In a flash, it was October.

During this period of time, Li Zheng has been concerned about busy things, and he has progressed in an orderly manner according to his ideas.

As far as the main battle cavalry is concerned, thanks to the hard work of Kamuke and other two hunting teams, they have been sleeping in the main vein of Helan Mountain for nearly two months, and finally captured several groups of young warriors, which has made the group of Qingjia war cavalry grow a lot.

By the end of September, the number of green armor warriors in the grassland had exceeded fifty!

The growth of the scale of another mountain main battle horse, the mountain wolf horse, is even more gratifying. Because of the abundance of raw materials such as the mother and auxiliary body, this group has expanded to one hundred and fifty heads!

Now if there is a war, Li Zheng can at least easily dispatch more than 30 Qingjia war horses and 100 mountain wolf horses!

Compared with the main battle horses, the development span of the clan scale of various special war horses is larger.

Because of the influence of the growth accelerator, the red jade bird has begun to flood the pastures. Acanthic piglets give birth to seven or eight piglets per litter, and now its scale is more than five hundred!

Even the Giant Beast has ten heads!

There are also blue birds, all of whom have already given birth to two litters, and the number has reached fifteen!

What excites Li Zheng the most is that the mineral-eating beast has also been synthesized and born, although the number is only more than thirty now, but with the continuous capture of the raw material mother and auxiliary body, as long as the money is sufficient, through the guò war riding hall, its scale will definitely grow rapidly.

The rapid development of various war horses has made Li Zheng smile constantly during this time. This indicates that the power in his hands is getting stronger and stronger, and the foundation of the grassland is getting deeper and deeper.

Of course, correspondingly, the money in the system is also spent like water, and now it is almost bottoming out.

In addition, the tax policy of Lingzhou City is gradually acceptable. The sewer construction of Lingzhou City is also basically completed.

The most important thing is that under the auspices of Mr. Li Boran, the academies in various townships are also about to be completed. It will take a month at most for the academy to open its doors and impart knowledge.

To this end, Li Zheng specially asked Zhou Fei to select manpower and publicize each pavilion in each township, so as to achieve that everyone in the entire Lingzhou County knows about the existence of the academy and pave the way for enrollment.

In terms of military strength, all the soldiers under Li Zheng's command combined to five thousand!

Among them, 1,500 people have already met the requirements and have been awarded armor and become elite soldiers.

These soldiers are not only the best in training, but also the bandits and horse bandits in Lingzhou are almost extinct, which is also their credit.

Even the surrounding Qiang tribes have converged a lot. The most obvious manifestation is that when these Qiang people came to Lingzhou City to do business, they were more disciplined.

The forging of armor is also getting higher and higher, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger. Even though fifteen hundred armor sets had been equipped, there were still hundreds of them in stock.

And with the birth of the mineral-eating beast, the mining work, which is extremely labor-intensive and material-intensive, has gradually become easier. The thirty mineral-eating beasts produced inferior minerals every day were more efficient than the labor of three hundred men without eating or drinking.

Li Zheng witnessed the mining process of the mineral-eating beasts with his own eyes, those mineral-eating beasts the size of puppies, pointed heads, extremely sharp claws, and scales all over their bodies, with the corrosive liquid secreted in their mouths, combined with their sharp claws, it was not too easy to dig ore!

They eat the coarse minerals and pull out the lesser minerals that have been digested once. In this way, the pressure on transportation is greatly reduced - the weight and volume of crude ore from which the same weight of pure minerals can be extracted is more than double that of inferior minerals!

Therefore, as long as there are enough mineral-eating beasts, the efficiency of mining will be at least ten times higher than that of human mining! If the traffic problem is solved properly, the efficiency will continue to improve!

In this way, the forging center can be fully operational. It won't be long before the army under Li Zheng's command will complete the redress, at least in terms of equipment, it will be able to crush the enemy!

Qiē and Qiē are all developing in a good direction, but at the moment, Li Zheng is still busy running around. From the end of September to October, it is time to plant winter wheat.

The promotion of ginseng wheat cultivation is on the agenda.

The land under Li Zheng's name, plus the land near the grassland, is now nearly 10,000 acres left. The others have been allocated to the displaced people from all over Liangzhou who have flowed into Lingzhou County.

In Li Zheng's plan, they all had to plant ginseng wheat this winter.

Of course, many people don't understand and even have an aversion to Li Zheng's promotion. This is also something that can't be helped, before seeing the pros and cons, anyone is always vigilant and vigilant against unfamiliar things.

For this reason, Li Zheng even had to go out in person, explain to them, and even make guarantees.

Compared with the common people, Lingzhou's Haoqiang is diametrically opposed.

Most of them have tasted the taste of ginseng wheat and are very addicted to the deliciousness. At the same time, they also knew the huge yield of this crop from Zhou Fei's mouth, so how could it be repulsed?!

Since entering mid-September, the threshold of the Guardian Captain's Mansion has been almost broken. Zhou Fei was annoyed all day long and scratched his head, and complained to Li Zheng several times.

By the end of September, the promotion of ginseng wheat was basically coming to an end. Of the planned 60,000 mu of planting area, 50,000 mu was used by Li Zheng himself, and the remaining 10,000 mu was scattered in the hands of Lingzhou Zhonghaoqiang.

By the beginning of October, winter wheat planting was almost complete.

Li Zheng's continuous movements in the past two months, Xun You has always watched it.

But he never said anything, just like when he chatted with Li Zheng, 'Maybe I don't agree, but I have no right to interfere'.

Just when Li Zheng thought that he could relax for a while, Zhou Lin sent Li Zheng a alarming news.

The Han Sui rebels stationed in Anding County have made a move!

Li Zheng did not dare to slack off, and at the same time instructed Zhou Lin to step up the investigation of the rebels' movements, and it was best to fully understand the rebels' intentions. Then he hurriedly gathered all the generals under his command to discuss countermeasures and assign tasks.

Under the large shì, Lingzhou is weak and the rebels are strong. But under the involvement of all parties, Li Zheng believes that even if the target of Han Sui's rebels is Beidi County this time, there will not be too many soldiers and horses dispatched.

According to Li Zheng's estimates, there will not be more than twenty or thirty thousand at most, and the troops will definitely be divided.

Northland County is strip-shaped, trending northwest and southeast. If the army is sent from Anding, the rebels will divide their troops into two routes, one to the southeast and the other to the northwest.

In this way, even if the guess is true, then Lingzhou, which is located in the northwest of Beidi County, will only face more than 10,000 enemies at most.

In this regard, Li Zheng is very optimistic.

As soon as my mind turned, I made a decision.

Take the initiative!

With cavalry as the mainstay, supplemented by infantry, they took the initiative to go out of Lingzhou, intercepted and weakened the rebels in sections, and finally achieved the effect of destroying with one blow.

With Zhang Shan as the commander of the Qingjia War Cavalry, he has 30 Qingjia War Cavalry under his jurisdiction. With the white wolf as the commander of the mountain wolf cavalry, he has a hundred mountain wolf riders under his jurisdiction. With Nuro as the commander of the war horse and light cavalry, he has three hundred war horses and light cavalry under his jurisdiction.

Li Zheng led 1,200 elite heavy armor spearmen and light archers.

As for the recruits who have not yet completed their outfits, they will stay in the dangerous places around Lingzhou to wait for orders.

As for the logistics, it will be handed over to Zhou Fei and Zhou Lin's uncle and nephew. But then again, Li Zheng's army does not have too many requirements for logistics. At the time of the expedition, each person carried a month's worth of dry rations, and unless there was a protracted and continuous war, generally speaking, there was no need for a special logistics team.

Zhou Lin and Zhou Fei's uncle and nephew are just a preparatory supplement to beware of accidents.

The whole process of discussion and resolution, Xun You on the side always watched it. It was only after Li Zheng gave all the orders that he made a request to go out with the army.

Li Zheng thought about it and immediately agreed.

Li Zheng still doesn't know Xun You's true ability, but Li Zheng believes that with Xun You with the army, there must be many times when he doesn't need to rack his brains by himself.

However, what made Li Zheng cry and laugh was that it had only been half a day since the troops were dispatched, and the fastest mountain wolf rider had not yet reached the predetermined location, and there was jaw-dropping news from the front.

But it turned out that after the rebels of Anding County converged, except for some of them who pressed the camp at the junction of Anding County and Beidi County for a defensive posture, the direction of most of the remaining rebels was actually to the east!

In other words, the target of Han Sui's troops this time was not Beidi County at all, but the Han Dynasty!

Hearing the news, Li Zheng and Xun You looked at each other speechlessly.

Treated it solemnly and with great fanfare, in exchange for such a situation. I don't know whether to be happy or helpless.

Riding the Qingjia war horse, Xun You thought about it and said to Li Zheng: "Although the situation is clear at the moment, Captain Li should not be careless. Until the exact reason is known, it is necessary to guard against the rebels. ”

Li Zheng bowed slightly.

Han Sui, who had been pressing for several months, suddenly used troops, and if the reason for this was not clarified, it would be difficult to make a judgment of preparation.

If the judgment is wrong, it may cause great damage to Li Zheng himself.

Immediately, Li Zheng sent a letter to Zhou Lin with Lan Xiangniao, asking him to step up his investigation and find out the reason. At the same time, certain changes should also be made to the strategies and tactics that were done earlier.

Since the target of the rebels is not yet certain, the tactics of taking the initiative must be stopped. Li Zheng will not be idle to provoke the nerves of the rebels and arouse their idea of attacking Beidi County.

But at the same time, we must not fail to take precautions.

So he ordered the cavalry of the forward units to return quickly and gather troops in Fuping.

Fuping has long been in a state of no official government, and the people who are now in charge here are the wealthy and powerful families in the city who have not yet moved away. Li Zheng naturally regarded this place as a temporary military camp, and the powerful families in it naturally did not dare to stop it, and many people expressed their support for some of the grain and grass resources.

The soldiers and horses gathered in Fuping, and Li Zheng asked Nuro to command a thousand elite infantry soldiers to be stationed here, keeping an eye on the movements of the rebels on the border of Beidi County, while he himself led a cadre of cavalry and the remaining 500 elite infantry to prepare to evacuate Fuping.