The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"The past follows the wind. I was confused at the beginning, and I still went against His Majesty. I feel really ashamed when I think about it."

When Zhang Liao heard Liu Zheng talk about Ding Yuan, he became a little nervous, thinking that Liu Zheng wanted to settle the old score with him.

After all, Zhang Liao led people to fight in and out, which also caused a lot of trouble for Liu Zheng.

He also fought until the last moment before surrendering to Liu Zheng.

Speaking of which, this matter has always been a calamity in Zhang Liao's heart.

"Wen Yuan worried too much. At that time, you and I were masters and belonged to different camps. It was normal to fight on the battlefield. Don't you think we are still sitting and drinking together now?"

"Actually, I called you this time because I wanted to promote you."

"Promote me?"

Zhang Liao originally thought that Liu Zheng called him back from Youzhou suddenly, there was some kind of punishment, and he did something wrong.

Now when he suddenly heard Liu Zheng say that he was going to be promoted, he was naturally taken aback.

"Yes, you have worked hard in the past few years. Although you have not made great contributions, you have not made any mistakes. I think I can promote you to take on important responsibilities."

"Didn't we sweep the north a few days ago? Now I plan to form a new cavalry battalion. General Xu Huang's first battalion is the main one. You start to form the second cavalry battalion. Do you have the courage to take on this important task?"

Zhang Liao was originally the commander of the cavalry. When he followed Ding Yuan, he was in charge of commanding the cavalry and had a strong experience in commanding the cavalry.

Although Zhang Liao is only 26 years old now, he has been on the battlefield for nearly ten years, and he has almost the same experience as Liu Zheng.

"Your Majesty wants me to be the commander of the first battalion, commanding the cavalry?"

After Zhang Liao heard Liu Zheng's words, he obviously couldn't believe it, and didn't even react.

After being stunned for a while, seeing that Liu Zheng didn't take back what he said just now, he replied excitedly to Liu Zheng again.

"Zhang Liao will live up to His Majesty's high expectations!"

A person's life is nothing more than getting promoted and making a fortune, and enfeoffing his wife and son.

A military general like Zhang Liao doesn't have such lofty ambitions. The most important thing is to get promoted and get rich. He thought this way in the court before, and he thinks the same way now.

In the past few years, he knew that he was a demoted general, so he hadn't been able to think about promotion. He was doing what he was supposed to do, and first cultivated some trust for Liu Zheng.

He is waiting, waiting for an opportunity, waiting for Liu Zheng to believe in him, and then he will make a big splash and show Liu Zheng how good he is.

This day has finally come.

Liu Zheng directly transferred him to be the commander of the first army, and he knew that he finally had the opportunity to show Liu Zheng his strength.

"Very well, I knew Wen Yuan that you are a capable person, so it's settled like this. I will order you to be the commander of the No.11 Battalion, stationed in Youzhou, and train recruits. You will recruit soldiers and horses directly from Xuzhou and Qingzhou , and then train in Youzhou."

Liu Zheng quickly told Zhang Liao his order, and Zhang Liao was very excited at the moment, and excitedly accepted the order.

Liu Zheng didn't let Zhang Liao stay here too long, he knew that there would be a big battle in the future, and the north would not be peaceful.

He asked Zhang Liao to organize his manpower as soon as possible and return to Youzhou for training.

Once Liu Bei's troops reach Jingzhou, a series of reactions will be triggered, which will likely cause turmoil in the north.

Liu Zheng worried that only Xu Huang's soldiers and horses stationed in Jizhou and Youzhou might not be able to shock the scene.

If Zhang Liao returns to Youzhou, even some recruits can play a big role under Zhang Liao's leadership.

At least they are cavalry and can have absolute support.

After all, the recruits from Xuzhou and Qingzhou also trained horseback riding, and if they wanted to get started, they were very fast. Many of them were orphans rescued by Sun Ce and Zhou Yu from the Xianbei clan.

This group of people, joining the barracks, can greatly improve the training of the cavalry battalion and enhance their combat effectiveness.

Besides, there is such a thing as stirrups now, as long as there is an order from Liu Zheng, they can quickly organize a batch of stirrups and transport them to Zhang Liao.

After meeting Zhang Liao, Liu Zheng met Zhang He non-stop.

Unlike Zhang Liao and Zhou Yu.

Zhang Xi's meeting did not take so much effort.

Zhang Yun himself has some status under Liu Zheng's command.

He previously belonged to Yuan Shang, and indirectly belonged to Liu Zheng, but there were not many intersections. During this Northern Expedition, the connection between Liu Zheng and Zhang Yun also increased. In addition, Zhang Yun made great contributions in this Northern Expedition.

Therefore, there is also a reward for Zhang He, and it is only a matter of course to promote Zhang He this time.

After all, when Zhang Yun himself was under Yuan Shang's command, he was a general with high status and great abilities.

Liu Zheng just ordered his letter of appointment to Zhang He, and Zhang He also expressed his gratitude to Liu Zheng.

However, because the cavalry was appointed to Zhang Liao, Liu Zheng could no longer form a cavalry battalion for Zhang Xi.

And there are many shooters under his command, Liu Zheng doesn't need Zhang Xi to train shooters.

In the end, Zhang He had to think about what kind of army to train.

However, later he remembered that when Zhang He was under Yuan Shao's command, he was once the commander-in-chief of the famous Euphorbia warriors, so he didn't have any hesitation for a while.

Directly let Zhang Xi resume the training of the Euphorbia warriors before.

Euphorbia soldiers are infantry, and they are infantry holding long spears, elite spearmen.

This kind of soldiers and horses have no shortcomings when facing infantry and cavalry, except that they are a little weak when facing shooters.

Combined with the Macedonian phalanx proposed by Liu Zheng, the euphorbia warriors may also be able to exert unexpected effects.

In the end, Liu Zheng directly sent Zhang Yun to Jiaozhou to train new euphorbia warriors.

It's not that Liu Zheng doesn't want Zhang Yun to go to other places, but that there are not enough new soldiers in other places. Only Jiaozhou has enough soldiers.

At the same time, there is enough time for Zhang Yun to train the new army.

In this way, the arrangement of the three battalions came to an end.

Half a month later, the battle situation in Jingzhou was finally reported back to Jianye.

Chapter 1000 two hundred and 33 frontline battle situation

News of the war situation in Jingzhou will be delivered to Jianye every day.

After all, this is what Liu Zheng cares about the most these days.

As the emperor, he can no longer do all the battles himself like before.

The emperor is like a spiritual symbol of a person. If the emperor falls, the morale of the army will be broken.

If the morale of the army is broken, it will be difficult to lead the team.

Therefore, if it is not a last resort, or if he is sure of victory, Liu Zheng will generally not take the lead in his own conquest.

Before the Northern Expedition, it was to boost morale, there was no way.

Like this battle of Jingzhou, he didn't need to do it himself.

In early November 195.

Liu Bei led an army of [-] troops, starting from Luoyang, passing through Hedong, Xuchang and other places, and quickly assembled troops and horses to go south, killing all the way to the vicinity of Luyang County, Nanyang County.

Although the news reached Gan Ning one step ahead of time through Jin Yiwei, when Gan Ning organized his troops and started to defend.

Liu Bei personally led the army, with Guan Yu as the vanguard, charging forward, but still failed to block Guan Yu's attack.

Luyang County was captured in just one day.

The magistrate of Luyang County led more than [-] villagers to fight until the last moment, until the city was destroyed and died.

This person is a student from Liu Zheng Military Academy, a scholar in the second period.

When the news came back to Jianye, Liu Zheng was a little touched, and directly declared this person a martyr, directly promoted to the third rank, and gave his family a hundred taels of gold and a hundred acres of fertile land.

And its descendants are directly listed as key cultivation targets, and they can be directly sent to military schools in the future.

As soon as this news came out, it greatly shocked the officials of various counties and counties under Liu Zheng's command.

They all know that surrendering is a dead end, and resisting desperately can leave wealth to the family.

Therefore, when Liu Bei's troops subsequently attacked Nanyang County, they were greatly blocked by the local county town.

It took them less than half a month to fight from Luyang County to Wancheng.

But in Wancheng, Gan Ning encountered resistance.

Although Gan Ning was stationed in Nanyang County, there were only 2 people, but his 2 people did not need to defeat Liu Bei's soldiers and horses. He only needed to rely on the city wall to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Therefore, Gan Ning arranged soldiers and horses to cast defensive buildings and build a defense line on the front line of Wancheng, which really blocked the attack of Liu Bei's [-] army.

In just half a month, Liu Bei's tens of thousands of people failed to capture Wan County.

At this time, Sun Jian, who received the news, quickly led people from Xiangyang to Nanyang.

After gathering an army of [-], Gan Ning and Sun Jian gained confidence.

In the area of ​​Wancheng, they clashed with Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, each winning or losing.

Gan Ning did not dare to go out of the city to fight Liu Bei's men, because Gan Ning knew Guan Yu's strength. When Guan Yu attacked Qingzhou, he was very famous. He needed a strong man like Lu Bu to suppress him.

In addition to his own strength, he was already weaker than the opponent. When Gan Ning was stationed in Wancheng, most of the time he focused on defense.

But after Sun Jian arrived here, his attitude was different.

Sun Jian was already brave and decisive, so blindly defending was not in Sun Jian's character as a Jiangdong tiger.

He led an army of [-] directly to Wancheng, just as there were still Guan Yu's garrison outside Wancheng.

Both sides, without further ado.

Start fighting as soon as you meet.

Liu Bei's [-] army was not completely stationed in Wancheng, the army was all gathered in one place, and it was easy for Liu Zheng's men to make dumplings.

Part of Chen Bing Wancheng, and the other part attacked in other counties around Nanyang, trying to advance slowly and gradually capture Nanyang County.

As for the soldiers and horses in Wancheng, there are only [-] troops from Guan Yu's headquarters.

Because of this, Sun Jian felt that he had the strength to fight, so he led his 2 horses and rushed out.

Confront Guan Yu's army head-on.

A big fight, fought all day.

From the morning to the evening, when the sky dimmed, I finally gave up.

Guan Yu lost more than [-] soldiers and horses, and was killed by Sun Jian's men and horses, retreating [-] miles.

As for Sun Jian, although relying on the assistance of Gan Ning's army on the tower, he temporarily defeated Guan Yu in the first confrontation, and his own losses were not small.

His men lost more than [-] soldiers and horses, and Gan Ning lost more than [-] men.

Guan Yu was famous after all, so Sun Jian fought Guan Yu in person. He fought Guan Yu for more than [-] rounds, but there was no winner.

Let the soldiers around him be responsible for intercepting Guan Yu, and thus lost a lot of troops.

Because of this confrontation, the two sides lost troops and lost generals, and did not have enough energy to start another war in a short period of time, so they became stalemate for a while, and did not continue to attack.

In addition, at this time, Liu Bei also received news that Liu Zheng had dispatched two battalions of Wenpin and Taishici from the rear to quickly support Nanyang.

Now Tai Shici and Wenpin's team should already be on their way to Nanyang, and it is estimated that they will arrive in a few days.

Because of this, Liu Bei didn't dare to advance blindly, but needed to start building defensive measures to prevent Liu Zheng's men from suddenly killing them and catching them by surprise.

In mid-September, the four battalions of Liu Zheng's troops gathered on the Wancheng battlefield.

Gan Ning, Sun Jian, Wen Pin, and Tai Shici combined more than [-] troops, stationed in various towns in Nanyang County, as if they had built a line of defense like an iron barrel.

If Liu Bei attacked by force, he wanted to break through Nanyang's defense and enter Xiangyang City, but it would not be so easy.

At least, relying solely on the [-] army in Liu Bei's hands is somewhat unlikely.

Dayingli in Luyang County.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu, who had returned from Wancheng, discussed matters here.

Discussing important military affairs together were also Liu Bei's counselors Cheng Yu and Jia Xu.

Besides, there is another person.

This person's name is Shi Tao, and he is Xu Shu's good friend.

After Xu Shu was detained by Liu Zheng, Liu Bei was very angry. On the way to march into Liu Zheng, he passed by Yingchuan and happened to visit Xu Shu's home, and then met Shi Tao. surprise.

Although Shi Tao is not as talented as Xu Shu, he is not a mediocre person either.