Chapter 500: Confidence
After learning about some of the situation in Changsha City, Liu Zheng thought of Liu Qi and Zhang Yun again, the identities of these two have not yet been determined, and Liu Zheng is really a little curious.
Liu Zheng asked this, and the fine work who spoke just now frowned, and he didn't know, so he had to say directly.
"Lord, this news, the villain is not clear."
After that person said it, Liu Zheng didn't blame him, after all, they were all small works outside the city, and they couldn't completely control all the news in Jingzhou, and in this era, there was no such thing as a telephone or fax machine, and all the news could be shared.
So Liu Zheng looked at the body of another fine work.
The fine work also hesitated, but still said a word to Liu Zheng.
"Lord, I don't know who the senior generals in the city are, but a few days ago, we found a group of soldiers and horses in the direction of the north of the city, these people marched at night and entered Changsha City overnight."
"According to our spies' guess, they came from the direction of Xiangyang, and the number of people is at night, so we don't know how many people there are, but looking at the time of entering the city, it is speculated that there are at least twenty or thirty thousand people!"
Another detailed word, as soon as it was spoken, immediately detonated a blockbuster**.
"What, you said that in this Changsha City, a few days ago, a group of soldiers and horses entered?"
Liu Zheng asked directly in surprise.
The fine saku hesitated for a moment, but nodded.
"Well, although I didn't see this with my own eyes, I heard it from another person named Zhang Lao Liu outside Changsha City, if the lord has any questions, he can call Zhang Lao Liu to ask."
Liu Zheng looked at Yuan Zhou.
Yuan Zhou also understood what Liu Zheng meant, and immediately walked outside the camp.
After waiting for another hour, this fine work named Zhang Laoliu was also called by Yuan Zhou.
This Zhang Lao Liu, who was in charge of the detailed work in the north direction of the outer city of Changsha, immediately described what he saw that night to Liu Zheng and others after being called out by Yuan Zhou.
After confirming the authenticity of this matter, in the entire camp, all the personnel showed a sad look.
"I originally thought that in this Changsha City, Dingtian would have 50,000 soldiers and horses, but I didn't expect that this time, there would be 70,000 or 80,000 people."
Because there was really no way to determine how many reinforcements there were from Xiangyang, Liu Zheng could only roughly guess that there were only 70,000 or 80,000 people in the city of Changsha.
And seventy or eighty thousand people, whether it is seventy thousand, or eighty thousand, is a number that Liu Zheng attaches more importance to, if it is only forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng may be able to attack a wave by relying on his current tens of thousands of people.
But now, after knowing that there are so many people in Changsha City, Liu Zheng originally wanted to storm Changsha City and give Cai Mao a dismount, but it was suddenly gone.
Not to mention a strong attack, these seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses are enough to fight Liu Zheng out of the city.
"Lord, now we finally know why Na Wu is so calm and confident, it turns out that he is willing, but it is also from this incident that it can be seen that Liu Biao and those people are still very jealous of us, otherwise they would not have transferred all the soldiers and horses of Nanjun to guard against our attack."
Xu You was able to roughly understand this when he connected to what he had seen before.
"This situation, but there are some surprises we expected, I originally wanted to give Cai Mao a little color to see, now it seems that Cai Mao is fully prepared, even if we continue to mobilize troops and horses to come over, and want to take Changsha City, it is not so easy, and there are tens of thousands of troops Chen soldiers here, it will not be a problem to drag on for a few months, and when the time comes, when the imperial court solves Yuan Shao, our situation will be even more embarrassing."
"Moreover, even if we want to draw troops and horses from other places, it is not feasible, after all, once the troops in other places are reduced, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be exploited by the people of the imperial court."
Wu County borders Yanzhou in Xuzhou, and if Liu Zheng focuses on Changsha, there will be a big crisis on Wu County's side.
This kind of layout that involves the whole body, Liu Zheng will not do it, he attacked Jingzhou, at most, he touched the Karasuma soldiers and horses, and transferred Xu Huang's battalion from Jiaozhou to attack directly from the direction of Guiyang to the north.
According to Liu Zheng's intelligence, Cai Mao and others returned 30,000 soldiers at the junction of Guiyang and Changsha County.
Even if Liu Zheng transferred the troops from Jiaozhou, it was unlikely that he would be able to hit Changsha City in a short time.
"How could Changsha suddenly have so many more soldiers and horses, why did Liu Biao's territory in the three counties have so many people at once?"
Liu Zheng frowned, and couldn't help but say.
"No, Yuan Zhou, tell me, our intelligence was first, how many people are there in Liu Biao's house."
Liu Zheng's inquiry made Yuan Zhou answer immediately.
"One hundred thousand."
"100,000 people, he just made up 100,000 people in just three counties?"
"Yes, the three counties of Jingzhou are the land of the Central Plains, this is not the same county as our Jiaozhou, there are hundreds of thousands of people in one county, and three counties are worth our entire Jiaozhou. Moreover, when the Yellow Turban Army was raging a few years ago, most of the people in Runan, Jizhou and other places moved south because of the Yellow Turban Army's rebellion, and many of them went to Jingzhou, so he was able to recruit 100,000 soldiers and horses, which was nothing. ”
"100,000 soldiers and horses, count more, probably Changsha occupies 60,000 people, Jiangxia is estimated to have 30,000 people, and Nanjun is estimated to be only 30,000 at most, and now Liu Biao has transferred 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses from Nanjun to Changsha. In other words, there is no main force in Nanjun locally, and there are some county soldiers recruited by the county towns themselves? ”
Liu Zheng quickly thought of the situation in Jingzhou.
Yuan Shu fought in Jiangxia, Jiangxia Huangzu's soldiers and horses must have been contained, and now if Liu Zheng can't make any progress here in Changsha, Nanjun may become a breakthrough.
Because Nanjun is already an empty city, and some counties and counties have soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng doesn't pay attention to them at all.
"Lord, do you want to give up Changsha and take Nanjun directly?"
Liu Zheng's few words reminded Xu You at once, and Xu You also thought of this immediately.
"Changsha is a hard bone, it's too difficult for us to beat down, but Nanjun is a piece of fat. Immediately let his generals come over for a meeting. ”
Liu Zheng summoned Tai Shici, Gan Ning, and Wen Ping.