Considering that Uncle Liu Huang traveled thousands of miles to rescue him this time, driving Uncle Liu away like this would be too detrimental to his reputation. It would also give his ally Liu Biao, who was not strong enough, an excuse to refuse to send troops to rescue him. Yuan

After Mr. Tan calmed down, he listened to Cui Yan's advice and sent Chen Zhen and cattle and sheep to help.

He went to drink wine to comfort Liu Huangshu brother, expressed his apology, and secretly told Chen Zhen that there was no need to vigorously retain Liu Huangshu's team. If Liu Huangshu insisted on leaving, then just give Liu Huangshu a sum of food and grass and let him get out with the last more than 800 remaining soldiers. There was no need to force him.

Stay and influence the possible reconciliation negotiations between Yuan Tao.

With Chen Zhen as an excuse, Uncle Liu Huang, who didn't want to leave, had a reason to stay. It was as if he didn't even notice that Chen Zhen asked him to stay. He said that since Mr. Yuan Tan repeatedly asked him to stay, he could do it too.

Don't worry about Yuan Tan's rude words, you can stay and continue to fight with Yuan Tan's army.

Let's work together to defeat the thief - and continue to fish in troubled waters. Facing Uncle Liu Huang's impassioned words, Chen Zhen, who had no intention of retaining Uncle Liu, had no choice but to knock out his teeth and swallow blood, and thanked with a wry smile.

After receiving Uncle Liu's kindness, he quickly returned to the Chinese army's tent to hand over orders to Mr. Yuan Tan.

However, Mr. Yuan Tan had no time to pay attention to Uncle Liu Huang's shamelessness at this moment, because Tian Chou, the messenger sent by Peng An, had already reported another important news to Mr. Yuan Tan - the Xuzhou army had thrown a large number of poisonous snakes into Yuan's army.

Outside the camp, more than a dozen badly decomposed civilian corpses were also thrown into Yuan Jun's camp!

After hearing the news, the unlearned Mr. Yuan Tan and the inexperienced Mr. Guo Tu were of course baffled. They didn't know what Deputy Director Tao was doing. Cui Yan, who had learned a lot, was also a little confused at first, but after recalling it, Cui Yan realized

His face suddenly changed.

, was so anxious that his voice changed, he jumped up and shouted, "Hurry! Burn those corpses quickly! We must not let our soldiers touch them! Absolutely not! Use long sticks to push those corpses into the open.

Place some firewood on the place and start a fire! Hurry up!"

"Mr. Ji Gui, why do you do this?" Yuan Tan asked in surprise.

"Historical records state that during the reign of Emperor Wu, the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu in the north, but the Xiongnu could not resist and suffered repeated defeats!" Cui Yan said with a livid face: "Later, the Xiongnu used a poisonous trick and tied up some horses infected with the plague as gifts.

They were sent to the Great Wall to beg for mercy from the Han army, but the Han army soldiers fell into a trap and took the horses. As a result, the generals, soldiers, and horses all got sick, and countless people and animals died! If nothing else, Tao Ying was imitating the Xiongnu's poisonous plan!"

Mr. Yuan Tan's face suddenly turned pale, and Mr. Guo Tu immediately jumped up and shouted: "Quickly, go and burn those corpses! Burn them all! God damn Tao Thief, use such cruel poison

Come on, he’s not afraid of retribution either!”

"No, no." The face of the messenger who came to report the news also changed greatly. He quickly kowtowed and sang the promise, and then said tremblingly: "But my lord, many of our soldiers have already encountered those corpses, what should I do?

"

"Tao Ying, you are too cruel!" Cui Yan slapped his forehead and screamed, and then said quickly: "There is no other way. We can only treat these soldiers who have touched the corpses like lepers, isolate them, and free up a camp first.

Let all these people live in and not allow them to come in or out, and then make a decision based on their situation!"

Cui Yan's method was very clever and targeted. Yuan Tan also arranged for a special person to supervise the matter. However, the already very low morale of Yuan Tan's army naturally suffered the heaviest blow. Unfortunately, he encountered those corpses.

The officers and soldiers of Yuan's army cried loudly and refused to say anything, just like lepers who were isolated by their companions, or cried and begged, or died.

They fled with their lives, forcing the generals of Yuan Army to use force to isolate them. During this period, many soldiers died, and the entire Yuan Army camp was panicked. When talking about the epidemic, their faces changed. The morale of the soldiers was extremely low, and their morale was also extremely low.

, hundreds of soldiers became deserters overnight, and many deserters simply fled directly to the Xuzhou camp and surrendered.

Faced with such an embarrassing situation, Mr. Yuan Tan had no choice but to listen to Guo Tu's suggestion and prepare to send an envoy to contact Deputy Director Tao in person the next day, using the pretext of condemning the inhumane behavior of the Xuzhou army and agreeing not to use it again.

Using inhumane methods such as poison arrows and poison, they took the opportunity to test whether Deputy Director Tao would accept Yuan Tanjun's peace proposal.

The next morning, the Yuan Jun envoy was about to leave for the Xuzhou camp to negotiate. However, Deputy Director Tao personally led an army of 30,000 to Yuan Jun camp to challenge him. After careful consideration, Mr. Yuan Tan personally placed an army in front of the camp.

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After getting the permission of Deputy Director Tao, Yuan Tan and Deputy Director Tao each led ten cavalry out of the formation, and stood ten steps apart in the formation of the two armies, facing each other directly.

Negotiate.

"Tao Ying, you are also a minister of the Han Dynasty and a disciple of a saint, and you actually use such unheard-of cruel methods to brutalize and poison living beings!" After the meeting, in order to gain the moral upper hand, Mr. Yuan Tan shouted aggressively: "Just use poison arrows.

He even threw venomous snakes and plague corpses into our military camp. He is simply worse than a beast, with a wolf-like heart and a dog-like lung!"

"Come on, brother-in-law!" Deputy Director Tao retorted coldly: "Yesterday I made it very clear that it was you who used the poisonous arrow first, and then I retaliated with tooth for tooth, retaliating in the same way as others, and doubled my revenge! You

If you want to accuse me of being vicious, wipe your own ass first!"

"I didn't use it." Yuan Tan retorted guiltily: "It was used by Liu Bei's team. I only found out later that they used poisonous arrows in that battle!"

"Brother-in-law, go ahead and deceive a three-year-old child with your words!" Deputy Director Tao sneered, and said: "Well, for the sake of my father-in-law and my wife, I will give you a chance, as long as you hand over the big-eared thief Three

Brothers and Zhuge villagers, promise not to abuse vicious weapons in the future, and I promise you that I will not use those vicious weapons against you on the battlefield in the future!"

"Impossible!" Mr. Yuan Tan flatly refused, saying: "Although Liu Bei is hateful, he traveled thousands of miles to come to my rescue. How could I hand him over to you?"

"Then there's nothing more to say." Deputy Director Tao waved his hand and said: "Go back and prepare for the war. Finally, I will call you brother-in-law. I am here to attack you under the imperial edict, so don't expect me to show mercy to you.

, I will order an attack immediately."

After saying that, Deputy Director Tao turned around and was about to leave. Yuan Tan became anxious and shouted: "Mr. Tao, my dear brother-in-law, please stay. I have something else to say. Brother-in-law, no matter what, we are still close relatives.

When you were weak, our Yuan family protected you and gave you time and opportunity to grow stronger. Do you really want to kill me?"

Deputy Director Tao reined in the horse's head and said coldly: "Originally, I sent troops under the imperial edict, and I should have killed you to death. But for the sake of my father-in-law and his wife, I will give you a chance to tell you what you want.

?”

"Thank you, brother-in-law." Mr. Yuan Tan breathed a sigh of relief, and then said in a pleading tone: "Brother-in-law, how about our peace talks? As long as you are willing to stop the troops and cease the war, we can negotiate any terms."

"The psychological attack tactics are successful, Yuan Tan is really timid." Deputy Director Tao was secretly happy. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Okay, as long as you agree to three conditions, I will agree to a ceasefire."

"Brother-in-law, please tell me, what are the three conditions?" Yuan Tan asked happily.

"First, you must make peace with Yuan Shang and swear to never exchange weapons in the future." Deputy Director Tao offered: "Second, you must withdraw from the entire territory of Yanzhou and return it to the emperor; third, you must capture Liu Bei and Guan Yu

, the four thieves Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang were handed over to me, and then I promised to cease war with you and never invade each other in the future."

In fact, the conditions offered by Deputy Director Tao were not harsh at all, and Mr. Yuan Tan could completely accept them. However, people are greedy animals. After hearing Deputy Director Tao’s not-too-harsh conditions, Yuan Tan was overjoyed and his eyes rolled.

After turning around, he quickly said: "Brother-in-law, your conditions

Can we discuss it for a while? I can definitely agree to the first one. Is it too much for you to ask for the whole territory of Yanzhou? And the third one, I absolutely cannot agree to. Xuande Gong traveled thousands of miles to save me.

, I captured him and handed him over to you, how can I stand in the world from now on?"

"The second item is negotiable, but the third item is non-negotiable!" Deputy Director Tao suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Listen carefully, I ask you to hand over the big-eared thief, and I am also standing from the standpoint of my son-in-law.

, for the sake of my father-in-law’s foundation! I know better than you who the big-eared thief is! When he saved Xuzhou, he was

I plotted Xuzhou, and later rescued Yuan Shu, also for the purpose of plotting Huainan, and then surrendered to Cao Cao, and kidnapped a large number of Cao Cao's troops! You idiot, led the wolf into the house, and brought the big-eared bandit into your team, if I didn't come forward

Just take care of it, sooner or later he will attack Jizhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou left by the father-in-law!"

Being under the eaves, he had to lower his head. Even though he was scolded by Deputy Director Tao in public, Mr. Yuan Tan did not dare to refute even a single sentence. He just lowered his head and thought about it. After a long time, he said with difficulty: "Shijun Tao, oh no,

Brother-in-law, give me some time, give me some time to think about it."

"Hmph!" Deputy Director Tao snorted heavily and said: "Okay, I'll give you one day to think about it and give me an answer before noon tomorrow. If you don't take the three big-eared bandit brothers and Zhuge villagers to the police before noon tomorrow,

In front of the gate of my camp, I will personally lead an army of 100,000 to capture it myself!"

Yuan Tan nodded with difficulty, Deputy Director Tao snorted again, then turned his horse's head and rode back to the main formation, saying loudly: "Remember, there is only one day! Let me tell you by the way, I threw it into you yesterday

In the camp

The corpses are not the corpses of plague patients, but the corpses of nearby people killed by your soldiers during rape and robbery. If you don’t drink the toast and eat the fine wine, next time I will throw away the corpses of real plague patients! Send an order to the entire army and return to the camp.

!”

Deputy Director Tao really left with the army. Yuan Tan also brought the army back to the camp with worries, and went to find Guo Tu and Cui Yan to discuss countermeasures. The content of the exchange between Yuan Tan and Deputy Director Tao before the battle was transmitted to Uncle Liu Huang

Later, Uncle Liu Huang also panicked and hurried to Zhuge Liang's bed to ask for advice.

Liang analyzed whether Yuan Tan would really kill his own army. After Zhuge Liang heard the situation, he also sighed and said: "My lord, it was Liang who misunderstood you. If only Liang could have known earlier that Tao Shijun was so wary of you."

, I don’t even want to let you take advantage of any loopholes, Liang will definitely not approve of your going north this time."

"I can't blame you entirely. I didn't expect that Mr. Tao would be so hostile to me." Uncle Liu Huang was also extremely depressed. He couldn't understand why Deputy Director Tao hated and was so hostile to him. Every time he met him, he was merciless.

His poisonous men were dead, and he didn't give himself any chance to fish in troubled waters?

After feeling depressed, Uncle Liu asked Zhuge Liang for advice. After careful consideration, Zhuge Liang replied: "Liang thought that Yuan Tan might not be able to make up his mind to hand over us right away. My lord, he must be strict inside and loose on the outside. He was secretly on guard and sent people to meet him."

Cui

Yan, just say that we don't want to embarrass the Marquis of Ji, bid farewell to Cui Jigui, and request to lead the army to leave the Guandu camp and return to Jingzhou. Please persuade Cui Jigui in front of Yuan Tan and be accommodating. Cui Jigui is a moral gentleman and will definitely agree."

"Cui Jigui did answer yes, but Yuan Tan and Guo Tu may not agree?" Uncle Liu Huang was a little worried and regretted not taking the opportunity to leave last night.

"It doesn't matter. It's best if you agree. It doesn't matter if you don't agree. We just need to stabilize them temporarily. Tonight..."

Before Zhuge Liang finished his reply with a smile, Liu Huangshu nodded with understanding and said: "I understand, you can rest in peace and recover, I will make arrangements."

"Lord, don't worry, please listen to Liang." Zhuge Liang quickly stopped Liu Huangshu and lowered his voice and said: "If Liang's prediction is correct, our army's overnight withdrawal to Jingzhou may be able to hide it from Yuan Tan and Guo Tu.

Idiots, but they certainly can't hide from traitors like Tao Shijun, so our army is going south tonight, and there may be an ambush by Tao Shijun on the road to intercept us, so we must make some preparations..."

………………

If Uncle Liu Huang knew Deputy Director Tao's true plan, maybe he wouldn't be so worried, because after Deputy Director Tao led the army to withdraw the troops back to the camp, he did not wait for the reply from Mr. Yuan Tan, but immediately raised the troops.

, summon the generals to convey orders.

"Wei Yan, Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, listen to the order!" Deputy Director Tao named the three Xuzhou generals in one breath. After the three generals came out to clasp their fists, Deputy Director Tao immediately ordered: "You three will each lead the troops of your headquarters.

Well prepared for the night battle, we will send out troops at the second watch tonight

Go to rob the enemy camp. Wei Yan's troops will serve as the vanguard. Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci's troops will follow behind. If Wei Yan's troops successfully rob the camp, you will follow immediately after entering the enemy camp and break into the enemy camp to defeat the enemy! If the enemy is prepared,
To be continued...