Liu Zheng didn't particularly care about Shixie's request, so he would naturally meet him.

The Shi family took refuge in him, Liu Zheng was just to get the support of the Shi family, and as for whether the Shi family would show their support on the surface, he didn't care, as long as he could control Cangwu County, it was enough.

What Liu Zheng thought was that as long as Cangwu County could be occupied in a short period of time, so that Liu Zheng could quickly replenish the local troops, and then use these soldiers and horses to conquer the entire Jiaozhou, it would be enough.

With the support and support of the scholars. It took only 10 days to occupy the entire Cangwu County, and the large and small counties of Cangwu County fell into the wind.

The people supported by Shi Xie, after receiving Shi Xie's order, decisively gave up resistance, let Liu Zheng send the people to receive the city into the city, and then collected the soldiers and horses, even if there were few people who were unwilling to surrender and resist, but in the county town, the soldiers and horses were only two or three thousand, and there was no resistance in front of Liu Zheng's army.

Liu Zheng didn't even spend much effort to control the entire Cangwu County in his own hands.

This was more than half a month earlier than he had expected at the beginning.

At the same time, the spies sent out by Liu Zheng finally sent back some news about Zhu Fu at this time.

It turned out that Zhu Fu was a guy who fled back to Cangwu City after being defeated in Wuyangling that day, but he knew that even if he could escape back to Cangwu City, it would be absolutely impossible to block the attack of Liu Zheng's army.

At that time, the strength of Cangwu City was less than 10,000 people, and Liu Zheng still had thousands of elite soldiers under his command, if Liu Zheng led people to attack Cangwu City, with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, he would not be able to stop Liu Zheng's attack at all, and Zhu Fu did not have the confidence to rely on these more than 10,000 remnants to block Liu Zheng.

So after returning to Cangwu City, Zhu Fu didn't even think much about it, and soon escaped from Cangwu City with his cronies and returned to Hepu County.

He still has some soldiers and horses in Hepu County, if he can give him some time, he can also use the identity of Jiaozhou Assassin Shi to vigorously pressure the counties and counties, so that the people of the counties and counties can once again form an army of tens of thousands of people.

Although these manpower could be formed, Zhu Fu was still not sure that he could confront Liu Zheng, so at the critical moment, he still decided to send someone to Yangzhou for help.

It just so happened that at this time, the envoy sent to Yangzhou before also returned. Yangzhou assassinated Liu Xuan, allowed him to enter the territory of Yangzhou, and encircled and suppressed Liu Zheng.

It's a pity that now Zhu Fu doesn't have the same momentum as before, he understands that Liu Zheng's strength is strong, and his strength alone is no longer enough to deal with.

So next, he planned to use the reorganized soldiers and horses to defend the city, and then send people to Yangzhou to ask for help, so that Liu Miao could send troops over to encircle and suppress Liu Zheng, a thief.

As long as Liu Xuan can send troops over and gather the soldiers and horses of the two states to deal with a mere Liu Zheng, although his more than 10,000 people are powerful, it should not be a problem in front of the soldiers and horses of the two states.

Zhu Fu sent an envoy to Yangzhou to leave quickly, and he also recruited soldiers and horses from various counties in half a month, and in only 10 days, all the soldiers and horses from the surrounding counties were gathered in Hepu County.

Zhu Fu, who originally had only more than 10,000 men left, gathered more than 30,000 soldiers and horses again during this time.

planned to use these 30,000 horses to block Liu Zheng's army in Hepu City.

Although there were 30,000 people, after experiencing the Battle of Wuyangling, Zhu Fu had a clearer understanding of Liu Zheng's strength, and he didn't think that just 30,000 horses could stop Liu Zheng's army, so he was still recruiting soldiers and horses.

Let the people from the nearby counties continue to gather soldiers and horses, Jiaozhou has a population of only one million, and there are not many men, and the original 40,000 soldiers and horses have been lost, which has seriously caused dissatisfaction in various places, and now Zhu Fu is still recruiting soldiers and horses, and the dissatisfaction is getting more and more serious, but at this time, the instructions can't take care of so much.

For his own safety and to defend Liu Zheng's attack, Zhu Fu could only increase the intensity of conscription.

And Liu Zheng's side had just finished gathering troops and horses from Cangwu City at this time.

There was no intention of attacking Hepu City at all.

"Gan Ning, now that half a month has passed, how is the training of the third battalion under your command?"

Now that Liu Zheng has completely controlled the entire Cangwu County, fighting against Zhu Fu with the power of one county, it can be regarded as a firm foothold here, and there is no need to be too anxious about dealing with Zhu Fu next.

He didn't want to lose too many of his soldiers and horses in the battle with Zhu Fu, so he planned to recruit the third battalion of soldiers and horses in Jiaozhou nearby, so that Gan Ning could quickly train the soldiers and horses of the third battalion, so that in the next battle against Zhu Fu, the soldiers and horses of this third person would charge ahead.

In this way, even if it is a death, it will be a death or injury to the newly recruited centaurs, and the veterans under his command will not lose too much.

"Back to the lord, in the past half a month, I have almost trained these soldiers and horses, not only recruited those who were left over from before, but also selected and gathered enough 10,000 horses through some county soldiers in other counties, although it is impossible to restructure according to our army, so that these 10,000 people can implement the all-arms system, but in terms of numbers, it is enough, and now it is being trained vigorously, give me some time, presumably these people will be able to be sent to the battlefield!"

Gan Ning recruited 10,000 new troops in Cangwu City, which was actually not a difficult task.

The entire territory of Cangwu County occupies one-seventh or eighth of Jiaozhou, and the local population of Jiaozhou exceeds one million, which translates to the entire Cangwu County, which has a population of at least more than 150,000 people.

Among these 150,000 people, there are still thousands of troops ready to be surrendered, in fact, he does not need to recruit many people to replenish, he only needs to transfer three to five hundred people in various counties and counties to quickly gather 10,000 new troops.

With these 10,000 people, he only needs to train well and use them, but the number is enough, but he can't completely achieve the same two battalions of soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng's command, fully equipped with cavalry, archers, sword and shield men, and pikemen.

There are almost no horses in Jiaozhou, and even if there are, they are only a few war horses in the hands of the general, and it is even more difficult to form a cavalry, which is not enough for the losses of the cavalry in the previous battle, and the archers are not something that can be trained in a short time.

Although Ganning recruited 10,000 men, most of them were pikemen and sword and shield men, and there were almost no cavalry and archer troops.

"Very good, I don't think I can give you much time, our spies came to report, after Zhu Fu's guy escaped to Pucheng, he recruited soldiers and horses again, and tens of thousands of people should have been recruited during this time."