Ding Yuan said, got up directly, walked to the school field, and wanted to lead the soldiers and horses to the battle.

This time, Ding Yuan brought 30,000 soldiers and horses to Nanjun to support Liu Biao, counting Liu Biao's own soldiers and horses, there were more than 60,000 people here.

Two months ago, when Ding Yuan first arrived here, he did not personally go out to deal with a mere Yuan Shu in the battle against Yuan Shu, Ding Yuan did not need to deal with it in person, he casually let his subordinate general Zhang Liao lead 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Huang Zu under Liu Biao led an army of 10,000 to form an army of 20,000 to encircle and suppress Yuan Shu.

The reason why the whole army did not attack and exterminated Yuan Shu in a short period of time was that Liu Zheng had a heavy army in Changsha County. In addition to Gan Ning's men, there were also Zu Lang and Zhou Tai's sailors, who also gradually wandered around Dongting Lake.

Liu Zheng's men and horses are what Ding Yuan is afraid of, he is afraid that once the whole army attacks, Liu Zheng will take the opportunity to attack Xiangyang again, in that case, it will be easy for Liu Zheng to fight a siege of Wei to save Zhao.

Anyway, Yuan Shu is already a grasshopper after the autumn, and he can't jump for a few days.

Ding Yuan was not in a hurry to clean up Yuan Shu, but was waiting, he first asked his subordinate Zhang Liao to test the attack on Yuan Shu, if Liu Zheng did not move, then swallow Yuan Shu little by little, if Liu Zheng sent troops to the rescue.

At this time, Na Ding Yuan gathered his men and began to deal with Liu Zheng.

In any case, such a plan of action is cautious and decent.

Now that Liu Zheng has finally sent troops, Ding Yuan also needs to go out in person, and after a while, the famous Liu Zheng will be gone.

189, mid-January.

Liu Zheng led Huang Zhong's 10,000 soldiers and horses and Zhou Cang's 10,000 horses to reach the border of Changsha County and Jiangxia County.

Baling County, called Yueyang in later generations, is located on the shore of Dongting Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, according to the Yangtze River, Nasanxiang and four waters, the rivers and lakes converge, and it is the north-south east-west traffic artery of the Chinese land.

Liu Zheng led the army to garrison in Baling County, which is the best location.

It can not only train soldiers and horses, but also rely on Dongting Lake to train the navy, the four major armies, with Baling County as a base, spread to the surroundings, because of the relationship between Dongting Lake, Su Fei under Liu Zheng also suggested that not far from Baling, a place called Baqiu, build a military base, not only to watch the dynamics of Jiangxia, but also to detect the movement of the water surface of Dongting Lake.

Liu Zheng naturally agreed, because he vaguely remembered that this Baqiu was later the junction of Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the famous Zhou Yu died here.

When he thought of this, Liu Zheng couldn't help but glance at Xiao Zhou Yu behind him, and a strange thought appeared in Liu Zheng's heart.

If history hadn't changed, twenty years later, Zhou Yu would have died here.

Of course, Liu Zheng's appearance must have changed history, he has instructed Zhou Yu to exercise diligently, and at the same time asked Zhang Zhongjing to give Zhou Yu frequent physical examinations to see if there are any hidden diseases or the like.

Let's think about it, Zhou Yu should not have died young as in history.

It is worth mentioning that this Baqiu later built a military building under the management of Lu Su, called the Yuejun Building, which is the predecessor of the four famous buildings in later generations, Yueyang Tower.

"The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy."

Standing on a high mountain next to Dongting Lake, looking at the scenery of Dongting Lake and mountains from afar, Liu Zheng remembered that when he was in school, the article on Yueyang Lou in the Chinese textbook, although the text needed to be memorized in its entirety, but Liu Zheng had graduated for too many years, and he naturally couldn't remember the whole text.

But a few of the most famous sentences are still impressive.

"Master, what does this mean?"

Zhou Yu heard Liu Zheng suddenly come out of his mouth two words, and he didn't understand what these two suddenly read out of his mouth meant.

Not only did Zhou Yu not understand, but a kind of military general who followed Liu Zheng to climb the mountain here also looked at Liu Zheng.

"Worry before the world is worried, and be happy after the world is happy. Do not rejoice in the beauty of external things, and do not grieve with your own gains and losses. ”

After Liu Zheng finished saying a few words, Zhou Yu looked at Liu Zheng with a look of admiration.

The other generals nodded their heads one after another, and patted Liu Zheng's horses one by one.

"The lord is highly talented, and he can actually say such a big truth."

Zhou Cang, a stunned man who had never read a book, was the first to speak.

"Lao Zhou, you coward, what do you know, if the lord has no talent, can you be your lord?"

"As soon as I listened to the lord's way of speaking, I knew that the lord must be a scholar!"

Gan Ning also made do.

"Haha, I thought that the lord was just a general from a martial artist, but I didn't expect the lord to be able to say this kind of sentence that only literati can say, which just impressed me."

Xu You also followed Liu Zheng's side and agreed.

"Okay, don't be a sycophant, I'm taking you here to climb the mountain today, not to visit the mountains and rivers, our spies came to report that Ding Yuan led 30,000 soldiers and horses, and they were stationed on the opposite side of Dongting Lake, in that direction."

Liu Zheng pointed to a place by the lake. Although everyone looked over at this time and didn't see any soldiers and horses from Ding Yuan, none of them would doubt what Liu Zheng said.

"Ding Yuan's 30,000 army is here, but they didn't take the initiative to attack, but waited for us to attack first, this big battle, it's very difficult to fight."

Liu Zheng said to himself, his eyes did not retract, and he still looked at the sparkling Dongting Lake, where small boats passed by from time to time.

In the early days, there was an endless stream of merchant ships and passenger ships on Dongting Lake, but now, because Jingzhou was divided into two and occupied by Liu Zheng, it became a place of frequent wars.

Because of the control of the waters, it is difficult for merchant ships and passenger ships to pass here, which also makes Jingzhou's commercial trade plummet, and the originally prosperous Jingzhou has become much quieter with the arrival of Liu Zheng.

However, this is a good thing for Liu Zheng.

Because Jingzhou's business can't be done, many businessmen still have to eat, they can only turn their eyes to other places, and only Jingzhou and Yangzhou are close to the water, Jingzhou's business can't be done, Yangzhou's can still be done.

For a time, Yangzhou's trade became more frequent.

"Lord, what is so terrible about Ding Yuan, as long as you give an order, the last general will lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters, rush over and kill Ding Yuan!"

Zhou Cang stood beside Liu Zheng, and heard Liu Zheng lower his head in contemplation, but he was not worried.

Zhou Cang didn't know how powerful Ding Yuan was, so he could naturally say big things, but Liu Zheng knew, hearing Zhou Cang say this, Liu Zheng just smiled.