December 190.

Guo Jia, who returned to Wu County, reported what happened in Qingzhou to Liu Zheng.

and told Liu Zheng about the conditions proposed by Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao, this guy, thought of a plan when those strategists under his command proposed that they could not sell the war horse to Liu Zheng, he did not directly tell Liu Zheng that he would not sell the war horse to Liu Zheng, but greatly increased the transaction price of the war horse.

Originally, Liu Zheng only needed to spend a small amount of grain and grass to buy a batch of war horses from Yuan Shao's hands, but now Yuan Shao directly raised the price by ten times and opened his mouth at Liu Zheng.

At such a price, even if Liu Zheng is willing to spend this price to buy, Yuan Shao will not suffer.

After hearing the news, Liu Zheng's face was very ugly. Although he knew that this was Yuan Shao's plan, he was helpless.

After all, it was the same when Liu Zheng sold grain and grass to Yuan Shao before, the lion opened his mouth, and now it was just Yuan Shao who returned the original method he used to deal with Yuan Shao to Liu Zheng.

Yuan Shaoda can find a reason casually, for example, the war horse has recently gone through continuous battles, it is relatively scarce, and there is no shortage of grain and grass, and the supply and demand relationship in the market to excuse it, Liu Zheng is willing to buy it, if he is not willing to buy it, then pull it down, anyway, now Yuan Shao is not short of grain and grass.

There are 200,000 stone grains and grass per year that Liu contended and promised, which was enough for Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses to spend a complete winter.

Liu Zhengming knew that this was Yuan Shao's trajectory, but he could only break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and did not mention the matter of buying war horses with Yuan Shao, after all, spending a huge price to buy war horses was really worth the loss.

Although it is impossible to buy a war horse directly from Yuan Shao's hands, this does not mean that Liu Zheng cannot get a war horse.

Although the transit station in Qingzhou was banned, so that Liu Zheng could not directly transit from Xuzhou and Qingzhou, he had to send a caravan north from Yangzhou and then to Youzhou to buy horses from those tribes in Youzhou.

This was one of the methods, and the other was for Liu Zheng to use merchant ships to cross directly to the Bohai Sea and go to the Goryeo Peninsula. Then he went north from the Goryeo Peninsula to find the Xianbei people to buy horses.

Although this is more troublesome, in order to be able to buy a war horse, it can only be like this. After all, even if it was a little more troublesome, it was much cheaper than buying a war horse directly from Yuan Shao's hands.

At the same time, this can also avoid Yuan Shao and Lu Zhi from knowing how many cavalry Liu Zheng has.

Although Yuan Shao did not agree to sell the horse to Liu Zheng, Guo Jia's mission this time was quite successful.

After Guo Jia left, Yuan Shao's men and horses quickly took action. They mobilized troops and horses, and when Lu Zhi's men and horses did not react, they directly occupied Beihai County and Donglai County, which originally belonged to Lu Zhi.

Because when Lu Zhi left Beihai County and Donglai County, he did not station too many soldiers and horses in these two places.

Lu Zhi left more intelligently, and at that time he only led more than 10,000 cavalry to the north, and there were not enough men under his command to garrison Beihai and Donglai.

Therefore, when Yuan Shao's men and horses attacked Beihai County and Donglai County, they did not bother much, and easily took down these two places.

When the news reached Lu Zhi's ears in Xuzhou, Lu Zhi was immediately furious.

scolded Yuan Shao for only caring about immediate interests, ignoring long-term development, and easily tearing up their alliance agreement.

After all, Liu Zheng has not been completely defeated yet, but he has only lost the territory of two states and counties, and his strength has suffered some losses.

They should take advantage of the great loss of Liu Zheng's strength to pursue the victory, instead of causing contradictions at this time.

But despite Lu Zhi's scolding, he also knew that Yuan Shao would not have the same heart with him, so as soon as it was convenient to deal with Liu Zheng's army on the side of Lu Zhi's army, on the other hand, he began to prepare to fight Yuan Shao again.

However, Lu Zhi still didn't fight with Yuan Shao in the end, not because Lu Zhi was afraid of Yuan Shao, but because Lu Zhi knew that he couldn't take the initiative to fight with Yuan Shao.

What Liu Zheng in the south wants to see most is that Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao fight, once Lu Zhi fights with Yuan Shao at this time, then Liu Zheng is the most proud.

They finally suppressed Liu Zheng, but they would not let Liu Zheng get any benefit from the fight between the two tigers.

So Lu Zhi endured it, and at the same time, it was also because of Lu Zhi's subordinates, at this time, there were only thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses left, and he didn't have enough manpower to attack Yuan Shao.

They also need to recuperate and re-recruit before they can continue their operations.

After Yuan Shao took Beihai and Donglai, he originally thought that Lu Zhi would lead his troops and horses to attack, but seeing that Lu Zhi had no intention of bringing people over, he couldn't help but despise Lu Zhi a little more in Yuan Shao's eyes.

This also made Yuan Shao know even more that Lu Zhi seemed to be at war with Liu Zheng, and he didn't have much kung fu to take care of him.

The arrival of winter has also made the soldiers and horses of the three parties accumulate strength and recuperate temporarily.

Yuan Shao led his soldiers and horses, returned to Jizhou from Qingzhou, this time he laid down Qingzhou, so that Yuan Shao was very happy, although he lost a few manpower, but let their Northern Han Empire have one more state and county territory, Yuan Shao's actual control of the territory, it has been greatly improved.

Next, Yuan Shao will continue to target and prepare for the state.

Merging the state is also what Yuan Shao has long wanted to get involved in, because after the state assassinated Shi Ding Yuan and led the soldiers and horses south to fight against Liu Zheng, there were not many people in the state, and once Yuan Shao and the imperial court started again, the first attack was to merge the state.

Because other places are heavily guarded by the imperial court, but the defenders here in Bingzhou are not numerous.

The only thing that made Yuan Shao feel unhappy was that Jizhou to Bingzhou, here, separated by a Taihang Mountain, this mountain was in the middle, and it was not easy for them to want to go to Bingzhou.

On Lu Zhi's side, on the one hand, he has to deal with Liu Zheng in the south and may come back at any time, on the other hand, Lu Zhi also knows that the cooperation with Yuan Shao is just a matter of seeking skin with the tiger, and there will be no good results, so he must beware of Yuan Shao everywhere.

Of course, Lu Zhi wants to kill all these people, sweep away the entire Han Dynasty, and return the world to a peaceful and prosperous world.

But he was powerless, and he didn't have enough soldiers and horses under his command, and this powerless move made Lu Zhi look a little old, and at the same time, he could only let He Miao, the general of the imperial court, continue to send more soldiers and horses.

Today's Han is still in control, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Sili, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou and other places, and it is not a problem for these places to gather some soldiers and horses.

And Liu Zheng's side also knows that the current situation requires a large number of soldiers and horses to be able to resist, so he is also recruiting soldiers and horses.