Yuan Shu's last battle against Liu Bei can be described as dark. Liu Bei's defense of the city could not afford to lose, and he had been resisting Yuan Shu's attack with a desperate posture for several days; And with the advantage of the prerequisites, and the temptation of Yuan Shu's heavy reward, Yuan Shu's troops also fought thoroughly.

It's just that although the battle was fierce, the final result was only a noon for Yuan Shu, and when noon came, Liu Bei's side once again paid nearly 80,000 troops, and finally withstood the attack of Yuan Shu's troops with difficulty.

Under this circumstance, to everyone's surprise, Yuan Shu did not hesitate too much, and quickly retreated towards Pengcheng with all his troops, as if he had made a plan from the beginning.

Liu Bei's defense is about to be unable to hold on, and naturally it is impossible to pursue Yuan Shu again, the battle for several consecutive game days has caused Liu Bei heavy losses, and the battle between Yuan Shu and Liu Bei that lasted for nearly 10 game days has come to an end temporarily.

Three hours later, the fog that had lasted for a full 10 game days in the entire Xuzhou region completely dissipated, and the time limit for the attribute of the jade seal inspired by Yuan Shu had arrived.

At this time, Yang Rui was sitting in Siwu County, rectifying the situation in the county, since it was preparing to include Xuzhou in the north of Xiaobanla into its jurisdiction, then it was still necessary to properly rectify it.

In particular, the eight county towns in the south, including Xiangxian, Guangqi County, Fuyang County, Wuyuan County, Liangcheng County, Siwu County, Quyang County, and Yuxi County, which are close to the Wenshui, Surabaya, and Juyeze River basins, need to be properly rectified when they are bordered by the outside world.

Not only in terms of defense and defense, but also in other aspects such as production, especially the popular heart and loyalty attributes of the NPC leaders within it, which is the most important thing, and is regarded by Yang Rui as the foundation of stability ahead.

After sitting in the land of Qingzhou and Yanzhou, Yang Rui has long understood the role of popular support and loyalty. All other things being equal, the two attributes of popular heart and loyalty can make a huge gap between two similar territories.

It can be said that popular will and loyalty are the foundation of stability in a region, even if the natural conditions in the region are poor, as long as the two attributes of popular will and loyalty meet the standards, there will generally not be too many problems.

In turn, popular support and loyalty can greatly contribute to the progress of production. To ensure the production order and production enthusiasm of the people, it is the foundation for the development of the territory.

Normally, within the newly conquered territory, the two values of popular opinion and loyalty are not too high, but Yang Rui does not have this situation in the newly acquired territory of Xuzhou.

First of all, most of these areas are not far from Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and Yang Rui's reputation spreads more in the region, and the development of the entire Qingzhou and Yanzhou is also obvious to all, which has a great impact on the surrounding areas.

Therefore, whether it is Langxi County, Donghai County, Pengcheng County, Guangling County, or Xiapi County, its corresponding county seat was occupied by Yang Rui. The popularity and loyalty are generally above 60 points, and they are all at a good level!

There is another factor in this, that is, the influence of Yang Rui's ability to stimulate the four-legged Qiankun Ding attribute!

After the four-legged Qiankun Ding is stimulated, it can make the people's hearts and loyalty in Yang Rui's territory reach full value, although the county seat of Xuzhou that Yang Rui just occupied is not Yang Rui's territory in the real sense, but according to Yang Rui's observation, the four-legged Qiankun Ding also played a role.

After these counties were captured by Yang Rui, the popularity and loyalty of the NPC leaders in them would often increase by 5 to 10 points in an instant. Yang Rui has never encountered such a situation, and the only explanation is the role of the four-legged Qiankun Ding.

When the jade seal attribute of the country inspired by Yuan Shu failed. Yang Rui was naturally aware of it, but he found that Sky City was still unusable, and he didn't know what the reason was.

For this reason, Yang Rui was also secretly glad that Yang Rui had speculated that the attributes stimulated by the jade seal of the country were about 10 days old.

Yang Rui believed that the suppression of Sky City would disappear after that, and there would be a full 20 days left to capture the territory of Xuzhou, when Sky City could be used. It was much easier than Yang Rui's previous efforts to deploy troops.

However, judging from the actual situation now, this guess is not accurate, and fortunately, Yang Rui made an early move and sent troops together, although it was a little troublesome. However, by this time, except for some county seats in Langxi County, Yang Rui had basically achieved the intended goal.

Since the end of the battle between Yuan Shu and Liu Bei, two days have passed in a hurry.

Within these two days, Yuan Shu basically completed the command of the area south of Juyeze in Pengcheng County, and Liu Bei's troops were not idle, while dividing a small number of troops to garrison Xiaxiang County, they almost exhausted the remaining troops, and generally recaptured Xiapi City, the seat of Xiapi County.

After the fierce battle with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, Liu Bei is almost the prince who has lost the most in the plot of the Xuzhou dispute so far, but Liu Bei also has advantages in some aspects at this time.

At the same time as capturing Picheng, Liu Bei sent letters and horses to various places in Xiapi County and Guangling County, and appeased the counties one by one, Liu Bei originally took over the post of Tao Qian's Xuzhou governor, and all the counties in Xuzhou were under Liu Bei's orders before the plot.

Therefore, at this time, Liu Bei only sent letters of condolences to various places, which regained control of Xiapi County and Guangling County, and the area under his control is also the largest among the princes of Xuzhou Sanlu.

Within two days, Yuan Shu and Liu Bei also coincidentally sent envoys to Yang Rui more than once, trying to win Yang Rui's support.

Because it was not clear where Yang Rui was located, it was not until two days later that Yuan Shu and Liu Bei's envoys came to Liangcheng County and found Yang Rui.

The purpose of these two princes is similar, although the intentions are not exactly the same, but they are very tacitly acknowledged that Yang Rui has occupied the counties north of the Wenshui, Surabaya, and Juyeze basins, and is willing to share Xuzhou with Yang Rui.

Yuan Shu regained his posture as Yang Rui's ally, no longer the arrogance of the previous Xiangxian time, and his envoy hoped to join forces with Yang Rui to jointly destroy Liu Bei, a weaving child, and share Xuzhou with Yang Rui.

Liu Bei reminded him of following Yang Rui's past, and also hoped that Yang Rui could stand on his side, although he did not directly eradicate the other party like Yuan Shu, but he also accused Yuan Shu of using troops to occupy Pengcheng, the seat of Xuzhou, in order to win Yang Rui's position.

For the demands of Yuan Shu and Liu Bei, in fact, Yang Rui didn't care much, in the past two or three days, the remaining five cities in Langxi County have all been taken by Xu Yu and Guan Hai, and Yang Rui's goal has been completely achieved.

As for how Yuan Shu and Liu Bei made trouble, Yang Rui was happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but he felt that Yuan and Liu were hindering each other, and the current situation in Xuzhou was ideal. (To be continued.) )