Chapter 596: Expedition to the Northern Army

"My lord—what a godsend!" The Son of Heaven edicted the generals in the Yangzhou army to ask for battle, only Jia Xu had a smile on his face, even Guo Jia and Cheng Yu didn't understand what this old fox was laughing at?

"Old fox—if you have anything to say, say it quickly, don't hide it!" Guo Jia on the side pursed his lips and said, at this time, he is still selling Guanzi.

"Mr. Wenhe—what's a godsend? If you look at the current situation in Yangzhou, if you want to compete for the world's army, the only way to go is Yidu County and Changsha to reach Jingzhou, and only through the land of Jingzhou can we conquer the Quartet, and now we occupy Xiangyang and Shangyong. Zhao Yun of Shangyong County led the main force of the Broken Army into the Xinping area, then Shangyong's troops will be empty, and Hansheng has a great responsibility to defend Xiangyang and cannot be easily mobilized, I mean that Wenyuan will lead 30,000 troops to be stationed in Shangyong, and troops can be recruited on the spot to strengthen the city defense and prepare for our attack on the Central Plains. Jingzhou's 100,000 troops were wiped out this time, and there was no possibility of attacking outward for the time being, and Jingzhou only had three relatively large county towns left in Jingzhou, namely Nanjun, Jiangxia County, and Jingzhou City, and to the north was Nanyang County, where Zhang Xiu was entrenched. For example, today's edict asked me to personally cooperate with Yuan Shao to fight against the Xiongnu, and Cao Cao was responsible for coordinating and conquering Yuan Shu, in fact, he was using me as a gunman, and by the way, he would consume my strength and strengthen himself. I have been doing things for the Son of Heaven before, if I don't respect the edict, then the previous character will collapse, and obeying the edict is equivalent to obeying the will of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. It's really a bit of a dilemma for me-" Zhou Yu knew that Jia Xu already had a way to break the situation, but he really couldn't figure out why Yuan Shao and Cao Cao would join forces to restrain him, it seemed that he was threatening their existence. He also wanted to hear how Jia Xu broke this game-

"My lord - some things can't just be judged by his badness, sometimes you also need to think about his good! The edict of the Son of Heaven said that the lord cooperated with Yuan Shao to break the Huns, and Cao Cao was responsible for coordinating various places, but there was one last sentence, that is, soldiers and grain and grass could be raised on the spot. There is also a lord who can ask the Son of Heaven for a reward for himself-" As soon as Jia Xu heard this edict from the Son of Heaven, he knew what Yuan Shao and Cao Cao thought, and the way to work and waste money such as the transfer of troops from the south to the north was to deal with Zhou Yu clearly, and the enemy still had such sinister intentions, and it was his Jia Xu's style to prevent them from being unable to eat and walk around.

"Asking for a reward? Even if it is to collect troops and grain and grass, the prince will watch his people come to him. The current princes don't have a fuel-efficient lamp-" Cheng Yu hadn't figured out what the old fox could do, he just voiced his worries.

"I do understand the old fox's words, I guess what he said is the most important part!" Guo Jia guessed that Jia Xu was using the reward to make a fuss, but he didn't know what this old fox was going to do?

"Hehe-the lord since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, except for the independent leadership of Han Xin in the hands of Gaozu, no one has formed an army alone, and the lord can go to Xuchang to request the establishment of the Northern Army as a cooperative with Yuan Shao and Jizhou Army. The source of soldiers, grain and grass are all provided by the Northern Army, and we only need a flag and number of the Northern Army! I don't need to say the rest—" When Jia Xu said the military flag and number, it was equivalent to opening a window for those present. There is a saying that Han Xin has more troops, the better, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, once asked Han Xin that compared with him, who can lead the troops to fight? Han Xin said that Liu Bang couldn't compare to him, but fortunately, Xiao He played a round on the side, saying that Han Xin was the commander of the soldiers and horses, and Liu Bang was the commander-in-chief, so Liu Bang's mood was finally smooth. That is to say, Han Xin also had Liu Bang's edict to lead an army and become the king of Qi, which justifiably restrained Liu Bang. Now these princes of the Han Dynasty have soldiers and horses. Each also occupies the territory, but there is no real sense of the soldiers and horses that can fight in the south and the north, Jia Xu is transparent at such a point, and the regular army number of the Han is much more valuable!

"Haha-it is worthy of Wenhe's ideas to be out of the ordinary, it seems that this trip to Xuchang has to be a must!" Jia Xu broke Zhou Yu so much that he instantly understood what to do next, Guo Jia is a military advisor who is not good at diplomacy, Jia Xu is a secret move, and he is too old to travel long distances, Cheng Yu's temperament is not good for diplomacy, and only Zhang Zhao is suitable at present.

"Lord, just look at it! But this time I want to take someone with me to Xuchang, I don't know if the lord agrees? "When he went to Xuchang, Zhang Zhao knew that he had to meet Cao Cao first, but Cao Cao had a lot of arrogant soldiers under his command, and he first needed to give them a dismount, otherwise this matter would not go so smoothly.

"Who? Let Dian Wei go with you? Zhou Yu didn't know who Zhang Zhao was referring to, he thought it was to let Dian Wei go to Xuchang, to be honest, Cao Cao's love for Wenchen and martial arts was almost obsessive, just like this time Liu Bei led his troops to attack Lu Bu, which was equivalent to letting Liu Bei die, only by letting Liu Bei die justifiably, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Chen Dao, these fierce generals could be under his command, otherwise he would not let Liu Bei be the main general, and sent a deputy general.

"The existence of General Dian Wei and General Huang Zhong is to deter them from daring to move, if I take General Dian Wei to go, I guess I won't be able to come back, now there are chaos everywhere along the way, Cao Cao can be pushed away by a sentence of being killed by bandits. The lord remembers Lu Meng, he used to be a general in the army, and he listened to the lord's words that day and began to read and learn characters, and now he is no longer a martial artist who doesn't know anything. ”

When Zhang Zhao mentioned Lü Meng, Zhou Yu also felt that he was suitable to escort Zhang Zhao to Xuchang, and the brilliant place of Lü Meng in the romance was that he crossed the river in white to take Jingzhou and captured Guan Yu alive in Eastern Wu, that is, Zhou Yu and the third governor after Lu Su. There is also the word Wuxia Amon used to explain that as long as you work hard, a martial artist can also become a handsome talent, as for Lu Meng's force value, what is the value of force? Now Lu Meng is young and strong, and he can survive fifty rounds under Dian Wei without missing a defeat, this time Lu Meng followed Zhang Zhao to Xuchang to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.

The matter of the Northern Expedition has been mentioned, so Jia Xu also said another thing happily, that is, the Expedition to the Xiongnu ordered that people with lofty ideals in the land of Han and Kyushu can join the Northern Expeditionary Army. There is another rule, that is, as long as they join the Northern Army, then all taxes, money and grain will be paid by Yangzhou, so that they can have no worries when conquering the Xiongnu. All the soldiers who died in battle, their relatives are supported by Yangzhou, and all the soldiers who returned triumphantly can retain their military status and be exempted from all taxes, and the taxes involved in the payment will be borne by Yangzhou.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, Zhao Yun's broken army has been secretly pulled, they want to enter the outside of the Saiwai must pass through Li Yu, Xianbei tribe's territory along the way, 100,000 troops are all cavalry, before the departure Lu Su design will Fufeng County generation Li Yu horse farm 10,000 war horses all robbed away, because the speed of the cavalry march has increased greatly, with Zhou Yu's order to take grain on the spot, the county town along the way has fallen into bad luck, the grain and grass in the county town, meat and food have all been looted, I learned the news Li Yu, When Xu Rong wanted to pursue, Zhao Yun and the others had already settled down and began to enter the territory of the Xiongnu. The grain and grass of the broken army can be done in this way, but the grain and grass of Zhou Yu's expedition to the northern army is not good, he ordered Gan Ning's fleet to bypass the Yangtze River and go north to the Yellow River to reach Yuncheng directly, although it takes a lot of time, but it also greatly reduces the journey.

Everything has been agreed, this time the Huns Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, Dian Wei, Gan Ning, Zhang He, Zhou Tai, and Zhou An went to battle with the army, and all the remaining military and political affairs in Yangzhou were decided by Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Zhao. Just waiting for the arrival of the military flag and number of the Northern Army, it is still unknown who will win and who will lose-