Hearing Man Pet say this, Chen Qun was a little worried.

"I heard that Gongsun Chan is the general's fellow disciple, Lu's protégé, I'm afraid this matter is not easy to handle, right? In the end, if the death penalty is sentenced, I don't know what Taiwei Lu thinks, if the death penalty is not imposed, the loss of the Youzhou Rebellion will always be responsible, and in the final analysis, it is Gongsun Chan who does not obey the order, this matter seems a bit tricky. ”

"yes."

Man Chong stopped his pen, nodded and said: "Gongsun Chan did not obey the order, so that there was a great chaos in Youzhou, five county guards, and the general of Wuhuan Zhonglang, and six 2,000 stone officials were martyred for this, so the general insisted on the Northern Expedition, and did not return to Luoyang to participate in the trial of Gongsun Zhan." ”

"As long as the results are big enough, you can always get over the achievements."

Zhong Xuan said in a low voice: "But Gongsun Chan has no way to make a difference, and I don't know what the final result will be, and who will spend so many vacant positions in this Youzhou?" ”

Full of pets looked at Zhong Xuan, who was nearly forty years old.

"Yuan Chang, if you have any ideas, why don't you recommend yourself?"

Zhong Xuan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

"I just entered the General's Mansion, and I still serve the General a lot, as for this matter, I'll talk about it later."

Manpet nodded noncommittally.

Several people continued to work hard until the first day of the first month of March, and finally got the news that Liu Bei had successfully ended the Northern Expedition and was ready to return.

Everyone was overjoyed, and immediately prepared a celebration banquet, to take care of Liu Bei's wind.

On the seventh day of the first month of March, Liu Bei led a large army and a huge battle result to Yuyang County, and the huge battle result directly stunned Man Chong and others, they looked at the endless "battle results" queue, and almost lost their minds.

Liu Bei and the others were tired, and after briefly explaining some things, they fell asleep and threw everything to the bitter Manpet and others, so Manpet and the others could only beat their spirits and work overtime when Liu Bei was sleeping.

The captured livestock need to be settled, the captured captives need to be settled, they need to be taken care of, they need a little food.

Because the results of the battle were too great, it wasn't until Liu Bei woke up that they could complete the statistics and handed the statistical results to Liu Bei.

In this battle, nearly 100,000 were captured before and after, and about 710,000 men and women of Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu and other Hu were captured before and after, and more than 3 million livestock.

And a large number of management difficulties have arisen already.

After Liu Bei learned of the situation, he immediately gave Man Pet an idea.

"I'll give you a contact with the Zhen family as a helper, and you discuss with the Zhen family and ask them to mobilize local relations and sell a batch of these prisoners and livestock we have captured to Jizhou, and exchange them for food.

Then he went further south to ask Qingzhou and Yanzhou whether they needed livestock and prisoners, and strive to sell a batch to Qingzhou and Yanzhou, the speed should be fast, the negotiations should be rapid, and it would not hurt to make some profits, the key was to sell things and exchange them for grain. ”

When the pet heard this, he immediately felt that this should be possible, but it should be done as soon as possible, otherwise the livestock brought back will soon gnaw all the grass roots in the wild, and they must be diverted as soon as possible.

Send them north to the grasslands to open up pastoral areas under the control of the Youzhou government as soon as possible, learn from the advanced experience of Liangzhou, and engage in official grazing under official control.

It was sold south to Jizhou and Zhongyuan Prefecture in exchange for grain for the people of Youzhou, striving to let them survive this difficult year or two.

All in all, Youzhou can't eat these things in one bite and will be strangled to death, so they need to mobilize national relations to do the people of Youzhou a favor and help them.

The idea is good, and it also needs to be acted on as soon as possible, and it can't be delayed, but there is no manpower left on Manzhong's side, so Liu Bei handed over this task to Cheng Yu, asked Cheng Yu to run errands and go on a business trip, and contacted buyers from all over the world for him.

After waiting for everything to be disposed of and a charter, Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief and had a good meal.

He didn't eat meat for this meal, but ate a meal of grain, ate some vegetables and fruits, and drank a bowl of vegetable soup, which can be regarded as a good defeat of the anger that has been eaten by beef and mutton for a long time.

But even if he eats, he can't enjoy the food properly, and he has to talk to Man Zhong about the battle situation in the south of Jizhou during the period when he was fighting in the east and the north.

Then he learned that the situation was generally good.

Yecheng is still the same, surrounded by Niu Fu led the army, the guard general tried to send people to break through many times, but they were all shot back by Niu Fu who was counterattacking and defending, and after sending troops to attack many times and could not achieve results, the hearts of the people in Yecheng began to be in turmoil, and the trial was a little nervous.

As for Liu Yu and Qiao Mao, it was a victory for both of them.

Yecheng was besieged, the entire Jizhou command system belonging to Yuan Shao collapsed, and the army facing Qingzhou and Yanzhou soon ran out of logistical supplies, and could not fight at all.

In the face of Bao Xin and Yu Ban's onslaught, Jiang Qi couldn't hold on, retreated step by step, retreated again and again, and lost small battles one after another, and the defense line of Guantao County soon collapsed.

He himself couldn't hold it anymore and wanted to retreat, but he didn't wait for the retreat drum to beat, Yu Ban took advantage of the night to sneak attack his camp and succeeded, Jiang Qi was killed by Yu Ban's sneak attack, the army collapsed, and the Yanzhou soldiers rushed forward and came to Yecheng.

Liu Yu's side is similar.

Wen Chou's will to fight is very strong, because he is a member of the Wen family, and now the Wen family follows Yuan Shao to the dark one road after another, and there is no other way to go, so he fights very resolutely, without any recognition.

However, the morale and actual combat effectiveness of the army are indeed a bit stretched.

Liu Yu's army was based on the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army that surrendered at the beginning, and it was trained in many ways, and it had some combat effectiveness and organization.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this army is still relatively strong, and there is really nothing to say about the army pulled up by the ugly one above.

Wen Chou was pressed and beaten by Liu Yu as soon as the war began, although he relied on his personal bravery and elite private soldiers to attack the Qingzhou Army's military formation many times, trying to recover the disadvantage, but the main force that collapsed would always defeat him back with the advantage that he had managed to rush out, and then stick some upside down.

This defensive battle lasted for more than ten days, Wen Chou lost his logistics, ran out of food, the battle could not continue, most of the army collapsed, Wen Chou had no choice but to launch a final charge against the Qingzhou army with his own cavalry, and fought with all his strength to the last man, and then was killed by Tai Shici.

Jiang Qi and Wen Chou's two armies were all defeated, and the Qingzhou army and the Yanzhou army rushed to Yecheng according to the original plan, and met the Bingzhou soldiers led by Niu Fu under Yecheng, and after talking, they learned that Liu Bei was leading the army to the north, and the battle situation was unknown.

It is said that the battle situation is unknown, but neither Niu Fu, Qiao Mao, nor Liu Yu thought that Liu Bei would be defeated, so they joined the team that surrounded and attacked Yecheng, waiting for the news of Liu Bei's victory to come back, so that they could share the military merits together.

The result, of course, was as they expected, not long after, in mid to late January, the news that Liu Bei had defeated and destroyed Yuan Shao and the Xianbei cavalry came back one after another.

Yuan Shao's whole army was annihilated, and the Xianbei people who coordinated the rebellion were also annihilated, and the pacification of the Youzhou Rebellion began to see the light of day, and the Yecheng encircling army was very happy about it.

In late February, when the news came that Liu Bei had defeated the Wuhuan people and was preparing to launch a further Northern Expedition, they were even happier.

The rebellious army was defeated by Liu Bei one by one, which fully proved Liu Bei's combat effectiveness in dominating the world, and this combat effectiveness will become a strong support for his power, and for Liu Yu and others, cooperating with Liu Bei has become a matter with a high rate of return.

So they continued to insist on besieging Yecheng, and even took the initiative to launch several attacks on the city wall, trying to put some pressure on the city and promote the city to collapse faster.

In addition, they also tried to send the news of Yuan Shao's death to the city, or send people to shout or something, so as to shake the hearts of the soldiers in the city, but the trial is really capable, the city has been cut off from internal and external transportation and reinforcements for a long time, but it still has not collapsed.

A small number of people who "disturbed the morale of the army" were also tried and executed.

In this matter, the trial is like a dictatorial king, resolutely not giving any thought the possibility of survival, he firmly believes that Yuan Shao can defeat Liu Bei, and can take the army of Xianbei and Wuhuan people south to relieve the siege of Yecheng.

So Yecheng has always been sticking to it.

Until March 11, the news of Liu Bei's victorious return from the Northern Expedition reached Yecheng, Niu Fu, Liu Yu and Qiao Mao were very happy about this, set up wine to celebrate, and then sent people to shout loudly, and transmitted the news of Liu Bei's successful Northern Expedition to the city.

At this moment, the willpower of the trial is still resolute, and he claims everywhere that Yuan Shao is not defeated, this is the enemy's strategy to disrupt the army's mind, it is a despicable and shameless deception, don't believe it.

But in private, at midnight, when the trial will power is at its weakest, he will also wonder if Yuan Shao is really dead, and if they have really failed completely.

If this is true, isn't his current action a joke?

That is, at midnight, as soon as the morning dawns, the trial is still the resolute judge of the south.

But his will is resolute, it does not mean that the will of others is very strong, so the judge not only has to worry about the attack of external enemies, but also about the sneak attack of internal traitors, and in the past half a month, he has dealt with three premeditated and organized sneak attacks.

This made him realize that Yecheng was about to lose stability, and if Yuan Shao couldn't rush back as soon as possible, Yecheng would really be finished.

On March 14, an army of several thousand men marched south from the north, led by Dong Zhuo, the pastor of Bingzhou, and when Dong Zhuo arrived in Yecheng, he showed a large number of battle flags of Yuan's army, as well as the handsome flags of Yuan Shao himself.

"The general said, you can plant these flags around Yecheng, and then wave Yuan Shao's own handsome flag, so that Yecheng will be in chaos."

Liu Yu and Qiao Mao were a little surprised by Dong Zhuo's arrival.

And Dong Zhuo explained what Liu Bei meant.

Liu Bei has achieved a comprehensive victory in the Northern Expedition, the capture is so great, the glory of the war is unprecedented, it is the great martial arts of this dynasty, enough to shine in the annals of history, so Liu Bei has no interest in getting more military merits.

Considering that the military merits of the three governors were not enough, Liu Bei was willing to give the military merits of capturing Yecheng and ending the war to the three, and the three would be divided equally.

Liu Yu and Qiao Mao glanced at each other, and they both had exactly the same emotions in their eyes.

There's nothing to say, anyway, no matter how they get it, they can't get greater feats than Liu Bei, and now they are willing to reward them for their help with a finishing feat, and they are content.

People are self-aware.

So Liu Yu and others followed Liu Bei's suggestion to check the military flag of the Yuan army around Yecheng, and then sent a Linchong car, so that a strong soldier held Yuan Shao's handsome flag on the Linchong car and showed off his might to the defenders on Yecheng.

Then continue to shout, and the content of the shouting is simple.

"Yuan Shao is dead! Surrender in judgment! ”

Just eight words, a circle of loud-voiced soldiers shouted loudly around Yecheng, shouting so loudly that it was difficult for the people in the city to hear it.

After learning of this situation, the judge hurriedly went to the city to check the situation, and at a glance, his heart was directly cold.

Doesn't he, the person in charge of logistics, know where these battle flags come from?

Not to mention the battle flag that he personally sent to supervise the production of Yuan Shao himself.

Even if Yuan Shao didn't die, Yuan Jun was defeated, and since he was defeated, it was absolutely impossible to return to Yecheng to save him.

He is now a lone soldier and has no help.

The trial is desperate.

(End of chapter)