Gao Yuan sent an envoy to the imperial court, and then he began to integrate the forces of the four counties. Reading the first recommendation of the novel, go to the eye to read the book, his army has suffered heavy losses in the battle with Hu Chuquan, and he wants to rebuild his armed forces.

The unique geographical location has obtained many horses in the early stage, and there are offerings from the grassland tribes in the later stage.

There is no shortage of horses and iron. This allowed him to form the most powerful annex of the era, the cavalry. And has already thought of a name, and the state wolf rides.

At present, he is unable to form an army on a large scale, firstly, at the beginning of his business, he has no money and food savings.

Second, the four counties in the northern part of the state under his control have suffered great damage over the years, with only 60,000 households and more than 200,000 people, a small population.

Although young people are eager to join the army in terms of the idea of defending their homeland, not everyone is suitable for serving as a soldier. In addition, too much land in the four counties is barren and needs strong labor to reclaim, so Gao Yuan cannot let the local area have no young adults. In addition, the land of the four counties has long been without an official, and Gao Yuan needs to rebuild the local government offices.

Therefore, Gao Yuan went to the chaff and established a cavalry force of 5,000 people on the basis of the existing wolf cavalry of the state. The rest of them will select the outstanding ones and enter the county government to enrich the county government and garrison.

This part of the people does not have too strong combat effectiveness, but it is more than enough to maintain law and order, and Gao Yuan's main combat force is 5,000 cavalry.

Everything is in ruins, Gao Yuan set up a recruitment hall, played the banner of reorganizing the rivers and mountains, recruited the world's soldiers, and came to serve in the state. It's a pity that Gao Yuan's power is too small. Although he defeated the Xiongnu and shook the grassland, in the hearts of the world, he was still inferior to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, the old princes with vast territories and sufficient soldiers.

No scholars came to him, but many enthusiastic students came. However, Gao Yuan is in need of these poor students with a pioneering spirit. The only thing that saddened him was that there were no truly superior strategists.

Thinking that one day in the future, he will have to face strategists like Guo Jia and Jia Xu, although Gao Yuan is not discouraged, but he does not get to the bottom of his heart.

However, the "famous flowers" have owners.

In the busy month of June, Gao Yuan received shocking news from the Central Plains.

Liu Bei, together with Yuan Tan, the eldest son of the Yuan family, and Gao Ran, defeated Zang Ba, who was guarding Xuzhou. When besieging Picheng, Xuzhou Chen Dengkai surrendered, and Xuzhou completely fell. Suddenly, Cao Cao entered a situation from which he could never recover.

Cao Cao, president of the Central Plains Group, was shocked, this Xuzhou was gone, and his Tiger Prison-Guandu-Central Plains defense line in the north of Xuzhou completely collapsed. Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses could pass through Xuzhou, directly enter Yuzhou, and go straight to Xudu.

The strong man of Boss Cao, who was full of heart, broke his wrist, and he immediately made a decision to abandon Guandu.

On the one hand, he ordered Xiahoudun to be the main general, garrisoning Luoyang and Tiger Prison, and asked the strategist Jia Xu to bring back 7,000 soldiers and horses from the Chang'an border to join Xiahoudun, and sent Le Jin, Li Dian and others to assist in guarding the Tiger Prison Pass.

On the other hand, Boss Cao returned to Xuchang to re-establish a new defense line in the direction of Tiger Prison Pass-Xuchang, and he had no choice but to lose the entire Gunzhou and half of Yuzhou, and also protect his strategic place: the Guanzhong Plain.

And Yuan Shao, who almost controlled the territory of the six states, began to flourish and was already the first prince in the world. He divided his troops to attack the Tiger Prison and personally led a large army into Xudu. He also ordered Yuan Tan, Gao Lan, and Liu Bei to attack Chenliu, Qiaoxian, Runan and other counties.

(Attention children's shoes: Cao Cao has more than 20,000 people in Guandu, this is a mobile force.) It's not that Cao Cao, the overlord of the Central Plains, has such a total of people, but because Cao Cao is surrounded by enemies on all sides, he needs soldiers and horses to garrison. In the same way, Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei, did not have only 100,000 people, he had soldiers and horses in the front-line counties of Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou. It was only because Yuan Shao had few enemies and the war in the north was not as serious as in the Central Plains, so Yuan Shao was able to concentrate a strong military force. ）

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Cao Cao, who was surrounded on three sides, was already like a wind and candle.

And Jingzhou Liu Biao is ready to move, but Jiangdong Sun Quan is also ready to move. The two are feuding, so Liu Biao didn't dare to move, for fear that he would send troops to the Central Plains, and Sun Quan would copy his own back road.

And Sun Quan doesn't care about the Central Plains anymore, he has too many soldiers less than Liu Biao, for fear that Liu Biao will copy his nest.

Therefore, Jiangnan maintained a considerable calm, sitting and watching the Central Plains War.

As for Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu and others, the dogs who watch the house, the Central Plains War has nothing to do with them.

However, Xiliang Haojie Ma Teng is secretly watching Chang'an.

On the other hand, Gao Yuan, who had just established a foundation and only had four remote counties in his hands, faintly felt a huge threat, which came from Yuan Shao, who was in full swing.

If Yuan Shao had eliminated Cao Cao, when he looked back at his vast territory with joy, he would have discovered Gao Yuan's existence.

And the land of the four counties of Gaoyuan will not be the opponent of Yuan Shao, the overlord of the north, in any case. Maybe Yuan Shao at that time, his troops could catch up with the total population of the people under Gao Yuan's rule.

Strong army! Soldiers are not more than fine.

This is the only thing Gao Yuan can do now, but fortunately, he has firmly won the hearts of the people of the four border counties.

this day.

Gao Yuan came to Mrs. Tai's Diao Chan to say goodbye first, and saw Mrs. Tai take out a wooden box and open it, it was full of gold and silver jewelry. Diao Chan said earnestly: "Meng Yan, take these and sell them to those merchants in the Central Plains ......." ”

Now Gao Yuan has encountered too many difficulties, difficulties in money, food and grass, and insufficient troops, and he has become a difficult prince. Fortunately, the people around him support him, and he himself has always gritted his teeth and persevered. Open source and reduce expenditure, and start from yourself. He has four counties, but he lives like an ordinary person.

"Madame, I'm ...... How can I take these! Gao Yuan was very grateful, but he couldn't ask for it.

Diao Chan shook his head, "Without you, there would be no home." There is no home, there are us women. We can't help you out there, and if you don't take it, you'll treat us as outsiders. ”

Gao Yuan said goodbye to Mrs. Tai, and the two beautiful wives, and came to the front hall with the wooden box, and he had not yet sat down.

"Lord!" Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun, who were in charge of training recruits, came to Gao Yuan and looked embarrassed.

"Zilong, what difficulties did you encounter?"

It turned out that due to too many recruits, although the people of the Northland were strong, it was difficult to form combat strength in the short term. And Gao Yuan put forward the idea of even elite soldiers, and Zhao Yun felt that it was difficult to achieve Gao Yuan's goal in the short term.

Gao Yuan pondered it, recalling later generations, from an ordinary person to a qualified soldier, the most important indicator is discipline. So, Gao Yuan taught Zhao Yun the method of training recruits in later generations. Practice the queue first, and turn the method on three sides or something. In this way, the officers are like a command, and they can also strengthen the discipline of the recruits.

Later, Gao Yuan proposed that the bedding be stacked, and even when the weapons were idle, the direction of placement should always be. From daily life, we deepen discipline and expect to be able to quickly form combat effectiveness.

"Practice discipline first, then practice tactics!" Gao Yuan said.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao were suspicious in a dream, just because for thousands of years, Gao Yuan had never trained like this. But it sounded very reasonable, so the two of them had the idea of trying it out and promoted it throughout the army.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yuan's whim achieved fruitful results. This training Yankuai, which was ahead of the millennium, quickly made his army an army with iron discipline and quite strong combat effectiveness. For example, this queue, three-sided rotation method, etc., can also be used in the study of cavalry queues.

And there is a fixed pattern in the daily life of soldiers, which makes discipline a part of the life of soldiers.

In addition, the recruits were already strong, and the five thousand wolf riders of the state were quickly formed.

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The lofty and far-reaching wolf cavalry of Bingzhou has formed a combat effectiveness, and at the same time, Cao Cao of Xu Capital is already in a hurry.

On this day, Cao Cao gathered his advisers in his Sikong Mansion.

Cao Cao, who was sitting high in the hall, had white hair and looked haggard. And the people seated in the hall, like Guo Jia and Xun Yu, are also worried. They are facing Yuan Shao, who already has absolute power, that is, a ghost like Guo Jia, in the face of absolute power, they also feel that everything they think of is so pale and powerless.

However, they, led by Cao Cao, never gave up.

"Report ......." I saw the general Cao Hong break in.

Cao Cao was already a frightened bird, jumped up, and exclaimed, "What's the matter?" Something happened to the tiger prison again, or Runan? ”

"Neither!" Cao Hong said quickly: "It was Liu Xuande who sent a messenger to ask to see the lord. ”

"Liu Xuande?" Cao Cao was a little dizzy, he didn't know what Liu Bei, who was almost already a general under Yuan Shao, was looking for himself.