“…… Uncle Lu, so far, there are about more than 200,000 people gathered in the Lelang area, and the money, food and materials we have dispatched in the past have basically been used in Lelang. In addition, after the Western Front troops led by Sister Lu and Daddy (Chen Yiyi's name for Lu Lingqi and Chen Gong) completely opened up Xisai Mountain, about 40,000 or 50,000 Xiangping people went to Liucheng through Xisai Mountain, and they were resettled by Liucheng and Chrysanthemum Port.www.biquge.info ”

Lu Ren nodded. The population of Liaodong at that time was about 700,000, and at this time, excluding the forces held by Gongsun Gong and Gongsun Yuan, as well as the related losses that could not be avoided since the start of the war, it can be said that about half of the population of Liaodong has actually been in the hands of Lu Ren.

As for the other half, it is not in the hands of Gongsun Yuan, but scattered in various places in the Liaodong region, and Gongsun Yuan himself is only in control of the Xiangping region. To put it mildly, the current Gongsun Yuan is basically already trapped in the lonely city with more than 30,000 horses and horses in hand.

Previously, after Lu Ren's southern front troops completed the smooth landing of Lelang, they could actually launch a full-scale attack on Liaodong, and if Lu Ren really attacked regardless of cost and loss, Gongsun Yuan would be finished in a short time. But again, Lu Ren didn't want to do that. It is certainly refreshing to play hard, but once a hard battle is fought, the loss of personnel and strength can be great. Lu Ren is not bad for money, but poor for population, so unless it is a last resort, Lu Ren doesn't want to knock hard.

And now, Lu Ren feels that the conditions for winning the entire Liaodong are basically ripe, and there is no need to drag it out like this. According to Lu Ren's plan, he wants to settle Gongsun Yuan in the winter of this year, take over the entire Liaodong, and then use these months of winter to make relevant adjustments and arrangements for the people of Liaodong, so that in February and March of next year, when the spring flowers bloom in Liaodong, the people can be relatively smoothly organized to carry out spring plowing and production work.

In addition, there is another reason why Lu Ren chose to complete the Liaodong strategy in the harsh winter, that is, according to the information sent back by Lao Cao's fine work, Lao Cao had broken through Yangping Pass not long ago, and Zhang Lu retreated to Hanzhong City. In terms of geographical location, as soon as Zhang Lu's Yangping Pass is lost, Hanzhong City is basically dangerous, which means that it won't take long for Lao Cao to take Hanzhong.

Then according to the information sent back by Yecheng, Lao Cao's base camp is also surging, to put it simply, Lao Cao's base camp is a little unstable. Lu Ren had expected this, because some scholars in later generations pointed out the problems of the Lao Cao Group in this regard, and Lu Ren also knew that this was not something he could influence.

To put it bluntly, Lu Ren knew that at this point, in order to stabilize the rear, Lao Cao would definitely rush back to engage in his political struggle after taking Hanzhong in a hurry, in other words, Lao Cao's main force would return to Hebei soon, and it was likely that Lu Ren would not have much time to play slow chess against Liaodong. Therefore, Lu Ren also had to speed up the pace of Liaodong's strategy at this time, and be sure to take Liaodong down before Lao Cao returned to Hebei, creating an instant fact, so that Lao Cao could only "look at Liaodong and Liaoxi" and sigh.

Speaking of which, Lu Ren originally had enough time, but wasn't it because of the unexpected appearance of "him" in the middle that Lu Ren left Yizhou for more than three months? If it weren't for the unexpected "expenditure" of more than three months, Lu Ren would be completely sure that he would be able to hold Liaodong firmly in his hands, and he wouldn't even have to launch an attack on Gongsun Yuan in the harsh winter season. Perhaps, this is a typical person who is not as good as heaven, right?

"Alright, so be it! If you go back and work hard, send the ones you wrote down to Xun Gong, and Xun Gong will review them again, and if there are any problems, they will be directly modified. Tell Xun Gong again, and after confirming that it is correct, send it directly to Liaodong, and destroy Gongsun Yuan in one go! ”

"No!"

After some calculations, Lu Ren saw that the sky was almost dark, so he beckoned to Chen Yiyi and said, "It's all at this hour, Yiyi, you can have a homely meal at my place by the way and then go back." ”

Because the business was done, Chen Yiyi was no longer so serious, so she responded with a smile: "Okay!" Don't hide it from Uncle Lu, I really plan to eat a meal at Uncle Lu's place and then go back. By the way, I especially want to eat Uncle Lu, you have sweet and sour hairtail fish here, Uncle Lu, see if you can ......"

Lu Ren smiled: "When Ling Zun sent you to Yizhou to study a few years ago, you ate sweet and sour hairtail fish with me, but I didn't expect it to become your favorite dish." But do you know that when I persuaded Lingzun to send you and your sister to Yizhou to study, it really took a lot of words. ”

It's the truth. Chen Gong is a very traditional scholar, which can be seen from Chen Gong's generous death after abandoning Lao Cao and Xia Pi Chengpo. In addition, after Chen Gong came to Yizhou, he went to Jiaozhou when Yizhou had not yet developed much, although it had the meaning of helping Lu Ren stabilize the foothold of Jiaozhou, but also had the intention of hiding in a remote place to live in seclusion, in other words, the contact with Lu Ren was relatively limited, so many of the ideas and concepts formed in the development of Yizhou did not have much impact on Chen Gong.

Limited by this, although Chen Gong has educated Chen Yiyi, it is only a traditional family education, and the shortcomings are not the slightest. And Chen Yiyi and her sister are young and lively, and their attention to Yizhou is much higher than that of Chen Gong, and then they wanted to go to Yizhou College to study, but Chen Gong did not agree at that time.

Later, it was Chen Yiyi who secretly asked someone to bring a letter to Lu Ren, asking Lu Ren to come forward to persuade Chen Gong, and Lu Ren also spent a lot of words to move Chen Gong, so now there is a matter of Chen Yiyi graduating from Yizhou College with excellent grades, and then becoming Zhen Mi's assistant and sitting here. Lu Ren's evaluation of this is: "If a little boy who falls in love with Chen Yiyi is inserted in the middle, wouldn't it become another version of "Liang Zhu" here for me?" So does Chen Yiyi also want to disguise herself as a man to come to Yizhou to study? ”

Of course, this is just a small episode, but it can also illustrate what kind of social atmosphere is in Yizhou today. And this is also what Lu Ren wants to see......

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Liaodong, Xiangping.

In the midwinter season of December, Liaodong is the season full of ice and snow. And in such a season, it was absolutely not a suitable time for combat at that time.

Gongsun Yuan, who was in Xiangping City, also thought so, he had always thought that Lu Ren's full-scale attack should not come until after the beginning of spring next year, so Gongsun Yuan should be able to get two or three months of respite no matter what he said. And in these two or three months, Gongsun Yuan may be able to play a little more tricks and give himself some chance to turn the tables.

But at this moment, the earth-shattering shouts and rumbling artillery fire under Xiangping City shattered Gongsun Yuan's thoughts. Gongsun Yuan was shocked, really shocked, he really didn't understand why Lu Ren would choose to launch such a siege battle against Xiangping in such a season and in such weather. You must know that with the tactical theory at that time, Lu Ren launched a siege operation under such climatic conditions, which was simply stuffing a large number of excellent and elite soldiers into a meat grinder!

But soon, Gongsun Yuan understood what kind of confidence Lu Ren had to launch a siege under such climatic conditions.

Take the car and hit the city gate? Take a ladder to seize the city walls? It's all work that has to be filled with human lives, and Lu Ren is not that stupid!

The rammed earth wall is quite strong, and it is frozen by the ice and snow under the severe cold, which can be described as strong and abnormal. But we have artillery in our hands, why don't we use it? The rammed earth walls that have been frozen by ice and snow are stronger, but in a sense, they have become more brittle? With a cannon bombardment, it will be broken apart in pieces.

Of course, the guns dismantled from the gunboats used now are very heavy, hundreds or thousands of pounds at every turn, and it will be very troublesome to transport them in peacetime. However, the current cold weather has certainly had a great impact on the march and battle, but it has added some convenience to the transportation of artillery. As soon as the combined sled car is ready, the cannon is put on the sled car and dragged it to save a lot of effort. In fact, the ancients had to wait until winter to transport some huge and heavy things, such as huge mountains and rocks, and they used the ice and snow to transport them, and what Lu Ren was doing now was just improving his methods.

Well, I won't say much superfluous, in short, Lu Ren's troops did not carry out siege operations according to general tactics, but set up more than 300 artillery pieces, and began to bombard the city gates and city walls of Xiangping from afar. As for the troops on the western front led by Lu Lingqi and Chen Gong, as well as the troops on the southern front led by Gan Ning and Deng Ai, they did not rush forward to attack the city, but lined up a tactical formation and waited for it. According to Lu Ren's tactical guiding ideology, that is:

"None of you are allowed to act rashly until the walls of Xiangping are completely destroyed, or until the ammunition I have prepared for you is finished! To put it simply, I want a complete victory with low losses or even no losses, but I don't want you to use the lives of elite soldiers to fight for a miserable victory! Lao Tzu's troops are actually not many, and they are all treasures, and those unnecessary losses will make Lao Tzu's flesh hurt! What is money and food in comparison? Money is king, eight, egg!! If someone has land, are we still afraid that we won't be able to earn it back? ”

are all people who have been with Lu Ren for many years, how can they not know Lu Ren's leading idea of "hurting people with their roots"? So Lu Lingqi and the others looked at that scene, although their hearts were itching terribly, they still gritted their teeth and didn't move, just praying in their hearts that this damn city wall would collapse quickly.

Look at Gongsun Yuan again, it's really miserable. Many of these Liaodong soldiers under the command of Gongsun Yuan themselves have suffered in front of Yizhou's firearms, and then exaggerated and rumored, making these Liaodong soldiers have a deep fear of Yizhou's firearms.

In addition, what is even worse is that Gongsun Yuan originally thought that it was a natural barrier to defend the city, but at this moment, it turned into a threshold and shackles that restricted Gongsun Yuan. The thick snow made it difficult for both infantry and cavalry to walk an inch on the snow. It has to be said here that in order to use ice and snow to restrict the movement of Lu Ren's troops, Gongsun Yuan has never done anything like clearing ice and snow outside Xiangping City, so the snow outside Xiangping City is not ordinarily thick. And at this moment, Gongsun Yuan has become a cocoon, and the soldiers in the city can't be sent.

But to be honest, even if Gongsun Yuan sent troops to rush, the trick would not have much effect. Lu Ren's two-line army is all in good position, and there are sharp weapons such as artillery and crossbows, so Gongsun Yuan is afraid that sending troops to rush is not much different from sending people to the head.

These are all situations on the battlefield, but behind the battlefield, it is the people of Liaodong who are delivering supplies and materials to Lu Ren's troops. Among them, Gongsun Gong came forward to recruit, but many of them were spontaneous. It should be said that the "advance investment" made by Lu Ren has begun to pay off at this time, and Gongsun Yuan has indeed done a lot of things that have made the people of Liaodong very dissatisfied before. Now that Lu Ren has come out to take the lead, the people of Liaodong are also happy to help...... To be honest, at least you come to help as a porter or something, and Lu Ren will also take care of the food and wages.

Finally, under the fierce bombardment of more than 300 artillery, the gate of Xiangping City was shattered and the city wall fell. But at this time, white flags were raised everywhere in Xiangping City, and pieces of Liaodong soldiers surrendered to Lu Ren's troops. It's all come to this, how can this battle be fought?

Gongsun Yuan also surrendered, but this guy was captured by his soldiers and sent to Gan Ning's horse before surrendering. According to those Liaodong soldiers, Gongsun Yuan originally planned to abandon the city and flee, and in the final analysis, he did not want to surrender on his own initiative. According to Gongsun Gong's understanding of Gongsun Yuan, if this guy escapes, then with this guy's ability and understanding of the Liaodong region, most of them will win over some mountains and rivers to die, and then they will be in trouble everywhere on the boundary of Liaodong. To put it bluntly, he will become a bandit leader who fights guerrillas.

After hearing the news, Lu Ren also secretly exclaimed that it was dangerous. Although Lu Ren likes fashion and trends, Lu Ren has watched many old revolutionary films, and among them, "Lin Hai Xueyuan" and "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" clearly told Lu Ren how troublesome it is to get rid of bandits in that area. If Gongsun Yuan is really made into a figure like a mountain carving, Lu Ren will have to bother to organize a few Yang Zirongs?

Next, everyone thought that Lu Ren would click Gongsun Yuan away, or accept Gongsun Yuan's surrender, anyway, in that era, there were basically these two ways to deal with it. In contrast, the former appears to be decisive in killing, while the latter appears to be more benevolent. According to everyone's opinion of Lu Ren at this time, Lu Ren should choose the latter, although Gongsun Gong has some slight remarks about this, but there is no way. As far as he is concerned, he can't wait to go up and finish off Gongsun Yuan in person, but where does Gongsun Gong dare to steal Lu Ren's limelight now? The only thing I was looking forward to was that Lu Ren would hand over Gongsun Yuan to him to dispose of.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Lu Ren ordered Gongsun Yuan to be loaded into the threshold car and sent someone to Xuchang, that is, to hand over Gongsun Yuan to the court for disposal. In this regard, Lu Ren also specially issued a proclamation, in which he enumerated many of Gongsun Yuan's crimes, such as "the following offenses will cause trouble in Liaodong" and the like. Anyway, it means one, your Gongsun Yuan is a traitor and thief of the Han Dynasty, and I Luren came to kill you for the sake of the court. Now that you have been caught by Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu, as a courtier of the Han Dynasty, of course wants to hand over you, a chaotic minister and thief, to the court to deal with, I Lu Ren dare not trespass, and the court will do what it says.

Anyone who knows a little about politics may understand that Lu Ren is actually playing a big political trick with this matter, and the effect that this political trick can bring is not just one or two.

For example, Xun Yu, he agreed with Lu Renlai with twelve points. You must know that Xun Yu is a person who is dedicated to maintaining the Han family, and Lu Renlai has such a hand, which has a considerable deterrent effect on Lao Cao, because this is equivalent to indirectly telling Lao Cao that Lao Tzu already has the entire Liaodong and Liaoxi, coupled with a strong economic backing like Yizhou, he can elbow your Lao Cao in many places, if you Lao Cao wants to make some excessive moves, you have to consider whether I Lao Lu will agree here......

To be honest, this is also one of the main reasons why Xun Yuhui decided to assist Lu Ren at that time, and strongly agreed with Lu Ren's plot against Liaodong. Now that such a pattern has been reached, Xun Yu sees hope for some things. And Lu Ren came to such a hand without asking Xun Yu, which made Xun Yu hide quietly and cry for a while. A person whose ideals and dreams are almost shattered, suddenly sees the flame of hope being rekindled, where can he not cry with joy?

However, for Lu Ren, of course, he has his own little Jiujiu, and the purpose of coming here is naturally to earn back a little more political capital for himself. Kill Gongsun Yuan? It's easy to go down with a knife, but it doesn't do you any good. Rather than this, it is better to change the way of thinking, so that this bag of garbage also has some recycling value.

It was not so fast to send Gongsun Yuan to Xuchang, and Lu Ren also had to create public opinion and buy more time to stabilize Liaodong, so he first sent a letter to Xuchang, and then asked Emperor Liu Xie to temporarily send Zhao Yu, who was playing football in Xuchang, to Liaodong, and Zhao Yu took the prisoner Gongsun Yuan to Xuchang as an official envoy...... Of course, this is a bit redundant, but Lu Ren is not trying to delay a little more time in certain situations! Besides, Lu Ren will inevitably bump into Lao Cao when he comes to this, and at the moment, only Zhao Yu may be able to play in the middle.

Next, Lu Ren has to go to Liaodong in person, because the following drama is that Gongsun Gong transferred the position of the lord of Liaodong to Lu Ren peacefully, where can Lu Ren go to Liaodong if he doesn't go? But let's not talk about these for the time being, just say that here in Hanzhong, Lao Cao just received information about Liaodong. With just one glance, Lao Cao was stunned on the spot, and then he looked up to the sky and sighed, and only said such a sentence after a long time:

"I didn't expect that! I didn't expect this Liaodong to fall into Lu Ren's hands like this......"