Although I had long expected that the war to attack Qingzhou would be easy and simple, it was actually simpler and easier than the senior leaders of the Xuzhou army expected. This Northern Expedition to Qingzhou was like a collective outing by the Xuzhou army.

There are three reasons why Deputy Director Tao and others felt this feeling. First, the combat effectiveness of the Northern Navy is too weak, the generals are weak, and the soldiers have serious lack of battlefield experience. The overall combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the Xuzhou army during the Tao Qian period.

A little worse than that - this also made Deputy Director Tao very confused. He didn't understand that Kong Rangli was so bold that he dared to bring such a flesh-feeling army to Xuzhou to fight against Boss Cao's Tiger and Wolf Army?

The second reason is that the main force of the Beihai has been destroyed. According to the explanation of the Beihai prisoners captured on the battlefield, because the main force has been sent to the plain to reinforce Tian Kai and has been destroyed, Kong Rong spent a lot of effort to fight to the west.

More than 10,000 troops were gathered and handed over to the beloved general Zong Fang to bring the counties to resist the northern invasion of Xuzhou's army. The target cities of Xuzhou army behind the counties were already temporarily recruited by using three or two buns of steamed buns.

The new recruits acted as cannon fodder in battle, and the elite backbones were all local township soldiers in various counties and cities. This shows how embarrassing the troops in Kong Rangli's hands were.

The third reason is Kong Rangli's tactical decision-making mistakes. Even the old and young foxes who are so cunning and good at understanding people's hearts cannot understand. When the main force is destroyed and the troops are short of strength, Kong

Why did the team of Zangli have the courage to go out of the city to fight? Send the precious troops that are not left to the field battlefield, and let the Xuzhou army, which has already advanced by leaps and bounds, wantonly massacre and torture it? What made Deputy Director Tao and others even more amused and cry,

According to the prisoners' confession, the one who prompted General Zong Fang to lead his army out of the city to fight was actually the order from Kong Rangli himself, requiring Zong Fang not to defend the city and lose the face of the Northern Navy. He asked Zong Fang to take the initiative to fight the prestige and unyielding fighting spirit of the Northern Navy.

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"Chen Yuanlong is really capable of knowing people. Kong Wenju is indeed a stubborn and arrogant person. It seems that several wars are inevitable in the Beihai area of ​​Qingzhou."

With such lament, our Deputy Director Tao quickly arranged the siege to attack Zhuxian. However, the Beihai defenders in Zhuxian did not give Xuzhou troops the opportunity to exercise their siege ability. The night when Zong Fang was killed.

The county garrison abandoned the city and fled under the leadership of Zong Fang's deputy Yu Miao. He also fled wisely to Donglai, which was not in the Xuzhou army's march route. Chen Ci, the county magistrate, had no choice but to open the city.

The gate surrendered to the Xuzhou army. Deputy Director Tao accepted the surrender and asked Chen Ci to continue to serve as the county magistrate of various counties. He also divided his troops to pursue Yu Miao and tried not to weaken the team as much as possible.

The counties surrendered, and the Beihai gateway opened. The Xuzhou army, with great strength, advanced rapidly, conquering the four cities of Pingchang, Gumu, Chang'an and Anqiu. Wherever the troops went, the Beihai defenders did not just open the city and surrender.

It was trampled into powder and was unable to stop the progress of the Xuzhou army, which allowed the Xuzhou army to come to Yingling City in less than half a month. The forward sentry and provocation arrived at Pingshou City, an important town in Beihai, and the entire Beihai county.

Shocked. Countless military and civilians surrendered. Snowflakes from various counties and cities flew into the Xuzhou army like snowflakes, and half of the North Sea fell instantly.

What really blocked the progress of Xuzhou's army were actually the hungry people and refugees in Qingzhou. Although Beihai County is the richest county in Qingzhou, there are too many refugees and hungry people in Qingzhou, so many are simply for the Qingzhou government.

Even if there are endless suppression and endless killing, there are more people who are calling for attack from the surrounding princes. Whenever these hungry people in Qingzhou show signs of wandering to other states, whether it is Gongsun Zan, Da Yuan San Gong, Cao Da and Lao Lao

Tao Qian all sent heavy troops to intercept and expel them, for fear that these hungry people would flock to their own territory and disrupt their rule. Later, after Cao Laoda changed his suppression to pacification, he led Qingzhou soldiers to Xuzhou and killed people and set fire.

At that time, one of the key reasons why the Qingzhou soldiers slaughtered dozens of cities viciously and brutally was that the Xuzhou army did not give them food before, and drove them back to Qingzhou, a poor nest, to endure hunger, so they would be hungry whenever they had the chance.

Then he took revenge.

Deputy Director Tao is not a person who likes to hold grudges - because Deputy Director Tao will avenge him immediately. At the same time, the Qingzhou soldiers who massacred the innocent people of Xuzhou are still under the command of Cao, and have nothing to do with these hungry people in Qingzhou.

In addition, Deputy Director Tao has long been interested in organizing these hungry refugees. The southern part of Xuzhou, which is still vast and sparsely populated, will develop the Huaihe River Basin, which will surely be rich in the world in the future. For this reason, he specially brought Han Hao, the prime minister of Guangling, recommended by Chen Deng, to

In the army, he was appointed as the Diannong Commander, and he was responsible for recruiting and organizing these refugees to go south to Guangling and settle down in the Huaihe River Basin. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao rewarded all the hungry refugees who came to join the Xuzhou army.

Drinking a bowl of rice soup, most of the seized food and grass was used on these hungry refugees.

Deputy Director Tao quickly regretted his kindness decision. When he heard the news that the army had to join Xuzhou had a meal, the hungry refugees in the southern North Sea were almost crazy, and their rush to leave had already become a ruined home.

The bark and grass roots were digging all the way, and the tide rushed to the Xuzhou army. They could even have food to eat and let them do whatever they wanted. There were even many bandits who had been killed by Kong Rangli to Xuzhou.

The army invited surrender and volunteered to lead the way to the party and the cannon fodder in siege, hoping to have a meal and take the opportunity to avenge the past.

The number of people in Qingzhou who came spontaneously to join the Xuzhou army was so large that the hungry and refugees were so scared that Deputy Director Tao, who had a long logistics route, had to choose to forget the humanitarian spirit, and changed the whole to selective surrender, only choosing

The most useful thing is to recruit young and strong men and women, while the elderly and weak turn a blind eye to them. But even so, Han Hao's team, who was responsible for pursuing hungry refugees, was still crowded with people at any time, crying and begging, and there were still hungry refugees rushing in endlessly.

Come on, Deputy Director Tao forced Han Hao to temporarily set a temporary relief restriction of 60,000 people, so as not to recruit too many refugees and hungry people. After reaching the hinterland of Xuzhou, it not only failed to effectively develop the Huaihe River Basin, but also became the fifth Xuzhou.

The fate of chaos in the county.

It was also thanks to these hungry refugees who were once hated to the core that Kong Rangli won a little breathing time. He waited for the reply of his ally Tian Kai's request for help. However, Tian Kai, who had already been destroyed, was almost defeated and returned to Linzi City.

Where can I use strength to reinforce allies? So Tian Kai could only say helplessly in his letter to Kong Rangli, "Old man, I am now unable to protect myself. So you are asking for more blessings.

.Or it really doesn't work, you might as well surrender to the Tao Envoy. Your life is better than me. Your Tao Envoy has a good character and has received our kindness. If you surrender to your wealth, life, wealth and honor, you will definitely have no problem, but I don't.

You are so lucky. Yuan Shao is my mortal enemy for many years."

Of course, Kong Rangli had considered surrendering to the Xuzhou army. Zuo Chengzu, an important official from Beihai, also urged Kong Rangli to surrender honestly to Deputy Director Tao, which could not only save his family and life, but also prevent the people under his rule from the war. Unfortunately, he could not only save his family and life, but also prevent the people under his rule from being poisoned by the war.

Kong Rangli suddenly became stubborn and arrogant again. Not only did the guards kill Zuo Chengzu on the spot, but he also threw down such a crazy saying, "I am a Han minister and abide by the territory for the emperor, and shepherd all the people, even if I die.

Never bow to the gangsters of the chaotic country! He insulted the innocent reputation of the sages and ancestors of the Kong family! From now on, if anyone surrenders, Zuo Chengzu will be his fate!"

Kong Rangli's ideal is very full, but unfortunately the reality is very slim. Within one day after the third day of Zuo Chengzu, two bad news came from Yingling and Pingshou cities. The first bad news was Ying.

The Ling was broken, and once blocked the Xuzhou army from heading north, allowing Kong Rangli to ignite a glimmer of hope. In front of the main force of Xuzhou who officially launched the siege of the city, he only persisted for half a day and was attacked by the sharp Xuzhou army.

Zhao Zuo was chopped into meat paste by Xuzhou camp, and Yingling ordered Zheng Yuan to surrender.

This is not over yet, what makes Kong Rangli even more desperate and angry is that he promoted the Pingshou Order, the famous Beihai scholar, Binghara Binge Genju, had already been guarding the village before the Xuzhou army arrived in Pingshou.

Liu Zhengyi's uprising was first put into Deputy Director Tao's warm and broad embrace. That's not all. After the rebellion, Bing Yuan actually had the face to write to Kong Rangli, claiming that he was for the sake of the thousands of people in Pingshou City.

Thinking of the surname, he chose to surrender to Deputy Director Tao, who was gentlemanly. He even shamelessly persuaded Kong Rangli to follow his example, opened the gate of Juxian earlier and led the military and civilians in the city to surrender to Deputy Director Tao, the righteous gentleman.

Looking at Kong Ringli with a frown and thunderous look, the Qingliu famous scholars who had finally invited in Beihai lobby were out of normalcy and no longer talked about it, criticized current problems or adjusted the wind and moon, and recited poems.

Fu, all of which were silent with a lost parents expression, were just thinking about whether the Xuzhou army could accept its surrender after the county was destroyed? After surrendering to Deputy Director Tao, can we get rich and prosperous from Deputy Director Tao?

A horse in a slept?

Just at this moment, the manager of Kong Rangli's mansion tiptoed into the lobby, handed a post to Kong Rangli, and whispered carefully: "Master, Mr. Gongyou is here, this is his.

Ask for a message."

"Mr. Gongyou? That Mr. Gongyou?" Kong, who was angry, was stunned for a moment, and he didn't remember anyone's impression.

"Mr. Sun Qian and Sun Gongyou, who used to come to the mansion to smell the fragrance and drink with the master." The manager reminded in a low voice.

"I remembered it!" Kong Rangli slapped her forehead suddenly and said in surprise: "Didn't Sun Gongyou go to assist Liu Xuande? Why did you remember to visit my old friend in Beihai again? Please, please, oh no, old friend

Come far away, I will go to welcome Sun Gongyou in person! All the dukes, Sun Qian and Sun Gongyou, who are always gentlemen, are here, and you will come with Rong to welcome him."

Kong Rangli finally received a group of famous scholars who had been recruited and quickly stood up. Follow Kong Rangli to the door to welcome Mr. Sun Qian and Sun Gongyou, who are still very famous in Beihai. When he arrived outside the door, he saw it.

Mr. Sun Qian, who liked to come here to talk to Kong Rangli before joining Uncle Liu, was indeed outside the door, and was smiling at the situation of Kong Rangli's mansion that he had been away from for a long time. Kong Rangli was overjoyed and quickly led a group of Beihai.

The famous scholar came forward to salute, told Sun Qian that he had a farewell to each other, and repeatedly expressed his condolences and concerns.

How troublesome is the red tape and discussion between the famous scholars of Qingliu? I will not waste the number of words here to introduce them one by one. In short, Kong Rianli and Mr. Sun Gan were struggling outside the door for half an hour before he remembered to join hands. Entering the mansion, and then in order to sit down in the conference lobby or meet in Xinglinyuan, Kong Rangli argued with Mr. Sun Gan for more than ten minutes. Sure enough, it was decided to talk in the lobby because Mr. Sun Gan said that he had something to do. After getting to the lobby, he argued about the order of seats for more than a moment. In the end, it took more than an hour to delay. Kong Rangli and Mr. Sun Gan and his group sat down separately and began to turn their words to the point.

"Report to the Prime Minister, Gan came to Qingzhou with Duke Xuande." After the topic came to the main point, Sun Gan stopped talking and said straight to the point: "The emperor issued a clear edict to ask my lord Liu Xuande to follow Duke Cao. The troops sent to Qingzhou to attack Tian Kai. Although my lord Xuande Gong thought of his old love, he could not bear to meet with his former friend Tian Envoy and the prime minister of Confucius. Unfortunately, the emperor's edict should not be violated. The violation is to resist the order and rebellion. He cannot follow this. General Cao Ren came to Qingzhou and asked Prime Minister Kong to forgive him if he offended him."

All the famous scholars present closed their mouths and kept silent. Kong Rangli pursed his lips and sighed for a long time: "It's okay, don't talk about Liu Xuande, Tao Mingwu has received the grace of Rong to save his life, but he has brought his bandits with him. He revenges for his kindness, and he is more cruel than anyone else's action. He took away seven cities in the North Sea in more than half a month."

After sighing, Kong Rangli even started to recite a new poem about her feelings and published her new work, and slowly chanted: "Send a new guest from afar, and come back after the end of the year. When you enter the door, you will look forward to your beloved son, and your wife and concubine will be sad for others. You will not see your son. The sun is already shining with glory. The lonely grave is in the northwest. I always think that you are late. I wear my clothes and go up the hills, but I see artemisia and Weiwei. The bones return to the yellow spring, and my body fly with dust. I don’t know my father when I was born, and I know who I am after I die. The lonely soul travels to the end of the evening, and is swaying and resting. Life is about to rest, and I will die and pursue it. I feel sad and unconsciously tears are wet. Life has its own destiny. But I hate my birthday..."

When he chanted in the emotional place, it was actually Kong, whose heart and gallbladder had long been broken, and his voice was choked, and tears flashed in his eyes. Kong Ring Li recruited a large group of celebrities who were also wiped away their tears. He accompanied his parents, including food and clothing. Mr. Sun Gan, who had been with the uncle Liu for a long time, also sighed, but his heart began to be secretly happy, "Okay, Mr. Zhongde has been predicted by Mr. Zhongde. Kong Wenju really hates Tao Ying traitors even more."

Finally, Kong Ringli was over and he recovered a little. Mr. Sun Gan hurriedly comforted Kong Ringli with a few words, and asked curiously: "Just just when Gan entered the city, he saw that there were old people everywhere outside the city. The people who took refuge with their children, dare to ask the Prime Minister, where has Tao Mingwu been fighting? How far is it from the county town of this opera?"

Kong Rangli was silent again. Wang Xiu, who was familiar with Mr. Sun Gan, replied in favor of Kong Rangli: "I will not hide it from Gongyou. I received the news in the afternoon. Pingshou's ginger and Liu Zheng were ungrateful to the master. The Tao Ying traitor shamelessly surrendered to the Tao Ying traitor, and the Tao traitor's vanguard had already arrived in Pingshou. It was less than forty miles away from Ju County. I am afraid that the Tao trait's army will be at the foot of Ju County in the next two days."

"This... so fast?" Sun Gan's face finally changed, and he said tremblingly: "The soldiers from the pottery thieves came out of Pengcheng on May 15th. Today is June 14th, and the pottery thieves' army has already taken it. Pingshou, is approaching within forty miles of Ju County?!"

This time Wang Xiu was speechless, Kong Rangli sighed: "I only regret that sect Fang, Yu Miao and others are incompetent, and Bing Yuan and Liu Zheng are shameless, so that Tao Ying's traitors will advance so quickly. If I had known today, I would have been ….Oh, I regret it, I regret it."

"The person who regrets you is not alone, you are not alone in Wen Jugong. There are more people who regret it than you, so you are content with Wen Jugong."

Thinking of the gritting teeth and regrets that Boss Cao and Uncle Liu mentioned Deputy Director Tao every time, Mr. Sun Gan couldn't help but comfort his old friend in his heart and asked again: "If you do this, then you will be brave enough to ask the Prime Minister. , What should the Prime Minister do when the Tao Ying traitors come to the city?"

"What else can it be?" Kong Rangli smiled bitterly and said bitterly: "Rong has been blessed with the country for a long time, and has been ate the Han people in the world. When the rioters who have been kind to repay their enemies are coming to the city, Rong can only personally put on the battle and raise the troops. Fight with him to the death, and serve the country's kindness, and live up to the common people."

"Mr. Wen Ju's words are wrong." Sun Gan shook his head and said seriously: "If Mr. Wen Ju thinks this way, it would be a big mistake! The Taoist thief is cruel and has many minions under his command. The Xuzhou thief army recruits surrender. The rebellion successively absorbed the Yellow Turbans of Yuzhou, Bingzhou Lu Bu, Xiliang Dong Zhuo and other jackal troops. Their military strength has already advanced by leaps and bounds. Now it is not the same as before. Even if Wen Jugong raises the army of Juxian, the decisive battle with it, it will be a lot of luck and good fortune. No chance - If Wen Jugong was in trouble on the battlefield, wouldn’t the people of Ju County and the thousands of creatures in the North Sea be allowed to be harmed and poisoned by the Xuzhou thieves? If this is true, how could Wen Jugong be regarded as serving the country’s kindness , will the people be defeated?"

In fact, Kong Rangli, who had no courage to lead the army to fight against Deputy Director Tao, hesitated for a moment, took the opportunity to go down the steps and nodded, and said, "Sun Gongyou taught me the lesson, it was wrong, but the Tao bandits were sharp, Even if you keep the city closed and defend it, you may not be able to escape from the city and die.”

"Don't worry about Wen Ju Gong. Gan has a plan. If he follows the plan, he will definitely let the thief stop his hands and dare not peek at the opera city in front of his eyes." Sun Gan took the opportunity to say.

"What is Gongyou's trick? Please come quickly." Kong Rangli asked happily.

"It's very simple. Please surrender to Duke Wen Ju to Cao and present the city of Ju County to Duke Cao."

Sun Gan's answer made Kong Rangli's face change color, and also made Kong Rangli take a photo of the desk on the spot, and said furiously: "Good you Sun Gongyou, I treat you with courtesy because you are an old friend. , I don’t expect that you are here to act as a lobbyist for the thief of Cao, and want me to do the unkind and unrighteous act of betraying the country and forgetting the king? You are so brave!"

"Mr. Wen Ju misunderstood." Sun Gan said with no fear at all, "Here is not to persuade Mr. Wen Ju to surrender to Cao, but to ask Mr. Wen Ju to surrender to Han."

"Please persuade me to surrender to the Han Dynasty?" Kong Rangli was stunned.

"No," Sun Gan nodded and said with a smile: "The emperor moved the capital to Xuchang, and appointed Cao Gong Meng De as prime minister, and appointed wise ministers as prime ministers. The king and his ministers were in charge of political affairs. As a Han minister, isn't it equivalent to surrendering to Cao? After surrendering to the Han Dynasty, Jucheng took the name of Cao Gong, which was the city where Cao Gong ruled. Tao Ying was a traitor who was a Han minister and an ally of Cao Gong to attack Qingzhou. How could he dare to attack Jucheng again? Wait for Cao Ren again The general's army was at the foot of the county town. Wen Ju openly welcomed the Han Dynasty soldiers into the city. He then went to Xuchang with General Cao Ren to meet the emperor and asked for rewards and honors. All the king and his ministers were righteous. Wouldn't he repay the emperor's kindness? He also protected him. The people in this county are all over the city?”

Although Kong Rangli was pedantic, Kong Rangli could still hear Sun Gan’s implicit voice. Sun Gan’s words were so loud that he would rather hand over Ju County to Boss Cao than let Deputy Director Tao take over the revenge of his grudge. Let’s go, even if the Ju County is in the end, you can still feel disgusted with Deputy Director Tao before the loss. Let Deputy Director Tao watch the mountains of money and grain piled up in the Beihai County base camp, and drool, and dare not take action to grab these. The money and grain belonging to allies. So after understanding this implicit meaning, I actually hated Deputy Director Tao's Kong, who was even more aware of the fact that Li was inevitably moved and began to shake.

After hesitating for a long time, Kong Rangli hesitated and asked: "I surrendered to Cao... After I surrendered to Han, the Tao Ying traitor really dare not peek at Juxian?"

"Duke Wen Ju, please rest assured. The Tao thief does not have the courage to destroy the alliance between Cao Yuan and Tao and provoke the war in Cao Tao." Sun Gan nodded and said with a smile: "To be hiding Wen Ju, General Cao Ren is actually in front of Yuan Shao." After being asked for the mission to block the reinforcements of the Beihai Sea and attack Ju County, not only will General Cao Ren lead his army to Ju County personally, but Mr. Yuan Tan, who is kind to Cao Gong, will also lead his army to the city of Ju County. As long as Wen Ju Gong leads Ju The soldiers and civilians in the county surrendered to Cao Gong. Even if Tao Ying had a hundred courages, he would not dare to move every grass and tree in the Jucheng!"

Smiling, Sun Gan took out a letter from his arms and smiled again and said, "What offended Wen Jugong is that in order to help Wen Jugong resist the army of pottery thieves, he forced the pottery thieves to stop in Ju County. General Cao Ren and Mr. Cheng Yu has written a letter to the Tao Ying traitor with his reputation as a friendly army, explaining that Wen Jugong has led the military and civilians in Juxian to surrender to Cao Gong, and requires Tao traitors to fulfill the alliance of the three families and not to infringe on the city of Juxian. A tree of grass! If Wen Jugong is willing, he just needs to send someone to send this letter to the Xuzhou army to communicate with the Taoist thieves, and then use the Cao Gong flag on the Juxian County. The Juxian County and the people in the city can be as safe as possible Mount Tai is here.”

Kong Rangli was moved and his expression became even hesitant. He still sighed on the mat and couldn't make up his mind.

Sun Gan looked at the words and expressions. Seeing that the fire had arrived, he started to incite, "Duke Wen Ju, has he forgotten the kindness of the rescue of Xuzhou? He also forgot the incident of the Tao thief expelling the recommended person from Xuzhou? The Tao thief repays his grudges for his grudges. Yuan Benchu ​​raided arbitrarily to annex Qingzhou, but Cao Gong was forced to send troops to Qingzhou to repay the kindness of Yuan Gong in the past. Is it impossible to tell which one is better or worse?!"
Chapter completed!