The rest is easy.

Liu Zheng's people began to accept the surrender of Cai Mao and others.

First, he unarmed them and temporarily resettled them, and Liu Zheng took them back to Changsha County.

The reason why he didn't directly let them go back to Xiangyang was because Liu Zheng wanted to stabilize the situation in Changsha after seizing Changsha County, and then let these people go back, so that they wouldn't make trouble in it.

Zhang Yun and Kuai Yue and the others have no opinion, after all, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, as long as they can temporarily save their lives, everything is easy to say.

After arranging these things, Liu Zheng met with Cai Mao alone.

Cai Mao first caught up with Cai Yao, and then set her eyes on Liu Zheng.

"Liu Zheng, it's really good that you're playing with this hand, even I deceived you."

Cai Mao thinks about it carefully now, if Liu Zheng hadn't attacked Xiangyang, I'm afraid that he should still be fighting with him in Changsha City now.

If it was in Changsha, relying on the convenience of the city wall, Cai Mao was actually a little confident, and he could rely on the tens of thousands of troops to deal with Liu Zheng's men and horses, but now, Liu Zheng attacked Xiangyang and forced him to go out of the city and fight with Liu Zheng's men and horses in the field.

Cai Mao, who had seen the strength of Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, naturally knew that once he was in the wild, even if he had twice as many soldiers and horses as Liu Zheng, it would only be a way to defeat.

Sure enough, despite his overall planning, it was still difficult to defeat Liu Zheng's men and horses in a head-to-head confrontation on the battlefield.

"What kind of noise, but I just noticed that your Nanjun mobilized troops and horses to Changsha, knowing that Nanjun didn't have too many troops at this time, as long as you make a little use of it, you can use your strengths and avoid your weaknesses."

Liu Zheng didn't think he was playing well with this hand, it was just a normal operation.

"Alas, it's also that we are too jealous of you, otherwise the soldiers and horses of Nanjun would not have been transferred to Changsha at this time, as long as there are still 20,000 troops in Nanjun, this battle will definitely not end so soon, at least insist on consuming a few months, there is no problem at all."

"Haha, that's how the battle is fought, you have to fight a protracted war, but I don't have so much time to fight a protracted war, the situation over there in Youzhou is about to become clear, if Yuan Shao's army is defeated, I will have to face the Han court alone, so before the final showdown with the Han court comes, occupy a large enough territory and cultivate a strong enough force."

For today's Cai Mao, Liu Zheng has nothing to hide, and his desire to win the world has been revealed.

Although Liu Zheng has not yet begun to claim the throne, the things that Liu Zheng has done are enough to show that Liu Zheng has the heart to be the emperor.

For example, Liu Zheng's own army system and his own canonized generals all show that Liu Zheng has the intention of becoming the emperor, even if you don't look at these, Liu Zheng himself is also an anti-thief, the remnant of the Yellow Turban Army.

Although Liu Zheng is no longer under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army, the concept in Liu Zheng's army has not changed.

As long as Liu Zheng has enough strength, it is very possible to overthrow the Han Dynasty that has been around for hundreds of years and establish himself as the emperor.

"When I help you take Changsha County, the entire Jingzhou will be equal to you taking most of it, and when the time comes, sitting on the land of Sanzhou will be enough to confront the imperial court."

"It's still too early to confront the imperial court for the time being, let's solve the current problem first."

Liu Zheng and Cai Mao didn't say much about their plans, although Cai Mao surrendered, Liu Zheng didn't really treat Cai Mao as his own.

The reason why Liu Zheng wanted Cai Mao to surrender was because of Cai Yao, and because Cai Mao was there, it would be much easier for Changsha County to be captured, and Changsha could be easily taken without going through a big battle.

At the same time, if Cai Mao can really come to Liu Zheng's command, it means that the Cai family supports Liu Zheng, and in the Jingzhou area, the Cai family's influence is still very large.

In September, under the leadership of Cai Mao, the major counties of Changsha County fell to the wind.

Basically, Liu Zheng didn't encounter too many obstacles, and he pocketed Changsha County.

In this battle in Jingzhou, in addition to Liu Zheng's loss of 4,000 soldiers and horses during the surprise attack on Xiangyang, that is, Wen Ping and Gan Ning suddenly lost 7,000 men when they intercepted Cai Mao halfway.

Together, they captured one Changsha county and lost more than 10,000 people.

This was only when Changsha County did not have much battle with the help of Cai Mao, otherwise, Liu Zheng would still need to lose a lot of men and horses to be able to completely defeat Changsha County.

After seizing Changsha County, Liu Zheng also repatriated Zhang Yun, Kuai Yue and others, as well as the remaining thousands of remnants, and returned them to Xiangyang.

At the same time, the time is fast approaching October.

Liu Zheng's side also received news from Jiang Xia.

Yuan Shu led 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Jiangxia, Liu Zhengzheng led people to surround Xiangyang City, so Jiangxia's reinforcements did not come to support Xiangyang at the most critical time.

were all restrained by Yuan Shu's men and horses, although Yuan Shu was beaten without the power to fight back when facing Liu Dai and Cao Cao and others, it does not mean that Yuan Shu's men did not have capable people.

At least Ji Ling, Yang Hong and the like, still have some ability, plus the cooperation of several other generals, compared to Huang Zu's generation, it is still a little more powerful, Huang Zu's subordinates rely on some village warriors, and Yuan Shu's men and horses, barely fight is okay, if you want to defeat Yuan Shu, it is impossible.

The two sides were in a stalemate in Jiangxia for more than a month, and finally Yuan Shu used the tactics of attacking Liu Xuan in Huainan to clean up the small counties around Jiangxia, and finally concentrated firepower to besiege Jiangxia, and finally defeated Huang Zu's soldiers and horses in just half a month.

Huang Zu was killed by Ji Ling in the last battle. Several of his men and horses were lost.

Jiangxia was taken under the command of Yuan Shu, and Jingzhou assassinated Liu Biao, leaving only one county in Nanjun.

Although some of the remnants of Jiangxia fled to Xiangyang, Liu Zheng also let Zhang Yun's thousands of men and horses go back, so that Nanjun still had 30,000 soldiers and horses for the time being.

But the name of Jingzhou's assassination history has existed in name only.

Liu Biao was upstairs in Xiangyang City, worried that he couldn't eat, and no one could sleep. You can only ask the imperial court for help.

It is not far from Nanjun to gather in Luoyang, so it can be said that it is next to the land of Gyeonggi, and if you hurry up, you can reach Luoyang in three days.

Therefore, after Liu Zheng's men and horses occupied Changsha and the news that Nanjun was in danger reached Luoyang, He Miao, the general in the imperial court, was extremely angry.

immediately ordered hundreds of officials to go to the court to find a way to deal with Liu Zheng.

Compared with the rebels in other places, Liu Zheng is the biggest potential crisis.