The process of Jiang Gan's negotiation with Liu Pan is actually very simple, and there are almost no third people involved, basically Mr. Jiang Gan met with Liu Pan in the back hall of the Yecheng County Ya under the supervision of several Liu Pan's personal soldiers, and then Mr. Jiang Gan informed Liu Pan of the strong and reasonable attitude of the Xuzhou army, and then Liu Pan did not express his position on the spot whether to accept Deputy Director Tao's unreasonable request, but only asked Mr. Jiang Gan to temporarily recuse himself and allow himself to think about it a little, and finally after about a quarter of an hour, Liu Pan met with Mr. Jiang Gan alone again, said that he accepted the arrogant demands of the Xuzhou army, and sent Liu Yi, the captain of the personal army, as an envoy to come over and negotiate with Deputy Director Tao in person.

The specific process is very simple, but the cautious and suspicious Deputy Director Tao found a suspicious point that can barely be regarded as a suspicious point - that is, Mr. Jiang Gan once left Liu Pan's side for more than a quarter of an hour, which is equivalent to more than half an hour in the 21st century, what did Liu Pan do in this more than half an hour? Who did you see and what did you say? Mr. Jiang Gan didn't know, and Deputy Director Tao would never have guessed it.

Of course, this can only be barely regarded as a suspicious point, and it must not be regarded as evidence of Liu Pan's deception, because it is necessary to make such a big decision to change the court, even if it is replaced by Deputy Director Tao, he has to hesitate again and again, and it is very reasonable for Liu Pan to take time to think about it.

But then again, Liu Pan set a poisonous plan to deceive and break the enemy during this period is also very reasonable, although the suspicious Deputy Director Tao has not seen Liu Pan, but can imagine such a picture, Liu Pan in Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang and other peerless persuasion, resolutely decided to take a gamble, defeat the main force of the rear army has not yet had time to arrive at the battlefield Xuzhou front army, and even boldly proposed to capture alive or kill Deputy Director Tao, in one fell swoop! Severely damaged the old enemy of Jingzhou, Cao Boss, severely damaged Jingzhou's current strongest opponent, Deputy Director Tao, robbed the Son of Heaven Yuan Sangong, and laid the foundation for the Jingzhou Army's dominance in the world in one fell swoop!

As for Liu Pan's envoy Liu Yi, who was ignorant in the face of Deputy Director Tao's sudden attack, and did not show the slightest flaw, this is also very easy to explain - Deputy Director Tao, who is good at deceiving nail households, seriously suspects that Liu Yi is just a dead room sent by Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang through Liu Pan's hand, and he knows nothing about Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang's vicious tricks! Therefore, no matter what means Deputy Director Tao uses to induce confessions and deceive confessions, he will never find the slightest flaw! This kind of thing, Deputy Director Tao has always been good at it, and Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang can definitely do it to destroy people!

Suspicion is suspicion, in the absence of conclusive evidence, Deputy Director Tao has no way to confirm that Liu Pan is deceiving the surrender, and this pursuit did not bring Jia Lao Poison, Liu Ye and Shiyi and other strategists to help the staff officers. So after thinking about it again, Deputy Director Tao decided to act cautiously, first called Liu Pan's personal soldier captain Liu Yi to the front, gave him a reward and an official position, and promised to give Liu Pan a knighthood and official position, and promised to let Liu Pan protect all the property seized in the Cao army's camp the night before, and finally asked Liu Pan to light a fire on the south bank of the Yanshui when the Xin Ping army began to retreat, and then immediately raised troops to cross the river and attack the Xin Ping team with Liu Pan's team!

With Deputy Director Tao's letter and reward, Liu Yi happily returned to Yecheng to hand over the order to Liu Pan, but Deputy Director Tao thought about it again for a long time, and then asked Jiang Gan to write a letter to Xu Huang, ordering Xu Huang, Wei Yan and Jia Lao Poison, who led the rear army, to take the team across the water, and then do not rush to the north bank of the water to meet with the main force, just rest on the spot ten miles north of the water, and then wait until the fire breaks out on the south bank of the water, and then immediately raise troops south to reinforce the battlefield!

It was also at this time that our Mr. Jiang Gan finally knew that the main force of the rear army of the self-army was about to arrive at the battlefield, and after the surprise, Jiang Gan asked with a puzzled face: "Lord, since the main force of our rear army is about to arrive at the battlefield, why don't you let the rear army immediately rush to the north bank of the water to meet our army's front army, and let the rear army stay ten miles behind and wait for your life, so that it will delay the fighter?" ”

"The enemy is too cunning, I must keep my hands behind." Deputy Director Tao replied very frankly, and said expressionlessly: "I can't tell whether Liu Pan surrendered by fraud until now, if I don't leave a backhand to prevent accidents, what if Liu Pan is a fraud to lure the enemy?" ”

"The lord is too worried, General Liu Pan is definitely not a fraudulent surrender!" Mr. Jiang Gan squirmed his crow beak, which was comparable to Uncle Bailey, and said irresponsibly: "I dare to guarantee my family name, General Liu Pan is not a fraud, so please rest assured that the lord believes in General Liu Pan!" ”

"It's because you vouch for it, so I dare not believe it." Deputy Director Tao muttered in his heart, but of course Deputy Director Tao couldn't be too sarcastic about the accomplice lackey, he just smiled and said: "People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, how does Ziyi know that Liu Pan can't surrender?" ”

"Because His Majesty can see that General Liu Pan has long had the heart to submit to our army." Mr. Jiang Gan replied honestly: "Don't hide it from the lord, when the lord sent his subordinates back to Yexian to force words in front of General Liu Pan, his subordinates were ready to be scolded and even beheaded by General Liu Pan, but his subordinates didn't expect anything, after listening to his subordinates' strong arguments, General Liu Pan was not angry at all, as if he had expected it, so his subordinates thought that General Liu Pan must have been in his heart for our army a long time ago. ”

"Based on this, it is determined that Liu Pan is not a fraud?" Deputy Director Tao smiled bitterly and couldn't help but sigh, "Mr. Ziyi is really a righteous person, and he is really happy to be friends with Mr. Zi......yi, ah!" ”

Sighing at this, Deputy Director Tao stopped suddenly, jumped up and shouted, "What did you say? After Liu Pan listened to our strong rhetoric, he didn't get angry at all?! ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Mr. Jiang Gan was even more confused, and carefully introduced: "Your Majesty didn't expect that General Liu Pan would be so magnanimous, when Your Majesty quibbled, even he felt blushing, but General Liu Pan didn't say a word, there was no anger on his face, and his tone was very kind to His subordinates, how could such a person deceive us?" ”

"Sure enough, there is a problem!" Deputy Director Tao's heart suddenly froze, and he said that Liu Pan and his martial arts were so deceived by our army, how could he not react angrily? The city is so deep, doesn't this seem like the performance of a martial artist?

After being frightened, Deputy Director Tao, who had always kept a hand before, quickly smiled again, first nodded, and then urged: "Ziyi, there is no need to explain for Liu Pan anymore, hurry up and make a book for me, I have my own opinions on this matter." Jiang Gan agreed, and hurriedly drafted the order according to Deputy Director Tao's requirements, and Deputy Director Tao signed and sealed it after checking that it was correct, and then sent his henchmen to Xu Huang's army in a hurry.

Not long after the messenger was dispatched, the Xuzhou scouts who had been sent to investigate the upstream and downstream of the Tanshui also returned to Deputy Director Tao one after another, saying that they had found three places to cross the river in the nearby river section, one of which was located more than ten miles upstream of the Tanshui and could be crossed; One is located outside the north gate of Yexian County, and there is a bridge to cross, but the bridge deck is within the range of the defenders' bows and arrows, so it is naturally not suitable for rushing or smuggling; The third river crossing site is located seven or eight miles downstream of the Tanshui, not only has a zhang wide bridge connecting the north and south, but also the water flow is slow and only reaches the chest and abdomen of ordinary people, and the river can also be crossed by flowing water.

After confirming the location of several river crossing points on the rudimentary map, Deputy Director Tao thought about it for a while, and immediately ordered Xu Chu to go to the rear of the camp to organize 3,000 infantry, and quietly evacuate the temporary camp with a team of 50 people without a banner, and use the cover of mountains and forests to ambush on the north bank of the ferry downstream of the Yanshui. Then Deputy Director Tao divided the remaining 7,000 troops into three teams, one team led by Zhou Hui with 2,000 troops, one team of 2,000 cavalry led by Lu Burma, and finally 3,000 led by Deputy Director Tao himself.

After allocating the soldiers and horses, and only sleeping for two hours in two days, Deputy Director Tao could finally relax and rest for a while, but fortunately, at this moment, the time was only more than half of the time, and there was still a little time before dark, and the exhausted Deputy Director Tao arranged for the team to take turns to monitor the enemy's movements, and found a relatively flat place, wrapped in a felt blanket and fell asleep. In addition to the team that rotated to monitor the enemy's situation, most of the remaining soldiers were also like this, sitting or lying on the spot to rest, snoring was everywhere in the temporary camp where there was no fence, and countless people were sleeping with their limbs open.

Fortunately, the Xuzhou army is tired, the Jingji coalition army on the other side of the river is even more tired, the Jizhou team is in a high degree of mental tension in a rapid march of more than 200 miles, up and down are already exhausted, the Jingzhou army is only last night with the Cao army a big battle, just after the battle is over, there are many soldiers who can't even drink a sip of water, and then they were transferred to the south bank of the water to fortify to prevent the Xuzhou army from crossing the river, and they are all exhausted, so sleepy that the eyelids and eyelids are constantly fighting, and they have not seen the Xuzhou army cross the river for a long time, and most of them sleep on the spot after the mentality is slightly relaxed. As a result, the two armies were only two or three thousand meters apart, and there was only a river in the middle to block it, but the generals and soldiers were mostly sitting or lying, snoring one after another, and it became a very rare battlefield scene.

In contrast, the high quality of the Xuzhou army is also fully displayed at this moment, in the same exhausted situation, the Xuzhou team that takes turns to monitor the enemy's situation can fall asleep even if they are so tired that they can stand up, but they still have a strong fighting spirit and closely monitor the movement on the other side of the water, and the grassroots generals of the Xuzhou army are also constantly patrolling back and forth, checking whether there are any soldiers who are lazy to sleep, and do not give the opposite side any chance to sneak attack the self-army. However, the Jingji coalition army on the other side of the water is different, even the duty team responsible for monitoring the enemy's movements is almost all snoring like thunder, including the grassroots generals, and the defense against the surprise attack of the Xuzhou army is almost zero.

At this moment, if Deputy Director Tao can arrange a new force to launch a surprise attack, then it will be almost easy for the Xuzhou army to break through the Yanshui defense line and inflict heavy damage on the Jijing coalition army guarding the Yanshui crossing. But it's a pity that the Xuzhou army will no longer be able to find a new force full of physical strength, from Deputy Director Tao to ordinary soldiers, all of them are so tired that they can take a nap when they walk, and the handsome and extraordinary Deputy Director Tao is even more black around his eyes like a national treasure panda, so he is naturally powerless to launch a surprise attack.

But it doesn't matter much, Deputy Director Tao already knows that the enemy is preparing to move on the third watch at night and lure the army to cross the river to ambush him, and Deputy Director Tao has already considered a countermeasure, and is ready to take care of the enemy in turn, so Deputy Director Tao doesn't need to be in a hurry to break the enemy. What is very relevant is that Deputy Director Tao never dreamed that at the same time, there was a bridge in Yexian County that could reach the north gate of Yexian County on the north bank of the water............

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A thousand Jingzhou troops who served as a raid task have been assembled in the north gate of Yexian County, this is the only new force that did not join the Cao Cao war last night, the main commander who led the raid of this thousand troops is Huang Zhong, and Zhang Fei is the deputy, this team was given a time to rest in turn last night, and today during the day it was given two hours of peace of mind, and after waking up, he ate a rare meal with meat and vegetables, and each soldier also got a bowl of wine, full of physical strength, full of energy, and his combat effectiveness is at its peak.

The high-level of the Jingji coalition army all arrived, for this team destined to create miracles, the honorary Emperor Han Xian, who was the Son of Heaven, also came to the scene to see off this army under the polite 'invitation' of Xin Ping, Liu Pan and Uncle Liu, and then Emperor Han Xian was still under the 'plea' of Uncle Liu, tremblingly read aloud the thirteen major crimes of destroying the door of Deputy Director Tao of Uncle Liu, mutilating the imperial family, being disloyal and unfilial and poisoning the people, and twenty-one capital crimes, and finally Emperor Han Xian announced that he would behead the head of Deputy Director Tao. can be the lord of Xuzhou, the official title of Xuzhou Mu, Pengcheng Marquis!

Two baskets full of rare treasures were brought to this team, and if anyone could cut off the valuable head of Deputy Director Tao, he would receive a whole basket of rare treasures, and the other basket would be divided equally among the teams, and the families of the soldiers who died in the battle could also receive double the reward. Liu Pan, who loves money like his life, didn't want to take out these loot as rewards, but this time he can't take them, and Zhuge Liang, who can speak well, has pointed out to Liu Pan that if Major General Liu Pan wants to keep the treasures captured last night as much as possible, there are only two choices, one is to abandon Liu Pan's wife and children in Youxian County, really surrender the insidious and vicious Deputy Director Tao, and become the fish on the anvil for Xuzhou officials to slaughter at will. The second is to establish immortal merits and obtain high-ranking officials, so that the important ministers of Jingzhou do not dare to extort Liu Pan too much. Otherwise, Liu Pan has no third choice, he can't keep the treasure, and he can't keep his head!

Liu Pan hesitated for a while, but Huang Zhong and Yang Ling and other major Jingzhou generals made it clear that they did not want to defect to the Xuzhou army - their families were still in the hands of Liu Biao, Liu Huangshu and Zhang Fei and other fierce people were also beside him, and finally coupled with the canonization of Emperor Han Xian's Yanling Marquis and Yanzhou pastoral office, Liu Pan in the hands of his wife and children Liu Biao was finally persuaded by Zhuge Liang, not only determined to resist the Xuzhou army to the end, but also took out two baskets of treasures as a reward for breaking the enemy. In front of the dazzling array of jewels, the eyes of the Jingzhou Shengli army, who had not been able to go to the battlefield last night to loot the loot, lit up and shot a green light like a hungry wolf.

Enough bounty, drum up morale, when the sun is about to set on the top of the West Mountain, the north gate of Yecheng, which has been closed for a long time, suddenly opened, Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei two fierce generals rode out together, took the lead in rushing out of the city gate and rushed across the bridge, more than 1,000 Jingzhou fresh troops lined up to follow, red eyes rushed across the Yanshui bridge, Yecheng North Gate also suddenly drums and horns sounded, gongs and drums shook the sky, it was really a male voice like thunder, people like tigers and horses like dragons, with the collapse of the sky and the earth to kill the temporary camp of the Xuzhou army more than four miles away, but also to the Xuzhou army that had fallen sharply, running like a stream, It's more like a flood bursting the embankment, and the goal is directly at the handsome flag of Deputy Director Tao!

"Goal! Pottery thief head! Kill——————! This is the cry that Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei uttered in unison when they went out of the city.

Hearing this roar like thunder, seeing the rushing momentum, and seeing the chaotic Xuzhou team in the distance, Xin Ping, Wang Le and other Jizhou generals all laughed, Liu Pan, who finally made up his mind, also smiled, Uncle Liu Huang, who was very deep in the city, also smiled unprecedentedly and showed a mouth full of white teeth, and the trio Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and Xu Shu under the Water Mirror Gate also smiled together, and then Xu Shu also bowed his hand to Pang Tong and said: "Thank you Shiyuan for your plan to slack off the enemy, Shu's mother's revenge will be avenged, and it is finally hopeful!" ”

"Tao Aiqing......." The only thing that didn't laugh was Emperor Han Xian, who was 'invited' to the city tower to watch the battle by Uncle Liu Huang and Xin Ping, and when he saw the Jingzhou commando team directly take the banner of Deputy Director Tao, Emperor Han Xian still muttered in his heart, "Tao Aiqing, may the ancestors of the Great Han Dynasty bless you, you ......, be careful." (To be continued.) )