At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty

So far, Yanzhou has also restored peace, and then Cao Cao did not set his sights on Xuzhou, but on Qingzhou.

Compared with Xuzhou, Qingzhou can be said to be a land without an owner, and there is only one Kong Rong in the North Sea, so it is nothing to be afraid of.

It is estimated that when Kong Rong knew the relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Yu, he would surrender directly.

As for other places in Qingzhou, they have already been devastated by the Yellow Turban Army, and there are no guards in all the cities.

Even the officials have fled, leaving only a few refugees.

In today's Qingzhou, except for Beihai, the people in all places add up to less than 50.

It is conceivable that today's Qingzhou has become dilapidated.

It can be said that Qingzhou will be the food in Cao Cao's mouth sooner or later, but if Cao Cao directly attacks Xuzhou, then Liu Bei's remaining forces will definitely resist desperately.

If Yuan Shao heard the news and sent troops to support Xuzhou at this time.

Then Cao Cao will be restrained by Yuan Shao, so he will not be able to escape, and maybe it will speed up Yuan Shao's pace of conquering Xuzhou.

Although he has [-] cavalry supported by his lord, as long as Yuan Shao relies on the Huai River to defend, he has nothing to do.

It's better to take Qingzhou directly into your hands first, then gather all your troops and go straight to Xuzhou.

Therefore, Cao Cao sent general Xiahou Dun to lead [-] cavalry to enter Qingzhou first.

Then, let Zhang Yan lead [-] infantry, occupy each city, and then set up defenses in each city.

And the last step is to send officials to Qingzhou to gather the people to encourage production.

When everything is on the right track, it is time to recover Xuzhou.

At this time, Cao Cao was in the government office of Changyi City, discussing the military situation with all the civil and military personnel.

Cao Cao couldn't help but smile wryly when he saw the different expressions of the martial arts under his command.

The fact that I am under Liu Yu's command, I have concealed it from them for many years, presumably they must feel uncomfortable now.

Xu Chu, Xiahouyuan and Xiahoudun didn't feel anything.

Even the other military commanders were just astonished for a while, and then readily accepted.

And among the civil servants under his command, some of them could not accept this.

Because most of them were born in the gentry, and the relationship between the gentry and Liu Yu has always been like an enemy.

They defected to Cao Cao, hoping that Cao Cao could accept them so that they would not be persecuted by Liu Yu.

But now they have made a big circle, and finally Cao Cao is under Liu Yu's command. How can they accept this?

In this regard, Cao Cao did not force it, and explained to them the interests of it, and then explained to them Liu Yu's policy towards the gentry.

If they still insist on going their own way and want to leave Cao Cao or Liu Yu, then Cao Cao will never be soft.

After all, in today's Yanzhou, many policies are imitated from the previous Bingzhou, and it is these officials who implement these policies in Yanzhou.

If they were allowed to leave Yanzhou and join Yuan Shao, wouldn't that mean letting the tiger go back to the mountain?Sit and watch the enemy grow?

If these policies are successfully implemented in Yangzhou, Yuan Shao's strength will grow rapidly, which is not what Cao Cao wants to see.

Now, Cao Cao's identity has been revealed, so he no longer has to hide it, and can openly receive the news sent by the members of the film department.

By Cao Cao's side, there are also the branch leaders of the film department members. With this huge intelligence network, Cao Cao has become more confident.

When the branch leader of the shadow department came to Cao Cao, the first order Cao Cao gave him was to monitor all the officials in Yanzhou.

If it is found that the whole family is fleeing south, no matter who they are, no matter what official positions they hold in Yanzhou, they will all be killed on the spot!

But now, the officials who can appear in Cao Cao's government office are all important officials in Yanzhou, and they are all officials who sincerely support Cao Cao.

The displeasure on their faces was simply because Cao Cao had concealed something from them.

In this regard, Cao Cao can also understand that if he conceals it from them, it means that he does not trust them, and anyone will feel unhappy.

"Okay, okay! Don't make ugly faces one by one. It's not that Cao Cao deliberately concealed it. It's just that the matter is too important, so Cao Cao has no choice but to do it! Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless to put on a bad face. Let's have a good discussion and send someone to talk about Kong Rong's surrender to the North Sea!"

After all, Cao Cao glared fiercely, looking at his own Guo Jia with a smirk on his face.

"Cough cough cough..."

Suddenly, Guo Jia's face turned pale, and then he coughed lightly, with a look of pain on his face.

When Cao Cao saw this, his face was filled with anger immediately, and he questioned Guo Jia.

"Feng Xiao! Are you secretly drinking again?! It's okay if you don't listen to Cao, but don't you listen to the Lord?! Or let Cao drive you back to Luoyang and let the Lord stop drinking for you?!"

Guo Jia was shocked when he heard this, and then looked at Cao Cao with a flattering expression.

"Last night, Jia couldn't bear it anymore, so he took a sip secretly. It was really only one sip. Of course, Jia would listen to what the lord said, but shouldn't it be done slowly? Let Jia quit drinking at once, really Too difficult!"

Cao Cao became even more angry when he heard this, pointing at Guo Jia and cursing.

"One sip?! One sip of wine can make you look pale today?! Needless to say, come..."

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Chapter 411

In the end, Chen Gong took over and went to Beihai to recruit Kong Rong.

And Guo Jia was also imprisoned in his own mansion, and Xu Chu looked after him day and night to prevent him from drinking again.

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Then turn your attention to Yizhou. With Yan Yan's return, all the soldiers and horses in Yizhou are now in Jia Xu's hands.

And Liu Yan was secretly escorted to Luoyang by Jia Xu and handed over to Liu Yu.

The northern counties of Yizhou have been completely pacified, and the only unstable ones are the Nanman clan.

Jia Xu was also trying to send people to contact the southern barbarians, and by the way sent a large army to take over several counties in southern Yizhou.

There was also resistance on the way, but they were all suppressed by Jia Xu with bloody means.

As for the gentry in Yizhou, except for a few gentry who sincerely took refuge in them, the rest were cleaned up by Jia Xu.

In the past few days, there was a strong, disgusting and scalp-numbing bloody smell over Yizhou.

The reason why he did this was because he was afraid of repeating Liu Yan's mistakes and doing half of things, leaving hidden dangers for himself.

When he and Lu Bu left Yizhou, they led the army to support their lord.

And keep this group of gentry to do things in the land of Yizhou? !It is better to eliminate the gentry and avoid future troubles.

As for his reputation, he, Lu Bujun, has a good reputation? !In the gentry circle, Lu Bujun is already stinky.

As long as you treat the people well and let the people remember Lu Bujun's kindness, that's fine, the nobles don't care.

And Jia Xu also knew that the gentry could never be killed. Even if a brand new big man was rebuilt in the future, a new gentry would be born.

But when the time comes, the rules will be set by the lord, and the gentry will change direction, no longer monopolizing talents and resources!

However, when Jia Xu sent people to contact the southern barbarians, they encountered difficulties.

The southern barbarians were not friendly to the envoys sent by Jia Xu, but were full of hostility.

Some barbarian leaders even proposed to kill the Han envoy. Although the envoy successfully returned to Jia Xu's side in the end, this also proved the barbarian's determination to be independent.

So Jia Xu deployed heavy troops in the south of Yizhou as a deterrent, and sent an envoy to discuss with the leaders of the southern barbarians.

But this time, the envoy never came back. Jia Xu sneered at this, and a murderous intent filled his heart.

They don't eat the toast and eat fine wine, do they think that he, Jia Xu, is afraid of the southern barbarians? !

It seems that the only way to scare them is to make them submit to themselves, and then move out of the deep mountains and old forests, live in towns, and fully integrate into the Han people.

He has no extra time to waste on the barbarians.

Therefore, Jia Xu asked Zhang Liao to lead [-] soldiers and horses out of Zangke County to attack the barbarians.

The first battle was a great victory, although the cavalry gave up their horses, but the infantry fought as fiercely as the Xiliang army.

With a record of [-] self-damaged and [-] enemy kills, he won the first battle.

Afterwards, the southern barbarians united to form one hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and once again fought Zhang Liao in a decisive battle.

This time, the two armies suffered damage to each other, and both suffered considerable losses. This is why Zhang Liao beheaded several enemy generals in front of the battle, which boosted his own morale.

Generally speaking, Lu Bu's army still had the upper hand, but all this changed as more barbarian leaders joined the battlefield.

The new barbarian leaders who joined the battlefield, some of them wore rattan armor, not only invulnerable, but also able to withstand most attacks, and compared with iron armor, rattan armor was lighter and stronger.

Some barbarians even brought ferocious beasts into the battlefield, some of which were so large and mighty that Zhang Liao had never seen them before.

As soon as these beasts appeared, the soldiers of Lu Bu's army were terrified and a little cowering, and their morale plummeted to the bottom.

Zhang Liao had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat temporarily. Fortunately, these beasts could not be too far away from their masters.

He would not take the initiative to pursue him, otherwise, Zhang Liao would not be able to escape smoothly.

Zhang Liao told Jia Xu about this, Jia Xu listened and thought for a while, then Jia Xu's eyes lit up.

He thought that when people were traveling at night, they would light a fire to drive away beasts. Although these beasts were ferocious, they were very afraid of fire.

Moreover, although the rattan armored soldiers Zhang Liao mentioned were invulnerable, they were also extremely flammable.

So, Jia Xu thought about it carefully, and made a very sinister plan in her heart.

He knew that even if the rattan armored soldiers were burned to disperse these wild beasts, the barbarian army would not be seriously injured, and they would hide in the mountains.

The southern part of Yizhou is full of lofty mountains, deep mountains and old forests, and the soldiers dare not enter and pursue them at will.

Not to mention that they are not good at fighting in the jungle, but even the miasma in the deep mountains and old forests is not something they can bear.

But one fire can't burn them, so what about ten fires, a hundred fires, or even a thousand fires? !

Let's see if you are the fastest to escape, or the fastest to set fire to it?Burn until their army is destroyed, burn until they have nowhere to go, and burn until they voluntarily kneel down and surrender!

Mountains? !How many soldiers can there be in Lu Bu's army? !Let out a thousand soldiers, bring kerosene and hay, and set fire to a hill, right?

Therefore, Jia Xu ordered Zhang Liao not to lead troops into battle, but to go down.

Let more than 1000 soldiers, each with fire oil, sneak into the deep mountains secretly under the leadership of Yizhou local soldiers who understand the terrain.

Let them take advantage of the wind to set fire together after ten days, because based on Jia Xu's understanding of southern Yizhou, he knows that it is not the rainy season.

The wind is also cyclical, and it will not be like the north, where the north wind blows for several days in a row.

And these thousand soldiers, after a ten-day trek, surrounded all the races of the entire Nanman tribe.

They limited it to ten days, and after ten days, taking advantage of the wind, they began to set fire to the forests around the barbarians.

If it was a southerly wind, then the soldiers in the south would start to set fire to it. Taking advantage of the wind, the small flames ignited a monstrous fire in just a moment.

If it's the north wind, then the soldiers in the north start setting fire, and so on.

When the fire started to burn slowly, the group of soldiers did not leave, but hid far away on the opposite hill and blocked the fire.

They cleared up the weeds and trees hundreds of meters away and covered them with soil.

Fortunately, it was following the wind, otherwise, the fire might not have been stopped by manpower.

They looked at the burning forest, and they were checking for gaps, and if there was no flame burning somewhere, they redirected the fire to that place.

On the first day when the fire started, the barbarians didn't notice it, because the place where the fire was burning was tens of miles away from them.

But that night, some sharp-eyed barbarians discovered an abnormality in the sky.

I saw that the southern part of their territory and the western sky were all dark red.

But that side of the sky is still very far away from their territory, so the barbarians who discovered the abnormality did not take it seriously.

I just thought it was an ordinary mountain fire, because where they were, if it was the rainy season, it would often cause a mountain fire because of God's anger.

Usually after the heavy rain falls, the wildfires will naturally be extinguished by the sky.

Then the barbarians who found the sky abnormal, returned to their wooden houses one by one, and began to rest.

During the day, the wind is from the south, and at dusk, the wind changes from south to west.

But on the second day, the wind began to change again, a fierce north wind blew up, and dazzling flames began to emerge from the north.

Today, large tracts of mountain forests have been burned. Where the fire has passed, the land has become scorched black, and the trees have turned into pieces of charcoal.

Countless ferocious beasts and animals living in the mountains and forests, the fast ones fled towards the forest, and the slow ones turned into coke.

Although the wind has changed, the land and forests that have been burned will not ignite the fire again.