When Huangfu heard this, he knew that Hua'an had an important task, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "General Qiyu, there are five hundred Congshi in the Congshi Battalion, and they can perform various tasks at any time, please give the general an order!" ”

As soon as he heard that there were five hundred scholars, Hua An'an was overjoyed, and after a few months, Huang Fu Cong and Huang Fu Ming brothers actually trained two more batches of scholars, and now, the scale of the scholars has reached five hundred, which is a very considerable number.

Hua An didn't talk nonsense, looked at Huang Fuming, and said: "Huang Fuming, at the moment, there will be an urgent shortage of all kinds of information from Zhao State, so I plan to send all the smart people to the major cities of Zhao State to explore the information needed, do you think these smart people can be up to this task?" ”

"Rest assured, the general is smart enough to do this task." Huangfu Ming said.

When Hua An heard this, he was very satisfied, and ordered loudly: "Huang Fu Ming, you continue to stay in Nanzheng to train the next batch of smart soldiers, and your eldest brother Huang Fu Cong will lead all five hundred smart soldiers to go to the important cities and checkpoints of Zhao State to explore all kinds of important situations in Zhao State, and there must be no mistake." ”

"General, the eldest brother and all the wise men will go to Zhao State to carry out the order, and let the last general go with him! The last general has not been to the Central Plains yet" Huangfu saw that Hua'an was the only one to leave him, and he was a little unwilling.

Hua An shook his head, and said: "No, your eldest brother and his party will go to the Central Plains to carry out a mission, and it will take at least two years to return, in these two years, the Congshi Battalion must be taken care of, and the new Congshi must also be responsible for selection and training, and this task is none other than you." ”

Seeing that what Hua An said was reasonable, Huang Fuming had no choice but to give up the idea of going to the Central Plains together. After all, the Camp of the Cong Warriors must be taken care of by him.

"Alright, Huang Fuming, you let the wise men prepare well! Three days later, he had to go to Zhao to carry out his mission. Huaan Zhengse said.

"Don't worry, the general will definitely take it." Huang Fuming accepted the task with his fists clenched.

Seeing that the task of the Congshi had been arranged, Hua An walked away from the camp of the Congshi camp and got up to return to the Thorn Mansion.

Three days later, 3,000 scouts and 500 congregants left Nanzheng one after another and went to the territory of Zhao in batches. In order to complete the important tasks assigned by Huaan.

watched these elites leave Nan Zheng in batches. Hua An's heart was full of infinite expectations, hoping that these scouts and wise men could complete the task well and serve their future Northern Expedition.

In order to obtain all kinds of information about the Zhao State, Hua'an sent so many scouts and smart people. It can be said that it has made a bloody investment. But the intelligence work is no better. Without strong military strength and logistical support to support military strength, the future of the Northern Expedition would still be slim.

Huaan felt the need to continue to strengthen military and logistical construction. In particular, Tuyuhun Dashan Yu Ye Yan's attitude made Hua'an feel that he must increase his military strength to deal with threats from multiple directions.

In order to deal with the possible invasion of Tuyuhun in the future, the elite Thunderstorm Legion under the command of Hua'an must be stationed in Wudu County at all times to guard against the threat of Tuyuhun, and at the same time, it is necessary to step up the training of the militia of Wudu County to prevent the 20,000 horses of the Thunderstorm Legion from being too thin and not Tuyuhun's opponent, according to the ratio of one to two, Hua'an maintains 20,000 horses of the Thunderstorm Legion in Wudu County, and also maintains 40,000 reserve militia, the main force and the reserve army add up to 60,000 horses, and it should be enough to defend Tuyuhun.

At the same time, the direction of Yizhou also needs a large number of troops to defend, the Iron Bull Legion is stationed in the most core position of Yizhou, and can not leave at will, and the 10,000 army under Li Yi needs to face the Shuzhong rebels in Qiqi County, and they can't move, and only Li Liang's 10,000 Yizhou Army can be mobilized, and the Liangzhou Army is 30,000 horses, and 10,000 must be left to defend, and only 20,000 can be mobilized, plus the 10,000 horses of Yang An in Qinzhou, and the 20,000 horses of the Zhao Wu Northern Expeditionary Army, a total of only 60,000 main soldiers and horses, and 70,000 are considered pro-guard troops, facing the strong enemy in the Central Plains, It seems to be a little less.

At present, Liangzhou is becoming more and more prosperous, the foreign population is also increasing, and the conditions are ripe for another expansion of troops, Hua'an has made up his mind to expand his troops again, and at the same time, to replenish all the troops lost in the battle a few months ago.

For which men and horses to expand, Hua An thought for a long time, and finally decided to expand the Qinzhou Army under Yang An, after all, the Qinzhou Army has the fewest men and horses, only 10,000 horses, and at the same time, the five battalions of the pro-soldier and the five battalions of the Wudang in the pro-guard army will also be separated, forming a 10,000-horse pro-guard army and a 10,000-horse Wudang Fei army, the main general of the pro-guard army is still concurrently served by Wang San, and the main general of the Wudang Fei Army is naturally none other than Zhuge Xiong.

After thinking about this, Hua An hurriedly summoned Wang San and Zhuge Xiong and asked their opinions.

"Big brother, at present, my Liangzhou army salary is sufficient, and the military food is piled up, and the expansion of tens of thousands of horses is nothing, and the soldiers will definitely give their full support." Wang San expressed his full support for the expansion of the army.

"General, it is not a problem to expand the Feijun army by 5,000, so let the last general return to Nanzhong to recruit troops!" Zhuge Xiong also expressed extreme support.

Seeing that the two of them all supported their army expansion plan, Hua An'an was very happy, paused, and ordered: "Wang San, you expand the army near Nanzheng, Zhuge Xiong, you lead a thousand men and horses back to Nanzheng, recruit 5,000 troops, and then return to Nanzheng for training." ”

"Obey the command." Wang San and Zhuge Xiong hurriedly received the order.

Hua An nodded, and told them to go and prepare immediately.

After Wang San and Zhuge Xiong left, Hua An picked up a pen and paper and wrote a letter to Yang An, who was far away in Shichang City, in which he asked him to leave 5,000 men and horses to garrison Shichang City, and led the remaining 5,000 men and horses back to Wudu City, and expanded the army by an additional 10,000, which was 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Qinzhou Legion, so that during the Northern Expedition, the Qinzhou Army, the Liangzhou Army and the Northern Expeditionary Army each had 20,000 horses to fight, plus 10,000 horses and horses each of the Yizhou Army, Wudang Fei Army, and the Guards Army, the main force of the Northern Expedition could be as high as 90,000, If the baggage battalion is expanded and the strength of the baggage battalion reaches 10,000, then it will be a complete 100,000 male division

Thinking that one day, he could lead an army of 100,000 to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, Hua An's head was full of infinite reverie, he had been in the army for so long, he had really never led such a huge army, what was it like to lead an army of 100,000, what challenges would he encounter, Hua An's heart was full of expectations......

After the letter was written, Hua An asked his soldiers to immediately send the letter to Sichang City and hand it to Yang An, so that Yang An could act according to his plan.

According to Hua'an's vision, the 100,000 army is an extremely large army, how to flexibly mobilize such a huge army, it is indeed a great test of a general's ability, especially the most headache for Hua'an is the problem of logistics, the more the number of troops, the higher the requirements for logistics.

According to the book of soldiers, the expedition of the army, the supply of a soldier, need ten soldiers to solve, so calculate the scale of the expedition of 100,000 troops, it will need a million people to be responsible for the supply, if it is really needed, the people of Liangzhou and Yizhou will basically be hollowed out, which will seriously damage the stable development of commerce and agriculture in the two states, which is what Hua'an does not want to see.

For this reason, Hua'an felt that it was necessary to improve the efficiency of logistics and transportation, and it was absolutely impossible for one soldier to occupy ten civilians.

In order to solve this problem, Hua'an thought hard and finally summed up several practical methods, the first is to build a large-scale baggage truck to adapt to complex terrain, so that a person can drive the baggage truck to transport grain and carry it on the shoulder, the efficiency can be improved at least many times.

Second, continue to develop animal husbandry on a large scale, when going out on the expedition, military rations are a very big burden, even if it is a baggage cart, it can only increase the efficiency several times, and driving cattle and sheep as the food of the army, the efficiency can be significantly improved, moreover, the cattle and sheep are alive, and their adaptability to the terrain far exceeds that of any advanced baggage cart, and the use of cattle and sheep as the grain and grass of the army will greatly reduce the number of people who are requisitioned and distributed.

Third, fight steadily and steadily, do not go too far alone, short-distance transportation has far lower logistical requirements than long-distance transportation, after capturing the target at close range, stabilize this area, and then, let the newly occupied area become their own big rear, so that when they march again, they can start to transport grain from the newly occupied area, thus greatly reducing the number of people requisitioned and further saving people's manpower.

Among them, the third method belongs to the strategic level of decision-making, as long as you pay attention to the implementation, and the first and second need to be implemented by the relevant personnel under your command.

With regard to the vigorous development of animal husbandry, Hua'an needs to give policy support so that the people are willing to raise livestock, and at the same time, the military farms near Xixiang City should continue to expand their scale.

The matter of the military farm, Hua'an plans to hand it over to Chen Ting to solve, and the policies that need to be formulated to encourage the common people to breed, Hua'an plans to let Ma Dang do it.

These small things, Hua An believes that they will do their best to do a good job, and sure enough, Hua An did not disappoint, Chen Ting and Ma Dang accepted the task, and soon did things in an orderly manner, so that Hua An was greatly satisfied.

After all, soldiers can not only eat meat, rice and millet are also essential, and in addition to food, there are many military materials that need to be transported, such as arrows, black powder, camp tents and so on.

To make a large number of baggage vehicles that can adapt to the mountainous terrain, it must be completed by those people in the armory hall, for this reason, Hua'an hurriedly went to the armory hall, and gave Pu Tie and others the task of developing a new type of mountain baggage vehicle.

Pu Tie and other talents from the Armory Hall accepted Hua'an's orders without hesitation, and showed their magic powers, and began to develop mountain baggage vehicles. (To be continued......)