"Xu Huang, immediately let the army gather in the school field, and after cultivating for more than half a year, we are finally going to take action."

After Liu Zheng received the news from Jiaozhou, he immediately began to take action against Jiaozhou.

In the past two months, the soldiers and horses under his command have been gradually replenished, and the remaining more than 10,000 people after the army restructuring have also been replenished as he continued to conquer the nearby Shanyue tribes, and 20,000 people have been pieced together, and the army of two battalions has been truly established.

The first battalion was a mixture of the former Yellow Turban Army veterans led by Xu Huang, and the second battalion was a mixture of the Yellow Turban Army and the water thieves, as well as the Shanyue soldiers and horses recruited later in this Shanyue area.

The soldiers and horses of these two battalions, the first battalion is naturally more elite and is also an elite soldier in a hundred battles, while the second battalion has not experienced as many battles as the first battalion, but with Huang Zhong's drills, it is also during this period of time that the combat experience has also risen rapidly, and it is no less than the soldiers and horses of the officers and soldiers.

In a short time, 20,000 troops were already assembled on the school grounds.

All the generals under Liu Zheng's command, except for the 3,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Zu Lang, who was in charge of protecting the safety of the Mijia caravan in Poyang Lake, did not come here, and all the remaining soldiers and horses in Mingyue Cottage arrived.

Liu Zheng didn't talk nonsense with these people at all, directly counted the manpower, and began to prepare to set off.

He only left Pei Yuanshao and some backmen to protect the safety of the cottage.

Immediately took it, and all the people began to move in the direction of Cangwu County.

June.

Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses had already reached the junction of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou. Although he has not directly launched an attack on Jiaozhou, this has already made Zhu Fu of Jiaozhou receive the news.

Zhu Fu did not let the soldiers and horses enter Yuzhang County for a long time, firstly, he needed a reason to crusade against Liu Zheng, he had to send someone to find Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, and explain the situation to Liu Xuan, so that he could let his army enter the territory of Yangzhou, otherwise rashly leading people to kill Yuzhang County would cause Liu Xuan's jealousy.

In case Liu Miao joins him in the court, his position as a assassin will come to an end.

So in the past two months, although Zhu Fu had long known that Liu Zheng's men and horses were in Yichun County, he had not sent people to attack for a long time, precisely because he had not yet received Liu Xuan's permission.

From Jiaozhou to Yangzhou, the journey is not short, back and forth, and the time for a month is still small.

And Liu Zheng arranged his men and horses at the junction of Yuzhang County and Cangwu County, and did not attack rashly, after all, he only had 20,000 horses under his command, and Zhu Fu said that there were 40,000 soldiers and horses, plus Zhu Fu united with the local heroes of Jiaozhou, with the support of Haoqiang, the number of troops will only be more, not less.

If Liu Zheng rashly attacked, it was inevitable that the ship would capsize in the gutter, and if Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses were not defeated, but suffered heavy losses in Jiaozhou, this would seriously frustrate Liu Zheng's next plan.

Liu Zheng, who has always been cautious, naturally would not do such a thing.

Therefore, Liu Zheng did not attack rashly, but waited, waiting for Zhu Fu's men and horses to take the initiative to attack, and then Liu Zheng said goodbye to the move, braking with static, and responding to all changes with the same.

And Zhu Fu already knew that Liu Zheng led people to station a lot of soldiers at the junction of the two weeks. Zhu Fu had already arranged spies in Liu Zheng's territory before, and the mobilization of soldiers and horses in Liu Zheng's cottage would definitely not be able to hide from the eyes and ears of those spies.

These eyes and ears will definitely pass the news to Zhu Fu.

Meanwhile.

Liu Zheng also began to increase his efforts to explore the situation in various parts of Jiaozhou at this time.

Since he has sent troops this time, he is planning to occupy the entire Jiaozhou in one fell swoop.

The nine counties of Jiaozhou cover a large area, and from the perspective of Liu Zheng, a modern person, Guangdong, Guangxi and even part of northern Vietnam in the future are counted in the territory of Jiaozhou.

It is precisely because of the large territory spanning Jiaozhou, coupled with the poor geographical location and inconvenient transportation, that the news spreads very slowly.

Once a war breaks out, Zhu Fu, who is sitting in the state and county office, may not be able to clearly know what is happening in the fastest time.

So this gave Liu Zheng a lot of initiative.

"Lord, it's been half a month since we came to this place, and the other party hasn't taken the initiative to attack, do we want to consume it with him here? This is very unfavorable to us, it is difficult for our grain and grass to be transported to such a far place, with the current view of our grain and grass, we can only hold on for another 10 days, if there is no achievement in 10 days, I am afraid that our grain and grass will not be able to support. ”

Yuan Zhou, as the only military advisor under Liu Zheng, is also the main person in charge of supervising grain.

The grain and grass under Liu Zheng's command have always been in charge of Zhou Cang before.

However, Zhou Cang has gradually developed into an important general, so this kind of grain supervision has gradually been transferred to the civilian officials to be responsible.

In addition, there are very few civil officials under Liu Zheng's command now, so he can only let Yuan Zhou do everything.

"Are we running out of food so soon?"

In the previous war, Liu Zheng didn't worry much about the grain and grass, firstly, there was no grain and grass under his command, and under the influence of the Yellow Turban Army before, the grain and grass were basically robbed, and they were all days when they ate the last meal but did not eat the next meal, so there was nothing to worry about.

But now it's different. Since the restructuring of his army, all food and grass have been dominated by soldiers.

It is better to starve those people than to starve the soldiers, so that the soldiers have super high treatment.

The food supply is also twice as much as usual, so the food consumption is large, don't look at the number of soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng's command, but the food supply has become more compact.

Plus. At this time, it was the beginning of spring, and the grain and grass used were all left over from last year. There is no new harvest of grain and grass this year, so it is normal for grain and grass to be short.

"The lord is not that we don't have enough grain and grass, but this place is far away from our cottage, and the road is tortuous, there are many hills and peaks, so it is impossible to transport grain and grass by horse-drawn carriages, so we can only rely on manpower and a small part of the load to transport."

"This kind of transportation is not only slow, but also time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the consumption of grain and grass in our army is very huge, so naturally we can't keep up, and the grain and grass that can be used for ten days is the result that I can only have by hiring a part of the people to be responsible for transporting grain and grass."

"As the saying goes, the three armies go first before moving grain and grass, and it seems that the matter of grain and grass is really very important."

Hearing Yuan Zhou's words, Liu Zheng finally nodded, he used to fight, and he didn't pay too much attention to the matter of grain and grass, but after this long journey and long-distance march, he finally realized the importance of grain and grass.

If there is no food and grass, even if he has more soldiers and horses, he is afraid that he will collapse without a fight.

"Lord, isn't it just grain and grass? What's so hard about that? Give me 3,000 soldiers and horses, and I'll get you some food and grass at once! ”

Just when Liu Zheng was embarrassed, Zhou Cang immediately took the initiative to ask for battle and said a word to Liu Zheng.