Yuan Shu originally wanted to find Lu Bu to vent his anger, but finally gave up due to insufficient military preparations.

Before Qin Yilu arrived in Shouchun to report the victory, the warlords Yang Feng and Han Xian were also defeated and surrendered.

Yang Feng and Han Xian originally controlled Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, but they were defeated by Cao Cao, and the Son of Heaven was also welcomed to Xudu, and the two lost their territory and could only go south to rely on Yuan Shu.

At this point, Yuan Shu's strength reached its peak, and its power involved most of Yangzhou, as well as some counties and counties in Yuzhou and Xuzhou, and its territory and military strength surpassed Yuan Shao in Jizhou, ranking first among the princes at that time.

Qin Yilu brought the news of Lu Bu's defeat of Liu Bei, which made Yuan Shu blindly full of confidence in the future, and finally decided to become emperor in the first month of the following year.

Although it is a cold winter, people are in good spirits when they are happy.

Yuan Shu often had a big banquet in the palace, drinking with Yang Feng, Han Xian and others to keep warm, and Qin Yilu, as a representative of Lu Bu's side, also had to attend as an accompaniment.

On the other hand, after Tang Yu's careful care, Long Xiang's injuries gradually improved and he was able to move on the ground.

Winter is often accompanied by frost, wind and snow, and because of the thin clothes, the soldiers of all battalions and units have stopped their daily training, and all of them hide in the barracks to avoid the wind and cold.

Long Xiang did the opposite, he asked his soldiers to insist on training in winter, jogging for half an hour before two meals a day.

In his previous life, as a project manager, Long Xiang could use wages and performance as a means to manage hundreds of workers obediently.

Now he can only rely on the help of Feng Zhong and Tang Yu, as well as the prestige he has gradually accumulated.

In the front, there was a single horse to retreat Zhang Fei, and in the back, there was a lone leader to take responsibility.

In the hearts of the old department of Longyuan, Long Xiang's prestige has been successfully established, but it is not enough to govern the army by prestige, and he is a good general if he can win battles.

Long Xiang asked himself if he was not as good as Guan Yu, Zhang Liao and other famous generals, so he decisively chose other tracks, took his people out of the battlefield peacefully, and then waited for Yuan Shu to be defeated and then went to Hefei.

In the first half of the year, I followed Qiao Rui and fought with Liu Bei as a tailwind bureau, what if I encountered a headwind situation in the future? This is a problem that Long Xiang has been plaguing about.

In the end, it was decided to start with physical fitness, starting with the most basic physical training.

Long Xiang let the soldiers practice running in the morning and evening, which not only allows the body to produce heat to resist the cold, but also allows the soldiers to maintain the state of training.

In the future, even if you run for your life on the battlefield, you must run faster with regular practice.

One evening in winter, Tang Yu led the team to return from a late run, and Long Xiang stood outside the camp waiting for the count, when there was a sudden teasing sound next to him.

"Long Sima, is the stick injury healed?"

"Long Sima, what about training?"

"Look, you train so diligently, you can't be a captain in the future?"

"What is a lieutenant? It was Ben Heavy General. ”

"What do you call a heavy general?"

"I don't understand, do you? The new defector General Yang is, that is the general of the chariot cavalry. ”

......

The deliberate ridicule of his comrades in the other camp was that he thought that Long Xiang was earning performance and that winter training was meaningless.

"You..."

Tang Yu was so harsh that he raised his fist and was about to theorize, but was stopped by Long Xiang holding his wrist.

"Forget it, Uncle Yu, let the brothers wash their hands, and the meal will be served soon."

"These horsemen, it's been several times..."Tang Yu frowned in displeasure.

Long Xiang smiled open-mindedly: "Why bother so much? How bad it sounds? Can I drop a piece of meat? ”

Tang Yu glared angrily at the officers who were coaxing not far away, and when they saw that Long Xiang did not return the favor as always, they felt bored and went back to wait for dinner.

"That's right, but when you are a soldier, you have to be tough, the tougher you are, the more you won't suffer, this kind of puppet is bullying the weak and afraid of the hard."

"Toughness also depends on who is right, being arrogant and tough on one's own people, weak in front of the enemy, after all, he is still a soft egg."

Long Xiang became an old fritter in the workplace in his previous life, which is nothing at all.

"Well, that's right."

Soon after returning to the barracks, Tang Yu brought a bowl of hot porridge.

He handed it to Long Xiang and instructed: "Eat it while it's hot, it's not enough for me to add it." ”

Long Xiang asked curiously, "Can you still add rice now?" Our rations have risen? ”

"The people above eat meat and drink wine every day, and they can't let us go hungry, and there are too many battalions who shout cold and hungry after winter, so they have issued some additional rations, but the number of additional rations is not too much, so you have to eat quickly, I will grab it later."

Tang Yu pointed to the bowl that Long Xiang was holding.

Long Xiang shook his head slightly: "I don't have many snacks at my age, so you don't need to help me grab it..."

"Where is it small? Soon Yunqi will be seventeen, and it is the time to grow your body, and you still have a wound on your back..."

Long Xiang took a sip of the bowl and said with a serious face: "After all, we made a mistake, don't worry about those few bites, and when we get to the south in the future, are we still afraid of being hungry?" ”

"Since Yunqi is talking about the south, when can we go?"

Tang Yu looked left and right and asked in a low voice.

Long Xiang said solemnly: "This matter is not urgent, first we must transfer all the family members away, and wait until next year Yuan Shu becomes emperor, it will inevitably attract the Quartet to attack, and we will have a chance soon." ”

"It's all up to you."

Tang Yu nodded and asked: "But the Huainan soldiers have enough food, plus Yang Feng and Han Xian have come to defect, and they have married and formed an alliance with Lu Bu, and the strength can be said to be the head of the princes, will Yuan Shu really fail in the end?" ”

Long Xiang's face was full of seriousness: "Don't just look at the surface of everything, have you forgotten the battle of Kuangting?" A large number of troops may not be omnipotent, didn't Ji Ling come back in disgrace? And Lu Bu can't be trusted..."

"Kuangting... I'll never forget. ”

Tang Yu frowned, and continued to give questions: "It is said that Qin Yilu, Lu Bu's envoy, has a banquet with General Qiao and others every day, and Lu Bu also knows that Yuan Shu will be the emperor, since he and Yuan Shu have become in-laws, they will inevitably advance and retreat together in the future, how can they not be reliable?" ”

"There are no absolutes in the world, Lu Bu is still Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuoyizi, what about the end?"

"I almost forgot..."

"Let's not guess, leave the ending to time, by the way, that Qin Yilu is very familiar, who is this?"

When Tang Yu heard this, he explained with a smile: "Yunqi has also heard of him? I heard from the brothers of Beiying that this person is a homesick and weak person, and it is said that he has repeatedly asked Yuan Shu to return to Xiapi under the pretext of his wife and children, and guess what the result is? ”

"How?"

"Yuan Shu once deliberately used drunkenness to get angry and promised him a daughter of the Liu clan, Qin Yilu actually gave in, I don't know if he is really weak, or if he wants to climb the high branches of the Liu clan, Yuan Shu is going to be the emperor on his own..."

Long Xiang heard a stirring spirit, and immediately thought of who Qin Yilu was.

The man of the Three Kingdoms with the prairie on his head couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this, how could he find a beautiful wife to keep it when his own strength was insufficient?

This was the case in the Three Kingdoms, and it will still be the case in the future world.

In the cold years of winter, Long Xiang spent his morning and evening runs, and by the end of the year, the injury on his back had healed.

In the first month of the second year of Jian'an (197), Yuan Shu was in the suburbs of Shouchun, sacrificed heaven and earth with the Son of Heaven ceremony, changed Jiujiang Taishou to Huainan Yin, set up a hundred officials, officially ascended the throne and called himself 'Zhong Jia'.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu received the first congratulatory gift of the new year, which was Sun Ce's letter of breaking off friendship and self-reliance.