When he fought with Liu Bei, he even threw away all the food and equipment when he was defeated. He wanted to fight the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou, but he didn't even have food and weapons!

Just when Yuan Shu was about to conquer Yuzhou again, Liu Bei sent his elder brother Yuan Ji as an envoy to make a deal with him. He was willing to exchange 10 shi of grain or equivalent weapons and armor for a Yellow Turban soldier, even to show his sincerity.

, Liu Bei also gave Yuan Shu 100,000 stones of grain and tens of thousands of weapons and armor in advance.

Although these weapons, armor and food belong to Yuan Shu himself, with these materials he can fight against the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou. Yuan Shu agreed without thinking!

Therefore, Yuan Shu was different from his elder brother in that he would not kill the Yellow Turban prisoners he captured, but instead sent soldiers to take the prisoners to Nanyang County and hand them over to Liu Bei.

Just like today's battle, he captured about 100,000 Yellow Turban troops. As long as he brings these people to Nanyang County, Liu Bei will give Yuan Shu 1 million stones of food. With this food and grass, Yuan Shu will have the confidence to continue fighting.

!

After Liu Bei got these Huang Junjun soldiers, he planned to escort them to Nanjun to farm.

The development situation in various parts of Jingzhou is extremely uneven. Nanyang County, which belongs to Jingzhou and is north of the Yangtze River, has more than 2 million people. This does not include hidden households. According to Liu Bei's own estimation, the entire Nanyang County probably has more than 3 million people.

People, such a dense population, even in the Central Plains is a first-class large county, only Henan Yincai has a larger population than Nanyang County.

But the eight counties in Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River have a combined population of more than 3 million, which is equivalent to one Nanyang County! As long as you cross the Yangtze River, even in Xiangyang, which will be famous in later generations, you can see the swamps 10 miles outside the city. The entire Nanjun County is developed

There is not even a tenth of the land in the country. There are large tracts of wilderness and swamps in the wild. It can be said to be a completely barbaric land.

Historically, Cao Cao was defeated or almost trapped in the swamp of Nanjun. This was the result of decades of development by Liu Biao! From here you can see how low the development level of Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River is.

After Liu Bei became the shepherd of Jingzhou and defeated Yuan Shu, he came to Nanjun and found that there was a large amount of wasteland to the south of Jingzhou that could be cultivated. He was overjoyed when he saw it and believed that the wasteland and swamps south of Jingzhou were the only way to solve the problem of Han refugees.

He had experience in farming. When he saw the chaos in the Central Plains and the refugees all over the world joined the Yellow Turban Army to rebel against the Han Dynasty, he wanted to transfer the experience of Youzhou to Nanjun and reclaim the wasteland and swamps of Nanjun. With the vastness of Jingzhou,

With the mild climate in the south, it is not a problem to feed millions of refugees, and the problem of more people and less land in the Central Plains can also be solved!

So he sent Yuan Ji as an envoy to reach this deal with Yuan Shu!

With the temptation of food and grass, Yuan Shu was so motivated that he captured nearly 100,000 Yellow Turban troops every month and brought them to Nanyang County. Liu Bei then transported these prisoners to the surrounding southern Xinjiang for them to colonize and open up wasteland!

Of course, such a settlement would consume a lot of money, food and materials, and Liu Bei's solution was very simple. He first caught the nobles who rebelled against the court with Yuan Shu, asked them to hand over money and food to atone for their sins, and got a start-up capital, and then

Lead the army to quell the clan traitors from all over Jingzhou!

The Han clan thief is considered a specialty of the Yangtze River. Now the land development scope of the Han Dynasty is only north of the Yangtze River. The area south of the Yangtze River is so desolate that it can already be called a barbaric land. The people here can only survive if they want to survive.

To survive as a clan, they formed local armed forces based on clan units. Based on the farm economy, they established forts with economic and military functions, and were completely economically self-sufficient.

When the imperial court was in its prime, they were local tyrants, but when the imperial court declined, they immediately transformed into local bandits, robbing homes and causing cholera in all directions!

And Sun Jian rushed all the way south of Jingzhou to Yuzhou, and even the governor of Jingzhou was killed by him. Moreover, the Yuan brothers were fighting Dong Zhuo at that time. No matter how you look at it, the world is in chaos and the Han Dynasty is about to perish.

So most of the powerful people, large and small, in the south of Jingzhou thought that the troubled times had come, and it was time for everyone to fight for the world according to their own abilities, so they all rebelled against the Han, attacked counties and counties, plundered everywhere, and became a land-based bandit.

flow.

How could Liu Bei endure such a thing? He ordered Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others to divide their forces to encircle and suppress these clan traitors. It took him three months to suppress the clan traitor forces in the entire Nanjun, Jiangxia County, and other places.

Seeing how powerful Liu Bei was, the clan thief threw down his sword and immediately turned to serve the people, becoming an honest and sincere common man again!

And Liu Bei relied on the seizures from the clan thieves to maintain the current scale of farming and even support Yuan Shu! After all, they are a family that has been in the family for hundreds of years, and that family does not have hundreds of thousands of stones of food!

Liu Bei had enough money and food to ignore the chaos in the Central Plains, but focused on leading the refugees to open up wasteland in Nanjun, dig ditches, build windmills to drain the water in the swamps of Nanjun, and cultivate fertile farmland!

Attention turns to Yuzhou!

The Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou was beaten by Sun Jian and Yuan Shu and fled in all directions. Especially after Gong Dudu died in the hands of Sun Jian, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others found that if they did not join forces, they would only die!

So the entire Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou united and decided to deal with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian together!

Although the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou suffered heavy losses during this period, the combined forces of the several forces still had 150,000 troops!

Yuan Shu and Sun Jian were even more delighted when they discovered that the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou had united. After this period of war, they also discovered that the Yellow Turban Army was not very effective. Even if they united, they would not be Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's opponent! So they led

The army arrived in Yang'an County where the Yellow Turban coalition troops were stationed

Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others led the entire Yellow Turban Army to fight against the coalition forces of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu!

After the two sides repaired for a day, the battle started!

Sun Jian still used his old tactics. He led his personal guards to the front line of the battlefield. When he encountered the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, he rushed over and killed the Yellow Turban Army commander with a knife. Once the commander died in battle, all the Yellow Turban Army soldiers would surely collapse.

!

In this way, Sun Jian fought fiercely for five days, breaking through 10 military formations of the Yellow Turban Army, and hacked to death more than a dozen Yellow Turban Army commanders. The Yellow Turban Army commander was so frightened that his expression changed when he heard about it!

Under such circumstances, even if the Yellow Turban Army had 3 times the advantage, they could not resist the attack of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu. They could only retreat to the mountainous area and rely on the geographical advantages of the mountainous area to block Sun Jian's attack!

But both Sun Jian and Yuan Shu wanted to completely defeat the Yellow Turban Army. Even if the Yellow Turban Army retreated to the mountains, they still pursued it!

Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army is about to collapse completely!
Chapter completed!