Although Lu Bu was a little tired all the way, he was tired of his body and his spirit was very refreshed. He was excited about the territory he was about to obtain.

Lu Bu immediately summoned all the generals to discuss how to use troops next.

Since Yuan Shao's 100,000 army had been defeated, Lu Bu suggested: "We might as well take advantage of the shock of Yuan Shao's defeat in Jingzhou, march quickly, take down Jingzhou, and completely eliminate Yuan Shao."

Lu Bu's proposal of quick success and instant benefits was spoken out, and the militants responded one after another, while the cautious ones remained silent.

Seeing Ju Su lowering his head and saying nothing, Lu Bu asked with a smile: "Mr., what do you think, why don't you say it directly."

Ju Su and Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Huang Quan and others looked at each other. The advisers under Lu Bu communicated with each other on this issue before Lu Bu arrived in Guangcheng Pass. They reached an unanimous opinion. Ju Su bluntly advised: "Lord, our army came from north of the Yellow River, took Luoyang, defeated Yuan Shao, and traveled hundreds of miles, fought for many months, and were exhausted. Moreover, Xinping in Luoyang, Chang'an and other places has not yet been stabilized. We need to divide our troops to guard it. Our army can attack Jingzhou.

There are only 100,000 troops, and although Yuan Shao's 100,000 troops were defeated, there were nearly 200,000 soldiers in various directions. Moreover, Yuan Shao was deeply loved by the great families of Jingzhou. If our army entered Jingzhou, the local tyrants in Jingzhou would send troops to help Yuan Shao. At that time, Yuan Shao would wait for the labor and use the enemy to be few. We would attack the well-behaved city with a tired army. Even if we win, we would still be a tragic victory of killing one thousand enemies and losing 800. At that time, if the tyrants and powerful people in Chang'an in Luoyang and Chang'an have different intentions, our army might not be able to control it.

Moreover, the lord sent troops to Luoyang this time, and only Gao Shun, Lu Dai and others guarded the huge area of ​​Jizhou, which was empty. Our army was expeditioning Jingzhou in the Xu Kingdom. If Gongsun Zan sent troops to invade Jizhou, our army might not be able to return to support in time. Then we will be very passive. Please think about it carefully."

Lu Bu asked Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Zhang He and other generals, and they also agreed with the opinions of Ju Su and other advisers. Now the Central Army has been exhausted for a long time and has been newly Dingsizhou and Jizhou in the rear is empty, so it is not suitable for the expedition of the Void Kingdom.

Seeing that most civil and military generals disagreed with his proposal, Lu Bu sighed: "It is better to pursue the enemy with the remaining courage, not seek fame and learning overlords. If he did not march quickly while Yuan Shao was in decline, Yuan Shao, who was supported by the local powerful people in Jingzhou, would be able to recover quickly, and there would not be such a good opportunity to take over Jingzhou so easily in the future."

Although many of the civil and military officials under his command did not agree to conquer Jingzhou, Lu Bu was stunned by the recent series of victories that were at their disposal and wanted to march into Jingzhou. At least he had to conquer Xiangyang. Only by controlling Xiangyang can he block Jingzhou Yuan Shao's covetousness of Luoyang. At that time, he only needed to defend Xiangyang with heavy troops, and there was no need to deploy heavy troops in the eight gates of Luoyang.

Lu Bu left Zhang Liao's troops and Sizhou governor Zhu Yen to lead the army to Luoyang, and left Hao Zhao, Pang Shu and others to guard all passes of Luoyang. Lu Bu led his guard divisions, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Zhang He and Xu Huang's fifth divisions. After resting for several days at Guangcheng Pass, he launched troops to move south.

Originally, Lu Bu's five divisions had 120,000 troops, 60,000 combat soldiers, and 60,000 auxiliary soldiers. However, due to the fierce battles, most of the soldiers suffered casualties. Nearly 4,000 people were killed and more than 7,000 people were killed, and more than 7,000 people were unable to continue fighting. Finally, there were 12,000 people who were injured. In addition, Lu Bu organized more than 7,000 veterans into the local county and county soldiers system of Sizhou as generals and instructors. Among these five divisions, Lu Bu had one brigade. It was said that some of them were selected from the prisoners of Jingzhou to supplement the damaged personnel. However, Lu Bu despised the Jingzhou soldiers and did not want to supplement the damaged personnel from there. Instead, he waited to return to Yecheng and then replenish the elite troops from the county and county soldiers in Hebei.

Lu Bu led 100,000 troops out of Guangcheng Pass for more than ten miles, then left the boundary of Sizhou and came to the boundary of Nanyang County, Jingzhou.

The original Nanyang prefect Yuan Shu was attacked by his brothers Jingzhou Governor Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo, and he was unable to stand firm. He fled to Shouchunhuo and Yangzhou Governor Chen Wen. Nanyang was divided by Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo. Later, Dong Zhuo was killed by Yan Xing and Wang Yun. Lu Bu took advantage of the fact that Lu Bu was not yet stable and drove a hundred thousand troops to attack Luoyang. All counties, towns and cities in Nanyang County followed Yuan Shao.

Now Lu Bu's army is coming in a mighty way and is unstoppable. Nanyang County is frequently surrounded by Luyang, Zhi County, and Duyang counties in Luoyang. Those fence-leading tyrants who maintained local order in the large and small cities of Luyang County who were defeated and Lu Bu's army arrived. After a little resistance, they were defeated and surrendered.

Lu Bu did not trust much of those fence-leading tyrants. He temporarily won over but could not continue to let these people be responsible for local defense. Lu Bu asked Huang Zhong, a native of Nanyang to scatter his troops to various counties in Nanyang County, and organized ordinary people to establish a system of village soldiers, county soldiers, and county soldiers as a soldier system to replace the original private armed forces of local tyrants.

Lu Bu's army was unstoppable. Within a few days, he arrived at Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang County, a city that was difficult to quickly capture.

Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was from Caiyang County, Nanyang County, and regarded Nanyang County as the land of Longxing. Therefore, after he established his capital in Luoyang, he chose Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang County, as the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Because it is also called Nandu to the south of Luoyang, it is considered a very prosperous and rich place, so the city was built very strongly. The city was high and deep, and the moat led water to enter. The water was turbulent and deep. Although the defense level of the city was not as good as that of Luoyang, it was also beautiful compared to cities such as Yecheng.

A few years ago, the Yellow Turban Riots broke out, and the Yellow Turban Qu generals Sun Zhong, Han Zhong, and Zhao Hong gathered in Wancheng. Zhu Yan led Sun Jian to do a lot of effort to wipe out the Yellow Turban thieves. However, due to the deaths and injuries of the two armies, there were plagues after the war. Many people in Nanyang County died of plagues, and Wancheng no longer regained its prosperity. However, Nanyang County was the largest county in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Its population was one million at its peak, and now it has 500,000 or 600,000 people, which can be called a big county.

If history was not changed by Lu Bu, after Dong Zhuo's death, after Li Jue and Guo Si killed each other, Zhang Ji led troops to attack Nanyang County and was shot and killed by Liu Biao's army. However, in order to resist the threat of Cao Cao in the north, Liu Biao signed an alliance with Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu, and gave up Nanyang County to station troops for Zhang Xiu, and expanded its power to resist Cao Cao. Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu twice and was not good. Later, it was Jia Xu who persuaded Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao got Wancheng. Now history has been changed by Lu Bu. Jia Xu surrendered to Lu Bu, Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Ji died one after another at the hands of Lu Bu. The uncle and nephew never had the chance to visit Wancheng again.

The Wancheng garrison was Jiang Qi, a confidant general under Yuan Shao. He was ordered by Yuan Shao and asked him to stick here, because Wancheng was considered the gateway to Xiangyang. If Wancheng fell into the hands of Lu Bu, the Central Army could pose a threat to Xiangyang at any time.

Lu Bu was originally not very familiar with Jiang Qi, but later he learned about his calligraphy and suddenly realized that he was the famous Jiang Yiqu.

The book secretly states that there is no Jiang Qi in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there is no Jiang Yiqu in the Three Kingdoms. Jiang Yiqu’s name was first seen in the Book of Later Han. Later, Sima Guang introduced Zizhi Tongjian, or was the same as Jiang Qi. The biggest possibility is that Jiang Qi’s name is Yiqu.

In history, during the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao sent more than 10,000 troops from Chunyu Qiong and others to welcome the baggage chariots. Ju Su advised Yuan Shao: "You can send general Jiang Qi to cut off the food route of Cao Cao." Yuan Shao refused to obey. When Yuan Shao was defeated by Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao retreated to the north bank of Liyang, hid in Jiang Qi and Jiang Yiqu's camp, and said, "I am the leader to pay for it!" After Jiang Qi heard the situation of the Battle of Guandu from Yuan Shao, he found the remaining defeated generals everywhere, so that Yuan Shao's army could be restored to the momentum before the Battle of Guandu. Jiang Qi and Jiang Yiqu could be regarded as a good general.

Because he had some understanding of Jiang Yiqu's performance in history and knew that he was not an ordinary brave and unscrupulous general, Yuan Shao could hand over Wancheng to him with confidence. He must have had two tricks, so Lu Bu put away his previous care and was cautious.

Jiang Yiqu has a lot of generals and has more than 10,000 troops under his command. Relying on the high and deep city of Wancheng, he is not afraid to fight against Lu Bu's 100,000 troops.

Lu Bu urged the army to attack the city, and attacked for ten days in a row, but failed to take down Wancheng, but lost five or six thousand troops.

Lu Bu remembered the difficulties of Cao Cao in attacking Wancheng occupied by Zhang Xiu in history, and realized that this conventional siege battle really consumed a lot of troops. Seeing that his troops were exhausted, Lu Bu ordered a quit, but only surrounded Wancheng. While letting the central soldiers who were exhausted over the war rest, he seized the time to build a sharp siege weapon, and reorganized more than 70,000 prisoners who had been captured before.

Yuan Shao led a 100,000 army to attack Luoyang. In the end, only he and more than 20 trusted civil officials and military generals fled back to Xiangyang in a hurry, which was considered annihilated. Among the 100,000 people were killed on the spot. More than 20,000 were seriously injured and incurable after the war, and the remaining more than 70,000 were all captured by the Central Army.

Because most of these soldiers were natives in Jingzhou, Lu Bu despised the combat power of the Jingzhou soldiers in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was not prepared to select people from it to supplement the losses of the Central Army. Except for being incorporated into Yan Xing, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang, the rest were all assigned to the Jingzhou Guerrilla Corps and the Jingzhou Construction Corps that were about to be built.

Lu Bu instructed Huang Zhong, a native of Nanyang, to be the general of the Jingzhou Guerrilla Corps and Huang Quan was the general of the military farming army of the Jingzhou Construction Corps, and asked them to start operating Nanyang County from now on.

When Lu Bu's army besieged Wancheng, Yuan Shao, who fled back to Xiangyang, was afraid that Wancheng would be in trouble, so he sent Lu Weihuang and Han Luzi to support Jiang Yiqu. However, Lu Bu had already obtained accurate information from the secret service of the Military Information Department stationed in Xiangyang, so he besieged the city and attacked the aid, and asked Zhang He, Xu Huang and Zhao Yun's third divisions to ambush Lu Weihuang, Han Luzi, and Han Luzi were killed by Xu Huang. Lu Weihuang was captured by Zhao Yun, and more than 3,000 people were killed. More than 1,000 people fled back to Xiangyang, and all the rest surrendered.

Lu Bu asked Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to take action and persuade Lu Weihuang to follow him. Lu Weihuang finally agreed to defect to Lu Bu.

While Lu Bu stepped up the attack, Jiang Yiqu was exhausted from dealing with it. At the same time, Zhao Yun's troops pretended to be Lu Weihuang and Han Luzi's reinforcements, wearing the armor and flags of the Jingzhou soldiers. There were also many surrendered Jingzhou soldiers mixed in it. Lu Weihuang took the lead and rushed straight to the camp of the Central Army from the south. It seemed that it took a lot of effort to rush to the gate of Wancheng.

When Jiang Yiqu saw that it was reinforcements led by Lu Weihuang, he saw that there were many familiar faces among the soldiers. Without any doubts, he opened the city gate and let Lu Weihuang come in. Lu Weihuang came in, and Zhao Yun also came in. Zhao Yun took advantage of Jiang Yiqu’s unpreparedness and stretched out his ape’s arms to capture Jiang Yiqu alive. Zhao Yun’s 20,000 troops quickly entered the city and controlled the four gates of Wancheng.

Lu Bu, Zhang He and Xu Huang's troops also quickly entered the city and completely occupied Wancheng. (To be continued...)
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