Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

Liu Zhang has already sent spies to Zuo Fengyi to investigate the situation.

The prefect of Zuo Fengyi was even worse than the prefect of You Fufeng. He was also appointed by Dong Zhuo. He was originally Dong Zhuo's subordinate.

After Dong Cheng entered Beijing and became the Prime Minister, he arbitrarily employed his cronies as officials of Sili Xiaowei and various counties, and appointed famous scholars and party members as prefects of Shandong counties.

Originally, he wanted to sell the aristocratic family, but these aristocratic families not only refused to buy it, but united to resist.

The prefect of Zuo Fengyi, named Zhu You, was from Taiyuan County in Bingzhou.

In his early years, he was Sima under Dong Zhuo's command. He was good at military strategy and familiar with the way of battle. Like Dong Cheng, he was not very good at governing the country.

After he took office, Zuo Fengyi's military strength developed fairly well, but the people's livelihood did not develop much.

He took office immediately, but in just over three months, Zuo Fengyi's army had increased by 4000 people.

With 14 people in a county and [-] soldiers, it is already the limit.

The young and strong have all gone to the military camps, and there is a lack of young and strong production among the people.

What's more, Zhu You didn't improve the rule of officials and allowed the officials to bully the people, which caused the whole Zuo Fengyi to complain, and many people couldn't survive.

Zhu You held a heavy army in his hand, and under his pressure, he also held Zuo Fengyi in his hand.

Zuo Fengyi leads thirteen counties with a population of 14, which is very unreasonable.

Also located in the Guanzhong Plain, although Zuo Fengyi's water source is not as rich as Jing Zhaoyin's, the cultivated land will not be much less.

Then, the registered population of the government is that much.

It's just because in recent decades, there have been many rebellions among the Qiang people in Liangzhou, chaos in Guanzhong, and many people have fled.

According to statistics, there are as many as [-] to [-] people in Guanzhong who fled to Yizhou alone.

Later, Liu Yan relied on these escaped Guanzhong people to form a group of powerful troops called Dongzhou soldiers.

Gaoling, where Zuo Fengyi ruled, is only 55 miles away from Chang'an City, separated by Weishui and Jingshui.

Meteor horses can go back and forth in one day, and a large army can arrive within two days.

Such a short distance is convenient for Liu Zhang.

He looked at the map for days and thought, recruiting Zhu You would not work, the only way to strengthen himself was to annihilate him and then surrender his troops.

Zuo Feng Yizhi's office is so close to Chang'an, and there is no need to worry about logistics and supplies. This is the biggest advantage, and then there is the strength of the troops.

Liu Zhang also has a bigger advantage. He has been the prefect of Jingzhao Yin for more than a year, while Zhu You has only been the prefect of Zuo Fengyi for three months.

Usually you can't see anything, but once there is a battle, there will be differences under the deployment of materials and personnel.

Liu Zhang is confident that he can basically control the counties in Jingzhaoyin, but Zhu You will never be able to do it, even if he is Dong Zhuo's person.

Aristocratic families are not so easy to talk about. In the local area, their words are sometimes more useful than those of the prefect.

After five days of repairing in Chang'an City, Liu Zhang set off again with his army.

This time, he let the school lieutenant Han Bing stay behind, and led another [-] troops to the north.

After the news that Youfufeng was occupied by Liu Zhang reached Zhu You's ears, he kept alerting Liu Zhang.

Zhu You spread scouts widely in the south, keeping an eye on Jing Zhaoyin's movements at all times.

An army of [-] went out with a great momentum. Liu Zhang had just crossed the Wei River, and before he entered Zuo Fengyi, he was spotted by Zhu You's scouts.

When Zhu You learned that Liu Zhang had led [-] troops, he was very angry.

He summoned his generals and ordered all the ministries to gather soldiers quickly and gather at Gaoling, where he ruled. He decided to have a battle with Liu Zhang.

Attacking halfway, as long as a general has read military books, he will know.

It's just that Liu Zhang crossed the Weishui from the Weiqiao, and his marching speed was too fast. When Zhu You realized that he was about to send troops to Jingshui to attack halfway across the Jingshui, he did not expect that Liu Zhang's vanguard had already crossed the Jingshui.

His vanguard set up a defensive line on the north bank of Jingshui, and the guards were tight. Zhu You's army had no chance to attack at all, so they had to give up and return to Yangling to station.

It took Liu Zhang's [-] troops two hours to cross the Jing River and appear in Yangling County in Zuo Fengyi's territory.

At this time, Liu Zhang's army was on the north bank of the Jinghe River, Yangling was fifteen miles west of it, and Gaoling was fourteen miles north of it. The Qing army attacked, but it took only an hour to arrive.

If you march forward, you will be attacked from the front and back.

Knowing the art of war well, Liu Zhang ordered the troops to rest where they were and set up camp on the north bank of the Jinghe River.

He sprinkled a large number of scouts around to detect the surrounding enemy situation.

Inside Gaoling City.

"Report!" A scout came quickly and saw Zhu Youbai and said, "Report to the prefect that Liu Zhang's army stopped advancing on the north bank of Jingshui."

"Oh, why didn't he stop?" Zhu You was curious.

"He is camping near the crossing point." The scout replied truthfully.

"He's camping now?"

"Exactly!"

Hmph, it seems that he is also familiar with the art of war.

Zhu You knew why the other party didn't dare to move forward. Yangling was not broken. If he continued to move forward, he would not only be attacked by enemies, but also the grain road would be threatened by himself.

I didn't expect this little doll to be so powerful.

Zhu Yousi thought about it, and came up with a plan, why not attack them suddenly before their camp was completed.

"Come on, gather 2000 troops for me, I'm going out of the city to attack Liu Zhang!"

There are many veterans under Zhu You's command, so he naturally knows that he wants to attack the opponent while the enemy is not stable.

After two sticks of incense, two thousand troops assembled outside the south gate of Gaoling.

Zhu You led them to the south immediately.

Liu Zhang's army found a suitable place to set up camp and set up camp.

They unloaded the tents from the baggage car, and then set up tents. Some soldiers took tools to cut down trees, made fences, and surrounded the camp.

"Report, from the direction of Gaoling, there are enemy troops coming, the number is about two thousand." Inside the army tent, Liu Zhang was discussing with the generals how to attack Zuo Fengyi, but a scout outside the tent came in to report.

"How long will it take for them to arrive?" Liu Zhang asked.

He was not surprised at all that Zhu You came to attack while he was not on a firm footing.

This is just a normal operation of a general.

"About one stick of incense."

"What, so fast?" All the generals in the tent panicked.

So fast, how could they not know how to defend.

Liu Zhang didn't panic, he said leisurely, "Time is enough."

Because, this time, he was prepared. The [-] army he brought was different from the one that attacked You Fufeng last time.

"Xu Lai, Chen Lu, Luo Fu, and Zhang Qin!" Liu Zhang named four people.

"The end is here!" The four immediately responded.

"The four of you each bring [-] large shield soldiers, go out of the camp and line up to guard the camp, and don't let them in."

"Here!" The four left immediately and mobilized the army.

The soldiers Liu Zhang handed over to the four of them this time were all iron shield guards. With them in the front row, it was very difficult for Zhu You to attack.

"Zhang Jie and Zhang Kui, each of you will lead five hundred archers and shoot from behind, while the rest will perform their duties, so don't slack off!"

"Here!" All the generals responded in unison.

Originally, he wanted to wait to send any generals for him, so he left the military tent resentfully.

The enemy army has 2000 people to attack, and our own side sends 3000 people, which is enough.