A trip to Jingzhou seems to be just sightseeing, but after arriving in Wancheng, the whole meaning becomes dignified. Ma Chao summoned Wen Cheng, Ma Dai, and even Gao Shun, who came from Yingchuan on a fast horse, to have a secret conversation, and no one knew the content of the secret conversation except for the four of them. The guards at the outer gate only vaguely heard Ma Chao's impassioned declaration or gloomy smirk in the inner room, and in the end, it was probably Wen Cheng, Ma Dai, and Gao Shun who hugged their fists to receive their orders.

Early the next morning, Ma Chao took Ma Dai with him, and then left Wancheng quickly.

However, this solemnity seemed to be only a flash in the pan, and everything disappeared at dawn. On the whole, Ma Chao's southward journey seems to be a farce that is not salty or light, like a stone thrown into a big lake, and there are no ripples in a few circles. Except for bringing back a peerless beauty and a clan brother, everything was eerily quiet - this was too low-key compared to the last time he went to Xuzhou to lead troops to attack Cao Cao. is so low-key that the world doesn't believe that he, a person who can provoke a war anywhere at will, has never been to Jingzhou.

Soon, however, the world lost interest in this frivolous conjecture. Because not long after, Chang'an soon broke out two exciting news that shocked the world's attention.

One of them is the name of the peerless beauty who appeared next to Ma Chao for no reason, and I don't know when it spread all over the streets and alleys of Chang'an - the woman who was as quiet and elegant as a fairy turned out to be Sun Ce's fiancée Da Qiao!

People's imagination of this kind of gossip about men and women is generally endless, and the do-gooders can't help but associate the news of Sun Ce's assassination with this. As a result, whenever the people of Chang'an pass by the Yongwang Mansion, they can't help but cast a look of admiration at the magnificent mansion: it is worthy of the pride of our Chang'an, and even robbing other people's wives is so domineering! What Koto Overlord? Compared to our Yongwang, it is simply a full Luther!

However, this kind of news is at most groundless, and it is rare for the world to hear it. And Ma Chao himself didn't respond to this, which inevitably made the good deeds a little lacking in interest. But another piece of news is too lofty compared to this: the giant beast of the Ma family, which has been dormant for more than a year and a half, suddenly revealed a hideous face!

Chang'an decree went down, and the six states and two places began to recruit troops and prepare for military forces at the same time!

This recruitment and preparation for war is not the same as the previous gradual and gradual reform. Ma Chao seems to have premeditated, and with a stroke of the pen, he turned all the Ma family's rule into several war zones, and the rich areas with few soldiers were developing with all their might, while providing troops and strategic equipment for the corresponding front-line positions. For example, Yongzhou has long been peaceful, and the entire economy is also the most active place under the rule of the Ma family, but it will become a strategic back-up in Hanzhong. And Liangzhou also wants to provide Hanzhong with a brave Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Two states and one place, like horns and sharp knives, the soldiers pointed directly at Yizhou, and Liu Zhang, who was far away in Chengdu, was thinking about whether to take the initiative to surrender to the Ma family.

In addition to the Hanzhong front, the Ma family also has five fronts: Yingchuan Front, Nanyang Front, Bingzhou Front, Jizhou Front, and Youzhou Front. Each front line is uniformly deployed and commanded by the highest-ranking generals, and the new army is organized and trained. As a result, it also led to the Ma family's ace war group, which turned from the previous Chang'an hegemony to blooming everywhere.

On the Yingchuan front, the ace troops are naturally the soldiers under Gao Shun; The front line of Bingzhou is Zhang Liao's Yanbei Cavalry; The Jizhou front line was dominated by the first dead soldiers of Luyi; Youzhou is the most dazzling, there are the main ace white horse Yicong, as well as the first-line troops Youyan Jingqi and Wuhuan War Cavalry...... Of course, Liangzhou, the place where the Ma family raised its troops, is the heavily armored iron cavalry of Megatron and the well-known Xiliang iron cavalry outside the pass.

Only on the Nanyang front, there has never been an ace combat power. But after thinking hard, Wencheng broke the routine and did not take the usual path. With the help of Nanyang's well-developed iron-smelting and foundry industry, Wen Cheng intends to build a special force that wins with equipment: this force does not take the elite line of death, but assembles crossbows, crossbows, and iron war knives on a large scale, and strives to make the overall combat strength of the legions under his command superior to that of the major princes, expecting quantitative changes to cause qualitative changes.

In this reform of the military system, we still follow the four-level structure of the main battle regiment, the conventional combat force, the county soldiers, and the militia. Attracted by the abundant financial support and the treatment of the Ma family's current soldiers beyond all previous dynasties, this conscription reached the highest in the history of the Ma family, setting countless records since the Han Dynasty. For example, there is the most active enlistment in history, the first precedent in history to recruit female soldiers, the most indiscriminate race in history to join the army, and the most bizarre means for the people to enlist in the army......

On the Chang'an side, Ma Chao naturally has the most powerful guard combat power, but there is no trump card wargroup that terrifies the enemy. However, objectively speaking, the combat power of the guards in Chang'an is the core of the entire military system of the Ma family. Although they are only divided into two types: the elite of the Ma family and the elite cavalry of the Ma family, the armor and blades and logistics support they are equipped with are more than double the regular combat power of all states and counties. In other words, Wen Cheng's reform of rejuvenating the army with science and technology is just picking up Ma Chao's wisdom.

The selection scope of the Chang'an Guards covers the entire Ma family, which means that the recruits are generally screened from all levels in various places, and are directly hired after reaching the ace combat power, and the remaining soldiers who are superior to the conventional combat power but not very in line with the trump card combat power will be sent to Chang'an from all over the country for re-examination to form the most elite Ma Family Guards.

From a rough point of view, Chang'an's guards seem to be inferior to the main aces in various places, but in fact this is not the case. For example, the selection of Liangzhou heavy armor iron cavalry and Yingchuan warriors, the weight-bearing capacity is definitely a big difficulty; And Jizhou is the most bizarre place where the dead soldiers are first, and those soldiers must be asked to have two brains; Although joining the White Horse is the most beautiful, the appearance of the recruits has naturally become a barrier.......

In this way, the guards of Chang'an have gathered good seedlings with the most comprehensive ability, the most flexible mind, and the most proficient skills. At the same time, because of joining the army in other places, its obedience and discipline are also extremely high.

Therefore, the Ma family's conscription order immediately attracted the attention of all the princes of the Han family. Especially the Cao family, who had just signed an alliance with the Ma family, was even more jumping. Cao Cao personally instructed Xi Zhicai to make the Jing'an Cao elite lurking in Jizhou appear and find out the scale of the Ma family's conscription. After all, the strength of the Ma family's total of 400,000 troops last time made the Cao family shocked. And this time, if the Ma family went crazy. It is conceivable what a militaristic and ambitious prince will do next.

After paying the price of three hidden strongholds being uprooted and fourteen Jing'an Cao elites committing suicide, Cao Cao finally got the data on the scale of the Majia Jizhou conscription: this time the ace team was so large that the Ma family reduced two battalions of more than 7,000 soldiers to a large battalion of 5,000 people for the first time. As for the regular combat strength, the scale of conscription in Jizhou is 50,000.

After Cao Cao got this data, he frowned for a long time, and was silent in front of the stars in the sky that night: Any boy who can count can calculate that there are about 50,000 professional soldiers in Jizhou, and about 50,000 in the other four states of the Ma family, which adds up to 250,000 combat power. Chang'an is the center of the Ma family, and its guard combat power can never be less than 100,000. Counting bit by bit, the Ma family's conscription broke through the 400,000 mark at once.

These 400,000 yuan are different from the last time Yuan Shao went on the northern expedition, when the Ma family mobilized all the forces in the Sili area, and also spent a lot of money to hire foreign troops and foreign cavalry, so that they could make up 400,000 miscellaneous soldiers. But this time, once there is a war in the Ma family, only one military order is required, and 400,000 professional combat readiness can be continuously transported to the battlefield immediately, so once the war machine is precisely operated, it may be the end of any prince of the Han family.......

"Don't worry, what Ma Chao did this time seems to be violent, but in fact, it is a willful and chaotic way." Xun Yu came out of Sikong Mansion, saw Cao Cao's appearance, and couldn't help but step forward and persuade him.

"If Wen Ruo said, what Ma Chao did this time, the combat power of the states may be reduced to the private department of the state pastor, and the Ma family will be out of reach from now on, and the foundation will be chaotic?" Cao Cao sighed, seeing that Xun Yu's eyes were obviously just a fluke of expectations, and couldn't help but say bitterly: "We have been competing with Ma Mengqi for many years, have we ever seen him make such a major mistake in any major change?" .......Wait, within half a month, the Ma family's new orders will inevitably follow, and when these recruits condense into real combat strength in a year or two, then ......."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao's eyes became even more gloomy, and he said helplessly: "If the horse doesn't die, I don't have a burial place ......."