For Zhu Wei, this time to launch the Yizhou War is indeed a good time.

Now it is the autumn harvest season, and the grain harvested in Jingnan and Yuzhang is enough to meet the military food and material needs of the battle of Yizhou this time, and the grain can still be transported by water from Jingnan and Yuzhang to Bajun, which can be regarded as reducing the consumption on the road a lot.

The most important thing is that the launch of this battle can make the people of the world less defensive against Zhu Wei.

Even Cao Cao and Yuan Shao would feel that Zhu Wei's current goal was Yizhou, and he would definitely not start the war again in the Central Plains, so as to reduce Zhu Wei's current control of more than 100,000 troops, which would bring people a sense of aggressive threat.

Of course, although Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were worried that Zhu Wei would be able to increase their strength by capturing Yizhou, who let Yizhou be far away in the southwest corner, even if they wanted to do anything, they would not be able to do anything.

In this way, after seeing Zhu Wei's posture, Cao Cao also relieved himself to disperse the assembled army that had returned to Xudu from Shouchun, but still did not disperse, and then in the following time, he began to rectify some of the internal aspects of his own territory.

After this battle, Cao Cao didn't get much benefit, but in fact, he consumed a lot of grain and grass materials, so Cao Cao also needed time to recover his foundation.

At the same time, Cao Cao should also be ready to find some small warlords to loot back some materials for himself to meet his needs, such as the propaganda power in Hanoi or something.

As for the northern Yuan Shao, he was attached to Liu Bei and Zang Ba, and he obtained the two northern counties of Xuzhou for nothing, but he was also satisfied.

Originally, he was going to fight with Zhu Wei in the north of Xuzhou, which could be regarded as the price he paid for getting the two counties of Taishan and Langya in Xuzhou, but he didn't expect Zhu Wei to let go of the status quo in Xuzhou, so Yuan Shao was naturally happy to accept this kind of candy that didn't need to use troops, but could get benefits.

In this way, Yuan Shao seems to be stepping up his strategic preparations in the north in the following time.

After all, although he actually controlled the land of Sizhou in the north and did not have much power to fight back against Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Zhan still stubbornly guarded his old nest Yijing (the site is in the northwest of present-day Xiongxian County, Hebei) and was not completely wiped out.

Gongsun Zhan dug more than ten heavy trenches in the Linyi River outside Yijing, piled up artificial earth hills more than 100 steps high in the trenches, and then built camps on these earthen hills, stationed troops to guard them, just like building a mountain fortress to block the attack of Yuan Shao's army.

And on the highest mound in the center of these trenches, Gongsun Chan also built a strong dock fort for himself, with iron as a gate, and repelled the left and right, so that men over the age of seven could not enter, and only lived in it with their wives and concubines.

In this way, under the protection of those military forts around, it can be regarded as an absolutely safe nest.

It can be said that Gongsun Zan built a trench fortress area for himself in Yijing to resist Yuan Shao's army, and at the same time hoarded 3 million grains in the old nest, and also let his soldiers grow grain in the field, so he could be self-sufficient in Yijing for a few years.

Previously, Yuan Shaorang's general Ju Yi led his troops to besiege Yi Jing for nearly a year, but he still failed to take Yi Jing, and finally Ju Yi ran out of food and retreated, but was counterattacked by Gongsun Zhan and returned defeated.

Therefore, although Yuan Shao has occupied most of the territory in the north, but there is also a mouse hidden behind his own house, which naturally makes Yuan Shao very unhappy, and now Yuan Shao is still thinking about how to completely solve this henchman's trouble, so that he can go south to the Central Plains without scruples.

In addition, although Yuan Shao now occupies the northern Yizhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou, there is still a Yellow Turban remnant Black Mountain Army hidden in the Yizhou Black Mountain area controlled by Yuan Shao.

This Montenegrin army is entrenched in Montenegro, controlling a population of nearly one million, and there are more than 100,000 young and strong troops available.

When Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Zhan, the Montenegrin army often contained Yuan's army in the territory controlled by Yuan Shao and cooperated with Gongsun Zhan.

Yuan Shao still can't go south to conquer the Central Plains with peace of mind, because there are still two stones at home, Gongsun Zhan and the Black Mountain Army, which have not been removed.

Although Zhu Wei is rising in the south, since Zhu Wei has not taken the initiative to tear his face with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao will naturally not take the initiative to start a war in Xuzhou.

Originally, Yuan Shao had just eliminated Gongsun Zan and defeated Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army in history, so he was impatient to launch a war against Cao Cao, which shows that Yuan Shao actually had the intention to go south to the Central Plains, but his family was really not at ease before.

So as Zhu Wei put on a posture of concentrating on the southwest and ceasing the war, Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao, the three largest forces today, seem to have begun to practice their own internal strength.

In this way, in September 198 AD, Zhu Wei's army returned to Xiangyang, Jingzhou from Huainan Shouchun.

However, when Zhu Wei's army returned to Jingzhou, it was already past autumn and into winter.

In the last quarter of the year, Zhu Wei only paid attention to the war in Yizhou in the southwest, and then he didn't make any big moves, mainly focusing on military training.

The rest of the army has been completely reorganized in Shouchun, and only the cavalry unit has been reorganized when it arrives in Xiangyang.

As Zhu Wei had always thought before, as Zhang Liao came to Zhu Wei's side, Zhu Wei finally began to reorganize all the cavalry units under his command, and renamed the original Liangcai Battalion into the Tiger Wing Battalion.

Zhu Wei reorganized the original nearly 10,000 light cavalry, 4,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and Lu Bu's remnants of the state soldiers, so the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion was also divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry.

However, the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion is still mainly light cavalry, and the heavy armored cavalry can only increase to about 6,000 at most.

Light cavalry is still relatively easy to train and select, so Zhu Wei can easily select soldiers to be trained, after all, the soldiers trained through the Three Kingdoms game system can be regarded as having a foundation in both riding and foot.

But the heavy cavalry is different, the soldiers selected by the heavy cavalry not only have riding skills, but also have the body and physique to withstand heavy armor, so originally only the fierce border people of Xiliang and Bingzhou are more suitable for the selection of soldiers.

But now that Zhu Wei controls the southern territory, it is a big problem to obtain the source of heavy cavalry, so at present, Zhu Wei can only use the original Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Bingzhou Iron Cavalry as the team structure.

At the same time, the heavy cavalry also has high requirements for war horses, although the war horses that Zhu Wei got through the Three Kingdoms game system are all in the best state of war horses, but to choose the war horses of the heavy cavalry, you still need to carefully select them.

The most important thing is that the heavy cavalry is also attritional in the war, after all, the heavy cavalry is mainly used to charge into battle and forcibly break through the enemy's military formation, so there will definitely be a lot of losses in each battle, so it is still a problem to face if you want to replenish the source of troops.

Therefore, at present, Zhu Wei can only give 6,000 heavy cavalry establishment, unless Zhu Wei can take Guanzhong in the future, and his sphere of influence penetrates into Xiliang and Bingzhou, he may be able to get a suitable source of cavalry......