When Lü Peng decided to throw away the back road, led his troops to the north bank of the Yellow River, and prepared to cross the river to the south, the river was too guarded, and Tian Ji's brother Tian Ming, who died in Guandu, took the city full of civil and military forces in the river, and went directly out of the city to surrender.

This result was very relieved by Lu Peng, so he comforted Tian Ming with kind words and asked him to still be the Taishou of the river, but left a commander with a thousand troops to collect the few remaining Hejian soldiers and stationed them in Hejian City to stabilize the place and sweep away the rogue bandits from all over the country.

After arranging this step, Lu Peng did not enter the city, and directly led his troops to continue south.

Where the army passed, the villages and towns were barren and miserable, but occasionally encountered a village and town, and after the people fled with a cry, they found that it was the Lu family army in Youzhou, and then there was a burst of cheers, kneeling down on the road to welcome, and taking out what little thing they had to pay tribute to the army.

There were even more people along the way, who directly picked up sticks, uncovered the rods, drove away the original management officials of Yuan Shao, and dedicated one county town after another to Lu Peng.

At this time, Lu Peng only needs a team of ten people, and he can completely control a county town, because of the help of the people, as long as there is a little opposition to the force, the people will gather together, and under the leadership of this ten-person team, they will be extinguished immediately.

As for who to surrender, in line with the principle of proximity, whoever arrives first will surrender first, and as for the future, if Lu Peng's army retreats, it will not be too late for everyone to surrender to Cao Cao.

The reason why the big guys above can still persist sometimes is that they want to continue to enjoy the glory and wealth brought to them by power, and once they fail, the glory and wealth will disappear with it, so they insist.

And the lower-level officials, in their opinion, the leadership above the situation changes, you come and go, but no matter what, these lower-level officials are needed to manage the place, as long as they are obedient and cater to their superiors, their own small wealth will inevitably be guaranteed.

Since whoever you are an official is for the sake of your superiors, you can keep your little glory and wealth, who is it for you to do it.

With the support of the poor people, Lu Peng originally wanted to go through the state and county, and there was no need to advance without the rear, which basically had no worries.

And all the people along the way cheered and rushed to tell each other, and the action to welcome the Lu Jiajun was even more enthusiastic. As long as the army marched to a place, it was on the side of the road, and it was already surrounded by the people, and they stood up one after another, willing to lead the way for the army, and attacked those county towns that were not yet willing to surrender.

This is what the people want, and this is the one who truly wins the hearts of the people wins the world.

But there are also hidden dangers, that is, those helpless people, after supporting the actions of Lu Peng's army, are also afraid that Lu Peng will abandon everyone, and then attract the revenge of officials from all over the country, so they silently follow the army before and after, they don't know where Lu Jiajun will go, in everyone's hearts, as long as they follow Lu Jiajun, there is hope for life, and there will be a better future.

Just now, everyone dragged the old and the young to follow him, and the number was not very large, but as the army moved south, more and more people followed.

Every day, when the army was encamped, outside the camp, there was a dense crowd of people in distress who could not see the end of the day.

These people have no food and clothing, and the Lu family army treats them kindly, but no matter what, the lesson of the army like a tiger and wolf is still in their hearts, so they can only surround the camp like this, shivering in the colder and colder autumn wind.

Every night, the dying sighs of the elderly, the hungry cries of the children, and the helpless cries of the mothers, just like that, they converged into an earth-shattering wail around the camp. This crying and screaming carried the hearts of all the soldiers of the Lu family every night.

Standing on the watchtower that had just been erected, looking at the more and more homeless people gathered outside the barracks, Lu Peng was also very worried.

This time I went south, and I got the full support of the people, and the people really wanted to themselves, but the people of Yizhou and Zhou, under the rule of Yuan Shao, had indeed been stripped of their bodies, and they were in urgent need of help, and their only hope was their own help.

But at the beginning, he issued a ban and absolutely did not give free relief to the people, looking at the hungry and cold people outside, Lu Peng was quite conflicted.

If you don't help, you can only watch those emaciated people starve to death, and every time they pull out, they stay in the original camp, surrounded by a field of people's corpses that no one buries.

Those people can only say goodbye to their powerless relatives, crying, and slowly follow the team, they don't know where the team is going, they only know that following this team, there is hope to live, and they will not be retaliated.

"What should I do?" Lu Peng knocked his head in pain.

Now, you must not violate the iron law you set at the beginning, and you must not break your word and get fat, otherwise all your future decrees will completely collapse in the system because of this violation.

Another point is that now that the army is on the march, the entire logistics of his army is not allowed to be bought and sold by commerce, once the relief is carried out, can those merchants be able to provide themselves with sufficient food and grass materials?

Now the time is the most urgent, I am competing with Cao Cao to see who is faster, once I am dragged down by these people, my strategic goals can not be achieved, the future will be endless, and then the price will be huge and heavy, which is light and which is heavy, this kind of trade-off is indeed sad.

Xi Zhen and Yang Feng are both from poor backgrounds, and the soldiers of the Lu family army are all from poor and homeless people, and the poor people understand the poor people best, and the most compassionate people are still the poor people. Xi Zhen was entrusted by all the soldiers and asked Lu Peng: "My lord, I know that the iron law you issued at the beginning is absolutely not fair to help the people, but ours will entrust me to plead with you, the soldiers would rather eat half of the grain in the past, and the soldiers would rather turn the daily supply of meat into food to help those people outside the camp, please ask the lord for permission." Then with tears in his eyes, he knelt on the ground and threw his hand at Lu Peng, "This is the soldiers tightening their own rations, this is a little help that the soldiers voluntarily gave to the people, and it does not violate the iron law set by the lord at the beginning." ”

When she said this, Xi Zhen's eyes were painful, and she was also full of resentment against the lord's iron-blooded heart.

Yang Feng also knelt silently beside Xi Zhen at this time, staring at the lord expectantly.

Looking at all the soldiers of the Lu family army here, they all knelt down silently, silently pleading with Lu Peng.