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In the war against the invasion of alien races, Deputy Director Tao was lucky than Lao Da Cao. When Lao Da was conquering Wuhuan, it was raining heavily. The coastal route of the western Liaoning Corridor was unpassable. He was forced to go out of Xifengkou to detour the desert grassland and attack Liucheng. The army almost died of thirst and starvation outside the frontier. Deputy Director Tao did not encounter such an unlucky incident, nor did he attack like Lao Da Cao - because Deputy Director Tao knew very well that his luck was far inferior to that of Lao Da Cao, so he chose to take the coastal Avenue eastward and enter Liaoxi County to attack Liucheng and Yangle.

After the Xuzhou army captured Jixian and surrendered Jiang Qi's remnants, in view of Yuan Shang leading some of the remnants to Liucheng to join the Wuhuan coalition army, Deputy Director Tao resolutely decided to chase the enemy to the end. Under the leadership of Youzhou generals such as Qianjia, Tian Yu, Tian Chou and Xian Yufu, 40,000 elite Xuzhou soldiers passed Shanhaiguan, which did not exist in this era, advanced all the way north, and fought with the Wuhuan tribes in the middle of the western Liaoning Corridor. After a hard battle, they finally defeated the coalition army composed of Yuan Shang, Wuhuan talented ministers and Lou Ban tribes. Xu Huang killed the talented ministers, Zhao Yun captured Lou Ban and beheaded. Yuan Shang was defeated and went to Liaodong to join Gongsun Kang. Xuzhou army attacked Liucheng again. Deputy Director Tao issued the first order of massacre in his life, ordering the Xuzhou army to slaughter all the old, weak, women and children in Liucheng.

Later, Deputy Director Tao immediately ordered the troops to return to Ji County without invading the border of Gongsun Kang's control. He repeatedly released goodwill to Gongsun Kang, who was entrenched in Liaodong, and sent envoys to Liaodong to recruit Gongsun Kang. This was not that Deputy Director Tao wanted to follow Guo Jia's plan to decide Liaodong. It was really difficult to transport food and grass, and it would be taken without food and grass.

Returning to Xu Wushi, the Xuzhou army received news that the Xianbei tribe coalition troops were approaching Lu Longsai. At that time, the Xuzhou army was already trapped and exhausted. The main brigade had no time to send reinforcements. There were many people who advised Deputy Director Tao to defend the city without fighting. They accidentally found that their army encountered the Xianbei team, the main force of Xuzhou, did not dare to act recklessly. They hid honestly north of Lu Longsai and did not dare to provoke the Xuzhou army. Deputy Director Tao believed that the fight was rare to defeat the enemy in one battle, so he chose 10,000 regardless of the fatigue of the army.

The elite troops were led by themselves, and suddenly the troops came out to Lu Longsai to launch a cavalry battle with the Xianbei team, and for the first time, they had all equipped the wooden stirrups on 10,000 cavalry. Relying on this revolutionary harness and unexpected surprise attack, the Xuzhou army once again defeated the Xianbei coalition, and adopted Tian Yu's strategy in the formation, and pursued the Kebineng team, which was the most prestigious and convincing of the Xianbei tribe, and killed Kebineng in the desert. The Xianbei tribe, which had no leader, was once again trapped in the internal melee.

After fighting these two battles, the elite Xuzhou cavalry was exhausted to the extreme. After six days of returning to Ji County, it took twelve days to go, showing signs of strength. Fortunately, when the Xuzhou army returned to Ji County, it was confirmed that the Xuzhou army had no plans to attack Liaodong. Sure enough, he killed Yuan Shang and sent his head and Red Rabbit Horse to Ji County for surrender. Deputy Director Tao rewarded the envoy and appointed Gongsun Kang's left general Xiangping Hou. Then he appointed Gao Shun as the governor of Youzhou, assisted by Qianzhao, Tian Yu and Xian Yufu and other old men in Youzhou. He ordered the Gentleman Army to station in Zhongshan County, the northernmost part of Jizhou to expand and prepare for war, and led his army back to Yecheng to rest. The battle of Jiyou finally came to an end.

To be honest, the battles in the Jiyou War are in terms of density and intensity. In fact, they are far from keeping up with the previous decisive battle between Tao, Yuan and Cao and the three families in the Central Plains. They are even less than the melee battle between Tao, Cao and Lu families and the battle between Xuzhou's army and the conquering Huainan. Because the gap between strength and weakness is too great, the strength of the Xuzhou army dominates the world and is still in an upward period, but the Yuan army is so vital that it can no longer be injured, and the blood flows to no longer flows. When the battlefield is fighting on the battlefield, the Xuzhou army is purely like an adult bullying children. From the beginning, it has completely suppressed the Yuan brothers. The situation on the battlefield has always been one-sided and there is no turmoil.

Later, even though the brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang jumped over the wall and attracted help from alien races, the foreign barbarians of this era were not as good as Temujin, as compared to the later Aguda, Temujin or Wild Boar Skin. There was no opportunity for foreign chiefs like Jin Wushu to destroy their martial arts when they encountered the Central Plains regime. In addition, the leaders' heads were in trouble, and even had no revolutionary horse harnesses and stirrups. They threatened the Central Plains with their brave and fierce beastly nature and individual combat power. In front of Xuzhou's army and Deputy Director Tao, who was in the rising period, they were completely dispersed. If it weren't for the numerous cavalry, they would be easier to deal with than the remaining troops under the Yuan brothers and would not play much role.

The biggest enemy of the Xuzhou army in the Hebei War was external factors such as climate, soil, road traffic and distance. In order to fight a battle with the main force of the enemy, the Xuzhou army often had to cross mountains and ridges and climb mountains and cross waters, and it took time and effort to find the enemy for a thousand miles. During this period, it encountered problems such as unacceptable water and soil, inadaptable climate and unfamiliar roads, and so on. The supply line was seriously lengthened, greatly increasing the difficulty of supply. In fact, most of the time was marching and walking in the two years of fierce battle, and most of the time was avoiding the severe cold. The time for real battle was pitifully small, and there was not much decent battle.

It was okay for the Xuzhou army. Deputy Director Tao adopted Shiyi's correct strategy and concentrated all his efforts to kill Yuan Tan from the beginning, causing the remnants of Yuan's family to fall into the dilemma of fighting without a leader, greatly shortening the war process. At the same time, the Xuzhou army was very lucky to have Chen Deng, who was a logistics expert such as Yi and Lu Su. He gritted his teeth and always ensured that the northern army had no shortage of food and supplies. Lu Su even reversed blood transfusions to the northern line several times in a row when the southern line was tight. In terms of logistics, the Xuzhou army was able to advance north with confidence and did not give the Yuan brothers a chance to breathe from beginning to end. The speed of pacifying Ji You was far superior to the history of Boss Cao.

Here we must also defend Cao Boss. In history, the speed of Cao's pacification of the north was not as fast as that of Deputy Director Tao, because Cao Boss faced far more problems than Deputy Director Tao, and the difficulty was much greater than that of Deputy Director Tao. Although the Yuan brothers were also killing each other during the Northern Expedition, the three brothers of the Yuan family and the senior officials at that time each held a state, and their overall strength was still above Cao Boss. At the same time, Cao Boss' rear was basically beaten and destroyed. The only source of military rations was Xuchang's military farmland, and the five counties in Xuzhou were ruined by Cao Boss, Lu Wenhou, Liu Huangshu and Xiao Yuan Sangong. The supply of grain that could provide Cao Boss was pitifully small, and the weak logistics weakness also greatly restricted Cao Boss' pacification of the north.

In contrast, Deputy Director Tao's situation was much better. After the grain production in Xuchang was in his hand, Huainan's grain production was relieved of the continuous drought, it also began to provide a large amount of grain supply to the Xuzhou army. The most important part of the five counties in Xuzhou, since the formation of the Gentleman Army, Deputy Director Tao has not allowed an enemy to encounter Xuzhou's grain production land once again, and the economy and agriculture have been able to continue to develop and grow. In addition, the innate advantage of farming six years ahead of the Cao army. The Xuzhou army's logistics advantages in nature far exceeded that of Cao's boss in history.

The strength of the enemy he faced was also different. At that time, the four prefectures of Jiyou and Qingqing were almost intact. Deputy Director Tao tricked Qingzhou into his hands early. After using Cao's hand to consume most of the Yuan Shao's strength, Deputy Director Tao gave Yuan Tan a ruthless move on the Guandu battlefield. He also consumed a lot of Yuan Tan's strength and killed Yuan Xi, who had unified the power of Youzhou in history. Finally, after Yuan Tan retreated to Bingzhou, he could not directly contact Youzhou, and the remaining strength of the Yuan family became even more dispersed. Therefore, in terms of the strength of the enemy he faced, Deputy Director Tao was more than two or three times better than that of Cao.

Together with these factors and advantages, if Deputy Director Tao's speed of pacifying the north was slower than that of Boss Cao in history, then Deputy Director Tao should have committed suicide to the people. However, even so, from the tenth year of Jian'an to the Northern Expedition in the seventh year of Jian'an to the receiving of Yuan Shang's head in September of Jian'an, Deputy Director Tao took two years to barely take over the two prefectures of Jiyou. At the same time, because the most remote Shangjun in Bingzhou, Wuyuan and Shuofang counties had not yet been really taken over, Deputy Director Tao had not yet completely taken over Jiyou and the three prefectures of Jiyou.

Shangjun, Wuyuan and Shuofang can be taken slowly. Anyway, these three small counties cannot cause any storm. They will be the same as taking them early and late. For Xuzhou Army and Deputy Director Tao, the current problem is still the fatigue of the main army and the money and food. After the two years of Northern Expedition, the main team of the Xuzhou Army was not only exhausted from the top and bottom. It was also because the soldiers had not seen their families for many years, and the war-weariness of missing their relatives in the team was very serious. What's more, the money and food of the five counties in Xuzhou in the rear were exhausted by Deputy Director Tao, which made them difficult to ensure the supply of money and food if they wanted to continue.

Faced with these situations, even though he knew that other enemies were no longer his opponents, Deputy Director Tao did not dare to do anything anymore, and obediently ordered the entire army to return to Yecheng to rest, and let the main team take turns to go home to visit relatives in batches. He also decided to welcome the families of the main civil and military generals to reunite in Yecheng, and spend the New Year of Jian'an in Yecheng for ten years - he did not dare to return to Xuchang immediately because the north was settled and the people were not attached. Deputy Director Tao must maintain considerable strength in Jizhou to prevent it. After the order was conveyed, the exhausted three troops in Xuzhou suddenly felt a thunderous joy. Deputy Director Tao, who was also exhausted, also breathed a sigh of relief and began to miss his wife and children who had not seen for two years.

The team was resting and resting, and Deputy Director Tao did not dare to stay idle in other matters. He had to store grass and grain internally to prepare for another battle. Deputy Director Tao must pay close attention to the movements of the enemy, especially the movements of the two most dangerous opponents, Boss Cao and Uncle Liu. Therefore, after returning to Yecheng in the middle of the winter month, Deputy Director Tao had just met his wife and children, and soon buried his head in the information of the Cao and Liu army collected by the Xuzhou army, and began to study ways to use despicable means to check and balance the enemy's growth.

Uncle Liu's backlash against Zhang Lu has long been expected by Deputy Director Tao and Xuzhou's decision-making team, and has long studied and analyzed the possible consequences. Therefore, after learning that Uncle Liu had basically gained a foothold in Hanzhong and Boss Cao did not dare to take the opportunity to send troops to capture Hanzhong, Xuzhou's decision-making team was not too surprised. Xun Chen also laughed and said, "The three plans of attacking Cao by the lord and Mr. Wenhe have been set up by him to have achieved ideal results. The big-eared thief used deceit to obtain unstable hearts in Hanzhong. Such a good opportunity, Cao Cao did not dare to send troops to Hanzhong, which is enough to prove that the three battles attacked Cao more than half a year ago had severely damaged Cao Cao's vitality."

"Cao Cao may not have no strength to take Hanzhong, but he was afraid that Ma Teng and Han Sui would also take the opportunity to send troops, so he did not dare to act rashly." Liu Ye, who is good at analyzing intelligence, took out a piece of Cai Hou paper and showed it, pointing out: "Our army made detailed reports. In September, the Cao army team once gathered to prepare for war, but for some reason suddenly gave up sending troops. I suspect that Cao thieves received the news that Ma Teng and Han Sui were about to send troops, so they did not dare to take the opportunity to attack Hanzhong. Last month, Ma Chao led his army into Guanzhong. Cao thieves deliberately let the Sanguan road be released and Ma Chao entered Hanzhong. The purpose must be to create a disagreement between Liu and Ma and to alienate the three alliances."

"Liu Bei is a treacherous hero with a strong temperament. Cao Mengde's move may not be effective for a while." Jia Lao Poison analyzed: "Ma Chao only brought 12,000 troops into Hanzhong, and the Hanzhong granary can be fully supported. I am worried that Liu Bei would use the excuse of facilitating the war to destroy Cao in the three families, so that Ma Chao would station in Juxian and become his peripheral barrier. Or directly give Ma Chao a batch of money and food to send Ma Chao's team away. Under the current circumstances, Liu Bei would never take the risk of turning against his allies."

"No matter how the Big-Eared Thieves sent Ma Chao, we should not have to worry about the area in Guanzhong and Yizhou for the time being." Liu Ye said with a relaxed expression: "The locks are formed into a chain of knots. The Big-Eared Thieves dare to take Xichuan. The Cao thief must take Hanzhong. The Cao thief dares to take Hanzhong. Ma Teng and Han Sui will inevitably attack him, restrain each other and attack each other. Whether it is the Big-Eared Thieves and Cao thiefs, they should not have the strength to take Yizhou within a year and a half."

"That's not necessarily." Deputy Director Tao shook his head and held a piece of Cai Hou's paper and pondered: "Have you noticed that Liu Zhang sent a messenger to negotiate with the big-eared thieves, but it was Zhang Song, the leader of Yizhou..."

"Is the messenger Zhang Song the Yizhou lord?" Several advisers looked at each other and asked together: "Lord, what's the problem with this big-eared thief Zhang Song was on the envoy?"

"This..." Deputy Director Tao of course could not answer this question truthfully. After a little calculation, Deputy Director Tao said tactfully: "I also learned about this situation through some special channels. Zhang Song was quite pretentious. He always thought that Liu Zhang was an incompetent lord and could not display his talents under his command. He always wanted to vote for another wise leader and show his talents. I was worried that after Zhang Song arrived in Hanzhong, he would become a traitor with the big-eared thief**, and even had the idea of ​​giving Yizhou to the big-eared thief to the big-eared thief, and brought his own dry food to become a traitor who entered Sichuan."

Including the resourceful old Jia poison, they were a little stunned and asked in confusion: "Lord, aren't you joking? The governor of the state is not here, that is already the highest civil servant in Xichuan. Below the Xichuan civil servants, and above ten thousand people, Zhang Song took the wrong medicine. How could he be a traitor for Liu Bei and help Liu Bei plot against Xichuan? What benefits would Liu Bei personally do to him if he took Xichuan? "

"Mr. Wenhe's words are reasonable." Liu Ye also said: "What benefits can the Big Ear Thieves give him? Even if he is respected as the governor of Yizhou, he will only be a short governor of the state. Can the Big Ear Thieves really worship him as the main force?"

"This..." Deputy Director Tao had some pain and could only say arbitrarily: "I know this is too ridiculous, but I still think it may be very big. Also, don't forget that Mi Zhu was also a Xuzhou traitor who brought his own dry food in the first place?"

"My lord's meaning is that he wants to say?" Jia Lao Poison understood a little and said, "I was worried that Zhang Song thought that Liu Bei was a hero in the world, and that he could only show his strengths and achieve his personal reputation and ambitions, so Xiang Mi Zhu followed suit and secretly joined Liu Bei's command?"

"Yes, that's the reason." Deputy Director Tao nodded quickly and said quickly: "You all know that the character of the big-eared thief is. I'm afraid there is no other person in the world who is more hypocritical than him and is better at winning people's hearts. When you think of Zhang Song's character, we have to be careful of such things."

After hearing Deputy Director Tao's arbitrary words, Liu Ye was skeptical, but he still said: "Lord, if Zhang Song is really such a person, then we can get rid of the big-eared thief without a single soldier."

"What does Mr. Ziyang mean?" Deputy Director Tao asked quickly.

"Because we can easily make Liu Zhang and the Big-Eared Thieves turn against each other." Liu Ye replied with a smile: "The Big-Eared Thieves have just settled Hanzhong, and people are unstable, and even Zhang Lu has not been completely eliminated. Even if they obtain an internal support like Zhang Song, they will not be able to advance to Xichuan for a year or two. Since this is the case, we only need to find evidence that Zhang Song and the Big-Eared Thieves colluded with Xichuan, and then stab the evidence at Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang will not kill Zhang Song immediately, and then immediately raise troops to attack Hanzhong?"

"Yes! Why didn't I expect this?!" Deputy Director Tao's eyes lit up and he said in surprise: "If you do this, even if Liu Zhang cannot destroy the big-eared thief, at least he will be strictly guarded against the big-eared thief, so that the big-eared thief who is restrained by Cao's thief will never have the chance to take down Xichuan! Get time for us to prepare for war!"

After the surprise, Deputy Director Tao immediately said: "My Lords, find a way to find evidence of Zhang Song colluding with the Big Ear Thief? Let Liu Zhang and the Big Ear Thief completely turn against each other?!"

"Lord, aren't you really joking?" Jia Lao's poisonous creature was moved and said in surprise: "If your inference is wrong, Zhang Song did not collude with the Big Ear Thief. We use some inference to use it to solve it, wouldn't it be a big mistake? Let Liu Zhang think that we are apart from him and the Big Ear Thief because we are afraid that the Big Ear Thief will threaten us, and instead have a closer relationship with the Big Ear Thief?!"

After hearing Liu Ye's advice, Deputy Director Tao was also a little hesitant, but considering that Zhang Song was in such a head in both the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Deputy Director Tao still gritted his teeth and said, "My inference will never make mistakes! You guys do not need to hesitate, and make a plan based on Zhang Song's secretly surrendering to the Big-eared Thieves! If my inference is wrong, I will bear the consequences, and it has nothing to do with you!"

Seeing that Deputy Director Tao was so determined, he explained in advance that he would not be responsible for the mistakes in offering suggestions. Jia Lao Poison, Liu Ye and others no longer cared about it, and immediately discussed in a low voice how to use this plan. Deputy Director Tao added: "There are two points that can be used. As far as I know, one is that Zhang Song and the big-eared thief colluded to sell Liu Zhang, and there is also a helper named Fazheng; the other is that Zhang Song has a brother, what is the name..."

"Master, is it that Zhang Su, the prefect of Guanghan in Yizhou?" Liu Ye raised his head and said, "I remember that in the Xichuan intelligence collected by our army, it was mentioned that Zhang Song had only such a brother. What's wrong with him? He is also Zhang Song's helper to betray Xichuan?"

"No!" Deputy Director Tao quickly shook his head and said firmly: "On the contrary, Zhang Su is loyal to Liu Zhang, upright, clear about public and private affairs, and is a brother to Zhang Song. The crime of spying on his seller is easy to deal with, so you can consider using Zhang Su's hand to expose Zhang Song's crime! Let Liu Zhang slash Zhang Song, a big-eared traitor!"

"Lord's head, is there water in the water today?" Jia Lao Poisonous, Liu Ye and Xun Chen and others looked at each other again, and thought to themselves: "Not only did they arbitrarily judge that Zhang Song must have colluded with the big-eared thief, but they also arbitrarily judged that Zhang Song's brothers would expose Zhang Song and asked Liu Zhang to kill Zhang Song. Is it good that they are brothers? Zhang Su is so willing to let his brothers die?!"
Chapter completed!