The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

This is one of the methods, and another method is that Liu Zheng uses a merchant ship to directly cross the Bohai Sea and go to the Koryo Peninsula.Then go north from the Koryo Peninsula to find Xianbei people to buy horses.

Although this is more troublesome, in order to be able to buy war horses, this is the only way to go.After all, even if it is a little troublesome, it is much cheaper than buying war horses directly from Yuan Shao.

At the same time, this can also prevent Yuan Shao and Lu Zhi from knowing how many cavalry Liu Zheng has under his command.

Although Yuan Shao did not agree to sell the war horse to Liu Zheng, Guo Jia's mission this time was considered a success.

After Guo Jia left, Yuan Shao's troops quickly took action.They mobilized troops, and when Lu Zhi's men did not respond, they directly took Beihai County and Donglai County that originally belonged to Lu Zhi as their own.

Because when Lu Zhi left Beihai County and Donglai County, he did not station too many soldiers and horses in these two places.

Lu Zhi was smarter when he left, and at that time he only brought more than [-] cavalry to the north, and he did not have enough men to station in Beihai and Donglai.

Therefore, when Yuan Shao's men attacked Beihai County and Donglai County, they took them down without any effort.

When this news reached the ears of Lu Zhi in Xuzhou, Lu Zhi immediately flew into a rage.

He scolded Yuan Shao for only caring about his immediate interests and disregarding his long-term development, and easily tore up their alliance agreement.

After all, Liu Zheng has not been completely defeated now, he just lost the territory of two states and counties, and his strength has lost some.

They should take advantage of Liu Zheng's great loss of strength and pursue the victory instead of having conflicts at this time.

But even though Lu Zhi scolded him like this, he also knew that Yuan Shao would not be of one mind with him, so, on the one hand, it was convenient to come here to deal with Liu Zheng's army, and on the other hand, he began to prepare to fight Yuan Shao again.

However, Lu Zhi did not fight Yuan Shao in the end, not because Lu Zhi was afraid of Yuan Shao, but because Lu Zhi knew that he could not take the initiative to fight Yuan Shao.

What Liu Zheng in the south wants to see most is that Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao fight. Once Lu Zhi fights Yuan Shao at this time, Liu Zheng will be the most proud.

It took them a lot of effort to suppress Liu Zheng, but they would not allow Liu Zheng to benefit from the fight between the two tigers.

So Lu Zhi endured it, and at the same time, it was also because Lu Zhi had only [-] to [-] troops left at this time, and he didn't have enough men to attack Yuan Shao.

They still need to rest and re-recruit their troops before they can continue to act.

After Yuan Shao captured Beihai and Donglai, he originally thought that Lu Zhi would lead troops to attack, but seeing that Lu Zhi had no intention of bringing anyone over, Yuan Shao couldn't help but underestimated Lu Zhi a bit. .

This also let Yuan Shao know that Lu Zhi seems to be fighting Liu Zheng, and he has no time to come over to control him.

The arrival of winter has also allowed the soldiers and horses of the three parties to accumulate strength and temporarily recuperate.

Yuan Shao led his troops back to Jizhou from Qingzhou. This time, Qingzhou was taken down, which made Yuan Shao very happy. Although he lost a manpower, it gave their Northern Han Empire an additional state and county territory, which Yuan Shao's men could actually control. The site has been greatly improved.

Next, Yuan Shao will continue to target and make preparations for Bingzhou.

Bingzhou is also something that Yuan Shao has long wanted to get involved in, because after Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou, led his troops to the south to fight against Liu Zheng, there are not many local troops in Bingzhou. Once Yuan Shao and the imperial court start again, Bingzhou will be the first to attack .

Because other places are heavily guarded by the imperial court, but there are not many defenders here in Bingzhou.

The only thing that made Yuan Shao feel uncomfortable was that from Jizhou to Bingzhou, there was a Taihang Mountain across here, and this mountain was in the middle, so it was not easy for them to go to Bingzhou.

As for Lu Zhi, on the one hand, he has to deal with Liu Zheng in the south, who may counterattack at any time; on the other hand, Lu Zhi also knows that the cooperation with Yuan Shao is just seeking skin from a tiger, and there will be no good results. Yuan Shao must be wary everywhere. .

Of course, Lu Zhi wanted to kill all these people, wipe out the entire big man, and restore the world to a peaceful and prosperous world.

But he was powerless, and he didn't have enough soldiers under his command. This kind of helpless behavior made Lu Zhi look a little old, and at the same time, he could only let the court's general He Miao continue to send more troops.

Today's big Han is still in control of Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Sili, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou and other places. It is not a problem to call some soldiers from these places.

On Liu Zheng's side, he also knows that the current situation requires a large number of soldiers and horses to resist, so he is also recruiting soldiers and horses wantonly.

Chapter 717 Expansion of the Third Battalion

Originally Liu Zheng had six battalions under his command.

Among them, Xu Huang's cavalry battalion was the earliest and the most elite troops following Liu Zheng. This time in the battle in Xuzhou, they also performed very well.

After this battle, less than half of the 2 people were lost, but their combat effectiveness is still there. It only needs a little training to return to their peak condition, which is not a problem.

Huang Zhong's Archer Battalion and Gan Ning's Infantry Battalion were stationed in Jingzhou, confronting the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Ding Yuan and Liu Biao.

Zhou Cang of the fourth battalion has gone to Funan Prefecture and can't come back for the time being, so Liu Zheng doesn't expect Zhou Cang's men to come back here to help.

The Wenpin army of the fifth battalion and the Taishici army of the sixth battalion suffered heavy losses on the battlefields of Xuzhou and Qingzhou this time.

Losing most of the manpower, it will take at least half a year to cultivate if you want to recover.

In addition to these, the navy's troops have lost too much, but the navy is currently not Liu Zheng's main force, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being.

In addition to these soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng needs to add a few more troops.

The seventh battalion was newly formed.

Sun Jian, who returned from Linyi County, served as the commander-in-chief, and Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang and others served as Qu Chang.Some of the commander's troops were the ones Sun Jian had recruited in Linyi County. At the same time, he recruited some soldiers and horses to form an army of 2 people, and began to go north from Jiaozhou to sit in Changsha County.

In this way, Jingzhou is guarded by the three legions of Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, and Sun Jian, with more than [-] soldiers and horses, which can ensure that everything is safe.

The eighth battalion was built.

Commander Chen Deng who had returned from Qingzhou, the bandit leader Zang Ba as his deputy, Guan Hai and others were incorporated into the Eighth Battalion.

Some of these people are the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, some are bandits, and there are newly recruited people. Zang Ba and Guan Hai and others are being punished because they have lost the battle, so they cannot be the commander-in-chief. For the whole Xuzhou, Liu Zheng was ashamed of him, so he hoped to make up for this.

The Eighth Battalion was established in Guangling County, with a clear purpose, that is, one day, they can counterattack Xuzhou and regroup. These people are the main force to attack Xuzhou.

A new ninth battalion was built.

Originally, the two new battalions were enough.

However, under Liu Zheng, the new batch of military academy graduates have also graduated.

Even Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were going to graduate from the military academy in 191. These people had already been trained in other military camps, and there were no more positions for them.

Therefore, in order for them to grow up as soon as possible and become generals who can stand on their own, it is necessary for Liu Zheng to make them the leaders of the army.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, together with Shangguan Yunmo, a former excellent graduate, became the chief general of the Ninth Battalion, the general Sima, and the deputy general.

Although the Ninth Battalion is still being recruited for the time being and it will take some time to form it, Liu Zheng believes that people like Zhou Yu and Sun Ce will soon become the mainstay of Liu Zheng's army.

Liu Zheng spent half a year peacefully in Wu County.

In the past six months, he has vigorously developed the people's livelihood. In addition to sending soldiers and horses to wipe out those Shanyue clans in Yangzhou, he has also vigorously developed shipping.

Although the road to the north for business was blocked, the route to the south became more convenient during Liu Zheng's previous conquest.

In the past six months, the populations of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou have increased a lot. In particular, Liu Zheng brought back a lot of war elephants from Funan.

Now in the military academy in Yangzhou, Liu Zheng has a specially trained war elephant army.

Although the number of this war elephant army is not large, only a few thousand people, and it is still commanded and trained by Funan's descendant, Aguduo, but at least this is a killer weapon that other countries cannot have at present.

This thing, put it down to the present, is a battlefield tank. Even if the cavalry meets the elephant army, it is insignificant. This is also the magic weapon that Liu Zheng keeps to deal with the cavalry of other princes.

However, Liu Zheng's peaceful life did not last for too long. Although Lu Zhi did not come to attack, in the northwest, Liu Yan, who had already unified the entire Yizhou, extended his tentacles to Wuling county.

Before that, some barbarians in Wuling County killed Guo Shi, who originally occupied Wuling County, and Wuling County was occupied by barbarians.

Many people who originally belonged to Wuling County had no choice but to flee from Wuling County to Jiaozhou or even Jingzhou.

At that time, Liu Zheng just ordered Shi Xie to organize some people to defend.

Because Liu Zheng was fighting with the imperial court and Yuan Shao's troops at that time, he had no time and couldn't care about what happened in Wuling County.

As a result, the barbarians in Wuling County intensified and continued to expand outwards. Some of Shi Xie's soldiers and horses were already unable to stop the attacks of those barbarians.

When Shi Xie passed the news to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng didn't intend to pay attention to these small problems. When he wanted to send a random army to wipe out these barbarians, Shi Xie told Liu Zheng, Behind this, there is the shadow of Liu Yan, the shepherd of Yizhou.

This made Liu Zheng pay attention, and Liu Zheng had some worries about it.

Although Liu Yan is a person who only wants to be the emperor of the land, he doesn't have much ambition, but Liu Zheng doesn't want to let Liu Yan go.

Anyway, Yizhou is also a very useful place, not to mention the population, Yizhou's territory is also huge. Think about the Shu Kingdom in history. It was able to use a mere Yizhou to fight against Cao Wei for so many years. You can know that Yizhou has a vast land and resources, and the power of one state can fight against the whole world.

If Liu Zheng can occupy this Yizhou, it will definitely bring Liu Zheng a large population base and money. In particular, if Liu Zheng can send caravans there, he will definitely earn a lot of money.

More importantly, Hanzhong in Yizhou is an important military base.

If Liu Zheng can control Hanzhong, then Liu Zheng may bypass the Sili area and directly link Yongzhou and Xiliang from Hanzhong, and even Liu Zheng does not need to buy horses from Youzhou.

Maybe, he would be able to go from Hanzhong to Xiliang, and go to the Qiang people in Xiliang to buy war horses. Compared with the Karasuma horses in Youzhou, Xiliang war horses are bigger and more suitable for cavalry.

Therefore, Liu Zheng decided to go to Jingzhou himself to find out what the hell these barbarians were doing. If necessary, he would directly raise troops to kill Liu Yan and take Liu Yan's Yizhou as his own.

XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

It was snowing heavily, and Liu Zheng marched west from Wu County to Wuling County, passing through Yichun County in Yuzhang County.

Chapter 718 Wuling County

Liu Zheng deliberately stopped in Yichun, but in fact, he mainly wanted to go to the Military Academy to take a look.

Anyway, he is also the headmaster of the military school in name, so it is unreasonable not to go to the school for a long time to take a look or give a speech.

Of course, when Liu Zheng came here this time, he also invited Lu Jun to accompany him.

At this time in history, Lu Jun basically died of illness. However, because of the appearance of Liu Zheng, Zhang Zhongjing showed Lu Jun and slowly cured Lu Jun's illness.

Over the years, Lu Jun would basically ask Zhang Zhongjing to take a look. Although the disease was not completely eradicated, it was not enough to kill him. This is a blessing among misfortunes.

Lu Jun is the prefect of Yuzhang under Liu Zheng's command, and he has had some exchanges with his uncle Lu Kang recently.

It's just that although Lu Kang has some friendship with Liu Zheng, Lu Kang has always had a good impression of the Han court. The Han court has not been disbanded for a day, and Lu Kang has always been loyal to the Han court.

Lujiang County has always been above Yuzhang.

In this regard, although Liu Zheng had expressed before that he was very interested in attracting Lu Kang, but Lu Kang had no intention of turning to Liu Zheng at all. In addition, his friendship was here. Several times when Liu Zheng was in danger, Lu Kang did not take advantage of others. It can be seen that although Lu Kang is unwilling to join Liu Zheng, he is also unwilling to be an enemy of Liu Zheng.

In this regard, Liu Zheng also turned a blind eye to Lu Kang, and never thought about directly attacking Lujiang.

In addition to Lu Jun, Lu Jun's eldest son, Lu Xun, followed Liu Zheng to inspect.

This boy Lu Xun, when Liu Zhenggang saw him, was just a baby who was still nursing, and he is now eight years old.

Following behind Lu Jun, he didn't recognize his life, and called him Uncle Liu Zheng very politely.

Liu Zheng had a good impression of Lu Xun. After all, this is the second-generation general under his command in the future, and he needs to be trained well. Lu Jun also understands that when Lu Xun reaches his age, he will send Lu Xun to study in a military school.

In the military academy.

Liu Zheng met Gu Yong, the dean of teaching. Now, most of the things taught here are the content learned in books, because military generals rarely teach here.

Therefore, most of the learning is based on the knowledge in books, mainly explaining theories such as 36 strategies and Sun Tzu's Art of War.

It would be better for Gu Yong, such a highly accomplished person, to teach. At the same time, because Zhuge Xuan, who was the governor of Langya County, returned to Yangzhou after Xuzhou was defeated by Lu Zhi, Liu Zheng asked him to come to the military temporarily. As a professor in the school, he has performed well here recently.

During the three years of study in the military school, the first two years are basically spent learning book knowledge and training martial arts here. Only in the third year, they will be arranged to practice in various military camps and take on some practical tasks.

And Liu Zheng met Zhuge Jin, Lu Qiling and others in the military school, and after giving them some words of encouragement, he took his own troops and rushed away to Wuling County.

When going to Wuling County, Liu Zheng didn't lead many troops, but only Gao Shun's two thousand camps.

And a thousand royal guards around him.

Plus Lu Bu, Dian Wei, two generals.

The reason why we didn’t bring too many soldiers and horses is mainly because the two battlefields of Xuzhou and Jingzhou may break out at any time. Another accident was about to happen, so after thinking twice, Liu Zheng decided to bring only a small number of people.

After all, there is no need to go to war to deal with some barbarians. Even if troops need to be mobilized, Changsha County still has 2 troops from Sun Jian who can be temporarily mobilized, so there is no need to worry about troops.

Wuling County.

This place in Wuling County has been a magical place since ancient times.

Wuling County was first established in the early Western Han Dynasty, and later was assigned to Jingzhou. It is located in the southwest of Jingzhou, bordering Yizhou and Jiaozhou.Wuling County has a vast territory, with a total of twelve counties. The territory includes most of the northwestern part of Hunan, the eastern part of Guizhou, and a few territories in Hubei, Chongqing, and Guangxi. It is the largest county in Jingzhou.

However, Wuling is also the least developed and most backward county in Jingzhou. In the heyday of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population was only 25. Except for Hanshou and Linyuan, which were slightly more developed, the rest of the area was almost a barren land. The land is occupied by the barbarians in the south, and various barbarian tribes gather in large numbers.

For Liu Zheng, a modern person, the only thing he knows about Wuling County is that Zhangjiajie, a famous scenic spot, is located in Wuling County.

Wuling is adjacent to Zangke County in Yizhou, and Zangkegu belongs to the Yelang Kingdom. Yelang Kingdom is the first country established by the ancestors of ethnic minorities in the southwest of China.It has a vast territory and a long history, but it was passed down to the Han Dynasty when it was killed by Chen Li, the prefect of Zangke in the Han Dynasty, and Yelang was also destroyed.

In history, Zhuge Liang participated in the rebellion here, and there is a famous name for this area called Nanman.Similarly, there are also many uncivilized ethnic minorities in Wuling County, known as Wuling Man, also known as Wuxi Man. They often rebelled during the Eastern Han Dynasty, which caused headaches for the court.

What is different from history is that in the era where Liu Zheng is now, the bandit Guo Shi was the first to occupy Wuling County.

Guo Shi joined forces with the Wuling Man in Wuling County to overthrow the oppression of the Wuling Man by the big Han, and once occupied the entire four counties in southern Jing.

But the good times didn't last long. Under the encirclement and suppression by Sun Jian and Liu Biao, Guo Shi finally lost a lot of territory one after another. Finally, with the help of Liu Zheng, only one county of Wuling County was left, which was still in Guo Shi's hands.

Over the years, although Guo Shi has maintained some contact with Liu Zheng, due to his previous status as an alliance, Liu Zheng did not take the initiative to trouble Guo Shi.

Unexpectedly, a year ago, Guo Shi suddenly died suddenly, and Wuling County became chaotic again, and those Wuling barbarians inside became more and more powerful.

He often came to harass the people of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, so Liu Zheng had to restrain these barbarians.