Xiangyang.

Liu Bei led the army to the north gate, and hundreds of people were already waiting at the city gate.

Not only the Jingzhou scholars came, but even the titular Chu king Liu Qi came to greet him in person.

Such an honor can be said to be unique for a while.

However, just as everyone was in a hurry, a fast horse rushed over from a whirlwind in the distance.

"King Qichu, Yiling urgently!"

The horseman rushed near, and the messenger on horseback turned over and dismounted, and shouted on one knee.

"Yiling?"

Liu Qi smiled and said, "Can General Guan Yu already break through the attacking enemy army?" ”

Liu Bei and the others also looked at the messenger, all of them in a good mood.

The messenger replied: "King Qichu, about the general in the White Emperor City Xu Huang ambushed the army, 10,000 troops were wiped out, about the general was defeated and captured by Xu Huangsheng, now Xu Huang has led the army to surround Yiling, is swinging the army to attack!" ”

"Uh......"

Liu Qi's face froze, he was a little stunned, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

Liu Bei and the others all changed their faces greatly, and they almost didn't jump up directly.

"What did you say?"

Liu Bei shouted, "My second brother Guan Yu was defeated and captured?" ”

The messenger hurriedly replied, "Exactly! ”

"Ah, second brother!"

Liu Bei was so angry that he squirted a mouthful of old blood and fell backwards.

"Lord!"

"Brother!"

Xu Shu, Jian Yong, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong and others were shocked and immediately surrounded them.

Liu Qi didn't come back to his senses until this time, and he didn't care about feeling sorry for the 10,000 army, and his face showed joy.

Guan Yu was defeated and captured, it's really good, it's wonderful!

This is definitely good news, Jingzhou's power is falling, and the Shi clan gate lord has long wanted to step onto the power stage in Jingzhou, and has always regarded Liu Bei as his eyes, and now he heard that Guan Yu was defeated and captured, and they were all secretly happy.

"Xu Huang Pifu!"

Just when everyone's hearts were secretly happy, a thunderous roar sounded.

Everyone was shocked by the coldness, and their ears were even more shocked by the roar, and they turned their heads sharply to look over.

Seeing Zhang Fei's beard, he shouted loudly: "Please send troops to Yiling to avenge the second brother!" ”

Liu Bei woke up slowly, looked at Liu Qi and said, "Please give the Lord an order!" ”

Although he gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart, Liu Bei is Liu Bei, unlike Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, even though Liu Qi has been set up, he still has to do the kung fu that he should have, and he will not be overtaken in big and small things.

Liu Qi had no choice but to issue an order.

Besides, now that Xu Huang is storming Yiling, it is indeed necessary for Liu Bei to lead troops to resist the enemy.

Xuchang, Luo Zheng's temporary residence.

"I've seen the general!"

After Chen Gong went to the court, he only bowed his hand to Luo Zheng slightly, and then straightened his body and stood aside.

"Gongtai is exempt!"

Luo Zheng waved his hand, "Sit down and say!" ”

As early as when he first arrived in Xuchang, he already knew the reason why Chen Gong turned his back on Cao Cao.

Things are really impermanent, and sometimes a small thing can lead to a big disaster.

After this incident, Luo Zheng can be said to have a great feeling.

The heroes in history, who would rather call me bear the people of the world, and not let the people of the world bear my ruthless heart, Cao Cao's killing of Lu Bohao is certainly a little ungrateful, but for a hero, this is not a matter at all.

The bad thing is that Chen Gong is too upright, and Cao Cao's ungrateful behavior has been seen by him again.

However, Chen Gong has followed Qu Cao for many years, and has been cited by Cao Cao as his right-hand man, responsible for government affairs under Cao Cao, and can be said to be one of the core figures in the core of Cao Cao's military group.

And the consequences were also catastrophic for Cao Cao.

The destruction of Xuchang City is equivalent to destroying most of Cao Cao's painstaking foundation.

This is equivalent to Luo Zheng when he has a strong attack and comes to the internal trouble, if Xun Yu who is sitting in the rear betrays him, he will also be destroyed. Chen Gong's position in Cao Cao's military group was the same as Xun Yu's position in the Xiliang military group.

Chen Gong didn't say a word, and sat down sideways.

Luo Zheng pondered his words before he said: "Gongtai can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, General Ben is really pleased. Character aside, in fact, Cao Cao is also a rare hero in the world, and General Ben still admires his ability. ”

Chen Gong's eyes were blazing, but he didn't say anything and continued to listen.

Luo Zheng asked: "Gongtai is a great talent in the world, and this general is willing to create a great cause with Gongtai, I don't know what Gongtai wants?" ”

Chen Gong said: "I heard that the general is good to the people of the Han Dynasty and evil to the people, I don't know if I can treat the people of the Central Plains well?" ”

Luo Zheng said angrily: "As long as it is a Han people, this general is willing to treat them kindly!" ”

Chen Gong nodded, he did not doubt this, Luo Zheng was indeed good to the Han people under his rule, and his actions have proved that in recent years, there have been no military disasters and wars in Guanzhong and Liangzhou, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment, and their lives are rich.

"There's one more request below!"

Chen Gong said without hesitation: "As long as the general agrees, I am willing to serve the general!" ”

Luo Zheng said solemnly: "Gongtai, please speak!" ”

Chen Gong said: "Please let the general go of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan!" ”

"Miyadai is a true righteous man!"

Luo Zheng sighed with emotion, and then said solemnly: "It's no problem to let go of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan, but these two clans must all be moved to Liangzhou, and adult men over the age of thirteen must be distributed!" ”

Chen Gong nodded, having no objection to this.

Being able to keep the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan can be regarded as worthy of Cao Cao.

The Cao clan and the Xiahou clan have a large population, one day Cao Cao is not defeated, Luo Zheng will not be able to let the two clans go free, and can keep the two clans from being wiped out by the family, Chen Gong has achieved its goal, as long as it can survive, it is also a good result to send a side plug.

After Chen Gong got up and retreated, Luo Zheng asked Jia Xu, who was closing his eyes and lowering his eyebrows, "Wenhe, how should Chen Gong be used?" ”

Jia Xu opened his eyes, stroked his willow beard and muttered for a long time before he said: "Yanyu Erzhou is new, if you want to stabilize the situation as much as possible, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort. And the Central Plains is not as good as Guanzhong, the neighbors are all strong enemies peeping, and there is no danger to defend, you must do your best to stabilize the situation in order to gain a firm foothold, the lord can not use Chen Gong Yuzhou to assassinate the history, and order it to deal with the government affairs of the two states! ”

"This ......"

Luo Zheng muttered: "Although Chen Gong is capable, he can be regarded as a great talent in the world, but after all, the new surrender has not been long ago, and the two states of Yanyu are related to the general strategy of our army to dominate the world, will it be inappropriate to hand over this great task to Chen Gong?" ”

Jia Xu said slowly: "I don't think the lord needs to worry, this person is very dignified, not a two-faced person." This time he turned his back on Cao Cao, although there was a reason, but after all, it was still detrimental to his reputation. This kind of thing is enough once, since Chen Gong is willing to serve the lord, he should not do this disadvantageous act again. ”

Luo Zheng pondered for a long time and nodded slowly.

Jia Xu said again: "Chen Gong has been following Cao Cao for a long time, and has been leaning on Cao Cao's arm, this time Chen Gong opened the door to offer the city, which can be said to have given Cao Cao a fatal blow, and he categorically did not serve Cao Cao again." More importantly, Chen Gong has a prestige under Cao Cao's command, and if this person appears to appease the Yanyu Erzhou clan, he will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort, and the lord can rest assured that he will be entrusted with important tasks. ”

Luo Zheng thought about it and said categorically: "Good, just according to Wen He's opinion!" ”

At this moment, Cheng Ying walked in quickly and said, "Lord, General Xu Huang is in a hurry!" ”

"Xu Huang?"

Luo Zheng touched the stubble and said, "Speak!" ”

Cheng Ying said: "The military report was sent from Chang'an, half a month ago, Guan Yu led 10,000 troops out of Yiling, General Xu Huang was defeated in successive battles to lure the enemy deeper, and Guan Yu was defeated in the White Emperor City, and Guan Yu's 10,000 troops have been wiped out. ”

"Oh, Gongming really lives up to the general's expectations!"

Luo Zheng was happy, and he muttered Guan Yu twice in his heart.

Ten years have passed, and it is still the first year of Chuping, when the princes were discussing Dong, they saw Guan Yu on the Tiger Prison.

The wheel of history has gone astray, and I don't know if Guan Yu will really live for a few more years.

Cheng Ying said again: "Guan Yu led hundreds of remnants to flee to Zigui, General Xu Huang led the army to catch up, broke through Zigui, Guan Yu failed to escape and was captured by General Xu Huang, and has now been escorted to Chang'an in a prisoner car, waiting for the lord to fall!" ”

"Oh!"

Luo Zheng thought for a while, and then said: "You can behead on the spot and give the head to Liu Bei!" ”

Cheng Ying arched his hand and said: "Obey!" ”

This year was a turbulent year, Yuan Shaoju 300,000 people from Hebei went south, and opened the largest battle for hegemony among the princes since the second time of the princes' alliance against Dong, and all the princes in the world who had been waiting for the opportunity actively sent troops to participate in the war.

After the Great War, the world was depressed.

A few rejoice, a few sorrow.

Yuan Shao lost the battle of Guandu and retreated to Hebei to recuperate, and was unable to raise troops to the south within three or two years.

Although Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu, the old nest was copied, and more than 100,000 troops suffered heavy casualties, leaving only 20,000 soldiers and horses brought back by Cao Hong from Huainan, and could only retreat to Xuzhou to survive, and Xu Tu made a comeback.

Sun Ce and Liu Bei, who took advantage of the fire to rob, also suffered a big loss, although Sun Ce captured Huainan and Lujiang two counties, but the 30,000 troops under his command suffered heavy casualties, because An Fengjin was lost, and the more than 20,000 troops who were scattered to flee for their lives finally fled to Huainan, and there were not even 5,000 people, and the rest were either broken and captured by the Xiliang army, or fled to the mountains and forests to fall into the grass.

What's even worse is that not long after Sun Ce returned to Shouchun, the military advisor Xi Ping fell ill and died.

This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Jiangdong military group.

Liu Bei didn't take advantage of it, not only did he fail to take back Nanyang, but his second brother Guan Yu also died in battle, and he also folded 10,000 troops.

Hurriedly led the army south to Yiling to take revenge, but Xu Huang saw that the situation was not good, and immediately retreated to the belly of the fish, Liu Bei led the army to chase after the White Emperor but could not pass the pass, and the Wuxia that was not opened by thousands of people was to break a lot of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Fei did not believe in evil, and personally led his troops to climb the cliff and wanted to climb the mountain, but he was almost captured alive by the Sichuan army in ambush.

Although Liu Bei was sad, he finally had to accept Xu Shu's offer and withdraw his troops back to Xiangyang.

The princes were busy fighting for territory, and the people were suffering from the war.

The Central Plains under the rule of Cao Cao, the main battlefield, was almost abolished, especially the two prefectures of Yanyu, because Luo Zheng had a bad reputation, and many county guards and county orders abandoned their officials and fled before the Xiliang army arrived.

The officials all ran away, thieves from all walks of life jumped out one after another to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, and it was ordinary people who suffered.

No matter how much Luo Zheng ordered the army not to disturb the people, the war still brought trauma to the people.

There was a severe drought in the Central Plains last year, and many people had no food to eat.

By the time Luo Zheng repelled Sun Ce and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, and Yuzhou and Erzhou were a little fixed, the Central Plains was already full of dry bones, and rotting corpses and goshawks hovering in the air could be seen everywhere along the road, and there were countless refugees gathered in the towns.

There are as many bandits as there are bulls, and there are no less than 20 bandits in a single county, all of whom are taking advantage of the opportunity to loot and cause chaos.

More than 100,000 Xiliang troops were stationed in various parts of Yuzhou and Yuzhou, seizing the time to suppress bandits and robbers and stabilize the place.

In mid-October, the weather turns cooler.

Luo Zheng took Chen Gong as the assassin of Yuzhou, led Yan and Henan Prefectures, and governed the local area with full authority.

He also ordered Zhao Yun and Gao Shun to build a large camp in Tuntian in Nanyang and Yuzhou respectively, shelter the displaced people to build water conservancy, restore farming, and guard all parts of the Central Plains, and the general Zhang Liao led 20,000 troops to guard Anfengjin to prevent Sun Ce from Jiangdong from going south.

Beginning in September, a large amount of grain from Guanzhong, Liangzhou, and Hetao was transported to Luoyang and Yuzhou, and millions of hungry people in the Central Plains did not starve to death.

Luo Zheng has been immersed in the development of Guanzhong for several years, and the corn has been harvested year after year, and the most important thing is grain.

Millions of hungry people is not a small number, except for Luo Zheng, no prince in the world can save so many hungry people.

At the end of October, before the first heavy snowfall came.

Luo Zheng led 30,000 Xiliang cavalry back to Chang'an, originally planned to wait for the situation in the Central Plains to settle a little, and then withdraw the army to Guanzhong, but unexpectedly, the situation in the Central Plains was uncertain, so he had to leave more than 100,000 troops in the Central Plains.

At present, in addition to the remaining soldiers and horses in the counties in Guanzhong and Liangzhou, there are only 30,000 cavalry left.

Fortunately, there was no war in Guanzhong and Liangzhou, and 30,000 cavalry was enough to suppress a small number of cavalry.

When the military arrived in Chang'an, the first winter snow came in a boiling motion.

Heavy snow continued to fall until the end of the year, and the weather gradually cleared.

The people of the Central Plains are most afraid of the arrival of winter, even if they have food, they will not starve to death, but the houses that leak everywhere cannot stop the invasion of the severe cold, and after the first heavy snowfall, many people are frozen to death.

Gao Shun, Chen Gong and others organized people to repair houses for the people, and they were busy all winter without touching the ground.

Compared with the people of the Central Plains, the lives of the people in Guanzhong and Liangzhou are much better.

There is food to eat, there is firewood to burn, there is no need to work in winter, you can relax.

For the people under Luo Zheng's rule, the bigger the snow in winter, the better, because winter snow means the harvest of the coming year.

In 201, the world ushered in a rare period of calm, and all the princes were silently developing their strength.

Cao Cao was appeasing the Xuzhou Shi clan and consolidating his strength, and he was temporarily unable to send troops to recapture the two states of Yuzhou.

Sun Ce was actively recruiting troops in Jiangdong, while Liu Bei was busy dividing and winning over the scholars in Jingzhou to stabilize his position.

Yuan Shao licked his wounds in Yecheng, and Luo Zheng also seized the time to digest the robbed Luoyang and Yanyu Prefectures, and after preparing to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains, he sent troops to destroy Cao Cao, and then marched to Hebei.

All the 100,000 Sichuan troops have been turned into professional soldiers, and the reorganization of the army is also being carried out in a hurry. R1152