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- Since the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the whole world has been in turmoil. The Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and the chaos among the princes in various places can be described as turbulent.
Among the heroes in the world, two people jumped out. One of them is Cao Cao. This man has a black face and a black heart. He does big things, has no kindness for women, is suspicious in nature, and has good talents. His counselors Guo Jiaxun You Xunyu Cheng Yu, and the generals Xiahou brothers, Le Jin, Yu Jin, Cao Chun and others assassinated Dong Zhuo and ordered the princes to carve out a piece of the world in the troubled times and proclaimed themselves King of Wei.
On the other hand, Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang were the son-in-law of Wen Marquis Lu Bu. He was indecisive, but had insights that ordinary people did not have. He fought his way out of the rebel army and occupied Yangzhou. He defeated Sun Ce, Liu Bei, and Zhang Xiu successively. , defeated Liu Biao again.
Occupy Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jiangdong Jingzhou, and stabilize one side.
The general trend of the world must be divided for a long time.
The chaos in those days has turned into a fight between two tigers, bounded by the Ying River. One is in the north and is called the Northern Han Dynasty, and the other is in the south and is also called the Southern Han Dynasty.
An undercurrent is surging in Yuzhou.
The army is gathering in Yanzhou. The conquest of Yangzhou will not take a day and a half, nor can it be accomplished with only 12,000 soldiers and horses. Cao Cao has prepared an army of 150,000, claiming to be 300,000, and has already begun to allocate ordnance and food.
It is impossible to hide such news from everyone in the world.
During Shouchun, Xu Shu stayed in the Yangzhou government office. He was the internal minister of the entire Southern Han Dynasty. It can be said that apart from Liu Mang, he was the person with the largest position.
Even though Xu Shu kept pushing away. But it is also recognized as an internal figure.
Liu Mang led his troops to Jingzhou, and the whole of Yangzhou was left to Xu Shu.
Now there is an intelligence letter on Xu Shu's desk.
The news about Yanzhou is written on it.
"Cao Cao transferred Zhili. The grain and grass from Qingzhou and Jizhou went to Yanzhou?" Xu Shu frowned, looked at the letter, and immediately felt that this was a very serious matter.
"Is this news accurate?" Xu Shu asked a spy from the Jin Yiwei who was kneeling below.
"Reply, according to the internal minister, this news is absolutely true. Not only our Jinyiwei has confirmed it. Even the Second East and West Factory and Qingyi have also given the same information."
Jinyiwei, East and West Factory No. 2. This was established by Liu Mang after he took over the intelligence organization from Yang Hongchengong.
Qingyi was an intelligence organization that originally belonged to the Kuai family in Jingzhou. After Jingzhou entered the Southern Han Dynasty, Tsingyi was also merged into the intelligence organization in Yangzhou.
The person in charge. It was none other than Kuai Ran, the son of Kuai Yue.
The news from the three companies has been confirmed, so we can conclude that this is true.
"Come here, come with me to summon the ministers, generals, and cabinet offices to discuss matters." Xu Shu stood up and shouted to his men.
"Oh" it was already a starry night, but the lights in the Cabinet Office were brightly lit. All the prominent figures in the Southern Han Dynasty gathered at the Cabinet Office.
"Zijing, are you here too?" A surprised voice rang in Lu Su's ears.
"Zi Yang?" Lu Su looked at the visitor and was also very surprised. Because this person is none other than Liu Ye, Liu Ziyang, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, who belongs to the same minister as Lu Su.
"What on earth happened here? Even Ziyang, you came to discuss the matter?" Lu Su asked doubtfully. Liu Ye usually did not come out of the industrial zone in Yangzhou. All kinds of novelty things were moved out of the industrial zone and sent to various places in Yangzhou. There were things for civilian use, such as glass and the like that just came out. They are very beautiful and can be made into mirrors, which are comparable to copper. The mirror is much clearer. Military ones such as artillery, crossbows, cement, etc. They all come from the industrial area.
"Could it be that the lord is back?" Only when the lord Liu Mang returns to Yangzhou will Liu Ye show up to report.
"I don't know either." Liu Ye shook his head. "If the lord comes back, he should be in the palace at this moment, not in the cabinet office."
There was only one person who summoned the ministers at the Cabinet Office, and that was Internal Affairs Minister Xu Shu.
"My lords, generals, and the Minister of Internal Affairs will be here soon. Please, lords and generals, please pass on these letters in my hand." As he spoke, a small official took out a portion from the plate held by the small official behind him. The letter was handed over to the lords and generals over there.
Lu Su and Liu Ye also got a copy and opened it and started reading.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? But it is also a mouthful of words, "This, this, this"
The above are all the news from Yanzhou in recent days.
Maximum?The ones that belong to grain and grass will be removed.
"Is there going to be a famine in Yanzhou? Cao Cao actually allocates grain and grass from Zhili, Qingzhou, Youzhou and Jizhou?" This is what some civil servants who are not sensitive to war made.
They are good at governing one party, but they don¡¯t have such a great sense of urgency.
But those generals are different.
What does food and grass mean in troubled times? The first means survival. People are like iron rice or steel. If you don't eat one meal, you will be hungry. If you don't have food, you will starve to death.
This second one represents war.
Food and grass are the root cause of all wars. If there is insufficient food and grass, the army will not be able to move.
"Does Cao Cao want to start a war?" The generals felt like this, and a heavy atmosphere rose in the entire scene.
"Is this day finally coming?" Liu Ye, Lu Xun, and Ju Shou all had this thought.
The Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty, although this is a joke among the common people, the current Han Dynasty has indeed been divided long ago. The King of Wei and the King of Han, if it takes a few more decades, or even less than a few decades, as long as there is an opportunity , then it will become Wei and Han, and Cao Cao and Liu Mang will also become Wei Emperor and Han Emperor.
The battle between the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty has been avoided by everyone. On the border, the situation is slowing down everywhere, and the things done are not excessive.
"I'm afraid that both sides won't be able to bear it anymore and start a fight. Once the war breaks out, the scale will definitely be huge."
By then, this will really be a disaster.
The Southern Han Dynasty cannot afford to fight. Cao Cao of the Northern Han Dynasty also couldn't afford to fight.
"The Inner Prime Minister has arrived." While everyone was still thinking, the Inner Prime Minister Xu Shu came out.
"Thank you for your hard work, gentlemen," Xu Shu walked to the stage and said to the people there.
"Hello, Mr. Internal Minister"
Xu Shu nodded, "My lords, please sit down quickly." The Cabinet Office is not above the royal palace. Above the royal palace, Liu Mang is the king, and those below are the ministers, so everyone has to kneel down and so on. There is no place for the king. Granted position. That is a supreme honor.
But the Cabinet Office is different. Everyone is an official in the same government. Although there are differences between high and low, who doesn't have the opportunity to join the cabinet one day?
So everyone said they were equal, so they had seats, even though they were equal on the surface. But they are also divided into positions, with civil servants and military officers each in one row. The minister is in the first row, and behind him are the left and right ministers.
After everyone was seated, Xu Shu spoke up, "My lords and generals, Xu Shu can't help disturbing you all so late at night. Xu Shu would like to apologize to all of you." Xu Shu stood up gracefully and faced A group of civil and military officials from the Southern Han Dynasty below spoke up.
"Where, where. The Prime Minister's words are serious." Everyone also spoke modestly.
"It is true that something big has happened when I call you here. I have no choice but to do so. The Lord is not in Shouchun now. For such an important matter, one person is planning the shortcomings and two people are planning the longcomings. This is why I invite you all, sir and generals, to come together. , I believe you have also read the information I gave you, do you have anything to say?" Xu Shu asked, looking at the ministers and generals below.
A hoarse voice rang out, "Master Internal Affairs Minister. Is Cao Cao really going to start a war?" This hoarse voice was none other than Lu Su and Lu Zijing.
Xu Shu glanced at Lu Su, he was really a talent. In the hands of Sun Ce, Yangzhou was almost wiped out. If it weren't for the lord's crossbows and Gan Ning's navy, the outcome would have been hard to say.
It¡¯s just that neither Sun Ce nor Sun Quan made good use of Lu Su. If this person could fully exert himself, Xu Shu would consider himself no match.
"I'm afraid this is what Cao Cao is doing," Xu Shu nodded.
Lao Cao is really going to war, otherwise, he would not have mobilized food and grass like this in Yanzhou.
"This is not a thousand or two thousand stones of grain and grass. It is the grain and grass of several states. It was allocated. I didn't believe that Lao Cao was going to store it or something else. There was only one possibility and that was to go to war."
"It is no longer up to us to decide whether to start a war or not." Xu Shu said to Lu Su, "Lu Shangshu is now gathering supplies for Cao Cao. I am afraid that it may be several months at most or half a month at least. I am afraid that the army is about to attack. We have to think about it." The main thing is how to block Cao Cao's army before the Lord comes back." Xu Shu hit the nail on the head. What he wanted was for everyone to discuss how to resist Cao Cao's invasion.
"My lord, the army is still in Jingzhou. Mr. Internal Affairs Minister, how many more troops can we bring out?" Jushou spoke. It has been a long time since he came to Yangzhou, but he has not made much achievements.Jushou was incompetent, but Yangzhou is now on the right track, and there are capable people doing things in all aspects.
He, Jushuo, is also old and naturally his experience cannot keep up.
Xu Shu asked someone to inform Jushu. This was just a matter of politeness.
If Jushu doesn't come, Xu Shu won't force him.
But Jushou still came. If it were other areas such as Jingzhou, he would not be interested at all. No matter what Jingzhou and Yizhou were like, it would have nothing to do with him, Jushou.
But there is one difference, and that is Cao Cao.
He had lost to Cao Cao before. People are the most incapable of admitting defeat and the most afraid of seriousness.
Jushou¡¯s obsession is probably that of Cao Cao.
"My lord mobilized Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and two new Yangzhou armies, more than 30,000 people, to enter Jingzhou. If the Yangtze River Navy Camp is added, the number should be 70,000.
"Seventy thousand main force?" Jushou also frowned.
The soldiers and horses of the Yangzhou Army are more elite, not quantity. It can be said that if there is a competition with Cao Cao who has more soldiers and horses, Yangzhou will definitely not be the opponent if they attack.
With an army of 70,000, the mountain basically accounts for half of the Southern Han¡¯s troops.
"In Yangzhou, we now have General Gao Shun trapped in the camp, Wei Yan's Yiyang warriors, Hao Shao's Aegis soldiers, General Zang Ba's Taishan camp, and the Yangzhou new army under General Huang Lao, with more than 50,000 troops. "This is the strength that Yangzhou can show.
"Fifty thousand troops" Ju Shou really frowned.
Fifty thousand troops and horses may seem like a lot, but if they are really spread out, it will really not be enough.
"Master Internal Affairs Minister, we don't need to worry about the city defense with the main troops. Our Armed Police Department will naturally be responsible for it." A young general came out. This person was Li Yan who followed Zhuge Liang and joined the Yangzhou Army.
The Armed Police Department has quite a lot of people now. There must be at least 2,000 people in a city. If it is a county town, it may be even more.
And although the Armed Police Department is a garrison force in name, they have all retired from the main forces who have reached their age.
Liu Mang stipulates that only those between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five are allowed to stay in the military camp, and those who exceed the rank of general will be retired.
If you don¡¯t want to be a soldier, then give you a sum of money and some fields, or let you work as a local official. If you still want to be a soldier, then join Li Yan¡¯s garrison.
Those retired soldiers in Liu Mang's hands, among the soldiers and horses of other princes, cannot retreat until they die in battle, unless you can't walk anymore.
"50,000 field troops?" In this case, these 50,000 soldiers and horses will have something to play with.
"Now that there are 30,000 troops on the front line in Yuzhou, the top priority for the interior minister is to mobilize the troops of General Gaoshun of Lujiang, General Chengyu of Shouchun, and General Zangba of Xuzhou, all ready to go," Jushou suggested to Xu Shu.
"Sir, do you want a decisive battle?" Xu Shu listened to Jushu's suggestions over there, and soon understood what Jushu wanted to do.
"That's right." Jushou nodded. "Soldiers are valued for their speed. My Yangzhou soldiers and horses focus on elites rather than quantity. If Cao Cao's army is ready to go, it would be okay if the main force of the lord is still there, but now The main force of the lord's troops is not there, so there is no need for Cao Cao to take action. As long as Cao Cao sends troops to Yangzhou and harasses Yuzhou and Xuzhou on the border, I am afraid that our army will be defeated without a fight."
The number of Lao Cao's soldiers and horses is really quite large, at least the main force has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses.
This time when Old Cao goes south, there will definitely not be a small-scale battle. Once a fight breaks out, it will be a big battle. Cao Cao has a large number of people. If he puts his main force of 100,000 troops in front of Yangzhou, you must at least send More than 30,000 troops are on guard. If Cao Cao sends another 50,000 troops on each side of the border, the Yangzhou army will be exhausted.
"Strike first to gain the upper hand." Jushu's idea is really not that bold. "Before Cao Cao is ready to go, our army should take action." To be continued - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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