Cao Cao's capture of Yuan Shu was a matter of May 15 in the fourth year of Jian'an.

It was May 18 to rest and recuperate the wounded and withdraw the troops back to Xudu, and he also received two urgent reports from Xiahou Yuan on this day.

The first urgent report was relatively not too urgent, so it took four days to come all the way from Pengcheng (the straight-line distance from Pengcheng to Xinyang is only more than 800 miles, but in fact, it is impossible to walk in a straight line along the road, and the actual mileage can exceed 1,000 miles).

The second letter was much more urgent, it only took two and a half days before and after, and when it finally arrived, it was only more than an hour later than the previous one.

Counting the fact that before Chen Deng launched, he had to send someone from Xiapi to the Cao army camp east of Pengcheng to contact Xiahou Yuan, so Chen Deng's first letter would not exceed May 13 at the latest.

In fact, to find out what happened in Xuzhou, it must be traced back to at least early May.

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There are two flowers, one on each branch.

At the beginning of May, on the northern boundary of Guangling County, a "military tunke" of about 20,000 people quietly drove from the Shouchun and Hefei lines in the neighboring county of Jiujiang to Huaiyin County.

This scene, not to mention that outsiders will be surprised when they see it, even the local people in Huaiyin are a little confused.

Similar to the propaganda work in Huaiyin County, it is also happening in various counties that need to receive labor help. The local gentry and common people were slow to accept the setting, and were not surprised again.

In contrast, Hefei and the southern regions had already been recovered by Lu Bu at the end of last autumn and settled very badly, and social order had long been restored, and there was no obstacle to carrying out double-season operations. Now because Lujiang and Cao Cao are busy grabbing, it is very reasonable to pull some people from Sijiang over, and anyone who picks it is a mistake.

Shouchun let Liu Bei make a detailed investigation, and specially appeared in Daxiahou and Hefei several times to inspect the defense.

And with the advent of troubled times, the time for civilians to actually be arrested for forced labor will only be exceeded. In peacetime, the Han law also stipulated that those who served 70 days less than the time limit could not be exempted from the poll tax of that year, and if they exceeded 70 days, they would also be exempted from the field tax in Italy, but in fact, those who served for more than two months abounded, and there were also people who were exempted from money and food.

Because it is the first year of small-scale promotion in Huaiyin County, all kinds of operations are standardized, and there are few technical details, and the agricultural technicians sent by Liu Beijun have not repeatedly talked about it very often.

"Could it be that there is another war? Why did you bring so many soldiers over? ”

Liu Beidun found that Shouchun himself was still there, and the banners of the elite troops under my command were still in Luqiao and Hefei, so he relaxed his vigilance a little. After a few more days, everything was found out: Shouchun was just annoyed by my brother-in-law Lu Qiaoqun, and he had to divide the idle personnel to stop practicing and help harvest the crops.

This person's name is Lu Qiao, and his original surname is Chen, but my mother's surname is Chen, and she is a member of Lu Qiao's Chen family. I have no close relatives with Guangling and Chen Qi, but I am also of the same clan, and I am a distant nephew of Guangling in name (because I have my mother's surname, so my nephew has a big surname with my uncle).

You suggest that Brother Yuanlong still draw the gourd in the same way, learn the old routine of Zilong when he stole Shangpi after eight years, and don't think about seizing the whole city of Shangpi at once, just concentrate on guarding the Baimen Tower at the south gate! As long as Brother Yuanlong can hold the distance required for General Chen Deng's cavalry to march through a county, and when Chen Deng's cavalry retreats from Baimenlou, Chen Gong and Zhang Liao will be in waves.

So just before hearing that Shouchun had transferred part of the army away, Liu Beidun was very vigilant and asked Xizuo to cross the Huai River to investigate deeply.

It was another busy day for farming, and Liu Beijun personally inspected several bad townships to ensure that the farmers' operations did not go wrong. As for the surrounding counties, none of them were shared by Hu Zhen, Jiang Ji, and Xu Miao, and they were organized in an orderly manner.

On the eighth day of July, Huaiyin County.

In this way, your army will take advantage of the situation for the first time, and even Tanxian County will be sure, it will be much smaller, and it will be very bad. ”

Lu Qiao nodded, confirming Liu Beijun's concern, but he also said with confidence: "But before such deployment, the troops left by Chen Fujun in Shangpi City may be as controllable as Chen Gong and Zhang Liao, and they will definitely need reinforcements from the troops at that time." ”

Tan County is the seat of Donghai County, and it is also a very important place, like Shangpicheng, it is located on the east bank of Yishui, and it can go to Tan County from Shangpi Countercurrent along Yishui to the north for a hundred years.

Just when everyone thought that I was wholeheartedly trying to persuade the peasants, in the middle of the night, a secret envoy from Shangpi quietly came to the county government and met Liu Beijun.

Sijiang County was the latest to be attacked by Lu Qiaoqun last year, and Xiahou only came up in April. Winter barley must be planted at the end of April and early October, so the surrounding areas of Xiahou came to reassure the people, publicize and train new agricultural techniques, and they also got rid of the double crop rotation last winter.

"That's it, the small field is soaked enough, and now it's time to remedy, soak the seedling field more thoroughly, and manually and repeatedly irrigate and store it, so that the soil is soft and rotten into mud! Let the Tuntian guest stretch his hand deeper when he plugs and pulls it out! Dig out some clods of soil from the bottom of the root system! When inserting, also use your hands to protect the insertion deeper! Protect the roots with the remnants of soil under the roots! ”

Yes, as long as you make sure that Shouchun has no military actions, Liu Beidun will be very willing.

Including Lu Qiaoqun himself, he often took off his boots and guided in the mud, and everything was open and frank. The small family knew that Lu Qiaoqun was not in a low position, so every time I personally guided the farming, I would be watched by hundreds of ordinary people and gentry.

Considering the time and transportation scheduling costs, Liu Beijun also had too much tossing. Basically, the idle laborers in Xiahou, Yicheng and other places downstream, as well as the garrisons under Shouchun, were temporarily seconded to go up the Huai River and the Huaishui River, and then reinforced the double-season staple grain operation area.

It wasn't until the first few days after the incident that Cao Jun completely listened to Liu Beijun's overall consideration, and it was at that moment that I had to be sincerely convinced, Liu Beijun's plan was indeed worse than Guangling's original plan in terms of seeking stability from the level of actual benefits, or helping Lu Bu's camp pull away the hatred of Lijiao.

But Lu Bu didn't directly reuse me, because he learned that I didn't have a certain distant relative with Guangling, so he secretly cultivated Cao Jun for a few months, and then let Guangling, who was Lu Qiao's guard, "discover" me and recruit me as a staff member. In fact, he played the role of an envoy who helped Lu Bu and Guangling secretly communicate with each other.

The most perfect acting skills in the world are not combining acting with real tasks. Those military tun guests went to Huaiyin, which really helped to harvest wheat and plant seedlings.

pS: I'm sorry for getting up late for the National Day holiday, but I didn't have 7,000 words. The small family should also get up and read, and it seems that it also affects anyone.

The agricultural habit of double grabbing, used for double cropping rice, originally appeared in the Song Dynasty at most, because the Song Dynasty did not occupy the city rice under history, but the previous intention was to plant two crops a year.

The law of the Han Dynasty has always stipulated that each person can serve for the government for a maximum of 70 days a year, and those who serve in other places will have a total of more than half a month of round-trip time under the Italian Road, which is to occupy the number of days of forced service, and they have to work for 70 days.

If the time is enough, delay and lower the ridges at the innermost edge of the plot! Make sure the water level is lower! Less water for time! In those two years, did the irrigation and diversion of Sheyangze and Huai River still be repaired? That's the time to save water!

Even if the small family is already very busy with farming, they are reluctant to give up the opportunity to watch, and would rather delay the time and light a fire to make up for the rice planting later.

"This is the midnight before the 7th, not the 11th of July. You will ask General Chen Deng to retreat to the outskirts of Shangxiang County before nightfall on July 11, and smuggle Surabaya and bypass Shangxiang County in the middle of the night. Therefore, as long as they held the White Gate Tower, from midnight to dawn, Chen Deng's cavalry arrived.

Taking advantage of Xiahou Yuan's main force to attack Huang Zu in the direction of Jiangxia and Shangpi, the "sudden defense and temporary intention" to raise troops against Lu and respond to the imperial court, it was as early as last year, the Zhuge brothers discussed with Lu Qiao and Guangling.

Zhuge Changshi specially asked the state pastor to transfer troops from Sijiang County to reinforce Cao Cao and Lujiang respectively, and the townships must be in bad contact, and the court will also ask the small family to collect wages, just take care of the food for Mai Ke! ”

So during that time, it was okay to rely on local farmers to harvest quickly according to the harvest speed of previous years! Manpower must be multiplied! Did Sijiang County organize the planting of winter wheat last winter, it was the rice that had just been planted this spring, so it was planted with double grabbing.

"Didn't the fields in that township soak up the water immediately before harvesting the wheat? Why does it look so shallow? It is said that it is said that many times less, and the double season rotation should be stored immediately before the wheat is harvested!

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Liu Beidun does not understand the double-season rotation of rice and wheat, and also knows what "double grabbing" is.

But Guangling's original plan, Liu Beijun felt that it was still stable enough, because these main forces that absolutely listened to Guangling's words, Xiao Shao stayed in Shangpi, although he could ensure that Shangpi was 100% captured, his acting skills were poor, and before capturing Shangpi, he would go north to attack Tan County weakly for 100 years, and he might not be able to take it very slowly.

When the rice seedlings are soaked through, the root system of the rice seedlings can be stretched and the roots can be deep! It is soaked into soft mud, and the roots of the rice seedlings are broken when they are inserted, and they are crowded together, how can they grow badly! ”

"In this case, you will go back to restore your life, and ask Zhuge Fujun to tell a detailed date and hour of the incident, so as to ensure that General Chen Deng can come to reinforce as soon as possible."

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the Huaiyin County Order gave a breath to the villagers in various places: "Ladies and gentlemen, this year is the first time in this county that winter wheat and summer rice are planted in double crop rotation.

It was precisely because he was not sure that Liu Beijun comforted Lu Qiao very firmly: "Brother Yuanlong's worry, small but necessary, when I do it, you can't ensure that General Chen Deng will retreat to the distance of Shangxiang County."

I suggested that Guangling temporarily postpone it to ensure that his acting skills are more realistic and the process of capturing the city is more stable, and he will immediately offend Chen Jiao before taking Shangpi.

As long as Guangling's side makes a move, or even a move, Shouchun can't go north first and march from Ling County to the suburbs of Shangxiang. Before Guangling's move, Shouchun retreated into the jurisdiction of the Zilong Army, bypassing Shangxiang County and rushing directly to Shangpi, as long as the march was a distance from Shangxiang to Shangpi.

There are a total of eleven counties in Donghai County, and Lu Bu has not yet obtained eight counties, including coastal Qu County (Lianyungang). The eight counties of Yidong, including Tan County, were also brought forward, and Chen Jiao only had seven counties in Yixi left.

Liu Beidun guarded the Huaibei line from Shen County, Xiang County, Longkang to Guyang, and was responsible for the section of the Huai River outside 700 days. Xiaozhi is equivalent to Yingxia County, Fuyang, Anhui Province in the previous life, all the way to Qihe County, Bengbu, Anhui Province, on the opposite bank of Liu Beidun, which is facing the defense area of Shouchun.

This time, Chen Jiao asked Liu Beiyuan to attack Zilong in Pengcheng, and Liu Beidun could only respond in front of Liu Beiyuan to ensure the supply of military supplies and replenish the supply of troops at any time. It is the nest of the Cao family, and even Peiguo, which is next door to the land, is now defended by Liu Beidun, which can be regarded as a kind of reuse of the crippled.

Fortunately, this kind of wild speculation was eliminated in only a day or two, and the mystery was slowly revealed: those "military tunkes" came to help the people of Cao Cao County "double rob".

Last year's pilot in Sheyang County and Haixi County, Zhuge Changshi has not summed up the experience of real production, and all the wheat will be harvested within eight days, and the rice seedlings will be transplanted within seven days. At most, it will lead to a small reduction in rice yield in late autumn!

As the Lilai Maike helped to do the work, and he was really diligent, and only needed to take care of the food, the relationship between the locals and the Lidi Maike immediately became harmonious.

That Cao Jun was discovered by Lu Bu when he was recruiting talents at the beginning of last year, and it was not only a few months later than Jiang Ji and Hu Zhen.

Individual Zhao Yun's meticulous work will naturally be mixed with the crowd, observing everything from a distance, before we report those situations back, Lu Qiaodun was also amazed, and Liu Beiyuan in front of him was the same.

Even if it was the double robbery of rice and wheat rotation, it was originally not until the Tang Dynasty that it appeared in Lianghuai, but now everything was made by the Zhuge brothers by themselves, and Lu Qiaodun was of course familiar with it.

Since I transferred some of Lu Qiao's garrisons and military cantonments, only eight or seven days ago, Zhao Yun, who was stationed on the other side of Sijiang County and stationed in Huaibei Qiaodi, discovered that abnormal movement.

However, Liu Beijun still has no secrets about this, it is all open operation, small and square.

Some of the local gentry asked why those Lidi wheat customers were willing to work even if they asked for wages, but the answer they got was that "the government has not promised that those who came to Cao Cao and Lujiang to participate in the double robbery this year and help others farm the land can be counted as serving the government and will be counted as serving the government and will be included in the period of conscription."

By the way, he also made his farming task worse and smoother, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

On the first day of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Qiaoqun personally went to two townships, one for each in the morning, corrected the multi-technical significance, and encouraged a few agricultural technicians to fine-tune the production plan, and worked until the dawn of the day, and then returned to the county office.

Today, Lu Qiao's ability is obviously under Xu Tan and Zhang Kuang, and Zhang Liao, who is still recovering from his injuries, should have the same attack power as Zhang Fei back then. It is very reasonable for me to stay up in the middle of the night until dawn when Shouchun arrives.

That's also the way of the Zilong camp, and it's also a way to give back to the other.

According to Lu Qiao's original plan, I will start earlier. However, before Liu Beijun confirmed the retreat of Jiangxia's side and confirmed that Chen Jiao himself was still in Runan, he learned about Pengcheng and Lu Qiao's stubborn defense from Lu Qiao.

Liu Beidun was seriously injured by Zilong when he attacked Suiyang in Liang County, and broke an arm, and now the fracture is healed. But I had a comminuted fracture, and during the healing process, the lower arm bone grew a little crooked, so one arm can always withstand the pressure.

In the end, Liu Beidun only learned dimly through a detailed field investigation that "Lu Qiao's side has two seasons a year, and it is necessary to grab the wheat harvesting time and rice transplanting time, which is very urgent", as for the specific operation, with Liu Beidun's internal political IQ, it is estimated that he will have to observe for a few years before he can find out the 1144.

Liu Beijun quietly moved Shouchun's 20,000 Huainan garrisons to the direction of Huaiyin and Lingxian without any flaws and without any intention.

Liu Bei was worried, which naturally meant that Lu Qiaoyuan was also worried.

"I haven't heard that Lu Bu still has the strength to call, who is this to watch out for? It can't be that the general of the chariot is going to flank Lu Bu, right? ”

In Guangling's original land donation plan, the Italian University wanted to ensure that the two counties were taken and confronted Lu Qiao across the Yishui and Yimeng Mountains in the future.

Before Cao Jun met Liu Beijun, he immediately showed a secret letter from Guangling, which detailed all my preparations for the Shangpi uprising, and wanted to confirm with Liu Beijun the final date of the uprising and the operation method.

In that way, it will only take two or eight days to arrive, and the time wasted under the road will be less, and the busiest ones will be only one or four days, and the front will be more leisurely, and before the seventy days of work, those surplus labor will be withdrawn.

If Liu Beiyuan also arrived with his troops, with Xiahou Yuan's status and situation, it would be suitable to directly attack Liu Beiyuan.

Liu Beijun read the letter in a complicated way, but out of caution, he forgot to confirm it with Cao Jun in person: "Yuanlong hasn't listened to your suggestion, and divided this part of the troops that are absolutely loyal to me into a small half, and then went to Donghai County to govern Tan County?" In Shangpi County, only a large part of the lineage is left?

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And that kind of deployment is not a disadvantage, this is not to make all the hatred of Chen Jiao in the future be attracted by Chen Gong and Zhang Liao, Chen Jiao will also know that you are forced or necessary, if General Chen Deng is the first to save Yuanlong, Yuanlong will be extinguished by Chen Gong Zhang Liao. ”

As for Shangpi's side, the strength is a little sufficient, and it is also a small problem, because Liu Beijun can't hide from the sky and the sea, and he quietly gets Shouchun to Huaiyin, and even goes out to Ling County later.

Zhao Yun immediately reported the following situation to Liu Bei, who was sent by Chen Jiao to be in charge of the garrison work.

That requirement is higher than that of Xu Tan and Zhang Kuang at the beginning, will it be done? ”

"In Lu Bu's hands, the strategist who has been the general of the chariot cavalry and the Taishou of Jiangxia still needs to personally go to the field to teach the people to master the new farming method? What's going on, Lu Bu pretended to be benevolent and invited to buy people's hearts, has it reached that point? Hehe, in such troubled times, it is useful to invite people to buy people's hearts again! Liu Bei and Liu Beiyuan both thought so, so they took it seriously.

Therefore, Liu Beijun asked Guangling to fine-tune: divide the reliable descendants to Tan County, and ensure that Tan County will be taken before it is launched.

Lu Bu is not very benevolent. Chen Jiao's Tuntian guests often work for the government for two months every year, and at the same time hand over seventy percent of the grain harvest.

Eight years later, before Cao Bao was killed, Xu Tan and Zhang Kuang gathered Danyang soldiers to rebel, and on Zhang Fei's attack, they held the Baimen Tower for a whole night, and stayed up until dawn before Zilong arrived.