Lu Bu's expression was slightly stiff, but he remembered the fiasco of Xiapi, and at the same time, he knew that he had lost his family business by his own death, thinking that at the beginning, he had nearly 100,000 troops, even if he had the strength to fight with Cao Cao, the result was ......

Everyone else nodded in agreement, this is the truth, their less than 10,000 soldiers and horses are indeed not enough to defend Yanmen. There are more than 100,000 Xiongnu people who control the strings, and the Xianbei Iron Cavalry is known as hundreds of thousands, not to mention these, even Jinyang, there are nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses with high-level cadres.

Therefore, in comparison, Lu Chen's strength is too weak, and he is surrounded by hungry tigers and greedy wolves.

"However, can the expansion of the army improve the combat effectiveness? You are all long-term generals, so you naturally understand that it takes time for recruits to develop combat effectiveness, as well as the consumption of supplies. We don't have any of that right now. Lu Chen shook his head and said, "However, to improve combat effectiveness, you don't necessarily have to expand the army, now, you just need to train your soldiers well." Recruit new soldiers, and within a year, your combat effectiveness will definitely not be higher than your current combat effectiveness. Moreover, even if we double the army and have 20,000 mercenaries, and at the same time the combat effectiveness is also improved, will it be enough? 20,000 people, in the gap between the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Bingzhou, are also as light as a feather! ”

Everyone knows this truth and knows the difficulties of Yanmen, so they are a little depressed for a while.

At the beginning, when Lu Chen mentioned that he went north to Yanmen, everyone had no choice, but they all felt that Yanmen was located on the border and the pressure should be very small, but they ignored the fact that Yanmen was a northern fortress. The environment here is not much better than the original Xiapi, or even worse.

But for Lu Chen, this is very different. Here, Yuan Shao will be dragged by Cao Cao. Gongsun Chan joined forces again, so naturally he would not be targeted by Yuan Shao before the end of the Battle of Guandu. And after that, hehe......

Therefore, Lu Chen only needs to unite with the Southern Xiongnu to fight against Xianbei, although he has far fewer soldiers and horses than the Xiongnu, but Yanmen is a natural danger, in contrast, in defense, he is more stable than the Southern Xiongnu in Pingchuan. It was precisely because of the flat terrain of the Hetao that the Huns would be anxious to need Lu Chen's stirrups, horseshoes, and gunpowder. Improve combat power, that's why I'm joining forces with him. Otherwise, with Lu Chen's strength, it would be good if the Huns didn't bite him, and they would still be in the alliance? Also send the princess?

These deep-seated problems, Pang Tong knows, Chen Gong has heard about it, but it does not mean that other generals also understand, so. They were silent.

"But! It makes sense that military power cannot stand still. Lu Chen said, "Compared with expanding the army, I hope to use the least cost and time. Condense the highest combat effectiveness. For example, the new iron-smelting plant was set up to expand the Shenhuo Bureau, etc., to upgrade equipment, such as refining soldiers. Improve the combat capabilities of soldiers. As for the expansion of the army, it is not impossible! But. I want a force that has been condensed into combat effectiveness, not a group of people who only know how to eat. The eggs of the recruits who went to the battlefield to diaper crotch. ”

Everyone is suspicious, who will send you soldiers and horses?

Wen Chou glanced at Lu Chen a little shyly, and said in his heart, who would be so generous as me? Dragged the family and the mouth was abducted by you?

Zhao Yunxin said, don't you want Gongsun Zhan to send some white horse righteousness? Or, this time it was ready for the Huns to send?

"Tomorrow, prepare for a military exercise, and I will bring you a new force, 10,000 Hun iron cavalry! As long as we swallow these 10,000 cavalry, Yanmen will be able to become strong in an instant! Lu Chen sold enough passes, and finally spit out the truth.

"Drills? What drills? ”

"10,000 Hun iron horsemen? Where did it come from? The Huns lent us troops? ”

"Swallow them? Are the Huns coming to attack Yanmen? ”

Naturally, Lu Chen said something coldly, everyone was startled, but more were puzzled.

At this time, Lu Chen straightened his clothes, put on a divine stick that strategized to win thousands of miles, and said, "This matter is a long story......

"Liu Bao wants to come to Yanmen to get weapons, only with 300 cavalry, the Huns have already taken the opportunity to attack Hedong with Xiaojun, when the time comes, we will capture Liu Bao and force him to surrender. The Xiongnu shared Liu Bao's territory with us, the Xiongnu took the West River, we took the winter melon, and we could control tens of thousands of slaughtered people of all ethnic groups and tens of thousands of war horses in the east of the river. ”

Pang Tong has a wide body and a lung capacity, so he said it in one breath before Lu Chen.

Everyone suddenly realized, and they were eager to try.

Lu Bu hated it even more, he hated someone to deceive him the most in his life, last time he was deceived by Liu Bao to attack Meiji, which really made him unable to swallow this breath, and secretly said in his heart, this time he was going to kill Liu Bao's child.

And Zhang Yang's father and son glanced at each other, a little embarrassed, after all, Liu Bao was their former ally when they were in Hanoi, and Lu Chen also helped them when he went north. Lu Chen now wanted to eat Liu Bao's clan, which made them feel a little unkind, but given that Liu Bao deceived Lu Bu in front, they couldn't say anything. After all, Lu Chen can only be regarded as complaining, not revenge.

After the teasing, Pang Tong saw that Lu Chen was looking at him unhappily, and quickly shrunk his neck and said, "Xiao Junhou, you say, you say ......"

Lao Tzu said a fart, you have finished talking about it.

Lu Chen was speechless for a while, and the stunned Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and the others came to their senses, and they praised Pang for being calculating, worthy of being a military advisor, and Lu Chen was even more difficult to explain. This matter was Lu Chen's original intention, but Pang Tong also helped a lot with the details of the arrangement.

If it can really take down the tens of thousands of Tuge people in Hedong Liu Bao, it will undoubtedly be a leap forward for Yanmen, and the generals naturally have no objection to this.

Lu Chen said his plan for tomorrow again, and the generals dispersed and went back to the camp to fight their horses.

……

Following.

The sun was hot, and Lu Chen drank a big bowl of iced sour plum soup before going out.

I don't know where he got a white coat, a goose feather fan in his hand, no armor, and a sleek scribe's costume to the extreme. I heard Lu Zhan say that it was a wedding dress prepared for him, and he tried it on in advance, but Rao had some excuses, and others rolled their eyes. The most bizarre thing is that Lu Chen didn't ride a horse, but made a carriage out of the city.

Pang Tongyi was so frightened that he jumped back, and subconsciously lowered his head and picked up a stone to rush up, the little fat man instantly burst with attack power and a hideous face, and then, after he saw that the other party was Lu Chen, he threw the stone angrily, and muttered angrily: "What kind of clothes are you wearing?" If you hadn't been darker, taller, and stronger than that pretend, I'd almost crush you to death. ”

Lu Chen didn't realize that his dress as a wise saint and martial marquis almost led to death, and he waited for the car to leave the city with pride.

Outside the city, Liu Bao arrived with three hundred elite horses, Lu Chen went to greet him, and there were not many people with him, that is, eighteen horsemen and two hundred light cavalry soldiers of Cao Xing.

However, he said that Liu Bao came to Mayi and did not enter the city because he encountered big trouble on the road and was on guard.

He only brought 300 elite horsemen to Mayi this time, plus 2,000 slaves to follow by car, which was originally used to transport weapons, but as a result, after they passed Fenyang the day before yesterday, they were surrounded by a large group of Xiongnu iron cavalry. The Hun cavalry did not stop his elite horsemen, but intercepted two thousand slaves and cut off his way back. Liu Bao couldn't return to Hedong directly, so he had to come to Yanmen hard, speaking of which, Liu Bao couldn't go back, and he didn't dare to go to Bingzhou, he was driven to Yanmen by Hu Chuquan's subordinates.

But in his mind, Lu Bu attacked Meiji, and a few days ago, the Xiongnu were besieging Yanmen Pass, and not long after the army was dismissed, Lu Chen should not join forces with the Xiongnu to deal with him.

Rao is like this, Liu Bao also because he was yin to Lu Bu at the beginning, he was somewhat weak-hearted, and he didn't dare to enter the city directly-

(To be continued......)