Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 578

It turned out that after Zhou Yu, Ling Cao, and Xing Daorong captured Shu County, they sent troops to set up ambush in the direction of Linhu and Xiang'an, which was to predict where Liu Kie's army might retreat.

At the same time, more than [-] soldiers from the Xiongba Battalion commanded by Pang Yan, Zhou Tai, Sun Quan, and Huang Gai were also chasing up. Liu Kai had no choice but to dismount and surrender.

In this way, as the two big cities of Wan County and Shu County in Lujiang County were easily captured by Zhu Wei, the entire Lujiang County basically fell into Zhu Wei's hands.

After that, Liu Ye from Zhu Wei's side came forward to persuade Liu Xun to surrender the defenders who stayed in Linhu and Xiang'an, but it was very smooth to make these two defenders surrender, and took the initiative to bring five or six thousand defenders When he arrived in Shu County, he surrendered.

This also means that Lujiang County has completely fallen into Zhu Wei's hands.

Zhu Wei reorganized Liu Kai's soldiers who had surrendered in Shu County, and selected more than 4000 elite soldiers to fill his own army. He also incorporated Lu Dai and Pan Zhang into the Chinese army camp as assistant generals.

Then Zhu Wei left Liu Ye as the prefect of Lujiang County for the time being, and asked him to renovate the newly acquired Lujiang County, and left Pan Zhang with an army of about [-] Liu Kai who was eliminated to help stay behind.

After finishing all this, Zhu Wei entered Jiujiang County from Lujiang County, and marched towards Hefei County.

At this time, Zhu Wei's army has expanded from the initial scale of more than 4 main forces and [-] auxiliary troops to nearly [-] troops. It seems that Zhuge Liang's original statement that wars support wars and that the more wars the stronger is really true.

This time when Zhu Wei captured Lujiang County, the number of troops he lost was actually two or three thousand, and the number of troops eliminated by Liu Xun was only four or five thousand.

However, at least 3 of the more than 2 troops under Liu Xun's original control became Zhu Wei's prisoners, and then Zhu Wei selected about six or seven thousand of them and incorporated them into Zhu Wei's Central Army Camp and Xiongba Camp. The more than 1 troops became the second-line troops and auxiliary troops stationed in Lujiang County.

Of course, this still does not include the private soldiers of various ethnic groups and local youth recruited by Liu Xun and Liu Kai in Lujiang County. If these people add up, there will be as many as [-] to [-].

However, these people are not regular soldiers after all, so after being captured, they can only select some young and strong as reserve troops, and temporarily organize them into the logistics auxiliary barracks. As for the other unsuitable people, they are basically disbanded and sent home. go.

Anyway, the six or seven thousand soldiers selected by Zhu Wei from Lujiang County can be regarded as soldiers with certain combat effectiveness.

Although these Lujiang soldiers cannot compare with Zhu Wei's original army soldiers in terms of training and morale, Zhu Wei formed them into several soldiers and horses separately, and did not mix them into the original high-training and morale army, but neither did they. It will affect the training and morale of Zhu Wei's main force.

In any case, the six or seven thousand new elite soldiers from Lujiang County can at least compare with the elite soldiers in Yuan Shu's army, and they are also troops that Zhu Wei can take out and use on the battlefield.

In this way, the strength of Zhu Wei's army entering Jiujiang County became nearly [-] regular troops and [-] auxiliary soldiers. troops, and more than [-] troops from the Shenjian Battalion of Taishi Ci's Department that captured Dongcheng County.

In this way, coupled with the logistics auxiliary soldiers brought by Huang Zhong and Tai Shici, Zhu Wei's total force entering Jiujiang County has almost reached nearly 20. .

At this time, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei had already sent troops to Huaibei. Almost at the same time that Zhu Wei swore to send troops in Xiangyang, they also swore to send troops one after another.

Of course, Cao Cao sent troops on the largest scale. To be honest, Lu Bu and Liu Bei just joined in the fun at this time. More than 8000.

Of course, the number of troops they claim is tens of thousands, but most of them are false numbers, that is, the common people recruited to make up the number. The main force that can really fight is more than 8000 to 6000.

As for Cao Cao, he sent more than 6 troops, plus 3 to 15 civilians were recruited, and he was known as an army of [-].

These troops can be regarded as almost [-]% of the troops that Cao Cao can use at the moment.

Of course, Cao Cao's army at this time also included the main force and the second-line force, so not all the troops were very strong in terms of combat effectiveness. Otherwise, in the later Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao would not have only [-] to [-] troops. It can be used to fight against Yuan Shao's more than [-] troops.

Although Cao Cao surrendered 30 young men from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, they also included teenagers and old men in their 60s and [-]s. Therefore, Cao Cao's truly combat-effective young troops were only around [-] to [-] men.

But Cao Cao was in the center of the Four Wars in the Central Plains, so he naturally needed to deploy troops everywhere to avoid being taken advantage of by Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Hanoi Zhangyang and other surrounding warlords. However, it happened that Zhu Wei had recently solved the Nanyang County in Jingzhou. The main force of [-] really made Cao Cao feel a little heartbroken.

In fact, it is not very difficult to raise an army of tens of thousands of people these days. As long as there is a sufficient population base in the local area, they can draw young and strong people to form their own army.

Just like when Zhu Wei was on Jiangdong's side, he easily got an army of tens of thousands of people, but the number of troops can be combined, but their combat effectiveness cannot be easily improved.

If Zhu Wei had not had the Three Kingdoms game system to help him train, he would not have had much combat effectiveness with so many troops under his command.

It would be impossible for Zhu Wei to have the foundation he has now.

Therefore, the troops in Cao Cao's hands, even those included in the main force, may not all be elite troops. The main force that really dares to fight may be the [-] to [-] troops around Cao Cao, and the rest are equipped with weapons. He Yijia is young and strong, not much stronger than the common people.

Of course, although Yuan Shu also has an army of more than 20, the quality of this army is even more uneven. Among them, there may be less than [-] young and strong soldiers of the right age, and among them, the elite troops who can really fight, don't know How many are there.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been defeated by Lu Bu's thousands of troops in Xuzhou before. Although Yang Feng and Han Xian had responded internally, it was true that Yuan Shu's army was weaker in combat effectiveness.

That's why Yuan Shu's army was just putting on airs, and before it was really smashed out of the shell, it just seemed to scare people.

In fact, the [-] troops that Zhu Wei had previously recruited in Lujiang County, although they had combat effectiveness, were only compared to Yuan Shu's army. It can only be said that these people are young and strong, suitable for military training and training. That's all.

Therefore, now Cao Cao has also transferred more than 3 main troops and more than 3 other second-line troops from his army to form the army dispatched to Yuan Shu this time.

However, the combined forces of Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei can indeed compete with the more than [-] troops that Yuan Shu brought to Huaibei.

With the help of the Yuan family's background, Yuan Shu naturally had a lot of careful eyeliners. In fact, when Cao Cao contacted Zhu Wei, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei to attack him, Yuan Shu already knew the news that Cao Cao was going to send troops.

So when Zhu Wei, Cao Cao and other four families sent troops, Yuan Shu also responded immediately, just like what he did in the original history, he voluntarily withdrew his troops from Chen Guo...

(End of this chapter)