At the beginning of December, Liu Zheng's spies also received information from Bingzhou.

Although at the end of September, the imperial court had already sent someone to send a message to Bingzhou, asking Ding Yuan to lead soldiers and horses to go south to Nanjun to support Liu Biao.

However, it is not that Ding Yuan wants to leave, so he can leave directly, this state needs to defend against the attack of the Hu people, especially when it is close to winter, the Hu people are the same as the Xianbei Karasuma people, and they will be dishonest in winter, and the market will come to Yanmen Pass and other places to harass the people of the Han Dynasty.

Ding Yuan needed to send troops and horses to various places to defend against the attack of the Hu people, and after perfecting these things, he could lead the rest of the men and horses to Jingzhou.

As a result, the time dragged on until November.

By the time Ding Yuan's men and horses arrived in Jingzhou, it was already almost December.

So when Liu Zheng got the news, it was naturally even later.

"My lord, the court has a new move, and this time it is aimed at us."

Because Yuan Zhou went to Youzhou, Liu Zheng has relied on Xu You a lot recently, and Yuan Zhou can't be busy alone in intelligence work, most of the time, it is also handed over to Xu You to do, and Xu You is also relatively good at this aspect of things.

So over the years, Xu You rarely gave advice by Liu Zheng's side, and mostly did some more urgent things for Liu Zheng, such as lobbying Yan Baihu and other important tasks.

Although Yuan Zhou is Liu Zheng's most important military advisor, Xu You's status in Liu Zheng's army is not low, after all, he is a person who knew Liu Zheng's generals relatively early, especially Zhou Cang, Xu Huang and others, and Xu You can also talk to him.

It's just that Xu Yu is arrogant and arrogant, always relying on his own talents, and gaining Liu Zheng's trust, he looks down on people, such as Zu Lang, Jiang Qin and others who joined Liu Zheng later, so they are not treated by him.

Liu Zheng is also clear about these problems, after all, Xu Yu in history is such a person who is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he actually dared to scold Cao Cao, and was killed by Xu Chu on the street.

It's also unlucky.

Of course, Liu Zheng would not see such a thing happen, so he had already reminded Xu You not to be too arrogant, to be careful in everything, and to sail carefully for ten thousand years.

How much Xu You can listen to, Liu Zheng doesn't know, in short, for a period of time, I haven't heard of Xu You having a conflict with any general.

What is worthy of Liu Zheng's joy is that not long ago, Xu Huang's concubine gave birth to a son for him.

After Liu Zheng got the news, he sent an order to Xu Huang, asking Xu Huang to take a few days off and go back to accompany his son.

Most of these generals under Liu Zheng's account have already taken wives, and some have even given birth to children, or even more than one.

However, Liu Zheng does not interfere in the private lives of these people, as long as they do not rob people's daughters, disturb public order, and bully others, Liu Zheng will not care about it.

Among these people, Huang Zhong is the oldest, after all, Huang Zhong's son, Huang Xu is going to be an adult, although he has been studying medicine under Zhang Zhongjing, Liu Zheng still attaches great importance to him, and he was given an official position early, although he is only a medical officer, but many military doctors in the army are all out of his own hands.

Except for Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Zhou Cang and others are actually about the same age, not much different from Liu Zheng, they are all in their twenties, everyone is a remnant of the Yellow Turban, where is there such a thing as a wife.

But now it's different, Liu Zheng and them have status, and a lot of people want to marry their daughters to them, so they all get married one after another.

Zhou Cang's daughters are all three years old, but when they got married, they were not as grand as Liu Zheng, they just had a simple meal.

"The imperial court will definitely take action against us, after all, we have occupied most of Jingzhou, and we have already paid attention to attracting the attention of the imperial court, if the imperial court does not take precautions against us, it will be a little strange."

"Let's talk about it, this time, what does the court want to do?"

Liu Zheng asked Xu You, Xu You hurriedly spoke, and told Liu Zheng the news passed by Xizuo.

"Bingzhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan, a month ago, led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the south from Bingzhou, and now he has arrived in Nanjun and united with Liu Biao of Nanjun."

"Ding Yuan?"

When Liu Zheng heard this name, he was immediately a little surprised.

He was surprised not because of how powerful Ding Yuan was, but because if Ding Yuan appeared, then his righteous son Lu Bu would definitely follow Ding Yuan, and Lu Bu was what Liu Zheng was afraid of.

It's not to talk about being afraid, it's just that Lu Bu is known as General Fei after all, the first fierce general of the Three Kingdoms, not to mention the first in the world in terms of force, and there is still a trapped camp under his command.

This trapped camp is where Liu Zheng feels scared.

Invincible is always just a title, there are really 10,000 small soldiers to surround and kill Lu Bu, no matter how strong he is, he will have to die on the battlefield, but that trapped camp, although there are only a few hundred people, it is enough to pose a threat to thousands of others.

"Yes, Ding Yuan led an army of 30,000 and entered Xiangyang City in Nanjun, but they did not attack us, but took Yuan Shu first."

"Take the Yuan Technique?"

This time, Liu Zheng was startled at first, and then calmed down.

This is also normal, Yuan Shu has just defeated Jiangxia, and he has not yet gained a firm foothold in Jiangxia.

Yuan Shu's strength has been greatly reduced, and now it is even more lost, Ding Yuan, who is new to Nanjun, will definitely not find trouble with Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng's strength is too strong, he wants to be powerful, and he always has to find a soft persimmon.

And Yuan Shu, who occupies the three counties of Nanyang, Runan, and Jiangxia, is the best soft persimmon.

As long as Yuan Shu is eliminated and these three counties are recovered, the strength of the imperial court can be consolidated, and at the same time, it can also give some confidence to the soldiers of Jingzhou.

If it were Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng would definitely make the same choice.

After eliminating Yuan Shu, it is the right choice to concentrate on dealing with Liu Zheng.

"It's really a good chess piece, if my expectations are not bad, Yuan Shu is about to finish, he only has two ways to go, one is to ask us for help, and the other is to go to Youzhou and take refuge in his eldest brother Yuan Shao."

Liu Zheng didn't expect Yuan Shu to be of any use, his usefulness was to be sandwiched between Liu Zheng and the imperial court, to be a buffer, if Ding Yuan was gone, there would be no need for Yuan Shu to exist.

"Lord, what should we do next?"

Xu Yu asked Liu Zheng puzzled.

"Ding Yuan, he must be coming at us, although he hasn't taken us yet, but it's just a matter of time, you have to guard against it, you go and let Gan Ning and Zhou Cang step up the expansion of the people, let them expand the original 10,000 soldiers and horses to 20,000, and at the same time order Zu Lang and Zhou Tai's 20,000 sailors to go to Dongting Lake."