At The Beginning of The Game, The Five Tiger Generals Were Intercepted

In January 192 AD, half a year had passed since the Mianzhu War.

After the demise of Zhang Lu's power, the situation in Yizhou also became clear. It became a situation where Liu Zhang, Jia Long, Ren Qi, and Zhao Wei confronted each other.

Liu Zhang overwhelmed the other three with Guanghan County, Hanzhong County, Guanghan Dependent Kingdom, and several cities in Berkshire. He also forced Jia Long, Ren Qi, and Zhao Wei to form an alliance again, and agreed to advance and retreat together.

However, since Jia Xu wiped out Jia Long and Ren Qi's 45,000 troops under Mianzhu City, the two men were also seriously injured.

Now that Jia Long has summoned heavy troops to station in Chengdu, and Ren Qi has gathered troops to defend Wuyang, the two have already said that even if Liu Zhang comes to attack, they will never go out of the city to fight.

Zhao Wei from Berkshire was in more pain. Ever since Huang Yin died and Brazil returned to Liu Zhang, Zhao Wei hadn't had a good night's sleep. I am afraid that Liu Zhang will suddenly come to Jiangzhou one day.

Zhang Lu's defeat stimulated Zhao Wei even more, and he completely lost his mind to fight Liu Zhang head-on.

Zhao Wei united all the big and small families in Berkshire, and he had mobilized heavy troops to garrison Anhan and Dangqu in an attempt to stop Liu Zhang from going south.

Half a year ago, a letter accusing Jia Long, Ren Qi, and Zhao Wei of crimes was popular in Shu County, Qianwei County and Ba County, and the people of Yizhou began to complain about these three people.

The unification of Yizhou and the voice of supporting Liu Zhang became more and more popular among the people, which made the three of Jia Long more cautious and completely put an end to the mind of fighting.

The three of Jia Long stood firm and had no intention of leaving the city at all, which made Liu Zhang's group helpless.

In the war half a year ago, Liu Zhang lost at least 15,000 people!

In particular, Tai Shici's Wufeng camp was the deadliest, and the loss of more than 3,000 people was extremely difficult to make up.

Yizhou does not produce horses at all, and there are very few soldiers who can ride horses.

Tai Shici made up for the soldiers under his command with difficulty, but if he wanted to restore his previous combat strength, it would be very difficult in a short time.

The losses of the other battalions are not small, but fortunately they are all infantry, and half a year is enough for them to complete the replenishment.

After this three-way use of troops, Liu Zhang felt deeply constrained by the lack of troops.

Finally, after the three of Jia Long made a gesture of not being able to hold on, Liu Zhang started the road of expanding his army again.

The county soldiers commanded by Yang Lin in Hanzhong expanded to 10,000, and Xiahoulan expanded to 5,000.

Zhang Ren from Langzhong was promoted by Liu Zhang to the rank of Lieutenant of the Po Army, and 10,000 Langzhong soldiers were selected from the surrendered Langzhong soldiers to form a new Po Army Camp.

Dian Wei returned to Mianzhu with the Wuwei Battalion. Wu Yi and Wu Lan led their soldiers and horses to support Langzhong respectively, and expanded their troops to 5,000 people respectively.

The soldiers and horses in Bazhong have not changed, and Zhang Liao and Xu Huang are still commanding the soldiers and horses under their respective command, each maintaining a scale of 10,000 people.

The changes in Guanghan County are not very big. It is nothing more than Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Dian Wei, and Zhao Yun each commanding 10,000 people. Pan Feng and Lei Tie each recruited 5,000 people. An establishment of 3,000 people.

Even so, Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses have reached 112,000! If you count the soldiers of the counties and counties in Guanghan County, the strength is almost 120,000!

With a population of more than 1.4 million under Liu Zhang's command, he forcibly raised more than 100,000 troops, which can be regarded as militarism. This decision was strongly opposed by Qin Xun, Wang Shang, Dong He and other ministers.

Everyone's opposition did not shake Liu Zhang's determination. He knew that the unification of Yizhou could not be separated from the support of soldiers and horses, so he tried his best to implement this matter thoroughly.

Fortunately, Hanzhong County has always had nearly 50,000 captives from Shu County and Qianwei County serving as garrison soldiers, and Guoyuan also promoted the strategy of garrisoning the people in Hanzhong, which kept the food and grass economy of the three counties under Liu Zhang from collapsing.

"Wenhe, another new year has passed, it can be said that time flies..."

Liu Zhang and Jia Xu warmed up by the fire in the room, and they couldn't help but sigh that time passed too quickly.

"Yeah, it's been three years in Chuping in a blink of an eye."

Jia Xu also echoed softly, also lamenting the passage of time in her heart.

In the first year of Chuping, Jia Xu was still in charge of Hanzhong affairs, and Liu Zhang was also having a headache how to face his father Liu Yan.

Now it has been three years in Chuping, in fact, it has only been a year and a half, and everything has been resolved.

"It took nearly two years for us to capture Guanghan County. I really don't know when we will be able to capture the whole of Yizhou..."

Thinking that it took Cao Cao eight years to pacify the four prefectures in Hebei, and it took him only one year to take down Guanghan County, Liu Zhang couldn't help but feel a little bit embarrassed.

At this rate, Liu Zhang won't be able to win Yizhou when the Battle of Guandu starts!

"My lord, there is no need to worry. Jia Long, Ren Qi, and Zhao Wei are fighting against each other at this moment! Especially Jia Long and Ren Qi, they have invested too much in Zhang Lu."

"According to the investigation in the next six months, Jia Long can only gather 30,000 troops in Shu County, and Ren Qi can barely make up 20,000!"

This news shook Liu Zhang's spirit. Fifty thousand people were enough for him to see a glimmer of dawn to occupy Shu County and Qianwei County.

In the previous battle against Zhang Lu, he was defeated every time, but after a while, Zhang Lu could always pull up a team of tens of thousands again, which made Liu Zhang feel that the enemy could not finish.

If the total of Jia Long and Ren Qi's 50,000 soldiers and horses is confirmed this time, then there will be less pressure to fight in Shu County.

"Wenhe, where is Jia Long now? Where are all the soldiers and horses of Shu County concentrated?"

Jia Xu stood up and walked to the map behind him.

"My lord, Jia Long is currently in Chengdu, the seat of Shu County. Most of Shu County's soldiers and horses are concentrated in Chengdu. According to the latest report, there are at least 20,000 troops in Chengdu."

Liu Zhang frowned slightly, and couldn't help but lament that the best time to attack had been missed after half a year of self-cultivation.

Jia Long gathered heavy troops in Chengdu, obviously intending to fight to the end.

"Wenhe, the city of Chengdu is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If Jia Long has enough food and is said to be defending to death, I am afraid we will not be able to capture Chengdu in a short time..."

Liu Zhang felt that he was talking nicely in this short period of time. If there were no miracles, the duration would probably last for more than a year!

The law of war says, ten times surround it, five times attack it!

If you want to break through Chengdu, which is stationed by 20,000 troops, theoretically you need at least 100,000 troops.

Liu Zhang has an army of 100,000, but an army of 100,000 is equivalent to emptying out the soldiers and horses of the three counties!

"Hehe, my lord, don't worry, Jia Long is clever but was misunderstood by his cleverness! Back then, I didn't rush into Shu County, just to prepare Jia Long!"

"What's Wen He's plan?"

Seeing Jia Xu's confident expression, Liu Zhang knew that he must have a plan to defeat the enemy.

"My lord, it is reported that Jia Long once borrowed troops from Ren Qi, but was rejected. So we only need to face the 30,000 people in Shu County."

"Shu County has eight counties and three provinces in total. Jia Long deployed 20,000 troops in Chengdu, and Pi County and Guangdu each deployed 5,000 troops. The defenses of the remaining counties are useless."

(end of this chapter)