The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

At this time, Gan Ning, Zhou Cang and others, who received the news, also rushed back to Hepu City at this time.

"Zhou Chao, come and report the losses in this battle outside Hepu City!"

"Yes, my lord."

Liu Zheng glanced at the generals present, and originally wanted Xu Huang to report the losses on the battlefield, but after seeing the Zhou Dynasty, Liu Zheng decided to let him speak.

This guy is more or less a talent, and his strength is nothing in the Three Kingdoms, but under Liu Zheng's command, he can be regarded as a rare general.

When there are not enough people around Liu Zheng to use it, he still has some effect.

Zhou Chao stood up immediately, and quickly described it to Liu Zheng,

"My lord, in the battle of Hepu City, among the 1 horses we stayed here, more than 600 sword shieldmen, 30 spearmen, and more than [-] cavalry were killed or injured."

Zhou Chaoxian told the loss of his troops and horses, which immediately made Liu Zheng's expression a little ugly.

Although it is said that the combined losses of soldiers and horses are no more than 2000 people.

But these more than 2000 people are not the new army just recruited, they are the most elite people under Liu Zheng's command, they can be described as the elite among the elite, and more than [-] people have been lost here, close to one in [-]. People and horses.

How can this not make Liu Zheng heartbroken, especially the loss of more than 30 cavalry, and now he has fewer and fewer cavalry, after these days of fighting, the loss of war horses, plus the self-consumption of war horses .

The cavalry under Liu Zheng's command has gradually changed from more than 3000 at the beginning to only a little over [-].

If they go through several battles, the number will continue to decrease instead of increase. If there are more such battles, even the cavalry will only have one title left.

However, there were no war horses in Jiaozhou, and there was no way to get supplementary horses. Even if Liu Zheng wanted to expand the cavalry, he had no choice.

"Where is the enemy army, what casualties did the enemy army suffer?"

Although he was quite heartbroken about the loss of soldiers and horses on his side, this was not the time for Liu Zheng to be heartbroken, so he continued to ask Zhou Chao.

"Currently, according to our statistics, the enemy killed and injured 8000 people, and we captured 8000 people. The rest escaped ahead of time with Zhu Fu and others. According to the direction they fled, they should be heading towards the Jiaozhou government office. Jiaozhi County has passed, where is Zhu Fu's lair."

These are all things that Zhou Chao has heard from Xu Huang, so he is still clear about these news.

Liu Zheng nodded after hearing this.

Although Zhu Fu escaped again, Liu Zheng understood that even if he escaped, he would not be arrogant for long. When Liu Zheng's men gradually eroded Jiaozhou, he still had no way to retreat in the end.

Chapter 226 Yangzhou Reinforcements

"Shuai Qu, this time Zhu Fu took advantage of our departure and went out of the city to fight us. He just saw that we were not strong enough. He didn't expect to be defeated by the lord. I'm afraid he would die of anger."

"I don't know if it will be mad, but what I know is that after this battle, Zhu Fu and the others will fear us even more, and it will be even more difficult to trick him out to fight us."

Liu Zheng has never thought of Zhu Fu as a normal opponent, and there are not many people in Jiaozhou who can be regarded as opponents by Liu Zheng.

Except for those people from the Shi family, who have some abilities, the others are not much of a threat, at most they are some local indigenous forces.

Regarding those forces, Liu Zhengda had no intention of fighting against them from the very beginning. He just needed to wait for him to occupy Jiaozhou, and to make a small plan to appease them a little bit, and maybe he could still be used by Liu Zheng.

"That guy Zhu Fu escaped from here again this time, he is really cunning, but in this way, I am afraid that we will continue to shrink our troops, so we can ignore him and give orders, and then quickly occupy Hepu County, and then Divert to Yulin County."

After Liu Zheng learned about his death and injury this time, he didn't have much interest in chasing and killing Zhu Fu. After all, Zhu Fu was just a foreign assassin. .

Even if Liu Zheng killed a few county magistrates in Hepu City and those county towns were thrown into chaos, Liu Zheng understood that the people who really had the right to speak in Jiaozhou were the native forces.

It's just that they hid it well on weekdays, and didn't stand in front of Zhu Fu's forehead at this time.

Now that Liu Zheng has occupied Hepu, the first thing to do is to appease the local aborigines.

The army stayed in Hepu City for three days.

In the past three days, Liu Zheng continued to ask Gan Ning and Xu Huang to recruit and surrender troops, some of which were directly expanded into Gan Ning's third battalion, and the other part was started to form a new fourth battalion.

Liu Zheng did not choose to recruit these people into Xu Huang's first battalion.

After all, these people were not strong enough. Even if they were incorporated into Xu Huang's subordinates, they would only lower the combat effectiveness of Xu Huang's first battalion.

It would be better to re-form a new battalion of soldiers and horses, and increase training, maybe it can be used.

Three days later, Liu Zheng asked Gan Ning and Zhou Cang to lead the troops from the third and fourth battalions they had recruited first, and directly killed them in Yulin County.

Yulin County is above Hepu County, connected to Cangwu County, and also adjacent to Jingzhou.

In the pre-Qin period, it was called Guilin County. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered South Vietnam and unified Jiaozhou, and then it was renamed Yulin County.

However, Yulin County has not been a favorite place for the imperial court, because it is the territory of ethnic minorities.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when Guilin County was conquered, the prefect Yulin who used to be here used his kindness to recruit more than [-] people from Wuhu. Has its own set of living habits.

There are not many contacts with Han people, and most of them live in villages one by one, and often do not listen to the arrangement of the court.

When the imperial court recruited soldiers and horses, they hardly participated in it. If Liu Zheng wanted to occupy Yulin County, it would be an annoyance to face these ethnic minorities.

However, unlike the imperial court, Liu Zheng can directly talk to these ethnic minorities in a way of giving both grace and power.

Liu Zheng first asked Gan Ning and Zhou Cang to go to Yulin County, firstly to clean up the remaining imperial soldiers and horses in Yulin County, and after he occupied the imperial city, he would go to trouble the leaders of the ethnic minorities .

Now, as long as the leaders of those ethnic minorities don't come to find him bad luck, Liu Zheng will not pay attention to them for the time being.

At the same time, in the direction of Cangwu City, Huang Zhong also sent someone to send him a new message, which made Liu Zheng, who had planned to continue invading other places in Jiaozhou, slightly taken aback.

Huang Zhong was in Cangwu City, and occupied all the area around Cangwu City, and he has already learned a news that a troop appeared in Nanhai County.

A total of 3 soldiers came from Yangzhou. Now those [-] soldiers have arrived in Nanhai County, not far from Cangwu County.

These 3 people, through Huang Zhong's inquiries, should be Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, who went to Yangzhou to ask for help, and Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, sent support troops.

Yangzhou is not the same as Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou is located in a remote area with a small population, but Yangzhou has a vast territory, not only rich in products, but also has a large population, and there are many soldiers and horses.

Liu Yao, who is now the shepherd of Yangzhou, owns the entire Yangzhou, and his strength is much stronger than Zhu Fu.

He has just taken control of Yangzhou not long ago, and he has assembled a lot of people from counties and counties under Yangzhou's rule, 3 people are quite a lot, which is not too small in Liu Yao's hands.

However, there was no major rebellion in Yangzhou, and there was no need for too many soldiers to suppress it, so Liu Yao was willing to send 3 troops to Jiaozhou to assist Zhu Fu in suppressing the rebellion.

When Liu Yao helps Zhu Fu to put down the chaos successfully, it will be an achievement, and then Liu Yao can present a table to the court and praise his ability.

But after Liu Zheng heard the news, he became a little worried.

Originally, he came to Jiaozhou to deal with Zhu Fu, taking advantage of the chaos in the world. When he attacked Jiaozhou, no one could come to Jiaozhou to assist Zhu Fu's plan.

But now, Liu Yao suddenly appeared.

This made Liu Zheng's plan a little different at the beginning. Fortunately, Liu Yao's strength was not considered strong during the Three Kingdoms period. Although he was also a member of the Han family, he was bullied by Yuan Shu and Sun Ce successively.

For this, Liu Zheng is not too afraid.

"I'll give you an order to go back to Cangwu and Hepu City immediately. Zhou Chao will send 5000 people from Gan Ning to garrison."

Liu Zheng now has four battalions of soldiers and horses under his command. To be precise, there are only three and a half battalions. The troops of the fourth battalion are still under construction, and they can't bring Liu Zheng any use.

Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty could only temporarily second the soldiers and horses of Gan Ning's third battalion.

And Liu Zheng immediately took Xu Huang's men and horses back to Cangwu County, ready to meet the upcoming Liu Yao's men.

Zhu Fu was no longer a concern. As long as Liu Yao's army was defeated and Liu Zheng occupied Jiaozhou, there should be no big problem.

Just when Liu Zheng returned to Cangwu County, Shi Xie from Cangwu County also came to visit at this moment.

Then at night, when Liu Zheng heard Huang Zhong say that Shi Xie asked to see him, he was a little surprised, but he still met Shi Xie at this time.

Not long after, Shi Xie came to Liu Zheng's residence.

As soon as they met, they congratulated Liu Zheng.

"My lord, congratulations first, and then conquer the next county."

227 Zhang Shixie Visits

When Shi Xie saw Liu Zheng, he had an indistinct smile on his face.

When Liu Zheng saw Shi Xie coming, he walked towards him with a smile, and was overjoyed, saying that he had captured Hepu City again.

Liu Zheng knew that Shi Xie must be looking for him for something.

So he hurriedly waved his hand and asked Shi Xie a question.

"Prefect Shi Xie, you came to see me so late, is there something wrong?"

"Master Liu Zheng, I came to you because I really want to discuss something with you."

"But it doesn't matter."

Shi Xie didn't hide it either. After Liu Zheng asked, he immediately talked to Liu Zheng.

"Presumably this time you came back from Hepu City urgently because you knew about the arrival of soldiers from Yangzhou."

As soon as Shi Xie opened his mouth, he talked about the soldiers and horses sent by Liu Yao for reinforcements, which made Liu Zheng look a little uncomfortable, but at this moment, he nodded quickly.

"Yes, not long ago my general Huang Zhong sent me the news that a spy came to report that an army of [-] soldiers appeared in Nanhai County."

Liu Zheng briefly told Shi Xie what he knew, and Shi Xie nodded after listening.

"Actually, I came this time because of this incident."

Shi Xie began to tell Liu Zheng the news he had received.

After all, Shi Xie was the prefect of Cangwu. After all, their family had been operating in Jiaozhou for decades, and their ability to inquire about news was far better than that of Liu Zheng, a newcomer.

Shi Xie's people found out whenever there was a disturbance in Nanhai County next door. Shi Xie already knew who the leader of the [-] troops sent by Liu Yao was.

"Then Liu Yao's new appointment as Yangzhou Shepherd is at the time when he is in high spirits. The person who came to support Zhu Fu this time and put down the chaos in Jiaozhou is Liu Yao's number one general, Zhang Ying!"

"Zhang Ying? I'm not afraid of Liu Yao, but I'm still afraid of Zhang Ying?"

"Although Liu Yao is a Han family member, Mr. Liu Zheng, don't underestimate this man. He was not well-known in the early years, but he did a big thing, which made him famous."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

Liu Zheng doesn't know much about Liu Yao, but he just remembers that this guy is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, after the royal family, and will be one of the heroes of the late Han Dynasty in the future, occupying the land of Yangzhou, but he was bullied by Yuan Shu and Sun Ce successively, so it's not much your patience.

Why did it come to Shi Xie's mouth, then Liu Yao seems to be very capable.

"Master Liu Zheng, you may not be clear. This Liu Yao was originally the nephew of Taiwei Liu Chong after Qi Mourning Hui Wang Liu Fei."

Shi Xie began to explain Liu Yao to Liu Zheng. Liu Zheng was not interested in the descendants of such-and-such princes, just like in the Three Kingdoms period, whoever was surnamed Liu was not a prince or a descendant of the emperor. , Just like Liu Bei, who sells straw sandals, can say that he is the queen of King Jing of Zhongshan.

But in the end, who has said it clearly.

After all, King Jing of Zhongshan has no other skills, but his ability to bear children is very strong. It is said that there are more than 100 children in total.Even if you say it is his descendant, there is no way to verify it.

"When this man was 19 years old, his uncle Liu Wei was taken hostage by bandits. In order to save his uncle, Liu Yao summoned more than ten people to sneak into the den of thieves. He became famous in the village. Later, he started his official career because of his filial piety."

After Shi Xie briefly described what Liu Yao did when he was young, Liu Zheng really looked up to him a little bit.

He didn't expect that Liu Yao, who was quite weak in his impression, would be able to do such a thing.

Liu Zheng knew that the word filial piety was very important in ancient times. It is conceivable that Liu Yao could make such a move and become famous.

But even if Liu Zheng knew that Liu Yao was capable, the person who came to Jiaozhou at this time was not Liu Yao, and he had no need to offend Liu Yao.

"I have some understanding of who Liu Yao is, so don't worry about it for now. Shi Xie is too thin, why don't you tell me about the Zhang Ying that Liu Yao sent over this time?"

He knew a little about Liu Yao and Liu Zheng, but he knew even less about Zhang Ying.

Almost nothing left much of an impression except for one name.

In my impression, in the game, under Liu Yao's command, except for one Tai Shici, the remaining generals and counselors are all third-rate characters.

Apart from Tai Shici, only this Zhang Ying can do it.

Liu Zheng still knows about Tai Shici, but according to the time, the current Tai Shici may not have appeared in history, and he is probably still traveling in the north to learn martial arts, so it is impossible to appear under Liu Yao's command. .

Although this Zhang Ying was under Liu Yao's command and led an army of [-] to Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng still didn't pay attention to him.

"Lord Liu Zheng, I don't know Zhang Ying very well, but what I know is that he is highly valued by Liu Yao. He can be sent by Liu Yao and command an army of [-]. It can be seen that he is not incompetent. Now he occupies the first place. Nanhai County didn't come directly to Cangwu City, it must be waiting and watching."

Shi Xie told Liu Zheng what he knew, and Liu Zheng immediately showed a faint smile on his face.

"I know what he is watching. Although he has an army of [-], he doesn't dare to attack rashly. After all, he doesn't know what is going on in Jiaozhou at this time. He is a soldier in Yangzhou, and he is not familiar with the terrain of Jiaozhou. Going forward and coming to our territory will only be detrimental to him, on the contrary, if we can unite and Zhu Fu will use troops against our army together, we can have more confidence."

"It's just that Zhu Fu was driven away from Hepu City by me and fled to Jiaozhi County. It won't be so easy for them to get in touch."

Liu Zheng could guess that Zhang Ying didn't rush to Cangwu City, probably because he hadn't gotten in touch with Zhu Fu at this time, and rushing forward without any information would only fail miserably.

Zhang Ying is not stupid, so naturally he wouldn't be so reckless. In addition, at this time, whether Zhu Fu is alive or dead, Zhang Ying has not yet grasped the situation in Jiaozhou, so he can only stay in Nanhai County for the time being.

"I think so too, so this time I came here to tell my lord that I must go to Nanhai County at this time to repel Zhang Ying. If Zhang Ying and Zhu Fu join forces, I'm afraid it will be bad for my lord."

Shi Xie's initiative made Liu Zheng look at Shi Xie with admiration.