Between the mountains, there is a verdant thicket. The Liang army was stationed in Chongguan, and the troops were near the land of the river.

In the past few decades, the world has been in turmoil. The princes in the Great Zhou Dynasty fought against each other, and at one time there were ten rooms and nine empties, but the main transportation system in various places was very well preserved.

In particular, since Huan Wu mastered the seven states of the Central Plains, he has spent great efforts to repair the dangerous passes and the main road system.

The ancient road from Yongzhou to the land of Hehuang was first built 600 years ago during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty for marching. At that time, the 100,000 Yulin army went north from Haojing, but it took five days to cross the 800-mile mountain road and reach Huangcheng.

Since the land of Hehuang changed hands again, this ancient road has not been used for a long time, and after Huan Wu got Yongzhou, he only repaired the Chongguan, and rebuilt several camps for grain and grass transfer in the middle.

This time, the Liang army marched slowly along the ancient road, and at the same time began to repair the damaged old road.

If the land of the river is taken, the value of this ancient road will immediately increase. In the future, whether it is to transport supplies, war horses, or the deployment of troops and cavalry support, this ancient road will be used.

In the camp tent, Huan Zhong and Yang Jian were side by side.

After the defeat of the Liang army in southern Zhou, more than 200,000 elites were lost, and the Liang army in Guanzhong was empty, and it could not make up for the military strength in Yongzhou in a short time. Now most of the troops stationed in Yongzhou are new troops, and the rest are soldiers temporarily transferred from Bingzhou, Jizhou and Shendu.

Recruits and veterans are fundamentally two different concepts.

The introductory method of the first line of the army was specially created for soldiers in the army, and after thousands of years of development, it has been quite perfect. Unlike the other three pulses, the introductory method of the first pulse in the army has a very short learning cycle, and it will take less than three years for recruits to get started.

It's just that at this time, it was only more than a year since the end of the First World War in Southern Zhou, and in such a short period of time, even the wealthy Liang army could not train a cadre of recruits to be properly used.

Whether it is Yang Jian or Huan Zhong, they are quite distressed at this time.

Huan Zhong took over Huan Biao and left a mess, and he was riddled with Pepsi every day. Although Huan Wu granted Huan Zhong the right to live and kill and was in charge of the affairs of Yongzhou, after the defeat of the Liang army, the economic and military pressure was very heavy.

Although the terrain in Guanzhong is dangerous, on one side is the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and on the other side is the Shu army, compared with Nanyang, the situation is even more complicated.

At this time, Huan Wu was determined to establish the Shang Rhino Cavalry, and he had to draw some financial and military resources from Yongzhou, which made Huan Zhong very nervous.

The same is true for Yang Jian, he thought that after the first battle of Southern Zhou, the situation of the Liang army in Yongzhou was very bad. In fact, Liang Jun's situation was even worse than he imagined.

The Liang army that went north with him this time was only 50,000, and half of them were recruits who had just begun to learn to fight hard, and they couldn't even use the bloody killing qi.

Every time I think of this, I have a headache for sheep inspection. The so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, the demon square in this land of rivers is numerous, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight, and with these 50,000 soldiers, it is really reluctant to deal with the barbarians and demons.

On the map of the table, the material camp was marked, and the sections of the road that had been repaired and were being repaired, and Huan Zhong made a simple plan and looked up at the sheep inspection.

"Jianzhi, when are you going to use soldiers?"

Yang Jian pointed to a piece of land on the edge of Yongzhou.

"Our first step is to take this area. This land has sufficient water system, suitable for domesticating war horses, and is also close to Yongzhou. It's just that I can't predict how the demon clans in the Land of Hehuang will react if our army breaks into this area? ”

Whether it is building roads and blockages, it is the easiest part, because there is not much danger. The real difficulty lies in how the demon clans on this land will react when an army of the Zhou people enters the land of Hehuang again after decades?

Fierce conflicts are inevitable, and the question is how big the scale is, and the sheep inspection cannot grasp.

If the 50,000 soldiers under the command of Yang Jian at this moment were the same level as when the Liang army entered Shu, then Yang Jian was not worried at all. But now, it's impossible for the sheep inspector not to worry about it.

Huan Zhong also sensed the helplessness of Yang Jian, and said: "Jian Zhi, I also know our current situation, now all the elites in Yongzhou are concentrated on the border of Shu to defend against the Shu army. At the moment, there is no way to do it because of the shortage of troops. The demon clans in the Land of the River Huang have always been scattered, and we have tried our best to divide them over the years, so we should be able to deal with it. ”

"Let's hope so!"

At this moment, the door of the tent was opened, and a general hurried in.

"Zilu, what's so flustered?"

Huan Zilu's face was quite serious, he walked up to the two of them, bowed, and then said.

"Exploring the report ahead, a Shu army has invaded Huangyuan, killing the big demon wingtail and a group of demon generals, at this moment Yang Xian has won Huangcheng."

"What?"

Yang Jian and Huan Zhong's faces changed drastically, full of incredulity. Huan Zhong asked, "How did this Shu army come about?" ”

"This Shu army is only six hundred, and it made a detour to Liangzhou and entered the land of Hehuang."

"Only six hundred? There are 50,000 troops under the command of Wingtail! ”

The surprise on Huan Zhong's face still hadn't dissipated, but Yang Jian seemed to understand something.

"Chehe, Kui Wolf, Lian Qian!"

Yang Jian sighed and said these six words, but Huan Zilu on the opposite side nodded.

"Not only that, the big demon of the demon clan, the former leader of the Poor Qi Tribe, Luo Wuyi, has already surrendered to Yang Xian. Yang Xian used him and had already mastered Huangcheng at this time. ”

The location of Huangcheng is too important, and it is like a wedge, wedged into the land of the river. As long as Huangcheng is mastered, then no matter where the Liang army is, it will not be able to bypass it.

Huan Zhong glanced at the sheep inspection and shook his head.

"Yang Xian's hand has disrupted all our plans, if we go north according to the original plan, I am afraid it will fail. But if Yongzhou's troops are transferred to the north, it is undoubtedly what Yang Xian is willing to see. ”

With these 50,000 Liang troops alone, it is barely enough to gain a foothold in the land of Hehuang. If Yang Xian was really able to control the soldiers and horses in this Huangcheng, even if it was only one percent, it would be fatal to the Liang army.

What the Liang army needed was to subdue the surrounding demons and barbarians in a battle, and then carry out the plan to build a horse farm, but Yang Xian obviously would not give them a chance.

Yang Jian touched his beard and said, "The important thing now is to find out the situation in the land of Hehuang and the attitude of the rest of the demon parties towards Yang Xian's move. Yang Xian didn't care how chaotic this river land was, as long as he could delay the time for us to build the pasture, his goal had already been achieved. It's just that a chaotic river land is not an opportunity for us. ”

Huan Zhong nodded, and said in a deep voice: "In any case, let's report the situation here to the lord first, and ask him to decide!" ”