"Rush!" Li Yan rushed to the wide open city gate first, and a thousand men and horses followed closely behind him. Du Yuan saw that someone had killed him again, and he was so anxious that he yelled to close the door and pull the suspension bridge. But it was too late, and before the heavy suspension bridge could be pulled up, Li Yan had already rushed up. Several soldiers tried to stop him, but he chopped them in two.

Since the east gate was not suitable for attacking, Du Yuan had arranged for more than 1,000 people to be stationed here these days. After Li Yan rushed in, the soldiers behind him then engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders. The number of people on both sides is equal, although the east gate was not taken by Li Yan for a while, but it is impossible for Du Yuan to drive Li Yan out.

After a short moment of fierce fighting, both sides began to feel some vibrations in the ground under their feet, and it was obvious that a large group of men and horses were coming towards them. Cao Jun, who was defending the city, suddenly sank in his heart, while Li Yan and the others were greatly boosted. "Brothers, support for a while, General Guan and they are coming soon!" Li Yan was still at ease in the face of Du Yuan, and he was still motivating the soldiers while fighting.

Sure enough, Li Yan's voice didn't fall for a long time, and the black pressure gradually killed the people who were fighting fiercely at the city gate. Du Yuan's martial arts were originally far inferior to Li Yan, and it was already extraordinary to be able to hold on for so long, but now seeing the arrival of a large number of reinforcements from the other party, he was slashed in the neck by Li Yan without paying attention, and a good head suddenly flew into the sky.

"Du Yuan is dead, those who descend will not be killed!" Li Yan shouted loudly, and the rest of the Cao soldiers were all frightened, and they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered at the moment. The few recalcitrant people were also quickly surrounded and annihilated.

"Zhengfang is really good, so soon for you to take the east gate." Zhao Feng was also about to arrive at this time, but the east gate had already been taken by Li Yan. "General Zhao has won the prize, and he still needs to capture the other three as soon as possible!" Li Yan admonished.

"That's right!" Zhao Feng also nodded, and at this time, Guan Yu led a large army had also arrived, and immediately arranged manpower to destroy the remaining enemy army. There was a scuffle until the morning dawn appeared in the east, and the Xuzhou army took control of Qiaojun. Everyone was excited, and they didn't care about not resting all night, so they all went to the government to report the results of the battle to Guan Yu.

"I don't want this county city to be taken so easily." Guan Yu was also very proud and smiled, looked at the people in the hall and said: "This time I can succeed in one fell swoop, Bo Tao and Zhengfang have made great contributions." I've reported to my eldest brother, and I expect a reply soon. ”

"Thank you, Second General!" Zhao Feng and Li Yan are both holding fists. Zhao Feng was also slightly proud in his heart, he really didn't expect Guan Yu, who was famous for his arrogance, to value himself so much. In fact, Zhao Feng also forgot that although Guan Yu was arrogant, he still admired people who were really capable. For example, Zhang Liao, Zhuge Liang, and Xu Shu are all like this.

Guan Yu laughed for a while, and then suddenly frowned again: "But the children of this Cao Ying clan are all in Qian County, how can it be good?" If it is killed, it will be completely grudged with Cao Ying, and now we in Yuzhou are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses how to resist; If you leave it alone, you are afraid that they will make trouble here, and it will be a real headache. ”

Everyone in the hall immediately talked about it, some said that they would send troops to guard them, and some said that they would use them to negotiate with Cao Ying. Zhao Feng thought for a while and said, "Second General, otherwise, I raided their homes, and then sent them out of the country as a gift, and asked them to go to Xuchang to find Cao Ying." We don't kill them, but we don't want them. ”

"That's the best!" Everyone felt that this was the best way, and Guan Yu handed over this important task to Zhao Feng. So in the next few days, Zhao Feng led people to raid the homes of Cao Ying's seven aunts and eight aunts one by one, and almost all the family property was seized and returned to the public, leaving only a little travel expenses, so that they could go to Xuchang to join Cao Ying. After working for half a month, the final result surprised Zhao Feng.

"140,000 stone of grain, 20,000 taels of gold and silver, and more than 2,000 private soldiers in the courtyard!" Guan Yu looked at the bill presented by Zhao Feng, but he didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, Guan Yu, who came back to his senses, said: "In this way, we can recruit more soldiers." ”

Not to mention that Guan Yu and Zhao Feng were in full swing, in Xuchang a few days later, Cao Ying saw his group of relatives and friends who were driven away from their hometown, and he was really angry!

"Zhao Feng, little thief, dare to do this!" Knowing that the Broken County and the raiding of the family were all Zhao Feng's masterpieces, Cao Ying's resentment towards him was beyond measure. "Prime Minister is angry, although Zhao Feng's house is hateful, but now is not the time to send troops to Xuzhou." Guo Jia on the side hurriedly admonished.

"Hmph, I've got my own measure. He said that if this guy fell into my hands, I would not kill him, so I would raid his house and leave him homeless! Cao Ying said hatefully, and then remembered something and asked a tall and thin middle-aged man behind him: "Wen Ruo, is there any movement in Jingzhou now?" ”

That person was Xun Yu, and when he saw Cao Ying's question, he hurriedly replied: "There is no news yet, it seems that the people in Jingzhou are not willing to fight Guan Yu for a few empty titles." By the way, Prime Minister, Liu Bei asked Guan Yu to be the pastor of Yuzhou, it has been several days, what should I do now? ”

"Huh?" Cao Ying had another headache, now that only three of the eight counties and three counties of Yuzhou were not in Guan Yu's hands, he was really a little powerless to face Yuan Shao and then manage Guan Yu's side. "Let's say yes!" Cao Ying replied a little tiredly.

A few days later, in the city of Runan, "Feng Guan Yu is the pastor of Yuzhou, leading the left general, Qin this!" The eunuch's characteristic shrill voice resounded in the empty Taishou Mansion. Hooray, hooray, hooray! A large number of kneeling in the hall responded in unison.

"Congratulations to the second general!" Zhao Feng and others hugged their fists to congratulate Guan Yu, and Guan Yu also changed his cold and arrogant smile in the past. Although it is only an empty title, now Guan Yu can justifiably appoint the officials of Yuzhou and govern one side. Of course, the main decision still has to listen to Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

So in the next few days, new officials were sent to various places in Yuzhou to take up their posts. Lu Guoxiang Sun Guan, Pei Guoxiang Guan Hai and Liang Guoxiang Mi Fang, these three people have been governing the place for more than a year, and there is no need to change people. In the remaining counties, Li Yan appointed Chen County as the Taishou to prevent Cao Ying, but the Chen County Taishou was the original Chen County Taishou Chen Jiao, Hou Cheng was appointed as the Xiangcheng Taishou, and Liu Pi was appointed as the Ruyin Taishou. As for Runan Taishou, Liu Bei handed over this most important place to Zhao Feng to take care of. As for the rest of the county orders, Gong Cao's official positions were sent out one by one. And Liao Hua, Hao Meng and others also got a miscellaneous general.

Zhao Feng said to Guan Yu in private: "Now Yuzhou is initially decided, and the foundation is unstable. Cao Ying was faced with Yuan Shao, a giant, and had no time to take care of Yuzhou; Liu Biao in the west is more than successful, and he is not enterprising enough, and he is not worried. What we have to do is to take advantage of this rare leisure time to improve the people's livelihood and armaments in Yuzhou, and connect them with Xuzhou to echo each other. Wait until the world changes, then you can be prepared. Guan Yu thought so, so in the next day, Guan Yu was in charge of the military, Jian Yong, Zhao Feng and others were busy with civil affairs, and they were also full and busy.

Due to Zhao Feng's plan to capture Qiaojun, it took Guan Yu less than a month to actually pacify the entire Yuzhou. At this time, it is the spring equinox, and there are still about three months before the summer grain harvest. Although new soldiers were also recruited, and displaced people were also gathered to open up fields to support the people, except for Peiguo and other places that had been stable before, only Chen County under Chen Jiaozhi could be self-sufficient this year. As for the soldiers, after the incorporation of Liu Pi and others, plus the recruited recruits, there were nearly 100,000 soldiers in the entire Yuzhou. But if you want to train and become successful, you need to take some time. In ancient times, it took about half a year to train soldiers, and now it is only four months before the summer, and Zhao Feng estimates that at most it will be almost the same as training into a county soldier.

Zhao Feng knew that Yuan Shu was going to be the emperor this year. The book does not say when he was called emperor, but at that time it was said that he had gathered 300,000 troops, and he should have just collected food to gather so many people. In other words, when Yuan Shu became emperor, Liu Bei still needed to rely on the current Xuzhou army to defeat him, and the Yuzhou army could not be counted on for the time being, and it was estimated that it would only be able to assist in guarding the place at that time.

What Zhao Feng didn't know was that in Jingzhou City, which he ignored at the moment, there was also a turbulent undercurrent. In the hall of the Jingzhou Mansion, a middle-aged military general was playing to the old man sitting on the throne: "My lord, since the imperial court has made a will, let General Zhongye serve as the Taishou of Runan, this is a godsend opportunity for me to expand the territory of Jingzhou, I don't know why the lord hesitates?" "This person is none other than Cai Mao, the governor of Jingzhou Navy and Liu Biao's brother-in-law.

"Cai Dudu has a good intention to Wen Ping, but Wen Ping is just a martial artist, and being able to be a general in Jingzhou is already thanks to the love of the lord, how dare he think about it again." A sturdy man in his thirties on the opposite side stood up and thanked him. He is known as the first military general in Jingzhou, of course, Zhao Feng sneered at this title. Although Wen Ping is not a rice bucket like Pan Feng, he is indeed inferior to Huang Zhong and Wei Yan.

The reason why Wen Ping rejected Cai Mao's seemingly well-intentioned proposal was also because of his intentions. Now the power of Jingzhou is gradually controlled by Cai Mao's family Cai family and Kuai Liang Kuai Yue's brother's Kuai family, one of the two families is mainly for military affairs, the other is for civil affairs, and the same party is almost all over all departments. can make them restrained, except for Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, there is only himself, the first military general in Jingzhou. Now, if he goes to Runan to take office, it is estimated that his own power will be uprooted in less than half a year.

Everyone in the hall said their own reasoning, but only one person was silent. Liu Biao, who was on the main seat, saw this person, and his expression relaxed a little and asked, "Uncle Ji, what do you think?" "This person is from Jingzhou.

"Lord, this is clearly Cao Ying's annihilation plan. He was afraid that Liu Bei and Guan Yu would not be good for him after occupying Yuzhou, so he wanted to use this empty title of Runan Taishou to let us fight with Guan Yu, so that he could sit and reap the benefits. Yi Yuan laughed.

"Having said that, if you don't even dare to move, wouldn't it be a joke?" On the other side, a scribe retorted with ulterior motives that he was the eldest brother of the Kuai brothers, Kuai Liang Kuaizirou. Like Cai Mao, he also wished that Wenpin would leave Jingzhou.

"General Zhongye is the pillar of my Jingzhou, how can he move around. What's more," Yi Yuan paused for a moment before continuing: "At present, Jiangdong Sun Ce always disturbs me Jingzhou from time to time in order to avenge his father Sun Jian. If General Zhongye is not there, how can he resist it? Hearing this, everyone immediately fell silent, including Cai Mao and the Kuai brothers.

"If that's the case, let's leave it at that." Liu Biao saw that everyone had nothing to say for a while, so he breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt a trace of fatigue in his heart.

At this moment, another person came to report: "My lord, the lieutenant of Shanyang County suddenly left an official seal and resigned." However, he also took more than 1,000 people with him and went to Yuzhou to defect to Guan Yu! ”

"Wow!" There was another uproar in the lobby, which had just calmed down.

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