Leaving Mijiazhuang, Taojian set up camp outside Qu County that night. On this day, the 800 Taojia troops diverted to the west and entered the hinterland of the Donghai Kingdom. A few days later, they followed Yishui and soon arrived at the border between the Donghai Kingdom and the Langya Kingdom, namely the Qiuxian area.

Yishui originates from Mount Tai and runs through the two countries of Langya East China from north to south. The main cities of Langya are basically located on both sides of the Yishui River, including the country's Kaiyang City, and also on the west coast of Yishui River.

When Tao merchant wanted to take office in Kaiyang, he naturally had to go north along the Yishui River.

That is, Qiucheng is located a hundred miles south of Kaiyang, which is the southernmost city of Langya Kingdom, and is located at the junction of the two places.

Zang Ba had four generals, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and Chang Xi. Among them, Chang Xi led a thousand Taishan bandits to station in Jiqiu City to guard the southern gate for him.

If a Taoist merchant wants to enter Langya, he must first pass the Changxi level.

In the afternoon of that day, the Tao merchant led 800 Tao family troops to the south of Jiqiu, and set up camp five miles away from the city.

The camp was settled and it was dusk, and the pottery merchants then all raised 800 troops and headed straight to the south gate of the Qiu.

At this moment, the south gate of Qiucheng was already flying flags, swords and guns, and more than a thousand Taishan bandits were waiting for battle. A big flag with the word "chang" was flying on the top of the city with its mighty power.

"Master, look at this formation, Chang Xi obviously doesn't plan to let us into the city." Xu Sheng beside him frowned.

"Please be polite first and then the army." Tao Shang sighed lightly, and whipped a messenger. He took Liu Bei's written order and went straight to Jiqiucheng.

After all, Tao Shang came to Langya to take office under the order of Liu Bei. Nominally, both Zang Ba and Chang Xi should be considered his deployment. No matter what, he still has to try it first. Whether Liu Bei's order works, it is naturally the best to incorporate Chang Xi without using force.

Although the pottery was prepared in his mind, this hope was almost zero.

A messenger rode his horse and rushed straight outside the city gate, raising Liu Bei's document in his hand, explaining his purpose.

A moment later, the city gate actually opened and the messenger was put in.

Above the city, Chang Feng, with a ferocious face, was sitting cross-legged in front of the table, drinking wine in a big bowl and eating meat in big mouthfuls.

The soldiers serving left and right were all trembling and tremblingly delivered the cooked meat balls to Changxi from time to time.

In the big pot next to me, there were still a few of the same meat balls boiling, dripping blood.

Those meat balls turned out to be the heart of a person.

"It's delicious and refreshing. What else in this world can be more delicious than this human heart? Haha--" Chang Xi chewed a sip, drank a bowl of strong wine, and laughed like a wild beast.

Just as the food was delicious, the messenger of the pottery came to the city and lit up Liu Bei's documents and bowed: "My chief of the pottery merchant, on the order of the governor of Liuzhou, went to Kaiyang City to serve as the prime minister of Langya. The minister of the prefect of the prefect is here. Please check it out. If the inspection is correct, please ask the general to go out of the city to pay homage to the new prime minister."

The enemy of Taishan left and right took over Wen Ling and served him in Changxi.

Chang Xi didn't even look at it, grabbed it and threw it into the stove, cursing disdainfully: "What a bullshit Wenling, Langya Kingdom is the territory of our Taishan Army. When will it be the turn of the pottery merchant, the waste playboy, come back and tell your master, and quickly roll the bed and get out of the bed, otherwise it will annoy me and cut out his heart and cook it."

The messenger's face changed. He didn't expect that the other party would be so rude, so he had to hold on and say, "General Chang, this is Liu Zhoumu's literary order. How dare you disobey?"

"Hahaha--" Chang Xi laughed wildly and said disdainfully: "My Taishan Army only listens to Brother Zang. Even if it is the emperor's will, we will treat it as a paper for rubbing the butt."

"You...you..." The messenger was shocked and scared, and he was confused for a moment.

Chang Xi was already annoyed, jumped up from the ground and cursed angrily: "I'm so irritable that I'm so annoying, you're looking for death!"

Before he finished speaking, Chang Xi had already pulled out his sword and sheathed. Before the messenger could react, he raised his sword and fell, and a human head had already rolled to the ground.

The messenger's headless corpse, blood gushed from his neck, fell to the ground with a bang.

Chang Xi walked up and the blade cut a few times between the corpse's chest and cut a hole. He rolled up his sleeves, put his hand into the corpse's chest, and took out the bloody heart with his bare hands.

Chang Xi licked the corner of his mouth, threw the heart into the boiling pot of hot water, wiped the blade clean on the body, shouted: "Hold the body up, I want to give the Taoist dandy a warning."

The terrified Taishan bandits were awakened and hurriedly dragged the headless and unintentional body of the messenger and hung it high on the Jiqiu Nanmen Tower with a rope.

Outside the city, Tao Shang was waiting quietly. He had prepared Chang Xi's literary order to despise Liu Bei and drove out his messenger. Then he could politely and then soldiers, and find a way to capture Jiqiu by force.

"Look, lord, there is movement on the city tower." Mulan suddenly pointed at the enemy city and shouted.

Tao Shang and Fan Kuai and others all looked towards the city tower and saw a bloody corpse hanging high like a flag.

"It's the messenger, our messenger!" Xu Sheng recognized the corpse's clothes and shouted in shock.

Tao Shang's figure shook slightly, and his face, which had originally had a calm expression, suddenly became gloomy. The horse whip was tightly clenched, the joints clattered, and the anger burned in the eagle's eyes.

Chang Xi's disobedience was expected by him, but what he did not expect was that the Taishan gang despised him so much that he dared to openly kill his messenger, behead him, and even betray him.

Tao Shang was angry when he left!

On the top of the city, Chang Feng had wiped the minced meat from the corner of his mouth. He pointed at the pottery merchant a hundred steps away and said arrogantly: "Tatery merchant, your dead man dared not touch the territory of our Taishan Army when he was alive. You are a playboy who actually wants to be our prime minister. It's really a big laugh. If you know the tactful, get out of my way, otherwise my army will break out of the city and will dig out your kid's heart and give me wine."

When he was talking wildly, Chang Xi actually grabbed a cooked heart in front of thousands of soldiers of the two armies and chewed it wildly, with an extremely arrogant momentum.

"It is rumored that among the enemies of Mount Tai, Chang Feng likes to eat people's hearts. He used to think it was just a rumor, but he didn't expect it to be true. This guy really eats people's hearts!" Xu Sheng was angry and looked at the rampant enemy who was gnawing at the hearts, and felt a vague feeling of creepy.

"His grandma, this dog bastard is so rampant." Fan Kuai on the other side was also angry, throwing the remaining lamb legs in his hand, carrying the big knife on his shoulder, shouting, "Lord, order the attack on the city. Old Fan, I will cut the bastard into 180 pieces with the wild dogs."

Mulan also drew her sword in her hand and said angrily: "Lord, that dog thief dares to insult you like this. Mulan wants to kill him with her own hands."

All the generals were indignant and asked for battle generously. The 800 soldiers of the Tao family army were also angry, their blood was boiling, and their fighting spirit was rising.

Looking at Chang Feng who was rampant on the city, Tao Shang was also furious. This guy openly killed his messenger and was so humiliated in front of the two armies. How could he swallow this breath?

After clenching his fists for a long time, Tao Shang took a deep breath and waved his hand and shouted: "Send the order and the entire army will withdraw its troops and return to the camp."

As soon as the order was issued, all the generals changed their brilliance and looked at the pottery merchant in surprise.

The pottery merchant had not waited for them to persuade him, and had already sent the horses to leave first. The generals had no choice but to lead 800 troops and retreat to the camp south unwillingly.

Chang Feng, who was on the top of the city, smiled even more violently and sarcastically, and said disdainfully: "My son of Tao Shang, I know that you don't have the courage. I have a thousand soldiers and horses. You just want to break my clouds with eight hundred mobs. It's just a daydream. Go home and have a breastfeeding, hahaha--"

"Ha ha--"

"Ha ha--"

The Taishan bandits along the city also followed their chief generals, laughing wildly, and mocking the Tao family army who had retreated.

The eight hundred soldiers listened to the ridicule of the enemies behind them, and their faces were so hatred that they were red. They gritted their teeth, but could only endure it with hatred.

The Tao merchant also had anger ignited in his heart, and his fists were tightly clenched, but he forced himself to suppress his anger and retreated calmly.

At night, the army returned to the camp.

"Lord, how can you swallow this breath, the Changfeng Dog Thief humiliated us like that? I'm so angry." Fan Kuai complained as soon as he entered the tent.

Tao Shang sat down calmly and said with a smile: "I said Lao Fan, weren't you reluctant to come to Langya before? Why are you so excited to attack the city now?"

Fan Kuai was stunned and said with a flat mouth: "It was before, now, now, that bastard has filled me with anger, making me unable to even eat meat. Of course I want to chop him up."

Xu Sheng and Mulan, who followed closely, were also angry, and their expressions clearly did not understand the pottery's actions.

The Tao merchant waved his hand and signaled them to sit down first. When they were calm, they sighed lightly, "Do you think I don't want to kill that guy, but don't forget that we only have 800 soldiers and horses in our hands, but there are 1,000 Taishan bandits guarding the city. Even if our army is more elite and can forcefully break the city, they will definitely suffer heavy losses in the end. What will we use to deal with Zang Ba's main force of Taishan Army?"

Tao Shang's words made Xu Sheng and the other two silent.

They knew that the weakness of the Tao family army was that they had few soldiers and could not withstand consumption. If they were angry and wasting their precious troops on the worst-case scenario of siege, it would be really not a wise move.

"It's the lord who is calm, it's because we're impulsive." Xu Sheng bowed and apologized, admiring the calmness of the Tao merchant.

The Taoist merchant nodded slightly and said, "So, we must think of a perfect strategy that can neither consume troops nor capture troops."

In the big tent, he fell into silence again.

Although the two generals Fan Kuai and Mulan are not weak in their military strength, their wisdom is limited, so what can we think of?

The only ones that can be called wise in this big tent are Tao Shang and Xu Sheng.

The pottery thoughts flew around and racked his brains, but for the moment they had no choice.

Xu Sheng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, jumped up and said excitedly: "Lord, I have a plan. Maybe I can capture Jiqiucheng without wasting my power." Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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