On the plain outside Shu County, thousands of Wu soldiers were doing a training that seemed incomprehensible to them. Since the occupation of Shucheng, Qiao Ren has selected 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers in the Chinese army who are tall and have excellent endurance, and they run around the city every day. Not only that, but these soldiers were also asked to hold sticks made of these huge trees and hold them for half an hour every day.

In addition to this, Qiao Ren also ordered all the crossbowmen in the army to gather together. Crossbowmen and archers are paired with each other, lined up in one row after another, alternating with each other for drills. Qiao Ren rides a horse every day, and his parents and children urge them not to relax at all.

This was meaningless in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, and in the eyes of the generals, it was just to exercise the physical strength of the soldiers, and it was not until a month later that they finally understood Qiao Ren's true purpose.

"Governor, all the blacksmiths you want me to gather have arrived, and there are more than three hundred people in all." After Zhang Dun passed the order, he was forcibly retained by Qiao Ren, and at the same time wrote to Sun Ce on the grounds that he had no civil official, asking Zhang Dun to be transferred to his own merits. And Sun Ce, who was far away in Jianye, was angry and funny about Qiao Ren's behavior, but in the end he let Zhang Dun to him, because in fact, Qiao Ren really lacked civil officials.

Qiao Ren looked at the sweaty Vietnamese soldiers who were training naked in the sun, and he was very satisfied. The reason why Qiao Ren only needs Yue Ren is because Yue Ren is real and knows how to repay his kindness. It was Qiao Ren who took them down the mountain to live a self-sufficient farming life, and also increased the agricultural yield, so that these Yue people almost lived a good life. In their hearts, Qiao Ren's status is higher than that of the so-called Son of Heaven, even if they don't understand the meaning of Qiao Ren's order, it does not prevent them from carrying it out faithfully. For example, Qiao Ren's training is very intense every day, and it is difficult to understand, but these simple Yue people have never had a word of complaint, no matter how hard and tired they are, they grit their teeth and persist.

"Okay, give them my drawings. In a month I will see a thousand bodies of heavy armor and spears. Qiao Ren's eyes were blazing.

Zhang Dun was a little worried when he heard this, and said: "Dudu, it's okay to be heavily armored, but why do you want to build so many spears that are more than two zhang!?" ”

"Huh! Uncle Fang does not need to be suspicious, Ren has his own opinions. ”

In fact, after Qiao Ren became the governor of Jiangbei, he has been thinking about a problem, that is, how to fight against cavalry. Cao Cao's battle dominates the world, in addition to the many strategists and good generals under his command, there is also his battle-hardened foot horseman. Especially the cavalry, Cao Cao's cavalry, there are many varieties, heavy cavalry has tiger and leopard cavalry, etc., light cavalry has Xiahou cavalry who is good at raiding, Hun cavalry and Wuhuan cavalry who are good at riding and shooting; There is also a half-heavy riding of the state iron horse.

Qiao Ren's biggest opponent in Jiangbei is Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao was born in the Bingzhou Army, and there are a group of Bingzhou Iron Cavalry who inherited the name of Lu Bu's cavalry in the past, and Jiangbei is not more gentle than Jiangdong, although it is not like the Central Plains and Hebei, but it can also use cavalry. In this way, Qiao Ren needs to face Zhang Liao's 2,000-man Bingzhou Iron Cavalry.

In the past six months, Qiao Ren has thought of many methods, in addition to the maturity of the Star Scattering Array, he finally thought of a formation to deal with the cavalry, which has led to these intriguing training methods in recent months.

Soon after Zhang Dun left, Jia Hua, the captain of the personal guard corps, also found Qiao Ren, who supervised the training of the soldiers. "The Metropolitan Governor, General Sun and General Zhu have arrived, and they have also brought a thousand crossbow machines newly made by Jianye."

"Oh!" Qiao Ren was still worried that he had too few bows and crossbows, but Sun Ce was still very thoughtful. "Where are the two of them?"

"Back to the Governor, in the lobby."

Hearing this, Qiao Ren left Liuzan to continue to supervise the soldiers' drills, and he and Jia Hua hurried to the city. When Qiao Ren came to the hall, Qiao Ren's generals were basically all here. Qiao Ren was not polite, he went straight to the upper seat and sat down, glanced at them one by one, and the generals under the hall took a steady breath before he spoke: "Shu Lang and General Zhu have worked hard all the way. However, there is no time for you to rest. ”

Hearing Qiao Ren say this, for a while, the generals in the hall all knew that a military order had been issued, and they all stared at him with wide eyes. Qiao Ren pulled his robe and said, "Okay, I'll announce the arming." Sun Jiao obeyed. ”

Sun Jiao and Qiao Ren are also old acquaintances, and they have also heard of Qiao Ren's deeds in Chaisang, and they dare not slack off when they hear it. Qiao Ren said: "Lingdu Hu Sun Jiao led the headquarters to garrison Anhui City. Shulang, this governor wants to move the Lujiang Governance Office back to Shu County, but Wancheng is still the essence of Lujiang's heart after all, so he sent you to garrison there. ”

"Whoa!"

"Where is Dai Gang?" Qiao Ren's voice kept and continued to give military orders directly.

Dai Gang also immediately appeared when he heard this. "Dai Gang, the captain of the leading military academy, led 2,000 people from his headquarters to garrison Lu'an to monitor the movement in the north at any time."

Dai Gang's army originally had 3,000 people, but 1,000 of them were transferred by Qiao Ren and handed over to Liuzan to command, so there are only 2,000 people left in the headquarters now, but fortunately, Dai Gang can still replenish himself.

"Whoa!"

Qiao Ren looked at the rest of the generals and said: "Xingba, you take the headquarters to find a good port in Chaohu Lake to go to the village, and the governor is going to build a naval army in Chaohu, and he has already reported to the lord to send ships and soldiers to come." ”

"Whoa!"

"General Zhu Huan, let you lead the headquarters to garrison Yangquan."

"Whoa!"

"The rest of the generals will be temporarily stationed in Shucheng with the governor."

Less than ten days after Qiao Ren had perfected the distribution of military forces in the entire Lujiang County, news came. Xue Yi, the protector of the Cao army, and the two troops of Li Dian and Lejin have arrived in Hefei. And Cao Cao appointed Zhang Wenyuan as the commander-in-chief to control the generals, and did not drive Jiang Ji as the military advisor of the army. Nowadays, the arrangement of Cao's army along the Hefei line has been strengthened a lot, the general Zhang Liao is the main commander, and there are the general Le Jin of Zhichong, the general Li Dian of the broken captivity, Xue Yi, the overseer of the Central Protector Army, Zhang Xi, the general of Zhaode, and Jiang Ji, the military division, with a total of nearly 30,000 soldiers. Compared with the battle of Xiaoyaojin in the original history, both the configuration and the strength are much stronger, and today's Cao army not only has no problem holding on, but also has the spare strength to forge ahead.

It is precisely because of this that Qiao Ren feels so nervous and oppressive, in the case of equal strength, if the Wu army is far from being the opponent of the Cao army in the field, not to mention that there are elite cavalry under Zhang Liao. With Zhang Liao's bravery, in the later battle of Xiaoyaojin, 7,000 people still dared to take only 800 people out of the city to attack Sun Quan's 100,000 army, and they also killed it steadily, and then when Sun Quan withdrew his army, he directly defeated Sun Quan's own rear army, and almost captured Sun Quan alive. Such a wise and brave general will let Qiao Ren gain a firm foothold in Lujiang, and Qiao Ren recognizes such good luck. Therefore, Qiao Ren thought that there would be a battle between him and Zhang Liao, and Zhang Liao would personally lead the army to recapture Shucheng.