"It's not good for the army." He finally commented briefly and reservedly.

"After all, Ah Pu is like my brother," Yuan Shao was silent for a while, "Besides, I have Yanzhou today, and I have to find a ...... for him."

"The lord is lenient, alas, it's just that Cao Mengde is tired from a long battle, and asking him to stay here and continue to confront Liu Bei is not the way to be sympathetic."

So several other people also followed the "measured" to give some advice to the lord.

"I heard that Cao Gong has always had the ambition to set the west, and he should be encouraged!"

"Could it be that the lord just let him out of the customs and not make plans?"

They say everything you say to me, not because they have any grudges with Cao Cao, but because of the idea of a very Jizhou strategist:

Xu You made a great contribution and recommended Cao Cao to come to Hebei, did they want to take the credit?

They have taken the credit, so what about us?

Cao Cao's Juancheng was taken, why didn't he send his family to Hebei, but returned it to Cao Cao? Could it be that Cao Cao couldn't defend Juancheng in the first place, and it happened to be Xu You, and the two of them wanted to hide from the lord?

Now the lord doesn't mention Xu Youqian's goodness, and Cao Mengde is also full of guilt and pity......

…… So what's the matter?

They chattered so much that they didn't notice a figure among the advisers, who only listened quietly, and didn't say a word from beginning to end.

Chapter 442

Yougong Cao brought in a roster that recorded the names of the soldiers.

The roster was originally recorded in bamboo slips, but in the past two years, light and durable paper has been passed from Qingzhou, and the gongcao gradually switched to paper.

Originally, it took a few soldiers to move in, and the mountain-like bamboo slips can now be brought over by just one gongcao and put on the case.

It was a trivial matter, but Cao Cao still stared at the directory for a moment.

The paper was soft to the touch, slightly yellowish, and when the ink-filled brush fell on it, it fainted a little ink, which reminded him of something vague that seemed to have little to do with the war.

For example, the legendary Qingzhou.

There is a school palace that can still make paper and publish books under the continuous war, so that the world's scholars are very yearning, not only many scholars in the Central Plains gradually go there, I heard that Guan Ning, who lives in seclusion in Liaodong, also intends to return to his hometown, and wants to go there to govern the classics and discuss learning.

That's what Cao Cao once wanted to do - he once thought that in the distant future, if he could make a contribution and make the world rebuild peace, he would build a high platform and invite all the famous people in the world who were full of poetry and books and had hills and valleys to come to his side, talk with him, and write poems and poems.

He does have such outstanding talent, he is so confident, and history has affirmed his self-confidence.

And whether it is Lu Lian or Liu Bei, they should not do this.

Although Liu Bei studied under the great Confucian Lu Zhi, he had never heard of any articles written.

…… Not to mention Lu Lian, if she can write her name correctly, it will probably take a lot of energy from the teacher.

So how exactly do they make the world's celebrities so popular?

Is it because there is a Kong Wenju in Qingzhou who can't even keep his own home?

"My lord?"

Cao Cao suddenly came back to his senses from his contemplation, and casually replied, opening the volumes and looking back and forth.

"How are Qingzhou soldiers doing?"

Gong Cao was stunned for a moment.

"They seem to be ...... these days"

Cao Cao raised his head and glanced at him, "Low morale? ”

Without financial incentives, it would be a polite way to say that the morale of Qingzhou soldiers is low.

They are showing signs of dispersing.

Signs of this rout can be seen everywhere, such as the fact that they no longer maintain their weapons and armor, and that they gradually cease to obey the orders of their officers, whether they get up, eat, or march;

For example, they will push and shove when fighting, and they are reluctant to come forward;

For example, when they set up camp, they would go out and raid nearby villages;

When they looted the villages, they would always light a fire and burn what they had done, but they also gradually became a little distracted from the raids, such as the old people and children who had escaped, and they would not chase them - so when the fire was extinguished, someone would always see a few dazed old people or young children sitting under the charred walls, silently telling the world what had happened to them.

Cao Cao allowed them to slaughter the city, but it should be a place he couldn't take for the time being, not a county that he thought he had already pocketed. Therefore, when the officers heard of their misdeeds, they immediately wanted to punish them with military discipline.

In the end, they failed to enforce military law.

Those ragged and sturdy Qingzhou soldiers stared at them fiercely, approaching them, letting out bursts of invective, and even showing the short knives they had hidden that should have been in the arsenal.

The content of the invective was something that the officer could not relay to Cao Cao, but he was not surprised at all.

They only followed him for money, and when he couldn't satisfy them, this Qingzhou army would naturally gradually collapse.

He just felt a little stunned.

- This Qingzhou army has been with him for a long time, and there are many of them, and he strives to satisfy them with his goods, and allows them to slaughter and plunder the civilians in the enemy's territory, but they do not appreciate his kindness.

Lu Lian's main force is also the Qingzhou Army, I heard that her military discipline can almost be described as harsh, but the Qingzhou Army under her command is so loyal that she was born and died.

Why is that?

Cao Cao suddenly remembered that dream, this time, he was going to break a terracotta figurine himself.

After looking through the roster of these Qingzhou soldiers, he issued the first military order, requiring the Qingzhou army to march west to attack Lu Lian.

If Lu Xuanyu knew that Cao Cao had given such an order, she would feel a little inexplicable, she couldn't guess Cao Cao's thoughts, and she couldn't figure out why he divided his troops to fight her when he confronted Liu Bei.

She now feels like she's in a bind.

She put her main force in Guandu, and she only brought a few thousand soldiers with her, and if she wanted to occupy an outpost in Yanzhou, it was best to encircle Cao Cao first, and then drive Xu You back to Hebei.

But Xu Yu was a little faster than her.

Relying on unparalleled and powerful logistics, he continuously threw troops into Yanzhou, with Juancheng as the center, and quickly spread out many camps around her, gradually approaching her.

It is not difficult for her to demolish those camps, and it is not difficult to demolish any of them.

But the difficulty was that she couldn't tear down the camp without losing soldiers.

Most of the Jizhou soldiers in those camps are the private soldiers of the Hebei family, as for the generals who command them, they have the surname of anything, the surname Ji, the surname Jiang, the surname Meng, the surname Xin, anyway, they are all the brothers and nephews of a little famous person under Yuan Shao.

The disadvantage of this kind of subordinate private soldiers is that they have a very poor sense of initiative, and it is even more difficult for them to cooperate with each other, not only will they not save their allies, but they will even laugh three times when they see that their allies are in trouble;

Of course, it also has advantages, that is, these private soldiers often have the same surname, and they have lived with their lord for generations, and when Lu Hangyu wants to move their camp and kill their lord, they will be red-eyed and play with her.

So if she wants to knock out this kind of camp, the loss she needs to pay is a bit more than expected.

But without knocking it out, her baggage team would not be able to pass through this fortress-strewn area and deliver supplies for her.

…… But that's not even what bothers her the most.

Today's land hanging fish came back after surveying the terrain and harvested a lot.

She brought back some wild vegetables, some turnips, some leeks, some wild fruits, and a few water birds.

When she returned to the camp, some small officials with blue and black eyes quickly came to the tent of the Chinese army.

The pen and paper had already been prepared for them, and after seeing them sit down on their knees in an orderly manner, ready to work, Lu Hangyu cleared his throat.

"You've done a great job before."

One by one, the officials hurriedly lowered their heads, bent over, and arched their hands, indicating that the officials did not dare to take such a compliment.

"But those weeds and lettuce will have to wait for another ten days to eat, and we have to continue to find a way."

Someone whispered something.

The person next to him hurriedly dragged him.

The amplitude was small, but the land hanging fish still noticed.

"They're Yanzhou," she said, "but that's not a reason for us to watch them starve to death." ”

The man seemed to endure and endure, but still couldn't hold back.

"The subordinates are foolish, but the sages only have the principle of repaying grievances with virtue and repaying virtue with virtue, and the general repays grievances with virtue, how can he repay virtue?"

She was stunned for a moment.

"Do those common people have a grudge against us?"

"Cao Cao attacked several times, and his money, food, and soldiers, aren't they all supplied by those common people?" The man asked sharply, "Aren't those Yanzhou soldiers their fathers, brothers, sons and nephews?" Did not the plunder be used against them? ”

She nodded.

"Indeed, they provided it."

There was a moment of silence in the tent, and the officials looked at each other, and the very angry man didn't know what to say for a while.

"But I have a doubt in my mind." She said.

The little official's face was a little unnatural, "What does the general have to say?" ”

"The common people who provided Cao Cao with money and food," she asked, "can the officials refuse when they go to the village to collect money and food, and when they recruit soldiers?" ”

The Yanzhou people reclaimed some farmland that had been temporarily abandoned outside the camp of Lu Hangyu.

It's too late to grow food now, but you can grow vegetables such as lettuce, wead, and radish. The weather is not very cold, and these vegetables grow quickly and can be picked in less than a month.

They gradually attached themselves, but not because of the Wuhuan people, or not just because of the Wuhuan people.

Yanzhou has collapsed.

It's full of bandits, it's full of outcasts, and wherever it goes, villages are destroyed.

Of course, there are some small landlords who can survive these levels strongly, but when the big boss comes, they can't do anything.

First of all, Cheng Yu did everything he could to recruit food and soldiers, and then the Jizhou barracks that bloomed everywhere.

Those Jizhou soldiers have nothing to say about the Yanzhou people - in fact, they also want to be polite, but their soldiers also have to eat, dress, and encourage themselves at any time, so what can reward them better than the property and wives and daughters of the Yanzhou people?

So except for a few people who could talk to Xu You, a large number of Yanzhou people began to flee, and if they could flee to Xuzhou, they fled to Xuzhou, and they were blocked by Shuize and the camp, and if they couldn't escape, they would come to Lu Hangyu.

When General Xiao Lu walked into this village that had been plundered by the Wuhuan people, the grass huts were leaning on the broken walls that were blackened but not burned, so they could avoid the wind, and those Yanzhou people came out from under the low grass huts, very nervous, and very respectfully came out to greet her.

She motioned for the little official with dark circles to step forward, and the little official took out a stack of paper and raised it, clearing his throat.