The Xuzhou army has been fighting continuously in recent years. Although the casualties rate is very low every time, over time, there are tens of thousands of veterans who have been discharged from the army due to injuries.

In addition to one-time subsidy money, those who do not have a house will also help build a five-room tiled house in their hometown. With this treatment, only Xuzhou has the princes of the Han Dynasty.

The old soldiers who retired from other princes due to injuries are at most a few cents of money, so don’t think about other things.

But the Xuzhou army was not, and the treatment was given high.

However, these retired veterans are all physically defective. If they cannot find a way to live, they will have an impact on the overall development of society.

Two days later, the flood peak passed, and it was delighted that the Yellow River Bridge was safe and sound, and the dam destroyed was only more than 200 meters.

After Zhuge Jin finished counting the disaster situation, he brought it to Lu Bu to report it.

"The number of deaths from the disaster is 852, most of them are the elderly and weak and children. 231 people are missing. More than 1,000 houses are damaged. Now the flood has receded and refugees are being rescued one after another."

"Well, this is a heartbreaking disaster. There is an early warning, but no decisive measures are taken. Our disaster relief operation is still very fast. Is there enough food?"

"It's enough. The grain in the charity warehouse and the official warehouse are full. There are more than 20,000 disaster victims, each of whom will be distributed according to the standard of 200 kilograms. The high farmland is not damaged, and some grain can still be harvested in autumn. After the soaked land disappears, some crops can be planted appropriately to minimize the damage."

"Tiyu did a good job, and he was most afraid of plague after the disaster. The government provided appropriate subsidies for the deceased people and buried them as soon as possible. At the same time, soldiers were mobilized to bury the drowned animals and poultry in depth."

"Okay, lord."

The disaster has stabilized, Zhuge Jin is relieved, and Lu Bu is no longer worried. The lesson is also profound, that is, the Yellow River cannot be tamed.

"When I was shopping two days ago, I met an old soldier who had lost an arm and retired from the army. Now he is making tofu at home and his life is pretty good. But I think that others may not be so lucky, and not everyone can succeed in doing business."

Zhuge Jin nodded: "What the lord said makes sense. After the wounded soldiers are discharged from the army, the most difficult thing they face is survival problems. Although there are pensions issued by the government, they may be spent quickly due to failure in entrepreneurship. In this case, a department dedicated to serving the old army can be established in each county to let these injured old soldiers return to their lives."

"Take Jinan County as a pilot and arrange for inspection. If feasible, it can be promoted as a whole."

This summer is not peaceful, and water flows everywhere, destroying farmland, bridges, and crops.

However, there is no such large-scale situation as Jinan County, and the local patrol troops are enough to deal with it. The small boats built in the past few years have been useful, saving people, transporting materials, distributing money and grain, etc., with sufficient material reserves and no starvation to death.

Even Chenliu and Puyang were troubled by heavy rain. Fortunately, the heavy rain came quickly and went quickly, so it would not have a big impact.

In the autumn of the eighth year of Jian'an, there was a lot of rain this year, and the corn in Xuzhou looked like a small hammer.

Just as the people were busy harvesting corn, Lu Bu transferred a large army from Xuzhou, with Lu Bu as the commander and Xu Shu as the military advisor. Song Xian, Hou Cheng, Feng Xiong, Hua Ji, Chen Lan and others as generals. A total of 12,200 cavalry, 30,000 Danyang Iron Horse Army, and 20,000 newly formed Iron Horse Army.

A total of more than 60,000 troops, and 10,000 civilian mule carts, rushed to Chenliu and joined Liao Hua's troops from Chenliu to Zhentian Camp. The army covered the sky and covered the sun, and rushed westward to Xingyang.

Xingyang is an important town of Cao Cao, the gateway to the north of Xudu, facing the army of Wen Chou and Yan Liang in the north, and the army of Chenliu in the east. Xingyang's door to Xudu was opened as soon as it was thrown away.

Due to the shrinking of Cao Cao's territory, his troops also shrank. The general Cao Ren and military advisor Cheng Yu were guarding Xingyang.

It has 5,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry.

In fact, with Cao Cao's strength at this time, he could not support so many soldiers, but he had no choice but to launch an armament competition with Lu Bu. Cao Cao gritted his teeth and persisted, and also developed three legions.

The first one is Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan's army, who are now attacking Shuzhong. The second one is the army led by Cao Zhen, who is now stationed in Huainan. The third one is Cao Ren, who is stationed in Xingyang.

Xingyang City belongs to the city of pure soldiers. There are very few residents in the city, with a circumference of only sixteen miles.

The city wall is four feet high, made of blue bricks and rammed earth. After many wars, it is still as strong as before.

On the top of the city, soldiers looked at the flags that covered the sky and the sun, and their faces were as scared as earth.

The team brought by Lu Bu was a 70,000 army, and a real 70,000 army. According to the popular methods nowadays, 70,000 can be said to be at least 300,000 army.

"Keep the city and go to the battle."

Woo woo, dong dong.

The horns and drums were roaring together, and Cao Ren and Cheng Yu led 5,000 cavalry to rush to the city and set up their formation.

Cao Ren pointed at the big knife: "Lu Bu, why do you deceive others too much and attack again and again."

"The thief Cao was holding the emperor in charge. We are promoting the righteous army to save the emperor. How can we bully others? Why don't the general think about the righteousness, destroy the younger relatives, and raise troops to surrender?"

"I'm afraid to fight."

Lu Bu didn't want to fight, but his subordinates wanted to play.

Huaji has made great efforts in swordsmanship in recent years, with the style of his cousin Hua Xiong.

Huaji and Cao Ren fought for more than 20 rounds without a chance of winning or losing. Cheng Yu was frightened to see it later. Cao Ren was the main general. If he was injured, he would lose half of it before he could even beat him.

"Sing the gold, withdraw the troops."

The sound of dinging golden sound sounded, and Cao Ren pointed at Huaji: "Are you happy today."

Cao Ren retreated his troops back to the city, but Lu Bu did not pursue him, and ordered the main force of the army to retreat and set up camp.

Chen Lan led 10,000 infantry to protect Zhentian Camp.

Liao Hua issued an order, and the cannon cart pulled by four mules slowly adjusted the angle. It was three miles away from Xingyang City, with more than 300 cannon carts of all sizes.

Cao Ren and Cheng Yu were a little confused about the situation on the top of the city. What are these people doing? The distance is so far?

I didn’t see artillery last time, but the distance was only about one mile, but now it’s better, three miles away.

It turned out that Zhentian Camp had changed its equipment and cast a hundred 150-caliber general cannons weighing 3,000 kilograms. With the rack, it needed to be pulled by four strong mules. Its mobility was relatively poor, but although it was only 30 mm larger, its power was greatly increased. Moreover, the shells were improved. They were originally solid iron eggs, but now two semicircular shell shell shells were cast to form a hollow shell, which greatly enhanced its power.

The artillerymen took the big medicine bucket and everything was ready, and they heard the officer shouting, "Prepare, light the fire."

The hissing fuse ignited, and then made a huge noise.

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