Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 360
During this period of time, only the Yueshan Battalion in the Zhu Wei Army was still in a state of war and did not stop for repairs.

Zhu Wei's strategic policy for Zu Lang and Pang Tong was to conquer the barbarian tribes in the mountains, let them accept Zhu Wei's control, and then find a way to move some barbarians to live outside the mountains to supplement the population of the four counties in Jingnan.

This is not something that can be accomplished overnight, so Zu Lang and Pang Tong led the Yueshan camp, and spent most of the year wandering around the mountains.

With the help of Lajiakamai from Heimuzhai and Bunu Liya from Chishui Cave as the barbarians' internal support, Yueshan Ying has conquered several barbarian tribes in the mountains, and then formed a barbarian alliance under Pang Tong's plan.

After that, they began to drive these barbarians as pioneers to help attack other more barbarian tribes.

However, these barbarian tribes are scattered all over the mountains, without the support of Zhu Wei who can provide food and supplies at any time, the logistics supply of the Yueshan Camp in the mountains is indeed a problem, so right now Pang Tong is planning to open a mountain road in the mountains for the purpose of logistics supplies, anyway Wherever it is hit, the mountain road will be repaired.

As for the manpower for building the mountain roads, they were drawn from the conquered barbarian tribes. This also had the advantage of allowing the barbarian tribes in the mountains to have a channel to contact the outside world.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. With roads connecting with the outside of the mountain, there will naturally be more external impacts, thereby resolving the barbaric customs of the barbarian tribes.

Anyway, under Pang Tong's planning, Zu Lang led the Yueshan camp to be busy in the mountains.

In the past six months or so, they have also sent many units of gold to Zhu Wei, mainly mined from an open-pit gold mine discovered in Heimuzhai. It is expected that this gold mine can be used for Zhu Wei. Provide tens of thousands of units of gold.

Therefore, Zhu Wei does not plan to let Zu Lang and Pang Tong lead the mountain camp to do other things for the time being. It is also very important for Zhu Wei to handle things in the mountains.

Anyway, let’s calculate the troops that Zhu Wei can use now. In Yuzhang, there are more than 5000 Xiongba battalion, more than 5000 Jiangjiao battalion, and [-] crossbowmen, [-] cavalry, and [-] tortoise armor formations of Zhu Wei’s central army. The sword and shield hand and the three thousand guards Baiyuying.

In addition, if Jingzhou is attacked, the more than 2 troops of Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion and the more than 2 troops of Jiangxia Taishici can also be used. In this way, the number of troops that can be used is really nearly [-].

The [-] troops have already been trained and screamed, waiting for the place to show their knives and cut people.

However, although Zhu Wei already has nearly [-] troops at his disposal, if he really wants to fight Liu Biao, he still needs to consider that Liu Biao also has strong troops under his tent.

Although the actual territory controlled by Liu Biao in Jingzhou may only be a part of Nanjun and Nanyang County, in fact, the population base in the territory controlled by Liu Biao is still very large.

For example, the initial population of Nanyang County was as many as one million. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu who founded the Eastern Han Dynasty, started his business with Nanyang, and Yuan Shu also occupied Nanyang County at first, and then used the population base of Nanyang County to pull up a large number of people. Support more than [-] troops.

Although Nanyang County is in decline now, because when Liu Biao drove Yuan Shu away from Nanyang County, he also had a battle with Yuan Shu in Nanyang County. As a result, many people in Nanyang County moved south to Nanjun He fled to Yizhou and Jiangdong.

In addition, another great plague broke out in Nanyang County before, so the population of Nanyang County is now more than 20, which is why Liu Biao generously handed over Wancheng in Nanyang County to Zhang Xiu to garrison and raise soldiers. .

However, although Nanyang County has fallen, Liu Biao still controls Nanjun after all. After Liu Biao took control of Jingzhou, Nanjun has maintained a stable state.

The seven counties of Jingzhou originally had Nanjun and Nanyang counties as their essence. Now under Liu Biao's governance, Nanjun has become more and more prosperous. In Nanjun alone, there are 30 to [-] people living together.

To be honest, even though Zhu Wei now occupies such a large territory in Yuzhang, Jiangxia and Jingnan counties, the combined population of these places may be less than 60 to [-], which is not as good as Liu Biao in Nanjun. population.

So Liu Biao still relied on these population bases to support nearly [-] troops, which was similar to the troops controlled by Zhu Wei.

Although Zhu Wei had coveted the Nanjun and Nanyang counties occupied by Liu Biao in Jingbei for a long time, except that he had no excuse to send troops on the surface, he could not ignore the size of Liu Biao's troops.

Before Zhu Wei seized Jiangxia and Jingnan four counties, Liu Biao seemed to have no reaction, but there were also prerequisites.

Jiangxia was originally Huang Zu's separatist land, and Zhu Wei's movements were too fast, so after some of the reinforcements sent by Liu Biao were eaten up, Liu Biao could only retreat temporarily.

As for the Jingnan four counties, Liu Biao also had no time to deal with them. In addition, when the Jingnan four counties were attacked, Jingbei happened to have a plague. Naturally, Liu Biao had no time to take care of the Jingnan four counties.

Afterwards, Taishici was in charge of Jiangxia, and Jiangshui Junzhai was guarded by Wei Yan in Jingnan's Chanling County, so it was difficult for Liu Biao to mobilize troops easily.

But in the past half a year, Liu Biao's small actions have actually been constant. On the one hand, he has infiltrated the local county towns on Jiangxia's side, secretly snatching Jiangxia's actual control, and on the other hand, he has also spent a lot of time on Wei Yan's side. Came to buy and woo, and wanted to recruit Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion of more than 2 troops.

Zhu Wei is actually aware of these things, especially Wei Yan's side. Zhu Wei can see the information that Liu Biao and Wei Yan are secretly contacting and plotting through the prompts of the Three Kingdoms game system.

But on Jiangxia's side, Zhu Wei doesn't care much about the ownership of the local county seat now, as long as Tai Shici can maintain the fact that the military occupies it, it doesn't matter.

On Wei Yan's side, Zhu Wei is also very confident in Wei Yan's loyalty to 91, so Liu Biao's small actions basically have no effect on Zhu Wei.

Of course, Zhu Wei is also doing a lot of small tricks on Liu Biao's Nanjun side, such as contacting Huang Chengyan through Huang Yueying, and then re-easing the relationship with the Jingzhou Huang family, and then cultivating more support forces in Jingzhou.

In addition, through the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei also sent military generals to carry out intelligence investigations for six consecutive months in Jiangling and Xiangyang in South County, always paying attention to the military and urban intelligence information of the two cities.

In addition, Zhu Wei's school office has also sent a lot of people to work in Nanjun. Zhu Wei can not only order them to investigate the intelligence information of Nanjun, but also directly see the situation in Nanjun through their eyes.

It can be said that Zhu Wei's understanding of Nanjun may be better than that of Liu Biao himself.

For example, the ability attributes and loyalty of Liu Biao's subordinates and generals, as well as the training and morale readiness of Liu Biao's soldiers, as well as the population, loyalty and other specific data of Liu Biao's Jiangling and Xiangyang cities.

And now Zhu Wei is finally going to attack Liu Biao...

(End of this chapter)