Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

After defeating the Southern Huns, the entire Hetao area fell into Liu Zhang's hands.

In this way, the area controlled by Liu Zhang not only increased the northern part of Shang County and the northern part of Xihe County, but also a large area such as Shuofang County.

This area was basically controlled by the Southern Huns in the past, and there were a small number of other tribes, but now the Southern Huns' vitality has been seriously injured.

After Liu Zhang stationed troops here, this place belonged to Liu Zhang.

Therefore, after Liu Zhang captured Hetao, he did not leave immediately, but continued to integrate the Southern Huns.

In the Hetao area, the Southern Huns were divided into dozens of tribes, large and small, led by four major tribes: Left, Right, Xiutuge and Wangting.

After Liu Zhang took control of the Southern Huns, he was thinking about a question, how to deal with the Southern Huns.

If it is too weakened, other tribes will surely rise to fill the power vacuum created by the decline of the Southern Huns.

The Han people have a farming culture, and the Hetao area is too vast to be suitable for farming. Even if they are forced to emigrate, it is not easy to manage. The best way is to balance.

The Southern Huns need to be weakened, but they cannot be weakened too much.

After thinking about it, Liu Zhang felt that taking advantage of the weakest period of the Southern Huns, he would forcibly carry out rectification on them.

The original framework of the Southern Huns consisted of the four main tribes of Left, Right, Xiutuge and Wangting, as well as many other small tribes.

Now, Liu Zhang decided to break up the Southern Huns into five major regions, east, west, north, south, and middle, and set up a king in each region. In this way, the Southern Huns no longer have a nominal co-lord—the Xiongnu Great Chanyu.

In order to contain the Southern Huns, the areas ruled by the five kings were almost the same as the population of the tribes.As a result, Liu Zhang added another 30 people under his rule.

However, when Liu Zhang's main force was in the Hetao area, away from the Central Plains, Yuan Shao, the mastermind behind Liu Bao's looting of Bingzhou, finally took action.

Taking advantage of Liu Zhang's attack on the Xiongnu, he sent troops to attack Bingzhou under the advice of Tian Feng and Jushou.

Originally last year, Yuan Shao planned to occupy Bingzhou, but at that time he had just wiped out Gongsun Zan and was in the process of integrating the forces in Youzhou, so he couldn't do anything, so he watched Liu Zhang occupy half of Bingzhou.

Lü Bu's attack on Hedong County and Liu Bao's plunder on Bingzhou were all written by Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao settled Youzhou and finished repairing, he finally led an army of 15 to attack Bingzhou.

Under Yuan Shao's command, advisers are like clouds, generals are like rain, with hundreds of thousands of armors, they control the two counties of Jizhou, Youzhou and Qingzhou, and they have the support of the noble families in the north, so their forces are extremely strong.

In today's world, the only ones who can compete with him are Guanzhong Liu Zhang and Huainan Yuan Shu.

Then Yuan Shao raised [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, with Yan Liangwen Chou as the vanguard, Zhang Yun, Gao Lan, Han Meng, etc. as the generals, the troops came in two groups, one from Youzhou to attack Yanmen, and the other from Jizhou to cross the border. The well diameter attacked Taiyuan.

Liu Zhang was far away in Hetao. When he heard the news, Yuan Shao's main force had already passed through the well and entered Taiyuan County.Liu Zhang's original [-] defenders in Taiyuan County resisted hard, but they were not the opponent of Yuan Shao's main force.

Yanmen County was not in Liu Zhang's hands at all, and Gao Gan, a son of a wealthy family in Bingzhou, was leading the way. Yuan Shaobei Army captured most of Yanmen County in just ten months, and occupied an important pass-Yanmen Pass.

When Liu Zhang got the news, he immediately led his army to the south, accompanied by [-] cavalry from the Southern Huns who had just returned.

Liu Zhang had 5000 main forces, plus 2 cavalry from the Southern Huns, [-] from Hedong County, and [-] from Taiyuan Shangdang County.

By the time Liu Zhang led his army into Taiyuan County, the entire Yanmen County and most of Taiyuan County had already fallen into Yuan Shao's hands.

Liu Zhang ruled Taiyuan County for a year. Although the time was short, he was a clan member of the Han Dynasty, and he was quite popular in governing the area. Although Yuan Shao occupied most of Taiyuan County, the people still turned to Liu Zhang. As for taking down the noble family, But it is vacillating.

They all knew that both Liu Zhang and Yuan Shao were powerful vassals, and whoever occupied Bingzhou needed them to help stabilize Bingzhou. Therefore, some of the aristocratic families that originally led to Liu Zhang began to waver, while others stood still.

In Jinyang, the prefecture of Taiyuan, all the cities in the north and east have been occupied by Yuan Shao, but the city of Jinyang is high and deep, and the governor of Taiyuan concentrated his troops in Jinyang city in time, so that the city was saved.

Jinyang City was fortified and difficult to capture. Yuan Shao led an army led by Yan Liang and Wen Chou for five days, but failed to capture it.

Liu Zhang's army entered Taiyuan County from Xihe County, and then stationed in Daling and Pingtao counties to rest for a day, and then divided the army into several teams to cover and advance alternately, approaching Jinyang.

Yuan Shao's army was caught off guard, and the line of defense was torn apart. The [-] army entered Jinyang City smoothly.

As a result, there are 5000 defenders in Jinyang City.

It can be said that Yuan Shao took great pains to fight for Bingzhou, but Liu Zhang's side also made the best of the best.

In terms of the number of advisers in Wu Jiang, Liu Zhang's side is far inferior to Yuan Shao's, but Liu Zhang has fought every year, and the soldiers under his command have experienced hundreds of battles, their morale is strong, and their combat power is strong.

In this battle, Liu Zhang is defending and Yuan Shao is attacking. The two sides invested 30 people. This battle will directly affect the future situation of the two.

The world's princes and resourceful people are all paying attention to this battle.

Among them, the most concerned is Yanzhou Cao Cao.

Cao Cao now occupies part of Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and part of Yuzhou. Although he has [-] soldiers under his command, he is surrounded by Yuan Shao, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao.

Among them, Yuan Shao from Hebei is the most threatening to him. If Yuan Shao wins, then the pressure on Cao Cao will be great.

Cao Cao paid close attention to this battle all the time, and he summoned his advisers Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others to discuss.

"Everyone, if Yuan Shao wins, then Bingzhou will be his. The thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, he has occupied four states by himself. I am afraid that I will be difficult to resist in the future. How about I lead an army to attack Yecheng while Yuan Shao is fighting?"

Xun Yu said: "My lord, Yuan Shao is sitting in three counties, and he has as many as 30 soldiers under his command. Although he took 15 away, the soldiers and horses are still better than me. If we attack Yecheng by surprise, it may be difficult to break through it in a hurry."

"Wen Ruo's words are wrong~!" A thin and thin scribe came out and said with a smile: "Yuan Shao does have 30 soldiers under his command, but he just captured Youzhou last year, and among them, 15 soldiers have just returned. Uncertain, and the 15 that Yuan Shao took away were all elites, and the remaining 4 combat power can be imagined. Besides, his territory is so large, and the defenders who stayed in Yecheng, I estimate there are only 3 to [-]. With a rate of [-], Yecheng can be broken."

"Feng Xiao, so I will summon the generals to discuss sending troops!" Cao Cao was overjoyed.

"Wait a minute!" Guo Jia said again: "My lord, if you attack Yecheng at this time, Yuan Shao's army will definitely be defeated, and the whole army may even be wiped out in Bingzhou. , will also be captured by him, although our army attacked Yecheng, but I am afraid it will not be easy to station troops in Jizhou, isn't it cheaper for Liu Zhang~!"