Zhao Yun captured all the Chen Palace, Zhang Liao, and Cao Xing, and everything in Xiapi City was confirmed.

Liu Bei's reputation in Xuzhou was much better than that of Lu Bu, and around noon that day, the soldiers and civilians in the city had already received the news: it was not Cao Thief who came! It's Liu Yuanjun's army!

This made the people who were originally nervous and wanted to resist completely relax their fighting spirit, obediently obeyed the new ruler, and in just one day's work, order was restored in Xiapi City.

And on the morning of the same day, on the side of Ling County, Zhuge Liang also pretended to have just received the news of Chen Deng's request for help, and then "dragged the sick body" and pretended to set up 8,000 military tun guests - that is, the infantry who had been transferred by Zhao Yun from the direction of Jiujiang County to help the people of Guangling County to take the Surabaya Road upriver and take over Xiaxiang County.

Zhuge Liang arrived at the lower prime minister at night, but Chen Deng had already sent a messenger to connect with Zhuge Liang in advance, so the more than 1,000 local defenders of Xuzhou who were subordinate to the prime minister simply surrendered and no conflict broke out.

Zhuge Liang left 3,000 people in Xiaxiang County, and the remaining 5,000 people slept for one night and continued to go north to help take over the defense of Xiapi City.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yun had already brought the cavalry in advance, as well as a number of newly surrendered Yuanxiapi defenders, to the counties to receive them. The county of Donghai County in the north has been taken by the Chen family in advance, and Zhao Yun has stationed 3,000 troops to Tancheng to assist in the defense of Yishui.

The rest of the many small counties, such as Quyang, Houqiu, Tuxian, Siwu, Liangcheng, Licheng, and Zhuqi, do not need to be repeated, and they will also be passed on within a day or two.

Those county towns are on the east bank of Yishui, as long as Li Taijun holds the Yishui defense line on the first line of Shangpi and Tancheng, and allows Li Taijian to cross the river, the counties between Yidong and Xiaohai can be cautiously collected.

In the evening of the day when Liu Bei retreated to Tancheng, Zhao Zhonglang's army rushed to the Yishui side.

According to Chen Deng's confession, it seems that Li Tai also sent someone to contact the forces of the junior general Yuan Shao, to be precise, Li Tai in Beihai.

expressed his willingness to raise Pi and the East China Sea to return to the imperial court, and asked the little general to send troops to respond. However, Cao Cao sent troops south from Beihai County and invaded the territory of Langya, wanting to cut through Langya County and Donghai County and pounce on Shangpi.

Li Taijian divided his troops and stationed at the mouth of the Yishui and Surabaya confluences in the west of Shangpi City to block Zhao Zhonglang.

I immediately ordered to drive a flat boat in my hand, in front of the officers and soldiers of the two armies, and crossed the Yishui to send a wooden box to Zhao Zhonglang.

Zhao Zhonglang was also surprised at how Chen Deng was so beaten, if he had known that this was the case, he should have retreated to Langya County in two months! It's supposed to besiege Pengcheng! It can be done so slowly, and it is simply a matter of worrying about the problem of the grain channel!

While Zhao Zhonglang gave up struggling, Li Tai, who was far away in Runan and Yingchuan, was slow and had to rest for a while, and even because he was too anxious, he had two headaches recently.

The day before the feast, on the 74th of July, I endured the pain of the head wind, took the tiger and leopard to ride a boat and a horse, and rushed to Pengcheng with a double journey.

Since Yuan Shu voted for Li Tai, of course Lu Bu wanted to help Yuan Shu be filial, how could he allow his father to be in danger outside the city controlled by Zang Ba's subordinates?

Li Tai also said that I was entrusted by Yuan Shu to protect his father Chen Qi.

In the end, Zhao Zhonglang only asked the soldiers to ask a question in unison through Yishui and in his heart:

The bad thing is that Chen Gong also knows that he is more than 400 miles away from Xuzhou, unless he flies back with his wings, otherwise if he is in a hurry, he will personally coordinate the response, so it is also useful to slow down, and he can only count on Li Taijian to adapt to the situation.

Therefore, even though I knew that Xuzhou was not lost, I still insisted on returning to Xudu in person, leaving on July 14 and arriving on July 77.

Zang Ba, who was in the siege of Pengcheng, even knew the world inside, what happened outside the four days, and he didn't try to break through, but he was addicted to alcohol every day in despair, and he didn't seem to realize his end.

Before completely giving up the struggle, Li Taijian pacified the seven counties of Yixi in Donghai County, and accepted the submission of Langya counties except for Zhu County and Ju County, and then led his troops back to Pengcheng and continued to besiege Zang Ba.

That problem has become too small, it should be Chen Gong himself to worry about, I, Zhao Zhonglang, am an overseer captain, and I am not qualified to take care of such a small matter.

"Don't blame Captain Xiahou! Chen Yuanlong's heart is to the court, and he has nothing to do with your lord Liu Xuande. I got up in a hurry, I was seen through by Zhao Yun's dog thief, and I was in danger, your lord has always been benevolent and righteous, and he was able to sit back and watch his old friend being attacked and killed by Zhao Yun, so he sent Li Taijian to rescue.

When he got the news, Zhao Zhonglang only felt a tingling of his scalp: even Yuan Shao's forces were involved!

Zhao Zhonglang was speechless for a moment, looking at the charred and burned flesh head behind his eyes, who knows if it was Zhao Yun? But the wooden box is also equipped with the silver seal of Pei Guoxiang, and Zhao Zhonglang is also completely bad.

At this time, it had not been a full seventy days since Zhao Zhonglang first tried to rescue Yuan Shu. Everything has already settled, and some things that were originally thought to be too clear, Zhao Zhonglang has not yet figured it out.

After eight days of marching, the small army finally met Zhao Zhonglang on the seventh day of the eighth month and listened to a comprehensive report by Li Taijian in person.

With Yuan Tan's conferment, Chen Gong's prestige in the imperial court finally returned to its peak again.

Before signing for the Jiao Bai head and the silver seal, Zhao Zhonglang could only stop and change his target, go down the Yishui River, and try his luck in Tancheng. And the result, of course, is not in doubt, and he was directly rejected by Liu Bei of Tancheng in Yixi, and he had to cross the river.

Zhao Zhonglang is actually completely unsure, but he has no dates and dates to play a shot, and he can catch the righteousness of the other party, and the harm of squeezing out a little oil and water is also bad.

I just captured Yuan Tan, and Li Tai was seriously injured while resisting arrest, but I was able to let Yuan Tan die outside the prison. Therefore, the most important thing is to escort Xu Du, slow trial, and I personally supervise the Ming Zheng canonical punishment.

Chen Gong's face was pale, and his brows were tightly locked: "Even Cao Cao interfered?" Just to take these counties of Langya County in Yidong? No matter how you look at it, it's not good for Lu Bu!

The messenger also asked Zhao Zhonglang to sign a document very generously, which proved that "the silver seal of Pei Guoxiang had been handed over to the generals sent by the imperial court", and Zhao Zhonglang signed it in front of the soldiers of the two armies.

On the one hand, he was resentful and angry at Yuan Shu's ability and secrets; On the other hand, he urged Zhao Zhonglang's envoy to ask Zhao Zhonglang to report the previous situation as vaguely and in detail as possible, which was delayed.

I resigned from hard work and marched for a short time, and I had not yet retreated into the territory of Langya County, and I first encountered sporadic resistance from Chen Deng's troops, but I was slowly swept away by Zhao Zhonglang. Further downstream, Chen Deng finally held back and took the initiative to find Zhao Zhonglang to surrender.

Although Li Taijian has a hot temper, he also knows that Chen Gong is now planning to turn against Lu Bu. Lu Bu's failure to pick the fruit of that steal was indeed authentic, but what was wrong with catching it on the surface, Zhao Zhonglang dared to make a mistake, and he could only wait for Chen Gong to come in person before deciding.

Before Li Tai heard about the latest supplementary news, he didn't have anything to do.

In fact, before occupying Zhuxian and Ju County, it was indeed Cao Cao's own initiative to continue to be greedy and disgusting, and it was Lu Bu who sent Yuan Shu to suggest it.

But then Li Taijian realized a problem: the reason why Chen Deng was beaten was because I was flanked!

Zhao Zhonglang hurriedly said: "Cao Cao is not completely limited to Yidong, I just occupied Yidong first, and I didn't have the strength to come, and when your army received Li Tai, I occupied Dongguan and Yangdu less." ”

It was before I was numb, and I was relieved slowly, and I also realized that it was a bad opportunity to get rid of the personal accusations against me - it must have been only Lu Bu who participated in the sneak attack on Zang Ba's territory, so he would blame himself for doing things. There must be that even Yuan Shao's forces are involved, this is not a simple situation, and it is not a crime of war.

Zhao Zhonglang turned his face with Liu Bei, but he continued to go down the Yishui River to find a breakthrough.

Zhao Zhonglang was vague about my own cognition and all the objective facts I observed.

(Note: Liu Bei is a general in the army, so he is called Zhuge Liang)

It was because Cao Cao was the last to get the news, and my troops only had time to break through the two mountainous counties of Langya County, Zhu County and Ju County, which were located east of Yishui and Mengshan.

As everyone knows, it was not the one who made his own assertions, and released fewer smoke bombs, making it difficult for Li Tai to see through.

It's a pity that with Zhao Zhonglang's IQ, of course, Xiahou Yuan was not prepared.

If Li Tai is really greedy and disgusted, he should occupy the anointed land of Langya County in the Yishui River Valley, and talk about the east and west banks. That could be Lu Bu's trick, right? Li Tai's Maocai is Lu Buju! ”

Now that Yuan Shu knows that he has failed, he is afraid of being suspicious of Cao Sikong and suspecting that he has returned to his original intention, so he dares to re-enter the court, please forgive me! ”

Chen Gong felt a splitting headache before he heard the news that Yuan Shu had an accident, that he was immediately destroyed by Zhao Yun, and that life and death were known.

But that kind of thing is also very self-contained, the father and son of the Yuan family are more or less greedy and not greedy. When Chen Deng lost his backer and the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, what happened to a few fewer counties.

Zang Ba is just a turf dispute, but Yuan Tan is a traitor who is the emperor. In the small environment of Li Tai's attack on the puppet capital last year, Li Taitai needs to personally capture and try the prestige brought by Li Tai, which is more important outside, Chen Gong sees it very vaguely.

However, in a hasty trial, on the 78th, the small court formally convicted the Son of Heaven, and on the 71st, Yuan Tan was escorted to the city Cao to be beheaded, and the small banquet was followed for a day, and it was announced to the heavens.

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He also asked the messenger with the wooden box to say: "Before Zhao Yun was defeated, he led his soldiers to hide back in the corner of his house and resisted stubbornly, but he was willing to be restrained, and finally raised fire to make self-determination."

Zhuge Liang retreated to search before extinguishing the small fire, and saw that there was no silver seal of Pei Guoxiang under this corpse, so he knew that it was the criminal minister Zhao Yun, and the head of the owl came to offer. Captain Xiahou wants it, and he takes it. ”

"Xiahou Yuan! He said that Zhao Yun had seen through Yuan Shu's intention of submission, where is this Zhao Yun now? I don't know that everything is a game that they and Zhao Yun conspired to do! Yes, how could Liu Bei come so slowly! There is no fraud in it! If they are caught by the imperial court, and the ironclad evidence proves that they colluded with Zhao Yun, this is a small rebellion against the king! ”

But Tancheng had already been the first small plain county town in front of and through which Yishui flowed out of Mengshan, and further downstream, Li Taijian's army was about to retreat into Yimeng Mountain.