Just as Wei was afraid that the Shu army would attack Guanzhong, Shu was also worried that the Wei army would go out of the pass and make trouble. To the east of Tiger Pass, there is a vast land waiting for the Shu army to recover. Liu Hou naturally didn't want to be stabbed in the back when he bent down to pick up a bargain.

Based on this consideration, he ordered Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army to hold under the Tiger Pass, so that they could not only make small moves from time to time, but also make it look like they wanted to attack the city, so that the Wei army was always in a tense state, and the key was that they could not easily go out of the pass and make trouble.

In this way, Liu Hou can calmly take over half of China's territory. You must know that before Liu Hou led the army to fight for life and death, he only occupied half of Jingzhou and half of Yuzhou's territory, and this time Cao Pi left, leaving Yanzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, Sizhou, Xuzhou and part of Yuzhou and Yangzhou (the other part of Yangzhou was occupied by Wu). In the land of several states, Wei Guo said that he would abandon it at once, which was definitely a stupid move in Liu Hou's opinion.

Such a large territory, such a large population, and so many resources are absolutely fundamental to the struggle for world domination. What's even worse is that Cao Pi left in a hurry, and he didn't have time to transfer his property, and these things are now cheap Liu Hou. This is the reason why Liu Hou is not worried about financial problems, as mentioned in the previous chapter, because there is half of China's money and grain waiting for him to receive.

However, in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Wei State, this trick is a trick that can survive in a desperate situation. Several Wei nerds~ may have been influenced by the idea that "the land in Guanzhong is the foundation of the emperor's hegemony" to make such a suggestion. "Historical Records" records, "The land of Guanzhong is one-third of the world, and the number of people is only three." However, if you measure your wealth, you will be sixth".

It means that the land of Guanzhong only accounts for one-third of the land and about 30 percent of the population, but the wealth accounts for 60 percent of the world, so the land of Hanzhong has the economic foundation to compete for hegemony in the world. In addition to the economic base, there are also important geographical bases:

Guanzhong is the land of four stops: there are steep Qinling Mountains in the south, Tongguan and the Yellow River in the east are protected by natural hazards, in the west are the lofty mountains of Longshan and Liupan Mountains, and in the north are the Meridian Mountains and Huanglong Mountains on the northern Shaanxi Plateau.

There are three main routes to enter Guanzhong from the Central Plains: North Road: out of the east of the river, cross the Yellow River from Pubanjin to the west; Middle Road: Follow the main road and enter through Tongguan; South Road: Go south to Wancheng first, detour to Wuguan and Lantian to enter in a roundabout way.

Guanzhong can be attacked, retreated and defended, forming an excellent situation of "controlling the inside and guarding the outside". Occupying Guanzhong means mastering the "essentials" of the world and choking the "throat" of Kyushu.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "one hundred and two Qin Passes", with the dangerous terrain in the pass, with 20,000 soldiers can resist the attack of a million troops. In particular, attacking Guanzhong from the Central Plains to the east was basically an unfavorable situation of attacking from the back.

Wang Lang, Zhong Xuan, Hua Xin and other nerds ~ Zi Wei State important ministers explained to Cao Pi the economy, geography and other conditions in Guanzhong, and "take history as a mirror", cited historical examples as evidence, the first example is naturally Qin, they said: "Qin to the land of Guanzhong, day and night to hunt the six countries, more than a hundred years, all birds wiped out." ”

It means that the Qin State, relying on the (fertile) land of Guanzhong, trampled the Six Kingdoms to the east day and night, and in more than a hundred years, it wiped out all of them. Since the Qin Empire unified China with Guanzhong as a base, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, also relied on the geographical advantages of Guanzhong to unify the whole country.

The Shu army was pressing forward step by step, the Wei army was retreating step by step, and Cao Pi felt that the Wei State was already at the end of the road, and no matter how many troops were sent, they could not stop the advance of the Shu army. The elite of Wei was almost wiped out, let alone holding a few states, even if it was the capital of Xuchang at that time, he had no confidence to hold it.

In addition, he was fooled by a few nerds~ Zi Chongchen who was reasonable and gave examples, and Cao Pi was finally convinced. In fact, he still has illusions in his heart: Qin Guo and Liu Bang can both start from the land of Guanzhong, why can't they themselves? Therefore, he resolutely gave up the Guanwai Da~ Pian Huahua World and ran to Guanzhong Taoguang to raise his obscurity, in order to make a comeback.

However, these nerds~ Zi Chongchen did not take into account that Qin and Liu Bang started their careers, not only occupying the relevant middle, but also Hanzhong and Shu. How can it be possible to support the need to dominate the world just by relying on the resources of Guanzhong. And now, Guanzhong and Shudi are still surnamed Liu, what do they use as the foundation of the emperor's hegemony?

What's even worse is that after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's destruction, Guanzhong's livelihood has long since lost its prosperity. Although Cao Cao has vigorously developed over the years, he has never been able to return to the state of his heyday. In this case, Wei State hid in Guanzhong, but it was just relying on the terrain of the "four stops" to survive, and it was purely nerdy ~ YY to want to come out again to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains.

Cao Pi's faint move just helped Liu Hou a lot, no longer had to attack city by city like before, and now he could let go of his hands and feet to do a big job.

Liu Hou gave a month to complete the reorganization of the troops, and then ordered them to start taking over the territory of the above-mentioned states. The combat effectiveness of the troops that have just been formed for a month will definitely be greatly reduced, especially when the weapons and equipment are not yet fully in place. But now there is no time to wait for them to slowly train into elites, so they can only march and train at the same time.

It may be easier to have them train on the march, in the garrison, in battle, and it may be more effective. Actual combat drills are better than talking on paper. As for the security issue, the problem is not very big, the Wei court hid in the pass, and the Wei ~ army in these states was either drawn to resist the Shu army before, or followed Cao Pi to retreat into the pass, and the rest were the old, weak, sick and disabled local garrisons.

Even many county towns do not have a formed army, only a few people are left to maintain law and order, how many resistance forces can there be in such a place? Therefore, it can be expected that there will not be many battles to be fought along the way, and the troops will go to long-distance training at all.

All the divisions were dispersed, and the regiments were used as units to receive the counties, and when they arrived at the county seats, they even had to be divided into battalions to receive the county seats. The five divisions have a total of 45 regiments, and 45 counties can be conquered in one go, so it seems that the day of unifying the world is not far off.

Each unit was accompanied by a proclamation officer and a number of civil officials. The proclamator is to persuade the surrender with the holy decree, and everything must pay attention to the salute before the soldiers. The civil affairs officer takes over the local civil administration. Both of these are civil officials, and most of them are graduates of Dahan Longteng Academy.

Due to the increasing territory occupied by the Shu army, the number of civilian officials needed has also increased sharply, so graduates who graduated from this academy are very sought-after, and basically they can become a sesame mung bean petty official as soon as they graduate, and this situation is similar to the package distribution. This reality has stimulated an unprecedented increase in the enthusiasm of the public to apply for the college.

Many eunuchs have withdrawn their private schools and sent their children to study at the academy. Not to mention the poor people, if they want to change their fate in the future, they will go to school, which has almost become a common understanding. This has also led to the fact that the college has been expanding its enrollment every year, but it has not been able to meet the requirements.