The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

After seeing everyone coming together, he didn't speak, but turned to look at Wen Chou, and signaled Wen Chou to take the initiative to tell the news to everyone present.

Wen Chou understood Yuan Shao's meaning, and his expression was also not good-looking, but he still took the initiative to speak at this time.

"Everyone, we are in trouble."

Wen Chou's words immediately made everyone present nervous.

"General Wen Chou, what happened?"

"The troops of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who were besieging us at the outskirts of Tan County, withdrew suddenly, and were ambushed and annihilated on the way!"

Chapter 833 Occupy Xiapi

Ji Feng's plan is indeed quite insidious, which is tantamount to cutting off Liu Zheng's retreat.

After conquering Guangling County, there was the natural danger of the Yangtze River as a barrier. Even if Liu Zheng wanted to send troops to support him, as long as he guarded the front line of the Yangtze River, it would be difficult for Liu Zheng, so he sent troops to fight back to Guangling.

And the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou can only become turtles in the urn, either lost to Liu Bei, or annexed by Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses.

In this way, there must be heavy losses between Liu Zheng and Liu Bei, and Yuan Shao can also take the opportunity to annex the entire Xuzhou.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao's face couldn't help becoming a little excited. According to what Ji Feng said, he really has a high probability of taking the opportunity to capture Xuzhou.

It's just that it's not the right time yet. Firstly, his soldiers from Qingzhou haven't arrived in Tan County, and secondly, the battle between Liu Zheng and Liu Bei has not yet heated up. After the two of them decide the winner, it will be their turn. Yuan Shao appeared.

So even though he already understood what to do next, Yuan Shao did not act rashly.

Of course, he didn't act rashly, it wasn't that he didn't take any action, Yuan Shao still quickly issued another order to Wen Chou Shenpei and others.

"Wen Chou, Shen Peier and others quickly dispatched a large number of spies to investigate the specific situation of Liu Zheng and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses. Don't let go of any information. Be sure to get enough information. Before Liu Zheng and Liu Bei fight Attack and establish the situation in Xuzhou in one fell swoop."

Although Yuan Shao does not plan to send troops to deal with Liu Bei and Liu Zheng, he must grasp the situation of Liu Zheng and Liu Bei so that he can successfully defeat them at the best moment.

Information is very important to him. Fortunately, Yuan Shao has a lot of cavalry, and using these cavalry as scouts and spies, he can grasp a lot of information.

Wen Chou and Shen Pei were in awe when they heard Yuan Shao's words, and immediately nodded in agreement.

"Yes, my lord."

At present, Yuan Jun here in Tan County began to deploy intensively, and a large number of spies and scouts were dispatched from the city to various places in Xuzhou.

Two days passed quickly.

Liu Zheng led an army and stationed outside Xiapi City for two days, which was regarded as recuperation.

Although he was recuperating, he did not relax his vigilance at all. On the one hand, he kept sending his scouts to the vicinity of Xiapi City to inquire about various news. On the other hand, he focused on the situation of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun who had escaped. I am very concerned, but there has been no news of these two people.

However, I did not find any news about Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, which is a good thing for Liu Zheng. In this way, it is impossible for them to appear outside Xiapi City to support Xiapi City. Can Kaesong surrender.

As soon as the two days were up, Liu Zheng immediately brought people back to Xiapi City again. He wanted to get Xiapi City as soon as possible so as not to change things later.

After Liu Zheng led his troops to Xiapi City again, Sun Shao on the tower also arrived as promised.

After seeing Sun Shao on the tower, Liu Zheng took the initiative to stand up and shouted at Sun Shao on the tower.

"Mr. Sun Shao, two days have passed, and the reinforcements you were expecting have not arrived. Should you leave the city and surrender as agreed?"

Sun Shao's complexion was not very good, although he expected Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and others to lead the troops to arrive here, but.There was not even a ghost in two days.Sun Shao also understood that it is unlikely that there will be reinforcements in Xiapi City.

Not to mention Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and other reinforcements, even Xuzhou did not send troops to support Xiapi.

Xuzhou is not far from here.A message has already been sent to Xuzhou to convey the order for help, but unfortunately time has passed, even if Liu Bei's mobilization speed is slow in four or five days, four or five days have passed, and people should be sent here.

Since no one appeared outside Xiapi City for four or five days, Sun Shao himself gave up.

He knew that the reinforcements from Xiapi City should not be able to arrive.

Anyway, there was no way to go, and relying on the thousands of old and weak soldiers in Xiapi City at this time, there was no way to stop Liu Zheng's attack.

Naturally, Sun Shao had no choice. After Liu Zheng asked, he took the initiative to respond to Liu Zheng.

"Your Majesty Liu Zheng, I, Sun Shao, am a trustworthy person. Since I promised you, I will surrender in two days, and I will not break my promise. Just step aside, and I will order someone to open the city and surrender."

After all, Sun Shao didn't talk to Liu Zheng on the tower, but immediately withdrew from the tower and ordered people to open the gate of Xiapi City.

The city of Xiapi was dedicated to Liu Zheng in this way.

It's not that Sun Shao is a spineless person, but that as a literati, he is not good at marching and fighting. In addition, there is no reinforcements at all. For him, there is really no way to keep guarding. Hope, for the sake of the people in the city, he had no choice but to make such a move.

Liu Zheng ordered Zang Ba to take over all the defense of Xiapi City.

After entering Xiapi City, he immediately let all his soldiers and horses enter Xiapi City, and at the same time treated Sun Shao and the troops who surrendered to him with Sun Shao well.

Although the number of these people is not large, and some of them are local aristocratic families, many of them have betrayed Liu Zheng before, but Liu Zheng never corrects the past and chooses to forgive.

After all, when Liu Zheng occupied Xuzhou, these aristocratic families chose to take refuge in him. Later, Xuzhou was defeated by Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, and those aristocratic families chose to take refuge in Liu Bei again. In fact, this can not be blamed on these aristocratic families, but also on Liu Zheng himself. Not being able to defend Xuzhou, these aristocratic families defended their own family's destiny, so naturally it was impossible to resist Liu Bei wholeheartedly.

Now that Liu Zheng is in control of Xuzhou again, these aristocratic families are terrified, and I am really worried that Liu Zheng will turn his anger on them.

However, it is clear that Liu Zheng became emperor not long ago, and when he needed to win people's hearts, if he vented his anger on these Xuzhou families, he would definitely lose the local people's hearts in Xuzhou.

Liu Zheng even wanted to recruit Sun Shao. After all, in history, Sun Shao would also be a first-level figure in Wu Guo's prime minister in the future. It is impossible to say that he does not have it. Not one more Sun Shao.

However, Sun Shao had just joined Liu Bei, and it would seem a little too heartless to join Liu Zheng after losing the battle. After Liu Zheng proposed to solicit, Sun Shao declined Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng knew that these people would not surrender easily. Unless Liu Zheng could completely defeat Liu Bei and make them lose some of their last sustenance, it would be difficult for them to surrender directly.

For this reason, Liu Zheng didn't mind. He just arranged for Sun Shao to go directly to Jianye and arrange a place for him. Slowly, they would naturally choose to join him.

Chapter 834 Information

Not long after Liu Zheng's troops occupied Xiapi City, Dian Wei immediately sent someone to report important news to Liu Zheng in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, important information!"

Dian Wei hurriedly approached with two brocade guards, leaned into Liu Zheng's ear, and whispered to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zhengzheng is happy because he took down Xiapi City.At this time, after hearing Dian Wei whisper in his ear, his expression became serious again.

"what happened?"

"Your Majesty, our people have noticed many spies outside Xiapi City."

"Spy? Who's spy?"

Liu Zheng became even more curious when he heard what Dian Wei said, and immediately asked another question.

Dian Wei shook his head.

"I don't know who they are for the time being, but I have already had two people arrested and brought back. His Majesty can interrogate them himself."

Dian Wei's speed was very fast. He had just reported to Liu Zheng that many spies had been found outside Xiapi City. It didn't take long for his subordinates to bring two people in.

These two were Dian Wei's Jin Yiwei who had captured two of the spies who had been hiding outside the city.

Dianwei's Jinyiwei is good at spying on information and military affairs, and Yuan Shao's spies outside the city are also specialized in these things, but how can they escape the eyes and ears of Dianwei's Jinyiwei.

So when Yuan Shao secretly dispatched these spies to spy on Liu Zheng's situation, they were already noticed by the large number of Jinyi guards sent by Dian Wei.

After these Jinyiwei noticed that there were a lot of spies outside the city, they immediately reported it to Dian Wei. Naturally, Dian Wei realized that something was wrong, so he immediately sent people to catch the two spies and came back. At the same time, he personally reported these things to Liu Zheng. Condition.

Only now did Liu Zheng look at the two enemy spies in front of him.

"Who are you?"

After Liu Zheng sized up the two enemy spies, he casually asked them a question.

Apparently, the two didn't fully reveal their identities because of Liu Zheng's words. When Liu Zheng asked, they ignored Liu Zheng at all, and they looked like dead pigs who were not afraid of boiling water.

He didn't speak, and he didn't reveal his identity.

Seeing this appearance, Liu Zheng knew that they could be regarded as people with some backbone.

When encountering this kind of thing, Liu Zheng used to be very caring, and he would definitely interrogate these people himself. After all, after a severe beating, even the toughest man can't bear it and will reveal his identity. He just wants to have a good time. But Liu Zheng, who is really valuable now, rarely participates in such things.

After meeting these people and not intending to tell Liu Zheng his identity, Liu Zheng didn't bother to tell them more.

He turned his head and glanced at Dian Wei, and then gave Dian Wei an order.

"Dian Wei, go and call Zhang Kai. Let these two people be handed over to him for interrogation."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Dian Wei immediately took the order, and at the same time took the two enemy spies to find Zhang Kai, preparing for Zhang Kai to interrogate the two men.

Zhang Kai is another commander of Liu Zheng's Jinyi Guard, and his responsibilities are different from Dian Wei's. Zhang Kai is responsible for assassination, spying, interrogation and other work.

Zhang Kai is all too familiar with interrogating enemy spies.

So Liu Zheng himself didn't bother to bother, and directly handed over the person to Zhang Kai to deal with. He just had to wait for the result presented by Zhang Kai.

Zhang Kai's hands and feet were nimble and fast. Not long after Liu Zhengcai asked Dianwei to take him down, the results of the interrogation came out.

When Zhang Kai passed the information from the interrogation to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng finally knew who these spies were.

These people couldn't bear Zhang Kai's little leather whip, and they had already explained everything after a few strokes.

And told Liu Zheng that they were Yuan Shao's soldiers, and they were ordered by Wen Chou to observe the battle between Liu Zheng and Liu Bei here, but they were noticed by Dian Wei's men before they could find out the news clearly. Only then was he caught and brought back.

After Liu Zheng knew that these people were Yuan Shao's men, it was only then that he remembered Yuan Shao.

He originally thought that Yuan Shao, who was at a disadvantage in the battle with Liu Zheng, should not have so many thoughts to do other things at the moment, and should stay in Tan County with peace of mind and recuperate.

But now that Liu Zheng knew that Yuan Shao was sending spies to investigate the situation between Xiapi City and Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng understood that Yuan Shao was definitely plotting something.

Otherwise, he would not have sent so many scouts to Xiapi City to inquire about the news. His purpose of inquiring about the news is very simple, that is, to learn as much as possible about the battle between Liu Zheng and Liu Bei.

"My lord, Yuan Shao sent a large number of spies this time. I learned from these two people that there are at least several hundred people scattered around Xiapi City. The actions of our army should be controlled by Yuan Shao's men."

Zhang Kai said one more thing, telling Liu Zheng what he found out.

Liu Zheng's face was gloomy when he heard Zhang Kai's words, as if he was thinking about something.

"Yuan Shao must be uneasy and well-intentioned. He must have taken action to send people over to inquire about the news so diligently. Zhang Kai, you immediately ask your spies to pay close attention to the situation in Tan County. If there is any trouble, report it to me immediately. Come report!"

Although Liu Zheng doesn't know what Yuan Shao wants to do for the time being, Liu Zheng knows that Yuan Shao must be uneasy and kind, and there will be actions against him secretly.

At this time, Liu Zheng had to deal with Liu Bei first, and had no time to pay attention to Yuan Shao. In addition, on the surface, Liu Zheng was still in an alliance with Yuan Shao for the time being.

The two of them discussed how to deal with the imperial court together. It would be bad if Liu Zheng directly broke his face now. Although Liu Zheng and Yuan Shao were not in the same way, he didn't want to completely turn against Yuan Shao, so he still wanted to maintain this short-term alliance.

But if Yuan Shao doesn't know how to flatter and wants to tear his face first, then Liu Zheng doesn't mind, and he will teach Yuan Shao a painful lesson first.

In this way, on the one hand, Liu Zheng sent people to watch Yuan Shao, and on the other hand, he started to rectify the people in Xiapi City, and fixed his eyes on Xuzhou City.

Xuzhou City is still what Liu Zheng wants most. After all, Xuzhou is Liu Bei's base camp. Only by defeating Liu Bei can he completely control Xuzhou. At that time, Liu Zheng can also free his hands to deal with Yuan Shao.

Right now, near Xuzhou City, there are [-] Wenpin troops confronting Liu Bei's men and horses. Liu Zheng only needs to take the soldiers and horses here in Xiapi City to support Wenpin, and everything should be dusted off. deal.

He only rested in Xiapi City for two days, and two days later, he took his men and went straight to Wenpin's army.

Chapter 835

Not far from Xuzhou City, only thirty miles away from Xuzhou City.

This is the battlefield where Wenpin and Tian Yu's armies clash.

The battle between Wenpin and Tian Yu actually started a few days ago, but Tian Yu only had more than [-] people under his command. What benefits did they get? Due to the shortage of soldiers and horses, when Tian Yu and Wenpin fought, they could only fight and retreat, and retreated all the way to the outside of Xuzhou City.

If Jian Yong hadn't brought some soldiers from Xuzhou City to support him, Tian Yu might not be able to hold on at this time and was defeated by Wenpin's army.

It was precisely because of the tens of thousands of soldiers led by Jian Yong who appeared here to support Tian Yu that Tian Yu could compete with Wenpin here. The two sides had several small confrontations, but failed to gain any advantage. , and then began to calm down, forming a confrontational situation.

At this moment, in Tian Yu's military tent, Jian Yongzheng was discussing with Tian Yu how to resist Wenpin's next attack, but at this moment, a group of soldiers appeared on the battlefield.

They came from another direction and headed straight for Xuzhou City.

After Tian Yu's spies noticed this news, they immediately came over and told Tian Yu.

"General, our army spies have sent information that an unidentified soldier and horse appeared ten miles due north."

Tian Yu, who was talking to Jian Yong, immediately attracted his attention when his messenger said this.

Immediately asked the messenger.

"What? How many people are there? Are they Wenpin's reinforcements?"

What Tian Yu is most worried about at the moment is the appearance of reinforcements for Wenpin. Wenpin already has some advantages. If there are more reinforcements and there are more troops, it will become more difficult for Tian Yu and Jian Yong to compete with Wenpin.

So when he heard from his subordinates that he had found an unidentified soldier, what Tian Yu was most worried about was that this soldier would be from Wenpin's side.

The orderly shook his head.