In the south, Sun Ce was still as brave as ever, continued to use troops after the beginning of spring, completely defeated Liu Xuan, and then led his troops to attack Huiji, defeating Wang Lang's department, and he himself served as the Taishou of Huiji. Wu Jing was also the Taishou of Danyang, Sun Ben was the Taishou of Yuzhang, Sun Fu was the Taishou of Luling, and Zhu Zhi was the Taishou of Wujun.

Zhang Zhao from Pengcheng, Zhang Hong, Qin Song, Chen Duan, etc. became Sun Ce's advisers, and at this time, Sun Ce had already fledged, and then sent Liu You and Gao Cheng to Chang'an with a chapter to pay homage to the imperial court.

Sun Ce's rapid rise was beyond everyone's expectations, even Cao Cao didn't expect Sun Jian's son to be so brave, and he killed a large number of princes in Jiangdong with three strikes and five divisions. He himself is still competing with Gong Du Liu Pi in Yuzhou, and by the way, he has to fight against Yuan Tan and Yuan Yin, so if you want to get Yangzhou next door and say that the sky will be turned upside down?

When he wanted to deal with Sun Ce, the imperial court had already issued an order appointing Sun Ce as the pastor of Yangzhou. It was of course Chen Cheng's idea to appoint Sun Bofu as the pastor of Yangzhou, but Yan Zhong, Jia Xu and others also agreed with this resolution. Now that Cao Cao is back again, and the momentum seems to be fiercer than before, then burying a nail behind him is also a proper meaning.

In less than two years, Sun Ce has jumped from the state of being under the fence after his father's death in the war to the lord of a state, and this gorgeous transformation is only comparable to Chen Cheng six years ago. In the face of Sun Ce's proud achievements, even Cao Cao was a little overshadowed.

Sun Ce couldn't help but be overjoyed when he received the edict from the imperial court, which far exceeded his best expectations, and then he continued to use troops in the south as the pastor of Yangzhou, and pocketed all the land in Jiangdong. Liu Miao died of illness in this year, and his generals Tai Shici and Sun Ce fought several times, but could not win, and finally could only accept the conquest of the imperial court, and took his mother and hundreds of subordinates to follow the angel Yan Xiang to Chang'an.

Cao Cao didn't fail to see that Sun Ce's rise would pose a threat to him, but after defeating the Yellow Turban Army, he soon encountered a huge problem: what to do with Yuan Tan?

Yuan Tan is Yuan Shao's son and the current lord of Yuzhou, if he does something to Yuan Tan, it will be an open break with Yuan Shao. But if Yuan Tan is not arched down, he will not be able to completely grasp Yuzhou in his hands, and he will not be able to attack those traitors in the north.

Moreover, his family members are all in Yecheng, if Yuan Tan is dealt with, Yuan Shao will be angry, will he give Cao Ang and Cao Pi a pot of stew? Cao Cao is a person who wants to do big things, and it is estimated that he can be like Liu Bang, and his face will not change when he sees his father being cooked on the fire, but if he really doesn't take his family to heart, it will be terrible.

Even a person who can ignore his wife and son, so his subordinates must not be worried all day long?

So Cao Cao could only be stuck here for a while, and then sent people to Yecheng to carry out activities, wanting to persuade Yuan Shao to take the initiative to call Yuan Tan back, so that everyone didn't have to tear their faces.

In the entire first year of Jian'an, the imperial court did not make any major moves, but only slightly reformed the military system. In the past, because of the small territory, it was enough to suppress the Quartet with 12,000 tooth soldiers. Even if there is a strong enemy, it only needs to bring together the soldiers of the county and the country from all over the country, but now the territory has expanded fourfold, and if Yanzhou and Xuzhou are added, it will be expanded by six times.

As in the past, it is somewhat inconvenient to use troops. In order to deal with the possible outbreak of a major war in the future, the military department and the tooth soldiers proposed two plans.

The first is to continue to increase the number of the Central Field Army, that is, the number of tooth soldiers, to 25,000 or 30,000 people. In foreign warfare, the tooth soldiers were the main force, and the county soldiers from all over the country were dispatched as auxiliaries, and this combat mode proved to be very effective in the past, so the tooth soldiers gave such a suggestion.

The second is to increase the strength of the army on the border, so that each direction has the strength to deal with the enemy in front of it independently. This is a proposal given by the Ministry of War, and the first thing that needs to be strengthened is the Zhao Yun Department of the Bingzhou Army, and the Xu Rong Department of the Governor of Sanhe. The Bingzhou army had to suppress the Baibo army in Hedong and deal with Zhang Yan's army on Taihang Mountain, and it was really difficult to rely on the thousands of people under Zhao Yun's command alone. Moreover, in the future, the state will directly face the powerful Hebei Army, so the existing strength will not be enough.

Although there were no strong enemies around Xu Rongbu, the governor of Sanhe, neither Hanoi nor Yanzhou were so reliable in the eyes of the imperial court. Hanoi Taishou Zhang Yang has 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and he has been being co-opted by Yuan Shao, which is very wavering. Yanzhou Mu Chen Gong has no way to go, and since he took office as the state pastor, his annual income has decreased by more than half. In the past, when Cao Cao was there, Yanzhou could raise 200,000 soldiers, bring out 100,000 people to fight, and there were still 100,000 people left to watch the family.

But after it reached the hands of Chen Gong, the number of troops was reduced again and again, and now there were only 30,000 people left. For these 30,000 people, there is still some meaning that the state can't feed them. Cao Cao in the south had already stood up again, and was eyeing Yanzhou. Last year, the imperial court soldiers and horses stayed in Yanzhou and did not evacuate, Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others were so anxious that they finally sent the imperial army away, and as a result, the shadow of Cao Cao shrouded again.

Cao Cao in Yuzhou is growing stronger day by day, and his soldiers and horses have changed from thousands to tens of thousands, no one believes that Cao Mengde will always wait in Yuzhou, maybe when he will send troops to the north, arrest Chen Gong, Zang Hong, Zhang Miao, these traitors, and cut off their heads one by one.

Although Cao's army did not go north in a big way, from time to time soldiers and horses broke into Yanzhou to copy the people. The Yanzhou soldiers fought several battles with the Cao army, but they were all defeated. Although Zhang Miao, Zang Hong and others are known as celebrities, they are just looking at it, and it is really useless to fight. Fortunately, the imperial court used Cao Cao's massacre of the people to remove him from his official position as Yanzhou pastor and sent troops to crusade, so this time, although Cao Cao had plundered in Yanzhou, he did not dare to blatantly massacre.

But the people of Yanzhou couldn't stand Cao Jun coming to rob from time to time, and many people fled to Sili and Guanzhong with their families. Last year, many scholars and Haoqiang were still complaining that the imperial court had moved the people away, which harmed the interests of Yanzhou. This year, some of them moved in on their own without the help of the imperial court.

It's not that they love the imperial court so much, but because the fields in Hebei have long been divided up by the local family, and they only have to gnaw on the old capital after they pass, so it is better to go to the imperial court to rule, so they can still divide the fields for free according to their household registration. Although they will be treated the same as the mud legs for the time being, they believe that it will not be long before they can get all the surrounding fields back to their own accounts as before.

In the last few months of the first year of Jian'an, Chen Gong continued to report to the imperial court, wanting Xu Rong to move to Yanzhou. has the protection of the imperial court soldiers and horses, so that they can sleep peacefully. Now Cao Cao is holding a ghost-headed knife in the north, so frightened that they have to keep one eye open when they sleep.

Cao Cao, another person, may be able to endure it, but Chen Gong must be dead. Chen Gong understood this very clearly, so he lowered his face and kept asking the court for reinforcements. Of course, because Yanzhou is poor, this military expenditure can only make the imperial court take the big head and Yanzhou make a small head. How much is the small head? In fact, it's a fraction........

Chen Cheng scoffed at Chen Gong's thoughts, and he just glanced at it and threw it into the corner to eat ashes.

After discussing with Yan Zhong, Jia Xu, Xu Chao, Xu Wen, Zhao Yun, Xu Rong, and the Taishou and generals in various places, Chen Cheng accepted the plan proposed by the Ministry of War, that is, to strengthen the rights of Zhao Yun and Xu Rong and increase the number of soldiers and horses under their command. Subsequently, the imperial court officially ordered the establishment of the first and second war zones.

The first theater of operations was commanded by Zhao Yun, the pastor of the state, and governed the entire territory of the state. The first army was established, with a quota of 5,000 men, and the treatment and training were the same as those of the tooth soldiers, and the imperial court was responsible for all the weapons and equipment, war horses and other materials, and was responsible for providing 80% of the military expenses. The Second Theater of Operations, with Xu Rong as the commander, was removed from his post as the governor of Sanhe and reappointed as the general of Sili, commanding the entire territory of Sili except Guanzhong. The Second Army Corps was established, with a quota of 5,000 men, and the treatment was the same as that of the First Corps.

To be honest, the establishment of such an establishment as the corps and the expansion of the rights of military generals on the border are likely to have the consequences of not losing the tail. During the discussion, not only Yan Zhong and the officials of Jia Xu's provincial ministry expressed their opposing opinions, but even Zhao Yun and Xu Rong also wrote to say that this was not too appropriate, and hoped that the general would give more consideration to it.

But Chen Cheng dared to do this, naturally he had his own ideas. These are troubled times, and we need to be able to win battles. As for the problem of the tail not falling off, in his opinion, there is no need to worry so much. After he took Yan Zhong, Jia Xu and others to visit the new weapons developed, everyone was able to dispel some doubts.

The weapon named artillery is certainly incredibly powerful, but the cost is also first-class. And this weapon has not been tested on the battlefield, and no one knows what the power is. However, Chen Cheng is very confident in artillery, there is no way, standing in the downstream of history and looking up, he can directly draw conclusions through the fog.

In order to give full play to the power of those bronze artillery, the General's Mansion set up an artillery unit, and selected many students who knew new learning, and appointed them as junior officers of the artillery unit. At the very least, those students have a primary school culture and can read simple shooting watches. Or simply came out of the army elementary school and had a basic concept of parabola.

For this reason, in addition to transferring a large number of young talents into the artillery unit, Chen Cheng also transferred a large number of officers with actual combat experience, who have been training all day long how to use the unprecedented weapon of artillery under different circumstances.

Under the guidance of Chen Cheng, there were two types of artillery secretly developed, one was a heavy artillery used for long-range strikes, named "Napoleonic cannon", which could fire solid shells and shotguns. The other is a close artillery cannon used to strike at close enemies, known as the "Tiger Squat Cannon", which can quickly hit the enemy with a sub-gun.

During the demonstration, the "Tiger Squat Cannon" was able to shoot three or four times in one minute, and the lead bullets that were fired out blasted out of the target were all smashed into pieces, which shocked everyone present at the time. Then the power of the Napoleonic cannon amplified their shock several times.

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