Although the strength of this army expansion is only in the early 70,000s, judging from the enthusiasm of the people, it is by no means a problem to replenish the troops, and it is still up to the Standing Army to select high-quality soldiers from countless conscripts.

Everyone believed that in a year at most, the strength of the Standing Army could reach 100,000 or more.

After the expansion of the army, the Changding Army, with a little training and integration, is definitely a powerful force enough to influence the general trend of the world!

Next, Chu He was a lot idle, but the commanders of the various armies were very busy.

Reorganize the army, recruit soldiers, compete with other generals for high-quality troops, replenish ordnance materials, ask Chu He to promote the generals under his command, and so on.

It is often seen that the main generals are arguing with red faces, and even pull out their weapons to have a battle, just to get an outstanding talent, or to give priority to replenishing armor and equipment from the arsenal.

Of course, such disputes are just for official business, and in private, the generals are good brothers who can drink a mess at the wine table.

Although there are factions in today's Standing Army, they are all normal competition, and they will not secretly use any dirty means.

The least worrying thing is Qin Shengnan, she holds the golden arrow token of Chu River, and she can draw elites from each guard to form Pinghaiwei at will, and whoever she likes is directly on the roster, and the logistics department also gives priority to allocating various materials and equipment to Pinghaiwei.

Therefore, Qin Shengnan was the first to stabilize Pinghaiwei, and from the Changding War Shipyard under the Second Arsenal, he successfully accepted four sea ships that had been launched and tested, two thousand sea ships, three two thousand sea ships and one flagship of three thousand materials.

These six warships, using a steel keel structure, are quite stable, the thousand-material class and the two-thousand-material class have been launched and tested many times, and they have sailed hundreds of miles in the sea without any problems.

The flagship of 3,000 materials has only been tested twice in Xiaoqinghe and has never been to the sea.

However, there was not much armament on board.

There are four eight-ox armor-piercing crossbows and two small trebuchets for the Qianliu sea vessels, which doubles the number of 2,000 materials, and ten eight-ox armor-breaking crossbows for the 3,000 material sea ships, plus two giant arm catapults.

Although these sea ships are not as good as the warships of the Age of Discovery, they often have dozens of guns, but their range is not much worse than that of later ships.

The ship's Eight Bull Armor-Piercing Crossbow has been specially modified, using larger arrows and arrows, as well as crescent arrows, etc., which sacrifice part of the penetration performance, but is more powerful in surface destruction, and can cause a large area of damage to enemy ships.

Originally, Qin Shengnan was going to go to sea to explore the sea frontier in the near future, but Chu He persuaded her to come down for no other reason, Chu He was going to get married.

As Chu He's master, of course Qin Shengnan couldn't leave for such a big thing, even if Qin Shengnan and Chu He were a little embarrassed.

How could Qin Shengnan not know Chu He's thoughts about him.

When she was seriously injured by Chen Bao, Chu He held her in his arms and blocked Chen Bao's thunder spell with his back for her, which had already touched the softest part of Qin Shengnan's heart.

This is more than the duty of master and apprentice.

The shoulders that were thin but could already help her shelter from the wind and rain have now become stronger and stronger, growing into a towering tree, and becoming a man that Qin Shengnan can rely on.

Qin Shengnan unconsciously found it difficult to treat Chu He as a child who practiced martial arts with her.

In fact, Qin Shengnan didn't have much recognition of the identity of Chu He's disciple.

She didn't teach Chu He for a long time, and she didn't have much opportunity to teach by word and deed, when she passed on the Tianxuan True Scripture to Chu He, Chu He also passed on the more profound golden bell jar to her.

The relationship between the two is said to be a fellow practitioner who discusses martial arts with each other and improves together.

The envoys of the Southern Barbarian Army had already arrived in Tianshui County, and they also visited the reward meeting of the Changding Army, and saw that the Changding Army was becoming stronger and stronger, and they were more and more eager to form a marriage between the Changding Army and the Southern Barbarian Army to consolidate the relationship between their allies.

After the reward meeting, they came to see Chu He many times, hoping that Chu He would go to southern Xinjiang as soon as possible to welcome their relatives.

Meng Qingtong had already returned to the southern Xinjiang tribe at this time, although Meng Huo couldn't get out of the Tongtian River battlefield, Mrs. Zhurong went back with Meng Qingtong.

As the king of the Southern Barbarians, of course, the marriage of a daughter must be married in the southern Xinjiang, which can better unite the morale of the Southern Barbarian tribes.

Although Meng Shu was the king of the Southern Barbarians, not all the barbarian tribes worshipped him as king.

This time, the army rose against Shu, and at first it was only the Nuosu tribe in the headquarters who started with Meng Shu, and there were seven or eight barbarian tribes such as the first cave, the second cave, the third cave, the twenty-first cave, the bald dragon cave, and the Ba Na cave in the 36 caves in southern Xinjiang.

As the war of Meng Huo went smoothly and the territory grew stronger, more barbarians swore allegiance to Meng Huo, such as Shuangxing Cave and so on.

If those barbarian tribes knew the strength of the Changding army, they would definitely support Meng Huo more, which could help Meng Shu stabilize the rear and increase more follower tribes.

It can be said that at this time, it is impossible to stop the political marriage between Chu He and Meng Qingtong, and if anyone repents, the chain reaction will be unbearable for both parties.

Meng Huo needs to use the power of the Chu River to strengthen the strength of the army, stabilize the rear, and attract the barbarian tribes to take refuge.

Don't look at the Changding army is very strong now, but if it is not allied with the Southern Barbarian Army, the anti-Shu forces will definitely join forces to attack, no matter how strong the Changding army is, it is impossible to maintain the foundation under the joint offensive of the anti-Shu army.

Such a political marriage focuses more on the result than on the process and details.

The people of the family can help Chu He handle other things properly, Meng Xu can not return to southern Xinjiang, and Chu He, the commander of the Standing Army, cannot easily leave the sphere of influence, lest others take advantage of it.

However, Chu He still decided to go to southern Xinjiang in person, communicate with Meng Qingtong face-to-face, and make a decision on various major matters, so as not to have any contradictions in his married life.

Chu He can hand over Meng Qingtong's dowry and the two counties of Hongdong County to Meng Qingtong, and the three thousand beast cavalry can also be under Meng Qingtong's command, but the Changding army is still the Changding army, and it is impossible for Meng Qingtong to get involved.

Here in Changding Township, Chu Zhenhai, the grandfather, seems to be more than ten years younger, and he is very energetic.

In fact, he is really energetic, he takes nourishing pills every day, eats demon beast meat, spirit fruit treasure flowers, and drinks Shiquan Great Tonic Fruit Wine, his body is naturally very strong, and his original gray beard and hair have become black and translucent.

Chu He's marriage, he has to ask about everything, worship ancestors, divination and hexagrams, pick auspicious days, three sacrifices and six ceremonies, and even the invitation is written by him, which is clearly a declaration to everyone that the Chu family has risen from then on and restored the glory of the Xiang family in the Chu and Han dynasties.

Chu Zhenhai even asked Chu He if he wanted to take this opportunity to restore the surname Xiang, but Chu He thought twice and rejected his grandfather's proposal.

The name of Chu River has become the symbol of Tianshui County, and all the army's loyalty education is carried out with the name of Chu River Chu Qianyuan, once the surname is changed, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary trouble, anyway, everyone knows that the Chu family is the heir of the overlord of Western Chu.

Of course, there is another reason why Chu He can't be said, in his previous life, he was the name Chu He!

Although he didn't know the situation of his biological parents, his parents must not have abandoned him, otherwise they would not have left the name Chu He, as well as the crucial golden bell jar cheats!

The name Chu He, as well as the secret method of the Golden Bell Jar, is the last connection between Chu He and his previous life, and he doesn't want to change it.

drove away the Yongzhou army and forced Wang Yan to go to the land of Shanyue, which was regarded as solving the great trouble for the Southern Barbarian Army, this dowry was definitely not light, and when Qinzhou City was married, Chu He also brought huge worth of materials to Meng Shu.

However, when it was time to really welcome the family, Chu He still prepared a rich enough dowry, and then personally took the luxury wedding group to worship the heaven and earth on the auspicious day personally selected by Chu Zhenhai, and then embarked on the road to the land of southern Xinjiang to welcome the family.

The lineup of the greeting group is, of course, extremely luxurious.

The name Chu River does not seem loud in other places, after the Tongtian River, the hinterland of Shu Kingdom, the people don't even know what the Chu River is.

But in the hearts of the real authority and power, Chu He is definitely registered, and even the magnates of Great Wei and Wu have heard of Chu He's name.

Once the Chu River leaves Tianshui County, it will definitely reach the ears of those who have a heart, and the Chu River cannot be unguarded.

The number of people in the welcome group is not much, not less, a thousand.

Among these thousand people, there are Gan Ning, the god of war, eight fifth-grade grandmasters and scholars, two of whom are elders of the Jiang Wuxiang family, and Phoenix Yu, a fourth-grade female general who has newly joined the Changding Army, is also listed, which can be regarded as showing Chu He's attitude, and the Changding Army is covering the Shuangyue Clan.

Jiang Wei, Dong Ju, Fang Zihao, Ding Meng and other brothers are also enough to show that Chu He attaches great importance to welcoming relatives.

In addition, in the welcoming team, there were 500 elite Qianyuan guards, 50 of the most elite scorpion-tailed tiger cavalry, and more than 400 elite guards, who were responsible for protecting the Chu River and transporting the dowry, without carrying any people.

Among the 1,000 people, more than half of the third-grade martial artists, and dozens of fourth-grade martial artists, the force is outrageous.

In addition, the Earth Golden Tiger also dispatched with the regiment and controlled dozens of fourth-grade demon beasts, as well as four huge fifth-grade gold-devouring beasts that were responsible for attacking the fortifications and charging into battle.

Despite this, the adaptability of the demon beasts of the grade is quite strong, but the gold devouring beasts have always lived in the abyss world, which is somewhat different from the outside world, so Chu He plans to take them out to see the world one after another and adapt to the surface world.

Although this kind of force cannot be said to be invincible in southern Xinjiang, as long as Meng Shu does not make a move, the other tribes of the southern barbarians will never dare to have any thoughts about this welcoming team.

The murderous reputation of the Changding Army has spread all over this land for thousands of miles.

The 30,000 mountain bandits who invaded Tianshui County were also killed one by one with the return of the main force of the Changding Army.

Jing Xiong has now been promoted to the realm of the fifth grade, and the way of divination in the I Ching is extremely sharp, and he can easily calculate the location of the large number of mountain bandits.

Then the Dijin Tiger set out with a large number of demon beasts who were good at tracking and tracing traces, and easily found the mountain bandits hiding everywhere.

Under the strong force of the Changding Army, these mountain bandits who were hiding were a dead end.

In order to appease the people's anger, the Chu River was ordered to kill, and the mountain bandits did not even have a chance to drop their weapons and surrender.

The tribal warriors of the Shuangyue Clan, who originally supported the operation with the mountain bandits, were secretly called luck at this time.

The Oman in the clan is really knowledgeable, knowing that the dense forests of the mountains are not enough to become the support of the mountain bandits, and trying their best to prevent the tribe from invading the Changding army, and the leader of the tribe Phoenix Yu has also made a wise judgment, otherwise they will definitely end up with the same fate as the mountain bandits now.

has really become a member of the Changding Army, and has become a warrior of Nanshanwei, and the people of the Shuangyue Clan know how terrible the Changding Army is.

At the beginning, the warriors of the Shuangyue Clan somewhat looked down on the soldiers of the Changding Army who were transferred to Nanshanwei, but after many battles secretly or openly, the warriors of the Shuangyue Clan knew that even if the other party did not rely on the advantages of the armor, it was not easy for them to defeat the other party.

If it was a battle of hundreds of people, they would be completely defeated, and the strict organization of the Changding Army and the cooperation during the battle were too terrifying.

Such a warrior, among the old four guards, is just the most ordinary soldier!

Changding Township is definitely notorious in the hearts of the barbarian tribes and mountain bandits, knowing that the welcoming team has materials of inestimable value, and no one dares to touch the tiger whiskers of the Changding army.

Even found the greeting group from a distance, and the mountain bandits and robbers hurriedly moved away, not daring to approach the range of thirty miles, so as not to cause misunderstanding.

The mountain bandits and robbers did not dare to show up, which was definitely expected, and Chu He didn't believe that anyone dared to do anything.

This luxurious welcoming group is mainly to show force, or just in case, all the way to the great ability of Meng Huo, and it is normal for the Barbarian King City where the Nuosu tribe is located.

But the wonder of the world lies in his uncertainty, full of accidents, just when everyone thinks that no accidents are possible, accidents just appear.

The Scorpion-tailed Tiger Air Cavalry, who was responsible for the road exploration and vigilance, found that ten miles ahead, there was a bamboo pavilion, and inside the bamboo pavilion, a middle-aged man was sitting.

There are many such bamboo pavilions in southern Xinjiang.

There are a lot of native products in the land of Nanban, a piece of animal skin worth ten taels of silver, a mountain ginseng that only needs thirty taels of silver, sent to the hinterland of Shu, the value can be at least ten times doubled, plus the profit of transporting goods to southern Xinjiang, if you go on a trip, thirty times the profit is less.

Even if the land of southern Xinjiang is full of dangers, monsters and fierce birds are everywhere, and mountain bandits and robbers are infested, only half of the caravans can go back and forth safely at most, and they still attract countless merchant teams to come to pan for gold.

A large number of supplies needed by the barbarians, such as silk and silk cloth, salt and paper, iron pots, hoes, needles and threads, etc., were obtained from the merchants.

Such bamboo pavilions are often built next to mountain streams and rivers for merchants to rest, and many barbarians will wait near the bamboo pavilion to bring mountain goods and trade with past merchants.

A middle-aged man sat in the bamboo pavilion, with a halberd diagonally placed next to him, and a gourd on the stone table, pouring and drinking alone.

Although it looks a little strange for a person to appear in such a place, it will not make the Scorpion-Tailed Tiger Sky Cavalry vigilant.

Why did the Scorpion-Tailed Tiger Sky Cavalry scout think that the middle-aged man in the bamboo pavilion was looking for trouble?

The reason is very simple and very direct, there is a big tree next to the bamboo pavilion, and a few words are engraved on it with iron and silver hooks: where the bones of the Chu River are buried.