The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Only then did Jushou look at Liu Zheng again. At first he thought Liu Zheng was just joking with him, but now that Liu Zheng said it again, Jushou knew that Liu Zheng was not joking with him, but really wanted him to Stay in Jianye City for a while longer.

Liu Zheng saw that Jushou was thinking.Speak now.

"By the way, let me tell you a piece of news. I just got the news that the general of Luoyang, He Miao, is dead."

Chapter 769

"what!"

As soon as Liu Zheng said that, Ju Shou's face immediately changed.

It seemed that he was surprised by this news.

"Is what His Majesty said true?"

"Of course it's true. The news that my Jin Yiwei came back from Luoyang quickly, presumably, it won't be long before the news spreads, and your lord Yuan Shao should also know about it."

Hearing Liu Zheng's affirmation, the expression on Jushou's face immediately became ugly at this moment.

"My lord, the incident happened suddenly. I have something important to go back to discuss with my lord. Please allow me to return to Yecheng."

Liu Zheng just said that he would stay with Jushou, but now Jushou has proposed to return to Yecheng, can Liu Zheng agree?

"Mr. Jushou, your general has many advisers, and you are not lacking. This place is far away from Yecheng. It is too late for you to go back now. Why don't you stay and build a business with me?" Stay in the city for a while, since you and I have already formed an alliance, there must be someone here to contact you. I don’t like the Guo Tu who came last time, but Mr. Jushou, I have a good impression. How about you, Mr. Jushou? stay."

As Liu Zheng spoke, his tone became a little colder.

The implication is already obvious, if Ju Shou refuses to agree, then the matter of cooperation will have to be discussed again.

Jushou heard Liu Zheng's tone change, so he naturally understood what Liu Zheng meant.

Although Jushou didn't know why Liu Zheng wanted him to stay, but since Liu Zheng had spoken, if he didn't obey, then Jushou didn't know if he could leave Jianye City alive.

"Alright then, I'll stay and send someone back to reply to my lord."

"That's very good. I'll set up a banquet in the palace tonight. I'll wait for Mr. Jushou to attend the banquet and discuss how to deal with the Han court."

Liu Zheng was afraid that this guy would really leave, so he hurriedly said something to Jushou. On the surface, he was asking him to drink and discuss dealing with the big man, but in fact he wanted to make sure that Jushou had left.

Liu Zheng invited Jushou to have a meal in the evening, gave him a taste of Sanliangye, a specialty of Wu County, and discussed the specific impact of the death of He Miao, the great general of the Han Dynasty.

The death of He Miao was undoubtedly a huge blow to the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty, which was able to gather some concerted efforts, began to split after He Miao's death.

Although the hussar general Lu Zhi succeeded to the throne and assumed the post of general again, Lu Zhi's prestige was obviously not enough, and he could not deter some local officials in the court.

Not to mention that Lu Zhi's reputation is not enough, even He Miao is not enough. Only when He Jin was in power, the local princes could barely obey the court. do one thing.

Among them, Dong Zhuo was the one who looked down on Lu Zhi at all.

Since Dong Zhuo suffered a big loss at the hands of Liu Zheng a few years ago, he was transferred by He Miao to Xiliang to cooperate with Huangfusong in attacking the rebellion of those Qiang people in Xiliang.

Later, Huangfu Song died, but Dong Zhuo was stationed in Xiliang as the governor of Xiliang.

Not only did he recruit some Qiang people who were originally in Xiliang, but he also had a good relationship with Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others in Xiliang, and he seemed to be the dominant family in Xiliang.

Once He Miao died this time, Dong Zhuo would definitely take the opportunity to invade Sansuke's land in the name of revenge for He Miao when the news reached Xiliang.

If Dong Zhuo was still just about to make a move, then the Huns in the north were even more eager to try and enter Guanzhong.

The Bingzhou area has been harassed by the Huns all the year round. In the past, Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou, was stationed and confronted those Huns in the Bingzhou area. With Lv Bu Zhang Liao and other strong generals present, those Huns should not be too presumptuous, but since Ding Yuan was captured by the court two years ago Deployed south to attack Liu Zheng, and cooperated with Liu Biao to station in Jingzhou.

Although the imperial court also sent new troops to control the Bingzhou area, there are no strong generals stationed there, and there is a lack of soldiers and horses to fight against the Huns. The Bingzhou area has been harassed by the Huns last year.

Now that the imperial court is in chaos again, and the Bingzhou area is already in jeopardy, the Huns only need to deploy a little more manpower.

I'm afraid it will be difficult to stop the Huns' troops. The place originally occupied by the Baibo army has been invaded by the Huns all year round. If the Huns can gather [-] to [-] cavalry, they can go directly south and kill them in Hedong County. Hedong County directly entered Luoyang.

In addition, Yuan Shao in Jizhou and Youzhou is also waiting for civil strife in the court, and has already deployed troops and horses, ready to attack at any time.

Originally, the imperial court could send Liu Yan from Yizhou, but now that the general He Miao is gone, the imperial court has no strength to command these princes at all, and Liu Yan will never pay attention to the imperial court, and is willing to stay in Yizhou, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Be your own emperor.

In fact, the areas that the imperial court can really control now, except for the Gyeonggi area where it is located, are only Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and a small half of Xuzhou.

Yuzhou was originally Yuan Shu's territory.

Later, after Ding Yuan sent his own troops to drive Yuan Shu out of Yuzhou, Yuzhou was regained by the imperial court.

However, it is not so easy for the imperial court to fight against the princes of the whole world through these four states.

Before Liu Zheng was just blindly defending, defending, waiting for others to attack.

He seldom took the initiative to attack, not that he was unwilling to take the initiative, but that he had to face too many enemies during his campaigns in the north and south. There are new battles happening, and this wave of unrest seems to be rising again.

This caused Liu Zheng to have no time of his own to attack the city and take the initiative.

Instead, he has been led by the nose.

Now that he has proclaimed himself emperor, there will be no new wars in the short term.

In addition, during this period of time, Liu Zheng has been bullied by the court, and it is time for him to fight back.

After talking with Jushou, Liu Zheng talked with Jushou in detail about the active attack this time.

Liu Zheng led his troops to attack Jingzhou and Yuzhou, while Yuan Shao led his troops to attack Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

In this way, they can carve up these territories of the imperial court.

This decision was made by Liu Zheng himself.Xuzhou borders Yanzhou, and is adjacent to Yuan Shao's Jizhou and Qingzhou. If Liu Zheng proposes this idea, Yuan Shao will definitely not refuse.

However, Liu Zheng's forces are mostly concentrated near Jingzhou and Yuzhou. It would be better for Liu Zheng to attack these two places.

After all, most of Jingzhou is in the hands of Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng's main goal is actually Yuzhou.

7 Seventy Chapters Target Jingzhou

After seizing Xiangyang City, Liu Zheng will be able to take down Hanzhong. After having Hanzhong, Liu Zheng will be able to trade horses with those people in Xiliang. Horses are what Liu Zheng lacks at present, and he must find a way to solve them. .

As for Yuan Shao, there must be no way out, this guy Yuan Shao will not fight for horses for Liu.

This is the calculation on the surface, but in fact, Liu Zheng has another level of calculation in private.

Xiangyang is next to Gyeonggi. Once Liu Zheng gets Xiangyang, it will be easy to attack Luoyang.

As for Yanzhou and Xuzhou, Liu Bei was stationed here, and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses were not bad. Yuan Shao's men and horses faced Liu Bei, and the outcome was unpredictable.

Liu Zheng's idea was to let Liu Bei consume Yuan Shao's strength.

So no matter who wins or loses between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, Liu Zheng will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman. When the time comes when they are almost exhausted, Liu Zheng will take advantage of the situation to clean up the mess.

If Liu Bei wins, then Liu Zheng will counterattack Xuzhou, take back Qingzhou, and even kill Jizhou and Youzhou.

If Yuan Shao wins, then Liu Zheng will lead people to snatch Yuan Shao's victory.

Doing so would offend Yuan Shao, but now that the court has no power, it is tantamount to falling apart in place, and Liu Zheng's only opponent is Yuan Shao.

Sooner or later, they will tear their faces apart, so for some benefit, Liu Zheng will still give up the verbal alliance with Yuan Shao at will.

On this point, Yuan Shao would do the same.

Yuan Shao and Liu Zheng's alliance, when encountering some interest issues, Yuan Shao will not hesitate to tear his face apart.

Ju Shou didn't know the calculations in Liu Zheng's mind. He thought Liu Zheng deliberately sold Yuan Shao's face and gave Yuan Shao the territory of Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

In this way, the verbal proposal of Liu Zheng and Yuan Shao was reached at this time. Jushou sent people back to talk to Yuan Shao about the agreement with Liu Zheng, and at this time Liu Zheng also began to order his people to go to Jingzhou to make peace with Yuan Shao. Yuzhou is under pressure.

June 191.

Liu Zheng had already personally mobilized Zhou Yu's first battalion, and immediately started to make the troops in Jingzhou active.

In mid-June, near Jingzhou, Changsha County and Jiangxia County.

A large number of Liu Zheng's troops have gathered here.

Sun Jian's army and Gan Ning's army were stationed in Changsha County, and Huang Zhong's army and Zu Lang's army were stationed in Jiangxia County.

Xu Huang's [-] cavalry have been practicing in the military school near Yuzhang County. On the one hand, they are learning from those military schools, and on the other hand, they are waiting for Liu Zheng's order to be transferred.

On the left side of Jiangxia County, this is the territory of Nan County. Ding Yuan led his [-] cavalry to station here in a place called Huarong.

This is the place where Ding Yuan's men and Liu Zheng's men confront each other. After Liu Zheng built the military parade building in Baling, which Liu Zheng called Yueyang Tower, Ding Yuan's Chen Bing was near Huarong, ready to attack Jiangxia at any time.

It's just that Ding Yuan didn't have enough soldiers and horses. Even including Liu Biao's troops, they only had [-] soldiers and horses in Jingzhou.

While Liu Zheng has always had about [-] troops in Jingzhou, Ding Yuan didn't get the order of the court, so he didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only focus on defense.

Especially when Lu Zhi led the troops to attack Xuzhou, he discussed with Ding Yuan and wanted Ding Yuan and Lu Zhi to attack Liu Zheng together.

It's a pity that Ding Yuan did not agree to Lu Zhi's order. After all, there were quite a few Liu Zheng's troops in Jingzhou at that time. Apart from Huang Zhong's troops who had not acted, Zu Lang's navy was also there.

In addition, Ding Yuan's cavalry are not good at water warfare, and the natural danger of the Yangtze River is here to stop it. It is not easy for Ding Yuan's men and horses to cross the river.

In addition, Ding Yuan's people will also be stationed in Nanyang, Runan in Yuzhou in batches.

Ding Yuan himself actually only has 2 troops, and he needs Liu Biao's troops to be able to deal with Liu Zheng's army with some confidence.

And as Liu Zheng has more and more soldiers in Jingzhou, Ding Yuan has less and less intention to take the initiative to attack.

Huarong County, the county seat.

Ding Yuan's big tent.

"My lord, Liu Jingsheng, Liu Biao, son of my lord, please see me."

"Liu Jingsheng, what did he send someone for?"

At this time, Ding Yuan was discussing with his subordinates how to deal with Liu Zheng. Who knew that at this moment, someone actually came to report that Liu Biao's son had arrived.

Although Ding Yuan has been stationed in Jingzhou for a while, the relationship between Ding Yuan and Liu Biao is not good, on the contrary, it is very delicate.

This is also because Jingzhou was originally owned by Liu Biao, and Liu Biao was the shepherd of Jingzhou, but since Ding Yuan came here, he has been occupying it here, and Liu Biao has to collect tax money to help Ding Yuan raise these soldiers and horses.

Although Ding Yuan came to help Liu Biao, Liu Biao was still somewhat grateful at the beginning, but after a long time, he lost his gratitude and only complained more.

After all, the maintenance price of war horses is not low. A horse is worth a few gold, and a set of harness is also worth a few gold. A small loss is not a small expense for Liu Biao.

Ding Yuan opened his mouth, but Liu Biao had no choice but to give it. If it wasn't for the large population and wealth in Xiangyang, Liu Biao really couldn't afford to support Ding Yuan's people.

There were some verbal conflicts between the two, but because of the existence of Liu Biao, a common enemy, Ding Yuan and Liu Biao didn't really quarrel.

At this time, Liu Qi, Liu Biao's eldest son, walked in from the outside.

"Liu Qi has seen the adults."

"Liu Qi, why are you here? Did your father ask you to come here?"

"My lord, my father ordered me to come here to discuss with your lord the matter of Liu Zheng's army suppressing the border. I want to ask your lord if you want my father to send troops to support him."

A few days ago, Liu Zheng deployed another [-] troops from other places to station in Jingzhou. Naturally, this news could not be hidden from Liu Biao's eyes and ears. Fighting will soon start a war with Ding Yuan and Liu Biao.

Originally, Liu Zheng had stationed tens of thousands of people here in Jingzhou. Now that he has mobilized his troops here again, it can be seen that Liu Zheng intends to take the initiative to attack. After being quiet for so long, this land of Jingzhou will once again break out into a war.

"I'm also discussing this matter with my people. I have ordered my general Zhang Liao to mobilize [-] troops from Runan. If Liu Jingsheng is willing to mobilize people to come here, it would be great."

Ding originally didn't count on Liu Biao. After all, Liu Zheng just mobilized some soldiers and horses, and he hadn't actually attacked yet. He wanted to wait for Liu Zheng's army to kill him before going to ask Liu Biao for help.

When Liu Qi heard that Ding Yuan was ready, the expression on his face became better.

"My lord, since you are prepared, I can rest assured. I will go back and reply to my father, and let my father make plans early."

Chapter 771 Parade

Baling Ferry.

This is a ferry connecting Jiangxia and Changsha built by Liu Zheng.

A pontoon bridge was built here, allowing Liu Zheng's troops to reach Jiangxia County's territory quickly.

The generals under Liu Zheng have all received Liu Zheng's order to move their troops closer here. Although they haven't directly attacked Ding Yuan's troops yet, there are already some news circulating below. , Knowing that Liu Zheng is going to attack Jingzhou.

On the bank of Dongting Lake, the Parade Tower on Baling Hill.

Liu Zheng brought Zu Lang, Huang Zhong, and Gan Ning to inspect the army here.

He also had two troops stationed in Changsha and Yuzhang respectively, namely Sun Jian's battalion and Zhou Yu's battalion.

In the Jingzhou area, Liu Zheng has secretly mobilized [-] troops, ready to go to war at any time.

However, Liu Zheng is not in a hurry, he is still waiting, waiting for Yuan Shao's men to fight Liu Bei's men first, otherwise Liu Zheng will not fight first. After all, if he is tricked by Yuan Shao, let Liu Zheng take the initiative to fight. When the imperial court was fighting, Yuan Shao watched the fun from the sidelines, which was not something Liu Zheng wanted to see.