Second brother Xie, I listen to the second brother's arrangement!

Well, you two pack up your belongings.

Yuanfu sent a hundred soldiers to escort them to Yecheng, sent someone to inform Yan'er first, and asked her to arrange it when she arrived in Yecheng.

Promise!

The little sister Xiong Mei is a little shy. Dao: Second brother, can girls also go to school?

Of course, your second sister-in-law Yan'er is a talented girl, you go to Yecheng and listen to her arrangement. She's going to love you for sure.

Well! I listen to my second brother.

Big brother, I'm temporarily living in Taishou Mansion, and I'll send someone to send me when I notice the appointment. If there is anything, you should come to the Taishou Mansion to find me, and take care of my father at home.

The younger brother still has something to deal with, so he will go home first.

Xiong Jindao: Second brother, you are busy with you. I'll go to the house to find you if there's something.

Then Zhang Ming went to the Xiong family, and along the way, Zhang Jie felt like a dream, for no reason, he had a cheap father, and a family of brothers and sisters. In his previous life, he was an only child, and it's incredible to think about it. And he is still the second, "Xiong Er", Lao Tzu is "Xiong Er", "I don't know if there will be a bald head?" “

When he came to the Taishou Mansion, Zhang Jie called Xu Huang and said: Gongming, what other gold and silver property is there in the mansion?

Xu Huang said: This is too guarded to let my people catch it, and I brought a lot of property. Do you want to use it?

Zhang Jie said: You sent someone to send some gold, silver and jade to Xiong Mansion, I have lost my memory and suffered from this family over the years.

Promise! I'll arrange it right away!

After Zhang Jie left, the Xiong family's compound was lively, and the surrounding neighbors and the Xiong family all came to the Xiong family. For a while, the Xiong family was very lively, and Daddy Bear is now with his tail cocked to the sky.

The number one candidate in the world is his own son, and everyone has to show off.

After a while, Xu Huang sent someone to carry the two-phase gold, silver and jewelry to Xiong's house, and Father Xiong was even more smiling. Ordered people to start a big banquet at Xiong's house. And on the one hand, he sent someone to the Taishou Mansion to inform Zhang Jie to come to meet the guests. Typical one is too emperor!

The next day, Zhang Jie received a notice from Father Xiong to let him meet the elders of the clan.

Zhang Jie feels that his head is too big, there is something wrong with this cheap dad! Don't you know what Zhang Jie's identity is? Aren't you afraid that someone will carry out assassination? And it's obviously just for show.

Zhang Jie knows: I'm afraid there will be more troubles like this in the future. If you don't do it, you will let Zhang Jie Xu Guan give it to relatives in the clan.

Zhang Jie has no feelings for the Xiong family, but in this era, he can't be unfilial. Now that it is a fact. Some things should be regarded as returning this "flesh" love. Now it seems that the situation is getting more and more troublesome.

Zhang Jie said: Gongming, you still stay in Chen for a few days, Jie has gone to Peiguo.

Xu Huang said: Why is the lord in a hurry to leave now? Besides, the old lord still wants you to go to the banquet!

Zhang Jie said: I just avoided them before I went to Peiguo. Okay, if they ask, you'll say I'm going to the front. War matters.

Then Zhang Jie led Dian Wei, Zhou Cang and other personal soldiers to Peiguo. Peiguo Zhixiang County (now Zhangji, Suixi, Anhui) Peiguo and Xuzhou border.

When Zhang Jie came to Xiangxian, at this time, Tian Feng and others arrived first.

Tian Fengdao: Didn't the lord say to stay in Chen for a few more days? Why did you come so soon?

Hehe, Jeffen's thought he had no relatives, but now he has a big family. Ay! It's hard to get the master, forget it, don't talk about it!

What's going on in Xuzhou now? When are we going to attack Pengcheng?

Frustrated: We discussed and planned to go to Xuzhou to take Pengcheng in three days. According to the Malay report, Yuan Shao recruited troops in Xuzhou, and now there are more than 20,000 defenders in Pengcheng. Most of them are recruits, though. It's just that the walls of Pengcheng are tall, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to take them for a while.

We now have nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in Xiangxian County, and the pressure on grain and grass is too great, so my subordinates think that we should withdraw a group of men and horses and return to Jizhou! Fifty thousand horses are enough here.

Yuan Shao should not exceed 100,000 horses by now, and almost all of them are recruits. But Yuan Shao must be defending the city. It is also difficult for us to take the entire territory of Xuzhou for a while.

It is better to send 50,000 horses from Jizhou next year to cross the Yellow River from the plains and other places to take Qingzhou first. Then join us in Xuzhou?

Zhang Jie thought for a while and said: Now Yuzhou, Yanzhou has already let Cao Cao loot it. The treasury is empty, and the horses can run away. Transporting grain from Jizhou is too time-consuming and laborious. It's okay if you decide like this, it's a big deal to wipe out Yuan Shao a year or two later.

In this way, let Yuan Hao lead the team and bring 50,000 horses back to Yecheng. In addition, let Gao Ran take 30,000 horses back to Taiyuan.

When we went south, we added a total of 280,000 horses from the Gaolan Department, and now it is time to go back to part of it, and only more than 10,000 horses are left in the state, I really don't worry, the Huns are honest on the surface, but they are actually ready to move. Jie is busy with the affairs of the Central Plains, and has no time to pay attention to it, and after the Central Plains is pacified, we still have to pacify the Xiongnu first.

Leaving such an alien race in the north will be a scourge sooner or later.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Yuan Hao, you will take 50,000 people back to Jizhou tomorrow, and order Gao Lan to take 30,000 people back to Jizhou. The rest of the people, follow me to Xuzhou. Let's take Pengcheng first.

Promise!

Yuan Hao, after you go back, you will hold the imperial examination immediately, and take more jinshi this year, as long as you are willing to be loyal to our scholars, you can relax the conditions a little, and after we take the Central Plains, the local officials will have to change a batch. Now there is a shortage of officials everywhere, and if we want to control the territory of the residence, we must be our own people as magistrates, otherwise we will become the front and the back.

If these wall grasses are not replaced, whoever comes will surrender. There is no discipline at all. And we're going to have to use him for a while.

Do you see what I mean? Relax standards and recruit talents. Stabilize the territory occupied.

Promise! The lord is relieved, Feng, understood.

Well, if you understand, go back and discuss it with Jeongnam.

Promise!

Pengcheng, (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu) is located in the southeast of the North China Plain, the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, Pengcheng is one of the nine states in China in history, since ancient times it is the key to the north, the gateway to the south, the place where soldiers must fight and the center of businessmen, and has been the political, economic and cultural center of the Huaihai region in later generations. During the Chu and Han dynasties, the overlord of Western Chu built the capital of Pengcheng. The Western Han Dynasty set up Pengcheng County, and the Eastern Han Dynasty set up Pengcheng State (County) and built the capital Pengcheng.

When Zhang Jie led 60,000 horses, he arrived in Pengcheng. At this time, there was also controversy among Yuan Shao's army, Xu You insisted on defending Pengcheng, thinking that it would be difficult to protect Pengcheng once it broke Xuzhou.

And Guo Tufeng Ji thought that he could not defend Pengcheng. Pengcheng is a plain terrain, which is conducive to cavalry. There was no intention of staying in the city, Cao Cao fled, and there were no reinforcements on his side. If you keep it for a long time, you will lose it. It is better to withdraw all the troops to the north of Xuzhou, and rely on the terrain and Zhang Jie and Zhou Xuan in areas with mountains such as Langya in the East China Sea.

But such a decision was difficult for Yuan Shao to make a decision for a while. After all, there is some truth on both sides.

But if you give up the entire Pengcheng, Yuan Shao is really reluctant. Once Pengcheng was lost, Xuzhou lost most of it, although Yuan Shao moved the state pastoral mansion to Xiapi, but Xiapi was too close to Surabaya and was prone to flooding. Therefore, giving up Pengcheng is equivalent to giving up Xiapi.