The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"In that case, let's come again next time."

Liu Zheng didn't continue to entangle, Guo Shi was not there, even if he went to the cottage, it would be useless, it would be better to wait for news about Guo Shi to see if he was really going to attack Lingling County.

After bidding farewell to Xing Daorong, Liu Zheng led everyone back to Mingyue Village.

But when he returned to Mingyue Village, it didn't take long before news came that Guo Shi led his thousands of troops and really started to attack Lingling County, but he didn't go directly to the city of Lingling County, but It was to beat down all the small counties in the surrounding area. ,

Guo Shi originally had 6000 soldiers and horses. In addition, he united with the barbarians and seconded 4000 troops from the barbarians.

An army of ten thousand people was formed, and the speed of attacking the city was very fast. In a few days, most of Lingling was occupied.

Chapter 2 and four for two months

"My lord, Guo Shi actually attacked Lingling County. He is really courageous. I underestimated him."

After Yuan Zhou received the news, he immediately showed surprise.

As far as Yuan Zhou was concerned, when he was under Ou Xing's command, he had learned about the cottage forces near Jingzhou.

He is also clear about Guo Shi's name. Although he has not had much contact with Guo Shi and has no intersection, in Yuan Zhou's view, Guo Shi is the same as Ou Xing and others, but he is the king of the mountain. If you have great ambitions, if you don't have any opportunities, you shouldn't take the initiative to attack counties.

This time Guo Shi's appearance really surprised Yuan Zhou. He dared to attack the city with his own thousands of soldiers and horses, and he was about to take down the entire Lingling County. some.

However, although Guo Shi was able to conquer Lingling County, he might not be able to defend Lingling County. At this time, he launched an uprising against the imperial court. Time is bound to regroup and begin to regain lost ground.

The counterattack against Guo Shi will gradually unfold, and Guo Shi will not be as easy as it is now.

Liu Zheng got reliable news that Jingzhou State Shepherd was Liu Biao, who was quite famous in history.

Most of the first batch of state shepherds in the imperial court were appointed by relatives of the Han family, whether it was Liu Yan, Liu Biao, or even Liu Yu from Youzhou, even Liu Dai from Yanzhou, Liu Yao from Yangzhou, etc. It is the clan of the Han Dynasty.

The first batch of clan relatives of the Han Dynasty were equivalent to the princes and kings in the Western Han Dynasty. They shouldered the responsibility of quelling the rebellion in the counties and counties.

The news Liu Zheng got was that a month ago, Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou, had already taken up his post and was working with the major families in Xiangyang. He wanted to get the support of several big families in Jingzhou. Here, control the entire Jingzhou.

At that time, Jingzhou's military strength will be reorganized. Once Liu Biao has a firm foothold in Jingzhou, Liu Biao will definitely wipe out Guo Shi and other rebels who committed chaos.

Moreover, in the past half a month, the imperial court had already appointed many state shepherds, and these state shepherds began to take office one after another.The disputes in the Han Dynasty will also be gradually quelled by these state shepherds.

Especially the war in Xiliang and the war in Jizhou, the battle of these two major battlefields, no matter which side is quelled, can make the war-ridden Han Dynasty escape from the battle.

At that time, free up your hands and feet, and then slowly clean up those small rebel forces.

Guo Shi was rebelling against the imperial court at this time, probably because he didn't know that the imperial court had dispatched state shepherds to suppress the rebellion.However, this also gave Liu Zheng some opportunities. With Guo Shi here to help attract Liu Biao's attention, Liu Zheng can feel a little more at ease and use his main force to deal with Zhu Fu in Jiaozhou.

Of course, Liu Biao's desire to unify the entire Jingzhou and revitalize it is far from something that can be done in a short while, so Guo Shi will definitely be able to enjoy himself for a few more months.

Everything in the battle still depends on whether Guo Shi can improve his strength to the point where he can compete with Liu Biao in just a few months.

"It is impossible for this Guo Shi to take down Lingling County with his own strength. He must be guided by an expert behind him, or the barbarians he has united with have ambitions and want to take advantage of the chaos in the world. Come out and make trouble."

Liu Zheng and Yuan Zhou discussed Guo Shi, and he expressed his opinion on Guo Shi.

But Zhou Chao dismissed it, and immediately responded to Liu Zheng.

"My lord, Guo Shi is just a barbarian with barbarian blood. How could he have any ambitions? I think he must have been bewitched."

"No matter what it is, it doesn't matter to us. The original plan was to cooperate with Guo Shi. Now he took the initiative to attack Jingzhou and attracted the ideas of those officers and soldiers in Jingzhou for us. It can be regarded as a disguised form of help. Let's, let's focus on Jiaozhou from now on."

Although Liu Zheng was a little interested in pointing out who was behind Guo Shi, the most urgent thing was not the time for him to mess with Guo Shi.

"My lord, what should we do next? Should we continue to unite with Guo Shi, or let them make trouble here and go to Jiaozhou by ourselves?"

Yuan Zhou asked Liu Zheng, wanting to hear Liu Zheng describe his next plan.

Yuan Zhou's question made Liu Zheng start to think about his next plan.

Originally, his plan was to unite with Guo Shi and others to gradually approach the southern Jiaozhou, nibbling away the nearby Shanyue soldiers and horses.

But now that Guo Shi has gone to attack Lingling County, Liu Zheng still needs to fight alone. In the next period of time, he still decides to use his current troops.Attack the small Shanyue tribe here.

In this way, after making the next plan, time flew by and two months passed.

In two months, Liu Zheng let his generals gradually approach the deep mountains in the direction of Jiaozhou, and swept away seven or eight small Shanyue tribes in one fell swoop.

Of these seven or eight Shanyue tribes, the largest one has no more than 5000 people, and the smallest one has only 2000 people.After Liu Zheng's army arrived, it didn't take much effort, and they were successfully wiped out in three or two days.

In two months, the soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng's command have been expanded again, and the number of soldiers and people under his jurisdiction has finally exceeded 10!

Although 10 people is a lot, in fact, it is only a population of [-] to [-] households.

And Jiaozhou has a population of more than 20 households during this time period.In this way, it is speculated that the population of Jiaozhou will exceed one million.

Moreover, Jiaozhou is still a remote mountainous area, far away from the backcountry of the Central Plains.

Like the Central Plains region, there are millions of people in a state or county, or even nearly ten million people.

Liu Zheng's 10 people are just a drop in the ocean for the entire Han court.

In two months, Liu Zheng had almost wiped out the surrounding Shanyue forces, and extended his territory to the border area of ​​Jiaozhou.

The same things that happened in the past two months finally made Liu Zheng realize that this situation is getting worse and worse for him.

In the past two months, Guo Shi's uprising has become more and more influential. Not only has the entire Lingling County been brought down, but also a large number of people have been recruited in Lingling County in a short period of time.

The soldiers and horses under his command once changed from 3 people at the beginning to more than [-] people.And the rebel forces gradually spread from Lingling County at the beginning to the surrounding areas. In two months, Lingling County, Guiyang County, Changsha County, and the three counties have been captured.

Chapter 2: Zhu Fu Sends Troops

Guo Shi's power seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, and the flames of war began to spread towards the surrounding areas. Although it was only two months, it swept through Changsha County and Guiyang County.

Although Changsha County and Guiyang County have not been completely defeated, Guo Shi's strength is indeed increasing day by day.

As for Liu Biao, the Governor of Jingzhou, he has not been idle for the past two months. He has been appointed two months ago, but the governor of Jingzhou did not give Liu Biao a good face at the beginning.

Of course, Liu Biao is not an incompetent person. In history, Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou and joined forces with Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, Cai Mao and others to conspire for great things. After several people discussed, Liu Biao calmed down the thieves internally, recruited wise men, and began to develop Jingzhou. The fields, education and economy allow the people of Jingzhou to recuperate well.

On the outside, Liu Biao asked Yuan Shu to be the prefect of Nanyang to show his friendship to Yuan Shu. He also made friends with Zhang Xiu and Yuan Shao, the big forces in the north, and accepted Liu Bei. Slowly, Jingzhou was handled very well.

Liu Biao used his own strength, and in the situation where he had no influence or background at all, he slowly established the position of governor of Jingzhou. From this, it can be seen that Liu Biao is indeed very smart.

In such a short period of time, he can firmly control all the seven counties of Jingzhou under his own hands.It can be seen that Liu Biao's strength, although the current Three Kingdoms world is different from history, the time when Liu Biao took office in Jingzhou was advanced by several years because of the appearance of Liu Zheng.

But Liu Biao was smart enough. As soon as he came to Jingzhou, he united with the big families in Jingzhou and made a big promise to let them support him.

At this time, they hoped that another person would appear so that their family could have a more say in Jingzhou. In this way, supporting Liu Biao became a new choice.

In this way, Liu Biao got the support of the Kuai family and the Cai family without any effort, and gained part of his own strength in the Jingzhou area. At the same time, the original governor Wang Rui was mobilizing the strength of various counties and counties to deal with Guo Shi.

It also gave Liu Biao the opportunity to take full control of Jingzhou. In two months, Liu Biao gradually regained some of the military power in Jingzhou, and at the same time invited those clan leaders who disobeyed his orders to drink together.

As a result, all those opponents were killed overnight, which immediately stirred up waves.

The consequences of doing so made many people who opposed Liu Biao even more vicious, but at the same time, some people who were still watching immediately turned to Liu Biao, allowing Liu Biao to control most of Jingzhou's military power in a short period of time. Take it in your own hands.

Similarly, during the past two months, Liu Biao has not paid much attention to Guo Shi's rebellion, but first took the power of Jingzhou into his own hands.

Now that the power of the four prefectures and counties of Jingzhou is finally firmly in their hands, they began to mobilize troops from other places to increase their manpower to deal with Guo Shi.

Although Liu Biao's men had not started sending troops yet, Liu Zheng, who had received the news, already knew about it, and Guo Shi might not be able to toss it for long.

If Guo Shi can take down Changsha and Guiyang counties in a short period of time, and then unite with the barbarians, he may still be able to fight Liu Biao. As it is now, even though Liu Biao has just taken control of Jingzhou, he is still not Guo Shi. This bandit can contend.

Under Liu Biao, there are also generals such as Cai Mao, Kuai Liang, Huang Zu, etc. These people will soon be able to unite clan forces from various places and form tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is not a problem at all.

At the same time, on Yangzhou's side, Liu Yao, the newly appointed Shepherd of Yangzhou, also started to exterminate those bandits, water thieves, and Zongshuai in Yangzhou, but Liu Yao was not as powerful as Liu Biao.

As soon as he took office, he wanted to start with Yan Baihu, the most powerful water thief in Yangzhou, but he was defeated by Yan Baihu, and he offended Yan Baihu, so that Yan Baihu took advantage of the situation to directly rebel against the imperial court. The [-] army directly sent troops to attack Jian Industry.

The soldiers and horses of the two sides came to a stalemate in Kuaiji County.

If Yan Baihu is defeated, Liu Yao's men will clean up those water thieves one by one. Although Liu Zheng's men are far away from the core area of ​​Yangzhou, he still belongs to Yangzhou after all. At that time, not only will he have to face Liu Yao It is possible to face Liu Biao's army.

It can be described as a two-sided attack. According to Liu Zheng's guess, it may be difficult for Liu Yao to defeat Yan Baihu, but it is only a matter of time before Liu Biao eliminates Guo Shi.

So there is not much time left for Liu Zheng.

There is still half a year at most, if he still can't handle Jiaozhou, this Mingyue cottage may be subject to war.

As for Jiaozhou, the situation is not good for Liu Zheng. Although there is no state pastor in Jiaozhou, Zhu Fu's strength is getting stronger and stronger at this time.

In the past two months, Zhu Fu has suppressed several small forces that resisted the imperial court, and at the same time, has prepared an army of [-].

The [-] troops have already begun to gather in Cangwu County, which is the closest place between Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, and it is only a few hundred miles away from Liu Zheng's old nest, Mingyue Village.

Cangwu County is relatively close to Lingling County, and not far from Yuzhang County where Liu Zheng is located. It is for this reason that Liu Zheng wanted to join Guo Shi to deal with Zhu Fu at first.

But now he can only face Zhu Fu by himself.

Liu Zheng can roughly tell from Zhu Fu's mobilization of soldiers and horses. He knows that Zhu Fu should already know where Liu Zheng is. Getting ready to hit him.

The [-] army is not too much.

After all, 10 opponents Liu Zheng has faced is nothing, and he now has a new army of 2 under his command.

Although in terms of numbers, Liu Zheng has 2 fewer soldiers than Zhu Fu, but Liu Zheng is confident that he will use these men to give Zhu Fu a head-on blow.

Completely wipe out Zhufu, and then wave his troops to knock down the entire Jiaozhou with one sentence.

"My lord, our spies have come to report that there has finally been movement from Cangwu's side. Zhu Fu's troops have already started to move, and they are heading towards our cottage."

"Is it finally about to start? Counting the days, it's about the same time. Originally, I wanted to preemptively strike and teach Zhu Fu a lesson, but this is also good. It gives us an excuse and reason to attack Jiaozhou."

After Liu Zheng heard the news obtained by Xu Huang's spies, not only did he not have the slightest worry on his face, but a little more complacent.

Chapter 2 Food and Grass Emergency

"Xu Huang, let the army gather at the school ground immediately. After more than half a year of training, we are finally going to take action."

After Liu Zheng received the news from Jiaozhou, he immediately started to take action against Jiaozhou.

In the past two months, the soldiers and horses under his command have been gradually replenished, and the remaining 1 people after the reorganization of the army have also gradually been supplemented as he continued to conquer the nearby Shanyue tribes, and they have been pieced together. With 2 people, a real army of two battalions was established.

The first battalion is the former Yellow Turban Army veterans led by Xu Huang, and the second battalion is a mixture of Yellow Turban Army and water bandits, as well as Shanyue soldiers and horses recruited in the Shanyue area later.

Of the soldiers and horses of these two battalions, the first battalion is naturally more elite, and it is also an elite soldier who has fought a hundred battles. Although the second battalion has not experienced as many battles as the first battalion, it has Huang Zhong's drills. Experience is also rising rapidly, no less than the soldiers and horses of the official army.

Not long after, the [-] troops had assembled in the school grounds.

All the generals under Liu Zheng's command, except for the [-] soldiers under Zu Lang who was in charge of protecting the Mi's caravan at Poyang Lake, did not come here, and all the remaining soldiers and horses in Mingyue Village were all present.

Liu Zheng didn't talk nonsense with these people at all, just counted the number of people, and began to prepare for the departure.

He just left behind Pei Yuanshao and some back staff to be responsible for guarding the safety of the cottage.

Immediately took it, and all the people began to move towards the direction of Cangwu County.

June.

Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses had already arrived at the junction of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou.Although he has not directly launched an attack on Jiaozhou, Zhu Fu in Jiaozhou has already received the news.

Zhu Fu did not let his soldiers and horses enter Yuzhang County for a long time. First, he needed a reason to crusade against Liu Zheng. He had to send someone to find Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, and explain the situation to Liu Yao before he could let his army enter the border of Yangzhou. Otherwise, rashly leading people to kill Yuzhang County will arouse Liu Yao's fear.

In case Liu Yao read him a book in the court, his position as governor would come to an end.

So in the past two months, even though Zhu Fu knew that Liu Zheng's men were in Yichun County, he hadn't sent anyone to attack for a long time, precisely because he hadn't obtained Liu Yao's permission.

From Jiaozhou to Yangzhou, the journey is not short, and it takes a few months to go back and forth.

And Liu Zheng arranged his troops at the junction of Yuzhang County and Cangwu County, and did not attack rashly. After all, he only had 2 troops under his command, and Zhu Fu said that he had [-] troops. Strong and strong, with strong support, there will only be more troops, not less.

If Liu Zheng attacked rashly, he would inevitably capsize in the gutter. If Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses were not defeated, but he would suffer heavy losses in Jiaozhou, this would severely setback Liu Zheng's next plan.

Liu Zheng, who has always been cautious, would naturally not do such a thing.

So Liu Zheng didn't attack rashly, but was waiting, waiting for Zhu Fu's men to take the initiative to attack, and then Liu Zheng would see each other again, stop with stillness, and use the same to respond to all changes.

And Zhu Fu already knew that Liu Zheng led people to station a lot of soldiers at the junction of the two weeks.Zhu Fu had already arranged for spies to be in Liu Zheng's territory before, and the movement of soldiers and horses in Liu Zheng's cottage would certainly not be able to hide from those spies' eyes and ears.

These eyes and ears will definitely pass the news to Zhu Fu.

at the same time.

Liu Zheng also began to intensify his efforts to investigate the situation in various parts of Jiaozhou at this time.

Now that he has sent troops this time, he intends to occupy the entire Jiaozhou in one fell swoop.

The nine counties of Jiaozhou cover a large area. From the perspective of Liu Zheng, a modern person, Guangdong, Guangxi, and even parts of northern Vietnam in the future will be included in Jiaozhou's territory.

Because of the vast territory of Jiaozhou, coupled with the poor geographical location and inconvenient transportation, news spread very slowly.

Once a war breaks out, Zhu Fu sitting in the county seat may not be able to clearly know what happened in the fastest time.