In fact, it is not that Da Yuan Sangong is too inferior, he invested in the Qingzhou battlefield two months earlier than his son-in-law Deputy Director Tao, but first let his son-in-law advance to the hinterland of Qingzhou, and also promoted the city of Juxian, one of the two major towns in Qingzhou, There are many reasons for the slow progress of the team of Da Yuan Sangong, and there are three important reasons that the advance speed of Da Yuan Sangong is definitely not able to catch up with his son-in-law.

The first reason is, of course, the deployment of the Qingzhou coalition army, in the face of the three-way threat of Yuan Sangong, Cao Boss and Deputy Director Tao, Tian Kai and Kong Rong Coalition Army formulated a tactical plan for each break, and preemptively concentrated the main forces of Tian and Kong to rush to the plain, in a vain attempt to break Yuan Tan first and then free up his hands to deal with Cao Boss and Deputy Director Tao, as a result, although Yuan Sangong decisively personally led the Bingzhou reinforcements to the plain battlefield to fight a decisive battle with the Qingzhou Coalition Army, completely reversing the situation, but the situation of the main force of the Qingzhou Coalition Army tilting westward has been completed. Da Yuan Sangong could only honestly seek to destroy the enemy's living force first, and did not dare to advance as quickly as Deputy Director Tao without distraction, and the speed of the army naturally could not be fast.

The second reason is that the Great Yuan Sangong was not prepared enough for the Qingzhou war, because all kinds of accidental and inevitable events were added together, causing the Great Yuan Sangong to give up the original plan to take Qingzhou by the hands of Cao Tao's two armies, and instead the army took on the heavy responsibility of the main force of the battle, as a result, although the time to end the Qingzhou war could be greatly shortened, but after the stubborn resistance of the Qingzhou coalition army, the disadvantages of insufficient preparation for the large-scale war were also immediately exposed. The Great Yuan Sangong took the initiative to stop the attack in order to plunder the supplies on the spot for a time, and freed up manpower to harvest the ripe wheat in Qingzhou, which also seriously affected the speed of the Great Yuan Sangong's army.

The third reason is the strength of the opponent, Tian Kai, the opponent of the Great Yuan Sangong, followed Gongsun Zhan to crisscross the outside of the blockade, and fought a hundred battles veteran who did not dare to cry at night in Xianbei and Wuheng Night, experienced and brave and strategic, and the team under his command was quite effective and tenacious - this had to be entrusted to the blessing of Yuan Tan, the precious son of Yuan Sangong, because Yuan Tan's head was convulsed and slaughtered the prisoners who had laid down their arms, which led to the Qingzhou coalition army not daring to surrender to the Great Yuan Sangong easily, and countless soldiers chose to fight to the death.

What about Deputy Director Tao's side, the combat effectiveness of Kong Rangli's team is not as good as Tian Kai's army, and the main force was sent to the plain by Kong Rangli to assist Tian Kai, and the remnants of the regular army failed to make a choice because of Kong Rangli's pedantic nerdy orders, and the stubborn Kong Rangli forced out of the city to fight to the death with the Xuzhou army, losing the last capital, so that the Xuzhou army, which was already advancing by leaps and bounds, easily defeated the remnants of Kong Rangli's regular army, and then faced those local townsmen who were not even fully equipped with weapons and equipment in the battle. It couldn't have been easier, and it couldn't have been faster.

In addition, Cao Laoda's team did not contribute and played tricks from time to time, and Deputy Director Tao's tactics were to imitate the blitzkrieg of the Greek demon itself emphasizing the speed of advancement, which was also an important reason why the advance speed of the Xuzhou army was far better than that of the Jizhou army, so the Great Yuan Sangong was not annoyed by the slow progress of his own army, nor was he jealous of the rapid advance of the Xuzhou army, on the contrary, he also thought that it was caused by the filial piety of his son-in-law - after all, if the son-in-law was not filial enough to refuse his son-in-law, it would be impossible to attack so fiercely and so quickly.

Da Yuan Sangong didn't care about the speed of his son-in-law's advancement, but General Cao Ren, Cheng Yu's strategists and Uncle Liu Huang were jealous and worried and about to go crazy, because Cao Ren and Cheng Yu and others had already learned from Uncle Liu Huang that the poor Qingzhou was also in a better situation in Beihai County, and Beihai County was the richest in several drama counties, and the money and grain in the entire Beihai County were basically concentrated in the city of Xi, so after learning about the advance speed of the Xuzhou army, Cao Ren, Cheng Yu and Uncle Liu Huang inevitably couldn't hold their breath. also made up his mind to say that he would not be able to let Deputy Director Tao get the money and food of the drama county.

Fortunately, the way to prevent Deputy Director Tao from capturing Juxian County is ready-made, Deputy Director Tao just appeased Uncle Zhang Ji's nephew and disgusting Boss Cao for Yuan Sangong, Cheng Yu, a first-class strategist in this era, can naturally think of treating others in his own way, and also use this method to disgust Deputy Director Tao, and Sun Gan under Uncle Liu Huang also happens to be Kong Rangli's former friend, which greatly facilitates the actions of Cao Jun's team.

Cheng Yu and Uncle Liu Huang are both cautious people, in order to prevent emergencies and ensure the success of the plan, and quietly pulled Yuan Tan Gongzi, who hated Deputy Director Tao to the bone, into the water, and let Yuan Tan Gongzi and General Cao Ren come forward, and went to the big Yuan Sangong under the pretext of cutting off Tian Kai's wings, and volunteered to take on the task of attacking Juxian, and because of the road blockage and the lack of smooth traffic communication, the big Yuan Sangong did not know that the Xuzhou army had advanced there, so he agreed to the request of his son and Cao Ren. He also made it smart to let Cao's army take the lead in attacking Juxian County to reduce the casualties and losses of his own team.

After arranging all this, Sun Gan naturally hurried to Xixian County to contact Kong Rangli to surrender, and not long after Sun Gan left, the Jizhou army finally took the county seat of Xi'an, the gateway to Linzi (not mistaken), and the soldiers came to Linzi City, surrounded the last few thousand remnants of Tian Kai's army, and there was only a hundred miles away from Juxian. Yuan Tan Gongzi, General Cao Ren and others were overjoyed, but they also hurried to the equally happy Yuan Sangong and asked for an immediate army to attack Juxian County, so that Kong Rangli would not send troops to rescue Linzi - this was of course an excuse.

"Go ahead." Yuan Sangong, who was very excited to finally surround the enemy's commander, waved his hand and said with great generosity: "Zixiao led the men and horses of the headquarters first, Xiansi waited for a few days before sending troops, our army camp is undecided, first stay to assist the main force to set up camp, and then lead the headquarters to attack." ”

"Old horseman, you want us to go ahead and confront Kong Rong, and your team will hide behind to pick up the cheapest."

Cao Ren snorted coldly in his heart, but this time General Cao Ren, who had the bottom in his heart, didn't care about the selfishness of Yuan Sangong, but secretly sneered and hugged his fists and sang a promise, accepting this task that seemed to be cannon fodder, and Yuan Tan Gongzi over there couldn't wait to give General Cao Ren a glance, reminding General Cao Ren to remember the previous agreement, and divide the captured money and grain in Juxian County into forty or sixty, Yuan Tan Gongzi will take sixty percent, and Cao Jun's team will take forty percent.

"By the way, there's one more thing." Da Yuan Sangong suddenly added: "I heard that the Xuzhou army is advancing very quickly, and I don't know where it is now, maybe it will soon hit Xixian County, after your Yanzhou army and the Xuzhou army meet, you have to give me some restraint, don't conflict with my son-in-law, if someone dares to provoke a conflict, don't blame the leader of this alliance for being unkind to him." ”

"No." Cao Ren hugged his fists again and agreed, and asked: "Dare to ask Yuan Gong, if the Xuzhou army takes the initiative to provoke a conflict with our army, what can it do?" ”

"Impossible." Da Yuan Sangong shook his head categorically, and said in a big way: "Ying'er is a filial and sensible child, it is impossible to do such a thing." ”

"But what if?" Cheng Yu hurriedly stood up and said: "Yuan Gong, Yu and others also believe that with Tao Yuanjun's frankness and gentleman's style, they will definitely not take the initiative to provoke conflicts with our army, but the Xuzhou generals under Tao Yuanjun may not be like this - those grievances between our army and the Xuzhou army, Yuan Gong should be very clear." Moreover, Tao Yuanjun must be sitting in the Chinese army and moving slowly, and the forward is entrusted to others, so such a situation is still very likely to occur, please Yuan Gongming to investigate. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Yu quickly added: "In view of this situation, for the sake of the long-term plan of the three alliances of Yuan, Cao and Tao, and in order to avoid accidental conflicts and affect Yuan Gong's plan to enter Qingzhou, Yu and others have the courage to ask Yuan Gong to issue a warrant to let the Tao envoy army and the generals of Xuzhou restrain the team, and not provoke conflicts with friendly forces, and those who violate the order will be severely punished, so that they can get along amicably after meeting with the Xuzhou army." ”

Considering that the two Tao Cao families did have too deep a grudge, and it would be harmful to them if the two families fought in Qingzhou, Da Yuan Sangong quickly nodded and agreed to Cheng Yu's plea, and said: "The warrant can be given to you, but I can warn you that this warrant of mine is not only issued to the Xuzhou army, but also to the Yanzhou army. Do you understand?! ”

"Understood." Cao Ren and Cheng Yu nodded together to show their understanding, and they also laughed in their hearts together, "Tao Ying destroys the thief, wait for the knock." ”

The things that made General Cao Ren and Cheng Yu happy were not over, and they returned to the camp with the handwritten warrant of Yuan Sangong, who was like a sword for Deputy Director Tao, and General Cao Ren and Cheng Yu saw at first glance that Mr. Sun Qian, who had gone to Xixian County to contact Deputy Director Tao, had returned to the army, and was still talking and laughing with the three brothers of Uncle Liu in the marching tent. General Cao Ren was overjoyed and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Gongyou, how is the situation?" If Kong Wenju replied that our army surrendered? ”

Sun Qian wanted to sell some guanzi, just wanted to pretend to have a sad face, but he didn't want Cheng Yu to smile and say, "General Zixiao, do you still need to ask?" can make Uncle Liu Huang smile so happily, can Mr. Gongyou's trip still be a big victory? Horse to success? ”

Cao Ren hurriedly turned his head to look at Uncle Liu Huang, and found that although Uncle Liu, who was usually moody, was a little embarrassed at the moment, his slender eyes were full of smug smiles, and General Cao Ren, who was not too stupid, also immediately cheered, "Okay!" Finally avenged Zhang Ji's incident! This time, I see how he Tao Ying exterminates the thief and cashes in the 100,000 grains he gave to Yuan Shaopifu! ”

"General Zixiao, you can't relax yet." Uncle Liu Huang finally spoke and warned: "Although Sun Gongyou's trip was a success, Kong Wenju also agreed to act according to the plan. But Tao Ying's speed of the thief's march is faster, but it exceeds all our estimates in advance, when Gongyou arrived in the afternoon of the drama county, the forward of the Tao thief has already arrived in Pingshou, and surrendered the Pingshou defenders, according to this marching speed, if nothing else, the pottery thief can arrive in the city of the city as early as yesterday afternoon, and the latest is today, and our army needs to rush to the county as soon as possible, just in case! ”

"So fast? Message confirmation? How could the team of pottery thieves advance so fast? Cao Ren and Cheng Yu were both taken aback, extremely surprised by the speed of Deputy Director Tao's advancement.

Seeing Uncle Liu Huang, who never laughed, nodded solemnly, Cheng Yu didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said to Cao Ren: "General Zixiao, for the sake of prudence, our army must immediately send troops, Xixian is only a hundred miles away from here, it is noon, if you march all the way, our army should be able to arrive in Xixian County to take over the city defense before tomorrow evening!" Kong Wenju said that it should not be a big problem to support two or three times, so that even if there is any accident, the drama county must still belong to our army! ”

"Pass the order down, immediately pull out the camp and start the village, and be ready to set off in front of Shen Shi!"

Cao Ren immediately sent an order to the generals present, and arranged for the herald to inform the battalions to prepare to set off immediately, and it was not until Cao Ren made these arrangements that our Uncle Liu Huang said slowly: "General Zixiao, Mr. Zhongde, although Tao Ying's thief is deceitful and despicable, he is our ally after all, and I heard that after the Tao thief promised to meet with the original guild teacher, he will dedicate 100,000 yuan of grain and grass to his father-in-law to show filial piety - in this case, why don't I arrange a suitable time to report the fact that the Xuzhou army has arrived in Xi County, Report it to the original public? ”

"What do you mean?"

General Cao Ren paused for a moment, but Mr. Cheng Yu smiled, and said to Uncle Liu Huang: "Uncle Huang is really hidden and clever, please rest assured, Uncle Huang will go and make arrangements, and in the morning of tomorrow, someone will report the news to Ben Chu Gong." ”

Uncle Liu Huang, who is known for his invisibility of joy and anger, also smiled, and like Mr. Cheng Yu, who has always been known for his bodhisattva heart and never made human flesh, he smiled very good-looking.

…………………… Okay, now let's go back and take a look at the situation of Deputy Director Tao, who is hated by people and hated by Uncle Liu Huang, Kong Rangli, who is famous all over the world and still serves as a model of humble virtue in textbooks, may regret that he should not have sent a messenger to Xuzhou to negotiate with General Cao Ren's diplomatic note and letter immediately after finalizing the surrender of Cao Lao's brigade, let alone let the messenger ride a fast horse south to deliver the letter.

Because the drama county is only less than forty miles away from Pingshou, who has surrendered to Deputy Director Tao, so not long after dark, the messenger of Kong Rangli, who was riding a fast horse, was stopped by the forward army of Xuzhou, and when he learned that the messenger of Kong Rangli was coming, Wei Yan, the general of Xuzhou who led the army to Pingshou to take over the city defense, was first taken aback, and then immediately made a decision, while sending a fast horse to escort Kong Rangli's messenger to Yingling, while taking the initiative to take charge of the three thousand Danyang soldiers under his command to rush to Xixian overnight, Preparing for the siege and waiting for Deputy Director Tao's follow-up orders bought Deputy Director Tao a lot of valuable time to respond.

Although General Wei Yan, who was finally able to show his skills in the Xuzhou army, was worthy of praise for his courage, courage and change, it was a pity that this point still could not solve the problem faced by Deputy Director Tao, so when Kong Rangli's messenger sent General Cao Ren's letter of notification to Deputy Director Tao in the early morning of the next day, and claimed that Kong Rangli had led the entire city of Xixian to surrender to Cao's army, Deputy Director Tao was still dumbfounded on the spot, and couldn't help but roar on the spot, "Surrender Cao thief?!" Is Kong Rong crazy? I repeatedly surrendered to him and didn't listen, how could I surrender to Cao Thief? ”

"Envoy King, the villain is just a messenger, why the lord made this decision, the villain doesn't know." The messenger named Xue Yue replied respectfully, but there was a little schadenfreude in his voice that was difficult to conceal - no way, who called this Xue Yue the son of the housekeeper of the Prime Minister of Kong Rangli Country, the slave of the family, and naturally had the same hatred as the master.

glared at Xue Yue's obscene face viciously, Deputy Director Tao's handsome face was almost as vicious as Shura, but for a while, he couldn't think of a way to solve this problem that he had laid out first - using force to fight the county was to break the covenant and offend the dignity of his father-in-law, Yuan Sangong, if he didn't fight by force, the mountains of grain, grass and ordnance in the richest drama county in Beihai would have to be surnamed Cao, not to mention that he couldn't get the 100,000 grains to honor his father-in-law, even the Xuzhou army's own grain and grass also had problems.

"When did Wen Jugong join General Cao Ren?" The old poison Jia Xu finally spoke, and asked seemingly lightly; "General Cao Ren's team has arrived in Xi County?"

"The villain doesn't know." Xue Yue, who was a little clever, shook his head.

"You may not know when Wen Jugong joined the Cao Army, but when the Cao Army's team arrived in the drama county, don't you know?" Jia Lao Poison asked.

"It's ......." Xue Yue hesitated for a moment, and finally replied honestly: "General Cao's team has not yet arrived in Juxian County, but only sent Mr. Sun Qian, the middle of Yuzhou Zhizhong, as an envoy, to recruit my lord to surrender for General Cao, and my lord accepted General Cao's surrender, changed the banner of General Cao, and accepted General Cao's orders and dispatches. That's all the villain knows. ”

Deputy Director Tao's face became even more gloomy, Liu Ye and Jia Lao Poison glanced at each other helplessly, and there was a feeling that he had lifted a stone and hit his own feet, and Xue Yue saw that Deputy Director Tao was silent for a long time, so he kowtowed and said: "If you don't have anything else, then the villain will leave and go back to Juxian County to send a letter to the lord." Oh yes, my lord also has a message to the envoy, and when the envoy arrives in the city of Xixian County, my lord will definitely send someone to send food out of the city to dedicate to the envoy, in order to thank the envoy for his kindness back then. ”

Deputy Director Tao still didn't speak, and after his triangular eyes turned around for a long time, Deputy Director Tao suddenly slapped the case, pointed at Xue Yue and shouted: "Come on, take down this thief!" ”

"No!" The four guards rushed out and held Xue Yue down without saying a word, Xue Yue was shocked and screamed: "Envoy, what is the villain's crime?" Why take the villain? ”

"What is your sin?" Deputy Director Tao of the Demolition and Relocation Office suddenly turned into a Nanjing judge, and shouted with great majesty: "The anti-national thief Kong Rong escaped from the law, forged the letter of General Cao Ren and Cao Zixiao, falsely claimed that he had surrendered to Cao Gong Mengde, deceived Cao Gong on the county seat of the county, and made you come to send a book to deceive, in a vain attempt to deceive the history of the assassin into the county town of the drama to poison the hands and cause harm!" Now that your poisonous plan has been discovered by this assassin history, you are not quick to tell the truth, and when?! ”

"Nope! Nope! Xue Yue screamed like a pig, "Envoy, when did the villain trick you into the drama city?" Why did the villain cheat by sending books? This letter is really a letter from General Cao that Mr. Sun Qian brought to the drama city! ”

"Dare to quibble? Pull it down, torture! Fight until he tells the truth! Deputy Director Tao was like a civil servant hiding from the cat.

"Let you spare your life! Escape for your life! The villain is just a messenger, the villain is just a messenger! Xue Yue screamed even louder, but unfortunately Deputy Director Tao's guards refused to pay attention to it at all, and dragged him out of the big tent without saying a word, and the sound of whipping and hoarse screams soon sounded outside the big tent.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the torture, Deputy Director Tao quickly ordered: "Send a fast horse to Wei Yan to give an order, let him attack the drama city immediately, and be sure to take the drama city for me before the Cao thief team arrives in the drama city!" Gao Shun, you immediately lead the camp and rush to Juxian County to reinforce Wei Yan, at any cost! ”

"No!" Gao Shun hugged his fists and agreed, and then rushed out of the tent, racing against time to organize the army to rush to the drama city for reinforcements. It was also at this time that Liu Ye asked worriedly: "Lord, is it really okay to do this?" Cao Thief's team is okay, but there is Yuan Tan behind this matter, and he will not let go of this opportunity to sow discord. ”

"So be quick." Deputy Director Tao said gloomily: "As long as you take the drama city before the Cao thief team arrives in the drama city, then anything can be said, and the money and food in my pocket are not easy for Yuan Shao to tell me to spit it out to the Cao thief again." ”

"But we don't know where the Cao thief team has arrived now, if the Cao thief team arrives at the drama city during this period, or Yuan Tan also arrives at the drama city during this period, how can it be good?" Liu Ye asked again.

"There's a substitute outside the tent." Deputy Director Tao pouted outside the tent where the screams came, and snorted coldly: "Push the blame for causing our army's misunderstanding on him and cut off his head." ”

"I'll recruit! I'm recruiting! At this moment, Xue Yue's desperate screams were already heard outside the tent, "I'll move!" Whatever you want me to recruit, I'll recruit! Mother, military master, please stop fighting! ”

"Phew! It's really useless, it's recruited so quickly. Deputy Director Tao spat and turned to Chen Ying next to him and ordered: "Yuan Fang, write the confession we want, go and sign and sign for that waste, but don't kill people first, it may be useful to stay." ”

(To be continued)