Liu Zheng's subordinates have always been famous generals.

In addition to Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Tai Shici and others who took refuge in Liu Zheng in the early days.

In the past two years, Liu Zheng has also attracted the refuge of Shamoke, Zhang Liao, Zhang He and others.

Shamoke was the leader of the barbarian tribes that Liu Zheng subdued when he went to mediate the disputes of the Nanban tribes.

The various tribes of Wuxi Man now belong to Liu Zheng, and it is also a territory under Liu Zheng, but the various tribes of the Southern Barbarians, the geographical location is not very good, the mountain peaks are stacked, and it is not easy for Liu Zheng to send a message to Sha Moke, plus the previous civil strife in Wuxi Man, Sha Moke, the new barbarian king, needs most to recuperate, rather than lead soldiers and horses to fight abroad.

In the future, Liu Zheng will have the opportunity to recruit these brute soldiers, but for now, let them recuperate for a few more years.

Zhang Liao was the general who surrendered during the battle between Liu Zheng and Ding Yuan, but Zhang Liao has not been reused by Liu Zheng since he surrendered to Liu Zheng.

First, Zhang Liao is a demoted general after all, and if Zhang Liao is directly promoted, he will definitely not get the consent of many veterans under Liu Zheng.

After all, it's okay to be meritocracy, but those veterans who have followed Liu Zheng for so many years, even if they have no merit, have hard work, and their status is unshakable.

Zhang Liao, Lejin, Li Dian and other generals must be subordinated to several generals in the army, even if they are to be entrusted with important tasks.

After all, whether it is in terms of age or qualifications, Zhang Liao is not enough to rank under Liu Zheng.

Zhang Liao's seniority is not even as good as Le Jin and Li Dian.

The current Zhang Liao is just a deputy general under Huang Zhong, commanding thousands of soldiers and horses.

The rank is nothing more than a lieutenant colonel.

Compared with the major generals of Huang Zhong and others, it is far from it.

However, Zhang Liao made a lot of contributions in the battle to capture Shangyong City this time, and he could be promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel in the next reward.

In addition to Zhang Liao, Liu Zheng has another heavyweight under him.

That was Zhang He, the general who originally belonged to Yuan Shao.

Zhang He originally followed Yuan Shao, but after Yuan Shao's death, Zhang He took refuge with Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan.

However, Yuan Tan is also an unsuccessful lord, after being defeated by Liu Bei, Zhang He did not take refuge in Liu Bei but fled all the way, intending to return to the command of several other sons under Yuan Shao, but just caught up with Xu Huang and his party, so they had no choice but to take refuge in Xu Huang.

After surrendering to Xu Huang, Xu Huang told Liu Zheng the news.

Liu Zheng was still clear about Zhang He's ability, so he immediately recruited Zhang He under his command and temporarily let Zhang He act as an assistant to Xu Huang, on the one hand, to train cavalry, and on the other hand, to train Zhang He with some qualifications.

Liu Zheng couldn't give them too high a position, and he couldn't give them too low a position.

Therefore, in order to neutralize the opinions of both sides, Liu Zheng generally gave them low military ranks, such as the rank of colonel at most, which was one or two ranks lower than the generals under Liu Zheng.

But at the same time, they are equipped with slightly more soldiers and horses than some locally trained young generals.

Only in this way can they show their importance in Liu Zheng's heart and give them some psychological balance.

It's just that although Liu Zheng has a lot of famous generals, but now the territory is vast, and more people are needed to garrison, and there are not many who can be transferred to this Shangyong City by Liu Zheng.

It is nothing more than Le Jin, Li Dian, Zhang Liao and other generals who are subordinate to Huang Zhong.

Then there are the two major generals Huang Zhong and Gan Ning.

Although Liu Zheng can not send many generals here, in the same way, Liu Bei will inevitably not be able to transfer all his main forces here.

Otherwise, if he transferred all the other centaurs over, he would have to worry about Liu Zheng's centaurs.

If Liu Zheng directly launched an attack on Liu Bei, it would be difficult for Liu Bei to react at that time.

"Is Liu Bei already preparing to launch an attack with Zhang Lu?"

Liu Zheng learned about the situation in Hanzhong from Huang Zhong's mouth, and then asked Huang Zhong again.

Huang Zhong also nodded.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Liu Bei has sent his junior general Ma Chao to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses a few days ago to capture the remote counties of Hanzhong, and now in the entire Hanzhong County, Zhang Lu himself occupies not much territory, and most of it is occupied by Liu Bei and our men."

Huang Zhong said as he walked to the sand table in his military tent.

In fact, there was already such a thing as a sand table during the Three Kingdoms period.

According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Biography of Ma Yuanlie, in 32 AD, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, wanted to conquer the arrogance of Longxi. But he didn't know much about the topography and deployment of troops in the northwest region, so Emperor Guangwu asked Ma Yuan to understand.

Ma Yuan was originally Kui Huan's subordinate, but was successfully rebelled by Liu Xiu and taken it for his own use. Ma Yuan is very familiar with the geographical situation in the area of Longxi, but such a large northwest is not something that can be explained clearly in a sentence or two, and after talking for a long time, Emperor Guangwu did not understand.

Ma Yuan was very anxious, and after returning home, he convened his staff to discuss how to make Emperor Guangwu understand, but no one thought of a good way for a while. The next day, Ma Yuan got up early to practice swordsmanship, and happened to see a group of children piling sand, scattered with sandbags and sticks, like a military camp.

Ma Yuan suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, he immediately went home, asked his entourage to clean up the east wing, asked people to find a wooden plank, and then brought a few bags of sand and soil to pour on the wooden plank, and then let the entourage start to pile up the sand pile with memory, and used a bamboo sign to engrave words on the sand pile, marking the military deployment of Kui Huan.

Three days later, a model that resembled the terrain in the field was made. Ma Yuan invited Emperor Guangwu to his home and answered questions for Emperor Guangwu in front of the model. Emperor Guangwu understood this time, and said to Kui Huan very happily: "The enemy is all in my eyes!" This thing is good, what's it called? Ma Yuan was speechless for a while, and he had an idea to ask Emperor Guangwu to give him a name.

Emperor Guangwu thought for a while, and then said to Ma Yuan: "This is a big wooden plate, which is filled with sand, so let's call it a sand table." Ma Yuan hurriedly applauded.

This horse aid who made the sand table is the ancestor of Ma Chao, and Ma Chao is the queen of General Fubo's horse aid.

After hundreds of years of development, the sand table was not improved much in the Three Kingdoms period, but Liu Zheng once drew a map of the whole of China in order to let his generals better understand the terrain of the battlefield.

Including the sea area, although it is not accurate, it has a general appearance.

Later, he asked his subordinates to improve the model of the sand table, and now in the military tent under Liu Zheng, the sand table can clearly show the terrain, mountains, rivers, canyons and other terrain.

It can even accurately represent cities and towns.