After the discussion, Sun Jian quickly took the order, and he needed to arrange the defense in advance. Although there are still more than ten days to mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the country to do a good job of defense in Yangzhou Huiji County and other places, for them, more than ten days is not a long time, and they still need to mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the country.

On the other side, Liu Zheng had just led his men and horses out of Nanhai County at this time, and arrived near the junction of Huiji County and Nanhai County.

The junction of Nanhai County and Huiji County. This is the southern Fujian area of Houshi. Nowadays, it is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and a large part of it is gathered in the form of small villages. It is occupied by a dry mountain and Yue people.

There are few large towns here, and because of this, the entire area was unified under the jurisdiction of Huiji County, and it was never divided into new places, and later it was divided into Jian'an County by the Wu State, and it gradually improved.

When Liu Zheng sailed from the coast to Xuzhou, he stayed in a village here for the night. There was not much disgust for the people here, and after the arrival of the army, these people did not show much obstruction, and they successfully took some small villages and incorporated them into the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou.

Liu Zheng was not in a hurry to march to Huiji County. He was not in a hurry to bring his soldiers and horses to Huiji County because it was July.

July is one of the hottest months in the whole southern region, the scorching sun is on the head, the temperature rises directly to 40 degrees Celsius, from eight o'clock in the morning, until five or six o'clock in the evening, there is strong sunlight, and the trees in southern Fujian are generally dwarf shrubs, few towering trees, can not do the shade of the sun.

Although these people don't know what a concept of 40 degrees Celsius is, Liu Zheng knows that a little faster marching in this environment will cause a large number of soldiers to suffer from heat stroke, and once they suffer from heat stroke, in the current medical environment, it is very likely that their lives will be in danger.

Plus mosquito bites. The harassment of all kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants, and the long-distance march are not a good thing for Liu Zheng's troops.

However, Liu Zheng did not want to march quickly and increase the loss of his soldiers and horses, so he could only slowly let his men and horses march in the morning and evening, and rest in place the rest of the time, or go to nearby villages to conduct expeditions, and send these men and horses belonging to Yangzhou Huiji County to Jiaozhou.

In this way, it can not only increase the population of Jiaozhou, but also further weaken the control of Yangzhou.

In fact, the geographical scope of Jiaozhou, where Liu Zheng is located, is not much smaller than Yangzhou, but the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the population is not dense. At least more than 100,000 people have been lost, and what he lacks is the people, if he can migrate a large number of people from Yangzhou and Jingzhou to Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou will definitely become more prosperous and prosperous.

After all, as far as Liu Zheng knew, the entire Han world, with a population of 50 million, was only a remote place like Jiaozhou, which had the smallest population, only one million, less than one-fiftieth of the entire population of the entire Han court.

Jingzhou and Yangzhou, each of these neighboring prefectures and counties in Jiaozhou, have at least four million or more people, which is several times more than the population base of Jiaozhou.

This is still the population recorded by the imperial court, and there are many Shanyue people who are not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and those people, the imperial court cannot count them at all, and the population of Yangzhou must be close to five million. Jingzhou, on the other hand, has a huge population, with more than six million recorded in the imperial court alone.

Although Jingzhou's population has decreased a lot after several turmoils, the population base is here, no matter how small, it will not be less than the population of Jiaozhou.

If Yangzhou and Jingzhou can migrate part of the population to fill Jiaozhou, it is naturally an important means to develop Jiaozhou.

Originally, it took ten days and half a month to reach Huiji County, but Liu Zheng walked out of two months and did not arrive.

Sun Jian and Liu Xuan, who were being tightly fortified in Huiji County, were nervous for two whole months, and they did not see Liu Zheng's army from Jiaozhou, and when they sent people to investigate along the way, they knew that Liu Zheng had not taken any action in the past two months, but that all the local forces in the south of Jiji County had been conquered in two months.

In the past two months, Liu Zheng has advanced at a slow pace, quickly searching for the local Shanyue people in each place, and then leading more than 20,000 people under his command to encircle and suppress.

Encountering the rebellious Shanyue tribe, Liu Zheng directly beheaded the leader, and then escorted the remaining people to Jiaozhou to serve as laborers.

When encountering those who did not resist, they continued to let them stay in various places, and then migrated multiple tribes, gathered together to establish towns, and Liu Zheng sent soldiers and horses accompanying him to rule.

In two months, most of the southern part of Jiangji County was under his own control.

Although Huiji County is still in the hands of Liu Xuan, the Yangzhou pastor, in fact, most of the territory has been occupied by Liu Zheng's Jiaozhou army.

Seeing that Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses were about to arrive not far outside the county of Huiji County.

Liu Zheng's men and horses did not advance directly, but began to build the city in the same place.

In this way, a place dozens of kilometers away from Huiji County set up a defense and did not take the initiative to attack.

Liu Zheng's commotion made Sun Jian, who was already in a hurry and anxious with more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and planned to defend Liu Zheng, was also stunned.

He originally thought that after Liu Zheng arrived at Huiji, he would definitely directly besiege the city, and then force Sun Jian and others in the city to fight.

However, Liu Zheng did not come to Huiji at all, but directly built a city and built a dock fort dozens of miles outside the city, which made Sun Jian and Liu Jian unable to understand it.

"What does Liu Zheng want to do with that bastard?"

Liu Miao was nervous for two months, but Liu Zheng didn't come to attack, so the means and measures prepared by Liu Miao were really useless for a while.

"My lord, I have always said that Liu Zheng is scheming, but I am afraid that this is another trick set up by him, and he wants to let the strategy of delaying the army let us take the initiative."

"Liu Zheng has few soldiers and horses, and he obviously suffers a loss by taking the initiative to attack, so he should also know his weakness, and do not take the initiative to attack, but build a dock fort on the spot, use the dock fort for defense, and wait for us to attack him!"

Sun Jian said what he thought in his heart.

"He's waiting for us to beat him?"

"Probably so."

"Damn, then we're going to waste it like this, since he won't come to fight us, then let's take the initiative to attack him!"

Liu Jian was desperate to defeat Liu Zheng, after all, Liu Zheng was right in front of him.

"My lord, don't do it!"