The placement of 30,000 Jingzhou troops is indeed very troublesome, and if it is absorbed, it is afraid of backlash, and if it is released, it is afraid of making a comeback, which really makes Lu Bu think a lot.

In the past few years, Lu Bu has no longer been a brave and unscrupulous reckless man with the assistance of his wife Yu Xiang, and he has some brains.

After a day's rest, Lu Bu gathered these Jingzhou soldiers for a meeting.

Lu Bu stood on the high platform and announced loudly: "According to the appointment authority of the Chang'an Lieutenant Department, Wen is appointed as the general of Fengyi, and the generals of each ministry are promoted to one level, and I hope you will perform your duties." Be loyal to the Great Sima and the Great Han. Those who have two hearts, slash! ”

Everyone looked at each other, not quite believing Lu Bu's order. It is said that it is impossible for the troops who have just surrendered to be promoted and rewarded, and at most they will disrupt the structure and let them do some miscellaneous work.

Wen Ping thanked Lu Bu and made a speech, which was nothing more than persuading everyone to be honest.

After the conference was dismissed, Lü Bu made adjustments, and assigned his 20,000 infantry to 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers to form a 50,000 infantry army, and then divided into two, half led by Lü Bu back to Chang'an, and the other half supported Yuzhou to fight. In this way, the Jingzhou soldiers were divided and far away from the boundaries of Jingzhou, coupled with the almost one-on-one mixed formation of soldiers and soldiers, the Jingzhou soldiers couldn't set off the storm even if they wanted to make trouble, not to mention that the treatment under Lu Bu was obviously better than Liu Biao. It's not that hard.

30,000 cavalry were directly allocated to Li Tong to be responsible for the Nanyang operation, Liu Biao sent troops to the north with a face of "revenge", but was easily solved by Lu Bu.

The news of the surrender of the Wenpin army soon spread to the Nanyang and Kuai Yue armies.

Kuai Yue was so angry, "I said that this Wen Ping took the initiative to lead the army to Luoyang, and he went to surrender after making trouble for a long time, this guy who killed a thousand knives!" ”

Some subordinates asked Kuai Yue what to do next, Kuai Yue had nothing to do, the reason why he was a deputy general was that Liu Biao sent to see Wen Ping, a small fight, Kuai Yue was okay, when encountering this kind of large corps battle, Kuai Yue was indeed a little worse.

Some strategists suggested that they should be stationed in Nanyang City to hold on, and the Chang'an soldiers would definitely retreat in the face of difficulties. Kuai Yue directly refused, tens of thousands of troops and horses of Lu Bu's army were nearby, and entering Nanyang City must be a besieged ending, so many people entered Nanyang City, and the grain and grass alone were enough to abolish Nanyang.

When Kuai Yue was hesitant, the scout came with the news that 30,000 cavalry were reinforcing Li Tong, and it would be stupid to learn quickly, "Pull out the camp and retreat south overnight!" ”

20,000 Jingzhou soldiers sent grain and grass to each other under the command of Kuai Yue, and Li Tong got the news and took advantage of the night to attack and harass, and during the day he brazenly attacked to rob the Kuai Yue army's grain and grass.

When Nanyang Taishou got the news that Wen Ping had surrendered and Lu Bu's army was about to besiege Nanyang, he was already frightened and abandoned the city and fled.

All kinds of unfavorable news came one after another, Kuai Yue knew that he was no longer able to return to the sky, so he abandoned the grain and grass baggage, quickly retreated south, and returned to Xiangyang.

Li Tong did not pursue, got the weight of grain and grass, and successfully entered Nanyang City. The 40,000-strong army was stationed outside Nanyang City.

Nanyang broke itself without a fight, Lu Bu was naturally happy, and directly announced that Nanyang County would be included in the territory of the Chang'an Captain's Department, and Li Tong was the Taishou of Nanyang.

In the following months, Li Tong led the cavalry to conquer everywhere and collected the counties under Nanyang County into the territory of Nanyang Taishou.

Liu Biao's dispatch of troops this time was a joke from the beginning, and it looked like Liu Biao deliberately sent 30,000 troops and the entire Nanyang County to Jiang Sheng.

When the news reached Cao Cao's ears, Cao Cao scolded: "Liu Biao, this bastard thing! ”

Liu Biao couldn't swallow this breath and planned to send troops to snatch Nanyang back, but was told that Sun Ce had sent troops to invade Jiangxia County, and Li Tong's forward troops had been stationed on the north bank of the Han River, across the river from Xiangyang, and Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses in the west were also ready to move.

Looking at this situation, Jingzhou is in danger, and self-protection has become a problem, how can it send troops.

Kuai Liang is relatively smart, so he suggested that Liu Biao ask Jiang Sheng for peace.

"How can this be true? He occupies Nanyang County, and I still have to ask him for peace? ”

"Which is more important than the survival of Nanyang County or the entire Jingzhou?"

Liu Biao stopped talking, now surrounded by enemies on three sides, he can only make peace with the strongest enemy, so as to ensure the safety of Jingzhou.

So he sent someone to hurry up and go north to Yecheng to ask Jiang Sheng for his guilt.

Let's talk about Chen Guo's battle, there was no news after Xu Shu left Yingchuan, in fact, he was operating in secret.

Ji Ling and General Cao Chun fought many times, each with a victory or defeat, and confronted each other on the outskirts of Chen County, but Chen County quieted down.

Xu Shu's first stop was Yanzhou, he told Cao Cao about the current situation of the competition between Xiahou Yuan and Yuan Shu's Ji Ling's Ji Ling, Cao Cao was furious, he was originally an ally, but he fought first.

Cao Cao didn't know the details of Xu Shu, but the news he sent to collect was just as Xu Shu said, so he wanted to keep Xu Shu, but Xu Shu politely declined, claiming that he was coming for the people of Yuzhou.

On the one hand, Cao Cao sent an envoy to visit Yuan Shu, and on the other hand, he sent someone to find Xiahou Yuan, wanting to defuse the confrontation.

And Xu Shu went directly to Ji Ling, his identity is still the people of Chen State, he "represents" the people of Chen State, "hopes" Yuan Shu to be in charge of Chen State, after some flattery, he said to Ji Ling: "Jiang Sheng's soldiers and horses are concentrated in Youzhou, and they have not yet gone south, in order to defend the foundation of Jizhou, Jiang Sheng promised to give Yuzhou to Cao Cao in exchange for Cao Cao's withdrawal of troops." ”

Ji Ling was skeptical and said, "I have heard a little about Jiang Sheng's temper, but he can't tolerate sand in his eyes, how can he be soft on Cao Cao?" ”

Xu Shu said: "If the general doesn't believe it, wait for three days to see the difference." ”

"If it is as you say, what will happen to our army?"

"Since Jiang Sheng promised Yuzhou, Cao Cao will at least hold his troops still, and he will not withdraw his troops until the imperial court will reach Yanzhou. Since Yuzhou is in his pocket, he will not lose his troops to attack, and the general can take advantage of the opportunity for Cao's army to take Chen County in one fell swoop. At that time, even if Cao Cao is nominally in charge of Yuzhou, how can he bear you? ”

Ji Ling was silent, and Xu Shu continued: "Runan is already under the control of the general, and if you take Chen Guo, you can connect with Runan and Huainan, which can be described as impregnable!" ”

Ji Ling smiled slightly and nodded.

Xu Shu lobbied Cao Cao to let Cao Cao show sincerity, since Yuan Shu is Cao Cao's ally, at this time, Cao Cao will definitely not fight for Chen State in order to win over Yuan Shu, but he also doesn't want Yuan Shu to win Chen State, his envoy wants to let the two families stop fighting, and no one will take Chen State.

Cao Cao's people must have found Xiahou Yuan relatively quickly, and it would be realized at the earliest, but the people who were looking for Yuan Shu arrived in Shouchun and then went to Ji Ling in the military order, after all, it took some time, Xu Shu took this time difference and instigated Ji Ling to seize the city.

Two days later, Xiahou Yuan really retreated twenty miles, Ji Ling was overjoyed, and let the whole army march overnight.

When Ji Ling marched into the army, Yuan Shu's military order had already rushed to Chen County.