Seven days later, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei arrived at Yecheng.
The day when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei arrived was when Liu Jian's seven-day vigil for Yuan Ji had come to an end.
The two brothers also went to the mourning hall, paid homage to Yuan Ji, and then came to Liu Jian's study.
In the study, besides Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, there were also Zhao Yun and Yan Liang.
Liu Jian glanced back and forth between the two people and said, "How is the arrangement going with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban?"
Zhang Fei said cheerfully: "This winter has been extremely difficult. It is not easy to arrange all the nearly two million people properly. During this period, there were several mutinies, but my fourth brother and I suppressed them all. However, it was a loss."
Knowing that Liu Qingzhou is an expert in governing, at the end of last month, the matter of settling the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans was settled. Now, whether it is farming, building water conservancy, planting mulberry trees, raising silkworms, making salt, printing books... Anyway, as long as there is a shortage
Where there are people, just use these yellow scarves to cover them. Now when I look back, hey! I find that there are not enough people!"
The fourth brother mentioned by Zhang Fei is Guan Yu. That is to say, recently, Zhang Fei insisted on ranking these brothers in order of age. Liu Bei is the eldest, Jian Yong is the second, Liu Jian is the third, and Guan Yu is the fourth.
Liu Jian nodded and said: "It is a good thing if there are not enough people. If there are not enough people, many people will be idle, which will be troublesome for the industry of a state."
Guan Yu said to Liu Jian: "According to my brother's instructions, from the millions of yellow scarf troops, select the strongest and strongest soldiers to establish military camps and reclaim the wasteland in Jizhou and Qingzhou. They can go into battle when there is a battle, and they can farm when there is no battle!"
Liu Jian nodded with satisfaction: "Your Liaodong vassal state can also adopt such a military garrison method."
Guan Yu nodded in agreement.
Guan Yu would never reject the advanced techniques created by his brother Liu Jian, and would set Liu Jian's example as the benchmark for everything.
"How many of the Qingzhou Army soldiers that can be mobilized now are war soldiers?"
Zhang Fei said: "You can mobilize as many soldiers as you want, even a hundred thousand soldiers are enough. However, the fourth brother said that if too many Qingzhou soldiers are recruited for battle, the subsequent grain burden will be too heavy and the wealth of Qingzhou and Jizhou will be consumed too much."
It's so big that we need to mobilize civilian transport capacity to ensure logistics..."
Liu Jian nodded and said: "What Yun Chang said is absolutely true. The battle is not about the number of people. The main thing is money and food. There is no point in raising more troops. It is better to raise them better."
Guan Yu said: "A certain person and Yide formed the 30,000 most elite Qingzhou Army from among the Yellow Turbans for my brother's use."
Liu Jian was very satisfied with Guan Yu's way of doing things.
The Jizhou soldiers and horses currently under his direct control are less than 30,000. Coupled with the 30,000 Qingzhou soldiers, the main force of 60,000 is just within the range of his burden. He will neither exceed the limit nor feel that
The number of soldiers was stretched thin.
As for the troops and horses raised by the princes and kings in various places, it does not involve Liu Jian's local finances, and at critical moments, Liu Jian can also use Xu Rong as the captain and control their subordinates for his own use.
Now, let the soldiers and generals of the princes and kings replace the county soldiers and perform the tasks of defending the security of the county and suppressing bandits in the local area.
Liu Jian looked at Guan Yu and said: "In this crusade against Dong Zhuo, I will bring 20,000 of the 30,000 Qingzhou soldiers to practice in actual combat. However, in order to better restrain them, more than a thousand sergeants from the Liyang Camp in Yide also returned
The three thousand elite troops from Liaodong you have in your hands, Yun Chang, and the Baijie soldiers who are under the command of Zilong will also accompany the army. I will bring another five thousand from the Jizhou army, so there will be more than thirty thousand troops!"
"As for Brother Bogui's troops, let him take them back to Youzhou on his own and join forces with Huang Zhong to prevent the barbarians from northern Xinjiang from taking the opportunity to attack."
"On the Jizhou side, I have left Xu Rong and Xia Houlan, as well as 15,000 elite men from Jizhou. They will be stationed in Yecheng to cooperate with Master Lu and keep a close eye on Youzhou. If Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun make any moves, they can attack them as soon as possible!
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Zhang Fei counted on his fingers for a long time and said curiously: "Then, there are more than 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers and 5,000 Jizhou troops, as well as Gao Shun's 3,000 trapped camps. Where do you plan to place them?"
"Of course, I will give it to Xuande to lead. The industry in Qingzhou is booming, and it may still be our economic center in the future. There must be no shortage of available soldiers for Xuande! In addition, I will also send Cheng Pu and Han Dang to Qingzhou to assist
Xuande, the stability of Qingzhou is very important to us."
After hearing this, Zhang Fei said with some regret: "Han Yigong is my deputy..."
Liu Jian said angrily: "What kind of deputy, can I keep hanging out with you in the future? Yi Gong is also someone I want to focus on training, and I will use him to take charge of myself in the future!"
Zhang Fei sighed regretfully.
"By the way, Wu Cen, the camp supervisor of Liyang camp, Yi De will go back and find a time to have a good talk with him and ask him to resign from the position of camp supervisor and go back to his hometown to retire.
Liyang Camp has always been controlled by the camp supervisors and the captains, but now the world situation has changed. Dong Zhuo, who represents Luoyang Central Committee, has a fierce conflict with the local government, similar to the camp supervisors in Liyang Camp.
They all belonged to the eunuchs in the past, but Liyang Camp has now become Liu Jian's private soldier through Zhang Fei, so Wu Cen no longer has any role in Liyang Camp.
If you continue to stay here, you will die sooner or later.
Zhang Fei sneered and said: "This eunuch has taken a lot of our property! And let him take care of himself in old age? It's better to kill him to relieve his anger!"
Zhang Fei has always valued scholar-bureaucrats and despised the lower-class soldiers. However, he has changed a lot since being educated and guided by Liu Jian. However, although he does not offend the eunuchs on the surface, he still hates them in his heart and wishes to kill them.
Then quickly.
"Why!"
Liu Jian stretched out his hand to block Zhang Fei's words: "It can't be like this. We must be honest when doing things. It was our initiative to cooperate with the eunuchs to control Liyang Camp. Although the eunuchs accepted our property, they did not deny it.
, then Wu Cen has relied on you for everything in Liyang camp over the years, and has never felt sorry for us. If you go and kill him now, what is the difference between us brothers and thieves and bandits? "
Guan Yu stroked his beard and said nothing.
Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, then said: "I was joking with my brother! Don't worry, I'll just go and persuade him later!"
Liu Jian looked back and forth at several people and said: "The four of you will go to battle with me. I will transfer Zhang He and Gao Lan to go with me. This time I go to conquer Dong Zhuo, and the six of you will be the main force."
Zhang Fei said: "It's not like we didn't fight the Xiliang Army last time, and they are not as powerful as the rumors say!"
Zhao Yun said very calmly: "Yi De should not be careless. The Xiliang army is the strongest army in the world, and Dong Zhuo has one hundred thousand people under his command. Looking at the world, whether it is the number of soldiers and horses or the eliteness of the soldiers, they are all the top among the Han Dynasty.
When we fight against him, neither of us has the intention to fight to the death, and most of the opponents are partial troops. This time we go out to fight, it is a life and death fight, and we cannot compare it with each other!"
Guan Yu stopped stroking his beard.
He suddenly opened his red phoenix eyes and said proudly: "I have heard for a long time that there are many generals in the Xiliang army who are good at fighting. It is really a blessing to have the opportunity to compete with them now."
Liu Jian looked at Yan Liang again.
As a fan of Jian, Yan Liang is also very motivated to fight at this moment. He is eager to establish his own status in Jizhou through this war.
After all, the previous battle in Qingzhou did not give Yan Liang a chance to perform.
"My lord, Yan Liang is willing to be the pioneer!"
Seeing that everyone was full of fighting spirit, Liu Jian felt very comforted.
Although the Xiliang army is very powerful, as long as their morale does not drop, they will still be able to fight.
If one's own side wants to maintain morale, the key lies in the generals who command the troops.
They are the courage and soul of the three armies.
"Okay, since all brothers are not afraid of the Xiliang army, then I, as the elder brother, know this battle well in my heart!"
"At the beginning of next month, on the auspicious day of the zodiac, our army will go out to Luoyang! Then it will be up to you all!"
"Promise, we will fight to the death and live up to the Lord!"
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In July of the third year of the Han Dynasty, it was midsummer. Liu Jian, the shepherd of Jizhou, commanded an army of 30,000 men, with Guan Yu and Zhao Yun as the vanguard and Gao Lan as the rear army. They supervised the grain roads and marched towards Luoyang with six fierce generals as the core team.
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The people accompanying him this time were Jushou and Shenpei.
On the other side of Yecheng, he handed it over to Tian Feng, but he also deliberately kept Xun Yu to assist Tian Feng in governing Yecheng.
At that time, Han Fu, the governor of Youzhou, also went to Luoyang with the soldiers and horses of the governor's department of Youzhou. He sent people to ask Liu Jian, hoping to join forces with Liu Jian, but he was severely rejected by Liu Jian.
Liu Jian did not embarrass Han Fu, but he made it clear that he would not join forces with Yuan Shao.
He had only one purpose in sending troops, which was to avenge Yuan Ji!
Liu Jian's soldiers and horses were all dressed in white clothes and armor, holding high the white flag of "revenge". More than 30,000 mourning soldiers marched towards the south bank of the Yellow River!