Along the way, Liu Bei had already discovered the entire southern part of the Western Regions, and the area notified by the Han Dynasty had fallen into a relatively tense situation, not only the people, but also the officials in the government along the way.

It felt like a big war was about to break out to Liu Bei. Although he did not enter Shanshan County to govern Shanshan City, he had already seen the yellow banner when he bypassed it from outside the city, and there was no doubt that Huang Zhong had changed his guard to Shanshan County, and it can be seen that the situation in Shanshan County had begun to develop in a bad direction.

When everyone sat down, Liu Bei sat on the main seat, and next to him stood Zhao Yun, Wang Wei and Zhang Zhao.

"We've seen my lord." After the greetings, everyone sat down one by one, and the strategists and ministers who followed Liu Bei to the Western Regions were Tian Feng, Jia Xu and Zhang Zhao, and the rest were the monarchs of some countries in the Western Regions, and now held the position of a county guard.

"This time, I returned to the Western Regions and found that the situation in the entire Western Regions was a lot more tense, what happened specifically, because I have been on the move, so I have not received the monthly report from you." Liu Bei asked straight to the point.

"Lord Yu, the form of the entire Western Regions has changed greatly, and the Qiuzi State has formed an alliance with the Yanqi State, and at the same time wants the Wusun Kingdom and the Northern Xiongnu to be vassals. The two countries united with small countries such as Gumo to form a 170,000-strong coalition army, which was led by the generals of the two countries, and at the same time, Wusun also sent an army of 100,000 people to live in the country of Qiuci to assist in the garrison of Qiuci. Jia Xu explained.

"Not only that, the two countries also sent envoys into the Dawan Kingdom, although the Dawan Kingdom is an alliance with the Qiuci State and the Yanqi Kingdom, but it also has 50,000 soldiers on the border between the Dawan Kingdom and Shule County, and the Western Regions of China will send troops to attack my Shule County."

"How is the multi-nation coalition of Qiuzi, Yanqi and Wusun distributed?" Liu Bei asked, if the other party divides the troops, it may be able to make up for the gap in strength, but if the troops are combined, then it will be a tough battle, and the probability of Liu Bei's victory is definitely not more than forty percent.

Because it must be taken into account that the 50,000 army of Dawan may be able to defeat the Three Kingdoms Alliance, but in the end it may be defeated by Dawan, not to mention that there are more than 100,000 soldiers in Wusun, Wusun is the same as the Xiongnu, it is a nomadic family, and the population of Wusun is more than 700,000, except for the old and weak, women and children, there are no less than 200,000 empty strings. Once Liu Bei is defeated or defeated, Wusun and Dawan will definitely not give up such fat and not send troops.

"In terms of troop arrangement, Yanqi left 60,000 foot soldiers to defend Yanqi Kingdom, and the small countries near Yanqi Country also have all their names as soldiers, which has the meaning of swearing to defend to the end." Jia Xu continued.

"The rest of the 110,000 army and Wusun's 100,000 army are also in the country of Chen, in order to block the army in my Shule County from continuing to advance eastward."

"I see, I said that when I passed by Shanshan County, I saw that Han Sheng had already gone to Shanshan County to defend, it turned out that it was because Yanqi had increased its troops to 60,000, and if these 60,000 troops were well commanded, they could completely swallow my Shanshan and Jingjue counties. Not to be underestimated. When Liu Bei heard Jia Xu's report, his brows couldn't help but tighten.

To tell the truth, since he came to the Western Regions last year, Liu Bei has not stopped his expedition, but even the most nervous Shule coalition army did not give him such a headache, but now, Liu Bei can only face the difficulties, because in the entire Western Regions, he has no way back. If it succeeds, then no one in the Western Regions and even other countries will be able to stop Liu Bei.

Although the situation was tense, Liu Bei was not discouraged, Liu Bei knew himself and the other at that time, so he asked: "What is the current state of the training of the sergeants?" ”

After that, the commanders of all armies reported to Liu Bei the training and combat situation of each army for more than three months, although Liu Bei was not there, and formulated a policy of not fighting abroad, but the generals of each army still seized the opportunity to go out and do a few fights, in fact, it was mainly aimed at some of the remaining sand bandits in the desert.

For Liu Bei's Western Regions Army, these remaining sand bandits are just the opponents of the soldiers of each army to practice, and a way to increase the population of each county, through a few battles, not only effectively tested the combat effectiveness of each army, but also increased the population of more than 50,000 people for the counties of the Western Regions, in addition to the population, more is wealth, and the wealth accumulated by the sand bandits for several lifetimes was all snatched back by Liu Bei's men.

At the same time, Liu Bei also knew the general situation of the various armies, and so far, the number of each army has basically not changed much, and it is still the establishment when Liu Bei left:

The 9,000 people of the pro-guard army: Captain Wen Chou, Deputy Captain Liao Hua, all cavalry.

There are 10,000 troops in the Hundred Battles: Captain Lu Bu, and Captain Mu Zepal, all cavalry

The Black Flag Army has 10,000 people: Captain Zhang Ren, Captain Tuoheti, all cavalry

There are 10,000 leopard Tao troops: Captain Xu Huang, Captain Dawuti, sword and shield foot soldiers.

The Longxiang army had 11,000 people: Captain Huang Zhong, Captain Sadiq, 7,000 cavalry, 4,000 foot soldiers, and Huang Zhong also commanded 5,000 Shanshan County defenders. The generals under his command were Li Li, Batur, Zheng Xu, Qin Ming, Lin Tao, Reheman, Sabir, Aini and Ai Zezi

There are 10,000 Shence troops: Captain Gan Ning, Captain Zahemu, sword and shield foot soldiers

There are 10,000 Xiaoguo troops: Captain Yan Liang, Du Lieutenant Sha Yi, sword and shield foot soldiers

After learning about these circumstances, Liu Bei immediately appointed Zhao Yun as the captain of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and the deputy general was Wang Wei, who currently had an establishment of 2,000, and selected suitable war horses from the whole army to form heavy armored cavalry, and gave priority to the supply of heavy armored cavalry equipment in the arsenal in the Western Regions.

Regarding the heavy cavalry, the Eastern Han Dynasty already had, but the heavy cavalry at this time was not as fully armed as other dynasties in later generations, but the key parts were guarded by the iron frame, in the last year, when Liu Bei left the Western Regions, he informed Tian Feng of his ideas, and Tian Feng guided the craftsmen of the arsenal to make modifications and improvements.

Regarding the weapons factory in the Western Regions, in fact, it was not newly built by Liu Bei, but the original one of various countries before, because it was not damaged in the war before, so there was no need to rebuild it. This is completely different from Yizhou, everything on the Yizhou side is zero, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build, and this Western Regions can be used as soon as it is used. It's just that the skills and facilities are not as advanced as those of the Han.

After learning about the situation of each army, he did not communicate too much in the area of military strength, but turned to Tian Feng again, "Yuan Hao, along the way, except for some nervousness among the officials and people of the counties, the overall construction is still good, and you have made great contributions to this area." ”

"Lord, Feng didn't dare to take credit, mainly because of the foundation he had followed before, plus the lord knew that people made good use of it, and the monarch of Shanshan County, the monarch of Khotan and the monarch of Humi County were conscientious in Shanshan County, Jingjue County and Shule County respectively, so everything went smoothly." Tian Feng said proudly.

"Well, yes, the development of the four counties is good, and the main reason for this is that you have properly inspected and appointed officials, and I am very pleased. Ran Yuanhao, your strength lies in strategy, Gu Bei wants to transfer you out of Shule County and let you serve in the army, I don't know if you are willing? Liu Bei proposed.

So far, Liu Bei still respects these talents in the appointment of top talents, just like this time if Tian Feng is unwilling, Liu Bei will not force it, but if Tian Feng can agree, then Tian Feng will be more important in the later stage.

"Lord, Feng is willing, Feng will die." For Tian Feng, a government affairs in the Western Regions is not the ideal position he thinks, not to mention that what he is good at is large-scale strategic planning, and he is quite happy to let Liu Bei enter the army. And he knows that he is inferior to Jia Xu in terms of military and political strategy, but he also knows that Jia Xu is inferior to himself in government affairs.

Seeing Tian Feng agree, Liu Bei was still very happy, and even appointed: "Appoint Jia Xu as the general of the military division and the general of the former military division, and Tian Feng as the general of the rear military division, and work together to counsel military affairs." ”

After a pause, Liu Bei appointed again: "Appointment, Zhang Zhao is the chief of the Western Regions, responsible for the government affairs of the Western Regions, all civil affairs in the Western Regions are governed by Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Zhao reports to me every three days, and all official assessment and appointment should be decided by me." ”

Hearing this appointment, everyone was quite surprised, this Zhang Zhao was entrusted with such a heavy task by Liu Bei, and suddenly became the second most powerful person in the Western Regions.

But Zhang Zhao was not moved by everyone's surprise, and replied: "Thank you to the lord, I will bow to the essence and die." ”

After that, Liu Bei dismissed everyone, leaving Tian Feng and Jia Xu alone to discuss how to deal with the alliance of various countries.