However, at this time, Liu Zhi is short of manpower, even if it is a third-rate military general like Liao Hua, it is considered very good, at least someone can use it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

So, Liu Zhi decided to divide the current army, let Dian Wei be the commander of the infantry army, and Xu Chu would be the chief general of the cavalry army.

Among them, the infantry army is divided into five tuns, each tun has a thousand people, and the tun chiefs are Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Gong Du and Liu Pi.

The infantry army is divided into several parts, such as crossbowmen, shield soldiers and pikemen, and these arms fight in coordination according to their roles.

However, at present, Liu Zhi's foundation is still very thin, and he still has the reputation of a yellow scarf thief on his head, and it is difficult to develop, so some materials are difficult to purchase from the outside world, such as pig iron, leather and other materials.

However, using the batch of ordnance captured from the Nanyang Army before, he still changed a lot of equipment to the Yellow Turban Army.

At present, the whole army is being retrained, Liu Zhi does not know whether the Yellow Turban Army has been trained before, but after he comes, this army must strictly develop the habit of training every day, a good army is all grown up under the baptism of sweat and blood after rigorous training, and not only training, but also let the soldiers participate in actual combat, so that they can grow up faster.

At this time, in the county guard mansion of Runan County, Yuan Shu's face was very gloomy, he held a battle report that was delivered not long ago in his hand, and looked at Ji Ling who was kneeling on the ground, and his heart was very angry.

An army of 5,000! This is a 5,000-well-equipped army, sent to exterminate a small Yellow Turban thief, and he actually lost his troops and almost wiped out the whole army, and he still has the face to come back as the main general, the more Yuan Shu thinks about it, the more angry he becomes.

Seeing this, Yang Hong, his chief bookkeeper, immediately stood up and persuaded him: "The lord is angry, General Ji's defeat is not a crime of war, it is really the cunning and deceitful of the enemy, which makes our army flooded by Rushui, and the blame is not all on General Ji Ling." ”

Ji Ling saw that someone had good things to say for him, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, my lord, the last general was lucky not to die, desperately fighting out of the encirclement from the enemy, and encountered the enemy on the road, the last general's war horses were exhausted to death, and finally relied on the war horses taken from the enemy to return, not the last general was not satisfied, it was really too sudden to come to this defeat, and the last general did not have time to react, this is ······"

"Enough!"

Yuan Shu was furious: "Why didn't you send someone to check the water level of Rushui when you marched, why didn't you find the enemy's ambush, you are the main general of an army, you are the first to bear the blame for the defeat of the army, who is not to blame?" ”

Yang Hong hurriedly said: "The lord, please calm his anger, General Ji has done his best, and now it is not a question of who is responsible, even if the lord holds General Ji accountable at this time, it cannot save the lives of the soldiers who have been lost, so it is imperative to think about how we should deal with this Yellow Turban Army." ”

Yuan Shu snorted coldly and didn't say anything, obviously he knew that Yang Hong was right, if Ji Ling was killed now, then who would lead the troops to fight in the future, besides, that concubine Yuan Shao had a large number of generals under him, what Yan Liangwen Chou, Gao Ran Zhang He, and Lu Yi and others who could bring out the first dead soldiers, and on the other hand, there was only one Ji Ling under his Yuan Shu, and the other generals Zhang Xun, Liu Xun and others were useless.

Yuan Shu sighed secretly in his heart, as the son-in-law of the family, why is his encounter always inferior to that brother? On wealth, the Yuan family started in Runan, and he is now in Runan, all the property left by his ancestors was inherited by him, Yuan Shao didn't get anything, wheel connections, Runan and even the entire Yuzhou are full of his Yuan family's protégés, his development should be much better than the brother who ran to Jizhou to be poor and white, and even when the general He Jin was in power, he was also a tiger general, and he really had his own army in his hands, and what about Yuan Shao? He is just an eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan, who fled to Jizhou alone, and has nothing, but in just a few years, he has developed to such a strong strength, and he has also participated in the action of fighting Dong as the leader of the coalition army, which can be described as Weizhen Huanyu.

Sometimes I think I'm not bad, but once I compare it with others, it's really more popular than others, and I have to throw away the goods.

"Lord, in my humble opinion, we should immediately send troops to exterminate this Yellow Turban Army, we can't sit back and watch them develop and grow, the lord wants to take the entire Yuzhou, open up Yangzhou to the east, the rear of Nanyang must be very stable, otherwise we will have no foothold."

Yang Hong, the main bookkeeper, is still trying to persuade Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu is sometimes more shrewd, but more often he likes to be confused, and he can't understand some questions, and he regrets it until afterwards, but it is useless at that time.

"The Yellow Turban thieves have been in Runan for a long time, and they are just a small fight, which is not enough evidence, but Liu Yao, the assassin of Yangzhou, has a lot of ambitions, Yangzhou is a fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, I have loved it for a long time, so I should plan it as soon as possible!"

Yang Hong secretly scolded Yuan Shu in his mind for being short-sighted and ignoring his head, how powerful is Liu Yao? So where is the thing that can be solved in a moment and a half? If the Nanyang army goes to attack Yangzhou, what will Nanyang do?

In fact, the number of troops under Yuan Shu's command at this time was not very large, he took 20,000 people when he participated in the princes' alliance, this army was a lot among the princes, so he was named the chief of grain and grass of the three armies, and in fact, these 20,000 people almost hollowed out his foundation, although Yuan Shu's army was called Nanyang Army, but at this time Nanyang was one of the nine counties of Jingzhou, and it was Liu Biao's territory, he only occupied a Ye County between Runan and Nanyang, Therefore, it is more appropriate for his army to be called the Runan Army.

The number of troops in Yuan Shu's hands at this time is only 50,000, although he has just recruited a large number of recruits not long ago, but the weapons and equipment of these recruits are not ready, a large number of pig iron needs to be imported from Yangzhou, especially from Danyang and other places, which needs to enter Liu Yao's territory, although the relationship between Yuan Shu and Liu Yao has not yet reached the point of falling out at this time, but the two are more suspicious of each other, so Yuan Shu's purchase of such a large number is naturally under Liu Yao's key care, Although he had not directly sent troops to confiscate it, he had used layers of barriers to reduce their transportation speed to a minimum, so that Yuan Shu's new army could not get enough ordnance and equipment for a long time, which was also the reason why Yuan Shu was in a hurry to send troops to Liu Yao at this time, he felt that he was choked by the throat!