Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 261 Zhang Ming's Plan

Even though newspapers lose money when they are printed, Zhang Ming still has to keep doing it.

In addition, to increase the number of printings, Zhang Ming will also be forced to apportion the two newly acquired counties, and it will not work.

Ordinary people would definitely not be able to afford this, but for merchants, they can afford it if they pay more than a hundred copper coins a month.

During this period of time, Liaodong has developed rapidly.

Refugees brought back from others have settled down in various places.

Zhang Ming spends a lot of money, and the rewards are naturally great.

Nowadays, people in various counties in eastern Liaodong are gradually getting used to using banknotes.

The banknotes are beautifully printed, and no one can imitate them. As long as Zhang Ming's power is still there, he will not go bankrupt. When he goes to the bank to exchange, he can easily exchange gold coins and silver coins.

When many people do business, they use banknotes directly to trade in order to save trouble.

Zhang Ming is developing rapidly, and he also needs to adjust his military.

After the adjustment, only [-] troops were stationed in Liaodong. Now Liaodong has become its own hinterland, and it is not so easy for the enemy to fight there.

In addition, [-] troops were stationed in Changli County, [-] troops were stationed in Liaoxi County, and [-] troops were stationed in Youbeiping.

Then there is the main force.

Zhang Ming asked Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei to bring [-] cavalry each, Xu Huang, Xu Rong and Guan Yu each to bring [-] infantry, and Ji County, the government office, also had to garrison [-] infantry.

In this way, Zhang Ming's main battle army was [-], plus [-] guarding troops, a total of [-] troops.

It can be said that the strength has skyrocketed, and the speed of Zhang Ming's army has greatly increased.

During the three-plus months of the truce, when Zhang Ming was developing, Gongsun Zan went on a rampage, recruiting tens of thousands of troops, with a total strength of more than 13.

He wants to avenge his shame and continue to expand his strength.

Under the calm, it seems that another war is about to break out.

Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan have been expanding their forces.

Only Liu Yu is very salty fish. He is good at governing internal affairs, but he is a piece of shit in military affairs.

All parties are stepping up their military development.

Zhang Ming saw it in his eyes and knew that the war would break out soon.

He is also preparing.

Zhang Ming called a few people, who were his confidantes.

Tian Feng also went to Ji County to handle government affairs in Ji County.

Zhang Ming called to the crowd and said: "Now that the princes are expanding their troops, a big war is inevitable. We must make more preparations. The big war will come soon."

"Tian Feng, continue to do a good job in logistics, Xi Zhi will do a good job in intelligence work, and pay attention to the distribution of newspapers."

"The rest of the armies are training day and night. Of course, pay attention to let the soldiers eat well, so as not to be useless by training."

The crowd took their orders away.

Zhang Ming left Xi Zhicai behind.

"Zhicai, let's not talk about the forces in the north now, Cao Cao is far away from us, and they can't affect him, the four directions around us now."

"We, Gongsun Zan, Liu Yu and Yuan Shao, are afraid that we will fight to the death, so we have to come up with a strategy."

Xi Zhicai already had a plan in mind, he said: "Liu Yu is the weakest, it's just that we and Yuan Shao dare not take it, otherwise with Liu Yu's strength, we can defeat him in a few months."

Liu Yu is a clan member of the Han family and has high prestige, so killing him is easy to cause trouble.

"Let Gongsun Zan come?"

Xi Zhicai nodded and said, "Gongsun Zan can definitely make a move. He is eager to expand his strength now. If he can annex Liu Yu, I think he is willing."

"However, with us now, Gongsun Zan might not dare to go to war easily."

Zhang Ming took a deep breath and said, "Then make a gesture of letting go, and at the same time we pretend to attack Yuan Shao."

"Yuan Shao's attack on our Linzi City just gave us an excuse, so we sent troops to attack Yuan Shao, then Gongsun Zan might go to attack Liu Yu."

The two reached a consensus, and then began to promote the matter.

Zhang Ming decided to send troops to attack Yuan Shao.

After the news was released, Zhang Ming began to reorganize the army, and decided to send [-] troops to trouble Yuan Shao.

Before dispatching troops, Yuan Shao received the news, so he hurriedly called everyone to discuss the matter.

After some discussions among the people, all the generals wanted to make meritorious service on the battlefield, but the civil servants calmed down a bit.

Xu You said: "At the beginning, this Zhang Ming was too childish. The news was completely leaked before the troops were dispatched. We even knew the attack route and the strength of the troops."

Ju Shou also said: "My lord, there is something strange about this matter."

Guo Tu and others seconded.

Yuan Shao thought about it and it was true, and then he said: "Then what should we do?"

Ju Shou said: "Just prepare and face the battle at any time."

Then some people objected, and some people suggested that they could take the initiative to send troops, or arrange an ambush in advance, and so on.

Everyone discussed, but also did not discuss any results.

Zhang Ming's army has been building momentum, but it has been too late to send troops.

Instead, Gongsun Zan actively prepared.

After more than a month, when the world knew about it, Zhang Ming published an article in the newspaper, and then sent troops.

[-] troops were sent out, and several generals set out together. Except for Xu Huang to defend Jixian and Xi Zhicai to defend Liaodong, all the rest came out.

Immediately, Yuan Shao was also shocked, and hastily sent [-] troops to the border to intercept.

Zhang Ming's goal is to go from Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhang Ming's [-]-strong army mighty past.

Zhang Ming led the army along the road very slowly, with banners unfurling.

A few days later, when they entered Jizhou, Zhang Ming sent people to investigate, but he was not in a hurry to attack.

Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Gao Lan came with [-] troops, and Ju Yi and others also went to battle at any time.

"Brother, why don't we take a stroll around Yuan Shao's barracks." Zhang Fei suggested.

"Don't rush to fight, send scouts to investigate for a few days first."

Zhang Ming suppressed the fight, which made Zhang Fei really bored.

After a few days of confrontation at the border, Zhang Ming suddenly pulled out his camp, bypassing Yuan Shao's army, and continued to go deep into the territory of Zhongshan.

This move is really puzzling, and Yuan Shao's side can only continue to send troops to confront.

After a few more days of confrontation, Zhang Ming finally went to war.

He led Guan Zhangzhao to Yuan Shao's camp, and at the same time asked Xu Rong to lead the army to respond at any time.

They went with 2000 people, obviously not to attack the camp.

Yuan Jun's camp was very solid, and they also sent a lot of scouts.

The main army didn't fight, but the scouts did confront each other a few times, and each of them killed and injured a lot of people.

"Yan Liang, it's been a long time." Zhang Fei shouted to General Yuan Jun who was guarding at the gate of the camp.

Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Gao Lan all came out.

Zhang Fei stepped forward to challenge, but no one dared to fight.

The confrontation lasted for a long time, and no one called after shouting for a long time.

So Zhang Ming and the others took the army back.

Zhang Fei cursed and cursed along the way.

The next day, Zhang Ming asked Guan, Zhang, and Zhao to go alone, and the opponent would fight as soon as he went out to fight, and would come back after spending half a day without going out to fight.

It was Guan Yu who fought first, but there was no fight.

Then Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun went to challenge the same.

So a few days down.

That Yuan Shao has been paying attention to the battle situation.

At this time, he summoned his men to discuss matters again.

"Sure enough, Zhang Ming didn't come to fight, but what does he want to do?" Yuan Shao said to the crowd.

Release the news before the war, and then keep paddling without attacking.

(End of this chapter)