At the beginning, Zhao Feng was violent, and sent a four-way army to attack Cao Cao's territory, but the attack lasted for half a year, although Cao Cao sent troops to resist, but Cao Cao could naturally feel the strength of Zhao Feng's attack.

Zhao Feng's main purpose at the beginning was to give Lu Bu a breathing time, so naturally he mainly delayed time.

If Cao Cao predicted that Zhao Feng's attack this time was only delayed, and now that the autumn harvest had just been completed, as long as Zhao Feng did not kill the people, Cao Cao would not lose much even if he did not return to the army to rescue.

It's just that Cao Cao's reputation may not be too good.

But Cao Cao was originally a person who didn't care about his reputation, so he could naturally be ruthless.

Tian Feng's heart moved, and he waved at Zhao Feng: "Now the Xiongnu have cooperated with us to send troops to Youzhou. ”

"Then General Zhang and General Huang, who are sitting in Xihe County, can send a large army all the way out."

"In addition, General Yang and General Zhou, who are stationed in Yanmen County, can also send a large army out all the way."

"The lord can be concurrent in five ways this time, and attack Cao Cao's land together!"

"If Cao Cao sends troops back to help, the lord is still mainly delaying, if Cao Cao is ruthless and does not come back, the lord can directly take the land of the five counties!"

Zhao Feng pondered for a moment: "If we select Taishan County, Dong County, Henan Yin, and Hongnong County last year, even if we take an additional county, how will we arrange the garrison army in the future?" ”

"In addition, although we are temporarily united with the Xiongnu, after all, it is only an exchange of interests, and I don't know when the Xiongnu will be bought by Cao Cao again."

"Once that time comes, how should the garrison tasks of Yanmen County and Xihe County be handled?"

Tian Feng said with a smile: "If the Xiongnu want to get the remaining two million stone grain, they won't tear their faces with us at present." ”

"What's more, as long as the Huns have a hatred with Wuhuan and Xianbei, maybe Huchuquan will not need benefits, and they will attack Wuhuan and Xianbei independently."

"In addition, even if the Xiongnu may be bought by Cao Cao, within a year, there will still be no problems."

"And the 60,000 recruits we are currently training are training in cavalry, which is expected to take an extra year than the infantry."

"In other words, this time next year, we will have an extra 120,000 troops."

"Among them were 60,000 infantry, 50,000 cavalry, and 10,000 cavalry."

"With these armies, it is enough to deal with their own situation!"

Tian Feng said that Zhao Feng naturally knew about the problem of recruits.

But the premise of this arrangement is that the 100,000 troops attacking Cao Cao will not suffer too many losses.

Otherwise, once the losses are too large, all these newly trained infantry will have to be filled with other large armies.

Where can I still transfer a large army to supplement the defense of Xihe County and Yanmen County.

However, on second thought, the more than 15,000 female soldiers trained last year and the 15,000 female soldiers newly recruited this year are almost ready to carry out tasks.

Sending them to Yanmen County and Xihe County to garrison should not be a big problem.

In addition, since Tian Feng also mentioned next year's 60,000 recruits, that is to say, next year's 15,000 female soldiers can also be sent to garrison the newly captured five counties.

After figuring it out, Zhao Fengtian Feng's strategy was in a state of hesitation, and asked: "Once we seize Cao Cao's five counties, will the war between us and Cao Cao break out directly?" ”

"That's four years ahead of our schedule! Relatively speaking, there are 240,000 less troops! ”

The final plan is naturally to dominate the world, and female soldiers will naturally not go on the expedition, so it is not counted.

The reason why Zhao Feng hesitated was because Zhao Feng now had an army of more than 500,000 people, and the grain consumed in a year was more than 9 million stones, but the food and salary distributed was about 27 million stones.

And Zhao Feng remembered that Yuan Shao in the official history was not as big as Zhao Feng, but he fed an army of millions!

If Zhao Feng uses the conscription system, with Zhao Feng's current tax capacity, he can feed an army of 1.5 million that can go to war.

But because he needed to pay food, Zhao Feng could probably only raise an army of 750,000 to 800,000.

Half of them were county soldiers and were stationed in the county seat.

The army that can really go out to fight is only about 400,000, and the gap is not small.

According to the total strength of 750,000 troops, Zhao Feng needs to consume and pay for more than 40 million stones of grain in a year.

Except for the officials and officials, there is no food for the construction of water conservancy, roads, and bridges.

And once the infrastructure construction of water conservancy, roads, and bridges is stopped, the other princes and kings can naturally judge from this that Zhao Feng is beginning to run out of food.

In order not to expose this matter, Zhao Feng could only consume the reserve grain to carry out infrastructure construction.

After four years, the reserve of grain as high as 90 million stones, although it seems that it can last for many years, will still recruit new soldiers every year in the future, and once there is a disaster year, these 90 million stone grains will not take long.

And that's without any major construction.

If Zhao Feng held a ceremony to worship the heavens and set the Yuan clan as the capital, then it would be necessary to increase the city wall of the Yuan clan to achieve the status that the capital should have, and repair and renovate the buildings of the original Changshan Palace, which is not a small expense.

After all, if you want to take the last step, Zhao Feng will have to be the king sooner or later, and it is impossible to be the emperor directly, skip the king!

Therefore, there are five more counties, and they are all grain-producing places in the Central Plains, and the annual tax will at least exceed two million stones, which adds up to 10 million stones!

can let Zhao Feng recruit a lot of troops again.

Tian Feng waved at Zhao Feng: "Lord Qiqi!" ”

"The original plan, although good, is not without shortcomings."

"That is, the further back you go, the greater the food consumption of the army, and when there are 240,000 new troops in five years, we will consume additional reserve food every year."

"Once there is a back-to-back disaster year, there are not many ways we can deal with it."

"If we can take the opportunity to seize Cao Cao's five counties, it will also be quite beneficial to our later plans."

"In addition, even if we fight Cao Cao now, we won't suffer too much loss!"

"Aside from the strength aspect, as time goes by, Lu Bu's development and growth will be as uncomfortable as a fish bone stuck in Cao Cao's throat."

"Maybe at any time, Cao Cao will make the wrong decision!"

"Besides, Cao Cao will not necessarily fight the lord for various reasons."

"Because Cao Cao will be at a disadvantage!"

Zhao Feng's main worry is that the decisive battle with Cao Cao early will affect his big plans!

After all, compared with unifying the whole country, the rest of the things need to be retreated.

However, listening to Tian Feng's words, it doesn't seem that he will suffer too much in a decisive battle with Cao Cao now, at most it is a great task to dominate the world, which may be delayed for a few years, but it is also possible that it will be a few years earlier!