The next day, Liu Chengzhi officially entered the Kunyang Provincial Government and carefully checked the situation in Kunyang Province with the strategists and generals.

Kunyang Province is located in the southern Xinjiang of the Great Jin Dynasty, although it is not rich, but the land population is also quite a lot, but due to Yang Xiyue's rampant expropriation in recent years, the people are many centrifuges, many people have fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and the current record is only more than 40 million people.

It is worth mentioning that a number of iron ores have been found in the local area, which is conducive to the casting of weapons on the one hand, and to increase the revenue of the government treasury on the other hand.

At this time, Liu Chengzhi reduced taxes and reduced punishments locally, and within two months, the people of Kunyang Province were obedient, and many people who fled to Jiangnan returned one after another.

At the same time, he cast weapons, bought war horses, and levied soldiers in imitation of the practice of Mianzhou City.

Due to the proximity of Kunyang Province to the Nanban, the people are fierce, and the soldiers obtained are relatively strong in combat effectiveness, coupled with Liu Chengzhi's previous training methods, the strength of the Chengzhi army has greatly increased, and there are now 800,000 people.

At this time, all kinds of information also entered Liu Chengzhi's field of vision through the spy shadow door. It turned out that at this time, Geshu Wuji had already occupied most of Yangjiang Province, but he was entangled with Li Xunlong, the assassin of Jiangnan, and he did not distinguish between victory and defeat.

As a last resort, Goshu Buji had no choice but to withdraw his troops and march north. Bukit was afraid of the old prince's troops, and did not dare to send troops to Karasuma, and began to attack the local warlord Yan Zhongqing in Yanshan Province.

The Nanban took advantage of the turmoil in Kunyang Province and kept harassing the border, and had already occupied a lot of territory in Kunyang Province, but the old prince established a large number of beacon towers and defense facilities on the border between the Great Jin and the Nanban, and it was difficult for the Nanban to advance quickly for a while.

In fact, there has always been military intelligence to Liu Chengzhi before, but Liu Chengzhi strictly ordered the troops on the southern border not to fight with the Nanban, as long as the Nanban troops appeared, Chengzhi's army would all retreat into the defense facilities, and the Nanban troops had become more and more arrogant at this time. It's just that the local people can't bear to be disturbed, and many people have fled the border.

That night, Liu Chengzhi finished handling government affairs and came to a mansion in Yangming Mansion. Entering the gate, I saw that the courtyard was deep, it was already mid-spring, the peach trees and plum trees were luxuriant, and the yard was full of colorful flowers.

An old man with a long beard was admiring the flowers, and when he saw Liu Chengzhi coming, he nodded, which was considered to be a greeting, but Liu Chengzhi didn't care, and hugged his fist with him and said, "I've seen Mr. Yang!"

It turned out that this person was Yang Yecheng, the city lord of Luofeng City. Yang Yecheng laughed and said, "General Liu came to join me again?"

Liu Chengzhi generously admitted: "I see that the old gentleman has managed the army well, and I am quite admirable, and I am willing to seek a great cause with Mr."

Yang Yecheng said: "Come every day like you, ordinary people are afraid that they have already been tempted, but half of my old man's body has already been buried in the ground, and I don't want to toss anymore!"

Liu Chengzhi said: "How can Mr. be humble. I know that Mr. also has a desire to calm the world, which is the same as me, at the moment, my greatest wish is to end the troubled times in front of me as soon as possible, and return the world to peace!"

Yang Yecheng's body shook slightly, as if he had moved, and said: "Everyone in the current troubled times, including me, is just stealing their lives, I can't imagine that Liu Gongzi is so ambitious, but my heart is like ashes, and I have long been unmoved!"

Liu Chengzhi said again: "Mr. Yang, I heard that you have a son, and I haven't seen him for ten years?"

Yang Yecheng said: "Yes, if it weren't for him, how would I have followed General Yang Xiyue!"

Liu Chengzhi said: "I heard that you were separated in Nanban back then?"

Yang Yecheng's eyes lit up and said, "What news does Gongzi Liu have?"

Liu Chengzhi took out a painting from his arms and said, "Old gentleman, please take a look!"

Yang Yecheng took the painting, carefully identified it, first nodded, then shook his head, and finally settled down, and said, "Liu Gongzi, I don't know where this painting came from?"

Liu Chengzhi said: "I naturally have my channels, this painting is the current appearance of the noble son, which may be different from ten years ago." ”

Yang Yecheng said: "I wasn't sure before, but the mole at the corner of his mouth can't escape, it should be my son Hongyi!"

Liu Chengzhi said: "This is very good, your son is currently in the Southern Barbarian Army, as long as the general nods, I will definitely reunite your father and son!"

Yang Yecheng was overjoyed and said, "It's so much up to Gongzi Liu!"

The next day, Liu Chengzhi took Yang Yecheng to meet all the strategists and generals, at this time, where to go for the Chengzhi army was already an imminent strategic choice, so Zhu Shanchang and Liu Xiwu, who were far away in Mianzhou City, were also summoned to Yangmingcheng, and everyone began to discuss the next step of the march.

In this plan, everyone's opinions are surprisingly unanimous, that is, to first subdue the southern barbarians, consolidate the rear, and then march to the north.

And Zhu Shanchang and Yang Yecheng's opinions were even more radical, that is, to take the entire Nanban as their own and use it as a province of the Great Jin Dynasty. Liu Chengzhi was noncommittal, but the southward movement of the army was a foregone conclusion.

On the same day, Liu Chengzhi divided 200,000 troops and let Zhu Shanchang and Liu Yuhu still garrison Mianzhou City, which had 200,000 Yunli troops plus 20,000 militiamen, which was enough to resist Li Xunlong on the back.

Then Liu Chengzhi transferred Liu Xiwu back to Yangming Mansion, and was again responsible for the deployment of the whole army's materials, with Kunyang Province as the main rear, and sent 600,000 troops to the southern border.

Nanban is located in the south of the Great Jin Dynasty, and due to the relatively backward productive forces, it is still a tribal system.

They consisted of three large tribes, the Great Manxi tribe with a population of more than one million and was the ruler of the region, and the other tribes of Huli and Zhuque together had a population of about 800,000.

However, the people of the Southern Barbarians are fierce, all the people are soldiers, and their combat power is quite amazing.

Since the opening of the Great Jin Dynasty, many conquests and suppressions, several defeats, only a few decades ago Liu Taiwei conquered so far, won a battle, subdued it, and did not dare to harass the border again, but due to the civil strife in the Great Jin Dynasty, now the Nanban began to move again.

After Liu Chengzhi led the generals to southern Xinjiang, he strictly ordered all units not to attack.

In peacetime, the troops were pulled out of the defensive facilities, trained diligently on the periphery, and once the Nanban troops came, they quickly retreated into the city, lit beacon fires, and strictly defended.

Most of the Nanban troops were cavalry, and they did not have the baggage to attack the city, so they could not engage the Yunli army in the defense facilities, and because there was no target for attacking, they could only plunder the nearby villages, and slowly the nearby villagers also hid in the defense facilities.

On the one hand, the Nanban troops became proud, thinking that the Chengzhi army was not much different from Yang Xiyue's troops before and was vulnerable; on the other hand, they also felt very depressed because they had nothing to grab.

After two months in this way, the new soldiers who joined the Chengzhi Army were trained by Liu Yunli and others, and became more familiar with the methods of using the Chengzhi Army, especially the three-person tiger formation.