Of course, the capture of Guangling was only a measure by Zhang Xiu to deal with famine and drought. The focus is actually on the other two initiatives.

One of them is Tuntian, with the granary and some grain seeds, 70,000 soldiers and men have a large number of tuntian. Before they joined the army, most of these people were farmers, and now they are just returning to their old jobs.

Zhang Xiu sent people to select the ownerless fields with the most convenient irrigation and the most fertile soil, and handed them over to the Tuntian army. At the same time, the displaced people were appeased, and the old fields were reclaimed together, and the original canals and rivers were dredged to facilitate the tuntian.

And the most important measure is to scrub the bureaucracy and reduce bureaucratic exploitation as much as possible. Light and meager endowment, stabilize the hearts of the people of Huainan. In the end, the goal of making the people of Huainan live and work in peace and contentment is the real way to raise the war for a long time. After all, the superstructure is the guarantee for the development of the economic base, which Zhang Xiu deeply experienced when he studied politics in later generations.

This initiative is led by Yuan Lian, and Yang Hong and Yan Xiang are in charge.

Having said that, in order for Zhang Xiu to have food at the end of this year, Zhang Xiu must send out a general who can take charge of Guangling alone. Tuntian can't do without Li Tong, so it seems that Yang Feng can only be used.

Of course, in the matter of leaving the town of Guangling, Zhang Xiu's generals, except for Liu Pi and Gong Du, who had already left the town of Ruyin, all took the initiative to ask for help.

This is a fat difference, although it is said that there is a threat from Lu Bu in the north. But now everyone knows that Lu Bu doesn't have much ambition, and just wants to guard his one-third of an acre of land in Xuzhou. And the biggest threat to Xuzhou is Cao Cao, Lu Bu will not be so brainless to fight Zhang Xiu again.

Zhang Xiu finally named Yang Feng as the chief general of Guangling, this Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu and Yang Hong discussed in advance, and they really had to send Yang Feng. But the deputy general Guangling named by Zhang Xiu was beyond everyone's expectations, that is, Han Xianam.

Even Han Xian didn't expect that he would be able to go to Guangling. As soon as he heard that Yang Feng was the chief general of Guangling, Han Xian knew that Guangling had no share of his own. The reason is simple, no main guild is comfortable putting two intimate descendants together.

It's just that Zhang Xiu did it, very directly and simply.

The last thing is to go to Lujiang. There's nothing to talk about this, the grain and grass are ready, basically Zhang Xiu directly ordered the general.

Zhang Xiu was still a personal expedition this time, and only took a total of 40,000 horses under Lei Bo and Chen Lan, plus more than 40,000 directly subordinate troops. In addition, Yang Hong, who was familiar with the details of the Lujiang River, was brought as a military advisor, and Hu Che'er, Zhou Cang, and Pei Yuanshao obeyed orders in front of the tent.

The main person who stayed in Shouchun was Jia Xu, and there were also 40,000 horses from Zhang Xianleixu.

All appointments are effective immediately, and the day of departure is departing!

Before the expedition, Zhang Xiu finally received the Nanyang war report sent by Xizuo.

Unlike Cao Cao in history who won first and then lost several times in Nanyang, this time Cao Cao was defeated first and then won. directly captured Wancheng and sent Cao Hong to defend it.

It's just that the process of the Battle of Nanyang is much more tragic than the Battle of Qiyang.

Liu Biao recovered Wancheng, and this time sent the famous general Wenping of Jingzhou to guard it. Cao Cao despised the Jingzhou generals too much, but this time he was bled by Wen Ping's men.

Although the total number of Jingzhou troops was not inferior to Cao Cao's army, its combat effectiveness was far worse than Cao Cao's tiger and wolf army. Therefore, Wen Ping could only defend Wancheng and wait for Cao Cao's army to eat up and get out.

Cao Cao naturally knew what Jingzhou was thinking, so he directly ordered to attack Wancheng. But Wancheng is also a famous big city, with strong walls and natural rivers that act as moats.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou soldiers is not very good, they can't stand the strength of people's money, food and equipment, and the geographical environment in the south has created a large number of hunter-born archers, and the bows and crossbows and arrows are like no money, pouring the sky and the sky.

The result was several days of fierce battles, and Cao Cao's casualties caused Cao Cao a burst of pain.

But Mr. Cao's stomach is bad, how can a small Wancheng stump Boss Cao. After walking around Wancheng several times, Cao Cao made up his mind and gave Wen Ping a call.

Cao Jun deliberately bluffed in the northwest corner, causing Wen Ping to send most of the elite troops to garrison the northwest.

As a result, at night, the elite of Cao's army attacked the southeast and cut down all the antlers used to block the enemy.

They had already begun to climb the wall, but suddenly the lights on the city were bright, and the flags flashed, as if there were many guards.

Then a young general gave an order, and the bows and crossbows were fired in unison. The elite Cao army who climbed the wall lightly under the city wall suffered heavy casualties. The young general pointed at Cao Jun and laughed: "General Wen has already seen through Cao A's tricks, and he has specially ordered this general to hold a strong bow and a hard crossbow here and wait." General Wen is already attacking your camp, so quickly hand over your weapons and get out of Jingzhou! ”

All the Cao soldiers in the city were shocked, and Cao Cao's face also changed greatly when he heard it.

Cao Cao subconsciously turned his head to look at the camp, but the southeast corner was too far away from the camp, and the direction of the camp was just silent, and he couldn't hear any movement.

All of Cao Cao's military rations were hoarded in the camp, but in order to prepare for this attack, all the elite soldiers and strong generals were here. There are less than 10,000 old and weak rear troops in the big battalion, and if the grain and grass are burned by Wenpin, then these hundreds of thousands of troops will be in danger.

At that moment, Cao Cao still called Xiahoudun and asked him to quickly inquire about the situation in the camp. The elite who climbed the city wall withdrew, and the whole army was ready to return to the camp at any time.

The young generals on the city wall continued to sneer and scold, sneering at Cao Cao's plan to attack the west.

It was only half a pillar of incense, and Xiahoudun had not yet returned, but Cao Cao heard a shouting and killing sound from afar in Wancheng City. Cao Cao listened carefully for a moment, then suddenly became furious, raised his horsewhip and scolded loudly: "The whole army obeys the order, quickly attack the city, and take the city wall at all costs!" Upstairs, dare to bully me Cao Mengde, when I capture Wancheng, you will die without a place to be buried! ”

Cao's army quickly set up an attack formation, and the generals of each department cooperated with each department to tacitly lead the soldiers and soldiers of each department to attack the city. Although everyone felt that this was not quite right, no one asked Cao Cao what was going on at this time.

The young general upstairs laughed and said, "Cao Apu, I didn't expect you to have today." Ben will never let you climb the walls of Wancheng with a single soldier! The whole army obeys the order, shoot! ”

As if knowing that Cao Cao would not retreat, bows and crossbows with arrows quickly appeared at each battlement of the city wall, and as soon as Cao's army entered the firing range, the crossbowmen fired a volley.

Amazingly, these crossbowmen don't seem to know who they should shoot without the need for someone to give the order. Most of the targets in the bow and arrow were Cao soldiers who were holding ropes and hooks or carrying ladders. As for the Cao soldiers who followed behind, it was as if they hadn't seen it. Even if someone had already rushed to the base of the wall, the crossbowmen would not pay any attention.

watched the soldiers with improvised siege equipment fall, and then the people behind picked up the equipment and rushed again. Cao Cao sneered, and said to a few generals around him: "I guess that on the southeast city wall, there are no more than 1,000 Jingzhou soldiers. Although the arrows were accurate, they were very sparse, and we were only startled by this unknown young general, and our hearts were taken aback, but we did not observe how many arrows were shot at all. ”

Soon, the swarming Cao army braved arrows and hit the base of the city wall. And quickly began to throw hooks, set up ladders, and the ants were attached to the siege of the city, in an orderly manner.

The young general of the Jingzhou army on the city wall sighed slightly, and immediately ordered: "The whole army listens to the order and immediately dumps the fire oil!" ”

An adjutant general next to him asked, "General, don't you wait for the rolling stones to be thrown before pouring the oil?" ”

The young general shook his head: "This southeast city wall is already lower than other sections of the city wall, and the speed at which Cao Jun climbed the city is even faster than I expected. If you throw the sandalwood rolling stones according to the steps of defending the city, no matter how effective it is, in the end, you won't be able to pour much oil at all, and you will be taken down by this group of Cao army elites! ”

This time, all the archery was stopped on the walls, and then a barrel of oil appeared at each battlement. Then, the Jingzhou soldiers poured oil along the city wall!

Cao Cao and all the generals around him changed their faces again, because they not only smelled the smell of fire oil used to defend the city, but also the vegetable oil they ate, the tung oil they used, etc., as long as they could ignite the fire, the Jingzhou soldiers all fell on the city wall along the city wall.

It seems that the young generals in the city are very well prepared!

Yu Ban, one of the five good generals, looked horrified: "Lord, so much fire oil, all our soldiers who climb up to the city will have to become roast pigs!" Will this continue to be an ant-annexed siege? ”

"This young general is really bold enough, he actually wants to use this to force me to withdraw from the army, but I won't retreat! Even if he doesn't burn the city tonight, I'll help him light the fire. Cao Cao's face was cloudy for a while, but after a while, he laughed: "This city wall has been in disrepair for a long time, but now it is only early spring, the weather is cold, and if you suddenly light a fire, the city wall will definitely crack in the future." ”

Yu Ban nodded, not daring to say anything more, but secretly calculated, and muttered quietly after a long time: "If the fire is lit at this time, at least two thousand people in our army will become roast pigs." ”

On the city wall, the young general looked at Cao Cao in disbelief, and the deputy general next to him looked at the thousands of Cao troops on the city wall, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and asked, "General, really light the fire, so many people?" ”

The young general sighed: "I have to burn it, there is no other choice at all." General Wen's brigade still has at least half a pillar of incense time to help us defend the city, how can we, the five hundred, resist the elite of Cao's army? ”

The adjutant nodded, and was about to give the order to light the fire, but the young general stopped him and handed him another order for the impromptu idea.

Under the city wall, Cao Cao and the others laughed loudly when they saw the defenders on the city wall running down the city wall.

Yu Ban was even more sarcastic: "Tiger and snake tail, I originally thought he was a young hero, but I didn't expect it to be just a yellow-mouthed child!" ”

Cao Cao also laughed, seeing that his soldiers had climbed to the top of the city, his heart was relieved.

More and more Cao soldiers cheered and climbed the city wall, and the Liu character banner and the character handsome flag on the city had been cut down, and the Cao character flag was about to be planted.

The reason why it is said to be an anomaly is because it always happens in a place and at an unexpected time.

Suddenly Cao Jun erupted in exclamation on the city wall, and then Cao Cao saw a scene he would never forget in his life.

Rockets lit by arrows, wrapped in tarpaulins, shot out of the city at a curved 70 degrees, into the air. After losing inertia, the arrow falls downward. Some of the rockets landed on the city, while many more rockets bypassed the low walls and landed directly outside the city. A considerable number of these rockets fell on the walls of the city outside the city.

Then it was the turn of Cao Jun to cry, the city wall soaked with oil was quickly ignited, and the thousands of Cao troops who were still climbing the wall were quickly wiped out.

It's okay to be burned with vegetable oil, just jump off the city wall, take off your clothes or roll on the ground. But it was burned by fire oil and tung oil, which can only be described in a tragic word, and there was no time to take off his armor at all. The leather armor will be ignited directly, and it is not easy to extinguish. Then a large living person directly turned into a fire man, and fell from the city wall screaming beyond recognition.

The ordinary soldiers of the army in this era were leather armor, which was coated with oil on the outside, which was used to prevent waterproofing and fading and prolong the service life of leather armor. However, this leather armor is very susceptible to fire. So in this era, fire attacks are very common, because the lethality and panic effects caused by fire attacks are great.

There was a fire outside the city wall, and the thousands of Cao troops who were still on the city wall had only one choice, and that was to rush down the city wall quickly. Otherwise, the rising heat wave would be enough to bake thousands of people in this narrow city to jerky, or choke to death.

But where will the Jingzhou army let these Cao troops rush down, and the road at the head of the city has already placed oil drums. It's still some rockets that ignite these oil barrels directly. Then immediately there was a primitive explosion, and the fire oil quickly covered the inlet and export.

The elite of the Cao army in the city was also chaotic at this time. However, no one was willing to die, either braving the fire and rushing out of the corridor, or jumping directly from the top of the city to the city.

The young general in the city just waved his hand, and the five hundred soldiers under him took their bows and arrows, aiming at any Cao soldiers who might escape.

Perhaps he couldn't stand it, but the young general ordered: "Don't use a bow and crossbow, give them a good time with a sword." ”

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