In the ambush battle at the north gate, the defenders of Guangling can be said to have won a complete victory, burning to death more than 700 enemies, including Sun Cejun's general Sun He, in the urn city, and at the same time killing more than 300 Sun Cejun soldiers outside the city with long-range weapons such as bows and arrows and throwing stones, while the losses of the self-army were very small, a total of less than 50 people - no way, who told Sun Cejun to come and steal the city without even preparing siege weapons, and it is already very good to be able to kill so many enemies with bows and arrows in the dark night.

In any case, this battle still greatly stabilized the hearts of the people of Guangling, and also greatly boosted the morale of the Guangling defenders, even those who had the lowest morale and the weakest will, but also full of confidence in the victory of the Guangling defense battle, and waited for Sun Cejun to make a comeback, ready to let Sun Cejun suffer a little more in the battle to defend the city wall, and show the military power of Guangling. At the same time, Tao Ying's momentum in Guangling City and the Xuzhou army also soared, which facilitated Tao's adjustment and transformation of the Xuzhou army and strengthened his training.

However, what puzzled the defenders of Guangling was that after Sun Cejun retreated and returned to the camp, there was no movement for two consecutive days, not only did he not come to attack the city again, but even the most basic preparations for filling the river were no longer carried out, as if he had given up the plan to attack Guangling City. In this regard, all the generals in Xuzhou were puzzled and couldn't guess Sun Ce's intentions, and Tao Ying was also very suspicious, because Tao Ying knew the situation of Sun Cejun's army very well, and with Sun Cejun's military food reserves, he didn't dare to delay for a day now, why did Sun Ce stand still for two consecutive days?

After pondering it thoroughly, on the third day, which was also the morning of September 13 in the first year of Xingping, the scouts of the Xuzhou army who had gone out of the city to scout suddenly rushed back to the city, bringing great news to Tao Ying and the Guangling defenders - the camp of Sun Cejun, which had not moved for more than two days, suddenly changed into a pure white flag, raised a white spirit flag, and the generals and soldiers also hung up white cloth strips on behalf of mourning! It can be seen that in Sun Cejun's team, he must have lost a general, and he must be a general with a very important status!

At the same time, in view of the current favorable situation, the generals of Xuzhou led by Zhang Zhen also unanimously demanded that they immediately go out of the city to fight, and to take advantage of the fire to rob a tooth for a tooth, and to teach Sun Cejun who came to Guangling from Shouchun to rob while the fire was burning, and killed Sun Cejun in one fell swoop.

In the face of the unanimous invitation of the generals in Xuzhou, Deputy Director Tao, who is familiar with the Three Kingdoms, will certainly not easily agree - Zhou Yu used this trick to overshadow Cao Ren, so Tao Ying carefully considered for a long time, then turned his gaze to Lu Su and asked: "Strategist, according to your opinion, the enemy army is mourning, is it a plan to lure the enemy?" ”

"The situation is unclear and cannot be judged." Lu Su replied very simply, "According to Su's opinion, it is best for our army to stand still and wait and see what happens, so as not to rashly advance the army and cause accidents." ”

Lu Su's words are to Tao Ying's appetite, the purpose of the Xuzhou army was originally to keep Guangling, whether it can hit Sun Cejun is only a secondary goal, and now choose to press the army, if Sun Cejun really has a big change, then it will not be long before the army will definitely retreat, and the Xuzhou army will win the victory in the defense of Guangling. If Sun Ce's army was luring the enemy with a trick, the Xuzhou army would not move, and Sun Ce's army, which was short of food and grass, would inevitably not be able to sink its anger for a long time, and it would come back again, and the Xuzhou army would have no losses and could continue to defend Guangling with sufficient troops. So Tao Ying immediately nodded and said: "What the military advisor said is very true, just do it, press the soldiers, and wait and see what happens!" ”

"Childe, don't miss the opportunity, you won't come again!" The generals in Xuzhou were not happy, and said one after another: "Childe, it was said that our army ambushed Sun Ce Xiao'er successfully, and I don't know how many enemy generals were killed in the night, among which there must be important generals of the enemy, which severely damaged the enemy's spirit. ”

"Although it is reasonable, have the generals thought about it?" Tao Ying asked quietly: "If on the night of three days ago, our army killed the enemy's heavy generals in the dark, then the enemy did not mourn in the first two days?" Why wait until today? ”

The generals of Xuzhou were speechless, but Zhang Xuan, the younger brother of Zhang Xuan, was not convinced, and analyzed: "Maybe the situation is like this, we only seriously injured the enemy's heavy generals in three days, and the enemy's heavy generals did not lose their breath on the spot, so the enemy did not move yesterday and the day before yesterday, and it was last night or this morning that the seriously injured enemy generals were seriously injured and died, so the enemy battalion was only hanging filial piety today." ”

"Makes sense, that's how it should be." The generals in Xuzhou echoed one after another, and they all thought that Zhang Xuan's words were reasonable.

"If that's the case, it's even more suspicious." Tao Ying said calmly: "If I encounter such a situation, then I will definitely not let the three armies hang their filial piety, I will only choose to remain quiet and quietly withdraw from the army." Sun Ce Xiaoer and Zhou Yu Xiaoer are not ordinary generals, they will not make such a mistake! So I decided that I would never go out of the city to fight, and I would rather miss the fighter than take any risks! ”

Encountering Tao Ying, a suspicious and timid general, Zhang Xuan and other Xuzhou generals are also out of temper, fortunately, there is also a veteran Zhang Zhen who is definitely respected in the Xuzhou army, Zhang Zhen bowed his hand to Tao Ying and said: "Childe, the last general knows that you are for our good, although our army has won successive battles, but the enemy's strength is still far above our army, Gongzi, you are cautious, and the last general deeply agrees." ”

However, the last general also believed that if our army insisted on holding its troops, it would be a pity if it really missed the rare fighter. Therefore, the last general thought that our army could send an army out of the city to the enemy camp to test, and the main force would stay in the city to respond, and if the enemy was really deceitful, our army could quickly retreat sharply, and the main force would cover the return to the city, and the loss would not be too great. If the enemy is indeed innocent, the main force of our army can also take the opportunity to go out of the city and destroy the enemy in one fell swoop! ”

Zhang Ying has always assisted Tao Ying as a veteran, and he cares about and respects Tao Ying, he said so, of course Tao Ying can't help but give him a little face, plus Zhang Ying is indeed very reasonable, and he is very thoughtful, so Tao Ying hesitated again and again, and finally nodded and said: "Okay, according to the old general's plan, I will ask General Zhang Xuan to lead an army of 1,000 to go to the battle to test the enemy's reality." ”

"No!" Zhang Xuan happily agreed.

"Wait, don't be too busy thanking me just yet." Tao Ying added: "General Zhang Xuan, your thousand-strong army can't bring Xuzhou veterans, you can only bring the recruits we recruited from Zhenrong. ”

Zhang Xuan's face was embarrassed, and he cried and mourned, Tao Ying observed his words, and said: "If General Zhang Xuan doesn't want to go, it doesn't matter, I can change the general to fight." ”

"The last will want to go, the last will want to go!" Zhang Xuan was shocked, and hurriedly agreed in front of his eager companions.

Tao Ying smiled and admonished: "General Zhang Xuan, please be careful, Sun Ce'er is not an ordinary person, Zhou Yu'er is even more scheming, annihilation is abnormal, it doesn't matter whether this battle can be won or not, the key is to find out the enemy's reality." Zhang Xuan agreed, Tao Ying handed over the arrow to him, let him lead a thousand troops out of the city to fight, and asked Zhang Zhen and other generals to prepare to respond, then led Lu Su, Tao Ji and Xu Sheng and other henchmen to the West Gate Tower, and watched the battle with binoculars.

In a short time, a thousand new troops were assembled, and under the leadership of Zhang Xuan, they went out of the city to kill Sun Ce and fight against him. Seeing the Xuzhou army out of the city, the scouts of Sun Cejun, who were scattered in the wilderness, also rushed back to the camp with flying horses to report, but Sun Cejun's camp did not seem to have any intention of going out of the village to face the battle, but quickly closed the gate of the village, strengthened the camp defense, and added bows and crossbows behind the fence to prevent the Xuzhou army from rushing to the camp. Seeing this scene, even Lu Su, the new military advisor of the Junzi Army and who had not read the Three Kingdoms, could not help but have doubts in his heart, suspecting that there had indeed been a great change in Sun Ce's army, and the victory of the total annihilation of Sun Ce's army was already beckoning to the Xuzhou army.

No matter whether Sun Cejun's great changes are true or false, Zhang Xuan's battle is of course fruitless, no matter how Zhang Xuanjun scolds and provokes in front of the camp, Sun Cejun is holding the camp and refusing to fight, and later he simply hung out the legendary war-free card, posing as a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water. In the end, Zhang Xuan's voice was hoarse, and he simply led the army to charge, but Sun Ce's camp immediately fired arrows in a random manner, and shot Zhang Xuan's team back.

"Could it be that something really happened to Sun Cejun?" Seeing this scene, even Lu Su was a little shaken, and couldn't help but say in front of Tao Ying: "Childe, if Sun Ce cheats, then General Zhang Xuan goes out of the city to challenge, he should seize this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to fight a victory to save morale, why would Sun Ce rather miss this opportunity?" Could it be that something really went wrong in his camp? ”

"Maybe Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are casting a long line to catch big fish." Tao Ying still refused to be gullible, and said coldly: "Zhang Xuan is only a thousand troops, even if Sun Ce Xiao'er eats Zhang Xuan's army, he will not be able to determine the outcome of the Guangling battle." Therefore, Sun Ce'er is likely to be waiting, waiting for an opportunity to decide the victory or defeat of the Guangling battlefield! ”

Lu Su nodded, deeply impressed with Tao Ying's opinion, and Lu Su no longer questioned it at the moment, and helped Tao Ying persuade the Xuzhou generals to refuse the Xuzhou generals' request for a night attack on the enemy camp, and persuaded the Xuzhou generals to be less impatient and continue to wait and see the changes.

The night soon covered the land of Guangling again, just as Tao Ying was about to go to Lin Qing's little girl to talk about love, Xie Yan, the general of Xuzhou who was guarding the West Gate, suddenly sent someone to report to Tao Ying, saying that there was an enemy general who led dozens of people to surrender, and at present, these people have been hanged on the city wall by the defenders with hanging baskets, disarmed and guarded tightly, please ask Tao Ying if he is summoned? Tao Ying thought for a moment after hearing the report, and quickly ordered: "Escort the enemy general who took the lead to the Taishou Mansion, and the other troops will be divided into separate guards, and they will be entertained, and they will be interrogated separately, and then they will record their confessions and send them to me together." ”

The herald took the order and left, and after a while, Xie Yan sent someone to escort the general, who was tied up with all kinds of flowers, to the Taishou Mansion, and at the same time, Zhang Xu, Lu Su and others also rushed to hear the news and accompanied Tao Ying to interrogate the general. And after Sun Cejun was escorted to the lobby, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Tao Ying, and took the initiative to say respectfully: "Sin General Fu Ying, meet Tao Gongzi of Xuzhou." ”

"Your name is Fu Ying? What is the official position? Who's behind it? Tao Ying asked casually, while looking at this Fu Ying, he saw that he was in his twenties and very young, with a dignified face and a dignified face, not like a cunning and cunning person.

"Hui Gongzi, the surname of the sin general is Fu Mingying, the word Gao Yuan, and now he is a Qu general, and he is under the command of Ji Ling, the confidant of the left general Yuan Shu and Yuan Highway." Fu Ying kowtowed and replied honestly: "Sun Ce Xiao'er's Eastern Expedition, General Yuan couldn't rest assured, and when he dispatched troops, he secretly ordered General Ji Ling to send a few close confidants to blend into Sun Ce's children's army, called the army to go on the expedition, but it was actually to monitor Sun Ce children, and the villain was one of them. ”

Tao Ying and Lu Su glanced at each other, secretly rejoicing in their hearts together, and then Tao Ying asked again: "Fu Ying, you are not only Ji Ling's confidant, but also shoulder the heavy responsibility of secretly monitoring Sun Ce's children?" Why did you come down to me? ”

"Childe, if the sin doesn't come, you can't do it." Fu Ying kowtowed and replied: "Because if the sin general doesn't come to surrender quickly, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai's gang of old men will take the head of the sin general to Sun Ce Xiao'er for burial!" ”

"Funeral for Sun Ce's child?" Tao Ying was taken aback and blurted out, "What do you mean by that?" Could it be that Sun Ce'er is dead?! ”

"Hui Gongzi, that's exactly the case." Fu Ying kowtowed and replied honestly: "Sun Ce Xiao'er was hit by your poisonous arrow during the Battle of Dongcheng, and the poisonous surname gradually entered the marrow, and the high fever did not go away. ”

Tao Ying stood up violently, and suddenly remembered that day on the battlefield in Dongcheng, his Junzi Army did shoot Sun Ce several arrows with horse manure arrows, which was likely to cause Sun Ce's wound to be invaded by tetanus bacilli, causing infection! And the symptoms of tetanus attack are also high fever and cramps in the limbs! Overjoyed, Tao Ying hurriedly asked, "General Fu, you can tell Sun Ce'er about the before and after of his serious injuries and death, the more detailed the better." ”

"No." Fu Ying agreed, and told him in detail about the death of Sun Ce, it turned out that day when the ambush at the North Gate, Sun Ce saw that he was wantonly slaughtered by the Guangling defenders in the ambush of his army, and he was angry and screamed for an arrow wound, and he fainted on the spot after Cheng Pu and Huang Gai and others rescued him, Sun Ce has been unconscious, with a high fever and no retreat, and the army is helpless, so Sun Ce's army did not move in the first two days and did not dare to attack the city. However, at the fourth watch last night, Sun Ce's injuries suddenly deteriorated, his limbs twitched and died in pain, and he died without even leaving a last word.

"Tetanus is not 100 per cent, am I so lucky? Sun Ce is exactly that tens of percent? Tao Ying thought about it in his heart, and asked Fu Ying again: "Since Sun Ce Xiao'er was seriously injured and died, why did you say that Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others would take your head to give Sun Ce a funeral?" ”

"Childe, these are all because of your clever plan." Fu Ying replied with a flattering face: "Son, you sent someone to Shouchun to post a notice to expose Sun Ce Xiaoer's unsubdued intentions, Zuo General Yuan Shu was suspicious, first sent Yuan Yin to summon Sun Ce's children's class teacher, Sun Ce Xiao'er disobeyed the order, and then General Zuo was furious, first arrested Sun Ce Xiao'er Lu Fan Xiao'er who was lurking in Shouchun City, and then ordered General Ji Ling to lead an army of 30,000 to the east, preparing to capture Sun Ce Xiao'er back to Shouchun and behead him for questioning!" Cheng Pu and Huang Gai were both Sun Ce'er's confidants and cronies, and it was difficult to escape at their own expense, so they prepared to kill the loyal ministers of General Yuan Shu in the barracks, and then led the army to escort Sun Ce'er's body south across the Yangtze River to defect to Sun Ce'er's maternal uncle Danyang Taishou Wu Jing. ”

Fu Ying's words are reasonable, and they also reveal a lot of absolute secrets, no matter how suspicious and cunning Tao Ying is, he can't help but believe it at this moment. After quickly glancing at Lu Su, Tao Ying didn't have a chance to think, and quickly asked, "How do Cheng Pu and Huang Gai know these secrets?" How do you know? Reply! ”

"Sun Ce is in Shouchun City, in addition to Lu Fan, there is also an eyeliner named Zhu Zhi!" Fu Ying replied honestly: "General Zuo arrested Lu Fan Xiao'er and took him to prison, and ordered General Ji Ling to lead the army east to arrest Sun Ce Xiao'er. However, when Zhu Zhi'er arrived at the barracks, Sun Ce Xiao'er had already died of serious injuries, and Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and Zhou Yu knew that the matter was coming, so they decided to put all these loyal Yuan ministers to death, and then led the army south and crossed the river to join Sun Ce'er's maternal uncle. ”

"How did you know about these secrets?" Tao Ying shouted: "Since you are a loyal minister of the Yuan family, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai and other thieves will definitely not let you know about such a big matter, why do you know so much?" Say! ”

"The villain bought Cheng Pu'er's personal soldiers!" Fu Ying was frightened by Tao Ying into a cold sweat, and hurriedly replied: "In order to spy on Sun Ce'er's convenience, the villain secretly bribed a Cheng Pu child's personal soldier, so that he could spy on the every move of this Sun Ce child's confidant at any time. When Cheng Pu Xiao'er and others discussed the poison plan, this personal soldier happened to be present, so he secretly reported the matter to the guilty general, and the guilty general knew that he was in a catastrophe, and he couldn't escape the pursuit of Cheng Pu Lao'er and others when he returned to Shouchun, so he led dozens of Yuan veterans to surrender to Gongzi overnight. ”

Speaking of this, Fu Ying hurriedly added, "Sin will buy that Cheng Pu'er's personal soldiers, and he will also surrender to the city with Sin General, if Sin doesn't believe it, you can ask him at any time." ”

Tao Ying stopped talking, blinking and calculating for a long time with a triangular eye, Tao Ying first ordered the soldiers to take Fu Ying down and detain him, and then ordered someone to send the confessions of other soldiers, carefully looked at the comparison, and Lu Su persuaded Tao Ying to escort the Cheng Pu soldiers to confront him, and under repeated questioning, Tao Ying, Lu Su and others finally came to a conclusion - Fu Ying didn't lie!

"General Zhang." With the victory in hand, Tao Ying was inevitably a little excited, and instructed Zhang Xu: "The old general is tired to go down and give an order, let the generals sit down and prepare for battle, and tonight the second watch, gather in the lobby of the Taishou Mansion and wait for my order." ”

"No!" Zhang Zhen hugged his fists and agreed, and happily took the order.

"Zijing, you also go to give orders." Tao Ying turned to Lu Su again and ordered: "Let Tao Ji and Xu Sheng prepare for battle, feed the war horses, bring enough weapons, and destroy Sun Ce'er tonight!" ”

Lu Su also received the order, and Tao Ying tried to calm himself down, and began to think about how to take advantage of the fire tonight to rob and how to maximize the victory. But at this moment, in the back hall, Lin Qing's little girl's brutal cold voice suddenly snorted, "Poison arrows? Even poisoned arrows are used, and there is still a face to call himself a gentleman? ”

Sneering, Lin Qing, who rarely wore women's clothes once, walked out gracefully, walked directly in front of Tao Ying, scraped his pretty little face white and red with his pink index finger, and mocked: "I really don't know how you nerdy hypocrite, how can you have the face to play the banner of a gentleman?" How can you have the face to raise the banner of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, trustworthiness, and gentleness, courtesy, and frugality? Even poisoned arrows are used, and they are not afraid of the shame of the world? ”

"No need for poison arrows, who called Sun Ce so powerful? If I don't shoot him with poisoned arrows, if he breaks Guangling City, won't my beautiful concubine Lin Qing be snatched away by him? Tao Ying replied with a smile, and at the same time took the opportunity to take a closer look at the little girl who rarely wore women's clothes. Not to mention, after the little girl surnamed Ren put on women's clothes, she was really moving, she wanted to have a figure, she wanted to have a face, and she didn't let her sister from the Mi family at all.

"Who is your concubine?" Lin Qing sank his face and began to show signs of madness.

"Don't be a concubine? That's it. Tao Ying said with a smile: "When I return to Xuzhou, I will immediately come to the door to ask for marriage and marry you, this is always okay, right?" ”

"Phew! Who is going to marry you? Lin Qing spat and disdained Tao Ying's rhetoric.

"Not married? Then I'll grab it! Tao Ying thought about it and said casually: "When the time comes, I will snatch you back, and then point a knife at me and ask you if you never obey me?" If you don't obey me, I'll ...... with a knife. ”

"You dare!" Lin Qingcai was not afraid of Tao Ying's threat, and threatened in turn: "If you dare to do this to me, I will let my father arrest you and cut you to ......death with a knife, huh?" ”

When the threat came here, Lin Qing couldn't go on, because Tao Ying suddenly stared at his face in a daze, and he was extremely engrossed, Lin Qing's little girl was a little shy, and subconsciously twisted her pretty face away, and said angrily: "Stinky nerd, what are you looking at?" Don't look at the indecent assault? ”

"Strange?" Tao Ying thought so in his heart, "Why did I say that when I talked about robbing beautiful women, I felt a little wrong when I used a knife to force a beautiful woman to ask if she never obeyed me?" What the hell is wrong there, why can't I think of it? ”

"Nerd, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Tao Ying didn't answer for a long time, Lin Qing couldn't help but turn around and ask again.

Seeing Lin Qing's little girl's pretty face again, Tao Ying found that this little girl was indeed a rare beauty, with two thin and curved moth eyebrows, as light as light smoke, jade delicate as a flower, white and red, a little cherry mouth, delicate and gorgeous, so that Deputy Director Tao, who had not touched a woman for a long time, was simply salivating. At the same time, at this time, Deputy Director Tao suddenly thought of a few key words, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, "Beauty!" Robbery and coercion! Fu Ying! No wonder I just thought the name was a little familiar! ”

"Sister Lin." Tao Ying suddenly opened his mouth and said shamelessly to Lin Qing: "If you don't marry me this time, I can't do it, if you didn't appear in front of me and say these words to me again, I would have almost been fooled, and Guangling City and thousands of our soldiers would also be lost!" Fortunately, you reminded me, saved me, saved Guangling, and saved the precious lives of thousands of Guangling soldiers! This time, no matter how much I suffer and lose my money, I have to marry you back as a daughter-in-law! Otherwise, I really don't know how I can thank you? ”

"Nerd! Did you say enough was enough? If you say another shameless obscene remark, the old lady will kill you now! Lin Qing's little girl waved her little fist and scolded with a red face.