After going through all kinds of hardships, dispatching a large number of elites, and even missing the opportunity to take over the entire territory of Yanzhou through negotiation, in the end they only killed Guan Yu, Guan Yunchang, the second of the three Taozi brothers. Everyone in Xuzhou's civil and military circles felt that it was a bit thunderous and rainy.

,The gains outweigh the losses, Deputy Director Tao Ben

But the man was laughing from ear to ear, and even said that this time he finally cut off one of the big-eared thief's arms. From now on, Uncle Liu Huang, who is missing an arm and a few legs, will be much less of a threat. Of course, he is very satisfied with the fruitful harvest of this Guandu battle.

I also have some regrets that I could not bring the three brothers Liu Huangshu and Zhuge Liang to the same pot.

Deputy Director Tao, who has always been unlucky, has indeed begun to change his fortune after his strength gradually dominates the world. He just received the head of Master Guan in the morning, and in the afternoon another piece of good news reached Deputy Director Tao. Lu Su sent a messenger to deliver it on Pegasus.

The good news is that Liu Yao, who was entrenched in the Qu'a area, suddenly died of illness not long ago. His eldest son Liu Ji succeeded to the throne but was unable to convince the public and had an affair with the Jiangdong family.

The conflict between Fan Neng, the retired Qu'a general, escalated, and then Liu Ji listened to Xu Shao's suggestion and attempted to detain Fan Neng and deprive him of his military power. Unexpectedly, the news leaked out, and Fan Neng took the initiative and launched a mutiny to kill Xu Shao and Liu Ji.

After driving out Qu'a, Liu Ji was desperate and took a boat across the river to escape to Guangling, where he surrendered to Xuzhou veteran Zhang Jie, the prefect of Guangling.

After learning the news, the honest man Lu Su also had the evil intention of taking advantage of the situation. While he came to Shenting Ridge to intimidate Fan Neng and contained the main force of Fan Neng's rebels, he used the navy as a surprise force and suddenly went south to Gua.

At Zhoudu, Guangling's army, who was supported by Zhang Jiao, went south to attack Qu'a. As a result, Zhang Jiao's deputy Wu Dun relied on Liu Ji's guidance and his loyalty to Liu Yao's father.

With the support of some Qu'a defenders, they easily captured the city of Qu'a. They surrounded Fan Neng's rebels. Knowing that he was defeated, Fan Neng tried to flee south to join Xu Gong, but he was defeated by Xuzhou General Zhou.

Tai was killed on the way to escape, and the rest surrendered. Liu Yao's forces, which had been entangled with the Xuzhou army for many years, were completely wiped out.

In addition, there are two good news in Jiangnan that make Deputy Director Tao very satisfied. One is that Wang Lang, the old subordinate of old Tao Qian, the prefect of Kuaiji, in view of the increasing power of the old lord, will sooner or later come to the city to settle old accounts and new accounts.

After listening to the advice of counselors Yu Fan and Yu Zhongxiang, he took the initiative to send envoys to contact Lu Su and expressed his surrender to the Xuzhou army.

He was willing to accept Deputy Director Tao's order. Deputy Director Tao was pleased that his kindness touched his subordinates, so he wrote back and ordered Lu Su to reward Wang Lang generously on his behalf. He also ordered Wang Lang to remain in charge of the prefect of Kuaiji. In accordance with Xuzhou's political decree

Substituting people was not possible. Xu Gong and Yan Baihu were still in the middle, so Deputy Director Tao had no choice but to be a favor.

Another good news comes from the personnel aspect. On the battlefield in Hefei that year, Sun's old general Deng Dang was blinded by Cao Xing with an arrow and captured alive by the Xuzhou army. After recovering from his injuries, he was released by the Xuzhou army and returned to his hometown in Fupo to live in seclusion.

Later, Sun Ben and Wu Jing's family were killed by Yuan Sangong, leaving only one Sun Shangxiang, and Yuan Shu's general Lu Meng, who had a close relationship with Sun Quan.

Worried that he would be implicated, he found an opportunity and fled back to his hometown in Fupo to meet Deng Dang. Seeing that his brother-in-law, whom he had always thought was dead, was still alive, he also learned about Deputy Director Tao's so-called benevolence and righteousness from Deng Dang. He was unwilling to be lonely.

Lu Meng encouraged Deng Dang to come out again. Uncle Lang and his uncle led more than a hundred villagers south to defect to Zhang Zhao, and they also became Deputy Director Tao's accomplices and lackeys.

The good news spread several times in one day, and Deputy Director Tao was of course very happy. However, the next day, another good news was sent to the Xuzhou camp. Xuzhou General Zang Ba was ordered to attack Pingyuan and collect Yuan Shangxu.

The remaining Qingzhou land promised to Xuzhou, Qingzhou Farewell King Wang Xiuzhong, who was trapped in the plains, refused to cede the last Qingzhou land to the Yuan family, but the small number of soldiers was no match for Zang Ba. Jizhou was controlled by Yuan Shang

Yuan Jun refused to send troops to rescue, so he was easily defeated by the Xuzhou Division led by Zang Ba. It only took ten days to capture the isolated city of Pingyuan where Wang Xiu was guarding. After the city was broken, Wang Xiu was captured and became a prisoner of Xuzhou for the second time.

The whole territory of Qingzhou finally fell into the clutches of Deputy Director Tao, and Zang Ba's partial division also became a sharp knife pointed at the hinterland of Jizhou by the Xuzhou army, which could penetrate into the hinterland of Jizhou that was actually extremely empty at any time.

Of course there is good news but also bad news. Just as Deputy Director Tao was getting carried away with his army's victory on the third front, a piece of bad news was also delivered to Deputy Director Tao.

When Yuan Tan's main force went north to Guandu, he gathered the last Runan soldiers and horses to break out to the north, preparing to escape to Sili Guanzhong to meet Zhong Yao.

The remnants of Wei Zhong gathered together and went to Guanzhong Sili to bully the weak in an attempt to make a comeback. Currently, Boss Cao's team has arrived in Xiping, but because Jingzhou General Liu Pan is currently stationed in Ye County, he indirectly replaced the Xuzhou army and blocked Boss Cao's escape path.

Boss Cao, who had always had a bad relationship with Liu Biao, did not dare to risk heading north at full speed, and was forced to temporarily stay in the Xiping area.

Although Liu Pan was temporarily blocked in the Xiping and Wuyang areas, one thing that is certain is that as long as Boss Cao receives the news that Yuan Tan has been defeated in Guandu, then Boss Cao will definitely break through at full speed by any means, or at any cost.

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Break out by force, or contact Liu Pan to sue for peace, and negotiate through Liu Pan's defense zone. After all, Deputy Director Tao used the excuse of Boss Cao to intervene in the Yuan brothers' civil war, and declared war on Cao's army again, and captured Cao's army immediately. Cao's army was isolated.

Of Liang Di.

No one knows better than Deputy Director Tao the dangers of letting Boss Cao slip away to Sili Pass. Considering that Ma Teng, Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang all have beautiful daughters, and also considering that the Bingzhou left by the current father-in-law, Yuan Sangong, may be taken advantage of.

In addition, considering that Uncle Liu Huang’s whereabouts are still unknown, it is very likely that he will seize this chaotic opportunity to get into troubled waters again.

Yu Dongshan made a comeback. After receiving the news, Deputy Director Tao immediately summoned a group of bad counselors to discuss the military situation, preparing to immediately send troops to Xuchang to remove the last nail in Yuan Tan's army in the south of Yanzhou and not give Uncle Liu Huang another chance to fish in troubled waters.

Boss Cao drove back to the ghost place of Runan, which was about to be completely trapped by the Xuzhou army.

All the bad counselors in Xuzhou had no objection to sending troops to Xuchang immediately. The Xuzhou army was all opportunistic in this Guandu battle. Not only did the losses not be big, the army was not too tired, but a large amount of grain and grass was also seized in the rear camp of Yuan Tan's army.

There was no problem in sending troops to Xuchang immediately for military supplies, but Deputy Director Tao's extravagant hope of blocking Boss Cao's team in Runan made all the counselors in Xuzhou frown.

"Lord, I'm afraid our army has little hope of blocking Cao's bandit's route to the north." Liu Ye was the first to shake his head and said: "It's too late in terms of time and distance, not to mention that Cao's bandit's team had arrived four days ago.

We have arrived in Xiping and may have passed through Liu Pan's Ye County defense area. Even if Cao Cao doesn't dare to act rashly, I

I'm afraid it's too late for us. It's two hundred miles from Guandu to Xuchang, from Xuchang to Wuyang, and from Ye County and Luyang, places that can block Cao's thieves' path, they're all close to two hundred miles, such a long distance. There's also Yan on the way.

The terrain to the west of the water is complex. By the time our interception team is deployed, I'm afraid the Cao thieves will have already escaped."

"Not only is it too late, it may also lead to other accidents." Shi Yi also warned: "The 10,000 reinforcements sent by Liu Biao to Yuan Tan stopped taking a step northward when they arrived in Ye County. Although it was clear that they wanted to watch the fire from the other side.

Depending on the situation, we will decide whether to continue to reinforce Yuan Tan or to guard the throat of Ye County and guard against our army's attack.

Nanyang, but Xiping, Wuyang and Luyang are all too close to Ye County. Especially Luyang is still governed by Jingzhou officials. If our army sends troops to intercept the Cao thieves, it is very likely to provoke a full-scale war between Jingxu and Xu.

The consequences are unpredictable, and it will definitely give Liu Bei, whom the lord hates the most, more opportunities to fish in troubled waters."

Deputy Director Tao thought about it carefully and found out that it was the same. Although he was not afraid of an all-out war with the Jingzhou army now, he would definitely benefit Uncle Liu Huang and Yuan Tan, especially Uncle Liu. In the whole world, I am afraid there is no other person who wants Jingzhou more than Uncle Liu Huang.

Xu started an all-out war. At this time,

Provoking an all-out war in Jingxu at this time will also be very detrimental to the Xuzhou army's northern strategy, making it impossible for the Xuzhou army to devote its maximum strength to the northern battlefield. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the rebellion between the brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, they can capture the most critical Hebei province in one fell swoop.

The land is the danger of Taihang, and the place where horses are produced in Bingzhou.

After thinking about it, Deputy Director Tao couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, and said: "So, we can only watch thief Cao escape? This allowed thief Cao to successfully escape to Guanzhong, Zhang Lu, Ma Teng, Liu Zhang and Yuan Tan

Who among these trash can be his opponent? Is Thief Cao really going to make a comeback and come to embarrass us again?"

This time, everyone including Mr. Jia nodded slightly, admitting that it was difficult for his own army to stop Cao Cao from making a comeback. However, Xun Chen, who was about to return home in glory, suddenly spoke and said: "My lord, you have missed one less prince. If Cao Cao is allowed to

The thieves fled to Guanzhong, and Sili and Liu Biao of Jingzhou were also threatened, and Sili also borders Jingzhou."

Deputy Director Tao gave Xun Chen a strange look and said with a smile: "Mr. Youruo pays attention to such trivial matters. Could it be that he has some clever tips to teach me?"

"It's just a little bit of humble opinion." Xun Chen said politely: "The words of Mr. Ziyang and Mr. Ziyu are indeed reasonable. If our army wants to intercept Cao's team on its own, it will indeed be difficult in terms of time and distance.

It is already too late, and it may cause a full-scale conflict between our army and the Jingzhou Army. But..."

Speaking of this, Xun Chen smiled slightly and added: "But my lord, why haven't you considered using Liu Pan's hand to intercept the Cao thieves' breakout path?"

"Use Liu Pan's hand to stop the Cao thief?" Deputy Director Tao was stunned and said in surprise: "Is it possible? Liu Pan came to help Yuan Tan fight against us, how could he help us intercept the Cao thief?"

"It's possible!" Jia Laodu's eyes lit up and he said quickly: "My lord, it's possible. Liu Pan is now our enemy in name. Cao Mengde is also the de facto enemy of the Jingzhou Army, and the relationship between Cao Mengde and the Jingzhou Army

There is much more hatred between our army and the Jingzhou Army than the conflict between our army and the Jingzhou Army! As long as we seize this point and make a fuss about it, and then teach the Jingzhou Army the principle of letting the tiger return to the mountain, we may not be able to make the Jingzhou Army stop Cao Mengde's attack for us.

Escape route!"

Hearing these words, Liu Ye and Shiyi looked at each other in surprise, and found that they had forgotten to consider this. Since the army cannot send troops to intercept Boss Cao, why can't they consider using Jingzhou, who also has a grudge against Boss Cao?

The army intercepted Boss Cao? But Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed at first.

But after careful calculation, Deputy Director Tao grimaced again and said: "Although it is possible, it is still too late in time. The distance from Xuchang to Jingzhou is longer. We will wait until our envoy convinces Liu Biao to order the interception

The Cao thieves, the Cao thieves may have all fled to Luoyang."

"Don't worry, my lord, we can ask Liu Pan to stop the Cao thieves first, and then persuade Liu Biao to issue this order." Xun Chen said: "Chen suggested that my lord might as well send an envoy to Ye County first, and then to Jingzhou, as an excuse to attack the Jingzhou army.

Express goodwill. Request for friendly relations with Jingzhou Liu Jingsheng

He took the opportunity to bribe Liu Pan with gold and silver, using the pretext of revenge for Cao's thieves' repeated incursions into Jingzhou, and blocked the way for Cao's thieves to break out. Then the envoy continued to block, and persuaded Liu Biao to agree to the interception on the grounds that raising tigers was a danger.

Our armies join forces to destroy the Cao thieves!"

"Is it possible that Liu Pan was bribed by us?" Deputy Director Tao was still a little worried. He turned to Liu Ye, who was in charge of intelligence next to him, and asked: "Zi Yang, how is our army's intelligence collection on Liu Pan? Do you know that Liu Pan is in Jingzhou?

,What faction does it belong to?"

"Liu Pan's status in Jingzhou is not very high, so our army did not collect much information. We only know that he is Liu Biao's son. Why was Liu Biao accepted him as his son? Whether he is greedy and lustful, our army did not investigate carefully.

Pass.

"Liu Ye replied: "But one thing is for sure. Liu Pan is definitely not the Cai Mao and Huang Zu faction who are hostile to our army. Otherwise, as Liu Pan's Liu Biao subordinate, he would not be the mere cavalry captain he is today.

It’s a new job.”

"So, our army has some hope of buying him over?" Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and decided on the spot: "Let's do it this way. Although the certainty of success is still uncertain, there is only a little hope. We

Go and try your best! Immediately arrange for an envoy to bring heavy gifts to visit Liu Pan and persuade Liu Pan to intercept the Cao thieves for our army! Who do you think we should send as the envoy?!"

When Deputy Director Tao selected the envoy, Xuzhou's four bad counselors first thought of Xuzhou's diplomatic ace Yang Changshi, who had repeatedly performed miracles. However, considering that the envoy was not only going to visit Liu Pan, but also going south to visit him.

Of course, Liu Biao and Yang Changshi, who had turned against Cai Mao's brothers,

It became inappropriate, so after some discussion, several bad counselors said together: "My lord, we should send Mr. Jiang Qian as the envoy. Mr. Ziyi is a famous scholar in Jiujiang. He is quite famous among the scholars.

Liu Jingsheng's appetite has increased, so sending Mr. Ziyi as his envoy will get twice the result with half the effort."

"Jiang Qian?" Deputy Director Tao, who was brainwashed by Master Luo Guanzhong, hesitated, but after a moment's thought, Deputy Director Tao discovered that even if our Mr. Jiang Qian was tricked again, he might not be able to hide it from his own eyes, so Deputy Director Tao

The director quickly nodded and said: "Okay, hurry up and go to Mr. Ziyi to discuss matters in the big tent. I want to explain the details to him face to face, especially reminding him to keep his letters and don't listen to the nonsense of an ugly guy named Pang."

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"A sneeze! A sneeze!" Hundreds of miles away in Ye County, an ugly civil servant with a nose and a black face sneezed twice in a row, rubbed his nose, muttered that someone must be scolding me behind my back, and then picked up the

I took out the wine glass, lay down on the mat and drank, not even bothering to look at the mountains of official documents piled on the desk.
To be continued...