Jincheng County, Lingzhi.

It is not the county seat of Jincheng County, but the terrain is flat, there are few mountains, which is suitable for training cavalry, and the land is relatively fertile, and the Yellow River surrounds it, which is also an important route of the Silk Road.

In addition, to the west is Xiping County, although it belongs to the Han land, but it is a place where the Qiang people gather, Linqiang and Faqiang are in this area, but the proportion of Han people here is not much.

Zhao Yun ordered the branch to be selected as a place for his troops, and he also had the intention of deterring the Qiang people and establishing his prestige in the northwest region as soon as possible.

After all, this time he became the general of Pingxi, and there were many people in the DPRK who opposed it, because whether it was the experience of fighting against Qiang or his own prestige in the Xiliang area, Ma Chao was undoubtedly more suitable than Zhao Yun, although Ma Chao is now General Wei and has a higher status, but in fact, the military power is in the hands of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, although Ma Chao is a high official, but there is not much real power in his hands.

Although Zhao Yun was born in the north, he also served in Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yi in the army, but that was also the old Huang Li, and Zhao Yun was in Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yi at that time, and he was just an ordinary young general, and the team rate was the same, if it weren't for Liu Bei's wisdom, Zhao Yun would not have the status he has today.

And even so, although Zhao Yun has followed Liu Bei to fight in the south and the north over the years, he actually does not have a record like Liu Yi, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Chen Zhi, so the military power of Xiliang should be handed over to Ma Chaocai instead of Zhao Yun.

Although Zhao Yun is not in the imperial court, he can also hear these public opinions, after all, he has been under Liu Bei for so many years, and Zhao Yun is also loyal, so he naturally has his own connections in the court.

But Zhao Yun couldn't justify anything, because these were all facts, whether in terms of prestige or experience, in this Qiang land, Zhao Yun was blind, so Zhao Yun wanted to make some merits as soon as possible to shut up those people.

"General!" Ma Jian walked from outside the door, smiled at Zhao Yun and said, "The letter sent from Chang'an is a private letter. ”

Ma Jian invited Ying to come to Xiliang by himself, in the previous battle of Guanzhong, Ma Jian was responsible for giving advice or helping Zhuge Liang deal with the government in the rear, but he was not satisfied, he also hoped to make contributions, but Guanzhong had been lowered, and in the short term, it was impossible to have another chance, so he asked to be transferred to Zhao Yun's army as a member of the army to help Zhao Yun succeed.

This decision is not blind, Ma Yun has gotten along with Zhao Yun, knows that Zhao Yun is a person, and also knows Zhao Yun's ability, although Zhao Yun is not as famous as Ma Chao, but in terms of ability, it may not be much worse than Ma Chao.

"At this time, I think someone is questioning it in the court." Zhao Yun shook his head and smiled.

"It's a letter sent by Sikong." Ma Yan looked at it and smiled at Zhao Yun.

"Oh?" Zhao Yun took the letter when he heard this, he and Liu Yi haven't seen each other for a long time, I don't know what happened when Liu Yi sent the letter this time?

The bamboo slip went to the fire paint to unfold.

Bang~

A wood carving fell from the unfolded bamboo slips, Zhao Yun was quick with his hands, and copied the wood carving in his hand, and when he looked at it, it was a wood carving with the appearance of a young man, which was somewhat similar to Liu Yi, but he was younger, fourteen or fifteen years old, with an indifferent expression, as if nothing in the world could make him make waves.

Liu Yi's wood carvings are lifelike, like a miniature version of a real person.

"Huh?" Ma Tan looked at the wood carving and sighed softly.

"Young common sense to get this person?" Zhao Yun looked at Ma Jian and asked with a smile.

"Naturally, this is Sikong's son Liu Cheng, who should be twelve years old this year." Ma Jian nodded, he was quite familiar with the Liu family in Nanzhong, although he had been separated for a few years, he could still recognize Liu Cheng who was a little adult.

"Twelve?" Zhao Yun was stunned, no matter how you look at it, he looks like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and what did Liu Yi do when he sent the statue of his son?

Eyes fell on the bamboo slips, the content of the bamboo slips is not much, first a few words, and then just talk about his son, let Zhao Yun pay attention to the recent recruits, if you find Liu Cheng, don't make a noise, don't recognize each other, just look at it, train or something on weekdays, don't care, but if there is really a war, please Zhao Yun take care of one or two.

If Liu Chengzhen comes here, I hope Zhao Yun can reply to the letter, so that Liu Yi can feel at ease.

"How's the recruitment of new recruits lately?" Zhao Yun didn't show Ma Jian the letter, after all, the letter was private and not easy to show to outsiders.

"Our army is now joining the army independently, if you go to Shudi, there are naturally many people who are willing to join the army, but in this Xiliang land, ......" Ma Tan said in the end, shook his head, after all, not long ago this was still the Wei realm, people's hearts will be somewhat repulsive to the Han army, not only the Qiang people, even if it is the local Han people, the sense of belonging to the Han army is not too strong, which requires the implementation of benevolent government step by step, and it takes time to slowly let everyone accept the Han army, in this case, the recruitment of new recruits is naturally not smooth, let alone join the army independently.

Zhao Yun thought for a while and said with a smile: "Now that the household registration has not been established, it can be passed on to the counties, if you are interested in joining the army, you only need to have the rumor issued by the three elders to join the army." ”

"It's not quite in line." Ma Jian frowned and said, the biography is equivalent to an identity certificate, with the time, place of origin, name and what to do on it, and it needs to have an official seal at least the county order level.

"It is not easy to recruit soldiers, and besides, Xiliang has been in war for a long time, and many Han people who were captured by the Xiongnu or Qiang people as slaves cannot be regularized, since the locals are unwilling to enlist, they can choose these people." Zhao Yun shook his head and said with a smile, he only brought 8,000 Cao troops to surrender, and in the edict that Liu Bei gave him, Zhao Yun was allowed to replenish the Xiliang army to 20,000 by himself, and the imperial court provided money and food, but the problem of manpower needed to be solved by Zhao Yun himself, reducing the conditions required for conscripts, and expanding the scope of conscription.

Ma Jian nodded, this is also a way, return the wood carving to Zhao Yun, although he is curious why Liu Yi sent his son's wood carving to Zhao Yun, but since Zhao Yun didn't say it, he didn't want to ask in detail.

Recruits are to be trained, the Han army has developed not only industry over the years, agriculture has also made great progress, Liu Yi in Jingzhou concurrently Changsha, Yueyang is too punctual, he has found some old farmers to study fertilizer, farming, for this reason also personally went to the field to experiment, on the basis of manure, to study a more perfect ratio, knowing that Jingzhou and Yizhou have benefited immensely over the years, the food supply in the army is also very sufficient, and therefore, the training of recruits has been shortened from the beginning of the half-month training cycle, to now, it is basically a two-day practice, When recruits are trained, it is even two months of high-intensity training.

This is also one of the reasons why on the battlefield of Guanzhong, the Han army was able to suppress the Wei army, the military uniform was already strong, not to mention the high-intensity training, even if there was no actual combat experience, its own individual strength was stronger than that of the Wei army, which naturally formed the same situation as before.

However, at present, the conditions of Xiliang are definitely not as good as those in Jingzhou and Shuzhong, and the grain and grass have to be transported from Shu, and there are no rail cars, the road is far away, and the consumption is huge, so it can probably maintain the conditions of five days of practice.

After the track is paved to Xiliang, and the supplies are sufficient, you can consider strengthening the training density, Zhao Yun has not seen him again after Liu Cheng has grown up, but the name of this prodigy, Zhao Yun has still heard of it, the girl of the Liu family has been practicing martial arts with Lu Lingqi since she was a child, I believe that Liu Cheng will not be too bad, Zhao Yun estimates that if Liu Cheng is really in the army, during the recruit training, it should be easy to stand out, and then it will be much easier to arrange it yourself, but how to arrange it quietly, it still depends on the future performance of this kid.

His son followed Liu Yi to become famous, and now he is in charge of the military in Nanyang, Zhao Yun is naturally grateful to Liu Yi in his heart, and now that Liu Yi's son may come to him, Zhao Yun is naturally ready to reciprocate, but at least he has to meet people first.

No one knows where Liu Cheng will go, maybe he will apply directly in the Blue Pool camp, after all, there are many people who join the army there, and it is easier to get in.

After finalizing the recruitment of new soldiers, Zhao Yun's attention returned to the current situation in Xiliang, before burning dangdang and breaking the Qiang to gather 100,000 troops to invade Longxi, but was defeated by Ma Chao and Zhang Renda and fled back, it should be stable for a while, but if you want to completely suppress them, without the prestige of Ma Chao, you have to show Ma Chao's means, for this point, Zhao Yun is still confident that it will not be worse than Ma Chao, recently he is actively preparing for the war, ready to find a leader to clean up, first set up his prestige.

According to Zhao Yun's understanding during this time, this Qiang people have certain similarities with the Beidi Hu people, and they also believe in the concept of respecting the strong, and they will respect and even revere the strong even if they are enemies.

Now the biggest problem is that the problem of Ma Yuan has to be solved, Zhao Yun claims to have 5,000 cavalry, but in fact, among the 8,000 army, those who can really match the war horses are not even 300, let alone 5,000, but the armament Liu Bei gives is sufficient, even crossbows, strong crossbows, strong bows, spears, swords and shields, and armor are all equipped according to the standard of 20,000 people, as long as there are people who can equip them.

The problem is that there is no one.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it may not be easy after the beginning, for Zhao Yun today, Liu Yi's son may come to join the army here can only be regarded as a trivial matter, although this Xiliang land is vast and sparsely populated, but the power is intricate, a thousand things, Zhao Yun's energy was soon re-involved in these things, and at the same time, the new Jincheng Taishou Huang Le was also born in Jingzhou, and he is quite capable. Even Huang Le helped Zhao Yun get a batch of war horses sent back from the Western Regions, although there were not many, but it finally gave Zhao Yun the ability to form a cavalry, and it was only at this time that he had the energy to take care of the recruits.