According to Liu Biao's original wishful thinking, Liu Biao's army stationed in Tongyang and refused to move to the house was unlikely to have conflicts with the Xuzhou army, and even the chance of meeting on the battlefield was almost non-existent. At the same time, the decision-making level of the Xuzhou army also hoped to avoid conflicts with Liu Biao's army and temporarily get along with Liu Biao's army. Therefore, the abacus of Jing Sheng's riding on the wall to watch the wind and fishing in troubled waters was not only good, but also had an extremely close to 10% success.

This is true. Song Kai, the envoy of Xuzhou who was ordered to rush to the Tongyang Ferry to envoy Liu Biao's army, not only brought Liu Biao's three-president Yuan's mediation attitude towards the Huainan war, allowing Liu Biao's army to hold on to the general trend, but also brought quite valuable gifts to Liu Biao's two main generals Liu Pan and Huang She. At the same time, Song Kai also said in a rare low voice on behalf of Deputy Director Tao, "This war is entirely a personal grudge between us and Yuan Shu. Revenge for Yuan Shu's several unreasonable invasions in Xuzhou, please don't interfere. If Jing Sheng and the two generals can show a neutral attitude, then the five counties of Xuzhou will definitely be grateful, and they will also have generous gifts to Jing Sheng and the two generals."

He took the initiative to inform Liu Biao's army of Yuan Sangong, and gave Liu Biao's face enough. Logically speaking, Liu Pan and Huang She should be satisfied. They should have been flirting with the Xuzhou army by implementing Liu Biao's order to watch the wind and collude with the Xuzhou army. However, some people were killed and could not save them. Seeing the Xuzhou envoy's attitude was respectful and his tone was weak. He repeatedly stated that he would be rewarded with great gifts. Liu Pan and Huang She, who did not get too many benefits from the young Yuan Sangong, were inevitably greedy. He also found out that Xiao Yuan Sangong was preparing to start a ceasefire negotiation with the Xuzhou army. Both sides needed to fight for the reinforcements of Jingzhou at the negotiating table. After a little thought, Huang She and Liu Pan simply took advantage of the situation to rob!

Liu Pan and Huang She had the wishful thinking of this. On the one hand, they sent an envoy to contact Xiao Yuan Sangong and promised that Xiao Yuan Sangong would only need to pay another sum of money and grain, so they led Jingzhou reinforcements to the north to Shucheng to station in Shucheng to cheer for Xiao Yuan Sangong at the negotiating table; on the other hand, they opened their mouths to the Xuzhou army and asked the Xuzhou army to take out 200,000 hu of grain and 3,000 kilograms of gold and silver as exchange in exchange for Jingzhou army to go north to Shucheng and join forces with Xuzhou army to put pressure on Xiao Yuan Sangong at the negotiating table. Surprised by Liu Biaojun's sky-high price, Song Kai did not dare to neglect, so he could only return to Shucheng quickly and report the news to Deputy Director Tao without mentioning it.

When Song Kai brought the news back to Shucheng. Under the auspices and supervision of Jizhou envoy Xu You, Deputy Director Tao and Xiao Yuan Sangong's envoy had already ended the first armistice negotiations in the Xuzhou camp. The generous deputy director Tao issued the following conditions for the benevolent ceasement: Xiao Yuan Sangong ceded the entire territory of Lujiang and Jiujiang counties, compensated Xuzhou's military expenses, 5,000 kilograms of gold and silver, and compensated Xuzhou's army's food and grass for 300,000 hu of food and grass. The loss of the Huainan Army's three previous invasions to the five counties of Xuzhou. At the same time, Deputy Director Tao must not ask Xiao Yuan Sangong to pass the jade seal and be transferred from the Grand Yuan Sangong to present the emperor!

Xiao Yuansan, who was petty, publicly issued a harsh ceasefire conditions. The Xuzhou army unconditionally withdrew from Huainan and returned all the land and cities in Huainan that had been captured before. The Huainan army paid the Xuzhou army 50,000 hu of food and grass and 500 kilograms of gold and silver. As compensation for the previous infringement of Xuzhou land, the matter of the imperial seal was not negotiated with the Xuzhou army. The ownership and custody rights of the imperial seal were resolved by the brothers of Xiao Yuan San and the Great Yuan San.

Both sides had the idea of ​​asking for a lot of prices and landing to pay back the money. The first negotiations and conditions were very different. Of course, the first negotiations were fruitless and did not end well. There was no decision on when the second negotiations would be launched. In order to force Xiao Yuan Sangong to make substantial concessions at the negotiating table, after bribing Yuan Shao's envoy Xu You, who was envoy of Yuan Shao, to favor his own army, Deputy Director Tao ordered without hesitation to prepare for the attack, preparing to scare Xiao Yuan Sangong with Xiangyang cannons first, and then force Xiao Yuan Sangong back to the negotiating table. But at this moment, Song Kai came back with Liu Biaojun's reply......

"Twenty-hundred thousand hu of grain, three thousand kilograms of gold and silver? They beat the bamboo to attack the wrong place!" After hearing the conditions issued by Liu Pan and Huang She, Deputy Director Tao was immediately angry and waved and shouted: "Don't pay attention to them, let them go, and they don't have the courage to go to war with our army. When they force Yuan Shu to give up Lujiang first, then slowly deal with them."

Song Kai nodded hurriedly, and Chen Yingze next to him carefully reminded: "Lord, if our army completely ignores Liu Biao's army, if it angers Liu Biao's team and Yuan Shu bows to Liu Biao's army again in exchange for Liu Biao's army to go north to support Shucheng, then our army will be in a dilemma? If we don't fight, we can't force Yuan Shu to hand over the remaining land and city in Lujiang. If we fight, we will provoke the war between Xuzhou and Jingzhou, which is not conducive to our army's stabilization of Huainan and development of the navy."

"Don't worry about this." Deputy Director Tao replied confidently: "With Yuan Shao's support to our army, Liu Biao's old man didn't have the courage to go to Shucheng, and it would be enough for them to dare to go north to Shuyou to deal with them. Besides, Yuan Shu's ordinary man is not a fool. It is impossible to see that Liu Pan and Huang She are taking advantage of the situation to rob and rob. How could he tolerate the repeated blackmailings of Liu Biao's reinforcements?"

Seeing that Tao Ying was so confident, Chen Ying stopped saying anything, but just retreated honestly. Lu Su, the best strategic diplomacy in the Xuzhou army next to him, suggested: "My lord, in my opinion, lord might as well jump away from Liu Pan, Huang She contacted Liu Biao directly, explained various situations to Liu Biao, and also told Liu Jingsheng the unreasonable conditions issued by Liu Pan and Huang She, so that Liu Jingsheng could know the situation in Lujiang and the restraint and respect of our army for him. In this way, even if Liu Pan and Huang She repeatedly forced each other to deliberately create friction with our army and disrupt the situation, our army was forced to fight back. There was an explanation on Liu Biao's side, which also laid the foreshadowing of turning enemies into friends in the future."

"Zi Jing's words are very kind, just in my wish." Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction, then turned to Chen Ying next to him and ordered: "Yuan Fang, Liu Jingsheng was the most important family background. He liked to see people with a low profile, so it was not suitable for leaving this matter to Mr. Zhongming and Bei'an. How about you go to Jingzhou? First go to Shouchun to take a boat to go up the Huai River. Get off the boat to Pingchun and go straight west to Xiangyang. This will not only avoid the enemy's blockade, but also save a lot of time and distance." Chen Ying, who was a big family member of Xuzhou, agreed immediately. He prepared to go to Jingzhou overnight without mentioning his work.

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Xiao Yuan Sangong and his think tank are indeed not stupid, and they are smarter than Deputy Director Tao expected. So when Liu Pan and Huang She arrived in Shucheng to quarrel, Xiao Yuan Sangong, who had suffered a loss this time, said that he would not be fooled again. Not only was he not fooled, but he also snorted coldly in front of Liu Biao's envoy Chen Ju, "Do you still want to ask for money and food? Yes, as long as your army goes north to Shucheng and kills the Xuzhou bandit army back, you can discuss how much money and food you need."

Chen is Huang She's father Huang Zu's confidant general, and he is also considered a high-ranking and powerful general in Liu Biao's army. He is usually respected, so he is not restrained in front of the third Duke of Little Yuan. He said with a smile: "Mr. Yuan is not saying this. Without a grain team, he can't eat enough. How can our soldiers come to the north to kill the thieves? Please don't worry. As long as Yuan provides our army with another batch of food and supplies, our army will definitely go north to Shucheng and join forces with the army to resist the invasion of the bandit army in Xuzhou. A gentleman promises a thousand gold, and our army will never break his promise."

"Is it enough to eat 50,000 hu of grain?" Xiao Yuan San came without a fight, and roared as he patted the table: "You have only 20,000 troops in total, 50,000 hu of grain. Even if you follow the highest standards of border soldiers, two hu of grain per month, it is enough for you to use it for more than a month, but you still have the face to say that you can't eat enough? Your Jingzhou teams can eat like pigs?!"

Chen changed his face and snorted coldly: "Duke Yuan, our army has come to rescue thousands of miles away, but he has spoken humiliating words to our army. Is this the way of treating guests? If my lord knew that Mr. Yuan humiliated his allies so much, the consequences would be terrible..."

"It doesn't matter, just do whatever you want." Xiao Yuan Sangong, who was repeatedly deceived and defrauded by his allies, expressed his grief and gritted his teeth and said, "It's amazing that you collude with the Xuzhou thief army to attack Shucheng together. Come on, as long as you are not afraid of the world's shameless betrayal of your shameless betrayal in the face of battle, then come on, there is no worries about debt, no more lice, and no more itchy, and Gu doesn't care about another enemy. Come on, as long as you think Tao Ying traitor is more generous than Gu and can meet your shameless demands more, then come on."

Chen was not afraid and snorted coldly: "Mr. Yuan said this too much. My Jingzhou army is a benevolent and righteous army, and a gentleman. How can we do shameless things to turn against each other in the battle? But Mr. Yuan didn't blame me for not explaining it in advance. Mr. Yuan had promised that if our army sent troops to rescue, then all the money and food expenses would be borne by Mr. Yuan. But now Mr. Yuan refused to provide food and grass, and our army was about to lose food. In our army, some brave and fighting soldiers have already shouted for plundering Lujiang's food and grass supplies. Although General Liu and General Huang can still suppress it, if time has been long, the two cities of Juchao, Wan County, near Tongyang, can be......"

Chen said this, and he was already a naked threat. When he heard this, Xiao Yuan Sangong was naturally furious and jumped up and ordered the slaughter. Bo Yanxiang, the commander of the Huainan army who had been watching Chen's clown, suddenly lit his eyes and was reminded of a big thing by Chen! At that moment, Yan Xiang did not hesitate and quickly stood out of the train, and shook his neck to Xiao Yuan Sangong with a wink like he was wiping his neck, indicating that Xiao Yuan Sangong would be patient for the time being, and said respectfully to Chen: "General Shi, don't be angry. Our lord is also in a bad mood because of the recent unfavorable battle situation. He is quite angry in his words. Please don't care. This way, please go to the inn to rest for a while. After my lord discusses with everyone carefully, what will the general be satisfied with? Come, please ask General Shi to go down to rest and entertain him well."

Hearing Yan Xiang's words, Chen, who was responsible for extortion, did not refuse. He followed the guards to leave the Huainan Army's convention hall. As soon as Chen left, the three young master Yuan raised the case in front of him and roared at Yan Xiang: "What are you stopping me? This thief is so rude, and Gu wants to kill him to vent his anger. Why do you stop Yu Gu?!"

"Master, please calm down. Kill the clown like this, but killing him is just a smear of his sword out of thin air. It doesn't matter." Yan Xiang persuaded him well and said happily: "But thanks to the clown's reminder, the subordinates suddenly thought of a clown, which could make the Xuzhou bandit army and the Jingzhou bandit army turn against each other, raise arms and let our army reap profits and win the lead in the negotiations."

"What is Mr. Yan's trick? Tell me quickly." Xiao Yuan's third prince asked happily.

"This plan is divided into two steps." Yan Xiang lowered his voice and said quickly: "The first step is that the lord pretended to agree to the shameless blackmail of the bandit army in Jingzhou, and the excuse of the bandit army in Xuzhou besieging the city from all sides. The food and grass cannot be transported out, so he asked the bandit army in Jingzhou to take over Juchao and Wan County, and let them take the food and grass supplies in the city. He told the bandit army in Jingzhou that the two cities were very rich, and even if the money and grain in the city were not considered private food, it was enough for Jingzhou bandit army to use for more than two months. Liu Panhuang shot the two bandits in a greedy manner and would definitely agree."

The strategic fulcrum of Xiao Yuan’s three master in Lujiang is Shucheng, the capital of Lujiang County. He does not pay attention to Juchao and Wan County, and he will not feel too distressed even if he loses it. Therefore, Xiao Yuan’s three master did not question whether Yan Xiang’s plan was too big, but just asked: “How to go the second step?”

"Simple." Yan Xiang said quickly: "Although Wan County is located in a remote location, the people are quite rich. There is enough money and food. Both Xuzhou bandit army and Jingzhou bandit army will definitely not be despised. The Wan County garrison Li Shu is Liu Xun's confidant and is quite loyal to the lord. Wan County is located next to the Dabie Mountains and the terrain is dangerous. There are also 4,000 defenders in the city, so they can guard the city for a long time. The lord can send a quick horse to send a secret letter to him, ordering him to refuse to hand over Wan County to the lord's army in Jingzhou.

He sent someone to send the household registration and official seal and general signs of Wan County to the Tao Ying bandit army, saying that the Jingzhou bandit army was brutal and was very distressed. He only wanted to surrender Tao, but refused to surrender Liu, begging Tao Ying to send troops to take over the city of Wan County and save the people from water and fire. The Tao bandits would also inevitably send troops to Wan County. Two bandit troops met under the city of Wan County, and two tigers competed for the one in Wan County. How could there be no reason to do anything to join the fire? When the Tao Liu war started, wouldn’t our army be in a favorable position to watch the fire across the river and reap profits?”

"Wonderful!" The third prince of the little Yuan applauded and then woke up again, and quickly said, "Slowly, Mr. Yan, Tao Ying's traitor is more energetic than the monkeys on the mountain and more slippery than the foxes in the woods. If this strategy is discovered by him again, wouldn't our army be stolen again without losing rice?"

"Don't worry, this time, even if the traitors of Tao Ying see through the plans of their subordinates, they will definitely fall into the trap!" Yan Xiang also said gritting his teeth: "Lord, let Li Shu first spread the cruelty of the thief army in the Wan County, killing people, setting fires, robbing money and food, committing evil, doing all kinds of evil, intimidating the soldiers and civilians in the city, and then organizing local clans and famous clans to petition together, and even writing a blood letter begging Tao Ying traitors to send troops to save the people of Wan County! In this way, with the hypocrite Tao Ying's hypocrite's false kindness, even if he saw that Wan County was a huge trap, he had to jump in!"

The horizontal flesh on Xiao Yuan Sangong's face twitched a few times, and soon made up his mind and said gritting his teeth: "Okay! Just do that! Anyway, whether it is the Xuzhou bandit army or the Jingzhou bandit army to attack Wan County, our army cannot send troops to rescue Wan County. Instead of being taken away by the bandit army by force, it is better to use it as bait to make the two bandit army turn against each other! If successful, Li Shu can lead the army into Xuzhou bandit army and become our army's internal support, killing two birds with one stone!"

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After finalizing this extremely vicious plan for the second tiger to compete for food, the three Duke of Xiao Yuan, who had broken the can, immediately acted according to the plan. First, he summoned Chen Ju, the envoy of Jingzhou Army, and expressed his willingness to accept the extortion of Jingzhou troops in exchange for the Jingzhou army to reinforce Shucheng. Then, he also used the excuse that Xuzhou thieves were at the city and the food in Shuxian was unable to be transported out, so he proposed to give Juchao and the two cities of Wanxian to the Jingzhou team for the purpose of sending troops to the Jingzhou army. At the same time, in order to show his sincerity in the alliance, Xiao Yuan San Duke wrote an order on the spot, ordering Zhou Jian, the general of Juchao, and Li Shu, to lead the army to retreat to Ruxukou to meet with Chen Fen. Li Shu led the army to withdraw Shucheng and join the main force. The defense of the two cities was handed over to the Jingzhou army. He asked Chen to take this route back to Tongyang and hand it over to Liu Pan and Huang She to show sincerity for help.

After seeing the handwritten order of Xiao Yuan Sangong, Yan Xiang introduced the prosperity and wealth of Juchao and Wan County. Of course, Chen, the envoy of Jingzhou Army, was overjoyed, but Chen was not stupid. He also proposed that the Jingzhou army must wait until the Jingzhou army took over the second city of Juchao and Wan County, and the Jingzhou army could only send troops to Shucheng to help fight - otherwise the Jingzhou team would not be full or have no strength. Xiao Yuan Sangong pretended to be angry, but thankfully Yan Xiang repeatedly persuaded him, he reluctantly agreed and asked the Jingzhou army to take over the second city and immediately sent troops to Shucheng. Chen, who succeeded in black black, agreed. He also made a promise on behalf of Liu Pan, Huang She and Xiao Yuan Sangong wrote a covenant in white, silk and black, and then he said happily.

After Chen brought Xiao Yuan Sangong's handwritten order back to Tongyang, the greedy General Liu Pan and Huang She were of course ecstatic to learn about the situation. Without saying a word, they sent five thousand troops to take Xiao Yuan Sangong north to Juchao City, the nearest Juchao City. Zhou Jian, the guard general of the Huainan army, had already received Xiao Yuan Sangong's instructions to follow the order. Although he was unwilling to accept the order after seeing the order, he still opened the city gate with tears in his eyes to welcome the Jingzhou army into the city. He handed over Juchao City to the Jingzhou army, and he led more than a thousand defenders to move outside the city, preparing to go east to Ruxukou to meet Chen Fen.

In fact, there is no need for Xiao Yuan Sangong to order the commander of Wan County Li Shu to promote the brutality of the Jingzhou army. How could the Jingzhou army, who fought away, be polite to the people of Lujiang? Especially in a city like Juchao, which can only occupy a period of time and have to be returned, can the Jingzhou army still have a reason to be three feet tall when entering the city? Among them, Liu Pan's Changsha team was a little better, just because of the excuse that it was necessary to force money and grain from the people in the city. After Huang Xi entered the city, the Jiangxia army led by Huang Xi did everything evil as Yan Xiang described. Rape the women and rob money, grain, murder and arson, and arson, were all suffering. As a result, not only did the people in Juchao City suffer, but Zhou Jian, the former garrison who had moved outside the city, could not stand it and had a dispute and conflict with the Jingzhou army.

When the Jingzhou army was still doing evil in Juchaocheng, Li Shu, the commander of the Huainan Army Wan County, who was ordered to act, had already begun intimidation propaganda in Wan County, informing the atrocities of the Jingzhou army to the people in the city, and said in public that he would survive and die with the soldiers and people of Wan County. He would never hand over Wan County to the Jingzhou army that did everything, in exchange for the cheers of the people of Wan County and the support of the local gentry and family members of Wan County.

Immediately after the next day, Li Shu urgently summoned the representatives of the great clans of Wan County and showed them the order that Xiao Yuan Sangong asked him to hand over Wan County to the Jingzhou army. He said that he could not accept this life-threatening situation and was determined to fight against the Jingzhou army by force. At the same time, he sent an envoy to surrender to the Xuzhou army and presented the city household registration book and official seal card to the Xuzhou army in exchange for the Xuzhou army to send troops to rescue Wan County and take over Wan County. He asked the geniuses of Wan County to join him to write a letter to Xuzhou Tao Envoy, so as not to dare to trust the defenders of Wan County to surrender and refuse to send troops. In addition, Li Shu also pierced his arm in public and took his own blood as a book.

The gentry clans in Wan County are naturally connected with other gentry clans in Lujiang. They have long learned about the situation of the Xuzhou army from Zheng Bao, Xu Gan and other Lujiang tribes. They know that the Xuzhou army can protect the interests of local gentry and have been looking forward to Xuzhou for a long time. At this moment, they heard the cruelty of the Jingzhou army and were of course very moved to see Li Shu stabbing the blood. Not only did they immediately forget Li Shu's previous levy for the slaughter of Yuan Sangong and Liu Xun to help the evildoer for abuse, they also broke their signatures and wrote their own name on Li Shu's blood letter with his own blood, begging the envoy Tao to send troops to Wan County to save the people from water and fire, and save the people from danger. After all this was ready, General Li Shu immediately sent someone to bring the blood letter and the Wan County household registration book to the city, and rushed to Shucheng to ask for help from the Xuzhou army.

Wan County is more than 170 miles away from Shucheng, more than 70 miles away than Tongyang. So when the envoy sent by Wan County to surrender was still on the way, General Huang She of the Jingzhou Army could not wait to personally lead five thousand Jingzhou troops to the foot of Wan County, and presented Xiao Yuan Sangong's handwritten order, asking Li Shu to hand over to the Wan County city...

"The Jingzhou tyrant army is here! The Jingzhou tyrant army is here! The Jingzhou tyrant army is here———!"

Along with the shouts of shouting on the streets of Wan County, the streets and alleys of Wan County suddenly appeared in panic, among which the elegant house was located in the north of Wan County. After hearing the alarm, the owner of this house was to rush into his own kitchen. Regardless of the surprised gaze and inquiries of the servants at home, he grabbed an old iron pot beside the stove and rushed out of the kitchen. Then he rushed into his backyard and rushed to a carefully carved embroidery building. When the person was still going upstairs, he was already shouting hurriedly, "Jing'er, Wan'er, quickly apply the ash on the pot on your face, and then change into your old clothes. If the Jingzhou army enters the city, you will run with your father."

"No, it's so dirty."

"Dirty? Is it important to be dirty or your life? The Jingzhou rioters entered the city. If they see your appearance, then that's great? Quickly, apply it quickly."

"No, no, it's so dirty and ugly. Father, you have to apply the ash on your own face."

"Sister, don't be rude to my father. My father is also for our good. And my father, don't be so anxious. If the Jingzhou rioters enter the city, it will be too late for us to apply ash to the pot."

"Then I'll put this pot here. You two quickly change your old clothes. The simpler the better. If you hear the sound outside the city, immediately apply the ash on your face. Do you understand?"

"I understand, father, why are you more verbose than the aunt next door? Oh, by the way, dad, I heard that you also wrote a blood letter to ask the Tao envoy from Xuzhou to come to rescue Wan County. Is that true?"

"Well, I wrote it. By the way, let me tell you sisters, if the Xuzhou army enters the city, you have to apply ash on your face, so don't be careless."

"Why? Didn't the Xuzhou army come to save our Wan County?"

"Be careful. I heard from General Deng Dang, who was stationed here before, that the Taoist envoy in Xuzhou is not only as ugly as a pig, but also as erotic as a mouse, but also erotic and cruel. He even refused to let other people's wife go. If he lets him see your sisters... Alas, the world is in chaos today, why did your sisters grow like this?"
Chapter completed!