A large-scale march cannot be hidden, and not long after Liu Bei and Tian Fan's two armies set off, Cao Cao and Yuan Tan knew the news. Of course, Liu Bei never thought that he would be able to come to the city without knowing it. Although a sneak attack can solve some of the problems, the final outcome of the war depends on absolute strength. In this war, Liu Bei wanted to defeat Cao Cao and Yuan Shao with an upright army, and through this battle, he established himself as the first prince in the world.

It is said that when the enemy attacks, the general commander will choose to clear the field with strong walls and maximize the consumption of the enemy's vital strength, morale and sharpness on the way to the march, but Cao Cao did not have any corresponding actions. It's business as usual on his territory, and it's unusually quiet, and it looks very eerie. On the other hand, Yuan Tan made some moves. He sent a multi-way army, burned most of the villages and settlements in Beihai and Qi, swept away the property and grain, threw dead cats, dead dogs, dead pigs and dead sheep into the well, and imitated the story of the Xiongnu, wanting to create some trouble for Tian Fan first. But he didn't kill too many people, because he knew that Liu Bei was known as a benevolent lord, and as long as these people lived, he would not care. In a few days, the entire Beihai Kingdom and Qi Kingdom were full of wolf smoke except for a few cities, and in an instant, they became red and uninhabited.

The people supported each other and fled to the nearby county seat, and there was a soft-hearted county order, taking advantage of the middle of the night, the people sent by Yuan Tan did not pay attention to secretly open the city gate, let the people enter the city, and secretly hid. And those ruthless county orders let the soldiers fire arrows to drive the people away. For a while, there seemed to be helpless cries of people everywhere on the earth.

In troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog!

Tian Fan comes from later generations and has the common characteristics of later generations, that is, he values human life very seriously! First, there was always a trace of conscience in his heart that made him unable to see hundreds of people dying unexpectedly, and second, he knew that in an era of low productivity, population was the foundation of everything, far more important than cities. But now, looking at the letter in his hand, he couldn't tell what he felt. Cao Cao has never been a good man and a woman, and his two attacks on Xuzhou brought hundreds of thousands of deaths to Xuzhou, of which only a few were sergeants, and the rest were innocent ordinary people.

But this time, in the face of Liu Bei's army, he didn't make any moves, except for the increase in the number of scouts, he didn't even send a decent army. That's not his style! Why don't you fortify the wilderness, burn something, and kill some people?

Lao Cao's quietness made Tian Fan panic for no reason, what was he going to do? Don't resist and let Liu Bei get the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains, this is definitely not Cao Cao's style, but what is he brewing? Judging by his character, the longer he is silent, the more unbearable it will be for Liu Bei to break out.

With a long sigh, Tian Fan put down the letter. Liu Bei has sent three letters in a row, asking him to be careful of Lao Cao's tricks, if he is more careful, there is no need to write again, if he doesn't care at all, then it is useless to go to another letter, he can't do anything. Let's take care of what's in front of you! The lion still needs all his strength to fight the rabbit, not to mention that in front of Zhang He, no one dares to say that he is a lion. Judging from the situation of the last battle, Yuan Tan and Jiang Yiqu are not easy to get along.

At this time, the White Tiger Legion had entered the territory of Qingzhou, and after Tian Fan learned what Yuan Tan had done, he ordered the army to slow down slightly, and sent a team to collect the refugees who had been harmed by Yuan Tan.

Sometimes people are very strange, you want to be a good person, but others don't let you be. The number of refugees who were collected by the Xuzhou army was quite large, and in just three days, it reached the scale of 10,000 people. With so many people, how to place them becomes a problem. Following Tian Fan and expecting him to be fed by his pitiful military rations, it would be a big trouble, and it would be unrealistic at all. Therefore, he wanted to send people to move these refugees to Ju County, so that they could be resettled nearby. But such an intention was sternly rejected.

A moment ago, these miserable refugees were still struggling on the line of death, and when they saw the majesty of the Xuzhou army's galloping horses, and when they saw the swords and guns of the Xuzhou soldiers, they were still trembling with fright. But when they saw these elite soldiers smiling, they didn't show the slightest murderous aura to them, they didn't mean to embarrass them, and after seeing Tian Fan, the commander of the First Army who seemed a little weak, they suddenly changed one by one, and they became very annoying. Let Tian Fan and others talk badly, they just don't go to Xuzhou, and some people even say that they would rather die than be in Qingzhou.

The refugees selected to talk to Tian Fan and others were all old men in their seventies and eights, and some of them were literati and were quite influential in the local area. This kind of person has lived a long time, and they are all old and fine, and they have never seen anything? After knowing that this was the Xuzhou Army, and after learning that Tian Fan was the commander of this army, he became hob meat, lying in the camp one by one, and playing tricks, just not cooperating.

Tian Fan can't be rough yet, otherwise he will fall into the moral stain of disrespecting the elderly, and he will be poked in the back by others in the future. So, he can only explain with kind words, the army is out of the country, I don't know if the progress of the war will go smoothly in the future, the situation is still unclear, you ten thousand people are in Qingzhou, we can only feed you with military food, it is a great burden for the baggage battalion, and even we need to send people to protect you, so it is a big burden for the army, please be considerate of our difficulties, just do us a favor, go to Ju County first, Ju County is close to Qingzhou, and the war is over in the future, you can return as soon as possible.

Who knew that they still didn't agree, an old man even jumped up with confidence, pointed at Tian Fan's nose and scolded angrily, saying that if we go to Ju County, we will delay the cultivation in summer and even autumn. Can you afford such a big loss? We have been plagued by the old Yuan family, can we not seize the time to recover the losses from the land?

Tian Fan and Wang Xiu, Gongsun Hao, Wang Kai, Li Ren, Zheng Yien and others couldn't cry or laugh, what the hell is this called? With good intentions to save you, why did you still save the problem? Listen to what they mean, I saved them, and I have to compensate for their losses? Do you still have to provide for them in the end?

Helpless, Tian Fan temporarily compromised and promised to discuss and then give them an answer.

When a few old men went out of the door arrogantly, Tian Fan was surrounded. A bunch of people are talking nonsense, but the content of their mouths is shockingly similar, in a word, we are an army, we are here to fight, not a rescue team, we cannot compromise, we cannot agree to their unreasonable demands.

Tian Fan was so angry that he jumped to his feet, none of these cattle could be counted on at the critical moment. In fact, everyone knows that driving these refugees away is the right and even the only right choice, but no one dares to say this in front of a few old men. If nothing else, these old men have the opportunity to see Liu Bei, in case they remember today's incident afterwards, they will sue in front of Liu Bei, with the benevolent image that Liu Bei has always flaunted, they are afraid that they will be frustrated. But now it's different, anyway, Tian Fan is the boss, everyone is responsible for making ideas, he is the only one who has the right to choose, no matter what bad work, disgusting work, he is the one who finally ordered the soldiers to execute, those old men can't even remember the specific execution of the soldiers and generals, they will only remember that Tian Fan ordered them to be expelled, let alone know who came up with the idea.

Tian Fan glared at them hatefully, okay, you all want to be good people, okay, you are all good people, then I will do this bad person!

So, an order came out of the big tent of the Chinese army.

After a while, the voices of the refugees crying and crying for their fathers and mothers, as well as the rough scolding of the sergeants, and occasionally the loud horsewhips and screams were sandwiched, Tian Fan tried to concentrate his spirit in the sand table, as if there was some magical change in the sand table that had long been familiar with his chest.

Tian Fan can imagine the mood and expressions of the old men who were deceived at this moment, and it is estimated that they were stuffed into the car with smiling faces accompanied by the soldiers, and at the same time scolded Tian Fan who was far away in the big tent of the Chinese army, and even made threats.

An hour later, the noise in the camp finally disappeared, and Tian Fan breathed a sigh of relief. Hey, I really want to be a good person, but when I encounter such an unreasonable hob meat, what can I do?

After being quiet, Tian Fan gave another order, in the future, all the refugees who rushed over to meet each other, as long as the number was enough for a thousand, he would send a small team of soldiers to escort him to Ju County, and if necessary, he could kill people and establish power! I'm a soldier, and I should have been unreasonable, but now I'm in the mood to reason with you, and you all look at me as kind-hearted, and I don't want to be unreasonable if I seem to be a bully, so that's good, I'll compare with you who is more unreasonable.

Even if he found an unreasonable reason for himself, Tian Fan's heart finally settled down. He looked back at the sandbox, pondering the information he had recently received.

The spies sent by Zhang Liao to various parts of Qingzhou in the early stage played a great role, and the Xuzhou army had just entered Qingzhou, and within 30 miles, six county towns or settlements had submitted surrender letters one after another. Later, Tian Fan set up camp in Zhuxu and sent several cavalry to kill several county towns that had not surrendered. Lu Bu asked himself to lead one of the roads, and Tian Fan naturally would not refuse. As a result, Lu Bu was very unhappy! In three days, he took down thirteen cities or settlements, and the 1,800 cavalry of the whole army shot less than 20 arrows......

Now in the territory of Beihai Kingdom, except for Jimo, Tingxian, and Jiaodong, which are far away and the army has no time to take care of, only Zhisuoju County and Pingshou have not surrendered. And because Beihai Kingdom was once under the jurisdiction of Kong Rong, the people missed Kong Rong a little, and they always didn't say anything about Yuan Tan's decree on the surface, but they could resist it behind their backs, so Yuan Tan was not worried about these places, and there were no heavy troops stationed in Xixian County and Pingshou. Tian Fan estimated that when the army arrived at these two places, it would not take much effort for the other party to surrender.

So far, so far, so far, so good. The real war should be concentrated in the territory of Qi State. Qi is not a big place, in addition to the governance of Linjiang, there are six counties of Xi'an, Banyang, Changguo, Linqu, Guangxian and Dong'anping. Although the place is not large, Yuan Tan has more than 60,000 soldiers in Qi State, mainly distributed in Linjiang, Dong'anping, and Xi'an. Yuan Tan's thinking is very simple and clear, I will only fight siege battles with you, as long as I hold these three county seats, I don't care about other places.

Yuan Shao has not yet moved, and the news from Jizhou confirms that the direction of Yuan Shao's attack is at Gongsun Zan in the north. Presumably he wanted to solve Gongsun Zan and sweep away the biggest threat in Hebei, and then go back and clean up Liu Bei. In order to deal with Gongsun Zhan, or in order to deal with the combined forces of Gongsun Chan and Zhang Yan, Yuan Shao gathered all the elite troops that could be assembled, and even transferred the most elite 20,000 troops in Qingzhou. This is also the main reason why Yuan Tan chose to defend the city, it is really ...... With this bit of family background under his subordinates, it is more than enough to defend the city, and he does not have the slightest confidence in field battles, and it is estimated that it is not enough for Lu Bu to swallow in one bite.

Tian Fan held his chin and thought about the way this battle would be played. In fact, there is nothing to think about, that is, to take advantage of your illness and ask for your life, first cut off its wings, and then concentrate all its forces to attack the three cities that have gathered heavy troops. However, this battle is definitely not easy to fight!

Dong'an Ping occupies a favorable geographical position, and Linjiang faces each other across the water, and the general of defending the city is Jiang Yiqu. Xi'an is in the west of Linjiang, the distance is only thirty or forty miles, the two cities are each other's Olympic aid, each other's horns, and the two places are plains all the way, there is no geographical advantage to help. Xi'an was guarded by 18,000 soldiers led by the general Zhang He, and the most important thing was that Zhang He had the old foundation he brought from Jizhou, 4,000 elite Jizhou cavalry.

Tian Fan's tooth flower is a little painful, it's not easy to fight!

At this moment, a small school ran into the big tent and said in a loud voice: "Report...... Reported to the governor, Pingshou County ordered to kill the people sent by us, and slaughtered his entire clan, and hung forty-seven corpses at the city gate, claiming to swear to live and die with the city! ”

The so-called "people sent by our side" refer to the people sent by Zhang Liao a few days ago. This person is the concubine of a large family in Pingshou, because it is impossible to have a good future at home, so when Xuzhou rescued Kong Rong a few years ago, he went south with the people who went south. This person has a very good set of martial arts, good martial arts, and he is also smart, and he has been mixed up with the tun chief in the Xuzhou army for a few years. Last year, Zhang Liao accidentally knew that there was such a number, and after the inspection, he thought that this guy was a seedling of a famous general, so he was exceptionally promoted to captain. Listening to Zhang Liao, among the dozens of people he sent out, he cared about this guy the most.

Such a good seedling died for no reason? Didn't die on the battlefield, but died on the way to be a spy? Is there any reason for this? What's even more infuriating is that they all say that the disaster will not affect the family, and Pingshou County will kill him if he kills him, why kill his whole family? Kill his whole family, why the hell do you make the death of the family restless, and hang the corpse? The whole family is more than forty people, and the old ones must be sixty or seventy, right? Is the youngest three years old? Don't you have a little fucking compassion, you're an animal?

Tian Fan got up as soon as he heard the fire, damn it, what's wrong today? You don't want me to be a good person, do you?

He clenched his fists and shouted, "Drum and gather!" ”