Because of the inconvenience of the transportation connection of the away battle, it was not until noon on the second day when the Xuzhou army began to fill the moat of Hefei that Xuzhou Xizuo, who was lurking in the Xiang'an area, sent the news that Sun Ben and Wu Jing's army went north to reinforce Qiaorui to the Hefei battlefield. After receiving this news, Deputy Director Tao, who was personally commanding the Xiangyang artillery team to bombard the city defense of Hefei, was a thief, and his first reaction was, of course, his heart sank, and he said secretly: "There is another evil battle to fight, the people of the Lao Sun family are not only united, but also more capable of fighting. ”

Unlike Deputy Director Tao, who was cautious and worried, Tao Ji, who was useless at all during the siege, was ecstatic, and hurriedly ran to Tao Ying to ask for battle, "Second brother, junior brother, please order to lead the army to fight Sun and Wu's two thieves, not too many soldiers and horses, just dispatch more than 1,400 people from the junior brother's headquarters to keep the 12,000 troops that can break Sun Wu's thief army and prevent them from reinforcing Hefei!" ”

The Xuzhou generals next to him all rolled their eyes at Tao Ji, and scolded Tao Ying in their hearts that the Tao Ji brothers were really all the way, and they still liked to set up the archway when they were bitches, and they only led more than 1,400 people from their headquarters to fight Sun Ben and Wu Jing's 12,000 troops - the more than 1,400 people under your command are called the Gentlemen's Army, okay?! After scolding the Tao brothers in their stomachs for being shameless, Xu Chu and Gao Shun came out at the same time to hug their fists at Tao Ying, and said in unison: "Lord, kill chickens with a knife?" Moreover, the Junzi Army is not good at fighting a war of annihilation, and the last general is willing to lead 3,000 elite soldiers to fight Sun Wu's thief army, and he will behead Sun Ben and Wu Jing's two thieves and dedicate them to the tent! ”

"Who said that our Gentleman's Army is not good at fighting a war of annihilation?" Tao Ji was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "Who annihilated the original Zhenrong traitor and the later Cao Chun tiger and leopard rider?" ”

"Most of the Rong's team seems to have collapsed, right?" Gao Shun retorted with a smile, and said: "There are more than 12,000 people in the Sun Wu thief army, and the number of the gentleman's army is too small to destroy. ”

Tao Ji was very satisfied when he heard this, and immediately nodded in agreement, but Xu Sheng stood up again, under the pretext that his descendant Feng Yu army could not be put into the city battlefield, and asked to lead the army to meet the enemy with Tao Ji, and let Gao Shun stay in Hefei to attack the city. The other Xuzhou generals were also gossiping about the battle, and they were willing to lead their troops to fight field battles, and they did not want to stay in Hefei to fight tough battles -- like Deputy Director Tao, the generals in Xuzhou also had a headache to fight head-on battles, and the progress was slow and the casualties were huge, and it was not easy to gain military achievements.

Seeing that the generals in Xuzhou were seeking to fight strongly, Tao Ying was naturally very satisfied, and he also felt that it was the best choice to easily break the enemy by defeating each enemy, so he began to think about who to send to fight Sun Wu's reinforcements. But at this time, Jia Lao, who had just joined the Xuzhou team, came up, smiled and whispered: "Lord, it is good to defeat the enemy, but I heard that Sun Ben, Wu Jing and the lord have a common enmity, after they come to Hefei, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold their breath and hold on, right?" ”

Tao Ying's body was shocked, and when he quickly turned his head to look at Jia Xu, he smiled at Jia Xu again, and showed that disgusting smile on his face, after laughing, Tao Ying turned to Tao Ji and ordered: "Tao Ji, you take the Junzi Army to meet the Sun Wu Thief Army, but there is one condition, if you lose, you will not win, and if you lose a few battles, you will roll back for me." ”

"Defeat or not victory? Why? Stunned, Qing Taoji was dumbfounded.

"Don't ask why, are you going? If you don't go, I will ask Li Ming to take over and command the Junzi army to meet the battle, and you stay in the camp to urge the craftsmen to make siege weapons. Tao Ying threatened. Tao Ji opened his mouth wide, and only after a while did he clasp his fists and sing a promise, and he went down to prepare to go out in the laughter of the generals in Xuzhou, and Tao Ying turned his eyes to the city wall of Hefei again, and raised the original telescope to patiently observe the siege effect of the Xiangyang cannon.

Qiao Rui is obviously a general who is very good at learning lessons and can fight with his head, because he has suffered enough of the big loss of the Xiangyang cannon in Yinling, Qiao Rui did not waste any more strength to strengthen the city tower and the buildings on the city wall this time, and put all his strength on strengthening the strength of the city wall itself, and as soon as he saw the Xuzhou army dispatch the Xiangyang cannon, Qiao Rui immediately withdrew all the soldiers in the city tower and the Tibetan soldier building, and also ordered the soldiers to hide in the Xiangyang cannon behind the arrow stack to throw the dead corner to avoid those absolutely deadly huge stone bullets. Therefore, after 20 reinforced Xiangyang cannons and 40 improvised Xiangyang cannons joined forces to bombard for nearly an hour, they only smashed the city tower at the north gate of Hefei into waste bricks and tiles, and there were not too many defenders killed and injured. At the same time, the strategically important city of Hefei City is also obviously above the Yin Tomb, and the stone projectiles weighing about 300 catties are smashed on the city wall, that is, the city wall bricks are smashed, and it is difficult to directly destroy the rammed earth part inside the city bricks, and it is obviously not so easy to destroy the city wall only by Xiangyang cannons.

After discovering these circumstances, Deputy Director Tao also died of his opportunistic heart in the battle, and began to concentrate his mind on the remaining two only options, one is to resolutely attack head-on without tricks, and strive to minimize casualties and take this fortified city of Hefei; The second is to simply give up even the frontal assault, and try every means to lure the defenders into battle and kill the main force of the defenders in the field battle -- Considering the combat habits of the bridge turtle not coming out, Deputy Director Tao once gave up this hope, but now the appearance of Sun Ben and Wu Jing, two sworn enemies, has made Deputy Director Tao see a ray of light......

"Why don't you send an envoy to ask Sun Ben and Wu Jing to give Sun Shangxiang to me as a concubine? When they are angry, they will definitely force Qiao Rui out of the city for a decisive battle, and then after they are cleaned up by me in the field battle, maybe they will really give Sun Shangxiang to me in order to survive? When pondering all kinds of immoral strategies, Deputy Director Tao even thought about such a plan.

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By the way, I would like to introduce the situation in Hefei City, when sixty Xiangyang cannons threw sixty giant stone projectiles at the same time, smashing the towering Hefei city tower into a piece of broken bricks, the Hefei defenders who saw the power of Xiangyang artillery for the first time were stunned, and their little faces turned pale all of a sudden, and there was only one thought left in their hearts, "How to fight this battle?" How could Hefei hold on? ”

After coming back to their senses, Liu Kai, Liu Ye and others inevitably rushed to Qiaorui again, requesting that they immediately send the brave and dead out of the city to raid and destroy the Xiangyang artillery position of the Xuzhou army and prevent the Xiangyang artillery from further damaging the city defense of Hefei. Qiao Rui smiled bitterly and told the generals: "It's useless, it's useless day and night, when I was in Yinling City, I sent a death squad to raid once during the day, and twice at night, and the result was to die in vain. ”

Looking back at the Xuzhou troops waiting on both sides of the Xiangyang artillery position, the generals of Hefei also believed that Qiao Rui's words were true, and then Liu Kai asked worriedly: "But the marshal, the stone machine of the Xuzhou thief army is so powerful, how can we fight the city defense battle?" ”

"How? Want to hear the truth or lie? Qiao Rui asked with a wry smile.

"Of course it's true." Liu Kai was a little dissatisfied with Qiao Rui's not serious enough tone.

"I want to hear the truth...... Qiao Rui hesitated for a moment, and then said helplessly: "Well, it doesn't matter if I tell you the truth - the only way to stick to Hefei is to fill it with human lives!" This is also the experience I summed up when I fought with the Xuzhou thief army, using our only city wall location, condescending and Xuzhou thief army to fight to the death, can not consider casualties, can only hold the last soldier will never give up the determination to die, so that there is hope to hold Hefei City for a long time. As long as we can do this, even if Hefei is lost in the end, we can consume a large number of Xuzhou thief army, so that the Xuzhou thief army has no spare strength to continue to attack Liyang and Shu County. ”

The faces of the generals in Hefei turned even paler, and Qiao Rui turned his gaze to the Xuzhou army position in the distance, and said secretly in his heart: "When Sun Ben and Wu Jing come, I will immediately block the four gates of Hefei, so that they can't get out of the city if they want to." I can only make up my mind, even if I lose the lives of the soldiers in Hefei, I have to buy precious time for the lord. ”

"Fill with human lives? This bridge marshal really wants to be the same as in the legend, he has never been able to defend in battle, and he has never known how to use his brain, has he not read a military book, and he doesn't know the truth that Zhengqi complements each other? The resourceful Mr. Liu Ye calculated in his heart, and secretly said: "I hope that after the reinforcements of the two generals Sun Ben and Wu Jing arrive, the situation will be improved." Otherwise, the surnames of the soldiers in Hefei will have to be compensated in the hands of this bridge marshal. ”

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Tao Ying may not need to explain to his stunned cousin that he is not allowed to win, because after Tao Ji led the Junzi Army to meet Sun Wujun's army, he soon found that Sun Ben and Wu Jing seemed to know the tactics and characteristics of the Junzi Army very well, not only were they very cautious in their marching, but also after encountering the Junzi Army, they not only resolutely refused to fight with the three famous generals of the Junzi Army, Lu Bu, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but also did not say a word, and immediately lined up to entertain the Junzi Army with strong bows and crossbows, and it was very difficult for the Junzi Army to win in the front.

The front could not be touched hard, Tao Ji had to go back to copy the rear army baggage team of Sun Wu's team, but found that Sun Wu's rear army immediately pushed the vehicle to the front to form a circle formation, and the soldiers hid behind the car to suppress the arrow rain of the Junzi army with bows and crossbows, and the number of bow and crossbow weapons was quite amazing, a song of 500 people was equipped with at least 100 bows and crossbows, and more than 10,000 troops and at least 2,000 people were equipped with bows and crossbows, and the proportion of long-range weapons was far better than any enemy that the Junzi army had encountered before, The gentleman's army, which has a horse bow in his hand and a horse bow with a range that is not as good as a rifle bow and a strong crossbow, is naturally difficult to repeat his old tricks and defeat such an army with mangu tactics.

Seeing such a scene, Tao Ji, who had gradually grown up under the cultivation of the two cousins, also quickly guessed the reason - it must be one of Zhou Yu or Cheng Pu Huang Gai who was a free annihilator, and taught Sun Ce's cousin Sun Ben and his uncle Wu Jing the tactical characteristics of the Junzi Army, and also told Sun Ben and Wu Jing all the experience they had summed up with blood and human lives to meet the Junzi Army, so Sun Ben and Wu Jing had already prepared to meet the Junzi Army when they crossed the river to reinforce Yuan Shu this time.

Of course, if Tao Ji is willing, the gentleman's army, which is close to the perverted speed, is not helpless to take the Sun Wu army, at least it can force the Sun Wu army to march like a turtle crawling, and let the Sun Wu army travel for five days in one day. But it's a pity that no matter how young and vigorous Tao Ji is, he doesn't dare to disobey the orders of the lord's cousin, so Tao Ji can only let the gentleman's army look helpless, shouting and screaming a few times like killing pigs in front of Sun Wu's army, and then honestly collecting troops and leaving, returning to Hefei to report to Tao Ying about the battle situation, Sun Ben and Wu Jing were also able to continue to go north and rush to Hefei to reinforce Qiaorui.

"Probably prepared?" After listening to Tao Ji's battle report and personal opinions, Tao Ying immediately smiled and said: "Of course I came prepared, who are Sun Ben and Wu Jing, one is Sun Ce's cousin, the other is Sun Ce's uncle, and there is a part of the army in his hand, can our old opponent Zhou Yu not tell Sun Ben and Wu Jing about the situation of the Junzi Army?" But you kid can analyze this, it can be regarded as a little growth, continue to work hard in the future, use more brains in the war, can't be stupid and only know how to fight hard, then you will never become a general who stands alone. ”

Tao Ji, who was rarely praised by Tao Ying, retreated happily, but Xu Sheng stood up and said to Tao Ying: "Lord, since the Sun Wu thief army is equipped with so many hard crossbows, then their arrow consumption must be extremely huge, and the supply requirements for logistics are also extremely high. ”

"Don't worry, how to break the Sun Wu thief army, let me think carefully." Tao Ying shook his head, got up and walked to the sand table of the map, beckoned Tao Ji to the front, asked Tao Ji to point out the location of the last battle with Sun Wu's army, and calculated the remaining distance of Sun Wu's army, feeling that Sun Wu's army should arrive in Hefei the next evening, Tao Ying quickly made up his mind and ordered: "Xu Chu Gaoshun, you two will lead 5,000 elite soldiers to follow me south to meet the battle, I will personally go to meet Sun Ben and Wu Jing for a while, and also understand the real situation of their army by the way." After I left, Zijing was in charge of the affairs of the battalion and commanded the thunderbolts to continue to bombard the city wall of Hefei. ”

Everyone sang a promise, and told Tao Ying to be careful, Tao Ying, who cherished his life, also thanked everyone for their kindness, and then the next day, Tao Ying led five thousand elite soldiers to set off south, along the road that the gentleman's army had walked all the way to meet Sun Ben and Wu Jing, and after traveling more than 30 miles at noon, the banner team of Sun Wu's army finally appeared in front, Tao Ying immediately ordered the army to set up a formation, and let the Danyang soldiers play their own handsome flag, and intercepted Sun Ben and Wu Jing's team.

In a moment, Sun Wu's team arrived at the battlefield, and the formation was also set up outside the two arrows, probably seeing that the rogue gentleman army was not at the scene, there was no need to worry too much about a large number of cold arrows, the flag gate was opened, and the two generals jumped out of the horse, followed by more than a dozen horses, some old and young, some wearing armor and some dressed up in plain clothes, and what was even more outrageous was that there was a seven or eight-year-old girl and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old young man in a square scarf riding out of the battle together, and also came to the front of the battle between the two armies! -- Seeing this cute little girl who is only seven or eight years old at most in the telescope, our Deputy Director Tao was a little confused at first, and after he woke up, he was a little dumbfounded, and said no, she should be the Sun Shangxiang I thought about at night, right? It's so small, how can it be topped down?

"Tao Ying exterminates the thief! Do you recognize my Sun Ben and Sun Boyang? In the roar, a thirty-year-old general came out of the crowd, pointed a spear in his hand at the Xuzhou people under the command of the Xuzhou military marshal and roared, "Tao Ying annihilates the thief!" Get out of here and answer! Let me see what you really look like as a thief? The old hatred and old hatred, today I will also break it with you! ”

Tao Ying smiled, swept up the hair that hung down to his forehead very windily, carefully sorted out his appearance, and then led Xu Chu and Gao Shun out of the crowd, and shouted loudly in front of the battle: "General Sun Ben Sun Boyang, I have admired the name for a long time, and the next is what you said about Tao Ying destroying thieves, how is it, do you see it clearly?" Isn't it as green-faced and fanged as you think, roe deer? Is there still some handsome, elegant and chic? ”

As soon as the words fell, Xu Chu and the Xuzhou soldiers behind him were already laughing, and the steady and cautious Gao Shun also twitched the corners of his mouth, and they all admired the cheekiness of our Deputy Director Tao - to be able to praise himself in front of so many people, he really can't do it without a certain degree of cheekiness. Over there, Sun Ben and Wu Jing and the others were a little dumbfounded, firstly, they were indeed a little surprised that Tao Ying's handsome appearance was completely different from what they imagined, and secondly, they were also shocked by Tao Ying's face, and they didn't know what to say for a while. In the end, it was the little girl who was only seven or eight years old who cried with tears in her eyes, "Thief! You killed my brother and gave my brother his life. ”

"It's over! It's really Sun Shangxiang! Even if you can get it, you have to cultivate it. Tao Ying complained bitterly in his heart, and tried his best to pretend to be kind, and said very gently and loudly: "Little sister Shangxiang, what you said is wrong, I didn't kill your brother, he died of his own injuries, and it has nothing to do with me." Of course, I am also very sad about the unfortunate death of Bo Fu. ”

"Shang Xiang?" The little girl first shook her heart, then cried for a moment, and then cried out again, "Thief, how do you know my name?" Also, you thief, my brother was deceived by you to take away the jade seal of the country, and then you were angry to death, you return my brother's life! Give my brother back! ”

"Tricked your brother's heirloom jade seal?" Tao Ying laughed again and said loudly: "I think Zhou Yu or Cheng Pu Huang Gai should also tell you about that day, right?" I promised that day, as long as General Sun Bofu handed over the jade seal and asked me to return the jade seal to the Son of Heaven, I would lift the encirclement and let him live, and give him food and boats to cross the river. How can you deceive it?! ”

Sun Shangxiang was speechless, and the Sun clan people present were also speechless, no matter how much they hated Deputy Director Tao, they couldn't find a word to refute Deputy Director Tao's sophistry. In the end, Sun Ben simply didn't bother to talk to Tao Ying, and rushed as soon as he slapped the horse with a gun, pounced on Tao Ying with blood-red eyes, and roared wildly in his mouth, "Destroy the thief!" Give back my brother's life! ”

Sun Ben had just moved, and Xu Chu, who had long been eager to try, was about to clamp the horse without saying a word, but Tao Ying quickly held down Xu Chu, and then pouted to Gao Shun next to him, and said in a low voice: "I am luring the enemy this time, don't win, pay attention to protect yourself, and defeat!" Gao Shun nodded quickly, flicked his spear again, and leaned over and rushed towards Sun Ben.

Not to mention, Sun Ben really has two brushes in martial arts, Gao Shun, who was ordered to deceive, did not dare to use all his strength, after more than 20 rounds of fighting, Gao Shun was almost stabbed off the horse by Sun Ben by a gun, fortunately he leaned back in time to dodge, and then straightened up, Gao Shun had no choice but to be defeated, and fled back to the formation with the reins of the horse, Sun Ben, who was in full swing, chased after him, and Xu Chu, who also got the order to swindle, hurriedly patted his horse to catch up, waved his knife to hold Sun Ben's steel gun to cover Gao Shun and fled back to Tao Ying's side, and then fought with Sun Ben.

After Xu Chu and Sun Ben fought, although Xu Chu still did not use all his strength, at most the second-rate top Sun Ben still felt a little difficult, several hard encounters with Xu Chu's knife and gun, were shocked by Xu Chu's strange force, and couldn't help roaring angrily, Sun Ben's brother Sun Fu also couldn't hold his breath, and he also came out of the battle against Xu Chu, remembering Tao Ying's order, Xu Chu also went downhill, and after three or four rounds of fighting, Tao Ying took the opportunity to order Ming Jin, turned the war horse and took the lead in escaping, Gao Shun and Xu Chu both led the army to the palace. Sun Ben and Sun Fu brothers took the lead, thousands of troops galloped and surged, and the tide generally rushed to the retreating Xuzhou army.

It was also at this time that Tao Ying, who had accumulated considerable experience on the battlefield, soon discovered a familiar situation, that is, a large part of the soldiers in Sun Wu's army were very desperate in the pursuit, in order to catch up with the Xuzhou army as quickly as possible to get credit, these soldiers did not care about the orderly advance and retreat, in order to desperately move forward and did not hesitate to disrupt the neat ranks of the friendly army, the pace speed was still very fast, Tao Ying led the army this time if it was not the first-class soldiers in Xuzhou, If you change to other armies, I am afraid that they have already been overtaken by these soldiers. And what made Tao Ying even more puzzled was that the voices of these soldiers shouting and shouting also had a bit of a sense of déjà vu - as if they had heard it there?

"Lord, isn't that right?" The Danyang soldiers in Tao Ying's personal army also found out that something was wrong, and shouted to Tao Ying as they fled: "Lord, the most ruthless thief who is chasing and killing us in the back seems to be our fellow Danyang people, and the accent is exactly the same as ours. ”

"! How did I forget that after Wu Jing and Sun Ben were cornered by Yuan Shu and Liu Xuan, they went to Wanling to join Danyang Taishou Zhou Shang? Tao Ying suddenly scolded, and then his face was happy, and he said secretly: "Okay! Finally, there is a way to take Hefei City! Hehe, Danyang soldiers, no one in the world knows the virtues of these Danyang hooligans better than our old Tao family, the old Sun family brought so many fellow soldiers from my hometown Danyang to Hefei, it seems that they not only want to marry their daughters, but also want to send Hefei City as a dowry. ”

After discovering this situation, Deputy Director Tao, who had been unable to make up his mind about whether to take Hefei by trick or robbery, finally had a bottom in his heart, pulled out his knife and shouted, "Brothers! Remove! Remove! Evacuate! Fellow see fellow, be careful that we get shot in the back! ”

"The Lord has an order, withdraw! Remove! The surrounding Xuzhou soldiers suddenly agreed, shouting to convey Tao Ying's order, and the people only fled with their horses, and the Xuzhou army fled the fastest, so that people could only see the rolling yellow sand rising behind their buttocks, which was naturally the precious legacy that Tao Qian left to his son.

With an unforgettable hatred for Deputy Director Tao, the Sun Ben brothers and Wu Jing led the army to chase and kill the Xuzhou army for more than ten miles, until the team was seriously deformed and disjointed, they had to stop the pursuit, gather the team to clean up the battlefield, and celebrate the victory with joy. And after our Deputy Director Tao fled back to his own camp for the first time in an unprecedented defeat, the stunned Xuzhou generals opened their mouths to ask what kind of enemy could overturn Xu Chu, Gao Shun and the trapped camp, so that Deputy Director Tao, who had never lost once since his debut, tasted defeat for the first time, and our Deputy Director Tao had already wiped the sweat and dust on his face and shouted: "Immediately pull out the camp and retreat twenty miles to the north!" ”

(To be continued)