It was another sunny morning. The sound of killing in Shouchun City had gradually calmed down. The people in the city walked out of the house carefully and explored the situation outside.

At this time, in the city, teams of strange soldiers were patrolling the streets. When they saw the people appear, they did not react in special ways and still patrolled around quietly. There was a faint bloodstain on the streets, as if they had experienced some less intense battles. The people near the city gate were surprised to find that the bright purple "Cao" flag that was originally hung on the top of the city had been replaced with a "Liu" flag with a dark ink. Some older people were a little clear: I am afraid that in this night, Shouchun City had changed its owner. Some brave people suppressed the fear in their hearts and asked the patrolling soldiers respectfully whose team they were. Unexpectedly, the soldiers asked them not to scold them fiercely, but on the contrary, they told these people more kindly that they were the army of Liu Huangshu.

Hearing that it was Liu Huangshu's army that occupied Shouchun, the people were a little happy and couldn't help but feel a little worried. The joy was because the name of benevolence and righteousness of this Liu Huangshu had long been spread throughout the world. Although Shouchun had never been under Liu Bei's rule, many people from Pingyuan and Xuzhou had moved south to Shouchun to escape the war. Through their mouths, many people in Shouchun also knew that there was such a Liu Huangshu who loved the people as much as their sons in the world. Under his rule, the people could live in peace.

Happy to work. But on the other hand, there are also many people who are vaguely worried, mainly some older people. They have experienced many changes in the king's flag on the city wall and are already a little numb to this situation. Although Uncle Liu is very good to the people, how long can he stay in Shouchun? If Prime Minister Cao's army comes back, whether Uncle Liu can hold on, will probably be bloody and storm again. The people who suffer are the people of Shouchun.

By noon, the turmoil in the city had completely subsided. The county magistrate sent people to post more than a dozen notices in the city. Next to each notice, there was one, and two soldiers recited loudly from time to time. The content of the notice was actually very simple, just that the army of Uncle Liu had occupied the entire city of Shouchun, and the army would not be injustice to the people, so that the people of Shouchun would not be afraid and panic and continue their daily life and work.

Gradually, the people in the city calmly accepted the facts in front of them, and people began to come and go on the streets, and various shops opened one after another. Everything seemed to be exactly the same as yesterday!

At this time, I was already in the county magistrate's mansion in Shouchun. After Jieshi General Shouchun's west gate opened, our army entered the city without much effort. After Jieshi proclaimed my name, few of the soldiers who dared to resist, and surrendered one after another (what I don't know is that being able to enter the city so smoothly is largely due to some rumors about my "demonization" among the soldiers of Cao's army in Shouchun City.). After the army entered Shouchun, they immediately raided the barracks and other gates under the guidance of the surrendered soldiers, and forced the defenders in Shouchun City to subdue without any resistance.

It took a lot of effort to capture the county magistrate's office. Although Li Tong's personal soldiers who guarded the county magistrate's office had only 40 or 50, they were all veterans who had followed Li Tong for many years, unlike the new recruits who surrendered in one battle. They were extremely loyal to Li Tong and were fearless in fighting. With the situation of defending the palace, our army spent nearly half an hour and paid the price of more than 70 casualties before attacking. I was quite surprised why these personal soldiers had to fight to the death when the overall situation was decided. When I arrived at the back hall of the mansion, I saw Li Tong's family shrinking into a group and crying with their heads, I understood the reason.

No wonder! In this era, after the city was captured, the families of the defeated generals were often handled by the victors, and of course there were many things that took the opportunity to kill parents and occupy their wives and daughters. (The most famous example in this regard during the Three Kingdoms period was probably that after Cao Cao captured Yecheng, Cao Pi married Zhen Mi, the wife of Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi.) Li Tong's personal soldiers were probably afraid that I would do such a thing, so they fought to the death and hoped to protect Li Tong's family. But! Unfortunately, their death was unnecessary, because I would not do such a thing at all. However, their righteous acts were still very admirable. After ordering people to bury these loyal and brave soldiers, I asked Chen Dao to leave a "s" soldier to be responsible for guarding Li Tong's family and strictly ordered that no infringement on them.

Back in the front hall of the county magistrate's office, I recruited the lieutenants of each battalion to arrange the aftermath of the city to seize the city. The security issues in the city were temporarily left to Lin Xue's "Tiger Gun Camp" and Jin Cho's "Bear Gun Camp". The inclusion of the surrendered Cao's soldiers was handed over to Wei Yan and Chen Dao and others. During the process of this tour of Shouchun, a total of more than 6,000 Cao's soldiers were collected (Ying Shang reduced 1,000 people, more than 1,500 people were collected when the reinforcements of Li Tong, and less than 4,000 people were captured when the Shouchun City was captured). Most of them were recruits with relatively low combat power, but it was much less difficult to reorganize such soldiers because they were not very strong. Most of these soldiers came from the local area. I believe that as long as they could treat the people of Shouchun well, they would definitely serve our army wholeheartedly.

In terms of government affairs, we can only rely on the original officials in Shouchun City for the time being. But if there is no one who is familiar with government affairs and leads the overall situation, it is difficult to guarantee whether they will be slandered? It seems that the elder brother must send one of the three people, Sun Qian, Jian Yong and Chen Zhen, to take charge of government affairs.

After the relevant matters were arranged, I immediately sent a quick horse to Runan to report the victory to my elder brother.

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In a hotel in Shouchun City.

A young man dressed in a 20-year-old scholar was looking at the soldiers patrolling the street through the window of his room on the second floor of the inn, with an interest-filled smile on his face. Although the young man was dressed in Confucian clothes, he showed a heroic spirit on his face, and a sword hung beside him, looking like he had good martial arts skills.

The soldiers patrolling below were extremely uniform, and you could feel a murderous aura from afar! You can see that it was a well-trained elite army. What's even more rare is that the soldiers were basically not affected by the outside world during patrol. The lively scenes of people coming and going on the streets seemed to have no temptation to them. They maintained the public order in the city with a cold expression. Just now, the young man had also gone out to see the Anmin notice posted by the inn and knew that the elite soldiers in front of him were the army of Liu Bei, the uncle of the Han Dynasty.

However, what surprised the young man even more was how this Liu Bei army conquered the city of Shouchun almost silently in just one night. It seems that this leading general is a very powerful character!

Judging from the situation where Liu Bei's army had almost no offense to the people after entering the city, Liu Bei's name of benevolence is not false. In fact, there are indeed few armies who can restrain military discipline after breaking through the city and not do anything about burning, killing, looting! The young man secretly exclaimed in his heart.

Liu Bei! Will it be his wise master? Three years ago, a young man left home and wandered around, hoping to find a wise master worthy of his assistance, but he never got what he wanted. Among the heroes in the world, Cao Cao was extremely talented and magnanimous, but he was quite suspicious, cruel and bloodthirsty, and was not the ideal wise master in his mind. Sun Ce from Jiangdong was originally a hero with high spirits, but his impetuous personality made him die at the hands of a villain. Sun Quan, who inherited his brother, was still

I don’t know what kind of person he was; the rest of Liu Biao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Zhang were even more worth mentioning. Finally, the only person worth considering was Liu Bei, who was called "the hero of the world, only Cao and the envoy" by Cao Cao. Recently, this young man got news in Xuzhou. Hearing that Liu Bei seemed to have arrived in Runan, he wanted to go to Runan to see what the person he was and whether he was worthy of his own resignation. However, he never thought that he would encounter such a thing when he passed by Shouchun.

Interesting! Everything I saw today made the young man even more curious about Liu Bei. Maybe the wise master who had been looking for for a long time is right in front of him! Haha! Thinking of this, the smile on the young man's face became stronger.

"Mr. Shan, please go downstairs to have dinner!" shouted the waiter of the inn outside the door.

"Okay, here we come!" the young man replied.

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In the grand meeting hall of Xuchang Prime Minister's Mansion, there was a solemn atmosphere, and only Cao Cao's calm and loud voice could be heard.

"Donalds, the movements of Yuan Shao, the resurgence of the army in Hebei have become increasingly obvious. It seems that the day when our army and Yuan Shao's army are fighting again will not be far away. Wenhe, tell the news you have found!"

"Yes, Prime Minister!" Jia Xu stood up and bowed to Cao Cao. He said slowly and slowly: "Three days ago, Yuan Shao had mobilized more than 200,000 troops to enter Liyang. A large amount of food, grass and supplies were also transported to Liyang with the army. In recent days, many detailed works of Yuan Shao's army were captured in various places. If nothing unexpected happens, Yuan Shao should raise an army within these days."

"Mr. Wenhe, I don't know which places I have captured more detailed works?" Guo Jia asked immediately after Jia Xu finished speaking.

A glimmer of admiration flashed in Jia Xu's eyes, but his expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "Pingqiu, Chen Liu!"

After hearing Guo Jia and Jia Xu's questions and answers, Cao Cao immediately closed his eyes and thought. He knew that Guo Jia would not ask any useless questions casually, and he must have his intention when asked this. After a while, Cao Cao suddenly opened his eyes and said to Guo Jia with a smile: "Fengxiao, do you think Yuan Shao will not go to Guandu this time, but..."

"Cross the Yellow River through Pingqiu, attack Chenliu, and then Chenliu attack Xudu!" Guo Jia's eyes flashed with a wise light and said with a smile. "Lord, if Yuan Shao's troops stationed in Hebei do not come out and rest for a few years, it is difficult to know the victory or defeat between the lord and him; but since he can't help but fight easily, he has lost nine points in this battle. This battle is a battle for Hebei to change."

Guo Jia has always been arguing with everything. When he heard him say so affirmatively that Cao's army would win in this battle, everyone in the hall, including Cao Cao, was very excited, and their eyes became more eager.

Cao Cao laughed: "The words of filial piety are very suitable for me, so I can use this battle to distinguish the final victory and defeat with Yuan Benchu!"

At this moment, an official outside the hall reported: "Report to the Prime Minister, Zhang Hong, the envoy of Sun Quan of Jiangdong, asked for a visit!"

Sun Quan? What did he send envoys to do now? Cao Cao frowned and looked at Guo Jia. Guo Jia shook his head and said that he didn't know.

"Please come in!"

"Yes, Prime Minister!"

Not long after, in his 40s, Zhang Hong, who was elegant in appearance, walked into the conference hall. He gave a big gift to Cao Cao without being humble and arrogant, and said loudly: "Prevent the general, and Zhang Hong, the envoy of Kuaiji Prefect Sun Quan, visited the Prime Minister."

"Mr. Zhang is exempted from courtesy. I wonder what Sun Huilu sent you to Xudu this time?" Cao Cao asked with a smile.

"Report to the Prime Minister! General Sun ordered Zhang Hong to pay homage to the Prime Minister. One was to express his grace to the emperor in order to thank the Prime Minister for his previous remarks, and to pay homage to the great kindness of my lord as the general of the capture of the general and the prefect of Kuaiji; the other was that although General Sun had already received a ceremony, he had no wife yet. Therefore, he begged to marry the Prime Minister and beg the daughter of the Prime Minister's clan to welcome him as his wife."

"Oh?" Cao Cao was quite surprised after hearing Zhang Hong's words, "I wonder which daughter of Sun Yingluo wants to be in my clan?"

"General Sun heard that Xiahou Zhenglu's daughter was dignified and virtuous, had a charming appearance, and was not married yet, so he boldly asked the Prime Minister to marry this daughter!"
Chapter completed!