After discussing it with Shi Yi, he went back immediately.

"Forty thousand troops to conquer Cao Cao and Sun Ce?"

For this result, Shi Xie was a little dissatisfied in his heart.

In the entire Jiaozhou, there were only 50,000 troops, and 40,000 were sent out at once, which made Shixie feel a little unsafe.

If there is an accident with this 40,000-strong army, his rule over Jiaozhou will be shaken.

An army of 40,000 was sent out at once, and for so many years, Shi Xie had never used so many large troops.

There were no major wars in Jiaozhou, mostly some bandits, and there were riots of prisoners.

To deal with these bandits and thieves in Jiaozhou, it is completely enough to send 10,000 people.

"Brother, originally that Xu Huang, as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked us to have an army of 50,000, and all of them went to fight against Cao Cao and Sun Ce, and I said it badly, so I let him lose 10,000 people." Shiyi Road.

"But 40,000 is still too many." Shi Xie was still worried.

was worried that when he crusaded against Cao Cao and Sun Ce, he would be used as cannon fodder by Xu Huang.

Then these 40,000 people are meat buns and dogs, and there is no return.

"I'll give you 30,000." Shi Xie gritted his teeth and said.

30,000 men was the most he could muster.

Although on the surface, there were only 50,000 people in Jiaozhou, and originally 20,000 were commanders of Shiyi, and he controlled 30,000 himself.

But in fact, Shi Xie also secretly hid 10,000 people.

Removing 30,000, he still has an army of 10,000, and he can barely control Jiaozhou, and as long as he spends two years, he can still recover to 50,000, or even more.

Jiaozhou's current population is also growing slowly, and there are currently 50,000 troops, which is almost the ratio of soldiers to ordinary people, which is already 1 to 10.

"Brother, will these 30,000 be too little to explain to Xu Huang?" Shi Yi worried.

Shi Xie said: "I will repair a book, you give it to him, I think General Xu will not be strong, and I don't want to see the chaos in Jiaozhou." ”

Originally, when Shi Yi set off to see Xu Huang, Shi Xie was ready to send troops in his heart.

This is Jiaozhou, and as a pastor of Jiaozhou, he will definitely not be able to say anything if he does not send troops.

But he was originally only going to send 20,000 troops, but when he thought that Shi Yi would come back, he directly doubled it.

The figure of 30,000 is the largest number given by Shi Xie after thinking about it.

It's not that he doesn't cooperate with Xu Huang, but Xu Huang also has to think about him.

Shi Xie wrote a secret letter on the spot, sealed it with fire paint, and handed it to Shi Yi.

Shi Yi nodded: "Brother, don't worry, leave everything to me, I will definitely bring 30,000 soldiers back safely." ”

Shi Yi took Shi Xie's autograph book and 15,000 troops set off from Jiaozhi.

This 15,000 army is stationed in Jiaozhi, and there are another 20,000 troops, which need to be drawn from Gaoliang County, Hepu County when they need to go north all the way.

After Shi Yi took away 15,000 soldiers, there were still 15,000 people in Jiaozhi County. In this way, Shi Xie can feel a little more secure.

And Xu Huang did not go north from Jiaozhi, but ordered the 50,000 sailors to return to the battleship, advance against the coast, enter the coast of Nanhai County, and then follow Yushui to reach Yulin County directly.

There are many water networks in the south, and Xu Huang's sailors can directly enter almost every county in Jiaozhou from the sea along the numerous waterways.

The waterway is a certain distance from the county seat, but Xu Huang enters Yushui, and after arriving in Yulin County, he can reach Yulin County in one day.

After Xu Huang received Shi Yi's troops, he led the sailors and went north along the coast.

A few days later, he arrived in Nanhai County.

Then, there was also news of Shi Yi.

Shi Yi also arrived in Hepu County, and the number of troops in his hands changed from 15,000 to 20,000.

Xu Huang didn't know now that Shi Xie only wanted to send 30,000 troops.

After receiving the news, he then led the sailors to the west along Yushui, approaching Yulin County.

From Nanhai County to the west along Yushui, it only takes four or five days to reach Yulin County.

When Xu Huang's warship was lying on the Yushui River, the army led by Shi Yi was still more than 300 miles away from Yulin County.

Although Xu Huang's warship circled half of Jiaozhou along the coast, it was still faster than Shiyi by land.

Xu Huang did not rush to attack Yulin County, but let the soldiers set up camp on the riverbank.

At the same time, people were sent upstream to investigate in case Cao Cao and Sun Ce burst the embankment upstream.

After the arrangements were made, Xu Huang was waiting for Shi Yi's 40,000 army to arrive.

However, while waiting, the spies sent out also sent back the latest news.

"General, there are only 30,000 people in Shi Yi's hands." Lu Meng came to report.

This is the news that the Zhao army spies have detected according to the length of Shi Yi's army.

It wasn't Shi Yi who took the initiative to send someone to inform.

"Only 30,000 people?" Xu Huang said in a deep voice: "Are there any abnormalities along the way? ”

Lu Meng said: "No, when I was in Hepu County, the mobilization of soldiers was also very smooth, but there were only 5,000 people in Hepu County, and almost all of them were transferred by Shiyi. ”

"I'm sending someone to Cochin to check it out." Xu Huang frowned.

I want to trap Shixie in my heart, and I want to weaken Shixie's strength, so I am naturally worried that Shixie will stab him in the back.

At present, Xu Huang has only been in contact with Shi Yi, and as for what Shi Xie thinks in his heart, Xu Huang is still not sure.

Do you really want to cooperate with yourself?

still pretended to cooperate with himself, but in fact, he had already joined forces with Cao Cao and Sun Ce.

This is Jiaozhou, a territory that Shixie has controlled for decades.

Even if the soldiers in Xu Huang's hands are strong, there are only 50,000 people at present, and there is no overwhelming advantage over Shi Xie.

The most important reason why Shi Xie can bow his head now is because Zhao Hui is standing behind Xu Huang.

Even though Shi Xie was confident that he could defeat the 50,000 sailors in Xu Huang's hands in Jiaozhou, he definitely did not have the confidence to face the million-strong army in Zhao Hui's hands.

defeated Xu Huang, and the next time it may be Zhao Huiqin who led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Jiaozhou.

The entire Jiaozhou has a population of only five or six hundred thousand.

Excluding those who are old, young, women, children, and the sick, even if all the men who can fight in Jiaozhou are recruited, it will not exceed 300,000.

Not to mention these people, many of them have always been squeezed in Jiaozhou and are doing coolies.

If they were allowed to take weapons, they would not be dealing with Zhao Hui, and they would definitely swing their knives to cut Shixie immediately.

These people, Shi Xie didn't dare to use them at all.

He didn't dare to send all his troops to cooperate with Xu Huang, part of the reason was to prevent these people from rioting after learning the news, and when he didn't have troops in his hands, he couldn't suppress them.

Xu Huang sent people to Jiaozhi to investigate, and at the same time, he also sent people to Yulin County.

Sun Ce and Cao Cao are now in Yulin County, and the two have completely joined forces.

Even if Zhao Hui vaguely reminded Sun Ce that the person who assassinated him may have been sent by Cao Cao, there is no evidence to prove it after all.

At this time, Sun Ce also chose to forget the previous assassination, and if he wanted to continue to resist Sun Ce, he had to unite all the forces that could be united.