"Lord, this shouldn't be Yuan Shu's plan for the two tigers to compete for food, right? Deliberately used Anhui County as bait to induce our army to turn around and start a war with the Jingzhou Army for the sake of Anhui County, so that Yuan Shu could reap the benefits? ”

Peeking at Deputy Director Tao's expression and face, Liu Ye, who had just become Deputy Director Tao's lackey, was still a little restrained and restrained, and cautiously expressed his analysis: "Yuan Shu no longer counted on Jingzhou reinforcements before, and suddenly gave the money and grain of Juchao and Anhui County to the Jingzhou Army in exchange for the Jingzhou Army to go north to Shucheng to rescue, which is doubtful in itself, but when the Jingzhou Army was about to take over the Chengchi of Anhui County, he suddenly publicly announced that he had betrayed the Huainan Army, and decided to surrender to our army and ask our army to send troops to take over Anhui County. This is even more doubtful. ”

Seeing that Deputy Director Tao didn't speak, his eyes were still looking at himself, revealing a listening expression, the new lackey Liu Ye had some confidence, raised his voice and said: "I am a native of Lujiang, and I have served as the minister of Lujiang County, and I have a lot of contact with that Li Shu, and I know that Li Shu is not only a confidant and important general who is very trusted by Liu Xun, but he is greedy and despicable, and he likes to be sycophant, but he is rude and unkind, and he is tyrannical, and Anhui County is one of the richest towns in Lujiang, and the reason why Li Shu can serve as the guard of Anhui County is entirely because of his good search. was able to get a large amount of money and grain for Liu Xun and Yuan Shu in Anhui County, how could a person with such a surname take the initiative to betray Yuan Shu for the sake of the people of Anhui County, and how could he take the initiative to ask our army to surrender for the sake of the people? ”

Speaking of this, Liu Ye concluded: "So I think that although it is not certain whether Li Shu's request to surrender is true or false, with Li Shu's personality and the current situation, the possibility of fraud is still much greater, and it is better to ignore Li Shu's request to surrender." Moreover, if our army sends troops to Anhui County, it will inevitably clash with the Jingzhou army, and the conflict will not distinguish between victory and defeat, and it will also be extremely unfavorable to our army's original plan to force Yuan Shu across the Yangtze River by means of negotiation, and then it will increase unnecessary casualties for our army, worsen the already unfriendly relationship between our army and Liu Biao, and affect our army's plan to establish a firm foothold in Huainan. ”

The new lackey Liu Ye talked a lot, and Deputy Director Tao was always silent, just picked up Li Shu's blood book written in blood and played with it, not only the blood of Li Shu alone, but also the blood of twenty-three local gate lords in Anhui County, and his eyes were uncertain and hesitant.

Not only Deputy Director Tao hesitated, but Jia Xu and Lu Su next to him were also silent, Lu Su and Deputy Director Tao got along for the longest time, familiar with Deputy Director Tao's surname, Jia Lao Poison followed Deputy Director Tao's time, but he was good at understanding people's hearts, mastering people's surnames, and he had the same understanding of Deputy Director Tao as Lu Su - a belly full of male thieves and prostitutes, a head full of lack of morality and bad water, and at the same time full of benevolence and morality, like to put on a show, like to deceive the world and steal his name as a hypocrite, deceive and deceive, and pay special attention to the reputation of hypocrisy. Therefore, Jia Lao Poison agreed with Liu Ye's opinion in his heart, and he didn't want to open his mouth to echo and persuade at this moment.

Sure enough, after playing with the blood reduction book for a long time, Deputy Director Tao really opened Chrysostom, and said in a hoarse voice: "Accept Li Shu's request to surrender, send troops to Anhui County, and take over Anhui County!" ”

"The Lord ——!"

Liu Ye screamed, but Deputy Director Tao shook his head, waved his hand to stop Liu Ye's dissuasion, and said calmly: "Mr. Ziyang, I know that you have good intentions, how can I not see that this is Yuan Shupifu's plan to compete for food?" But I can't help it, I have to jump this trap! Because on this request for blood reduction book, there is not only the name of Li Shu, but also the names of the twenty-three family members of the wealthy families in Anhui County, if I ignore this blood reduction book, it will not only hurt the hearts of the twenty-three wealthy families in Anhui County, but also hurt the hearts of all the scholars in the entire Lujiang River, and the loss will inevitably be greater. ”

"But ......."

Liu Ye still wanted to dissuade him, but Deputy Director Tao shook his head again and waved his hand, and said more calmly: "Mr. Ziyang, I know that you don't have much good impression of the local gate valve Haoqiang in Lujiang, and advocate suppressing Haoqiang, Zheng Bao at the beginning is an example, I appreciate your proposition from the bottom of my heart, but I must consider and take into account the overall situation, although your opinion is correct this time, I can't adopt it, so Mr. Ziyang doesn't have to persuade anymore, I have made up my mind and will not change." ”

Seeing that Deputy Director Tao had already made up his mind, Liu Ye couldn't say anything, so he could only obediently sing his promise to retreat, but Jia Xu over there arched his hand and said: "Lord, in order to avoid the expansion of the situation, you might as well salute before the soldiers, and send a messenger to contact the Jingzhou army first, tell them that Anhui County has asked our army to surrender, persuade the Jingzhou army to let Anhui County go, and promise to compensate the Jingzhou army, so that it is best for the Jingzhou army to accept it, even if it can't accept it, our army can also be famous when it starts, and it will also be beneficial to our army to deal with the aftermath after the move." ”

"What Mr. Wenhe said is good, which is exactly what I want." Deputy Director Tao finally nodded, and said: "Let's send Song Kai to contact the Jingzhou army, and tell the Jingzhou team that as long as they let Anhui County go and don't compete with our army, then after our army takes over Anhui County, our army will give them half of the official grain and military rations in the city as a thank you - if the Jingzhou army can accept this condition, the proportion of money and grain distribution can still be discussed." ”

Lu Su nodded in agreement, and hurriedly sent someone to send Song Kai to come over to listen to the order, and Jia Xu said: "Lord, the candidate for the main general who will go to Anhui County must also be carefully chosen, this general must be cool-headed, able to restrain himself, responsible, and able to make decisions in a chaotic situation, so as not to be restrained and passive in order to care about the consequences of his actions, and not to act recklessly and make the situation irreparable, such a candidate is not easy to find in our army." Perhaps, General Chen Zhi can take on this role. ”

"No, you don't have to pick someone else, I will personally lead the troops to Anhui County." Deputy Director Tao said in a deep voice: "Although Chen Zhi is calm and wise, and he is also responsible, this matter is too involved, and it is all entrusted to him, I am afraid that he can't afford it. Fortunately, Anhui County is not too far from Shucheng, a distance of one hundred and seventy miles, and a fast horse can reach it in one day. ”

"The lord went to Anhui County in person, what should I do here in Shucheng?" Lu Su asked worriedly.

"The army is temporarily under the command of Zi Jing, Mr. Wen He is the deputy, you have negotiated and dealt with the incident, and the Chinese army has falsely flaunted my banner and created the illusion that I am still in the army to deter the enemy." Deputy Director Tao replied without hesitation: "I set out under the banner of Tao Ji this time, and went to the battlefield in Anhui County to see the opportunity to act, Tao Ji is my only cousin, and it is enough for me to negotiate with the Jingzhou army on behalf of his honorary plenipotentiary." ”

Lu Su and Jia Xu and others saw that Deputy Director Tao's mind had been decided, so they no longer dwelled on anything, and immediately negotiated with Deputy Director Tao about the expedition, and decided that Tao Ji would lead the Junzi Army and Xu Chu and the second general surnamed Cao to lead 10,000 infantry to accompany Deputy Director Tao on the expedition, and the rest would stay in the Shucheng camp to confront the Huainan Army, and the deep ditch and high fortress would be well defended, and it was agreed that messengers would be sent twice every time to keep in touch and exchange news. Fortunately, Anhui County is only more than 170 miles away from Shucheng. For the gentleman's army, which has reached the extreme, it is only less than a day's journey, so it should not be a big problem.

Finalized these resolutions, that night Deputy Director Tao convened the generals under his command to announce their decision, requiring the generals to obey the orders of the military division Lu Su when they left, and explained various matters, and then in the early morning of the next day, Deputy Director Tao led the Junzi Army and 10,000 infantry to set off, take the Tongxiang Trail to bypass the Juchao City that has been controlled by the Jingzhou Army, and go straight to Anhui County, and at the same time send envoys to Anhui County to contact and negotiate with the Jingzhou Army, and strive to resolve the dispute over the ownership of Anhui County by means of negotiation. Although the Huainan defenders in Shu County discovered the division of troops in Xuzhou, they did not take immediate countermeasures, but just waited patiently for the news from Anhui County not to mention it.

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On the speed of the march, the speed of the infantry in Xuzhou may not even be able to catch up with one-third of the Junzi Army, but it doesn't matter, anyway, the combat characteristics of the Junzi Army are also destined to be unable to fight hand in hand with the infantry, so that the Junzi Army is the vanguard to open the way for the infantry, and it is also convenient for Deputy Director Tao to arrive in Anhui County to negotiate with the Jingzhou Army first, so after the march for two days bypassed the nest where the Jingzhou Army was entrenched, Tao Ying immediately arranged for Xu Chu and Cao to lead the army to the rear, and he and Tao Ji led the Junzi Army to set off first. Hurry up and rush to the battlefield in Anhui County, sixty miles away.

Led the gentleman's army to the west for less than twenty miles, Tao Ying met Song Kai, the envoy he had sent to negotiate with the Jingzhou army, after the meeting, Tao Ying just asked about the envoy, Song Kai immediately replied with a sad face: "Lord Mingjian, it's not that the villain didn't do his best, it's that the yellow shooting general is too crazy, just after listening to the villain's intentions, he immediately tore the lord's letter to shreds, saying that Anhui County is the city sent by Yuan Shu to Jingzhou, and all the money and grain in Anhui County are already owned by the Jingzhou army, why should you share half of our army?" He also said that after he broke through Anhui County, he would kill all the men and men of all the families who wrote blood letters to our army to surrender, and all the female dependents would be slaves and maids, and then raise troops to the north and fight to the death with our army under Shuxian County! In the end, the yellow shooter also drove the villain out of the camp. ”

Hearing Song Kai's introduction, the young and vigorous Tao Ji was of course furious, gritting his teeth and vowing to give Huang Jie a good look on the battlefield, but Deputy Director Tao, who was only one or two years older than Huang Jie, smiled and said: "Young and ambitious, relying on family power to become a commander of the army, it is really unreasonable." What about the situation in Anhui County? Did Huang Jie raise troops to attack the city? ”

"Attacked." Song Kai nodded, and said gloatingly: "However, the city of Anhui County is very strong, and the terrain is relatively dangerous, so Huang Shot suffered a lot of losses when he attacked the city, and I heard that people have been sent to Zongyang to transfer reinforcements." ”

"Reinforcements?" Tao Ying's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "What?" Huang Gun doesn't have many troops in his hands at the moment? ”

"Not much, only about 5,000 at most." Song Kai, who had been in the barracks for several years, replied quickly.

"Only that little force?" Tao Ying was happy again, after a little calculation, Tao Ying first arranged for Song Kai to continue to go east to meet the infantry team led by Xu Chu and Cao, and then turned to Tao Ji next to him and said with a smile: "Third brother, Huang Shot Xiao'er doesn't have many troops in his hands, and he has to leave a group of troops to guard the camp and guard against the defenders of Anhui County, and there must be fewer troops to be dispatched, this is a good opportunity, how about our brothers just clean up that Yellow Shot Boy?" ”

"Great idea!" Tao Ji first applauded, and then hurriedly asked, "Second brother, didn't you always ask our army to avoid conflict with the Jingzhou army before?" Why did you decide to do it again now? ”

"I really want to avoid a conflict with the Jingzhou army." Tao Ying replied helplessly: "But you have also seen the current situation, the yellow mouth boy of Huang Shot has been arrogant to this point, can you not fight?" So there is no choice but to fight with him first, defeat his arrogance, and then slowly find a way to end it. ”

Tao Ji applauded loudly, but Tao Ying secretly calculated in his heart, "The yellow shooting child is arrogant and has no one in his eyes, should I think about it and try to capture this guy alive on the battlefield?" ”

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In the eyes of the young and ambitious General Huang, with a steel gun in his hand, there is absolutely no problem in leading 20,000 Jingzhou troops to sweep the entire Lujiang River, not to mention repelling the Xuzhou thief army from afar, even if it is not the slightest difficulty to seize the entire territory of Lujiang! But it's a pity that Liu Biao Lao'er sent his subordinate Liu Pan as the main general this time, and Huang Biao was only a deputy, plus his father Huang Zu's repeated instructions before, so General Huang Biao's expedition to Lujiang could only forcibly press the ambition in his chest, and he reluctantly carried out Liu Biao'er's order to ride the wall and watch the wind.

But this kind of thing is not over, and then the matter of Huang Shooting and Huang Shao General's nest fire came one after another, first of all, Yuan Shujun discovered the Jingzhou Army's position of riding on the wall and rejected General Huang Shao's blackmail again; Then the Xuzhou army, which was supported by Yuan Shao, also saw through Liu Biao'er's timidity that he did not dare to go to war, and also rejected the extortion of the Jingzhou army; finally forced Yuan Shu to agree to donate the money and grain of the two cities of Juchao and Anhui County, but Li Shu, the guard of Anhui County, refused to hand over the city defense, and relied on the strength of the city to make General Huang suffer a lot of losses under the city of Anhui County! The anger in Major General Huang's chest will naturally be able to turn Anhui County into ashes.

But even this is not over, what makes General Huang Shao angry is still behind, the Xuzhou thief army, who has been whispering in front of the Jingzhou army before, dared to send a messenger to ask General Huang Shao to let go of Anhui County, and even offered to repay General Huang Shao with only half of the money and grain in Anhui County! - What are you kidding? The money and grain in Anhui County, as well as the mansions and beauties in the city, have long been in the pocket of General Huang Shao, why is the Xuzhou thief army qualified to control the distribution? It's tolerable, it's unbearable! General Huang Shao couldn't bear it, so naturally there was a matter of destroying books and driving out the envoys, and at the same time, General Huang Shao secretly made up his mind in his heart that he must give the Xuzhou thief army a good look on the battlefield! Let them know how high the sky is! How thick the ground is!

General Huang probably never dreamed that this opportunity would come so quickly, and it was only more than two hours after driving away the messenger of the Xuzhou thief army, and the scouts who were scattered out flew back to the camp to report, saying that above the wilderness in the east, a team of more than 1,000 Xuzhou thief troops suddenly came, and they were all incredibly expensive cavalry! Hearing this news, of course, General Huang Shao was overjoyed, and immediately gathered all the generals under his command, and decided to personally lead an army of 3,000 to fight the cavalry team of the Xuzhou thief army, one is to teach a lesson to the Xuzhou thief army who is disrespectful to himself, and the other is to grab some horses back to make up for the siege losses - the Jingzhou army has no fixed source of horses, and the price of war horses in Jingzhou is ridiculously high, even if you grab three or five hundred, it is equivalent to making a windfall.

When General Huang announced this decision, Chen Chen, the most powerful assistant of General Huang, was the first to jump out to oppose it, thinking that the Xuzhou thief army was coming from afar, and there must be a large team behind it. Besides, before the departure of the Jingzhou army, Liu Biao had repeatedly told him not to turn his face with the Xuzhou thief army at will until the necessary moment, and now the Tao and Liu families did not declare war, so they should be cautious, and it is best to wait until the siege reinforcements sent by Liu Pan arrive on the battlefield.

"Don't declare war with the Xuzhou thief army until the necessary moment?" Before Chen finished speaking, Major General Huang had already patted the case in front of him and shouted, "Isn't it a necessary moment now?" The Li Shu thieves in the city of Anhui County have already asked the Xuzhou thief army to surrender, if they don't send troops to stop them, do they want to watch the Xuzhou thief army enter Anhui County and take the money and grain from Anhui County given to us by Yuan Shupifu? This general has made up his mind to send troops to meet the battle, if you want to fight with me, you can fight with me, and if you don't want to stay with me to defend the city! Chen was ordered by Huang Zu to take care of the safety of General Huang Shao, so he had no choice but to leave another deputy of General Huang Shao to guard the camp, and he assisted General Huang to lead 3,000 troops out of the camp to the east to meet the Xuzhou thief army from afar.

Accompanied by General Huang Shao's army to the east for five or six miles, the horse's hooves were like thunder on the open area in the east, and a Xuzhou cavalry composed of five horizontal teams rushed to attack, and what made General Huang Shao smile crooked and General Chen was overjoyed was that this Xuzhou thief army was obviously a group of cavalry rookies, and they didn't know what cavalry combat was, and the distance between the cavalry and the cavalry was very open, and a horizontal team of more than 300 people actually pulled out nearly three miles wide, and the loose queue was not only not conducive to the collective charge of the cavalry, It's also extremely unfavorable for covering each other, and at first glance, it belongs to the rookie soldiers who have just entered the battlefield!

Even more made General Huang smile crooked mouth and made General Chen Zuo overjoyed is still behind, and when he looks closely, this team of rookie cavalry is still very extravagant to bring rotating war horses, and each soldier has an empty horse by his side - that is, it is not enough for each person to send a war horse to General Huang, and each person brings one more to send double. It was also because of discovering this that our Major General Huang couldn't help but say to Chen with excitement: "Ningshi, almost three thousand war horses, let's send it!" Convey the order, whoever grabs a war horse on the battlefield and breaks through Anhui County will reward a woman in the city! ”

Chen quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, nodded, and said in a low voice: "Major General, although the enemy is weak, we must not take it lightly, we must be cautious. ”

After speaking, the rookie cavalry from Xuzhou had already run to three hundred steps away, began to clumsily restrain the war horse and slow down, gradually approaching General Huang's team, and gradually stood two hundred steps in front of General Huang, without waiting for the rookie cavalry to stand firm, our young general Huang couldn't wait to come out of the crowd, and shouted at the rookie cavalry opposite: "Jingzhou Huang shot here, come to the general name, come out to answer!" ”

A young general of Xuzhou with a greasy head and a pink face came out very obediently, and immediately bowed his hand to General Huang Shot, and said loudly with a smile on his face: "General Huang, I have admired the name for a long time, in Xia Taoji, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Tao Ying Tao Envoy Jun, is a cousin under the army, this time he led the army to meet the young general, not for anything else, that is, on the order of his cousin, he came to negotiate with the young general about the ownership of Anhui County, there is no other intention, the young general must not misunderstand." ”

"Tao Ying's cousin of the thief? No wonder he is so oily and noodle, and he looks like a gentleman. Major General Huang, who was obviously not as handsome as oil-headed and powder-faced, snorted coldly and shouted: "There is nothing to talk about!" Anhui County has been given to our army by Yuan Shu as a gift to repay my Jingzhou Xiongshi for reinforcing Huainan's great kindness, and now Anhui County is already in the bag of my Jingzhou army! Go back and tell your cousin Tao Ying, if you are smart, quickly withdraw and leave Huainan, otherwise, don't blame my Jingzhou army for being ruthless! ”

"Major General Huang, will you think about it again?" The oily face asked in a pleading tone: "The purpose you want in Anhui County is that our army knows, it is for the money and food in Anhui County, and my cousin said that as long as General Huang Shao agrees to hand over the Anhui County City that has taken the initiative to send a letter to ask for surrender to our army, our army can give half of the money and grain in Anhui County to your army as a repayment." Of course, if the major general still wants more, it is not without ...... discussion. ”

"Less nonsense!" Major General Huang waved his hand to interrupt the pleading of the oily head and noodles, raised the eight-point steel gun in his hand and said loudly: "If you want Wanxian, you can, as long as you can beat the eight-point steel gun in my hand, anything can be discussed!" ”

"This ......." Oily Flour hesitated for a moment, and said pitifully and loudly: "Young General, you are just a weak scholar below, and you have no power to restrain the chicken, how can you be your opponent?" If you don't see how this will work, I'll send one of my generals out to fight you, and if you can outdo my generals, I'll immediately withdraw my troops and go back to give an explanation in front of my cousin." ”

"Okay, just come on!" Major General Huang replied with a wild laugh.

Oily head noodles thanked him loudly, first retreated to his own formation, and then a Xuzhou general Pegasus came out of the battle, and Major General Huang was about to pat his horse forward, and Chen next to him hurriedly stopped him: "Young General, kill chickens with a knife?" You might as well send another general of our army to fight, and you don't have to go out to risk yourself, major general. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, don't you know my martial arts, are you afraid of this group of Xuzhou thieves? You give me a sweep and take care to protect me. Major General Huang impatiently pushed Chen away, slapped his legs and rushed out like a war horse, holding up the steel gun in his hand and just yelling, "The thief will die!" ”

"Nameless rats, Hugh is arrogant!" The Xuzhou general brandished Fang Tian's halberd and stepped forward to meet the battle, but before General Huang Shao rushed in front of him, and when he was still twenty or thirty steps away, the Xuzhou general had already turned his horse's head, scattered his legs and fled backwards, and shouted loudly, "Nameless rat, spare your life this time!" ”

"Rats! Where to go?! General Huang Shao was furious and chased after him, but at this time, the Xuzhou rookie cavalry in the third team suddenly charged together, and more than 300 horsemen rushed forward through the loose queue of the first two teams.

Of course, it was too late to do so, the more than 300 horses had rushed to the vicinity of General Huang Shao in a blink of an eye, among which the nearest ten horsemen from General Huang Shao also threw out the rope rings in their hands together, and more than a dozen rope rings pounced on General Huang Shao with the sound of the wind, two of the three rope rings hit the neck of General Huang's war horse, and one set in the arm of General Huang Shao, and pulled together together, General Huang's war horse was first pulled to stand up, and then General Huang himself was pulled off the war horse without stirrups, and fell heavily on the ground like a broken sack.

"Major General ————!" Chen, who was red-eyed, roared wildly, and Pegasus just rushed straight with a spear, but what made poor General Chen Zuo's soul scatter was that the team of Xuzhou rookie cavalry unbelievably pulled their bows and arrows together in the charge, and threw feather arrows at General Chen and others, forcing General Chen and others to rein in their horses and dodge arrows, and also watched General Huang scream and be dragged into the Xuzhou rookie team, "Ningshi!" Save me! Save me! Daddy——! Help me————! ”

"Yay!" At the same time, in the ranks of the Junzi Army, the embarrassed Tao Ying and Tao Ji brothers slapped their hands heavily, rejoicing together that the Junzi Army's new tactics of plotting were successful, and laughed at the arrogance and unwisdom of General Huang Shao - but I really can't blame General Huang for being useless, the key is that the rookie appearance of the Junzi Army is too deceptive, and the cunning and cunning like Sun Cehuang's uncle Cao Boss have all suffered enough losses, not to mention our poor Huang Shao General.

"Second brother, what should I do next?" Tao Ji asked quickly and excitedly.

"First of all, we will beat the banner of benevolence, righteousness and morality of our gentleman's army." Tao replied: "Then the old rule, Mangu, this time you don't have to be polite, let out all the anger we suffered before, with the straw bag of yellow shot in hand, I am not afraid that he Liu Pan will not bow his head obediently!" ”

(To be continued)