In 197 AD, in February of the second year of Jian'an, Zhang Xiu, the general of Guangwu, defeated Yuan Shu, who had been emperor for less than a month! The 230,000 Huainan Army collapsed overnight, shocking the world. The battle of Qiyang made Zhang Xiu's name officially known to the world.

The main force of 230,000 Yuan troops, of which more than 40,000 Yuan troops were killed in battle, more than 60,000 Yuan troops defected, and more than 80,000 Yuan troops surrendered. Yuan Shu's generals defected, those who were captured were captured, those who died in battle, and those who fled for their lives. However, Zhang Xiujun died less than 10,000 people.

Zhang Xiu's general Li Tong, taking advantage of the main force of Yuan Shu to fight with Zhang Xiu, led 4,000 light cavalry and 2,000 archers, changed the clothing and armor of Yuan's army, and rushed to attack Qiyang City. Li Tong personally led 300 cavalry and a general of Zhang Xun's army to falsely claim that Zhang Xun's subordinates were defeated and won the gate of Qiyang. The city gate was immediately controlled, and thousands of cavalry captured the city.

After Li Tong captured the city, he left an unknown general who defended the city in Qiyang. Unexpectedly, this person's ancestor was deeply favored by the Yuan family, and with the will to die, he warned Yuan Shu at a critical moment, causing Li Tong's plan to trap Yuan Shu to fall short.

In this situation, even the chief planner Jia Xu couldn't help but sigh: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the protégés and former officials are all over the world, and they really live up to their reputation." Even a person like Yuan Shu will have this act of repaying his kindness, no wonder the Yuan family dares to risk the world's disapproval and arrogate the emperor, there is still some background. ”

However, the general trend of the world is not something that a small Yuan protégé can control. took Qiyang, an important town that marched from Yuzhou to Huainan, and Zhang Xiu took advantage of the situation to capture Ruyin County. A new law was immediately promulgated to abolish all Yuan Shu's tyranny, abolish Yuan Shu's excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and return everything to the Han system.

There is another interesting thing on the way of Zhang Xiu's army to Qiyang, that is, Yang Hong, the former chief of Yuan Shu, took the initiative to lead the 40,000 defeated soldiers of the original Zhang Xun Jiling to surrender. and presented a royal object of the Son of Heaven carried by Yuan Shu with the army.

This battle of Zhang Yuan was actually full of the rhythm of betraying Yuan and surrendering to Zhang from beginning to end.

Before the war, Yang Feng and Han Xian, who Zhang Xiu secretly contacted, had the intention of defecting before the battle. It's just that these two people are outnumbered, and all they can do is set fire to Yuan Shu's rear. And as early as Guanzhong, Yang Feng and Han Xian had a conflict because of the hijacking of Emperor Han Xian and Zhang Ji, so these two people were still very worried.

However, Zhang Xiu defeated Zhang Xun in a quarter of an hour, which immediately led to the beginning of the rhythm of rebelling against Yuan and surrendering to Zhang. However, it was not Yang Fenghan Xian who was the first to express his position, but the Huainan generals Lei Bo and Chen Lan, who had long been dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's extravagance and lust and disregard for the army and the people!

In the real history, these two people really couldn't stand Yuan Shu's rampant conquest. simply took tens of thousands of people from the headquarters to Songshan to fall into the grass. Later, it was laughed that Yuan Shu was at the end of his rope, and after being intercepted by Liu Bei in the middle of Hebei, he actually wanted to take refuge with his former subordinate Lei Bo Chen Lan, but was decisively refused, and then it seemed that he couldn't drink honey and died of anger.

Seeing that Lei Bo and Chen Lan were the first to eat crabs, and also plotted against Qiao Rui and Chen Ji, Yang Feng and his friends were stunned! Since they didn't have the first skill to defect before the battle, the two had to go around to Yuan Hou, preparing to capture Yuan Shu and his inseparable jade seal and present it to Zhang Xiu.

It's just that it failed again.

It seems that what these two people tried to do never succeeded. The plot against Li Dao failed, the hijacking of Emperor Xian of Han failed, the sneak attack on Cao Cao failed, and now he has no success in trying to fight back.

People can't hang themselves from a tree, and Zhang Xiu won't put all his hopes on Yang Feng and Han Xianam, two guys who have more than enough to do and more than to lose. Lei Bo and Chen Lan are Zhang Xiu's hope. Although these two people are not good generals, they are still very desirable for Zhang Xiu.

First of all, although these two people are mediocre in ability, they still have advantages, such as compassion for soldiers. The important thing is that these two people are important generals under Yuan Shu, and they are very appealing among the Huainan soldiers, and they defect to Zhang Xiu, which is of great political significance to Zhang Xiu's command of Huainan.

There is also Yang Hong, who is the head of Yuan Shu's Wenchen. He was willing to serve Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Xiu did not care about his past suspicions and reused Yang Hong, which undoubtedly released a strong signal to the entire Huainan - Huainan is going to change!

After Han Song and the newly surrendered Yang Hong prepared a new policy and quickly informed the counties of Runan and Jiujiang counties, Zhang Xiu continued to lead the army to the east to conquer Shouchun without even repairing!

Lu Mian, the general of Yuan Shu who stayed in Shouchun, and Yuan Yao, the son of Yuan Shu, did not dare to resist Zhang Xiu's soldiers. led 30,000 old and weak soldiers, abandoned Shouchun and fled south, and defected to Liu Xun, the Taishou of Lujiang appointed by Yuan Shu.

It's just that there were too many soldiers of Yuan who fled on the road, and when they arrived in Lujiang County, there were less than 5,000 of the 30,000 people left. Even Bo Yanxiang, the original owner of Yuan Shu, heard that Zhang Xiu had promulgated a new policy halfway and ran away.

Three days later, this Wenchen, who was one of the best under Yuan Shu, appeared in Zhang Xiu's army.

Immediately, Zhang Xiu occupied Shouchun. The first thing he did when he entered Shouchun was to dismantle all the things that Yuan Shu had usurped the Son of Heaven and exceeded the specifications of the Son of Heaven, such as the dragon chariots of twenty-four horse-drawn horses.

Other royal things that meet the specifications of etiquette are sealed and sent to the Son of Heaven in Xuchang for decision. As for the imperial palace built by Shouchun, in view of the huge project, once it was demolished, it would be in vain to destroy all the words "Zhongshi" and hang the plaque of "Shouchun Palace of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty". Troops were stationed and no one was allowed to enter or leave. The note given to the Son of Heaven also wrote the article "Please let the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty have a good time".

On the second day of the occupation of Shouchun, Liu Bei took his leave. Zhang Xiu and a group of civil and military officers sent each other out of Shouchun for ten miles, and ordered people to build a ten-mile pavilion to commemorate Liu Bei's righteous deeds and Kuang Fu Han Dynasty!

There was a small episode in the middle, Zhang Fei asked Zhang Xiu timidly to ask for a Dawan horse, saying that if there was his second brother's horse, Yuan Shu would have stabbed 10,000 transparent holes. Zhang Xiu just laughed, ignoring Liu Bei's scolding of Zhang Fei, and gave Zhang Fei the last Dawan horse, that is, his own mount. And sent Zhang Fei a word: This time, Lu Bu is not better than the three generals!

In a word, Zhang Fei directly called Zhang Xiu Brother Zhang.

In the next ten days, most of the subordinate counties of Ruyin County and Jiujiang County (Huainan County) were sent to the table. Now some Zhang Xiu is busy.

First of all, the army was reorganized, with 65,000 men in armor and 20,000 old and weak cloth clothes; Lei Bo, Chen Lan, Yang Feng and Han Xian's subordinates totaled 60,000; There are as many as 100,000 other Huainan soldiers who are willing to take the initiative to surrender! In addition, tens of thousands of soldiers who were arrested and returned to the township, unwilling to be soldiers again, and Zhang Xiu was not held accountable.

The first thing Zhang Xiu did after taking charge of the two counties of Ruyin and Jiujiang was to decide to emulate Cao Cao's tuntian system. The 70,000 old, weak and disabled under his command were organized into the Tuntian Army, which was temporarily commanded by Li Tong. Reclaimed abandoned farmland in Jiujiang County to supply military rations.

Of course, this is only the first step in Tuntian, and the second step is to recruit the displaced people to reclaim it together. The reason why Cao Wei was the strongest in the later period was largely due to the fact that the Tuntian system settled down many displaced people. And in ancient wars, a lot depended on the size of the population.

It's just that Yuan Shu tossed Huainan too hard, and on the way to Zhang Xiu's army, the road was full of homeless and hungry people, but the large areas of fertile land were uncultivated. I heard that Yan Xiang personally said that in the remote areas of Jiujiang County, there has already been a tragedy of cannibalism.

But when Zhang Xiu entered Shouchun, he opened the granary. The mountains of grain that had been hoarded inside had rotted in large quantities due to improper preservation.

What else can you say, open a warehouse and put grain. Liu Bei did this every time he got the city in the early stage.

However, this measure was unanimously opposed by Yang Hong and Yan Xiang. It is true that opening warehouses and releasing grain is an indispensable measure for benevolent government and a necessary means to win over the people's hearts. However, all this must be premised on a clean and honest government and a stable political situation. No, rashly opening a warehouse to release grain will also lead to mutiny and quite undesirable effects.

Only then did Zhang Xiu know that the Three Kingdoms were not as simple as he imagined.

Therefore, the top priority at the moment is to stabilize the situation in Ruyin and Jiujiang. All this must now be built on a solid military foundation.

In addition to the 70,000 Tuntian army, Zhang Xiu only left 180,000 young and strong men with armor, and the generals commanded the headquarters for the time being, and all supplies and supplies were equal, which temporarily settled the hearts of Lei Bo and other generals.

The next step was to drastically reform the rule of officials. All former Yuan Shu local officials must be re-evaluated before they can take office. Zhang Xiu directly used the toughest wrist on this point, without hesitation at all, and suppressed it by the army if he did not accept it, which was not negotiable.

Most of the counties of these two counties, seeing that Zhang Xiu had captured Shouchun, the county commander appointed by Yuan Shu immediately expressed his allegiance to Zhang Xiu, or the county governor killed the county commander to surrender to Cheng. This time, as soon as I heard that all officials with good rank and rank would have to be re-evaluated in Shouchun before they could continue to take office. There are a lot of people who know that their buttocks are not clean and the other way around, can Zhang Xiu have other solutions to this situation?

What's more, the new official took office with three fires. If we don't comprehensively and thoroughly rectify the rule of officials now, it will be difficult to rectify it in the future. Rather than waiting for the later stage to worry about it, it is better to cut through the mess now. With the gun in hand, do a great job.

I have to say that Zhang Xiu is still very courageous in this regard, and Yang Hong and Yan Xiang have also put away their worries about this young lord who is no more than thirty years old.

When Yang Hong reported to him the news that Wu Jing, the Taishou of Guangling, had abandoned Guangling and went to Jiangdong to join his nephew Sun Ce, Zhang Xiu wanted to lead an army to take over Guangling. In the end, I gave up this unrealistic idea. He used both civil and military means, and at the same time sent an envoy to surrender Guangling County, he sent a general who could lead an army straight to Guangling.

The envoy said that Han Song could take on this role. Not only can he persuade him to surrender, but he can also take Guangling and directly do it. It's just that when it came to the general, Zhang Xiu had a headache, and there was really no general who could be on his own!

The only talent who can be on his own, Li Tong, must go to Tuntian; As for other generals, such as Zhang Xian, Lei Xu and others, they can't even bear the name of a good general. Such fierce generals as Hu Che'er and Zhou Cang, alas, the war is okay, and the town will guard the place.

At this time, although Guangling County and Jiujiang County were neighboring counties, Guangling County belonged to Xuzhou. When Liu Bei led Xuzhou, he was ordered to attack Yuan Shu, but Lü Bu attacked Xuzhou, causing Liu Bei on the front line to lose. Guangling was occupied by Yuan Shu, and Wu Jing was appointed as the Taishou. On the one hand, Lü Bu had to guard against Cao Cao, but he was also unable to recover Guangling, which has been under Yuan Shu since then.

Wu Jing gave up Guangling and ran south to Jiangdong, although Zhang Xiu got the news first, but it was inevitable that Lu Bu didn't want to get this piece of fresh meat that had been removed and had at his fingertips.

For this reason, Zhang Xiu convened all the civil and military forces under his command for the first time to discuss matters such as recruiting Guangling and conquering Lujiang to completely control the land of Huainan.

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