Yang Xiu is smart, he has been smart since he was a child, and when he first came, he had suspected that this was a joint game between Zhang Xiu and Zhang Han.

To let the scholars end, even, at the beginning, he had guessed this possibility in front of Cao Cao.

However, a few days after arriving here, he dispelled this idea after many investigations.

Because Zhang Han's intelligence spies have been secretly slandering Zhang Xiu.

Even Liu Xun, who was too guarded by Lujiang, hated Zhang Xiu to the core, and counted his vicious deeds many times.

At this time, Yang Xiu felt that it was not, and he thought that Zhang Han and Zhang Xiu might really have a personal grudge.

The reason is simple, no one will damage their reputation for the sake of a plan that is compatible inside and out.

After Zhang Xiu's time, he must be ruined and disliked by the scholars, and he will no longer have family support, even if he marries because of the nobleman in the future, he will not send his noble daughter to him.

It must be the daughter of the family to prevaricate, or you can only find a local family that is not very famous.

Yang Xiu decided that there was one thing, that is, Zhang Xiu's unscrupulous plundering must have been forced to a desperate position by Zhang Han.

You say they are pretending to be so, so why bother to die?

The weird thing is that Zhang Hanzhen got Zhang embroidery to death, and they are really acting.

Yang Xiu hated in his heart, hated that although he was smart, he was too young, he couldn't imagine that Zhang Xiu could put himself in such a situation in order to lick Cao Ang.

Even the life and death of the 30,000 people under his command were entrusted to Cao Ang, and I don't know who gave him such a firm belief.

"What the prince means is that you and Zhang Xiu have already been secretly connected?" Yang Xiu was unwilling, but still wanted to hear an answer in person.

"That's right." Zhang Han did not refuse at all, and this answer was even more Yang Xiu suddenly closed his eyes and turned his back slightly to the sky.

It's you, Zhang Bochang.

It seems that the personal feud between Ling and Zhang Xiu has only been used to confuse others over the years.

Everything is like this, the truth is unpredictable, and what an inappropriate person.

"Junhou, what a clever plan, I still have something I don't understand, why is Zhang Xiu willing...... No, I see. ”

Yang Xiu sighed deeply, "It's better to fight for merit and life, it's better to retreat to the eldest prince, he is, he doesn't look at the immediate interests at all, and only strives for the long-term." ”

It was just a moment, Yang Xiu also figured out Zhang Xiu's ambition in his heart, but this breath is not something that young people can swallow, such as Yang Xiu himself.

He pondered deeply, thinking about whether he could be willing to accept this grievance if he was in Zhang Xiu's position, but he definitely couldn't.

If you are not vigorous, how can you still be called a young hero?

His forbearance in this breath is too old-fashioned, making people feel a little disillusioned, and there must be someone to guide or lobby in every way.

……

Not long after, Zhang Xiu really came to the Shucheng camp, and he came secretly in a carriage, even if he was seen along the way, no one would know the characters in the carriage.

During this period of time, Lujiang scholars and local celebrities mostly came to visit the meeting by car, and of course the scene of this carriage was also accustomed to it, and no one would care too much about it at all.

Zhang Xiu obviously arrived at Lujiang for the first time to Zhang Han and Cao Ang, and when he entered the door, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, and coming here is enough to show that he has been recognized by Cao Ang.

At this moment, Zhang Xiu subconsciously looked at Zhang Han, and the eyes of the two met in midair.

In the past, it was Cao Ang who stood behind Zhang Han, but this time it was different, Zhang Han stood on his left, tall as a pine, with a majestic bearing, as if he was protecting behind him.

It's like scrutinizing and observing.

Everyone present already understood that Zhang Han was slowly giving up this main position and helping Cao Ang to make a decision, but he would not let go immediately, so he would observe silently later, and if there was anything wrong, he would take over the decision at any time.

Zhang Han is going to become a general who really advises the two generations of the Cao family.

It's enviable.

"Childe, Prince."

"Youwei has worked hard, during this period of time, you have been wronged by the foreign garrison, and you have not been accepted into Shucheng, and now you have occupied the ferry, tomorrow, I will discuss with the local tribes, ask them to fund the shipbuilding, find enough to load the soldiers of the big ship and Mong, you can lead the army to cross the river into Huainan."

"As for the soldiers and horses on land, I would like to entrust Brother Bochang to move forward with me."

"Uncle Dezu and Uncle Wenlie, Liu Taishou guards the Lujiang River for me."

"My uncle Wenlie has been displaced since he was a child, grew up in Wuzhong, and knows the customs of the Yangzhou generation very well, and he is quite well-connected and well-connected."

"And Dezu has a prominent family lineage, talent, learning and resourcefulness, complementing each other, and he can be as stable as Mount Tai."

"Collect Lujiang, for me to have confidence, Huainan ahead is not afraid of dangers."

"I hope that all of you, work together, take this great achievement, cut off the road after Yuan's surgery, not only to capture Huainan, we have been recuperating so far, the real ambition is to take Huainan immediately, you can immediately accept the people, attract the Quartet to vote, hold high the banner of our Han family, and make the people who are not subordinate invincible."

"Childe Takami!" Zhang Xiu immediately clenched his fists, and the rest of the people had no objections.

After the discussion, Zhang Xiu deliberately waited for Zhang Han to come out outside the hospital, and did not wave, and the two looked at each other clearly.

"Bo Chang, I already know your hardships before, you and I will let go of our previous suspicions, write off the grievances, and then assist Gongzi Ang together to make a name for the Han family?"

What you said was as if you didn't think you could do anything to me, Zhang Han complained in his heart, but he didn't plan to choke Zhang Xiu like this.

He was also afraid that Xiu'er would be unwilling, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and finally he lost his clothes after screaming.

"Okay, of course good," Zhang Han nodded easily with his hands behind his back and gave Zhang Xiu a step down.

"Even so, the ferry does not have to go back and forth several times to pick up the war horses, this method is not stable, once there is an accident on the river, the war horses will definitely suffer heavy losses, my general of the two thousand three hundred and sixty-four war horses entrusted to the prince, the prince led the army to go by land together, how?"

Zhang Han and Dian Wei's eyes lit up: There is still such a good thing?!

That's almost 6,000 horses now...... About 1,000 of them were cargo horses, and the rest were war horses.

I don't know how much it costs to spend just forage every day, and cleaning up horse manure can make the sergeants miserable, but with it, an unprecedented increase in field combat ability.

Fighting outside the city, war horses in the south are scarce, from north to south, the price of horses is a price point, and it has been many times that of the north in Yangzhou.

There are not many military horses in the south, and cavalry is so precious that as long as they can ride, they can be regarded as elite, even if they are not knights who have experienced a hundred battles, their status is not low.

However, how can ordinary cavalry be compared to Zhang Han's black-robed armored cavalry?

Thinking of this, Zhang Han suddenly burst out laughing: "When I attacked Yu Poison back then, it was even more difficult for me to raise ten horses in my camp. ”

"Later, when I got to Yanzhou, my father-in-law only had two thousand in his hands, and he was already loved as a baby, training day and night, and letting the cavalry receive merit in an easy battle."

"I've never fought such a rich battle, six thousand cavalry! 50,000 soldiers!! ”

"With such an elite, why worry about Huainan!?"

……

In July of that year, when it was the hottest, Lujiang, under Yang Xiu's proposition, took virtue, morality, policy, and reputation as the core, and appointed more than a dozen officials.

These officials who can take office and make meritorious contributions are basically from the family that Cao Ang has made friends with.

Of course, the talents of these people are enough to govern a county and a township, and they are nothing more than benevolence, love for the people, and benefit the government, and follow most of the policies of Xudu with slight changes in local conditions.

Zhang Xiu set off by water, Zhang Han set off by land, and the black-robed armor rode almost all the way forward during this time.

With the help of many scholars and hermits, many little-known trails have been obtained.

Zhang Han rode a red rabbit and marched with the middle of the army, and Dian Wei, Gao Shun and Jia Xu all followed him to his left and right.

Along the way, Dian Wei was relatively dull, as if he had something to say in his heart and never communicated, so the whole person seemed absent-minded.

The march was boring and boring, and finally I couldn't help but ask: "Junhou, we have stayed in Lujiang for so long, is the funding we received just for the convenience of the march?" ”

"And why can't you force them to help with the sword?"

Zhang Han said with a smile: "It's still the words of Yasheng that I taught you before, there is much help for the righteous and little help for the unjust, and during the period of time we have stayed, we have become two completely different forces. ”

"From an outsider's point of view, it is a personal grudge between me and Zhang Xiu, and this is the news I deliberately released to guide their judgment."

"However, over time, they will understand that this confrontation is not just as simple as me and Zhang Xiu for the entire Lujiang."

"These are two choices, one is the orthodoxy of the moment, and the other is the butcher's knife of the barbarian, so victory in the confrontation represents two completely different results."

"Therefore, subtly, these scholars who want to protect their families naturally choose to support Cao Ang as a last resort, and moreover, it is not just as simple as solidarity and gathering, they must fully fund it."

"This is the reason why Zhang Xiu is constantly threatening and harassing outside, instead of being robbed by Zhang Xiu, it is better to send what is hidden in the family to Shucheng in exchange for merit, they will definitely have such an idea."

Jia Xu chuckled, bowed slightly to Dian Wei, who cast his gaze, and said, "The old man is very pleased that Dian Wei is so studious. ”

"In addition to the fact that the family property can be used to put grain to win the hearts of the people and reward the soldiers, after the appointment of officials, because there are scholars to inherit from the top and bottom, the people will support the officials and government decrees, and the tuntian orders will be better implemented."

"In the past, wherever Cao Gong went, he carried tens of thousands, or even 100,000 tun people, naturally he didn't need to calm the people's hearts to strengthen the territory he attacked, but now it's different, this is the south, Lujiang has been war-torn for a long time, after being broken by Sun Ce, there were countless casualties, and the Lu clan was almost wiped out here, and only the clan first got back to his hometown Wuzhong."

"Therefore, we use the policy of gentleness to calm the people, to pacify Major General Zhang Xiu to establish authority, and then to implement the Tuntian Order with the officials raised."

"At the same time of establishing these three items, you can get the support of talents, the hearts of the ethnic groups, and the support of the people, and then spread the word, this year's autumn harvest can be considered merit and tax reduction, which seems to be just a small step, but in fact, compared with the war and turmoil in previous years, it is already a huge merit."

"Moreover," Jia Xu suddenly lowered his voice, leaned in front of Dian Wei and said: "Before the young general came, the prince planned to cut his military power, but the old man persuaded the young general to take the initiative to offer the military power in advance, and the matter of this is very important, and the old man exhausted his efforts to promote this result, otherwise it would ......"

If it weren't for Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu knew that Zhang Han had been secretly playing ghosts before he came, how could he still willingly cling to Cao Ang's command and almost lose his reputation for him.

"Oh, that's where the problem is."

"You're the one who has the problem."

Zhang Han glanced at Dian Wei, "Wouldn't the current result be better?" ”

Jia Xu chuckled: "Indeed, with the support of more than 400 ethnic households in the whole territory, and an extra 100,000 grains, it is indeed much better than the previous result." ”

"Prince, I'm afraid there is a great source of blessings, lucky generals."

Jia Xu has long felt so, Zhang Han has done a lot of things that are greedy for money and profits, but his luck is never bad.

Follow him, maybe your luck will get better.

……

The waterway march was about three days faster than the land route, and when Zhang Han arrived in Huainan and had come out of the mountain path, the news from Tanma was that Zhang Xiu had broken through the Huainan ferry and firmly occupied it.

When Zhang Han arrived, he led his troops and horses to the southeast and went straight to Hefei.

After a night of rapid marching, taking the old city of Hefei for a while, only investigating for half a day, and finding out all the situation, Zhang Han led 5,000 horsemen to attack the Hefei military camp.

Break it.

Immediately afterwards, he used the defeated army to move first, and trumpeted that Yuan Shu had been defeated in Shouchun.

Now that the puppet palace of the Shouchun thief has been breached, the people are panicked and dare not hold it for a long time.

Deceively opened the gate of Hefei, and 5,000 horsemen fought out of the city again, seized control, set up the small city as a basis, and Zhang Xiu occupied one side each.

Yuan Shu sent Zhang Xun to guard Huainan, and he had just dispatched his troops and horses to seize the ferry to prevent Zhang Xiu from carrying the baggage again, and the news of Hefei being breached came from the rear.

For a while, I thought that the divine soldiers had descended from the sky, and the territory had been invaded by the enemy in many ways, so I could only send a letter to Shouchun for help.

At this time, the morale of the entire Huainan was terrifyingly low, and the people naturally all ran to Hefei to ask to follow the Cao army, which was kept in the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

After the victory in the first battle, Zhang Han was not busy pursuing the victory, but went to the Linjiang area of Hefei, set up a lot of patrols and camps, abandoned two ferries, and moved to the vicinity of the main road that was convenient for the army to support.

Then he ordered the soldiers to carry boulders, sharp reefs, abandoned ship keels, etc., into the nearby shoals to block the incoming ships.

Jia Xu didn't understand what he meant, and persuaded Zhang Han several times to march into the army to take credit, and not to miss the opportunity.

Even, when the rhetoric was fierce, he bluntly said that Zhang Han was too "suspicious", there was no enemy army ambush in the rear, and it was impossible for Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses to be buried in the latter, and Sun Ce of Jiangdong, after breaking with Yuan Shu, was busy consolidating his territory.

He also withdrew independently from Yuan Shu's command, although he parted ways, he couldn't ignore the peace of the family business and win the hearts of the people, so he had to fight for territory in Huainan, right?

So, Jia Xu was punished for three days of practice because of his radical words, and when he was exhausted, he still felt that Zhang Han was dragging and didn't know what he was waiting for.

And then...... Day 6.

The barrage guards arranged on the river blocked the boats in the east of the river in the middle of the night, and blocked 3,000 soldiers on the river to prevent landing.

He lit a fire and fired it with flying arrows, and the dense flames set fire to two warships, killing and wounding thousands of people, and intimidating the rest of the enemy army, only to retreat in panic.

In the barracks, when the sky was just dawning, Zhang Han was still sleeping on the main tent couch, and was woken up by Jia Xu's footsteps.

"Prince! How did the prince get it!? How do you calculate that Jiangdong will take advantage of the chaos to cross from Xiaoyaojin and attack my Hefei camp at night?! ”

"Shh," Cao Ang knelt behind the desk and read a book, and after seeing Jia Xu come in, and after extinguishing the already faint light, he said indifferently: "Sir, don't be surprised, my brother is still not awake." ”

"If you wake him up......"

Jia Xu gasped, knelt in front of Cao Ang obediently, and waited quietly with him.

After a long time, Jia Xu couldn't help but whisper: "Childe, a few days ago, it was the old man—he didn't have a vision." ”

"The old man wants to apologize to the prince."

(End of chapter)