The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

After all, in Jiaozhou, Zhu Fu's strength is only one of them. The local aboriginal power is what worries Liu Zheng even more, so he decided to take it step by step and take it a little at a time.

Occupy Cangwu County first, and then gradually expand downwards, trying to control the entire Jiaozhou under his command in the next six months.

And to control the entire Cangwu County, the first problem facing Liu Zheng is the scholars in Guangxin City.

The influence of the scholar family in Jiaozhou was not as strong as in history. Shi Xie's brothers were not the prefects of other counties in Jiaozhou at this time, and their scholar family could only have some say in Cangwu.

Therefore, if Liu Zheng can get the support of scholars, regardless of other counties, Cangwu County alone will definitely be able to be controlled in a short time.

In order to gain control of Cangwu County as soon as possible, Liu Zheng returned to Guangxin City with [-] troops on the second day after occupying Cangwu City.

Come to negotiate with Shi Xie, the head of the Shi family.

This time when I came to Guangxin City, it was very different from two days ago.

At this time, the ambush at Wuyangling had already spread to the entire Cangwu County through the spread of some deserters. How could Shi Xie, the prefect of Cangwu, not know about it.

Standing on the tower, he looked at Liu Zheng, who had only three thousand soldiers and horses outside the city, and fell into deep thought for a while.

I began to recall what Liu Zheng said to him before.

To cooperate, or to perish.

This time, Shi Xie had to pay attention to Liu Zheng's words.

218 Zhang Shixie Surrenders

"Prefect Shixie, you must have known what happened in Wuyangling."

Liu Zheng only brought 3000 soldiers to Guangxin City this time. He didn't come for Guangxin City. He also knew that it was impossible to take down Guangxin City with only 3000 soldiers.

The purpose of his visit was for the taxi shop in Guangxin City.

Therefore, we must rely on our own power of words to persuade the scholars to take refuge in him.

Only in this way can he control Cangwu County and even the entire Jiaozhou as quickly and steadily as possible.

After arriving in Guangxin City, Liu Zheng did not aggressively launch a threatening attack on the soldiers and horses of the Shi family in the city. He just led people to station at one of the city gates, waiting for Shi Xie, the head of the Shi family in the city, to come.

As soon as Shi Xie arrived on the tower, Liu Zheng shouted at Shi Xie.

When Shi Xie saw Liu Zheng's army under the city, although the expression on his face was a little gloomy, he was not too frightened, as if he had known for a long time that Liu Zheng's army would come back again.

"Father, what should we do now, those bandits and soldiers are back!"

Shi Xie's sons, gathered around Shi Xie, lost their minds for a while, completely waiting for Shi Xie to make up his mind.

Shi Xie looked at the sons around him, as well as a group of soldiers guarding the city. Most of these soldiers were cronies of their families. During this great war, they gradually disappeared.

But at this time, if it is true what Liu Zheng said, if he took refuge in Liu Zheng and joined forces with Liu Zheng, Shi Xie was worried again. After all, this world is still the world of the Han Dynasty. If he and Liu Zheng get mixed up, it is a betrayal The imperial court, when the imperial court's counter-insurgency army arrives.

He still couldn't escape the word extinction, but one was immediately wiped out by Liu Zheng's army, and the other was wiped out by the future imperial army.

Of course, everyone knows how to choose. Of course, Shi Xie will choose to surrender to Liu Zheng temporarily. Otherwise, when Liu Zheng's army arrives, Shi Xie will not be able to resist at all. Deserters, I know something about it.

At the same time, he also knew the terrifying strength of Liu Zheng's army, and Liu Zheng's other army hidden in Wuyangling, with an army of nearly 2 people, this number could easily wipe out Guangxin City.

"Liu Zheng, your identity is a thief after all. If I cooperate with you, the imperial court will not let me go. Don't mention this matter again."

After Shi Xie finished speaking, he turned his head and stopped appearing on the tower.

Liu Zheng wanted to say something else, but when he saw Shi Xie turned away without looking back, he didn't say anything.

Zhou Cang stood beside Liu Zheng, and when he saw that Shi Xie on the tower was so arrogant, he immediately became angry.

"Shuai Qu, this old guy is too arrogant, let's send troops directly, take down this small town, capture him alive, and see how arrogant he is!"

Liu Zheng looked at Zhou Cang, but shook his head.

"No, don't rush to attack, let's set up camp like this."

Liu Zheng didn't speak any more, but just let his men wait here.

As the sky gets later and later, night falls.

Liu Zheng has been sitting in his big tent and has not left. He is waiting, waiting for the people from the sergeant's family in the city to come to him.

Shi Xie rejected him on the tower, which does not mean that Shi Xie is really not interested, but that Shi Xie, as the patriarch of the Shi family, has to consider the Shi family. On the tower, in front of so many people, naturally It is impossible to directly announce cooperation with Liu Zheng.

Their cooperation can only be carried out in private.

That's why Liu Zheng didn't attack directly, but chose to wait, wait until night, and see if the people from the Shi family would come to him.

And his guess was correct, after the sky gradually darkened, he sat down in the big tent not long after.

Soon there was news from the messenger that someone was looking for him.

Liu Zheng quickly asked someone to bring them in.

Not long after, Shi Xie came to the big tent with a few people in person, begging to see Liu Zheng.

Shi Xie, who was nearly fifty years old, appeared in front of Liu Zheng with his people. Only then did Liu Zheng take a closer look at the actual controller of Jiaozhou in the future.

"Prefect Shi Xie, come to see me so late, I don't know why?"

At this moment, Liu Zheng could roughly guess what Shi Xie came to him for, but he still wanted to ask clearly what Shi Xie was thinking.

Shi Xie sighed.

"General Liu Zheng, Shi Xie, on behalf of the scholar family, is willing to accept Liu Zheng's proposal, and from now on, General Liu Zheng will follow suit."

The expression on Shi Xie's face was not good-looking. Before that, he was not optimistic about Liu Zheng. After all, Liu Zheng was just a bandit, but the strength Liu Zheng showed had already opened his eyes. An Wei, he could only lower his face and ask for help.

"Oh? Didn't you just reject me when you were on the city tower before? Why did you come to me again at this late night? Said you would like to cooperate with me?"

Liu Zheng was curious.

Shi Xie sighed again, and could only explain to Liu Zheng.

"The general doesn't know something. I sent a team of reinforcements to Cangwu City to ask Zhu Fu for help. The supporters were my younger brother and son. They haven't come back yet. I think they are probably with Zhu Fu. Zhu Fu stayed together, if I agreed to surrender to the general on the tower during the day, my son and younger brother would definitely be killed by Zhu Fu, for the safety of my son and younger brother, I can only refuse on the surface."

Shi Xie's explanation can satisfy Liu Zheng. After all, he was indeed the one who released the soldiers who asked for help in Guangxin City. If this is the case, it is normal for Shi Xie to refuse him in the daytime.

"Prefect Shixie, I am really excited that you can cooperate with me. With your help, I will take Cangwu County much faster. Don't worry, I, Liu Zheng, have always been a trustworthy person. , I can promise you that when I unify the entire Jiaozhou in the future, the status of your family will definitely not be worse than it is now, it will only be better."

Liu Zheng drew a big cake for Shi Xie, and then happily accepted Shi Xie's surrender. In this big tent, he communicated with Shi Xie how to unify the entire Cangwu County as soon as possible.

In fact, there is no difficulty, he Shixie was originally the prefect of Cangwu County, and most of the seven small counties in Cangwu County are controlled by his family's cronies.As long as Shi Xie said a word, the county magistrates in those small cities would hand over the county capital.

And Shi Xie's request is that Liu Zheng doesn't have to announce the alliance between the Shi family and him, so that he can continue to maintain his current status, and on the surface Liu Zheng doesn't come to harass him, making the shouting court think that he didn't take refuge in Liu Zheng.

Chapter 219 Domination of Cangwu

Liu Zheng didn't particularly care about Shi Xie's request, so he would naturally satisfy him.

The scholar family took refuge in him, and Liu Zheng was just to get the support of the scholar family. As for whether the scholar family would express their support publicly, he didn't care, as long as he could control Cangwu County, it was enough.

What Liu Zheng thought was that as long as he could occupy Cangwu County in a short period of time, so that Liu Zheng could quickly replenish the source of troops locally, and then use these troops to conquer the entire Jiaozhou, that would be enough.

With the support and support of scholars.There is no difficulty in occupying the entire Cangwu County. It only took 10 days, and the various counties and towns in Cangwu County all looked forward to the wind.

The people supported by Shi Xie, after receiving Shi Xie's order, resolutely gave up resistance, let the people Liu Zheng sent to take over the city enter the city, and then confiscated the soldiers and horses, even if there were few people who did not want to surrender, they resisted However, there are no more than two or three thousand soldiers in a small county town, and there is no resistance to Liu Zheng's army at all.

Liu Zheng took the entire Cangwu County into his own hands without even expending any effort.

This was more than half a month earlier than he had initially expected.

At the same time, the spies sent by Liu Zheng finally sent back some news about Zhu Fu at this time.

It turned out that Zhu Fu fled back to Cangwu City quickly after he was defeated at Wuyangling that day, but he knew that even if he could escape back to Cangwu City, it was absolutely impossible to stop Liu Zheng's army from attacking.

At that time, Cangwu City had less than [-] troops, and Liu Zheng still had thousands of elite soldiers under his command. If Liu Zheng brought people to attack Cangwu City, a mere [-] troops would not be able to stop Liu Zheng's attack. He didn't have the confidence to rely on these more than [-] remnants to stop Liu Zheng.

So after returning to Cangwu City, Zhu Fu didn't even think about it, and quickly escaped from Cangwu City with his cronies and returned to Hepu County.

He still has some soldiers and horses in Hepu County. If he can be given some time, he can also use his status as the governor of Jiaozhou to exert great pressure on various counties and counties, so that people from all counties and counties can form an army of tens of thousands of people again.

Although these manpower could be formed, Zhu Fu was still not sure that he could fight Liu Zheng, so at the critical moment, he decided to send someone to Yangzhou for help.

Just at this time, the envoys sent to Yangzhou also came back.Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, allowed him to enter the border of Yangzhou to encircle and suppress Liu Zheng.

It's a pity that Zhu Fu is no longer as aggressive as before. He understands that Liu Zheng's strength is so strong that he alone is not enough to deal with it.

So next, he planned to use the reorganized soldiers to defend the city, and then sent people to Yangzhou to ask for help, and asked Liu Yao to send troops to join forces to encircle and suppress Liu Zheng, the traitor.

As long as Liu Yao can send troops over and gather soldiers from the two states to deal with Liu Zheng, even though he has more than 1 people, he should not be a problem in front of the soldiers from the two states.

Zhu Fu sent envoys to Yangzhou to leave quickly, and he also recruited soldiers and horses from various counties and counties in the past half a month. In just 10 days, he had assembled all the soldiers and horses from surrounding counties and counties to Hepu County in the city.

Zhu Fu, who originally only had more than 3 troops left, gathered more than [-] soldiers and horses again during this period of time.

He planned to use these 3 horses to block Liu Zheng's army in Hepu City.

Although there were 3 people, after Zhu Fu had a clearer understanding of Liu Zheng's strength after the Battle of Wuyangling, he didn't think that a mere 3 people would be able to stop Liu Zheng's army, so he was still fighting. Wantonly recruit soldiers and horses.

Let the people from nearby counties and counties continue to gather troops and horses. Jiaozhou has a population of only one million and there are not many men. The original [-] soldiers and horses have been lost, which has caused serious dissatisfaction from all over the country. Now Zhufu is still recruiting wantonly. The dissatisfaction among soldiers and horses is getting worse and worse, but they don't care so much about the instructions at this time.

For his own safety and to defend Liu Zheng's attack, Zhu Fu could only increase the intensity of conscription.

And Liu Zheng's side had just assembled soldiers and horses from Cangwu City at this time.

There is no plan to attack Hepu City at all.

"Gan Ning, now half a month has passed, how is the training of the third battalion under your command?"

Now that Liu Zheng has completely controlled the entire Cangwu County, fighting against Zhu Fu with the power of a county can be regarded as a firm foothold here, and there is no need to worry too much about dealing with Zhu Fu next.

He didn't want to lose too many soldiers and horses in the battle with Zhu Fu, so he planned to recruit the third battalion in Jiaozhou, and let Gan Ning quickly train the soldiers and horses of the third battalion, so that they could be used in the next battle against Zhu Fu , Let the soldiers and horses of this third person charge forward.

In this way, even if he died, it would be casualties and injuries to these newly recruited troops, and the veterans under his command would not suffer too much loss.

"Returning to my lord, in the past half a month, I have almost trained these soldiers and horses. Not only have I recruited the soldiers left over from before, but I have also selected some county soldiers from other counties and counties to make up 1 Thousands of people, although it is impossible to reform the system according to our army, let these 1 people implement the full-arms system, but in terms of numbers, it is already enough, and they are currently undergoing intensive training. Give me some more time, and I think these people will be able to be sent to the battlefield !"

Gan Ning recruited [-] new troops in Cangwu City, which was actually not a difficult task.

The entire Cangwu County occupies one-seventh or eighth of Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou has a population of more than one million, and the entire Cangwu County has a population of at least 15.

And among the 15 people, there are still thousands of troops ready. In fact, he does not need to recruit a lot of people to supplement them. He only needs to send 500 people from various counties and counties to quickly gather [-] new troops. .

With these 1 people, he only needs to train well and be able to use them, but the number is enough, but it can't be fully equipped with cavalry, archers, knives and horses like the two battalions under Liu Zheng's command. Shieldmen and Pikemen.

There are almost no horses in Jiaozhou. Even if there are, they are only a few war horses in the hands of the general. It is even more difficult to form a cavalry. It is not enough for the loss of the cavalry in the previous battle, and the archers are still there. It cannot be trained in a short period of time.

Although Gan Ning recruited 1 people, most of them were spearmen and sword and shield players, and there were almost no cavalry and archers.

"Very well, I think I don't have much time to give you. Our spies came to report that after Zhu Fu fled back to Pucheng, he recruited troops again. During this time, he must have recruited tens of thousands of people. "

2 Twenty Chapters Hepu City

"There are only tens of thousands of people in the area. The lord is nothing to be afraid of. Old General Huang Zhong can defeat him. I, Gan Ning, can do the same. Give me a few more days to train and train these bastards. When the time comes, I will lead them to defeat him in one fell swoop." Zhu Fu, capture that guy alive!"

"Hahaha, Xingba, you underestimate Zhufu too much. After suffering such a big loss in Wuyangling, do you think he will fight with us in the wild?"

"Presumably this time he will definitely defend the city. If he wants to deal with him next time, it will not be so simple. At least in the siege battle, there is a huge gap between the enemy and our forces. If we attack by force, it will only bring us a lot of trouble." The loss is not a good thing for us."

Liu Zheng really wanted to take down the entire Jiaozhou, but he didn't want to fight Zhu Fu head-on, carry out a strong attack, and carry out a siege battle. Although Liu Zheng was somewhat sure, that would only increase the loss of his soldiers and horses, even if he finally took Jiaozhou. , Losing his cronies, he is also unable to hold on to Jiaozhou. It is best to take down Jiaozhou as a whole at a very small price.

After Liu Zheng and Gan Ning finished explaining, they waited in Cangwu County for a few more days before leading their [-] troops to Hepu County.

Although Liu Zheng hasn't thought of a good way to deal with Zhu Fu, but time waits for no one, and he can't continue to delay. Continuing to delay will only allow Zhu Fu to gather more troops. At that time, Liu Zheng thinks It is even more difficult to deal with Zhu Fu.

The reason why Liu Zheng only led [-] of them to Hepu County was mainly because he had just occupied Cangwu County and had to leave some soldiers behind to guard Cangwu County to prevent the backyard from catching fire.

Liu Zheng came with the intention of ruling the entire Jiaozhou, so he had to carry out his rule every time he occupied a place, instead of changing a place with a single shot.

Only by truly letting this place belong to him, with his sense of belonging and imprint, can he gain a firm foothold in this place.

Leaving [-] soldiers and horses is not only to prevent people from other places from invading, but also to leave a way for him to retreat. After all, Cangwu County is adjacent to Jingzhou, and he can evacuate to Jingzhou through Cangwu County at any time.

But if there is no Cangwu County as a stronghold, once he is besieged by the local forces in Jiaozhou, he can only run around in the whole Jiaozhou, full of dangers.

A few days later, Liu Zheng's [-] troops quickly arrived in the city of Hepu County. His goal was to defeat Zhu Fu directly. Wherever Zhu Fu was, his troops would move forward.

His spies found out that Zhu Fu was leading people in Hepu County at this time, so Liu Zheng naturally led his army to Hepu.

Hepu is an important stronghold in Jiaozhou. Its geographical location is much more important than Cangwu. Why do you say that? Because Hepu is one of the ports of departure. It is close to the ocean, has natural geographical advantages, and is rich in pearls, blue crabs, and sugar cane. etc.

The south can conduct trade exchanges with other countries in Southeast Asia, and the north can directly reach the Jiaodong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula through the sea.

If Liu Zheng can take Hepu City, it may not be of much help in the military, but in terms of trade, it will definitely be greatly improved. Not only will the business be achieved by the Han Dynasty, but it will also be able to expand the trade to some small neighboring countries. develop.

Of course, that's all in the future. Now, Liu Zheng is still thinking about how to deal with the Zhufu in the city.