"Master Hou, where is the Macedonian Empire you talked about last time?" Jiang Hu couldn't help but ask.

"Probably here......" Chen Xu pointed to where Greece was located.

"Hiss~" Jiang Hu and the three of them took a breath of cool air at the same time.

"Master Hou, it's a long way away!" Jiang Hu's face turned a little pale.

Because judging from the entire map alone, the size of Daqin's territory and the distance from the Peacock Empire, the three generals who are accustomed to looking at various military maps instantly roughly calculated the location of Daqin to Greece, at least tens of thousands of miles away, and the most important thing is that there are several large lakes in the middle, that is, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, and Greece is already on a peninsula in the northeast of the Mediterranean, so far even if it is horseback, it will take at least more than a year, and there are large areas along the way, it is definitely not a deserted place, You have to kill all the way through.

"What Master Hou said last time was right, it is indeed very difficult to conquer so far, and if the logistics and supplies can't keep up, I'm afraid that the Labor Expedition will be wiped out, and maybe ......."

Jiang Hu's face was cloudy, even if he could lead the army to slaughter Hun Hu in the northwest like slaughtering dogs and dolphins, but if the Macedonian Empire and the Peacock Empire had strength no less than that of Great Qin, I am afraid that once they encounter, it would definitely not be the same one-sided situation as facing Hun Hu.

Li Xin hadn't heard Chen Xu talk about the story of the Great Emperor of the Pressure Mountain last time, but as a qualified general, just by relying on the map in front of him, he also knew that it would definitely not be smooth sailing to lead the army of Great Qin to kill him, and the outcome of the labor expedition was very unpredictable.

Now that no one is willing to conquer Baiyue in the south, not to mention the distance from each other, and the fact that they are not familiar with those places at all, and the time and place are favorable, and the people are not dominant, the consequences must be very unpredictable.

Li Xin hugged his arms and his face was serious, Jiang Bu clenched his fists, his face was blue and white, and he was obviously struggling frantically in his heart.

"As the saying goes, take precautions, although these Western countries are far away from us at the moment, and they don't seem to be much of a threat, but if we keep turning a blind eye, then after decades and hundreds of years, how can we guarantee that they will not have a majestic emperor again, who will take the land of the Western Regions first, and then look down on me after the Western Regions countries?" Chen Xu looked at the map and said lightly.

"What does Master Hou mean......" Jiang Hu, Li Xin, and Jiang Bu looked at Chen Xu together.

"What I mean is naturally that Great Qin needs to capture the Western Regions first, open up the road to the West after conquering the Western Regions, and then continue to inquire and collect news from the Western countries, if they can get along amicably, they can carry out business and trade exchanges, but if they can't get along amicably, they must prepare in advance, use the Western Regions as a springboard to start first, and kill this Peacock Empire, last time I said, the people of this Peacock Empire are particularly fond of gold, and I heard that the Buddha statues in this country are decorated with gold......"

As soon as they heard that there was gold, the eyes of Li Xin and the three of them suddenly brightened.

For ordinary generals, war has nothing to do with righteousness, just for the fields and real estate and promotion to make a fortune.

If you can really lead the army to the West in the future, you will not only be rewarded with military merits, but you will also be able to rob a large amount of gold, and no military general will be willing to let go of this opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune.

"Today, the letter came to the banquet in advance, just to inquire about some things in the Western Regions, and now that I have this map, I feel like a frog at the bottom of the well, I didn't expect the world to be so big!" Li Xin was silent for a long time and then let out a long breath.

"The bigger the world, the more opportunities we have to wait, Master Hou, what are you going to let us do?" Jiang Hu hugged his fist and saluted Chen Xu, his face was very excited.

"Yes, since the Marquis of Qinghe invited me to watch this map, he must have made some plans, as long as he believes that he can do it, he will not refuse!" Li Xin also understood, and came over and hugged his fists and said.

"Through the Western Regions, open up the road to the West, and open up a channel of communication with Western countries, so as to broaden the horizons of the people of our Great Qin, and at the same time to be able to get more wealth, at present, the livelihood of our Great Qin people is difficult and cannot withstand this kind of large-scale war for many years, what we need to do most urgently is to develop the economy to boost the people's hearts, so that the people of Li can be fed and clothed, and then train a brave and fearless Great Qin Iron Cavalry, starting from the Western Regions and slowly infiltrating to the west, but before that, we need to cut the soldiers ......"

"Cut off the soldiers?" Li Xin looked at Chen Xu directly, "Marquis Qinghe, isn't it a contradiction to want to capture the Western Regions but to remove the soldiers?" ”

"Definitely!" Chen Xu shook his head, "My Daqin now seems to have a lot of generals, but many of them are veterans left over from the Great War of the Six Kingdoms, although they are all brave and good at fighting, but they are familiar with the fighting method of lunge chariots, and many people are also old and weak, and this expedition to Hun Hu Di Daohou should have seen that with the new horse equipment and sharp and tough steel weapons, the chariots and infantry are actually no longer of much use, what we need is a horse and cavalry that are good at raiding and charging, maybe only thirty or fifty thousand is enough." , instead of today's three or five hundred thousand or even millions of old-fashioned foot soldiers, the soldiers are not much more expensive, so we need to remove a large number of ordinary soldiers guarding the northwest border pass, and then select some young and brave soldiers to form a new type of horse soldiers, training elite soldiers is the main way to fight in the future, this large number of soldiers are discharged and returned home, and rewarding land and real estate can also increase the grain income of my Daqin, which is a matter of killing two birds with one stone......"

"I see, it's still Qinghehou's foresight!" Li Xin nodded again and again, and quickly understood the meaning of disarmament from Chen Xu's words.

"Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: Soldiers are not expensive, and they will not be brave but strategic. Hou Ye's strategy of elite soldiers is well understood in the art of war, and the attack and retreat of the horsemen are extremely fast, and it can be completely done because of the grain to the enemy, without the drag of baggage and grain and grass, and come and go like the wind without any constraints, which is also completely in line with the key to the art of war! Jiang Hu kept nodding in agreement.

Jiang Bu stood next to him and continued to clench his fists and swing, the three Hou Ye discussed the art of war, he was not a general who was not yet a Hou Ye and could only play soy sauce, although the level was only one level away, but this level was far away, maybe there would be no chance in his life.

But not now, he can listen to the arrangements of the three marquises, then he will inevitably be promoted and made a fortune together in the future, this is the circle, now he has integrated into this circle of top nobles with Jiang Hu, all he has to do now is to close his mouth and listen, and then follow the flag and shout to charge into battle.

"There are already 40,000 new-style horsemen in the northwest border pass, and the supply of these horsemen is not less than 200,000 soldiers, and there are 300,000 troops in the northwest. Only keep the current elite horses, this force is enough to ensure the peace of the northwest border, and even the northwest only needs to keep 20,000 elite horses, and then mobilize 20,000 to start slowly conquering the countries of the Western Regions, and slowly open up the road to the west in three or five years, and after three or five years, my Great Qin will be stable and the people will be stable and prosperous, and then you can form an elite army of horsemen to conquer the Peacock Empire in one go, and my Great Qin will open up thousands of miles to the west, even if it is a head-on confrontation with the Western countries, it will definitely not fall behind! ”

"Yes, yes, Qinghe Hou is the safest policy, at the moment, although my Daqin is strong and strong, but in fact, he can't support the continuous battles, and I am willing to help in the matter of disarmament!" Li Xin nodded.

"I'm willing to listen to Hehou's arrangement!" Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu gave up together.

"Okay, there are three generals to help, I persuade Your Majesty to be a little more sure, don't be in a hurry to write about disarmament in advance, tomorrow I will enter the palace to present the globe and map to the emperor, and then discuss the disarmament strategy with the three generals in detail, now it is General Meng Tian who is in charge of the Northwest Army, once this matter is raised, it will inevitably encounter a lot of resistance!" Chen Xu said happily.

"Master Hou, I'm afraid there won't be any resistance from General Meng, and more resistance may come from Wucheng Hou!" Li Xin reminded.

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Xu, Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu all looked at Li Xin together.

"I heard a rumor a few days ago, I'm afraid that General Meng Tian will be transferred back to Xianyang by His Majesty." Li Xin's face was slightly serious.

"And that matter?" Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu looked dazed, and the two obviously didn't know the news.

The Marquis of Wucheng is Wang Li, Wang Jian is seriously ill and returned home to recuperate, Wang Ben also borrowed the excuse to go back to his hometown to accompany and take care of, last autumn to conquer Huhu, Wang Li was enabled by the emperor as the main general to attack Donghu, 20,000 Great Qin Iron Cavalry plus Meng Tian personally led the troops as a follow-up, Donghu was completely just become a, Donghu King was captured and beheaded by Wang Li himself, this head is now placed in the temple to worship the ancestors of Daqin.

Although Donghu is weak now, in the minds of the people of the Central Plains, Donghu is still much stronger than the Xiongnu, after all, it is an old gangster gang that has been harassing the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and the status of the newly rising hooligans like the Xiongnu is different.

In history, Donghu has had countless life-and-death wars with Yan, Zhao, Qin and other countries, and the Central Plains is unbearable, so Yan Zhaoqin and other countries continue to build the Great Wall to block the Hu people in the north, when Donghu is the strongest, it is claimed that there are 300,000 people who lead the bow, and the entire north is their grazing territory, and the Zhao country was beaten by the Hu people and could not fight back, so there will be the reform of Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu riding and archery, learning the Hu people to dress and ride horses and archery, supported by the strong industrial base of the Central Plains, the rapid rise of Zhao began to continue to fight the Hu people, Therefore, the Hu people began to retreat to the east and west, the east is the East Hu, the west is the Lin Hu, the huge gap left in the north makes the Xiongnu who were originally the scum nomadic gang slowly rise, and the Xiongnu also call themselves the Hu people, they actually belong to the branch of the northern nomads, and the Central Plains people basically do not distinguish much.

Donghu is a Hu person, and the Xiongnu are also Hu people, and now that the king of Donghu has been killed, it can actually be regarded as a complete destruction of the Hu people in the north.

This is an immortal achievement, and the people of the Central Plains have never done it.

Therefore, Wang Li returned triumphantly from this battle, and was given the title of Marquis of Wucheng by the emperor, so far the Wang family has three top martial arts, and the family status is the first in the world, and no one dares to underestimate it except for the emperor.