Two days later, Tao Qian died of illness in Pengcheng as promised, and the whole city was mourned.

In the city full of white flags dancing and weeping one after another, Liu Bei and Lu Bu reached an offensive and defensive alliance and decided to go south to Xiapi.

But they can't just leave, someone has to hold back the pace of the imperial army.

Lü Bu suggested that the potters who commanded the soldiers and horses of Pengcheng should go up, but Liu Bei vetoed them.

He promised Tao Qian to ensure that his two sons had no worries about food and clothing, and he couldn't regret Tao Qian as soon as he died.

In the end, Zang Ba, who stayed in the county, was urgently requisitioned and transferred to Lu County, and was at the forefront.

Liu was bequeathed by Tao Qian and took over Xuzhou, although Mi Zhu and others surrendered as soon as possible.

But there are still many people who are not convinced.

Zang Ba, the head of the Taishan thief, is one of them.

And time was tight, and Liu Bei didn't have the energy to recruit this fierce general, so he had to sacrifice it.

After fooling Zang Ba over, Liu Bei and Lu Bu made a rectification of their soldiers and horses, and on the one hand, they would strictly guard Pengcheng, while secretly transporting grain, grass, baggage, and family members to the south.

But it was not for nothing that Zang Ba was able to sit on the throne of thieves in a group of thieves.

After he led the army to arrive in Lu County, he saw the military might of the imperial army, and instantly realized that something was wrong.

And at this time, the team that went south all the way was greedy for a shortcut, passed through Lu County by water, and was intercepted by Zang Ba.

After asking, Zang Ba was furious, and immediately gave up Lu County, and led the soldiers and horses to kill directly to Pengcheng.

Faced with the suddenly empty city, Lu Xianling panicked.

There are still tens of thousands of troops stationed outside the city, but the soldiers and horses that should protect them are now gone!

Between gathering the people to defend the city and surrendering, the elderly Lu County Commander only considered a breath of time, and led the people in the city out of the city to kneel to welcome the king.

When he saw that the gate of Luxian County suddenly opened, and the people knelt down to greet him, Cao Ren was also a little confused.

In this battle, he seems to have built a camp.

With Ma Chao, Feng Huan and other generals, Cao Ren accepted the surrender of Lu County's order and occupied Lu County.

Zhang Ji stayed in the camp, which was several times more heavily defended than the city of Lu County.

At the beginning, Cao Ren still doubted whether it was a fraud, and the soldiers and horses behind him were in a strict formation, and the swords were sheathed and the crossbow was on the arrow.

But when I went in, I was even more confused than when I was outside.

There was not a single soldier in the entire city of Lu County!

The only one who still has the slightest strength to resist is the few officials in the county government.

Lu County Bureau.

After Cao Ren carefully looked through the documents waiting for the household, he asked Lu Xianling, who was cautious and didn't know whether to kneel or stand, "Where did the soldiers and horses in the city go?" ”

Lu County, who was almost the same age as Tao Qian, suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, such an urgent question, this court general finally asked. If he doesn't ask, he should forget the answers he has been brewing for a long time.

"Back to the general's words, the criminal ministers only know a little about this matter, and they are not very clear." Lu Xian Ling said with a hunched waist.

Cao Ren frowned slightly, "Only know some?" ”

Hearing the strong displeasure in Cao Ren's words, Lu Xianling was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "General, please calm your anger, it's like this, Tao Yuanjun died of illness and died in Pengcheng, and then the main general here is his eldest son, named Tao Shang, naturally he wants to go back to mourn." ”

Cao Renqi's face suddenly sank, "I can't say anything clearly, how can I be worthy of being an official?" Pull it down, cut it! ”

"Whoa!"

Several guards stepped forward and pulled Lu County's order out of the lobby.

There was a scream outside the hall, and Lu Xian Ling followed Tao Qian away.

"Come!" Cao Ren had a calm face and ordered one casually among the officials in Lu County.

He was the youngest looking official in Lu County, but his beard was already a little white.

Seeing that Cao Ren killed Lu Xianling casually, his legs and stomach trembled terribly, and he was sincerely afraid to come out and said, "General, please tolerate the guilty minister, take a breath of relief, that nervousness." That one...... The potter ran to mourn, and then ...... Then ......"

One then, there was no then, and he peed directly into his crotch.

Cao Ren's face turned black in an instant, "Pull it down, cut it!" ”

In the scream, there was a click, and there was another one.

Looking at the remaining pale civil and military officials of Lu County, Cao Ren was a little uncomfortable.

I don't know if it's Tao Qian's preference, or if this place in Lu County is really nurturing.

The county magistrate and the county magistrate are all seventy or eighty, and Zhu Cao Peng is a little younger, but he looks like he is forty or fifty years old.

Full of civil and military, half a crutch!

"Is there anyone who can speak clearly? If not, decapitate them all! Cao Ren shouted.

At this time, an old man in the crowd stood up, "The general should have done this a long time ago, or let me tell the general what happened here!" This is a bit of a long story, after the funeral of the pottery merchants, the military and civilians here have no leader, and they all rely on the sharp-beaked monkey gills under Lu Bu's tent, who does not think about business, and is full of fancy intestines, seems to be called Chen Gong. ”

"This person is a little long-winded, but he is not a good person. If the general wants to focus on the overall situation, he should kill this fire and ...... with integrity."

Cao Ren thought that someone who could speak clearly, but this turned out to be even more outrageous.

This old rotten wood, who could only say a few words, actually began to teach him to do things!

In an instant, the angry Cao Ren three corpse gods jumped violently, and the five spirits soared into the air.

"Ben will behead you first, a thief, to clean up his anger!" Cao Ren jumped up and roared, "Come on, pull it down, cut it!" ”

"Everyone else, all go to prison!"

He wasn't going to ask, and he was in vain.

Then he found the most ordinary official in the government office, and finally figured out the cause and effect.

Tao Qian died of illness in Pengcheng, and the pottery merchant went to mourn.

After that, Chen Gong killed the minister of Xiapi appointed by Tao Qian, and his soldiers and horses, and also withdrew Pengcheng.

After that, Zang Ba led the army to arrive and regroup his troops. But he inadvertently intercepted a tribe that went south by water, and learned that Liu Bei, the new assassin of Xuzhou, was ready to abandon Pengcheng and withdraw his troops to Xiapi, and then Zang Ba became angry and led his troops to Pengcheng.

As soon as the original situation of the matter was clarified, Cao Ren wrote a note on the one hand, and ordered Ma Chao and Zhang Ji to lead the army to travel from Lu County to Wu County, and on the other hand, he ordered people to intercept the waterway and block the nearest road to Xiapi in the south.

Hearing that Zang Ba led the army to find Liu Bei's trouble, Cao Ren was in no hurry to attack Pengcheng again.

He was firmly stationed in the camp of Lu County, and scattered the soldiers and horses of various units in the battalion to the south of Pengcheng like a star arrow, and sat back and watched the changes.

……

Peng Cheng has been very busy these days.

Tao Qian's funeral is being done vigorously.

Liu Bei and Lu Bu were dividing Tao Qian's inheritance on the one hand, and sending troops south on the other, and they were also very busy.

Tao Qian died, and those people in Pengcheng Prison were finally free.

Wang Lang, who was engaged in the administration of the prison, personally brought new clothes, wine and meat to the prison, and he made three or five detours of the corridor, stopped outside a prison cell, took out the key from his waist and opened the prison door.

"Let me guess where I ate today?" In the cell, a figure stood up.

Wang Lang put the dishes on the table, poured two bowls of wine, and said, "Today is Yisu!" ”

"What? Dead? The man asked, tying his long, messy hair together with a straw.

Wang Lang's face was full of grief, and he bowed his head and said, "Tao Envoy Jun has died. As for you, you don't have to gamble on this, and continue to live in seclusion in this dark and deep prison. ”

"Real death or fake death?" The man picked up the bowl and asked indifferently as he sipped.

Wang Lang smiled helplessly, "I really didn't lie to you this time, why should you be so stubborn." ”

Living here is his friend Zhang Zhao.

A talented man!

It's just that my temper stinks.

In order to gamble on a bad breath, Tao Qian admitted his mistakes, and forcibly regarded the prison as his home.

"You and Zhao Yuanda (Zhao Yu) can change their words a little in the future, and every time they come, it's the same rhetoric, are you annoying?" Zhang Zhao poured himself wine and said, "Tao Qian wants to dispel me, but I refuse, is it reasonable?" I have my own reasons! The emperor and the three dukes conquered, and there were many people in the world who were unwilling to enter the court as officials. ”

"Why does he want to conquer me, I have to go, if I don't go, I will despise him and despise him, and put me in prison! How much do you think this man has to be rude to do such a thing? Shameless old thief, if he doesn't apologize to me personally, I won't get out of this prison, but I will definitely tell the world about his crimes! ”

Wang Lang shook his head helplessly, and handed the chopsticks upside down to Zhang Zhao, "Don't just drink, eat some food." ”

"Tao Yuanjun is really dead, this time it's not your words, Yuan Da...... Also went! ”

Zhang Zhao suddenly quieted down with chopsticks in his hand, and he didn't react for a long time.

"Zhao Yu doesn't look like a short-lived person, why did he die?" After a long time, he asked faintly.

Without the lord and the death of his friend, Wang Lang's deep sadness in his heart suddenly came to his heart at this moment.

He choked up and whispered: "He was ordered to garrison Fu Yang with Zhang Min, but Cao Ren deceived him into opening the city gate and designing an attack and killing. ”

"It's not strange that someone died in battle. When he picks up his weapon and prepares to kill someone, he has to be prepared for his death in the early morning or late at night. Zhang Zhao sighed, pinched the edge of the wine bowl with his hand, and said in a low voice, "Today's wine, I drank it early, and the first sip should be given to him." ”

"Yuanda is not a person who cares about these, and it is not too late for you to give him the third bowl." Wang Lang said.

Zhang Zhao poured a bowl of wine, lifted his wrist, and poured it to his side, paying tribute to his friend who had tried to rob him from prison.

"Yuan Da died early, but Tao Qian died late, he has one in sixty this year, right? This age can be said to be the end of life, and the thief really lives a long life! Zhang Zhao put down the wine bowl, and his sad emotions had completely subdued, "I should write a eulogy for him!" ”

Wang Lang looked at it in surprise and asked in disbelief, "You want to write a eulogy for Tao Yuanjun?" ”

Zhang Zhao shook his head, "Can't you?" He did the things of a villain, and put me in prison here, and I should write a eulogy for him! ”

Wang Lang: ......

Zhang Zhao's behavior made him unsure what was going on.

He was a little unclear, whether this was a revenge for virtue or a grievance.

"I'll go and prepare pen and ink for you." Wang Lang said.

Although he was puzzled, he supported it.