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After Wu Fan said goodbye to Cao Cao, he rode his horse all the way and soon caught up with Guo Jia and Lu Lingqi who were waiting for him in front. Then, the three of them ran together, stayed overnight at dawn, and returned to the plain five days later.

But on the way, Wu Fan was not a fool. Through his words and opinions, he soon discovered that Lu Lingqi seemed to have a different love for him than his subordinates. This discovery surprised Wu Fan deeply because he had no idea about Lu Lingqi at all, and was as innocent as water. He could only comfort himself in his heart: Lu Lingqi was in adolescence, and her relationship was not easy to control, and she came and went quickly. I believe that she would fall in love with someone else after half a year.

To put it bluntly, Wu Fan was not willing to accept women, especially after getting Diao Chan, who was even more picky about women. Most women couldn't help but be interested in him. Lu Lingqi's appearance was pretty good, but she was not as gentle and tender as Cui Yingying and Diao Chan, and she was even a little anxious. She was not the type that Wu Fan liked. It was precisely because of this that although Lu Lingqi was a general of Wu Fan, she had no insignificance to her.

So, from this time, Wu Fan began to avoid Lu Lingqi intentionally or unintentionally; he even tried not to be alone with Lu Lingqi, hoping that Lu Lingqi could "return to the road" and empathize with others.

Besides, after Wu Fan returned to the plain, guards immediately reported that the civil servant sent by Zhang Liao had been waiting in the city for many days and was waiting in the main hall at this time.

Wu Fan immediately went to the main hall of the palace. After the civil servant saw Wu Fan, he hurriedly walked out of the main hall, bowed deeply to Wu Fan at the door, and said:

"Report to the governor, General Zhang Liao, the prefect of Yecheng, has successfully captured Nanpi. He sent him to come and ask the governor for the candidates for Nanpi."

As mentioned earlier, after Wu Fan appointed Zhang Liao as the prefect of Yecheng, he issued a city policy to attack Nanpi to Yecheng. The city policy received by the prefect of Jinyang Xiahou Yuan was to attack Ji.

In order to defend the plains, in order to defend the plains, most of the troops in the city were transferred to the plains under Yuan Tan's order, resulting in a shortage of defenders in the two cities, with only about 20,000 people. So, after capturing Jinyang, Xiahou Yuan's army, which had been resting for a period of time, sent troops to attack Ji not long after receiving the new city policy.

After learning that Xiahou Yuan’s army had come to attack Ji, Wei You immediately sent people to Beiping for help. Because Peiping and Xiangping were far away from the central hinterland of Hebei, they had never sent troops to participate in the battle of Yuan and Cao. Although these two cities were remote and had a small population, they had 60,000 to 70,000 troops stationed in each city.

The prefect of Beiping, Tian Yu, received emergency documents, immediately sent 50,000 troops to Jicheng to rescue him and fought with Xiahou Yuan's army outside Jicheng for three days. During this period, Xiahou Yuan brought only 30,000 troops to attack Ji, and Jicheng had 20,000 defenders, plus 50,000 reinforcements, and attacked Xiahou Yuan's army from both sides. After losing more than 10,000 troops, he could not take Ji, so he had to lead his troops back to Jinyang.

On the other hand, Xiahou Yuan's army also caused heavy damage to the Jicheng garrison and the Beiping reinforcements. In particular, the Peking reinforcements lost nearly half of their men and horses, leaving only more than 27,000 people, and returned to Peiping.

Zhang Liao, the prefect of Yecheng, who had been paying close attention to the trends, decisively sent troops to attack Nanpi at this time.

It turned out that this Beiping City could not only rescue Ji, but also not very far from Nanpi. It can be said that it was the military power of Beiping City to protect Nanpi and Ji. Now, the Beiping army has suffered heavy damage, and the long-distance marching has caused the army to be exhausted after the heavy damage. Zhang Liao chose this opportunity to lead the only 30,000 troops in Yecheng to attack Nanpi.

However, although Zhang Liao's army had few troops, the Nanpi defenders were not optimistic, with only more than 24,000 people. In addition, Zhang Liao and his subordinates had great abilities. In addition, Zhang Liao was a famous general himself, Lu was known as the unparalleled general in the world. Zhou Tai was also the main general of the Eastern Wu in the history of the Three Kingdoms. With these three people working together to attack the city, how could the low-spirited Nanpi defenders resist? Five days later, Nanpi was defeated.

At this time, when Beiping received an urgent report from Nanpi, the 30,000 reinforcements sent by him were weak and had not yet left the boundary of Beiping.

Therefore, Nanpi, the old nest where Yuan Shao first revived, also became a city under the jurisdiction of the Second Army of Cao's Army. In the entire four prefectures of Hebei, three prefectures and six cities were occupied by the Second Army, and only the three cities of Youzhou were left under Yuan Shao.

Wu Fan was already sitting on the main seat of the main hall. After hearing the civil servant talk about the situation roughly, he nodded with satisfaction and smiled at the people on both sides:

"Wenyuan has a good way of using troops. I bet that Ji will be taken by Wenyuan within a month."

Hua Xiong and others were skeptical of Wu Fan's predictions. Zhang Liao was defeated by Nanpi, and his troops were damaged. Although he had received some surrendered soldiers, there were only more than 23,000 people. Although Ji Qianfan was attacked by Xiahou Yuan's army and lost some of the defenders, there were nearly 20,000 people. The difference in the troops in the two cities was not huge. Moreover, once Ji was attacked, the reinforcements in Peking could arrive in just four days. In just one month, Zhang Liao should rest and recruit soldiers. How could he take Jicheng down?

Wu Fan saw that everyone was suspicious, and smiled, and didn't say much, then picked up his pen and wrote down the appointment:

Zhang Liao was appointed as the prefect of Nanpi, Lu Bu, Zhou Tai, Zhou Ang, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang were his subordinates. Nanpi City Policy: To guide Ji.

After the messenger sent by Zhang Liao left with the appointment document, Wu Fan wrote several more personnel transfers, but these transfer orders had nothing to do with Zhang Liao:

Transfer Nanpi Chun Yu Qiong back to Yecheng.

He transferred Xiahou Yuanliao to Yecheng.

He transferred Tian Fengliao to Yecheng to serve as the prefect.

Originally, Wu Fan intended to let Lu Zhi serve as the prefect of Yecheng. This old minister, like Yang Biao and Wang Yun, was very good at governing. However, he thought that in order to build a harmonious Hebei and to ensure social prosperity and stability, it is better not to rush to give these ministers of Emperor Xian to real power. Even if they are to reuse them, they don’t have to rush to this moment.

Besides, Zhang Zhao has better governance skills than Lu Zhi. It has been a long time since he entered Xuzhou and surrendered to him. It is time to give his city some of his governance expertise.

Since Yecheng is now a rear city, Wu Fan wrote down a new urban policy: developing internal affairs while writing to Zhang Zhao’s prefect.

After several personnel transfer orders were finished, Wu Fan thought about it and wrote a new urban policy for Beihai Prefect Cao Ren, changing from the original defense Sun Jian army to the same as Yecheng to develop internal affairs.

After thinking about it again, he confirmed that there were no omissions in the cities under his jurisdiction. Then Wu Fan put down his writing and assigned Pingyuan military and political instructions to Hua Xiong and other direct officials.

At this time, the Second Legion under Wu Fan had occupied four prefectures and eight cities, and the general information of the cities under his jurisdiction was:

Luoyang: The prefect Tian Feng, who belongs to Sizhou, Zhang Ren, Lu Dai, Qiu Liju, Zhuge Jin, Kong Yichang, Xi Zhicai, the front-line city is, the target of Chang'an, the urban policy: free ruling.

Hanoi: Prefect Chen Qun, who belongs to Sizhou, Wang Yun, the front-line city, urban policy: develop internal affairs.

Shangdang: Prefect Yang Biao, who belongs to Bingzhou, Chen Zhen, the front-line city, urban policy: develop internal affairs.

Jincheng: The prefect Xiahou Yuan, who belongs to Bingzhou, was the general Wenpin, Zang Ba, Lu Zhi, Xun You, Tian Chou, Zhang Yan, the front-line city is, target Ji, urban policy: guide Ji.

Yecheng: The prefect Zhang Zhao, who belongs to Jizhou, the generals Lu Zhi, Chunyu Qiong, the front-line city, urban policy: develop internal affairs.

Nanpi: The prefect Zhang Liao, who belongs to Jizhou, is the generals of Lu Bu, Zhou Tai, Zhou Ang, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang. The front-line city is targeted by Ji, and the urban policy: guide Ji.

Beihai: Prefect Cao Ren, who belongs to Qingzhou, Xun Yu, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, front-line city policy: develop internal affairs.

Plain: Wu Fan sits in the formation, belonging to Qingzhou, and directly under the jurisdiction of Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Lu Lingqi, Guo Jia, Chen Lin, Xin Pi, Xin Ping, front-line urban no, urban policy: Free ruling.

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Since Wu Fan returned to the plains, time has moved forward for more than half a month.

In the past half a month, Wu Fan equipped all the 80,000 troops stationed in the plains with all the 80,000 troops stationed in the plains and siege vehicles. This project alone exhausted all the money deposited in the plains. In order not to owe his subordinates' wages, Wu Fan even took out the 1,000 gold that Cao Cao gave him and put it into the vault.

This thousand gold is simply astronomical to ordinary people. If you take so much money to confiscate it, you won’t feel any pain. But from Wu Fan’s perspective, it is not the case. First, he is not short of money at all, and this thousand gold is just a string of numbers for him. Second, as long as he wants, the eight cities under the legion can all be owned by the gold and gold, and there is no need to care about such a small amount of money.

That's right, for ordinary people, one thousand taels of gold, I'm afraid I can't afford to save even if I don't eat or drink for dozens of lifetimes, but for Wu Fan at this time, it's a small amount of money that is optional.

After putting a thousand gold into the plain vault, the salary was guaranteed, and the subordinates had no worries, so they naturally did their duty and responsibility when working.

During this period, the construction work of the plains continued. Chen Lin personally supervised the work on the city wall every day, and her work attitude was commendable. Wu Fan occasionally came to the city wall to check it out, and talked with Chen Lin at the top of his voice amid the craftsmen's clanging sounds. The two of them had some friendship, so their relationship naturally improved very quickly.

On the other hand, Wu Fan was also paying attention to the movements of Zhang Liao's army in the South Pi, and sent someone to ask for it every few days to repay him. After all, he had predicted in public that Zhang Liao would take Ji within a month, and everyone did not believe it at that time. In order to prove that his prediction was correct, Wu Fan naturally had to pay close attention to the Zhang Liao army.

It has been more than half a month since Wu Fan appointed Zhang Liao as the prefect of Nanpi. Zhang Liao only sent 500 people to the only way between Nanpi and Ji: Yijing County belongs to Nanpi Construction Formation. This is a low-level urban defense facility that can garrison up to 100,000 troops. It has low defense, faster construction, and requires very little funds, only three hundred gold.

Building a formation to garrison troops and then marching to attack the city is a typical way to fight steadily. Wei You, the prefect of Jicheng, also stepped up the restoration of the city defense while recruiting soldiers to prepare for the upcoming siege battle.

Could it be that Zhang Liao would use this unwise and steady method to get the Zhi?
Chapter completed!