Chapter 418: Ban Yue's Action

After a night of chatting, the relationship between Shang Ji and Ju Shou heated up sharply. Although it was far from being heart-to-heart, it was much closer than ordinary colleagues.

This also laid the foundation for Shang Ji's future contacts, and Ju Shou's personal sense of Shang Ji is still good. Although your temper is a bit rascal, a person with a higher status than you can gain a lot of goodwill by using rambunctious means against you.

Afterwards, the two sighed a long time, which also made Jushou understand Shang Ji a little bit. I can't see anything else, but at least I can understand that Shang Ji is not a simple warrior, he can listen to criticism and advice, he also has unique insights into the general trend of the world, and he can be called a corporal of courtesy to people.

In many cases, if you meet these points at the same time, you can be called a qualified master, but Jushou is not an ordinary person, and he will not be so simple to give birth to the heart of giving effect. Shang Ji wants to subdue Jushou, this is the first step in the Long March.

With a happy mood, Shang Ji left the Jushou camp. Although there was no substantial gain, it was a good start to conquer Jushou.

Early the next morning, Lu Zhi called the generals again to discuss matters.

This time, the generals were not allowed to speak, and Lu Zhi directly decided on the siege plan. In fact, there is nothing new, just like what a few people said yesterday, although Lu Zhi knew in his heart that these water attacks and fire attacks were not reliable, but he had no other choice but to be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Next came the vigorous siege battle. Lu Zhi's army approached Guangzong City carefully, and ordinary catapults, torch carts, city-breaking dragon cannons, kerosene, bed crossbows and other siege equipment approached, and the attack on Guangzong began!

This attack took half a month.

During this period, Shang Ji and his army have been doing nothing. Lu Zhi currently has no shortage of troops. Although the siege losses in the past half month are not small, the county soldiers from various states and counties have not only made up for this loss, but also have a lot of surplus. Now Lu Zhi's army has swelled to the point of six million .

And Shang Ji's troops are all cavalry, so naturally Lu Zhi would not be so stupid as to let the elite cavalry be wasted in the siege battle.

Not only Shang Ji, but also Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan were basically doing nothing, and even Lu Zhi's 2 million northern army rarely participated in the siege. Now the main force of the Han army on the battlefield is all the soldiers from various counties.

The two sides surround Guangzong City, you come and go, and use all kinds of tricks. The west wall of Guangzong City has already been riddled with holes, but it still stands firm.

Because he was eager for the Yellow Turbans to abandon the city, Lu Zhi basically did not encircle Guangzong. He only gathered a large army in the west city as the main attack, and only sent a small number of symbolic troops to monitor the other three walls.

Faced with Lu Zhi's "encircling one and lacking three" style of play, the Yellow Turban Army remained unwavering and stuck to Guangzong City. Because of the extremely abundant troops, a considerable number of troops were also dispatched to the other three walls, which made Lu Zhisheng's plan to attack the west aborted.

Because there was no siege mission, Shang Ji focused on his own affairs. First of all, the escort of more than one million captives had basically been completed.

Of the 1.54 million prisoners of war, Deng Yan successfully received 1.42 million, of which 120,000 failed to reach Liaodong alive due to various factors such as illness, disability, and execution.

And out of the 1.42 million, 260,000 qualified third-tier soldiers were selected. Liu Yi is intensively training him.

The training of more than 200,000 soldiers can greatly alleviate the problem of Liaodong's defense emptiness caused by Shang Ji leading the main force to go out.

The remaining more than one million "unqualified" soldiers were also sent to various parts of Liaodong in batches after simple rectification to serve as high-level labor force, which also alleviated the development dilemma caused by insufficient population.

Not only that, Shang Ji also issued a "huge" bounty, buying prisoners of war at a price of two gold per person.

Because of the disappearance of Tianyun, the strength of the Yellow Turban Army has been greatly reduced, and many states and counties have captured many prisoners of war. They are also facing Lu Zhi's predicament at the beginning. Ji released the news that there was no limit to the number of prisoners of war.

Forced by money, Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Gongsun Zan even went off in person, hunting and arresting the Yellow Turbans.

Seeing that Shangji had collected so many people at a low price, the various lord players also followed suit, but the effect was quite limited.

Apart from Yanhuang, no other faction has the ability to escort prisoners of war in large numbers from a long distance like Shangji. Yanhuang, who has this ability, will focus on the battlefield in Yingchuan County in the south, and the Jizhou Yellow Turban is also beyond the reach of Yanhuang.

The local lord forces in Jizhou were almost wiped out due to the war.

Players who chose the Han camp were swept away by the yellow turban army who looked down on them at the beginning of the war, and players who chose the yellow turban camp were pushed back after the yellow turban army lost their luck.

Today, in the whole of Jizhou, there is not one out of ten player lords, and the scale is even rarer. The few surviving lord players themselves have reaped a lot of money. At least there is no shortage of population, and there is no need to compete with merchants in this regard.

Generally speaking, those who are able to compete do not need to compete, and those who are eager to compete do not have this ability. The "population migration (buy) migration (sell)" market in the entire north is all in the pockets of businessmen.

On the contrary, players who have changed jobs to rogues and mercenaries are very active, but the latter is an important "supplier" of merchants, and they capture a large number of prisoners of war; as for the former, no player rogue group dares to fight merchants Attention!

Since this period of time, the business of Shangji has been in full swing, and the cumulative number of people purchased has exceeded the number of captives in Quzhou City before, and according to the development of the situation, this number will soon usher in another surge.

In recent days, non-Yellow Turban prisoners of war have come to sell their bodies on their own initiative. The Yellow Turbans are raging in Jizhou, causing countless people to be displaced.

With Liu Hong's personality, he naturally would not help the victims, and the homeless people who had no food to eat naturally became refugees.

The inaction of the imperial court has provided convenience for Shang Ji. He has urgently notified Deng Yan and asked him to send professional government officials to Jizhou to recruit refugees. This kind of refugees are willing to follow as long as they are given food, and the price required is much more cost-effective than buying prisoners of war by merchants. Moreover, compared with the Yellow Turban prisoners of war, refugees have less hidden dangers and are more suitable for large-scale recruitment.

In order to cooperate with the transfer of refugees and prisoners of war, Ling Cao was so busy that his feet never touched the ground. More than 20 junk ships were running around the sea day and night. Even the navy warships were temporarily used as passenger ships to protect the junk ships Escort refugees while being safe.

At the same time, the shipyard also urgently worked overtime to produce junk ships for transportation, strengthen the transportation force of Liaodong, and strive for faster population migration.

In short, Lu Zhi's siege in the front was in full swing, and the small business of the merchants in the back was also vigorous.