Qin Xu joked with Guo Jia, but seeing a big piece of fat in Yangzhou in front of him, he was powerless and couldn't eat it, which was really not a comfortable thing.

The so-called those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain. More than two years of non-stop conquest and army expansion, coupled with the once-in-a-century drought in the Central Plains, is supported by the huge wealth accumulated by the Mi family to control Haiyan, and the accumulation of several years of accumulation by the former Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, who received it in its entirety, Lu Bujun is actually a little financially unbearable.

In the previous round, Qingzhou successively expanded the six battalions of trapping, first, Xiaocai, flying cavalry, personal guard, baggage, and city defense (the establishment of the Shengong battalion was cancelled and incorporated into the city defense battalion), plus the local soldiers in Linzi, and the total number of soldiers and auxiliaries of the Lu Bu army in Qingzhou was more than 70,000 people.

After the rebellion of the Danyang soldiers in Xuzhou, although part of it was cleansed, there were still more than 10,000 people left, but with the 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers stationed in Xiapi at the beginning, and the 3,000 Xiliang soldiers newly invested by Fan Chou, there were nearly 40,000 troops, and the combined strength of the two states has reached a staggering nearly 120,000 people. Moreover, the soldiers of the Lu Bujun are not the same as the model of other forces, because Qingzhou is mountainous and has few fields, and when the millions of yellow turbans were newly surrendered, they used the policy of displaced people as the blueprint to send these hundreds of thousands of yellow turbans to various counties and counties to do the things of tuntian, that is to say, these troop strength data of the Lu Bujun are all "professional soldiers", and the same is true for the soldiers of the Linzi Mansion. The confirmation of this news had already aroused the vigilance of the surrounding forces as early as when Qin Xu was ordered to rescue the Son of Heaven with Cao Cao.

It is no wonder that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were jealous of Lu Bujun, and the border of Qingxu Erzhou was not large. The two states together are the size of Yuzhang County in Yangzhou, but they have gathered so many soldiers, what is the intention? That is, Qin Xu made a "great contribution" in Chang'an before. Yuan Shao was violently killed again, and Lü Bu "surrendered" the ownership of the Han Emperor, which "exchanged" the "honeymoon period" between Lü Bu's army and Cao Cao's army. However, this apparent peace was not enough to calm Cao Jun's sense of oppression, so it contributed to the investigation of the cause of the jade seal of the country and the order to conquer Yangzhou.

On the surface, Cao Cao cherished his troops. The act of handing over the great Yangzhou to its allies is indeed worthy of Lu Bujun's "gratitude", which can not only share the increasingly heavy military and political expenditures of Qingxu and Xuzhou. can also take advantage of some "cheap" good things in Yangzhou, which is enough to see Boss Cao's high style. But in fact, Yangzhou is like a quagmire, if you fall into it. Don't try to pull yourself out in a short period of time.

Sun Ce, Yuan Shu, Yan father and son, Liu Xuan. However, in the land of a state, there are four forces that are "qualified" to be named, and among the other counties, most of them are controlled by the clans that are far away from the war in the Central Plains because of the great river, not to mention the fact that there are also Shanyue aliens who go down the mountains from time to time to plunder the population of good people and loot the state and county, relying on Qin Xu's 20,000 army alone. The lone army is deep, even if the army is elite. It's never going to be good.

As a last resort, Qin Xu could only lay out a chess game of mutual killing with the help of Guo Jia and Jia Xu, so as to prevent other forces from coveting Yangzhou, and at the same time, find a good way out early. In fact, this was a big "game" from the beginning, from spreading rumors about Yuan Shu to Qin Xu's promise to help Liu Xuan recapture the governance office, but he pretended to be crazy and did not bring auxiliary troops to the battle, and the military resources and food were all supplied by his own cheap uncle Mi Zhu, which was a gesture of not wanting to touch the troubled waters of Yangzhou. Even including the fact that Sun Ce was besieged by luck, but he was kind enough to let him go, in addition to thinking that Sun Ce's danger was far inferior to Sun Quan's green-eyed buddy, it was also a part of the game, in order to act more "like" in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, Cao Cao and the surrounding forces. This is on the bright side.

And secretly, the shadow under Jia Xu's command, when Qin Xu "escorted" Yuan Yao, pottery merchants and other cadres to Xuchang, was already looking for a "scene" that could support the "scene" for Yangzhou, which was temporarily swallowed by Lu Bujun's army, and selected a candidate who could be qualified for the strategy of "raising self-respect".

Just when Yuan Shu hoped that Li Feng and Han Yin would "urge" Yan Baihu and Yan Yu's father and son, they could try their best to recruit as many soldiers as possible as soon as possible to deal with the conceivable attacks on Xiao Guan and Fu Pass by Qin Xu and Sun Ce, but what Yuan Shu was waiting for was jaw-dropping news.

"Your Majesty! Big things are not good! The guards of the headquarters brought by Li Feng and Han Yin desperately came to report that Yan Baihu and Yan Yu's father and son used the five hundred soldiers left by the lord to sit in Liyang as a weapon, and coerced the Liyang Mansion to respond to the crowd, and it was the opposite! Lei Bo almost stumbled in the door, startling Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang, who were discussing how to allocate the strategy of defending the enemy in the two levels, and before Yuan Shu could speak angrily, he was speechless for a while by the news brought by Lei Bo.

"What? Yan's father and son are reversed? Took Liyang City with 500 people? Aren't these two thieves afraid that the lord will return to the army and kill him? Yan Xiang was also stunned when he heard the news of Lei Bo, and blurted out, but immediately his face changed greatly, and he stood up with a bang, and even the low couch in front of him hurt his knees, and he grinned under the severe pain, and said to Yuan Shu with a bit of hideousness and panic: "No! Your Majesty, what the Yan family and his son are looking for is not just Liyang City! ”

"Of course I know that they don't want to be in Liyang City!" Yuan Shu had just recovered from the explosive news brought back by Lei Bo, and suddenly listened to Yan Xiang's "nonsense", it was strange that he could have a good face, and said angrily: "It seems that this Yan father and son did not have any good intentions when they first took refuge in Yu Me!" I still want to test them, and then entrust them with a heavy responsibility! It's okay, after all, I can see the true colors of the two of them, and after I have pacified the Qin thief and Sun thief first, I will clean them up! ”

"Your Majesty!! Don't forget, half of the soldiers in our hands now are the generals brought by the Yan father and son! Yan Xiang was almost crying. Yuan Shu is good at everything, but sometimes he has the problem of delusion, but he can't change it! He even pointed to the tens of thousands of troops at hand to repel the military momentum of Qin Xu and Sun Ce who might come at any time, and then return to the army to "quell the rebellion"? Don't use your brain to think about it, it's okay on weekdays, after all, the Yan father and son were the marquis of Yuan Shu's "personal seal" before, and it is also justified that the soldiers under his command fought for the Zhong Dynasty. But now that the Yan family and his son are reversed, between Yuan Shu or choosing the old master, is it difficult to guess the choice of these people? Now people did not immediately respond to the mutiny, and turned against them, which is already very face-saving.

"Huh? I...... I am the true son of heaven, these thieves are deeply favored by me, should not ...... "Yuan Shu is just a delusion of love, and he is not a fool, Yan Xiang's words are directed at the hearts of the people, how can Yuan Shu not understand?" With these self-deceptive words, Yuan Shu couldn't even say it anymore in the end. He could only look at his mastermind Yan Xiang dryly, hoping that the prime minister of the Zhong Dynasty could immediately come up with a solution.

"Your Majesty, for the sake of today's plan, when the two thieves of the Yan clan have not yet moved, and the soldiers who have taken the Yan clan before have not yet received the news and have made a 'move', they should be screened out......" Yan Xiang is also worthy of being a man of outstanding resourcefulness, and in just a few breaths, he thought of a way to "solve", and said with a wry smile.

"Will you kill them all after they are screened? is exactly what I want, these chaotic ministers and thieves really deserve to be punished! Thunder thin! ......" Before Yan Xiang finished speaking, he was robbed of the conversation by Yuan Shu, and his face was full of murderous eyes, and he wanted to order Lei Bo to "do it".

"No, no, no! Your Majesty has misunderstood! Don't do that! Seeing that it was all at this time, Yuan Shu was still thinking about his own happiness, Yan Xiang's anxious head was straight up, and he couldn't care about any etiquette of monarchs and ministers, so he hurriedly grabbed Lei Bo, who was about to promise, and said loudly to Yuan Shu: "It's hard to be angry!" If Your Majesty is like this, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get out of this Xiao Pass! ”

"Humph! Can't kill?! Could it be that I should sit and wait for the two thieves of the Yan clan to wave their troops to kill, and the inside and outside should be together? Yuan Shu was so angry that he didn't have time to care about Yan Xiang's disrespectful words, and asked angrily: "I am the true son of heaven, do you know that among the more than 10,000 thieves, there are not many loyal people who serve the country?" Besides, since Li Feng and Han Yin, the ministers of my humerus, can send the news back, it seems that their lives will definitely be rewarded, so it can be seen that there are not no national soldiers around the Yan family's father and son! ”

"Your Majesty!" Yan Xiang really cried this time! With such a lord and "emperor", it is really uncomfortable to be the prime minister of the Zhong family's dynasty: "Then even if Li Feng and Han Yin are not dead in the Yan family's two thieves army, how can they defeat more than 10,000 soldiers and horses with the strength of these two people?" It was the personal guard who 'gave his life' and fled back, how did the lord know that it was not the two thieves of the Yan family who deliberately put it back, intending to make the lord mess up? At the moment, this is the situation, Your Majesty's safety should be the most important, according to the minister's opinion, I am afraid that there is only ......"

"Only what? But it doesn't hurt to say it! Now that you are in the current situation, I forgive you for your innocence! Seeing that Yan Xiang claimed to have a way, but he couldn't say it clearly, Yuan Shu looked at his face and roughly guessed something, and on his arrogant face, he also showed a rare wry smile.

"The minister has two strategies, the best policy is that His Majesty will go to the emperor's name, ask for the guilt on the table, and then learn from that Sun Ce to generally take refuge in Lu Bu, and his life should be worry-free, and the minister looks at the various behaviors of Qin Xu since he came to Yangzhou, and it is expected that even if he can't take Yangzhou in person, he will definitely not let Yangzhou be ironclad, Your Majesty will work in time, for the sake of the 'prince' who is in Xuchang, plus the Yan father and son thief Kou Danyang, with the reputation of His Majesty who was born in the fourth world and the third duke, he may not lose the lord of the county under the command of Lu Bujun!" Yan Xiang cautiously glanced at Yuan Shu, who had a gloomy face, but it was rare that he was not immediately angry, and said cautiously: "And the next strategy is what the minister just said, to screen out the soldiers and horses of the lord's headquarters, no matter how many, take advantage of the news of the rebellion of the two thieves has not spread, go out of Danyang and according to Yuzhang, stick to the Lingguan in the direction of Fuguan and Huiji, and at the same time form a good alliance with Shanyue to help, and then wait for the day!" But if this is the case, the lord will have no way out! ”

"Hmm! Yan Qing is worthy of the talent of the prime minister, let me think about it......" Yuan Shu was a little embarrassed to look directly at Yan Xiang and Lei Bo's expectant gaze, and hesitated and said.

…… (To be continued......)

PS: There will be another chapter in a moment