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Huang Xu's intelligence made Liu Yi's heart suddenly vigilant.

Historically, after Dong Zhuo's death, Zhang Ji supported his troops and became self-reliant, turned over several times, and finally united with Liu Biao and occupied Wancheng. Now, because Liu Yi captured Luoyang, Dong Zhuo's deployment of troops has changed a lot. Originally, at this time, Zhang Ji should have guarded Yiwu with Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Fan Chou. But now, Zhang Ji actually led a large army in the Lu clan.

Liu Yi is worried that these historical events will happen in advance, if Dong Zhuo has been plotting with Liu Biao to recapture Luoyang, then, Liu Yi really has to guard against Zhang Jihui's sudden dispatch of troops from the Lu clan to Wancheng, and Liu Biao joined forces to seize this important town, so that Liu Yi lost this base in the south of Luoyang, and lost this transit station to connect with Dongting Lake Xinzhou.

Once Wancheng loses, Liu Yi will fall into a very passive situation. Once Luoyang and Dongting Lake Xinzhou lose contact, then Liu Biao is really likely to attack Dongting Lake.

Liu Yi couldn't help but ask with a solemn expression: "Have you noticed Liu Biao's situation recently?" ”

"Liu Biao? There hasn't been much movement recently, however, after being attacked by Sun Ce, Liu Biao has increased his efforts to recruit troops, and intelligence shows that he now has a standing army of 100,000 sailors, and recently added 100,000 troops stationed in Jiangling. However, it seems that they are mainly guarding Jiangling, in addition, after the incident of Sun Jian forcing Wang Rui to death in Xiangyang, Liu Biao vigorously rectified Xiangyang and reorganized the defenders of Xiangyang, with permanent military horses, there should be 30,000 or 40,000 people, but Liu Biao's army of sailors can also be stationed in Xiangyang at any time. Xi Zhicai replied on his behalf.

"Just the two important towns of Jiangling and Xiangyang have more than 200,000 Jingzhou troops?" Liu Yi's heart was sudden, he didn't expect Liu Biao's development to be so fast, and in just over a year after he took office, he could develop to such a point. If you add the military horses of other counties, then wouldn't Liu Biaoxiàn have an army of 300,000 or 400,000? This...... Oh, the development is too fierce, right?

Hehe, Liu Biao is not Liu Yi. It is not as important as Liu Yi to attach importance to the sergeant's plainness, and when recruiting sergeants, he should have more elite soldiers, and would rather lack than abuse. But Liu Biao increased his troops in order to quickly reunite, but no matter how much, as long as it was a young or strong person of the right age, he wanted it, whether it was reasonable or not, and he would pull people up first. Moreover, Liu Biao doesn't care about the overall development as much as Liu Yi. It is not as principled as Liu Yi, he borrowed from the local scholars, won over the world's tycoons, with the support of many famous families in the Jingxiang area, he does not have to worry about military spending and military rations, he wants to recruit troops and buy horses, and those famous families will help each other, because. The soldiers and horses pulled up are actually equivalent to those of famous families, and what the army protects is also the interests of these famous families. So. When the interests of those famous families are the same as those of Liu Biao, it is too easy to develop power.

Of course, some of the policies and measures held by Liu Biao in the Jingzhou area actually indirectly accelerated his rapid development. For example, he gave great power to the local nobles, so that the local nobles could increase their own taxes on their own land, and some insatiable local tycoons, after increasing taxes, made many people living at the bottom feel that the future may be more difficult, at this time. Joining the military may be a better option. Therefore, many young and strong people, knowing the news of Liu Biao's recruitment, most of them will sign up for the army. These are a chain reaction, and the Jingxiang area has a large population. With only a few hundred thousand troops, as long as there is money and food, it is quite easy to pull them up.

Like Liu Yi, if he wants to recruit troops and sell horses, he will not have too many tycoons to support him, because the army is Liu Yi's own, and no one will pay for Liu Yi's military food and salary, so when Liu Yi wants to develop the army, he must first consider whether he can afford to raise such an army.

Of course, there are also many big businessmen and wealthy families who are good friends with Liu Yi. However, many benefits and conveniences are impossible for Liu Yi to give them, so Liu Yi can't really ask them to support their families, not only that, but in many ways, for long-term sustainable development, Liu Yi has to give them certain preferences.

For example, those merchants, Liu Yi can't be like Liu Biao, he can let them sell and buy on their own, without macroeconomic control of them, and he can let them make huge profits from buying and selling. All the merchants under the rule of Liu Yi will have hard and fast rules, they are not allowed to increase the price of goods casually, whether they are selling or buying, there will be a reasonable price control, so that many merchants will lose some opportunities for huge profits. In this way, those merchants can only operate honestly, and if the income and expenditure are barely balanced, it is impossible to have too much money and food to support Liu Yi to recruit troops. But even so, grain merchants like the Zou family and the Yi family have already made a lot of efforts for Liu Yi, especially before Liu Yi built a base, Liu Yi's grain and grass were almost supplied by these grain merchants.

With the increase of Liu Yi's current power and the great increase in military strength, these grain merchants are no longer enough to support Liu Yi to expand his military horses, so when Liu Yi wants to expand his troops and horses, he must think carefully about whether he can afford to support more soldiers and horses in his current situation.

In Jingzhou, merchants can also be, whether it is a wealthy family, Liu Biao gave them great power, they supported Liu Biao to expand the army, after spending a lot of money and grain, they can use the power in their hands, in terms of commodities in the field rent and field tax, to reach out to the people, from which to get back more benefits, so he will also vigorously support Liu Biao.

"Lord, are you worried that Liu Biao will be unfavorable to us?" Xi Zhicai heard Liu Yi's tone with a worried look, and couldn't help but say: "The lord can rest assured now, our envoy has been sent to Jingzhou, after our beating, Liu Biao is estimated to be fine in a short period of time, although he has greatly expanded the army now, but the combat power is limited, and the lord is carrying the power of breaking the million-strong army of the Black Mountain Army, how dare he use troops against us?" ”

Guo Jia didn't talk much all the time, and said at this moment: "Brother Xi is right, Feng Xiao has been in Wancheng for a while, and he has been paying attention to Liu Biao's situation. Although he took a series of measures as soon as he took over Jingzhou and Shunzhou took control of Jingzhou, he himself knew that this kind of measure was conducive to his control of Jingzhou in a short period of time, but it was not conducive to his long-term rule. Even if he wants to use troops, he must be in a passive situation, and he will dare to move lightly when he is famous. His expansion this time was also under the guise of Xiangyang and was messed up by Sun Jian. In the name of being attacked by Sun Ce and protecting himself, he expanded the army. Next, he thought that he was going to start rectifying the local wealthy clans, and the final result may be that he wanted to sit in a few local wealthy clans and suppress other small clans, so as to achieve the goal of razing and destroying them. The big tycoon clan controls the small clan. Hmph, Liu Biao is still quite good at playing with some power tricks. ”

Xun Yu also said: "Foolishly think, unless Dong Zhuo really makes a move, Zhang Ji suddenly sent troops to capture Wancheng, cutting off the possibility of us directly using troops against Jingzhou, on the other hand." Dong Zhuo's army pressed the border and attacked our Luoyang, under such circumstances. Liu Biaocai had the courage to really join forces with Dong Zhuo. Therefore, it was concluded that as long as Wancheng was still in our hands one day, Liu Biao would not dare to act rashly. ”

After detailed deliberation and step-by-step scrutiny, several major military divisions also came to a conclusion based on Liu Biao's character. After listening to it, Liu Yi also felt that what they said was very reasonable.

Wancheng is so important to himself compared to himself, if this time, if he does not send troops to capture Hongnong County. Liu Yi was going to increase the defenders of Wancheng. However, now that he has begun to prepare to attack Dong Zhuo, he can also rule out the possibility of Liu Biaoxing's troops attacking himself for the time being.

Of course, it cannot be completely ruled out that Liu Biao already felt that he was threatened by him, and thought that his army of 300,000 or 400,000 could compete with him. So as to send troops to attack their own possibility. But, does Liu Biao have that much courage? Historically, except for him taking over Jingzhou, taking over the Jingzhou region strongly, and then sending troops to attack Sun Jian, there seems to be no such thing as Liu Biao taking the initiative to attack, until he later confronted Cao Cao, but that was only Liu Bei and Cao Cao who were attached to his forces to start a war, and he did not give Liu Bei a soldier to fight Cao Cao at all. It can be seen that Liu Biao is actually more partial to Jingzhou, and has no courage to seek to conquer the world.

Letting go of his worries about Liu Biao and Dong Zhuo joining forces, Liu Yi asked again: "So what about the current situation of Hongnong County's troops?" ”

"Your Lord!" Huang Xu said: "The situation of troops in Hongnong County is very complicated because the transfers are too frequent. However, we have already found out that the resident guards are Li Dao and Guo Yan, these two generals, when we were attacked by the Xishan Imperial Mausoleum, have been resting in Hongnong County, and many of the sergeants under their accounts are still people in Hongnong County, so there is a reason why Dong Zhuo kept these two as Hongnong guards. Their subordinates each have 20,000 Xiliang cavalry, and in addition, they also have 20,000 newly recruited recruits. In other words, there are 80,000 military horses stationed in Hongnong County. Of the 80,000 horses, the cavalry was stationed outside the city, and there were about 50,000 horses in the city. In addition, the towns in Hongnong County also have some soldiers and horses, generally not less than 5,000 people, and any town is attacked by us, and his cavalry can quickly rush to support. In addition, Dong Zhuo's generals also took turns to lead 20,000 cavalry, often going back and forth between Hongnong County and Hangu Pass, Lu Bu, Fan Chou, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong, etc., also often showed their faces in Hongnong County. ”

"Hehe, if we hadn't sneaked into Hongnong County, we wouldn't have known about such a situation. In fact, the 20,000 cavalry who went back and forth to Hongnong County were all the same force, and they just wanted to confuse us and make us think that the main force of his army was still in Hongnong County, so that we didn't dare to use troops against Hongnong lightly. Huang Xu said with a smile.

"Zhang Ji's 50,000 military horses in the Lu clan, in fact, only 30,000 are elite soldiers, and the remaining 20,000 are all scattered by some guerrillas. In addition, in Hongnong's military horses, only the 20,000 cavalry going back and forth between Hongnong and Hangu Pass are elite soldiers, and the 30,000 cavalry of Li and Guo may only be elite soldiers. Other sergeants, don't worry, what we are mainly facing is only about 60,000 Dong Zhuojun are elite soldiers. In other words, Dong Zhuo's real main force has long been withdrawn to Chang'an. Xi Zhicai said.

"Yes, the information that Brother Huang Xu heard is indeed very useful. In this case, we can be regarded as knowing the other. How do you get started, and how do you move our troops and horses? Liu Yi listened to everyone's intelligence analysis and was relieved.

"At the moment, our troop situation is like this." Xi Zhicai said: "It turned out that there were 50,000 military horses from Dongting Lake (the dead were replenished from the prisoners or recruited recruits, this is not detailed). This is the strength of our main battle, and it is also the elite soldier that we can handle. But of the 50,000 military horses, more than 10,000 of them followed the lord to fight in Jizhou, 10,000 were guarded in Tiger Prison and Bishui Pass, and 5,000 were in Xingyang City and Luoyang City. There are also about 10,000. Therefore, our real elite soldiers are now only 10,000 elite soldiers led by General Huang Xu and 5,000 elite soldiers led by General Xu. ”

These 50,000 military horses are just Liu Yi's elite soldiers. The real force is not this. If Huang Xu and Xu Zhu were only 15,000 military horses, it would be impossible for Cao Yang, Lu and Dong Zhuojun to hold each other for so long, and they would have been killed back to Luoyang.

Liu Yi's actual strength now has almost 100,000 military horses of various forces of the original old dynasty, including the original city defenders and the soldiers and horses of the eighth captain of Xiyuan, and the original Han army defenders from all over Luoyang. After Dong Zhuo evacuated, they switched to Liu Yi, and after Liu Yi was selected and reorganized, he was transferred to Huang Xu, Xu Zhu and other generals to be in command of the troops, so as to station troops on the front line against Dong Zhuo and create a positive threat to Dong Zhuo's army. In addition, there were almost 100,000 recruits recruited entirely from among the civilian population, and tens of thousands of captives. However, the captives were still being trained in Tai Shici's military academy.

So, Lewy's current strength. In fact, it is close to 300,000, and if you add the tens of thousands of soldiers brought back by Liu Yi from Dazepo, there will be more than 300,000 military horses.

Xi Zhicai continued: "Of course, if we add the soldiers and horses of the lord from Dazepo, then we have seventy or eighty thousand real elite soldiers. In addition, the original Han army is not without the strength to fight, and after our training in the past few months, it has already hidden the appearance of elite soldiers, at least. In terms of mental outlook, there has been a basic change from the appearance of the previous army. Also, Tai Shici's tens of thousands of captives can also participate in the war. In this way, in addition to the remaining military strength in various places, we should be able to use more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops. Attack the entire Hongnong County. ”

"Haha...... Okay, just do it, I didn't expect that I, Liu Yi, would have such a bold day, and I really didn't expect that now we have so many troops. Dong Zhuo is still in Hongnong County and Lushi County's military horses, although there are still a lot, and there are more than 100,000 men and horses, but the war with slightly more troops than the enemy army, we are afraid that it is the first time to fight, right? Liu Yi usually didn't think too much about how many troops he currently had, but now when he took it out, he found that his power had developed to such a big point, and he couldn't help but feel happy for a while.

"In this way, I have promised Wen Chou to come back to participate in the battle, I think, I will send another 10,000 or 20,000 horses from the defenders of Luoyang to replace his military horses. The defenders of Xingyang City should not move, so they will not remove the defenders there. In this way, our real elite soldiers are enough to have 70,000 or 80,000, and under the leadership of the elite soldiers, as long as the other soldiers are fighting bravely, it should not be too difficult to defeat Dong Zhuo. Lewy continued.

"That's what we mean, too." Xi Zhicai said: "Actually, around Luoyang now, it is just necessary for Wancheng to stay in the army to beware of Liu Biao, like Tiger Prison Pass and Bishui Pass, and it is okay to stay in the army to guard it in peacetime, and it is not necessary to leave a general and elite soldiers to guard it." Yuan Shaoxin got Jizhou, his main thing is to compete with Gongsun Zhan, and he will definitely not dare to fight our Luoyang idea again, in addition, Chen Liutai guards Zhang Miao, he will definitely not dare to provoke us, under the current situation, he has not yet expressed his submission to our new dynasty, we don't use troops against him, how dare he use troops against us? Therefore, for the time being, the south of Luoyang is still worry-free. ”

After all, Xi Zhicai is not a person who is familiar with history like Liu Yi, and he can't see Cao Cao's digging speed. The reason why Liu Yi wanted to leave Wen Chou in Bishui Pass was not to prevent others, but to prevent Cao Cao.

In history, as soon as Dong Zhuo died, Lü Bu was defeated by Dong Zhuo's old department, and Emperor Xian was taken back to Luoyang, and at that time, Emperor Xian fell into the hands of Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao could coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Although Liu Yi has now changed the fate of Luoyang's destruction, some historical trends have not completely changed, and Liu Yi does not think that Luoyang has now fallen into his own hands, and Cao Cao cannot appear in Luoyang again, and it is impossible to take Emperor Xian away from Luoyang. If it is because of the factors that history does not resist, many things will definitely change because of changes, but the final result may still be similar to history. For example, Jizhou Han Fu, he couldn't escape the arrangement of fate, and finally died in Chenliu.

Therefore, Liu Yi also had to be careful to change the history of Emperor Xian and then fall into the hands of Cao Cao as much as possible.

Now, one world, two courts, and the princes of the world do not listen, and each develops his own. Although Dong Zhuo was killed, if Emperor Xian finally fell into the hands of Cao Cao, it would also cause many obstacles for Liu Yi to unify the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Liu Yi deliberately arranged for Wen Chou to guard at Bishui Pass early in the morning, always beware of Cao Cao leading his army to Luoyang. As long as Cao Cao can't come to Luoyang, then it will be impossible for Emperor Xian to be taken away by Cao Cao.

Of course, many things have changed because of changes, and there are some things that Liu Yi didn't expect so much. (To be continued.) )

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