recruited Xu Sheng, which made Yuan Yao even a little trance for a while.

After all, it was a little unbelievable to bring the enemy generals under his command so easily.

Yuan Yao wasn't even worried about what tricks Xu Sheng would engage in to deceive surrender, after all, Xu Sheng's surrender was not the same as Huang Gai's surrender in history.

Huang Gai was premeditated to persuade him to surrender, and Xu Sheng was suddenly arrested on the battlefield, if such a surrender was premeditated in advance, then Yuan Yao would not believe it.

What's more, Xu Sheng's current status under Sun Ce's command is not high, and such an identity will not play a role in surrendering to Yuan Yao.

Therefore, Yuan Yao trusted Xu Sheng very much, and directly promoted him to the rank of Zhonglang General of Zhichong, in charge of 3,000 soldiers and horses.

These 3,000 soldiers and horses, some of them were Xu Sheng's own surrendered troops, and some of them were newly recruited Runan soldiers, and Liu Bi and Gong Du each had 5,000 men.

Extract half of them and hand them over to Xu Sheng, who can be regarded as Liu Bi's junior brother.

After all, Liu Bi captured Xu Sheng alive, and Liu Bi also made a great contribution.

If Yuan Yao didn't know that Lu Meng and Deng Dang were not so easy to surrender, he would even have a mood to continue to surrender Lu Meng and Deng Dang.

After solving the problem of Dantu port and the county seat, Yuan Yao's army can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in the territory of Wu County first.

In just one day's work, Yuan Yao completely controlled Dantu County in his own hands.

And the time of this day also spread the news of Yuan Yao's attack on Wu County.

Overnight, the news spread throughout most of Wu County.

Wu County is only three or four hundred miles away from Dantu County, which is enough to arrive in a day's time.

That night, the news that Dantu County was attacked and the entire army of the defenders was wiped out had already spread to Wu County.

When the scout sent the news to Wu County overnight, Zhang Zhao, who had already slept, was also awakened.

"Lord Changshi, Lord Changshi, something is wrong!"

The subordinates of Zhang Zhao's mansion received the news from the scouts, and soon spread the news to the inner courtyard.

After the servants shouted a few words, candles were lit in the room, and Zhang Zhao, who was in his forties, walked out of it with his clothes on.

"Big night, what's going on? Can't we wait until tomorrow to report something? ”

Obviously, Zhang Zhao was disturbed by his subordinates and complained.

The subordinate was startled at the moment, but he didn't dare to speak back, so he could only scold him and continue to say to Zhang Zhao.

"Lord Changshi, Dantu County, has been attacked."

Just this short sentence directly made Zhang Zhao, who was still sleepy-eyed, suddenly shocked, and the whole person immediately changed his face, and he immediately became short of breath.

"What did you say!"

"Big... My lord, just now the scouts from Dantu County sent information that this morning, there were thieves attacking Dantu Port, and in a very short time, they captured Dantu Port! ”

"Dantu! Didn't Xu Sheng garrison Dantu with more than a thousand elite soldiers, what about Xu Sheng? What thief can defeat Dan disciples in such a short period of time? ”

Zhang Zhao was in a hurry, he didn't care that he wasn't wearing any clothes, so he hurriedly walked a few steps and came to the side of his subordinates, eager to know more details.

Xu Sheng...... General Xu Sheng led people to resist, but ...... However, as soon as the soldiers and horses clashed, they were surrounded by enemy troops, and they were defeated and captured not long after. ”

The news of Dantu County, to make a long story short, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Zhao's face became even more ugly.

"Xu Sheng was captured! Oh no, big things are bad, but you can see clearly who is the person who attacked the Dantu? ”

"It should ...... It should be Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses! ”

Hearing what his subordinates said, Zhang Zhao was shocked and immediately shouted at his subordinates.

"Quick, go and ask Zhang Zigang to come and see me!"

Zhang Zigang in Zhang Zhao's mouth is named Zhang Hong, and Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao are called Jiangdong Erzhang.

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong are not from Jiangdong, but from Xuzhou.

Zhang Zhao is a native of Pengcheng, Xuzhou, who was studious when he was young, good at official writing, and Zhao Yu from Langya and Wang Lang from the East China Sea are famous and friendly with each other. Zhang Zhao was recommended as filial piety when he became an adult, but he did not accept his resignation, and discussed with Wang Lang the things that the kings avoided in the past, and Chen Lin, a talented man in Xuzhou, praised him a lot.

Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian admired him as Maocai, but was rejected by Zhang Zhao. Tao Qian thought that Zhang Zhao despised him, so he imprisoned Zhang Zhao. was later rescued by his friend Zhao Yu before he was released.

Later, in order to avoid trouble, Zhang Zhao fled to Jiangnan with some refugees, and was seized of Jiangnan.

Sun Ce was extremely courteous to Zhang Zhao, and once went to the church with him to meet Zhang Zhao's mother, like a close friend of the same generation. Almost all important affairs in Sun Ce's territory were handled by Zhang Zhao, and he made a great contribution to Sun Ce's pacification of Jiangdong.

This time, Sun Ce went to the aid of Danyang County, and also handed over all the affairs of Wu County to Zhang Zhao to manage, which shows the importance he attaches to Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Hong is also a native of Xuzhou, but he is a native of Guangling County, Xuzhou, Zhang Hong traveled to Kyoto when he was young, and studied "Book of Changes" and Ouyang "Shangshu" with Dr. Han Zong, and went to Waihuang to study "Han Poems", "Book of Rites" and "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" with Puyang Min.

Later, he returned to the county and was recommended as Maocai, when the general He Jin, Taiwei Zhu Jun, and Sikong Xun Shuang were all rejected by him to answer the call, and later because of the war in Xuzhou, to avoid chaos in Jiangdong.

When Sun Ce founded the foundation, Zhang Hong went to take refuge, because of Zhang Hong's talent, Sun Ce showed him as a captain and went out with the army.

Originally, when Sun Ce rushed to Danyang this time, Zhang Hong also followed, but when he encountered Yan Baihu's turmoil and needed to march to Danyang urgently, Zhang Hong did not follow.

Instead, he stayed in Wu County and assisted Han Dang in exterminating the bandits in Wu County.

Zhang Zhao hurriedly recruited Zhang Hong, also because there are not too many soldiers and horses in Wu County at the moment, and a large number of main soldiers and horses have been taken away by Sun Ce and Han Dang.

That night, the scouts hurried to summon orders.

Early the next morning, Zhang Hong, who received the news, was in a hurry and came to Wu County.

And found Zhang Zhao.

"Brother Zibu, I received your news and came back overnight, and you said that Dantu was attacked?"

As soon as he saw Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong asked Zhang Zhao nervously.

"You're back, it's a big deal!"

"Dantu was attacked, it is very likely that Yuan Shu's men and horses did it, and now the enemy army has raised more than 10,000 troops and is coming towards Wu County, Brother Zigang, how many soldiers and horses do you have nearby?"

"Less than 6,000!"

Zhang Hong frowned, and then looked flustered.