The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Yuan Shu is now in Nanyang and Runan, although there are still two counties, but he is besieged on all sides and surrounded by soldiers and horses of the imperial court.

Now above him is Lu Zhi's main army, on his right are Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao, and below him are Lu Kang and Liu Zheng, all of which are incomprehensible. If he has any ideas, he can only go west and go to Jingzhou.

Nanyang borders Jiangxia. As long as Jiangxia is captured, Yuan Shu will still be able to enter Jingzhou, but the difficulty is that Jingzhou is not so easy to defeat.

Liu Biao is not a vegetarian.

If Yuan Shu hadn't lost these tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Yangzhou, Yuan Shu would still be able to argue with Liu Biao, but now after tens of thousands of people died in Shouchun, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses may only have 4 to [-] soldiers left. Now, if you want to fight Liu Biao again, it will be difficult.

So Yuan Shu thought of Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng's territory is also bordered by Liu Biao. Whether it is Jiaozhou or Yangzhou today, they are not clearly related to Jingzhou. If Liu Zheng helps, even if it is just to contain Liu Biao's troops, it can bring great benefits to Yuan Shu. s help.

"My father said that if your lord is willing to help, after the matter is completed, Jingzhou can be handed over to your lord. My father only wants Jiang Xia."

Chapter 491 Handling Government Affairs

In order to facilitate this alliance between Liu Zheng and Yuan Shu, Yuan Yao's performance can be said to be remarkable.

Not only did he have to bow his knees in front of Liu Zheng, but he also had to restrain his emotions. No matter what Liu Zheng said, he could only agree, otherwise Liu Zheng would be unhappy, and the conversation would collapse, and it would be difficult for him to go back.

Just after Liu Zheng got married, Yuan Yao came over and said that he was going to fight. In fact, Liu Zheng didn't want to go that much in his heart, but when he remembered, Cai Yao was still in Xiangyang.

Liu Zheng still has some things he wants to ask Cai Yao, so he inevitably has a little more idea of ​​attacking Xiangyang.

"Go back and thank your father for me, and say that I agreed to his alliance. After three months, I will raise troops in Jingzhou, and I can help him contain the troops of Changsha and the four counties of Jingnan."

Jingzhou is not more difficult to fight than Yangzhou, because the current Jingzhou is not the Jingzhou occupied by Liu Biao in history.

Among the seven counties in Jingxiang, only three counties were really controlled by Liu Biao.South County, Jiangxia County, and Changsha County.

The four Jingnan counties are basically under the control of Liu Zheng and Guo Shi, and Liu Biao only occupies one Changsha county.

Once Liu Zheng can help contain the troops in Changsha, then Liu Biao will need to send manpower to defend other parts of the four counties in Jingnan. Liu Biao, who can only mobilize troops in Jiangxia County and Nan County, will greatly increase the pressure.

And Yuan Shu relied on the men and horses of Nanyang County and Runan County, which was enough to fight Liu Biao.

As long as Yuan Shuzheng was able to attack Jingzhou, Liu Zheng didn't mind, so he took the opportunity to lead his troops to join in the fun.

Of course, now that Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao are watching Yanzhou, it is impossible for Liu Zheng to send all his troops to attack Jingzhou, but there is still no problem in sending 4 to [-] people.

After discussing things with Yuan Yao, Liu Zheng still needs to meet Sun Jian.

Sun Jian rushed back from Linyi County by boat, and returned to Wu County, mainly to go back to his hometown in Fuchun to take a look. After all, he had been away for too long, and he came back to worship his ancestors, taking advantage of the opportunity of Liu Zheng's wedding.

However, he still needs to take this opportunity to report to Liu Zheng what happened in Linyi County in recent years.

It has been two years since Liu Zheng pacified Lin Yiguo.

However, at the beginning, Liu Zheng only killed the old king Fan Xiong, leaving some remnants of the prince. The prince Fan Yi took the treasures accumulated by Lin Yiguo for decades and some dead men farther south. Liu Zheng did not send People went to chase.

Although Linyi County after the subjugation of the country has been brought under the rule of Liu Zheng, those remnants of Linyi Kingdom did not stop there, and still caused chaos in various parts of Linyi County from time to time, so Liu Zheng sent Sun Jian to investigate and suppress those remnants.

Sun Jian came in to meet Liu Zheng, and what he reported was the situation in Linyi County in the past two years.

"Wentai, tell me, what happened to the remnants of Linyi County these days."

"My lord, since I took office, I have strengthened the recruitment of county soldiers, and the banditry in Linyi County has been alleviated. However, that place has been occupied by foreigners for many years. The belief of Linyi Kingdom has been deeply rooted and penetrated into the people. I want to completely disintegrate It's not that easy, although I suppressed many uprisings by the remnants of the royal family, small-scale riots do happen from time to time."

Sun Jian picked out some of the more important ones he had taken after he took office, and told Liu Zheng about them.

In fact, it is not an important thing. It is nothing more than that he has been training militias in various places in Linyi County, and organized patrols, and at the same time set up sentries in the border area of ​​Linyi County.

Just a few months after Sun Jian took office, the turmoil over there has indeed decreased a lot.

The remnants of Lin Yiguo, who were still very arrogant, became more honest after Sun Jian's suppression. Knowing that there was no way to restore their former glory, Fan Yi continued to flee south with the rest of his troops and fled into the Khmer area.

Sun Jian also sent people to pursue them, but there was nothing to gain. Firstly, they were not familiar with the place. Sun Jian and others were originally from other places, so they didn’t know the environment there at all. They are all places outside the square, where snakes, insects, rats and ants are full of miasma, and many places have no human habitation at all.

Going in rashly, it is already very difficult to deal with the invasion of nature, let alone deal with those remnants.

It's not that easy to kill them all.

Sun Jian could only stick to Linyi County, and wanted to pursue those remnants. The temporary force and detection of the outer edge of Linyi Kingdom were not enough, so he could not pursue the translation to Khmer.

After all, Sun Jian also knew that there was a regime called Khmer farther away. It was a regime that had just been established. Although it could not be compared with the Han Dynasty, it also had an independent civilization.

Liu Zheng comforted Sun Jian with a few words, and did not let him continue to pursue Fan Yi, but only asked Sun Jian to temporarily guard Linyi County and educate the people in Linyi County, and finally the Han Dynasty will be fine.

Sun Jian still didn't have any objection to Liu Zheng's words. After all, Liu Zheng didn't say he was loyal to him, but he said he was loyal to the Han Dynasty. This made Sun Jian feel a lot better. to one's own existence.

"You may not have been back to Shouchun's hometown for a long time. Now Shouchun has become my territory. Take this opportunity and take Sun Ce back to have a look."

After talking about these things with Sun Jian, Liu Zheng told Sun Jian about his hometown, Fuchun. , but there are not too many restrictions, the Sun family is still the Sun family, and even some preferential treatment is given to the Sun family, and some young people from the Sun family, Liu Zheng is directly promoted to be an official in the county.

Although Sun Jian does not serve in the imperial court now, under Liu Zheng, he acts as the prefect of one party, and his powers are actually similar.

Hearing Liu Zheng's affirmation, Sun Jian felt a lot more at ease. He was about to say that he wanted to go back to Fuchun to have a look. If he didn't have Liu Zheng's permission, he would have some doubts about returning directly. Now with Liu Zheng's permission , then he was relieved a lot.

Immediately, he bid farewell to Liu Zheng and left.

Liu Zheng said goodbye to Sun Jian, thinking that it was all right, but who knew, Wen Pin walked in quietly again.

"What's the matter again, what else?"

Liu Zheng knew that there must be no good things for Wenpin to come in, and he must be asked to socialize again.

Wenpin shook his head, then stretched out his hand, holding a letter in his hand.

"It's okay, someone asked me to give this to you, my lord."

"letter?"

Liu Zheng was taken aback for a moment, but he still reached out to take the letter.

Content of Chapter 492 Letter

Liu Zheng opened the letter Wenpin handed over, with some handwriting written on it in beautiful characters.

Judging from these handwriting, Liu Zheng vaguely guessed that the person who wrote this letter was a woman.

When he saw the contents of the letter, it was indeed written by a woman.

However, it wasn't Cai Yao he was looking forward to, but Zhang Ning.

Liu Zheng kissed him.

Seeing a letter is like a face.

I heard from elder brother yesterday that you are getting married.

I thought it was a joke, but after confirming it again and again, I still know that you are really going to get married.

Thousands of words came to my heart, and my heart was full of mixed feelings for a while. I have too many things I want to tell you, and too many things I want to do with you.

It's a pity that I bear the will of my father, so I can't be by your side anymore.

I wish you happiness.

Belief is only a piece of paper, the content is very short, and a few short words have written Zhang Ning's longing for Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng saw some traces of ink on the paper, obviously stained by water droplets. Liu Zheng, who is good at observation, immediately thought that this should be the tears that Zhang Ning shed when he wrote this letter.

I'm afraid that after hearing the news of Liu Zheng's wedding, Zhang Ning was so sad that he couldn't sleep. After all, Zhang Ning also likes Liu Zheng very much. In Zhang Ning's heart, the only person in this world who can be worthy of her is Liu Zheng.

Zhang Ning also opened up his heart to Liu Zheng and relied on Liu Zheng. Liu Zheng also had a great affection for him. Even if Zhang Ning was willing to let go of those things about the Yellow Turban Army, he would only be his wife.

Liu Zheng is also willing to tie the knot with Zhang Ning, but Zhang Ning has too many burdens on her body, she has too many considerations, and can't let go of those things about the Yellow Turban Army, so there is no way to get together with Liu Zheng again.

Liu Zheng also understood this, and didn't force Zhang Ning to hide the love in his heart. The two obviously liked each other, but they couldn't be together.

In the world, there are too many lovers like this, and it is impossible to get married in the end.

Looking at the last four words written on the letter, I wish you happiness.

Liu Zheng smiled wryly.

Liu Zheng is happy, but what about Zhang Ning.

Zhang Ning's happiness can only be given by Liu Zheng. Of course, Liu Zheng must give Zhang Ning a good home, but that is not something Liu Zheng can consider now. Zhang Ning has not completely settled the matter of the Yellow Turban Army. When he can't hold on, Liu Zheng will be the savior who turned the tide.

Perhaps, it is much better than going to Zhang Ning now.

He still wanted to let Zhang Ning see clearly that there was no possibility of saving the Yellow Turban Army.

Putting away the letter, Liu Zheng hid Zhang Ning in his heart and didn't think much about it. It's useless to think so much now, it's better to be more tender with Zhang Muyu.

In the next few days, Liu Zheng basically didn't go out. After all, it was a big wedding, so he had to give himself a honeymoon time.

After the wedding, Liu Zheng's subordinates did not cause trouble for Liu Zheng, and everyone dealt with some unimportant matters very tactfully.

Try not to hinder Liu Zheng and Zhang Muyu's rest.

At the end of April, 188, news finally came from Yuan Shu's side.

Yuan Shu's entire army of [-] troops has already assembled in Nanyang. As long as Liu Zheng sends troops, he will immediately send troops to attack Jiangxia.

The reason why Yuan Shu is so concerned and eager to attack Jiang Xia is because the situation in Yanzhou has calmed down more and more.After Brother Liu Guanzhang succeeded Liu Dai, he was obviously stronger than Liu Dai. He only spent half a year to deal with the remnants of Liu Dai's party and some problems left by Zhang Miao.

After Cao Cao occupied Huainan County, he also surrendered to the imperial court. These two people, who were already in love with each other, showed stronger strength after mixing together, gradually threatening Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu was worried that Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao would raise their troops to attack after recuperating. At that time, Yuan Shu would have no way to defend against the enemy.

If he can capture Jingzhou, at least he can join forces with Liu Zheng to fight, which is much better than being in a place surrounded by enemies.

However, Liu Zheng was not optimistic about Liu Guanzhang's attack on Yuan Shu.

First of all, the matter of Yuan Shao in Jizhou has not been resolved by the imperial court. Although Lu Zhi personally went out to suppress Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was so easily suppressed there. Let alone the fact that Yuan Shao and the Karasuma people are now united, and their strength is unprecedented. Inflated, even Liu Zheng dare not say that he will definitely beat Yuan Shao steadily.

After all, he occupies the territory of Jizhou, Youzhou, and a small part of Bingzhou. The territory is not smaller than Liu Zheng's. The soldiers and horses are far better than Liu Zheng's.

Lu Zhi has experienced many battles and has tens of thousands of troops in the imperial court, but it is not so easy to suppress Yuan Shao and eliminate Yuan Shao in a short time.

Now this battle has been fought for more than half a year, and it is just a few small county towns that have captured the territory of Jizhou. Most of the time, both sides have their own winners and losers, and there is a stalemate between you and me.

Especially after dispatching tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to let Liu Guanzhang go to Yanzhou, Lu Zhi had fewer people under his command, and it was even more impossible to take advantage of Yuan Shao.

The battle in Jizhou is far from being able to end in a short time.

Although Liu Guanzhang has stabilized some of the situation in Yanzhou, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou is getting stronger and stronger, occupying Zhang Mancheng in Qingzhou, but he is an ambitious person. It is okay to say a year ago, after all, he has not completely freed up. .

But now, it has been a year since he captured Qingzhou, and Zhang Mancheng has completely controlled Qingzhou. He was able to complete the supply through some towns in Qingzhou. With his strength greatly increased, he gradually occupied the upper hand in the confrontation with Xuzhou.

Tao Qian, governor of Xuzhou, was no match for Zhang Mancheng at all.

In this way, in order to suppress the Yellow Turban Army first, people like Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao would definitely not choose to attack Yuan Shu at this time, but would first suppress the Yellow Turban Army.

After the Yellow Turban Army is dealt with, it will be Yuan Shu's turn.

It's just that Yuan Shu couldn't understand these things. Even if he could understand them, he didn't want to believe them. He was still worried about his own life.

And since Yuan Shu wants to attack Jingzhou, Liu Zheng is naturally willing to accompany him. Only in this way can Liu Zheng take down Xiangyang and ask Cai Yao in person why he left.

At the beginning of May, Liu Zheng and Zhang Muyu separated, and Liu Zheng asked Zhang Muyu to go to Jiaozhou. Although Wu County was the top priority, Jiaozhou was safer after all.

Liu Zheng himself led two battalions of Gan Ning and Tai Shici to kill Yuzhang County.

In Yuzhang County, there is also Wenpin's 3 troops, a total of [-] people, assembled in Yuzhang.

Chapter 493 The Soldier

The mobilization of soldiers and horses on Liu Zheng's side naturally aroused Liu Biao's nervousness.

After all, the military actions of tens of thousands of horses must not be hidden from Liu Biao, and Liu Biao also worked carefully in Yangzhou.

When Liu Zheng transferred his soldiers and horses to Yangzhou, everyone knew that he was getting married and he would not be nervous, but when the soldiers and horses of Wu County marched towards Yuzhang, although Liu Biao was not nervous at the first time, he just thought it was normal It's just a military defense.

But when Liu Zheng gathered tens of thousands of people in Yuzhang, Liu Biao was not calm.

In particular, there is Yuan Shu from Nanyang, who also has 3 soldiers in Nanyang, which puts a lot of pressure on Liu Biao.

He was vaguely aware of something, but he couldn't say it clearly at this time, so he could only call his soldiers immediately to prepare for this accident.

Jingzhou Xiangyang City.

In Liu Biao's mansion, Kuai Liang, the chief counselor under Liu Biao's tent, came to Liu Biao in a hurry.

After Kuai Kuailiang received the news that Liu Zheng was gathering troops in Yuzhang, he was already very nervous, especially when his spies told him that Yuan Shu, this guy, was also secretly mobilizing troops and horses during this period of time to form an army going to Nanyang. direction approaching.

Although Yuan Shu was very concealed, he didn't let the big troops approach Nanyang directly, but secretly let the soldiers and horses disperse into small groups of soldiers and horses. After a while, he sent 2000 people to Nanyang.

But this kind of action did not hide Kuai Liang. Kuai Liang was originally from Xiangyang. The Kuai family is considered a big family in Jingzhou, and there are many branches in Nanyang. Yuan Shu's plot to deal with Liu Biao has been known by Kuai Liang's spies. up.