Cai Mao clearly knew Liu Zheng's strength, so naturally he would not confront Liu Zheng.

After a few pretended battles, the two sides gave up their respective battles, and Chen soldiers were near Changsha County and Lingling County.

The uprising of Guo Shi in the four counties of Jingnan also came to an end at this time. Although Guo Shi still occupies Wuling County today. But the influence of Guo Shi's uprising was reduced to the lightest at this time.

At the same time, Lingling County and Guiyang County are also in the hands of Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng is strong, and he can't be defeated in a while.

The two sides were in a stalemate for a month. Liu Biao's order also came from Xiangyang.

The envoy sent by Liu Biao greatly praised Cai Mao's achievements.

Although Cai Mao did not completely defeat Liu Zheng and Guo Shi, but only stalemate with Liu Zheng and others, this did not prevent Cai Mao from gaining credit in this battle.

He used his men and horses to first recover Nanjun, reinstate Nanjun under Liu Biao, and then led his soldiers and horses to seize Changsha County from Liu Zheng.

The land of these two counties has now become Liu Biao's territory. Liu Biao's influence expanded in Jingzhou.

Although the three counties of Wuling County, Lingling County, and Guiyang County are still in the hands of the rebels. But these three counties were not controlled by Liu Biao at the beginning, and they were all the same.

Liu Biao praised Cai Mao's contributions in this battle, and gave Cai Mao an official knighthood, and once became Liu Biao's most trusted general.

And as Liu Zheng expected, in order to prevent Liu Zheng's attack, Liu Biao did not let Cai Mao evacuate, but continued to let Cai Mao lead people to be stationed in Changsha County to prevent Liu Zheng's attack.

After receiving this news, Liu Zheng finally felt at ease, as long as the person stationed here was still Cai Mao, then Liu Zheng knew that in a short period of time, he and Cai Mao would not be able to fight.

At the same time, the news of Wang Fen and others finally came from Jizhou in this month's time.

As Liu Zheng expected, although Wang Fen had some people to help him, supporting the young emperor of the Han Dynasty Liu Wei as the emperor and competing with the imperial court, his strength was still not as deep as the centuries-old heritage of the Han court.

Under the leadership of Huangfu Song, although only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. But after uniting Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Han Fu and many other historical princes, they launched an attack on Jizhou together.

Wang Fen scattered all his wealth to build up more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and after several months of resistance, he finally ran out of ammunition and food.

After Huangfu Song's men entered the palace in Jizhou, Wang Fen committed suicide in the palace in Jizhou, and the whereabouts of Emperor Shaodi of Han are unknown.

A mighty battle for the throne has finally come to an end.

For Liu Zheng, although he is far away in Jizhou, he is also very concerned, because the affairs of Jizhou have been handled by the imperial court, and the imperial court will definitely have to free up its hands to deal with him in the future, and there will not be too much time left for Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng, who knew that he didn't have much time, recruited soldiers and horses in this month.

This time, the soldiers and horses of the sign were not the same as the battalions he had established before.

The men and horses recruited before were mainly used for foreign warfare. and other princes' battles. Almost all of them use the main forces under Liu Zheng, and those are his elite.

And this time, the recruited men and horses are mainly used to guard the county soldiers who are responsible for the management of public security in various counties. Belongs to the second-line troops.

Just like in later generations, two different branches of the armed forces were distinguished, one was the group army that fought abroad and the armed forces used to maintain law and order in various cities.

Liu Zheng wanted to select the first batch of soldiers and horses from these armed forces, and then select the best ones from these armed forces to join his main force.

Liu Zheng, who pursued the policy of elite soldiers, should use rank to distinguish the strength and nobility of soldiers and horses.

It is better to lack than to indiscriminately fill the number of people, and more useless people will only reduce the combat power of the army.

In a month's time, Liu Zheng recruited 50,000 or 60,000 county soldiers in Jiaozhou, and each county had at least 10,000 people to guard it.

It only takes three months of training for these county soldiers to play some role, and when the time comes, Liu Zheng will select people with good enough strength from these 50,000 or 60,000 people to join his main combat group army.

Of course, the sudden recruitment of 50,000 or 60,000 county soldiers, even if the military expenses are distributed, is not a small amount.

Fortunately, when Liu Zheng went to Changsha before, he got the business dividends that had not been handed over for several months from Mi Fang's hands.

The dividends of more than 1,000 gold a month, superimposed on a few months, allowed Liu Zheng to get a lot of money all of a sudden.

Although the money was not fixed every month, and one or two of them lost part of the money because of Guo Shi's uprising to capture Changsha County, but Liu Zheng had previously rushed Guo Shi to get some money and grain.

If you calculate it, it is not a loss, this large amount of money is used to recruit soldiers and horses, which is just enough, and short-term military expenditure is still completely sufficient.

After a long time, although there will be economic constraints, after a few months, the Mi family will have new income, and at the same time, the people of Jiaozhou will also have some taxes, which can temporarily alleviate Liu Zheng's economic crisis.

Liu Zheng also called Cai Yao from Jiaozhou at this time and went to Shaoyang City, planning to let Cai Yao meet Cai Yao, who had not seen her for a long time.

Originally, when Liu Zheng wanted to take the opportunity to ask Cai Yao if he wanted to follow Cai Mao back, Cai Yao didn't seem to have this idea, and Cai Mao now saw Liu Zheng's potential, and didn't mention it again about letting his sister go back.

simply, let Cai Yao continue to follow Liu Zheng.

On this day, when Liu Zhengzheng was going to meet the 10,000 horses that Zhou Cang had transferred from Jiaozhou, suddenly Yuan Zhou came over from outside in a hurry.

"Mr. Yuan Zhou, where are you going in such a hurry?" 、

"Where else can I go, naturally I'm here to see you, lord, I have something important to look for you."

"What's the matter, isn't it that the imperial court has sent troops to us?"

Now the only thing that can make Liu Zheng feel that it is an important matter is the Han court.

"It is true that a group of soldiers and horses appeared around us, but I don't know if it is the people of the Han Dynasty, they are not far from Shaoyang City, and they have sent envoys to meet you, the lord."

Yuan Zhou didn't say anything, and directly told Liu Zheng about the matter, which surprised Liu Zheng.

"Who? How many centaurs? ”

"There are about more than 10,000 people, I don't know how much, the leader is a young general, who looks very young, seems to be very down, and I can't see where it is."

Liu Zheng hurriedly asked Yuan Zhou, but Yuan Zhou was not very clear about those people.

"More than 10,000 people, isn't it an enemy?"

"They didn't attack the city directly, they just named you by name."