In the evening, Xu Rong's henchmen quietly entered the Wancheng Governor's Mansion and sent Xu Rong's secret information.

Yue Fei quickly opened and browsed, Xu Rong said in the letter that Yang Xuangan learned that Wancheng's men and horses were attacking Jingzhou on a large scale, and Chang'an had led 20,000 cavalry to march to Wuguan in a hurry, and it was expected that he would be able to enter Nanyang tomorrow evening or late at night, and he needed to take precautions in advance.

"Sure enough, as you and I expected, as long as we move troops to Xiangyang, Yang Xuangan will send troops to restrain us!" Yue Fei glanced at Liu Ye after reading the letter and said.

Liu Ye took the letter from Yue Fei's hand, scanned it quickly, frowned, and said: "Xiangyang has strong troops, and the city wall is high and thick, and it is the first in the world!" Even if my 100,000 army poured out, I am afraid that it will not be easy to go to Xiangyang! Xinye, the northern gateway to Xiangyang this time, has already achieved its strategic goal, and it is the best policy to temporarily focus on defending it in Ye's opinion, and wait for His Majesty to pacify Qing and Xu, and then concentrate the army to besiege Xiangyang! ”

Yue Fei agreed: "There are already nearly 30,000 defenders in Wuguan, plus Yang Xuangan's 20,000 Xiliang cavalry, it is indeed not to be underestimated!" Pass my order, leave Gao Changgong, Dong Xi, and Huo Jun to lead 30,000 people to guard Xinye, and the others will withdraw to Wancheng to standby! ”

"Wait......"

Liu Ye stopped the herald first, and then said to Yue Fei: "How can you return empty-handed when you enter Debao Mountain?" The new field has been lowered, there is no gateway to Xiangyang, and the thousands of miles of fertile fields outside Xiangyang City are free for me to come and go, but I can order the generals? Harvest the crops in the field of Xiangyang overnight, weakening the supply of grain and grass for the Jingzhou army! ”

"Zi Yang's words are very good!" Yue Fei stroked the beard in approval.

The herald took the command and left, and Yue Fei rewarded Xu Rong's messenger and ordered him to return to Wuguan secretly. Continue to travel back and forth between the two places to transmit information.

From Wancheng to Xinye, it is only more than a hundred miles. Hurry up and whip up an hour and a half to arrive, and the generals have obtained Yue Fei's military order. Immediately dispatched overnight and began a large-scale harvest of crops in Xiangyang. Although it is only July now, there is still a month before the crops are ripe, but harvesting a bucket will cause Liu Biaojun to lose a bucket of grain, so 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, whether raw or cooked, all wielded sickles or even war knives to harvest vigorously.

At the end of the harvest, all the carriages were almost full, and Gao Changgong ordered: "Put fire on me to burn him in the field of Xiangyang!" ”

After a short time, a raging fire began to burn in the wilderness of Xiangyang. In addition, the wind suddenly rose, and the wind fueled the fire, and the fire raged even more. Not only did it burn the crops in the fields, but it also burned the trees all over the mountains and fields to a pitch black and lifeless place.

Liu Biao got information in the city, scolded angrily, and ordered the three generals Wenpin, Huang Zhong, and Wang Wei to lead their troops to attack, but they were blocked by the fires all over the mountains, and they could only watch the Han army harvest the grain and leave.

In order to prevent the fire from spreading to Yangyang. Wen Ping hurriedly ordered his soldiers to cut down trees, clear firewood, grass and flammable materials on the ground before the fire burned, and finally contained the fire at a distance of thirty miles north of Xiangyang. However, the area of destruction was at least fifty or sixty miles, and all crops and trees were burned in the distance from Xinye to Xiangyang. At least it will cause the Xiangyang area to lose hundreds of thousands of stone of grain.

After the Han army retreated, the troops divided into two routes, Yang Zaixing and Lü Meng, who were lightly wounded, escorted the half-baked rice harvested back to Wancheng, while the three generals Gao Su, Dong Xi, and Huo Jun led 30,000 men to garrison Xinye. Check the household registration and search for spies. Build fortifications to prepare for the counterattack of the Jingzhou army.

When Yang Xuangan led his troops to Wuguan, he learned that Yue Fei's main army had retreated to Wancheng. So he stationed troops in the pass, confronted Yue Fei across the Wuguan, and waited for an opportunity to move.

The war came as violently as a summer rainstorm and dissipated quickly, but in a day or two, it was quiet.

Yue Fei repaired a letter and sent an envoy to Xiangyang, saying that he would exchange Liu Pan's corpse for Ji Ling's corpse. Liu Pan is Liu Biao's nephew, and naturally he will not refuse after seeing the letter, and the two sides each sent envoys to exchange the body on the way from Xiangyang to Xinye, Liu Pan was transported back to Xiangyang, and Ji Ling's body was also sent back to Wancheng.

Facing Ji Ling's body, Yue Fei sighed: "General Ji's death, Fei's mistake is also!" ”

"It's not the governor's fault, it's the general's fault, it's my too light on the enemy, too underestimating Huang Zhong, please let the governor fall!"

Yang Zaixing only injured his shoulder, and it was no big deal, except for the injured left arm, which could not use his strength, he was already able to move freely, and after listening to Yue Fei's self-blame, he was ashamed in his heart, and immediately bent his knees to plead guilty.

Yue Fei helped Yang Zaixing up and comforted: "If there is a mistake, it is also the fault of the governor of Pontus, and the appointment of people is negligent!" Chen Qingzhi is not a general, at best, he can only be a strategist, but I made him a deputy vanguard because of His Majesty's edict, which is really unwise! ”

"What Master said is, I don't understand why His Majesty made a scholar who was powerless to be a general? How good it is to be a strategist, you have to go to the battlefield without your own strength, and kill General Ji Ling in vain! Lu Meng, who was a head taller than last year, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and complained along with Yue Fei's words.

At this moment, Ji Ling's body was surrounded by Yue Fei's partial generals and generals, but Chen Qingzhi was not there. Because he was recuperating in bed at the moment, Huang Zhong's arrow almost killed him, and it was a fluke to be able to return to Wancheng alive.

Yue Fei glanced at the generals, raised his voice and said: "Generals remember that generals are brave soldiers, generals are the soul of soldiers, and you can't be unscrupulous for generals, but you can't be brave for generals!" The principle of employing the Governor of Pontu is to be both civil and military, and if he can't do this, at least he can't ......."

Saying this, he suddenly sighed again: "Forget it, the death of Ji Ling is the responsibility of the Governor of Pontus, and it has nothing to do with anyone, and he will write to the Son of Heaven to ask for guilt!" Chen Qingzhi was seriously injured, but he still sent someone to send him back to Jinling, so that the divine doctor Hua Tuo could heal better! ”

Chen Qingzhi, who was lying on the bed, obviously felt that he was not welcomed by the people of Yue Fei's army, so he could only lie in the carriage depressed and embark on the journey back to Jinling.

Along the way, he sighed from time to time: "Can't you make achievements without the courage of your husband?" I'm not convinced, I'm going to impress you sooner or later! ”

When the battle report reached Jinling, Liu Wei felt a strong shock: "Huang Zhong in his prime is so powerful? In a battle, I shot and wounded two of my generals and beheaded one, which is simply overshadowing Lu Bu! Could it be that the strongest military general of the Three Kingdoms turned out to be Huang Zhong? Is this scientific? It seems that attributes are king! ”

But the wood is already in the boat, the facts are already in front of him, and Liu Wei can only accept it. This was originally just a tentative confrontation, but I didn't expect it to be fought so fiercely, and both sides paid a heavy price for casualties!

What made Liu Wei even more unexpected was that Chen Qingzhi was actually sent back by Yue Fei in the name of recuperating from his injuries, which is not welcome by Chiguoguo!

"System system, let me ask you, do you want to use it in Chen Qingzhi? Is his command really 98? ”

"Why didn't you answer when this host asked you?"

"Hi...... What is it if you don't speak? Is Chen Qingzhi's 98 command accurate? ”

"I said Uncle System, does Chen Qingzhi need a manual?"

"Your sister, you just play dead!"

Liu Wei asked for a long time, and the system pretended to be dead and refused to answer a word, which made Liu Wei not depressed: "Alas...... The system didn't even speak! Who can tell me, whether Chen Qingzhi has real materials or a big parallel import? ”

Since the system refused to point out the direction, Liu Wei had no choice but to figure out how to use Chen Qingzhi by himself: "Maybe Tangerine Huainan is a gardenia, maybe Chen Qingzhi himself is a big parallel import, and he didn't meet a powerful opponent along the way, anyway, the system is silent now!" Even Yue Fei didn't want to see him, it is estimated that it is enough to be pleasing to others, go back and wait for him to recover from his injuries, give him 7,000 people to fight Taiwan or Japan, whether it is parallel goods or Huaicai, go and prove it yourself! Whether "Book of Liang" is bragging for you or is true, you can only prove it yourself! ”

Chen Qingzhi's matter is put aside for the time being, and Hua Tuo will treat him, and there will be no danger of his life. Turning back and asking Wang Yue to teach him to practice swordsmanship, and strive to increase his strength by 3 points, Liu Wei felt that this was all he could do for Chen Qingzhi.

When Yue Fei's offensive was restrained by Yang Xuangan, Sun Ce, who was entrenched in Jingnan, also seized the opportunity of Han Shizhong's troops to march to Chaisang by land, and sent Zhang Dingbian and Shamoke to ride out of Changsha and enter the territory of Yuzhang to plunder.

Now that Liu Biao and Sun Ce have become an invisible alliance, and it doesn't even need to be said explicitly, they know each other's relationship well, with the current ability of Yue Fei's army and Han Shizhong's army, under the control of Yang Xuangan in Chang'an, they really can't take Jingxiang. Liu Wei had no choice but to order Han Shizhong to retreat to Chaisang, temporarily take a defensive position, and wait for the dust to settle on the Qingzhou battlefield, and then attack Jingxiang with all his might!

"I have to continue to implement the strategy of attacking Qingzhou, this Liu Biao is much more difficult to fight than Yuan Shu!" Liu Wei sighed in his heart, it seems that the princes of the Three Kingdoms are not soft persimmons that people can pinch casually.

Ji Ling died to rescue Chen Qingzhi, and he would rather kill himself than be captured, which is admirable. Liu Wei passed down the edict, posthumously named Ji Ling as "General Zhaolie", gave him the title of Marquis of Surabaya Pavilion, and sent his coffin back to his hometown of Surabaya Pavilion in Lu County, Qingzhou for burial.

A few days later, Han Hao came to Jinling from Runan to ask for a meeting with the Son of Heaven and intercede for his brother Han Xuan. Liu Wei knew that although Han Xuan was a mediocre and incompetent person, he should be able to be a local official such as a county magistrate and a county official, so he wrote a letter to Yue Fei and ordered Han Xuan to be released from prison and let him go to Xun Yu's shogunate to listen to it and dispatch him.

The four counties of Jiangbei became more and more prosperous under the governance of Xun Yu, and there were a group of capable officials such as Xu Jing, Yu Tuo, Hua Xin, Wang Lang, and Bu Qi. In addition, he also served as a waiter of the Ministry of Agriculture to assist Xu Guangqi to jointly develop the country's agriculture, and strive to increase the grain output of all places under his rule to a higher level, so that no one under his rule will suffer from hunger and famine! (To be continued......) R1292