Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei and his party did not directly lead the remaining troops back to Hanoi County where the princes' headquarters existed.

Instead, after fleeing for a certain distance, he stood still and sent his generals and horses to collect the scattered troops.

People like Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei have very clearly realized that at this time, soldiers and horses are the most important.

Once there are no soldiers and horses in hand, it will be difficult to do anything.

After staying here for three days and gathering more than 10,000 scattered soldiers and horses, Gongsun Zan and others finally left here.

However, this time Liu Bei, Guan and Zhang, the two fierce generals, did not follow Gongsun Zan back to Hanoi, but stationed themselves not far from Hanoi on the edge of an important road leading to Hanoi.

The reason is very valid, that is, we are here to guard against the possibility of sending troops to Sishui Pass and take the opportunity to attack Hanoi.

The actual reason was that he was worried that after returning to Hanoi County, Yuan Shao would actually execute the military order and kill Guan Yu.

Liu Bei absolutely disagrees with this.

So, after some communication with Gongsun Zan, such an arrangement was made.

Gongsun Zan is also a face-saving person.

In addition, Yuan Shao was not in Hanoi at this time, and the people in charge in Hanoi were Wang Kuang, a guy who had a lot of conflicts with Gongsun Zan, and Yuan Shao's counselor named Xu You.

So, after Gongsun Zan marched forward for a while, he also led his troops to station down, using the same reason as Liu Bei.

After doing this, they began to send people to inform Hanoi of the news of their defeat.

Of course, what we are talking about is not the defeat, but that after the defeat, Gongsun Zan and others took the overall situation into consideration and defended on the spot.

In addition to these, Gongsun Zan also asked Wang Kuang for food and grass.

This kind of operation made Wang Kuang furious. He jumped on his feet and scolded Gongsun Zan's mother and eight generations of his ancestors.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't defeat Gongsun Zan, he would have gone to fight with Gongsun Zan with weapons!

I have never seen such a shameless person!

After losing the battle, you still have the nerve to ask for food and grass from yourself!

If no one had stopped him, Wang Kuang would have killed the envoy sent by Gongsun Zan with his sword on the spot.

"Prefect, calm down, the behavior of this traitor Gongsun is indeed abominable and disgusting..."

In a deserted tent, a man wearing a scribe's uniform outside a leather armor, together with Wang Kuang, severely verbally criticized the damn Gongsun Zan.

After hearing these words, Wang Kuang felt a lot more comfortable and felt like he had found a close friend.

After this happened for a while, the man dressed as a scribe spoke again, but there was a twist:

"It's just that now the governor has to give this food and grass to Gongsun Zan."

As soon as Xu You said these words, Wang Kuang couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Why did Ziyuan say this?"

"At this time, Benchu ​​led a large number of troops to Luoyang to fight against Dong's thieves there. There were not many troops left in Hanoi.

Although Gongsun Zan was defeated at Sishui Pass, he still had more than 10,000 soldiers under his command to drive.

If there were not these soldiers and horses under his guard there, we would really not be at ease here.

That fellow must also know that we cannot do without him at this time, so he dares to make such a request so blatantly..."

Wang Kuang knew Xu You's status in front of Yuan Shao, so when he heard Xu You say this, he became much calmer.

“It’s just that I feel really unhappy about giving food and grass to this guy like this!

Moreover, with so many armies gathered in Hanoi, I have no food and grass here for a long time. In order to support the army, the food and grass have been taken out long ago. I also needed food and grass before the beginning..."

He said with unwillingness and embarrassment.

Xu You said with a smile: "Of course we can't just give him whatever Gongsun Zan says. Three achievements with him is enough. It's enough to temporarily win over this person and let him continue to block the troops and horses in the direction of Sishui Pass.

As for the matter of grain and grass, Ben Chu was also urging Jizhou to feed Han Fu...but those places were too far away and it was difficult to transport them there at the moment.

The prefect has been here recently...

Now is the time to contribute to the country, so I would like to ask the eunuch to think of more ways to get more food and grass.

When the time comes, and rewards will be given based on merit, the imperial court will never forget the prefect, and Benchu ​​will never forget the things the prefect has done..."

After Xu You said this, he became extremely sincere.

Wang Kuang was originally Yuan Shao's supporter, but now Xu You, a highly regarded counselor around Yuan Shao, said this, and he quickly made up his mind.

Immediately, he started to act according to what Xu You said, and immediately began to distribute some food and grass and have people escort him to deliver it to Gongsun Zan.

When Gongsun Zan saw that the grain and fodder were only 30% of what he said, he couldn't help but change his face. He lost his temper and expressed his dissatisfaction to the generals who came to escort the grain and fodder.

However, in the end, he still said that he would lead his troops and stay here to be well prepared for attacks from Sishui Pass, so that Wang Kuang and the others should not worry.

After seeing off Wang Kuang and others, Gongsun Zan returned to a tent, all the anger and dissatisfaction on his face disappeared completely.

He reached out and patted Guan Jing on the shoulder, smiling and saying:

"It turned out to be just as Ziliang expected. With this method, we can really get a lot of food and grass from Wang Kuang. Even the amount is exactly what Ziliang said..."

Guan Jing, who was originally a cruel official, smiled when he heard this...

…

Here at the Hanoi Prefecture, after someone sent some food and grass to Gongsun Zan, Wang Kuang had even less food and grass in his hands.

How to increase the food and grass in his hands, continue to contribute to the fight against Dong Daye, and leave a better impression on Yuan Shao at the same time, this is a difficult problem for Wang Kuang, and he has been thinking hard about it for more than a day.

At night, I barely slept a wink.

Wang Kuang, who really couldn't think of a good solution, went to chat with Xu You.

Tell Xu You about your difficulties.

After having a small chat with Xu You, a very talkative person, Wang Kuang suddenly felt that his mind was bright, and a perfect way suddenly appeared in his mind, allowing him to

The whole person became relaxed and excited.

He stood up and said to Xu You with a smile.

"Zi Yuan, sit here first! Just while I was chatting with Zi Yuan, I suddenly thought of a very good idea!

If we can implement this, we will definitely get a lot of food and grass!"

He said this with excitement and joy, and then quickly said goodbye to Xu You and went to implement the perfect strategy he had thought of.

Xu You sent him to the entrance of the courtyard and stood there watching Wang Kuang leave with an elegant smile on his face...

…

Hanoi County, which was already in chaos because of the large number of people gathered here, soon became even more chaotic.

Because their governor Wang Kuang introduced a new policy.

To put it bluntly, this policy means that Wang Kuang dispatched a special administrative team composed of his cronies to inspect criminals in the territory and strictly enforce discipline.

If a person is caught, he has only one way to get out, and this way is to pay money and food to atone for his sin, plus atonement for his life.

Otherwise, don’t even think about coming out!

Not only will the person who committed the crime be unlucky, but it will also affect the entire family!

His operation was very similar to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty selling his official position.

However, one is to get money through officials taking office and paying money to build the palace, and the other is to quickly obtain food and grass through official kidnapping.

Although the methods are different, they have the same purpose.

In fact, Wang Kuang's strategy was inspired by his chat with Xu You. When Xu You talked about some of the money-making methods implemented by the Han Ling Emperor who was still dead, he got inspiration from it.

With the promulgation of these decrees by Wang Kuang and their very rapid and strong execution, while Hanoi County became chaotic, food, grass and money were also increasing rapidly.

Of course, correspondingly, Wang Kuang's reputation in Hanoi County was also rapidly declining.

However, these have nothing to do with Xu You and the world model behind Xu You, Yuan Benzhu.

After all, this idea was not given to Wang Kuang by them, but by Wang Kuang himself, and the people who executed it were also Wang Kuang and Wang Kuang’s henchmen...

Here in Luoyang, taking advantage of the severe cold weather and the entire Yellow River was frozen, Yuan Shao's troops and horses with a large number of soldiers and horses quickly crossed the Yellow River, bypassed Sishui Pass and Hulao Pass, and attacked Luoyang, but they did not achieve what they imagined.

breakthrough victory.

Or it can be said that there was no victory at all.

One thing Liu Cheng had not mistaken before was that Dong Zhuo and many of Dong Zhuo's generals had experienced many battles.

The experience in war is very rich.

After discovering that the weather was extremely cold and the Yellow River was frozen, Dong Zhuo immediately stepped up defense and inspections without Dong Zhuo's instructions.

Moreover, someone reported the news to Dong Zhuo in Luoyang City as soon as possible.

Dong Zhuo's political methods were indeed a bit lacking, but in terms of military affairs, having led troops and fought in battles for most of his life, he had his own way of doing things.

After receiving this report, he immediately became acutely aware that Yuan Shao and others, who had been blocked at Sishui Pass and had lost their troops, would most likely take advantage of this opportunity to make some big moves against him.

So a targeted deployment of troops was quickly carried out.
To be continued...