"Lord Qi, there are Cao Jun everywhere, we have difficulty moving, and we have not been able to catch up with Liu Beijun to investigate the truth and details, and I ask the lord to surrender!" The scout captain came to report to Qin Feng.

Qin Feng asked, "Do you know the whereabouts of this Liu Beijun?" Can you know the life and death of Liu Bei and Guan Yu? ”

"I don't know, the battlefield was too chaotic last night, and the traces have been covered up by Cao's army, and there is no way to investigate! If you want to investigate, you can only inquire from Sergeant Liu Beijun, who was captured by Cao Jun, maybe there will be a gain! ”

Qin Feng thoughtfully, nodded, and waved his hand: "Forget it, you wait for innocence, go down!" ”

"No!"

Now there is no trace of Liu Beijun, and although most of the cities in Runan have not been controlled by the Cao army, there are no other forces here, and now there are tens of thousands of Cao troops here, and these cities can only surrender to Cao Cao.

"Although we failed to relieve the siege of Runan this time, we also saved Liu Bei and others, and now their whereabouts are unknown, and our army is also difficult to find and search, this matter is over, or lead the army to withdraw to Nanyang as soon as possible!"

Qin Feng found Gan Ning and ordered: "Pass the order, let the soldiers have a good rest, and set off to return to Nanyang tonight!" ”

"No!"

Now it is equivalent to entering the enemy's territory, although the two thousand men and horses under his command are all light horses, but Qin Feng does not dare to take them to wander on Cao Cao's territory in broad daylight, once surrounded, even if the light cavalry acts like the wind, the whole army will be annihilated.

Two days later, Qin Feng led his troops back to the place where he had rescued Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi.

"Two ladies, my father-in-law is back, please go and see the two ladies!" A sergeant walked to the grass hut and said to the two ladies inside.

Mrs. Gan said to Mrs. Mi: "Maybe there is news from Uncle Huang, I'll go and ask soon!" ”

"Okay, sister, please!"

The second daughter followed the sergeant to a tent and was ushered in.

"The slave family has seen the general!" The two daughters of Gan Mi made a blessing gift to Qin Feng.

"Two ladies are exempt!"

Then Qin Feng roughly told Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi about the situation in the past few days, and then said: "Later, we lost the news of the remnants of Liu Bei, and we couldn't find out if Liu Bei and Guan Yu were still alive!" ”

When Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi heard the news, their expressions were gloomy.

Seeing this, Qin Feng said: "The two ladies don't have to worry, maybe Liu Bei is still alive, I will send someone to continue to search, if there is news, I will definitely tell the two ladies!" It's just that now the territory of Runan is the territory of Cao's army, and our army can't stay here for a long time, so they can only return to Nanyang first, and the two ladies have a place to go? If there is, Ben will be able to send someone to escort him, if I don't, the two ladies might as well follow Ben Jiang to return to Nanyang first, and then make plans when there is news from Liu Bei? ”

Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi both looked miserable, and they both shook their heads, "Where do the two of us have a place to go now, and who dares to take in the slave family?" It's up to the general! ”

Qin Feng nodded: "Okay, let's ask the two ladies to prepare a little, and I'll wait for the road back to Nanyang in an hour!" ”

Taking advantage of the fact that the Cao army has not yet fully controlled Runan, Qin Feng can only leave as soon as possible with his men and horses, if all the cities in Runan surrender to Cao Cao, then their whereabouts will be completely exposed under Cao Cao's nose, and now those city officials are definitely not willing to meddle in their affairs, this is the best time for them to leave Runan.

A few days later, the team returned to Wancheng.

Don't let Xiao Qiao know the news brought by Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi, Xiao Qiao just gave birth to a child, if she knows about this, she doesn't know what kind of trouble will come out.

Qin Feng sent someone to find a house outside, arranged for a few maids to be in charge of serving, and sent ten sergeants to guard it, and only returned to the Taishou Mansion after settling down.

"How did you come back so soon?" Xiao Qiao hugged the child and asked in surprise when he saw Qin Feng coming back.

The family came over to remove Qin Feng's armor, helmet, and sword, Qin Feng reached out and hugged the child and said: "Runan is over, this matter Cao Cao is obviously carefully planned, there is no time for us to react, and when I arrived with the army, Runan City has been breached, Liu and Guan led the army back to help, but they were ambushed by Cao's army, and their lives and deaths are unknown!" ”

"Later, we learned that most of the Cao army had gone to the direction of Xincai, so I led the army to Xincai, and when we arrived in Xincai, we knew that Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei led 3,000 men and horses to the ancient city, but we found the battlefield where the Zhao army was ambushed in the direction of the ancient city, and when we arrived in the ancient city, there was a group of people and horses in the ancient city that were besieged by tens of thousands of people and horses of the Cao army, and they broke through in the middle of the night.

"There are Cao Jun everywhere, our scouts can't detect and track it, and we have lost the whereabouts of this Liu Bei army, and I don't know if Liu Bei is alive or dead!"

Xiao Qiao frowned, "In this way, without Liu Bei being restrained in Runan, Cao Cao will definitely make small moves against us in the future!" However, he should not have a large-scale battle with us now, after all, although Yuan Shao in the north is dead, his son is still there, and if the Yuan family in the north is not completely resolved, Cao Cao will not be able to fight a decisive battle with our army! ”

Qin Feng walked around the garden with the child in his arms, and said: "Even so, our army's defense of Nanyang cannot be weakened, but strengthened, this place is the place of four wars, south of Jingzhou Liu Biao, west of Zhang Lu, east and north are Cao Cao's territory, here to deploy heavy troops in case someone captures!" ”

The next day, Qin Feng convened everyone to discuss the move of administrative officials to Chang'an.

This matter was quickly decided, and the specific time was three days later, after everyone else went to Chang'an, Xu Shu was in charge of Nanyang's military and political affairs.

That night, Qin Feng and Xu Shu had a night talk.

"After I leave Nanyang and go to Chang'an, the military and political affairs will be taken care of by Mr. Yuan Zhi, I don't know what Mr. Yuan Zhi plans to do next?" Qin Feng asked.

Xu Shu shook his fan and said: "Government affairs are still in accordance with the previous lord and Mr. Yang's administrative decree to continue to implement, benefit the people, there is an idea, last year there were 200,000 displaced people into Nanyang, after the careful management of the lord and several gentlemen, the danger has been turned into a disaster, and now these 200,000 displaced people have been integrated with Nanyang!" ”

"I thought that if these people could be integrated into the local villages, the influence of the clan power could be weakened, at least in the future, a certain family patriarch could not have the final say; In addition, these displaced people can also be set up as separate villages, and the government will appoint and dismiss the village head, so as to prevent clan forces from being born among these displaced people! ”

After listening to this, Qin Feng said: "This method is very good, but the appointment and dismissal of the village chief is still handed over to the local villagers, in my opinion, let the villagers choose the village head by themselves, and the government will send someone to supervise, and after the villagers choose the village head, the government will appoint it!" ”

Xu Shu thought about it, this method is good, and the villagers will definitely choose someone who everyone is convinced to be the village head.

"My lord, this method is wonderful!"