Chapter 291 Post-War Arrangements (Additional update! Please count votes, thank you)
Liu Feng then took Xu Chu and Liu Ye to the main hall.
At this time, the generals in the main hall are divided into two rows. On the left are Liu Bei's generals Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Zhou Yu, Sun Xiang and other generals.
On the right are Lei Bo, Lei Xu, Chen Lan, Chen Kang, Mei Yu, Mei Gan, Shu Zheng, Shu Shao, Shi Mao, Zhang Xun, Ji Ling and other generals of Yuan Shu's army who surrendered.
In a battle last night, Liu Bei's army suffered a total of more than 500 casualties, including more than 100 killed and more than 400 lightly or seriously injured.
In contrast, Yuan Shu's army killed more than 600 people and injured more than 1,000 people, with casualties four times that of Liu Bei's army.
This is Yuan Shu's most elite group, regarded as his direct lineage and his most beloved personal guard.
This army has always been favored by Yuan Shu, its equipment is the best, and its food and clothing costs are better than those of other armies.
Even the mid-level and senior officers in this army are all Yuan Shu's confidants.
Just like the Shu brothers, Shi Mao and others, Yuan Shu worked hard and used various means to win them over.
However, he arranged all these people into his own bodyguards, which shows how much hope he placed on the pro-army in the future.
Before the war, the 8,000-strong personal guard force of two armies and four battalions was reduced to just over 6,000 after a night of fierce fighting with Liu Bei's army. Nearly two thousand soldiers were wiped out at once. Thousands of people.
Except for Liu Bei’s sudden attack, the actual location was on Yuan Shu’s side.
But the battle still showed a one-sided situation. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of Xuzhou Army has completely surpassed Yuan Shu's army, and the distance is not small.
There are still 16,000 Yuan Shu's troops in the city now. This number is not big, but it is not small. Liu Bei's troops who entered the city are only more than 10,000.
Therefore, in addition to expecting rewards, the generals of Liu Bei's army also hoped that Liu Feng could arrange these surrenders as soon as possible.
"See General Zhengnan."
As soon as Liu Feng entered the palace, everyone's eyes were focused.
The two rows of generals bent down to salute and offered their greetings to Liu Feng.
"You are exempt from courtesy, but please take a seat."
Liu Feng greeted him with a smile and motioned for the generals to sit down at the table.
"Where are Gongjin and Wenyang?"
As soon as Liu Fenggang sat down, he raised his name.
The first ones to look for were Zhou Yu and Sun Xiang.
The fact that he was able to sneak into Shouchun so easily this time, and it was an army of ten thousand people, was entirely due to Zhou Yu's reputation in Jianghuai and Sun Xiang's connections in Yuan Shu's tribe.
These two people can be said to complement each other and make up for each other's shortcomings. They can be said to be indispensable.
“I am going to the imperial court to declare that the two of them will be the Zhonglang generals.”
The choice of Zhou Yu and Sun Xiang as the Zhonglang generals was made after careful consideration by Liu Feng. It's like buying bones with thousands of gold.
Although Sun Xiang had already held the military position of partial general under Yuan Shu, he was almost close to the rank of general.
But when he comes to Liu Feng, he cannot be sealed as is. In fact, even General Zhonglang is in danger.
According to Liu Feng's original intention, he was to give the opponent a military position as a captain and then see the effects.
Only Sun Bi and the Sun Army of five to six thousand people are stationed in Liyang. Sun Ce has more than 20,000 people in Jiangdong, occupying most of Wu. At this time, he is expanding towards Kuaiji County. .
Therefore, Liu Feng finally gave the other party the military position of Zhonglang General.
As for Zhou Yu, he deserved a heavy reward for his outstanding contributions. Coupled with Sun Xiang's relationship, Liu Feng simply promoted him to my lieutenant general.
“Thank you Zhengnan for the recommendation!”
In the battle last night, in addition to convincing Yuan Shujun, Sun Xiang himself was also somewhat convinced and recognized the combat effectiveness of Xuzhou Army. In addition, the two of them estimated that they would probably be captains, but they didn't expect to be promoted to another level.
Therefore, the gratitude of Zhou Yu and Sun Xiang is real.
Subsequently, Liu Feng proposed an idea and discussed it with the generals.
Liu Feng wanted to let Lei, Chen, and Mei each send a thousand troops to go north and place them under Zang Ba, Tian Yu, and Qianzhao. The remaining 1,000 people stayed in the Jianghuai area, just in time to help organize civilians to dredge water conservancy projects.
Everyone with a discerning eye knows that this is a step to split up the three companies.
The reason why Liu Feng had such a request was because these three families, under Yuan Shu's command, had begun to control a large number of people.
It's okay for them to do this under Yuan Shu, because Yuan Shu doesn't care much about this kind of thing, and he doesn't taboo it.
But it won’t work here with Liu Bei.
Liu Bei is strictly prohibited from keeping private troops here. If you want to join the army, you can, but if you want to keep a private tribe, you can't.
Liu Feng had already made concessions this time. After all, Sun Jiajun still needed public relations, so he gave in and split it first, used it separately, and then slowly solved it later.
As for Zhang Xun, Ji Ling and Yuan Shu's personal troops, they did not receive such good treatment. Liu Feng planned to completely break them up, and then select the best among them to expand the Xuzhou Army, while the rest would either work in the fields or serve as civilian husbands.
Lei Bo and the other three families discussed it with their eyes for a while, and finally obeyed the order.
After all, the situation was stronger than the people, and coupled with the powerful combat power of Xuzhou Army, the Lei Bo family not only did not complain, but were grateful that Liu Beijun gave them the opportunity to surrender and serve.
Otherwise, wouldn’t it be the same as Zhang Xun and Ji Ling, who had their parts taken away and left idle?
After seeing the three Lei Bo families nodding in agreement and expressing their willingness to follow Liu Feng's wishes, Liu Feng was relieved.
Liu Feng specially praised and appeased him a few words before letting the matter go.
Of the nearly 10,000 Zhang Xun, Ji Ling, and Yuan Shu's remaining troops, Liu Feng himself planned to select five to six thousand as supplementary troops and give them to various ministries for expansion, and the rest to Liu Bei.
These soldiers began to expand after Yuan Shu came to Jianghuai. Although military discipline was lax, they did not do many evil deeds. Generally speaking, they were good soldiers, but they needed to spend a lot of effort to clean them up.
"Gentlemen, I want to send people to Shu County to persuade Liu Xun to surrender."
Liu Feng then mentioned an urgent matter, which was to spread the message to Jianghuai.
It is said that there are two most important places in Jianghuai. One is Sun Bi's office in Liyang, Jiujiang, and the other is Liu Xun, the prefect of Lujiang.
Liu Xun is Yuan Shu's old official. He has been following Yuan Shu as early as the late Zhongping Dynasty, and he is regarded as a first-class confidant.
Otherwise Yuan Shu would not have broken his promise and handed over Lujiang County to Liu Xun to govern.
"Zheng Nan, Liu Zitai has been in Lujiang for a long time, and he has secretly developed ambitions."
Zhou Yu was the first to stand up and speak, but he said shocking news: "He is in Lujiang They plundered the place, exploited the people, and sent half of the proceeds to Shouchun and dedicated them to Yuan Shu, while the other half went into his private pocket. "
"In the past two years, Liu Zitai has secretly expanded his troops to 6,000 people in Lujiang. With the addition of 4,000 Lujiang County soldiers, he has tens of thousands of troops at his disposal, and he has gradually begun to defy Yuan Shu."
Zhou Yu had a very bad impression of Liu Xun. He was greedy for money, lustful, pampered, mediocre in talent but ambitious.
It can be said that the outside is gold and jade, but the inside is ruined.
Zhou Yu only saw from the fact that Yuan Shu reused people like Liu Xun and ignored Sun Ce that he understood that Yuan Shu did not know how to employ people at all, let alone the right people.
Liu Bei gathered a large number of troops in Runan this time and went south to attack Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu tried his best to gather troops and wanted to fight against Liu Bei.
Under such circumstances, Liu Xun actually forced the powerful nobles of Lujiang County to use their troops to make up the numbers, and refused to send his own troops and soldiers to Shouchun, which proved that his heart was already disloyal.
Liu Feng already understood the intention of Zhou Yu's words, but he still wanted to ask: "What does Gong Jin mean by what he said?"
Sure enough, Zhou Yu said categorically: "This thief They will definitely not surrender easily. According to Yu, Lujiang may have to fight."
Liu Feng nodded slowly: "Feng Shen agrees with what Gong Jin said."
"But..."
Liu Feng changed the subject and said: "The sage said that unknown troops cannot be promoted. Now that Yuan Shu has surrendered, Liu Xun must be given a choice. If he is willing to stop fighting and welcome the king's division, that would be great. If he dares to raise troops to fight against Master Wang, then I will never be polite to him."
Excitement flashed in Zhou Yu's eyes. The place where Liu Xun was stationed was Shucheng, the county seat of Lujiang County, which was not Zhou Yu's hometown.
The power of the Zhou family here is astonishing. Even though they were continuously suppressed by Yuan Shu and Liu Xun, and even suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Lu Kang, the Zhou family is still the most powerful noble family in Lujiang.
Zhou Yu actually hopes that Liu Xun will directly rebel. In this case, the Zhou family will become the biggest winner.
Subsequently, everyone decided to let Yuan Shu's original commander Shi Yanghong go to Shucheng to persuade Liu Xun to surrender.
Yang Hong had a good relationship with Liu Xun. Liu Xun once bribed Yang Hong heavily in private to get him to speak kindly in front of Yuan Shu, which made his position more stable.
Of course, Yang Hong had no objection to this. His wife, children, and children were all in Shouchun City, and Liu Feng was not afraid that he would run away.
But before going on an mission, there was still one thing missing.
That is Yuan Shu’s personal letter.
For this reason, Liu Feng went to find Yuan Shu again.
At this time, Yuan Shu was placed in the right side hall of the palace. Also locked up with him were his son Yuan Yao, two daughters, and dozens of concubines.
Yuan Shu is really greedy for money and lust, and it is almost engraved into his bones.
Previously, there was a large-scale selection of concubines in Nanyang, which made the people of Nanyang miserable.
As a result, after arriving in Jianghuai, they went back to their old ways and conducted a large-scale beauty pageant to enter the palace. In just three or four years, dozens more people were admitted.
As soon as Yuan Shu saw Liu Feng, he said: "There is no honey in the drinking water here. The water is bitter and astringent and difficult to swallow. Please give me a few kilograms of honey to nourish the drinking water."
Liu Feng was speechless after hearing this.
This Yuan Shu really cannot do without honey water.
But after thinking about it, this saves a lot of things.
Don't look at Yuan Shu now, who is like a prisoner. He was deprived of his title by the emperor, dismissed from his official position, and accused of being an enemy of the court.
But this does not mean that Liu Feng can execute Yuan Shu at will.
The resources of the Yuan family’s disciples and old officials all over the country are far from exhausted.
Especially since most of the Yuan family’s resources are in Yuan Shu’s hands, why did the entire Jianghuai region surrender after just two battles?
Why was Lu Kang besieged by Yuan Shu for more than a year and no one came to rescue him?
Why did Yuan Shu dare to call himself Xuzhou Bo in an upright manner, and also announced that his general Sun Bi would be appointed Danyang Captain, but he did not receive any backlash.
Why did Sun Quan marry Yuan Shu's daughter?
Why did Sun Quan marry Yuan Shu's granddaughter for his son when Yuan Shu's bones were so cold?
In fact, these are the rewards brought by Yuan's assets.
Think about how difficult it was for Yuan Shao to fight in Hebei, but Yuan Shu was just like cheating in Henan.
It’s just that Yuan Shu’s success is always hanging on the wall, and failure is also hanging on the wall.
A good hand of cards was played badly, and the resources saved by the Yuan family were wasted.
Liu Feng was not very interested in Yuan Shu's political legacy.
Because it can be seen from history that Yuan Shu's political legacy is actually not very capable, and there is not even a person with the ability to lead a team.
Later generations of Yuan's talents could not be found in Soochow, which shows that their abilities were not very good.
However, in order to gain time, Jianghuai is obviously the best solution. This can be done by relying on Yuan Shu's prestige and political legacy.
So, Liu Feng said: "Honey water is not a problem, I just have to trouble Mr. Yuan to write more letters."
Yuan Shu is also an old man, and Liu Feng doesn't need to explain more to understand that he needs to write more letters. What do the letters mean?
"Okay."
Yuan Shu agreed immediately, and reminded by the way: "You can send the honey as soon as possible, and don't forget it."
Liu Feng He was also a little speechless towards Yuan Shu, and didn't know whether to praise him for being optimistic and open-minded or for being heartless.
Since Yuan Shu agreed to the letter, the rest of the matter will be much easier to handle.
Liu Feng used Li Ye, Shu Zheng brothers, Shi Mao and others as messengers to carry Yuan Shu's handwritten letters to various counties and cities in Jiujiang to persuade him to surrender.
At the same time, Yang Hong went to Shucheng, Lujiang, carrying Yuan Shu's handwritten letter.
To show his concern, Liu Feng also specially talked with Yang Hong. As long as the other party could persuade Liu Xun to surrender, Liu Feng could let Yang Hong go and even reuse him.
When Yang Hong heard this, he immediately patted his chest and promised to persuade Liu Xun.
On the surface Liu Feng admired Yang Hong very much, but in his heart he lowered his rating for Yang Hong.
Liu Xun is obviously disloyal, and he is still so blindly optimistic. It is really ridiculous that Yuan Shu relies on this man and Li Ye as his advisers.
Liu Feng launched an intensive campaign to surrender, and envoys from various places were sent out. Especially Zhang Xun personally went to Ruyin to say that Qiao Rui would surrender, while Ji Ling was responsible for going to Longkang.
As early as after receiving Zhou Yu's reply, Liu Feng had already written to Runan, asking Liu Bei and Zhang Fei to postpone the attack on the city.
The purpose is twofold. One is to see if Yuan Shu can really be captured. If Yuan Shu can be captured, then Ruyin and Long Kang will definitely be able to defeat him without a fight. This can be saved. How many lives of soldiers.
At the same time, this can also continue to hide Liu Beijun's killer weapon-the counterweight trebuchet.
You can also use this to spread the fog. Liu Bei's army was unable to attack the city, but in the end he used conspiracy to deceive him into Shouchun City.
Although I don’t know how long I can deceive Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, I can always buy some time, so just buy some time.
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Under Ruyin City, Liu Bei’s camp is located.
Liu Bei is reading the letter sent by Liu Feng.
When he saw in the letter that Liu Feng had captured Shouchun City and captured Yuan Shu alive, and that he had sent people to Ruyin to surrender Qiao Rui, Liu Bei felt as if he was falling into a dream.
When the old man sent a letter saying that he would attack Shouchun and asked him not to attack the city for the time being, although he listened to the old man's request and postponed the attack on the city, he still wrote back to advise the other party not to be careless.
At the same time, Liu Bei was secretly happy, planning to educate him after he was embarrassed.
Yuan Jiujiu has been famous all over the world for decades, and he has been riding in Jingxiang, Jianghuai and Huaihe for eight years. How could it be so easy to fall into the trap?
I'm afraid that my grown-up son is going to suffer a bloody blow this time.
At that time, I will teach him a lesson so that he can develop a memory, and he will no longer underestimate the heroes of the world.
Liu Bei had a good idea and a perfect plan, but in the end it unfortunately failed to come in handy.
Because Yuan Shu was caught and surrendered, the envoy sent to persuade Ruyin to surrender is already halfway there and is expected to arrive in Ruyin in a few days.
Of course, they would also talk about the defenders of Jiangshen County.
"Lord, summon us to come, but are you going to attack the city?"
Liu Bei also has many talents under his command at this time, including Tian Yu, Xiahou Bo, Chen Dao, Zhuo Ying, and the newly arrived Runan Yellow Turban Liu Pi. , Heman generals.
The generals were already waiting impatiently below the city. If Liu Feng had not been the one who wrote the letter to dissuade him, I am afraid that the generals here would have been excited.
But now it is getting ready to make some moves. Now Yingyin is like a ripe fruit, just waiting for diners to peel off the thin layer of skin to enjoy the luscious and fragrant pulp.
“My lord, the last general is willing to be a pioneer!”
When Zhuo Ying heard this, he thought it was true and quickly recommended himself.
Liu Bei quickly stopped everyone's invitations, and then passed Liu Feng's letter to everyone.
It was better now, and the whole tent became quiet.
Come on, I have nothing to do.
The young master was actually saved.
Everyone is not a fool. The destruction of the city was a great achievement, but now, although the city has not been destroyed, the credit is gone.
For a while, the big tent fell into silence.
This scene also happened to Zhang Fei.
However, Zhang Fei didn't care at all. After seeing Liu Feng's letter, he was overjoyed and praised his eldest nephew for his greatness.
At the end, Zhao Yun was invited to drink and celebrate.
Because at the end of the letter, Liu Feng specifically mentioned that Uncle Zhao’s command was about to be expanded, and that two thousand Yuan troops would be recruited temporarily. This would increase the number of Uncle Zhao’s command to 6,000 men in the third battalion, and Uncle Zhao was naturally promoted to the rank of Zhonglang due to his merits. Will.
Uncle Zhao previously guarded Guangling for a year without any mistakes, and then quelled the chaos in Langya. Now he is following Zhang Fei to contain Yuan Shu's elite troops, which can be said to be an outstanding achievement.
Of course, the most important thing is the origin of Fourth Uncle Zhao, a die-hard Liu Bei direct descendant. If he doesn't expand the army, who will?
Credit is just the icing on the cake, the real foundation is the closeness and distance of the relationship.
Liu Feng continued to be in charge of Shouchun, and at the same time sent troops to take over the surrendered Jianghuai County, then sealed the warehouses and audited the accounts.
For counties with clear accounts, the county magistrate can continue to serve.
But if the accounts are not clear, the county magistrate will have to explain it carefully. If the explanation is not clear, then the family property will be used to fill the gap until the gap is filled.
In just seven days, four counties, Xiacai, Xiquyang, Dangtu, and Yicheng, have already surrendered. It is not that other cities have refused to surrender, but they have not yet received envoys to persuade them to surrender.
As a result, six of the nine counties in northern Jiujiang are in Liu Feng's hands, leaving only three cities: Ping'a, Yinling, and Zhongli.
But the problem that Liu Feng least expected to cause eventually happened.
That is Lujiang County where Liu Xun is located.
(End of this chapter)