After a while, the official rushed over and reported: "Sir, General Li has led his army to protect his lord's family and go out of the city." Xun Yu nodded and walked out quickly. The official immediately followed.

Ailang led the army into the city. He thought he could easily take Yanzhou, but he did not expect that he would be fought back by Cao's army. The two sides fought fiercely on the streets. The soldiers of the Cao army were all brave and fearless in the death to fight against Lu Bu's army. Although the Lu Bu's army had the advantage of the number of people, they could not spread it on the streets. They even had a stick of incense and did not decide the winner. Ailang became angry and led the cavalry team to attack. He saw the iron hoof spear fiercely breaking through the defense line of Cao's army like a flood. He killed the Cao army's soldiers and fell down in a row. Only then did he finally defeat the Cao army's counterattack!

The General Zhao bumped into Ailang and tried to attack. Ailang halberd and pierced his chest and pulled him out. Cao's army was still fighting desperately, but when his general was killed, his fighting spirit was immediately extinguished. They gave up fighting and turned to flee. Ailang asked Zhang Liao to lead the cavalry to chase him, but he himself led a brigade to Cao Cao's mansion, but he saw that the people were gone and the building was empty, and half of the figure was gone. Ailang led the army to the official office, but no one was seen.

The hustle and bustle continued until the early morning of the next day, and the remaining Cao army was completely wiped out. The people of Yanzhou were frightened for a night. At this time, they heard the quiet outside and wanted to go out to see what was going on, but no one had the courage. Not long after, the people heard someone riding a horse and galloping on the street and shouted loudly: "The General of the Yulin Guard of the imperial court, Lu Bu, expelled Cao thieves and liberated Yanzhou! The people of Yanzhou do not need to be afraid. The general was here to protect everyone!" Only then did the people realize that it was the legendary very powerful Lu Bu who seized Yanzhou.

The doors of every household are gradually opening, and shops are opening one after another. There are more and more pedestrians on the streets. Everyone is still a little uneasy, but seeing that the city is as usual, as if nothing has happened, I am not so worried. After all, everyone is Han people. Is it ruled by Cao Cao or Lu Bu? As long as it has little impact on their lives, not many people will pay attention to this issue.

Ai Lang took Yanzhou in one fell swoop and was very excited and praised Chen Gong: "Sir, you are such a brilliant idea! I didn't expect that it would be so easy to seize Yanzhou!"

Chen Gong smiled and said, "We were surprised, and the main forces of Cao's army are all in Xuzhou. This result is normal!"

While he was talking, Xu Huang stepped in and clasped his fists and said, "General..."

Ailang hurriedly asked, "How is it? How much food and money did he get?"

Xu Huang shook his head and said, "There is no grain in the warehouse in Yanzhou. As for the money, it is only more than one box, which looks like less than 20,000 taels."

Ailang was shocked and said in disbelief: "Yanzhou is so prosperous, why is the warehouse so poor?"

Xu Huang couldn't answer this question, Chen Gong thought, "Now Cao Cao is conquering Xuzhou, I'm afraid that all the money and food will be transported to the front line, so I miscalculated it."

Ailang was very depressed and felt that he was really unlucky enough. Although he successfully seized this prosperous city, the city could not provide much profit to him in a short period of time.

Chen Gong said jokingly: "If the general wants money and food, there is a way."

Ailang was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "What's the solution? If you don't tell me earlier!"

Chen Gong smiled and said, "I think the merchants in Yanzhou are all well-off. It is better to confiscate some of the people's homes than to confiscate some of the people's homes, so you will have money and food!"

Ailang rolled his eyes and said angrily: "What's your bad idea! Although I'm not a good person, I can't do such a robbery of the people!" Chen Gong asked with a smile: "General really doesn't do it?" Ailang glared and said: "Nonsense! If you don't do it, don't do it! I said sir, can't you think of a good idea?"

Chen Gong curled his smile and bowed to Ailang seriously. Ailang was confused by his worship and asked, "What the hell are you doing?"

Chen Gong straightened up but did not explain, saying, "General, don't worry about food and grass for the time being. Yuan Shao promised to supply food and grass for the time being, so the amount would not be irrefused! The most important thing now is to send someone to Yuan Tan, who is left in Luoyang, for help. At the same time, taking advantage of Cao Cao's army that was unable to return to the rescue, he quickly went to occupy Dongping. Dongping is on the east bank of the Ji River, which can be a barrier in Yanzhou. If Dongping is occupied, he can better resist Cao Cao."

Ailang nodded and immediately left Zhang Liao to lead two thousand troops to defend Dongping. He himself led the generals and the main troops out of Yanzhou to go east, preparing to cross the Ji River to capture Dongping. After Ailang crossed the Ji River, he divided his troops into two units and ordered Xu Huang to lead some troops to continue to march towards Dongping with great fanfare. He himself led the rest of the troops to ambush near the northern end of Dayeze (that is, a swamp lake with a very huge area). He was preparing to wait for Cao's army to rescue from Shanyang and eliminate them in one fell swoop. It turned out that Chen Gong had discovered that Cao Ren had 20,000 troops stationed in Shanyang. Once the other party knew that Dongping was in urgent need, he would go north to rescue. At that time, the largest main force of Cao's army in Yanzhou could be eliminated in one fell swoop. If this battle was successful, the entire Yanzhou would fall into Ailang's hands.

After Xun Yu retreated from Yanzhou, he immediately bypassed the southern end of Onoze and retreated into Shanyang, and met with Cao Ren, who was responsible for transporting food and grass for Cao Cao's army in Shanyang. Soon after, Xun Yu and Cao Ren received urgent reports from Puyang. As he expected, Puyang had been captured by Zhang Miao. Now Zhang Miao has led his army south and killed him directly towards Dingtao.

Cao Ren was furious and cursed, "How dare Zhang Miao be so arrogant!" Then he said to Xun Yu, "Sir, I will lead my army to Dingtao to deal with Zhang Miao, and I will not return to the army unless I take his dog head!" As he said that, he was about to order the troops.

Xun Yu quickly stopped him and said, "Zhang Miao's actions must have been made in advance with Lu Bu! Since Zhang Miao captured Puyang and attacked Dingtao, then Lu Bu is very likely to advance eastward to capture Dongping after capturing Yanzhou! The general has only 20,000 troops. If he goes to rescue Dingtao, who will save Dongping?"

Cao Ren felt that what Xun Yu said was very reasonable and immediately said, "Then I will go to save Dongping! Although Dingtao only has two thousand defenders, Zhang Miao, the man who is a good man, cannot attack in a short time! I will go to save Dingtao when I save Dongping!"
Chapter completed!