Although Fang Zihao is only the captain of the second-grade reconnaissance battalion, this second-grade official position is not the official position of the second-grade county commander and Yamen general of Shu State.

In the official system of Shu State, the commander can only lead a thousand soldiers and horses at most, and Tianshui County is a low-level and high-level match, Fang Zihao, the captain, has two thousand scout elites under his command, plus the Qianyuanwei background of the root and Miao Hong, the power in his hands is even more prosperous than the Ya Goalkeeper and Zhonglang General of Shu.

You must know that in the Tianshui County system, the highest position is now the five-rank official position.

The thirty scorpion-tailed tiger cavalry that Chu He transferred to Fang Zihao from the Qianyuan Guard were all cultivators of the triple golden bell jar, and they all condensed martial courage.

Moreover, the martial arts are all biased towards hidden attributes, such as swift martial arts, latent martial arts, eagle eye martial arts, etc., and when it comes to the task of lurking and snooping, Fang Zihao himself is a dual talent of latent shadow and inspired martial arts.

Another role of Chu He's Heavenly Eye was highlighted.

As a commander or even an emperor, his own ability can be limited, but there is one most important quality that must not be lacking, that is, knowing people and making good use of them.

Liu Da'er is not as good as Cao Mengde in terms of strategy, not as good as Sun Zhongmou in terms of force, and not as good as these two heroes in terms of family background, but he can rise among many powerful men and occupy one-third of the land of Kyushu, because he knows how to use people!

Chu He has an eye in the sky, it is easy to see the details of a person's potential, and then put it in the right position to experience one or two, observe his true ability and ability, and it is easy to tap talents.

As for whether he can get the loyalty of the other party, it depends on Chu He's own wrist and mind.

The other 2,000 soldiers and horses in the reconnaissance battalion are also the elite selected from the guards, and they are good at horsemanship, so the combat power led by Fang Zihao is not weak, and hundreds of scout teams monitor the situation near Tianshui County strictly.

Ten days ago, the scout troops of the Yongzhou Army entered the vicinity of Tianshui County for 300 miles and were discovered by the reconnaissance battalion.

When the news of the Yongzhou army came back, Chu He was not sure, he didn't want to burn the war on himself, and planned to make a fortune in silence, so he didn't make a move against the scout team of the Yongzhou army.

Now that the Yongzhou army is approaching Tianshui County, Chu He can't think of it.

Hearing Chu He's announcement, Fang Zihao had already prepared, took two steps forward with a volume of documents, and came out one by one the news detected by the reconnaissance battalion.

In the past few years, in addition to improving the army's armed forces, Chu River has not fallen behind.

The saying that knowledge is power is understood by later generations is that an army without culture has no combat effectiveness, so generals and leaders above the rank of commander in the army must go through literacy education and receive literary training at Changding Academy.

Chu He does not require them to master the power of the true text and holy words, nor does it require them to master the way of people's livelihood governance, but they must know the commonly used words, at least they can understand various military newspapers and the like.

In today's Changding Academy, it is common to see a seven-foot man and a three-foot child reciting the three-character scripture in the same school, silently writing the surnames of hundreds of families, and often seeing a military general with a red face, beaten by an old scholar who has no power to catch a chicken.

Such a strange situation has become a joke in the streets of Changding Township.

However, the literacy eradication program forcibly carried out by Chu He has indeed greatly improved the quality of the Standing Army and the combat effectiveness of the Standing Army.

The 3,000 books he provided were the three major enlightenment books for later generations, and the two experienced scholars of the fourth grade, Jing Xiong and Zhu Sheng, were carefully taught, and the scholars and Confucian scholars from Qinzhou were quite good, so the literacy program implemented in the army was quite smoothly implemented.

Fang Zihao was able to serve as the battalion commander of the reconnaissance battalion, and he had obtained the rank of lieutenant of the second grade, so he naturally underwent a literacy education, and even listened to lectures in the same school with his two sons and daughters who were only seven or eight years old, I don't know how many times he was envied and laughed at by his colleagues.

"According to the information learned by the reconnaissance battalion, this Yongzhou army, led by the Yongzhou Prefecture Mu Wang, the six-rank Xuandan Grand Master, ranked 27th on the Hidden Dragon List, and the combat power is quite good, and there are many generals under his command, such as Lu Kai and Wang Du......"

"The Yongzhou army was trapped by the combined forces of Yizhou, Yuezhou, and Qizhou to defend Yongchang City...... Hundreds of thousands of Sanzhou coalition troops attacked for several months without success, and then the Yongzhou army withdrew from Yongchang, with tens of thousands of remnants, along the Qinzhou border line south, into the Nanban region......"

"The Yongzhou army went all the way south, and fought many battles with the Nanban army on the way, each with casualties...... In the process of wandering, many small resistance forces scattered in Qinzhou and Yongzhou were recruited. ”

"When we entered the southern frontier, the army continued to expand, and now it has 13 to 150,000 soldiers and horses, including 80,000 elite troops and more than 40,000 cavalry...... According to the judgment of the reconnaissance battalion, the strength of this Yongzhou army far exceeded the 200,000 Yellow Turban Army that attacked Fenglai County at the beginning. ”

Although Qinzhou, Yongzhou, Baozhou, Wangzhou, etc., are all under the control of the anti-Shu coalition army, because the prefectures and counties are basically vast and sparsely populated, and the mountains and mountains are densely forested, and the anti-Shu coalition army has millions of soldiers and horses, it is impossible to completely eliminate the resistance forces in the territory.

Therefore, Wang Yan's army has become the hope of all the resistance forces, and many resistance forces have come to vote when they hear the news.

Even those forces who were unwilling to join the Yongzhou Army, for fear of attracting the main force of the Southern Barbarian Army to encircle and suppress it, secretly reported to the Yongzhou Army, providing soldiers with armor, food and grass, etc.

Therefore, the Yongzhou army did not become weaker and weaker in the war, but its military strength was greatly improved.

Tianshui County is located in a corner, located in the narrowest and southernmost part of Qinzhou, and on the edge is the southern territory of Qinzhou pierced into Qinzhou like a sword, so the source is quite backward and single.

The attention of the reconnaissance team was focused on reconnoitring the situation in the vicinity, and they did not know much about the situation of this Yongzhou army, and they did not know that the Yongzhou army left Yongchang City under the deliberate indulgence of the Yellow Turban Army.

Now Fang Zihao has read a lot of the news from the Southern Barbarian Army, and it is difficult to judge the authenticity.

Tianshui County is part of Qinzhou, which borders Yongzhou, and between the two is the southern territory between the two states.

The Yongzhou army went south and entered the land of southern Xinjiang, and it was difficult for the southern barbarian army to exterminate this army, and seeing that the Chu River had no reaction, they took advantage of the attention of the troubled water to the east and forced the Yongzhou army to the side of Tianshui County.

I have to say that Zhang Jiao's scheming is amazing, he can easily bewitch millions of soldiers and horses, and the reactions of the Yongzhou Army and even the Southern Barbarian Army are all in his plan.

Qin Shengnan is the martial sect of Qinzhou, and he is still relatively clear about the situation in Yongzhou, and when he heard Fang Zihao say about the situation of the Yongzhou army, he was a little stunned.

"What's the matter with the Yizhou army and others? Is the 300,000 army all mud men? If the Yongzhou army is trapped in Yongchang City, it will even let Wang Yan lead tens of thousands of troops to get out of trouble and leave?"

She has always had a straightforward personality, and she is known as a poisonous tongue in Qinzhou, even if she arrives in Tianshui County, her personality has converged a lot, and she still can't help but scold.

Chu He was slightly stunned, in his opinion, it was normal for the army to break through, there were anti-Shu armies everywhere on the front line of the Tongtian River, and Wang Yan's Yongzhou army could only flee towards the hinterland of the Southern Barbarians and Tianshui County.

But listening to Qin Shengnan's tone, it seems that there is still some inside story?

He couldn't help asking, "General Qin, is there a problem in it?"

Although he and Qin Shengnan have a master-apprentice relationship, on such a formal occasion, they will not be commensurate with master and apprentice.

Qin Shengnan frowned and said: "The terrain of Yongchang City is very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in the same way, it is by no means easy to get out of Yongchang City. ”

"There are 300,000 Sanzhou coalition troops trapped, even if Wang Yan leads 100,000 troops to break out of the city, it is impossible to leave with tens of thousands of elites, and the biggest possibility is that the 100,000 army will be wiped out!"

In the end, she has considerable military literacy, and she has also fought several battles with the Southern Barbarian Army and the Yellow Turban Army in Qinzhou City, and she has a considerable understanding of military warfare, and asserts: "There must be something strange about Wang Yan being able to retreat from Yongchang City." ”

"Could it be that the Three-State Alliance, as well as the Southern Barbarian Army, etc., deliberately let them enter the land of Southern Xinjiang and lure them to attack our Tianshui County?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was awe-inspiring.

Although Qin Shengnan said it scary, no one thought she was alarmist.

Don't look at the fact that Chu He has formed an alliance with the Southern Barbarian Army, and he can be regarded as a part of the anti-Shu soldiers, but the relationship between the various anti-Shu forces can by no means be harmonious.

In fact, the grievances and hatred between the Changding Army and the Yellow Turban Army were even deeper than the expected enemy of the Shu Army.

Of course, it is impossible to hide the trade between the Changding Army and the Southern Barbarian Army, and the strength of the Changding Army must also be clear to the Yellow Turban Army.

The Tri-State Coalition Army and the Yellow Turban Army will definitely not allow the Standing Ding Army to thrive behind them, causing a great instability factor in their backs.

Even the Southern Barbarian Army may not be reliable!

If the Changding army is allowed to grow stronger, once it accepts the surrender of the Shu army and stabs the anti-Shu army in the back, the consequences will be serious.

The United States in later generations can make a lot of war money in a world war, and it is not that no one sees this, and the reason why we have to watch the United States get rich is because the United States itself has extremely powerful power.

If the United States is not strong enough, the result will definitely be annexed by those powerful countries and become its own logistics and supplies!

Jiang Wei, the general, also stood up at this time, and said in a deep voice: "General Qin is right, we have to guard against it!"

Chu He pondered for a moment: "From the marching route of the Yongzhou Army, the target must be our Tianshui County. The consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops is extremely amazing, and only our Tianshui County can satisfy the appetite of the Yongzhou army!"

"No matter how this Yongzhou army got to the vicinity of Tianshui County, the only thing we can do is to defend this Yongzhou army outside Tianshui County, and not let him enter Tianshui County for half a step!

Chu He's eyes majestically glanced at the many generals and civil officials in the main hall, and then his expression became solemn.

"Now it seems that whether it is the Sanzhou Coalition Army or the Southern Barbarian Army, they can't rely on it, and even have to prevent them from making trouble secretly, what we are thinking about now is how to face the Yongzhou Army!"

War is a gold-swallowing beast, a cannon sounded gold ten thousand taels This is by no means an exaggeration, although Tianshui County got a huge amount of silver taels from the hands of the Southern Barbarian Army, but the cost is also extremely large, just to buy millions of young and strong prisoners of war, etc., it used tens of millions of taels of silver.

Although the Changding army could refine a large amount of steel, it was not obtained out of thin air, and it was necessary to spend manpower to dig iron ore and coal mines, etc., and it was necessary to control the sales of steel, so as not to obtain a large amount of steel from the Southern Barbarian Army, which was beyond the level that the Changding army could handle.

One step further, selling steel in exchange for not only silver taels, but also various pills, grains, grasses, war materials, etc., is also an astronomical amount.

With so much income, the maintenance of this equipment has exceeded the standing army of any army, and the consumption of various military salaries is also extremely amazing.

The four guards of the rock, the military salary of ordinary soldiers, plus rice grain, totaled two taels of silver, the veteran was promoted to three taels, and the elite was five taels of silver.

On the side of the abyss, ten taels of silver starts, and the elite of the triple golden bell jar reaches fifty taels of silver a month!

Chu He now regrets a little that the military salary given for recruiting soldiers and horses was a bit high, but to reduce the military salary will definitely greatly affect the morale of the army.

If even a martial artist who has cultivated martial arts, or even a martial artist who has already reached the three-rank blood condensation realm, can't get much silver, who will join the Changding Army to serve Chu He?

The third-grade martial artist casually went out to hunt some beasts and fierce birds, or gave the wealthy family of the scholar clan to protect the courtyard, and three or two hundred silver a month was a breeze.

Chu He had to separate the salary levels in order to increase the training enthusiasm of the sergeants, which was extremely expensive.

Today, the monthly military salary expenditure alone exceeds 500,000 yuan, which is 6 million a year.

Moreover, for an army with equipment as king, the real big head is not military salary.

Even if the steel armor and steel soldiers equipped by the army are all refined by Chu He himself, but just counting the cost of iron, coal and labor, the equipment on an ordinary soldier is more than three thousand taels, and 50,000 soldiers and horses are 150 million taels of silver, not to mention the consumption of mounts and other aspects.

Only at this time did Chu He know why it was impossible to form an all-martial army of more than 10,000 people with the strength of a single country.

The cost of 150 million taels of silver, the annual expenditure of tens of millions, who can support it?

It is not that the power of the Three Kingdoms cannot gather thirty or twenty thousand warriors, it is entirely because the huge consumption is unbearable for them, and in peacetime, there is no need to spend huge sums of money to maintain such an army.

The reason why the Changding Army has such a scale is that it is supported by the financial resources and materials of the entire Qinzhou and even Baozhou and other places in disguise, and there are cheats in their hands to make iron into steel.

Don't look at the Changding army is thriving now and has sufficient financial resources, but in fact, Chu Quan has already made a deal with Chu He, and now the silver taels that can be used are only eight million, but other material reserves, especially rice and grain, are extremely large.

Of course, there is no such strong army in peacetime, and it is not necessarily in wartime.

With the sudden rise of the Standing Army, it is conceivable that the Three Kingdoms will definitely fall into an arms race, and such a strong army will definitely appear more and more in front of the world.

It's like in the future, once there is a big war, all kinds of powerful weapons will appear one after another.