Sure enough, when Yuan Shao saw that Hu Li did not take the opportunity to attack Quyang City, he put Hu Li's threat aside for the time being and concentrated on dealing with Gongsun Zhanglai. And Hu Li was not idle, although there was no idea of attacking the city for the time being, but Hu Li swore to win the territory of Changshan Country, while digesting the capture of the Yuan army, Hu Li sent 3,000 light cavalry and 1,000 heavy infantry all the way to sweep through the various cottages and villages in the territory of Changshan Country The landlord Haoqiang built the dock fort. Under the mobility of the light cavalry and the strong ability of the heavy infantry to attack the fortifications, in less than three months, only a few lonely county towns in the territory of Changshan still planted the banner of Yuan's army.

Because Hu Li's army only killed the bandits who did evil and the landlords who bullied the people, never plundered the people, and would also distribute the confiscated land and some money and grain to the poor people, the wolf-headed banner of the Changshan Army was warmly welcomed by the people in the territory of Changshan State, and under this powerful popular strategy, the county towns in Changshan Country chose to surrender after waiting for reinforcements for a month without success.

At the beginning of July 196 AD, all the cities of Changshan Country were planted with the wolf's head banner of the Changshan Army, and the entire Changshan Country became Hu Li's territory, and the people under Hu Li's rule also reached as many as 700,000, and the capture of Yuan Jun was relatively smooth, because most of the Yuan army surrendered were from Jizhou, and even one percent of Yuan Jun's hometown was in Changshan State. Since then, the army under Hu Li has reached as many as 50,000 people, but only the 15,500 soldiers in the three cities of Zhending, Jiumen, and Gengxiang and the 12,000 Yuan soldiers under Chun Yuqiong who have surrendered can only be counted, and the rest of the more than 22,000 soldiers who have been incorporated from more than a dozen county towns in Changshan Kingdom still need months of training to have combat effectiveness.

The combat effectiveness of the army is not so satisfactory, and the internal affairs are even more headaches for Hu Li, because Hu Li has almost wiped out all the landlords and heroes, although this move has made the people attached, but in this era when the family is strong and has knowledge and talents, and the poor people generally cannot afford to read, Hu Li's disadvantages of offending the family are finally revealed, and Hu Li has no internal affairs talents, so he can only be short and tall, and some capable officials with good reviews will be promoted to the status of the lord of a county. Then send henchmen to control the county army, this military-like system can ensure the stability of the territory, but it cannot promote the prosperity and vigorous development of the territory, and the high-pressure policy that lasts too long will also provoke great social contradictions. Therefore, while Hu Li funded the construction of a large number of schools in order to promote knowledge, he called on poor students who were studying abroad to return to Changshan to build their hometown together, but this one was far from quenching their thirst, and the other was a drop in the bucket, and Hu Li was so worried that his hair was almost gray.

Hu Li was worried about talents, and on the other hand, he had to build a defensive line to deal with the attack of Yuan Shao's army, and invested 10,000 people in each of the four cities that the Yuan army was most likely to attack in Jizhou, including Tang, Jiumen, Pingjian, and Gaoyi, and Hu Li had to recruit 20,000 new soldiers because of the bandits and Haoqiang, and only 300 people needed to be left behind, and there were 6,000 people left in Hu Li's hands, and the two cities of Shangai and Jingcheng needed to defend against the Yuan army that might be attacked, and Hu Li, who felt that his troops were stretched, had to recruit another 20,000 recruits. Fortunately, the people in Changshan Country are attached, and the people have their own land to cultivate, in order to protect this hard-won life, there are countless young and strong people who have volunteered to join the army, and 20,000 recruits have been recruited quickly, but it still takes time to train to form combat effectiveness, Hu Li now only hopes that Yuan Shao can give himself a little more time.

Resigned to fate is not Hu Li's character, in order to protect his territory, Hu Li decided to build an ace army, re-domesticated Hu Li came to this world the first pet brown bear Xiong Da, Hu Li with three hundred guards all over the Changshan country of the large and small mountains, relying on the vision of the golden eagle and the help of the bear's sense of smell, Hu Li relied on the domestication function to capture more than 20 bears, ten tigers, and fifty wild boars.

After secretly transporting these big guys back to the mountains and forests outside Zhending City, Hu Li asked the craftsmen to create suitable armor for them, and at the same time worked day and night with soldiers who had experience in raising Siberian tigers and wolves in the grassland to tame these big guys, after a few days, Hu Li, who felt that the progress was slow, decided to use the remaining 100 charm points on the strengthening of Xiong Da, the strengthened Xiong Da, standing tall of three meters, weighing 1600 catties, wearing the armor specially made for it by the craftsman, holding a six-meter-long, The thick iron rod at the mouth of the bowl beat the more than 80 big guys one by one, and after the beating, those big guys were really much more honest, and under the staggered use of Hu Li's virtue and Xiong's strength to convince people, the taming process was much faster.

Two months later, the big ones were able to follow the simple orders of their specialized breeder soldiers, of course, provided that they had the force of the bears on their side. As for Xiong Da, Hu Li handed it over to Zhu Zi, a twelve-year-old boy who had grown into a qualified soldier, after Hu Li canceled Xiong Da's pet quota, Xiong Da, who had been strengthened and greatly improved in intelligence, was able to obey Zhu Zi's various orders, but if he wanted to use that stick that hurt skin and flesh, he had to be controlled by Hu Li himself, but if he rushed into the enemy formation, the heavily armed Xiong Da was definitely a killing machine.

In mid-October, the scout sent the information that the 50,000-strong army led by Wen Chou, the general of the Yuan army, to kill Jiumen from Wuji County to Hu Li through Xinying, and Hu Li immediately replied that Zhao Yun was ready to defend the city, and waited for him to lead the ace army to arrive and then think about a good strategy to defeat the enemy. Hu Li rushed to Jiumen with more than 80 big guys and their keepers and more than 200 personal soldiers, and at the same time sent a letter eagle to let Zhending's 2,000 light cavalry and himself converge, in the place where there are still more than 150 miles away from Zhending City, Hu Li found through the vision of the golden eagle 5,000 Yuan troops ambushed in the woods on the left side of the road twenty miles ahead, if it weren't for the golden eagle's eyes were sharp enough, and it was looking down from the sky, Hu Li really couldn't find this ambush circle, mainly because this ambush circle was set up big enough, and it was two miles away from the middle road, obviously not to kill and injure Hu Li's support army, but only to cut off their retreat after the Changshan army passed.

Of course, Hu Li, who found the ambush, would not rush into it, so he hurriedly ordered to camp and rest, and then thought of a way to break the enemy, and when he saw the withered yellow grass on the side of the road, he had a plan in his heart. In the evening, Hu Li took two hundred soldiers under the guidance of the owl's vision, carefully surrounded the five thousand Yuan troops in the woods, and then took out the prepared fire oil and dry firewood, and began to set fires, it is now the middle of October, the woods are full of dry branches and leaves, and soon the whole forest will be on fire, really burning five thousand Yuan soldiers to throw away their armor, crying father and mother, less than 100 people escaped.