Since the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the whole world has been in turmoil. The chaos of the Yellow Turban, the chaos of Dong Zhuo, and the chaos of the princes from all over the world can be described as turbulent.
Among the heroes of the world, two people jumped out. One is Cao Cao, who has a black face and a black heart, and does great things. Le Jin, Yu Jin, Cao Chun and others assassinated Dong Zhuo and commanded the princes. They made a fortune in the troubled times and proclaimed themselves kings of Wei.
On the other hand, Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang, the son-in-law of Wen Hou Lu Bu, are indecisive, but have insights that ordinary people do not have. , and then defeated Liu Biao.
Occupy Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jiangdong Jingzhou, and stabilize one side.
The general trend of the world is divided for a long time, it must be united, and it must be divided for a long time.
It was chaotic back then, but today it has become two tigers fighting each other, with Yingshui as the boundary, one is in the north and is called the Northern Han Dynasty by everyone, and the other is in the south and is also called the Southern Han Dynasty.
An undercurrent is surging in Yuzhou.
The army in Yanzhou is gathering. Conquering Yangzhou is not a one-and-a-half-day effort, nor can it be done with 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers. Cao Cao has prepared an army of 150,000, known as 300,000, and has already begun to allocate military equipment and food.
It is impossible to hide such a movement from the people of the world.
During Shouchun, Xu Shu stayed in the government office in Yangzhou. He was the inner minister of the entire Southern Han Dynasty. It can be said that apart from Liu Mang, he was the person with the highest position.
Even though Xu Shu has been evading it all the time, it is still recognized as the inner face.
Liu Mang led his troops to Jingzhou, and the entire Yangzhou was handed over to Xu Shu.
Now on Xu Shu's desk, there is an intelligence letter.
The movement of Yanzhou is written on it.
"Cao Cao dispatched grain from Zhili, Qingzhou, and Jizhou to Yanzhou?!" Xu Shu frowned, looking at this letter, he immediately felt that this was a very serious matter.
"Is this news accurate?" Xu Shu asked a Jin Yiwei spy who was kneeling below.
"Reply, as far as the inner minister is concerned, this news is absolutely true. Not only our Jinyiwei has confirmed it, but also the Second East and West Factory and Tsing Yi have given the same information."
Jinyiwei, the Second East and West Factory, this is after Liu Mang took over the intelligence organization from Yang Hong and Chen Gong. formed.
Tsing Yi was originally the intelligence organization of the Kuai family in Jingzhou. After Jingzhou entered the Southern Han Dynasty, Tsing Yi was also incorporated into the intelligence organization of Yangzhou.
The person in charge is none other than Kuai Yue's son Kuai Ran.
The news of the three companies has been confirmed, so it can be determined that this is true.
"Come here. Let me call the heads of various ministries, generals, and the cabinet office to discuss matters!" Xu Shu stood up and shouted to his subordinates.
"Hey!" It was already a starry night, but the cabinet mansion was brightly lit. All the prominent figures above the Southern Han Dynasty gathered in the Cabinet Office.
"Zijing, you're here too?!" A surprised voice sounded in Lu Su's ear.
"Ziyang?" Lu Su looked at the person who came, and was also very surprised, because this person was none other than Liu Ye, Liu Ziyang, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry who belonged to the same Shangshu as Lu Su.
"What happened here? Even Ziyang, you came to discuss the matter?" Lu Su asked suspiciously. Liu Ye usually wouldn't come out of the industrial zone in Yangzhou. All kinds of novelty things were carried out from the industrial area and sent to various places in Yangzhou. Some of them were used for civilian purposes, such as glass that just came out. Those things are very beautiful, and they can also be made into mirrors, comparable to copper The mirror is much clearer. Military products such as artillery, bed crossbows and cement all come from industrial areas.
"Could it be that the lord is back?" Only when the lord Liu Wei came back to Yangzhou, this Liu Ye would appear to report.
"I don't know either!" Liu Ye shook his head, "If the lord comes back, he should be in the Palace of the King, not in the Cabinet Office."
There was only one person who summoned all the ministers in the Cabinet Office, and that was Internal Minister Xu Shu.
"My lords, generals, my lord will be here soon, my lords and generals, please pass on these letters in my hand first!" As he spoke, a small official took out a copy from the plate held by the small official behind him. A letter was delivered to the adults and generals over there.
Lu Su and Liu Ye also got a copy, opened it and looked at it.
Under this look. But he couldn't hold his tongue, "This, this, this!"
All of the above are the movements of Yanzhou in recent days.
The biggest ones belong to the grain and grass.
"Is this Yanzhou going to suffer from famine? This Cao Cao actually allocated food and grass from Zhili, Qingzhou, Youzhou and Jizhou?" This was the opening of some civil servants who were not sensitive to war.
They are good at governing one side, but they don't have such a great sense of crisis.
But those generals are different.
Grain, what does this thing represent in troubled times? The first represents survival. People are iron and rice is steel. If you don’t eat a meal, you will be hungry. If you don’t eat, you can starve to death.
The second one represents war.
Food and grass are the root of all wars. If there is not enough food and grass, the army cannot move.
"This Cao Cao wants to go to war!" The feeling of these generals raised a heavy atmosphere in the whole scene.
"Is this day finally coming?" Liu Ye, Lu Xun, Ju Shou, these individuals all had the same thoughts.
Southern Han, Northern Han, although this is because of common people's jokes, but the current Han Dynasty has indeed split up long ago. If the King of Wei and the King of Han are in a few decades, or not in a few decades, as long as there is an opportunity , then it will become, Wei Guo, Han Guo, and Cao Cao and Liu Mang will also become Wei Emperor and Han Emperor.
The battle between the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty has always been avoided by everyone. On the border, it is also slowing down everywhere, and what is done is not too much.
I'm afraid that the two sides won't be able to bear it. Once they start fighting, the scale will definitely not be small.
At that time, this will really be life-threatening.
The Southern Han couldn't afford it, and the Northern Han Cao Cao couldn't afford it either.
"Master Inner Prime Minister is here!" While everyone was still thinking, Inner Prime Minister Xu Shu came out.
"My lords, you have worked hard!" Xu Shu walked to the stage and said to the crowd over there.
"Hello, Mr. Inner Prime Minister!"
Xu Shu nodded, "My lords, please sit down quickly!" The cabinet is not above the king's palace, above the king's palace, Liu Mang is the king, and those below are the courtiers, so there is no place for everyone to kneel down and worship. It is a supreme honor for the king to bestow the position.
But the Cabinet Office is different. Everyone is an official in the same dynasty, although there are distinctions between high and low. But who doesn't have the chance to join the cabinet one day
That's why everyone said they were equal, so they had seats. Although they were equal on the surface, they were divided into positions, with civil servants and generals in a row. Shangshu is in the first row, and the left and right servants are behind.
After everyone sat down, Xu Shu spoke up, "My lords and generals, Xu Shu will inevitably disturb you lords so late at night. Xu Shu hereby apologizes to you lords!" Xu Shu stood up gracefully, Looking at the civil and military officials of the Southern Han Dynasty below, they said.
"Where, where, Mr. Neixiang is too serious!" Everyone also spoke modestly.
"I call you all like this! There is really a big event happening, and the concubine is helpless. The lord is not in the birthday now. For such an important matter, one person counts the short, and the two count the long. That's why I invite you, the generals, to come to that place together." Idea, I believe you have also read the information I gave you! Do you have anything to say!" Xu Shu looked at the ministers and generals below and asked.
A hoarse voice sounded, "Master Neixiang, is this Cao Cao really going to war?" The hoarse voice was none other than Lu Su and Lu Zijing.
Xu Shu glanced at Lu Su, this man is really a talent, he almost wiped out Yangzhou in the hands of Sun Ce, if it wasn't for the lord's bed crossbow and Gan Ning's navy. I'm afraid it's really hard to tell the outcome.
It's just that no matter whether it's Sun Ce or Sun Quan, neither of them made good use of Lu Su. If this person can fully play out, Xu Shu thinks he is no match.
"Cao Cao's movement is like this. I'm afraid that's it!" Xu Shu nodded and said.
Lao Cao is really about to go to war, otherwise, he would not have mobilized food and grass in Yanzhou like this.
This is not grain and grass of one thousand shi and two thousand shi, but grain and grass from several states. They have been allocated, and no one believes that Lao Cao is going to store it or something else. There is only one possibility and that is to go to war.
"It's no longer up to us to decide whether to start a war or not!" Xu Shu said to Lu Su, "Lu Shangshu! Now Cao Cao is gathering food and grass. It may take a few months at most, or half a month at least. I am afraid that the army will attack us. What I want to think about is how to block Cao Cao's attack before the lord returns!" Xu Shu was right in his words, what he wanted was for everyone to discuss how to resist Cao Cao's invasion.
"My lord, the army is still in Jingzhou. My lord, how many soldiers and horses can I bring out?" Jushou said. He has been in Yangzhou for a long time, but he has not made much achievements. It is not because Jushou is incompetent. , but now Yangzhou is also on the right track, and there are capable people working in all aspects.
He Jushou is also old and naturally his experience can't keep up.
Xu Shu asked Jushou to be notified, this is also a matter of courtesy.
If Jushou couldn't come, Xu Shu wouldn't force it.
But Jushou still came. If it was in other aspects such as Jingzhou, he would not have the slightest interest in it. No matter what Jingzhou and Yizhou were like, it had nothing to do with him.
But there is one difference, and that is Cao Cao.
He had lost to Cao Cao at the beginning, and as a human being, he was the last to admit defeat, and he was most afraid of being serious.
The obsession with Ju Shou is probably Cao Cao.
"My lord dispatched Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and Yangzhou new army, with more than 30,000 troops, entered Jingzhou. If you add the Yangtze River navy battalion, there should be 70,000 horses.
"70,000 main force?!" Ju Shou also frowned.
The soldiers and horses of the Yangzhou Army are mostly elite, not in quantity. It can be said that if there are more soldiers and horses than Cao Cao, Yangzhou is definitely not an opponent.
With an army of 70,000, the basic mountain can be regarded as occupying half of the soldiers and horses of the Southern Han Dynasty.
"In my Yangzhou, there are now General Gao Shun trapped in the camp, Wei Yan's Yiyang military soldiers, Hao Shao's shield soldiers, General Zang Ba's Taishan camp, and two Yangzhou New Army under General Huang Lao! More than 50,000 .” This is the strength that Yangzhou can show.
"50,000 troops!" Ju Shou really frowned.
Fifty thousand soldiers and horses may seem like a lot, but if they are really spread out, it is really not enough.
"Master Neixiang, you don't need to worry about the main force of the city's defense. Naturally, our Armed Police Department is in charge!" A young general came out. This person was Li Yan who joined the Yangzhou Army with Zhuge Liang.
The Armed Police Department now has quite a number of people. There must be at least 2,000 people in a city. If it is a county town, it may be even more.
Moreover, although the Armed Police Department is a garrison force in name, they are all retired from the main forces by those who have reached the age.
Liu Mang stipulated that only the age of eighteen to thirty-five was allowed to stay in the barracks, and those who exceeded the rank of one thousand generals were all retired.
If you don't want to be a soldier, then you will be given a sum of money and some fields, or let you go to the local government as a small official. If you still want to be a soldier, then you will join Li Yan's garrison team.
Among the soldiers and horses of other princes, the retired ones in Liu Mang's hands can't be retired until they die in battle, unless you really can't walk anymore.
"Fifty thousand field troops!" In this case, the fifty thousand soldiers and horses would be something to play with.
"There are 30,000 troops on the front line in Yuzhou! Now, the internal minister, the most urgent task is to dispatch General Gaoshun from Lujiang, General Chengyu from Shouchun, and General Zangba from Xuzhou. They are all ready to go!" Ju Shou suggested to Xu Shu arrive.
"Boss, do you want a decisive battle?" Xu Shu listened to Jushou's suggestion, and quickly understood what this Jushou wanted to do.
"That's right!" Ju Shou nodded, "The speed of your troops is the most important thing! My troops in Yangzhou are focused on the elite rather than the numbers. If Cao Cao's army is ready to dispatch, and if the Lord's main force is still there, then that's fine. But now that my lord's main army is not here, Cao Cao doesn't need to do anything, as long as Cao Cao sends troops to Yangzhou and sends troops to harass Yuzhou and Xuzhou on the side roads, I'm afraid our army will be defeated without a fight!"
The number of Lao Cao's soldiers and horses is really quite a lot, at least the main force has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses.
This time when Lao Cao goes south, he will definitely not engage in small-scale battles. Once a fight starts, it will be a big battle. Cao Cao has a large number of people. If he puts the main force of soldiers and horses in front of Yangzhou with a hundred thousand troops, you must at least send More than 30,000 people are on guard, and Cao Cao sends 50,000 troops each on the side roads, so the Yangzhou army will be exhausted to deal with it.
"Be the first to attack!" Jushou's idea is really courageous. "This Cao Cao is not ready to go, our army should take action!" (~^~)