Liu Yi did his best to fight the elite of Sanzhou, more than 300,000 troops plus 100,000 people and soldiers pillowed on the border of Hebei, to start a decisive battle with Yuan Shao, the hero of Hebei, although the main battlefield is in Jizhou, but Zhang Hu's Sizhou is also a lot of movement, Yuan Cao and the two joined forces against Liu Yi is a foregone conclusion, Sizhou is adjacent to Yanzhou, and the burden of containing Cao Cao naturally falls on Zhang Hu's shoulders.

At this time, more than a year has passed since Liu Yi sent troops to attack Li Guo in Chang'an, saying that it is Sizhou, but in fact, only half of it is in the hands of Zhang Hu, and Chang'an is occupied by Ma Teng.

Over the past year or so, under the hard work of Zhang Hu and Zhang Zhao and others, as well as the strong support of Youzhou, there has been great development, but the manpower is sometimes poor, after all, this place was too badly injured back then, at this time in Liu Yi's several states Youzhou is the richest, Liaodong is second, and the state is again, and finally can be counted as Sizhou, obviously in Liu Yi's heart, his strategic position is more important.

The biggest key to hindering the development of Sizhou is the population, natural disasters and man-made disasters, wars are continuous, Sizhou at that time can be regarded as thousands of miles of red land, no one is inhabited, even if Zhang Hu Zhang Zhao and others can govern the government for this in addition to the gradual and gradual, Liu Yi did not have the idea of large-scale migration of population in Sizhou at that time, but this matter is too much to do, a bad one will cause public resentment, after repeated consideration, it can only trickle, steady progress is a long-term solution.

At this time, Sizhou can be self-sufficient is already a great achievement of Zhang Hu and others, but as a stable strategic forward, Sizhou's military status has always been the crown of the states, with Sizhou in hand, Liu Yi can be limited to Cao Cao according to the tiger prison, Linhan Valley and the town of the Western Regions, only in terms of the ratio of population and army, here is better than Youzhou a lot, Zhang Liao's Yanyun Battalion and Zhang Yan's Yellow Shirt Battalion are all stationed here, the Qinglong Battalion in the old four battalions also took over Gao Shun's trapped camp Bingtun Hangu a year ago, after the completion of the training, There are more than 100,000 soldiers in Sizhou alone.

It is precisely because of the special status of Sizhou that the military and political structure here is also different from other places, Zhang Hu can be said to be a monopoly on power, and he can even behead generals in wartime! Such power is also unique among Liu Yijun. After coming to this world, Zhang Hu can be said to be Liu Yi's biggest discovery in talents, this person has no record in history at all, but the strategic vision is not under Jia Xu Guo Jia and other top sages, and even when it comes to comprehensiveness, Liu Yi can only compare with Prime Minister Zhuge and Xun Wenruo, thinking that Yuer is the first person he saw in this life, and his brother is also the first wise man he met, presumably there must be providence in the dark.

The lack of means of communication in this era makes it impossible for Liu Yi to completely control the specific movements of each of his subordinates, and the strategic position of Sizhou makes him often face some unexpected situations, so that the flying pigeon will also delay the opportunity, at this time, it is his best choice to let a capable person arbitrarily make decisions, and Zhang Hu is also the most suitable person.

As the first to follow Liu Yi's advisers, from a little-known little Confucian to such a model admired by young scholars today, Zhang Hu did not know that his life trajectory was due to Liu Yi's arrival and changed dramatically, but the lord's trust he deeply felt, this time the decisive battle in Jizhou is related to the rise and fall of Liu Yi's great cause, and he also has a thousand catties of heavy burden on his shoulders, although Sizhou is not where the war is, but the enemy he has to face is Cao Cao, the most outstanding among the princes of the late Han Dynasty, This person's eloquence and majesty is that the lord has always admired it, and he regards him as the number one enemy in his life, and the degree of importance is still above Yuan Benchu of the fourth and third dukes.

Although there are 100,000 armor soldiers in his hands, and he is sitting on the world's Xiongguan Tiger Prison, but compared with the frontal enemy Cao Cao, Sizhou is obviously still in a weak position, and Meng De's crusade against Yuan Shu has gained a lot of benefits, he can concentrate on dealing with Liu Yi without worries, and he can even transfer all the elites of his cavalry to the Yanji border to help Yuan Shao, at present, Yanzhou's troop deployment seems to be mediocre, but in Zhang Hu's eyes, there are few flaws, after all, the combat strength of the two armies is the most critical factor. And Zicai has always had a worry in his heart, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's joint fight against Liu is by no means as simple as sending an elite cavalry, he must have some backhand, otherwise this person will not be called a traitor in troubled times, but all this is just his speculation in front of him.

At the same time as the frequent transfer of the various armies in Youzhou, Zhang Hu also transferred all the Yanyun battalions after the training to the Tiger Prison Pass, this time the conscription and training, Zhang Liao's Yanyun battalion has been greatly strengthened, not only the number of people expanded to 50,000, but also established their own cavalry before the battalions, the war horses sent by the Qiang people first had 10,000 into the Yanyun battalion, and Zhang Liao was already a cavalry lieutenant in Luoyang in his early years, and the ability to command the cavalry was by no means under Huaxiong Fan Chou and others, and the talent of the commander still had to pass, Otherwise, Liu Yi would not have let Wen Yuan take the post of Gongming to suppress the tiger prison that day. Now that Tian'er Guo Jia in Yanzhou has temporarily handed it over to Zhang Hu, they will go all out to find out the movements of the Cao army, and once there is a change, Zhang Liao will lead the Yanyun battalion out of the Tiger Prison Pass to attract the main force of the Cao army to fight.

Wenyuan's Yanyun battalion was used by Zhang Hu as a strategic commando, Zhang Yan's yellow shirt battalion was used as a reserve force to stabilize Sizhou, when Montenegro served Liu Yi, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians moved into Youzhou, Liu Yi selected 40,000 strong and strong soldiers to establish the yellow shirt battalion to go to practice in person, after the army became the commander of the post is still held by Zhang Yan, Zhang Niujiao assisted, for the lord's move, Zhang Yan is grateful, more admired for his ability to train, and then the battle of the state Yellow shirt battalion shined under the leadership of Zhang Yan, has gradually become one of the main forces in Liu Yi's army.

This expansion, the number of the Yellow Shirt Battalion increased to 60,000, in Liu Yi's battalion he is the highest proportion of veterans, a month ago Zhang Yan has received Zhang Hu's military order to temporarily leave the Tuntian place to be stationed in Hedong, once Zhang Liao goes out, he will divide two battalions of soldiers to die, and the responsibility of sitting in the Tiger Prison will be temporarily replaced by him. Now Zhang Yan is already familiar with the rules of the main army, Zhang Hu's talent is also convincing to him, and he is naturally not ambiguous in the implementation of military orders, but he is a little reluctant to let Zhang Hu send Zhang Niujiao to lead 10,000 soldiers to Luoyang.

Two hundred miles southwest of Luoyang is Hangu Pass, which can be side by side with the tiger prison, when Li Ru persuaded Dong Zhuo to give up Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an, he had said that he wanted to take advantage of this pass to resist the alliance of the princes, the previous Liu Yi sent troops if it was not for Zhang Xiu's help, I am afraid it would not be so easy to get here, at the beginning it was Gao Shun who led the trap camp to sit with this place, and later transferred Jingfang to Youzhou because of the training of the Liaodong battalion, and the Qinglong Battalion, which was one of the old four battalions to replace him, shows that he attaches great importance to this pass.

Yang Ming, the commander of the Qinglong Battalion, was the captain under Liu Yi in the West Garden, this person is not famous compared with the rest of the generals, but he is an extremely calm and capable general, the Qinglong Battalion is also in his hands to kill countless enemies, Cao Cao once gave Yang Ming the evaluation of "good fighters have no outstanding merits", such a general with Xiongguan in the hand Hangu is extremely secure, and now the Qinglong Battalion has been expanded and has a number of 10,000 people, compared to the other three battalions, his expansion is the smallest, which is inseparable from the actual situation in Sizhou. Zhang Hu left Zhang Niujiao's 10,000 yellow-shirted battalion to pay attention to the movements of Hangu at any time, and any unpredictable situation may occur in a big war.

"Hehe, Sizhou has a son to sit in charge, Liu should be worry-free, but he can compete with his first brother for a long time." After reading Zhang Hu's biography, Liu Yi laughed loudly, when he first met Yuan Shao in Luoyang, he secretly decided that the hero of Hebei in this world would never be Yuan Shao, and now it can be regarded as a correct response.

Dahan Xingping for four years. On the seventh day of November 197, the hussar general Liu Yi raised an army of 320,000 to attack Jizhou in the name of the edict of the general Yuan Shao and the national treasure, and a rare dragon and tiger fight in the late Han Dynasty was about to begin.