"Tao Qian didn't come to the alliance this time, what do you say, what is his idea? He is not a member of the Han family, so he needs to avoid suspicion! Does he have other plans? ”

At the time of the Allied army, Liangzhou in the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty existed in name only, and most of the states fell to the Xiongnu, Si was in the hands of Dong Zhuo, Yuzhou Kong Ling, Jingzhou Wang Rong, Qingzhou Jiaohe, Yanzhou Liu Dai, Jizhou Han Fu, these states all sent troops, and Youzhou Liu Yu, Yizhou Liu Yan, Yangzhou Chen Wen, Jiaozhou Zhu Fu or due to road blockage or because of special status did not send troops, only Xuzhou Tao Qian, there was a reason to send troops, conditional troops but did not send troops.

Ma Qiang looked at Jia Xu and Duan Ying, Duan Ying smiled and said, "Xu Zijiang avoided chaos in Xuzhou last year, Tao Qian treated him politely, very thoughtful, but he said that Tao Gongzu admired his reputation outside, but he was not real inside, although he treated me thickly, he was bound to be thin, and left quietly."

Xu Zijiang is known for knowing people, which shows Tao Qian's temperament, and he got news from Mount Tai that Tao Qian and Taishan County Shou Shao have a lot of dealings, and it seems that he has an enterprising heart! ”

"Enterprising?"

Ma Qiang looked back at the map, Taishan County is Langya County and Donghai County in Xuzhou, if Tao Qian really wants to participate in the Central Plains hegemony, this Taishan County is indeed very important to him.

"Tao Qian really has to be guarded against, but he should still make friends for the time being." Jia Xu walked to the map and pointed and said, "The north of my Qingzhou is Jizhou, the east is Yanzhou, the west is Xuzhou, Jizhou Han Fu is Yuan's protégé, before Ming Gong also said that Jizhou must be owned by Yuan, and Yuan's is the first enemy of Ming Gong in the future!"

Therefore, in order to prevent the abdomen and back from being attacked by the enemy, when Lian Xu Chaoyan attacked! ”

Jia Xu said the strategy he planned for Ma Qiang, Ma Qiang looked at Duan Ying, Duan Ying nodded and said, "What Wenhe thinks, is exactly what Ying thinks, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, if you wait for the Yuan family to become bigger, then it will not take three or five years, it will be difficult to eradicate, rather than this, it is better to get rid of it as soon as possible, and treat it as an anti-guest, betraying the faith, we can attack it!" ”

Ma Qiang nodded and said, "In this case, our army's strategy is to attack Ji Chaos!" ”

Once you have set the big strategy, the next step is to implement it step by step.

The first step is to take Qingzhou, and only by becoming the lord of a state can you really be qualified to play on the chessboard at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Ma Qiang asked Zixu to increase his investigation of the yellow scarf, and at the same time resettled the hundreds of thousands of refugees.

As a close disciple of Zhang Jiao in the past, Zixu naturally knew a lot of the old Yellow Turban Department, and soon more detailed information was sent to Ma Qiang's desk.

Guan Hai didn't say anything, but only said that Xu He and Sima Ju, who attacked Jiaohe in Jinan, had more than 400,000 soldiers and horses, and they also began to unite with the Xuzhou Yellow Turban, which was driven north by Tao Qian, and went north, hoping to go to Jizhou and meet Zhang Yan in Montenegro.

"Ming Gong, Jiao Thorn Shi's letter of help!"

Ma Qiang was working on paperwork in the office when he saw Jia Xu walking in with a letter.

"Oh? The news of the history of scorching thorns is also very well-informed! Knowing so soon that I'm back! Ma Qiang smiled, took the letter, opened it, and felt that the page was full of words for the sake of the party-state, pulling the brothers.

"Jiao He looks bad, Wenhe, do you think it's time?"

Jia Xu nodded and shook his head again, "Jiao He is not dead, it is difficult for Ming Gong to get Qingzhou, I think, you can still boil it again, but if you don't have any soldiers and horses, I'm afraid you will also fall into the mouth!" ”

Ma Qiang snorted and said, "Then let Zilong work hard, let him take a thousand horsemen to Licheng to support first, and say to Jiao Thorn Shi, my side has just returned to the army, and the army is exhausted, and it will take time to repair before I can send troops to support!" ”

Jia Xu nodded in favor, and went down to give the order, and as soon as Jia Xu left, Guo Jin walked in

"Ming Gong, are you looking for me?"

"Call me Brother Pony when no one is around, we don't have that much between us!" Ma Qiang threw a fruit to Guo Jin, then got up and said, "Let's go, let's go see Fat Yue, he has some interesting things, I'll show you!" ”

- Plains Ordnance Factory

Ma Qiang took Guo Jin to the most secret firearms factory guarded by the ordnance factory.

There is a saying in later generations that since there was Makqin, the nomads have become able to sing and dance, although there is some ridicule, but it also shows that in the face of mature firearms, the cavalry has become inevitable to withdraw from the stage of history.

"Brother Xiaoma, Brother Guo, look at this fourth-generation musket, the life span has reached fifteen rounds in a row without exploding, if you use it leisurely, you can shoot a hundred rounds and play!"

Yue Yang held the musket and handed it to the two, Guo Jin looked at Ma Qiang suspiciously, not understanding what this iron stick was for.

"How about asking you to figure out how to increase production before I go?"

"I found some skilled craftsmen from our Red Star Battalion, and if there are more of them, the output will go up, and this fourth-generation musket can make at least one or two hundred guns a month!" Yue Yang thought for a while and said, "If you want to increase production, this iron material will not be able to keep up." ”

The iron materials in the plains are still transported from Yuyang, and in this era when there are no trains and automobiles, it is true that there are not many iron materials transported for thousands of miles, but to build firearms in Youzhou, Ma Qiang is really not at ease.

"Give you a month, prepare me three hundred muskets! Brother Guo, come, try this musket first! Ma Qiang didn't care about Yue Yang, who was scratching his head and cheeks, handed the musket to Guo Jin, took one himself, and began to teach Guo Jin how to use this thing.

The automation of firearms in later generations has developed to the point that you can press the trigger and lose thousands of bullets for a minute, but at this time, the original musket in Ma Qiang's hand is not so easy to shoot a bullet.

Although Ma Qiang has made Yue Yang make fixed ammunition by leaps and bounds, and this gun can be regarded as a flintlock pistol, it still takes more than a dozen steps to fire a shot, even if it is a skilled gunman, it will take more than ten or twenty seconds, and a person like Ma Qiang, who is obviously unskilled, wasted almost a minute to get it right.

"Smack!"

With a gunshot, a puff of green smoke came out.

Ma Qiang didn't care whether he hit or not, he looked at Guo Jin, and Guo Jin also tried to shoot it.

"Smack!"

Guo Jin felt a sense of recoil, and he lowered his musket and waited for the target in the distance to be brought over.

"Brother Pony, this thing doesn't seem to be any different from a crossbow arrow."

Guo Jin didn't understand why Ma Qiang valued this smoking thing so much.

"This thing is more powerful than a crossbow arrow, I don't know how many times!" Ma Qiang sighed and pointed to the target that had been moved.

There was a battle armor tied to the target, and when Guo Jin looked at it, he immediately found that the battle armor had been pierced.

And it's still worn on the back, that is, even if he wears two pieces, this person is probably going to die.

Guo Jin immediately took a breath of cool air, with this thing, wouldn't the so-called heavy infantry become a joke?