"Ziyi, although you admit defeat, your archery skills are still worthy of recognition."

Liu Zheng was afraid that Tai Shici would be disappointed, so after the game was over, he still planned to comfort Tai Shici.

Tai Shici turned his head and looked at Liu Zheng, his face was slightly lost, but he still responded to Liu Zheng very strongly.

"Brother Liu Zheng, I am willing to gamble and lose, this time it is indeed my skills that are not as good as others, since I lose, I will lose, you can rest assured, I don't want this position of general for the time being."

Tai Shi Ci is still very credible, he did not make excuses for his failure, but faced it very directly, after seeing Huang Zhong's archery, he finally understood the gap between himself and Huang Zhong, and it was precisely because of this that he was able to understand from this incident.

In the same way, if you have a goal to pursue, you will work harder to improve your ability.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to say something, but when he saw Tai Shi Ci so upright, he also understood that he had an understanding, so he immediately opened his mouth and said to Tai Shi Ci.

"Then you still want to join the army, if you want, I can assign you to General Huang Zhong's subordinates, starting with a tun commander."

Liu Zheng still didn't let Tai Shi Ci start from a small soldier, after all, Tai Shi Ci's strength is here, start from a small soldier, he won't be able to do it for long, he will be promoted because of his military exploits, rather than this, so that he doesn't have to do anything else, but directly let him become a tun commander, and start to learn how to become a general from managing a team of 100 people.

Liu Zheng has great expectations for Tai Shici, and he must be his right-hand man in the future, so he must be trained as a general, and the tun chief is the youngest military general in Liu Zheng's army.

The loss in Tai Shici's original eyes immediately appeared a hint of surprise when Liu Zheng opened his mouth.

"Really?"

Tai Shici immediately asked Liu Zheng.

"You think I'm joking, right?"

"Yes, I am naturally willing, I came with Brother Liu Zheng this time, I just want to join the army, even if I start as a small soldier, I am willing."

Now, Tai Shici no longer wants to start directly as a general because of his outstanding ability, but is willing to let him be a soldier.

But Liu Zheng won't let him be a soldier, he held such an archery competition, although it was proposed by Tai Shici, but more reason, it was also Liu Zheng who wanted to build momentum for Tai Shici and let everyone know Tai Shici's ability, so that when Liu Zheng made him a general, there would not be so many people who would criticize.

"Okay, you can report to General Huang Zhong's men from today onwards."

"Thank you, my lord!"

At this moment, Tai Shici's name for Liu Zheng has changed.

With the end of Tai Shici's arrangement, this archery competition finally came to an end.

Everyone also returned to their barracks and towns.

Now the army under Liu Zheng's command has basically taken shape, with 10,000 people as a unit, forming a battalion of soldiers and horses, and at the same time, according to the different generals, the soldiers and horses under his command have different emphases.

For example, the Xu Huang Legion of the first battalion, although the different types of troops in these legions are all assigned according to the formation of a ten-person squad prepared by Liu Zheng at the beginning, two cavalry, two archers, two sword and shield men, two pikemen, one medical soldier, and one scout.

But due to some reasons, such as the lack of horses and the shortage of archers, these legions under Liu Zheng will gradually shift to one focus.

For example, Xu Huang is good at cavalry, and most of the 10,000 troops under his command are cavalry, and Liu Zheng collected more than 1,000 of the 3,000 war horses at the beginning, of which more than 1,000 were under Xu Huang's command, including the war horses he later purchased from the Liaodong vassal country, and most of them were distributed to Xu Huang's hands.

In Xu Huang's army, cavalry is the mainstay, and although there are men and horses from other arms, there are fewer.

For another example, under Huang Zhong, there are also some cavalry, but most of them are used as scouts, and the roles of the two cavalrymen have been replaced by archers.

In other words, Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses focused on shooting, and most of them were long-range shooters.

The soldiers under Gan Ning are mostly infantry, and they take into account the ability of water warfare. And most of the soldiers under Zhou Cang are sword and shield hands, and their defensive ability is amazing.

Only among the civilian army, it is relatively mixed, and there is no fixed type of emphasis. In addition to the emphasis of these troops, Liu Zheng also arranged deputy generals for their various soldiers and horses.

Xu Huang is the chief general of the First Legion, while the deputy general is Pei Yuanshao, Huang Zhong is the chief general of the Second Legion, and the deputy general is Tai Shici, who is growing.

Gan Ning is the chief general of the Third Legion, the deputy general is his friend Su Fei, and Zhou Cang of the Fourth Legion, the deputy general is Zhou Chao.

In the corps of Wenpin, although there is no deputy general, Liu Zheng has already thought of a candidate, but he has not let him come out yet.

is Sun Ce, who is studying in the academy, and after waiting for two years, after Sun Ce graduates from the academy, Liu Zheng will throw him into the corps of Wenpin, and let him grow up with Wenpin.

The reason why Liu Zheng set up the concept of deputy generals is also because Liu Zheng often asks the commanders of these legions to participate in some other battles with him, and sometimes does not mobilize the soldiers and horses of these legions, and at that time there needs to be deputy generals to manage the legions.

In the two months since the end of the archery competition, Liu Zheng's Jiaozhou has not had much to do.

April 187.

In the past two months, Liu Zheng's side has not carried out any foreign wars except for continuing to train soldiers and horses according to orders, and the time changes in the past two months are that the merchant ships under Liu Zheng have gone to Liaodong twice in these two months.

Not only did he help Liu Zheng sell a lot of grain and grass from Jiaozhou to Liaodong, but he also brought back more than 2,000 war horses from Liaodong.

Of course, on these two trips to Liaodong, Liu Zheng did not let them go directly to Su Muyan, but opened more markets and traded with other small tribes.

Liu Zheng did not use the name of Jiaozhou merchant ships anymore, but asked the people of the Mi family to use the prestige of the Mi family in Xuzhou to go to Liaodong to make a deal.

After all, this kind of pure merchant's trade can not arouse the suspicion of the Karasuma people in Liaodong and maximize the benefits.

And it happened to be these two trips of trade that let Liu Zheng know some of the situations that happened in Youzhou, Liaodong.

Especially about Su Fuyan, which attracted Liu Zheng's attention.

Su Fuyan, this guy, after getting the entire winter food here in Liu Zheng, his tribe will not worry about eating and drinking in winter, full of warmth and strength, he really launched his own soldiers and horses to rob Qiu Liju according to Liu Zheng's words at that time.

The reason why Su Muyan dared to move Qiu Liju at this time was actually the main reason not because of Liu Zheng and his lobbying.

It was Yuan Shao, after Yuan Shao and Nanlou united, he pushed Nanlou to the position of Karasuma Shan Yu in one fell swoop, and Nanlou had Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses to assist, and he was already afraid of Qiu Liju's Nanlou, so he naturally wanted to tear a hole in Qiu Liju's territory.

Nanlou led the army into Youzhou, and Qiu Liju snatched the territory of Youzhou with a knife and a gun, there was no interest relationship between them, so they could be peaceful, but once their own interests were involved, this naturally could not maintain a peaceful state.

Nanlou had Shan Yu's order to let Qiu Liju hand over the three counties of Youzhou, and wanted to occupy the territory of the three counties by himself, but the territory of these three counties was firmly controlled by Qiu Liju in his own hands, and how could he give up the duck in his hand.

In particular, Qiu Liju knew that there were millions of people in the three counties of Youzhou, and if they controlled these three months, in a short time, they could recruit a powerful army of soldiers and horses, and naturally they would not hand it over to Nanlou.

Qiu Liju rejected the proposal of Nanlou on the grounds that the position of Nanlou was not canonized by the court of the Han Dynasty himself.

This made Nanlou furious, and directly united Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses to launch an attack on Qiu Liju, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers approached Qiu Liju's territory.

And Qiu Liju is not a vegetarian, during the time he occupied Youzhou, his strength has swelled a lot, and he is no longer the second largest tribe in Karasuma at the beginning, and he is also trying to argue with Nanlou to see who is the strongest tribe in Karasuma.

Simply, Qiu Liju gathered all his soldiers and horses, and cooperated with Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, in Yuyang County, and the men and horses of Nanlou to start a big battle.

Because of the support of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju merged more than 100,000 people, fought against the difficult building in Yuyang, and severely damaged the people and horses of the difficult building.

Although Nanlou has Yuan Shao's 20,000 horses to help, but the soldiers and horses are still not as many as Qiu Liju, in the first wave of confrontation, was defeated, after Qiu Liju won, the momentum is even more arrogant, want to directly annex Nanlou, directly lead the people and horses, and kill the tribe of Nanlou.

It was at this time that Su Muyan seized the opportunity and led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command to rush towards the royal court of Qiu Liju and kill him.

His Liaodong vassal country was already very close to Qiu Liju's western Liaoning, and Su Muyan didn't have the courage to attack Qiu Liju, but Qiu Liju transferred most of the soldiers and horses in the royal court in order to fight with Nanlou.

There are only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in the royal court, and the rest are some women and children.

If he doesn't make a move, when Qiu Liju destroys the difficult building, he will still understand the truth of his lips and teeth.

In order to take advantage of Qiu Liju's use of troops against the difficult building, thinking that Qiu Liju would make trouble, Su Muyan also said that he mobilized several other small tribes around him to form a coalition army of 30,000 people.

It was precisely because of Su Fuyan's sneak attack on Qiu Liju that Qiu Liju's pace of attacking Nanlou slowed down, and he had to draw some troops and horses back to deal with Su Muyan.

Qiu Liju, who was facing the battle left and right, was still unable to face the battle in so many places after all.