Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 394

Zhang Ming is still in the distant county town, and he has already controlled many county towns.

Zhang Ming was very happy to receive Gao Shun's battle report.

"Cao Cao is really unpopular in Xuzhou."

Unpopular, the big reason is that Zhang Ming has done a good job.

His newspaper has great influence in Xuzhou and has recruited many readers.

Cao Cao also wanted to ban newspapers, but after he banned them for a period of time, he found that the situation was more serious.

Zhang Ming's newspapers can come in from behind the scenes, and then the streets will be full of gossip.

The grapevine spreads more powerfully and tends to deform.

Many gossips will change the person who spreads them, and it will make people panic.

Later, Cao Cao had no choice but to publish his own newspaper to fight.

However, publishing newspapers is a big burden for him.

Zhang Ming's newspapers are rich in content and popular among the common people. In particular, several novels have been published, which have become popular.

Two novels are serialized at a time, and one book only has two pages, and the characters are very small, only a few chapters.

The serialization of the novel made Zhang Ming's newspaper very popular.

The profession of reading newspapers has appeared in many places.

It is also hard to say whether there will be a career as a storyteller in the future for reading newspapers and receiving some rewards.

After taking down Pengcheng, Zhang Ming planned to garrison Pengcheng first, and then attack other places.

The surrounding counties heard that Pengcheng had fallen, and those who fled fled, and those who surrendered surrendered.

The entire Pengcheng State County was taken by Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming led people into Pengcheng.

"Gather all the surrendered soldiers, put them all in Pengcheng, and recruit some more soldiers."

Zhang Ming gave the order, and Gao Shun immediately arranged for soldiers to do it.

Afterwards, Gao Shun specially came to Zhang Ming.

"My lord, the surrendered soldiers and the newly recruited soldiers are simply unable to fight against Cao's elite troops."

After Gao Shun finished speaking, Zhang Ming laughed with his hands behind his back.

"Of course, these soldiers and horses are not used for fighting, but for us to shout and frighten people."

Gao Shun didn't say anything more, since Zhang Ming understands, it will be dealt with naturally, so he doesn't need to worry too much.

Gao Shun has been busy after knowing about it.

A few days later, Gao Shun and the others actually recruited more than 2 people.

This made Zhang Ming very surprised.

The weapons and equipment of about 1 people were found from the warehouse, and the other 1 people temporarily prepared a wooden stick for them.

Zhang Ming sent two thousand soldiers to manage these troops and retrain them.

Of course, we can only train the order, let them walk in the queue, and obey the command.

Zhang Ming didn't expect them to be of much help to these people.

For a few days, Cheng Yu was quite happy, his role was to delay time.

Now, Zhang Ming's army was successfully held back by him.

Cheng Yu felt that his goal had been achieved.

Zhang Ming was in Xuzhou, and it took nearly ten days to take Pengcheng County.

At this time, Cao Cao's army rushed to Jizhou.

Xi Zhicai led the army and fought several times with Cao Cao's army in the wild.

The two sides faced each other head-on, and each lost a lot.

Both sides lost more than [-] people, which can be described as a great injury.

Cao Cao began to besiege Zhang Ming's camp outside Yecheng.

After attacking violently for three days, Xi Zhicai and the others lost more than [-] people, so they took the initiative to retreat to the surrounding counties.

Cao Cao took Yecheng, but it was just a ruin. He didn't feel any joy, but planned to continue chasing Xi Zhicai.

Break Xi Zhicai's camp, and his losses are doubled.

Cao Cao continued to pursue Xi Zhicai, but Cao Cao was very cautious, and the pursuit was not fast, because he was also worried about being ambushed.

On Zhang Ming's side, a lot of time was wasted, and he only occupied one county now.

Cheng Yu didn't care about the loss of land, as long as he blocked Zhang Ming's army.

The two sides confronted each other.

At this time, Zhang Ming was ready.

He left 5000 people in Gaoshun, of which [-] were trapped in the camp, ready to resist Cheng Yu's army when necessary.

And he himself led the army down mightily.

Really mighty, because there are a lot of newly recruited troops in the middle.

The newly recruited army does not know how powerful it is, but its momentum is definitely huge.

Zhang Ming led the army to go east.

Mighty, very spectacular.

Zhang Ming headed towards Donghai County, and many cities along the way opened their doors and surrendered.

There are more than 3 people in Zhang Ming, what a huge momentum.

Zhang Ming attacked the city and pulled out the stronghold, occupying half of the city in Dongjun within a few days.

After the occupation, Zhang Ming began to leave some troops behind, and then asked them to conduct military training on the spot.

Zhang Ming will leave dozens of his own troops to train them.

And Zhang Ming reorganized and recruited some troops, and the team continued to grow.

The powerful team continued to sweep towards other cities in the East County.

The defenders in Dongjun were already very good, and at this time they began to uprising.

The army moved forward and reached Yancheng.

Yancheng, the county seat, has three thousand defenders.

They had already prepared a few days ago.

The army of Yancheng refused to open the city gate.

"Listen to the army inside, you are surrounded, put down your weapons and surrender immediately."

"If you resist stubbornly, when my army rushes in, those who survive by chance will all be caught on the construction site and the road will be built for five years."

Zhang Ming asked the soldiers to yell under the city, and yelled dozens of times in a row.

"In the last half hour, if you don't open the city, wait for my master Wang to enter the city, the county guards and guards will beheaded in public, and the rest will be built for five years."

Wait, or wait.

The guards and county guards in the city are all stubborn from the aristocratic family.

They didn't have a good impression of Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming is a devil in the aristocratic family.

Therefore, they took chances and refused to open the city.

Half an hour passed quickly.

"The whole army divides the city from all sides to attack, and takes Yancheng in half an hour."

With Zhang Ming's order, the four city walls stormed together.

Now, he has a lot of siege equipment, because he now has many people who can help him carry the ladders. These newly recruited troops can still do a lot of things as long as they are managed well.

The siege started from all sides, and the defenders in the city were not given. After about half an hour, Zhang Ming and the others rushed in as scheduled.

Opening the city gate, Zhang Ming basically controlled another county.

Taking control of the city, Zhang Ming began to clean up.

The aristocratic families that will participate directly confiscated all their property and dismissed their family guards.

In addition, several officers were all killed by Zhang Ming.

The sheriff also arrested and killed them in public.

As for the few surrendered soldiers left, Zhang Ming temporarily detained them.

Then, Zhang Ming began to distribute food again, distributing the excess food directly to the people.

After receiving a wave of popular support, Zhang Ming sent thousands of troops to take over the surrounding cities, and he began to train troops outside the city.

Zhang Ming directly trained on the spot, from morning to night, and trained suddenly for several days.

It works, and these armies will at least be more disciplined.

When Cheng Yu received the news, he had no idea what Zhang Ming was going to do.

When Zhang Ming wanted to attack these places, they had judged before that they couldn't defend the places, and they didn't dare to hold on.

Defending the city is no longer the best policy, it will only let Zhang Ming take the opportunity to destroy their vital forces.

At this time, Cheng Yu was not in danger of being surrounded, he could run to Yuzhou, so he was not worried about his safety yet.

(End of this chapter)