Since the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the whole world has been in turmoil, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, and the rebellion of the princes in various places can be described as surging.

Among the heroes in the world, there are two people, one of them is Cao Cao, this person has a black face and a black heart, does great things, has no woman's benevolence, is suspicious, good talent, and his adviser Guo Jiaxun Yu Xun Yu Cheng Yu, the military general Xiahou Brothers, Le Jin, Yu Ban, Cao Chun and others, assassinated Dong Zhuo, ordered the princes, and in the troubled times, he played a piece of the world and proclaimed himself the king of Wei.

On the other hand, Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang, the son-in-law of Wenhou Lu Bu, were indecisive, but he had insight that ordinary people did not have, fought a way out of the chaotic army, occupied the land of Yangzhou, and successively defeated Sun Ce, Liu Bei, Zhang Xiu, and then defeated Liu Biao.

Occupy Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jiangdong, Jingzhou, and stabilize one side.

The general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time.

In the past, it became two tigers contending with each other, with Yingshui as the boundary, one of which was in the north and was called the Northern Han by everyone, and the other was in the south, also known as the Southern Han.

An undercurrent is surging in Yuzhou.

The army is gathering in Yanzhou. The conquest of Yangzhou is not a day and a half of effort, and it is also not something that can be done by 120,000 soldiers and horses, Cao Cao has prepared an army of 150,000, known as 300,000, and has already begun to allocate ordnance, grain and grass.

It is impossible to hide such a movement from the people of the world.

In the middle of Shouchun, Xu Shu stayed in the governance office of Yangzhou, he was the internal minister of the entire Southern Han Dynasty, and it can be said that except for Liu Mang, he was the person with the biggest position.

Even if Xu Shu has always shirked it, he is also recognized as an internal minister.

Liu Mang led his troops to Jingzhou, and the whole of Yangzhou was handed over to Xu Shu to deal with.

Now on Xu Shu's desk. There was an intelligence letter.

It reads the movement of Yanzhou.

"Cao Cao transferred Zhili. Qingzhou. Jizhou's grain and grass into Yanzhou?! Xu Shu frowned, looked at the letter, and immediately felt that this was a very serious matter.

"Was this news accurate?" Xu Shu asked a spy of a brocade guard who knelt down below.

"Reply, if you are the prime minister, this news is true, not only has we Jinyiwei confirmed it, but even the second factory of the east and west and Tsing Yi have also given the same information."

Jinyiwei, East and West No. 2 Factory. This was formed by Liu Mang after he took over the intelligence organization from Yang Hong and Chen Gong.

Tsing Yi was an intelligence organization that originally belonged to the Kuai family in Jingzhou, and after Jingzhou entered the Southern Han Dynasty, Tsing Yi was also incorporated into Yangzhou's intelligence organization.

The person in charge is none other than Kuai Yue's son Kuai Ran.

The news of the three has been confirmed, so it can be determined that this is true.

"Someone, convene with me the ministers, the generals, and the Cabinet Office!" Xu Shu stood up and shouted to his subordinates.

"Whoa!" It's already a starry night, but it's in the Cabinet Office. But it's brightly lit. The figures above the Southern Han Dynasty gathered in the Cabinet Office.

"Zijing, you're here too?!" A startled voice rang in Lu Su's ears.

"Ziyang?" Lu Su looked at the comer. I was also very surprised, because this person was none other than Liu Ye and Liu Ziyang, who belonged to the same Shangshu as him, Lu Su.

"What the hell is going on, Lian Ziyang, you are also here to discuss it?" Lu Su asked suspiciously, Liu Ye generally can't come out of Yangzhou's industrial zone, all kinds of novelties have been moved out of the industrial zone and sent to various places in Yangzhou, there are civilian things such as glass and other things that have just come out, that thing is very good-looking, and it can be made into a mirror, which is much clearer than a copper mirror, and the military ones such as artillery, as well as bed crossbow cement and the like, are also from the industrial zone.

"Isn't the lord back?" Only when the lord Liu Mang comes back to Yangzhou, will this Liu Ye appear to report it.

"I don't know!" Liu Ye shook his head, "If the lord comes back, he should be above the palace at this moment, not in the cabinet office." ”

There is only one person who summons the ministers in the Cabinet Office, and that is the Minister of Internal Affairs, Xu Shu.

"Your Excellency, General, Your Excellency will be here soon, please generals, please pass on these letters in my hand first!" As he spoke, a small official took out letters from the plate held by the little official behind him and handed them to the lords and generals over there.

Lu Su and Liu Ye also got a copy, opened it and looked at it.

Under this look, it is also unbearable to say "this, this, this!" ”

All of them are the movements of Yanzhou in recent days.

The biggest one will belong to the grain and grass.

"Is there a famine in Yanzhou? This Cao Cao actually transferred grain and grass from Zhili, Qingzhou, Youzhou and Jizhou? "This is the opening of some civilian officials who are not sensitive to the war.

They are good at governing one side, but they don't have that much sense of distress.

And those generals are different.

Grain and grass, what does this thing represent in troubled times? The first represents life, people are iron and steel, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic, and if you don't have anything to eat, you can starve to death.

The second is the war.

Grain and grass are the root cause of all wars, and if there is not enough grain and grass, the army will not be able to move.

"Does this Cao Cao want to go to war!" The feeling of these generals, a heavy atmosphere rose in the whole scene.

"Is this going to be the day after all?" Liu Ye, Lu Xun, Fu Zhu, these individuals all think like this.

Southern Han Dynasty, Northern Han Dynasty, although this is because the people are laughing, but the current Han Dynasty has indeed been divided a long time ago, the King of Wei, the King of Han, if it is a few decades, or not a few decades, as long as there is an opportunity, then it will become, Wei State, Han State, and Cao Cao and Liu Mang will also become Emperor Wei and Emperor Han.

The battle between the Southern Han and the Northern Han has always been avoided, and on the border, it is also slowing down everywhere, and it is not too much to do.

I am afraid that the two sides will not be able to endure it and fight, and once the war starts, the scale will inevitably be not small.

At that time, this will really be a living life.

The Southern Han can't afford to fight, and the Northern Han Cao Cao can't afford to fight either.

"The Prime Minister has arrived!" Just when everyone was still thinking, Prime Minister Xu Shu walked out.

"Your Excellency, you've done a great job!" Xu Shu walked to the front of the stage. Said to the crowd over there.

"Hello Prime Minister!"

Xu Shu nodded, "Ladies and gentlemen." Please sit down! "The Cabinet Office is not above the royal palace. Above the palace, Liu Mang is the king, and the lower ones are the courtiers, so one by one they have to bow down and worship and the like, there is no place, and the king gives the position, which is the supreme glory.

However, the Cabinet Office is different, and everyone is an official of the same dynasty. Although there is a difference between high and low, who doesn't have the opportunity to enter the cabinet one day.

So everyone said that they were equal, and then there were seats, although they were equal on the surface, but they were also divided into positions, with a column of Wenchen and military generals, Shangshu in the first row, and left and right waiters behind.

Everyone sat down, and Xu Shu spoke: "Lords, generals, Xu Shu can't help but disturb you late at night. Xu Shu hereby apologizes to all of you! Xu Shu stood up very decently and said to the civil and military forces of the Southern Han Dynasty below.

"Where. Where, the Prime Minister is serious! And all the people spoke modestly.

"So call you! In fact, there is a big event happening, and the lord is helpless, the lord is not in Shouchun now, such a important matter, one person is short, and two people are long, so I invite you adults and generals to come to that idea together, I believe you have also read the information I gave you! Do you have anything to say? Xu Shu looked at the ministers and generals below and asked.

A hoarse voice sounded, "Lord Nei, is this Cao Cao really going to war?" This hoarse voice was none other than Lu Su and Lu Zijing.

Xu Shu glanced at Lu Su, this person is really a talent, he almost wiped out Yangzhou in the hands of Sun Ce, if it weren't for the lord's bed crossbow and Gan Ning's sailor, I'm afraid the outcome is really difficult to say.

It's just that whether it is Sun Ce or Sun Quan, these two people have not made good use of Lu Su, if this person can fully exert himself, Xu Shu will not consider himself an opponent.

"Cao Cao's movement like this, I'm afraid that's it!" Xu Shu nodded.

Lao Cao is really going to war, otherwise, he wouldn't have mobilized grain and grass like this in Yanzhou.

This is not a thousand stones or two thousand stones of grain and grass, it is the grain and grass of several states, and it has been allocated, and I don't believe that Lao Cao is going to store or other things, there is only one possibility, that is, there is going to be a war.

"It's not up to us to decide whether to go to war or not!" Xu Shu said to Lu Su: "Lu Shangshu! Now Cao Cao is gathering grain and grass, I'm afraid that it will be more than a few months, or as little as half a month, I'm afraid that the army is coming, and we want to think about it! , is how to block Cao Cao's soldiers before the lord returns! "Xu Shu is in a word, what he wants is for everyone to discuss how to resist Cao Cao's invasion.

"The lord is still in Jingzhou now, Lord Nei, how many soldiers and horses can we come up with?" Frustration spoke, he has been in Yangzhou for a long time, but he has not made much achievements, not that he is incompetent, but now Yangzhou has also entered the formalization, and there are capable people in all aspects.

He is also frustrated, and he is also old, and his natural experience can't keep up.

Xu Shu asked people to inform the frustration, which was also a matter of politeness.

If he can't be frustrated, Xu Shu is not reluctant.

But the frustration is still here, if it is other aspects such as Jingzhou, he will not have the slightest interest, no matter how Jingzhou Yizhou is, it has nothing to do with his frustration.

But there is one place that is different, and that is Cao Cao.

At the beginning, he lost to Cao Cao, and he couldn't admit defeat the most, and he was most afraid of being serious.

I'm afraid that the obsession of frustration is Cao Cao.

"The lord transferred the wolf cavalry from Bingzhou, two new armies in Yangzhou, more than 30,000 people, into Jingzhou, if you add the Yangtze River water army camp, it should be 70,000 horses.

"Seventy thousand main forces?!" Frustrated also frowned.

The soldiers and horses of the Yangzhou army are mostly in the elite, not in the number, it can be said that if there are more soldiers and horses than Cao Cao, if the soldiers are riotous, Yangzhou will definitely not be an opponent.

With an army of 70,000, the basic mountain can be regarded as occupying half of the soldiers and horses of the Southern Han Dynasty.

"In my Yangzhou, there are now General Gao Shun's camp, Wei Yan's Yiyang soldiers, Hao Shao's Aegis soldiers, General Zang Ba's Taishan battalion, and the Yangzhou New Army under General Huang Lao! More than 50,000. "This is the strength that can be taken out in Yangzhou.

"Fifty thousand troops!" Frustrated Zhu really frowned.

50,000 soldiers and horses seems like a lot, but if it really spreads, it will really not be enough.

"Lord Interior, you don't have to worry about this city defense matter, you don't have to worry about the main force of soldiers and horses, naturally our armed police department is in charge!" A young military general walked out, and this person was Li Yan, who followed Zhuge Liang to join the Yangzhou army.

The Armed Police Department has a lot of people now, there must be at least 2,000 people in a city, and if it is a county town, I am afraid that it will be more.

Moreover, although the Armed Police Department is nominally a garrison force, they are all retired from those who have reached the age of the main forces.

Liu Mang stipulated that only those who were 18 to 35 years old were allowed to stay in the barracks, and those who exceeded the rank of 1,000 would be discharged.

If you don't want to be a soldier, then give a sum of money, and then give some fields, or let you go to the local government to be a small official, if you still want to be a soldier, then join Li Yan's garrison.

Those who retired in Liu Mang's hands, among the soldiers and horses of the other princes, can't retreat until they die in battle, unless you can't walk.

"Fifty thousand field troops!" In this case, these 50,000 soldiers and horses will have to play.

"There are 30,000 troops on the front line in Yuzhou! Now, the internal minister, the top priority, is to transfer General Gaoshun of Lujiang, General Chengyu of Shouchun, and General Zang Ba of Xuzhou, all of whom are ready to go! Frustrated Professor suggested to Xu Shu.

"Boss, do you want a decisive battle?" Xu Shu listened to the suggestion of the frustrated professor over there, and soon understood a little bit what this frustrated professor wanted to do.

"That's right!" Fu Zhi nodded: "The soldier is at speed!" My Yangzhou soldiers and horses are focused on the elite rather than the number, if the whole army of Cao Cao is ready to come, if the main force of the lord is still there, then it's okay, but now the main force of the lord is not there, no need for Cao Cao to do it, as long as Cao Cao Chen soldiers Yangzhou, on the side, send soldiers and horses to harass Xuzhou, Yuzhou, I'm afraid our army will be defeated without a fight! ”

Lao Cao's number of soldiers and horses is really a lot, at least the main force has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses.

This time Lao Cao went south, it will certainly not be a small-scale battle, once the fight starts, it will be a big battle, Cao Cao's number is large, if he puts the main force of 100,000 soldiers and horses in front of Yangzhou, you have to send at least 30,000 more than 30,000 to guard, on the side, Cao Cao will send 50,000 troops each, then the Yangzhou army will be tired to deal with.

"First strike!" The courage of this idea is really not ordinary, "This Cao Cao has not been able to prepare for action, my army should take action!" (To be continued......)