Winter is coming. Although the south is not as cold as the north, it will also snow. When it snows, there will be biting cold wind. The wind blows on people's faces, which makes people feel very painful.

In the era when Liu Qi lived in his previous life, the frequency of snowfall was not very high due to global warming. However, more than 1,800 years ago, there would be snow here from time to time every year, and the degree of snow fell far beyond the imagination of later generations.

At this moment, there were snowflakes floating outside. Liu Qi sat on the main seat of the main hall of Xinye County, leaning against the brazier, drinking hot wine to warm herself up while looking at the bamboo slips on the table. From time to time, he looked up to watch the wind and snow outside, and felt quite comfortable in body and mind.

A satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Soon, Cai Mao walked into the main hall.

When he saw Liu Qi's expression, he was stunned.

"Why is the mansion so pleased? Is there something good about it?" Cai Mao asked in confusion.

Liu Qi put the silk in his hand on the table, looked up at Cai Mao, and smiled and said, "It was a letter sent by Jia Xu secretly. Niu Fu is already planning to attack Nanyang County."

As soon as this was said, Cai Mao was shocked.

"Mr. Fu is serious?"

"That's right, but before that, he has to conquer Wancheng first."

Cai Mao nodded vigorously and said, "Although Yuan Shu in Wancheng was defeated by Cao Cao in the previous round, his troops were still strong and powerful. If Niu Fu wanted to take Wancheng, he would have some trouble. Maybe he would suffer a loss. This matter is quite beneficial to us."

Liu Qi didn't say much about Cai Mao's thoughts. In fact, in his opinion, Yuan Shu had no hope of winning this time with Niu Fu.

If Liu Qi had a good estimate, Yuan Shu was basically beaten by Niu Fu, and there was no possibility of turning defeat into victory.

Now Yuan Shu is hiding in Wancheng, while Niu Fu's soldiers cut off the supply of Wancheng from counties to Wancheng north of Wancheng, while Liu Qi's soldiers are stationed in Xinye, which strangled the food and fodder supply of Wancheng from counties in the southern part of Nanyang County.

Most of the county towns in Nanyang County were supplied by cows, and Liu and the other two sides strangled to death. Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of soldiers could not last long in Wancheng. Liu Qi estimated that his final outcome would be to rush east to Huainan and start the stove again.

As for Nanyang County, it no longer belongs to Yuan Shu and has nothing to do with him.

But Liu Qi didn't want to explain these things to Cai Mao. After all, these things that have become established facts are trivial things that Liu Qi no longer needs to worry about.

"Degui, what's the situation in each state now?" Liu Qi tried to pull the topic away.

Cai Mao bowed and said, "Report to my sister, because the weather is already cold, except for the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, who are also attacking the counties of Yanzhou for the sake of winter and food, our counties and states in the Han Dynasty have already stopped."

Liu Qi nodded suddenly and said, "Since all counties have stopped their troops, we don't need to continue to garrison here. If we should do serious things, we must do serious things... I would like to ask Degui, you will lead the troops from our headquarters to Xiangyang first and report the recent war to Yan Jun... My troops are temporarily stationed in Xinye to supervise the Shanyue people who were collected by me in the previous period to carry out military farming on the border... For these matters, I will draw a specific charter to submit to Yan Jun, and I will also ask Degui to help me report to Yan Jun after returning to Xiangyang."

Cai Mao hurriedly said, "That's nature, that's nature."

...

A few days later, Cai Mao rectified his troops and returned to Xiangyang. Liu Qi took advantage of the winter without any war and sent people to move all the Shanyue people and Shanyue soldiers in Tianzhu Mountain to the vicinity of Xinye, and began to plan to reclaim the farmland nearby.

The situation in Nanyang County is not much better than that in Jingnan. Due to Yuan Shu's levies and taxes over the years, a large number of Qianshou in Nanyang County went south, and a large number of vacant land appeared in Nanyang County, which was enough to arrange for Shanyue to be reclaimed here.

But just like the situation in Jingnan at the beginning, these unowned fields are now forcibly occupied by the large tribes of Nanyang County. If they want to take them down as an official, they will probably have to go through some trouble.

But after all, with the experience of competing with wealthy families in Jingnan, Liu Qi was not very worried about this.

Especially the Xiliang soldiers were about to take action against the county guards near Wancheng. The wealthy families near Xinye would be in panic at that time and could only rely on themselves to protect them, and they would have no status to negotiate with them.

Liu Qi is bound to win the homeless field near Xinye as the center.

But at this time, Zhao Yan, Fanqin and Du Shi, who were summoned by Liu Qi from Changsha in the previous period, came to the Xinye Army.

Liu Qi wanted to mourn Xun Shuang, so he needed these three people to recommend him, so he specially summoned three people to come.

And with them, there were also the 10,000 strong Southern Barbarians who had been trained in Jingnan. Liu Biao was able to pass through the Xiangyang territory and was brought together by Liu Pan's consular general to supplement the losses of Liu Qi's Nanman Camp.

After a series of battles, the soldiers of the Nanman Camp lost thousands of people, but after replenishing these 10,000 people, the number of people in the Nanman Camp was able to remain at 30,000.

In addition, the 33,000-30,000 Shanyue was cultivated near Xinye, so the two battalions of troops directly under Liu Qi now reached 60,000.

In order to facilitate management, Liu Qi decided to re-disrupt the Nanman Camp and Shanyue Camp, and to disrupt the middle-level generals whom he trusted were inserted into the two battalions for management.

With more than 60,000 troops strong, Liu Qi divided it into four camps in total, named it according to the Di character Ying, the Water character Ying, the Huo character Ying, and the Feng character Ying. In the name of the Nanyang County Governor, four lieutenants promoted to manage him.

Taishi Ci, Wei Yan, Zhang Ren, Li Dian... These four people were all promoted by Liu Qi for their military achievements and were brought to their right-hand men.

Huang Zhong was a general appointed by Liu Biao himself, and Liu Qi could not keep him in Xinye. Shortly after Cai Mao left, Huang Zhong also led his troops to bid farewell to return, but Huang Xu stayed in Fengzi Camp and served as a guard beside Xing Daorong.

As for Dian Wei, who was most trusted by Liu Qi, he became the captain of the guard beside Liu Qi in the name of the lieutenant, while Xu Yi and Xu Dan were the deputys of Dian Wei as Sima of other departments.

Liu Qi asked the three of them to draw 3,000 most powerful soldiers from the army, and trained them alone by the three, and directly obeyed Liu Qi as a personal guard for him.

Dian Wei advised Liu Qi that he wanted to name the guard army "Tiger Guards", but Liu Qi rejected it directly.

The reason is very simple, he sounds awkward.

Liu Qi thought about it roughly and decided to give his army a very ordinary and low-key name.

The Jung-Wu of Jingwu.

After all these things were done, it was already the end of the year, and the end of the year was approaching, but the cold Xinye County suddenly welcomed a guest that Liu Qi unexpectedly encountered.

Cai Mi traveled through mountains and rivers from Jingnan and crossed several counties to see his man.

When Liu Qi heard the news, he couldn't help but be confused. He never thought that Cai Mi would come to Xinye County to see him in this cold weather in the cold wind and snow.

Liu Qi personally left Xinye County Government and came outside the door.

A tightly blocked car parked at the door. Cai Mi, who was charming and charming, walked down carefully from the car, wrapped in a warm robe with a slide rail.

Her cheeks were a little red with cold, but they could not hide the excitement and tenderness in her charming eyes.

The sweet and greasy sound reached Liu Qi's ears for a long time.

"Young man!"
Chapter completed!