Chapter 494: Career in the Army
Liu Biao remembered Cai Mao, after all, Cai Mao was the number one general under him, and he was also responsible for the defense of the entire Changsha.
Because he believed in Cai Mao, Liu Biao didn't even know how many soldiers and horses Cai Mao had recruited in Changsha County, giving Cai Mao a lot of autonomy.
On the contrary, Kuai Liang's strategists are clearer.
"Back to the lord, Cai Mao has 30,000 people in Changsha and 20,000 people on the border of Guiyang, a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses, and now we still have 20,000 soldiers and horses in Nanjun that can be mobilized."
Don't look at Liu Biao's territory of only three counties, but since he took office, he has vigorously reorganized his troops and horses, relying on the population of the three counties, and easily recruited an army of 100,000 people.
Mainly because of the previous battle with Liu Zheng, he did not take any advantage, and later the failure of Sun Jian, the Changsha Taishou, made Liu Biao realize that Liu Zheng was powerful, and this will focus on the development of military forces.
"Then I can rest assured, even if Liu Zheng and Yuan Shu join forces to attack us, we don't have to worry, the 100,000 army is in Jingzhou, Yuan Shu and Liu Zheng are not so easy to take Jingzhou, once they attack, we will immediately give Cao Cao and Liu Bei Xiu a letter, asking for their support, presumably, they will be happy to attack Yuan Shu and Liu Zheng for us at this time."
Now that the war in the imperial court is stable and the situation has gradually stabilized, Liu Biao does not have so many worries.
"Lord, Cai Mao is guarding Changsha, I don't believe him, it's just that General Cai Mao was defeated by Liu Zheng back then, and now he ......"
Kuai Liang didn't believe Cai Mao, but Cai Mao's ability was really not enough to reassure Kuai Liang, he knew Cai Mao, a few years ago, when Liu Zheng was still in the Yellow Turban Army, he captured Cai Mao alive, and at that time, Cai Mao spent money to buy his own life in order to survive, which was a well-known thing at that time.
Now although Cai Mao is the head of a county and has become the commander of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, no matter how you look at it, Kuai Liang doesn't believe Cai Mao very much.
"So what do you say?"
Kuai Liang didn't finish his words, but Liu Biao also knew what Kuai Liang was talking about.
"My lord, you can order my younger brother to lead the 20,000 soldiers and horses of Nanjun to Changsha and assist Cai Mao, first, to increase the garrison of Changsha, just in case, and second, with my brother here, you can also give advice to General Cai Mao, at least they will not fall for Liu Zheng, they should not join forces to defend Changsha, there should be no big problem."
Kuai Liang came forward to recommend his younger brother Kuai Yue, not to promote his younger brother to come forward, but really wanted his younger brother to assist Cai Mao, so that Cai Mao had someone to discuss.
"Well, it's okay, the 20,000 people in Nanjun are led by my nephew Zhang Yun, and there is no problem with him and Kuai Yue going to Changsha together."
"But in this way, there are only 5,000 defenders in Xiangyang, will it be ......?"
Liu Biao only has 100,000 soldiers and horses, and if all of them are dispatched, the defense here in Xiangyang will be weak, and it will not be so safe at that time.
However, Changsha and Jiangxia are both gateways, once these two places are lost, Xiangyang will definitely not be able to hold it, thinking of this, Liu Biao is also relieved.
"That's it, if Changsha and Jiangxia are broken by the enemy, this Xiangyang is just a lonely city, Changsha and Jiangxia are more important, let Zhang Yun and Kuai Yue go to Changsha as soon as possible, send my instructions to Cai Mao, once Liu Zheng attacks, be sure to hold Changsha."
"Yes, my lord, I'll go and tell them."
After Kuai Liang received Liu Biao's order, he immediately set off to issue Liu Biao's order.
And Yuzhang County, Yichun County.
Liu Zheng led his own soldiers from Wu County to Yichun County.
Together in Yichun County, there were several battalions of soldiers and horses, as well as the students of the old military academy.
Today's military academy has three classes of cadets.
The first session is the students of this class of Wenpin, they are the earliest group of people to train, and they are also the shortest group of people in education when Liu Zheng lacks manpower, because the general age of the students is older, and they have all devoted themselves to their military careers in just one year.
Wen Ping is the best among those people, becoming the commander of the first battalion, and most of the rest of the people are serving as the commander of the six battalions, or even the position of deputy battalion commander.
The second batch of students is the next class of students hired by Wenpin, but these people are the talents who collected the entire Jiaozhou, the youngest is only twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest is only sixteen or seventeen years old.
Therefore, not all students can graduate directly, among those who are less than sixteen years old, a large number of them are chosen by Liu Zheng to repeat the grade, and they must learn to be sixteen years old before they can leave the school.
Sun Ce is the second batch of students who joined later.
There are more than 100 people in total, this group of people, Liu Zheng did not let them choose to continue to study in the school in Jiaozhou, but let them follow with the army, after all, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang and others, it is impossible to stay in the school in Jiaozhou to teach, in addition to being professors, they also have another identity, that is, Liu Zheng's military generals.
When the battle occurred, they shouldered the responsibility of replacing Liu Zheng in the southern and northern wars, and those students in the military academy, Liu Zheng let them follow the army, firstly, to let them experience military life earlier, and secondly, only by following the army, they can not only talk on paper, but also complete their own improvement through practice.
Of course, last year, Liu Zheng recruited the third batch of students in Jiaozhou, but the third batch of students were too poor in age and physical fitness to be enough to join the army, so Liu Zheng asked them to study in Jiaozhou for one year first, and then come out to study with the army in the second year.
Zhou Yu was sent to the third school by Liu Zhengsai, but Zhou Yu himself proposed to go to the second session to study with the students of the second session.
Liu Zheng thought about it, Sun Ce was also among the students of the second session, and when they got married, these two guys were already familiar with each other, so they didn't separate them, and agreed to Zhou Yu's request.
In this way, Liu Zheng's pro-military camp and cadet battalion followed Liu Zheng to Yichun County.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu often came to find Liu Zheng, because Liu Zheng had a Wenpin by his side, and the two of them mainly came to find Wenpin to learn.
Ever since Wenpin defeated Sun Ce at Sun Ce's home, Sun Ce has been aiming for Wenpin and wanting to surpass Wenpin.
In just the past year, Sun Ce's martial arts have made extremely high progress.
Sun Ce, who is only thirteen years old, and Wen Ping, who is only eighteen years old, can fight for dozens of rounds without losing, and Wen Ping and Sun Ce feel more and more difficult to fight, so Wen Ping is under a lot of pressure.