After adapting to the water and soil climate of Changsha, Li Su devoted himself to the daily work of selecting talents. At the same time, he asked Ganning to station troops in Baqiu to block the river defense and collect the latest information of the princes of Guandong to carry out diplomatic deception work at the same time.

Thousands of "Heroes" written by Wang Can brought from his fleet are still lying there, and there is no right time to distribute it to the public.

Zhao Yun was busy reorganizing troops and transporting grain, working on both military and diplomatic measures, and was always ready to launch a southern expedition. In addition, Zhao Yun also gave Li Su a list of potential officers selected when recruiting new troops locally, so that Li Su could slowly screen and make personnel arrangements and adjustments.

To be honest, although Li Su has already become the right general, he has not fully experienced the pleasure of being completely independent.

Two years ago, Liu Bei appointed him as the governor of Nanzhong and took charge of military and political affairs in several counties in Nanzhong, but that time he did not have absolute human rights. For example, he "suggested" Gu Yong as the prefect of Jianning, but Liu Bei was the one who made the decision in the end.

This time it was different. If anyone he liked was good, he could directly decide to be the prefect of the newly conquered area. So much so that Li Su himself felt a little bit over the top and even began to understand how tempting the "result system" and the "nine-rank Zhongzheng system" were for the chief officer.

Who would not think that he could decide the future of other people's official career in one fell swoop and could also invite people to form a clique for their own interests?

Fortunately, Li Su was influenced by the rule of law society. He knew very well how big the mistakes of choosing talents based on his mood and first impression were easily caused, so he forced himself to calm down and not make random decisions in a short period of time.

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"The first impression is to kill people. It's better to observe it secretly for a few days. Don't rush to read everyone's resume. First, look at other political achievements and military information briefings to grasp the overall situation."

Early that morning, in the study of the Changsha Prefecture Mansion, Li Su realized this problem after only half an hour of reading the talent resume.

Then he forced himself to "behave in the right way," first, look at how Jingnan has done recently, and then follow the excellent results of the management and follow the clues and trace back and forth the talents, so that he can avoid bias to the greatest extent.

In order to change his mind, Li Su put down his resume book, picked up the political achievements and military briefings, looked through it, and aimlessly learned about the situation.

Not to mention, let alone something else changed, Li Su really noticed something he had overlooked before.

It turned out that among the materials Zhao Yun prepared for him, there were many of the war situations of warlords such as Yuan Shu, Sun Jian, and Cao Cao that Zhao Yun collected since the beginning of this spring, and even included some simple maps indicating the sphere of influence of the princes.

Li Su thought to himself: "We should have asked Zilong about the new situation in this regard. The trend of the princes of Kanto has been completely different from that in history. It has long been completely disrupted by the butterfly effect. We are too closed in Yizhou and the timeliness is too poor."

However, after a few glances, Li Su was shocked because he found that many military information on the war report were at the end of February, but now it is late April. The war report is full of major events that concern the whole country, so Zhao Yun should not conceal it.

Li Su called out a county official whom Zhao Yun gave him and asked, "Why did General Zhao not report these military information to the king? I think some things happened a month and a half ago. Even if the Three Gorges waterways are not easy to go against the current, they should report to Chengdu for more than 20 days. In the future, such major events must be reported one by one, don't be afraid of trouble."

The little official came over and took a look, confirmed what Li Su said, and then gave in return: "Report to General Right, General Zhao should have reported to the king with his residence - the one you are reading now should have been sent to Chengdu half a month ago. Maybe... you missed it on the road?"

Li Su was right when he thought about it. It took him so long to come to Jingzhou. Perhaps he passed by the messenger who sent Zhao Yun’s military intelligence residence on the Yangtze River. In other words, Liu Bei might have read the news here half a month ago.

"This is possible." Li Su felt that the little official in front of him was quite meticulous and did not respond in a humble manner. Although he did not see any other outstanding features, he could at least use it. He asked, "What's your name? What's your current position?"

The minor official bowed: "Deng Zhi was humble and came from a neighboring county to join General Zhao. He was a record of the history of the room and had no rank."

"You retreat first, I'll watch it slowly." Li Su nodded, and it was not surprising that the Record Office Lingshi was the most basic "censor". If he was a grassroots clerk in the General's Mansion, he had the lowest rank of "one hundred stones".

But Zhao Yun is a general of miscellaneous title. Any general of miscellaneous title or even the lower-level clerks around the prefect have no official rank and are only worthy of "calculating the daily edible", that is, the salary is paid every day, and two dou of grains are paid every day, which is equivalent to a monthly salary of six stones and an annual salary of about eighty stones.

But looking at the little official who called himself "Deng Zhi" in front of him, he is not old and is not as good as the clerk.

Li Su would not feel proud or surprised at all because "the clerks assigned to me will be famous officials in the future." He has become accustomed to it. After all, he is a right general, and it is appropriate to invest in potential stocks that have not yet made a name for themselves.

Li Su continued to read down alone.

The first important military information that caught my eye was that two months ago, the Wancheng, the prefect of Lujiang County, was finally defeated by Sun Jian, the governor of Yangzhou, who was praised by Yuan Shu, and Lu Kang himself was also killed and sacrificed his country.

Li Su knew that the property he and Liu Bei gave to Sun Jian was issued in the twelfth lunar month. Sun Jian received the goods and resold them to deal with some of them, forming military combat power, at least in the first lunar month of this year. Therefore, it was not too late to take down Lujiang at the end of February and expand his territory to two counties.

The key to the information collected by Zhao Yun was that Sun Jian also detailed the process of taking down Lujiang and some of the strategies: Lu Kang was also a good person and was a valiant old minister. If he had been defending the city, he would not have been finished if he could not hold on for two months.

But the problem is that Lu Kang also knew that he had no foreign aid and had no future in vain, so he also hoped for reinforcements while defending.

Lu Kang's most reliable reinforcements were of course Zhou Xin, the prefect of Danyang who fought side by side with him last winter and was defeated by Sun Jian.

Zhou Xin's will to resist was very firm. Not only was he a subordinate of Chen Wen and Lu Kang's comrade. His younger brother Zhou Ang was once the prefect of Jiujiang represented by Yuan Shao. During the previous battle of Sun Jian's capture of Jiujiang County, he was the Shouchun City seized after killing Zhou Ang (of course, Sun Jian had an excuse when he killed Zhou Ang, saying that he was avenging Gongsun Yue who was killed by Zhou Ang. Anyway, the two major camps of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu factions killed too many people, so they would definitely find it if they wanted to find excuses). Therefore, Zhou Xin and Sun Jian had a grudge against killing their brother.

But the problem is that it is not enough to have the will to fight alone. Zhou Xin's strength is too weak. Last winter, when Sun Jian killed Yangzhou Governor Chen Wen, Zhou Xin's troops suffered a lot.

Zhou Xin hurriedly crossed the Yangtze River to rescue Lu Kang. His original intention was to cross from Hulin Port in the south of the Yangtze River to Wankou, and follow the tributaries to Wancheng. He used the benefits of the navy to attack Sun Jian, who came from the north and lacked large warships.

On the way, Zhou Xin's general Zhang Ying and Fan Neng met Sun Ce, the partial army of Sun Jian, and Zhou Yu's intercepted him. Zhang Ying and Fan Neng saw that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's ship were very small, and they could only drive in the Anhui River. When they entered the Yangtze River, they would be knocked over by the waves. In addition, they heard that Sun Jian's main force was attacking Wancheng urgently, so they sent two little kids who were less than the top in the year to lead this partial army to intercept him, so they were careless.

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Unexpectedly, Zhang Yingfan was known as a veteran on the battlefield, but he really capsized the ship in the Anhui River. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, two young generals who were less than 20 years old, led troops to fight independently for the first time in their life, and they were defeated.

Zhang Ying's snail was burned by a fire boat that was ambushed in the reed marsh in advance in the narrow countercurrent of the Anhui River. Zhang Ying was burned to death in the river. Fan Neng took the boat away and fled back to Jiangdong with the remaining soldiers.

After hearing that Zhou Xin's reinforcements suffered heavy losses and were repelled, Lu Kang, who was besieged in the city, became more worried and sick. But he did not give up because Lu Kang had two envoys seeking help, who were going to find Liu Biao and Cao Cao.

As we all know, Jiangxia County under Liu Biao's rule borders Lujiang County, just west of Lujiang County, so if Liu Biao sends Huang Zu to reinforce, Lu Kang can be saved. Lu Kang has even made plans to let Lujiang County fall under Liu Biao's rule as long as Liu Biao saves him.

Unfortunately, Liu Biao's nature as a self-defense thief was exposed again. At this moment, he did not focus on making real profits in the bowl. Instead, he thought about "realizing his status" and insisted on arguing with Lu Kang. "He Liu Biao would like to represent the prefect of Lujiang County and the prefect of Yuzhang County on the other side of Lujiang." However, he did not make any real capital to send troops and was concerned about his "diplomatic relations" with Yuan Shu. Lu Kang had to give up his fantasy about Liu Biao.

Don't think it's incredible, because Liu Biao has done this in history. It's just that two or three years later, when Liu Yao was beaten by Sun Ce and fled to Yuzhang County, he asked Liu Biao for help. Liu Biao asked him to accept his confidant Zhuge Xuan as the prefect of Yuzhang, so that he could completely control Yuzhang before he could save him. Later, because Liu Yao died of illness in 196, the matter was abandoned.

After Liu Biao sat down and refused to save him, Lu Kang's last hope was originally Cao Cao. Because Cao Cao in this life was not constrained by Liu Bei and Lu Bu, the Xuzhou strategy went smoothly. He was besieging Xia Pi City at that time, and almost five of the six counties in Xuzhou had been captured.

Xia Pi, Pengcheng and other counties in Xuzhou bordered Sun Jian’s old nest Jiujiang County. If Cao Cao was willing, although he could not save Lu Kang directly, he could surround Wei to rescue Zhao and stab Sun Jian’s chrysanthemums that could surround Sun Jian’s old nest and force Sun Jian to withdraw.

Unfortunately, it was precisely because Lujiang and Cao Cao's territory did not directly border that it was difficult for Lu Kang's letter of help to send out. He did not dare to go directly to Jiujiang County to pass through Sun Jian's defense zone to deliver the letter, for fear of being captured by Sun Jian's patrol scouts. So Lu Kang took a step and asked the messenger to take the Yangtze River route and go around Guangling County in Xuzhou to Xiapi to meet Cao Cao.

But the incident happened here. Lu Kang did not know the attitude of Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling in Xuzhou. He thought that Cao Cao was about to take over the entire territory of Xuzhou, and Chen Deng must be ready to surrender to Cao Cao.

Unexpectedly, in order to seek self-protection, Chen Deng planned to be a fenceist faction on both ends. Because he hated Cao Cao's multiple massacres in Xuzhou in this life, he saw that Sun Jian next door had the potential to fight Cao Cao, so after intercepting Lu Kang's messenger for help, he immediately tied up the messenger and gave it to Sun Jian, hoping to exchange it with Sun Jian for "I'll help you expose Lu Kang to join forces with Cao Cao to explode your chrysanthemum. You have to support me to defend Guangling County, the southeastern section of Xuzhou, not annexed by Cao Cao."

After all, Chen Deng was a local faction in history. He defected to Cao Cao because Cao Cao had already "held the emperor" and had the status of the court. Now Cao Cao did not have the status of the court yet, so Chen Deng certainly did not need to seek refuge with an enemy who massacred his hometown.

After reading Lu Kang's secret letter, Sun Jian of course immediately agreed to Chen Deng, saying that as long as Chen Deng nominally surrendered to him and joined forces with him, he could continue to be the prefect of Guangling and realize Guangling's autonomy. He even made a wish that as long as Chen Deng helped him share the pressure on the northern line, after Sun Jian launched a northern expedition to recover Xuzhou in the future, he would appoint Chen Deng as the governor of Xuzhou!

Of course, Sun Jian's words were nonsense. With his strength, he still wanted to attack Xuzhou in the north and didn't know the year of the monkey and horses, but he painted the big cakes like this.

After the negotiations were completed, Sun Jian and Chen Deng joined forces to pretend that "Cao Cao had received a letter of help from Lu Kang, and he really sent troops to attack Sun Jian's rear, forcing Sun Jian to return to the army to rescue."

Because this was Lu Kang's plan, of course he did not doubt that he had him. After Sun Jian withdrew his troops, he took advantage of the fact that there were a lot of military supplies in the camp left by Sun Jian, and wanted to send a suicide squad to burn and plunder the baggage that Sun Jian had not had time to transport.

As a result, of course, he was hit by Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and the troops left the city were cut off and rushed into Wancheng while the chaos was in trouble.

Lu Kang was very regretful, and he couldn't get up from illness and couldn't escape. He didn't want to be humiliated, so he committed suicide before the prefect's mansion was broken.

Before his death, he sent several confidant officers to fight out of the south gate to protect his son Lu Ji and his grandson Lu Xun and other descendants of the tribe. Some female relatives, disguised as civilian ships, fled from the Anhui River, and let them take a detour to enter the Yangtze River and surrender to Cao Cao, and in the future, they will revenge the murder of their father and ancestors.

Lu Kang had some other disciples who returned to Lu Kang's hometown in Wujun, preparing to collect property and buy dead soldiers in an attempt to avenge other ways.

Wancheng was finally completely broken after just forty days of being besieged. At the end of February, Sun Jian had taken down the entire territory of Lujiang County.

It was not until early March that Cao Cao learned from the various news that spread after the war that "it turned out that Lu Kang wanted to surrender to him before his death and asked for help from him", and he couldn't help but regret that he had "missed 100 million yuan."

But at that time, Tao Qian was still defending Xia Pi City and had not yet been broken. Cao Cao himself was unable to do anything, and he was also angry that Chen Deng not only did not surrender, but also intercepted and killed his secret envoys to ruin his good deeds, so he asked Xiahou Dun to divide his troops into attack Guangling!

At this time, Xiahou Dun was not as famous as a general in Cao's army as a general, so Cao Cao was very relieved. In addition, when Cao Cao was defeated in the battle against Dong Chenggao and needed to recruit troops again, Xiahou Dun was responsible for the task of "recruiting Danyang soldiers from Guangling County". At that time, it was the 4,000 Danyang soldiers he recruited by Yangzhou Governor Chen Wen.

Therefore, Xiahou Dun should avenge Chen Wen, who was killed by Sun Jian, for his sake, and was familiar with the local geographical situation, so he sent troops confidently.

The result was of course that Xiahou Dun's side troops went deep into Guangling. Shortly after besieging Guangling City, they were defeated by Sun Jian and Chen Deng inside and outside. Xiahou Dun finally won his first defeat in this life.

Cao Cao calmed down a little, realizing that he had too much appetite, so he sent someone to tell Sun Jian that it was a misunderstanding. The two armies temporarily made peace, and Sun Jian was happy to continue to pretend to be a superficial brother with Cao Cao, as if nothing had happened.

After appeased Sun Jian, Cao Cao was full of anger and finally completely captured Xia Pi City before the end of March. Of course, his anger towards Tao Qian was even more serious than before, because Tao Qian dragged him down and refused to die, which made him miss the opportunity to save Lu Kang and disgusted Sun Jian.

Tao Qian also knew that he would not have a good ending. When the city was broken, the mansion of Xuzhou Mu burned the house, and the whole family threw it into the fire and died. Cao Cao had nowhere to vent his anger and ordered the slaughter of the entire Xia Pi city.

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Chapter completed!