The most powerful general in the Three Kingdoms

Hanzhong, Nanzheng.

Twenty miles outside Nanzheng City, Zhang Lu's younger brother Zhang Wei was training his army and horses.

The newly recruited troops and horses totaled thirty thousand.

This military horse will be equipped with a complete set of standard equipment.

The infantry will be issued with weapons such as ring-headed knives, spears, halberds, and crossbows.

In addition, there are heavy siege engines.

Such as columbine, manhole fence, trebuchet, etc.

Of course, these are still secondary. For Zhang Lu and others, the horses sold by Zhou Cheng and the cavalry composed of them are the biggest highlight in the military camp.

Zhang Lu watched the cavalrymen rushing past in groups. The cavalrymen on horseback waved their spears and stabbed the straw man in front of them with more and more skillful movements.

Although there are not many cavalry and pawns, war horses are rare in Yizhou.

Despite the restricted terrain, war horses still have great uses.

After Zhang Lu inspected the military camp, he found Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei said to Zhang Lu:"Brother, when will we go out to fight?"

Killing Liu Zhang to take revenge has always been what Zhang Wei desperately wanted to do.

Zhang Lu said:"We will send out troops in ten days."

Zhang Lu also believed that the soldiers and horses were strong and the army was powerful enough to fight.

……

At the same time, in Chengdu, Liu Zhang had just received a letter from Pang Xi.

The letter mentioned that Zhang Lu was training his troops and horses in Hanzhong with the intention of attacking Yizhou.

Pang Xi was the governor of Brazil. At the same time, her daughter was also married to Liu Zhang's eldest son Liu Xun, and she had a close relationship with Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang also sent Pang Xi to attack Zhang Lu many times.

However, Pang Xi's crusade against Zhang Lu almost always ended in failure.

Therefore, Liu Zhang made Liu Zhang the governor of Brazil to resist Zhang Lu's attack.

After watching Zhang Lu want to raise troops to fight, Liu Zhang couldn't help but frown.

At this time, Zhang Song said:"My lord, as the saying goes, raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while, lord, why don't you send Cao Mengde to help? If you can win, let him attack Hanzhong." After

Liu Zhang heard this, he also felt that it made sense, so he told Zhang Song :"I will leave this matter to you."

"Here."Zhang Song turned around and left.

……

Zhang Song personally came to find Cao Cao.

At this time, Cao Cao was not only promoting farming, carrying out large-scale construction projects, and building settlements.

At the same time, animal husbandry is also promoted.

What was originally a wild and uncivilized area now has a market.

Moreover, Cao Cao also learned from Zhou Cheng and promoted education.

Chineseizing the barbarians can effectively govern this area.

At the same time, Cao Cao once again intermarried with the leaders and chiefs of various tribes.

Han people marrying barbarians and barbarians is something that is easily discussed, not to mention Cao Cao's noble status.

When the scholar-bureaucrat class was the ruling class, Cao Cao did this, which was indeed a good way to bribe the barbarians, and was recognized by the barbarians.

It is precisely because of the marriage between Cao Cao and the barbarians that Cao Cao's barbarian troops currently have a size of nearly 5,000 people.

Including Cao Cao's original troops, Cao Cao's military strength has recovered to nearly 10,000 men.

Zhang Song was also shocked. He didn't expect Cao Cao to be so powerful and able to control so many barbarians so quickly.

After some conversation, Zhang Song directly stated his intention.

Liu Zhang asked Cao Cao to attack Zhang Lu.

This was what Cao Cao, Xun Yu and others had expected.

And Cao Cao didn't take Zhang Lu seriously.

Although Zhang Song once mentioned that Zhang Lu frequently trained his troops, Cao Cao did not think Zhang Lu would be very powerful when he was fighting in the Central Plains.

June of the year two hundred and two.

In accordance with Liu Zhang's request, Cao Cao led 5,000 troops and horses and marched into Brazil.

In this battle, Cao Cao personally led the troops.

The troops he led included two thousand cavalry and three thousand barbarian soldiers.

However, the barbarian soldiers were dressed strangely and attracted the attention of many people when they passed through the counties.

Cao Cao frowned slightly. Although these three thousand barbarian soldiers were brave and good at fighting, he currently had limited money and food and could not give them clothes and armor.

Even in terms of weapons, unification cannot be achieved.

Therefore, most of the three thousand barbarian troops still carried homemade weapons.

If you look at the weapons and equipment alone, they do look like a ragtag group of people.

However, it is not Cao Cao's precedent to like to recruit barbarians to fight.

From King Wu of Zhou's attack on Zhou, he actually gained the troops of Bashu. On the battlefield of life and death, they charged and sang and danced at the same time.

Including Pang Xi, Pang Xi also recruited a large number of people to fight for him.

Cheat people. Also known as Yin people and Banzhen barbarians, they are brave and good at fighting.

However, Pang Xi couldn't help frowning when he heard that Cao Cao was coming for reinforcements.

Because he was recruiting people privately, Liu Zhang would definitely be unhappy when he found out about it, and would think that he had the idea of ​​​​supporting his own army.

And now that Liu Zhang sent Cao Cao to reinforce him, did he want to take the opportunity to replace himself?

As Pang Xi thought about it, a cold light flashed through his eyes. _Please download the novel without underlining