"Yuan Shang boy, come out! If you have the courage, come out and fight to the death! Yuan Shang, you embroidered pillow, if you have a kind of get out and fight to the death! Piff! General Ben is going to fight you for 300 rounds! ”

Although the Xuzhou soldiers were afraid of Yuan Shang's kinship with Deputy Director Tao, they did not dare to mention the ancestral family of Yuan Shanggongzi when they insulted and provoked, and the scolding words were obviously not powerful enough and did not play much of a provocative role - for example, such scolding words were used on Deputy Director Tao or Cao Laoda, then these two must not even leave a white mark on their faces.

The arrogant Yuan Shanggongzi is different, a few years ago, Deputy Director Tao was a strong sycophant master in front of Yuan Shanggongzi, but now it's okay, Deputy Director Tao who patted the sycophants dared to ride on Yuan Shanggongzi's head to and pee, how can this be called the conceited Yuan Shanggongzi? So after hearing these scoldings, Yuan Shanggongzi was so angry that his face turned blue, his fists were clenched, his whole body trembled, and he wanted to open the camp gate several times and rush out again to fight a decisive battle with the Xuzhou army! - But I don't have the guts.

Although Yuan Shanggongzi is a little ambitious and talented, he is not completely stupid, no matter how angry he is, he also keeps some calm, because the field decisive battle at noon has completely shattered Yuan Shanggongzi's last confidence, 20,000 Yuan Shangjun in the face of the impact of more than 10,000 Xuzhou troops, less than half an hour will be completely chaotic, and then completely collapsed, forced to flee to the camp, war horse soldiers trampled on each other, and there were many dead. He was chased all the way to the outside of the camp by the Xuzhou army, taking advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Shang's defeated soldiers swarming into the camp, and almost rushed into the camp of Yuan Shangjun, as a result, although Yuan Shangjun relied on the strong camp and the condescending bow and arrow cover of the defenders who stayed in the camp, and barely repelled the charging momentum of the Xuzhou army, but also paid a heavy price for it, just in front of the camp gate, he was beheaded by the Xuzhou army nearly a thousand!

Yuan Shang still didn't understand how he was defeated, and for the sake of prudence during the battle, he obviously arranged a square circle array with very strong defensive power. But when the Xuzhou army launched a charge. The solid defense line of the Fangyuan array seemed to exist at all, and it could not stop the Xuzhou army from even one impact, and before the crossbowmen in the formation could release three arrows, the spearmen on the periphery had already begun to rout. The soldiers scrambled to retreat. The Warlords can't stop it. The temporarily arranged antlers rejected the horse as if it did not exist, and it was completely engulfed by the apricot yellow military uniform of the Xuzhou Army in the blink of an eye, and it took less than a pillar of incense. The two thousand-strong phalanx at the front collapsed.

Yuan Shanggongzi was still trying to restrain the team at that time, trying to stabilize the position, the defeated soldiers of the first two phalanxes were still competitive, under the leadership of the grassroots veteran left by his father, he only fled to the middle of the formation, and did not impact the phalanx behind to give the Xuzhou army a free striker, but the Xuzhou army was offensive, and did not hesitate to continue to impact the large array of the self-army, what happened next, that is, Yuan Shanggongzi could not recall the details, only remembered that the phalanx of the self-army collapsed one after another, and the Xuzhou army was like a chicken blood, Constantly defeated the self-military formation, their own team lost their armor, and the defeated soldiers were so many that they could not even accommodate the middle of the battle, and finally the 20,000 army completely collapsed, and Yuan Shanggongzi was the first to take the lead in fleeing. The last thing that Yuan Shanggongzi can recall is the earth-shattering shouting and killing of the Xuzhou army and the crying father and mother of the self-army team.

"My lord! The pottery thieves have rushed to camp! Suddenly the exclamation interrupted Yuan Shanggongzi's memories, when Yuan Shanggongzi hurriedly looked up, seeing that the Xuzhou army provoked to no avail, he really launched an attack on the self-army camp, ready to rush into the self-army camp by force to kill people and set fire, Yuan Shanggongzi was suddenly shocked, and quickly shouted: "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! Resist! I've got to hold it off for me! ”

Fortunately, Yuan Shangjun's camp was built in imitation of Gongsun Zhan's Yijing camp, with three trenches, a middle and a mountain barracks, and a deer antlers to protect the horses layer by layer, built very strongly, and it was condescending to defend in a high place, and it was very advantageous to defend, so although the Xuzhou army once launched an attack, it was finally repelled by Yuan Shangjun with random arrows and flying stones, and the sun had begun to set, seeing that the camp could not be attacked, Deputy Director Tao immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and lead the team away, so that Yuan Shanggongzi won a victory in the camp.

By the way, Deputy Director Tao actually knew that the time was in a hurry, and it was impossible to break through Yuan Shang's camp, and the attack was just to test the situation in Yuan Shangjun's camp, especially to take the opportunity to reconnoiter the number and location of Xiangyang artillery in Yuan Shangjun's camp, as well as to find the weak points of Yuan Shangjun's battalion defense.

Regardless of whether Deputy Director Tao took the initiative to retreat or was repulsed, seeing the tide of the Xuzhou army retreating, the worried Yuan Shangjun team was still relieved, and some cheers also sounded in the camp, Yuan Shanggongzi himself was like unloading a thousand catties of heavy burden, wiped a cold sweat, and said: "I can't imagine that the field battle of the Tao thief team is so powerful, it seems that we must be cautious in the future, and we will never fight unless necessary, and stick to the camp and the city." ”

"Lord, I will resolutely oppose your entry into battle this morning, but you just won't listen to ......." Feng Ji smiled bitterly and stopped, and then said: "Lord, since you already know the strength of the pottery thief team, please don't take any more risks in the future, or stick to the camp city with peace of mind, and wait for our reinforcements to arrive." ”

"I'm not taking risks!" Yuan Shanggongzi protested and explained: "I want to give those Hu people a little color, so that they know that our army is not powerless in front of the pottery thieves, and they don't dare to be too presumptuous, but they didn't expect ......." Alas, forget it, let it be over in the past, don't mention it again. ”

After sighing, Yuan Shanggongzi's handsome face, which was comparable to Deputy Director Tao, suddenly showed some mysterious smiles, and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter, let my damn brother-in-law run rampant for a few days first, and when our reinforcements arrive, I will give him a big surprise!" I bet my brother-in-law would never have imagined that our reinforcements would come so quickly and so suddenly! You won't even guess the route of our reinforcements! Our reinforcements. Who the hell is it! ”

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"The thunderbolts in front of Yuan Shang's camp are the number of Tiangang, thirty-six." Deputy Director Tao personally marked the location of the Yuan Army's Xiangyang artillery on the defense map of the Yuan army's camp, and analyzed: "There are thirty-six in the front, and the left and right wings are protected by Qinghe and Nanpi Chengchi, maybe there are no thunderbolts, but the rear camp must be arranged, so as expected, the number of thunderbolts in Yuan Shang's camp is at least more than fifty, and maybe it may reach sixty." That's a lot of money. ”

"Yuan Shangjun's thunderbolt has a condescending advantage. There is also the disadvantage of being inconvenient to move, and if our army builds the same number of thunderbolts, it should be able to compete with Yuan Shangjun. Liu Ye also analyzed, and then frowned and said: "But our army scouts have already reported it." There are no large forests in this area of Nanpi where combined timber can be harvested. I want to build so many thunderbolts. We have to harvest timber from the rear and get it to the front, which takes a lot of time. ”

"It's okay, just ship it. Anyway, you have to use it during the siege. Deputy Director Tao, who had a waterway to use, was not much worried about this, and said: "But we don't need to build fifty or sixty planes, I think forty planes are enough, our thunderbolt can flexibly avoid bombs and throw them in a concentrated manner, and Yuan Shang's thunderbolt cars cannot be used together, we can destroy them one by one and eat them bite by bite." ”

"Okay, Your Majesty will arrange it." Liu Ye nodded, and then said: "Lord, from the perspective of the enemy's defense, this Nanpi battle will be a protracted battle, for the sake of prudence, it is best for our army to divide an army to take the two cities of Chengping and Lecheng in the northwest of Nanpi, and then divide an army to garrison Beipicheng to cut off the direct connection between Nanpi and Youzhou." In this way, even if Jiang Qi, Han Yan and these people suddenly sent troops to rescue Yuan Shang, our army would not be caught off guard. ”

Deputy Director Tao agreed to this suggestion, and was discussing with everyone the number of troops and the generals with the troops, when a herald suddenly came to report outside the tent, and said to Deputy Director Tao: "Qi Yu Lord, there is a person dressed as a guest, riding from the northwest, claiming to be a native of Youzhou Yuyang, and the lord is an old friend for many years. ”

"My old friend for many years?" Deputy Director Tao was surprised and said: "I have never been to Youzhou in my life, what kind of old friends from Youzhou came from?" Still old friends for many years? ”

"Huh?" The herald who came to report the news was also a flurry, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, what should I do then?" Do you want to drive him away, or do you take him down for interrogation? ”

"Let's bring it here." Deputy Director Tao decided to give the man a chance, and ordered: "Bring him here, I want to see if it is my old friend for many years." Mr. Wenhe, Mr. Youruo, please work the camp, Mr. Ziyang will stay and help me improve Yuan Shang's camp defense map. ”

The herald took the order to go, Jia Lao Poison and Xun Chen also led the order to go out of the tent to inspect the camp defense, but it didn't take long for the man who claimed to be Deputy Director Tao's old friend to be led into the big tent of the Chinese army, in his early thirties, with a good face and a good appearance, and a literati elegance in his gestures, as well as a soldier's demeanor - but Deputy Director Tao, who had an average memory, couldn't remember seeing this man there when he broke his head. However, the man seemed to be very familiar with Deputy Director Tao, and as soon as he entered the tent, he knelt down on one knee to Deputy Director Tao and said respectfully: "The villain has seen the captain of the Han Dynasty, Tao Gong Jin'an." ”

Deputy Director Tao looked the man up and down, but he still couldn't think of seeing this man there, so he asked suspiciously, "Are you my old friend?" ”

"Not bad." The man nodded solemnly, and said with a smile: "A few years ago, the villain had the honor to meet with the captain a few times, and it was a great honor to have a wine with the captain and toast each other, but after many years, Tao Gong was busy with government and military affairs, and it was normal for him to have no impression of the villain." ”

Through the observation of words and expressions, it was found that the man's speech was calm, and there was no deception or fakeness, Deputy Director Tao did not dare to slack off, and said busily: "In this case, Mr. Please sit down and talk, come here, set up a seat for this gentleman, and serve tea." ”

"Xie Taogong." The man thanked him, sat down on the seat designated by the guard, and sat upright in the posture of a soldier. ”

"Back to Tao Gong, the villain used to be a martial artist, and now it is a civilian." The man replied, "But the villain often leads troops to fight, so he is also used to being a general." ”

Deputy Director Tao was even more suspicious when he heard this, so he asked again: "Then may I ask the surname of the high-ranking person, where is he now in office?" Also, where did we meet before? ”

"Tao Gong forgives sins. Before answering Tao Gong's question, the villain wanted to dare to ask Tao Gong a question first. The man didn't answer the question, and immediately asked: "Dare to ask Tao Gong, I heard that when Tao Gong was in Handan, he once buried more than 1,000 Hu cavalry alive, I don't know if it's really true?" ”

"Yes." Deputy Director Tao replied calmly.

"That villain dares to ask Tao Gong a question again." The man asked again: "Dare to ask Tao Gong, Tao Gong killed Hu Qi at that time, because he was angry that the Hu people were betraying their righteousness, and he betrayed the lord to seek glory and raised his butcher's knife to the young general, and killed the unrighteous Hu people in a fit of anger." Take the opportunity to show goodwill to Daijun Tiezijing? Or out of a moment of righteous indignation. hated the Hu people for killing the people of the Central Plains, so they killed them? ”

"Bold!" Liu Ye next to him was a little angry, and said angrily: "Who are you? How dare you speak to my father-in-law like this? ”

"It doesn't matter." Deputy Director Tao understood that this man must have a deep meaning in asking this, so he didn't mind. first waved his hand to stop Liu Ye. Then he said, "Don't hide it, sir." You have two reasons, but they are not complete reasons, there is one more important reason. ”

"Oh." The man was surprised. Hurriedly asked: "Dare to ask Tao Gong, can you tell me what are the more important reasons?" ”

"Liwei!" Deputy Director Tao replied categorically, "Captain Ben personally conquered Hebei, and the target is not a corner of Jizhou!" There are also Youzhou and Merge State! These places are bordered by the control of Wuhuan and Xianbei barbarians, and the flames of war in the two states are ignited, these barbarians and Hu people must be ready to move, coveting the Central Plains, if this Taiwei is a little tolerant of them, they will immediately gain an inch, become more and more arrogant, and the people of the Central Plains will immediately suffer from it, full of poison, so I must be merciless to them, kill when they should be killed, counter violence with violence, and give them a heavy warning! ”

The man was silent for a moment before asking, "Then I would like to ask Tao Gong again, Tao Gong is not afraid of forcing Wuhuan and Xianbei to Yuan Shang's side if he does this?" Fully support Yuan Shang to compete with Tao Gong? ”

"I can't ask for it!" Deputy Director Tao smiled and said: "Wuhuan Xianbei is far away in Mobei, it takes time and effort for me to send troops to conscript, and the people of Youhe will also suffer, they take the initiative to come to the door to send them to death, which is convenient for me to kill them all and kill them all!" ”

"Tao Gong hates Hu people so much?" The man asked in surprise.

"No, I don't hate Hu Ren, it's just my vocation." Deputy Director Tao shook his head and said: "Since the historical records of China, the northern barbarians are the mortal enemies of my China, killing my Chinese people, invading my Chinese land, and the kings of all dynasties have regarded resisting and expelling these barbarians as the top priority. ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Tao put gold on his face again, and said casually: "Besides, when I was young, I heard that the barbarian Hu species in Mobei had poisoned my Chinese people, and I once chanted: It is not my intention to be a marquis, but I hope that the northern Xinjiang will be peaceful!" Later, I made a limerick poem to express the feelings in my chest! ”

"Really?" The man showed some joy, and hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask Tao Gong, what is the poem?" ”

"A clumsy song, sir, don't laugh." Deputy Director Tao was modest again, and then he chanted: "The limerick I made at that time was: Qin Shimingyue and Han Shiguan, the Long March has not been returned, but the dragon city will fly general, and Hu Ma will not be taught to Yin Mountain!" ”

"I don't want to be a marquis, I hope the north is peaceful! But to make the dragon city fly, do not teach Hu Ma to Yin Mountain! The man repeated a sentence in a low voice, and subconsciously clenched his fists, and then sighed: "Tao Gong's poems, sure enough, every sentence is impassioned, the villain has always believed that when Tao Gong was in Xuzhou City, he chanted 'donating his body to the country, seeing death as if he was at home' and 'Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat and green', and 'I smile to the sky from the horizontal knife, to leave the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun', it is already the poetry is extremely generous, and today I heard Tao Gong's words, this poem, only to know that Tao Gong's mind is far from being more than that. ”

"Do you know these lines of poetry that I chanted?" Deputy Director Tao Yileng.

"The villain knows, because the villain is also a party." The man nodded, and said: "At that time, the villain was on the city wall of Xuzhou, and he also saw with his own eyes the feat of Tao Gong jumping into the Cao thief oil pot in public for the people of Xuzhou!" ”

"You were on the city wall of Xuzhou at that time?!" Deputy Director Tao jumped up in surprise, and when he carefully recalled the past, Deputy Director Tao suddenly remembered a major event, pointed at the man and exclaimed, "I remember!" At that time, when my father was picking up Liu Bei's wind and dust, you were also at the table, oh, by the way, you were sitting next to Zhao Yun at the time, and I drank with you! ”

Deputy Director Tao, who saw that his eyes were above the top, finally remembered himself. Only then did the man leave the table and bow down to Deputy Director Tao again, and said respectfully: "Shi Tianyu, the head of Yuyang Taishou Mansion, meet Taiwei Tao!" Nine years ago, the villain went to Xuzhou with Liu Bei to rescue, when the villain was Liu Bei's general, quite appreciated by Liu Bei, the old Tao Gong played Liu Bei for Yuzhou after the assassination, the villain resigned from Liu Bei's team and returned to Yuyang's hometown in Youzhou. ”

"Are you Liu Bei's old department?" Deputy Director Tao was a little vigilant at first, and hurriedly asked, "General Tian." Since you are quite appreciated by Liu Bei. Why did you resign from Liu Bei's team again? ”

"Because Yu's mother was old and had no one to take care of her, and Liu Bei wanted to stay in Xiaopei again, Yu resigned from Liu Bei's team." Tian Yu explained. said respectfully: "It's also a shame that Yu resigned from Liu Bei's team in time." Otherwise. Even if Yu is not the enemy of Taiwei now, he has already died at the hands of Taiwei. Yu really didn't expect anything at that time, he was still a scholar at that time. What is possible today. ”

Deputy Director Tao laughed, somewhat relieved of Tian Yu, helped Tian Yu to sit down, ordered to serve wine and food to Tian Yu to catch the wind and wash the dust, and carefully asked about what happened after Tian Yu left Xuzhou, only to know that after Tian Yu left the imperial uncle army and returned to his hometown, he was appointed as the county commander of Dongzhou by Gongsun Zhan, thinking that the power of a county withstood the attack of tens of thousands of troops of the three princes of Dayuan and became famous. After learning about these situations, Deputy Director Tao hurriedly asked, "General Tian, why are you here this time?" ”

"Two things." Tian Yu replied: "The first thing is to submit the surrender table to the Taiwei on behalf of Xian Yufu, Xian Yutai is willing to lead the soldiers and civilians of Yuyang County to surrender to the Taiwei, accept the Taiwei's order, please accept the Taiwei." ”

Saying that, Tian Yu took out Xian Yufu's surrender book, and held it in front of Deputy Director Tao with both hands, Deputy Director Tao was happy and suspicious when he saw it, and hurriedly asked: "General Tian, Xian Yu is too guarded by me to kill my brother, and his younger brother Xian Yuyin died in the hands of our army, how can he take the initiative to ask me to surrender?" ”

"It was Yu who persuaded Xian Yu Taishou to make this decision." Tian Yu replied respectfully: "After Jiang Qi returned to Youzhou after the defeat, Wuhuan and Xianbei took the opportunity to invade the border of Youzhou, killing people and setting fires. Yu persuaded Xian Yu Taishou and said, the general trend of the Yuan family has gone, Tao Gong, you have great ambitions, both grace and power, and the people's aspirations, and finally be able to stabilize the world, it must be Tao Gong You, you should hurry up, don't wait for disaster in the future. He also said that Xian Yuyin died on the battlefield, with no eyes for knives and guns, and it is no wonder that Tao Gong you, besides, Tao Gong you have the ambition of the king, and you must ignore personal grievances. Xian Yu Taishou felt that what I said was reasonable, so he made up his mind. ”

"Okay, good, hard general, hard general." Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "General Tian's persuasion is meritorious, and I should reward you heavily, so ......." ”

"Tao Gong is slow." Tian Yu hurriedly interrupted Deputy Director Tao's words and said, "Gong Tao, there is no hurry to reward you, there is another important matter, Yu must report to you immediately, please prepare for Gong Tao as soon as possible." ”

"What?" Deputy Director Tao asked hurriedly.

"The Chieftain of the Wuhuan Thieves is here." Tian Yu said with a solemn face: "Yu and Xian Yufu received an urgent report, and under the pretext of receiving Yuan Shang's request for help, he personally led more than 20,000 Wuhuan iron horsemen to cross Lu Longsai, take the right Beiping, and go all the way south to Nanpi, Junmi and Xu Wuer County have fallen, counting the distance, within five or six days at most, the iron horses can reach Nanpi!" ”

"So fast?" Deputy Director Tao and Liu Ye were both shocked.

Tian Yu nodded, and hurriedly said: "There is another point, we also found out, this time Badun is preparing to take the road of Quanzhou, Zhangwu and Fuyang directly south, and suddenly appeared in the north of Nanpi, this road is only blocked by a river in Zhangshui, after passing Zhangshui, there is no big river for hundreds of miles to block the cavalry, the terrain is open and flat, it is the place where the Hu people gallop on iron, Tao Gong please be careful!" ”

"Take the road of Fuyang?!" Deputy Director Tao's tone was a little heavy, and his expression was a little strange.

"Exactly." Tian Yu hurriedly said: "Please forgive Tao Gong, Quanzhou, where the Iron Cavalry passed through, is under the jurisdiction of Yuyang, but our strength cannot stop so many Bandun cavalry, it is not that our army is unwilling to stop this Hu soldier for Tao Gong, it is really beyond our strength, please Tao Gong Ming check!" ”

"It's okay, you don't have to stop me." Deputy Director Tao laughed and said: "General Tian can quickly make a book and Xian Yu Taishou, so that he doesn't have to waste his strength to block the attack, although he can just let Bang Dun go south, and then arrange troops and horses in Quanzhou to prepare to intercept the defeat of Bao Dun and the road to the north." ”

"Also, be fast." Liu Ye also said with a smile: "Don't be defeated by us, your interceptor soldiers and horses have not been arranged in place, so you will miss a good opportunity to beat the water dogs." ”

"Ahh Tian Yu's eyes widened, and he hurriedly reminded: "Tao Gong, don't take the enemy lightly, the road of Fuyang is open, and there are no mountains and rivers to rely on to hold onto, which is the ideal for the barbarian cavalry to give full play to its combat power, although the Hu cavalry deserves death, it is not so easy to deal with." ”

"The terrain of Fuyang Road is open, I have long known this from Xun Chen." Deputy Director Tao said with a smile: "So I will only divide my troops to defend Chengping and Lecheng, and I don't have to worry about the road of Fuyang at all, since I dare to take this road to die, I will satisfy his wish to find death!" (To be continued......)