Chapter 487
Lu Kang and Zhou Tai held off Yuan's 200,000-strong army, while Li Linfei, with 100,000 troops, military advisor Jia Dao and Jiang Qin Gan Ning conquered Jingzhou, while Huang Zhong and Xi Zhicai stayed behind, as Yuan couldn't beat Lujiang for a while anyway.
The Jingzhou family has been urging Liu Biao to attack Yangzhou, of course there must be a sign from Brother Ben Chu behind this, he does not want to see Li Linfei the biggest, Jiaoshu is no longer a problem, if in addition to Jingzhou, then Li Linfei will unify the south, this is not what he wants to see.
And Li Linfei has been winning successive battles in the battlefield of Jingzhou, and in three months' time Liu Biao's main force has been besieged and destroyed by that man called Li Linfei.
The cities had fallen, and Liu Biao and his Jingzhou group had been surrounded by 100,000 troops led by Li Linfei in Xiangyang, and they had less than 20,000 troops at their disposal.
At this point, no one is optimistic that Liu Biao will be able to fight back with his Jingzhou army against Li Linfei, who had 200,000 troops before, but was still beaten by Li Linfei's 100,000 troops!
Now Jingzhou's 200,000-strong army has been almost completely wiped out, while Li Linfei's 100,000-strong Yangzhou army has suffered little damage!
Meng Dejun was also keeping an eye on his brother Lin Fei as he continued to expand his territory, for the situation had now changed and the two of them were now both brothers and rivals!
He was also shocked by Li Linfei's military prowess at this time! He was confident in his own ability to lead troops in battle and thought that there were perhaps only a few people in the whole world who could match him, but he did not expect his good brother Li Linfei to have such military prowess.
He knew that there was a difference in the quality of the Yangzhou army and the Jingzhou army, but he also knew that even if he were to command the Yangzhou army, he would not be able to do any better, or even slightly worse!
If we were to say who hated Li Linfei the most, there was no one else but Ben Chujun! His prestige was not as high as in history, otherwise with his ability and the strength of his generals, how could he have been in such a mess against a single Gongsun Zan!
And Li Linfei was now on the verge of defeating Liu Biao to gain the whole of Jingzhou, and he himself had pushed for one before. If he hadn't instigated those lineages in Jingzhou to go against Li Linfei, Liu Biao wouldn't have sent his troops against Li Linfei.
Li Linfei would not have found an excuse to attack Jingzhou so easily! Now that Jingzhou is about to fall, Jingzhou and Yangzhou plus Jiaoshu, Li Linfei is trying to take over the entire southern region! Unless someone can unify the north, no one will be a match for Li Linfei! But would Li Linfei give them that chance?
Finally, after a month of siege, Xiangyang was sacked by the Yangzhou army, which everyone thought was reasonable.
What's more, there are still many families in Xiangyang who want to befriend Li Linfei, and they won't fail to see the general trend.
A great power like the Pang family also supported Li Linfei to take charge of Jingzhou! So, with the cooperation of both sides, Li Linfei soon took over Jingzhou!
When the news spread, the world was in an uproar! No one expected Li Linfei to take over Jingzhou so quickly!
He had to know that Jingzhou was one of the largest states in the world! But he had destroyed it in such a manner! He didn't even put up any resistance, but was simply destroyed! This was something no one had ever thought of before!
Liu Biao knew that the situation was over when Yangzhou's army invaded Xiangyang and surrendered, but those families that Yuan Shao had urged against Li Linfei were out of luck!
Although in Li Linfei's eyes, not many of these people would have made it into his eyes, and Li Linfei would not have put them in his eyes!
However, this is an opportunity! Behind these people stood the great families of Jingzhou, so he could take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of them, Li Linfei didn't care which of these families had wise men, he couldn't save them!
He looked at the fields in the hands of these families, Li Linfei didn't look at their money and food, there was no one in the world who had more money and more food than him, as long as Li Linfei had the need, he had a constant supply of food!
But the common people need it! Knocking off these lineages and then gifting their fields to the common people would help them gain better hearts and minds and rule Jingzhou! It's a completely costless business!
As soon as Li Linfei entered Xiangyang, he had his soldiers led and controlled all the lineages that had previously flirted against him according to a list he had drawn up.
Liu Biao was also placed under house arrest, but he was treated much better than those lineage families, at least he had no worries about food and clothing, he just lost his freedom!
In response, Liu Biao was somewhat helpless, but knew that this was necessary. As the defeated side, he was in no position to bargain, and if the victor had been himself, Li Linfei might have received the same treatment as he did.
After the capture of Xiangyang, Li Linfei went back to Yangzhou, and as for the affairs of Jingzhou, he had Jia in charge for the time being, and then Li Linfei sent a ruthless man over.
He was Cheng Yu, along with Gu Yong who assisted him.
Cheng Yu is not young, he is old and smooth, and he can hold down the fort, so he is the right person for the job!
The most important thing is that Cheng Yu is a ruthless person.
Now that Jingzhou has been settled and Li Linfei has decided to kill a group of clansmen, the situation in Jingzhou may become even more chaotic, and Cheng Yu is the talent that can suppress these people, if you dare to resist, I will kill you and make you a human being.
As for Gu Yong, Cai Yong's disciple, now that Cai Yan had become Li Linfei's woman, Gu Yong could be considered as Li Linfei's direct line.
History. In the past, Gu Yong was the prime minister of Eastern Wu, and he was the prime minister for more than ten years, and he had many words of support and assistance, so he was definitely a talent.
Gu Yong has been an official since a long time ago, only that he used to do it all at the grassroots level and already had some experience, now he is responsible for following Cheng Yu and learning, expecting to be able to take charge of his own side in the future.
Chapter 488
Where is Li Linfei now? He is in Lujiang with a few cadres of cavalry, and after driving his army into the city, he took Dian Wei to Lao Er's camp.
He soon met with Yuan Lao Er.
As soon as Yuan Lao Er heard that Li Lin Fei had arrived, he hurriedly went to greet him. Li Lin Fei also smiled when he saw Yuan's oldest running over in such a hurry.
"I didn't expect you to come so soon, Lin Fei." Yuan Jue bowed as soon as he saw Li Linfei and then got close.
"Not bad, after all, you've come to my old home!" Li Linfei's face. A spring-like smile appeared on his face, but this smile was not the same in Yuan Xiaofang's eyes!
Just kidding, can the devil's smile be good, and Li Linfei was also saying that he had come to attack Yangzhou and to raise the alarm.
"This I am also under the spell of someone, yes, that's right under the spell of someone!" Yuan Lao Er very uncouthly dumped all the pots on Zhou Yu?
"Oh? Then who was it? And what did he say? ! "Li Linfei rolled his eyes, compelled by someone, and you have the nerve to say that? If you hadn't gotten greedy and wanted to take advantage, you would have come to attack me, do you think I'm a three-year-old child? .
But he also needs a stepping stone now to stay out of Yuan Shu's way, after all, it's not the time to destroy him yet.
"Well, yes, that person is Zhou Yu, I have now sent someone back to catch him, just don't worry Lin Fei."
Yuan Shu continued very unscrupulously, in deciding to seek peace, he had already sent his men back to capture Zhou Yu, and Sun Ce was: at the moment already in his custody, after all, he needed to give Li Lin Fei an explanation, a dead friend is not a poor friend, anyway, as long as he was alright, he was fine.
"Oh? In that case, then if you hand him and Sun Ce over to me and give me a little compensation, I won't blame you!" Li Linfei said.
"Ah." Yuan Shu felt that his happiness had come so suddenly! Li Linfei was so good at talking?
If he didn't have his memory of Li Linfei engraved in his mind as absolutely unmistakable, he would have to wonder if this was a fake.
"Why not? !" Li Linfei frowned, could it be that the pressure I'm giving isn't working! This Yuan Xiaofang can't be so insensitive, right? He hadn't planned to take care of Yuan Shu now.
"Zhou Yu as well as Sun Ce's family can be handed over to you, but I would like to ask what exactly is it that I am being asked to do?"
Yuan Shu was a little apprehensive, Li Lin Fei had become so nice all of a sudden, surely there was a premeditation?
"Well, I also want a million of the people, it doesn't matter if they are male or female, those over forty are not wanted." Li Linfei spelled out his vision, Yangzhou was developing well now, but it was still far from what he wanted, he still needed a large number of people to develop Yangzhou!
"Eh, one million? A million?" Yuan Lao Er was a bit dumbfounded, he never thought that Li Lin Fei would ask for the people! Yuan Shu's territory had a large population, just one city, Runan, had a population of 2 million! With the other cities, it would not be a problem for him to have a population of five to six million people in his territory.
The war was a huge drain on him, he hadn't gained any territory, he had consumed a lot of food, and he needed to deprive the people after he returned. And Li Linfei thus provided an opportunity for himself, a million people to give away, then their fields would be his own!
Yuan Shu will not even consider, no one is left what he produces with, with what to go to war, big deal to rob on the line, as a son of a big family, the fight for the world still needs the support of the family!
"What's wrong! You can't even deliver a million people?" Li Linfei knitted his brows, his voice was completely intimidating.
A million people was a huge number anywhere, the whole of Shu in the late Three Kingdoms didn't even have such a population!
"No, I want to ask how the money for this one million people will be settled! " Yuan Shu asked weakly, it was crucial! He still needs this sum of money!
"It's none of my business, you see to it yourself, I'll take care of them anyway!"
Li Linfei said indifferently, "You send Zhou Yu as well as Sun Ce's family over to me as soon as possible, or else you know the consequences!"
"Don't worry about that, I am much more trustworthy than Yuan Ben Chu." Yuan Shu said immediately, and also stepped on Yuan Shao in the process, there was no other way, the pressure Li Lin Fei was putting on him was too much.
"I'll take their money and grain, to make up for Lin Fei's loss, how about I send you one and a half million people?"
Li Linfei looked at Yuan Lao Er in surprise, not knowing whether he was really two or knew what he was doing, a million and a half people! That's the total population of a populous county! Yuan Shu is too rich, isn't he? Is he trying to drag down my economy? This isn't like Yuan Shu's style! He doesn't look like a man with such brains!
"Yes, but I want people under forty, as for the old and the sick you just have to pay attention to yourself - an amount."
"That's fine!" When Yuan Shu saw Li Linfei agree, he immediately smiled with his eyebrows and invited Li Linfei to have a seat in the camp, saying that he would treat Li Linfei well.
However, Li Linfei refused, for a man like Yuan Shu, it was fine to fool around, but it was too much for him to make serious friends.
After sending Li Linfei away, Yuan Shu immediately changed his face, completely devoid of his previous groveling, although anyone could see a hint of joy on his face.
After bidding farewell to Yuan Shu, Li Linfei arrived in the middle of the county, where everyone was currently in the Imperial Guard's residence.
"This time when Yuan Shu attacked Lujiang, it is said that Zhou Yu was the one who started it all, and the whole Zhou family played a role in pushing it.
The Zhou family is a big family in Lujiang, and still very prominent in Lujiang, and when they heard Li Linfei suddenly mention him, everyone pricked up their ears to listen.
"The Zhou family did move when Yuan Shu's army attacked Lujiang, but it was brought under control by the Zhou family's army as quickly as possible. "Lu Kang is the governor of Lujiang, the nominal hand here, so naturally he gave a general account of what happened.
"All of them are under control? The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're doing. Li Linfei asked again?