The Changding Army is now a three-front war, and the Nuhai Sea in the south and Panyue in the west are established strategic goals, and it is impossible to put them down.

There is endless wealth on the sea, rich in materials, and the land in the west is rich in minerals, as long as it is eaten, it can provide a steady stream of resources to Tianshui County to ensure the consumption of war.

Nowadays, the source of materials for the Chu River is still steel trade.

Once it really participates in the war, it will be impossible for the Standing Army to stop, and others will definitely sit on the ground and get a large number of steel soldiers from the Standing Army.

The problem is that the steel soldiers are the foundation of the Standing Army, and they are also an important basis for the Standing Army to maintain the strategy of elite troops, and it is impossible to sell them in large quantities.

In order not to be caught by others in terms of materials, it is necessary to open up new territory and ensure that the supply of materials is sufficient.

As long as the materials are not a problem, the source of soldiers will never lag behind, and there is never a shortage of people who join the army in times of war.

Even if the war accumulation of the Changding Army has been extremely thick, the war on the third front is also stretched, and the real focus of the Changding Army is still the Nuhai Front, the Western Regions Front, and the Tongtianhe Battlefield, which is mainly based on military training.

Chu He understands very well that the main forces resisting the Shu army today are still the Sanzhou Coalition Army, the Southern Barbarian Army and the Yellow Turban Army, and the Changding Army is more of a soy sauce player.

The principle of the Tongtianhe front in the north is very simple: the strategy of elite troops, focusing on fighting and nurturing the war, training troops, supplemented by conscription, and striving to expand the number of soldiers and horses on the Tongtianhe front to more than 100,000 within three years.

In fact, the Tongtianhe front has been fighting to the current situation, and the historical trajectory that has been detached is completely different from what is said in the romance.

According to the romance, now Zhuge Liang has ended the counterinsurgency war and is preparing for the northern expedition.

The Southern Barbarian Army was supported by the armor of the Changding Army, and the original unarmed barbarian soldiers turned into strong soldiers with sharp armor, resisting the advance of the two counterinsurgency armies and the great influence of the Dashu counterinsurgency army.

Under the deliberate guidance of the Yellow Turban Army, Wang Yan's troops, who were defending Yongchang City, left Yongchang City and entered the hinterland of southern Xinjiang, which made the Shu counterinsurgency army lose a strong army in the enemy's position, and once again slowed down the pace of the counterinsurgency army's southward movement.

Originally, the Yongzhou army disrupted the rear of the Southern Barbarian Army, but the appearance of the Changding Army made the Yongzhou Army have to flee the mountains.

The sudden rise of the Changding army made Zhuge Liang's plan to make up for the loopholes, but he missed one after another, but forced the Changding army to directly participate in the war to maintain the majesty of the Chu River.

Before deciding to send troops, Zhuge Liang didn't have to calculate the situation on Qinzhou's side, the problem was that Chu He was too weak at that time, just a strong bone realm martial artist, and he still had a village protection team and a hunting team of more than 100 people in his hands, and he was going to Qinzhou to study, so he couldn't have the slightest impact on the battle situation at all.

The unexpected thing is that the development speed of Chu River is too rapid in the future.

In the end, the derivation of the spell is just a derivation, it is impossible to be 100% correct, and if everything is to be carried out according to the deference, Zhuge Liang must constantly revise everything, including the plan to clear the Chu River.

Today's war situation is so complicated that even Chu He, who knows the trend of history, cannot judge the future trend.

Soldiers are impermanent, a butterfly can flap its wings, and it can roll up a storm, in fact, it is difficult for Zhuge Liang to make a correct judgment now.

This battle is too complicated and chaotic, not only the internal battle of Shu, or the invasion of Great Wei and Wu, but also the scale of millions of soldiers and horses, which cannot be predicted by manpower.

In order to truly solve the Changding army that caused all the chaos, Zhuge Liang had to summon Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, the most powerful generals of Shu State, to the battlefield of Tongtian River, as long as the Chu River was solved, everything would be back on track.

The Scorpion Tail Wing Tiger Air Cavalry has been exposed in the first battle of Chu River's promotion, so this time Chu He personally led the army to the Tongtian River battlefield and led the Qianyuan Guard, including the Scorpion Tail Wing Tiger Air Cavalry, as well as the newly formed Nanshan Guard.

The time for the formation of the new army formed by the Standing Army is unusually short.

For an ordinary army, three years is relatively early from the formation of an army to the formation of combat effectiveness, but for a standing army, as long as it undergoes three months of training, it can be pulled to the battlefield for a walk.

The reason is very simple: The skeleton of the new army is composed of veterans, and the veterans have all undergone strict discipline training, and it is easy for a veteran to lead 10 recruits and teach them by word and deed, so it is easy to instill the concept of discipline into the recruits.

Coupled with strict military training, 1,000 veterans can bring out 10,000 new troops in a short time, and then 10,000 veterans can bring out 100,000 new soldiers, as long as the logistics and materials can keep up, the speed of the riot soldiers is extremely amazing!

Chu Qianzhong and Zhuang Zhongneng gave the answer that satisfied Chu He.

The pressure on the arsenal is extremely great, and it needs to deliver more than 10,000 steel soldiers to the Yellow Turban Army, and it has to speed up the research and construction of 10,000 sea ships.

Although the arsenal can make steel on a large scale, the mining of iron ore and the creation of armor require a lot of manpower and material resources.

If it weren't for the mention of the Chu River, the craftsmen had developed a hydraulic punch and a hydraulic hammer, which could forge plate armor, greatly increasing the speed of steel armor building, and the First Arsenal would not be able to complete the forging task.

A large number of armor was transported to each guard, and the elite soldiers and horses were armed, and the Qianyuan Guard and Nanshan Guard were next preparing for battle.

Today's Tongtian River battlefield already has the Panshi Guard and Dragon Blood Guard led by Long Ji and Jiang Wei, with a total of more than 20,000 people, plus the Qianyuan Guard of Chu River and the Nanshan Guard of Wu Shizhu, the number of soldiers and horses can reach 50,000, which can definitely be said to be a force that can affect the battle situation.

In addition, Chu Wu's Aoki Wei and Xiang Xiong's Jiang Wuwei were also preparing to march in the direction of Shan and Panyue, and the strategic goal was to cover the thousands of square meters from Huyaling west to Shan and Panyue within the strength of the Changding Army within one year.

Chu Wu and Xiang Xiong's tasks are equally heavy.

In this land of the Western Regions, the folk customs are extremely strong, the Qiang people and savages are all over the place, and it is extremely difficult to tame them without education, even if they occupy this vast area by force, it is still an extremely difficult thing to tame the natives and return them to Tianshui County.

If one is not good, it will even make the Changding army fall into the whirlpool of war and be unable to extricate itself, not only will it not be able to get benefits from the Western Regions, but it will also continuously consume the resources of Tianshui County.

With the departure of the army, there were thousands of scribes and officials, bringing thousands of books and canons of various kinds, and every time they occupied the land of the Western Regions, they left the literati and officials to establish a government and try to subdue the barbarian forces.

On the side of Yizhou, on the side of the Zhu family ancestral hall, a clan meeting is being held.

The Zhu family is in Yizhou, although it is not a wealthy family, but it is also a rich family, with millions of family wealth, hundreds of clansmen, many martial arts and Confucian children, and even two martial arts masters and bachelors in the realm of four grades.

With such strength, in ordinary times, the Zhu family is quite good, but now that wars are raging, the Zhu family, a small and medium-sized family with empty wealth and insufficient strength, has become a fragrant bun in the eyes of those in power, and has been forcibly requisitioned several times for military salaries.

Patriarch Zhu Dazheng looked at more than a dozen elders of the Zhu family and the heads of the side families with a solemn face, as well as a few representatives of the relatives who came over: "The yamen is here again, this time it is enough to collect 300,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stone rice grain to help the army resist Shu." ”

"The patriarch summoned everyone to the ancestral hall for a meeting, firstly, he hoped that everyone would work together to raise rice, grain, money and silver to cope with this requisition, and secondly, he planned to remove some of the young clansmen who had violated the clan rules from the family tree and let them leave Yizhou City. ”

Originally, the son-in-law of the Zhu family, such as Yin Song, was not qualified to participate in the Zhu family's clan conference, but now at an unusual time, the Zhu family still has to use the power of these relatives to raise money and food, so Yin Song and others were also invited.

Zhu Wang, who was sitting upright under Zhu Da, frowned: "Big brother, it's not a way to go on like this, since Lord Yonghong raised an army against Shu, he has already levied three military salaries from our Zhu family, adding up to 400,000 taels of silver and 30,000 stone rice grain!"

He sighed and said with some resentment: "Such three or four requisitions, we have already drained our Zhu family's surplus silver, and we need to sell the fields and shops to raise it, and this time the requisition of 300,000 silver taels and 10,000 stone rice grains is to dig up the roots of our Zhu family!"

Zhu Da smiled bitterly: "What else can we do?

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

The fate of the Ma family is miserable, and the rich families in Yizhou know it.

The Ma family is in Yizhou City, and they are definitely representatives of wealthy businessmen, with tens of millions of family wealth, thousands of private soldiers, and several strong family members.

It is precisely because he has such a strong confidence that he is quite dissatisfied with Yonghong's collection of military salaries, and he complained a few words at the labor army meeting, and when the tax soldiers came to the door, they forcibly disabled more than a dozen tax soldiers.

As a result, that night, 5,000 Yizhou troops surrounded Mafu, and ten fire dragon cannons turned the entire ten-inclination area of Mafu into a sea of fire, and thousands of people in the Ma family were burned to charcoal.

Those powerful Ma family powerhouses, although they broke out of the sea of fire, were also captured by the masters of the Yizhou army, and then their limbs were cut off and hung above the city gate, and their strong vitality made them survive for four days before they died.

The Yizhou army took out the gold and silver from the ashes of the Ma family and transported hundreds of carts, many of which had been burned into pieces, and there were even blood stains on them!

Since then, the opposition of the rich households in Yizhou has disappeared in an instant, and the requisition and transfer of military salaries and materials by the Yizhou army has become extremely smooth, and I don't know how many small and medium-sized rich households have gone bankrupt in the requisition and have to sell all their fields and shops to the wealthy families in Yizhou.

Unlike the decline of the small and medium-sized wealthy families, those real powerful clans are growing in this turmoil, and the entire Yizhou City is firmly grasped by the ten major gate valve families, including the Chen family where Chen Bao is located.

A strong man covered in horizontal meat snorted coldly: "Lord Yonghong can't take away all the wealth we have accumulated for hundreds of years with a single sentence, even if our Zhu family has millions of dollars and silver, we can't help such repeated requisition!"

"In what name is the government collecting money this time?"

Zhu Da thought for a while: "It seems that he is buying armor from a senior official named Chu He in Tianshui County to supplement the army's weapons, and it is impossible for the government to explain the specific situation to us in detail." ”

After being silent for a long time, another purple-robed middle-aged man with a purple sarcoma on his forehead smiled bitterly: "I think everyone still manages to get together, get through the difficulties in front of us first, and then say, the tax soldiers from the government are waiting for us to reply outside." ”

He paused slightly, then hesitated and said, "Yizhou is not a place to stay for a long time, we have to try to get out of Yizhou City." ”

Zhu Da shook his head: "How can I go!"

"Since Jiangwu Village left, many people have followed suit, so that the government has issued a military order, no scholar merchant is allowed to leave the place, and the offender will be punished for treason. ”

Zhu Da looked around, and lowered his voice slightly: "This time, the patriarch plans to fire some of his sons and let them become the white bodies of the Shu clan, and see if he can take some money and silver to make a living elsewhere, even if something happens to our Zhu family, it will not break the blood of the Zhu family." ”

Zhu Wang sighed: "For today's plan, it can only be like this." But in this world, where is there any stable place outside, I am afraid that our children will be killed by the rebels and bandits before they can find a place to settle out, and they will go out with money and silver!"

After everyone heard this, they all showed their relatives, and then they reported the value of money, silver, rice and grain that could be paid in threes and threes, and Yin Song, a relative who came to take refuge, also gritted his teeth and took out 10,000 taels of silver.

This time, he took refuge with his family and brought 100,000 taels of silver and 1,000 stones of rice over.

But there is no way, if he is unwilling to collect money and silver, he will evil the Zhu family and be driven out by the Zhu family, and the end will only be worse.

However, after talking about the money donated by vinegar, Yin Song also put forward a request, that is, the quota for the Zhu family to go out and move elsewhere this time, and the Yin family wanted ten.

Yin Song, who returned to the mansion, had a heavy face and seemed to be preoccupied.

The Zhu family did not treat the Yin family badly, one was a mansion with an area of ten acres, which was directly allocated to the people of the Yin family, which was enough for the hundreds of people of the Yin family to live and eat.

In fact, the Yin family is not a small family, there are more than 200 clansmen, in the past, in the land of southern Xinjiang, to buy mountain goods from the natives, resell them to merchants in the hinterland of Shu, or bring goods to various states and counties, and also accumulated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Unfortunately, when the war broke out, the situation of Han merchants like the Yin family in southern Xinjiang became extremely difficult, and even many Han merchants were robbed and killed by the barbarians.

Such a long-distance migration was full of crises, more than 200 people, and when they arrived in Yizhou City, only more than 180 people remained.

Yin Song couldn't imagine that the situation in Yizhou City was not much better in southern Xinjiang, and after arriving in Yizhou, he knew that the Yizhou army had also rebelled, but it was not easy to leave.

In order to continue the family bloodline, the Zhu family needs to disperse the clansmen, and Yin Song is the same, so he asked Zhu Da for ten places.

Back in the study, Yin Song asked the slave to serve him a bowl of strong tea, and then ordered the slave to call his wife, two sons, and a daughter.