After the battle to annihilate Zheng Bao, the calculation date is already May 18.

The group also needed to reorganize the troops, emphasize military discipline, and give the soldiers time to get acquainted with each other and refurbish their equipment.

Seventy-seven-eighty-eight added up, and Wu Qiu Yi set the deadline for going north to Youzhou before June 1.

After making an appointment, the two sides reorganized their own personnel - Wu Qiu Yi handled the affairs of the official army, and Li Su focused on Liu Bei's private soldiers.

The blacksmith workshops on Mizhu's side are also generally more powerful, mainly because they have a lot of inventory and are willing to recycle the old weapons exchanged by Li Su's side at a discount.

Therefore, under the condition that Li Su gave enough money, he actually refurbished the weapons of these two thousand Danyang soldiers in six or seven days.

Li Su sent the old war knives eliminated by the Danyang soldiers to the Jiujiang soldiers one by one.

Another 1,200 new steel-ringed swords, 500 nail hammers with pure iron hammers, and 300 one-handed battle axes were issued to Danyang soldiers.

After this rotation of equipment, the five or six million dollars were spent, but the combat effectiveness and appearance of the troops also took on a new look.

The equipment of the Danyang soldiers did not have a tomahawk originally, and it was this hidden need that Li Su and Lu Su discovered after they personally went deep into the army to understand the situation - originally according to the convention, the Danyang soldiers were known for their strength and used wooden war hammers, and those known for their agility used ring-headed knives.

But in fact, there are some of the most powerful soldiers, who have the power to break through the armor and hit hard, but at the same time are agile, and they have long felt that they are not good at using maces.

After changing to a tomahawk, the combat is more flexible. When you need to play agile and fast attack, you can use the knife to control the battle axe; When armor needs to be pierced, it can also be smashed by the weight of an axe.

In order to fully select the elite with the potential of tomahawks, Lu Su suggested that two military competitions be conducted.

The first is cross-country mountaineering, specific to speed and agility. The whole army started at the foot of the mountain, and a military flag was planted on the top of the mountain as the end point, and there were officers who distributed dyed bamboo chips, a total of 500 bamboo chips. There are a total of 2,000 Danyang soldiers, and they have to run into the top quarter to reach the standard, and the competition reward is 500 yuan.

The second item is to throw tomahawks, compare strength, and see who throws far. It is also the top 500 in the selection, and the winner also has a 500 yuan bounty.

After the double assessment, 300 people were selected from the best in the Danyang soldiers.

These 300 axe shield soldiers and the previous 500 hammer shield soldiers were directly commanded by Guan Yu.

The remaining 1,200 Danyang sword and shield soldiers were temporarily supervised and controlled by Dian Wei, and the 1,000 Jiujiang soldiers were still led by Zhou Tai. The new 3,000 soldiers and horses were all distributed.

Dian Wei and Zhou Tai are only the official positions of Qu Junhou, and they are subordinate to Guan Yu, who is a military horse.

This kind of establishment must be very strange in the eyes of outsiders - in the late Han Dynasty, a Sima of another department was generally in charge of five hundred to one thousand soldiers, and a Qu military marquis was only two or three hundred.

Now Guan Yu, Sima's subordinate, has swelled to three times the upper limit of the imperial court's establishment.

Dian Wei Zhoutai is close to five times the establishment of the imperial court, which is really a bit unjust.

Fortunately, Li Su repeatedly reassured: Although you were still the Marquis of Qu Jun before returning to Youzhou, you were treated according to the court officials of 300 stones.

Therefore, no one has complained because of the treatment.

And in the distribution of credit for the Battle of Susukou, Li Su did not take credit at all.

He knew that he had a few pounds and a few taels, and he couldn't command him on the battlefield at all.

So in the final recital to the state pastor, after Li Su discussed with Wuqiu Yi, the first credit was given to Lu Su. Because Lu Su deployed the Jiujiang troops by land very properly, and he personally took on the important task of preventing Zheng Baojun from returning to aid Shuizhai.

The second merit is Wu Qiu Yi's headquarters,

The third place went to Guan Yu, who raided and stole the house,

In the end, Zhou Tai who deceived and lured the enemy (said it was a fraud defeat, but it was actually a real defeat, but it was a good temptation to the enemy)

After returning to Youzhou, Liu Yu will be promoted, and basically according to this rhythm.

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It took five or six days to reorganize the troops, and it was already May 25.

Li Su and the others have also started from the camp near Chaohu Lake, preparing to move back to the Wujiangdu area of Guangling County - the sea boat pick-up ferry that Li Su and Mi Zhu agreed with is in the Wujiangdu area.

Wujiangdu is the quarry rock of later generations, near Ma'anshan. Guazhou Ferry between Guangling and Jingkou downstream, sandwiched by Jianye in the east and west, has always been the most important ferry port in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Since there were 8,000 men to be transported on this journey, and the total number of horses was less than 200, almost all of them infantry, it was certainly much slower to march on two legs than to take a boat.

When Wu Qiu Yi first came to Guangling, he didn't even expect that there would be a sea boat to rub on the return trip, so when he heard Li Su introduce Mi Zhu willing to help, he was simply overjoyed.

But Mi Zhu will definitely not help in vain, this time to help transport troops, on the one hand, it is the sincerity of cooperation with Liu Bei, and on the other hand, it is also to sell a big favor with Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, in exchange for the Mi family's sea ships to take goods and ship goods along the coast of Youzhou in the future, and will not be troubled by the government.

In this regard, Wu Qiu Yi patted his chest and promised Mi Zhu in person: After going back, he will try his best to speak well in front of Liu Yu and convey the Mi family's patriotic deeds. It is estimated that at least within two years, as long as Liu Yu is still Youzhou Mu, then the Mi family's sea ship caravan can be exempted from taxes.

On this day, when he arrived at the agreed Wujiangdu, Li Su met another wave of messengers from Youzhou.

As an aside, in the past month around Guangling, Li Su and Wu Qiuyi have actually kept in touch with their old bosses. It's just that the messenger is fast, and it takes half a month to go to Hebei and Jianghuai.

So their first letter to Liu Bei and Liu Yu was sent in early May. Liu Bei and Liu Yu replied in mid-May, and when the reply arrived near Guangling, it was almost the end of the month.

In fact, Liu Bei's letter to Li Su arrived two days ago, but the messenger did not find Li Su in Guangling, so he still inquired about the news through the Mi family and knew that the final meeting place was in Wujiangdu, so he came to Wujiang to wait.

After Li Su received Liu Bei's letter, he hurriedly opened it, and Guan Yu also watched it from the side.

In the letter, Liu Bei's victory in defeating the sneak attack of the Wuhuan Nanqiao King in Liangxiang Valley at the beginning of the month, using a rolling log to cut off the enemy's return route, and capturing a large number of horses was carefully recounted (see chapters 46~48 for details, there is no way to operate the two-line operation of the timeline, and this chapter can finally be closed)

At the same time, Liu Bei also said that he already knew that Li Su had negotiated a business with Mi Zhu to sell horses, and that when Mi Zhu's fleet arrived in Youzhou, Liu Bei would have at least 1,000 Wuhuan horses to sell.

When Li Su saw this, he was quite happy in his heart: his camp will not be short of money at least this year, and all the public funds he has advanced can be returned, and the accounts will be clear from now on.

Mi Zhu promised that when he bought Liu Bei's war horse, it would rise by two or three percent according to the current price in Youzhou, so the average price of each Wuhuan horse was at least 70,000 yuan, and it was sold for 1,000 at one time, but it was not 70 million!

Therefore, at the end of the letter, Liu Bei took care of Li Su not to be too stingy in spending money before coming back.

At the same time, it was also mentioned that because the front line was becoming more and more tight, Liu Bei also gave Liu Bei an opportunity to "allocate some additional troops to the imperial court without increasing the budget of the imperial court, and then he could be promoted to the imperial court".

As long as Liu Bei "pays money remotely" and takes care of Mi Zhu and Li Su to recruit an additional 1,000 Danyang soldiers, he will make up for Liu Bei's lack of Zhuojun Lieutenant, and calculate the rank of 1,000 stones. Before that, Liu Bei's official position was the county order of Liangxiang County, with a rank of 600 stones. In this way, it is equivalent to giving an overmatched military position, but the civilian position remains the same. (The officials of the Han Dynasty often hung several errands on their bodies, especially the civil and military forces could be hung separately, and the rank could also be different)

This kind of opportunity is not often available in peacetime, and it is only when the war is urgent that this kind of task is issued.

The nature is actually equivalent to spending money to buy officials, but it is much better than spending money to buy officials, and it will not damage your reputation - for example, if you directly give the court 10 million money to buy an official, it is a shame.

But if the imperial court gives you a budget of 10 million, but you recruit back 20 million worth of soldiers, in fact, you put 10 million into it, but as long as you don't say to the outside world that you posted money, disguise it as "Because I am eloquent and have strong ability to do things, I only rely on my three-inch tongue to persuade the handsome chief of Danyang to surrender with courtesy, so I have recruited so many more soldiers", then not only Qingliu can't accuse you, but also really admire you as a capable minister.

Money ability is also ability!

After Li Su saw the letter, he knew what to do. At present, our camp is already facing the problem of "deflation of official positions, too many people and too small officials", since a lot of money has been spent, spending millions more to promote a lieutenant, why not?

A county order with 2,000 townships to fight is already quite eye-catching, if it is expanded to 5,000 people, will not let the peers look sideways?

If Liu Bei had hung the title of county governor, the five thousand people would have barely been able to explain.

So Li Su found Mi Zhu, showed the letter to the other party, used the "Wuhuan War Horse Scale" option described in the letter as collateral, and borrowed a sum of money temporarily, and used the purchase price of the horse to compensate for it after arriving in Zhuo County.

Then, it only took two days for Li Su to cut through the mess, and finally found Zhang Duo and Xu Qian, and asked them to buy 500 Danyang soldiers of relatively poor quality, a total of 1,000 people, for 8 million, that is, 8,000 per person.

This price is very low, so the quality of the soldiers is not very good, but because these soldiers are not private soldiers left by their own side, but are handed over tasks to the leader, they are almost a little worse.

After all the packing up, there was no delay in the trip, a total of 9,000 people, divided into hundreds of boats similar to big sand boats, sailed out of the mouth of the Yangtze River.

For this journey, Li Su finally gave Mi Zhu another little hang-he roughly made a compass compass with a relatively high-tech content according to the current simple Sinan.

After the convenient Mizhu fleet sailed out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, it could sail due north, reach the vicinity of the Shandong Peninsula, and then turn northeast and round the tip of the Shandong Peninsula.

This kind of route can save at least five or six days compared to Mijia's original full-distance navigation route, and save more than 700 miles from east to west. Coupled with the shallow waters of the Yellow Sea, there are no big waves this season.

There are only some undercurrents, which are also solved by the method of "nailing stable fin planks on both sides below the waterline of the ship" that Li Su taught Mi Zhu before, so it is very safe.

The sea route is very boring, and it is a great pain for soldiers who have not experienced the relevant training. But as long as you carry it a few times, everyone can also grow.

After driving at sea for seven or eight days, they also rested and relaxed for a day near Donglai County on the Shandong Peninsula, so the people's hearts were always stable throughout the whole process.

After leaving Donglai, he sailed for seven or eight days, and the whole journey added up to half a month, and finally arrived safely at the mouth of the Xuanshui River on the shore of the Bohai Sea, and went up the river to Zhiji County, Youzhou Prefecture.

However, when they just got off the boat from the dock in Jixian County, Li Su and the others noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Youzhou Mu Liu Yu personally waited at the dock to review the troops, and Liu Bei also came from a neighboring county.

As soon as he saw Li Su and Guan Yu, Liu Bei immediately rushed over, first stroked Guan Yu's arm on his back, said some comforting words, and then said to Li Su:

"Boya, Yun Chang, since the last letter to you, the chaos on Youzhou's side has worsened again! Not only Zhang Chun and King Nanqiao have not yet been pacified in Shanggu County, but there is also a new rebellion in Liaoxi County in the east! Gongsun Bogui was surrounded in Guanzi City, Liaoxi! Alas, this anti-thief is really more and more, I thought that if Zhang Chun was destroyed, the world would be peaceful! ”

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PS: Today is a transitional chapter for changing maps.,That's it.,These must be explained.,Post-war harvesting credits、PromotionsThese running accounts,More or less have to be written.。

Anyway, it's not on the shelves yet, and I've tried to change the map and write it as quickly as possible.

At least ninety percent of writers are beeps better than me.