The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Zheng wanted to tell Cai Mao tactfully, but Cai Mao's IQ didn't quite understand the meaning of Liu Zheng's words, so Liu Zheng had to rearrange his words, and then told Cai Mao.

"To put it simply, I want to buy something from you."

"What? You just extorted two thousand gold from me, and now you want to use the two thousand gold to buy something from me?"

Cai Mao was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Cai Mao suspiciously.

"Well, can't I buy something from you with two thousand gold, and return it to you, is it possible that you still want me to buy it from someone else? Wouldn't the money be taken away by someone else? I wondered If you earn it for others, it is better to earn it for you, uncle."

Liu Zheng smiled and looked at Cai Mao.

The reason why he agreed to Cai Yao and let Cai Yao stay, in fact, another layer of meaning is to catch the thread of Cai Yao.

Cai Mao gave two thousand gold to Liu Zheng, but Liu Zheng didn't know anyone, not even those big businessmen. I found it, but their things couldn't meet Liu Zheng's needs at all.

But Cai Mao can do it. Cai Mao's family is a big family in Jingzhou. Let alone some business, they have a wide range of interests. If you want to do business with Cai Mao, Cai Mao's ability should be able to meet most of Liu Zheng's needs.

That's why he wanted to spend the two thousand gold from Cai Mao's hands.

When Liu Zheng said this, Cai Mao became more active when he thought of earning two thousand gold back from Liu Zheng. He originally came to redeem someone this time, but he didn't redeem him, so he couldn't just go empty-handed. Let's go back.

Right now, Liu Zheng's proposal has aroused Cai Mao's interest.

"What do you want to buy?"

"Weapons! Battle armor! Of course, if you don't have any, you can sell raw materials such as pig iron and leather to me. My own people can also make them, but the speed is slower."

"Of course, it would be great if uncle could sell me some war horses."

Before Liu Zheng could speak, Cai Mao began to roughly guess. Weapons and battle armor are all strategic materials, and they are also what Liu Zheng lacks the most. Cai Mao can also guess, but when Liu Zheng said that he needed war horses , Cai Mao was surprised and immediately vetoed it.

"War horses are impossible! Kid, don't you know how difficult it is to get a war horse? Let alone sell it to you, even if I want to get a batch for myself, I need official approval!"

Chapter 96 Transactions

During the Three Kingdoms period, other things could be obtained. Even horses were not difficult to obtain, but war horses were different.

There are three kinds of horses used in the Three Kingdoms period.

One is the Wuhuan horse.This kind of horse belongs to the middle-sized horse breed, and its production area is in Youzhou and Bingzhou.Gongsun Zan's "White Horse Yi Cong" is this kind of horse.

The second is the Hun horse.This horse is a large horse, and its origin is in the Dawan and Xiayue areas of the Western Regions. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this horse breed was introduced from the Western Regions. It is generally produced in the Liangzhou area.

This is also the main war horse currently under Liu Zheng's command. Whether it is the war horse of the Northern Army snatched from Huangfusong, the war horse of Cao Cao's tiger and leopard, or the hundreds of war horses snatched from Dong Zhuo not long ago, they all belong to the army. Hun horse.

The third type is Nanma.This kind of horse lives in the south and is distributed in Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places.It is short in stature and not suitable for use as a war horse, but it is hardworking and very suitable for use as a logistics pack horse.

These three kinds of horses have different prices. The first two are extremely expensive. The price of a single war horse is more than [-] yuan. Basically, the horses used in Jingzhou are all southern horses. This kind of horse is not suitable as a horse. War horses, though cheap.

But even if it is for Liu Zheng, it won't do much.

"If you need horses, I can get you some, but what you need are war horses. Do you know that war horses are imported by the government, and every transaction needs to be recorded?"

Cai Mao looked at Liu Zheng with some contempt. If he could get a large number of war horses, how could he lose to Liu Zheng.

Although Liu Zheng wanted war horses, when he heard what Cai Mao said, he knew it was over, so he stopped worrying about war horses.

"It's okay. If there are no war horses, I won't force them. After all, I just collected a batch of war horses from Dong Zhuo, and I don't need them for the time being. Uncle, you just need to give me some weapons and armor."

When Liu Zheng said that he needed war horses, he was just saying it casually.

After all, he also knows how scarce war horses are. Even Cai Hao is very difficult to get war horses, and once Cai Hao gets his hands on war horses, he will not easily sell them to Liu Zheng. After all, he himself lacks war horses. It is first used to enrich one's own military strength.

How could he sell it to Liu Zheng?

But things like weapons and armor are different.

The price of these things is much lower than that of war horses, and the quality of the weapons manufactured by the imperial court is not bad.From time to time, there will be some people who have dirty hands and feet and sell these items privately. After all, they are dead objects. It is much easier to get upside down than a war horse.

After Cai Hao and Liu Zheng negotiated a price, they decided to go back and help Liu Zheng collect some. If there were any, they would send someone to escort some of the supplies to Runan City to hand over to Liu Zheng.

With Cai Mao's words, Liu Zhen was satisfied.

After all, as long as Cai Mao agrees to make the first transaction with him, Liu Zheng is not afraid that he will not continue to deal with him later.

Cai Mao went back like this, and within two days he sent someone to get in touch with Liu Zheng. He had already inquired about the approximate prices of the things Liu Zheng needed, and he also tried his best to provide some of what Liu Zheng needed. weapons and armor.

Liu Zheng took a look at the price list submitted by Cai Mao's people, and fell into deep thought.

Cai Mao's quotation is actually not too low.

A hundred thousand steel knives cost [-] coins, and high-quality weapons cost a thousand coins.

But ordinary military swords are cheap, you can buy them for seven or eight hundred yuan, and bows and crossbows are even cheaper, you can buy them for five or six hundred yuan.

But armor is more expensive, a set costs [-] yuan.

If Liu Zheng wants to buy high-quality swords and armor, the money spent will not be small.

Judging from the money he extorted from Cai Mao, he could only buy a few hundred sets.

As for Liu Zheng's money, as early as when Cai Mao gave it to him, he directly took out half of it and rewarded his soldiers and horses.

The leader, 20 yuan per person, [-] yuan per person for the Yellow Turban Army who followed Liu Zheng from Quyang City, and then distributed hundreds of dollars to thousands of other Yellow Turban soldiers.

All of a sudden, the amount of gold in Liu Zheng's hands dropped sharply. If he hadn't had some savings before, he might not have enough money to buy weapons and armor from Cai Mao's hands.

Fortunately, the current Liu Zheng doesn't need high-quality weapons and armors. All he needs are weapons. Buy a few sets of armors and hand them over to the commanders under his command. After all, generals need to go to battle to kill enemies. The enemy generals are singled out.

If the equipment is not good enough, you will suffer a lot. When Xu Huang and Hua Xiong were singled out before, Hua Xiong was wearing a set of silver armor. Although there were many gaps in it, the protective ability It was much better than the soft armor on Xu Huang's body.

If you don't use enough force, you may not be able to break Hua Xiong's armor with a single strike.

In the end, Liu Zheng told the people sent by Cai Mao that he only needed [-] sets of armor and a hundred steel knives, and [-] military spears and steel knives for the rest.

Although the number is not large, these alone have already cost Liu Zheng more than 1000 gold.

The rest of the money was directly rewarded by him to the people below. He didn't have any more money, so he went to Cai Mao to buy it. At most, he asked Cai Mao to collect more raw materials such as pig iron and leather to come to him.

Although he couldn't afford it, it was still possible to build some by himself.

Moreover, the weapons that Liu Zheng built himself may not be worse than those purchased from Cai Mao.

After Cai Mao's people went back, news came again within two days that Cai Mao had already started preparing these things, and it would only take three days for someone to deliver them.

And Liu Zheng was not in a hurry, while continuing to train his soldiers and horses, retraining the horses captured from Dong Zhuo, while building equipment, waiting for the next big battle.

The cavalry of his headquarters, when fighting Dong Zhuo's cavalry, suffered serious casualties, 700 of them, and only three or four hundred survived in the end. Most of the injured were brought back to Runan City for treatment, but some were seriously injured. I can't even continue fighting in this life.

This is why, as soon as Liu Zheng got Cai Mao's money, he distributed it to his own people so quickly, because most of the money was given to the injured.

Liu Zheng knows a truth, that is to gather people's hearts, as the saying goes, those who win people's hearts win the world, but in the current situation in Runan City, the fastest thing to gather people's hearts is tantamount to comforting the wounded.

Chapter 97 Calling for help from Jizhou

Only those who are injured and unable to fight, or even those who have died because of Liu Zheng, can be appeased, so that everyone can know that Liu Zheng can't go wrong with him. These Yellow Turbans can be more united.

Let the Yellow Turban Army no longer be afraid of fighting, and no longer fight just to have a full meal!

What Liu Zheng wants is to change these concepts of the Yellow Turban Army, and let the Yellow Turban Army understand that their fight is no longer just for one bite, but for their own lives and rights!

Three days later, that guy Cai Mao escorted over what Liu Zheng needed. Sure enough, there were [-] sets of excellent weapons and armor, and [-] weapons enough to equip an elite army were sent to Runan City.

Along with them came an envoy from Jizhou, who read out the order of Zhang Jiao, the general of Tiangong.

On Liu Zheng's side, just after distributing the weapons sent by Cai Mao, Zhou Cang rushed over and told Liu Zheng that an envoy came from Jizhou and said that General Tiangong had something important to read to him.

Liu Zheng put down his affairs, hurried to the county government office in Runan City, and received the envoy.

After seeing the person who came, Liu Zheng knew that it was none other than Chu Yan who had seen him before.

As soon as Chu Yan saw Liu Zheng, a smile appeared on her face, and she immediately told Liu Zheng why she came.

"Shuai Liu Zhengqu, you are finally here. I have an order from a great virtuous teacher here, and I want to read it to you."

In fact, Liu Zheng didn't need Chu Yan to speak, he could probably guess what Chu Yan would say, but he was still not in a hurry, walked up to Chu Yan slowly, and asked Chu Yan to read Zhang Jiao's order.

Only then did Chu Yan speak, and took out a piece of yellow silk with some words written on it.

After Chu Yan muttered a few words, Liu Zheng nodded. As he had guessed, Zhang Jiao couldn't hold back anymore, and began to invite Liu Zheng and others who were on the periphery to serve the king.

The so-called Qin Wang is to let Liu Zheng and Zhang Mancheng wait for some, and the Yellow Turban Army Commander Qu in the outskirts will gather in Jizhou to jointly block the attack of other Zhonglang generals.

Liu Zheng had already thought that Zhang Jiao would have such a day, but when Zhang Jiao really called him over, Liu Zheng did not expect that it would be so soon.

It stands to reason that Zhang Jiao can hold off the three Zhonglang generals for a while at least. Could it be that Zhang Jiao has already discovered his illness and time is running out.

But no matter what, knowing that Zhang Jiao was about to die, it was even more impossible for Liu Zheng to go to Jizhou to die.

He finally managed to accumulate these 3 people. If he brought all of them to Jizhou to support Zhang Jiao, he would definitely have a dead end. He didn't think that with his own strength, he could block the attacks of the three Zhonglang generals at the same time.

The reason why he was able to thrive in Runan before was because Huangfusong left with Cao Cao and other famous generals, and at the same time, Runan had been abandoned by the officers and soldiers, and there were not many officers and troops.

But Jizhou is different. The three major middle roads are all in Jizhou now, including Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, and other future heroes.

Liu Zheng, the three major generals of Zhonglang, may not be particularly afraid of them, but these people are what Liu Zheng is really afraid of, especially the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang. Everyone is embarrassed.

If Liu Zheng led these people, although he could resist some officers and troops a little bit, it is only a matter of time before the two sides win or lose on the battlefield.

After thinking about this clearly, Liu Zheng directly spoke to Chu Yan.

"General Chu Yan, does General Tiangong mean that I take people to Jizhou to support him?"

"Well, Commander Liu Zhengqu, the situation in Jizhou is not very optimistic now. A few days ago, after I returned to Jizhou with Saintess Zhang Ning, I found that Dong Zhuojun, who originally fought with you in Runan, followed him to Jizhou. They met Huangfusong's troops are now near Changshan Kingdom, launching a general attack on the local general Zhang Bao, although the weak general Zhang Bao can resist for a while, but the soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on for long."

"General Tiangong just wants to get the commanders of Huangjinqu who are all around to come to support him. As long as this wave of imperial court suppression is blocked, the turmoil within the imperial court will be even greater, and our chances of killing Luoyang will be greater."

In fact, Chu Yan still didn't say a word. If he couldn't stop the official army's attack this time, the Yellow Turban Army would be wiped out.

But at this moment, at this juncture, of course he would not talk about this with Liu Zheng.

But if he didn't say it, Liu Zheng knew it too.

That's why Liu Zheng didn't want to go to Jizhou, but Liu Zheng heard a word from Chu Yan's mouth, attacking Luoyang.

Attacking Luoyang, the word fell into Liu Zheng's eyes, and immediately made Liu Zheng think of a solution.

Since the original plan of their Yellow Turban Army was to attack Luoyang, why didn't he just take the remaining people to attack Luoyang?

In the current situation, Zhang Jiao was besieged by the three major Zhonglang generals in Jizhou. Although the three major Zhonglang generals totaled no more than 6 or [-] people, most of the troops near Luoyang had been transferred away.

The remaining part of the soldiers and horses are only distributed among the eight passes near Luoyang. Each pass needs to be garrisoned, and there will definitely not be many soldiers and horses.

And if Liu Zheng led people to attack Luoyang at this time, it would definitely have a miraculous effect.

Of course, to attack Luoyang, Liu Zheng's [-] soldiers and horses are definitely not enough, but what he wants to do is not to really defeat Luoyang, but to use the method of besieging Wei and saving Zhao to attract the attention of the three great Zhonglang generals in Jizhou!

Once Liu Zheng can threaten Luoyang, the three major Zhonglang generals will definitely not be able to sit still, and there will definitely be one or two Zhonglang generals who will come to help.

In this way, the pressure on Zhangjiao in Jizhou will be greatly reduced. At the same time, Liu Zheng may not be able to fight against the three Zhonglang generals, but if he only deals with one returning Zhonglang general, with 3 to [-] thousand people, Liu Zheng feels that I may not lose.

This trick, encircling Wei and saving Zhao, may have a miraculous effect.

Taking a step back, if the three major Zhonglang generals leave him alone and let him attack Luoyang, then Liu Zheng will attack Luoyang with all his strength, and he may not have a chance to break Luoyang.

Thinking of this plan, Liu Zheng spoke immediately.

"To support Jizhou, I don't think this method is appropriate. General Chu Yan, do you think the troops here can beat the three Zhonglang generals?"

Liu Zheng asked Chu Yan back, Chu Yan was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and gave Liu Zheng an answer.

"Worrying."

These two words already represented Chu Yan's meaning, and he didn't say it clearly.

"Yeah, since I can't beat it, it's useless to pass. I have a plan."

"what's the plan?"

Chapter 98 Changing Plans

When Liu Zheng said what he meant, Chu Yan was taken aback immediately, and asked hurriedly, wanting to know what Liu Zheng had in mind.

"Look, since we went to Jizhou and couldn't help General Tiangong, why don't we think of other ways to help General Tiangong from the side?"

"What way can I help General Tiangong from the side?"

"Abandon supporting Jizhou and attack Luoyang instead!"

As soon as Liu Zheng said a few words, both Chu Yan and Zhou Cang standing in the hall were shocked.

"What! Shuai Liu Zhengqu, are you crazy? Go attack Luoyang, we can't even defeat the three major Zhonglang generals now, how can we attack Luoyang!"