Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 672 Changes in the Situation of the World

For Zhu Wei, launching the Yizhou War this time is indeed a good time.

It is just now the autumn harvest season, and the grain harvested in Jingnan and Yuzhang is used as a logistical supply, which is enough to meet the needs of military rations and materials for this battle against Yizhou, and it can also be transported by water from Jingnan, Yuzhang to Berkshire. Food, it can be regarded as can reduce the consumption on the road a lot.

The most important thing is that the launch of this battle can make the people of the world less prepared for Zhu Wei.

Even Cao Cao and Yuan Shao would feel that Zhu Wei's current goal was Yizhou, and he would definitely not launch a war in the Central Plains again. This would reduce the sense of aggression and threat that Zhu Wei currently controls more than [-] troops.

Of course, although Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were worried that Zhu Wei could increase his strength by capturing Yizhou, but whoever made Yizhou far away in the southwest corner, even if they wanted to do anything, they would be beyond their reach.

So after seeing Zhu Wei's gesture, Cao Cao also dispersed the assembled troops from Shouchun back to Xudu with peace of mind, but still did not disperse, and then began some internal rectification of his own territory in the following time. .

After this battle, Cao Cao didn't get much benefit, but in fact it consumed a lot of food and materials, so Cao Cao also needed time to recover.

At the same time, Cao Cao should also be planning to find some small warlords to act, and plunder some supplies for himself to meet his needs, such as the publicity in Hanoi.

As for the attachment of Liu Bei and Zang Ba to Yuan Shao in the north, and the two counties in the north of Xuzhou for nothing, he was also satisfied.

Originally, he planned to fight Zhu Wei in the north of Xuzhou. This was the price for him to get Taishan and Langya counties in Xuzhou, but he didn't expect Zhu Wei to let the status quo of Xuzhou go, so Yuan Shao naturally accepted it happily. A kind of candy that can reap benefits without using troops.

In this way, Yuan Shao seems to be stepping up his strategic preparations in the north in the coming time.

After all, although he had actually controlled the four states in the north, and had little power to fight back against Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Zan still stuck to his old nest, Yijing (the former site is in the northwest of Xiong County, Hebei), and was not completely wiped out.

Gongsun Zan dug more than ten heavy trenches on the Linyi River outside Yijing, piled up artificial earth hills more than a hundred steps high in the trenches, and then built camps on these earth hills, guarding them separately, just like building They built mountain forts one by one to stop Yuan Shao's army from attacking.

And on the highest earth hill in the center of these trenches, Gongsun Zan also built a strong dock for himself, with iron gates, and the left and right sides were blocked, so that men over seven years old were not allowed to enter, and they could only live in it with their wives and concubines.

In this way, under the protection of the surrounding military forts, it can be regarded as an absolutely safe lair.

It can be said that Gongsun Zan built himself a trench and fortress in Yijing to resist Yuan Shao's army. I was not afraid of it in the past few years.

Before Yuan Shao asked his general Ju Yi to lead troops to besiege Yi Jing for nearly a year, but he still failed to take Yi Jing. In the end, Ju Yi ran out of food and retreated. Instead, Gongsun Zan took the opportunity to counterattack and returned in a big defeat.

Therefore, although Yuan Shao has already occupied most of the territory in the north, the mouse Gongsun Zan is hidden behind his house, which naturally makes Yuan Shao very unhappy. Now Yuan Shao is still thinking about how to completely solve this confidant's trouble, so that he can go south to the Central Plains without any scruples .

In addition, although Yuan Shao now occupies the lands of Yizhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou in the north, there is still a Yellow Turban remnant Black Mountain Army hidden in the Black Mountain area of ​​Yizhou controlled by Yuan Shao.

The Black Mountain army is entrenched in Montenegro, controlling a population of nearly one million, with more than [-] young and strong troops available. It passes through many interconnected valleys in the Taihang Mountains in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places, and in Yizhou and Bingzhou. Looting everywhere is naturally a stone in Yuan Shao's eyes.

However, the Black Mountain Army had a good relationship with Gongsun Zan. When Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Zan, the Black Mountain Army often contained Yuan Jun in the territory controlled by Yuan Shao and cooperated with Gongsun Zan.

Yuan Shao still can't go south to conquer the Central Plains with peace of mind, because there are still two stones at home, Gongsun Zan and the Black Mountain Army.

Although Zhu Wei has risen in the south now, since Zhu Wei has not taken the initiative to tear up the face with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao will naturally not take the initiative to start a war in Xuzhou.

Originally in history, Yuan Shao had just wiped out Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army, and then launched a war against Cao Cao impatiently. It can be seen that Yuan Shao actually wanted to go south to the Central Plains, but his family was really not at ease before.

So as Zhu Wei put on a posture of focusing on the southwest and stopping the war, Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao, the three largest forces in the world today, seemed to have started to practice their own internal skills.

In this way, in September 198 AD, Zhu Wei's army returned to Xiangyang, Jingzhou from Huainan Shouchun.

However, when Zhu Wei's army returned to Jingzhou, it had already passed autumn and entered winter.

Then in the last season of the year, after Zhu Wei only paid attention to the war in Yizhou in the southwest, he didn't make any big moves, and mainly focused on military training.

The other army formations have been completely reorganized in Shouchun, and only the cavalry troops have been reorganized when they arrived in Xiangyang.

Just as Zhu Wei had always thought before, with Zhang Liao coming to Zhu Wei, Zhu Wei finally began to reorganize all the cavalry units under him, and renamed the original Liangqi Battalion to the Tiger Wing Battalion, which means adding wings to a tiger.

Zhu Wei reorganized the original nearly [-] Qingqi, [-] Xiliang iron cavalry, and Bingzhou soldiers left by Lu Bu, so the cavalry of the Huyi Battalion was also divided into two types: light cavalry and heavy cavalry.

However, the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion is still mainly light cavalry, and the heavy cavalry can only be increased to about [-] at most.

The light cavalry is relatively easy to train and select, so Zhu Wei can easily select soldiers for training. After all, the soldiers trained through the Three Kingdoms game system can be regarded as basic in both riding and walking.

But the heavy cavalry is different. The soldiers selected by the heavy cavalry not only have riding skills, but also have a body that can withstand heavy armor. Therefore, only the sturdy border people in Xiliang and Bingzhou are more suitable for the selection of soldiers.

But now in the southern territory controlled by Zhu Wei, it is a big problem to obtain the source of heavy cavalry, so at present Zhu Wei can only use the original Xiliang cavalry and Bingzhou cavalry as his team structure.

At the same time, the heavy cavalry also had high requirements for war horses. Although the horses that Zhu Wei obtained through the Three Kingdoms game system were all in the best condition, the horses for the heavy cavalry had to be selected carefully.

The most important thing is that heavy cavalry is also very wearable in wars. After all, heavy cavalry is mainly used to charge and break through the enemy's formation forcibly, so there will definitely be a lot of losses in every battle. It is still a need to replenish the supply of troops in this way. right question.

Therefore, at present, Zhu Wei can only give [-] heavy cavalry, unless Zhu Wei can win Guanzhong in the future, and his sphere of influence penetrates into Xiliang and Bingzhou, maybe he can get a suitable source of cavalry...

(End of this chapter)