Yanzhou, Liang State, Suiyang.

"Ning Ping City?"

"Haha, it's a good place."

After joining the army and working as a military officer, Liu Yu learned that the Taiwei Wang Yan and the Xingtai, led by King Sima Fan of Xiangyang, rejected Liu Yu's request.

Not only that, the news brought back by Ju Xian also stated that after learning that Liu Yu's Qingzhou army was about to arrive, he accelerated his itinerary and entered Ningping City to rest and defend, and looked like he regarded Liu Yu's Qingzhou army as a great enemy.

Well, the Qingzhou Army is actually the enemy of these people.

However, Liu Yu's Qingzhou army did not want to take their lives like Hu Han's Shi Le, but to seize their power and status.

In this way, the terrifying degree of the Qingzhou army was no less than that of Hu Han's Shi Le and Wang Mi.

"Duke Qi, in my opinion, all the nobles, princes and princes in Xingtai were all wine bags. They only walked from Xiangcheng to Ningping City for more than a hundred miles, and they had to walk for more than ten days. Such a lazy army just led an elite soldier to attack, kept all the soldiers, and surrendered immediately."

A man wearing the military uniform of a Qingzhou soldier next to him said.

The person who said this was one of the commanders of the Qingzhou cavalry, Ran Long, the general of the former Quaihuo Army.

It turned out that when Liu Yu sent Ju Xian as an envoy to Taichung to recruit Taiwei Wang Yan and others to surrender, Ju Xian was not just sent. Among the cavalrymen who were accompanying the guards, there was a cavalry general Ran Long dressed as an ordinary soldier.

"I have only walked a hundred miles in more than ten days?" Liu Yu was also shocked when he heard the marching speed of the large troops in Taiwan.

You know, even if you are an ordinary infantry marching, you can still walk twenty or thirty miles a day when you are very safe and cautious.

"Yes, Duke Qi, when Ju Zhanjun negotiated with Taiwei Wang Yan and others, I got news from the soldiers in his army."

It is obvious that when the Jin court was in the Taiwan Army, Ran Long did not forget his mission.

"The march speed is so slow, aren't you afraid of hunting down the barbarian bandits?"

This marching speed made Liu Yu feel that it was simply the will of heaven in the dark, just to get Hu Hanshile's cavalry to chase and kill him.

"There is already a shortage of food in the Xingtai army, and they have to collect food and grass on the spot before they go anywhere. At the beginning, it was a good thing that they saw the Xingtai ministers of the imperial court, the forts and villages along the way, and they all took the initiative to offer food and grass."

"However, the army in Taiwan has a total of 100,000 people. When the vanguard officials and the army passed by, these people donated some food, grass and silk. However, when the subsequent officials and soldiers passed by, they also asked for food, grass and grass. In this way, how could the villages be willing to listen to these forts?"

"So, since leaving Xiangcheng, I have no idea how many villagers have been snatched away by these soldiers from Taiwan on this short 100 miles."

"How can you travel quickly with this kind of eating local style? Most of the day will be spent on these things."

Ran Long breathed a sigh of relief and told him the reasons why the officials and the army of Taiwan were quick.

After hearing these reasons, Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. These people in the Central Plains were probably robbed by these hungry and cold soldiers before they even saw the faces of the barbarians.

However, in this matter, we cannot blame these soldiers on the verge of despair. These tens of thousands of soldiers are not noble class fighters, but they are all ordinary people.

When your own situation is in danger, how can you take care of the lives of others? Even if these people are the same people in the Central Plains.

"If you do evil, you will die. I guess it will be difficult for these officials from Ningping City to escape."

Liu Yu felt powerless.

These officials and ministers who were in Taiwan did not clearly realize the dangers they faced. They thought that the current central army was still as powerful as before, and they were not at all wary of the dangers they might face.

Liu Yu himself knew that based on the rewards of the Rangers who were surveillance far ahead and his speculation about the historical process, he concluded that if Shi Le pursued all the officials and soldiers in Xingtai, he would probably catch up in the area of ​​Ningping City.

Just now, the marching speed of all officials and soldiers on the Taiwan Strait is only twenty or thirty miles apart even if the error is one or two days.

"Oh, that's bad. Now our army is in Suiyang City, which is nearly 200 miles away from Ningping City. If our army arrives at Ningping City, it will take a few days later." Ju Xian, the army enlisted on the side, said.

Although Ju Xian's name of joining the army was just a common official position of Liu Yu, Ju Xian still knew this basic marching knowledge.

"Yes, Duke Qi, it will take most days for our army to arrive at Ningping City. By then, as the current situation of Taichung's army, they will inevitably be tortured by the captives. I am afraid that 100,000 people will be wiped out as Duke Qi guessed." Ran Long was also anxious.

Liu Yu also thought of these things early on.

Most of the Qingzhou army were infantry, and this time all the two thousand cavalry had almost all their possessions.

However, in terms of marching speed, Qingzhou cavalry must maintain the same speed as infantry. Otherwise, if the cavalry ignores the horsepower and rushes to the road with all their might, the speed of marching will exceed that of the infantry in a short period of time, but the horses will seriously consume horsepower. When it is really necessary to fight, it is very likely that they will not have enough power accumulation, which is not conducive to encountering battles.

However, at a distance of two hundred miles, if the speed of travel is appropriate, the cavalry can still be consumed within an acceptable range, so that the speed of travel can be guaranteed at a fast enough speed and horsepower to deal with possible battles.

Unfortunately, the cavalry of the Qingzhou Army can have such a reckless wave and a powerful assault, but it is difficult for the remaining main infantry to complete the forced marching of these two hundred miles in the same time.

If you force yourself to march for two hundred miles day and night, you can continue to join the battle of the enemy without any prior knowledge. Such an army's combat effectiveness can be described as terrifying.

From ancient times to the present, all infantry who can do these are elite among the elite, and can even be said to be rare in a century.

Liu Yu wanted his Qingzhou infantry to be so powerful, but unfortunately, Liu Yu knew that although these Qingzhou infantry could be called soldiers who dared to fight, it was difficult to be so powerful.

In this way, if Liu Yu wanted to arrive in Ku County quickly day and night, he had to abandon the infantry and lead the cavalry first. However, the number of Qingzhou cavalry was only 2,000, and if he advanced lightly, the horse harness prepared by Liu Yu for the Qingzhou cavalry was also a craft cavalry that Liu Yu was proud of, and would not be able to achieve.

These cavalry with horse-shaped harnesses are very heavy. Just like Qingzhou cavalry, one man and one horse, it is impossible to wear armor and march quickly for another 200 miles. In that case, people may have nothing to do and their mounts will be exhausted.

Therefore, in ordinary marches, the horse harnesses and armor of these cavalry were carried by infantrymen.

This abandoned the infantry and led 2,000 cavalry to advance first. Without the strong support of the Qingzhou infantry, we would face many possible dangers.

However, if we look at the speed of the Qingzhou infantry, it is very likely that before we saw the officials and the soldiers in the Taiwan Strait, the 100,000 people in the Taiwan Strait were killed by the pursuit of Hulu Shile.

After all, in the history of the disaster in Ningping City, these 100,000 Taiwanese officials and soldiers did not even reach a day's resistance, so they all became ghosts under the knife.

Liu Yu came from Qingzhou not far away for hundreds of miles, not to collect the bodies of these 100,000 people, but to recruit these precious elites from these 100,000 people.

For a moment, Liu Yu was in a dilemma. Apart from a rough guess, he was completely blinded by the key trends of the Hulu Shile.

Liu Yu also had difficulty making a decision on the unknown enemy situation.

He walked out of the main hall of Liang's domestic historical residence in Suiyang and came to the yard.

At this time, it was already dark, there was no moon in the sky, only countless stars flashing in the dark night sky.

Liu Yu looked up, and the fierce weighing in his heart made him feel mysterious about the stars in the sky.

"No wonder, many people in later generations said that marching and fighting are a metaphysics. In this situation, they actually know nothing about the movements of the Hulu Shile, and only have a memory of the impression."

"If I go on a light and encounter a large number of cavalry from Shi Le, wouldn't I have to bury the 100,000 people from Xingtai?"

"However, if you cannot arrive in time, most of the soldiers in the army who have lost all their morale will be killed. Then the largest Han armed group in the northern Central Plains will be completely destroyed. From then on, it will be difficult for you to regroup such a large-scale elite army, whether it is the Qingzhou army or Wang Jun's Youzhou army."

"Maybe, if you lead the Qingzhou infantry and cavalry to advance together, you will not miss the time of Shi Le's attack. In this way, you can not only maintain the Qingzhou army's maximum strength, but also avoid taking risks. But in this way, the initiative in the final outcome depends entirely on Shi Le's expression. The speed of Shi Le's own marching becomes the key."

These complicated thoughts were traversing in Liu Yu's mind, allowing him to constantly weigh and guess in adventure and stability, failure and victory.

Under the huge pressure of choice, Liu Yu almost had the urge to make a decision through divination and fortune-telling.

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Yuzhou, Runan Kingdom, Xiping County.

At this time, Xiping County was already the territory of Wang Mi, the general of Hu Han's expedition to the east.

After more than a month of fighting to the west, Wang Mi once again led his Hu Han infantry and cavalry to return to Xiping County.

Previously, after Wang Mi learned that the refugee army of Gou Xi, who occupied the Nanyang area, had been famine, which led to people's turmoil, Wang Mi, who had long been drooling in the Guanzhong refugee entrenched in the Nanyang area, immediately led his tens of thousands of Hu and Han troops to launch an attack on the "Han" emperor Liu Zan, who occupied the northern part of Jingzhou.

Unfortunately, the result of this hasty war was beyond Wang Mi's expectations.

After obtaining the rebellious refugee, Yan Yi and others surrendered, Wang Mi realized that he could easily destroy the power of the disintegrated Han general Gou Xi, and then he could attack Jingzhou and take Jingzhou and Jiangzhou. At that time, he could replicate the great achievements of Wang Junlou's ship to destroy Sun Wu. However, at that time, Wang Mi could dominate Jiangdong by himself and no longer had to surrender to Liu Cong's son Tu Ge.

However, Wang Mi, the general of the "Hu Han" expedition to the East, was defeated in all three battles against the "Jing Han" general Gou Xi, which not only damaged his subordinates' suspicion, but also lost the Xiangcheng County that he had just won. If it weren't for the "Jing Han" general Gou Xi's "Jing Han" that he gave up the pursuit without food, Wang Mi would not dare to enter the gate of Xiping City at this time.

"Oh, this Tu Bo has changed his door and is still so fierce." Wang Mi couldn't stop sighing in the mansion in Xiping City.

As the largest gang of Hu Han, Wang Mi has always regarded himself very high, and felt that his level must be above the thieves such as Shi Le, Liu Ling, and Zhao Gu.

However, the result is really too slap in the face. Wang Mi didn't know what Liu Ling was doing in Hebei, but Wang Mi and Zhao Gu who went south with him said that they were in a prosperous state, one traversing Yuzhou and the other traversing Xuzhou.

Only Wang Mi, who originally wanted to occupy western Henan and then enter Jingzhou, was defeated by Gou Xi's tens of thousands of beggars and refugees. Not only was the newly acquired refugee general eaten by Gou Xi, but even Xiangcheng County, which had just been obtained, was lost.

Wang Mi now only occupies a small area in Xiping, Dingling and Wuyang. This place was originally a densely populated place, but now it has been completely fled. With the tens of thousands of people in Wang Mi's hands, it is really difficult to make a prosperous future here again. Not only do you need money, food, no food, but you also have no population.

"Brother, good news, good news."

Just when Wang Mi was worried, a voice came from outside, and then Wang Mi's younger brother Wang Zhang ran in.

"What good news?" Seeing this, Wang Mi couldn't help but feel moved.

"Two good news, the first one is that Gou Xi, the killer, has withdrawn from Xiangcheng and returned to Nanyang. I heard that it seems that Wang Cheng, the governor of Jingzhou in Jin, and Shan Jian, the general of the Southern Conquest, have begun to attack Gou Xi again."

Wang Mi was not surprised by this news, because the Nanyang County occupied by Gou Xi was like a basin, and the surrounding mountains could protect Nanyang County. However, if you go out from Nanyang to Xiangcheng in the east, it would be extremely unfavorable for both parties to take into account.

"But when Gou Xi retreated, he took away the population, food and wealth of more than ten cities in Xiangcheng."

Sure enough, Wang Zhang's next words confirmed Wang Mi's speculation.

After hearing this, Wang Mi couldn't help but feel frustrated. What good news is this? Gou Xi took away all the people and wealth, leaving only the land and empty city. Could it be that you want me, Feibao Wang Mi, to go to Xiangcheng to farm?

"What about another good news?" Wang Mi asked with a cold face.
Chapter completed!