Relying on the support of the lucrative elixir and snow salt, now that there is enough money and grain in the treasury, Lu Bu can unscrupulously recruit troops and horses and recruit Han refugees.

In addition to the four elites of the 4,000 wolf cavalry, 300 soldiers, 1,000 navy, and 700 camps, Lu Bu planned to make the number of people who could participate in the battle reach 20,000, and hand them over to Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, Liu Yi, Liao Hua and other generals to command.

The soldiers of the land of Sanhan and the soldiers of the Liaodong Army who originally surrendered, selected their elite, plus the troops brought by Lu Bu from Xuzhou and Yuzhou Island, now, Lu Bu has 16,000 soldiers who can participate in the battle, as long as another 4,000 troops are recruited, there will be 20,000 troops!

With the support of enough money and food, only 4,000 troops were naturally successfully recruited by Lu Bu.

These four thousand recruits were naturally handed over to Gao Shun for training, after all, Gao Shun's training ability ranked first under Lu Bu's account!

This is something that no one can compare, not even Zhang Liao!

At the same time of recruiting troops and horses, Lü Bu also had to recruit enough Han refugees to come over and scatter them to live in various parts of Wen County, after all, there were more Sanhan people in Wen County, and the number of Han people was too small, which was not conducive to Lü Bu's rule!

Under the reduction of taxes, coupled with the allocation of enough fields for cultivation and other benefits to the people, all of a sudden, many displaced people or people living in hardship traveled thousands of miles to drag their families all the way south from Liaodong to Wen County, wanting to become the people under Lu Bu's rule!

For them, Lu Bu naturally accepted them as soon as possible, allocated them houses and fields, and promised to reduce their taxes when they had a harvest.

Coupled with the Han people brought by Lu Bu from Xuzhou and Yuzhou Island and the original Han people who entered Wen County to escape the war, the number of Han people in Wen County soon reached 100,000!

However, there are 400,000 Han people in Wen County, and these 100,000 Han people are still far away! Lu Bu can only continue to recruit enough Han people!

However, Gongsun Du quickly reacted, if the people of the Liaodong counties all went to Lu Bu, how could he rule the Liaodong counties?!

As a result, the angry Gongsun Du hurriedly blocked the road to the south of the Han people, and used coercive means to let those Han people who wanted to become the subjects of Lu Bu stay in the counties of Liaodong!

Seeing this, in addition to making Lu Bu show a murderous look, he was helpless about Gongsun Du's actions for a while, after all, Lu Bu had just occupied Wen County, and it was not suitable to fight with Gongsun Du!

I can only temporarily give up recruiting more Han people from Gongsun Du's Liaodong counties, and wait until the power of Gongsun Du's old man is destroyed!

So, Lu Bu set his sights on Xuzhou and Qingzhou, which were across the sea, and asked Cao Bao to lead the navy under Lu Bu's tent to recruit displaced people in those two places, but in the end, the number of displaced people recruited was not very large!

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, as the two most powerful princes in the world, are not stupid, and naturally guard against Lu Bu to snatch the people under their rule from them!

Although, they are just some outcasts!

In addition, most of the people were afraid of the seemingly endless sea, although they hoped to become the people under Lu Bu's rule and enjoy a series of benefits for the people that Lu Bu gave them, but in the face of the fact that they were going to cross the sea to Wen County by boat, they finally retreated!

However, Lu Bu is not a person who will admit defeat easily!

Lu Bu looked at the west, as if he could see Xuzhou and Qingzhou through layers of space, and then, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: Since this is the case, only Benhou will go out in person, and he will rob enough people to be placed in Wen County!

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In the vast sea, I saw hundreds of ships sailing rapidly from east to west.

These hundreds of sea ships are naturally the warships of the navy under Lu Bu's account.

At this time, Lu Bu also appeared on one of the hundreds of sea ships.

Since the road to recruit Han refugees was blocked, Lu Bu planned to cross the sea to loot some and come back.

Qingzhou is Yuan Shao's territory, when Lu Bu went north to Gongsun Du, after occupying Gongsun Du's territory, it will be adjacent to Yuan Shao's territory, in order to keep himself from provoking Yuan Shao for the time being, resulting in a huge change in history, Yuan Shao's army did not go south to deal with Cao Cao and turned east to deal with himself, then it would be worth the loss, so Lu Bu wanted to loot and naturally looked at Cao Cao's Xuzhou!

What's more, Xuzhou, which originally belonged to him, was occupied by Cao Cao, and there was a great enmity between Lu Bu and Cao Cao, and the people who robbed Cao Cao in the past were naturally unceremonious!

Lu Bu's target this time is the two coastal counties of Haixi and Yandu in Xuzhou, if Cao Cao's army comes to drive away Lu Bu's navy, Lu Bu can also react at the first time, and then, by boat, from where there is no harm!

Cao Cao sat on the land of the Central Plains, and the soldiers and horses recruited under his account were too many more than Lu Bu, and Lu Bu naturally didn't want to capsize in the gutter, and then explain here!

Since it was necessary to plunder the population on a large scale, it was naturally impossible for Lu Bu to bring only a thousand navies over.

At this time, along with Lu Bu, there were also 700 trapped camp soldiers led by Gao Shun, 300 personal soldiers led by Zhou Cang, and 4,000 infantry, a total of 6,000 people!

As for the four thousand wolf cavalry personally commanded by Lu Bu, most of the time was either spent on the ship or to attack the two county towns of Haixi and Yandu, and it was not to charge into battle when the two armies were fighting, so they were naturally not suitable for this operation!

On the "Boom ......" sea, hundreds of sea ships cleaved the waves and soon approached the coast of Xuzhou.

This time it was to break through the two county towns and plunder the people inside, in order to fight quickly, so the 6,000 soldiers and horses were divided into two groups.

A team of 3,000 people, commanded by Lu Bu's father-in-law Cao Bao, supplemented by Gao Shun, attacked Yandu.

Another team of 3,000 men was personally led by Lü Bu and attacked Haixi.

Hundreds of ships quickly split into two fleets, piloted by their crews towards their respective targets.

Due to the relative proximity to Haixi, Lu Bu's fleet soon arrived at the ferry port near Haixi, and after parking the boat, 3,000 people were led by Lu Bu to Haixi not far away!

Approaching Haixi City, Lu Bu looked at this county town where the city wall was not very high, and Lu Bu, who thought of something, couldn't help but show a sneer on his face.

Lu Buke didn't forget that the mansion of Chen Jue and Chen Deng's father and son was in Haixi County, Guangling County, and he didn't know if their father and son were still in Haixi County!

I think that at the beginning, when Lu Bu occupied Xuzhou, he could be said to have wooed Chen Qi and Chen Deng in every possible way, but in the end, Chen Qi and Chen Deng, father and son, did not accept Lu Bu's affection, and were loyal to Lu Bu on the surface, but behind the scenes, they colluded with Cao Cao, which made Lu Bu suffer heavy losses!

These two insidious and cunning characters, it is not a pity to die, when the time comes, they will break through the county seat of Haixi and catch the two of them, Lu Bu will definitely give them, including the family behind them, a bloody massacre!