"Meng Qi, we've already lost."

When Zhang Liao said this, his tone was particularly calm.

"What!"

Hearing this, Ma Chao's face was very surprised, as if he couldn't accept it at all.

Since leading the army to attack Dongjun, they have not had a good rest along the way, marching and fighting around the clock, in order to win in front of the lord.

Everyone is doing their best, how can they still lose!

Ma Chao couldn't figure it out.

Zhang Liao didn't hide it from him, and said carefully: "Actually, yesterday the lord had already sent good news, General Gao Shun, that is, your father-in-law, had completely taken Jiyin County a few days ago, and his lord Cao Ren was defeated and returned to Shanyang County. So, it's us who loses. ”

Hearing the news with his own ears, Ma Chao looked stunned, and after relieving himself, his tone of chagrin and self-reproach revealed unwillingness: "It's all my fault!" If I had taken Fan County earlier, I wouldn't have lost to them! ”

The fist of his right hand slammed the stone table, but unexpectedly pulled the wound on his body, causing him to gasp again and endure the pain.

"Meng Qi, I don't blame you for this, it's because we fought too recklessly, only caring about attacking the city and plundering the land, but we forgot to take advantage of the situation and delayed a lot of effort." Zhang Liao comforted Ma Chao, thinking that he could use force to make the scholars and people in these places submit, but as a result, he forced the battle, which caused a lot of stubborn resistance from the local people.

As for Fan County, Yu Ban is also quite capable, and he is an expert in defending the war outside the city, even if Xu Shu goes, he can't get much bargain.

After a few months of siege, Xu Shu cut off Cao's army's grain and grass twice, and Yu Ban, who was holding on to Fan County, ran out of food, so he had to choose to evacuate Fan County and retreat to Shanyang, where Xun Yu was located.

In this way, Dongjun was also taken into Lu Bu's pocket.

At this time in Xuzhou, the city of Tanxian County, which had been held for more than half a year, finally could not support the strong attack of Cao's army for several days, and the soldiers defending the city were almost dead and were taken by Cao Cao.

Before the city was broken, Tao Qian, Liu Bei and others abandoned the city and fled to the north without a trace.

Cao Cao sent his subordinates to search the entire county, but failed to find Tao Qian and others, not to mention, what made him even more annoyed was that the state seal of Xuzhou was also missing at the same time.

Without this thing, a lot of things would be quite tricky to deal with.

Cao Cao seized Xuzhou, and the next thing to do was to appease the people of the Shi clan everywhere and find a way to gain a foothold in Xuzhou. Without the support of these scholars, Cao Cao's road in Xuzhou would be difficult to move an inch.

After all, he had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians before.

There is no need to wash this.

However, before Cao Cao started the internal affairs of Xuzhou, there was a Pegasus report, saying that Dongjun, Chenliu, Jiyin, Taishan and other counties had fallen one after another, and Zang Ba, the leader of the thieves and thieves in Taishan, had joined Lu Bu.

Lu Bu, who was already powerful, was even more powerful.

After Cao Cao listened, his face turned pale.

Now in the whole of Yanzhou, only the last Shanyang County is still firmly in hand. Although Xun Yu is in charge, in the face of Lu Bu's surging army of more than 100,000, Cao Cao has no absolute chance of winning.

In any case, Yanzhou cannot afford to lose.

As for Xuzhou, Cao Cao left 30,000 troops to Xiahoudun to purge Tao Qianyu's party, and the restoration of internal affairs was handed over to Man Chong, Dong Zhao and others.

Early the next morning, Cao Cao integrated his army and returned to Yanzhou.

The junction of Qing and Xu, a rural village somewhere.

The clattering hooves of the horses galloped from a distance, and the villagers, who had suffered from the war, all hid in the house, covering their dolls' mouths with their hands, and looked out through the only gaps exposed in the door.

This is an army of hundreds of people, all riding tall horses, looking at their appearance, their faces are bloody, and they are vigilant and tired, and they seem to be defeated by the remnants of the retreat, and they look particularly embarrassed.

But even so, the blades in the hands of these people are not something that the hoes in the hands of ordinary villagers can compete with, not to mention that in terms of numbers, this team is obviously more numerous.

"Hey, anyone?"

Zhang Fei, who opened the way, shouted in a thick voice.

This group of people is naturally Liu Bei and Tao Qian who fled.

The villagers hiding in the house heard Zhang Fei's tiger shout, coupled with his fierce face, which frightened them, and no one dared to respond.

"Third brother, don't be reckless."

Liu Bei said with a slight reprimand, then let go of Tao Qian, who was tied to his back, and with the help of the soldiers, he safely took off the horse.

Tao Qian is over sixty years old, has not fought on the battlefield for many years, is frail and weak, and cannot ride a horse at all. At that time, Cao's army had already invaded the city, and under the critical situation, Liu Bei had no choice but to wrap Tao Qian in a cloth blanket on his back, fortunately the white horse under his crotch was a divine horse, galloping all the way, and the atmosphere did not breathe.

This made Liu Bei even more grateful to the two businessmen who gave him horses, one named Su Shuang and the other named Zhang Shiping.

"We fled from Tan County, in Xia Liu Bei, this one next to me is your governor of Xuzhou, Tao Gongzu Taofu Jun ......"

Liu Bei spoke loudly, earnestly.

Perhaps it was Liu Bei's sincerity that moved the villagers, and a certain house opened, and an old man with gray hair walked out, leading a little girl with cupola pigtails.

"The village is full of people, and I have seen all the officials." The old man bowed and saluted Liu Bei and the others.

Li Kui was also in the official establishment of the Han Dynasty, responsible for the hundred schools in the township, and most of the people who served were highly respected figures in the township.

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei, a fool from Zhuo County, has seen the elders." Liu Bei humbly returned the salute, no matter where he went, he did not forget to mention his royal status.

"It turned out to be a royal clansman, and the little old man is really blind and ignorant of nobles! Girl, don't kowtow to the nobleman soon! With the old man's words, the little girl next to her was also obedient, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Liu Bei.

"This can't be helped!"

Liu Bei hurriedly helped the little girl up, and after a few rounds of speech, he soon chatted with the old man very speculatively.

Ahem~~

Liu Bei was talking and laughing there, and Kong Rong, who was left aside, coughed twice, feeling slightly unhappy, probably feeling that he had neglected himself.

Liu Bei immediately understood, and took the initiative to introduce Kong Rong: "This is Kong Rong, the prime minister of the North Sea, the twentieth grandson of the Confucian saint, and the world's leading Confucian......"

Thousands of people don't wear it, and they don't wear it.

Liu Bei's high hat made Kong Rong feel so beautiful in his heart.

Of course, on the surface, Kong Rong still said modest words such as 'Xuande is too famous'.

Subsequently, Liu Bei introduced Tao Qian and other famous figures.

In the realm of Pingxiang, the county orders are all big officials, not to mention these big people who can crush the county officials with a casual move of their fingers.

"Old man, we have been defeated so far, and we want to rest in your place for a few days, I don't know if it's okay?" Liu Bei's words were gentle, and he discussed with the old man.

The old man seemed to be a little flattered, after all, among the 'big guys' he had seen, all of them were arrogant and arrogant, and he had never seen a hero like Liu Bei.

The old man nodded, and shouted with the families who closed the door: "Villagers, come out, these are our sons and soldiers in Xuzhou, not bad people." ”

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(Two days ago, my grandfather was 90th birthday, so the author went back to his hometown, which led to a break of two days, and some book friends may not have seen my leave note, I'm very sorry)