That night, Zhao Xing placed two battalions of his light cavalry and foot soldiers around the county guard's mansion, and placed the seven or eight hundred children bought along the way into the mansions of several large families in the city. Because it was the order of the county guard, and there were soldiers to escort it, several rich families did not dare to say anything, so they had to vacate some houses for the children to live temporarily.

Zhao Xing has nearly a thousand soldiers and horses in his hands, and he is finally more down-to-earth in his heart, but looking at the empty d-ngd-ng treasury, Zhao Xing has the urge to cut people again. Fortunately, when he left Shangdang, Jia Xu had already estimated the situation to the worst and asked him to go on the road with a batch of gold with enough weight. Zhao Xing had these belongings to deal with, and he could barely tǐng to the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhao Xing summoned Tian Feng and Li Fu to the council hall, gave them some gold, and asked them to hurry to the surrounding market towns to buy and hoard grain and grass for the next day. After receiving the task, Tian Feng and Li Fu each left the county guard mansion with fifty soldiers who were still dressed as family members.

Zhao Xing sent people to summon Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, and with two hundred cavalry, they went to the county barracks in the western suburbs of the city to inspect. The rest of the soldiers stayed in the city, familiarized themselves with the terrain and defense of the county seat, and began to repair and build some defensive fortifications. Wang Lu, the deputy commander of the infantry battalion who followed Zhao Xing to Julu this time, was a middle-level general who stood out from the Shangdang County soldiers at the beginning of last year, and has been working under Guan Yu and Xu Huang, and now he has been reused and has become the head of the sergeant who stayed in the city.

Zhao Xing and his entourage walked for less than half an hour, and came to a sparsely populated camp in the west of the city, where the M-N entrance of the camp was unguarded, and the sound of soldiers training or frolicking could not be heard in the camp, as if it was an empty camp. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun are accustomed to the hot scene in the Shangdang barracks, and when they saw this strange scene of "the pot doesn't sound and the scoop doesn't touch" for the first time, the two couldn't help but look at each other, 1-out of comprehension.

After entering the camp and walking inside for a while, I heard the noisy voices of people in the commander's tent and I didn't know what they were busy with. Zhao Yun hurriedly took a few steps forward, picked up the curtain of the big tent with one shot, and shouted inside: "The new General Pingdong and Lord Zhao of Julu County have come to inspect the camp, so hurry up and greet you!"

A group of county soldiers who were gambling heard that the new county guard was coming, and hurriedly cleaned up the commander's tent, and then ran into the next few camp tents with crooked armor, and shouted the rest of the soldiers who were still sleeping soundly, and under the scolding of several small leaders, they formed a team and stood in front of Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun had been waiting for a stick of incense in the open space of the commander's tent, and several people had long been familiar with the erosion and casualness of the county soldiers in various counties, but the performance of the Julu County soldiers was not a star and a half compared with the Shangdang County soldiers, Hanoi County soldiers, and Xihe County soldiers who had been in contact before, let alone with the current Crouching Tiger Jīng soldiers.

The two hundred light horsemen behind Zhao Xing, freshly dressed and angry, were all sitting on horses, holding sabers more than three feet long in their hands. The soldiers of the cavalry battalion were proud in their hearts, and they were already puffing up, and one by one they deliberately looked outward, looking at the county soldiers in front of them, and 1-showed an undisguised expression of contempt.

"Among you, who is the leader?" Zhao Xing asked in a deep voice.

"Report to the general, the villain Lu Xiang, the position of the military marquis, the highest position among the soldiers for the time being!" a young leader, who was about twenty years old, stood up and replied.

Hearing the leader on the other side calling himself Lu Xiang, Zhao Xing felt a vague impression in his memory, so he tried to recall, and seemed to remember that when Cao C-O attacked Xinye, a guy named Lu Xiang died under Zhang Fei's spear, so he asked uncertainly: "Do you have a brother who is also in the army?"

"General Qiyu, the little Lu Kuang, is Brother Lu Xiang, and now he is the commander of the army" A man who was a few years older than Lu Xiang walked out of the county soldiers and replied cautiously.

Looking at the two brothers in front of him, Zhao Xing felt happy in his heart, and felt that he had really gained something from coming to the county barracks today. Although the two brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang were third-rate generals, they were easily slaughtered by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun respectively, but in the current situation of Julu's lack of soldiers and major generals, the generals can also be used, so Zhao Xing moved the idea of subduing the two.

"Can any of you tell me that there are soldiers in Julu County now, where are the captains of each battalion and the military commander?" Zhao Xing asked the two.

"General Qiyu, there were originally 5,000 county soldiers in Julu County, in recent years, because the county guard has deducted military salaries and lack of food and clothing, everyone has fled to other places, and now there are only more than 600 people left in front of them, and the captains and military commanders of each battalion have all joined other counties, and there are no soldiers stationed elsewhere!" Lu Xiang replied.

"Then why are your two brothers still here?" Zhao Xing asked again.

"Everyone says: eat the king's luck, worry about the king, the younger two brothers have been in the army since #25o childhood, and they have no other strengths, so they can only stay in the army to make a living, although it is hard, but it is better than ......living around" Lu Kuang honestly said the situation of their brothers.

"The rest of the soldiers who don't want to go, but this idea?" Zhao Xing asked again.

"The rest of the soldiers, all locals, have nothing to do at home now, and in the name of the county soldiers, they can still get a little food and money all year round, which is better than having no harvest at home!" Lu Xiang said.

"Do you want to be like them?" Zhao Xing pointed to the two hundred light horsemen behind him, and asked the more than six hundred county soldiers, "They are the soldiers I brought from the Shangdang, each of them has a field at home, a monthly salary, a full meal, and everyone is equipped with armor and weapons!"

The county soldiers had already seen the two hundred neatly arranged cavalry on the opposite side, with no one in their eyes, and they were also very greedy for other people's horses and equipment, and when Zhao Xing asked them this, they replied with a little weakness: "Of course I want to! Who is not born to be a bad soldier!"

"Yes, we weren't born to be soldiers!" everyone said to each other in a grudge of courage.

"Since you don't want to be a soldier, you want to receive a salary, and you want to eat well, then you have to listen to the orders of me, Zhao Xing, the general of Pingdong!" Zhao Xing suddenly raised his voice and scolded loudly.

"Everyone obeys the order, from today onwards, I will appoint General Guan as the commander of Julu, Lu Xiang and Lu Kuang are respectively the Sima of the left army and the Sima of the right army, reorganize the spear, train and prepare for war, and must not slack off, otherwise all military law will be carried out!" Zhao Xing gave an order to all the county soldiers.

"Obey the general's orders!" shouted more than 600 soldiers in unison.

Zhao Xing then left Guan Yu and 200 light cavalry in the county soldier camp, and only took Zhao Yun back to the county guard's mansion.

Tian Feng and Li Fu's work efficiency is really very high, although the people of Julu are now suffering from famine, but there are still many rich people who are eager to sell the grain they have accumulated for many years, and want to leave the giant deer as soon as possible like a dormant volcano that will explode at any time.

It is now the middle of February, and the time left for Zhao Xing to prepare is only twenty days......

According to historical records: Lü Xiang: a native of Dongping, a general under Yuan Shang, the younger brother of Lü Kuang, followed Yuan Shang after Yuan Shao's death, and then surrendered to Yuan Tan, surrendered to Cao C-O, sealed the liehou, and then led 5,000 troops to attack Xinye with Lü Kuang. Lü Kuang: a native of Dongping, a general under Yuan Shang, the brother of Lü Xiang, followed Yuan Shang after Yuan Shao's death, and then surrendered to Yuan Tan, after surrendering to Cao C-O, he was named Liehou, and then led 5,000 troops to attack Xinye with Lü Xiang.