It turned out that after Zhou Yu, Ling Cao, and Xing Daorong captured Shu County, they sent troops to set up an ambush in the direction of Linhu and Xiang'an, which was to predict that Liu Kai's army might retreat there.

At the same time, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Xionglu battalion commanded by Pang Yan, Zhou Tai, Sun Quan, and Huang Gai in the rear also caught up.

In this way, as the two big cities of Lujiang County, Anhui County and Shu County were easily taken by Zhu Wei, the entire Lujiang County basically fell into Zhu Wei's hands.

Later, Zhu Wei came forward by Liu Ye to persuade Liu Xun to surrender the guards who stayed in Linhu and Xiang'an, but it was also very smooth to make these two guards surrender, and took the initiative to take five or six thousand defenders to Shu County to surrender.

This also means that Lujiang County completely fell into the hands of Zhu Wei.

Zhu Wei once again rectified the surrendered Liu Kai's soldiers in Shuxian County, and selected more than 4,000 elites from them to fill his army, and also incorporated Lu Dai and Pan Zhang into the Chinese military camp as auxiliary generals.

Then Zhu Wei left Liu Ye as the Taishou of Lujiang County temporarily, and asked him to rectify the newly acquired Lujiang County, leaving Pan Zhang with about 6,000 Liu Kai's troops to assist in staying behind.

After all this was done, Zhu Wei entered Jiujiang County from Lujiang County, and marched in the direction of Hefei County.

At this time, Zhu Wei's army has swelled by nearly 10,000 troops from the initial scale of more than 40,000 main forces and 10,000 auxiliary troops.

This time, Zhu Wei captured Lujiang County, and the number of troops lost on his side was actually two or three thousand, and the number of Liu Xun's troops eliminated was only four or five thousand.

However, at least more than 20,000 of the more than 30,000 troops under Liu Xun's original control became Zhu Wei's prisoners, and then Zhu Wei selected about 6 or 7,000 of them to be incorporated into Zhu Wei's Zhongjun Camp and Xionglu Battalion, and the other more than 10,000 troops became the second-line troops and Tuntian auxiliary troops left behind in Lujiang County.

Of course, this still does not include the private soldiers of all ethnic groups and local youths recruited by Liu Xun and Liu Kai in Lujiang County, if these people add up, there are as many as 20,000 or 30,000.

However, these people are not regular soldiers after all, so after being captured, they can only select some young and strong soldiers as reserve troops and temporarily integrate them into the logistics auxiliary battalion, as for the other unsuitable people, they are basically disbanded and sent home directly.

Anyway, the six or seven thousand soldiers selected by Zhu Wei from Lujiang County can also be regarded as soldiers with a certain combat effectiveness.

Although these Lujiang soldiers could not be compared with Zhu Wei's original army soldiers in terms of training and morale, Zhu Wei composed them into several separate troops and horses, and did not mix them into the original high-training and morale army, but it did not affect the training and morale of Zhu Wei's main army.

In any case, these six or seven thousand elite soldiers in Lujiang County can at least be compared with the elite soldiers in Yuan Shu's army, and they are also the troops that Zhu Wei can take out his hand and use on the battlefield.

In this way, the strength of Zhu Wei's army into Jiujiang County became nearly 50,000 regular troops and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, and at the same time, Zhu Wei's army also converged 14,000 or 5,000 troops of Huang Zhong's Jiangdong Battalion after capturing Fuling and Nangao, as well as more than 10,000 troops of the Shenjian Battalion of Taishi Ci's Department who captured Dongcheng County.

In this way, coupled with the logistics auxiliaries brought by Huang Zhong and Tai Shici, Zhu Wei's total strength into Jiujiang County almost reached nearly 100,000, and Zhu Wei claimed to be 200,000 troops to the outside world, advancing in the direction of Hefei County.

At this time, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei had already sent troops in Huaibei, and almost when Zhu Wei swore to send troops in Xiangyang, they also swore to send troops one after another.

Among them, Cao Cao's troops are naturally the largest, to be honest, at this time, Lu Bu and Liu Bei are just having a good time, and the number of troops sent by the two adds up to 14,000 or 5, of which Lu Bu probably sent more than 8,000 troops, and Liu Bei sent more than 6,000 troops.

Of course, the troops they claim to have are tens of thousands, but the vast majority of them are imaginary numbers, that is, the common people who are conscripted and coerced are only a full number, and the main forces that can really fight are more than 8,000 or 6,000.

As for Cao Cao, he sent more than 60,000 troops, plus 20,000 or 30,000 people for civilian service, and was known as a 150,000 army to the outside world.

These forces can be regarded as almost eighty percent of the military strength that Cao Cao can use at this moment.

Of course, at this time, Cao Cao's army also included the main force and the second-line troops, so in terms of combat effectiveness, the troops were not very strong, otherwise in the later battle of Guandu, Cao Cao would not only have 30,000 or 40,000 troops that could be used to fight against Yuan Shao's more than 100,000 troops.

Although Cao Cao surrendered 300,000 young men from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, it also included teenagers and old men in their fifties and sixties, so Cao Cao's real combat effectiveness of the young and strong troops was about 70,000 or 80,000.

But Cao Cao is in the Central Plains in the place of the four wars, so naturally he also needs to deploy troops everywhere, so as not to be taken advantage of by Yuan Shao, Lu Bu and Hanoi Zhang Yang and other surrounding warlords, but before in Nanyang County, Jingzhou, Zhu Wei solved the main force of nearly 20,000 troops, which really made Cao Cao a little heartbroken.

In fact, it is not very difficult to raise an army of tens of thousands of people in these years, and as long as there is a sufficient population base in the locality, it can draw young and strong people from it as its own army.

Just like Zhu Wei was on the Jiangdong side, he easily got an army of tens of thousands of people, but the number of troops can be put together, but their combat effectiveness cannot be easily improved.

If Zhu Wei hadn't had the Three Kingdoms game system to help him train, he was afraid that it would be impossible for him to have much combat effectiveness with so many troops now.

Then Zhu Wei would not be able to have such a foundation as he is now.

Therefore, the army in Cao Cao's hands, even if it is included in the main force, may not be all elite troops, and the main force that really dares to fight may be only one or twenty thousand troops around Cao Cao, and the others are young and strong equipped with weapons and armor, which are not much stronger than the common people.

Of course, although Yuan Shu also has more than 200,000 troops on his side, the quality of this army is even more uneven, and there may be less than 100,000 young and strong soldiers of the right age, and I don't know how many elite troops can really fight.

Otherwise, it would not have been defeated by thousands of troops in Xuzhou before, although because Yang Feng and Han Xian made internal responses, but it was indeed Yuan Shu's army that was inferior in combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Yuan Shu's army is a false shelf, and before the shell is really broken, it just looks scared.

In fact, the 10,000 troops that Zhu Wei had collected in Lujiang County before, although they had combat effectiveness, were only relative to Yuan Shu's army, and it could only be said that these people were young and strong, and they were only young and strong elites who were suitable for military training and training.

Therefore, now Cao Cao also transferred more than 30,000 main troops and more than 30,000 other second-line troops from his army to form the army dispatched against Yuan Shu this time.

However, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei combined, the strength of the troops can indeed compete with the more than 100,000 troops brought by Yuan Shu to Huaibei.

And Yuan Shu, with the help of the Yuan family's heritage, naturally also has a lot of fine eyeliner in Xu Du, in fact, when Cao Cao contacted Zhu Wei, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei to prepare to attack him, Yuan Shu already knew the news that Cao Cao was going to send troops.

Therefore, when Zhu Wei, Cao Cao and other four families sent troops, Yuan Shu also responded at the first time, just as he did in the original history, he took the initiative to withdraw his troops from Chen State......