This can be regarded as the benefit of self-sufficiency in this world. Qingzhou where Cao Cao is located has no shortage of food, salt, iron, and even cloth. It can be said that it includes a person's food, clothing, housing, and transportation, all of which can be self-sufficient. Other goods are irrelevant. Buying If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it!
Although Xun Yu did not say who they were trading with in Qingzhou, Cao Cao knew that they were trading with Qingzhou. A large amount of copper coins flowed into Hebei through these transactions every year. If there were no cannons, Cao Cao would not care about these coins. Loss, after all, in the eyes of people of this era, pearls, jade, gold and silver are too much to eat, but if they can trade them for goods, Qingzhou can be considered a profit.
But now Cao Cao thought that many of the artillery that the Daqian Army fired at the coalition forces were made by their Qingzhou copper coins, and he felt extremely regretful. Such important strategic materials were easily traded to Lei Gong. It was okay not to do such an unfair transaction!
Guo Jia said helplessly: "In this way, our commercial taxes may be greatly reduced, and the entire city of Qingzhou will also become decayed."
But Cao Cao disagreed and said: "The worst is bartering. As long as there is food, the people of Qingzhou can survive. Although our policies have hurt the merchants of Qingzhou, they cannot make trouble at all. I have not learned from Dong Zhuo to massacre them." , this is already considered good.
The most important thing for us now is to cast artillery. Without artillery, facing a large army, we are lambs to be slaughtered. Now copper coins are artillery. Any copper coins flowing out of Qingzhou will harm our strength. We must strictly stop such behavior. .
I will let Zi Lian and Man Cheng lead all the naval forces in Qingzhou to block the entire commercial route in Qingzhou. Anyone who takes copper coins out of Qingzhou will be caught in error and will not be spared."
Xun and the others thought about it, Qingzhou is now at a critical moment of life and death, and it is worthwhile if the merchants who sacrificed Qingzhou can get the copper coins for casting cannons. As for taxation, Qingzhou will be wiped out by Lei Gong, so why should we care about such a trivial matter as taxation? !
So after a few people discussed for a while, they decided to find a way to occupy Xuzhou at this stage. After the war is completely over, they will then find a way to change the currency!
Cao Cao immediately wrote a letter to Liu Bei and Yuan Tan stating the cause and effect of his occupation of Xuzhou, and asked for their forgiveness. At the same time, he ordered Cao Ren to lead an army of 30,000 people south to take over the counties in Xuzhou.
At the same time, with the victory of all parties, the main force of Daqian became more and more concentrated near Changyi, and even Xu Weidu led the army to Changyi.
The entire Daqian army had nearly 200,000 soldiers surrounding Changyi, and Xu Wei also learned the lesson from the Han army's breakout in the Battle of Dingtao, and directly ordered the soldiers to dig trenches around Changyi and blockade Guan Yu and the others inside. Even if you want to break through, you can't!
On Changyi City, Guan Yu and others watched as the encirclement of Da Qian's army became closer and closer, and the number of troops increased. They had lost contact with the outside world for more than half a month.
But seeing more and more artillery and more and more soldiers of the Daqian Army, the generals of Changyi also knew that Dingtao must have fallen, otherwise the main force of the Daqian Army would all gather here, and when Xu Wei's attack After the banner came to Changyi, even the soldiers in Changyi knew that they were completely alone! The atmosphere of despair enveloped the entire city of Changyi!
The night when Xu Wei came to Changyi!
Guan Yu, with his blood-stained shirt, stood on the top of the city wall and watched the bonfires extinguishing the stars. From below, it looked like the sky was below, and these bonfires were all shining stars.
The exhausted Sun Ce stood silently behind Guan Yu. This battle was too difficult for him. A battle involving hundreds of thousands of people. They clearly still had tens of thousands of soldiers in their hands, but they no longer had the will to fight. He clearly had
A man is not brave enough, but it is difficult to show it in the face of artillery. Sun Ce did not want to die in Changyi City, but if he wanted to say surrender, he could not say it out loud.
Yu Jin, Cheng Pu and other coalition generals looked at the bonfire under the city and felt anxious. They had been besieged here for more than a month, but there was no support army. Yu Jin and others were all veteran generals who had experienced many battles.
, seeing Xu Wei's flag, he naturally understood that they had lost this battle! If they continue to defend here now, they are just lingering and wasting the lives of the soldiers.
Yu Jin and others did not want to die in Changyi City like this. They had learned martial arts and military skills just to die anonymously in Changyi City, so they had been persuading Guan Yu to surrender for the past few days in order to protect the soldiers (of course
Also their lives)!
But Guan Yu refused to surrender. He also felt that Liu Bei might have been defeated in Dingtao, but he wanted to hold on in Changyi City for a while. He hoped that Liu Bei could escape even if he was defeated, so that he could hold on in Changyi for longer.
The longer it takes, the more advantageous it will be for Liu Bei to return to Jingzhou to organize a large army to defend against the large army!
"Guan Yu, please wake up. Don't expect reinforcements. They are impossible to come. Now Lei Gong has arrived in Changyi. There are 200,000 troops under the city. If Lei Gong didn't occupy Dingtao, how could he have gathered so many troops?
Soldiers!" Cheng Pu said loudly, pointing to the camp of Da Qian's army.
He didn't want Sun Ce to die like this in Changyi City, and they Jiangdong generals had already surrendered to Liu Bei once. It didn't seem like a big deal to surrender to Xu Wei again. Since they had already surrendered once, loyal ministers could not do anything to surrender again.
It's not a big deal, their loyalty to Liu Bei is not that high!
But Guan Yu said expressionlessly: "Even if Dingtao is captured, we will be crucified in Changyi. Now there are 200,000 cadres in Changyi. If we surrender, these soldiers will definitely go to Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and even
If we rush to Jingzhou, the Han Dynasty will be over. As long as we anchor Changyi City and contain the 200,000 Daqian Army, Xuzhou can be saved, Yuzhou can also be guaranteed, and even Jingzhou will have time to recruit a large army again to continue the war.
Thunder Lord War!"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Brother Yun, if we could defend ourselves, we wouldn't be so spineless, but now the Daqian army bombards us with thousands of artillery pieces every day, and we can't resist it at all. Soldiers
We have no morale, they may collapse at any time, we have been alone for more than half a month, and we are worthy of the general!" Yu Jin said excitedly, the casualties he brought to the Xuzhou Army have exceeded 30%, and the morale of the soldiers has
has collapsed.
"Guan Yunchang, do you want to see all of our Jiangdong Army die here so that you can fulfill your loyalty?" Huang Gai said angrily. Most of the soldiers Guan Yu brought were Jiangdong soldiers, and many of them were their original subordinates. , but now many of them died in Changyi in a meaningless battle.
Guan Yu closed his eyes and shook his head in pain. Not only had the morale of the lower-level soldiers collapsed, but even senior generals like Yu Jin did not want to die like this under the bombardment of artillery. The entire army did not want to continue the fight. It was meaningless for him to continue to persist!
After a long time, Guan Yu said helplessly: "If you want to surrender, you can go on your own. The general has treated me well, and I cannot let him down!"
But Yu Jin and the others looked at each other. Of course they could surrender on their own, or even tie up Guan Yu and surrender to the entire army. After all, the whole army no longer wanted to fight. But they wanted Guan Yu to lead them to surrender.
They also understand the policies of the Daqian Army. Most of the enemy generals like them are exiled on the islands, deserts or Western Regions before they can return after three years. Only a few of them are absorbed by the Daqian Army or released. Exile to the island is not the result they want. If they want to change the fate of exile in the wilderness, they can only rely on Guan Yu!
Although it was just a rumor, they all knew that Lei Gong and the General of the Daqian Army had never known each other before fighting. In addition, Lei Gong settled in Mayi and the General was stationed in Shanggu County. The two places were not far from each other and the relationship between the two parties was close. It is said that the general transported a large amount of Mayi goods through the Sanggan River for sale, which solved the problem of funding for reclamation.
When the general was stationed in Youzhou, Lei Gong never set foot in Youzhou. Even when the general attacked Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in Youzhou, as long as Lei Gong cooperated with Zhang Chun and Zhang Chu, the whole northern Xinjiang would surely fall. But that's it. Because of his relationship with the general, Lei Gong did not attack Youzhou even when Youzhou was in such danger.
In addition, Liu Bei's policies in governing Jingzhou in recent years are completely replicas of those of Daganjun. These things make people doubt that Liu Bei and Lei Gong are friends.
At the court, many civil and military officials seized on Liu Bei's point and said that Liu Bei had an affair with Xu Wei and wanted to depose Liu Bei. Fortunately, Emperor Ling was not stupid at that time. Did he listen to the nonsense of these people?
But now Yu Jin and the others have seized on this rumor and want Guan Yu to lead them to surrender to the Daqian Army so that they can have a better fate!
After Guan Yu found out what they were thinking, he could only smile bitterly.
Back then, the three brothers had only met Lei Gong once, but during the battle in Bingzhou, even the three brothers almost died at the hands of Lei Gong. The rest were simply rumors. He and Lei Gong were not familiar with each other at all!
Guan Yu could only say helplessly: "The rumors from the outside world are all false. I only met Lei Gong once, and it was on the battlefield. Lei Gong even injured our three brothers!"
However, Guan Yu also had doubts. He felt that Lei Gong really had a good impression of the three brothers, otherwise he would not have helped them so much when he was in Youzhou! (This is of course, Xu Wei has played more than ten versions of the game "Three Kingdoms". , there are countless other versions of the Three Kingdoms game. He will definitely play Liu Bei in every version. How could he not have a good impression after more than ten years! It is all Xu Wei’s youth!)
Yu Jin didn't believe it and said: "Brother Yun Chang has a relationship with Lei Gong at least once, but we people don't even know Lei Gong. You have worked hard, Yun Chang. Naturally, we will not blame Yun Chang!"
Guan Yu looked at the miserable Han soldiers around him and felt that he felt sorry for them. He should find a way to get some good treatment for them!
The next day, Xu Wei received a report that the Han soldiers in Changyi City were about to surrender, and the coalition commander Guan Yu wanted to see Xu Wei!
Wang Yong said excitedly: "They finally surrendered, and this battle is over! I am in power and asked to lead an army of 50,000 to capture Xuzhou!"
Xu Wei said: "No need to be in such a hurry, let's solve the war in Yanzhou first!"
Half an hour later, Guan Yu arrived at the central tent of Da Qianjun!
Xu Wei showed a smile on his face and said: "Brother Guan, we haven't seen each other for more than ten years!"
Guan Yu sighed and said: "Yes, it has been more than ten years. Back then we were small soldiers of the Han Dynasty, and you were also an unknown commander in the Yellow Turban Army, but now you have become a famous prince in the world!"
Xu Weidao: "Didn't you become a general? Even Liu Bei became a general. He has become famous now! Who dares to believe that Liu Bei, who was just a military commander in the past, was one person lower than ten thousand people? So things in this world are unpredictable!”
Guan Yu said calmly: "Don't waste your time, Mr. Guan. Changyi can no longer be defended. As long as you ensure the lives of our soldiers, we are willing to surrender! Mr. Guan knows that Mr. Lei likes to send people to the island. This Mr. Guan I admit it, I just ask Lei Gong not to send my subordinates to the island!"
Wang Yong sneered and said: "Now, you are still qualified to negotiate terms! The Han army in Changyi has become our turtle in the urn. You can't escape even if you want to. Unconditional surrender is your only way out!"
Wang Yong looked dissatisfied with Guan Yu, who was about to surrender, and showed his arrogance to no one! This means that the ruler has a good temper. If only he had beaten Guan Yu out earlier!
But Xu Wei stopped Wang Yong's ridicule and said: "Although Guan Yu is a general of the Han Dynasty, he is also a hero like our officers and soldiers.
When he was a boy more than ten years ago, he had a heart of justice, hated evil as much as he hated it, and loved to fight against injustice.
When he was nineteen years old, he went to Jiecheng to sell ironware and saw an old man lying on the ground crying with bruises all over his body. Out of righteous indignation, Guan Yu went up to ask. The old man said that he was a teacher from the county school named Han Zheng and Han Shouyi. His daughter was raped and ravaged by Lu Xiong, a rich man in the city. He went to the Lu Mansion to ask for someone, but not only did he not get her, he was beaten out by the servants of the Lu Mansion.
And this Lu Xiong was a relative of Guo Sheng, the official in charge of the Central Committee. He preyed on the local people, bullied men and dominated women, and had done so many bad things that the local officials did not dare to interfere with his affairs.
At that time, because there were salt ponds in Jiecheng, the groundwater was salty and inedible. There were only a few sweet water wells scattered throughout the city for people to drink. Lu Xiong colluded with the government and filled up all the sweet water wells in the city. What remains is a sweet water well in his yard. You have to pay to get water from his house. There is also an additional rule that only young and beautiful women are allowed to get water, otherwise they are not allowed to enter his house. The young women who come in are not attracted by him. To tease is to be raped by him.
Although the people in Jie City were furious and resentful, Lu Xiong had a back-up and no one could do anything about it. After Guan Yu heard this, he was furious and broke into Lu Xiong's house that night, killing Lu Xiong's family, young and old, and dozens of others. A total of seventy-four members of the Hakka family killed every chicken and dog and rescued Han Zheng's daughter. Let's talk about whether Guan Yu's behavior is a hero!"
Wang Yong immediately said loudly: "Of course you are a hero! You should stand with us to uphold justice for the poor and uphold justice for heaven. Why do you want to help the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty to continue to oppress the poor!"
Guan Yu didn't know what to say for a moment. Could it be that he didn't think he was a Yellow Turban Army!
But Lei Gong's Da Gan Army did better than the big man in every aspect. His brother relied on plagiarizing Da Gan's policies to make Jiangnan prosperous in recent years! If Lei Gong was not a rebel, his brother should have cooperated with Da Gan. Thunder God has a lot to talk about!