The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"It's true, the message that the general came over just now."

Then Ruo Rong's face darkened, and he ignored the little monk, but hurriedly walked out of the Buddhist hall, rushed outside, and wanted to ask the soldier who delivered the order.

But before he saw the soldiers who sent the order, he was already frightened by the shouts of killing from outside.

"what happened?"

Only then did Ruo Rong's expression change drastically, realizing that something was wrong, he was even more eager to know what happened outside.

But when he opened the gate of his house, he saw that a circle of soldiers outside had surrounded the gate of his mansion.

His guards and soldiers either died tragically by the opponent's sword, or they were left with nothing left but the appearance of throwing away their helmets and armor.

Ruo Rong was terrified, but still calmed himself down, and shouted loudly towards the outside.

"Who are you? Damn it, you know, this is Guangling Taishou's Mansion!"

Among a group of cavalry, a few people came out, and the leader was Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng came out. On top of the horse, he was wearing armor, and he still had a bit of heroism. Ruo Rong followed the eyes of the crowd and looked at Liu Zheng.

When he saw Liu Zheng's face, Ruo Rong's face turned pale with fright.

Tremblingly, he said Liu Zheng's name.

"Liu Liuzheng!"

"Prefect Ruo Rong, it seems that your memory is not too bad. We only met once, and you can still remember to stay here."

Liu Zheng smiled coldly and said a mocking remark.

Ruo Rong's face was even paler. Hearing Liu Zheng's eccentric tone, he knew that today's Liu Zheng was not a good person.

"Master Liu Zheng, how dare I forget, my lord, it is really gratifying to return to Xuzhou, gratifying and congratulating."

"I defended this Guangling County for my lord, and finally waited for my lord's arrival, but I missed me to death."

Ruo Rong calmed himself down, and wanted to compliment Liu Zheng first, so that Liu Zheng would not kill him.

But at this moment, how could Liu Zheng forget what his purpose of coming here was because of Ruo Rong's few words.

"You defended Guangling County for me, but how did I hear that you let the enemy into the city directly, and you didn't let a single soldier resist the imperial army."

"Hey, my lord, didn't I do it all to preserve my strength? My strength is weak. If I resisted, wouldn't this Guangling County be lost? I was just trying to slow down the army. Now that I finally waited for my lord, I can take this Guangling county. The county is completely returned to the adults."

Ruo Rong has a thick skin, and the words of surrender are so fresh and refined.

"Stop fucking farting here, Ruo Rong, do you think I don't know what you did? I came today to kill you, come on! Hang the head of this unfaithful bastard on the city gate Show off!"

"Yes!"

Jin Yiwei on the left and right immediately took Liu Zheng's order and rushed directly in front of Ruo Rong.

After hearing Liu Zheng's words, Ruo Rong trembled with fright, and immediately begged for mercy.

"My lord, have mercy, my lord, have mercy!"

He still wanted to struggle, shouting and retreating, but in Jin Yiwei's hands, how could he escape.

Before he took a few steps, he was overtaken by two Jin Yiwei, and a knife landed on his head, and the head rolled on the ground, bleeding profusely.

Chapter 7 and Eight

After Liu Zheng reoccupied Guangling County, he immediately let Wu County's soldiers and horses cross the river, and then fully took over Guangling County's defense measures.

In the next few days, Liu Zheng mobilized [-] troops from Yangzhou and stationed them in Guangling County. In addition to his [-]-odd cavalry, there were also remnants of Taishi Ci's army and [-] Wenpin troops. soldiers and horses.

and some sailors.

Although Liu Zheng got the news that Lu Zhi quickly withdrew his troops from Qingzhou, returned to Xuzhou, and joined Liu Bei's troops, but Lu Zhi did not continue to attack Liu Zheng at this time.

Both sides seemed to have reached a tacit agreement and temporarily suspended their troops.

This result was actually not what Lu Zhi wanted. When he returned to Xuzhou with [-] soldiers, he actually wanted to fight Liu Zheng.

It's just that now there are only more than [-] soldiers left under him, and Liu Zheng has [-] soldiers in Guangling, [-] against [-], and it's another siege battle. Lu Zhi is not sure that he can defeat Liu Zheng.

He was even worried that Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses would take the initiative to attack, so Lu Zhi could only defend temporarily, and at the same time gather people around here as soon as possible.

After two months of war, both Lu Zhi and Liu Zheng suffered heavy losses. Even Yuan Shao, who attacked Qingzhou with [-] troops this time, lost more than [-] people, which caused Yuan Shao himself to suffer. hit hard.

In addition, it is now August, the weather is hot, people are impetuous, and no one is willing to come out to fight against the scorching sun.

Liu Zheng, who lost two states and counties, seems to have suffered a big loss, but Qingzhou and Xuzhou don't have much tax revenue, and even a large part of it needs Liu Zheng to allocate extra money, food and grass to support it.

Therefore, although Liu Zheng has regrets about the two lost territories, he cannot hurt Liu Zheng's vitality.

However, tens of thousands of horses were lost, and the compensation expenses for the families of these tens of thousands of horses were not a small sum.

In addition, Liu Zheng's side was heavy on military expenditures, and the Mi family suffered heavy losses. For a while, Liu Zheng's subordinates also experienced some economic crises.

Liu Zheng doesn't have much money available.

Not only is there not enough money to support the families of the soldiers who died in the war, but even the money to recruit new troops is also not enough.

Fortunately, trade in the north is no longer possible. Some time ago, Liu Zheng opened up trade in the south, and he was able to transport some things from Funan to sell.

In addition to some money plundered from the royal family of Funan Kingdom, Liu Zheng is not in short supply in a short period of time, but money is still very important. Liu Zheng must open up new ways to make money, otherwise he will still be in trouble soon. In a situation of lack of money.

With the death of Mi Zhu and the loss of Xuzhou, the Mi family caravan has temporarily fallen silent. Although it is not possible to completely lose the business all at once, it is not something that can be achieved in a short time if it wants to restore its former glory. .

After realizing that there was no change in the court's troops and Yuan Shao's troops for the time being, Liu Zheng felt relieved a little, and let his troops station in Guangling, while he himself returned to Wu County.

Because of the lack of money, Liu Zheng had to find a way to get more money from other places. Of course, Liu Zheng had thought of this way a long time ago.

He has some technologies in his hands, but they are many years ahead of other places, such as papermaking and printing, these two things.

Almost a year ago, he had been tossing around in Liu Zheng's military school in Yuzhang County. At first, it was only used by Liu Zheng for these students under his command, but in order to make money, Liu Zheng felt that he could use these Books are printed and sold to people elsewhere.

The cost of a book is actually only a few tens of dollars, but it is not a problem to sell it for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

The farther away from Liu Zheng's territory, the higher the selling price. In this way, Liu Zheng can get countless scholars from other princes. If all these people can use books, it will be a big deal. .

Moreover, it is not enough to just buy one book. If you print a few more copies of the Analects, Tao Te Ching, Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, Sun Tzu's Art of War, etc., you can sell them.

Not only scholars will benefit from this, but even those poor people are also eager for books, so as long as Liu Zheng can sell all these books, he will definitely reap a lot of money.

Moreover, this time Liu Zheng intends to vigorously develop his own business, exporting not only books, but also some Sanliangye kept in his home.

Although the Sanliangye in his family is not brewed every time, it's not that Liu Zheng can't brew on a large scale, it's just that Liu Zheng wanted to maintain the uniqueness of Sanliangye before, so he never brewed the Sanliangye. Liquid expansion production.

Now he will not expand production, but just take out part of it and sell it to other princes at a high price.

Through the generals under his command, Liu Zheng has already learned that in this era, there are still many people who like Sanliangye.

As long as Liu Zheng sells these wines, he will definitely be able to sell them at a high price.

Moreover, these wines only need to be exclusively for dignitaries, and the price will only be higher, making it look like they are sold in limited quantities.

It will definitely make people flock to it, and there is no market for the price.

After returning to Wu County, Liu Zheng immediately asked the people in the Military Academy to increase the printing of books, and at the same time brewed a new batch of Sanliangye fine wine.

After half a month, a caravan was sent to sell these things directly to Luoyang.

These things were originally rare things, and in order to make money, Liu Zheng took some ivory, pearls and other things from Funan to Luoyang to sell them.

For a while, it really sold for a high price, and Liu Zheng's caravan looted a lot of money from Luoyang.

At the same time, Liu Zheng also spread the two things of books and fine wine throughout the entire Han Dynasty.

Of course, there was another reason why Lu Zhi and Liu Zheng had a truce, that is, in August, when the grain was harvested, everyone had a temporary truce, and the grain and grass needed to be harvested.

Although there is no shortage of food and grass on Liu Zheng's side, Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao are not rich. The main reason for their attack on Liu Zheng is also to snatch food and grass from Liu Zheng by the river.

The grain and grass in Qingzhou and Xuzhou have been planted before, and now they occupy Xuzhou and Qingzhou. It is time to harvest the grain and grass, and they can also harvest some grain and grass from these two places.Used to fill in the shortfall of last year.

Especially Yuan Shao, who was short of food and grass, his main purpose of snatching Qingzhou's mouth was to get food from Qingzhou.

Chapter 7 and Nine

Xuzhou.

It is very close to Guangling County, and has become the front line to face Liu Zheng's army.

Lu Zhi stationed [-] soldiers and horses here.

Almost all of Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses now.

At this time, on the school grounds in Xuzhou City, Zhao Yun brought Liu Bei, Lu Zhi and others to appear here.

Zhao Yun had discovered the function of the stirrup before, but after he discovered the stirrup, he told Gongsun Zan the news. As a result, Gongsun Zan died on the battlefield.

Later, Lu Zhi and the others had been dealing with Gongsun Zan's funeral, so the matter was delayed.Until now, when Zhao Yun had free time, Zhao Yun invited Lu Zhi, Liu Bei and others to the school grounds, and decided to explain the stirrup to them.

"Zilong, you said you have something important to tell us, what exactly is it?"

Liu Bei was the most curious, staring at Zhao Yun and asking.

Zhao Yun did not answer Liu Bei, but looked at Lu Zhi. After seeing that everyone was here, Zhao Yun began to answer Liu Bei's words.

"Lord Zhou Mu, do you know why Liu Zheng's cavalry is so powerful? Can it be compared with our army's Baima Yicong?"

Naturally, it was impossible for Liu Bei to know, so of course he shook his head.

"I don't know, but Liu Zheng has a good way of training soldiers and horses. Not only are the cavalry powerful, but the other soldiers and horses under him are also good. Even with the same soldiers and horses as him, I am not sure that I can win on the battlefield."

Liu Bei is not self-effacing, but after fighting Liu Zheng so many times, he does have some fear of Liu Zheng.

The same is true for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Although they did not fight Liu Zheng head-on, they have fought with Liu Zheng's men and suffered a lot of losses in embarrassment. Therefore, they are also extremely interested in Liu Zheng's military training methods. .

"Liu Zheng's military training method is indeed powerful, but he has never been in contact with cavalry. Why are the cavalry under him so powerful?"

Starting from his own doubts, Zhao Yun began to explain to Liu Bei why Liu Zheng's cavalry was so powerful.

"What Zilong said is very true. I have never thought about this matter. Then Liu Zheng is not a northerner, let alone a cavalry. He doesn't even have a few horses. How could he train such a powerful cavalry? Woolen cloth."

Lu Zhi was also puzzled at this time. Lu Zhi had never seen the strength of Liu Zheng's cavalry, but Lu Zhi knew the cavalry under Gongsun Zan's command. Even Gongsun Zan's cavalry could not win against Liu Zheng If there is any benefit, then it is natural to know that Liu Zheng's cavalry will not be far behind.

"It's because of this."

Zhao Yun said something, and then threw out the stirrup in his hand.

This is the stirrup that Zhao Yun captured from Liu Zheng's cavalry before.

"What is this?"

Guan Yu was more concerned about this. When he saw the stirrup in Zhao Yun's hand, he didn't recognize what it was and what function it had at first glance.

On the contrary, it was Zhang Fei. After seeing Zhao Yun's thing, there was something wrong with the expression on his face. Zhang Fei is from Youzhou, and he has a link from Karasuma people in Youzhou. Horses are not rare, so Zhang Fei Recognized the function of this stirrup.

"This is something I snatched from Liu Zheng's cavalry in the last battle in Huainan. I didn't know the function of this thing at first. It wasn't until I took it back and studied it for a long time that I finally understood the purpose of this thing. specific role."

"What is the use?"

Lu Zhi and Liu Bei asked at the same time, but they didn't recognize the use of this thing.

"My lords, please get on your horse and have a look."

Zhao Yun didn't explain much, but directly wanted to demonstrate it to everyone. When Zhao Yun hung the stirrup on the saddle, got on the horse like this, and then stood with both feet on the stirrup.

Everyone present had already understood.

They were not fools, but were born in Youzhou, and they were all good at riding horses. At this time, they naturally understood the function of the stirrup, and at the same time, they also understood how much change the stirrup could bring to the cavalry.

"This thing can let us ride on the horse to borrow strength!"

Lu Zhi immediately recognized the function of the stirrup, was immediately surprised, and said a word with a shocked expression.

But Zhao Yun continued to respond.

"No, not only can the cavalry borrow strength on the horse, but it can also make it easier for people to mount the horse, and at the same time take advantage of the advantages on the horseback. With this thing, the cavalry can even master riding skills more quickly, even for some For cavalry who are good at shooting, it is a great help."

"This! Liu Zheng really got this thing!"

"Yes, during the Battle of Huainan, I suspected that the cavalry under Liu Zheng's command was not very good at riding, but they were able to exert a great advantage on the horse. This thing was found under the cavalryman I killed."

"After being studied by me, I got this effect."

Zhao Yun explained again.

At this moment, Liu Guanzhang, Lu Zhi and others were all shocked.