"I heard that Wuguan is in the hands of our army, the lord can set his sights on the Guanzhong area, at present, the area near Chang'an is Cao Cao's territory, our army and Cao Cao have long been mortal enemies, attacking Guanzhong is just lice and not afraid of itching, but if you attack other princes, it is to add an enemy to yourself, before the lord is fledgling, it is really not suitable to make enemies in many ways!" 、

After Qin Feng heard this, he said: "I intend to send someone to Hanzhong to meet Zhang Lu, if Zhang Lu accepts, I will take the army to join him, I don't know what Mr. thinks?" ”

Xu Shu shook his head and said: "Lord, I think it's inappropriate, and no matter how Zhang Lu is, even if he is a corporal and sincerely accepts, but the life after the lord brings people over may not be easy, this is one of them!" ”

"Second, although the land in Hanzhong is fertile and the products are rich, the territory is too small, and the lord is under the eaves of the house, and he is not allowed to display his martial arts and ambitions!"

"Third, there are now more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under the command of the lord, the strength is not big, but it is not small, this time to Hanzhong, although Zhang Lu is not easy to refuse, but he must also secretly guard against the lord's dissent, and with the current strength of the lord, there is really no need to rely on others to take refuge in others!"

"In the next suggestion, you can send someone to Hanzhong to meet Zhang Lu, aiming to make an alliance and express goodwill, if you can persuade Zhang Lu to send troops from Yangping Pass to attack Chencang, Zhong Xuan, who is guarding Chang'an, will definitely send troops to the rescue, and the possibility of our army going out of Wuguan to take Chang'an City is much greater!"

Qin Feng nodded frequently when he heard this, "What Mr. said, I agree with the previous points, I just want to persuade Zhang Lu to send troops north to attack Chencang, but I'm afraid it's not easy, I haven't met Zhang Lusu, and I have no stakes, how can he help me take Chang'an?" ”

Xu Shu said with a smile: "Lord, in fact, our army and Zhang Lu have common interests, Zhang Lu once killed the envoy of the imperial court, dominated one side in Hanzhong, and has long been isolated from the imperial court, Cao Cao is just not free now, when he frees his hand, he will wave his army to attack Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu's account is not all wine bags and rice bags, someone must see through this!" ”

"It is not difficult to persuade Zhang Lu to send troops to Chen Cang, I heard that Yang Song, another strategist under Zhang Lu's account, this person is quite trusted by Zhang Lu, and likes gold and silver, the lord can order the messenger to carry a large amount of gold and silver property to his liking, bribe this person, and let him speak in front of Zhang Lu!"

When Qin Feng heard this, this method was wonderful, and he immediately sent an envoy to Hanzhong with a large amount of gold and silver to visit Zhang Lu, discuss the matter of making an alliance and sending troops to attack Chen Cang.

Although Nanyang is not a place to live for a long time, Qin Feng did not intend to give up easily, but still sent troops to garrison several dangerous passes, and sent people to govern the counties, educate the people, and encourage farming.

Nanyang was the richest and most populous county in the Han Dynasty before, although after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and through the successive disasters of Yuan Shu and Zhang Xiu, the population has decreased sharply, but its foundation is still there.

If he can defend Nanyang after attacking Guanzhong, Qin Feng will definitely not give up this treasure land, where the apprentices are fertile, and it is the main road of north-south transportation, not only the agriculture is developed, but also the trade is prosperous, and the economy is developing rapidly.

What's more, it can also be used as a springboard for the Flame Army to go north and south.

Xu Shu is not very good at civil affairs, but he has quite ideas and insights in military affairs, and Qin Feng appointed him as a lieutenant general in the military division to assist in military affairs.

In terms of government affairs, Yang Hong is in charge for the time being.

This time he attacked Xu Du with Liu Bei, but he didn't get anything else, but extorted a lot of grain and grass from the cities of Yingchuan, plus annihilated Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, and captured more than 2,400 high-grade war horses and 3,490 sets of cavalry armor and weapons, and gained a lot.

With these horses, cavalry equipment and weapons, Qin Feng decided to expand the scale of the cavalry to 4,000 people, and temporarily determined that all of them were light cavalry, and the cost of raising light cavalry was much less than the cost of raising heavy cavalry, and it would take a while for all these cavalry armor and equipment to be repaired, so there was no need to worry, and with Qin Feng's current financial resources, he could not afford to raise heavy cavalry for the time being.

In terms of infantry, Qin Feng was further reorganized and further improved in terms of command system, establishment, military regulations and discipline, and order transmission.

At present, Qin Feng's troops are not many, only about 22,000 people, but most of the equipment is complete, only a few sergeants have no armor, and other sergeants have armor.

Qin Feng made the division of combat tasks of the arms more clear, and the whole army was divided into cavalry, sword and shield soldiers, spearmen and archers, and in addition, a special unit was formed to build, operate and transport siege equipment as a whole, which was a separate army, an engineering battalion, which was under the jurisdiction of the Military Affairs Office in peacetime, and only obeyed the command of the chief general when temporarily dispatched.

This army not only has to undertake the construction, operation and transportation of siege equipment, but also bears the heavy responsibility of opening roads and bridges in the mountains, but if such a force wants to play its role, it must invest hugely, especially in transportation capacity, to provide a large number of vehicles and mules, horses, donkeys and other livestock to provide its marching speed, to be able to follow the main army to march quickly, and to be able to open roads and bridges in front of the mountains and rivers, and to be able to transport siege equipment to the first time and assemble and operate these equipment to assist in the siege.

With an army of more than 22,000 people, Qin Feng could not take so many people to conduct drills every day, and he had to drill separately in cantonments, and each cantonment camp must have a unified training plan for drills to facilitate large-scale operations.

It took him more than half a month to compile a "Drill Code for the Infantry", which was copied in many copies and distributed to officers at or above the rank of lieutenant, so that they could familiarize themselves with it and then train the soldiers with the training methods in the code.

The cavalry, on the other hand, had only 3,000 men, and they were first trained separately in tun units, and like the infantry, large-scale joint drills were conducted every other month, and the purpose of the joint drills was to train the tacit understanding of group coordinated operations, so that the large corps could achieve the integration of command and operation.

On this day, Qin Feng was leading people to inspect the infantry of a certain tun in drill, and a sergeant came to report: "General Qiyu, General Gan Ning of the Jingzhou Army asks to see you!" ”

"Oh?" Qin Feng was quite surprised and asked, "Where are the people?" ”

"In Taishoufu!"

Qin Feng immediately led people back to Taishou Mansion.

"General Qin!" When Gan Ning saw Qin Feng returning, he immediately walked over and hugged his fists to salute.

Qin Feng walked over quickly and laughed: "During my dispatch of troops, thanks to Xingba leading the troops to recover the northern counties of Nanyang, I was too busy to be separated during this period of time, so I wanted to send someone over to invite Xingba to come over for a while, and I didn't want Xingba to come over first, so I ordered someone not to have a banquet!" ”

Gan Ning hurriedly said: "The general is too polite, now that the general has returned with the army, the counties in the north of Nanyang should also be handed over to the general!" ”

Qin Feng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Could it be that Liu Jingsheng has ordered Xingba to lead the army to withdraw?" ”

Gan Ning shook his head: "That's not true, not only did he not order me to lead the army to retreat, but he ordered me to hold on to the cities and not allow the general to send troops to take over!" ”

Qin Feng's eyes widened, "What does this Liu Jingsheng mean, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge?" ”