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First, because the main force of Mr. Yuan Tan's team, Jizhou Iron Cavalry, has been severely damaged, and second, Boss Cao has also started to take action.

Because the eldest son was held by Deputy Director Tao, after receiving the letter of help from Deputy Director Tao, Boss Cao did not hesitate too much. He almost decided to send troops to help Deputy Director Tao on the spot, and also consolidated the newly released Tao Cao iron-core alliance. However, Boss Cao would not foolishly cross the Yellow River and directly attack Yuan Sangong's old nest Yecheng. Instead, he chose to send Xiahou Dun to send troops from Juancheng and take Jibei to attack Licheng Qingzhou. He ordered Lu Qian to station troops on Laiwu to threaten Yuan Tan's base Linzi City, and indirectly reduce the pressure on Deputy Director Tao on the battlefield of Langya from the side.

It was also coincidental. On the day when Mr. Yuan Tan was captured, the news that Mr. Cao's team attacked Qingzhou from two groups happened to be sent to the main camp of Yuan Tan's army under Ju County, which led to Chunyu Qiong, Guo Tu and others being forced to give up their plan to rescue Mr. Yuan Tan by force. They withdraw troops and return to Zhuxian County immediately, and prepare to return to Qingzhou at any time, and avoid the misfortune of being attacked by Tao and Cao's army. At the same time, of course, messengers must be sent to Yecheng to report the message and ask the Grand Duke of Yuan San to tell the next action.

"Young Master Ai, you are really a young master Ai. This time, even if you can come back alive, you will never want to let your lord be the legitimate wife in this life." This is also the lament that Mr. Guo Tu persuaded Chunyu Qiong to withdraw his troops from the counties after he persuaded Chunyu Qiong to retreat to the county.

"What should I exchange my brother-in-law for my father-in-law?"

This question is of course the thought of the filial son-in-law Deputy Director Tao at the moment. Before the battle of Langya began, the main force was all on the northern line to maintain energy and maintain strength for a long time, facing the Jizhou partial teacher led by Yuan Tan, led by Yuan Tan, who was basically sure to win. He had imagined to capture the annoying brother-in-law Yuan Tan on the battlefield. However, when he really captured the brother-in-law's good card, Deputy Director Tao realized that he was not prepared and had never considered how to maximize the benefits of this good card and how to use this card to fight for the most political and practical benefits for himself.

"Call Yuan Shao to exchange thousands of good horses for his son, and then ask Yuan Shao to compensate our Langya County for the war losses!"

This is of course the unanimous suggestions of many Xuzhou generals. In recent years, although the Grand Duke of Yuan has indeed relaxed the war horse trade to the Xuzhou army, the price is outrageously high. Even the Xuzhou army with abundant money and food often shouts that it is hard to bear it. The war horses purchased at high prices are already very little left except for generals and scouts riding, which seriously delayed the construction of the cavalry team of the Xuzhou army, which has caused the Xuzhou army to have no decent cavalry team so far except for the Gentleman Army, which is seriously serious. This will finally catch a good opportunity to extort free war horses. The fierce generals under Deputy Director Tao will naturally not be polite.

The suggestion of the generals of Xuzhou was of course strongly opposed by the army's counselor Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye, and they advised them together: "Lord, you must not act so rudely. Yuan Benchu ​​is stubborn and arrogant, short-lived, cherishes his life and makes small profits, and is short-sighted, and comes from a family of three officials of the four generations. He attaches great importance to reputation and reputation. If the lord uses Yuan Tan as a charity, he will not only be destined to be difficult to succeed, but may also cause great disasters, but may even attract Yuan Benchu ​​to attack our army with all his troops."

In addition, Liu Ye advised Deputy Director Tao: "Lord, Yuan Benchu ​​is in power in Hebei, with many soldiers and generals, abundant money and food, and strong soldiers. Our army is far better than being enemies with him. It is better to send Yuan Tan back to Yuan Benchu, take this opportunity to ease the conflict with him, rebuild the old and form alliances again, and then make the best strategy."

Deputy Director Tao was a little moved and said hesitantly: "I had this intention for a long time, but considering that this move was too weak, if my father-in-law thinks that I am weak and can be bullied, it may be counterproductive to me step by step, so..." Speaking of this, Deputy Director Tao shook his head again and continued to hesitate.

"Lord, cut Yuan Tan's wife with one knife!" The person who made this amazing suggestion was our heartthrob Yang Hong and Yang Changshi. This time, in order to prevent it, Deputy Director Tao brought our Yang Changshi to the Langya Army to listen to it. As a result, we, Yang Changshi, remembered that he was almost pushed to the court by Mr. Yuan Tan in Jizhou, and was immediately angry and took the opportunity to avenge his private revenge and put forward this vicious suggestion (the full text novel is updated the fastest

The result was very natural, and Yang Changshi's suggestion certainly attracted a lot of boos. Not to mention that Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye rolled their eyes at Yang Changshi, even the generals of Xuzhou who were holding swords and stabbing people all day long started to yell, "Mr. Zhongming, what are you kidding? Just killing Yuan Tan's man with just one knife. Wouldn't this man and Yuan Shao be too cheap?"

"I'm not kidding," Yang Changshi shook his head and said unexpectedly: "Lord, my subordinates suggest that Yuan Tanpu beheading Yuan Tanpu's head and then send Yuan Tanpu's head to Xuchangxian and Cao Cao, making Yuan Benchu ​​think that we were in charge of Yuan Tan. In this way, Yuan Benchu ​​would not hate us but only hate Cao Cao. Even if Yuan Benchu ​​sent troops to retaliate, he would first revenge Cao Cao and then revenge us. Yuan Cao attacked each other. Wouldn't our army take advantage of the profit?"

Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye's eyes lit up. They both felt that although Yang Changshi's plan was rough, it might not be successful if it was slightly modified. I never thought that our Deputy Director Tao shook his head firmly and said, "No, this plan is too easy to crack. If I were Cao Cao, I would just carve a piece of agarwood for Yuan Tan and be buried with the courtesy of a minister. Then my father-in-law would not hate Cao Cao and he would only hate us. Maybe he would also mix Cao Cao and his father-in-law together and work together to deal with us."

"Is that?" Yang Changshi was disappointed and encouraged him unwillingly: "But lord, Yuan Tan's husband was originally irreconcilable with our army. This time he suffered such a big loss and seriously injured his shameful body. It was equivalent to giving him a double shame and humiliation. With this gentleman's temper, he let him go back to Jizhou. He will definitely try every means to revenge us in the future."

Yang Changshi's fanning of the flames still didn't work, because Deputy Director Tao had known for a long time that even if he put Yuan Tan back to Jizhou, Yuan Tan would not be grateful and would definitely hold a grudge against him even more. However, Deputy Director Tao was not afraid of Yuan Tan's revenge. The only thing that Deputy Director Tao had made in trouble now was how to use Yuan Tan's good card to seek the greatest benefit for himself, and not completely defeat Yuan Sangong.

Having habitually played with a command arrow for a long time, Deputy Director Tao suddenly had this idea and asked the civil and military officials in front of him: "Don't you think my father-in-law is too strong? He lives in the four states, has hundreds of thousands of armored men, strong soldiers and horses, and has sufficient food and grass. He is also born in the family of the three kings of the four generations. His disciples and old friends are all over the world. Is this strength too strong? "

The civil and military officials present at Xuzhou looked at each other, not understanding why Deputy Director Tao asked this mentally retarded question. He didn't know how to answer Deputy Director Tao for a while, but he also thought about asking: "Suppose, I'm talking about the assumption. Assuming that our army alliance with Cao Cao continues, we can truly achieve closeness and work together. Then when the father-in-law eliminates Gongsun Zan and returns to the south, we join forces with Cao Cao to resist the father-in-law. Who has the advantage of both sides?"

This time someone finally answered. Liu Ye, who is good at intelligence analysis, replied respectfully: "Lord, Benchu ​​Gong is still the dominant. Although our army and Cao Cao have two prefectures and many places, Cao Cao's Yanzhou was damaged by the war and the people's livelihood was too great, and the food and grass were in short supply, and the population was less than two or three before. Although our army was much better than Cao Cao in terms of money and food population, the quality of our army's soldiers was not as good as Cao Cao, and our army's control area was narrow and long, and the strength was difficult to concentrate at one point. The northern line was very lacking and it was necessary to guard it, so it was very difficult for our army to fight on the northern line."

"The situation of Benchugong is different. First, he has land in four states, and his population, money and food are more than our army and Cao's army combined. Second, Benchugong has a stable source of war horses, and it is easy to form powerful cavalry; third, Benchugong's carefreeness is not as good as our army and Cao's army, and there are more or less problems and hidden dangers in the rear, so even if our army and Cao's army really work together and have no suspicion, when the war begins in full swing, its overall strength is still far inferior to Benchugong."

"Ask another question," Deputy Director Tao asked again: "When our army joins forces with Cao's army, or our army fights against Jizhou army alone, if my father-in-law does not make a fatal mistake, who has a greater chance of winning?"

"Why should you ask me knowingly?" Liu Ye replied with a wry smile: "All the teams of our army have been barely enough to reach 100,000 people. Most of the troops are not as good as the Jizhou army, and they cannot all be invested in the northern battlefield. Cao Cao likes to be powerful and powerful. The army has about 150,000 or 100,000 troops, but the elite troops who can truly be sent to the northern battlefield, less than 50,000 troops can easily mobilize tens of thousands or even 200,000 to 300,000 elite troops to move south. The difference in strength and weakness is huge. As long as Ben Chugong does not make fatal mistakes, our army will have a small chance of winning, whether it is joining forces with Cao Cao or alone against Ben Chugong, the chance of winning is small... and it is not very big."

"It was Ai, if his father-in-law did not make the mistake of Wuchao in history, he would have been burping in Guandu for a long time." Deputy Director Tao thought to himself, "Also, even if his father-in-law was wiped out in Guandu, the whole army in history was wiped out, and within a year, he had gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in Cangting and the big brother Cao. Cao also relied on the death battle of the water and ambushing on all sides to win the battle of Cangting again. Even so, after Cangting suffered a crushing defeat, the overall strength of the remaining army of the father-in-law was still above Cao. If it weren't for his father-in-law's own unconsciousness, he would have died of illness, and if Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were not bothered and injured, he would have suffered both defeats, and Cao might not have been able to take Hebei."

After thinking about this, Deputy Director Tao suddenly asked another more mentally retarded question, "The last question is, how old is my father-in-law Benchu ​​Gong??"

"This..." Liu Ye was stunned by Deputy Director Tao's question, but Jia Lao's poisonous substance on the side said: "Mr. Benchu ​​is two years older than Meng De, and this year is forty-five."

Deputy Director Tao nodded, suddenly sat upright and said, "I decided to send an envoy to Jizhou to ask for peace with my father-in-law. As long as my father-in-law agrees to me, I will immediately return Yuan Tan with both hands and once again bear the punishment of tiredness to my father-in-law."

"Dare you ask your lord, those two conditions?" Liu Ye asked tentatively.

"The first condition is to ask my father-in-law to depose the eldest son and establish the Xian, and to appoint the third son as the legitimate son." Deputy Director Tao said without blinking: "The second condition is to ask my father-in-law to remove the governor of Qingzhou, transfer Yuan Tan back to Jizhou, and select another virtuous person to serve as the governor of Qingzhou and the governor of Qingzhou."

"What? That's so simple?" All the generals of Xuzhou present jumped up.

"Master, this is unlikely?" Liu Ye also screamed, "Benchu ​​is fair and young, how can he establish a legitimate son now? Besides, although you are Benchu's son-in-law, you are the Yuan family affairs of Yuan Benchu. The lord will definitely be furious when he intervenes in Benchu's rashly."

"People generals, don't be anxious." Deputy Director Tao smiled at the Xuzhou generals present and said, "Have you ever heard of the saying of fishing big fish with long lines? The third young master Yuan Shang is my wife's brother-in-law and has the most intimate relationship. You also know his attitude towards our Xuzhou army. I support him as the legitimate son of Yuan this time. Will he be grateful to us in the future? In this way, isn't it better than forcibly extortion?"

After hearing Deputy Director Tao's explanation, he remembered that Mr. Yuan's third son Yuan nodded to the Xuzhou team indeed good, and no longer opposed Deputy Director Tao's decision to appease the arrogant generals under his command. Deputy Director Tao turned to Liu Ye next to him and said with a smile: "Mr. Ziyang's words are wrong, and he is half a son. As the son-in-law of the Yuan family, I am the son-in-law and my father-in-law chose to establish the later leader of the Yuan family. How can I not be qualified to express my opinions?"

"But……"

Liu Ye, who was not as cunning as Deputy Director Tao, wanted to dissuade him again, but the poisonous Jia next to him suddenly chuckled and said, "Why are Mr. Ziyang worried about it? When did our lord have any trouble with such a problem?"

"The lord has a back?" Liu Ye felt a stern in his heart. He saw that Deputy Director Tao and Lao Jia were both smiling very gently and kindly - exactly the same as when he was about to cheat and harm others. Liu Ye suddenly realized in his heart. He quickly smiled and retreated, thanked Lao Jia, "Thank you, Mr. Wenhe, for your advice, it seems that Ye will have to learn more from his lord and Mr. Wenhe in the future."

After sending Liu Ye, Deputy Director Tao turned to Yang Changshi next to him and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhongming, you are the chief diplomatic master of Xuzhou. This trip to Jizhou is a heavy responsibility. It seems that you must take action yourself."

"Me?" Yang Changshi was stunned at first, then immediately broke out in a cold sweat and said tremblingly: "My lord, our army is fighting with the Jizhou army, and has just severely damaged Benchu's elite cavalry. Let me go to Jizhou to envoy him. If Benchu ​​is angry... I will never have the chance to serve you, Lord."

"What are Mr. Zhongming afraid of?" Deputy Director Tao continued to smile and said, "Yuan Tan is in our hands. Unless your father-in-law doesn't want his son's life, he will kill my confidant? Besides, you are going to give gifts to the third son this time, and the third son will not have to protect you desperately."

After laughing, Deputy Director Tao yawned and said, "Okay, let's disperse the account, all the generals go back to train the team to prevent Guo Tuchun and Yu Qiong from killing us. Mr. Zhongming, Mr. Wenhe, Mr. Ziyang stayed and went to Jizhou to go on a mission to Jizhou. I have some explanations."

The generals in Xuzhou agreed and left one after another. Until there was no one in the central army's tent that could leak the secret, Deputy Director Tao called Yang Changshi to the front and whispered to give him the opportunity in person. When Deputy Director Tao whispered that he was charitable, peaceful, and friendly, Liu Ye and Jia Lao Poisonous Gun immediately smiled so hard that they narrowed their eyes. He quickly bowed to Deputy Director Tao to express his admiration. Only our Yang Changshi was frowning and said very depressed: "So, I have to suffer again this time when I went to Jizhou as I did last time?"

"It is absolutely impossible to be pushed to the court again. At most, I will be frightened." Deputy Director Tao smiled and comforted, and encouraged: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhongming. After the matter is done, our army's northern line will be temporarily safe. At that time, our main force goes south to attack the city and plunder the land. I will take you south to search the enemy's property."

Thinking that Deputy Director Tao's plan was indeed not dangerous, Yang Changshi immediately turned his worries into joy, patted his chest to ensure the completion of the task. The poisonous substance next to him suggested: "Lord, why not let Cao Mengde participate in this matter? After all, he can also take the opportunity to benefit from it."

"Just let him know the conditions for my release of Yuan Tan," Deputy Director Tao replied: "But there is no need to pull him in too. After all, our alliance is only temporary. We must prevent him from stabbing us in the back. We must also use the hands of the Jizhou army to weaken him. There is no need to help him ease his relationship with the Jizhou army." Jia Lao Poison nodded and bowed down.

He discussed the military situation with Deputy Director Tao for a while. Seeing that Deputy Director Tao was yawning Lian Tian and was indeed tired, Jia Lao Poison, Liu Ye and others offered goodbye. Deputy Director Tao did not try to keep him, but only reminded Jia Lao Poison and others to rest for a while, so he asked Jia Xu and others to say goodbye. But after everyone left, Deputy Director Tao still did not return to the tent to rest. He just continued to play with the arrows in his hand. The only master who stayed in the big tent was a little strange, so he asked, "Lord, are there any worries about the problem?"

Deputy Director Tao nodded and suddenly asked, "Yuan Fang, who is more difficult to deal with than Cao Cao or Yuan Shao?"

"Of course it's the lord's father-in-law Benchu ​​Duke," Chen Ying said with a smile: "Didn't Mr. Ziyang say just now? Our army and Cao's army are not as good as the Jizhou army. Of course, Benchu ​​Duke is more difficult to deal with than Cao's thieves."

"Is that true?" Deputy Director Tao refused to comment, but thought to himself: "I'm afraid not."

"Lord, there is a small matter that must be reported to you." Seeing that Deputy Director Tao was free, Chen Ying replied again: "Our army sent to Xuchang to find out the details. When Benchu ​​Gong decided to send troops to punish our army, Bo Sima Lang, the chief of the Cao thief's prime minister, once urged Cao thief to get along with Benchu ​​Gong, and replaced the hostage to send troops to attack our army, but was rejected by Cao thief's sternly scolded and rejected."

"Is this happening?" Deputy Director Tao was a little surprised

"It was our army who accidentally learned from the Cao thief guards, not knowing the true or falsehood." Chen Ying replied, and said in confusion: "In theory, Sima Lang should not have this attitude towards our army, but it should be strange. He then reported to the lord alone."

Deputy Director Tao blinked his treacherous triangular eyes. After a long time, Deputy Director Tao suddenly said to Chen Ying: "Yuan Fang, after Mr. Zhongming set off for Jizhou, he will appease the errands of senior prisoners of war such as Yuan Tan Gaolan and Xinpi. You will take over this period. You must build a good relationship with Yuan Tan, and then find an opportunity to tell a story alone in front of Yuan Tan."

"Tell a story? What story?" Chen Ying asked in surprise.
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