With peace with Lu Bu, Liu Bei was able to return to Xiaopei's residence.

Although Yuan Shu heard the proposal of his son Yuan Yao, he sent people to urge Lu Bu to get rid of him in one fell swoop.

But as Chen Gong expected in advance.

Although the two families are intimate in their alliance, they are not one after all, and the Yuan family cannot control Lu Bu's resolution.

This matter will naturally be left alone!

on the other hand.

When he learned that Taishi Ci had already arrived in Xiangyang, Zhou Yu, who was stationed in Xiakou, did not hesitate at all. He immediately prepared for war and sent troops north of the Mian River from the Xiakou waters.

In an attempt to form a pincer attack on Xiangyang from the south.

Of course, this move is not to invade the land of Jingxiang.

Whether it was Yuan Yao or Zhou Yu, they were actually very clear at this time. With their existing energy, they were mainly focused on competing for the Central Plains prefectures and counties such as Yan and Yu.

If you want to make achievements in Jiangnan, you must do your best!

But obviously, it is not the opportunity for the whale to swallow Jingxiang at this time.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible to only Taishi Ci and Sun Ce and bring more than a thousand people to come.

This is clearly a threatening move against Liu Biao to relieve the pressure on Jiangdong.

Based on the battle report sent back, Zhou Yu could guess Yuan Yao's calculations from his troops and formation.

Naturally, he would also lead his troops to cooperate.

This time, we have to cooperate with Taishi Ci's troops to have an extremely serious impact on the political situation in Xiangyang.

Only Liu Biao felt the pressure through and through.

Only in Jiangdong can several counties avoid violations in the following days.

This is exactly the strategy of attacking!

Just when Zhou Yu led his troops to attack Xiangyang along the Mian River, at this moment, Xiangyang City suddenly became panic.

The city was in chaos, and the people no longer had the same calm mind as before and continued to live their own lives.

The scholars and people in the city seemed to feel the haze of war over Xiangyang City.

It seems like you will be trapped in the quagmire of war at any time.

Especially in the city of Xiangyang or the surrounding countryside, over the past few years, due to the frequent wars in the north, northern scholars and civilians have continuously fled to live here.

Now they saw that Yuan Jun was launching a counterattack, as if they wanted to swallow the land of Jingxiang in one fell swoop.

Some scholars and people also began to restless.

They were nervous, as if they felt that Xiangyang was no longer a paradise.

If you have uneasy people in your heart, these people will naturally have different thoughts.

Over the past few days, some uneasy scholars and folks were brave and began to flee south again.

Flee to the four counties in Jingnan further south, or Jiaozhou in the southernmost south.

In short, for these people, they are extremely afraid of war.

Once there is any slightest movement, you will be ill-intentioned.

As some scholars fled south, Xiangyang and the surrounding areas gradually began to become panic and unstable.

Look at the situation that seems to be developing in an uncontrollable direction.

Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, was naturally uneasy, so he naturally would not sit still and wait for death.

If you let this matter continue, you may really not be able to withstand the Yuan clampdown in a situation where people are unstable.

In response to this, Liu Biao, who had always been extremely gentle with scholars, issued strict orders at this moment.

"Let the scholars and people in Xiangyang stay here with full authority, and no one is allowed to flee south."

"Whoever violates the order will be killed without mercy!"

Under this strict order.

Next, after several waves of typical cases were captured to uphold military discipline and improve their majesty, the scholars realized that Liu Biao was no longer joking with them, so they did not dare to act rashly.

The phenomenon of fleeing south has gradually decreased.

This caused the political instability of Jingxiang, so naturally the Yuan army was able to attack the north and south.

Then Zhou Yu's troops advanced north along the Mian River, but they were resisted by Zhang Yun and Wang Wei's troops, and even Cai Mao and the navy supported him, which made Zhou Yu's army unable to advance again.

The battle situation in Jingxiang naturally persisted here.

Time flies by.

In a blink of an eye, the severe cold and hot winter has passed quietly.

March is the season when grass grows and beetles fly high in green.

At this time, the white snow on the northern land had melted and dissolved.

After the spring comes.

The princes in the north did not continue the war again as soon as possible.

Instead, immediately seize all favorable times to prepare for spring plowing and other matters.

Since crops such as wheat and other crops in the northern region are not like those in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, they mainly plant rice.

Wheat usually ripenses every year, so spring plowing among the northern prefectures and counties will be a top priority.

If spring plowing is delayed, the year will basically be wasted.

The scholars and the people could only live by the food they had in previous years.

But this is just a normal life.

If spring plowing is delayed and there are natural disasters such as locust plagues, droughts or floods this year, then...

By then, this situation will be unimaginable!

Like the previous battles of Cao and Lu in Yanzhou, the counties and counties have already reached their limit.

Due to the impact of military disasters and locust plagues, the people of Yanzhou have been unable to harvest almost all year round. What will happen to the people without the food storage and harvest?

The phenomenon of eating with the change of seeds, or using grassroots and bark to satisfy hunger, until it develops to the end.

This is nothing more than the most tragic portrayal of famine in the north.

Why do we all say that in ancient times, we rely on the heavens to make a living?

This is due to the instability of heaven.

No one can know when and where will natural disasters come.

If the weather is good all year round, then everything will be happy and the local people can basically have enough food.

But if natural disasters and other natural disasters are frequently caused.

That day would be sad!

Selling land, selling children, and selling children, the whole family became refugees who wandered around the world, and they would die at some point.

Yanzhou.

Since the truce of war last year, Cao Cao has cited talented people such as Zao Zhi, Han Hao, and Guoyuan in the territory, and has launched years of war in counties and counties. Most of the wealthy families have already taken the wasteland after their family fled.

And he gathered refugees who were unable to eat among counties.

The wastelands of the unbroken land were distributed to the landless refugees, and they returned to the fields to cultivate.

This is for the people's garrison.

At the end of autumn harvest, it is divided into three to seven.

70% is used as the cost and taxes for renting land.

The remaining 30% of the people spend on the livelihood of a family.

This is a win-win situation. The people of Yanzhou are naturally extremely willing, and now they are full of energy, as if they have endless energy.

As for military camps, there is no need to say much!

All costs are naturally uniformly allocated.

This preparation work was done long ago last year, and the current season for spring plowing has arrived.

I saw that the current counties and counties in Yanzhou are really in full swing.

Under the leadership of Han Hao and Zao Zhi, the people of all counties are stepping up their investment in restoring production.

With some preparations.

The current spring farming in Yanzhou is incredibly perfect.

At this time, Cao Cao, the governor of Yanzhou, also took the opportunity to patrol the various places, whipping the whip and looking at the fields working hard to cultivate, and the people were full of energy.
To be continued...