After experiencing the last war and almost losing, Yan Baihu is naturally very concerned about the military, as long as he is free, he has been studying the operating system in his body, hoping to maximize its role.

Not to mention, after thinking about it carefully, Yan Baihu really found something very useful.

I mentioned it a few times before, probably because I felt that its "intelligence system" was too advantageous for players, so the system canceled most of its functions.

Therefore, when Yan Baihu looked at the map provided by the system, he could and could only view the cities of other forces, and could only see the number of their troops, but as for other information, he had no information at all.

In addition, it is only after the enemy troops enter his sphere of influence, or if he leads the troops into someone else's territory, that he can get system information and check the specific situation of the enemy troops.

After careful consideration, Yan Baihu found that just knowing the number of soldiers in the enemy city was actually very useful. For example, now, at the beginning of August 251, Yan Baihu suddenly discovered that the number of Liu Xuan's forces defending in Wu County City had suddenly dropped from 30,000 to less than 10,000.

You have to think about it a lot, Yan Baihu can also know that Liu Xuan's troops are going out again, and judging from the current situation, he must have come to attack his Huiji, and he knows that the number of troops he sent is roughly 20,000.

Yan Baihu was not surprised by this, but expected it.

At the beginning, when Liu Miao attacked Wu Juncheng, his troops basically did not suffer any losses, and they did not use the "morale value" of his troops, that is, his troops were fully capable of launching another attack in the short term.

Within this month, Liu Miao was probably waiting for the deployment of troops, and transported the 15,000 troops of Jianye City to Wu County, so as to start the second expedition against Yan Baihu.

But having said that, although Yan Baihu had anticipated Liu Xuan's attack and had already thought of basic countermeasures, he had to act cautiously in the face of war.

Immediately, Yan Baihu clicked on the system and invited his mastermind Yu Fan to come and discuss. What Yan Baihu didn't expect, and was also a little dissatisfied, was that he waited for nearly an hour before Yu turned it too late.

"The subordinates are late, I hope the lord will forgive me." Before entering the government affairs hall, Yu turned to the first place and began to apologize.

"Is there something delaying the military advisor?"

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates and Hua Xin have just completed their tasks last month, and they are seizing the time to prepare for the construction of a large military house and an ordnance factory."

So that's the case, Yan Baihu nodded, and also left the unpleasantness in his heart behind.

"Strategist, I'm afraid this task of yours is going to be delayed."

"Why?" Yu asked subconsciously, and then realized something, and did not hesitate, even when he asked: "Lord, but Liu Miao has moved?" ”

Yan Baihu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, this Yu Flip is really smart, and he thought of the reason so quickly.

"Yes, if the information I get is correct, Liu Xuan's troops have already set off from Wu County City, and within a month, they will definitely reach the territory of Huiji. What do the military advisors think about this war? ”

"Does the lord have any details?"

"Nope! However, I can know that the number of troops Liu Xuan went out this time was about 20,000. ”

"Twenty thousand?" Yu Chuan was shocked in his heart, and his face became more serious.

After thinking for a while, Yu Xuan spoke: "Lord, the number of enemy troops has reached 20,000, and they are menacing, while our army currently has 13,000 troops, and there is not enough ordnance. His subordinates suggested that they should immediately enter a state of war readiness, suspend urban development, go all out to build military buildings and ordnance factories, and at the same time recruit and train troops, smelt ordnance, and reserve military rations as soon as possible to prepare for war. ”

"What the military advisor said is very true, but I don't think it's good to give up urban development entirely."

Yan Baihu said it more politely, but in fact, he already felt in his heart that it was a bit reluctant to let Yu Fu be a military advisor, and his strength should be construction, not military.

As for suspending urban development, it was impossible, Yan Baihu was absolutely unwilling to do so, and he didn't even want to transfer any manpower from Wang Lang.

Since it has only been developed for a month, only a few have been built in the market, and it has not yet flourished, and in addition, the "mint" has only been halfway built, and the bonus effect on the market has not yet been formed.

Just today, Yan Baihu already knew that his income in the previous month was only 550 gold, which could be described as making ends meet. If development is suspended now, he simply won't have that much money to recruit soldiers, and as for smelting ordnance, not to mention, it will be a more expensive business.

Moreover, Yan Baihu believes that Liu Xuan's subsequent attacks will definitely be wave after wave, so if the other party has to give up building the city every time he attacks, his economic situation will only get worse and worse, and in the end, he will inevitably not be able to support it.

In this way, Yan Baihu will never suspend urban development.

Seeing that Yu Fan really didn't have any good advice for the military, and he was already afraid of Liu Xuan's attack, Yan Baihu didn't want to talk nonsense with him.

"In this way, military advisor, you and Hua Xin will temporarily change the goal, build a large military house as soon as possible, and as for the ordnance factory, it will be suspended for a period of time, and after the end of this war, it will be restored."

"But, my lord······"

Yu Fan wanted to say something, but Yan Baihu waved his hand to stop him, and he had already passed the system and gave him an order to build a "military house".

When Yu turned away, Yan Baihu had already made up his mind that he would never transfer any of Wang Lang's manpower, that is, he gave them instructions to continue to build the city, hoping that they would be able to develop the market as soon as possible, so that after they had more income, they could better develop the military.

Of course, Yan Baihu himself was not idle, he set off with 5,000 on the same day, and Yu Quan, who also led 5,000 swordsmen to set off, in order to help Yan Yu and Yang Feng as soon as possible and build a "position" and "arrow tower".

In late August 251, Yan Baihu and the other four had just returned to Huiji City.

At this time, Yu Tuo, Hua Xin and others had just upgraded the barracks to the second level, but it only took ten years to build the third-level barracks, and the speed was already quite fast.

On the day he returned, Yan Baihu held a military meeting, mainly to distribute talents, so that Yan Yu, Niu Jin, and Yu Quan, the three martial artists with the highest force value, would continue to train troops, and let Yu Fu and Hua Xin be responsible for recruiting soldiers and manufacturing ordnance respectively.

As for the construction of the third-level military house, in fact, there is only one "merger" order left, and it is only necessary to merge the two second-level military houses together, and there is no need to let Yu Fu and Hua Xin go out and let Xu Gong do it.

It was also on this opportunity that Yan Baihu took back Xu Gong's position, and on the grounds that Niu Jin had made meritorious service in training troops, he took over the official position of "Captain Changshui" and increased the number of troops he led.

And just when Yan Baihu and the others were busy, Liu Xuan's troops really entered the scope of the meeting, and it was the first time that the system sent him a message.

Through the system, Yan Baihu immediately checked the situation of his troops.

Its main general Zhang Ying led 6,000 spearmen, Zhen Rong led 5,000 spearmen, Fan Neng led 5,000 halberds, and Chen Heng led 5,000 archers, with a total strength of 21,000 people.

Among these generals, except for Zhang Ying's force value of 74 points, the rest of them are all non-mainstream generals with less than 70 forces, and it is probably Liu Xian's lack of manpower.

After learning this information, Yan Baihu was relieved, although Liu Miao had a lot of troops, but he wanted to defeat him with such a military configuration, but it was wishful thinking.

On the last day of August, Yan Baihu personally inspected the troops and inspected the ordnance.

At this time, the total strength of its Huiji City reached more than 17,500, and in terms of ordnance, it was slightly lacking, with 4,200 guns and only 4,000 halberds, but their bows were as many as 8,000.

This is also because, considering his lack of funds, as well as the lack of manpower and time, Yan Baihu was also quite helpless to use the characteristics of Huiji City to take the lead in producing some bows and arrows to deal with this war.

Also on the same day, the 6,000 spearmen led by Zhang Ying took the lead in reaching the outside of Huiji City, but they were blocked by the "arrow tower" and "position", and they could not come for the time being.

At noon on this day, Yu Tuan and Hua Xin, who had already received the news, as well as Yu Quan and other generals, all came uninvited and asked to see Yan Baihu.

And in fact, even if they don't come, Yan Baihu will summon them, the big war is imminent, he must have a mobilization meeting, but before that, he went to do another thing.

That is, let Xu Gong, who had already completed the "merger" task, lead 3,000 swordsmen to set off on the same day, the purpose of course was not to attack the enemy, but to "repair" the arrow tower.

It was also because of this incident that Yan Baihu did not rush back to Taishou Mansion until three o'clock in the afternoon, and at this time, Yu Fu and the others were already waiting very anxiously.

"Lord, Liu Xuan's troops have come to the city, please give the order of the lord and go out to attack!" As soon as Yu Chuan and the others saw Yan Baihu, they shouted in unison, and it seemed that they had already discussed it in advance.

"Huh."

Yan Baihu only smiled, sat down on the main seat unhurriedly, and took another sip of tea before raising his hand to signal them to get up first.

"Ladies and gentlemen, of course this battle must be fought, but it is also necessary to be anxious, there are positions outside the city to defend, and they will not be able to fight for the time being."

"The lord should not be taken lightly, although there is a position outside the city to defend, but it can't be stopped for long, I hope the lord will order the expedition in time to attack the enemy."

"Well, even if you don't say it, I'll give the order. Listen to orders. ”

"Subordinates wait for orders." Yu Tuo, Yan Yu and others knelt down on one knee in unison and obeyed the order.

"Ling, Niu Jin is the vanguard, leading 4,200 spearmen; ordered Yan Yu to lead 4,000 halberd soldiers; Ling Yuquan led 2,000 archers, and Hua Xin was the military advisor; In addition, I personally led 2,000 archers, with Yu Fu as a military advisor, and went out with the troops. ”

"Subordinates and other orders!"