Since the death of Emperor Ling of Han, the whole world has been in turmoil. The Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and the rebellion of princes in various places can be said to be surging.

Among the heroes in the world, two people emerged. One of them was Cao Cao. He was a man with a bad face and a bad heart. He did big things. He had no kindness as a woman. He was suspicious and had good talents. He was a counselor, Guo Jia, Xun You, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, and the brothers of military generals, Le Jin, Yu Jin, Cao Chun and others assassinated Dong Zhuo and ordered the princes. He created a world in the troubled times and proclaimed himself the King of Wei.

On the other hand, Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang were the son-in-law of Wenhou Lu Bu. He was indecisive, but had knowledge that ordinary people did not have. He fought a way out of the chaotic army and occupied Yangzhou. He defeated Sun Ce, Liu Bei, Zhang Xiu, and Liu Biao one after another.

Occupy Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jiangdong, Jingzhou, and stabilized one area.

The world's general trend will be divided for a long time.

The chaos back then, and today it turned into two tigers fighting each other, with Yingshui as the boundary. One is in the north and is called the Northern Han by everyone, and the other is in the south and is also called the Southern Han.

An undercurrent was surging in Yuzhou.

The army gathered in Yanzhou. It was not a day or a day to conquer Yangzhou, nor was it possible to achieve it in just one or two thousand soldiers. Cao Cao prepared a 150,000 army, claiming to be 300,000, and had already begun to allocate military equipment.

Such movements cannot be hidden from the world.

During Shouchun, Xu Shu stayed in the capital of Yangzhou. He was the inner minister of the entire Southern Han Dynasty. It can be said that except for Liu Mang, he was the person with the greatest position.

Even though Xu Shu has always refused, he is still a recognized inner minister.

Liu Mang led his troops to Jingzhou, and the Yangzhou was left to Xu Shu for handling.

Now there is an intelligence letter on Xu Shu's desk.

It says the movements in Yanzhou.

"Cao Cao transferred Zhili. Qingzhou, Jizhou's grain and grass were introduced to Yanzhou?" Xu Shu frowned. Looking at the letter, he immediately felt that this was a very serious matter.

"Is this news accurate?" Xu Shu asked the spy of an Jinyiwei who was kneeling down below.

"Return, if you are the inner minister, this news is absolutely true. Not only our Jinyiwei has confirmed it. Even the East and East China Factory No. 2 and Qingyi also gave the same information."

Jinyiwei, East-West Factory 2. This was formed by Liu Mang after he took over the intelligence organization from Yang Hong and Chen Gong.

Qingyi was an intelligence organization that originally belonged to the Kuai family in Jingzhou. After Jingzhou entered the Southern Han Dynasty, Qingyi was also incorporated into the intelligence organization in Yangzhou.

The person in charge is not someone else but Kuai Yue’s son Kuai Ran.

The news from the three companies has been confirmed, so it can be determined that this is true.

"Come here, please call with me to discuss matters with the elders, generals, and cabinet offices of various departments." Xu Shu stood up and shouted to his subordinates.

"I'm already starry night, but the lights are brightly lit in the cabinet palace. All the prominent figures from the Southern Han court gathered in the cabinet palace.

"Zijing, are you here too?" A surprised voice sounded next to Lu Su's ears.

"Zi Yang?" Lu Su was also surprised to see the person coming. Because this person was no one else, Liu Ye and Liu Ziyang, the Minister of Works, who belonged to the Secretary of the Ministry of Works, Lu Su.

"What happened? Even Ziyang, are you here to discuss the matter?" Lu Su asked in confusion. Liu Ye usually doesn't come out of the industrial zone in Yangzhou. All kinds of novel things were transported out of the industrial zone and sent to various places in Yangzhou. There are civilian items such as glass that just came out. The things are very beautiful and can be made into mirrors, but they are much clearer than bronze mirrors. Military items such as cannons, crossbows and cement, etc., all come out of the industrial zone.

"Maybe the lord is back?" Only when the lord Liu Mang returns to Yangzhou will Liu Ye appear and 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 at this moment, not in the cabinet."

There is only one person who summons all the ministers in the cabinet office, and that is the inner minister Xu Shu.

"My lords, generals, and the inner minister will arrive soon. Please pass on the letters in my hands first." As a small official said that, he took out the letters from the plate held by the little official behind him and handed them over to the masters and generals over there.

Lu Su and Liu Ye also got a copy, opened it and started reading.

After seeing this, I couldn't hold my mouth in my mouth, "This, this, this"

All of the above are the movements in Yanzhou in recent days.

The biggest one is to be removed from the food and grass.

"Is this Yanzhou going to be famine? 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 do not have that great sense of crisis.

And those generals are different.

What does this thing mean in troubled times? The first is life. People are iron rice and steel. If you don’t eat a meal, you will be hungry. If you don’t eat, you will be able to starve to death.

This second means war.

Food and grass are the root of all wars. If there is insufficient food and grass, the army cannot move.

"Does Cao Cao want to start a war?" The feeling of these military generals, a heavy atmosphere erupted in the whole scene.

"Is this day going to come after all?" Liu Ye, Lu Xun, Ju Su, all of these people thought this way.

Although the Southern Han and Northern Han are the reasons why the people are joking, the current Han Han has indeed split apart long ago. If the King of Wei and Han Kings, if they have been in a few decades, or without decades, just one opportunity, they will become Wei, Han, and Cao Cao and Liu Mang will also become Emperors of Wei and Emperors of Han.

The battle between the Southern Han and the Northern Han was always avoiding it. On the border, there was a slowdown everywhere. It was not an exaggeration to do it.

I am afraid that both sides will not be able to bear it. If the fight begins, the scale will inevitably be quite large.

By then, this will be really covered with carbon.

The Southern Han can’t afford to fight, and the Northern Han can’t afford to fight either.

"The inner minister is here" just as everyone was still thinking, the inner minister Xu Shu walked out.

"Thank you all, you guys," Xu Shu walked to the front of the stage and said to everyone over there.

"Hello, Master Inner"

Xu Shu nodded, "Sir, please sit down quickly." The cabinet mansion is not above the King's Hall, but above the King's Hall, Liu Mang is the king, and the lower ones are subjects, so one by one has to kneel down and worship, and there is no position, and the king gives him a position. That is supreme glory.

But the cabinet office is different. Everyone is an official in the same dynasty. Although there are differences in height, who doesn’t have the chance to enter the cabinet in one day?

So everyone said that they were equal, so there were seats. Although they were equal on the surface, they were also divided into positions, with civil officials and military generals in the first row, and the ministers were in the left and right assistant ministers behind.

Everyone sat down, and then Xu Shu spoke, "My lords and generals, Xu Shu can't help but disturb you late at night. Xu Shu apologizes to you here." Xu Shu stood up very appropriately and spoke to the civil and military officials of the Southern Han people below.

"Where, where? The inner minister has spoken heavily." Everyone was humble.

"That's true that something big happened to you. I am helpless. The lord is not in Shouchun now. Such important things are just a short plan, and two are a senior plan. Then I invite you all to come to that idea together. I believe you have read the information I have given you. Do you have anything to say?" Xu Shu looked at the ministers and generals below and asked.

A hoarse voice sounded, "Sir, Is this Cao Cao really going to start a war?" The hoarse voice was neither someone else nor Lu Su Lu Zijing.

Xu Shu glanced at Lu Su. This person was really a talent. At that time, Yangzhou was almost wiped out in Sun Ce's hands. If it weren't for the lord's crossbow and Ganning's naval army, it would be difficult to say the outcome.

But whether it was Sun Ce or Sun Quan, neither of them made good use of Lu Su. If this person could fully play out, Xu Shu would consider himself no match.

"I'm afraid that Cao Cao's movement is like this," Xu Shu nodded and said.

Lao Cao really wants to start a war, otherwise he would not have mobilized food and grass like this in Yanzhou.

This is not a thousand stone or two thousand stone of food, it is a grain or food from several states. It is allocated, but I didn’t believe that Lao Cao was going to store or anything else. There is only one possibility that he was going to fight.

"It is no longer possible for us to decide whether to start a war or not." Xu Shu said to Lu Su, "Shangshu Lu, Cao Cao is gathering food and grass, probably for several months, or as long as half a month, and the army is about to attack. What we ask for is how to block Cao Cao's troops before the lord comes back." Xu Shu hit the nail on the head, and what he wanted was everyone to discuss how to resist Cao Cao's invasion.

"My lord is still in Jingzhou now. Master Inner Prime Minister, how many troops can we take out?" Ju Su spoke. He has been in Yangzhou for a long time, but he has not made much achievements. It is not that Ju Su is incompetent, but that Yangzhou is now in a formal manner, and there are capable people in all aspects to do things.

He was also old and naturally he couldn't keep up with his experience.

Xu Shu asked Ju Shu to notify him, which was just a matter of politeness.

If Ju Shu didn't come, Xu Shu wouldn't force him.

But Ju Su came. If there were other aspects such as Jingzhou, he would not have any interest. No matter what Jingzhou Yizhou, it had little to do with him.

But there is one difference, that is, Cao Cao.

He lost to Cao Cao at the beginning. He cannot admit defeat or be serious.

Ju Shu's obsession is probably Cao Cao.

"The lord dispatched the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, two new troops in Yangzhou, with more than 30,000 troops, and entered Jingzhou. If the Yangtze River Naval Army camp was added, it would be 70,000 troops.

"Seventy thousand main force?" Ju Su frowned.

The Yangzhou army has mostly elite troops, not in number. It can be said that if there are more soldiers and violent soldiers compared to Cao Cao, Yangzhou will definitely not be the opponent.

With a 70,000 army, the basic mountain occupies half of the troops of the Southern Han Dynasty.

"In our Yangzhou, there are now General Gao Shun's camp, Wei Yan's Yiyang Wushang, Hao Shao's Aegis soldiers, General Zang Ba's Taishan camp, and the two new Yangzhou troops under General Huang's old army are more than 50,000." This is the strength that can be shown in Yangzhou.

"Fifty thousand army" Ju Su really frowned.

Fifty thousand soldiers seem to be too many, but if they really spread, it would be really not enough.

"Mr. Inner Prime Minister, you don't have to worry about the city defense matters, so our armed police department will naturally be responsible for it." A young general came out, and this person was Li Yan, who followed Zhuge Liang to join the Yangzhou Army.

The Armed Police Department has a lot of people now. There must be at least two thousand people in a city. If it were a county town, there would be more.

Moreover, although the Armed Police Department is nominally a garrison force, they all retreated from the elderly among the main forces.

Liu Mang stipulated that staying in the military camp was allowed to stay at the age of 18 to 35, and those who exceeded one thousand will be retired.

If you don’t want to join the army, then give some money, some land, or ask you to go to the place to be a minor official. If you still want to join the army, then join Li Yan’s garrison.

Those retired soldiers in Liu Mang's hands cannot retreat unless they die in battle unless you are unable to walk.

"Are you 50,000 field troops?" These 50,000 soldiers will have something to do.

"There are 30,000 troops on the front line of Yuzhou. Now, the most urgent task of the internal minister is to allocate General Gaoshun, General Chengyu of Shouchun, and General Zang Ba of Xuzhou, all of them are ready to go." Ju Su suggested to Xu Shu.

"Sir, do you want to fight to the decisive battle?" Xu Shu listened to Ju Shu's advice over there, and soon understood what Ju Shu wanted to do.

"That's right" Ju Shu nodded, "The key to soldiers is speed. My Yangzhou soldiers and horses focus on elite forces rather than quantity. If Cao Cao's army is ready to come, if the lord's main force is still there, it's fine. But now the lord's main force is not there, and Cao Cao doesn't need to do anything. As long as Cao Cao dispatches troops to Yangzhou and sends troops to harass Yuzhou and Xuzhou on the sidelines, we may be defeated without fighting."

Lao Cao's number of soldiers is really quite large, at least the main force has more than 200,000.

This time, Lao Cao will definitely not fight on a small scale. Once it starts, it will be a big battle. Cao Cao has a large number of people. If he puts the main force of the army of 100,000 in front of Yangzhou, you must send at least 30,000 to guard against it. On the side road, Cao Cao will send another 50,000 troops, and then the Yangzhou army will be tired to deal with it.

"Let's start first" Ju Shu's courage is really not ordinary. "This Cao Cao has not been ready yet, so my army should take action."

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