The Gucheng Order Wang Mao had just sent someone to Xiangyang to report the news that Lu Bu came to Gucheng, and a garrison guarding the city came to report: "Report to Wang Lingjun, a group of hundreds of troops had already arrived at the city, saying that he had come to take over Gucheng by the imperial court."

Wang Mao was shocked after hearing this and said, "Is the city gate closed? Close the city gate quickly! You can't let them in!"

The school official said with a stuttering voice: "Before the city gate was closed, dozens of people suddenly appeared at the city gate, and then hundreds of soldiers came to confront my guards."

"A bunch of idiots! I'll stop telling you to close the city gate. You can't think of it?" Wang cursed in anger. He calmed down a little and said, "Aren't the thousand soldiers from Xiangyang still stationed in my Gucheng? Come quickly to invite them, and ask the county magistrate to order all Gucheng garrison soldiers and go with me to meet these people!"

"promise!"

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The Gucheng Order Wang Mao personally led about two thousand soldiers to the north gate. When he saw the guards at the gate pushing and rushing with the people coming, he couldn't stand it. He roared angrily: "Who dares to be rampant in my Gucheng County!"

Zhang Liao swept his eyes twice on Wang Mao, clasped his fists and said, "May I ask, are you the Lord of Gucheng?"

"That's it. Who are you? What's going on here?" Wang Mao asked in a questioning tone.

"We are the troops of the Lü Wenhou, and we are ordered to come and take over Gucheng. I hope you can cooperate." Zhang Liao said in a humble and arrogant manner.

"When did Gucheng become Lu Bu's fief? Why didn't I know?" Wang said with a flash of eyes.

Zhang Liao smiled slightly, and while showing the imperial edict from the court to Wang Mao, he said, "Lingjun is clear now?"

Wang Mao glanced at the edict and handed it back to Zhang Liao casually, saying: "Only by obtaining the order from the envoy Liu of Jingzhou, I can hand over the order with you. It is impossible for me to go directly to act at the prefecture and county levels."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Liao suddenly took a few steps, and a cold steel knife was placed on Wang Mao's neck. Sweat on Wang Mao's back suddenly soaked his inner collar. The soldiers on both sides raised the swords and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"You...what do you want to do, don't do it randomly!" Wang Mao Zhan said tremblingly.

"Can you hand over now?" Zhang Liao asked in a constant tone.

"It's easy to say...it's easy to say, General, let's put down the weapon first." Wang Mao, who was sweating, said softly in a tone.

When Zhang Liao put down the steel knife in his hand, the king ran back for more than ten steps and hid behind his large group of troops. Then he began to shout: "Kill, they are thieves, kill them all!"

When the soldiers in Jingzhou heard this, they all raised their guns and rushed forward with their swords and guns. Zhang Liao shook his head and said to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, we are still forced to kill today."

The soldiers in the formation first shot out two hundred powerful arrows at the Jingzhou soldiers. With a wail and scream, a group of people fell down. The formation of the Jingzhou soldiers was in chaos in an instant.

Zhang Liao quickly rushed towards the opponent with a long-handled hook and sickle. The blade broke out countless Mars on the bluestone slab, and the attack formation formed by hundreds of elite soldiers followed closely. Soon the two sides met in close combat. These elite troops of Lu Bu were able to fight both infantry and cavalry. Now Zhang Liao was caught off guard, so he had no time to get on the horse and went out on foot.

The steel knife and iron spear rolled up thousands of piles of blood, and almost all the soldiers of Lu Bu slashed or stabbed into the opponent's bodies. Many of the soldiers of Jingzhou also cut or stabbed into their bodies, but the soldiers of Lu Bu were all wearing exquisite armor, and many enemy attacks, especially chopping attacks, did not cause any major damage to them.

In just a few dozen seconds, the Jingzhou army suffered four or five hundred casualties. What's even more terrifying is that Lu Bu's side only had twenty or thirty casualties, and Zhang Liao himself used his hook sickle to kill four enemies in a row. The scene was full of corpses, and ghosts were crying and howling. But the massacre of Lu Bu's soldiers did not stop.

Under such circumstances, the Jingzhou soldiers could not have the will to continue to resist and collapsed in an instant. A large number of soldiers, including officers, shook their legs apart, turned around and fled.

The steel knife was placed on Wang Mao's neck again, "Can you hand over now?" Zhang Liao asked again.

"Teach, please...you will follow me to the county government to get the seal and booklets." Wang Mao said with a sad face and a complicated expression.

The Bingzhou soldiers were border soldiers who had been through the battlefield for a long time, fighting against the Xianbei and Wuhuan for a long time. Moreover, these hundreds of franchises were all elite soldiers selected from one hundred. In addition, the armor and weapons were far superior to the opponent, and there were 200 system-based warriors to help, so it was not surprising that such results were achieved.

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Archives about Gucheng were quickly transferred to Lu Bu. There were 8,000 households in the county and a population of about 30,000. Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a large number of refugees have entered the relatively quiet Gucheng territory. The county magistrate estimated that the number of people was about 10,000. In other words, the entire Gucheng, men, women, and young should have a population of more than 40,000. Among them, there were about 10,000 young people.

Soon, Lu Bu appointed a new Gucheng ruling and county magistrate, but the county magistrate still remained unchanged. The first imperial decree was to recruit laborers to build a barrier along the Han River, and build a stronghold on the hills overlooking the Han River at the north and south ends to be used as a barracks.

All the labor collected has wages and also manages meals. Although the meals are simple and the wages are pitifully small, it is unimaginable in this era. In other places, daily labor labor requires labor to bring their own meals and bring their own tools, and they don’t even think about the wages.

This condition can easily recruit a large amount of labor. Many refugees are willing to work even if they don’t have wages, as long as they can have a meal every day. Lu Bu ordered the county magistrate in charge to carry a load of two stones, regardless of men, women, young and old.

With a large population and a large force, nearly 20,000 laborers are expected to build this twenty-mile barrier defense line in two months, including a simple stone road along the defense line.

In the plan, the entire barrier defense line consists of a rammed earth wall about three battles high and three battles thick on the top. In front of the wall is a trench with one battle and two battles wide.

Originally, Lu Bu planned to use the Han River as a moat directly, but considering that the enemy could directly attack the city with large tower ships during the flood season, he gave up this plan. The final plan was that the "city wall" was still a certain distance from the river bank, and there were trenches between them.

This is just a prototype of the starting lineup, which is still far from Lu Bu’s final plan, but the people’s strength is not enough now. In addition, it is necessary to guard against the Jingzhou Army in the south and the Yuan Shu Army in the north, so we will build a basic framework for the time being.

Since the conflict in Gucheng, Lu Bu has allowed his hundreds of plots and 1,500 system of formations to wait for the battle, and spent 3,000 points to generate 500 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

In addition, in order to prevent the enemy from infiltration from the mountains and ridges, Lu Bu ordered people to set up barriers in several high mountains and ridges on the north and southwest, north and southwest, and used 2,000 points to generate 500 hero hunters, and built more than 300 hunter cabins in the mountains and ridges on the three sides. In this way, it is impossible for outsiders to cross mountains and ridges without knowing it, and to touch Lu Bu's territory.

But for a few days, Liu Biao was surprisingly calm and there was no reaction in Xiangyang.
Chapter completed!