During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Nanyang was a relatively severely damaged area. Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the region was timely quelled, the population of Nanyang dropped sharply, and agricultural production and economy once fell into a state of stagnation.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, although the situation in Nanyang improved to a certain extent, Yuan Shu took over Nanyang after occupying Nanyang, which caused even more serious consequences. The economy of the entire Nanyang area deteriorated greatly, and the people fled in large numbers, most of them entered Yizhou and became the so-called "Dongzhou people". At that time, Liu Yan also recruited tens of thousands of Dongzhou soldiers from these Dongzhou people.

The first reason why Yuan Shu moved the capital to Shouchun was that Nanyang's economic and production conditions were no longer enough to support the capital's status; the second reason was strategic needs.

The west of Wuguan was directly controlled by the imperial court. Yuan Shu had no strength to fight him and did not dare to take the blame for the world. This was a rebellion!

Liu Biao in the south gained the support of several major families in Jingzhou and established his status, and Jingzhou suffered a great impact during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

He is small and has great strength. The navy in Jingzhou is not a decoration, and Yuan Shu can't beat it.

Lu Bu in Yingchuan is a fierce tiger, and he is brave and powerful in the world. This guy is not easy to mess with, and he is afraid that Lu Bu will stick to him. Only Yangzhou has no powerful princes. However, the Yangzhou governor Liu Yao took office and his status is not very stable, so he picked up the persimmon and pinched it. Yuan Shu turned his attention to Yangzhou. Moving the capital to Shouchun was the best choice.

Although Yuan Shu focused his strategic focus on Yangzhou, he ignored Nanyang. He also stationed 10,000 people in Nanyang and left behind a confidant to manage it.

Zhang He's mission this time was not easy. It was not so easy to use 10,000 troops to attack Nanyang, which had 10,000 troops, so he did not act rashly, and this was also a test for Liu Cheng on Zhang He.

After entering the Nanyang area from Wuguan, Zhang He led his army to hiding at night and directly rushed to Wan County, the capital of Nanyang County. However, he stopped in Liguo and hid on the spot. At the same time, he sent two thousand people to attack Zhi County under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, and sent a small team of elite cavalry to keep an eye on Nanyang City.

The general under Yuan Shu was stationed in Nanyang. On that day, he was hugging the prefect's mansion and listening to music and dancing. After Yuan Shu moved the capital to Shouchun, he left him to garrison here, and also left a chief minister to assist him in handling government affairs.

As the saying goes, there is no tiger in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings! The chief minister left by Yuan Shu couldn't control his joy at all. After more than a year, he lost his joy after losing his mind, and his defense was lax, and military affairs began to be abolished.

"Report——" A small school rushed into the lobby of the prefect's mansion by the sword, bowed to the music who was enjoying singing, dancing, drinking flowers and wine: "Report to the general, Zhi County was attacked by Lu Bu's army, and the magistrate of Luo County of Zhi County sent villains to break through and ask for help from the general!"

"What?" Le was shocked, pushed the beauty in his arms away, and waved his hands to the dancing dancers to drive them all out.

When the lobby became quiet, Le walked to the hall with a serious expression and asked, "Do you think the Lu Bu army attacked Zhi County? How many people are there?"

The school replied: "There are more than 2,000 generals, and there are only 300 defenders in Chi County. They can't defend for long. Please send troops to rescue quickly!"

Le didn't dare to believe it and asked, "Do you know if Lu Bu personally led his troops to attack, or is there someone else?"

"Return to the general, the enemy general is Hou Cheng under Lu Bu's command!"

Le took a map and looked at it, looked up and frowned, "Zhi County is in the south of Luyang. Didn't the Lu Bu army attack Luyang?"

"The villain didn't know that Lu Bu's army suddenly rushed to surround the county town. The people in the city could not know the news about the surrounding towns!"

Le immediately shouted to the guards next to him: "Go and find Yuan Huan!"

"promise!"

Yuan Huan is one of Yuan Shu's counselors and his clan brother, and he is relatively cowardly in character.

After a while, Yuan Huan hurried over and bowed, "I've seen the general!"

Le immediately asked the school that reported the news to tell Yuan Huan the situation, and Le asked, "Mr. Yuan, what do you think?"

Yuan Huan thought for a while and said, "It seems that Lu Bu saw his lord bringing most of our army's main force to Huainan. Nanyang has weak troops, so he became covetous and wanted to swallow Nanyang! The first news we got was that Zhixian County was attacked, so Lu Yang was probably already under Lu Bu's hands. The subordinate advised that the most urgent task was to send people to report to the lord quickly, prepare for city defense, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, so that Lu Bu's army could not eat. Our army was here to guard the enemy strictly until the lord sent a large army to rescue!"

Le said furiously: "Just, I have ten thousand elite soldiers in Nanyang and hundreds of thousands of people. Lu Bu only occupied Yingchuan for two years. Can he have great strength? Lu Bu was also brave enough to attack Nanyang? When I was Lele, I would be dead? Others are afraid of him, Lu Bu, but I am not afraid! People come, beat drums and gather generals, raise troops and horses to rescue Zhixian County, and face Lu Bu!"

Yuan Huan was shocked and hurriedly stopped him: "General, you must not. Now the enemy situation is unknown, so our army should not attack rashly!"

"What is the enemy's situation unknown? Lu Bu's subordinates have a maximum of more than 10,000 troops. He also has to leave troops to station in Yingchuan, otherwise Zhang Miao from Chenliu would have confiscated his nest, so he can only send five or six thousand people to attack Nanyang! I have decided on this matter, so there is no need to say anything more!"

Yuan Huan couldn't stop Le, so he could only send someone to report to Shouchun's Yuan Shu while preparing the food and supplies for Le to go to the expedition.

The next morning, Le led nine thousand men from Wan County toward Zhixian in the northeast.

That day, marching sixty miles to camp in Xi'e, but there were about eighty miles away from Zhi County, Le didn't care much and ordered the army to camp outside Xi'e City. However, he himself brought some personal soldiers into the city to have wine and have fun. He was drunk until midnight before being escorted back to the camp outside the city to rest.

A fierce shout of killing awakened Yuan Shujun in the entire camp. Zhang He rushed into the camp with his army. The soldiers looked at people when they saw them, threw torches to burn them when they saw them. For a time, a large number of tents and food were lit and caught fire. Yuan Shujun was panicked by a surprise attack. The drunken Le couldn't wake up. Yuan Shujun, who had no command, ran around in fear. More and more people were killed. Many people fled in scatter. Zhang He took the opportunity to send people to chase him.

It was not until dawn that the battle ended, and Le was captured on the spot. Together with more than 5,000 captured people, more than 3,000 killed during the raid, and only a few hundred people fled without a trace.

After learning that Le's army was defeated and captured, the magistrate of Xi'echeng County was defeated and surrendered without fighting. He hung a white flag on the top of the city and led the officials, soldiers and civilians to open the door to surrender.

Zhang Hebing took it to Xi'echeng without bloodshed. He walked to the lobby of the county government office by pressing his sword and turned around and shouted, "Take fun!"

"Give me some fun!" the soldier outside the door shouted.

Le was tied up and held in the hall by Wuhua and forced to kneel down. He looked at Zhang He without any timidity.

Zhang He said: "Zhang He, now you have been defeated and captured, and nearly 10,000 troops have been wiped out. Are you willing to surrender?"

Le raised his head and said loudly: "I would rather die than surrender, but I would kill you if I want to kill you, so why should I say more?"

Zhang He sneered: "You are so righteous and so arrogant when you are defeated and captured. You are so shameless. You are really not willing to die! People come, drag him down and behead them in the name of a traitor to show them to the public!"

Several soldiers rushed up immediately, and Le's face changed and she shouted: "Wait, I'm not afraid of death, but I don't accept you when you kill me in the name of a traitor! My lord is the latter general Yuan Shu, and the fourth generation of the Yuan family, why did I become a traitor again?"

"Hahahaha..." Zhang He laughed and pointed at Le and said, "You are so stupid, so what about the three masters of the Yuan family? That's the past. Yuan Shu was indeed appointed as the Supreme General by the court, but the court did not appoint him as the prefect of Nanyang and the prefect of Runan. However, he occupied these territories and local officials to extort and conquer the court. This is a separatist rebellion. Since he is a traitor, how can you, your subordinates, be innocent? People come and drag them down and chop them down!"

Le was as limp as mud, and was dragged outside and cut off his head by the soldiers as if he had lost his soul.

Zhang He immediately ordered: "Come, divide the troops into three groups to capture the counties in Nanyang County, and then the troops encircle Wan County!"

When Zhang He's army was recovering the counties in Nanyang County, he wrote a war report and sent people to Chang'an quickly.

The news that Nanyang was attacked by Zhang He's army was soon discovered by Lu Bu, who was closest to this place. Lu Bu intended to take advantage of the chaos to send troops to capture Nanyang, but was dissuaded by his advisers.

The reason is very simple. Yuan Shu's strength in Nanyang has basically been defeated by Zhang He, and the counties will surrender soon. If Lu Bu sends troops, he has no advantage in terms of military strength and has to leave some troops in Yingchuan to garrison, but Zhang He can send all the troops to fight him.

In addition, the Xu Shu army stationed in Luoyang is close at hand. If Lu Bu sends troops to Nanyang, Xu Shu sends troops to attack Yingchuan, what if the retreat is cut off?

The analysis of the strategist made Lu Bu a little discouraged, and he had to give up the idea of ​​sending troops into Nanyang in disappointment.

Chang'an, Grand Sima's Mansion.

Liu Cheng received the battle report sent by Zhang He. After reading it, he was overjoyed: "Hahaha, okay, Zhang He really deserves my high hopes. He solved it in one fell swoop, killing more than 3,000 enemies and capturing more than 5,000 people! Chen Ziyang, you reply to Zhang He on behalf of me, asking him to take down Wan County as soon as possible and surrender to other counties under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County. We must strictly guard against Lu Bu and Yuan Shujun in Runan!"

"promise!"

Liu Cheng asked again: "How is Yan Xing going?"

Jia Xu stood up and bowed and replied: "Return to the lord, General Yan is making progress very smoothly. More than 10,000 Hun soldiers have been recruited!"

Liu Cheng nodded and pondered for a while and said, "Let Shi Guangyuan speed up the raising of military equipment, food and supplies. I decided to lead the army north in the first month of next year to solve the Xiongnu in Meijicheng City once and for all!"

"promise!"

First, let the Huns fight each other, then the court sent troops to solve them all, and then announced to the outside world that the Huns had ended their internal struggle. As for the remaining Huns, the weak, sick and disabled, Liu Cheng had already made plans. After this matter was over, he would disperse the remaining Huns everywhere in the mainland, prevent them from gathering together, and force them to learn how to farm. In less than ten or twenty years, the Huns would be completely integrated into the Han people.
Chapter completed!