Although the battle is over for the time being.

But Liu Zheng's affairs are not over yet.

The first is to clean up the battlefield, after Fan Man and the others left, the battlefield outside the city of Linyi was not cleaned. Fan Man simply took away some of the remains of the soldiers who died on his side, and a large number of remaining corpses, blades, and the wreckage left by the attack on the city are still there.

These leftover things can be used, Liu Zheng naturally has to pick them up again and continue to use them, and if they can't be used, they must be destroyed as soon as possible, for example, the corpses of those soldiers of Funan must be destroyed, otherwise they will be exposed here. The temperature here in Linyi County is hot, and it is easy to break out of diseases under the sun, and it may even be a new round of plague.

For the sake of safety, Liu Zheng still had to organize people to clean up the battlefield and clean up these things left on the battlefield.

Of course, he didn't rush to clean up immediately, but after making sure that Fan Man's people really left here, he began to send people out of the city to clean.

Although Fan Man left the vicinity of Linyi City, he did not directly lead his men and horses back to Funan.

Instead, he returned to some of the territories of Linyi County that he had laid down with Fan Yi before and re-stationed.

Fan Man lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Funan Country to Linyi County this time, so it was naturally impossible to go back empty-handed like this.

It happened to occupy some territories of Linyi County before, and these territories were also counted in the sphere of influence of Funan Kingdom, and the territory on the way from Funan Kingdom to Linyi County was also regarded as a territory for Funan Kingdom to re-expand a lot of domination.

Fan Man did not retreat directly, but wanted to consolidate these territories that had just been defeated.

Liu Zheng after learning the news. didn't immediately go to Fan Man's trouble, because such a result was what Liu Zheng wanted.

After all, at this time, Liu Zheng's army had not yet arrived here, and it was impossible to take advantage of Fan Man now.

Only after Liu Zheng's army arrives in Linyi County is that it is time for Liu Zheng and Fan Man to officially declare war, and it is also a good choice to maintain peaceful coexistence between the two sides these days.

Fan Man, who retreated back at this time, did not know that he would soon accept revenge from Liu Zheng.

He occupied some of the former territory of Linyi County, and set up camp to recuperate.

Although he lost some soldiers and horses, after occupying these territories in Linyi County, he was able to recruit some new soldiers and horses by using the men and horses of these territories.

In Fan Man's camp, at this time, several generals under Fan Man began to ask why Fan Man retreated from the battle of Linyi City.

"General, we obviously have the upper hand in numbers, and we are about to break through the city of Linyi, why are we suddenly withdrawing our troops now?"

Fan Man's men were very puzzled and wanted Fan Man to give them an explanation.

If it was usual, with Fan Man's character, there was no need to explain anything to them in this situation. However, since he has suffered a new defeat, it has reached this point, if Fan Man does not give an explanation to these people under him, a reasonable explanation is afraid that it will not be able to convince the public.

So after Fan Man pondered for a while, he still opened his mouth to explain to these people under him.

"Generals, it's not that I'm afraid of the people of the Han Dynasty, it's just that after Fan Yi's death, it won't be easy for us to defeat this city, are you willing to lose tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to defeat this city?"

"If it's just to conquer this city, you will lose tens of thousands of our soldiers and horses, is this appropriate?"

"Rather than this, let's wait for the temporary withdrawal of troops to observe the situation, if the people of Linyi City immediately flee back to the interior of the Han Dynasty, we will pursue deeply, but if he does not come out, it means that they have enough strength to hold the city, we will temporarily rest and recuperate, and wait until we recruit enough Han people, and then use these Han people to attack the city for us, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Fan Man naturally didn't want to withdraw the army, he just wanted to use the strategy of delaying the army to recruit enough Han people in various cities first, and then use the Han people to form some slave soldiers and horses, and use these slave soldiers and horses to attack the city for them.

At the same time, he also wanted to take advantage of the current time to pay close attention to the dynamics of Linyi City.

As he said, if the garrisons and horses in Linyi City fled back to the Central Plains from Linyi City, then Fan Yi would know that he had fallen for the other party's tricks before, so he would raise troops to pursue again and attack more Linyi County territories together.

And if those Han people in Linyi City did not act rashly and continued to garrison the city, then Fan Man knew that the other party had no fear and enough strength to defend Linyi City.

After a few days, Fan Man sent spies near Linyi City to keep a close eye on Linyi City, but he did not see any movement of soldiers and horses in Linyi City.

didn't see anyone in Linyi City escaping from here, which made Fan Man feel a little surprised, and decided that the people here really had the strength to block his attack, so he was relieved at the moment, and continued to arrest those big Han people and continue his plan.

The Han people in Linyi City did not move, and Fan Man did not act rashly, so he could only stand still.

The two sides were at a stalemate in the north and south of Linyi County.

Half a month later, Zhou Cang, under Liu Zheng, led an army of 50,000 troops to finally reach the vicinity of Linyi County, and had already sent a vanguard of 3,000 people to gallop through Linyi City and told Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng had been waiting here a little impatiently, but now after receiving the advance force sent by Zhou Cang, reporting that Zhou Cang's army was only one day away from here, Liu Zheng's mind immediately became active.

"Okay, great, this bastard Zhou Cang is finally here, and Lao Tzu is a little impatient to wait!"

Liu Zheng, who realized that he was finally going to have a big battle with Fan Man again, immediately began to gather Sun Jian's soldiers and horses to prepare.

He asked Sun Jian and others to come over to meet and talk, and after Sun Jian received the news, he didn't dare to pause, and immediately brought his own people to meet Liu Zheng.

As soon as he saw Sun Jian coming, Liu Zheng immediately asked.

"Wentai, you can be regarded as here, and recently asked you to pay close attention to the dynamics of those people in Funan, how is it now?"

When Sun Jian saw Liu Zheng's expression, he knew that the soldiers and horses drawn by Liu Zheng had arrived, and he did not hesitate to slack off, and casually rushed to Liu Zheng to talk about the news of the army of Funanguo.

"My lord, those big armies of Funan, in a small county town not far from us, the 40,000 troops are divided into three waves, stationed in three different places, but they have been arresting the people of my Han in the past few days, and now those big armies of Funan are no longer 40,000 troops, but 60,000 soldiers and horses!"