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Chapter 116 Yuan Cao goes to war

Early spring of 201 AD.Guangling Port.

Ten huge fighting ships lined up in the river, and three thousand navy soldiers were on board and on standby.

Gan Ning was dressed in military uniform and looked high-spirited.

"My lord, Gan Ning is leading his army to the east today. This opportunity that my brothers and I have been waiting for for so many years has finally come true. This expedition will definitely live up to my lord's trust."

Liu Xuan put his hands behind his back, and his heart was filled with passion.

The destination of the certificate this time was the Japanese country hundreds of miles away in the northeast.

In this era, due to the underdevelopment of sea ships, the Han Dynasty did not know much about the Japanese country.

But to Liu Xuan, this island country entrenched in the northeast of the Han Dynasty was not just a simple overseas barbarian.

If the original historical process is followed, this island country will continue to bring various disasters to the land of China.

Liu Xuan didn't know how much his arrival would change the process, but he did nothing when he had the opportunity, which made Liu Xuan feel uneasy.

"Xingba, I will only tell you one thing about this expedition to Japan. They are enemies. Do you know how to deal with enemies?"

Gan Ning's eyes turned cold, "I know!"

Liu Xuan waved his hand: "Let's set off. I'll be waiting for news of your triumphant return in Guangling."

[201 AD, Guangling.Your shipyard has successfully built ships suitable for ocean voyages, and the naval soldiers you have trained are enough to go out and fight. After conquering the river, you set your sights overseas, opening up territory for the Han Dynasty, and advancing China's development. To eliminate the disaster, you decided to send Gan Ning to conquer the Japanese country. 】

[Trigger development task: open up territory]

[Mission details: Conquer the Japanese country and incorporate the Japanese land into the rule of the Han Dynasty]

[Task reward: entry*2]

Gan Ning's fleet gradually moved away, disappearing at the end of the sea and sky.

Gan Yingying said to Liu Xuanchao: "Don't worry, there is no force in the Japanese country that can stop Gan Ning."

Gan Yingying smiled sweetly: "This has been my brother's wish for many years. If it weren't for the county governor, we might still be wandering on the river, not knowing where we are going every day."

Liu Xuan could understand the feelings of the Gan brothers and sisters. It must be the dream of every warrior to go to war for the country and expand the territory. If Guangling didn't need him to be in charge now, Liu Xuan would have wanted to conquer the island country himself.

Several months have passed since Liu Xuan captured Qu'a. As Liu Xuan expected, Sun Ce did not make a desperate attack on Qu'a.
Instead, they acted as if nothing had happened and only sent additional scouts between Qu'a and Jianye.

At the same time, at the end of last year, he secretly sent 3000 of his most elite troops, the Lujiang Shangjia Army, to attack Wu County for hundreds of miles and kill Xu Gong, the prefect of Wu County. With the power of this battle, Sun Ce was defeated by Liu Xuan. The lost reputation has been regained a lot.

Liu Xuan returned to Guangling and came to the workshop in the south of the city.

The bilge keel has been successfully made, and the Tiangong Kaiwu with the wheel plate has regained its luster.

[Notepad opens.]

Liu Xuan opened the notepad in his head and issued instructions again,
"Spin the wheel"

The runes danced and turned.

[Obtain: The production technology of the Iron Buddha]

Iron Buddha?
When Liu Xuan saw this name, a picture immediately appeared in his mind,
A heavily armored warrior rides on a warhorse also wearing armor, with a four- to five-meter long spear clamped at his waist. The spear is invincible as the horse gallops forward.

Heavy cavalry, this name has great appeal to Liu Xuan.

Gao Shun's combat power of a thousand heavy infantry has opened Liu Xuan's eyes. If he can have a group of heavy cavalry with full body armor armed to the teeth, then Liu Xuan can handle more forms of battles.

Liu Xuan called Ma Jun and blacksmith Zhang Dachui, and directly handed over the production process drawings of the Iron Pagoda to them.

The iron pagoda in history had a weakness, that is, the heavy armor on the cavalry and war horses severely restricted the mobility of the war horses. This weakness will be greatly improved with the use of alloy steel.

Guangling County Hall,
Liu Xuan's civil and military officials gathered together.

Jia Xu changed his usual smile, and his expression looked a little solemn.

Handing a memorial to Liu Xuan, Jia Xu said,

"My lord, Yuan Shao from Jizhou left Liyang last month and attacked Baima in Yanzhou. Baima guard Liu Yan was killed by Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang in front of the formation. Baima was captured by Yuan Shao within three days. Yuan Shao's army reorganized in three days and immediately went south to Yanjin. Let’s move on.”

"Cao Cao personally led an army of 15 to Yanjin to meet the enemy. The new battle situation will be reported to Guangling soon."

Liu Xuan was stunned, "So, at the beginning of the war, Cao Cao has already been defeated for a while and is at a disadvantage?"

Jia Xu said: "In terms of strength, Cao Cao is no match for Yuan Shao. Last autumn, Yuan Shao defeated Youzhou Gongsun Zan and completely solved the hidden dangers in the rear. The whole army went south and took the initiative to attack Baima. Cao Cao had no time to deal with it. He lost the city of Baima. It was indeed a defeat." Get downwind.”

Liu Xuan walked to the map and looked at it. Baima was Cao Cao's important stronghold south of the river, across the river from Liyang, Yuan Shao's stronghold north of the river.

Yuan Shao took advantage of the fact that spring had just begun and the river was easy to cross, so he directly crossed the river with his army to attack Baima with all his strength.

After capturing the White Horse, Yuan Shao's army can assemble on the south bank. If they advance, they can attack Yanzhou, and if they retreat, they can return to Jizhou.

In such an important place, Yuan Shao sent the vanguard general Yan Liang. Yan Liang's bravery was the best in Hebei. Cao Cao's guard Liu Yan who was stationed in Baima was no match for him.

Historically, in the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao also chose to attack Baima first. However, in the Battle of Baima, Cao Cao's reinforcements arrived in time and sent Guan Yu to fight Yan Liang, killing Yan Liang in Baima. This temporarily contained Yuan Shao's troops.

"Wen He, in your opinion, can Cao Cao withstand the attack of Yuan Shao's army in Yanjin?"

Jia Xu said: "It is not something that Jia can say in one word about such a large-scale war. Cao Cao has countless advisers and generals, and Yuan Shao also has the advantage of Ji, You, and the three states. The war will not be clear in a short time."

"What Jia is worried about is that since the Yuan-Cao war has begun, it will definitely not stop until there is a winner. But no matter who wins the war in the end, they will take action against us next."

"If Yangzhou cannot be solved before the end of the Yuan-Cao battle, then our army will be surrounded by enemies from both sides and will be in a worrying situation."

Liu Xuandao: "What Wen He is worried about is exactly what I am worried about. Fortunately, since we all know what we need to face next, the next goal is to capture Jiangdong before the end of the battle of Yuan Cao. .”

"exactly!"

"I am willing to obey the Lord's command."

His subordinates Lu Bu, Cheng Hu, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others immediately became excited when they heard Liu Xuan's words.

Liu Xuan ordered the four cities of Huaiyin, Sheyang, Guangling and Qu'a to start recruiting new soldiers immediately.

The existing [-] veterans in the four cities were divided into [-] to garrison Qu'a, with Lu Bu as the commander.

Gao Shun's trap camp made two thousand new sets of alloy steel armor, and selected two thousand elites from veterans to join the trap camp, expanding the establishment to 3000 people.Due to its special nature, the Tiger Battalion continues to maintain a strength of 3000 people. At the same time, the armor on its body has been replaced by alloy steel armor, which not only increases the soldiers' protection but also reduces the load.

Zhang Liao began to form a cavalry battalion with a tentative target of 1 men. All the horses were purchased from the northern grasslands by Huaiyin merchant Shen Fu.The Shen family's business channels have spread all over the Han Dynasty, so they naturally have ways to buy horses.

Liu Xuan now has a lot of money and food in his hands, and the population under his rule has increased several times in three years.

And because the soldiers under Liu Xuan's command were treated extremely well, recruiting soldiers became easy.

Once the recruitment order was issued, young people from surrounding counties also came to answer the call.

Within two months, [-] new soldiers were recruited, and Liu Xuan supported [-] soldiers, greatly increasing his military strength.

At this time, Sun Ce encountered trouble again.

There is no other reason. After several months of normal trade, the market south of the river has once again been dominated by goods from the north.

And this time, it’s not just the grain market.

Meat, aquatic products, ironware, silk, merchant ships, etc., almost all important materials on the market are produced in Jiangbei.

Good quality, low price, and considerate service.

Xu Chong's new appointment as Guangling Hucao, with Liu Xuan's full support, immediately began to develop large-scale pig farming, captive broiler farming, fish farming in river cages and other industries in Guangling County.

It took half a year to achieve initial results. With an annotated Nongsang Collection for guidance, and having successfully experimented before, Xu Chong did not make any detours.

In such a short period of time, there was not enough meat and aquatic products from the north of the river to be sold south of the river.

But Liu Xuan is now a cash cow in the eyes of the major gentry in Jiangbei.

As long as you follow Commander Liu, you will make a profit without losing sight of the Qin family, Shen family, and Li family of Huaiyin who first followed Liu Xuan. Their wealth now has increased more than ten times compared to four years ago.

So this time Xu Chong was directly promoted from Huai Cao to Hu Cao in Guangling County, and under Liu Xuan's instructions, he laid out new industries.

Any aristocratic family with some vision and assets knows how to do it.

Of course, Xu Chong would not be stingy with this bit of technology, and simply spread out stalls in the three industries at once. After more than half a year, the first batch of pigs was released, and the second batch of broilers was released, which directly led to the oversupply of meat under Liu Xuan's rule. .

I am afraid that this is the first time that the people of Han Dynasty have heard that there are still pork that cannot be sold.

So when these goods from Jiangbei arrived at the market in Jiangnan and overwhelmed the local goods from Jiangdong, all the Jiangdong nobles could not sit still.
The market that was finally restored fell again after occupying less than half a year. The nobles were unable to vent all their grievances to Liu Xuan and could only vent them to Sun Ce.

Only this time, Sun Ce withstood the pressure and did not go to war against Liu Xuan at the request of the Jiangdong nobles.

The last time Sun Ce was forced by a wealthy family to fight in Guangling, he ended up ruining the Jiangdong Navy and letting his good brother Zhou Yu die in the sea of ​​fire.

So ever since Sun Ce and Sun Quan decided to defend Jianye to wait for the changing times, Sun Quan had already thought of this step.

It is true that the Jiangdong Sun family relied on the support of local aristocratic families to gain a firm foothold, but times have changed. Today, the Jiangdong Sun family is the largest family in Yangzhou.
With absolute military strength in hand, he no longer cares so much about the opinions of aristocratic families.

For more than half a year, Sun Ce handed over the power of internal affairs to Sun Quan, and Sun Quan lived up to expectations, leading the Sun family to annex many small Jiangdong families and seize countless properties.

Even if the entire Jiangdong family no longer provides material and financial support to the Sun family from now on, the Sun family's own properties and taxes collected from various places in Yangzhou can still support the expenses of an army of 10,000+.

The Jiangdong family also suddenly realized that the Sun family, which had only managed to gain a foothold with the support of the family, had grown to a point where they could not shake it.

On this day and night, a carriage set off from Jianye and quietly went to Qu'a.

Liu Xuan was discussing with Jia Xu at the county government about attacking Jianye, and he heard from his subordinates that the Gu family in Jianye sent people to see Liu County Governor to discuss important matters.

Liu Xuan and Jia Xu looked at each other, and seeing the smile on Jia Xu's face, he couldn't help but ask,
"Looking at Wen He's expression, he seems to have guessed something."

Jia Xu smiled and said, "At this time, the night visit is from Jianye. He must be bringing a big gift to the lord."

"Then should I accept this gift or not?"

"If someone gives you a gift, why shouldn't you accept it?" Jia Xu said, "Lord, please relax, I will meet all the conditions of the person who comes. As for how to cash in the gift, Jia Xu will figure it out."

The two argued about it and sent someone to see them.

"Jianye Gu Ji, I met Governor Liu." The person who came was a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties. He was dressed in brocade clothes and looked either rich or noble.

"Gu Jun, no courtesy," Liu Xuan looked at the visitor calmly, "What's the matter with your visit late at night?"

"Of course I'm here to offer advice to Governor Liu." Gu Ji didn't beat around the bush and directly stated his purpose.

Liu Xuan was not in a hurry to ask for advice, but asked: "Mr. Gu is from Jianye. I wonder what your relationship is with Gu Yong?"

Gu Ji's eyes lit up. Seeing that Liu Xuan knew Gu Yong, he said, "It's my father."

"Your Majesty, Gu Yuantan, is a capable civil servant under Sun Ce. As the son of Gu Yuantan, you come to Qu'a late at night to offer me advice. Is this your father's intention or yours?"

"How the descendants of the Gu family in Gu Ji are qualified to decide family affairs is naturally my father's idea." Gu Ji said, "Our Gu family is a big family in Jianye. It has supported the rise of the Sun family in Jiangdong for several years. However, due to the war in Jiangdong this time, The Gu family has suffered a lot of losses, and I don’t think the Sun family not only does not appreciate the Gu family’s contribution, but also blames my father for not doing his best for the Jiangdong Sun family.”

"My father was so angry that he resigned from the post of governor of Yangzhou and has nothing to do with the Sun family."

Liu Xuan was secretly happy when he heard this. Sure enough, the Jiangdong family had already had a rift with Sun Ce.

"Then what good advice does the Gu family have for me?"

"The guards of County Liu have strong soldiers and horses, are they willing to be trapped in the small county town of Qu'a forever?" Gu Ji looked at Liu Xuandao, "If my Gu family can help the guards of Liu to break through the Jianye City Gate, is this a good strategy?"

Liu Xuan smiled and said: "This is indeed a good strategy. Although building the Ye city wall is not a challenge to me, if I can gain the city gate without losing troops, of course I will be happy."

"But Jianye is the foundation of Sun Ce. How do you expect me to believe that your Gu family can open the city gate without telling Sun Ce?"

"Don't worry, Governor Liu, the Gu family is not the only one who wants to welcome the Governor to take charge of Jianye."

"There are many noble families in Jiangdong, and there are countless talents working for the Sun family. It is not difficult to train a few confidants to be promoted to city gate guards." Gu Ji said confidently.

Liu Xuan glanced at Jia Xu next to him, saw Jia Xu nodded slightly, and said,
"Such a good plan will not be given to me in vain. Tell me, what conditions do you have."

Seeing that the time was right, Gu Ji took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Liu Xuan.

"The invitations from several major noble clans in Jianye are not excessive. They are all listed in it. Please check it with the county governor."

Liu Xuan took the letter and scanned it, raising the corner of his mouth,
"Okay, deal."

(End of this chapter)