Newspaper, although it lost money when it was printed, Zhang Ming still had to continue to do it.

In addition, to increase the number of printing, Zhang Ming must also be forced to apportionment of the two new counties, and it will not work.

If this is something that ordinary people can't afford, but for merchants, they can afford to pay more than 100 copper coins a month.

During this period of time, Liaodong has developed rapidly.

The displaced people who had been brought back from other places had settled down.

Zhang Ming spent a lot of money, and the harvest was naturally very large.

Nowadays, people in the counties of Liaodong are also gradually accustomed to using paper money.

The banknotes are beautifully printed, no one can imitate them, as long as Zhang Ming's power is still there, it will not go out of business, and it is easy to exchange gold and silver coins when you go to the money bank to exchange.

Many people trade directly with paper money in order to save trouble when doing business.

Zhang Ming is developing rapidly, and he also has to make military adjustments.

After the adjustment, Liaodong only garrisoned 10,000 troops, and now Liaodong has become its hinterland, and the enemy is not so easy to fight through.

In addition, Changli County garrisoned 5,000, Liaoxi garrisoned 3,000, and Youbeiping garrisoned 10,000.

And then there's the main force.

Zhang Ming asked Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei to bring 10,000 cavalry each, Xu Huang, Xu Rong and Guan Yu each to bring 10,000 infantry, and Jixian County also had to garrison 10,000 infantry.

In this way, Zhang Ming's main battle army had 50,000, plus 38,000 defending troops, for a total of 88,000 troops.

It can be said that the strength has skyrocketed, and the speed of Zhang Ming's army has greatly increased.

In the more than three months of the armistice, when Zhang Ming was developing, Gongsun Zhan was desperate and recruited tens of thousands of troops, with a total strength of more than 138,000 people.

He wants to be ashamed and continue to expand his strength.

Under the calm, it seems that another big war is about to break out.

Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan have been expanding their forces.

Only Liu Yu is very salty, this is a good hand at managing internal affairs, but militarily it is a piece of.

All sides are stepping up military development.

Zhang Ming saw it in his eyes and knew that the big war would break out soon.

He is also preparing.

Zhang Ming called a few people, who were his henchmen.

Tian Feng also went to Jixian County to deal with government affairs in Jixian County.

Zhang Ming called everyone and said: "Now that the princes are expanding their troops and horses, a big war is inevitable, and we must make more preparations, and the big war will come soon." ”

"Tian Feng, continue to do a good job in logistics, Xi Zhicai will do a good job in intelligence work, and pay attention to the distribution of newspapers."

"The rest of the armies, training day and night, of course, pay attention to let the soldiers eat well, don't give training waste."

The people took the command and departed.

Zhang Ming left the drama Zhicai.

"Zhicai, now the forces in the north, Cao Cao will not talk about it for the time being, it is far away from us, and it can't affect him, and now the Quartet around us."

"We, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Yu and Yuan Shao, are afraid that we are going to fight to the death, and we must also come up with a strategy."

Xi Zhicai was already confident, he said: "Liu Yu is the weakest, but we and Yuan Shao don't dare to eat it, otherwise with Liu Yu's strength, we can defeat him in a few months." ”

Liu Yu is a relative of the Han family, and his prestige is also high, so it is easy to get into trouble if he kills him.

"Let Gongsun Chan come?"

Xi Zhicai nodded and said: "It is completely possible to let Gongsun Zan make a move, he is now eager to expand his strength, if he can annex Liu Yu, I think he is willing." ”

"However, now that we are here, Gongsun Chan is afraid that he will not dare to start a war easily."

Zhang Ming took a deep breath and said, "Then make a laissez-faire posture, and at the same time we will pretend to attack Yuan Shao." ”

"Yuan Shao attacked our Linzi City, just to give us an excuse, we will send troops to attack Yuan Shao, then Gongsun Chan may go to fight Liu Yu."

The two came to a consensus and then began to push the matter.

Zhang Ming decided to send troops to attack Yuan Shao.

When the news was released, Zhang Ming began to rectify the soldiers and horses, and decided to raise 20,000 troops to find Yuan Shao's trouble.

Before he sent troops, Yuan Shao received the news, so he hurriedly convened everyone to discuss the matter.

After some discussion, the generals all wanted to go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions, but a few civil servants calmed down.

Xu You said: "At the beginning, this Zhang Ming was too child's play, and the news was completely leaked before the troops were dispatched, and even the attack route and troops were known to us. ”

Fu Zhu also spoke: "My lord, there is something strange about this matter. ”

Guo Tu and others seconded.

Yuan Shao thought about it, and then he said, "Then what should we do?" ”

"Just be ready, and meet the battle at any time." ”

Then some people objected, and some people suggested that they could take the initiative to send troops, or arrange an ambush in advance, and so on.

Everyone discussed, but also did not discuss any results.

Zhang Ming's army has been building momentum, but it has been slow to send troops.

On the contrary, Gongsun Chan actively prepared.

More than a month later, when the whole world knew about it, Zhang Ming posted an article in the newspaper before sending troops.

Dispatched 20,000 troops, several generals set off together, except for Xu Huang to defend Jixian and Xi Zhicai to defend Liaodong, all the rest came out.

Suddenly, Yuan Shao was also shaken, and hurriedly sent 30,000 troops to the border to intercept it.

Zhang Ming's goal is from Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhang Ming's 20,000 army is in the past.

Zhang Ming led the army along the road very slowly, waving flags.

A few days later, when he entered Jizhou, Zhang Ming sent people to investigate everywhere, but he was not in a hurry to attack.

Yan Liangwen Chou Gao Ran led 30,000 troops to come, and Ju Yi and others also fought at any time.

"Big brother, why don't we go to Yuan Shao's military camp for a walk." Zhang Fei proposed.

"Don't be in a hurry to fight, send scouts to investigate for a few days first."

Zhang Ming pressed and didn't let him fight, which made Zhang Fei really boring.

After a few days of confrontation at the border, Zhang Ming suddenly pulled out his camp, bypassed Yuan Shao's army, and continued to go deep into the territory of Zhongshan State.

This move is really incomprehensible, and Yuan Shao's side can only continue to send troops to confront.

After a few more days of confrontation, Zhang Ming was finally about to go to war.

He led Guan Zhang Zhao to Yuan Shao's military camp, and at the same time asked Xu Rong to lead the army to respond at any time.

So they went out with two thousand men, apparently not to attack the camp.

The Yuan army camp was built very solidly, and they also sent a lot of scouts.

The army did not fight, but the scouts fought several times, and each suffered many casualties.

"Yan Liang, I haven't seen you for a long time." Zhang Fei shouted at the generals of the Yuan army who were guarding at the gate of the camp.

Yan Liangwen and Gao Ran all came out.

Zhang Fei stepped forward to challenge, but no one dared to fight.

The confrontation lasted for a long time, and no one fought for a long time.

So, Zhang Ming and the others went back with the army.

Along the way, Zhang Fei scolded and scolded.

The next day, Zhang Ming asked Guan Zhang Zhao to go alone, and the other party would fight when he went out, and he would come back after half a day without fighting.

It was Guan Yu who fought first, and sure enough, he didn't fight.

Then Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun challenged the same.

And so on for a few days.

That Yuan Shao has been paying attention to the battle situation.

At this point he summoned his men again to discuss the matter.

"Sure enough, Zhang Ming didn't come to fight, but what did he want to do?" Yuan Shao said to everyone.

Deliver the message before the start of the war, and then keep paddling and not attacking.