Three days are for invitations and two days are for calling. In the era when there is no telephone number, treating guests has to be made several days in advance to be considered polite.

What's more, a wealthy family like Hongnong Yang family and a future star like Yang Xiu have been promoted in the career of his career, so of course he should be more serious. He can eat frugally, but not save on etiquette procedures.

Three days later, it is not a day of rest, and the court has been off every five days, so the day of treating guests is postponed to the next day of rest.

The post was posted in the name of Yang Biao, the Grand Marshal who was still recuperating at home. First, I would like to thank the emperor for promoting the dog's son, and I would also like to thank the King of Hanzhong for giving him the opportunity to make contributions. Please celebrate with all my colleagues.

Liu Bei and Li Su will also go to the banquet at that time.

Several other children of Guanzhong families knew what this meant when they received the post: this was a demonstration that Liu Bei completely closed the Internet and announced that he had a thorough grasp of the Guanzhong area.

It was the victory of Liu Bei's attempt to integrate the Guanzhong forces after Wei Kang and other Jingzhao Wei branches were destroyed.

But there is no way, who made Li Su really have a strange plan and very strong. Even foreign aids such as Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao cooperated to reverse the disaster that would have caused at least hundreds of thousands of people to starve to death and displaced. Even famous officials in ancient times dared not think about this internal political achievement.

I don’t know how many “red envelopes” I will give out during the banquet to express my sincerity.

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While the aristocratic families were worried, Liu Bei and Li Su had not been idle these days.

When sharpening the knife, you have to take something to try the speed of the knife. It is really easy to start when it is time to cut the flesh.

The work of sharpening knives is also divided into two aspects: civil and military affairs. Li Su of Wen handled it and Liu Bei of Wu personally made it.

Wu's move was naturally to send Xu Huang to cross the Yellow River with some soldiers, land in Puyangjin, and then control several major counties along the waters of Hedong County to protect the trade and food routes with Yuan Shao. At the same time, it would also be better to attack the Hedong Wei family who had secretly "prepared to" collude with Yuan Shao, so that they would have an excuse to confiscate all the land that left Wei family in Fengyi County.

As mentioned earlier, in order to save food in Guanzhong, more than 60,000 reorganized troops of Liu Bei who participated in the Northern Expedition retreated to Yizhou, leaving only more than 30,000 troops, which is maintained by the subtle balance of "the princes are restricted by the emperor and dare not attack each other."

Among these 30,000 people, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun had to occupy 20,000 troops on the Western Front, because they were responsible for guarding Guo Si. Guo Si's identity was a Han thief rather than a Han minister, and it was not in the same system as the second Yuan and Cao Cao. He could fight Liu Bei at any time, so he could only rely on force to deal with Guo Si.

There are only more than 10,000 people left on the eastern front, and only a few major counties will be left to guard it in total. Chang'an City needs 10,000, so of course, it cannot draw too much troops for Xu Huang.

So Liu Bei finally considered it again and again, and only assigned 5,000 people from the defenders of Chang'an City to Xu Huang, asking Xu Huang to save some money and control the four counties along the Tongshui River. He also gave him a 3,000 prisoners of war to provide logistics, and to cover the grain transport team for a long time.

There are 5,000 people left in Chang'an City, so I am not afraid of Qiao Rui's brain-sucking under Yuan Shu. Anyway, even if the brain-sucking is done, it is impossible to successfully attack with the strength of Chang'an City. Moreover, Liu Bei is now very popular with the people, and he can mobilize the people to serve as an army in extreme situations. As long as he has to survive for half a month, Yuan Shu will become a public enemy in the country, and Liu Biao, Cao, and Sun Ce will be very happy to explode Yuan Shu's rear.

Moreover, after Xu Huang left, there were still many generals who stayed in the center. After the autumn harvest in August, the farming season began to gradually become slack in another month.

After the slack farming in late autumn and early winter, Liu Bei took care of Taishi Ci and other people who had been arrested as strong men by Li Jue and later released back to the farming industry, and slightly trained. Or from Zhang Ji and Li Jue's direct troops, he chose to transform the warriors with a better attitude and changed from a hard labor camp to a warrior. It won't take long to Guanzhong to achieve defense without relying on a full-time standing army.

Xu Huang was a whitewash and followed Liu Bei for the first time in more than five years. He had the opportunity to lead the army to participate in an offensive battle. He was so excited that he was trying to show it. But Xu Huang also knew that Liu Bei asked him to deal with Han Xian and deal with the Baibo thief leader who was as famous as his former leader Yang Feng. It was a test, which was to give him the opportunity to completely cut off with the Baibo thief and take a letter of fame.

In history, Xu Huang did not kill the master directly when he left Yang Feng, so the psychological pressure this time was a little bit. But since Han Xian had no direct dependent relationship with him, Xu Huang also had the expectation in his heart that "if he could defeat Han Xian, at most, he would persuade Liu Bei to surrender more of his subordinates, not to kill, and only do the main evil."

Of course, Xu Huang was not completely afraid of massacres in his hometown. In history, he followed Cao Cao and in the 15th and 16th year of Jian'an (211-212), he met Shang Yao, the former subordinate of Zhang Yan, who occupied Bingzhou and occupied Taiyuan and Daling. Xiahou Yuan, and Xu Huang led his troops to pacify Shang Yao, and then massacred the city in those places (the order should be from Xiahou Yuan, and Xu Huang was responsible for the execution).

However, according to later generations, the massacre of the city was also because the surrendered bandits in Bingzhou were still difficult to support. Cao Cao was already planning to rely on Zhong Yao to force Han Sui and Ma Chao to use troops to Guanzhong, so he was worried that the remaining bandits in Bingzhou would go south to cut off the Hedong grain route, cut off the Guanxi army's rear route, and slaughter a battle to reduce the logistics risks.

These are all later stories, and there is no chance of happening in this life.

Xu Huang arrived at Xinfengdu on August 12th, crossed the Yellow River on the 14th, occupied Puyangjin.

Puyangjin is just a ferry, without a perfect city, and the Baibo thieves do not defend the whole year. In addition, the first grain fleet escorted by Chunyu Qiong just passed by a few days ago. Even if the Baibo thieves were defending, they were temporarily killed and dispersed. Xu Huang's troops occupied the important stock without bloodshed, and divided the troops to defend the battle. He continued to take the remaining troops to Jieliang and the Hedong County and County.

Jieliang is on the north bank of the Tengshui River, about sixty or seventy miles upstream of Puyangjin, and Anyi is on the south bank of the Tengshui River, and it is eighty miles upstream.

Just one day later, Xu Huang, with three thousand combat soldiers and a group of hard-working battalion logistics soldiers, had just arrived at Jieliang, set up an offensive, preparing to build simple siege weapons, and then quickly launched an siege against the Baibo thieves.

Xu Huang also made an extra secret, and used Guan Yu's banner to pretend to be a tiger's power, putting his own banner under Guan Yu.

As a result, this attack strategy is very useful. The Baibo thief in the city already knew that Xu Huang was an old general under Yang Feng, and also knew that Jie Liang was Guan Yu's hometown.

Not only did Guan Yu return home five years ago to show off his power, he has repeatedly shocked China in the past five years, and even rescued Luoyang City, and this time he also restored Chang'an. This time, he heard that Guan Yu returned to his hometown to open up the food channel and contact Yuan Shao. The young general who was guarding the county town was frightened and timid.

Xu Huang had just built dozens of simple flying ladders and some long vine shields to let the crossbow handles and crossbows suppress the city. Then, with the drums of war, the flags of descending were immediately raised at the top of the city. The nameless young general guarding the city sent people to fall from the hanging basket and discuss the conditions for surrender with Xu Huang, hoping that Xu Huang would not allow the prisoners to be killed.

Xu Huang breathed a sigh of relief and agreed directly to this condition, but proposed that the troops must be dispersed and reorganized.

There were only a thousand thieves guarding in Jieliang County, and they were not qualified to negotiate better conditions. The guards did not dare to fall in love with the squad and opened the city gate directly.

"I didn't expect that the former general's reputation was good. After all, it was the hometown of the former general, and people's hearts were too frightened." Xu Huang called out a lucky call, and the soldiers took over the county town without bloodshed.

Puyang and Jie Liang only took two days in total, and it was basically the speed of the march, so when he arrived at Anyi City, Han Xian was caught off guard.

Anyi County is more than ten miles away from the south bank of the Tongshui River, and it is not directly adjacent to the river. Therefore, Chunyu Qiong did not need to pass through the city before, and Han Xian also heard that a ship passed by the north river of the city, so he temporarily decided to rob the grain. The preparations were not sufficient and the troops were not strong enough, so he was easily defeated by Chunyu Qiong for a while.

This time, he heard that Guan Yu had returned and opened up the grain channel. Moreover, it took two counties in two days to go along without any obstacles. Han Xian was shocked and was considering whether to give up the county seat and retreat north to the Luliang Mountains to fight guerrillas.

On the way here, Xu Huang also fully understood Han Xian's mentality, so he went to the village thirty miles away from the city and sent someone to send a letter to Han Xian to warn him to explain his purpose.

Han Xian was frightened and did not dare to kill the envoy, but read the letter sent by Xu Huang obediently.

Xu Huang said in the letter: The former general Guan Yu was ordered by the King of Hanzhong to open up the grain roads of the four counties of Hedong, Tongshui, and ensure that the grain trade with Yuan Shao was smooth. If Han Xian knew each other and was willing to give up the Anyi County, General Guan could also leave the door and give him a day to take away his subordinates and property.

The reason why he did not give more time was that he was afraid that Han Xian would be extremely vicious and thoroughly plunder Anyi, which led to too many exploitation of the people left behind.

Of course, the Baibo thieves are all locals in Hedong after all. They look down and don’t look up, and they can’t do anything to completely fish in the water. Otherwise, the people will be pushed to Guan Yu and Xu Huang next time, and Han Xian’s theoretical possibility of turning the tables is gone.

Xu Huang also said in the letter that Liu Bei and Yuan Shao had reached an agreement that Guan Yu's troops must occupy Anyi to completely ensure the food route, and to hand over defense with Chunyu Qiong to Dongyuan, Yuan Shao's second grain fleet would pass through. Therefore, in order to ensure Yuan Shao's second batch of grain, Liu Bei's army would fight with Han Xian in Anyi at all costs, so that he could do his best.

After reading these statements, Han Xian was also a little relaxed. He recruited his accomplice Hu Cai and discussed it together. Both sides felt that since Liu Bei was imperative, it would be really not cost-effective to fight with Guan Yu and Chunyu Qiong's families.

Moreover, since Guan Yu handed over the defense, Yuan Shao had a steady stream of food transported in the future, it would be better to endure it for the time being. Anyway, although Anyi County is known as the county seat, it has been murdered by the Baibo thief for four or five years. The three melons and two dates in the city are no longer worth much, and there is no regret for giving up.

Hu Cairu advised Han Xian: "Since ancient times, there were only thousands of days to be thieves, but no one to guard against thieves. More than half a month ago, when Yuan Shao's first grain team passed through the border, the key was to catch us off guard. We did not mobilize the main force in advance to fight Chunyu Qiong, so we lost. But we also tried it out, Chunyu Qiong's ability to lead the troops is just like this.

When Chunyu Qiong left, the food would have to be transported for more than half a year later. As a former general, Guan Yu could not be stationed in Hedong at all times to guard against it. Moreover, where can he intercept and attack the rivers of nearly 300 miles along the coast of Fengshui? The government army always uses heavy troops to escort it, and the cost will be high. As long as they gradually relax, we will concentrate our efforts to attack. As long as we get one or two full-load trading fleets, it will not be more profitable than the one-year plunder of military farms in Hedong County?"

As soon as the two discussed, they felt that "giving out of the county town, letting Liu Bei and Yuan Shao do a big business, we can occasionally buy money for roads." It seemed that it was much more cost-effective than occupying the Anyi county town.

How much taxes are worth in the counties of Anyi, it is better to pass by a fleet of goods.

Han Xian immediately transferred the old and weak tribes and the soft and soft things that could be taken away. He himself only resisted symbolically for a few days in Anyi, but was chased out by Xu Huang without stopping his head, snatching his waist and hitting his tail without stopping his tail.

Xu Huang also knew that he was just a fake shot. With Guan Yu's reputation, bluffing against the scale of the army, and temptation, Han Xian was temporarily deceived. It was impossible for him to fight the main force of Bai Bo's army to die and force the enemy to fight beasts.

After tricking Anyi County, Xu Huang immediately contacted Chunyu Qiong without stopping. The two sides handed over the defense of Dongyuan County. Xu Huang divided another 1,000 troops to Dongyuan. Chunyu Qiong took his men to complete the task and went back to work with Yuan Shao.

Xu Huang almost never fought a war, and he relied on foxes and tigers to make a fox and scare them, and took down several county towns in the Grain Road.

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Chapter completed!