Liu Feng secretly guessed that because Guanxi was already rich in cavalry, and the cavalry in the army led by Ma Chao was already very brave and good at fighting, most of the sergeants in the tiger and leopard cavalry were not weaker than Feiyuwei.

According to Liu Feng's previous secret dispatch to understand, the Cao army tiger and leopard cavalry is full of 6,000 people, ordinary army commanders, to the tiger and leopard cavalry can only be a small pawn, even so, Cao army soldiers are still proud of entering the tiger and leopard cavalry, enough to see this cavalry that terrified the people of the Central Plains, once played a decisive role in the battle to exterminate Yuan Shao and his son Yuan Tan, in Cao Cao's army of nearly one million is what status.

But the land of Jingzhou, does not produce war horses, and its adjacent Jiangdong and Jiaozhou, Yizhou, are not produced war horses, Liu Feng's two or three thousand war horses, almost in many batches sent people to Jingzhou to secretly buy at a high price, now Xiangyang is occupied by Zhuge Liang, even if a small amount of acquisition, it has become more and more difficult, so Liu Feng simply wants to complete his work, taking advantage of the reconstruction of Xinggu Bird Road, so that people buy a large number of horses from the Qiang people in the northwest, but this matter involves a lot, whether it can succeed in one fell swoop, Liu Feng is not sure in his heart, Therefore, it is not mentioned here with Shi Kun.

Liu Feng urgently needed something, in addition to the war horse, is iron ore, Liu Feng set up a craftsman battalion in Changsha, now it has reached the scale of hundreds of people, and under Liu Feng's point, the original iron-smelting blast furnace has been transformed several times, so that its airtightness and furnace temperature have been greatly improved, but at the same time, just the whole army weapons are replaced by hundreds of steel, the demand for iron ore is increasing.

Liu Feng had been secretly transporting iron ore near Nanyang, but now that Zhuge Liang occupies the land north of Xiangyang, Liu Feng could not mine before crossing Xiangyang, according to his memory in his previous life, there should be iron ore in the land of Nanhai County, so Liu Feng insisted on borrowing the land of the whole county of Nanhai, not to make Shi Kun allow him to enter and leave the county at will to train the navy.

This iron ore mining is a top secret everywhere, so once discovered, Liu Feng does not want to let people know too early, after all, the benefits of weapons are the foundation of China in this troubled era, Liu Feng knows very well that when his generals and soldiers are all replaced, their combat power can be improved.

At that time, once he fights Zhuge Liang again, he will definitely give him a big surprise. But the premise of all this is to solve the matter of iron mines, and equipping tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops is naturally different from equipping 2,000 flying feather guards, and the cost is dozens of times.

These two things, before arriving at Jiaozhi, Liu Feng did not even mention Pang Tong and Xu Shu, but now there is a paper covenant with Shikun, plus these two thousand elite soldiers stay here, war horses and iron mines, it is considered to see the dawn, Liu Feng firmly believes in his heart that once Xinggu Bird Road can be used as a march, only need to accommodate 20,000 elite soldiers, plus Nanzhong Haoqiang help, he will be able to attack into Sangguan by surprise, from the southern hinterland to take Chengdu, once Chengdu is successful, the land of Yizhou, all belong to Liu Feng, plus tens of thousands of male soldiers in Nanjun, Liu Feng believed that Zhuge Liang was under his two attacks and Cao Jun's fierce eyes, and it would be difficult to keep Xiangyang safe.

After signing the covenant, although Liu Feng made this dream in his heart, he did not show any ecstasy on his face, but only learned a little about Jiaozhou customs and specialties with Shixie, until it was getting late, and after agreeing to Shixie to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Jiaozhi with him tomorrow, he got up and walked to the post house arranged by Shixie.

After Liu Feng got up and said goodbye to Shixie's father and son, Liu Qi followed closely and also left Shixie's mansion, and the two walked on the road in Jiaozhi County one after the other, until they were very far away from Shixie's mansion, Liu Qi said: "I don't know if the general is here, does he have a letter from Qi's wife and children?" ”

When Liu Qi left from Jingzhou, his wife had just given birth to a son for him, so Liu Qi was very missful after Jiaozhi, but he was afraid that Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei would find out about it, so he had to endure it very much, and even did not exchange letters, until he learned that Liu Bei died in Yizhou, Liu Feng stood on his own in the five counties of Jingzhou, Liu Qi wrote a letter to his wife, and sent a powerful person to Jiangling, but Jiangling was too far away, when Liu Qi received the reply, it was nearly two months later, so that Liu Qi and his wife could not exchange several letters throughout the year, How can he solve Liu Qi's lovesickness.

Originally, Liu Qi thought that Liu Feng would bring him back to Jingzhou after negotiating with Shi Xie, but before he participated in the conversation between Liu Feng and Shi Xie, he had already learned that Liu Feng intended to leave the two thousand soldiers in Jiaozhi to do the Tuntian, but he did not have the casual nature of the generals, and knew that most of this errand would still fall on his shoulders, although he was a little helpless in his heart, but he also knew that Liu Feng could come here in person, all because of his trust, so he had no complaints about Liu Feng and Liu Qi, only gratitude.

"Because this trip was rushed and needed to be kept secret, my sister-in-law was not informed, but I can guarantee my son-in-law about it."

"What?" Liu Qi's heart moved when he heard this, knowing that Liu Feng would never promise others for no reason.

"Now that Jiaozhi is stable, Shixie's father and son are not repeated people, so Feng intends to hand over the development of our army in Jiaozhi to Gongzi's full discretion, and when he returns to Jiangling, there is still a large group of people to go here, and then Feng will take his sister-in-law and his young son to this place together, what does Gongzi think?"

Liu Qi heard this, his face showed a look of excitement, but this matter was something he never expected, Liu Qi in Jiaozhi, although nominally the Han Emperor was the head of Jingzhou, but in fact it was only Liu Feng who was the head of the horse, Liu Feng left his wife and children in Jiangling, although it was protection, but it was also a strong containment of Liu Qi, so that Liu Qi did not dare to have any dissent.

Liu Qi, who was born in the family of a prince, already knew all about these tricks, and thought that Liu Feng would hand over this burden to himself this time, and would not reunite him with his wife and children, but just thinking of this, Liu Feng promised to send his wife and children to Jiaozhi together, how could Liu Qi not be grateful for Liu Feng's kindness, and immediately bowed to Liu Feng and fell to the ground, with tears in his eyes and didn't know what to say.

Liu Feng helped Liu Qi up, held his shoulders tightly with both hands, and said solemnly: "Feng really doesn't have any suspicions about Gongzi, what Gongzi originally experienced in Jingzhou will definitely not happen in Jingzhou today. ”

With the bottom in his heart, Liu Qi thought of what Liu Feng had said to Shi Xie before, so he asked in a low voice: "The lord wants to go to Yizhou through the Naxing Ancient Bird Road, and then ......"

"That's right, Feng has ordered people to explore everywhere, today's Xinggu Bird Road, pedestrians, but it is quite difficult to carry out war horses and baggage, etc., Gongzi must make Xinggu Bird Road a path that can be marched within this year, so that tens of thousands of elite soldiers can reach the hinterland of Jingzhou, which is the reason why I left these two thousand soldiers here."

Liu Qi knew Jingzhou quite well, knowing that Zhuge Liang occupied Xiangyang, and now the army was still more than Liu Feng, Liu Feng had no choice but to expand through here, whether this matter was successful or not, it was related to whether Liu Feng could occupy a favorable place in the competition with Zhuge Liang and even Cao Cao.

"Qi, this time will definitely live up to the expectations of the lord, this year, Qi has explored this path, and he can start building this road immediately!"