The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

With a whoosh, the long knife slashed across, bringing out an afterimage.

The knife flashed.

Zhang Ying still wanted to withdraw her weapon and continue to attack Liu Zheng, but she never expected that Liu Zheng, who had been defending all the time, would suddenly counterattack at this time. When he was nervous, he had no time to retract the long knife. At this moment, Zhang Ying could only give up his weapon and just wanted to survive.

But still too late.

Liu Zheng's long knife was sharp and fast, and it fell directly on Zhang Ying's left shoulder.

Puff.

The long knife across Zhang Ying's chest.

Immediately broke the breastplate on Zhang Ying's body, and then cut into Zhang Ying's skin. In an instant, the skin was ripped apart, and blood splashed out of Zhang Ying's body.

Zhang Ying only felt a sharp pain coming from her body immediately, but she still didn't kill Zhang Ying directly with a knife. Zhang Ying forcibly held back the pain coming from her chest, exhausted her last breath, and raised the knife to fight back at Liu Zheng .

But this kind of counterattack is just a false show. After being hit by Liu Zheng with a knife, he has already lost his energy, like a deflated ball.

Zhang Ying no longer had the ability to fight against Liu Zheng. Liu Zheng took a step back and avoided Zhang Ying's blow.

With a ding, Zhang Ying put the long knife in his hand against it and used it as a crutch, and managed to stand firm.

He was horrified and unbelievable, and looked at Liu Zheng who had already received the long knife in front of him in horror.

"This is impossible!"

"How could I lose to you"

With a trace of unwillingness, Zhang Ying didn't even finish the last sentence, she lost consciousness, closed her eyes, and fell down.

As soon as Zhang Ying died, the soldiers who were still surrounding Zhang Ying became even more frightened, and immediately dispersed and fled in all directions.

Chapter 238 calm down

When Liu Zheng killed Zhang Ying, he was excited at this time, and immediately chased the soldiers who were fleeing in all directions, and began to chase and kill them.

After he finished killing to his heart's content, he yelled loudly at the remaining soldiers.

"The leader of the bandits, Zhang Ying, is dead. The remaining people kneel down and surrender without killing, and the rest who resist will be killed without mercy!"

Liu Zheng fought bloody battles, his body was covered with the blood splashed from the beheading of the enemy army, the blood stained Liu Zheng's armor red, and his sword was covered with blood, dripping into the land outside Yulin City, deep into the earth, letting the ground They all turned black and red.

Countless corpses fell on the ground, and many of Zhang Ying's subordinates had lost their combat effectiveness, and fell to the ground without moving.

The remaining people who still have combat power are also at the end of the road. They are pinched by Liu Zheng's two front and rear armies, and there is no way out.

The [-] army originally had some advantages in numbers, but under the attack of the two armies before and after Liu Zheng, the advantage in numbers was also lost.

Liu Zheng himself brought more than 1 people here, and Gan Ning also had close to 1 troops in Yulin City. The two parts combined are not much worse than Zhang Ying's troops.

And Zhang Ying has also lost some of his troops these days. The real number is less than [-], which is actually about the same as Liu Zheng's.

But at the beginning, Liu Zheng's sudden entry caught Zhang Ying's men by surprise and caused Zhang Ying to suffer heavy losses. Naturally, the defeat was not reversed in the subsequent battles.

As a result, Liu Zheng fought one-sidedly, and quickly killed most of Zhang Ying's soldiers and horses.

After more than an hour, the battle outside Yu Lin City has come to an end.

Except for a small number of soldiers who were unwilling to surrender, stubbornly resisted to the end, and were beheaded by Liu Zheng, the rest of the soldiers and horses basically chose to surrender, and a small number of people were afraid of the people on Liu Zheng's side and chose to surrender. In order to escape into the mountains.

But that is only a small number of people, and most of the remaining people are unable to break through. In order to survive, they can only choose to surrender in the end.

Soon, those who surrendered were gathered by Xu Huang in the square inside Yulin City.

There are not many of these people anymore. After a bloody battle, Zhang Yingjun, there are less than 4000 people left.

These people gathered in the square dejectedly, waiting for Liu Zheng's men to arrange their whereabouts.

Liu Zheng glanced in front of these people, and his eyes quickly fell on a person who looked like a leader among the crowd of those people.

After taking the initiative to approach that person, Liu Zheng took the initiative to ask these people.

"What's your name?"

Liu Zheng looked at Chen Heng. Chen Heng was sent by Zhang Ying to intercept Liu Zheng's army so as to create opportunities for Zhang Ying's main force to retreat. Unfortunately, Zhang Ying died too quickly, and Chen Heng's men saw Zhang Ying die. After that, knowing that there was no hope of escape, they all surrendered.

When asked by Liu Zheng at this time, Chen Heng had nothing to hide, so he spoke directly.

"My name is Chen Heng."

"Chen Heng?"

When Liu Zheng heard these two words, he began to think quickly in his mind, thinking about his memory of the name.

At first Liu Zheng really didn't think of this name, but when he thought about Liu Yao as a prince, he quickly remembered that under Liu Yao's command, there was indeed a general named Chen Heng.

It's just that this person is not very famous in history. He seems to be just a third-rate military general, not as high as Zhang Ying's presence. He has been under Liu Yao's command until Liu Yao was attacked by Sun Ce, and Chen Heng died under Jiang Qin. hand.

Speaking of which, Jiang Qin and Liu Zheng have already met, but this Chen Heng made him meet another historical celebrity of the Three Kingdoms.

"Are you the commander in chief of these people?"

After Liu Zheng guessed Chen Heng's name, he asked casually.

"No, I'm not the commander in chief, I'm just General Zhang Ying's deputy."

"Deputy General? You can be regarded as a general at least. These people should listen to you now."

Liu Zheng looked at Chen Heng. Although Chen Heng was not very famous in history, his strength was just like this. Under Liu Zheng's command, he might not even be as good as some of his subordinates, but he still had some strength. .

And he is familiar with the Han army system, which is better than those under Liu Zheng who are mostly bandit peasants.

"General Zhang Ying died, and these troops are now at my disposal for the time being."

"Well, that's fine. I don't have anything else to say. It's like asking you whether you want to die or live."

Liu Zheng took a brief look at Chen Heng. He didn't think much about Chen Heng. If Chen Heng was interested and Liu Zheng was short of manpower at this time, if he was willing to rely on him, he would naturally be willing to recruit Chen Heng.

But if Chen Heng is unwilling, then Liu Zheng will not be too merciful, and will kill him if he does not surrender.

"Since I surrendered, I naturally don't want to die."

"If you don't want to die, then surrender to me. I know you must look down on me, a little bandit, but now that Zhu Fu is dead, Zhang Ying is defeated, and the entire Jiaozhou has no opponent for me. Within half a month , this Jiaozhou belongs to me, Liu Zheng."

"Although I'm just a small bandit now, in a month's time, the position of governor of Jiaozhou will be mine."

Liu Zheng has this self-confidence. Now that Zhu Fu and Zhang Ying have been wiped out, the entire Jiaozhou is no longer invincible. He will be able to unify the entire Jiaozhou in a short time. At that time, Jiaozhou will be used as a base.

Following the example of Zhao Tuo, the king of martial arts in South Vietnam 400 years ago, he went north to pacify the Central Plains.

Chen Heng looked at Liu Zheng, he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, he hesitated for a moment, and didn't answer Liu Zheng's words in the first time.

Liu Zheng was not in a hurry, he just looked at Chen Heng quietly.

After Chen Heng was silent for a moment, he finally sighed.

"Chen Heng is willing to surrender, willing to do the work of a dog and a horse."

A few simple words expressed Chen Heng's mood at this time.

Although he may not be very good-looking towards Liu Zheng, but at this time, for his own life, he still chose to take refuge in Liu Zheng.

Seeing this, Liu Zheng immediately laughed. He quite liked a knowledgeable person like Chen Heng.

Although he was forced to do nothing, Liu Zheng was still in a good mood when he was able to recruit a capable general.

"Very well, you can ask the people behind you again. I will accept those who are willing to join me, but they must be assigned to the various military camps according to my military system. Don't worry, the treatment will not be better than that of them under Liu Yao's command. The timing is bad."

Liu Zheng valued Chen Heng, but in fact, he valued the thousands of soldiers and horses behind Chen Heng.

He fought one after another, and although there were more and more soldiers, there were fewer and fewer truly elite soldiers.

And the thousands of people under Chen Heng's command are considered elites.

Chapter 239 Unifying Jiaozhou

The soldiers and horses brought by Zhang Ying were originally Liu Yao's elite.

He himself has experienced many battles in Yangzhou, and he can be regarded as a veteran of hundreds of battles. Liu Zheng has already seen this from the battle with Liu Zheng.

In addition, this time, Zhu Fu went to Yangzhou to ask for help, and Liu Yao couldn't bring some recruits here because of his merits. He had to face an opponent like Liu Zheng.

So no matter what Liu Yao said, the ones he dispatched were all the elites among the elites.

Therefore, Liu Zheng just took a fancy to these soldiers and horses, who are much more powerful than those under Zhu Fu in Jiaozhou. If they can be subdued smoothly, the strength of his soldiers and horses will definitely increase greatly.

Although Liu Zheng also recruited many soldiers and horses in Jiaozhou during this period, he also recruited many soldiers and horses that belonged to Zhu Fu before.

But the strength of those soldiers and horses is not a star and a half compared with Zhang Ying's troops.

And Liu Zheng is going to launch an occupation plan for the entire Jiaozhou in the future, occupying one or two states, counties, and counties. Fortunately, the troops under Liu Zheng's command are still enough, but these seven states and counties in the entire Jiaozhou must be occupied together. Come down, the number of soldiers and horses needed is not a small number.

Even if only 5000 soldiers and horses are placed in a state and county, at least [-] troops must be stationed in various parts of Jiaozhou.

And Liu Zheng himself only brought 2 people from Mingyue Village. Although he recruited some, it was still far from enough.So the more soldiers and horses he needs, the better, especially for this kind of elite troops, the more the better.

Even if Chen Heng didn't sincerely want to join Liu Zheng's command, but Liu Zheng only wanted to use his soldiers and horses. He only needed to confuse and disperse those people among the various battalions under Liu Zheng's command. Heng is unwilling to join his command when the time comes, and there is no way to continue to command these troops.

Liu Zheng wasn't worried at all that Chen Heng would rebel against him.

With Chen Heng joining, it became a matter of course for those soldiers and horses under his command who surrendered to join the army.

Liu Zheng only stayed in Yulin County for two days, and dispersed the thousands of troops recruited from Chen Heng's men into Xu Huang, Zhou Cang, and Gan Ning's three troops.

Then only the Zhou Dynasty was left behind, leading 5000 troops to station in Yulin City, temporarily in charge of governing the entire Yulin County.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Zheng took all the remaining soldiers and horses directly to Hepu City.

Jiaozhi County was originally the seat of Jiaozhou Prefecture, but Liu Zheng felt that if he really wanted to use Jiaozhou as his base and develop northward, he had to relocate the government office to Hepu County.

Moreover, he himself can understand that the geographical advantage brought by Hepu County is prominent enough that he can go north to Jingzhou via Cangwu County, and can directly go to Yangzhou by waterway along the coastline.

Of course, the most urgent task is not to march outward, but to occupy other counties and counties in Jiaozhou first, so as to recruit troops on the basis of these counties and counties to strengthen their own strength.

Now Liu Zheng actually rules only the three counties.

Except for Hepu County and Cangwu County, which are completely under his control, Yulin County can only be regarded as half under his control, and the other half is still in the hands of those barbarian villages.

But now that Zhang Ying's army is dead, Liu Zheng must also occupy Nanhai County in a short time. Nanhai County is adjacent to Yangzhou and is an important strategic location.

At the same time, Jiaozhi County, Jiuzhen County, Rinan County and other places are all places he must fight in a short time.

Without the army commanded by Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, and Zhu Fu forcibly conscripted many soldiers and horses from various counties and counties before that, the counties and counties were extremely empty.

Liu Zheng ordered Xu Huang, Gan Ning and others to attack the other counties and counties in Jiaozhou, and they took down the entire Jiaozhou area in a short period of time without any effort.

Wherever Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses went, they almost surrendered in anticipation of the wind, and they didn't even need to fight. The prefects and county magistrates of those counties and counties directly opened the city and surrendered, avoiding a bloody battle.

It is precisely because of this speed that Liu Zheng thought it would take a month to quell the Jiaozhou Rebellion, but it took only half a month to be smoothly brought under Liu Zheng's command.

After attacking the entire Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng adopted a soft policy for the original Jiaozhou officials, instead of killing them all, he directly overthrew all the county officials.

Instead, let them continue to serve as counties and counties in various places to manage those people.

This is because Liu Zheng's current manpower is not enough after all, especially there are almost no civil officials, so if a stick is used, all those civil officials will be abolished.In this way, the counties and counties in Jiaozhou will not be able to operate.

Liu Zheng can only keep those who are willing to join him in their original positions, and at the same time recruit scholars from all over the place, let these scholars start to join the counties and counties under his command, and act as some civilian officials to manage the counties and counties.

But after all, Jiaozhou is not a very civilized area, and there are still few scholars. Naturally, there are very few people who can help. Even if Liu Zheng wants to promote it, there are not many people who can be used.

We can only temporarily let the original officials take the lead first, and everything works like this, and there is not much chaos in the whole Jiaozhou. For the common people, there is not much difference.

The first thing after occupying Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng pulled his main force from various counties and counties, and concentrated them all in Cangwu County and Nanhai County to defend against the invasion from Jingzhou and Yangzhou. invasion.

At the same time, he began to order Yuan Zhou to start building new schools in the entire Jiaozhou. He wanted to apply what he had done in Mingyue Village to the entire Jiaozhou.

Within a month after occupying Jiaozhou, that is, at the end of September 185 AD.

Liu Zheng sent people to Mingyue Village to bring all the tens of thousands of people in Mingyue Village and nearly a hundred students who have been studying hard in Mingyue Village to Jiaozhou. Mingyue Village has changed from Liu Zheng's lair to his. a stronghold.

Now Jiaozhou is his base camp.

In Jiaozhou area, the four seasons are like spring. There are many snakes, insects, rats and ants here, the vegetation is more lush, and it is also a paradise for medicinal materials. Zhang Zhongjing does not reject the relocation to Jiaozhou.

Moreover, Liu Zheng further improved the construction of the school and allowed more people to participate in the study of medicine, which also made Zhang Zhongjing more interested.

Actively participated in the construction of Liu Zheng's school.

The matter in Jiaozhou is going on in the court, and at this time, Liu Zheng finally got news from other states and counties.

2 Chapter [-] Deployment