When Sun Ce fought with Yuan Tan for the first time in Yanzhou, in Rencheng, Zhu Huan led his troops to break through Li Gan's position and killed Li Gan and his son. Since then, Li Jin has prepared his troops and trained his soldiers, and even sold his property and spent a lot of money to Nanyang to buy weapons in the black market in Runan to prepare for revenge. It has been more than six years since then. When he learned that Zhu Huan was a general in command of the army, he still felt that God had mercy on him and gave him a chance to revenge. Now he knows that this is not favor, but teasing.

The giant stone thrower and oil bomb were not qualified to call Zhu Huan in front of him holding a heavy weapon. The city gate was broken and the city tower was burned. Dingtao City was a test piece used by Zhu Huan to practice tactics. No matter how hard he tried or how much preparation he made, it would be meaningless in front of such a heavy weapon, and the final result would not change.

If you have to say that it has any meaning, it is to make Zhu Huan more prepared and be more confident when attacking Changyi or other cities in the future.

Why is this so? Li Jin couldn't figure it out. But he knew that Dingtao could not be defended. When it was broken, it was up to Zhu Huan, not him. He called his companion Li Dian and asked him to take some troops out of the city and rushed to Changyi to ask for help.

"From now on, follow General Dong and don't come back to Dingtao." Li Jin said to Li Dian.

Li Dian suddenly understood, and fell to the ground, hugged Li Jin's leg, Tao cried. Li Jin bent down, pulled Li Dian up, and straightened his helmet. "Mancheng, the world is not kind, and ordered Sun Ce to step into Shandong, but he sacrificed my family. If you have any grudges, the Li family has no face to stand between the world. There is no successor, and the Li family of Juye cannot stand in the Silin. Although the world is in chaos, peace can be expected. In the future, it will be the era of scholars. You have a lot of books, and the hope of the Li family of Juye is on you. Work hard."

Li Dian bowed again and left in tears. He gathered more than 200 war horses to accumulate energy. After nightfall, he quietly left the West Gate, detoured by Chengshi, and headed for Changyi.

Zhu Huan soon received a report from the scout. He knew that there were cavalrymen leaving the city, but he was not nervous. He just informed Man Chong and Ji Ling, asking them to pay attention to Dong Zhao from Changyi's direction to come to support and put the scouts a hundred miles away to prevent cavalry from rushing. Although Taishi Ci severely injured Liu Bei and the possibility of the Youzhou cavalry going south on a large scale was not high, the emperor and Yuan Tan had cavalry, with a total of more than ten thousand, especially the Bingliang cavalry in the hands of the emperor were very elite and should not be underestimated.

Zhu Huan attacked the city in a proper manner and practiced tactics. However, Li Jin did not engage in any more trouble, and soon gave up the big city and retreated to the small city in the northwest corner. Not only that, he also disbanded the county soldiers other than the Li family army, allowing them to make a living and avoid innocent sacrifice. As for the people in the city, they chose it themselves, but he almost plundered the food in the city and stored it in the small city, and decided to defend to the end, burning both jade and stone.

When the troops were approaching the city, the people in the city had long since no longer wanted to stay in the city, and the food was plundered again, and there was no choice but to leave the city.

Dingtao is a big city. It originally had a household registration of more than 20,000 and more than 100,000 people. Even after years of war, there were still thousands of households in the city, 30,000 to 40,000, especially large households. Most of the ordinary people ran away. Because they were reluctant to give up their land and did not want to surrender to Sun Ce, they thought that there was hope to rely on Yuan Tan. As a result, Yuan Tan came and left, Li Jin took all their food, no longer cared about their life and death, and was furious and scolded Dong Zhao, Li Jin for being unethical, and was specifically cheating the party of the village.

However, swearing cannot solve the problem. In order to survive, they can only surrender to Zhu Huan, otherwise they will not even be able to eat. Of course, they can flee north and seek relatives, but there are very few people who do this. Anyone who is a little rational knows that even if they flee north, they can only escape for a while and cannot escape for a lifetime. Unless they can escape the Yellow River and escape into the mountains, they will sooner or later be caught up by Sun Ce. Instead of surrendering at that time, it is better to surrender now.

No one can tell what the surname in the world is, but Shandong must have the surname Sun.

Because he was a semi-voluntary surrender, Zhu Huan made a fuss and did not hang the heads of the heads of each family on the official road, nor did he not take them as official slaves, but did not receive their land and manors, and ordered them to organize young and strong people to serve the army, and perform well, and they could consider returning some industries in the future. With Zhu Huan's promise and Man Chong mediated, these Dingtao clans finally settled down. The men transferred to the market and served, and the women washed and cooked. Some of the outstanding figures were dressed up in a refreshing and refreshing manner. They wandered back and forth in front of the soldiers intentionally or unintentionally, hoping to get favor and get married.

Dingtao was originally the former land of Cao State, with a strong business atmosphere. Tao Zhugong Fan Li settled here in his later years, so he changed his name to Dingtao. Hundreds of years of business accumulation gave Dingtao people a strong habit of profit-seeking and did not believe in the Confucian loyalty, filial piety, ruling and righteousness. He had a greater ability to bear risks in business all year round. Once he found that something could not be done, they quickly accepted the facts and sought a better solution.

Zhu Huan and others are all generals of the Wu Kingdom, and they are young and promising. These are the best choices for choosing a son-in-law. Marrying with them can not only solve the current crisis, but also have a great future for development. Why not do it?

Although Zhu Huan and Lu Yi were smart, they were not experienced enough. They were a little busy for a moment. Looking at the young women who were radiant, they could not kill them, and they could not stay. However, Lu Fan was a person who had experienced it. Knowing the little thoughts of these Dingtao clans, he immediately suggested to Zhu Huan that these women should be organized, trained from medical staff in the army and turned into nurses to serve the injured soldiers, and also provided them with the opportunity to get close to the soldiers. Those who performed outstandingly would be given priority to select soldiers to marry after the war.

Zhu Huan was overjoyed and immediately summoned the heads of various families to announce the order, and finally handled the matter properly.

Of course, Zhu Huan, Lu Fan, Ji Ling and other generals also had a few more concubines around him, and only Lu Yi kept himself clean and politely declined the contributions of the Dingtao clan.

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After listening to Li Dian's report, Dong Zhao decided to ask Yuan Tan for help. Without reinforcements, it would be difficult for him to defend Changyi and complete Yuan Tan's commission.

He also knew that Yuan Tan was unable to protect himself, so when he asked Yuan Tan for help, he specifically mentioned that he hoped that Yuan Tan could come forward to ask the emperor to send troops and send cavalry to Yanzhou to assist in the battle. Now it is winter, with little rain and dry land, which is conducive to cavalry running. The rivers are shallow, and there are many places to wading through. If cavalry can be sent to Yanzhou, or assist infantry fighting, or harass Zhu Huan's food route, it can greatly reduce the pressure on Changyi. The emperor has a Liang Jing cavalry under his command, which is enough to compete with the Jiangdong cavalry led by Chen Dao and Yan Xing.

In order to prevent Yuan Tan from hesitating, Dong Zhao wrote another letter, sent Li Dian to the ancestral hall, explaining the interests of the emperor in person and asking him to send troops to reinforce. Li Dian understood Dong Zhao's meaning and was extremely grateful. He hurried out of the city with Dong Zhao's handwritten letter.

After seeing Li Dian away, Dong Zhao came to the construction site and looked at the giant stone throwers that were basically formed and lacked a real tip rod. No matter the range, why did the base processed according to the drawings not meet the expected requirements? Is there something wrong with the drawings, or did something wrong in other places?

Zhu Huan was trying to get Dingtao. Li Jin retreated to defend the small city. The small city was strong and had sufficient food, but Li Jin's confidence had collapsed. No one could say how long he could defend. Once Dingtao was lost, Zhu Huan would move to Changyi. Will these stone throwing functions play a role?

Zhu Huan must have known the loss of the drawing, but Dong Zhao was not clear about what measures he had done. Judging from the situation, Zhu Huan did not seem to have any special reaction. This is a bit strange. Zhu Huan is not worried at all. Could it be that the key to the giant stone thrower is the tip rod. Without suitable tip rods, there is nothing special about these bases?

Dong Zhao has always been confident, but he was a little shaken when facing these stone throwers bases.
Chapter completed!