As soon as Tao Qian's words came out, everyone present was shocked, and immediately a smile appeared on their faces, including Zhang Zhao. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Zhang Zhao has the heart to leave Xuzhou, it does not mean that he hopes that Xuzhou will fall into the hands of Yuan Shu like this, he knows what kind of virtue Yuan Shu is, otherwise, he would not have looked down on Tao Qian's leisure at home for so many years, and he was not going to Yuan Shu, who was close at hand.

"So you can rest assured, with Zang Zhonglang in general, Yuan Shu will definitely not please this time, and Taishan has also responded, and has conveyed the official's request to Changyi, and Cao Yanzhou will have a reply in the near future." Tao Qian cheered up the subordinates present, "In Yingchuan, Nanyang, and Xiangyang, the official has also sent envoys, or the situation of besieging Yuan Shu will be repeated. ”

The Tibetan Lang General is Zang Ba, which is also funny, Tao Qian has now reached the point of counting on his subordinates, but he can't let go of his face in front of people, as if Zang Ba is his subordinate who will come immediately. Zhang Zhao felt a little funny, but here, he could only hold back and couldn't stop laughing.

In fact, it is said that with the wealth of Xuzhou, Tao Qian's strength is not weak, and some people can also afford to raise soldiers, such as Tao Qian in his hometown and recruited a group of Danyang soldiers. This is a real Danyang soldier, a special type of soldier, which is not comparable to those Danyang soldiers under Liu Feng who have not yet formed their own style. But the problem is that the Xuzhou family is good at business and officialdom, and has repeatedly produced hairpin families, such as the Donghai Wang family, the Guangling Chen family, the Donghai Mi family, the Pengcheng Zhang family, and the Langya Zhao family are all very famous, and by the way, the Zhuge Liang family is also from Xuzhou. But when the scribes came out, the generals were not good, basically in the Tao Qian era, there were no generals in Xuzhou who could handle it.

Therefore, when suppressing the resurgence of the Yellow Turban Army, Tao Qian, who became the history of the assassination, resolutely recruited the Taishan thief Zang Ba under his command and appointed him as the captain of the cavalry under the pressure of the Yellow Turban Army outside and the constraints of the family inside. So Zang Ba and his brothers, with their own bandit army, abandoned Taishan Village, one of the only two giant cottages in the Han Dynasty (the other is the Black Mountain Village of Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army), and turned into an official army.

In the end, Zang Ba did not disappoint Tao Qian, won many battles, and finally expelled the Yellow Turban Army from Xuzhou and drove it into Yanzhou and Qingzhou. In order to prevent the Yellow Turban Army from coming back, Tao Qian took Zang Ba as the lieutenant general and took the Taishan Army to guard Langya Country to prevent the Yellow Turban Army from going and returning.

Tao Qian's choice is good, but Zang Ba is not a master who blindly obeys. When he was eighteen years old, his father was imprisoned for insisting on principles to prevent Taishou from killing people, and Zang Ba dared to gather more than a dozen diners to rescue his father, and since then he has been dead in the East China Sea. Later, he became the leader of the various tribes of the Taishan thieves, and together with Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and others, he became a powerful force in the area of Taishan.

It is impossible to expect such a person to be honest, especially since he is a thief, and he is even more disobedient, unless he has absolute strength to suppress him. But obviously, Tao Qian is not that kind of person, so in Langya State, soon Zang Ba had the heart of self-reliance, and gradually disobeyed Tao Qian's orders, and then simply did not buy Tao Qian's account, and directly sent troops to expel the Langya State Minister appointed by Tao Qian, and occupied Kaiyang himself, becoming the de facto top decision-maker.

But Tao Qian was cautious, since Zang Ba didn't listen to his orders, he had no reason to give Zang Ba any more face, so he simply cut off Zang Ba's material supply. So in the past few years, Zang Ba can only rely on Langya to feed the millions of troops under his command. That's right, an army of millions.

It's not that Zang Ba didn't think about counterattacking Xuzhou and turning the entire Xuzhou into his own territory, but he was not brainless. He understood that if he really did this, he was afraid that the entire Xuzhou family would unite and crusade against him together, so he would stay in Kaiyang safely. So gradually, the opportunity slipped away, the states were basically divided, and Zang Ba lost the opportunity to compete for the world. Now, at most, he is looking for a master for himself. Otherwise, if a strong person dominates Xuzhou, he will not tolerate his existence.

The first two times, when Tao Qian was in crisis, he also sent someone to summon Zang Ba to support, and the envoy's commanding attitude directly made Zang Ba break the idea of sending troops. Until this time, Tao Qian couldn't afford to lose anymore, so he finally put down his face and sincerely asked Zang Ba to send troops to support. In the end, the news of Zang Ba's agreement was obtained.

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Leaving the Taishou Mansion, Zhang Zhao and Zhao Yu prepared to go to Qu County. But in his heart, he was thinking about how to contact the Xuzhou Expeditionary Force in Jiangdong and leave with his family.

As for Zhao Yu, an old friend, he could only say sorry in his heart, after all, compared to his own family's life.

Zhang Zhao did not fully believe Tao Qian's words, and Zhang Zhao was even more disdainful of Tao Qian, a state pastor who pinned everything on others. On the contrary, he was glad in his heart, fortunately, he did not accept Tao Qian's expedition at the beginning.

The reinforcements promised by Zang Ba were not fulfilled until Lanling was captured by Yuan Shu's army, and there was no sign of the Langya army's dispatch. It wasn't until Zhang Zhao left his family and went to Qu County alone with Zhao Yu and his troops, until Xiangben was surrounded and attacked by Yuan Shu's army, that Langya's Zang Ba finally moved, and the army gradually gathered and prepared to march to Tancheng.

But Tao Qian was not wrong about one thing, that is, the envoys he sent to lobby the princes from all walks of life finally replied.

Yingchuan, Sun Jian did not directly agree to Tao Qian's request, after all, he was still nominally Yuan Shu's subordinate, and he couldn't do those ungrateful things. But he showed his attitude with his actions, and directly gathered the army on the border of Yingchuan, looking like he had taken action, which frightened the guards left by Yuan Shu here.

Wancheng, Zhang Ji faced Tao Qian's envoy and said very euphemistically that he would advance and retreat with Liu Zhennan. As soon as Tao Qian's envoy left, he immediately began to assemble a large army and prepare war materials, and his intention was obvious.

In Xiangyang, Liu Biao politely bid farewell to Tao Qian's envoy, and then gathered his subordinates to discuss the matter. Needless to say, the grievances between him and Yuan Shu are so good this time, if you don't take the opportunity to take revenge, when will you wait? At Liu Biao's insistence, a plan was soon made to attack Runan. And for Jiangdong, Yuan Shu's accomplice, he still took a defensive position. After all, Yuzhang can't be compared with Runan.

And Cao Cao of Yanzhou, when he received Xiahou Dun's report, hurriedly discussed with his advisers, and then sent someone to Yecheng to tell Yuan Shao about the matter, and soon got Yuan Shao's reply, supporting him and Tao Qian to join forces against Yuan Shu. Just kidding, Yuan Shu is going to occupy the entire Xuzhou, his power has been expanding again and again, but his army has been blocked in Qi County, and if Yuan Shu goes on like this, where will he Yuan Shao's face go?

Cao Cao, who was supported by Yuan Shao, immediately secretly left Changyi, went to Mount Tai, and secretly got in touch with Zang Ba. After reaching an agreement, Zang Ba's army left Kaiyang for Tancheng, while Cao Cao quietly mobilized troops and horses to surround the state of Lu, preparing to seize Yuan Shu's territory.

Coincidentally, these princes still reached a tacit understanding, that is, they could not let Yuan Shu continue to sit big.