After occupying Hongnong, Liu Meng can recruit soldiers, and he will naturally not be stingy with more than 100,000 killing intent values, more than 5,000 defenders in Hongnong County and the remaining 4,000 tiger prison guards brought by Ren Xiu'er have all been transformed, and after all the four generals and guards are completed, 2,000 of the remaining 8,000 people have been converted into halberd battalions, and 6,000 have been converted into archers, consuming a total of more than 50,000 points of killing intent (recruiting soldiers or transforming soldiers will deduct the killing intent value required for a month of maintenance as soon as they appear).

Liu Meng has not had much long-range strike force for various reasons, and the five thousand archers under his command are still the defenders of Tiger Prison Pass, and he has not recruited since he drew the archer card, if there was only one place in Tiger Prison Pass before, it was fine, but as the territory continued to expand, he had to recruit some archers, otherwise there was an enemy attack, what would he take to defend the city?

If Cao Cao and Lu Bu knew Liu Meng's thoughts, they would have deeply understood how much they suffered in the defense of the city due to the lack of long-range strikes, but they didn't know this truth, but it took time for them to get archers, how could it be so easy for Liu Meng? As long as there is a killing intent value, even an ordinary person Liu Meng can instantly turn him into a person who is good at shooting, and if he draws an elite archer card, he is even more of an energy-producing marksman, of course, all of this requires a large amount of killing intent value as a premise.

After the transformation, Liu Meng found that the transformed soldiers not only needed to deduct the killing intent value for maintenance, but also needed to eat food.

He has only transformed the villagers at the beginning over the years, and those people need to eat food, but as a guard, they don't need to maintain the killing intent value, and the soldiers recruited later only need the killing intent maintenance but do not need to eat food.

The soldiers transformed by the system still have to eat food Liu Meng said that he understood, after all, no matter how against the sky, it is impossible for people to open the valley, that is not to transform the soldiers, that is to make them immortals.

Liu Meng also expressed his understanding that he needed to maintain the killing intent value, otherwise there should be no such thing as the maintenance of the killing intent value.

But Liu Meng was depressed because he originally thought that the killing intent value required for transformation was half of what was required for recruitment, and this routine should be substituted into maintenance.

But the cruel reality told him that the maintenance fee of the transformed soldiers had to be paid in full, and even food maintenance was included.

Therefore, the advantage of transformation is only half less of the killing intent value consumed during transformation, but the continuous effort is too much, Liu Meng even doubts that this system will also be Han, and it is clear that he has the same idea as Liu Meng at the beginning, and he does not want to sacrifice too much of the Han people.

However, Liu Meng was depressed for a while, Guo Jia's words he felt very reasonable, ordinary people want to join the army, he must accept them, and when the time comes, transforming these people to enhance their combat effectiveness can also give them a little more chance to survive on the battlefield, in this case, it can save a little is a little, just like this transformation of 8,000 people, isn't it also a saving of nearly 40,000 points of killing intent value? That's not a small amount.

Left 2,000 halberd battalions and 3,000 archers to stay in Hongnong, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were all taken away by Liu Meng.

In a valley twenty miles away from Chang'an, Liu Meng's army was camped here, and in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the enemy, Liu Meng's marching route had always been inaccessible.

"Gongming, do you have a friendship with that Hu Zhen? What about the people? Liu Meng asked.

This taking Chang'an is different from taking Hongnong, Liu Meng felt that it was not easy for people who could leave their names in history, and Hu Zhen would be appointed by Guo Yan, Li Ru and others to garrison Chang'an, which made Liu Meng pay more attention.

Therefore, Liu Meng felt that Hu Zhen should not open the city gate easily, after all, there are many doubts about Xu Huang's sudden appearance in Chang'an, if there is no reasonable explanation, it is impossible to be as easy as the previous time, just show your identity to open the city gate, of course, there is a large part of the reason before is that Xu Huang's official position is higher than that of Hongnong's guard, and the other party does not dare to offend Xu Huang.

But Liu Meng only had some impressions of the name Hu Zhen, and he didn't know anything about his life, so he had to ask Xu Huang.

"Hu Zhen is also from Xiliang Haoqiang, and he has been very important for following Dong Zhuo for many years, but he is not talented and impatient, and he looks down on everyone except the generals of Xiliang with his own identity, even Lu Bu is no exception, so Huang naturally has no friendship with him." Xu Huang replied.

The disdain in Xu Huang's eyes when he said these words was noticed by Liu Meng, and a capable person like Xu Huang naturally looked down on these people who only relied on their backgrounds to win high positions, Hu Zhen looked down on him, but he Xu Huang didn't look down on Hu Zhen.

However, Xu Huang's performance also made Liu Meng's heart settle down a little, which showed that Hu Zhen's ability was extremely limited even if he had some ability.

"Gongming, how do you think you can win the trust of Hu Zhen?" Liu Meng asked.

"Let's just say that the Xiliang army was defeated?"

"I'm afraid not, if you return in defeat, Guo Yan, Li Ru and others are nowhere to be seen, how can you return alone? This is somewhat counterintuitive. Liu Meng shook his head and said.

"Then the war is unfavorable, so you came to ask for reinforcements?" Ren Xiu'er said on the side.

"This method is somewhat feasible, and Hu Zhen also knows a thing or two about the situation of Guo Yan and others, but in this way, Komeito will not be able to bring many people, and it will be very difficult to take the city gate, and the danger of Komeito will also be greatly increased." Liu Meng hesitated.

"Lord, how can a military general be afraid of danger, Miss Xiu'er's strategy will be feasible." Xu Huang said.

Liu Meng didn't have a good way for a while, so he wanted to agree to Xu Huang's request.

At this moment, there was some noise outside the camp, and Liu Meng was a little puzzled, so he asked the general to check what was going on.

After a while, the general came back and brought back a man.

"Back to the lord, this person trespassed into our army's camp and was captured on the spot by the soldiers." Jiang Wei replied.

"I'm here to deliver the letter, and if you don't let me in, I'll have to break in." The man was so calm that he was right, and he didn't have the consciousness of being captured at all.

Liu Meng was a little shocked, he was not shocked that the people were so arrogant, but he thought that he had hidden his tracks all the way, and there were almost no people everywhere he passed, but he was noticed like this, so did the Xiliang Army also find out the movements of the army? There may be a trap waiting for him in the land of Chang'an.

But seeing that the person who came was still calm in the barracks, Liu Meng also wanted to know the meaning of this person's coming, so he asked, "Who are you?" On behalf of whom did the letter be delivered? ”

The man replied, "My name is Li Xing, and I am delivering a letter to the Marquis of An Ping on behalf of my master. ”

"Who is the master of your house?"

"The master won't let it be revealed." Li Xing shook his head and said.

"You are really bold, you dare not answer my second brother's question, second brother, this person is strange, it is better to let the soldiers torture him and ask for the way." Ren Xiu'er said.

Li Xing listened to Ren Xiu'er's words and did not show a look of fear.

Liu Meng saw that Li Xing was like this and knew that even if he was tortured, he couldn't ask anything, so he said: "I am Liu Meng, Marquis of Anping, give me the letter." ”

Li Xing took out the letter from his arms, and the general Wei stepped forward to take it and handed it to Liu Meng.

Liu Meng opened the letter, there were only a few lines on it, but its content surprised Liu Meng.

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