The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Obviously, Liu Zheng, Liu Yao's capital, only dispatched 3 to 4 people, which is a bit dismissive. Let alone his Yangzhou, there are at least [-] to [-] soldiers and horses. Can make up more than [-] horses.

If you really want to count it, Liu Yao was able to gather nearly [-] troops in a short period of time.

Naturally, he would not be afraid of Liu Zheng's 3 or [-] people.

Chapter 332 Liu Yao's Reliance

"Where are Liu Zheng's men now?"

Although Liu Zheng only brought [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, he was not particularly afraid, but it was still Liu Zheng after all, and Liu Zheng's name still caused Liu Yao to be a little nervous.

"Returning to my lord, a few days ago, our spies found out that they had set off from Hepu. Presumably, they should have arrived in Nanhai County by now and are heading towards Kuaiji County. It is estimated that it will take less than ten days and a half months before they will be there." Kill to Kuaiji County!"

Fan Neng's words made Liu Yao's expression calm down a little. After all, if there are still ten days and a half months to prepare, they will not appear so hasty in their response.

"It's okay, it's okay, there is still some time to prepare, Fan Neng, please go and invite Sun Jian, Marquis of Wucheng, to come and see me."

Liu Yao immediately gave Fan Neng an order. When Fan Neng heard Liu Yao's words, he nodded immediately without pausing, turned around and left the courtyard. According to Liu Yao's instructions, he planned to invite Sun Jian, Marquis of Wucheng.

But after Liu Yao was interrupted by Fan Neng's haste, he lost his mind here and got bored with his concubine. Even after tidying up his clothes, he hurriedly left the mansion and went to the government office to deal with these matters.

Sun Jian on the other side has been staying in his hometown Fuchun County since he fled back to Yangzhou from Jingzhou a few months ago.

Sun Jian is also considered a wealthy family in Fuchun County.The Sun family has been an official in Wu for generations.In his early years, Sun Jian was also in Fuchun. He became famous when he was young, and his family was considered a prominent family with some money.

This time Sun Jian was defeated by Liu Zheng. After returning home, he dispersed his family property and recruited Xiangyong. With his previous prestige, he also recruited thousands of soldiers in a short period of time.

But even with these thousands of troops, Sun Jian still has a bit of self-knowledge. It is impossible to return to Jingzhou with these troops alone. In addition, Changsha County is now occupied by Liu Biao. Sun Jian sent people to negotiate with Liu Biao. There has been no news about getting Changsha County back from Liu Biao, so the matter has been delayed.

Liu Biao is such a smart person, of course he would not hand over the Changsha County he finally won to Sun Jian so easily, so the two are arguing.

Sun Jian lost his residence in Changsha County for a while, so he couldn't return to Jingzhou. In addition, at this time, Yangzhou Shepherd Liu Yao seemed to have some good feelings for him, and wanted to unite him to deal with Liu Zheng.

This is exactly what Sun Jian thought in his heart. After talking with Liu Yao at Liu Yao's house, he hit it off with Liu Yao. Liu Yao promised Sun Jian that he would give him a certain amount of financial support so that Sun Jian could recruit troops in Yangzhou.

It is only necessary for Sun Jian to send troops with him to deal with Liu Zheng.

In this way, Sun Jian naturally had no idea of ​​returning to Jingzhou, but temporarily settled down in Yangzhou, just two or three months.Sun Jian recruited troops near Jiangdong on a large scale, and he actually recruited more than 5000 soldiers and horses within this time.

Although these more than 5000 people are just some newly recruited brave men from the countryside, after two months of training, they have already achieved certain results.There is no problem in going into battle to kill the enemy.

Sun Jian has also been waiting for an opportunity. He is waiting for Liu Yao to march to Jiaozhou.Then you can go to Jiaozhou with Liu Yao to avenge your shame and revenge.

And when Liu Yao sent Fan Neng to invite Sun Jian to meet Liu Yao, Sun Jian did not delay, but set off immediately, triggering from Fuchun, to Kuaiji.

On the way, Sun Jian asked Fan Neng, why did Liu Yao call him?

When Fan Neng told him that Liu Zheng had sent troops to Jiaozhou and was leading [-] to [-] troops to attack Yangzhou.Sun Jian was overjoyed.Unable to calm down for a long time, his desire to avenge Liu Zheng became clearer at this time.

Sun Jian knew his chance had come.

I was still worried before, I don't know when Liu Yao will rush to Jiaozhou to send troops, but it has only been a few months, and he hasn't troubled Liu Zheng yet, Liu Zheng came to Liu Yao first at this time trouble.

Fuchun County is not far from Kuaiji County.Sun Jian had already met Liu Yao that day.

"Sir, are you looking for me?"

"Wentai, you are finally here!"

Seeing Liu Yao's gratified expression on his face, Sun Jian immediately spoke again.

"Are you worried about Liu Zheng in your heart?"

"Yeah, you've heard what Fan Neng said. A few days ago, Liu Zheng raised [-] troops from Jiaozhou to kill us in Kuaiji County. It won't be long before he goes to the city. Then I am well aware of Liu Zheng's strength, before my general Zhang Ying was killed by him and lost [-] elite soldiers, so Liu Zheng must have come seeking revenge for this."

"Don't worry, my lord. Although Liu Zheng has some tricks, his actual strength is mediocre. Now, I have a heavy guard here in Yangzhou. How could he defeat our army with only 2 people, not to mention that he came from Jiaozhou. It is not easy to send troops, food and supplies are not easy, even if he leads some of the most elite soldiers, with our ability to fight at home, we will definitely not lose to him!"

Although Sun Jian failed one after another in the battle with Liu Zheng, in Sun Jian's heart he still looked down on Liu Zheng very much.It was determined that he had underestimated the enemy in the previous few battles.Falling into Liu Zheng's tricks will lead to failure, and this time the soldiers and horses he leads will be defending Liu Zheng's attack in Yangzhou. Sun Jian is still very sure about the transition from offense to defense.

Furthermore.

This time, Sun Jian didn't deal with Liu Zheng alone, but Liu Yao's soldiers and horses also assisted in the defense.The combined forces of the two forces far surpassed Liu Zheng, so Sun Jian naturally had great confidence in blocking Liu Zheng's attack, and even beheaded Liu Zheng because of it.

Originally, Liu Yao was still worried, but after hearing Sun Jian's description and seeing Sun Jian's confident expression, Liu Yao gradually calmed down.

"Okay, I feel relieved with Wentai's words. I will immediately write a book and let the prefects of Danyang County, Lujiang County, Jiujiang County and other places send 5000 soldiers and horses to help defend. This time, we will defend Liu Zheng's attack. I will hand over the full authority to Brother Wentai and you will be responsible, don't let me down!"

At any rate, Sun Jian was also a person who followed Zhu Jun in the South and North Wars, and later participated in a large number of battles with Huangfu Song Zhonglang. It was precisely because Liu Yao knew Sun Jian's details that he had confidence in Sun Jian.

At this time, Sun Jian, hearing that Liu Yao believed in him so much, immediately showed surprise on his face, and immediately bowed to Liu Yao and agreed.

"The final general will definitely live up to your lord's expectations, and will definitely kill the traitor Liu Zheng and his team!"

Chapter 333 Slow Advance

After the discussion, Sun Jian quickly took the order and left. He needed to arrange the defense in advance.Although there are still more than ten days to mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the country to do a good job in Yangzhou Kuaiji County and other places, but for them, ten days is not long, and they still need to mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the place.

On the other side, Liu Zheng had just led his troops to leave Nanhai County and arrived near the junction of Kuaiji County and Nanhai County.

The junction of Nanhai County and Kuaiji County.This is the southern Fujian region of the market outlook.Now it is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and a large part of it is gathered in the form of small villages.Occupied by a group of Shanyue people.

There are few large towns here. Because of this, the entire area was unified under the jurisdiction of Kuaiji County, and it was never split into new places. Later, it was divided into Jian'an County by Wu State, and it gradually improved.

When Liu Zheng sailed from the coast to Xuzhou, he stayed in a village here for one night.They didn't feel too much dislike for the people here. After the army arrived, these people didn't show much resistance. They took down some small villages smoothly and incorporated them into the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou.

Liu Zheng was not in a hurry to march to Kuaiji County.He was not in a hurry to take his troops to Kuaiji County because it was July.

July is one of the hottest months in the entire southern region. The sun is hot and the temperature directly rises to 40 degrees Celsius. From eight o'clock in the morning to five or six in the evening, there are strong sunlight, and the trees in southern Fujian They are generally short shrubs, and there are few towering trees, which cannot cover the sun.

Although these people don't know the concept of [-] degrees Celsius, Liu Zheng knows that marching a little faster in this environment will cause a large number of soldiers to suffer from heat stroke. Once heat stroke, in the current medical environment , life-threatening conditions are likely to occur.

Plus mosquito bites.The harassment of various snakes, insects, rats and ants, and the long march are not good things for troops like Liu Zheng.

However, Liu Zheng didn't want to march quickly and increase the loss of his soldiers and horses. He could only slowly let his troops march in the morning and evening, and rest on standby for the rest of the time, or go to nearby villages for expeditions. The people and horses of Kuaiji County in Yangzhou were sent to Jiaozhou.

This will not only increase the population of Jiaozhou, but also further weaken Yangzhou's control.

In fact, the area of ​​Jiaozhou where Liu Zheng is located is not much smaller than that of Yangzhou, but the land is sparsely populated and the population is not dense. population.At least more than [-] people have been lost. What he lacks is the people. If a large number of people can be moved from the densely populated places of Yangzhou and Jingzhou to Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou will definitely become more prosperous and prosperous.

After all, as far as Liu Zheng knew, the whole Han Dynasty had a population of 5000 million, and only Jiaozhou, a remote place, had the smallest population of one million, which was less than one-fiftieth of the entire population of the Han court.

But Jingzhou and Yangzhou, the prefectures and counties adjacent to Jiaozhou, each have a population of at least 400 million, which is several times larger than Jiaozhou.

This is still the population recorded by the imperial court. There are still many Shanyue people who are not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. The imperial court cannot count those people at all. The population of Yangzhou must be close to 500 million.And Jingzhou has a huge population. The recorded population of the imperial court alone exceeds 600 million.

Although Jingzhou's population has decreased a lot after experiencing several turbulences, but the population base is here, no matter how small it is, it is impossible to be smaller than Jiaozhou's population.

If it is possible to migrate part of the population from Yangzhou and Jingzhou to fill Jiaozhou, it will naturally be an important means to develop Jiaozhou.

Originally, it took ten days and half a month to reach Kuaiji County, but Liu Zheng had to travel for two months before arriving.

Sun Jian and Liu Yao, who were under strict defense in Kuaiji County, were nervous for two whole months, and they did not see Liu Zheng's army coming from Jiaozhou. When they sent people to investigate along the way, they realized that Liu Zheng had not been in the past two months. Without any action, it will take two months to conquer all local forces in the southern part of Ji County.

Liu Zheng has moved forward at a slow pace in the past two months. Every time he went to a place, he quickly searched for the local Shanyue people, and then led more than 2 people under his command to encircle and suppress them.

When encountering the rebellious Shanyue tribe, Liu Zheng beheaded the leader directly, and then escorted the remaining people to Jiaozhou to serve as laborers.

When encountering those who did not resist, they continued to stay in various places, and then migrated to multiple tribes, gathered together to establish towns, and Liu Zheng sent accompanying soldiers and horses to rule.

In the past two months, most of the southern part of Jiangji County has been controlled by himself.

Although Kuaiji County is still in the hands of Liu Yao, the Yangzhou shepherd, most of the territory has been occupied by Liu Zheng's Jiaozhou army.

Seeing that Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses were about to arrive not far from the city of Kuaiji County.

Liu Zheng's men and horses did not move forward, but began to build the city on the spot.

In this way, a place tens of kilometers away from Kuaiji County set up defenses and did not take the initiative to attack.

Liu Zheng's coquettish operation made Sun Jian, who had already prepared more than 4 soldiers and horses in a hurry, planning to defend Liu Zheng, was taken aback.

He originally thought that after Liu Zheng arrived in Kuaiji, he would definitely besiege the city directly, and then force Sun Jian and others in the city to fight.

But Liu Zheng didn't come to Kuaiji at all, but directly built a city and built a dock a few dozen miles outside the city. Sun Jian and Liu Yao couldn't understand such an operation.

"That bastard Liu Zheng, what the hell is he trying to do?"

Liu Yao was nervous for two months, but Liu Zheng stopped attacking. The means and measures that Liu Yao had prepared were really useless for a while.

"My lord, I've always said that Liu Zheng is full of tricks. I'm afraid this is another trick he set up. He wants to delay the attack so that we can take the initiative to attack."

"Liu Zheng has few soldiers and horses, and he is obviously at a disadvantage when he takes the initiative to attack, so he should also know his weakness. Instead of adopting the rhythm of active attack, he builds a dock on the spot, uses the dock to defend, and waits for us to attack him!"

Sun Jian spoke out what was in his heart.

"He's waiting for us to hit him?"

"Mostly so."

"Damn it, let's just waste time like this. Since he won't come to beat us, then we can take the initiative to attack him!"

Liu Yao is eager to defeat Liu Zheng, after all, Liu Zheng is right in front of him.

"My lord, absolutely not!"

Chapter 334 Sun Jian's plan

"Why not? Then Liu Zheng only has 2 horses, and for the past two months, his men have been dealing with those Shanyue tribes, so they must have been damaged. The number of soldiers and horses does not exceed 2, and we have never All states and counties have mobilized 4 people here, and with the addition of those under your command, in Kuaiji City, we have at least [-] elites that can be mobilized."

"Could it be that we have 6 people and are afraid of Liu Zheng's mere 2 horses?"

Faced with Sun Jian's persuasion, Liu Yao immediately showed displeasure. Although he knew Liu Zheng's strength, he was indeed good, but now he has several times as many troops as Liu Zheng, so if he still can't defeat Liu Zheng , then Liu Yao really has nothing to do.

"No, my lord, we are not afraid of Liu Zheng, but we know that this is Liu Zheng's plan. If we take the initiative to attack, wouldn't it be exactly what he wants?"

"I'm not saying that we can't attack, but that we need to have a planned countermeasure against Liu Zheng."

Sun Jian's explanation made Liu Yao look better.

"So, you already have a countermeasure?"

"There is a way, but it's not easy if you want to succeed, and you need the cooperation of Master Liu Yao."

"Just say it."

"Since Liu Zheng has set up camp outside our Kuaiji City, let's simply attack him from behind. We just need to let our people cut off Liu Zheng's food and grass from the rear. Without food and grass, I don't think Liu Zheng's people are still there. Confront us here, when the time comes when he runs out of food, it will be the time for us to pursue him."

Sun Jian thought, after all, Liu Zheng traveled a long distance from Jiaozhou to Kuaiji County. Although it is not very far from Jiaozhou, the transportation of grain and grass is still not easy.

With such a long distance, Liu Zheng needs a lot of soldiers and horses to guard him if he wants to transport the grain of Jiaozhou here. This is why Liu Zheng is willing to advance slowly to clean up the entire southern part of Kuaiji County.

However, Liu Zhengxin must not be familiar with the territory in the southern part of Kuaiji County. As long as Liu Yao sends people to cut off Liu Zheng's grain transportation route, Liu Zheng's [-] troops will not last for ten days and a half months, and there will be a shortage of food and grass. Thousands of soldiers and horses can collapse without fighting.

"Wonderful, Wentai, I'll let you do it from the fact that you are a capable person with such a clever plan. Let's see how Liu Zheng solves it."

Liu Yao immediately implemented the plan proposed by Sun Jian.

After Sun Jian had Liu Yao's consent, he nodded and began to order his subordinates to prepare.

Several of his right-hand men, except for Huang Gai, who was captured by Liu Zheng that day, the rest followed him back to his hometown in Fuchun, and are still by his side, assisting him.

When Sun Jian returned to his hometown of Fuchun, he immediately issued an order to Cheng Pu and Han Dang, the powerful generals, to lead two thousand soldiers and horses to leave Fuchun County quietly and go to the south of Kuaiji County to secretly cut off Liu Zheng. traffic route.

This method of going around the enemy's rear and attacking local food roads is extremely dangerous, because you don't know where the other party's transportation road is, how many escorts are there, and the news is not easy to pass on. Once exposed, these people will be very dangerous. It is possible that there is no return.

"Cheng Pu, Han Dang, I will leave this matter to you two. Remember, you must be careful. If you can find the place where Liu Zheng and their transportation is, cut off the line, and if you can't, then use Protecting your own safety is the main priority, and you must come back alive!"

"Don't worry, my lord, we will definitely complete your task!"

Cheng Pu understood how difficult the task Sun Jian entrusted to him was, but even though he understood that the task was difficult, Cheng Pu still took it firmly.

"Okay, Cheng Pu, I'm relieved if you're here. It's not too late. You go there now. I'll give you three days to find out the news. On the fourth day, I will send troops to surround Liu Zheng's army." , when the time comes, you will cut off his food."

"If we succeed, we can defeat Liu Zheng in one fell swoop. If we fail, no, we won't fail!"

Before Cheng Pu left, Sun Jian gave Cheng Pu an order.

Cheng Pu didn't say much, took Han Dang, and left from here. Among the more than 1 people under Sun Jian's command, he summoned [-] dead soldiers, and quietly left Fuchun.

Sun Jian was secretly preparing a battle plan against Liu Zheng. On the other side, not far from the city of Kuaiji County, Liu Zheng was not idle. He was also preparing to deal with Liu Yao and Sun Jian.

"My lord, are we going to place the army here like this? This place is not far from the city of Kuaiji County. If we kill it, we will be able to reach the city in less than half a day."

Wenpin stood by Liu Zheng's side. In order to train Wenpin and this group of young generals, Liu Zheng took them by his side for a long time, and he could be regarded as the first batch of main students.

"Kill to the bottom of the city, Wenpin, do you think we can defeat Kuaiji County with our 1-odd troops?"

Asked by Liu Zheng, Wenpin was very interested. He was about to speak, but when he thought of Liu Zheng's question, he paused and didn't know how to answer for a while.

After hesitating for a while, he continued.

"Of course I can. With my lord here, I can definitely break Kuaiji City."