Han Xiang

Chapter 215
Long Xiang was noncommittal, came to Lei Xu, and said seriously: "You don't have to worry about who he is, just answer whether to surrender or not. Just now you said before the battle that there is a shortage of food, and I don't need to be hungry if I surrender."

"Can all my parts be eaten?"

Lei Xuxu raised his eyes and asked back, his tone obviously suspicious. Even if the population is wealth, too much population is a burden.

Back then, Bai Qi killed 40 soldiers in Changping Pit. The fundamental reason was that there was a shortage of military rations and he could not support them.

Just as Long Xiang was about to answer, Zhang Fei suddenly reminded in a deep voice: "Your trilogy? Where are the trilogy? They are now prisoners of Hefei."

"Uh, yes, a prisoner." Lei Xu responded bitterly.

Long Xiang said with a smile: "It doesn't matter whether it's a captive or a group, or whether it's a civilian or a soldier, as long as you stay in Hefei and build Hefei, you can have enough food. If you are willing to work hard, you may be able to drink and eat meat."

"really?"

Lei Xu's eyes widened immediately. He had been worrying about food for the past few years, let alone the people under his rule were hungry, and all his subordinates had to rely on looting to make ends meet.

Now that the opportunity to eat is in front of him, Lei Xu suddenly feels that he does not have the talent to be a family leader.

Why is there such a big gap between people?Maybe following Long Xiang is the right way?
"Hahaha, how can I talk and play?"

Pointing to the green wheat seedlings in the east, Long Xiang reasoned solemnly: "This place is nearly ten miles away from Hefei. Do you know why I launched an attack here? It is to protect the crops and the people outside the city. As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. Grain production is the foundation for me to gain a foothold in Hefei, and looting alone is difficult to sustain."

Lei Xu originally wanted to recuperate in the fields, but in order to maintain his competitiveness in Huainan, he recruited nearly [-] minions. Unfortunately, he did not have the ability to govern the local area, which made the people under his rule poor and hungry. The army had to plunder counties and townships to replenish them.

Looking at the vigorous barley seedlings, Lei Xu suddenly came to his senses. Although he didn't have enough to eat under Yuan Shu's command before, he didn't have to worry so much. Since Long Xiang is so capable, why should he work so hard?
While thinking about it, Lei Xu suddenly bowed down on one knee, clasped his fists and said solemnly: "Thank you General for not killing, Lei Xu is willing to surrender sincerely."

"Get up quickly."

Seeing Lei Xu's sincere expression, Long Xiang bent down to help him up, and at the same time patted the back of his hand to comfort him.

In Shishui's battle, the Lei Xu and Zhang Duo armies had more than 1 troops. In addition to the more than 3000 people who were directly killed in the battle, there were more than [-] people who collided with each other and trampled to death during their escape.

The more than 6000 captives captured were basically Lei Xu's trilogy, and most of the thousand soldiers who escaped from the battlefield were Zhang Duo's soldiers.

The captives who surpassed the Hefei defenders were originally difficult to arrange, but Lei Xu's voluntary surrender made the placement much easier.

Before leaving for Hefei, Long Xiang reminded Lei Xu: "The reason why Hefei is not troubled by food and grass is that I deliberately controlled the number of troops, so most of your previous parts will be engaged in farming, building cities, etc."

"I'm saving it. This General Xu is right. They are no longer the last part of the general. It doesn't matter how the general arranges it."

Lei Xu had been in the army for many years and realized that he thought that Long Xiang was trying to test him with words, how could the general dare to talk about military power again?So hurry up and express your attitude.

After listening, Long Xiang pointed to Zhang Fei and introduced: "Hahaha, what you just said is right, General Xu is guarding the city at the moment, this is Zhang Yide, General Zhang."

"It's really you"

Lei Xu swallowed, and hurriedly clasped his fists to salute Zhang Feifei: "General Zhang is really the enemy of ten thousand people, and the last general was defeated just now."

"Well, you are better than Zhang Duo, that guy was thrown twice by me, and he was scared out of his wits."

"Cough cough."

Seeing that Zhang Fei was not very good at talking, Long Xiang interrupted directly with a cough, then pulled Zhang Fei aside, and said in a low voice: "Yide, you don't have to go to Junqiu to recruit soldiers, I think Lei Xu's trilogy has training Basically, go back and pick two or 3000 people directly from it.”

"Well, that's great." Zhang Fei nodded.

Long Xiang reminded in a low voice: "They used to be Lei Xu's soldiers, so there is no harm in being close to Lei Xu."

"Oh." Zhang Fei seemed to realize something.

Long Xiang and Zhang Fei finished their private conversation, and then went back to ask the reasons for the attack on Hefei. Now that the siege of Hefei has been lifted and Junqiu's enemy army has not retreated, the information from Lei Xu's mouth is very useful for repelling Li Shu's soldiers. help.

Lei Xu pinched his beard, and slowly explained the cause and effect to everyone. It turned out that the cause was actually related to Shou Chunmei Cheng.

Mei Cheng and Li Shu lure and kill Yan Xiang, but they go back on their word and swallow Shouchun's money and rations alone. For this reason, Li Shu helped him make a big publicity, which attracted the attention of many forces.

The harvest was bad in the disaster year, and every family was short of food. Suddenly, Mei Cheng made a windfall, and the rest of the forces were jealous. They sent people to Shouchun to ask for it in the name of borrowing food.

Mei Cheng has certain strength in Huainan, but he is unwilling to be the target of public criticism.

But it is impossible to borrow food, because there is not much money and food in the Shouchun government treasury, unlike what Li Shu said was like a mountain of riches. In fact, he didn't get much in Shouchun, only enough to digest and absorb for himself.

Mei Cheng found out that Li Shu was playing tricks, so he threatened Li Shu to deal with it, saying that he couldn't deal with these "big eaters" guys, so he united everyone to Wan County to discuss an explanation.

Li Shu didn't think well at the time, he just wanted to make Mei Cheng feel better, but he shot himself in the foot.

Lujiang and Jiangdong were on the verge of breaking apart. If he became the public enemy of Huainan at this time, Li Shu, the prefect of Lujiang, would be at an end, so he made a foolish move to focus on Hefei.

Hefei had a record of defeating Sun Ce. Most people would not dare to cause trouble, but if they were not afraid of thieves stealing, they would be afraid of thieves thinking about it. The number of refugees in Hefei was so large that they could no longer be resettled inside the city. There were 3 or [-] people gathered outside the city. It cannot be justified without food reserves.

Li Shu believed that even if Hefei could not be captured, he would gain a lot of money by looting outside the city, but he was afraid of the famous general Xu Chu, so he made a detour to attack Junqiu.

Xu Chu could only guard one side of Hefei and Junqiu.

If Xu Chu was in Hefei, he would attack Junqiu to get money and food; if Xu Chu was in Junqiu, he would plunder Hefei city to get money and food.

In short, Li Shu volunteered to send troops to help, and he didn't take whatever he gained, but he could only help this time.

Hefei has a great reputation, and ordinary thieves dare not provoke them, but Lei Xu and Zhang Duo are short-lived, so they can only participate in this big adventure.

Li Shu is willing to take the lead in sending troops, and Mei Cheng's coercion is one of the reasons, but the deeper idea is to establish prestige. By defeating Long Xiang and setting up a character, Sun Quan retreats and abandons Lujiang.

It means that I, Li Shu, can defeat an opponent that Sun Ce can't beat, and you, Sun Quan, weigh it yourself, don't be stupid.

Lei Xu and the others were not very clear about Li Shu's and Mei Cheng's activities, but there was a "big brother in the lead" who led Fa Cai, and they followed without hesitation, just like blindly obedient Chinese.

After hearing this, Long Xiang was very surprised, and thought that Li Shu should be called Li Feng, and that being the "big brother in the lead" usually didn't end well.

Liu Ye firmly said: "The general was right last time. Li Shu worked so hard to help Mei Cheng out of the siege. These two must be the murderers who colluded to murder Yan Xiang. It is really hateful that they imagined using Hefei to send other people away."

(End of this chapter)