Chapter 535 Arms Race (Page 1/1)

Fortunately, what Chen Gong feared did not happen, and after Guan Yu led the crowd to defeat Lü Bu, Liu Yuan's forces shrank their tentacles back to the northern part of Yongzhou.

As for most of the central and southern parts of Yongzhou, they didn't even send troops to occupy them, as if they wanted to give these places to Lu Bu.

Seeing such a large piece of territory close in front of them, it was impossible for Lu Bu and Chen Gong not to be moved, but they never dared to take a step beyond Yangping City.

One is that they have too few troops at hand.

With the only remaining troops in their hands now, even the defense of Yangping City is slightly insufficient, let alone raising troops to occupy other areas.

Second, they were afraid that this was Guan Yu's strategy, that is, they wanted to use those territories that made them coveted as bait, and once they divided their forces, Guan Yu would pounce on Yangping with thunder.

When the time comes, don't occupy the new territory, and lose Yangping City, which has been in business for several years, won't it be a bamboo basket to draw water!

In this way, Lu Bu and Chen Gong chose not to move, and Guan Yu and others in Chang'an City did not take any action, and the central area of Yongzhou turned out to be a three-way zone.

For a time, bandits were rampant here, and even the Yellow Turban Sect, which had long since been destroyed, found a new soil here, and there was a trend of revival.

Liu Yuan, who was far away in Yecheng, did not directly send troops to retaliate against Cao Cao and Liu Bei's previous sneak attack as the princes thought.

Instead, like his subordinate Guan Yu, he chose not to move.

However, the princes from all walks of life have received a lot of news from Jizhou through various channels, and now Liu Yuan of Jizhou is not idle.

He first sent most of his soldiers and horses to the border of Jizhou, and defended the entire Jizhou impenetrable, and then this guy actually recruited 200,000 new soldiers.

At this time, Jizhou was carrying out a vigorous military training movement, and it is said that all the blacksmith shops in Jizhou continued to fire for twelve hours a day.

Even this was not enough to supply Liu Yuan's needs, and even the blacksmith shops in Bingzhou and Yongzhou were ordered by Liu Yuan to be requisitioned, so that they could continue to build blades.

The situation in Jizhou made all the princes of the entire Han Dynasty nervous, and they thought that once Jizhou had trained all the recruits, it would be the time for Liu Yuan to go on the expedition.

At that time, Liu Yuan will definitely use the posture of Mount Tai to overwhelm the top, and directly attack one or several princes at the junction with Jizhou, so as to start his journey to sweep the world.

Of course, those princes who bordered Liu Yuan did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and they also followed suit one after another, and began to sign soldiers from their respective territories.

But they don't have as much capital as Liu Yuan, so those people of the right age rush to join the army.

After more than half a month passed, the prince who recruited the most troops only recruited more than 10,000 people.

Seeing that the momentum of Jizhou's military training was getting bigger and bigger, those princes were red-eyed, they no longer cared about the so-called face, and began to order the strong men to enlist in the army.

For a time, the people in the surrounding areas of Jizhou were affected by a catastrophe, and many people's families even men who were just over ten years old were forcibly pulled into strong men.

With the continuous expansion of the momentum of the Jizhou army's military training, this situation is also becoming more and more intense, and the entire Han Dynasty except for Jizhou is sighing.

When Liu Yuan got the news, he laughed in his heart for a while.

These horsemen are still fooled, and such a thing as an arms race can work even in ancient times!

It turned out that all this was a strategy set by him, Guo Jia and others, and they agreed that as long as their side released the news, the princes of the rest of the places would not be able to sit still.

They will definitely follow the example and strengthen their own armament construction to prevent the Jizhou army's power from surpassing them too much, lest they will be beaten by their own side in the later stage and have no power to fight back.

But they did not expect that such an arms race would cause the livelihood of people in a region to wither rapidly.

If this situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Of course, you can't just release a piece of news on your side, after all, if there is no real and credible news, those princes will not be fooled.

Therefore, the people's livelihood in Jizhou will also be affected to a certain extent, but such an impact will not cause any bad consequences for Jizhou.

After all, Jizhou's strength is there, and now they don't want to recruit 200,000 soldiers, even if they recruit another 200,000, Jizhou can afford it.

But the rest of the princes do not have such a thick foundation as Jizhou, once they choose to be hard steel with Jizhou, then what awaits them is only the consequences that follow.

In the era when Liu Yuan lived in his previous life, there was an arms race between two superpowers.

As for the last superpower, it chose to disintegrate because of its own weak foundation.

Another superpower took out its opponent without a single soldier, which caused a huge sensation in the world.

Even if Liu Yuan was not born at that time, he was still familiar with this history.

What he is doing now is to learn from the superpower that won in the end.

Although they do not have any exaggerated armament plans now, their opponents are not as strong as the superpower that was forced to disintegrate.

Therefore, just a simple plan to increase the number of troops can make the princes around him make the people miserable within themselves.

Even forced the people in their jurisdiction to start rebelling one after another.

Once such a situation occurs, he only needs to add another fire, and maybe he can wipe out one or two princes without bloodshed.

Even if that prince is more resilient, once there is a fire in the backyard, what will he use to resist his army, and in the end he will be wiped out by himself.

This is a naked conspiracy, even if those princes see through their strategy, they can only reluctantly continue to choose to keep up.

However, it will take a long time to implement such a plan, and he must do something during this period, after all, he still has a lot of opponents.

It is best if you can reduce the existing princes of the Han Dynasty to only one or two in the past five years.

This can not only enhance their own strength, but also better increase the pressure on the remaining princes.

Even if they want to stop competing with themselves, they don't dare to make a choice easily.

When they find that the situation in the area under their control has deteriorated to the point where they can't control it, it will be too late by then!

However, Jizhou is not without nothing to do now, after all, the arms race is such a thing as killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of itself.

Therefore, he must constantly strengthen his own internal construction while strengthening his armament.

Thinking of this, Liu Yuan got up from his seat, he was going to find Tian Feng and the trial now.

They are now in charge of the internal construction of Jizhou, and they need to listen to their opinions.

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