On July 26, Liu Bei led the main army to Yicheng.

Yicheng is only a small county, but the location is very good. This is the estuary area where the water enters the Huaishui, surrounded by water on both sides, and the transportation is extremely convenient.

Prior to this, Lu Bu, who was the forward, and Long Kangjun, who was Guan Yu, had arrived in Yicheng.

After the three armies converged, there were 90,000 soldiers, and they only waited for Liu Bei's order to kill them on the south bank of Huaishui.

On July 27, after Gao Shun handed over the grain route with Tian Yu, he led 700 elites from the camp to Longkang.

On July 28, Xu Sheng led 10,000 sailors, driving a large number of boats and fishing boats, carrying a large amount of grain, to Yicheng.

The next day, Liu Bei ordered to cross the river!

Guan Yu led an army of 10,000 Danyang soldiers as the first echelon and set off first. Everything went smoothly and no resistance was encountered!

Three days later, the army successfully crossed the river, and after a short rest on the south bank of the Huaishui, the whole team immediately set out.

By this time, most of the counties in Jiujiang County handed Liu Bei a surrender table to express their surrender. The rest did not surrender, less than 30 percent.

Liu Bei immediately ordered the army to disperse, Guan Yu 10,000 troops in a group, Liyi in a group of 10,000 people, Gao Shun in a group of 10,000 people, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Lu Bu and others also led 10,000 troops to set off. Liu Bei, on the other hand, led the remaining 30,000 troops to wait in Dangtu.

Their purpose was to parade around Jiujiang County with great fanfare, to calm the hearts of those who surrendered, and to make wise choices for those wavering counties.

On August 5, the news from the armies was that everything went well! Smoothly and unexpectedly, most of the swinging cities immediately chose to surrender when they saw the army approaching. When the people saw the Xuzhou Army, it was like seeing their relatives.

On August 8, the armies returned, and Chen's 10,000 men also rushed to Liu Bei's place to join him.

After reporting the results of the battle, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that Jiujiang County surrendered except for Shouchun, Xiyangqu, Yinling, and Liyang. The Xuzhou army occupied more than eighty percent of the land in Jiujiang without spending a single soldier.

Yuan Shu's territory fell so quickly, even as everyone expected, but also outside everyone's thoughts. Originally, Yuan Shu's transfer of most of the army to Shouchun was a faint move, and when the locust plague occurred, he not only did not know about disaster relief, but continued to collect grain, who could stand this?

But in this way, the Xuzhou army will be in trouble!

When Tu, Liu Bei's big tent, all the generals were happy.

Liu Bei is also very excited, it's only been a few days? Dozens of county towns and juyi have been obtained, how can this not be exciting?

Lu Su, Liu Ye, Zhuge Jin, Chen Gong, Chen Deng, Xu Shu and others were worried.

Liu Bei looked at it and asked unexpectedly: "Zijing, Ziyang, why are you not happy?" ”

Lu Su glanced at Liu Bei and said with a sigh: "Lord, Yuan Shu is really a smart person!" ”

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "How can you say this?" ”

Lu Su said: "Hey! My lord, I heard from the generals that there is very little grain in the treasury of the county towns! And this year's drought, coupled with the locust plague not long ago, the entire Huainan people's home storage has been exhausted, and now, countless people are becoming homeless, begging everywhere! After we occupy these county seats, it is equivalent to Yuan Shu throwing all these troubles to us! What can we do with the hundreds of thousands of victims? ”

As soon as these words are said, no one will be happy!

Hundreds of thousands of victims, hundreds of thousands of mouths, how much food does this cost? There is less than a month to go to the autumn ploughing, if it does not rain during the autumn ploughing, Xuzhou will have to keep them until next autumn!

Lu Bu shook his head and said with some difficulty: "Lord, we have seen many large-scale displaced people, and the number of people is only less than 10,000!" Seeing that they were pitiful, I asked the sergeants to give them some food, but it was only a drop in the bucket! If it goes on like this, it's really not the way to go! ”…,