After dealing with the affairs of Changsha, Liu Zheng returned to Wu County with his own people.

Changsha has never been the center of the battle, there are 10,000 soldiers and horses of Ganning stationed in Changsha, 10,000 horses and horses of Wenpin stationed in Yuzhang, and Zulang's 10,000 sailors staying in Dongting Lake, there is no major problem on the Changsha side.

Tai Shici's people followed Liu Zheng back to Wu County.

When Cai Yao and Zhang Duyu met again, Zhang Duyu already had a big belly, the two were like sisters, and they had endless words as soon as they met, of course, most of them revolved around where they had gone over the years.

In the past, the relationship between the two was good, but now that they are married to Liu Zheng, they are naturally even more intimate, if Liu Zheng hadn't opened his mouth that night, the two might have to talk at night, and Liu Zheng would have been excluded.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to play the trick of one dragon and two phoenixes a little later in the evening, but unfortunately when he saw Zhang Duyu's big belly, he knew that it couldn't be realized, anyway, the days were still long, and he was not in a hurry, and after accompanying Zhang Duyu for a long time, he quietly slept with Zhang Duyu.

I didn't accompany Cai Yao that night, after all, I can't favor one over the other.

Men are just tired sometimes.

In November, Wu County was already a little cool, and after half a year of fighting, the situation in Yuan Shao's Jizhou became more and more clear.

Although Lu Zhi's army was powerful and could suppress Yuan Shao's men and horses in Jizhou, Yuan Shao always occupied the two regions of Jizhou and Youzhou, which were places where fierce generals were like clouds.

The strength of the four court pillars under his subordinates is extraordinary, Yan Liangwen is in Jizhou, Zhang He and Gao Lan are guarding the center, and Lu Zhi has no famous generals.

In the months of fighting, although he was able to use a good troop dispatch to launch a series of attacks on Yuan Shao's men and horses, he was never able to completely gain the upper hand.

After a few months, he could only start a tug-of-war with Yuan Shao's men and horses on the edge of Jizhou, the longer this tug-of-war lasted, the lower the confidence of the imperial court in Lu Zhi, but after all, the imperial court had no one available, so it could only rely on Lu Zhi, while putting pressure on Lu Zhi, and on the other hand, he wanted to let Lu Zhi solve Yuan Shao quickly, so that Lu Zhi's soldiers and horses could support Ding Yuan in Bingzhou in a short time.

Lu Zhi couldn't beat Yuan Shao, in fact, he mainly suffered a loss in the generals.

In addition to Gongsun Zhan, there are no other interested figures under him, Liu Bei's brothers were transferred to deal with the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, and Yuan Shao's subordinates are mostly Karasuma cavalry, coming and going like the wind, even if Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong can barely fight and restrain those Karasuma cavalry, but Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong is too rare after all.

When the battle is full, the number of people is less than 2,000, and there may be still strength to fight against thousands of Karasuma cavalry.

But once you encounter tens of thousands of enemy cavalry, even if it is Hakuba Yoshiko, you have more than enough strength to do it, and it is difficult to rely on Hakuma Yoshiko to repel those Karasuma's cavalry.

It was precisely because of the assistance of more than 100,000 Karasuma cavalry that Yuan Shao was able to gain a firm foothold in Jizhou and Youzhou.

However, the continuous battles still caused some crises on Yuan Shao's side.

The territory of Jizhou and Youzhou is not large, and there is naturally not much land that can be used to grow food, and the continuous wars have made the farmers even worse, and it is not enough to feed themselves, not to mention that they have to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and now the Karasuma people and horses are all under Yuan Shao's command, and Yuan Shao must provide enough food for them to eat.

Years of conquest have led to not many people arriving land, and the food produced in Jizhou is very reluctant to supply Yuan Shao's own men and horses, which is all Yuan Shao's wanton collection of taxes to make up for it, and now the army of more than 100,000 Karasuma people makes Yuan Shao even more stretched.

This winter, it has been difficult to get through.

Yuan Shao urgently needs a large amount of food to alleviate the crisis this winter.

Of course, Yuan Shao didn't expect that he would have the same food crisis as the Karasuma people in winter.

After thinking about it, there was no way to get food in other places, so he could only make the idea of robbing the food in the hands of the people in the Han city, and make the same action as the Karasuma people.

Anyway, at this stage, Yuan Shao is at war with Lu Zhi, and the areas controlled by Lu Zhi still have enough grain and grass, so he sent the Karasuma people to rob Lu Zhi's grain routes, and at the same time let the Karasuma people use cavalry to roam and rob the surrounding villages and towns.

This can allow Yuan Shao to relieve the pressure of grain and grass for a while.

At the same time, in the hands of the Karasuma people, Yuan Shao knew that the year before, someone had been to Liaoxi in winter and brought a whole winter of grain and grass to the Karasuma people in Liaoxi.

This news, after Yuan Shao took control of the entire Youzhou, finally fell into the hands of Yuan Shao, and the Karasuma Shan Yu Su Fuyan was also received by Yuan Shao, and then Su Fuyan did not hide anything, and directly told Yuan Shao that Liu Zheng had come and asked him to buy horses.

And Liu Zheng didn't come here a year, but this year, Liu Zheng's men and horses have sent caravans over every two or three months.

Naturally, it is grain, sea salt, and even things that are not available here in Youzhou.

And most of the ones transported away are also some local specialties such as war horses, cattle and sheep.

Most of the grain that Liu Zheng transported was traded with Su Fuyan, and there were some small tribes, but they did not trade with Qiu Liju and Nanlou and others.

Because Qiu Liju is too strong, Liu Zheng doesn't want to strengthen them, and Liu Zheng is also short of war horses, so he can only get them from Youzhou.

The cavalry regiment under Xu Huang was about to be wiped out, and there were less than a thousand war horses left, but after Liu Zheng continued to transport war horses back from Youzhou for a year, Xu Huang's cavalry battalion was finally trained again.

Now of the 10,000 horses under Xu Huang, 6,000 are cavalry.

Among them, there are also some war horses, which were divided into several other battalions by Liu Zheng to serve as scouts, although these war horses are still far from enough to meet Liu Zheng's needs, but only need time to slowly transport them from Youzhou, Liu Zheng believes that he can still form a cavalry.

After Yuan Shao learned that Liu Zheng was able to transport grain from Yangzhou and even Jiaozhou to Youzhou through the caravan, Yuan Shao's lack of food became active.

Since Liu Zheng had a large amount of grain in his hands, Yuan Shao planned to buy it from Liu Zheng's hands.

This is also a solution. Therefore, Yuan Shao sent Su Fuyan to contact the merchant envoy on Liu Zheng's side, which can be regarded as officially getting on the line with Liu Zheng.