Winter is coming. Although the south is not as cold as the north, it will still snow. When it snows, it will also be accompanied by biting cold wind. The wind blows on people's faces, giving them a very painful feeling.

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In the era when Liu Qi lived in his previous life, the Xiangfan area did not snow very frequently due to global warming. However, more than 1,800 years ago, snow would fall here from time to time every year, and the degree of snowfall was far beyond that of later generations.

human imagination.

At this moment, snowflakes were falling outside. Liu Qi was sitting on the main seat in the main hall of Xinye County, leaning on the brazier, drinking hot wine to warm up, and looking at the slips on the table. From time to time, he looked up to watch the wind and snow outside.

Feeling quite relaxed physically and mentally.

A satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Not long after, I saw Cai Hao walking into the main hall.

When he saw Liu Qi's expression, he couldn't help but be slightly startled.

"Why is Mr. Fu so happy? Is there something good going on?" Cai Mao asked doubtfully.

Liu Qi put the silk in his hand on the table, looked up at Cai Hao, and said with a smile: "This is a letter sent by Jia Xu secretly. Niu Fu has already prepared a plan to attack Nanyang County Wang."

As soon as he said these words, Cai Hao was immediately shaken.

"Do you really mean what you said?"

"Exactly, but before that, he has to capture Wancheng first."

Cai Mao nodded vigorously and said: "Although Yuan Shu of Wancheng was defeated by Cao Cao, he still has enough troops and horses and is quite powerful. If Niu Fu wants to capture Wancheng, I'm afraid it will take some trouble, and he might even make a mistake.

Both sides suffer losses, and this matter is quite beneficial to us."

Liu Qi didn't say much about Cai Mao's thoughts. In fact, from his point of view, Yuan Shu's battle with Niu Fu had no hope of victory.

If Liu Qi's estimate was correct, Yuan Shu was basically defeated by Niu Fu, and there was no possibility of turning defeat into victory.

Today, Yuan Shu is hiding in Wancheng, while Niu Fu's soldiers and horses north of Wancheng have cut off the supply of counties to Wancheng, while Liu Qi's soldiers and horses are stationed in Xinye, strangling the supply of counties to Wancheng in the south of Nanyang County.

The city's food supply.

More than half of Nanyang County's county supplies were choked to death by Niu and Liu Fang. Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses could not hold out for long in Wancheng. Liu Qi estimated that his final outcome would be just to rush east to Huainan to start over again.

As for Nanyang County, it no longer belongs to Yuan Shu at all and has no relationship with him.

But Liu Qi didn't want to explain these things to Cai Hao. After all, these things that had become established facts were trivial matters that Liu Qi no longer needed to worry about.

"Degui, what's the situation in each state now?" Liu Qi tried to change the topic.

Cai Mao cupped his hands and said: "Reporting to my brother-in-law, because the weather is already cold, except for the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who are still attacking the Yanzhou counties for food and clothing for the winter, all the counties and states of our Han Dynasty have stopped their troops."

Liu Qi nodded suddenly and said: "Since all counties have stopped their troops now, we don't need to continue to station troops here. We must do business when we have to do business... I would like to ask Degui to lead our troops first.

The horse returned to Xiangyang and reported the recent war to Yan Jun... My troops and horses were temporarily stationed in Xinye to supervise the Shanyue people who were recruited by me earlier to farm on the border... I will draw up a specific plan for these matters later.

Submit the charter to Yan Jun, and also ask Degui to help me explain it to Yan Jun after he returns to Xiangyang."

Cai Hao said hurriedly: "That's nature, that's nature."

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A few days later, Cai Mao organized his troops and returned to Xiangyang. Liu Qi took advantage of the calm winter and sent people to move all the Shanyue people and Shanyue soldiers in Tianzhu Mountain to the vicinity of Xinye, and began to plan.

Reclamation and farming were carried out nearby.

The situation in Nanyang County is not much better than that of Jingnan. Due to Yuan Shu's violent expropriation in recent years, a large number of Nanyang County's head of Guizhou moved south. As a result, Nanyang County also had a large amount of vacant land, which was enough to arrange for Shanyue to reclaim it.

But just like the situation in Jingnan back then, these ownerless fields are now being forcibly occupied by the wealthy families in Nanyang County. If they want to seize them for official use, they will probably have to go through a lot of trouble.

But after all, he had the experience of fighting against wealthy families for land in Jingnan, so Liu Qi was not very worried about this.

In particular, the Xiliang soldiers are about to attack the commanders near Wancheng. The wealthy families near Xinye will be panicked and can only rely on themselves for protection. I am afraid they will not have the status to negotiate with them at all.

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Liu Qi is bound to win the unclaimed land centered around Xinye.

But it was at this time that Zhao Yan, Fan Qin, and Du Xi, three famous men from Yuzhou who had been summoned from Changsha by Liu Qi, came to the front of the Xinye Army.

Liu Qi wanted to pay homage to Xun Shuang and needed these three people to recommend him, so he specially summoned three people to come.

Accompanying them were Liu Pan's 10,000 strong Southern barbarians who had completed training in Jingnan. Liu Biao was able to cross Xiangyang territory, and Liu Pan appointed his trusted generals to bring them with them to make up for the losses of Liu Qin's Nanbarbar camp.

After successive battles, the soldiers of the Nanman Camp lost thousands of people, but after replenishing these 10,000 people, the number of Nanman Camp was able to remain at 30,000.

In addition to the 33,000 Shanyue cultivated near Xinye, the two battalions of soldiers and horses under Liu Qi's direct control now reached 60,000.

In order to facilitate management, Liu Qi decided to reorganize the Nanman Camp and the Shanyue Camp, and put middle-level generals he trusted into the two camps for management.

With more than 60,000 soldiers, Liu Qi divided them into four camps in total, named according to the character camp, camp of water, camp of fire, and camp of wind. In the name of Nanyang County Sheriff, Liu Qi promoted four captains to manage them for him.

Taishi Ci, Wei Yan, Zhang Ren, Li Dian...these four people were originally promoted by Liu Qi because of this military exploit and became his right-hand man.

Huang Zhong was a general appointed by Liu Biao himself, and Liu Qi could not leave him in Xinye. Soon after Cai Mao left, Huang Zhong also led his troops to say goodbye and return, but Huang Xu stayed in Fengzi Camp and became a soldier beside Xing Daorong.

Guard.

As for Dian Wei, who was most trusted by Liu Qi, he served as the captain of the guard beside Liu Qi in the name of a school captain, while Xu Yi and Xu Dan served as Dian Wei's deputies as commanders of other departments.

Liu Qi asked the three men to recruit 3,000 of the strongest soldiers in the army. They would be trained by the three men alone and directly obey Liu Qi's orders to serve as his personal bodyguards.

Dian Wei advised Liu Qi that he wanted to name this guard army "Tiger Guard", but Liu Qi directly rejected it.

The reason is simple, he sounds awkward.

Liu Qi thought about it briefly and decided to give his army a very common and low-key name.

Jing Wu died.

After all these things were done, it was already the end of the year. It could be said that the year was approaching, but the cold Xinye County suddenly welcomed an unexpected guest to Liu Qi.

Cai Mi traveled across mountains and rivers from Jingnan and traveled across several counties to see his man.

When Liu Qi heard the news, he couldn't help but be a little confused. He never thought that Cai Mi would come to Xinye County to see him in this cold weather, braving the cold wind and snow.

Liu Qi personally left the Xinye County Yamen and came to the door.

A well-covered carriage stopped at the door. The charming and charming Cai Mi, wrapped in a luxurious warm robe, carefully stepped out of the carriage.

Her cheeks were a little red from the cold, but they couldn't hide the excitement and tenderness in her charming eyes.

The sweet voice reached Liu Qi's ears after a long absence.
Chapter completed!