The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

There are also some secondary soldiers and horses recruited by counties and counties in various places, mainly the counties and counties themselves are responsible for recruiting, and they are used for patrolling in the city and as reserve personnel.

Although these men did not have the combat experience of elite troops, the army salaries distributed by Liu Zheng were enough to support the secondary soldiers and horses in some counties and counties, allowing them to have some training in normal times.

In contrast, these secondary soldiers under Liu Zheng are equivalent to the regular army of those princes.

Moreover, the number of these people is relatively large, and there are nearly 2000 people in each county.Calculated, a county can do it, with 4000 to 2 county soldiers.

If it is counted on the heads of each state, there may be about [-] county soldiers in a state. Liu Zheng will not mobilize these county soldiers for the time being. They play.

Maintaining the stability of each state and county is what needs to be done now.

Anyway, it will take some time for the news to spread.Liu Zheng had nothing to do, so he decided to inspect his city defense here.

Wu County, because it is Liu Zheng's current residence and the place where he deliberately moved to prevent the northern invasion, so it has temporarily become the capital of Liu Zheng's forces.

The various defenses are also the highest. In addition to the Wenpin County stationed in Yuzhang, half of the troops have been deployed to deploy defenses in Wu County. The local Wu County is also guarded by the general Pei Yuanshao who is responsible for the security of Wu County.

Pei Yuanshao was the person who had followed Liu Zheng for the longest time. At the same time, Xu Huang, Zhou Cang and others all became senior generals guarding one side. Although Pei Yuanshao was unknown, he had indeed always been a person with real power.

He has 2 city defense troops recruited by Liu Zheng alone.

And, he has been staying in Wu County, on standby, and the elite soldiers he trained have fallen into the camp.

The people trapped in the camp suffered some losses from the beginning of the battle with Liu Zheng, and later on the Qingzhou battlefield.

As a result, the original team of 800 people had more than [-] people left after several battles. In the past six months, because of the plague, Liu Zheng only had to let them cultivate and train in Wu County.

The number of people also began to be supplemented, mainly because Liu Zheng asked Gao Shun to select some from Liu Zheng's various places, and Liu Zheng asked each military camp to select some people to add.

Now the number has reached a thousand.

After half a year of training, the trapped camp has completely recuperated, and can fully devote themselves to the battlefield and continue fighting.

Liu Zheng now decided to inspect his soldiers on the school field.

Among them, Pei Yuanshao's 1 troops did not belong to Liu Zheng's elite. They only needed a little training and were responsible for guarding the city.

Liu Zheng spent half a day here, inspecting the soldiers and horses in the school field, and after they were all in a state of excitement, he was temporarily relieved.

In the afternoon, Liu Zheng wanted to go back directly, but remembered that he had been back in Wu County for a few days, but he didn't pay attention to Cao Mengde.

So Liu Zheng temporarily changed his course and decided to visit Cao Cao.

I haven't seen Cao Cao for half a year, and I don't know how well Cao Cao is living in Wu County.

They diverted to Cao Cao's small courtyard.

What surprised Liu Zheng was that Cao Cao's little life was really good.

As soon as I came here, I heard the gatekeeper report to Liu Zheng that Cao Cao actually arranged for Liu Zheng to get pregnant with the two little maids who served Cao Cao's daily life here.

Liu Zheng was taken aback by this news, and then laughed again.

Cao Cao is just 35 years old this year, when he is in good health and full of energy. After being locked up here for a long time, it is inevitable that he will have some needs.

After all, compared to the other two big men in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, Cao Cao has the most sons.

Although Cao Cao himself likes it, but in this situation, he is not given to him, so he can only make do with it.

Liu Zheng walked into the house, and Cao Cao in the courtyard was holding a branch, practicing swordsmanship in the courtyard.

Cao Cao himself is not bad at martial arts. He even tried to assassinate Dong Zhuo in history, but it was a pity that he was unsuccessful. If he knows some martial arts, he will naturally contact him from time to time. After all, he is imprisoned in this yard by Liu Zheng, and he has nothing else to do. can do.

"Brother Mengde, I'm very interested."

When Liu Zheng saw Cao Cao practicing swords, he praised Cao Cao.

Cao Cao turned his head and glanced to see that it was Liu Zheng. He put away the branch in his hand and threw it aside.

Although he was practicing swordsmanship, Liu Zheng would not really give him a sword, so Cao Cao could only use tree branches instead.

"Brother Liu hasn't come to my place for half a year, have you almost forgotten about me?"

When Cao Cao said this, he blamed Liu Zheng a little bit. Liu Zheng didn't let him go, and he didn't come to him. He has been through a bit of suffering in the past six months.

Cao Cao's usual activities are all in this small courtyard, and he doesn't even have the chance to go out.

Of course, it's not that no one has come to look for Cao Cao. A group of people once inquired about Cao Cao's location and tried to rescue Cao Cao. Unfortunately, Liu Zheng's Jin Yiwei noticed in advance and caught them all.

Immediately locked up.

It was only later that Liu Zheng got the news that Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, had dispatched them.

Cao Ang is the eldest son of Cao Cao, and also the successor trained by Cao Cao. These years, he has been in Cao Cao's hometown and has not followed Cao Cao.

After Liu Bei annexed Cao Cao's territory, he did not deliberately embarrass Cao Cao's family.

When Cao Ang learned that his father had been arrested, he was naturally very anxious. Although he was young, he immediately began to plan how to save his father.

It's a pity that Cao Ang is still too young and inexperienced after all. Although he led people into Liu Zheng's territory, he still failed.

This is mainly because Liu Zheng had the loss of Lu Qiling's assassination before, and strengthened his defense in Wu County, but if there was any disturbance, he would not be able to escape the movement of Jin Yiwei who was ambushing in Wu County City.

However, Cao Cao didn't know that his son Cao Ang was also arrested.

"Brother Mengde is worrying too much. How could I have forgotten you? I have something important to do recently, so I have been away from Wujun. I just came back here recently. When I came back, it was not long God, I'm here to see you."

Chapter 675 Three visits to Cao Cao

"Oh? So you're not in Wu County. Let me guess. The only thing that can make you dispatch is the battle. Where did the battle start?"

"Court?"

Cao Cao seemed very interested in guessing, and first asked the court tentatively.

But he quickly shook his head.

"No, no, it won't be the imperial court. The plague was rampant some time ago. I heard that the imperial court relied on you to treat the plague. It would not be wise to fight against you at this time."

"That's Yuan Shao?"

Cao Cao himself vetoed his guess, and then said another person.

"Yuan Shao has some possibilities. There is a lack of food in winter and he has a lot of troops, but can his men fight you? Could it be that they are attacking Qingzhou?"

"It shouldn't be. Even if Yuan Shao is short of food, he can't get any food in Qingzhou. Instead, it is more appropriate to rob the imperial court of Jizhou, or go to Bingzhou."

Cao Cao made some guesses, but felt that he couldn't figure it out, so he shook his head.

"Can't guess."

"Brother Meng De, of course you can't guess, because the person I'm going to deal with is not a man of Han, but the Funan Kingdom in the southernmost land."

"Funan?"

When Cao Cao heard these two words, he frowned immediately.

Although there are some contacts between Funan Kingdom and the Han Dynasty, it is not the communication between countries. It is mostly private commercial exchanges between some common people. Therefore, although the country has been established for a hundred years, Funan Kingdom is not as good as many officials of the Han Dynasty. I don't know much about it.

Although Cao Cao is an important court minister, he still knows little about things other than the great Han.

"Well, at the southernmost point of the Han Dynasty, there is a country named Lin Yiguo. It was established by some rebels of the Han Dynasty decades ago. When I ruled Jiaozhou a few years ago, I put down the rebellion of the Han Dynasty and recovered some territory that originally belonged to the Han Dynasty. .”

"However, those remnants of the Linyi Kingdom did not give up. They colluded with other races and continued to harass our frontiers. In order to get it done once and for all, I made up my mind to lead an army of tens of thousands to expedition to Funan, which took more than half a year."

These words, coming out of Liu Zheng's mouth, might make people laugh, but Cao Cao admired Liu Zheng very much after hearing this.

Because Cao Cao is also a Hanchen who is loyal to the big man, at least now he still has a strong heart of loyalty to the big man.

When the northern aliens invaded, it was Cao Cao who tried his best to pull out the cavalry under his command and drive the northern aliens out of the territory of the big Han.It can be seen that Cao Cao also intends to kill those who are not my race.

On this point, Cao Cao and Liu Zheng have the same attitude.

"Brother Liu, on this matter, I have to say that you have done a lot. Those who are not of my race must have a different heart. It is the most correct way to kill them all. This is how to give them a hard time." Only one blow can make them remember it for decades, and they dare not act recklessly."

"Well, let's not talk about this, let's talk about you, Brother Mengde. How have you been in the past six months?"

Of course Liu Zheng knew that Cao Cao hadn't been doing well in the past six months, but out of concern, he still asked this question, otherwise the topic wouldn't be able to start.

After talking about himself, Cao Cao's face immediately changed, and he gave a wry smile.

"Brother Liu, you locked me here and asked me how I am. Don't keep me locked up. Give me a good time. Or if you don't want to kill me, let me go. You lock me up. Here, there is no way."

"Meng De, it's not that I don't want to let you go, but that your threat is too great. You also know that if I let you go, if you rise up again in the future, I want to catch you again. It will be difficult for you."

"I didn't expect me, Cao Cao, to be such a big threat in your eyes, brother Liu. I don't know if I should feel honored."

"That must be true, only Meng De and Zheng Er are the only heroes in the world."

When Liu Zheng said this sentence, Cao Cao obviously didn't realize it, and the gaze he looked at Liu Zheng again became a little complicated.

From Liu Zheng's words, Cao Cao could know that Liu Zheng really regarded him very seriously, but so far, it seems that the only way is to surrender.

However, Cao Cao still had more backbone, and he didn't want to be a person who surrendered, so he endured not saying the words of surrender.

Liu Zheng saw the complex look in Cao Cao's eyes, and pretended to sound something at this moment.

"By the way, Brother Mengde, there is a person, I think it is necessary for you to meet."

"Oh? Who?"

"He said his name was Cao Ang."

"Come on, bring people in."

When Liu Zheng said the word Cao Ang, Cao Cao's face darkened, and the expression on his face immediately changed.

Especially when Liu Zheng said to bring someone in, it made Cao Cao tremble even more.A 20-year-old young man walked in from the outside.

The young man was wearing a prison uniform and was escorted into the yard by two guards. As soon as he entered, Cao Cao's expression changed drastically.

"An'er!"

"Father!"

When the father and son met, they were very emotional. Cao Cao rushed to Cao Ang's side quickly, and Cao Ang also jumped in front of Cao Cao at this time.

The two embraced together, and Cao Cao had more affection for his sons, especially Cao Ang, who was Cao Cao's favorite among his many sons.

"Brother Meng De, it turns out that this man is really your son. A few days ago, my subordinates caught a group of bandits in the city. I wanted to kill them, but he said he was your son. As a friend , I didn’t kill him, I wanted you to recognize him first, if it’s really your son, I’ll sell you some face and let him go.”

Liu Zheng originally didn't want to use such means to make Cao Cao take refuge in him.

However, Cao Cao obviously had no intention of surrendering himself, so he had no choice but to do so.

Cao Cao, Cao Ang and his son met each other, and after they calmed down, Cao Cao turned his head when he heard Liu Zheng's words, and thanked Liu Zheng first.

"Thank you Brother Liu for saving my child's life."

"You're welcome. Since it's your son, Brother Meng De, he's a good nephew. Then let him go back. Someone will take Cao Ang back to the sky prison and lock him up."

Liu Zheng's face became flat.

Cao Cao is so smart. You can hear Liu Zheng's meaning from Liu Zheng's words. Since he is not one of his own, Cao Cao's son will suffer with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao can disregard his own safety, but with his own son here suffering with him, Cao Cao will still think more about it.

"Brother Liu wait a minute!"

"Oh? Brother Mengde, what else do you want to say?"

"I want to say that it's not a solution for Brother Liu to keep me here. Let's talk about how to release me. Let's talk about this topic."

Chapter 676 Take a long view

Every time Liu Zheng talked about surrender with Cao Cao, Cao Cao would not answer Liu Zheng directly, or even directly refused.

This makes Liu Zheng very aggrieved sometimes, but this time Cao Cao took the initiative to talk to Liu Zheng about this, that means Cao Cao really wanted to talk to Liu Zheng in detail.

So Liu Zheng didn't say much, and directly revealed his conditions.

"Brother Meng De also knows that I value Brother Meng De's talent. The reason why I don't let Brother Meng De go back is precisely because I want Brother Meng De to take refuge in me. With Brother Meng De's help, the world will soon be Just calm down, and then I will continue my life for the Han court for another 200 years!"

"Extend your life for the Han court for another 200 years, what do you mean?"

Cao Cao frowned and looked at Liu Zheng.

"Brother Meng De, don't you understand? The current court is not the court of the Han Dynasty at all. The young emperor is just a puppet in the hands of He Miao and Lu Zhi, and Yuan Shao also has an emperor in his hands, also called Han Dynasty." There is a Han Dynasty in the east and a Han Dynasty in the west. Can such a Han Dynasty be handed over to the big Han?"

"Anyone can do the emperor of the Han Dynasty, so why can't I, Liu Zheng, do it?"

"I, Liu Zheng, is also a descendant of the Han family and a descendant of Liu Bang. They can be emperors. Why can't I, Liu Zheng, as far as I know, because of this plague, Yuan Shao and the court have suspended their troops. They seem to be planning to join hands first. Clean me up."

"Since they have no scruples about me, I don't need to hide anything anymore. Anyway, now that I have controlled several states and counties, my strength is not something they can easily deal with if they want to deal with it."