Originally, Liu Zheng had six battalions of men and horses under his command.

Among them, Xu Huang's cavalry battalion was the earliest, and it was also the most elite man and horse who followed Liu Zheng, and this time it also performed very well in the battle of Xuzhou.

20,000 people, after this battle, a small half of the loss, but the combat effectiveness is still there, only a little training is needed, back to the peak state, not a problem.

Huang Zhong's archer battalion and Gan Ning's infantry battalion were stationed in Jingzhou, facing off against Ding Yuan and Liu Biao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Zhou Cang of the fourth battalion has now gone to Funan Prefecture and cannot come back for the time being, so Liu Zheng does not expect Zhou Cang's men and horses to come back here to help.

The Wenpin army of the fifth battalion and the Taishici army of the sixth battalion suffered heavy losses in the Xuzhou and Qingzhou battlefields this time.

Most of the manpower has been lost, and if you want to recover, it will take at least half a year to recuperate.

In addition to these, the water army has lost too much in the United States, but the water army is not the main force of Liu Zheng at present, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being.

In addition to these soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng needed to add several new troops.

The 7th Battalion was newly formed.

Sun Jian, who returned from Linyi County, served as the chief general, and Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang and others were the commanders. The commander's men and horses, part of which were recruited by Sun Jian in Linyi County before, recruited some soldiers and horses at the same time, formed a corps of 20,000 people, and began to move north from Jiaozhou to Changsha County.

In this way, Jingzhou is guarded by three legions, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, and Sun Jian, with more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, which can ensure that nothing goes wrong.

The 8th Battalion was newly built.

Commander Chen Deng, who returned from Qingzhou, Zang Ba, the leader of the bandits, was the deputy, Guan Hai and others were merged into the eighth battalion.

These people, some of them are the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou, some of them are bandits, and there are also newly recruited people, Zang Ba and Guan Hai and others are being punished because they lost the battle, so they can't serve as the main general, and Chen Deng is because he lost the entire Xuzhou, and Liu Zheng is ashamed of him, so he hopes to come up here to make up for it.

The eighth battalion was established in Guangling County, and the purpose was also very clear, that is, one day, if they could counterattack Xuzhou and regroup, these people would be the main force attacking Xuzhou.

The 9th Battalion was newly built.

Originally, the two additional battalions were sufficient.

However, under Liu Zheng, the new class of military academy people also graduated.

Even Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were about to graduate from the military academy in 191, and these people were already in other military camps, and they had almost experienced it, and there were no more positions for them.

Therefore, in order for them to grow up as soon as possible and become a general who can take charge on their own, it is necessary for Liu Zheng to make them the commander of the first army.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, plus Shangguan Yunmo, an outstanding graduate from the previous battalion, became the chief general of the ninth battalion and the military Sima and deputy general.

Although the ninth battalion is still being drafted for the time being, it will take some time to form it, but Liu Zheng believes that soon Zhou Yu and Sun Ce can become the mainstay of Liu Zheng's army.

Liu Zheng spent half a year peacefully in Wu County.

In the past six months, he has vigorously developed people's livelihood, in addition to sending soldiers and horses to sweep those Shanyue clans in Yangzhou, he has vigorously developed shipping.

Although the road to the north for business was blocked, the route to the south was made more convenient during Liu Zheng's previous expedition.

In the past six months, the population of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou has increased a lot, especially Liu Zheng has transported back a lot of war elephants from Funan.

Now in the military academy in Yangzhou, Liu Zheng has a specially trained war elephant corps.

Although the number of this war elephant legion is not large, only a thousand people, and it is still for Funan to command and train Aguduo, but at least this is already a killing weapon that other countries cannot possess at present.

This thing, put down now, is a battlefield tank, even if the cavalry meets the war elephant troops, it is also a small thing, and this is also a decisive magic weapon that Liu Zheng kept to deal with the cavalry of other princes.

However, Liu Zheng's peaceful days did not last long, although Lu Zhi's side did not come to attack, but in the northwest, Liu Yan, who had already unified the entire Yizhou, extended his tentacles to Wuling County.

Previously, there were some barbarian people in Wuling County who killed Guo Shi, who originally occupied Wuling County, and Wuling County was in a situation where it was occupied by barbarians.

Many of the people who originally belonged to Wuling County had no choice but to flee from Wuling County and fled to Jiaozhou and even Jingzhou.

At that time, Liu Zheng just ordered Shi Xie to organize some men to defend.

Because Liu Zheng was fighting with the imperial court and Yuan Shao's men and horses at that time, he didn't have time or care about what happened in Wuling County.

As a result, those barbarians in Wuling County have intensified and have been expanding outward, and some of Shixie's soldiers and horses have been unable to stop the attacks of those barbarians.

When Shi Xie spread the news to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng didn't plan to ignore these small problems, and wanted to send a legion of men and horses to eliminate these barbarian people, Shi Xie told Liu Zheng that behind this, there was the shadow of Liu Yan, the governor of the state.

This made Liu Zheng pay attention to it, and Liu Zheng had some worries about it.

Liu Yan, although he is a person who only wants to be the emperor of the soil, does not have much ambition, but Liu Zheng does not want to let Liu Yan go.

Anyway, Yizhou is also a place with great use, not to mention the population, Yizhou's territory is also huge, think about the history of Shu, can use a mere Yizhou, to fight against Cao Wei for so many years, you can know that Yizhou is a vast land, and the power of one state against the whole world.

If Liu Zheng can occupy this Yizhou, it will definitely bring Liu Zheng a large population base and money, in particular, if Liu Zheng can send the caravan inside, then the money he earns must be a lot.

More importantly, Hanzhong, Yizhou, is an important military place.

If Liu Zheng can control Hanzhong, then it is possible for Liu Zheng to bypass the Sili region and directly link Yongzhou and Xiliang from Hanzhong, and even Liu Zheng can no longer need to buy horses from Youzhou.

Perhaps, he will be able to go from Hanzhong, and then go to Xiliang, to find the Qiang people in Xiliang to buy war horses, compared to the Karasuma horses in Youzhou, Xiliang war horses are more large and more suitable for serving as cavalry.

Therefore, Liu Zheng decided to go to Jingzhou in person, first find out what these barbarian people are doing, and if necessary, directly raise troops to kill Liu Yan and take Liu Yan's Yizhou as his own.

February 191.

In the heavy snowfall, Liu Zheng marched west from Wu County, headed for Wuling County, and passed through Yichun County, Yuzhang County.