Thinking of this, Qin Dui's mind suddenly brightened that as long as he had one more year, his grasp would increase exponentially.

Back in the living room, the five people who were meditating in the living room found that after a while, their boss seemed to be a different person, and the somewhat depressed feeling disappeared without a trace, replaced by the momentum that dominated the world.

"Just now my idea has not been fully considered and matured, so you have been waiting for a long time, now I have a preliminary plan, and I hope to hear your opinions, today's visit of Cassilon, I think is actually an omen, that is, a sign that the Chidi people are going to do something against the Huns."

"And I judge that this Cassilon has been authorized by their king to form alliances with other forces, which means that the war will happen within this year at the latest, and we urgently need a buffer time to accumulate strength and strengthen ourselves, only then can we really gain a foothold in this fast land."

"This also gives us an opportunity, if the Chidi can really fight with the Huns, it will inevitably contain a considerable amount of energy from the Huns, and if we can supplement it with other means, maybe we can avoid a war with the Huns this year, so that we can win an extra year of recuperation, and our chances will be much greater."

"Therefore, we must make some preparations to convince the Chidi that we are capable of fighting the Huns, so that they can have more confidence in the war of the Huns. It doesn't matter if you don't align or not, it's important to convince the Chidi that we can help them contain some of the Huns' military power. Of course, we also have to prepare for the worst. ”

Qin Duan made a conclusion with confidence. "In addition, Liang Qiming, Liu Xiaoshan, Li Daring, Shangguan Yonglun, the four of you go down to make preparations, I am going to let Casillon take a look at the training of our army, although we are not many, but the combat effectiveness must be reflected."

When Liang Qiming, Liu Xiaoshan, Li Daring, and Shangguan Yonglun left, Qin Duan asked Zhuge Fang, who had not opened his mouth, "Mr. Zhuge ." What do you think? ”

"I think that since the Chidi people have made up their minds to fight a war with the Huns, it is secondary to whether or not to form an alliance with us, they mainly want to seek some forces to contain the power of the Huns, we should still focus on enhancing our own strength, of course, it is also necessary to take some means to contain the Huns. But according to the current situation, even if the Huns were at war with the Chidi. They still have enough strength to deal with us, so we need to plan well to avoid this happening. Zhuge Fang was quite thoughtful, and even Qin Duan nodded again and again when he heard it.

"Yes, that's something we have to deal with."

The next day, Liang Qiming, on behalf of Qin Du, as the chief official of the Tokugawa County Government, accompanied the envoy Chidi to observe the training of several divisions and regiments, and told Sù Casiron that he was out on a task of suppressing bandits. There were still several divisions of troops that had not returned, and Casillon had not commented.

Afterwards, Casiron said that he was basically satisfied with the combat effectiveness of the army in Tokugawa Prefecture, but the overall strength was far from enough, and whether to form an alliance would need to be reported to Murua after returning, and Qin Du said that it was not important whether to form an alliance or not, the important thing was that we had a common enemy, as long as we cooperated with each other. By working with each other, you can put a lot of pressure on the enemy.

Seeing that Qin Duan was not very enthusiastic about the alliance. Casiron felt very strange in his heart, he thought that the Tokugawa Prefecture side was in urgent need of foreign aid, and he should be very enthusiastic, but this did not seem to be the case, after listening to Qin Dui's words, Casiron had some understanding. He said that he would go back and report to the king and study it carefully, and that he would come to Tokugawa-gun again in two months.

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Time flies quickly, and another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and the time has reached the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse. The Chinese New Year's Eve of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse can be said to be the liveliest year since Qin Twilight came to this Great Qin World, and the entire Tokugawa County was lit up everywhere, very lively.

At noon on Chinese New Year's Eve, Qin Twilight set up more than 200 tables of banquets in the county guard mansion, banqueting officials of Tokugawa Prefecture with more than eight products, officers with the rank of wing captain or above in the army, as well as the main merchants of Tokugawa County and some local gentry with some popularity, thanking them for their support in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and hoping that everyone will continue to work hard to build a better Tokugawa County and make Tokugawa County the best prefecture of the Great Qin Empire.

In the evening, Qin Du and his woman set up a table in the inner courtyard and spent the last night of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse with their own woman.

By the end of January, that is, in just over a month since Qin Du returned to Tokugawa Prefecture, more than 30,000 people had moved into Tokugawa Prefecture and nearly 20 large and small workshops and shops had opened, and the entire Tokugawa Prefecture was showing a thriving scene.

Municipal construction in various provinces has also begun to enter the stage of large-scale construction, and the construction of irrigation channels in the countryside has also been gradually pushed forward, especially the city wall of the prefecture city is in the first place. Due to the timely arrival of funds, the entire Tokugawa Prefecture turned to a large boiling construction site, full of busy people.

The number of personnel participating in the army has also increased by a large margin, and the number of personnel in each division and regiment has been increased to nearly 10,000, but due to the replenishment of a large number of new soldiers, the grass-roots officers who are already lacking are even more lacking, and the combat effectiveness has not increased much, but has declined somewhat. Zhu Yongqing, Liu Xiaoshan, and Shangguan Yonglun, who belonged to the Tokugawa Prefecture army, also personally went into battle every day to supervise the training, striving to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops in the shortest possible time.

After a lot of meticulous and arduous work, the intelligence officers under Mu Ziqi finally discovered the supply points of the two bandit organizations "Purple Turban Bandits" and "Black Tiger" in the territory of Tokugawa County and Loulan Principality, and discovered the bases of the two organizations along the way, combined with the intelligence of the searchers, the exact location of the base camp of the two organizations was finally determined, one is located at the foot of the Wild Boar Ridge at the junction of the Principality of Loulan in Tokugawa County and Northwest County, and the other is located at the end of the Bayankala Mountains on the border between Tokugawa County and the Principality of Loulan.

Without further ado, Qin Duan immediately issued an order, ordering Zhao Zhongyao to lead the Fifth Division to immediately go to Wild Boar Ridge to solve the "Purple Turban Thieves"; Cao Chongyue was ordered to immediately lead the 4th Division to the border with Loulan to annihilate the "Black Tiger", and sent his own personal guard brigade to participate in assisting the two divisions.

The sky was as black as if it were splashed with ink, and it was only through the occasional flash of phosphorescent light that a long procession could be seen silently marching along the rugged mountain road.

"How?" Zhao Zhongyao asked an officer.

"Report to the division commander, the eight dark stakes have been uprooted by us, and the outflanked teams have been arranged in place, just waiting for our side to do it." An officer with an excited look on his face was reporting to Zhao Zhongyao.

"Is there any movement from the enemy?" Zhao Zhongyao was very calm.

"No, they haven't noticed anything abnormal, but they have to change shifts every hour, and they have added double guards in the past two days, so it seems that the enemy is still vigilant."

Seeing that his boss was calm, the reporter also felt that he was too excited, and his surging heart gradually calmed down.

"Well, it seems that the enemy is quite alert, and may have smelled something, but that's the end of it. Order the troops to prepare and listen to my orders. Zhao Zhongyao's eyes showed a cold look as if a hungry wolf smelled blood.

This is the only slightly flat area in the entire Boar Ridge, and the Purple Turban Thieves have built it as a base camp. At the four corners of the sturdy fence are towering watchtowers, and there are no weeds and shrubs for dozens of meters outside the fence, they are all cleaned up, and several blazing torches on the watchtower illuminate this open area as if it were day, and on each watchtower there are three sentry sentry staring wide-eyed, vigilantly looking downward.

It seems that it is definitely impossible to touch it quietly, time is pressing, in case the enemy finds that there is a problem with the secret outpost on the periphery, it will be difficult to do, Liang Qiming came to the hidden area close to two hundred meters away from the guard tower and observed carefully, he couldn't wait any longer, he stood up decisively, and with a wave of his hand, countless figures were like tigers out of the cage, quickly pounced on the quiet place.

"Oooo

The mournful alarm gong sounded, and the base camp of the purple scarf thieves was in a panic, and the round-faced middle-aged man rushed out of the tent and found that there was a torch around the camp, and the enemy was pouring into the camp like a tide.

"Big brother, big brother, what now?" The young man with a sinister face couldn't hide his panic.

"What to do? How do I know what to do? When I asked you to leave, you didn't want to, but now I finally asked someone to trap you. ”

The round-faced middle-aged man scolded the young man while trying to find a gap. "Order all the brothers to rush to the east, and then they will go out, and if they can rush out, they will meet at the foot of Mantou Mountain, which is outside the town of Magar, Bonan Province."

"Big brother, can't you fight it?" The young man is still a little unwilling.

"Still spell your mother a bird? You don't have a long brain, the enemy is obviously designed for a long time, and the hand that is only moved after it is arranged, you look at the torches around you, and you still want to fight, you think it's a long life! They were ordered to lead the brethren to the east with all their might, at any cost. Then he lowered his voice and ordered the young man, "You go and call the second and third brothers, and we will leave through the secret passage." ”

"Big brother?" The young man looked at the round-faced middle-aged man with surprise on his face.

The look of regret on the round-faced middle-aged man's face flashed away, followed by a cold gaze stabbed at the young man's face like a knife, "Don't go quickly!" ”

The young man hesitated for a moment, but under the forced gaze of the round-faced middle-aged man, he turned around painfully and carried out the order. (To be continued......)