The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

This time, his attitude towards Liu Zheng was obviously much better than the time he met Liu Zheng before.

Whether Liu Zheng defeated Qin Jie or beheaded Zhu Jun, the general of Zhonglang, these credits are enough to make Liu Zheng's status rise to fame in the Yellow Turban Army.

At the same time, with a talented person like Liu Zheng, the Yellow Turban Army can do something. As the envoy of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Mancheng naturally wants to win over Liu Zheng.

"Brother Liu Zheng, you are really amazing. I didn't expect that Qin Jie and Zhu Jun, who gave me headaches, would be taken care of by you. This time the battle in Nanyang, you can be said to have a great contribution. Whatever reward you need, I will definitely satisfy you!"

Although Zhang Mancheng has not recovered from his injuries, in order to win Liu Zheng over, he must give Liu Zheng a good reward.

If Liu Zheng's achievements were notified to Zhang Jiao of Jizhou, Zhang Jiao would naturally reward Liu Zheng well, but every time, the time was too far away, and he didn't know that it would be a few days later.

So in order to give Liu Zheng some sweetness first, Zhang Mancheng decided to give Liu Zheng some rewards first.

When Liu Zheng heard it, Zhang Mancheng wanted to give him some rewards, but Liu Zheng didn't refuse for a while.

He is very smart and knows what is called advancing and retreating. If he rejects Zhang Mancheng's reward, Zhang Mancheng will inevitably feel that he has a different heart. On the contrary, he accepts Zhang Mancheng's reward and the lion opens his mouth to dispel Zhang Mancheng's guard.

Knowing that Liu Zheng is a greedy person, such a person will make Zhang Mancheng feel easier to get along with.

The kind of people who don't want anything, don't like sex, don't like gambling, and don't like money, have no desires and desires, so it's hard to get along with others.

Therefore, when Zhang Mancheng asked for a reward, Liu Zheng immediately agreed.And he began to think about what he wanted to ask Zhang Mancheng for.

"My lord, I don't have anything under my command, but to be honest, what I lack the most is horses. You know, I want to form a cavalry. If we have a cavalry, in the battle against the official army, It’s self-evident how powerful it is, so I don’t have to give up other rewards.”

"But if the envoy is willing to give me some horses, I will definitely not refuse."

Liu Zheng has been thinking about it for a long time in his heart, thinking about a lot of things he wants, money, weapons, soldiers and horses.

But these things are not real. As far as money is concerned, even if he has it, there is no way to increase his strength in a short time.

In terms of weapons, the weapons made by the Yellow Turban Army themselves are actually the same, not very powerful. On the contrary, he defeated Qin Jie and seized a large number of official weapons from the official army.

Today's Liu Zheng has no shortage of these things.

As for soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng didn't want them even more. After all, they were Zhang Mancheng's inferior characters, not his own training team, and there were always some gaps in using them.

So it is better to ask for some war horses directly from Zhang Mancheng.

Although Zhang Mancheng has a limited number of war horses, at most two or three hundred horses.But if he could get some from Zhang Mancheng, even dozens of war horses, it would definitely be an unexpected harvest.

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Zhang Mancheng was taken aback.

For a while, it was really hard to refute Liu Zheng's face.

Zhang Man originally thought that what Liu Zheng wanted was money, treasures and other rewards, but when Liu Zheng opened his mouth, he wanted strategic materials and war horses.

This made Zhang Mancheng really embarrassed. Although he was the leader of the largest Yellow Turban army in Nanyang, as Liu Zheng guessed, he really didn't have many war horses.

Counting the cavalry who were used as scouts, his men were full of horses, only in the early [-]s.

These are his rarest war horses. If it were given to Liu Zheng, his subordinates would not even have enough horses for scouts.

But Liu Zheng asked for it, but it was hard for him not to give it.

Considering the credit Liu Zheng brought to them, although Zhang Mancheng was a little reluctant, he still gritted his teeth and agreed to Fengyun.

"Okay, war horses are war horses. I don't have many war horses here, but it's okay to give you a hundred war horses. At the same time, I'll give you another five hundred matching spears. What do you think!"

Zhang Mancheng said something to Liu Zheng, and promised Liu Zheng his one hundred war horses.

At the same time, he also felt that the horses were given less, so he insisted on giving Liu Zheng five hundred spears more.

Liu Zheng really didn't expect Zhang Mancheng to agree to him.

All of a sudden, he got a hundred war horses for nothing, which made Liu Zheng strengthen his cavalry again.

Naturally, he was delighted in his heart, and he agreed with all his mouth. ,

"Thank you for the last time, the envoy, I will do my best to serve the Yellow Turban Army!"

"Okay, now that you have conquered Runan City, you can temporarily take the position of commander-in-chief of Daqu and station in Runan and Yingchuan."

Chapter 56 Greatly Increased Strength

In order to appease Liu Zheng, as soon as Zhang Mancheng opened his mouth, he promoted Liu Zheng from the previous Xiaoqu commander to the new Daqu commander in Runan and Yingchuan.

It seems to be just a change of position, but the power change brought about by Liu Zheng is very different.

The original Daqu Shuai Bocai of Yingchuan and Runan claimed to have an army of 20.

All the Xiaoqu commanders of the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Runan are under the command of Bocai, who can be regarded as a powerful figure.

Although these little Qu Shuai are fighting on their own, when Bo Cai needs them, they really need to obey Bo Cai's mobilization.

At the same time, Liu Zheng was able to canonize Xiaoqu Shuai, and had the power to canonize the little leader of the Yellow Turban Army.

Compared with the commander of the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Runan, Liu Zheng cared more about the fact that he had the right to be the commander of the Yellow Turban Xiaoqu.

After Huangfusong and Zhu Jun, two Zhonglang generals, raided Yingchuan and Runan, there are almost no remaining Yellow Turban soldiers in these two places. A unit of troops, the number will not exceed 2000 people.

Even if such remnants of the Yellow Turban Army want to gather together, it is quite difficult.

On the contrary, by conferring the power of Xiaoqu Shuai, he can let the generals under his command who follow him have real titles, and conferring their positions can also make them more loyal to him.You can cultivate your own cronies.

After thanking Zhang Mancheng again, Liu Zheng did not stay in Wancheng, but quickly withdrew back to Runan City with Zhang Zhongjing and the hundreds of cavalry he brought over.

When I went there, there were only more than 600 war horses, but when I returned, I had more than 700 horses.Although it was only an increase of one hundred war horses, the cavalry team under Liu Zheng's command had been expanded again, and its strength had reached a new level.

The strength of the cavalry cannot be seen by individuals. The real strength of the cavalry is when there are a large number of cavalry, and the several rounds of charges provided on the battlefield will cause the ground to shake when the horses trample and the horses roar. , can bring extreme shock to people's hearts.

Greatly increase your own morale and reduce the enemy's momentum.

So this is why, Liu Zheng has always insisted on cultivating a cavalry squad of his own.

Liu Zheng, who turned back to Runan City, did not continue to expand this time, but redistributed the horses he had obtained, and ordered Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao to strengthen the strength of the cavalry squad again and strengthen training.

After several battles these days, the cavalry under Liu Zheng's command can finally be said to be useful on the battlefield.

At least when facing the enemy, it will not collapse immediately and can form an effective charge.Give some blows to the enemy army.

After a period of training, Liu Zheng believed that the cavalry under his command could definitely compete head-on with the cavalry of the officers and soldiers he had seen before.

Even if they are slightly inferior, they can completely rely on the advantage of a large number of people to fight a match.

At the same time, the more than 500 spears obtained from Zhang Mancheng were also distributed by Liu Zheng.

While the cavalry had received a stable training, Liu Zheng did not stop there, but instead began to think about the idea of ​​training other arms.

Maybe Liu Zheng didn't have this idea before. Firstly, the time was not allowed, and secondly, there were not so many people under him for him to train, but the situation is different now.

It took only two or three days for Liu Zheng to conquer Runan City, and the news spread again around Runan County and Yingchuan County.

The remnants of the Yellow Turban Army who had been hiding in Yingchuan County and Runan County heard the news.They all began to gather near Runan City, hoping to get the protection of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan City and join Liu Zheng's subordinates at the same time.

More and more remnants of the Yellow Turbans gathered, and from time to time, a small group of people gathered, as few as 50 people, as many as 500 remnants of the Yellow Turbans, often appeared outside Runan City, wanting to join Liu Zheng. The number of Yellow Turban soldiers in Runan City skyrocketed.

These people were all the Yellow Turban Army who belonged to Bocai before, but Bocai was besieged by the officers and soldiers at that time, and the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army who had been defeated several times dispersed and hid in the mountains and forests of the two places.

It has not appeared these days, mainly because there has not been a huge Yellow Turban army force in these two places that is enough to make them return.

But now Liu Zheng's appearance gave them courage, and at the same time, Liu Zheng's record was spread between the two places, which made these Yellow Turban soldiers highly respect Liu Zheng, and naturally wanted to join Liu Zheng's command.

For these remnants of the Yellow Turbans, Liu Zheng never refused.Although the strength of these Yellow Turban remnants is not very good, even if they are useless, they can still earn a few shouts.

And when there are more people, these remnants can be regarded as some foundations. Only when there are more and more people, can he select some strong young people from these people to form new arms.

And the new unit he wants to form can actually be foreseen, it is the shooter battalion.

Although Xu Huang knew a little about archery before, but Xu Huang had to prepare a cavalry battalion and manage some archers at the same time.

Although Pei Yuanshao later assisted him in forming a cavalry squad, now Liu Zheng has more and more soldiers and horses, and there are also a lot of things that need to be managed. After all, Xu Huang is his number one general and needs to coordinate all affairs. Still relatively busy.

If he is asked to train another archer team, he will still be unable to do what he wants, especially now that Liu Zheng has won Huang Zhong's allegiance again, and he is asked to prepare a new archer with Huang Zhong's archery skills. The team is simply a matter of hand.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Zheng brought up this plan again.

Today, the Yellow Turban Army in Runan City has grown to more than 3 in a short period of time.Selecting new candidates from the more than 3 people to form a shooter team is more leeway than choosing from the 6000 people under Liu Zheng's command.

Moreover, most of the newly added 2 people are veterans who have followed Bocai and fought against the official army before.

These people, to some extent, have some fighting skills, and many of them are even shooters. After all, only shooters will be placed at the end of the team to have more chances of escape.

Miscellaneous soldiers and pikemen like cannon fodder had been wiped out as early as the first round of charge.

Liu Zheng called Huang Zhong over and gave Huang Zhong the authority to select 3 people from the 1000 people to form a team of shooters.

It is easier to form a shooter squad than a cavalry squad. After all, it is not limited to the important factor of war horses.

Chapter 57 Shooter Battalion

Even if Liu Zheng wants to expand the cavalry, there is no way to expand it. After all, he is limited by the number of horses, and at most he can gradually form a team of more than 700 people.

But archers are different, they don't need many things, just a bow and a dozen arrows.

As long as the number is enough, the shooter can be said to be, and it is easy to increase the number.

But the shooter team that Liu Zheng wants to gradually form is not the same as the shooter units that were drawn from Zhao Hong before.

Those so-called shooters couldn't really be called shooters. At best, they were just some miscellaneous soldiers holding bows and arrows and shooting randomly.

The number of arrows that can actually hit the enemy is extremely rare. That kind of shooting depends on luck. If you are lucky, you can hit some. If you are not lucky, it is a waste of arrows.

At the beginning, Sun Zhong had 3 men and owned tens of thousands of bows. After a burst of shooting, he only shot and killed hundreds of people.

It can be seen that the hit rate is really low.

Far inferior to a sharpshooter like Huang Zhong, who can almost hit every shot.

If Liu Zheng can train a team of thousands of people, the team's archery skills, not to mention the same as Huang Zhong, as long as they can hit four or five out of ten, with 1000 people, they can also shoot and kill four to five thousand enemy troops on the battlefield. human goal.

Moreover, shooting and killing the most powerful units of the enemy army can greatly damage the self-confidence of the enemy army.

"Brother Huang Zhong, I will leave this matter to you."

Liu Zheng briefly described his thoughts with Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong had just joined Liu Zheng's command at this time, and was worried that he had nothing to do. Now Liu Zheng did not let him fight on the battlefield, but instead acted as a coach. , teaching the Yellow Turban Army archery.

This is also an excellent result for Huang Zhong.

So Huang Zhong didn't refuse, and quickly agreed.

"Okay, if my archery skills are helpful to Qu Shuai, I will definitely do my best to teach a group of good archers."

"Well, with Han Sheng's words, I feel relieved."

Seeing Huang Zhong nodding his head, Liu Zheng quickly agreed.

But just after Huang Zhong finished speaking, he remembered something again, turned his head and spoke again to Liu Zheng.

"If Qu Shuai wants to form an elite shooter team, it is not enough to have enough and skilled people."

Liu Zheng didn't understand these things very well, but when he heard Huang Zhong mentioning it, he was a little interested, and immediately asked Huang Zhong a question.

"Brother Huang Zhong, what else do you need to prepare?"

"Naturally, some good bows and arrows, including bows and arrows, are indispensable, and it is necessary to cultivate the relationship between archers and bows and arrows. The more familiar bows and arrows, the greater the chance of accurate shooting. You need to prepare some good bows and arrows. Let the shooter practice hard to improve the shooter's shooting accuracy."

Huang Zhong's explanation made Liu Zheng suddenly understand, and he understood in an instant that if there are some skilled archers, if there are not enough good bows and arrows, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.Only with good skills and good bows and arrows can you shoot more accurately.

After realizing it, Liu Zheng immediately made a promise to Huang Zhong.

"On this point, don't worry, Brother Huang Zhong. Since I asked you to train the manpower, I must also consider the issue of arrows. Among the people who were rescued from the officers and soldiers before, there is a master blacksmith. I will order him in a short time. Build a batch of iron tire bows, and then match them with some iron arrows."

Regarding what Huang Zhong said, in fact, Liu Zheng had considered it before, and it was precisely because when he led people to rescue Zhang Zhongjing, among the few civilians rescued from the more than 100 remnants of the officers and soldiers, one This person is the master blacksmith from Runan City before.

The master blacksmith had made a lot of weapons for Bo Cai before, so he was accused of collaborating with the enemy and rebelling against the army, and was caught by the Guan army. Now that Liu Zheng rescued him, he also became Liu Zheng's man.

Liu Zheng is also thinking about letting him build a batch of bows and arrows.At the same time, the appearance of this blacksmith gave Liu Zheng some new ideas. The stirrup that he wanted to build for the cavalry before finally had manpower to handle it.

In the following time, the entire Runan City was in intensive training, including Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao training cavalry, and Huang Zhong selected 1000 people to start training archery, although Liu Zheng currently does not have many bows and arrows.

Most of them were snatched from the officers and soldiers before, but it was enough for everyone to take turns to practice shooting.

But Liu Zheng himself was not idle, he collected discarded iron tools in Runan City wantonly, and began to forge new bows and arrows with the blacksmith.

Regarding how to make bows and arrows, Liu Zheng, a modern man, can give few opinions to blacksmiths. On the contrary, Huang Zhong has a good understanding of this aspect. During the research, he put forward many pertinent opinions, which made the blacksmith improve the current state. There are bows and arrows.

It only took two or three days to create the first improved iron tire bow.

After Huang Zhong got the bow and arrow, he tried it out, and it was indeed much better than the bow and arrow he had taken from the officers and soldiers before.

It's a pity that this kind of iron tire bow needs to repeatedly temper the red-hot pig iron, and quench it several times to make the toughness of the pig iron meet the appropriate requirements, which is quite complicated to make.

Naturally, the output is very low. A blacksmith who works continuously in a day can make at most a dozen of these bows.