Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie are colleagues and brothers to Li Xinchen, so he didn't hide some considerations from these two people, and now that Li Xinchen has explained his own considerations, Xiao Shilian naturally understands that he misunderstood Li Xinchen.

Looking at Xiao Shilian, who shook his head like a rattle, Li Xinchen chuckled: "Okay, let's get down to business." Boqing, how many soldiers and horses can we still mobilize now, you have always been responsible for the training of troops here in Ba County, and you should know better than so. ”

Xiao Shilian bowed slightly: "Now there are more than a thousand soldiers training outside the city, although these recruits are not as good as the veterans, but at least they are usable, so we have a total of five thousand soldiers and horses, and this is not counting the three or four thousand people in Hezhou." ”

This number is more than Li Xinchen estimated, after all, Li Xinchen did not count those Northern Zhou troops when he calculated the number of people, and when he attacked Hezhou, most of the defenders of those mountain cities surrendered without firing an arrow, which made Li Xinchen's soldiers and horses increase a lot, but these people Li Xinchen mainly planned to defend the city, and what he really trusted was these soldiers and horses who followed him into Shu.

Only when these people are fully integrated into the system can he feel comfortable sending them to the battlefield, which naturally takes time.

"Isn't it too little?" Keenly aware that Li Xinchen's expression was wrong, Xiao Shilian couldn't help but ask tentatively.

And Li Xinchen shook his head, just paced in front of the sand table, and only after a long time did he whisper: "That's it, let's take Zizhou and Suizhou first······

Looking at the sadness on Li Xinchen's face, Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie subconsciously glanced at each other, obviously Li Xinchen had more considerations, but he didn't want to tell them. Xiao Shilian took a step forward anxiously: "Shizhong, what are you going to do?" Are there any other challenges? ”

Li Xinchen sighed softly: "What I'm worried about now is not Bashu, although the battle situation here can't be fully grasped, but at least there are tactics and tactics." I'm just worried about Huainan and Jingzhou······"

Xiao Shilian was stunned, and Pei Zilie came back to his senses first: "Shizhong, are you worried that the real purpose of the Zhou people is Jingzhou or Huainan?" ”

"Although a certain occupies Ba County, but has not captured Shu County and Hanzhong, it is just a disease of moss, the Zhou people are so aggressive, do they really just want Ba County?" Li Xinchen muttered, "The two generals only have 50,000 soldiers and horses······

"Jingzhou has a father, and Huainan is even more commonplace, what are you worried about!" Xiao Shilian couldn't help laughing, "Look at it, let's hurry up and fight the game in front of you, Bashu is alive, isn't the overall situation of the world alive." With Daddy and Sikong's skills, you don't need to worry, even if you can't win, you can always defend the city, whether it's Jiangling, Zhongli and Liangjun, they are all strong cities, and there will be no problem. ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, but sighed in his heart.

Although Xiao Maha and Wu Mingche are not invincible and invincible generals, if they just defend the city, there is nothing to worry about, but Li Xinchen knows better that sometimes how to fight this battle is not something that Xiao Maha or Wu Mingche himself can decide.

The key lies in Chen Ji and the imperial court. Li Xinchen can not suspect Xiao Maha or Wu Mingche, but there is no way not to worry about Chen Xu.

His Majesty the Emperor has a lot of merits and demerits, and he cannot be regarded as a complete Holy Monarch, and sometimes his greed and suspicion will not really bring him a powerful empire, but will only bring countless hidden dangers.

However, as Xiao Shilian said, the things in front of him can't be taken into account, and the rest of the battlefields can only let Xiao and Wu ask for more blessings, and at most write a letter to persuade and remind them.

Li Xinchen squinted slightly at the sand table, which only included Bashu after all.

The pattern that I can control is still too small.

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After the heavy snowfall, Hanzhong City slept in silence.

However, the military camp outside the city has become lively, and these big-headed soldiers who are far away from home certainly have no relatives to visit, so at most a few well-connected people will eat meat and drink wine on Chinese New Year's Eve. On the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the army had already begun to assemble for morning exercises.

The sound of the soldiers' running footsteps contrasted sharply with the silent Hanzhong City not far away. When the village soldiers guarding the city got up in the morning and saw this scene, they could only secretly speak. This lieutenant Chi Yu is known as the "elite force", and it is really not in vain.

"There is no movement in Daoyi over there in Xiangyang?" Listening to the loud trumpet outside, Wei Chi Yuan's face also had a little smile.

These boys can have such a high level of spirit on the second day of the Lunar New Year, which means that the morale is available.

Wei Chishun had just come back from outside, and while walking to the stove to roast the fire, he said respectfully: "Not yet, but I know that they are also stepping up their practice, and they are not resting in peace this New Year, and it is estimated that they have lost their strength." ”

"It's not us who will deal with them, tell your eldest brother, as long as Xiangyang City is guarded, our Weichi family will be a great achievement." Wei Chi Yu casually handed Wei Chi Shun a battle report that was urgently sent from the front, "Look at this." ”

Wei Chishun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took it, a little surprised: "Li Xinchen wanted to convene all the generals and officials to discuss yesterday?" ”

This is still the news I got a year ago, but because of the heavy snow blocking the mountain, it has only been delivered now, so this means that Li Xinchen's meeting should have ended, and the Nanchen army in Ba County is estimated to start moving.

"Daddy, even if this Li Xinchen is discussing, it is estimated that he will arrange how to defend the city, right?" Wei Chishun pursed his lips, it was not that he had not dealt with Li Xinchen before, but their father and son had bumped into their heads under the city of Zhangshan County and broke their blood.

Therefore, according to Wei Chi Yuan's first reaction, Li Xinchen must be strictly guarded.

Wei Chi Zhen frowned slightly: "Do you really think that this Li Xinchen will only defend the city?" ”

"The child thinks it should be." Although Wei Chishun put away the contempt in his language because of his father's rhetorical question, he still answered this question accurately.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple······" Wei Chi stroked his white beard and spoke very slowly, as if he was thinking about something, "The old man sometimes can't figure out whether this Li Xinchen is a miracle trick or an outcast." If he is a miracle move, then it stands to reason that Daoyi should continue to transport soldiers, horses, grain and grass in the future; And if it's an outcast······ This outcast has been able to come so far, and he is really very human! ”

Wei Chishun's expression suddenly became serious, and he didn't know how to answer his father's question for a while.

What kind of person is this Li Xinchen?