Yuan Shu was crying all the way back to Shouchun City, extremely miserable, just a few days ago, he still had an army of more than 200,000 people, or the 'Zhong Clan' Son of Heaven, but now, the army is gone, even the 'Sun Moon and Tianzi Banner' was lost on the battlefield, and the total number of people and horses who fled back with him did not exceed 20,000, and it was not much closer to the annihilation of the whole army!

As soon as the defeated army returned to Shouchun, a person's cry became a city crying, countless orphans and widows poured out of the city, looking for their relatives in the remnants of the defeated army, this expedition, who did not have a male on the battlefield, and even many of them were fathers and sons, brothers and brothers in the army, and it was natural to cry with joy when they were lucky to find it, as long as they could come back alive, it was better than anything, but more could not be found, and even the bones could not be found ~~~

"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, all six sons of my family have gone out with the army, why haven't any of them returned? Not a single one! ”

When a white-haired old woman knelt down in front of the chariot with a group of orphans and widows, crying and questioning, even Yuan Shu, who was as thick-skinned as the city wall, was ashamed and embarrassed.

It takes a mother twenty years of time and energy to raise an infant baby to adulthood, and on Sanfeng Mountain, in just two days, it all went down the drain~~

The group returned to the puppet palace in the crying of the city, and the left-behind personnel hurriedly helped them freshen up, change their clothes, and offer food ......, sitting on their dragon chairs, wearing dry new dragon robes, and pouring several bowls of honey water in a row, Yuan Shu finally had a little spirit!

At this time, an attendant ran up to report that Ji Ling, the general in charge of the broken post, was killed, and even the head was cut off by the 'Ghost Face Xiao Lang' and made into a skull!

"Ji Ling, a lonely loyal and brave general, it's gone, woo woo......"

"Your Majesty, the dead cannot be resurrected, and the defeat cannot be reversed, but this war is not over, it won't be long before Cao's army will come to the city, how to arrange the law of war defense is the most important thing!"

Li Feng, the head of the 'four ministers', was the first to cheer up, and in the battle of Sanfeng, he lost only more than 200,000 horses, although his heart hurts, he can still bear it, but if Shouchun City can't hold it anymore, it will be his life.

"What is the best plan for the Aiqing?" Yuan Shu didn't want to lose the throne, and he didn't want his head to be made into a wine cup after he died, so he barely cheered up!

"Recruit troops, transfer food, build cities, and hold on!" The four ministers looked at each other and replied in unison, apparently they had already discussed it in private!

These eight words can be said to be squeezed out by gritting teeth, Huainan area, because of Yuan Shu's arrogance and lasciviousness, the people's livelihood is already tired, the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, it is even more than 200,000 strong, and a large amount of grain and grass looted has also become the spoils of the Cao army, if you continue to recruit troops and transfer grain, it is equivalent to forcing the people to death!

The four ministers are all from Huainan, and now that their hometown has been ruined like this, the grief in their hearts can be imagined; But there is no way, in order to save their lives, they can only push the last strong man to the front line, and the last grain of rice will be used as military rations, otherwise, they will die!

In the counties of Huainan, all men over the age of seventeen were conscripted into the army, and all the grain and grass in the official warehouses were transported to Shouchun City, and this was the method they came up with.

In the Han Dynasty, men were twenty years old, and began to exercise the rights and obligations of an adult man before he could become a soldier, and now the age is set at seventeen years old, which is already cutting seedlings, as for the transfer of grain from the local official warehouse, it means that the administrative organs of the counties are in danger of being paralyzed, and if there is no food, they are panicked!

It can be said that this method of the four ministers is already quite cruel, but Yuan Shu is ready to carry it forward and turn cruelty into cruelty!

"One does not do, two does not stop, spread the will of the orphan, all the men over the age of fifteen in all counties of Huainan have joined the army, and the grain and grass from all over the country, whether it is an official warehouse or a private warehouse, are all transported to Shouchun for inventory!"

It is said that it is an inventory, but in fact, it is a forced levy!

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, the Huainan Counties will not want to recover within twenty years!" The little faces of the four ministers were all wrinkled like bitter melons, and they who were familiar with internal affairs naturally understood that twenty years is probably an optimistic estimate, and it may even be thirty or forty years!

"I can't care so much, I don't have time to think about what will happen in twenty years now, if there are no soldiers, horses, money and food, in less than two months, we will all be finished, let's issue an edict immediately!"

Yuan Shu stared coldly at the four ministers in front of him, and the boss in his heart was dissatisfied, it was these guys who pleaded with themselves to send troops to fight Cao Mengde to the death, but the battle was a battle, but the one who died was almost himself, and he regretted not being at the beginning!

"In addition, invite Zimu Gongzi here, and I want to discuss military affairs with him!" What Yuan Shu regrets most now is that he didn't listen to Zimu's persistence, and now he is almost out of money to defend the city, so he only hopes that this man in white can come up with a few good ways to help him get through the difficulties in front of him!

"No!"

The four ministers looked at each other, and they felt that because of the defeat, Yuan Shu now distrusted them.

"If the monarch and the minister are suspicious, the country will perish!"

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A belated heavy rain caused Yuan Shu to almost be wiped out, but it was also this heavy rain that gave him a chance to breathe, because the autumn rain was continuous and the roads were muddy, so Cao Jun did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but set up a large camp near Sanfeng Mountain, set up a conjuring ceremony, and sacrificed the fallen soldiers!

Wu Gexi was rhinoceros,

The car is wrong and the short soldier picks up,

Covering the sun and the enemy,

Arrows and fallen warriors scramble for the lead.

Ling Yu lingered for the rest of the line,

Left and right,

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Honesty is both brave and martial,

In the end, it is strong and invincible.

The body is dead and the spirit is the spirit,

The soul of the child is a ghost!

On Sanfeng Mountain, the drizzle was hazy, and in the place where the two armies had fought bloodily, in a low sound of "National Martyrdom", the conjuring ceremony began!

"The soul is back!"

"Born as a soldier, die as a ghost!"

Cao Cao wore a white robe, personally worshiped the soldiers who died in battle, the whole army followed behind, bowed down to a huge tomb that had just been piled up, and the bones of the fallen soldiers were buried inside, killing 10,000 enemies, 8,000 self-losses, the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, Cao's army also suffered tens of thousands of casualties, Xu Du City, I don't know how many orphans and widows were added overnight, the war, defeated, to die, to win, the same to die!

The casualties were huge, the victory was also brilliant, and after this battle, the prisoners of war alone were captured in the early 100,000s, so that Cao Jun specially found a large valley to house them, and sent heavy soldiers at both ends to form a natural large prison cell.

As for the captured armor, blades, flags, gongs and drums, tents, grain and grass, it was even more piled up, and it took the soldiers two full days to collect these things from the battlefield, of course, these guys themselves are not idle, when they encounter good weapons and armor, they must be left for their own use, this is a matter of course, and there are some additional incomes, such as the income from the looting of prisoners, which do not need to be handed over, and the generals will not care about this, everyone has given up their lives on the battlefield, and it is not appropriate to make a small fortune?

"Zhang Er, behead two levels, capture one person, and a total bounty of thirty taels!"

"Zhao Wu, behead the fifth level, the bounty is fifty taels, and in addition, the enemy captain is killed, the first rank is the evidence, and the special officer is promoted to one level!"

"Wang Xiaoer, killed in battle, beheaded at the third level when he was born, a bounty of thirty, issued by the government to his family, the whole family is exempt from taxes for three years, and his wife and children are supported by the state!"

There was a long queue in front of the big tent of each battalion, the master bookkeepers carried a brush to record the merits one by one, and the soldiers were happy to take the heads of the people to receive the reward, in their eyes, these grinning things are heavy gold ingots, so no one will feel disgusted, let alone afraid, some naughty soldiers, will also hold the heads of each other to compare to see who is more handsome, more scary!

If ordinary people see this, they are probably scared, but in the eyes of those generals, it is normal, the 'army of tigers and wolves' should be like this, the invincible army of the Qin people back then was 'hanging a human head on the body, holding prisoners under the armpits, going into battle shirtless, shouting loudly to chase and kill their enemies', how similar the two are!

In the entire camp, both the generals and ordinary soldiers have been richly rewarded, and even those who stayed in the camp have received a reward for their effective logistical support, and they are all happy, of course, there are two exceptions, one is Cao Cao, and the other is Xiao Yi!

There will never be Cao Cao's name in the merit book, because only he rewards others, who dares to reward him in turn, besides, the reward has no meaning to him, this battle is a big victory, it won't be long before even the thousands of miles of land in Huainan are his, not to mention a little property?

As for Xiao Yi, in terms of military exploits, he is the greatest, and in terms of killing enemies, he has the most, but the reward is really impossible to give anymore, at the age of twenty, he will worship the governor of the capital and be named a marquis, if he is rewarded again, it is not love, but it will harm him!

However, Cao Cao also said privately that if Xiao Yi likes it, he can choose one or two more of his daughters to be equal wives, or choose a few beautiful women from the Cao and Xiahou clans to be concubines, which scared Xiao Yi and shook his head again and again, although he likes beautiful women, he will never be abusive, those bone-scraping steel knives, it is better not to have too much!