Three Kingdoms: copy Lu Bu's force at the beginning

Xuzhou.

Liu Bei took over Xuzhou Mu's seal from the dying Tao Qian.

Xuzhou officially changed hands.

This matter, in the land of Kanto, is definitely a big event.

In the hands of Tao Qian, Xuzhou is like a lamb, and almost any prince can easily take Xuzhou.

Before, Cao Cao's army was invincible all the way, which is an example.

But now, in Liu Bei's hands, Xuzhou is no longer a lamb, but a young wolf.

Liu Bei himself is quite strategic, both civil and military, and there are two fierce generals related to Zhang under his command.

As long as Liu Bei is given some time, this baby wolf can grow into a ferocious hungry wolf.

The location of Xuzhou is the sea to the east, Qingzhou to the north, Yanzhou and Yuzhou to the west, and Yangzhou to the south.

Therefore, once Liu Bei stabilizes Xuzhou, he can easily expand outwards. Of course, this is not what Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Yuan Shu want to see.

Especially Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, they have already locked Xuzhou, how can they tolerate Liu Bei's advantage.

At this time, the war between Cao Cao and Lu Bu had entered the final stage.

Although Lu Bu had the help of Chen Gong, after all, he first occupied Yanzhou and was attacked by Cao Cao's returning army before the popular support.

Otherwise, if Lu Bu can be given half a year to introduce a series of policies to benefit the people, this Yanzhou may really change the world.

It's a pity that Cao Cao didn't give Lu Bu any time, and after a strong offensive, relying on the number and combat effectiveness of his army to be stronger than Lu Bu, he won successive victories.

Lu Bu was defeated again and again, and the Yanzhou soldiers who followed him quit, and there were voices of rebellion everywhere.

And Lu Bu's [-] Bingzhou Army also lost half of it, which can be described as a heavy loss.

Yanzhou couldn't stay any longer, so Lu Bu had to retreat while fighting, and retreated in the direction of Xuzhou.

In the land of Kanto, only Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Liu Bei can go to defect.

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are not easy to get along with, so Lu Bu will naturally choose Liu Bei.

This was Chen Gong's idea to Lu Bu.

Because Liu Bei's new acquisition of Xuzhou also failed to gain a foothold, maybe Lu Bu can have a chance to occupy Xuzhou to replace Liu Bei.

So, after looting Ren Chengguo, Lu Bu took [-] soldiers and horses, as well as Chen Gong, Xu Si, Wang Kai, Zhang Miao and others, to Xuzhou.

But Zhang Chao, Zhang Miao's younger brother, took his family to defend Yongqiu, and it would be a matter of time before he was defeated and killed.

Since then, Cao Cao has officially taken back Yanzhou.

It's just that Yanzhou has been poisoned by the Yellow Turban for a long time, and it is dilapidated.

Cao Cao had just governed for a period of time, and Yanzhou had just started to improve, when he encountered the disaster of Lu Bu, and Yanzhou was tortured again.

In this way, Cao Cao's vitality will be greatly injured, and there is no need to talk about outward expansion in the short term.

For Liu Bei's occupation of Xuzhou, Cao Cao could only hate it, but he had no choice but to resume production first and accumulate strength.

In fact, the power comparison between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in history is not as bad as 01:30 stars, but a lot worse.

But Yuan Shao actually lost in the battle of Guandu, and the defeat was miserable. I have to say that Yuan Shao was really stupid, very stupid.

Cao Cao is powerless, but Yuan Shu is powerful. How can he tolerate Xuzhou, which he has coveted for a long time, falling into Liu Bei's hands.

Therefore, on the third day after Liu Bei took over Xuzhou Mu, Yuan Shu swore to the Northern Expedition in Shouchun.

General Ji Ling above Yuan Shu was the main general, with Han Hao, Liang Gang, Le Jiu, Chen Ji, Huang Gai, and Sun Ben as deputy generals, and raised an army of [-] to attack Liu Bei.

For the five princes of Kanto, the battle situation has changed again.

Before that, Gongsun Zan fought Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao fought Tao Qian.

Then Gongsun Zan fought Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao withdrew from Xuzhou to fight Lu Bu.

Now, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao are still fighting, Cao Cao has stopped, and Yuan Shu and Liu Bei are about to fight.

The war spread all over Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

Originally, there was no war in Qingzhou, but Yuan Shao sent his eldest son Yuan Tan there.

Sure enough, Gongsun Zan immediately ordered Tian Kai to return to Qingzhou.

Without Tian Kai's army, Yuan Shao's pressure was much less, and he fought Gongsun Zan at Panhe.

Wen Chou bravely won the three armies and beheaded several generals of Gongsun Zan at Jieqiao, which made Gongsun Zan furious and went out to fight Wen Chou himself.

But how could Gongsun Zan be Wen Chou's opponent, and he was defeated and fled.

But Wen Chou pursued him so hard that even Gongsun Zan's helmet fell off, and he couldn't get rid of Wen Chou.

At this time, Zhao Yun stepped forward and fought Wen Chou for [-] rounds regardless of the outcome.

Seeing that Gongsun Zan still had such a strong general under his command, Yuan Shao didn't dare to attack lightly, and both sides withdrew their troops.

Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao were temporarily stalemate in Panhe.

The dense clouds of war spread over so many states and counties, so many ordinary people either crossed the Yangtze River south or went northwest to the paradise of Bingzhou in order to escape the war.

For these refugees, Hua Yu has long been prepared.

Housing and food were prepared for them in advance, wasteland, cattle and farm tools were prepared.

In a word, after these refugees arrive, they can live with their bags and go to reclaim wasteland the next day.

Therefore, when the Kwantung princes made a lot of trouble, Hua Yu, Liu Yao, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao were taken advantage of.

However, Yuan Shu hated the influx of refugees, and even sent people to block the border to prevent the influx of refugees.

Liu Biao and Liu Yao allowed the influx of refugees, but they only opened granaries to stockpile food and cooked some gruel to barely keep these people alive.

Only Huayu provided houses to live in, food to eat, barren land, cattle and farm tools, and treated the refugees as residents.

Hua Yu's heart of benevolence, under Li Ru's deliberate dissemination, soon spread throughout Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou.

In this way, if the common people could not stand the war, they would no longer cross the Yangtze River south, but go northwest to Bingzhou.

Hua Yu was relieved.

In troubled times, what is the most important?

Of course, the population is the most important, as long as there are people, there is everything.

Except for the first year, Huayu needs to provide a lot of costs and resources. From the second year on, Huayu will make a steady profit without losing money.

In the later period of the Three Kingdoms, why both Wu and Shu could not compete with Wei State was because most of the population was in Wei State.

The national strength of Wei State is far above that of Wu and Shu.

With just the word "consumption", the state of Wei could consume both Wu and Shu to death.

It has only been a few months since Huayu took back Bingzhou, and Bingzhou has taken in nearly 20 refugees.

Because after Bingzhou's refugee policy was spread, the influx of refugees increased every day.

One of the reasons why Hua Yu agreed to form an alliance with Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shu by taking advantage of Qiao Rui's matter was that Bingzhou had many mountains.

And the four counties that Hua Yu requested from Gongsun Zan, and the Nanyang County that Hua Yu requested from Yuan Shu, are all places with fertile soil, especially suitable for farming.

Moreover, these counties and counties are all bordered by the lands of the Kanto princes, and the springboard for Huayu's external expansion in the future is perfect for farming.

The news of Yuan Shu sending troops to Xuzhou shocked the whole Xuzhou.

As a result, Xuzhou people once again left their hometowns, including Zhang Zhao in Pengcheng, Zhang Hong in Guangling, and Lusu in Xiapi.

It's just that they didn't go south to Jiangdong, but went to the land of Hedong.