At present, Li Zheng is resolute. At that time, he explained to Xun You and Zhao Wu about recruiting 3,000 people and cooperating with Zhou Fei to develop Baishuichuan, and then immediately set off and rushed to Fuping non-stop.

The white wolf and Nuro knew that Li Zheng was coming, and they led a team of majestic wolf riders early to wait outside Fuping City. Seeing that Li Zheng had arrived, Lao Yuan hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and without saying much, led Li Zheng straight to the barracks.

When he arrived at the barracks, Li Zheng first had an understanding of the development of the army stationed in Fuping during this period.

In the face of a complex environment, Li Zheng urgently needs to strengthen his strength and enhance his foundation in order to protect himself and even win the world. Therefore, it has always pursued such a strategy of continuous conscription - whenever there is a surplus of resources in hand, a certain number of soldiers will be recruited from time to time.

At the beginning, Nuro was left in Fuping, and Li Zheng also mentioned this matter a little when he left. But he didn't care at the time, after all, Fuping was not under his direct rule. In addition, Li Zheng had limited resources in his hands, and it was not easy to supply Nuro's thousand soldiers and horses, and there were no more resources allocated to him to recruit troops in Fuping.

Perhaps because of the threat of the rebels, the wealthy and powerful families in Fuping City were quite supportive of this disciplined army under the command of Captain Qiang. Since the garrison of Fuping, the army has received not a small number of grain, grass and goods. In addition to his own use, the surplus was used by Nuro to recruit soldiers.

Therefore, now in the entire Fuping, in addition to Nuro's original two arms totaling 1,000 elite foot soldiers and a hundred wolf cavalry under the white wolf, there are more than 1,000 new soldiers.

This was unexpected, when recruiting recruits to train on the grassland, Li Zheng did not count Fuping in it.

But it's not too late. So Li Zheng immediately made a decision, and asked people to send these more than 1,000 recruits to Baishuize tomorrow and hand them over to Wang Laohu and others for unified training.

The two of them, the white wolf Nuro, naturally promised not to mention it.

"I received your summons in the morning, but it was too brief." Li Zheng smiled and said, "I have to listen to the specific situation." ”

After making some arrangements for the recruits, Li Zheng changed his words and got to the business at hand.

The white wolf didn't dare to slack off, and immediately clenched his fists and replied, "Back to the Lord, four days ago, we arranged for a scout on the periphery of the rebel garrison and discovered an unusual situation. ”

Li Zheng listened respectfully.

"The rebels stationed about 25,000 troops in the Zuogu at the junction of Sanshui in Anding County and Fuping in Beidi County were already empty when the scouts discovered the abnormality!"

"Oh!?"

Li Zheng was slightly stunned.

"According to the scout's report, five days ago, the rebels did not move, but they disappeared four days ago, and they should have withdrawn overnight that night!"

Li Zheng slowly bowed his head.

"Nuro and I didn't dare to slack off, so we hurriedly sent out scouts and followed the trails, but only touched some ambiguous traces. The rebels seemed to be prepared, perhaps in two directions, which made me and Nuro undecided. ”

Li Zheng's eyes narrowed, and his mind quickly turned.

After a while, he said: "Scout tracking can't be stopped, but the tracking range can't go beyond Anding and Beidi two counties." At the same time, Zhou Lin was summoned and asked him to pay close attention to all the information related to the situation in Liangzhou" and muttered for a moment, saying: "We can't act rashly until we get specific information, we just need to make preparations for battle." ”

Thinking of Xun You's analysis before coming, Li Zheng felt that it was still very reasonable.

You might as well respond to the changes with the same, hold on for a while, wait for the news, and then make plans.

The white wolf and Nuro glanced at each other, and clenched their fists together

While Li Zheng was lying dormant and waiting, the battle situation in Liangzhou had indeed changed a lot.

Since the first year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen has always had a rebellion against the Qiang people, and for several years intermittently, it was his people who presided over the counterinsurgency plan. Even because of this, Yu Chang'an was worshiped as a lieutenant and became the first third prince who was no longer in the court! However, by the end of the fourth year of Zhongping, in these years, Zhang Wen not only did not quell the rebellion, but the chaos in Liangzhou intensified, and it also cost the imperial court a lot of money and food!

And this time with the use of troops, it has been in a stalemate with the rebels, and he has not even won a few battles, which makes it really difficult for the Son of Heaven and the Yanyan princes in the court to accept.

So, before the arrival of the New Year, Zhang Wen was dismissed from his post as a lieutenant and transferred back to Luoyang.

In order to resist or even defeat the Han Sui rebels, the imperial court immediately appointed a new counterinsurgency commander after dismissing Zhang Wen. At that time, some people built the former Hanyang Taishou Fu Xie as the commander of the counterinsurgency.

There are three reasons for this. First, Fu Xie is a native of Liangzhou and is familiar with the geography and people of Liangzhou. Second, Fu Xie's fame and talent are worthy of heavy responsibilities. Third, Zhuqianghu in Liangzhou was very grateful to Fu Xie, and used this as a breakthrough to perhaps surrender the rebels without a fight.

In the end, however, this was not adopted by the Son of Heaven.

Because there is a better candidate - the famous general Huangfu Song!

Huangfu Song was originally the nephew of the famous general Huangfu Gui, which can be described as a family history. He also served as a magistrate, and later broke the Yellow Turban and made real achievements. Moreover, Huangfu Song is also a native of Liangzhou, and he also knows the geography and people of Liangzhou very well.

The last important reason is that Huangfu Song is not small, and the number of Yellow Turban thieves killed was 100,000!

The traitors have poisoned the Han for several years, and every time they give the court a headache, the first thing the Son of Heaven thinks of is to let these traitors die, not surrender!

Therefore, at the moment, he worshiped Huangfu Song as the left general, worshiped Zhonglang General, Po Yu General, and Dong Zhuo, the Marquis of Xuxiang, as the former general, and took Huangfu Song as the main general, supervised the former general Dong Zhuo, and went to quell the rebellion!

Li Zheng waited inexplicably in Fuping for two months, and the army was always on alert and nervous, but the expected war did not come.

Even there was no news from the imperial court.

Li Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, this effort was done in vain. It seems that a resourceful person like Xun Yu doesn't have enough information, and he will guess and make mistakes.

Of course, it is not true to say that Xun Yu made a mistake.

In any case, as long as it does not cause damage to itself, the plan is not a mistake, at most it is a failure. Presumably, Xun Yu was also because of insufficient information, and he knew that it was difficult to distinguish the details inside, so he built Yì Li Zheng and did not move.

Since there is no edict in the court, Li Zheng is also happy to be at ease. He was unwilling to fight the rebels when he was not strong enough, and for him, no news was good news.

Two months have passed, and the time has come to the middle of March of the fifth year of Zhongping.

The spring sowing of the entire Lingzhou, and even Fuping, has almost been completed. Although Fuping was not under Li Zheng's direct rule for the time being, and Li Zheng did not send a management team to take over Fuping's government affairs, after all, the army was garrisoned. And Fuping is close to Lingzhou, and sooner or later it is in Li Zheng's bag, so Li Zheng is also very concerned about the foundation of Yiqiē - agriculture.

Of course, this spring sowing is just an ordinary grain seed, not ginseng wheat. All the ginseng wheat was planted early last winter, and there are still more than two months to go, and it is almost ready to be harvested.

But in any case, being able to farm in a safe environment and with peace of mind is also a rare happiness for the ordinary people of Lingzhou and Fuping counties.

In the past two months, Li Zheng's own strength has improved significantly.

In fact, for Li Zheng, there are enough hole cards, as long as the foundation is laid, the momentum of development is naturally out of control.

For example, War Horseman.

Every half a month, Li Zheng would go back to the grassland and combine the beasts accumulated in the beast taming field into war horses. Up to now, there are more than 80 Qingjia war horses, counting some newborn little guys, slightly more than 100.

And the scale of the mountain wolf ride has directly doubled, reaching three hundred, and there are at least two hundred of them that can be called up to fight at any time!

Another example is the soldiers under Li Zheng's command, counting the elite who have experienced real wars, there are more than 7,000 people! Among them, the war cavalry, the war horse light cavalry, and the elite infantry in armor have reached four thousand!

This force is not small.

Seven thousand soldiers, plus war horses, war horses, and people chew on horses, which makes Li Zheng feel like he is going bankrupt at any time. Even from the beginning to the present, for a long time, Li Zheng has not paid a single salary to the army. There is no way, it is a blessing that the food can be supplied, but as for the military salary, it is impossible in a short time.

And the development of Baishuichuan, which Li Zheng is concerned about, is now Xun Yu replacing Li Zheng and looking at the overall situation. Zhou Fei is still the actual operator, but the object of his report and consultation in the future has become Xun You.

Li Zheng will gradually delegate power to Xun You, in addition to being more capable of doing things than Li Zheng imagined, it is also a temptation.

For such a long time, Xun You didn't even take the initiative to speak, and he didn't show any intention of serving Li Zheng. This made Li Zheng a little frustrated, but he also hollowed out his mind and got in touch with Xun You!

I don't believe that you Xun You is a stone, even a piece of gold and iron, and it will corrode you!

With Xun Yu taking an overview of the overall situation, the development of the entire Baishui River is very smooth.

3,000 ranch workers were recruited as early as the beginning of spring; The cultivation of Baishuichuan thatch, with the labor of these 3,000 workers, also came to a complete end a few days ago; The garrison points and barracks were all well built; The construction of the road is also carried out in an orderly manner.

The only thing to do now is to wait until the grass has taken root in the grassland and reached a certain scale, and then divert the various species in the Shenzhou grassland and migrate to the Baishui River for breeding and breeding.

This does not take too long, with the ability of thatch to reproduce and grow, more than half a month is enough.

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