After Hua An made up his mind, he looked at Zhang Yu and said: "The training of recruits cannot be delayed, and the expansion of the streets in Nanzheng City cannot be stopped, Zhang Yu, this matter will be handed over to you." ”

"The general can rest assured, the subordinate will do his best to handle this matter." Zhang Yu hurriedly responded.

Hua An nodded with satisfaction, and after giving some instructions, he asked his subordinates to go back to perform their duties and do a good job of logistics support for the training of recruits and the construction of the street.

Later, Hua An went to the barracks at the west gate, personally supervised and guided the soldiers of the Guards to train, and asked them to train hard and be ready for war at any time.

In the training, Hua'an asked the soldiers of the Pro-Guard Army to focus on training field capabilities, after all, the Pro-Guards Army will face a large-scale cavalry team of a strong enemy in the Northern Expedition in the future, and field combat ability is very important.

In order to improve the field training level of the pro-guard army, Hua'an not only trained them in the school field in the city, but also designated a large area of mountains outside the west gate as a training ground for the pro-guard army, so that the soldiers of the pro-guard army could gallop in the mountains outside the city, so that they could train field warriors.

Once the recruits form combat effectiveness, Hua'an's strength will not be what it used to be, and the past method of focusing on training and defending the city will be completely abandoned, and it will be replaced by the ability to focus on field warfare and siege.

Too much training in defending the city will lead to a defensive army, while focusing on training in field and siege capabilities can lead to an offensive army.

In the past, the Northern Expeditionary Army had a small number of troops and faced a very strong enemy, and in order to preserve its strength, it was often necessary to rely on the city walls. Retarding the enemy's offensive edge, for this reason, it is natural to focus on training the ability to defend the city, and now, the main force of soldiers and horses under the command of Hua'an will reach more than 100,000 people, so many soldiers and horses, enough to match any enemy, besides, in the future, the Northern Expedition to Guanzhong and the Central Plains, what is needed is offensive operations. That is, to have enough strength to destroy the opponent in the field. And break through the enemy's cities, this mode of warfare, it requires an army that is good at field and siege operations, for this. The old defensive training model must be changed. Forming a new offensive training model. to meet the needs of future operations.

For siege, it mainly relies on heavy siege equipment, as long as there is heavy equipment such as thunderbolt vehicles to help the battle. In the case of absolute superiority in troops, it is not very difficult to break through the city, which Hua'an is not very worried about.

But in the field war, Hua'an is still more worried, after all, the cavalry of Zhao State is often more than 100,000, and the cavalry of the Xianbei tribe in the north is even more numerous, it can be said that there are as many cavalry as there are troops, and in the field, the cavalry often plays a decisive role, under the impact of the enemy's hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry, whether the field army under his command can support it, is really unknown.

Whenever he thought that he might encounter the impact of hundreds of thousands of enemy iron cavalry, Hua An was shocked into a cold sweat, and Hua An was really worried about the enemy's iron cavalry torrent.

In order to counter the enemy's large-scale iron cavalry, Hua'an also came up with many ways to deal with it, such as strengthening the cavalry construction of his own team, forming more cavalry units, and making the proportion of cavalry in the main army reach one-third of the scale.

Also, it is to let the armory hall build more bows and crossbows and other equipment, in order to use the bow and crossbow to shoot large-scale kills and wound the enemy's cavalry, so as to block the offensive edge of the enemy cavalry, the Zhuge crossbow of the Wudang five battalions is the biggest nemesis of the cavalry, but this kind of weapon, too much consumption of arrows, and the accuracy is not good, Hua'an decided to only equip the Wudang five battalions, and other teams still use ordinary crossbows and arrows.

In order to let the main force of the infantry under his command not be scattered by the enemy when encountering the enemy cavalry, Hua'an deliberately let the shield soldiers and pikemen form a square circle formation, and train hard to save this life-saving formation.

Hua'an issued the new training methods he summed up to all the armies under his command, requiring the generals of all armies to train their troops in strict accordance with the new training methods, and to train the officers and men of his subordinate units into an elite army that is good at field warfare and siege operations.

In order to test the training results of various armies, Hua'an specially set up a drill area in the mountainous area around Nanzheng City, where officers and men of various armies will conduct confrontational drills to compare the merits of the training results of various armies.

In these days of supervising the training of the guards, Hua'an did not forget the street that was under construction near the north gate, and no matter how busy he was every day, Hua'an would take a little time to go to the construction site of the new street to understand and guide the craftsmen to work, and to solve the difficulties encountered by the craftsmen in a timely manner.

When passing through the old streets, Hua'an will meet many merchants from afar, these merchants are without exception a large team, often a caravan occupies an inn, and the mules and horses to which the caravan belongs are even more crowded with the courtyard of the inn.

Seeing these merchants, Hua An was convinced that it was wise for him to insist on building new streets, and as Nanzheng became more and more famous, more and more merchants would come to do business in the future, and the only old streets and inns with narrow courtyards were far from satisfying the demand.

Upon closer inspection, Hua An found that there were fewer and fewer merchants coming from the Western Regions, and even a caravan would soon be gone.

At the beginning, Hua An still felt strange how the mercenary merchants of the Western Regions could give up the opportunity to make money, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that it was the war between the Liang State and the Zhao State that hindered the way for the merchants of the Western Regions to come to Nanzheng.

This is also enough to show that the tension in the northwest direction, at this time, it is very likely that the two countries have begun to fight.

Merchants have the most sensitive sense of smell, as long as they find that the situation is not good, they will not take risks, you must know that in the time of war, the rights and interests of merchants are difficult to be protected, the armies of both warring sides, it is very likely to withhold the merchant's supplies, and requisition the merchant's mules and horses to supply themselves.

In order to prevent an accident in Wudu County, Hua'an asked the 20,000 troops under Zhao Wu to leave Baozhong City and march more than 100 miles westward, arriving at Fu County in Wudu County, and stationed in Fu County, while training new soldiers, relying on each other with the 20,000 army of thunderstorms, closely monitoring every move of Zhao Guo's army.

In the main hall of the Assassin's Mansion, Hua An looked at the topographic map around Qinzhou, frowned and analyzed the possible attack direction of Zhao's army, as well as the possible countermeasures taken by Liang, and analyzed the probability of victory or defeat on both sides according to the number of troops.

"Big brother, scout emergency." At this moment, Wang San hurriedly walked into the main hall of the Assassin's Mansion.

Hua An turned around and asked, "Is it the military situation in the northwest direction?" ”

Wang San nodded and said: "Yes, eldest brother, the three generals of Zhao State, Ma Qiu, Wang Zhen, and Sun Fudu, have attacked Liangguo in three ways, and have broken through more than a dozen cities in a row, and met under the city of Caohan, the capital of Liangguo Hezhou, and there is a tendency to break through Caohan in one fell swoop." ”

Hua'an was slightly surprised when he heard this, the speed of Zhao Jun's progress was too fast, and it was already approaching the city of Caohan, you must know that Caohan is the seat of Hezhou in Liangguo, and Hezhou is one of the three major states in Liangguo, the location is in the easternmost part, the western section is Shazhou, and the central part is still Liangzhou.

"Once Caohan is lost, the three states of Liangguo will lose one of them, which will be a great blow to Liangguo, and I hope that the soldiers of Liangguo can hold Caohan." Hua An sighed softly.

"Big brother, once the city of Caohan is lost, the army of the Liang Kingdom is likely to directly abandon Hezhou, and at that time, the army of the Zhao Kingdom is likely to stop the pursuit and attack Wudu County instead!" Wang San Zhengse analyzed.

Hua An nodded and said, "You're right, the eldest brother also has concerns in this regard, so the main force of our army must be prepared to deal with the attack of the Zhao army." ”

"How is Big Brother going to deal with it?" Wang San hurriedly asked.

Hua An thought for a while, paused, and said: "Let the 20,000 horses under the command of Zhao Wu continue to march north from Fu County and enter Hechi City, so that the three cities of Wudu, Xiafen, and Hechi near the front will have our army's 50,000 troops garrisoned, which is enough to resist the attack of the Zhao army, and the 30,000 Liangzhou troops stationed in Chenggu will also march westward and be stationed in Chuyang City, so that it will be closer to the front and convenient for support at any time, and the pro-guard army will guard Nanzheng and not move for the time being." ”

When Wang San heard this, he thought for a while, nodded and said: "What the eldest brother said is that in this way, our army will deploy heavy troops in the direction of Wudu County, and the army of Zhao State will be afraid and will not dare to invade at will." ”

Hua An nodded slightly, looked at Wang San, and said: "The order for the transfer of troops is drafted by you, and the training of the pro-guard army cannot be stopped for a moment, and this team must be formed into combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time." ”

"Don't worry, big brother, I remember everything." Wang San replied, and then turned around and went to prepare.

In the main hall, Hua An looked at the topographic map near Caohan, and repeatedly made various assumptions, in Hua An's heart, he naturally hoped that Liang Guo could withstand the pressure of Zhao State, hold the city and repel the invading Zhao army, only in this way, the army under his command could avoid fighting with the Zhao army too early, so as to get more training time.

However, as the commander of the three armies, he naturally could not leave anything to chance, and he had to plan for the worst for the development of the situation, so Hua'an transferred the army of Zhao Wusuo to Wudu County, and transferred the 30,000 men and horses of the Liangzhou army under Chen Ting's army to Chuyang City, which was close to Wudu County, in order to deal with the army in front.

Soon, the Congshi in front also sent back the news near Caohan City one after another, and Hua'an compared the news of the scout's investigation with the Congshi, so as to understand the situation in the northwest more clearly, and at the same time, it also provided a reliable reference for his next move. (To be continued......)