Under the blue sky, the mighty army marched into the Taihang Mountains! On the protruding mountain peak, Lu Bu looked at the ranks like a long dragon, and he also truly realized the feeling of being above these ten thousand people.

Under Lu Bu's military orders, the strong men and strong private troops in these places were mobilized extremely quickly. The combined strength of these places is twenty or thirty thousand! If you add the real elite, and Yang Feng's auxiliaries who formed those prisoners of the Black Mountain Army, it would really be called a hundred thousand people.

In fact, in the letter that Lu Bu handed to Zhang Yan, he also exaggerated this strength! Lü Buke claimed to have an army of 200,000 besieging Zhang Yan.

The increase in this force was naturally able to make Zhang Yan and the bandits in the Taihang Mountains feel terrified. But seeing the money and food consumed every day also made Lu Bu a little surprised. Sun Tzu's Art of War, with 100,000 armor, thousands of miles of food. The cost of inside and outside, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of car armor, and the daily cost. Among them, it is the problem of the cost of war! This starts a war, but it needs financial support.

Fortunately, the state's finances can still be supported. Moreover, Jia Xu of Jinyang also collected the money and grain donated by those powerful clans in the fastest time. When it comes to solving the problem of banditry, these people are really active. After all, this is closely related to their own interests.

After the hundreds of thousands of Taihang bandits were cleaned up, Lu Bu felt that he must continue to increase the trade and trade of the state and increase the finance of the state! At present, a large part of the state's finances is foreign trade. Just relying on those taxes can't afford the money and food of the army. The profits of the foreign trade of the states today are mainly coal, salt, wine, horses, and paper that is about to be improved.

Among them, coal was first mined and utilized by Lu Bu, and there is no such powerful technology as later generations, so the mining of coal is very difficult. Fortunately, in this state, that is, Shanxi in later generations, it is a famous "coal capital!" "Even though the mining technology of this era is limited, there are many open-pit coal mines in Shanxi, and these open-pit coal mines can be exploited and utilized first. This is something that cannot be found in other places, so it is also one of the financial pillars of the state.

There is also the table salt, after taking back Shuofang Yanze, the fine salt that Lu Bu improved, the price of selling it is very high, and it can have several times the profit. As for the wine and the horses, they were also profiteering goods. There are so many things, and the state's fiscal revenue has increased a lot, which can support the consumption of the army. With this trade exchange, Lu Bu believes that the financial revenue of the state will also increase in the future.

If nothing else, after the implementation of the improved paper, I am afraid that it will be a major revenue pillar for the state. And what is most lacking in the state today is population and food. After absorbing these bandits on Taihang Mountain, as well as the displaced people who migrated from the pass, the population of the state can only increase several times. By driving these people to the Hetao Tuntian and reclaiming a large amount of wasteland, the problem of food can also be solved. At that time, the annexation of the state was really strong.

The blueprint for world domination has just begun.

Li Ru stood on Lu Bu's side, looking at this magnificent army, with a hint of admiration in his eyes. He watched Lü Bu go from Chang'an to Hanoi step by step, and then use Hanoi to obtain the annexation of the state. It's only been a long time, and Lu Bu's influence in Bingzhou is so great! Don't look at most of these armies are just the likes of the people, as well as those powerful private troops.

But the reason why these people were able to appear here and be able to accompany Lu Bu to conquer the Taihang thieves shows that Lu Bu's influence in this state is very huge! With no human hearts attached, can An pull up such an army? If it were someone else, I was afraid that it would not be possible to do this.

"Wen You, what do you say next step, what should we do?"

Lu Bu suddenly turned his gaze to Li Ru, "This Sun has been gone for a few days, but there is no news, the possibility of this Zhang Yan surrendering without a fight is probably extremely low." ”

A few days ago, Lu Bu let go of Xiaoqu Shuai, Sun Qing, who had captured the Black Mountain Army, and asked him to persuade Zhang Yan to surrender. It's just that in the past few days, 100,000 troops have gathered, but there is still no news of this Sun Qing, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck. For this reason, Lu Bu also knew that it was impossible for Zhang Yan to surrender in a battle, so he still had to show his real strength and let that Zhang Yan show him!

"Between the Taihang Mountains, there are still hundreds of thousands of thieves, if I were that Zhang Yan, I am afraid that I will not surrender easily. It's just that now that the main force of the Montenegrin army has been destroyed, this Zhang Yan does not dare to force a battle with our army, so he can only retreat among the mountains and defend his lair. I think the lord can follow Yuan Shao's method of dealing with Yu Poison, first sweep away the small group of Montenegrin army forces in front of him, and scatter the 100,000 army to form a huge encirclement, pressing towards Zhang Yan step by step, forcing that Zhang Yan to sit still and go to support, then our army can just fight him head-on! ”

Li Ru's thinking is very clear.

After the main force of the Montenegrin army was destroyed, Zhang Yan never took the initiative to attack. Even if this Lu Jun is so powerful, Zhang Yan doesn't care about it. It seems that he didn't believe that Lu Bu really dared to advance into the Taihang Mountains and wipe out all of them. It's just that Zhang Yan miscalculated Lu Bu's determination! Li Ru understands that no matter what kind of price he pays, Lu Bu will completely wipe out these bandits and never suffer from future troubles. Since this is the case, then you can follow Yuan Shao's ruthless example, climb over the Taihang Mountain Range, and level the small hills of those thief chieftains one by one.

"That's exactly what I thought!"

Lu Bu was quite happy, this Li Ru's idea went with him, "It's just that in this way, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time." If our army wants to wipe out the outer thief chieftains, I am afraid that it will take half a month, and in this half month, if Zhang Yan does not support, but strengthens the old nest, then it will be quite tricky to overcome. I wonder if this dark division can plan an assassination operation to assassinate Zhang Yan? If this Yan doesn't surrender, then let him die! ”

"Assassination?"

Li Ru was slightly stunned, and then a trace of viciousness flashed in his eyes, "This strategy is feasible!" If Zhang Yan dies, this Black Mountain Army is afraid that the dragons will be leaderless, and it will be easy for us to defeat each of them. ”

"The Black Mountain Army has no Zhang Yan, it's just a plate of loose sand, easy to break but not easy to break!"

Looking at the winding army, Lu Bu said in a deep voice, "You can contact that Sun Qing first, and if it's possible, persuade that Zhang Yan to surrender!" ”

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