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In March of the third year of Zhanghe, the warm and cold spring breeze blew green the Jianghuai land, and the vitality returned to the world, giving people infinite hope.

The annual spring plowing is about to begin, you can miss anything, you can't make mistakes during the farming season. If you miss the season, the harvest of the people will not be settled in the year.

From Jiangdong, Jingnan to Huainan, Jingbei, and then to Huainbei, millions of people have devoted themselves to farming.

After many efforts, the Qingxu people who moved south to Guangling, Shouchun, Zhangling and other counties had a certain return at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and about 60,000 people returned to Xuzhou one after another.

With the people who had not migrated before, Xuzhou's current population was barely able to maintain around 200,000. Although it was incomparable to the 600,000 people before the Northern Expedition, it finally had a good start.

As the chief assistant to the governor of Xuzhou Wei Yan, Zhuge Jin, has served as the county magistrate and magistrate, with excellent government affairs and rich experience.

According to his overall arrangement, the people of Xuzhou counties first used the two months at the end of last year to renovate the irrigated rivers and canals with the assistance of the garrison. As the new year began, they vigorously rectified the barren land.

At the same time, Jingyang and the two prefectures provided a large number of seeds and farm tools, as well as more than a hundred oxen. As long as nothing unexpected happens, the 200,000 people in Xuzhou should be able to complete self-sufficiency this year.

As long as today's autumn harvest is good, other people who see hope will return one after another. After all, foreign land is still no better than homeland.

Compared with Xuzhou, the situation in Qingzhou is not optimistic. The three eastern counties in Qingzhou under our army have a total population of only 60,000, and the two counties in Beihai and Donglai are even more difficult to see in a hundred miles.

The people who moved south may have been frightened by the two consecutive years of famine, or have suffered from years of war, and are reluctant to return to poverty (Qingzhou is not really poverty-stricken.

It was just because of the continuous destruction of war, and the salt and iron of the farmers and merchants were scrapped) and were adjacent to the front line. It was a long way to go to restore Qingzhou's vitality.

In addition, the garrisons stationed in various counties in Huaibei were under the leadership of Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Pang De and others, using barren fields to build military camps, farming in their busy fields and training in their spare time.

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In April, Gongsun Kang sent envoys to Lujiang from the sea. He urgently and unusually asked his elder brother to send troops to rescue him.

In fact, three days before the envoy Gongsun Kang arrived, news about the war in Youzhou had already reached Lujiang.

After more than half a year, after passive defense, strategic stalemate, and now active counterattack, Cao's army has completely reversed the situation. The biggest opportunity for all this was Cao Cao who rushed to Hebei to preside over the war.

At the end of last year, with the help of Fa Zheng secretly, Gongsun Kang even suppressed Xiahou Dun for a while. But unfortunately, Gongsun Kang failed to take the opportunity to transform his advantage into victory.

After Cao Cao arrived in Hebei and personally took over the Youzhou war, Gongsun Kang's life became uneasy.

While consolidating defense, Cao Cao sent a large number of meticulous actions to poach the Liaodong Army.

In addition, it provoked the Hun tribes that had conflicts with the Wuhuan and harassed the Wuhuan, forcing the Wuhuan King Tadun to divide his troops to rescue himself, greatly weakening Gongsun Kang's foreign aid.

Faced with Cao Cao's series of combined punches, Gongsun Kang was suddenly panicked. In fact, this long-term and ineffective battle against Cao had already aroused the war-weariness within Liaodong.

However, out of self-esteem, Gongsun Kang insisted on continuing to fight, but made himself in a dilemma.

However, Gongsun Kang was not without a chance to win.

Fa Zheng once used the plan and set up a countermeasure for Gongsun Kang - using Cao Cao to provoke civil strife in Liaodong. He arranged several civil and military officials who were left behind to contact Cao's army and pretended to surrender.

He also forged several rebellions within Liaodong, confusing Cao's army to do some detailed works.

After completing all the preparations, Gongsun Kang led his army to retreat quickly, lured Cao's army to pursue, and then set up an ambush to defeat him. Then, he took the opportunity to win and took the initiative to withdraw his troops and cease his battle. Consolidate the previously occupied Liaoxi and Youbeiping County.

In Fa Zheng's view, if you really fight, Gongsun Kang could not be Cao Cao's opponent at all. A temporary victory is unlikely to win the final victory.

The wise choice is to stop when the situation is good. With a big victory, Gongsun Kang can also withdraw his troops and cease to fight. Moreover, retaining a Gongsun Kang in Liaodong can obviously restrain the consumption of Cao Cao's strength, and it is the best result for the eldest brother.

Fa Zheng's plan was successful and failed at the same time. Although Gongsun Kang ambushed Cao's army, he failed to do his best because of his careless behavior and only defeated thousands of Cao's army.

If you miss the opportunity given by God, you will be punished by God. The dazed Gongsun Kang tried to take advantage of the opportunity to win and attack the main force of Cao's army, but instead was hit by Cao Cao's head-on.

Immediately, Gongsun Kang made a series of tricks, and he forced his younger brother Gongsun Gong, who was left in Liaodong, to increase his troops on the front line, resulting in the emptiness of the rear. In the end, the forged rebellion turned into a real rebellion.

With the wisdom of Dharma, he is powerless to make the world come true. After all, he is not the real person in Liaodong, and he cannot even offer advice to Gongsun Kang directly.

Fa Zheng has always been providing advice for Gongsun Kang through an internal official in the Liaodong Army, while he himself always hides the scenes.

When he learned of the rebellion in the rear, Gongsun Kang made another move and ordered Gongsun Gong to force the private soldiers of the wealthy clans in Liaodong, but it aroused even greater dissatisfaction and intensified the rebellion.

Gongsun Kang had no choice but to truly return to his army to save himself. Cao Cao did not miss this opportunity. He ignored the suspicion and advice of the generals, personally led the army to pursue and defeated the Liaodong army. Within six days, he restored the two counties of Youbeiping and western Liaoning.

In the end, it was only because of the blockade of the Liaoshui River that we temporarily stopped chasing, otherwise we might have already attacked Liaodong.

However, Gongsun Kang's nightmare was not over. Unlike the previous time, Cao Cao was not going to let him go this time.

It was precisely in this difficult situation of internal and external troubles that Gongsun Kang had to seek medical treatment in a hurry and pinned his hopes on his elder brother's sending troops to rescue him.

However, he forgot one thing--the elder brother had reached a truce agreement with Cao Cao, and the two-year truce was far from over.

In his letter to the local area in advance, Fa Zheng explained his views on the Liaodong war situation to his elder brother. Fa Zheng believed that the Liaodong army was in a desperate situation and that it was a blessing that Gongsun Kang could maintain it for half a year in internal and external difficulties.

Therefore, from now on, the substantial support for Gongsun Kang can be weakened or even stopped, so as not to be obtained by Cao Cao for providing land, food, grass and weapons.

However, we should also deal with Gongsun Kangxu and Weishe for the time being, so as to enhance his confidence, so as to use Liaodong to consume more Cao Cao.

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Gongsun Kang's envoy urged his elder brother to give up the truce agreement with Cao Cao, and took advantage of the opportunity that Cao's army concentrated his troops in Youzhou, and sent troops from Qingzhou to directly attack Jizhou and Youzhou to open up contact with Youzhou. At that time, Gongsun Kang was willing to take the elder brother as the main focus.

Faced with the fact that 90% of these were fake and 10% of them were real promises, the elder brother smiled but did not agree.

In the end, Zhuge Liang was the reply envoy, saying that although we could not abandon the armistice agreement and directly sent troops, we could send envoys to negotiate with Cao Cao and force him to retreat.

At the same time, we can also send some soldiers to disguise themselves as Liaodong troops on naval warships and go north from the sea to enter Liaodong to help Gongsun Kang fight Cao.

Although we failed to achieve the original intention of the mission, our reply was still accepted by Gongsun Kang's envoy.

After staying for two days, the messenger set off to return to Liaodong.

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In the middle of April of the third year of Zhanghe, Lu Dai led 10,000 troops into Hanzhong, replaced Lu Meng to station in Anyang, and crossed the Ziwu Valley Road.

In late April, Lu Meng led 20,000 troops to Brazil. After obtaining Zhang Lu's consent, he entered Jiameng Pass, which directly threatened the hinterland of Xichuan from the north. Shu general Wu Yi led 10,000 troops to Jiange to guard against Lu Meng.

In May, Huang Zhong led 20,000 troops to Xinling. Wen Pin led 10,000 troops to Xingling and met Liao Hua.

Without prescription, without the previous two flying troops, we arrived in Zigui.

Feeling the strong pressure exerted by our army, Liu Xu wisely lifted the siege of Zhang Ren, retreated to the hinterland of the middle of the river, and defended it by danger.

At the same time, rumors in Sichuan were rampant, saying that Zhang Ren "colluded" with his elder brother, intending to slaughter all the officials of the Xichuan gentry and avenge Liu Zhang. It is obvious that the rumors were created by Liu Xun's side, and the purpose was to arouse the resistance of the officials in Sichuan.

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In mid-May, at my invitation, Zhang Ren went to Xiangyang in person.

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Liangzhou, Wuwei

Sima Yi, who was named "Zhong Yi", noticed a trace of unusualness. In Liangzhou, it seemed that someone was ignoring his affairs intentionally or unintentionally.

In order to facilitate Ma Dai to take charge of Liangzhou, Xu Shu had handed over the detailed network of Liangzhou to Sima Yi. Immediately, Sima Yi further improved this to ensure that he could grasp the major events that happened inside and outside Liangzhou at the first time.

Because of this, Sima Yi could only notice that someone was inquiring about him.

In fact, since Ma Dai regained Xiliang, Cao Fang's detailed work has never been idle - spy on Ma Dai's military strength and spy on the current situation in Liangzhou... Of course, there is also an inquiry into the planner who helped Ma Dai succeed.

Cao Cao knew that it was impossible to capture Xiliang so cleverly with Ma Dai alone and eliminate Han Sui. The real terrible thing was not Ma Dai, but the trapper hidden behind.

However, due to his usual simplicity and his appearance has changed a lot after living in Xiliang for many months, and Sima Yi deliberately retained this change, Cao Fang's careful investigation did not make much gain.

Although he was used to being investigated, he realized that this time it was no longer targeted than before. He even investigated according to Sima Yi's appearance.

Sima Yi had a faint feeling that his identity might have been exposed.

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Chapter completed!