Chapter 331: Take the initiative to send troops
Of course, in order to extinguish the coalition forces of Yuan Shao and others as much as possible, He Miao also sent an edict to King Qin to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai, Yangzhou Mu Liu Miao and others.
It's just that these princes surnamed Liu may not be able to play any role at this time, firstly, Liu Dai of Yanzhou is busy dealing with some local Taishan thieves and Yellow Turban remnants at this time, and he can't draw much troops at all, and secondly, Liu Biao is using soldiers and horses to guard against Liu Zheng in Jiaozhou, and Liu Xuan, he is also fighting against Yan Baihu at this time.
Even if Liu Miao can draw out some of the soldiers and horses, it is impossible to go to King Qin, Yangzhou is located in a remote area, too far away from Luoyang, and when Liu Xiang's men and horses rush to the Tiger Prison Pass, I am afraid that the battle is over.
Therefore, it mainly relies on Lu Zhi of the Tiger Prison Pass, as long as Lu Zhi can block the coalition forces in the Tiger Prison Pass for a period of time, so that Yuan Shao and others can't beat the Tiger Prison Pass, and then the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin in various places gradually come to their senses and slowly send troops to support them, Yuan Shao and others can be eliminated.
At the same time, Liu Zheng from Jiaozhou, after hearing the news, thought that his opportunity had come.
In the melee that began in the Central Plains, Liu Zheng could show his strength at this time, and directly sent soldiers and horses to Yangzhou to eliminate Liu Xuan and occupy Yangzhou.
At this time, Liu Jian sent troops to Liu Zheng, Liu Xiang did not have any helper to seek at all, and could only rely on his own strength to block Liu Zheng, and now Liu Zheng's strong strength, Liu Jian could not stop it.
Half a month later, Wen Ping, who went to Zhuyazhou to quell the turmoil, led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to return to Hepu City.
This time, he led the men and horses to spend two months to pacify the large and small tribes of Zhuyazhou, although he lost 2,000 soldiers and horses, but he incorporated Zhuyazhou into the territory of Jiaozhou.
For this point, Liu Zheng has a very high opinion of Wenpin, and he can recover Zhu Yazhou with the loss of 2,000 soldiers and horses, and Liu Zheng still thinks that this price is worth it.
After praising Wen Ping, Liu Zheng directly transferred these horses, and then asked Gan Ning to lead his third battalion headquarters soldiers and horses, plus the remaining 8,000 people in Wen Ping, to form an army of 18,000 and gradually advance from Hepu County to Nanhai County.
Two months have passed, and the 10,000 sailors on Liu Zheng's side have almost been trained, although they have not really experienced the tempering of a big war, but Liu Zheng also went to find Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin halfway, and saw the training of the navy now, knowing that these horses can be pulled to the battlefield.
In order to sharpen these sailors, Liu Zheng asked Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to pull the sailors onto the ship and go to Yangzhou.
Nanhai County, here and Yuzhang County are close to, later in history, Sun Ce saw that the territory of Yuzhang County was too big, so he divided Yuzhang County and made a Luling County.
Luling County is now adjacent to Nanhai County.
This place is mostly the place where the Shanyue people are located, and Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, cannot govern here at all, although this is also a part of the imperial court.
However, there are many mountain and Yue tribes, most of them are Hequ Xing, and the bandit leader of the Zhou Dynasty does not accept the king's rent, occupies the mountain as the king, gathers the crowd on a mountain, and becomes the emperor of the soil.
When Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses came here, Liu Zheng didn't even have the interest of attacking Luling, because the places where these bandits gathered here could be swept at any time, and now his main target was Huiji County.
Yangzhou has a vast territory, in fact, in front of the Central Plains, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, are remote areas, and at the same time there are many southern barbarians and bandits, which is a place where the imperial court is not willing to send people to the past.
Yangzhou's territory is also one of the best in the thirteen states of the entire Han Empire, but there are only a handful of small counties that can really be controlled by the imperial court.
Danyang County, Lujiang County, Yuzhang County, Huiji County and other places in the north of Yangzhou.
The southern part of Yuzhang County and the southern part of Huiji County are mostly occupied by Shanyue thieves, although the imperial court has the intention to exterminate them, but there are many bandits, and they cannot completely be the bandit forces and sweep them away.
Attacking Yangzhou from Nanhai County, first of all, you have to go through Jian'an, although the speed of taking a boat will be faster, but Liu Zheng does not have so many ships, can transport more than 10,000 people, in a short time, and Liu Zheng has always wanted to open up the connection between Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, the territory in the middle, sooner or later will be defeated, so he ordered Gan Ning and Wen Ping, lead their own people, all the way from Jian'an, go to Houguan, and kill Huiji.
Before the march, Liu Zheng had already ordered someone to take a boat and go to Wucheng County to tell Yan Baihu, so that Yan Baihu could prepare and deal with Liu Xian together.
With the speed of those soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng, it will take less than half a month to kill Huiji from Jiaozhou.
At the same time, Yangzhou Huiji County City.
In Liu Miao's mansion, several spies came here in a hurry.
"Lord, lord, something is wrong!"
Liu Miao was still warming up with his concubine at this time, and after hearing the sound outside, he hurriedly showed a look of displeasure, but he didn't say anything, so he could only get up from the concubine's side, and then walked out of the house.
As soon as he went out, he saw Fan Neng and hurriedly walked in.
"Fan Neng, what are you doing in a panic early in the morning, didn't I let you keep an eye on the movement in Jiaozhou?"
"Lord, something is wrong, something is wrong in Jiaozhou!"
In fact, at the first glance of Fan Neng, Liu Miao had already vaguely guessed something, but he was still patient and asked Fan Neng.
"What's going on, could it be that Liu Zheng and those people called?"
Fan Neng nodded violently.
"Well, a few days ago, our spies in Jiaozhou came back with news that Liu Zheng's guy had gathered twenty or thirty thousand people, set off in the South China Sea, and came over to Huiji."
Fan Neng was ordered by Liu Xuan, during this time, he has been monitoring Liu Zheng's movements in Jiaozhou, after all, Liu Zheng and Liu Xuan have a feud, and after Liu Xiang finishes cleaning up Yan Baihu, he will definitely go to Liu Zheng's trouble again, so he wants to pay close attention to Liu Zheng's dynamics.
But before he could make a move against Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng had already made a move in advance, sent soldiers and horses, and came over to his Huiji County.
Liu Xuan, who heard the news, first changed his face, but he did not panic.
"It's only twenty or thirty thousand horses, does he think he wants to defeat me with this little manpower?"
Obviously, Liu Xiangdu and Liu Zheng only sent 20,000 or 30,000 people with some disdain, not to mention that his Yangzhou now has more or less 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, that is, some of the township warriors temporarily recruited in various counties and counties can make up more than 40,000 horses.
If you really want to count it, Liu Miao can gather nearly 100,000 troops in a short time.
Naturally, they will not be afraid of Liu Zheng's twenty or thirty thousand people.