After the sergeant was repatriated, Liu Feng summoned Xu Shu and Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and others to the mansion.

"It turned out that it was attacked by Cao Jun in Tianshui County? Thinking that a large number of war horses that I secretly transported for our army last time had already attracted Cao Cao's attention, I thought that returning from the mountain path in Tianshui County would not attract the attention of Cao Jun, and I thought that this time Cao Jun had planted an eyeliner at the Qiang people, and only in this way could I know the route taken by our army, this matter ...... I'm afraid it's hard to be good. ”

For the situation between Liangzhou and Yongzhou and the border of the Qiang people, the clearest is Ma Chao, Ma Chao learned that he was ambushed by the Cao army this time, and immediately guessed the reason for the incident.

But after listening to Ma Chao's words, including Liu Feng, everyone is ugly, Liangzhou since Ma Chao and Han Sui were defeated by Cao Cao, it was owned by Cao Cao, because the land of Liangzhou is not rich, and the population is also a little sparse, so Cao Cao does not have many troops here, but there is a team of cavalry, with excellent mobility, so once Liu Feng transports war horses and is targeted by them, it is absolutely difficult to retreat.

War horses, is a scarce commodity in this era, but also a scarce product in Yizhou, the horses produced in Yizhou, are short short-legged horses, can only be used for farming, but can not use combat horses, and the closest to Yizhou rich in war horses and surplus places, only the north of Yizhou where the Qiang people are located.

But if you want to reach the place where the Qiang people are, you must pass through the two counties of Tianshui and Longxi, as long as Cao Cao will see several traffic arteries between the two counties, Liu Feng wants to transport war horses from the Qiang people, that is tantamount to a fool's dream, this is to grasp the advantage of geographical advantages, and now this advantage is tightly held in the hands of Cao Cao, Liu Feng, who is geographically weak, either forbearance, or war with Cao Cao because of this matter, there is no third way.

According to Liu Feng's idea, in the short term, it is necessary to raise 10,000 elite cavalry, which can be accompanied by the army when necessary, and when encountering the enemy's elite infantry, it can be broken by elite cavalry, and then this scale will be developed to 30,000 within three years.

Liu Feng saw that everyone didn't have much to say, so he had to sort out his thoughts and analyze the current situation: "Youzhou and other places rich in war horses in the north have been tightly controlled by Cao Cao many years ago, and now Cao Cao's intentions are very obvious, for our army to develop the heart of cavalry, it is afraid that it has been perceived, so if we do not take some measures, this door to buy horses from the Qiang people will be closed by Cao Cao forever, and after a few years after Cao Cao's cavalry is becoming more and more large, our army wants to compete with it in the Central Plains. It's even harder! ”

After everyone listened to Liu Feng's words, they all looked at each other, obviously, the result that Liu Feng said, they had already thought of it in their hearts, but it was not as deep as Liu Feng imagined, and it was not as pessimistic as Liu Feng imagined.

The cavalry is just an auxiliary in the eyes of everyone, because the cost of forming the cavalry is too huge, no force can form a large-scale cavalry corps, even if it is Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, it is also because the military expenditure is very huge, it has not been expanded for several years, so in the eyes of Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and others, even if there is only infantry, it is enough to compete with Cao Cao in the Central Plains.

"According to the words of the lord, now our army is obviously in a predicament in this matter, if you don't want to press this matter for the time being, you can only send a large army to Tianshui, the land of Longxi to protect the transportation of war horses, but in this way, it may cause a big war between our army and Cao's army, once Cao Cao sends hundreds of thousands of troops, how should our army deal with it?"

Obviously, under Liu Feng's two words, Xu Shu had already vaguely guessed what Liu Feng was thinking, so he said the two ways that Liu Feng had not been able to say for a long time, and then looked at Liu Feng, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and others also looked at Liu Feng together, they saw a great possibility of war in Xu Shu's words, and as the famous generals in the Central Plains today, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun have not yet made contributions to Liu Feng, so whether it is appropriate or not, as long as there is the possibility of war, There will be a fire in their eyes.

"That Yuan Zhi thinks, what should we focus on at this time?"

Although others didn't hear it, Liu Feng, who had known Xu Shu for many years, noticed the vague reproach in Xu Shu's words, and Xu Shu's extraneous meaning was to remind Liu Feng that he should not pay attention to things like war horses.

Xu Shu saw that Liu Feng obviously understood the meaning of his words, but he did not dislike it, so he looked at everyone slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Now among the remaining princes in the Central Plains, Cao Cao's family is the most difficult to deal with, fortunately, now Zhuge Liang took the lead in touching Cao Cao's southern land, leading Cao Pi to lead tens of thousands of troops to Runan, and now the land of Nanyang has been recovered by Cao Pi, and the two armies have been facing each other for a long time. Once Zhuge Liang's vitality is damaged, he must first take all the land of Jingzhou, and then talk about anything else. ”

Xu Shu's words deeply show that the strategy in his heart is to let Liu Feng take the lead in solving Zhuge Liang, who seems to be the weakest and borders Jingzhou and Yizhou, in order from easy to difficult.

If Zhuge Liang's territory can be collected by Liu Feng, not only can Yizhou and Jingzhou's large land be closely connected, plus Jiaozhou and Nanzhong in the rear, Liu Feng will also have a large territory no less than Cao Cao, and Xu Shu also suggested to Liu Feng before that if Liu Chan can be controlled in his own hands, then it is justified for him to inherit Liu Bei's position.

Yuan Zhi thought that what would be the outcome of the war between Zhuge Liang and Cao Pi? Yuan Zhi thought that our army would be easier to capture Xiangyang or Liangzhou, and how should our army choose between Zhuge Liang's battle of trapped beasts and Cao Cao's remote place? ”

After Liu Feng heard this, he did not immediately refute it, but with a smile on his face, he asked Xu Shu these three questions in a row, and as soon as these three questions came out, not only Xu Shu, but even Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Wei Yan and others were stunned by Liu Feng's questions.