Since the assassination, Cao Zhang has paid more attention to his own safety, he transferred five high-level martial arts sergeants from his own personal guards, and transferred five people from the Black Mountain Army under Zhang Yan, and at the same time sent a message back to Cheng Yu, asking him to deploy five sets of ten pieces of chain mail and ten crossbows worn in his clothes to come to Linfen and equip them with his own guards, so that even if the other party assassinates with a crossbow machine next time, he can also take precautions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, after experiencing this assassination, Cao Zhang paid more attention to the five fowl opera taught by Hua Tuo, and he knew that it was the five fowl opera that greatly improved his physical fitness, and he could make all kinds of difficult movements at will, so he was able to avoid the fatal blow of the four well-trained guards, so he was now more diligent in practicing the five fowl opera.

The only regret that Cao Zhang's five-bird opera can only be practiced when it has not yet developed to achieve the maximum effect of improving the body, if the development period is over, and then practice after adulthood, it is to prolong life and strengthen the body, which makes Cao Zhang's plan to use the five-bird opera to train a large number of strong soldiers failed, but Cao Zhang has the intention of selecting a group of teenagers to train into the strongest guards around him.

However, now Cao Zhangyi has no time to do this, and secondly, there are not enough teenagers for him to choose, so this matter can only be put aside for the time being, and the top priority is to improve his combat power and self-protection ability.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Zhang entered puberty, a person's puberty is about 13 to 18 years old, some people's puberty is short but develops very fast, some people's adolescence is long but very slow, Cao Zhang remembered that he didn't start to grow his body until he was 16 years old when he was in his previous life, he didn't seem to exceed 160 cm before the age of 16, but by the age of 19, he had 173 cm in his third year of high school, and then he didn't grow taller.

But after he was reincarnated, he was close to 160 cm when he was 10 years old, and he was over 165 before he was 13 years old, and by this time he was about 171 cm, which means that his figure skyrocketed by 6 cm in seven months of the seventh year of Jian'an, and it is no wonder that he often cramps, and the sudden growth of his body made his Mingguang armor change and change, fortunately, there are also local blacksmiths, as long as there are materials to transform it, it is not a big problem.

On this day, Cao Zhang just finished playing a set of five poultry plays, Zhang Yan's son Zhang Fang came to ask to see, at this time it was already the beginning of August in the seventh year of Jian'an, counting, Cao Zhang asked Zhang Yan to send people to monitor the crowd of people entering and entering the Linfen City Gate for more than ten days, no need to think about it, Zhang Fang is here for this matter.

Cao Zhang asked the guards to take Zhang Fang to the main hall to wait, and only came out to meet after changing a set of clothes, Zhang Fang saluted when he saw Cao Zhang: "My lord, I have been monitoring the crowd in and out of Linfen for more than ten days, and the number of people entering and leaving the four gates every day has been reported, on the surface, there is nothing unusual, they are all villagers who have entered the city to make a living and foreign business travelers, it has been raining heavily in the past few days, and the number of people has been greatly reduced. ”

Cao Zhang pondered: "En~~ The number of people is much the same, so it seems that they should have infiltrated in batches, I was assassinated that day was obviously premeditated, the time I went in and out, the route, and the number of guards were in their calculations, so although the assassination was four, but their comrades must have far exceeded this number, and now more than ten days have passed, I am afraid that they have been out of the city in batches, I asked General Zhang to monitor the city gate is nothing more than to give them a little pressure, showing that we have strengthened our vigilance, so that they do not dare to stay in Linfen for a long time, Now that the goal has been achieved, let the brethren return. ”

Zhang Fang replied: "No! My lord. Then he asked, "I heard the head of the Wei family mention that the rainy season will stop in October, and now it is the beginning of August, which is less than two months, I wonder what preparations do you want us to make before the march?" "Zhang Fang is Zhang Yan's son, and Zhang Yan handed over many things to him in the Montenegrin Army, so he could ask Cao Zhang directly.

Cao Zhang waved his hand and said, "Not for the time being, wait for my capital to make Wang Ling come and then make a plan." ”

Zhang Fang left after agreeing, and Cao Zhang then summoned his Shidao Zuozhong Hou Xiahou Heng and said to him: "Boquan, after the rainy season stops, we will attack Beiqu and Huxi counties, after all, the militia recruited by Boning is not as familiar with the affairs of the army as the militia in our army, so the iron tools and various tools for collecting logging and building siege equipment will be completed by you and our only 10,000 militiamen." ”

Xiahou Heng agreed: "No! ”

Cao Zhang continued: "The 40,000 newly recruited militiamen left by Boning will be trained by a few militia leaders, and when Yanyun comes, they will be directly handed over to his subordinates. ”

Xiahou Heng agreed and left.

Three days later, Wang Ling arrived in Linfen, Cao Zhang handed over the 40,000 newly recruited militia left by Manzhong to training and training, these temporarily recruited militiamen are all residents near Anyi, not as good as Cao Jun's militia who have been with the army for many years, have combat experience, and are most likely to break up when they encounter Hu Qi, who comes and goes like the wind, so Cao Zhang instructed Wang Ling to practice diligently.

Wang Lingnai is a big family and is familiar with military books, so he is also handy with these things, which makes Cao Zhangshao have a lot of worries.

Time is like water, more than a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and in late September, the rain in Pingyang County has decreased significantly, and Cao Zhang immediately ordered the three armies to prepare for the march, and at the same time summoned Wei Ting.

In the council hall of the Linfen County Government, Cao Zhang said to Wei Ting: "Master Wei, this time I sent troops to conquer Beiqu, and I must do my best, so I am no longer able to protect Linfen, I wonder if the Wei family master can send some soldiers from Jiangyi to guard Linfen?" ”

Wei Ting hurriedly replied: "My Wei family is a big Han people, and I only trained the family soldiers for self-protection, and after Pingyang was peaceful, Ting would dedicate the family soldiers to the adults to deal with, not to mention that now I am just guarding Linfen?" I should do my best. ”

Cao Zhang nodded secretly, this Wei Ting really knew and was interested, and he gave him the minerals near Linfen in vain, so he smiled and said: "The Wei family master is loyal and patriotic, it is really admirable, now that the rainy season is about to pass, it seems that it is the time to mine, I don't know when the Wei family master will start mining?" ”

Wei Ting replied: "Ting plans to mine in October. ”

Cao Zhang said with a smile: "Don't forget to sell it to the imperial court and the military tun then!" ”

Wei Ting replied with a smile: "This is natural, Ting has established an iron-striking yard outside the mine, as a base for the production of agricultural tools, the mines near Linfen are mostly iron ore, and there is a little copper ore, iron ore is used to cast agricultural tools, and the copper ore is directly sold to the imperial court." ”

Cao Zhang suddenly remembered that in his previous life, he had heard that many wealthy people in Shanxi had made a fortune by opening coal mines, and asked casually: "Is there no coal mine near Linfen?" ”

Wei Tingqi said: "What is a coal mine? ”

Cao Zhang was stunned, and no one knew about coal mines in this era? Just as he was about to say something, a guard walked in and reported: "Lord Yu, the envoy of the Southern Xiongnu Zuoxian King asks to see you!" ”

Cao Zhang said: "Got it, please!" ”

Wei Ting knew how inconvenient it was for him to stay here, so he got up to say goodbye, and Cao Zhang didn't keep it, because he remembered that in his previous life, since so many people could make a fortune by opening coal mines, why did he give Wei Ting his wealth to swallow it alone? Isn't that a fool? So he let him go. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )