not to interfere with our army's pursuit of Yuan Tan's remnants, our army will force the water and attack Yecheng!" During this period, I can promise not to attack the Jingzhou army, but if he Liu Pan dares to come, our army will accompany him to the end! ”

"No, Your Majesty will go now."

Mr. Jiang Gan reluctantly agreed, and was about to go to Yecheng to negotiate again, but Deputy Director Tao suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Slow, I decided to give him Liu Pan a little more time, which means that if Liu Pan does not give an answer before noon tomorrow, our army will force the water and storm Yecheng!" Also, forget the sentence before the fall, no matter what the enemy says to you, you must not say the sentence I once said to give an answer before the fall! Don't be mistaken! ”

"No." Mr. Jiang Gan agreed again, and muttered in his heart: "The lord took the wrong medicine? How to pay attention to these trivial things? ”

As soon as Mr. Jiang Gan left, Xu Chu and Ma Zhong asked together: "Lord, Xu Gongming just sent someone to report that he promised to lead the main force of our rear army to arrive at the Yexian battlefield before the fall, so why do you want to grace the deadline until noon tomorrow?" ”

"If I only set the time for Liu Pan to think before the fall, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong will immediately understand that our army's rear army can arrive on the battlefield before the fall." Deputy Director Tao explained: "Once the enemy knows the arrival time of our rear army on the battlefield, then Xin Ping's team is likely to retreat immediately with the Son of Heaven and Lord Yuezhang and go deep into the hinterland of Nanyang. ”

"Considering this, I deliberately set the time at noon tomorrow, just to create the illusion that our army will not be able to reach the battlefield in a short period of time, and temporarily stabilize the Xin Ping team, they have marched more than two hundred miles in more than two days, and the team must have been very tired and urgently need time to rest, I feel that our rear army cannot reach the battlefield for the time being, so we have to hurry up and let the team rest, at least we must get the night and then retreat south to the hinterland of Nanyang, when our rear army has arrived at the battlefield, the strength is sufficient, It was also easy to hunt down and kill Yuan Tan's remnants and prevent Liu Pan. ”

Xu Chu and Ma Zhong suddenly realized together, and hurriedly patted their ass: "The lord is wise and clever, and he will definitely be able to break the hard comments and recapture the Son of Heaven and the old Ji Hou this time." ”

"Not necessarily." Deputy Director Tao shook his head and said sullenly: "With my plan, it is definitely not difficult to hide from other enemies, but it may not be certain if you want to hide from Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, especially Zhuge Liang, what he is best at is analyzing the psychology of the enemy, and he knows that our army urgently needs to buy time to hold them back, and wait for the arrival of the rear army to be sure of victory, so he is likely to suggest that Xin Ping and the big-eared thief go south immediately and flee into the safer hinterland of Nanyang first." ”

"In that case, how about our army immediately break through the water?" Xu Chu, whose surname is reckless, rarely made a good suggestion, and said: "Our army is now rushing to cross the Yanshui first, gaining a foothold on the south bank of the Yanshui, and then if Xin Ping Pifu dares to withdraw to Nanyang immediately, we will immediately send troops to pursue, the great thing is to fight separately, and at the same time with Xin Ping and Liu Pan, the two teams of Xin Ping and Liu Pan are fighting, anyway, our army is an elite soldier, all of them are ten, and they are afraid that he Xin Ping Pifu and Liu Pan Pifu will join forces?" ”

Not to mention, Deputy Director Tao was really a little tempted to accept Xu Chu's suggestion, but after taking a closer look at the self-army team that also showed a tired look, and looking at the Jingji coalition army fortified layer by layer on the south bank of the ferry, Deputy Director Tao, who was actually more cautious than Zhuge Liang and more stable than Uncle Liu, still dispelled this idea. After careful consideration, Deputy Director Tao said: "Don't rush to rush to the ferry first, our team is also very tired, let the soldiers seize the time to rest for a while." However, we can also send people to investigate the situation upstream and downstream, and see if there are any other places where we can cross the river, and if necessary, we can divide our troops to rush to cross. ”

Considering that the soldiers marched 200 miles in a hurry and fought a battle, and the team was indeed tired enough, Xu Chu did not insist on his opinion, but immediately arranged a light cavalry to explore the situation in the upper and lower reaches of the water, and also organized the team to rest on the spot, seize the time to recover physical strength and prepare for another battle. The same is true of the Jingji coalition army on the opposite side of the water, after seeing the Xuzhou army resting on the ground at a high place, the Jingji coalition army also temporarily lifted the strict alert, allowing the soldiers to rest on the spot, and the two armies are only separated by a flowing river of water, which is less than a mile away recently, but it is temporarily peaceful.

To Deputy Director Tao's great surprise, nearly an hour later, when Deputy Director Tao, who had only slept for two hours in two days, was drowsy, Mr. Jiang Gan actually crossed the water safely under the escort of Jingzhou soldiers, returned to Deputy Director Tao, and brought a messenger from Liu Panjun to Deputy Director Tao. Then Mr. Jiang Gan reported to Deputy Director Tao with a happy face: "Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, after careful consideration, General Liu Pan said that as long as our army accepts one of his conditions, he will promise not to interfere with our pursuit of Yuan Tan's remnants." ”

"Promised?" Deputy Director Tao's eyes widened, and he asked in surprise, "What conditions does General Liu Pan want?" ”

"General Liu Pan didn't say anything, he just sent a messenger to negotiate with you face-to-face." Jiang Gan let go of Liu Pan's envoy, who was closely guarded behind his back, and introduced: "This little general is General Liu Pan's personal captain, surnamed Liu, and is General Liu Pan's confidant. ”

"Villain Liu Yi, meet Tao Envoy." Liu Yi, who was not outstanding, saluted respectfully to Deputy Director Tao, and then said: "Tao Envoy, the young general sent a villain to report to the envoy, and implored the envoy to agree to a small request of the young general, and then the major general of my family promised not to interfere with the envoy's pursuit of Yuan Tan's remnant army. ”

"What does General Liu want? General, please speak quickly. Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and said: "As long as it is reasonable, I will definitely agree." ”

"Please rest assured, our Major General's request will definitely not embarrass the Envoy." Liu Yi replied in a low voice: "Our major general wants to beg Tao Envoy Jun to take him in, allow our major general to return to his hometown in Shanyang, and ensure the safety of our major general's property. ”

"Major General Liu Pan is from Shanyang County, Yanzhou?" Deputy Director Tao really didn't know this, so he hurriedly asked, "General Liu Shao is quite important to Jingsheng Gong, why do you beg me to take him in?" ”

"Back to the envoy, our major general is from Gaoping County, Shanyang County, and the villain is his fellow villager." Liu Yi, who did have a Yanzhou accent in his tone, replied truthfully, and then explained in a low voice: "Don't hide it from the envoy, the young general defeated the Cao thief last night, and seized many treasures that the Cao thief had robbed the tomb and excavated over the years. ”

Deputy Director Tao's triangular eyes rolled wildly, and he asked with a smile after a while: "General Liu Pan, he is afraid of his guilt in Jingzhou, isn't he worried that he is also guilty in Xuzhou?" ”

"Major General, he's not worried." Liu Yi said with some flattery: "The situation under the rule of the envoy, our major general has heard of it to some extent, the rule of law is clear, the meritorious are rewarded, the guilty are punished, and the capable are down, and the mediocre will never be allowed to extort and extort, and the good name of the king's benevolence and righteousness has already been spread all over the world, our major general helped the envoy to win the great merit of saving the driver, I believe that the envoy will allow the young general to be a rich man under your rule." ”

Speaking of this, Liu Yi hurriedly added, and said: "Jingzhou is different, presumably the envoy also knows that Liu Envoyjun is called the state pastor, but the military and political power is almost controlled by the wealthy family, and it is very exclusionary to outsiders, even if our major general is the son of justice, the promotion reward and punishment must also look at Cai Huangkuai's face, this time to be honest, even our major general did not expect to win so many trophies, just go back like this will definitely make people red, even if it is a lot of credit, it can't be kept, so our major general made up his mind to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, Collected by the Messenger of All Hopes. ”

Liu Yi's words conveyed by Liu Yi are the truth, relying on the support of local wealthy families to sit firmly in the position of Jingzhou pastor Liu Biao, the control of military and political power is indeed far inferior to Cao Laoda and Deputy Director Tao such as the jackal, and even inferior to the size of Yuan Sangong, who was born in the Shi family, many local counties are actually controlled by local tyrants, and it is difficult to collect taxes even from Liu Biao's territory in reputation, so it is naturally difficult to keep Liu Pan, the son of Liu Pan, who became rich overnight - not to mention that Liu Biao himself may not be jealous of the huge wealth that Liu Pan obtained.

The situation here in Xuzhou is much better, although Deputy Director Tao inevitably relies on the support of local wealthy families in his rule, but the military and political power, especially the army, is firmly in the hands of Deputy Director Tao, and the wealthy families such as Que Xuan and Mi Zhu, who dare to support private soldiers, have long been killed by the two generations of the old Tao family, and no one dares to be this bird, the largest Xuzhou Haoqiang Chen Deng family is very obedient, except for some people who like to defend themselves, they have never competed with Deputy Director Tao for local control, At the same time, Yanzhou and Huainan Haoqiang in Xuzhou's new occupation were scared by Cao Boss and Xiao Yuan Sangong, although the Jiangdong Hao clan was rampant, its strength could not compete with Xuzhou itself, and the control of the Xuzhou army was basically Deputy Director Tao alone - this is also the fundamental reason why Jia Lao Poison, Lu Su, Cao Bao, Liu Ye and Yang Changshi and other outsiders can enter the high-level decision-making level of Xuzhou. Therefore, as long as Deputy Director Tao opens his mouth to express his attitude, Liu Pan can basically rest assured to be a rich man who spends all his time drinking in the territory controlled by the Xuzhou Army, which is far better than trembling and precarious in Jingzhou.

Gossip is far away, let's get down to business, although Liu Pan's words and requirements are absolutely reasonable, but Deputy Director Tao's birdman surname Ge friends know that it is the Lord that his brother and old family members refuse to believe easily! So after thinking about it for a while, Deputy Director Tao suddenly asked Liu Yi: "General Liu Yi, what did Mr. Pang Tong say when you left the city?" ”

"Pang Tong?" Liu Yi, who was caught off guard, was stunned at first, and then replied blankly: "Did the envoy ask Pang to join the army?" What did he say? The villain doesn't know? ”

Deputy Director Tao stared at Liu Yi, and only after finding that Liu Yi's blank expression did not have the slightest falsification, did Deputy Director Tao smile and said: "It's my slip of the tongue, I'm asking, what else did Major General Liu Pan say?" ”

"Oh, my young general would like to ask, when will you cross the river and do it? What is there that needs our army's assistance to act? Liu Yi hurriedly replied: "The young general of my family also said that they have decided to set off on the third watch tonight and continue to retreat to the hinterland of Nanyang, and in order to stabilize them, the young general also promised to follow the covenant and take charge of the palace at that time, and choke the throat of the road for the envoy to go south to pursue and kill them. ”

"The delaying tactic has succeeded." Deputy Director Tao was secretly happy in his heart, but he still didn't dare to take it lightly, and said: "I still need to think carefully about this matter, General Liu can go down and rest for a while, and then I can think about the strategy of breaking the enemy, and then I ask you to bring the letter back to General Liu Pan." Liu Yi agreed, and left temporarily at the invitation of Deputy Director Tao's guard, and Deputy Director Tao stopped Mr. Jiang Gan, who was stupidly about to accompany Liu Yi to rest, and called him to the front and whispered about Jiang Gan's journey to negotiate with Liu Pan.

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At the same time, on the northeast corner of the city wall of Yexian County, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang were looking at the situation of the Xuzhou army on the north bank of the water side by side. ”

"I don't know." Zhuge Liang replied very frankly and replied: "In the whole world, it is difficult for me to guess the thoughts of only three people, one is you Pang Shiyuan, one is Xu Yuanzhi, and the other is Tao Yuanjun, so Liang really can't guess what Tao Yuanjun will do next this time." ”

"Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed either." Xu Shu also smiled slightly, and then added: "But fortunately, in Shi Yuan's clever plan, no matter how the pottery thief reacts, he has to fall into Shi Yuan's calculations, and Shu doesn't need to bother to guess his thoughts." ”

Pang Tong smiled even more proudly, and said confidently: "People say that thieves are resourceful, and I haven't lost a single defeat in the past eight years, and I haven't lost a single strategy, so I don't believe in this evil!" The plan I set, the details that you helped make up, and the wonderful game set up by the three of us together, can still be seen through by the pottery thief?! (To be continued.) )