The monstrous flames could be seen even from dozens of miles away, the flames were full of smoke and smoke, and in the early morning, when the sky was not yet light, the flames covered the sky like a sunset, staining the southern sky.

Cao Cao's face was shocked at the moment, what he was most afraid of now was that Xu Du was lost, and he was afraid of something, so he hurriedly urged the soldiers to hurry as soon as possible.

In order to prevent the fire from spreading, Cao Cao ordered the army to immediately dig a firebreak along the perimeter of the city, and at the same time ordered people to divert water and water from the ditch outside the city to meet the urgent need.

But with such a large fire, it is still too difficult to extinguish it with water, and even Cao Cao can only prevent the fire from burning to the surrounding farmland and destroying the wheat next May.

So the fire burned for three days and three nights, and it was not until a few days later that it was finally extinguished.

The only thing that made Cao Cao happy was that before Liu Bei and Shen Chen's army attacked the city, Xun Yu transported all the grain stored in Xu Du to the palace warehouse.

In this way, he does not need to worry about the food and grass of the army returning to Xudu.

The imperial palace is the original city of Xudu, and the periphery is protected by a moat drawn from the water and the water, and it is not stagnant water, but living water, so the fog evaporates and cools down.

The people inside the city were fine, and the people outside the city were evacuated in time and there were no casualties.

The only loss was that the property and shops of the Yingchuan family Haoqiang and the merchants who did business were burned down, especially the local Haoqiang family in Xudu, and the family property was very seriously damaged.

After all, it is difficult for foreign families to compete with local wealthy and powerful people in Xudu, and the land and houses they own are far inferior to each other, and their own property is not much.

Not to mention, most of the people live on the edge of the outer city, engaged in agricultural production around Xudu, and their family property is a wooden house, which is burned down.

On the contrary, due to Shen Chen's Liu Beijun distributing money and food, many people on the edge of the outer city transported worthless furniture such as hoes and flat shoulders to the outside, and if they came back to rebuild houses, they would have money and food, and they would be a little richer than before.

And Cao Cao's construction work is still worthy of recognition.

After Xu Du was burned, he was not in the mood to hunt down Shen Chen, but immediately devoted himself to the reconstruction of his homeland.

Although the people are only the means of production to him, he really needs these means of production to resume production as soon as possible to ensure the army's food expenditure next year.

So to a certain extent, Cao Cao now began not to rob the people, did not exploit the people, and began to rebuild his homeland for the people, not because he found it in his conscience, nor because he became a good person, but because Shen Chen and Liu Bei's army came.

And when Cao Cao's side was in full swing to start the reconstruction plan of Xudu, Shen Chen's army had already marched south to Kunyang.

On the way back, he even beat Li Tong.

Li Tong was ordered by Xun Yu to attack Wuyang and Kunyang together with Zhao Yan, wanting to surround Wei and save Zhao. As a result, before the city began to attack, he heard the news of Shen Chen's army turning back, and fled in a panic.

After Liu Bei learned of this situation, he immediately sent people to pursue, and defeated Li Tong at Baiting, Li Tong suffered heavy losses and retreated to Langling, the old nest.

After beating Li Tong, the army retreated from Wuyang Kunyang, and by the way, the population of the two cities was moved to Nanyang to settle down, and outside the Nanyang portal, the two empty cities were left to Cao Cao, and he retreated to Yexian, and let people garrison Lushan, Juancheng, Duyang and other places.

The reason why Kunyang and Wuyang are let out is mainly because the entrance and exit of Nanyang are really unsafe, and the two cities are around the entrance, and people can swagger into Nanyang from the middle, and it is not easy to defend.

Therefore, it is better to retreat into Nanyang.

Ye County in the Han Dynasty is the Dushu Town of Fangcheng in later generations, stuck in the center of the Nanyang Basin, the roll city is in the east of Ye County, and Lushan is in the north of Ye County. In this way, together with the blocking sun in the rear, that is, Fangcheng County in later generations, a relatively narrow defensive formation was formed.

At this time, Liu Biao had not completely disposed of Zhang Xian's remnants and could not give Shen Chen support, but Cao Cao did not pursue, so the two sides were fine.

Liu Bei wrote to Liu Biao after entering Nanyang.

Historically, his political status was higher than that of Liu Biao, who was only the Mu of Jingzhou, the General of Zhennan, and the Marquis of Chengwu, and was also given to him by Li Dao Guo Yan, and the gold content was greatly reduced.

And Liu Bei is the emperor's uncle, Yuzhou Mu, General Zuo, and Yicheng Pavilion Marquis, all of whom Liu Xie personally canonized him in Xudu, and the gold content is very high.

So when Liu Bei came to Nanyang at that time, Liu Biao had to take the initiative to greet him.

But now, in order to win over Liu Biao, Cao Cao promoted Liu Biao's Zhennan general to a hussar general, so that everyone was almost equal, and Liu Bei was still a guest, so Liu Bei took the initiative to write to Liu to express his goodwill.

The two sides exchanged letters, and they were called brothers, Jingsheng as brothers, and Xuande as brothers.

Because Liu Bei had to guard against Cao Cao's possible anger and chase after him for the time being, he had not yet gone south to see Liu Biao.

Shen Chen planned to take advantage of Liu Bei's town to guard Ye County, send troops to the city and ask Zhang Xiu for the crime.

But what he didn't know was that within half a month after the burning of Xudu, he came to Xudu three times and burned the news of Xudu City, which spread all over the country.

For example, everyone knows today that Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in Guandu, but before he was complacent for two days, his old nest Xu Du was burned.

The person who burned Xu Du was a boy who was only fifteen years old.

Shen Chen went from being famous in Jingzhou overnight to now being known at home and abroad, and his fame reached its peak in an instant, and everyone in the world was surprised.

The world knows his story.

From Cao Cao's massacre of Xuzhou, to his eight years of leading the clan to hide and slaughter, and urging the clansmen to move to Jingzhou for refuge, and then to his ambition to study in Jingzhou, in just seven or eight years, Jingyi has made many Confucians ashamed, and even created the concept of "unity of knowledge and action", with the demeanor of a generation of grandmasters.

What's more powerful is that even if he is determined to study, he does not forget to take revenge, repelled Cao Cao's attack several times in Nanyang, and sent troops to Yuzhou at the beginning of this year.

For a time, Xun Yu's comment that if the tiger and the silver fox are also known to everyone in the world, the reputation of the fox and tiger's talent has also resounded throughout the north and south of the river, and is known to the world.

Jizhou, Yecheng.

Yuan Shao has had a very difficult time these days, after fleeing back from Henan, in just half a month, the whole Jizhou seems to have changed color.

Hundreds of people lamented the death of their sons and nephews, every household hung a vegetarian curtain, the cry of the conjuring spirit spread all over the wilderness, in the fierce winter wind, on the vast North China Plain, there seemed to be the sound of countless souls, and the howling wind was mixed with the howling of ghosts and wolves.

Inside and outside Yecheng, the voices and shouts of the people, and the white flags all over the city, all seem to remind Yuan Shao - you are just self-serving, killing our children and nephews, you should be responsible for their deaths, and you should pay for their lives!

Rebellions have sprung up in various places, and what is even worse is that the day before yesterday I got the news that those front-line soldiers who were captured by Cao Cao were released back by Cao Cao, but there was no food and grass to respond, and they were all starved into jackals.

But in the late winter, there is not much grass and trees left, how can 80,000 people be fed?

Therefore, everywhere along the way, countless people died of starvation and freezing.

Some people eat Guanyin soil to death, and then are eaten by their hungry and crazy companions; Someone had just dug up a wild vegetable and was attacked from behind; Some people were even strangled alive by everyone and became two-legged lambs.

Finally arrived at the edge of the Yellow River, and the turbulent Yellow River became an insurmountable barrier in front of them.

Many people rely on cannibalism to survive, lack weapons in their hands, and it took many days to build rafts and boats, but because the quality is not up to standard, countless people were killed and injured in a big wave in the river, and I don't know how many people died in the Yellow River.

Although Yuan Shao knew about their existence, firstly, a large number of weapons were not brought back in Guandu, and secondly, the rebellion in the rear required a large number of troops to suppress it, and he really couldn't spare manpower to help those prisoners who were released.

Even he himself fell ill in bed, and the dragons in Jizhou were leaderless and in chaos.

So 80,000 people walked for nearly half a month on the 200-kilometer road, and when they finally returned to Liyang, there were less than 30,000 of these people left.

Originally, they were full of hope that Yuan Shao would be merciful and send someone to Liyang to pick them up and give them food to live.

However, Yuan Shao was also too busy to take care of himself, the civil strife in Jizhou continued, the grain and grass were burned, and he had to go to various places to mobilize grain and grass and troops to suppress the rebellion, plus he himself fell ill and was often drowsy, so that when they arrived in Liyang, they did not see anything.

These 30,000 remnants of the army were like locusts, densely packed, swept the entire Liyang County, the county seat was occupied, the people were killed, and the Liyang, Neihuang, Fanyang, Yin'an and other places in the south of Wei County were shaken.

In the general's mansion, Yuan Shao's bedroom is built in the backyard, and the smell of medicinal medicine in the house is fragrant, and the smell of various spices and herbs is mixed together, forming a peculiar fragrance.

The defeat of Guandu made Yuan Shao exhausted, and he fell ill after he came back, and the generals of all walks of life had already come to visit during the day, and Yuan Shao's condition was actually much better at that time, but he didn't want to talk to them more, so he pretended to be unconscious and slept a little.

By the evening, he had recovered considerably.

In the last few days, he had not been able to sleep all night, and during the day he was drowsy, exhausted, and angry, and at the age of fifty, he seemed to be ten years old, and his hair was visibly gray, and had turned silver and gray.

Mrs. Liu and Yuan Shang also left after the visit, and the next person came to report, saying that they were frustrated and asked to see them.

Historically, he was captured before he could escape after Yuan's camp was breached, and then Cao Cao persuaded him to surrender, but he did not listen, and was finally defeated and killed when he was about to escape.

But now that Cao Cao had just captured Yuan Jun, he heard that Shen Chen had attacked Xu Du, how could he still take care of him?

In the midst of the chaos, when a general ran north on horseback, he found Fu Zhu, so he brought him back by the way, and on the second day after Yuan Shaogang returned to Hebei, Fu Zhu also came back, and came to find him at this time.

"Let him in."

Yuan Shao slowly got up from the wooden collapse and leaned against the bed screen.

After a while, Fu Zhi slowly walked in and said to him, "Ming Gong." ”

"Hmm."

Yuan Shao nodded: "How?" ”

"Tens of thousands of new soldiers have been recruited, and senior cadres have also returned to Jizhou and are rushing to quell the rebellion."

"Where's Liyang?"

"Jiang Yiqu has already gone, hoping to appease the soldiers."

"Hmm"

Yuan Shao answered, and the room fell silent.

"Alas"

After a long while, he sighed faintly and said, "It's lonely who is sorry for them." ”

"Ming Gong."

Frustrated and sincerely persuaded: "Losing a few battles is not enough to determine the overall situation, although Ming Gong is troubled in his heart, he can't just slump down, please be excited." ”

"More than 100,000 elites went south, and they were defeated in a battle, and now the people of the whole city are crying, what face do I have?"

Yuan Shao had a sad look on his face, those cries came into his general's mansion with the wind, and the voices were all sad and desperate, how could he not be ashamed?

Fu Zhu said: "Does Ming Gong know the latest news? ”

"What's the news?"

"General Zuo and a young man named Shen Chen stormed Xudu, causing a fire, and the city was burned!"

"What?"

Yuan Shao was shocked: "What happened to Cao Cao? ”

He replied: "He is fine, it is said that the starry night galloped back to Xudu to fight the fire, but Xudu is already devastated and dilapidated. ”

"It's a pity."

Yuan Shao sighed: "If Cao Cao dies, Lone will be able to lie in peace." ”

Frustrated, he said: "Duke Ming, Shen Chen is only a fifteen-year-old boy, but he can kill Cao Jun more than tens of thousands?" After this battle, Cao Cao was also exhausted, bound to decline, even young people can fight bravely, Ming Gong is still in the prime of life, how can he be depressed because of this? ”

"Lonely"

Yuan Shao was a little moved by the frustration, but he thought that he had buried so many elites in Jizhou, and the cries of countless soldiers and families inside and outside the city were as devastating as the sound of debt collection, making his heart like a knife and his face depressed.

Frustration and said: "General Zuo is only ten years old for Xiao Ming Gong, nearly forty years old, but he can be defeated and fought repeatedly, Xuzhou and Cao Cao have lost the wind in several battles, lost their foundation to defect to Ming Gong, and have been defeated and defeated, but now they can burn Xu Du with Shen Chen, establish the immortal honor, and finally be known to the world. ”

"Hmm."

Yuan Shao took a deep breath, and the encouragement of the frustrated professor really made him very excited, and he nodded: "Gonghe is right, even Liu Bei, who has no foundation, and a fifteen-year-old boy can fight bravely, sitting alone in the land of the four states, how can the people in the sea be overwhelmed?" Wait for the orphan to recuperate, suppress rebellions in various places, cultivate people's livelihood for a few years, and then compete with Cao Cao! ”

"Ming Gong is wise."

Frustrated, he bowed his hand.

And Yuan Shao's deep gaze looked out the window to the south.

The first battle of Guandu.

He did lose.

But this battle is by no means the beginning, but only the beginning.

In the future, he will definitely regain his strength and fight Cao Cao to the death!

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Jiangdong, nineteen-year-old Sun Quan recently broke through the city of Lujiang and Anhui and eliminated Li Shu, the Taishou of Lujiang.

In order to deter Xiaoxiao of the Jiangdong rebellion, he ordered the slaughter of the city, killed all the people in the city, captured 30,000 Li Shu, and returned to Moling.

After this battle, the rebellion in various parts of Koto really ceased.

Sun Quan put Sun Fu under house arrest again, put down Sun Wei's rebellion, and now only Shanyue in the south still has a slight rebellion, and Jiangdong tends to be peaceful.

At the end of the fifth year of Jian'an, the news that Cao Cao and Xu were burned also spread to Jiangdong.

In Moling County, Sun Quan was receiving a guest.

This person's name is Zhuge Jin, and he is Zhuge Liang's half-brother.

Zhuge Jin avoided Jiangdong and lived in Qu'a, Sun Quan's brother-in-law, Qu Ahao Qianghong's friendship with him, and after talking, he felt that he was a genius, so he recommended it to Sun Quan.

It just so happened that Sun Quan's main secretary Buqi also had a good relationship with Zhuge Jin, and when he heard that Zhuge Jin was coming, he also recommended his friend to Sun Quan.

Several people in the hall sat separately, everyone talked happily, Zhuge Jin also expressed his willingness to be a member of Jiangdong, Sun Quan planned to let him be a guest first, see what he could learn, and then make plans.

At this moment, suddenly the attendant came to report, entered the hall and knelt down on one knee to Sun Quan and said, "Report, Yuzhou is urgent!" ”

"Bring it in."

Sun Quan had a serious face, and although he was only nineteen years old, he was already quite majestic.

The attendant took the bamboo slip with both hands and sent it to the front of the desk.

After Sun Quan took it, he glanced at it, his face changed slightly, and his blue eyes showed a look of disbelief.

"Amount"

When the people saw that he had read the letter, they did not speak for a long time, and they were a little overwhelmed.

After a while, Hongzhi said, "General, what happened in Yuzhou?" Could it be Cao Cao's attack? ”

When he was crusading against Li Shu before, Li Shu asked Cao Cao for help, but Cao Cao was still fighting the battle of Guandu at that time, and he couldn't deal with him.

The latest news is that Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, which shocked the world, so everyone was also very worried, afraid that Cao Cao would attack Jiangdong again at this time.

"It's not."

Sun Quan shook his head, put down the official document in his hand, and said softly: "Liu Bei, the general of the left, and Shen Chen, the general of the hussar general Liu Biao, attacked Xu Du together, and Xu was burned to the ground. ”

"What?"

Bu Qi said in ecstasy: "General, I am very happy." At least for a few years, Cao Cao will not be able to take advantage of Jiangdong, and we will be able to recuperate with peace of mind. ”

"Well, that's a good thing."

Sun Quan nodded noncommittally, and there was no happy look on his face.

Zhuge Jin and Hongzi Buqi glanced at each other, and probably understood why Sun Quan was unhappy.

It's nothing more than an imbalance in the heart.

Everyone is a teenager under the age of twenty and crowned, and they killed Xu Du three times at the age of fifteen, and burned Cao Cao's lair the last time.

He is nineteen years old, but he is often said to be in the name of his father and brother.

In the future, when people talk about Shen Chen, they will say that Shen Lang burned Xu Du in the fifteenth year, and he is really a brave boy.

When he talks about Sun Quan again, it is probably just a sentence, oh, Sun Quan, the lord of Jiangdong who relied on his father and brother to lay the foundation of Jiangdong?

How could he be happy compared to the two?

It's just that this kind of thing depends on self-regulation, although the three of them know that Sun Quan is unhappy, they can't persuade them, so they can only choose to be silent.

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At the same time, in addition to Yangzhou, Jizhou, as things continued to ferment, as far away as Liangzhou, Yizhou in the southwest, and even Jingnan in eastern Liaodong, the outcome of the Battle of Guandu and the fire in Xudu, news spread everywhere.

Xiliang Han Sui Ma Teng and others caused trouble in Guanzhong, originally because Zhong Xuan was in the middle of the adjustment, they had promised to surrender to Cao Cao, and even sent their children to Xu Capital as hostages.

After the fire in Xudu, Cao Cao's prestige instantly fell to the bottom, and the two were no longer afraid of the court and set off a rebellion.

For this reason, Cao Cao ordered Pei Mao Duan Xuan to garrison Chang'an to protect the safety of Chang'an.

The two sides were torn apart, and they were temporarily friendly in history, and Han Sui Ma Teng also sent troops to help Zhong Xuan break through the high cadres of the state, which made Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fight at the same time, and personally conquer Han Sui Ma Teng, which is the story of the future.

By December of the fifth year of Jian'an, Xu Du had rebuilt a large number of wooden houses for the people inside and outside the city to live in. Cao Cao asked Xun Yu to settle the rear, personally led the army, and stationed in Kunyang in the south.

At the end of the year, Liu Biao finally pacified Zhang Xian's rebellion, tens of thousands of his troops, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses overnight, after the defeat of Yuan Shao, he became the head of all the princes in the world, and learned that Cao Cao went to Kunyang in person, so he ordered Wen Ping and Zhang Yun to lead an army of 50,000 and go north to Wancheng.

The two sides confronted Kunyang, Wuyang, Yexian, Duyang, and Wancheng at the gateway of Nanyang, although Cao Cao and Liu Biao were all wrapped in the aftermath of the victory, but they had their own fears, so they did not start a war for a long time, but they were just stacked and locked up, and they were just guarding against each other.

With the help of Liu Biao's troops, Liu Bei could also find time to go south to visit Liu Biao in Xiangyang in person. And Shen Chen wrote a book to Liu Biao while rushing to Yucheng to ask Zhang Xiu for the crime!

(End of chapter)