Yang Hong was actually very supportive of Yuan Shu's return to Huainan, so before today's conversation, Yang Hong had done a lot of homework on the situation in Huainan, including the current war in Sizhou.

He immediately began to tell Yuan Shu everything he knew.

He informed Yuan Shu that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were currently in a stalemate with Lu Bu, although Lu Bu deliberately retreated before, so that Yuan Shao thought that there was room to advance, and used the cavalry on the plain battlefield to defeat Yuan Shao once, but in the end Yuan Shao regrouped and was still able to suppress Lu Bu to fight.

At present, the state of engagement between Yuan Cao's two armies and Lü Bu is that Yuan Cao has the advantage, and Lü Bu has more defeats and fewer victories.

Seeing that Lu Bu was at a disadvantage, Niu Fu also abandoned his previous suspicions and sent troops from Xingyang to help Lu Bu deal with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

But Niu Fu's ability is much worse than Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Lu Bu, although the Xiliang soldiers under his command are all elite soldiers who are brave and good at fighting, but Niu Fu's ability to command the troops is really limited, so the combat effectiveness of this Xiliang army is greatly reduced.

If Dong Zhuo were to command this Xiliang army, the effect might be very different.

Overall, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Niu Fu are still in a stalemate, and at this moment, if Yuan Shu goes south to recapture Yangzhou, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will probably not have so much energy to deal with Yuan Shu.

At the same time, Yang Hong also reported another thing to Yuan Shuyu.

That is, there are rumors everywhere in Sizhou at present, saying that Lu Zhi has personally written a letter, asking Zhu Jun and Wang Kuang to make way for Liu Jian's soldiers and horses and let them enter Sizhou.

Yuan Shu was very excited when he heard the news.

"If Wang Kuang really makes way for Liu Jian, then Liu Deran enters Sizhou, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will have no strength to pay attention to me."

Yang Hong nodded vigorously and said, "That's right!" ”

Yuan Shu rubbed his hands vigorously, his eyes dripping and rolling.

In the end, I saw Yuan Shu slap the table and said: "I will immediately give you a list of local families in Huainan, these families have a very good relationship with me, you quickly go to Huainan to contact them, and say that my Yuan Highway is going back to Yangzhou!" ”

"Whoa!"

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Both Yuan Shu and Yang Hong knew that Lu Zhi wrote letters to Zhu Jun and Wang Kuang.

Yuan Shao's side naturally knew about it.

It's just strange how did this news come about?

Who came out of it? And why did it come out?

Although there are some suspicions, the stakes are very high, and the people on Yuan Shao's side can't think about it so much at the moment.

If Wang Kuang and Zhu Jun really made way for Liu Jian, causing Liu Deran to enter Luoyang, it would become a snipe and a clam fight, and the fisherman would benefit?

Yuan Shao and Lu Bu became sandpipers, and Liu Jian was a fisherman.

He spent so much effort, but let Liu Jian pick up a big bargain, Yuan Shao must not be reconciled.

Yuan Shao didn't say a word, and immediately sent someone to send a letter to Wang Kuang, asking him to take advantage of Liu Jian's entry into Hanoi and use the Hongmen banquet strategy to get rid of Liu Deran.

Wang Kuang has always been Yuan Shao's hardcore, at least before and after the crusade against Dong Zhuo, Wang Kuang's attachment to Yuan Shao is still relatively strong.

Although the region where Wang Kuang and Yuan Shao are located is now retreating from the north to the north, the interests of the families have always been entangled, and the degree of binding is extremely deep...... Yuan Shao gave Wang Kuang a letter asking him to get rid of Liu Jian, but Wang Kuang was not easy to refuse.

But Wang Kuang was unwilling to get rid of Liu Jian like this, because if he did this, he would have no way out.

It's not that Wang Kuang gets rid of Liu Jian, and he will do it once and for all, on the contrary, there will be a lot of follow-up troubles.

You must know that there are still many Liu Jian's descendants and generals in Hebei!

Others don't say it, just Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others, if they knew that Wang Kuang had killed their brother, these fierce generals would definitely lead their troops back from Youzhou and gather all the troops of Hebei to attack Hanoi!!

At that time, Wang Kuang's whole family had to let Zhang Fei chop and skewer it into meat skewers.

Even if Wang Kuang's interests are deeply tied to Yuan Shao, he can't ignore the lives of his entire clan, unless he is crazy.

So, Wang Kuang immediately replied to Yuan Shao with a letter, hoping that Yuan Shao could change his mind, or change his way, and not put himself in danger.

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more complicated, Yuan Shao was not in the mood to have a detailed discussion with Wang Kuang, but Wang Kuang's concerns were indeed reasonable, so Yuan Shao took a step back, and he asked Wang Kuang to let Liu Jian's 30,000 army cross, but afterwards he must cut off Liu Jian's retreat, and at the same time, he must also cut off the grain route of Liu Jian's 30,000 army.

In this way, Liu Jian's soldiers and horses could not pose a threat to themselves even when they arrived in Luoyang, and after Yuan Shao defeated Lu Bu and Niu Fu, he went to destroy Liu Jian's 30,000 soldiers.

This request was still within Wang Kuang's acceptable range, so he agreed.

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Soon after, Zhu Jun, who received Lu Zhi's letter, discussed with Wang Kuang and asked Liu Jian's soldiers and horses to cross the border, and Wang Kuang agreed.

In order to show his sincerity, and also to show his own face to Lu Zhi, Wang Kuang sent soldiers and horses from Taishou Mansion to represent him, personally went to the eastern border of Hanoi to meet Liu Jian, and invited Liu Jian's army to enter the border of Hanoi.

Wang Kuang's work is called Han Hao, and he is a native of Hanoi County.

When Wang Kuang entered Hanoi and became a taishou, he recruited Han Hao for the first time, and when he fought with Dong Zhuo, Han Hao showed his ability and won Wang Kuang's weight.

At that time, Li Dao was responsible for fighting with Wang Kuang, Zhu Jun and others, Li Dao was one of the few martial artists under Dong Zhuo, and he was deeply versed in military strategy, and his ability far surpassed that of Niu Fu.

After Li Dao's inference, among the people under Wang Kuang, the person who could become his fierce opponent was Han Hao, and he made this matter clear to Dong Zhuo.

At that time, in order to divide Wang Kuang's forces, Dong Zhuo used Han Hao's uncle Heyin Ling Du Yang as a hostage to threaten Han Hao and make him submit.

But Han Hao resolutely refused to obey and let Dong Zhuo kill his uncle.

Although Dong Zhuo did not succeed, he still praised Han Hao's heroism.

is really a rare good nephew, willing to kill his uncle, and dare to pull Xiangguo off the horse.

Not ordinary people!

And today, this person, who was valued by Wang Kuang, Dong Zhuo, and Li Dao, came to Liu Jian's military camp on behalf of Wang Kuang, met Liu Jian, and invited him to go to Luoyang through Hanoi.

The other party came with a piece of sincerity, Liu Jian naturally couldn't wait slowly, especially when he knew Han Hao's name, he respected Han Hao even more.

That night, it happened that Liu Jian was feasting on the soldiers, so he left Han Hao to eat with him, and led him to visit the military camp by the way.

As a soldier under Wang Kuang, Han Hao has always assisted Wang Kuang in managing the elite Taishan soldiers under him, so Han Hao is a person who knows soldiers.

He has long heard that Liu Deran in Hebei is like a god in using soldiers, and he is the first general of the Han Dynasty, and it is his great luck to be able to see Liu Jian's military camp today.

So that night, Han Hao followed Liu Jian to visit his military camp while feasting on the sergeant.

The so-called feast is to the effect that the three armies are sacrificed.

However, Liu Jian's big banquet sergeant was different from other shepherd and big banquet sergeants.

Due to the relationship of productivity, the general banquet of ordinary pastoral guards is mainly to reward generals and junior officers, and the food given to ordinary sergeants is generally handed over to officers above the rank of chief, who receive the rewarded food and then distribute it to the soldiers.

One advantage of this is that it can save some food.

The upper echelons put the responsibility for distributing food on the junior officers, and they all knew that the things were in their hands anyway, and what went wrong in the middle was also a contradiction between the junior officers and the ordinary non-commissioned officers.

As far as the superiors are concerned, they have already done a great trip to boost the morale of the army and feast on the three armies, and they have done their best to be benevolent and righteous.

Anyway, everyone saw it, and in the end, they couldn't get the reward, so they were looking for those junior officers, and it had nothing to do with the superiors.

This is called layer by layer.

In the end, the upper echelons were saved, the middle ranks were rewarded, and the lower officers were able to deduct something.

Who's unlucky?

Ordinary big-headed soldiers.

But Liu Jian is different here, everyone has everyone's reward, and all the rewards are supervised by the quartermaster and the subordinates of the camp supervisor, and they are implemented on every soldier.

In this way, a series of unfair things such as deduction, partiality, and concealment of personal interests are eliminated, and fairness is done to every soldier.

Of course, there is also a consequence of this, that is, the cost of food paid by Liu Jian's soldiers is higher.

This made Han Hao very puzzled.

As Liu Jian patrolled the camp, watching each distribution point give food to the soldiers, Han Hao finally couldn't hold back and asked Liu Jian for advice.

"The generals and soldiers seem to be different from other herdsmen and soldiers?"

Liu Jian smiled: "Do you think the way I reward the soldiers is very troublesome?" All the rewards are directly implemented into the hands of individuals through the Chinese military camp, which invisibly increases the cost of manpower, as well as the cost of rewards, and consumes a lot of military supplies? ”

Han Hao nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Liu Jian laughed: "This is my negligence, Yuan Hei doesn't have to care." ”

Liu Jian, a famous general in the world, Han Hao naturally would not think that he was negligent.

At that moment, I saw Han Hao sincerely asking: "With the general's ability, how can these many drawbacks not be seen in advance, but since the general can see it and still act like this, there must be a deep meaning in it, and please give the general some advice!" ”

Liu Jian was surprised: "Yuan Hei and I, after seeing each other for less than a day, asked me for advice, aren't you afraid that I will deliberately lead you astray?" ”

Han Hao said: "I have admired the general's name for a long time, and I know the general's benevolence, with the wisdom of the general, I am afraid that I don't need to bother so much with a little person like me." ”

"Hahahaha, I have heard for a long time that the heir is a strange person in Hanoi, and when I see it today, it is worthy of my name, okay, then I will tell you a few words of truth."

Speaking of this, Liu Jian stretched out his hand, pointed around the nearby soldiers who were excitedly receiving the reward, and asked Han Hao: "Yuan Hei, in your opinion, who are these people?" ”

Han Hao looked at these people suspiciously, and said, "Naturally, they are soldiers in the army. ”

"To you, who are the lieutenants and soldiers of the army?"

Han Hao was stunned: "Naturally, they are my soldiers and my subordinates." ”

"Yes, they are your soldiers, your subordinates, but at the same time they have another identity, they are also your soldiers, they are the people who can protect your life and decide your life and death when you are on the battlefield."

Han Hao's face turned straight when he heard this.

Liu Jian continued: "Water can carry boats, but also can capsize boats, these soldiers are your subordinates, they are like river boats, carrying your weight, they can hold you to the sky, but the power to hold you to heaven can also pull you into the bottom of the river and let you fall into hell!" ”

"Therefore, when treating soldiers and soldiers, you can't just treat them as subordinates, but also treat them as comrades-in-arms, with them, you can have your life on the battlefield!"

"Why don't I distribute food to junior generals like everyone else?"

"It's because if I do that, my kindness will only end up with the junior generals!"

"And these foods are distributed downward, that is, the lower-level generals have the final say, they are either private, or biased, or they do their own favors, or treat the soldiers they manage have their own likes and dislikes, although this can also play a role in inspiring the morale of the army, but it cannot make ordinary soldiers have real respect for me, and in terms of sense of belonging, soldiers will only recognize their commanders, and not recognize me as a commander."

"You know, I am the commander of this army, I am not raising soldiers for others, I am raising soldiers for myself, my kindness must fall on every soldier, and there is no need to fake it to others."

When Han Hao heard these words, his heart was greatly shocked.

"However, although such a distribution can make the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the three armies belong to the general alone, it will inevitably cost too much food......

"Fee?"

Liu Jian smiled when he heard this: "In your eyes, these grains may be great things, but in my Hebei, there is plenty of food!" And I gave them not only food, but also a small piece of mutton in everyone's hands, although it was not much, it was only a small piece, but it was also a piece of meat. ”

Han Hao was shocked when he heard this: "So many people share mutton? How many sheep from Hebei do you have to kill? ”

Liu Jian shook his head and said confidently: "None of those muttons are my Hebei animal husbandry sheep, these meat sheep, all come to the grasslands of northern Xinjiang, since last year, the Xianbei tribes in northern Xinjiang, Wuhuan tribes, and other Xiongnu and grassland tribes have begun to demarcate water and grassland, and fully carry out animal husbandry to supply cattle, horses and sheep for my Han...... Do you understand? ”

"I, Liu Deran, will not treat any soldier in my territory badly, nor will I bully any of the people in my territory."

Han Hao was stunned for a moment.

(End of chapter)