Ren Jun was a die-hard follower of Cao Cao, and in order to support Cao Cao's great cause as a warlord, he personally recruited hundreds of soldiers from his clan and guests, and defected to Cao Cao, who was still a general of Fenwu at the time. Cao Cao was very happy, and immediately listed Ren Jun as a cavalry captain, and married his sister to Ren Jun, and has always trusted him extraordinarily.

No matter what era, the errand of managing the logistics and military needs of the army is fat, Cao Cao every time he goes out, he lets Ren Jun stay in the rear and provide logistics supplies for his army, and Ren Jun can always focus on the overall situation, not only hard work, but also never greedy for ink and selfishness. In the past few years, Cao Cao asked Ren Jun to assist Zao Yi in Yanzhou Tuntian, and Ren Jun did a good job, filling all the granaries in various places.

For Cao Cao's orders, Ren Jun has always carried out to the letter, Cao Cao said that he should hurry up and prepare some grain and grass and armor for Liu Bei, Ren Jun immediately grasped the implementation, and within a few days, he personally led the baggage team to transport this batch of materials to support Liu Bei to the nearest Linying City from Pingyu, just waiting for Liu Bei to send someone to hand over.

Linying is located in the territory of Yingchuan in the upper reaches of Yingshui, near the northwest corner of Runan County, and is the most marginal county in the northeast of Yingchuan currently controlled by Cao Cao. From Linying to Pingyu, it is only a distance of 200 miles, if Liu Bei can ensure the safety of the fleet in Yingshui, he can send someone to start from Linying, follow Yingshui all the way to Nanton, and then go ashore from Nanton to transport back this batch of materials by land.

It's just that when Ren Jun sent someone to inform Liu Bei to collect this batch of materials, Liu Bei was a little hesitant.

Jian Yong has successfully returned to Pingyu from Xiangyang, and he has also brought back a good news that Liu Bei did not expect. Liu Biao was willing to let the Yellow Turban rebels enter Nanyang, and was willing to provide Liu Bei with shelter and food and grass support, Liu Bei really couldn't think of it, when did he start to become fragrant?

Shan Fu seems to have a great prejudice against Liu Biao, he has great suspicions about Liu Biao's gesture of showing favor to Liu Bei, Shan Fu can see Liu Biao's intention to put Liu Bei between Jingzhou and Yanzhou as a buffer, but he can't figure out why Liu Biao wants to sit back and watch the Yellow Turban refugees in Runan pour into Nanyang. Liu Biao's approach to causing trouble to the west this time was not finally achieved. Even if Shan Fu is resourceful, he can't really see through it.

Liu Bei was on the weak side, and all the strategies that should be used had been used, and it was powerless to change the situation at this time, so he discussed with Shan Fu, and finally decided to give up the territory near Pingyu that he now occupied to Cao Cao. In Liu Bei's view, Cao Cao personally led the army into Runan, and if he didn't even occupy the Pingyu of Runan, he would definitely not give up, and he waited for Cao Heizi to lead the army to drive people away. It is better to prepare as early as possible and go to Luyang as soon as possible to establish a new base area.

Shan Fu couldn't think of a more ingenious coping strategy, so he suggested that Liu Bei send someone to Yingchuan as soon as possible to contact Liu Biao's subordinates, and take over the Yingchuan territory controlled by Liu Biao as soon as possible. As long as everything goes well on the Yingchuan side, it proves that Liu Biao has not joined forces with Cao Cao, and before Cao Cao leads the army to arrive, Liu Bei will still have plenty of time to make a big move. Of course, if the friendship goes well, Liu Bei will not have to use people to go to Linying to receive the batch of materials sent by Ren Jun. Liu Bei could have people receive them from Xiangcheng, the closest to Linying, and then transport these materials to Luyang to hoard them, so as to secretly accumulate strength for future development and growth.

Liu Bei then sent his subordinates Sun Qian and Chen Zhi to Yingchuan to get in touch with Liu Biao's men and horses deployed on the Yingchuan side. Discuss how to hand over.

Just when Liu Bei was moving, Yuan Shu, who received Huang Shao's secret report in Shouchun City, also made a move. Yuan Shu was very angry at Cao Heizi's attempt to monopolize Runan this time, and the consequences were very serious.

Yuan Shu's hometown is in Ruyang, Runan, although he has received all the clansmen to Shouchun. But if his hometown is occupied by Cao Cao, his face will be dull after all. Besides, even if you don't care about face. But Cao Cao didn't even say hello, so he drove the army under Yuan Shu's nose, which is too much to take him, General Zuo, seriously, right? Yuan Shu thought that although he was newly defeated in Xuzhou, he could not reach the point of exhaustion, Cao Cao suddenly made a move on Runan this time, clearly because he felt that he was not capable of threatening Runan now, and this kind of kicking his nose in the face made Yuan Shu very annoyed.

Yuan Shu's good brother Yuan Yin suggested to Yuan Shu that Cao Cao send troops south to occupy the Yuan family's hometown Ruyang, and we can also send troops north to occupy Cao Cao's hometown of Qian County! Yuan Shu thought about it, and felt that it was really like this, Ruyang is located in the northwest corner of Runan, very close to Yanzhou, far away from Shouchun, Yuan Shu's army is not easy to do, but Cao Cao's hometown of Qian County is in Pei County, Yuan Shu only needs to give orders to the troops stationed in the south of Pei County, and within three days, his men can rush to Qian County.

Yuan Shu has always been a person who must repay his eyes, so he immediately gave an order to Lu Mian, the general stationed in the area of Danxian County, Pei County, as long as he received the news that Cao Cao led the army into Runan, Lu Mian immediately took his troops to Qian County and held Qian County in his hands.

A few days later, Cao Cao officially swore an oath in Changyi, announcing that he would sweep away all kinds of bandits in Yuzhou, and return the people of Yuzhou to a clear sky. Cao Cao appointed the general Xiahoudun as the commander of the 20,000 troops on the left road, and entered Yingchuan from the direction of Chenliu, and then entered the northwest of Runan from Yingchuan; The general Xiahou Yuan was appointed as the commander of the 20,000 troops on the right flank, and entered Peijun from the direction of Shanyang, and then penetrated directly into the northeast of Runan from Peijun. Cao Cao himself personally led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the middle road, directly from Changyi to Chen County, and then from Chen County to the central part of Runan.

Cao Cao dispatched a full 70,000 soldiers and horses for less than half of the remaining territory in Yuzhou this time, which was indeed a bit big. Outsiders don't know that Cao Cao did this for an ulterior reason. In fact, belonging to Cao Cao's descendant troops, less than thirty percent of the dispatch this time, and the rest of the soldiers, were recruited by Cao Cao after returning to Yanzhou from Xuzhou, some of these soldiers have been in the army for less than a year, and the actual combat experience is equal to zero.

In the past few years, thanks to the merits of Zao Yi and Ren Jun, Yanzhou's grain storage has been getting longer and longer year by year, and Cao Cao didn't want the grain he got from Tuntian to be piled up in the warehouse, so he simply gave up his luxury and brought out all the recruits.

When the news of Cao Cao's dispatch of troops reached Pingyu, Liu Bei sent people to inform He Yi, He Man, and Huang Shao to make preparations as soon as possible, and at the same time organized his subordinates to begin to transfer supplies to the vicinity of Ye County. Sun Qian and Chen Dao, who had arrived in Yingchuan ahead of time, had already made contact with Liu Biao's men, and they agreed to hand over Xiangcheng, which was closest to Cao Cao's actual control territory, to Liu Bei first. Xiangcheng is not Xiangyang City. Rather, it is a city built in the middle of Yingchuan between Rushui and Yingshui, which is also the northernmost part of the territory actually controlled by Liu Biao.

Sun Gan took Liu Bei's token to Linying to negotiate with the people who Ren Jun left to guard the supplies, and then let Sun Gan take his men and horses to transport all the materials that Cao Cao supported to Liu Bei. Ren Jun himself was in a hurry to rush back to prepare military supplies for Cao Cao's army, and had left Linying a few days ago. When Ren Jun left, he deliberately explained to the people below that if the people sent by Liu Bei came to Ying to receive supplies, as long as the identity was verified, they should not deliberately make things difficult and delay. Ren Jun's down-to-earth style is definitely a good cadre in later generations, but it's a pity that sometimes he is too active and serious. Not necessarily a good thing. The world is impermanent, who knows that Liu Bei took these military supplies from Cao Cao, will he turn around and join forces with Liu Biao to deal with Cao Cao?

He Yi and He Man, the two yellow turban heads, belong to the lord who does not shed tears when he sees the coffin, even if he received Liu Bei's warning twice, knowing that Cao Cao's three-way army of Lu Dao had entered Yuzhou, he still refused to move his nest. Since the two brothers refused to move their nests, they had to stay with Cao Cao as a sparring partner. Huang Shao was stronger than He Yi and He Man because of Yuan Shu's secret support, when he heard that Cao Cao had led his army south. Instead of reining in, he took advantage of Liu Bei's busy moving westward to occupy the three counties of Fubo, Yuanlu and Qisi, which were close to Yangzhou, in one go.

Half a month later, the Yanzhou Left Route Army led by Xiahou Yuan entered the northwest of Runan first. Although most of the troops he led were recruits who lacked actual combat experience, they could still be described as devastating when facing the Yellow Turbans along the road. Units that have been disciplined through systematic training and strict military discipline are all recruits. It's not something that the Yellow Turban peasant army from mud legs can resist.

In order to find out Liu Biao's true intention to let the Yellow Turban refugees enter the country, Liu Bei did not hesitate to let Liu Pi pretend to be anti-water, and took more than 4,000 of his subordinates to enter the territory of Nanyang near Zhongyang Mountain before other Yellow Turban forces. It's just that Liu Bi didn't expect it. Nanyang County is actually a difficult place to enter, after he led his men from Zhongyang Mountain into Wuyin, he found that in the north of Wuyin, Liu Biao's generals Deng Ji and Huang Jie led 20,000 troops to guard near Wanxian, and in the north and south of Wuyin, there were also Jingzhou troops staring at him. Liu Bi, whose scalp was numb, could only "escape" westward along the passage reserved by Liu Biao, and when he fled, he never had a chance to reunite with Liu Bei.

When Cao Cao personally led the 30,000 troops in the middle road to clean up the Yellow Turban in Chen County, Liu Bei also cleaned up Pingyu City from the inside out.

When Xiahou Yuan led his army to approach Dingying from the direction of Zhaoling, he finally encountered the fiercest resistance since entering Yuzhou, and He Yi led more than 10,000 of his men to fight Xiahou Yuan's troops near Heilu Stream. This battle was beyond Xiahou Yuan's expectations, and it took three days to break up the troops led by He Yi, but he was unable to catch the culprit He Yi.

A similar situation was also encountered by Cao Cao, who led his army from Chen County into Nanton, He Man's lair was in the Nanton area, he originally wanted to use his advantage of being familiar with the nearby terrain to fight an ambush battle, but his tactics were right, but his leaders who lacked organization and discipline could not understand He Man's intentions at all, so an ambush battle eventually turned into an encounter.

Lao Cao Zhong's military tent has Li Tong and Le Jin, two wise and brave generals, and Lao Cao himself made his fortune by dealing with hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, so in the face of these rabble led by He Man, it only took one day to solve the battle.

He Man was beheaded by Le Jin in front of the battle, more than 10,000 of his men died, those who fled, and the rest became prisoners.

Cao Cao won a great victory in this battle, and then there was no Yellow Turban force to stop his footsteps to the south, and three days later Cao Cao led his army into Runan Zhisu Pingyu. (To be continued......)