In response to Deputy Director Tao's call to try soybean and wheat interplanting in Xuzhou and the people of Xuzhou yeoman farmers all smiled crookedly, with the help of the rhizobia brought by the plant scum soybean, their wheat fields with soybeans almost all achieved good harvests, and did not affect wheat yield because of soybean interplanting in the wheat field, and also made those who were worried that soybean water and fertilizer would affect wheat production and did not dare to eat crabs. In addition to planting beans and wheat in the coming year, the determination to remorse is the same, and like those people who have tasted the sweetness, they did not hesitate to respond to the new call of Deputy Director Tao to vigorously develop earthworm breeding and production of natural fertilizers, in order to obtain a better grain harvest in the coming year.

In terms of total output, the deputy director of Tao and the military and civilian people of Xuzhou who have worked hard for a year have not worked in vain, in the second year of Jian'an, the wind and rain are not smooth, the grain harvest of the five counties of Xuzhou has still caught up with the record of the first year, even if there is no harvest given by God, it is still full of rice, the treasury of the treasury, and the people can also drum up their bellies and sing their praises, live and work in peace and contentment, so that the increasingly strong Xuzhou demolition team has also obtained a reliable logistics guarantee, and can rest assured that the demolition target will be transferred to Qingzhou. To demolish Qingzhou for the common interests of the Xuzhou demolition team and the Jizhou allies.

After being busy with these important political affairs, the time has also entered the fifth lunar month of the second year of Jian'an, and there is only less than half a month left before Deputy Director Tao decides to send troops to Qingzhou.

When Song Kai, the envoy of Xuzhou, on behalf of Deputy Director Tao, officially informed Tian Kai of the march time, march route and number of troops of the Xuzhou army, Tian Kai, who knew that the end of Qingzhou was approaching, refused to stay in the small county town and wait for death, and resolutely chose to abandon the city to break through the siege when there was still the strength of a battle, and the Cao army team stationed in the eastern suburbs of the county was arranged by the Great Yuan Sangong to bear the brunt. was forced to start a bloody battle with the Qingzhou coalition army that jumped over the wall, and no matter how unwilling he was to be cannon fodder, he was forced to be cannon fodder for the Great Yuan Sangong and the Xuzhou army.

After a bloody battle, although the Cao army, which had paid a heavy price, insisted on the fact that the Great Yuan Sangong personally led the army to reinforce, but the next selfish actions of the Great Yuan Sangong made Cao Ren and Liu Huangshu and other Cao army generals crooked their noses, knowing that the Cao army was outnumbered and fought very hard, the Great Yuan Sangong said that he would not send reinforcements to the frontal battlefield, and chose to put the team into the flank battlefield and the rear battlefield, and only attacked the back and flanks of Tian Kai's army, driving out the Qingzhou coalition army to repeatedly launch fierce attacks on Cao's position, Let the Qingzhou coalition army, which is already fighting to the death, concentrate on consuming with Cao's arms, and hide by the side to pick up cheap and watch the excitement.

As a result, the pressure on the Cao army is naturally greater, the Qingzhou coalition army continues to storm the Cao army's position in order to survive, and the Cao army has already been completely mixed with the enemy in order to intercept the Qingzhou coalition army, that is, it is very difficult to even retreat and transfer, in order not to collapse the team and the casualties are greater, they can only continue to fight with the Qingzhou coalition army, and the casualties continue to expand rapidly, and the great Yuan Sangong unhurriedly commanded the mobile forces to outflank the detour, and set up a temporary defense line behind the Cao army, and then there will be no major movements, Hiding in the distance, he just sneered and watched the Qingzhou coalition army and the Cao army consume each other.

After all, the Qingzhou coalition army under the command of Tian Kai is outnumbered, and it is a desperate fight to break through, morale and fighting spirit are relatively high, and most of the more than 20,000 troops under Cao Ren are also the second-line army in the Cao army, and the combat effectiveness does not have much advantage, and because the wolf-hearted allies are unwilling to help in the front and affect the morale, so after more than two hours of bloody fighting, the Cao army's blocking position was finally broken through by the Qingzhou coalition army, and then the Cao army's camp was also kicked by the Qingzhou coalition army. The experienced Great Yuan Sangong began to exert his strength, and ordered a general offensive to encircle and suppress the Qingzhou coalition army, which had already fought with Cao's army.

Waiting for work is to fight the crowd with the crowd, the battle of the three princes of the Great Yuan is naturally fought smoothly and comfortably, the elite lost Tian Kaijun and the Beihai Kong Rong army whose flesh and feet are so bad that even the yellow turban thieves can't do it are killed all over the field, and the blood flows like a river, even the Luoshui next to the battlefield is dyed red with blood, Yuan Shaojun marched all the way, took Chaoyang City in one go, and resolutely chased the Qingzhou coalition army to the Zouping ferry, and once again killed the Qingzhou coalition army who crossed the river and fled to the devil crying wolf, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain, It also made less than 8,000 Qingzhou coalition troops who abandoned the city and broke through escape from Luoshui, and they fled back to Zouping City in embarrassment to barely save their lives.

Of course, there is no real perfect and smooth sailing in this world, what makes Yuan Sangong hate is that Yuan Shaojun was originally very hopeful to kill or even capture the commander of the Qingzhou coalition army Tian Kai on the pursuit battlefield, but unfortunately because of the brave performance of a rebel general surnamed Zhao, Yuan Shaojun's dream became a flower in the mirror. In the melee, the rebel general surnamed Zhao rampaged in Cao Yuan's army, invincible, such as entering a no-man's land, successively cut down the three banners of the Yuan army, and picked down more than 20 generals of the Yuan army. Several other famous generals in Hebei, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Zhang He all went to the northern front, so the rebel general surnamed Zhao was simply an insoluble existence in Yuan Shaojun's array, and almost no soldier or general could walk on the Sanhe in front of him, Tian Kai also relied on the protection of this rebel general surnamed Zhao to kill a bloody road and fled to the east, avoiding the doom of being killed or captured alive by Yuan Shaojun.

"Zhao Yun traitor! I swear to kill you!! This is the evaluation given by Da Yuan Sangong when he saw the active performance of the rebel surnamed Zhao.

"Zilong, a beautiful woman, why do you want to be a thief?" This is Uncle Liu's lament when he saw the brave performance of the rebel general surnamed Zhao in the chaotic army, and then our Uncle Liu Huang hurriedly grabbed the second and third brothers who were eager to try, so as not to make a mistake with the rebel general surnamed Zhao.

"Why is Zhao Yun in Qingzhou? Could it be that my fierce general is finally going to be transferred? This is the question raised by Deputy Director Tao when he learned of the glorious achievements of the rebel general surnamed Zhao, but after hearing the news that Uncle Liu's brother was also in Qingzhou, Deputy Director Tao's handsome face suddenly stretched longer than a donkey, "God's damn big-eared thief, do you want to rob me again?" Dream! Even if I can't get Zhao Yun, you big-eared thief can't get Zhao Yun! ”

In any case, before the army set out, the main force of the target enemy has been destroyed first, which is a great news in any case, not only to greatly reduce the pressure on the Xuzhou army, but also to make the surrender tactics planned by Deputy Director Tao easier to implement, so after receiving this news, Deputy Director Tao had to send messengers to Qingzhou again to contact Kong Rong and Tian Kai, and persuaded Kong Rong and Tian Kai to lead the people to surrender with letters, and took the initiative to give Tian Kai and Kong Rong two surrender options, one is to surrender and save their lives, brought his wife and children to Xuzhou to enjoy the blessings, and gave the territory to the third prince of Dayuan; The second is to mediate and negotiate by himself, so that Tian Kai and Kong Rong surrendered to the third prince of Dayuan to save his life and protect his territory.

"Well, yes, let's send it out on a fast horse." After checking that Chen Ying's letter of persuasion was correct, Deputy Director Tao signed and sealed it and handed it to Cao Hong, asking Cao Hong to arrange for someone to send it to Tian Kai and Kong Rong, and then sighed: "I hope to receive the effect, although we are not afraid of Tian Kai and Kong Rong, but if we can not fight, it is better not to fight." ”

"What the lord said is extremely true, Tian Envoy Jun and Kong have great grace to my Xuzhou, although the war with them is an edict, but it is also unjust, and it is naturally best to persuade them to surrender by peaceful means to avoid seeing each other." Chen Deng, who had been to Linzi to ask Tian Kai for help, also sighed, shook his head and said: "It's a pity, this is also impossible, Kong Guoxiangdeng has also seen it, extremely stubborn and stubborn people, if you want him to bend his knees, I'm afraid it will be a thousand times easier to kill him." ”

"Kong Rong?!" Deputy Director Tao, who had a regretful look on his face, suddenly snorted and said, "Speaking of conscience, I do have a guilty conscience when I go to war with Tian Kai, but if I start a war with Kong Rong, a saint, my conscience really won't be difficult with me!" When the big-eared thief was expelled from Xuzhou by our army, he Kong Rong took in the big-eared thief and I had nothing to say, but he arranged the big-eared thief to be stationed in Pingchang, and when our army and Lu Bu were in trouble, the big-eared thief took advantage of the fire to rob my trade route and invade my Langya, he didn't even let out a fart, obviously he was resenting me for expelling the big-eared thief brother who led him into Xuzhou, and felt that he had lost face, and deliberately connived at the big-eared thief to seek revenge and make trouble! ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Tao waved his hand heavily, and added angrily: "For this kind of hypocrite and true villain who is wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, full of benevolence and morality, and full of male thieves and prostitutes, we don't need to be polite, and spread the matter of Kong Rong conniving at the big-eared thief to deceive me in Xuzhou and commit my Xuzhou, so that every soldier in our army knows that we are ashamed of beating Tian Kai, and we don't have to be polite when we beat Kong Rong, the kindness of the past, we have not looked for Kong Rong to seek revenge in the past few years, and we have already avenged!" ”

"No." Chen Deng nodded in agreement, and suddenly saw Jia Lao Poison sitting opposite him smiling, Chen Deng also suddenly came to his senses, and couldn't help but smile secretly: "The lord is really going to make excuses, even I was almost deceived." ”

After finding an excuse for himself to start a war with Kong Rong, Deputy Director Tao discussed with everyone about the candidates for the expedition, but with the increasing number of generals and famous generals in Xuzhou, Deputy Director Tao will no longer rack his brains and be stretched thin as before in terms of transferring troops and generals, and soon decided to let the new generals Wei Yan and Xu Huang go out with the army to brush up their experience and old qualifications, Zang Ba, Xu Chu and Gao Shun assisted Deputy Director Tao to lead the main force, and Xiao Peishou, who was familiar with the situation in Qingzhou, transferred Sun Guan back to the main army to listen to it. Change Qiao Rui, who is good at defense, to Xiaopei to defend the city to prevent the sneak attack of his rival Cao Laoda.

Staying in the rear, because he is destined to join his father-in-law Yuan Sangong in Qingzhou, so the Junzi Army will definitely not be able to go out with the army this time, no matter how hard Tao Ji complains, he must stay in Xuzhou with the Junzi Army, Xu Sheng and Feng Yu Army can't show their bottom in front of their father-in-law, and they must also stay in Xuzhou, and Chen Zhi and Hou Cheng and others have almost the same experience, and they don't have to go out with the army, they all stay in Xuzhou to assist the pottery merchants, Chen Deng and Cao Bao to defend the rear. And after making these arrangements, our Deputy Director Tao couldn't help but shed tears of excitement, "I also have today, the kind of ghost who didn't even have enough generals to arrange in the past is finally gone." ”

As for the expeditionary army, in addition to the 10,000 Zang Ba troops who have been arranged in Juxian County in advance, the 5,000 or so people of Yin Li and Chang Xian's team guarding Kaiyang should also move their hands and feet, and they should change their guards by the way - this is also one of the important purposes of Deputy Director Tao's dispatch this time! Therefore, Deputy Director Tao decided to lead 30,000 troops north only from Pengcheng, to Langya to meet with Zang Ba, Yin Li, and Chang Xuan's men and horses, and then go straight to the Beihai gateway counties to settle old accounts with Mr. Kong Rong, the twentieth grandson of Kong Sage.

After carefully arranging these affairs, on the fifteenth day of May, Deputy Director Tao was very trustworthy and took his beautiful wife and led the team from Pengcheng to the oath, and before that, the main team of Xuzhou who planned to participate in the Northern Expedition had actually been deployed to Langya Jiqiu, so Deputy Director Tao marched very quickly after departure, and arrived at Jiqiu in only five days, and Gao Shun, Wei Yan and Xu Huang and others who led the army to arrive here first cooperated, and Yin Li and Chang Xian, who were stationed in Kaiyang, also obediently came to Jiqiu to meet Deputy Director Tao. A salute to Deputy Director Tao.

Yin Li and Chang Xuan, who have been serving as the soil emperor in Kaiyang since Zang Ba went south, of course still want to continue to be the soil emperor, when Tao Qian was still alive, Yin Li and Chang Feng even had contact with Uncle Liu Huang in secret, but there was no way, Deputy Director Tao not only brought an army of 30,000 enough to nip their rebellion in the bud this time, their former worshippers Zang Ba and Wu Dun also surrendered and became the loyal lackeys of Deputy Director Tao, and even Sun Guan, who was once hostile to Deputy Director Tao, also because of Deputy Director Tao's kindness and entrusted Xiao Pei with heavy responsibilities, After feeling respected and trusted, they stood on the side of Deputy Director Tao, so even if Yin Li and Chang Feng were dissatisfied, they could only obediently hand over the Kaiyang City Defense and lead their descendants to follow Deputy Director Tao's northern expedition to Qingzhou.

Sun Guan, who reformed the evil and returned to the right, was entrusted by Deputy Director Tao with the important task of guarding the important town of Kaiyang, and told Yin Li and Changyun in a different way - if Zang Ba and Sun Guan are so obedient, then everything is easy to say, and the wealth and glory that should be given will definitely be given, but if you dare to have different intentions, the first one to wave a knife at you may be your former sworn brother! At the same time, after quietly knocking Yin Li and Chang Feng with a stick, Deputy Director Tao stuffed a sweet jujube for the two of them, named Yin Li as the captain of Zhichong, and Chang Feng as the captain of Yue Qi, gave a lot of money, grain and land, and promised that there would be a reward after the Northern Expedition to Qingzhou.

Yin Li and Chang Feng are not fools, seeing that Deputy Director Tao came to Langya with the main force, they immediately let Sun Guan take over Kaiyang, and immediately understood that Deputy Director Tao was dissatisfied with their previous division of Kaiyang, and saw that Zang Ba, Wu Dun and Sun Guan and other old brothers had betrayed, so Yin Li and Chang Feng did not hesitate too much, and asked Deputy Director Tao on the spot to serve as the vanguard to attack Qingzhou, Deputy Director Tao was modest, and immediately nodded and agreed to Yin Li and Chang Xuan's plea, It also gave Yin Li and Chang Feng a chance to make contributions and prove their loyalty.

Yin Li and Chang Feng luck is not bad, when they led the five thousand descendants to the Beihai gateway to the county after the county, the county guard Beihai Dangkou Du Wei Zong Fang actually led the army out of the city to fight, and Yin Li, Chang Feng will fight on the bank of the Weishui River, and Yin Li, Chang Feng also firmly grasped this God-given opportunity, in the field after a fierce battle, finally defeated the Zongfang team with about the same strength as the self-army, forced the Zongfang to retreat to the counties to defend the city, once fearful Yin Li, Chang Feng proud, inevitably a little arrogant, Chang Xuan, who is known for his brains, couldn't help but whisper: "It's a pity that Tao Ying of Weishui was not at the scene, otherwise, let him see with his own eyes the strength of our Taishan soldiers, as well as the martial arts of our brothers." ”

Yin Li, who was also very dissatisfied with the loss of the position of Emperor Tu, was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but nod and hummed: "If it weren't for Brother Zang taking the main force of our Taishan soldiers to give him Tao Ying's life, just with the group of Xuzhou young master soldiers under his command Tao Ying, he would also want to win so many battles?" ”

The slap in the face soon came, two days later, when Deputy Director Tao led the main force of Xuzhou to Zhuxian County, General Zongfang, who did not suffer enough, probably wanted to seize the opportunity of the Xuzhou army to be tired from afar, and once again led the army to the Xuzhou military camp to fight, and this time, the poor Yin Li and Chang Feng The two generals were dumbfounded, in front of them, Deputy Director Tao actually let the generals in the tent who rushed to the front to ask for the battle to guess the boxing to decide who to fight, and as a result, a red-faced man named Wei Yan became the winner, He was also extremely arrogant and only took a thousand infantry out of the camp to meet the five thousand troops of the sect.

"A thousand soldiers to fight five thousand North Sea regular troops? Is there such a crazy thief in the world? Wait and see the show! ”

With a sneer full of stomachs, the two generals Yin Li and Chang Feng came to the camp with Deputy Director Tao and a large group of Xuzhou generals to watch the battle, and the result of the battle was poor Yin Li and General Chang Xuan, who opened their mouths wide and widened their eyes - only ten rounds of fighting with Zong Fang in the battle, Wei Yan, who was so mad that he was looking for death, cut Zong Fang off his horse with a knife, and then Wei Yan led a thousand infantry out of the camp to go up like a clear line, arrow-shaped charge, and a single impact rushed the Northern Navy, which was five times his own, into chaos, and cut it like a ghost crying wolf, It was so big that the chickens and dogs jumped, and they also attacked the county in one go, so frightened that the remnants of the defenders in the city hurriedly closed the door to protect themselves, and they didn't even have the courage to open the city gate to let their companions enter the city to escape for their lives, and let their companions cry and beg outside the city, so as to gain military merit for Wei Yan's team.

"It's so useless!" The poor Yin Li and General Chang Feng almost fainted in the back, and when they saw Wei Yan Shihe beheading the head of the sect, the big fat man Xu Chu who failed to guess the boxing and Xu Huang, who was holding a big axe, shook their heads again and again, and said with disdain: "Such a weak opponent actually used ten rounds?" Change me into battle, three rounds, keep the head of that waste! ”

"The discipline and collective combat of the Danyang soldiers have finally improved, but they are still a little worse." Gao Shun, who was standing on the other side of General Yin Li and Chang Xuan, also shook his head and sighed, and said: "If I lead the camp into battle, such a good opportunity, I would have already entered the county towns in one go, and that would give the enemy a chance to defend behind closed doors?!" ”

"It's not bad to be able to train Danyang soldiers like this." Deputy Director Tao also opened his mouth to stimulate Yin Li and Chang Feng and said: "After all, General Wen Chang has only taken over the Danyang army for a few months, and this is the first battle of the Danyang army after the reorganization, and I am very satisfied with it being able to fight like this." I believe that if Wen is given a little more time, our Danyang soldiers should also be able to get rid of the laughing stock of a single soldier and a group of insects. ”

The generals of Xuzhou, including Zang Ba, the boss of the Taishan soldiers, nodded one after another, all admitting that the undisciplined Danyang soldiers had indeed made a lot of progress under Wei Yan's training, and the poor Yin Li and Chang Feng were stunned, and they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and quietly rejoiced in their hearts: "Fortunately, we didn't take risks." ”

(To be continued)