In three days, Bai Tu rushed from Hefei to Shouchun with a total of 50,000 elite soldiers collected from various counties along the way.

From the point of view of the rapid march, it has been very successful and can even be used as a model.

However, when Bai Tu came to Shouchun, he still saw a dilapidated city......

On the thick walls and the watchtowers of the vice-city, Shouchun is not as good as Hefei, the military city of Huainan core, but when it comes to prosperity, the previous Shouchun surpassed Hefei.

After all, it was the former capital of Chu during the pre-Qin period - although it was a spare tire that moved the capital after being threatened by the Qin State, at least in the Han Dynasty, Shouchun was also the seat of Yangzhou, as for Jiangdong...... At most, it is considered to be "bought" by Huainan.

When Yuan Shu ruled Huainan, it was also his base camp, with nearly 200,000 people registered in the county, and more than 100,000 people in Shouchun City—many of whom were not registered as outsiders in Huainan, and there were many floating populations.

It can't be compared with the old big cities such as Luoyang and Linzi and Jiangling, but at least it is not weaker than Xiangyang......

Especially when Luoyang was burned by Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shu was widely favored before, Shouchun was even the top five big cities in the Han Dynasty.

However, when Bai Tu arrived, what he saw was ruins!

The outer city wall disappeared at the same time as Shou Chun Ji left, and after entering from the inner city wall, you can see the ruins of the houses, and there are even traces of scorching in many places.

Fortunately, Lu Bu's vanguard army has arrived for two days, and the disaster relief order in the city has basically been restored.

According to Lu Bu, when they arrived, a large number of rebels were unexpectedly causing trouble in the city.

However, there are also a small number of Huainan or local generals from Shouchun County, who began to assist the residents of Shouchun to hide after Yuan Shu's main force left, and even held groups to fight in the streets.

And the families who settled in the city also played a role......

When Yuan Shu's main force came to "collect taxes", they chose to meet Yuan Shu's requirements as much as possible, and when Yuan Shu's main force left, leaving only the chaotic army, hundreds of servants in the palace played a role and temporarily formed a new city guard.

Although their base camp is in the countryside Wu Fort, in Shouchun, a family of hundreds or dozens of servants can still make it up.

Even if it is mainly for self-preservation, it is indeed objectively limited to the scope of activities of the rebel army, at least the north of the city has not suffered too much damage.

However, for ordinary people living in other urban areas, it is good to flee to the north of the city where the wealthy families are located in time, otherwise......

Judging from the current statistics, more than 10,000 people in Huainan have been directly killed or injured, economic losses cannot be counted, and countless women have suffered misfortunes.

After Lu Bu's vanguard army arrived, hundreds of generals broke into the inner city, easily drove and killed a large number of rebel troops, and beheaded thousands of people - all of them were real "generals", that is, real people.

When fighting with Zhuqiang and Southern Xiongnu in Bingzhou, there were often such battles that required entering the inner city to rescue the people, so for these grassroots generals, the inner city street battles that broke away from the city Ji soldiers were no strangers.

And the way to deal with it is also a familiar "surrender and no forgiveness" that they are no strangers to......

Of course, for those generals who defected to protect the people, it was naturally not considered a "surrender", but only temporarily guarded.

After Bai Tu's main force arrived, it immediately began to spread out in full swing, sweeping up the rebel army that had fled from Shouchun and the township that had caused trouble.

"It's a pity I didn't have time to chase that bastard!" Bai Tu said regretfully.

After all, when Lu Bu arrived, he had to rescue Shouchun first, and when Bai Tu arrived in Shouchun, it was estimated that Yuan Shu had crossed the Huai River and entered Runan County.

It was the base camp of the Yuan clan in Runan, and most of the troops taken by Yuan Shu were recruited in Nanyang and Runan.

Seeing that Bai Tu's face was not very good, Lu Xun explained on the side: "The lord doesn't have to blame himself, no one thought before that Yuan Shu would be so frustrated." ”

"I'm afraid that guy is going to escape." Bai Tu speculated.

Historically, in the next year, Yuan Shu wanted to go to Qingzhou to defect to Yuan Shao in order to leave the arid area and avoid Cao Cao's troops, and even proposed to give up the emperor and jade seal to Yuan Shao.

It's just that under the resistance of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, he failed to make the trip, and then died on the march.

Now that Yuan Shu has decided to leave Shouchun, most of them are also going to run, so he will finally "make a payment".

And at this time, under the rule of Yuan Shu, it was completely dependent on Runan to feed - under Yuan Shu's rule, only Runan still produced grain.

At this time, he moved to Runan, and although he worked hard, he also shortened the grain route.

"Hard drive, you just ordered Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to use troops in Runan?" Lu Bu asked.

"Yes, Yuan Shu has already gone away, I'm afraid that he won't stay long in Runan, and he will definitely go north to join Yuan Shao, and then Runan may have the same danger as Shouchun." Bai Tu said.

"Lord, Runan is where Yuan Shu's clan is located......" Although Lu Xun did not explicitly say that it was impossible, he still reminded him in a low voice.

"So he won't mess around? Oh, assuming he's not crazy. Bai Tu said.

"Military rations, if the military rations are sufficient, no one else is needed, and now Shouchun's army is enough." Lu Bu said.

Lu Bu wanted to say that it was very simple to fight Shouchun, but to remind Bai Tu that there was no food.

Shouchun, there are still more than 100,000 mouths, and most of them have just been ransacked, at most in order to resist less violently, leaving the last few days of rations.

After Bai Tu arrived in Shouchun, he had to continuously transport military rations......

Even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "if you want to get rich, build roads first" is definitely a wise saying!

Even if it is a small-scale peasant economy and self-sufficiency, roads are still very important, otherwise...... Not to mention, the consumption of transporting military supplies is a desperate thing.

Once when Bai Tu first arrived in Jiangdong, Hua Xin sent him a batch of grain from Yuzhang, and Yuzhang came out with 50,000 stones, and when Bai Tu received it in Qu'a, there were only 30,000 stones left......

Almost half of the grain is consumed in transit.

Of course, there are reasons for the mountainous and forested land of Yuzhang, but from Jinling and Dantu, which are on the south bank of the Yangtze River with Qu'a, to transport grain to Hefei, it is almost necessary to consume one of the three, especially now that Huainan is drought, many routes even need to carry a large amount of water, which requires more manpower and greater consumption.

That is to say, to transport grain from the rear of Jiangdong, two stones can only go to eight buckets, and from Wu County, that is, to Zhenze, two stones can only reach about one stone and two buckets at most.

Before Huainan resumed production, going to Runan to fight was definitely a matter of "burning grain".

"I understand, just let the second brother go to Hefei first and take Shucheng back." Bai Tu said.

Shucheng, that is, the seat of Lujiang County, Bai Tu specially invited Lu Kang to Huainan for this reason.

Outside Yuan Shu left Huainan, only Liu Xun of Lujiang was still resisting.

Whether or not you can continue to attack Runan depends on how far the salt field and the fishing team can go, which directly determines whether Baitu's grain and grass are abundant, but Liu Xun of Lujiang can basically play GG in laughter......