Qin Feng took the initiative to extend an olive branch of the alliance, Yuan Shao was happy to accept it, his strength was greatly damaged now, and he needed to drag Cao Cao outside and give him a chance to breathe.

This is also the reason why Yuan Shao sent Guo Tu to meet Qin Feng, the purpose of Guo Tu's trip was to determine the alliance, discuss the responsibilities and obligations of both sides after the alliance, and determine the way to facilitate future contact.

In the next few days, Qin Feng repeatedly interviewed Guo Tu and asked Yuan Shao for some support in terms of money and food, weapons, armor, bows and crossbows, arrows, and war horses.

"Mr. Gongze, although General Yuan was defeated by Cao Cao this time, his strength was lost, but he did not damage the foundation, and although the general had 20,000 soldiers and horses, but only Wancheng was a place, and Liu Biao's old boy occupied other cities in Nanyang and did not let it, We lack money, food, armaments, and war horses, I hope that Yuan Gong can give some support, if Yuan Gong can support some skilled craftsmen, it would be the best, I don't know what Mr. Gong Ze wants?"

Craftsmen, cheap industry, since ancient times, have not paid much attention, social status has not been high, Guo Tu thinks this is no problem, even without Yuan Shao's consent, he can find hundreds of craftsmen from Hebei to Qin Feng.

"It's easy to talk about the craftsman's business, there are dozens of them in the courtyard below, if you report it to my lord, it won't be a problem to send three or five hundred people!"

Qin Feng was overjoyed: "This is great!" ”

Guo Tu also said: "As for money, food, armaments, and war horses······ Since the general is in difficulty here, I will try my best to persuade my lord to support the general, but the specific number is ······ It's not up to you to decide, try your best, try your best! There is just one point, that is, it is not easy for these things to be transported, there is Cao Cao between you and me, and if you want to transport these things, you must pass through his territory, how to ensure the smooth passage is a big problem! ”

Qin Feng touched his chin and said to Guo Tu: "Sir, just go back and report to Yuan Gong at this time, as for how to transport these materials over, it won't be long before Yuan Gong will know!" ”

After sending Guo Tu away, Qin Feng also began to prepare to send troops to attack Chang'an, but before attacking Chang'an, he had to wait until the envoy sent to Hanzhong returned and brought back good news.

If you want to fight, you must be strong, and Qin Feng ordered to strengthen the training of the sergeants of all departments.

Qin Feng's attack on Chang'an was not just to find a way out, he was also forced to have no choice, more than 22,000 soldiers and horses, including 3,000 cavalry, people eat horses and chew, the consumption of grain and grass every day is too great, in addition to Nanyang, we must also expand the territory to find food, otherwise in two months, more than 20,000 people and horses will have to go hungry.

In the past, when Nanyang was still the largest county in the Han Dynasty, the population was as high as 2.43 million, not to mention raising 20,000 horses, even raising 100,000 could barely hold on, but now the population of Nanyang County has plummeted to hundreds of thousands, and it can't afford to raise 20,000 soldiers and horses, so Qin Feng can only find a way to expand his territory.

And in this era of princely separation, grabbing territory can not pick up soft persimmons to pinch, Cao Cao wishes that he would attack other princes, and then this old boy will have a yellow finch behind, and if he wants to rob it, he will bite off a piece of meat from Boss Cao, anyway, he and Boss Cao have become mortal enemies, and they don't care about adding an extra blood debt.

At this time, the wisest way is to unite all the other weak princes, just like the hyena group besieges the male division together, if the hyena group fights among each other and attacks each other, in the end it will definitely be cheaper for the male division, let's unite first to kill the male division, as for the future, each will rely on his ability.

Qin Feng had this idea in his heart, but he did not have a vertical and horizontal family like Zhang Yi and Su Qin, and for the time being, he had not found such a person who could persuade the princes, ease the contradictions between the princes, and twist the princes into a rope to deal with Cao Cao together.

There are a lot of abandoned fields in Nanyang at this time, Qin Feng had ordered most of the soldiers under his command to carry out the tuntian to deal with the grain and grass crisis, and now the fields have been reclaimed, the seeds have been planted, and the next thing is to start fighting, so it is necessary to strengthen training to restore the combat strength of the soldiers.

There is a large military camp outside Wancheng City, which can be said to be a military training area, covering an area of twenty miles, and strangers are not allowed to approach it.

This time, except for a small number of troops stationed at various passes, all other troops and horses were transferred here to assemble and participate in the exercise, totaling 16,000 people.

A tall mobile platform, twice as tall as the city wall, Qin Feng, Yang Hong, Xu Shu, Yan Xiang and others stood on it to watch and command the soldiers and horses to conduct drills.

In order to facilitate the soldiers to easily find their own area and location, Qin Feng ordered a line to be drawn with white lime on the field to stipulate the location of each department.

After such a division of areas, each department can easily find its own area and quickly form a formation under the command of the general with the troops.

"Circle Array!" Qin Feng issued the first military order.

The herald next to him immediately shouted: "Cloth Circle Formation!" ”

The drummer beat the drum in a hurry, and the flag bearer waved the flag to convey the flag of the circular array.

The troops and horses on the field in front of them quickly began to move under the command of the leading general, and this scene still looked a little chaotic, but this was the first time that such a large-scale cluster drill was held, and some chaos was inevitable at the beginning.

Among all the army formations, the circular formation and the square formation are the simplest array formations, and they are relatively simple to deploy, but the more people participate, the more likely it is to be chaotic and the more difficult it is to arrange.

It took a full moment for the 16,000-strong circular array to be arranged, which was actually composed of soldiers arranged in large circles and small circles, with large circles and small circles and smaller circles.

The first circle of the outermost circle is the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, the second, third, and even the fourth and fifth circles are the cooperation of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, the position near the middle of the formation is the archers and crossbowmen, and the position of the general is in the middle of the center, surrounded by cavalry.

In a defensive battle formation, the cavalry is ineffective at first, it must preserve the living force for the military order, and once the general gives the order for a counterattack, the outer sergeants will give way to a passage, and the cavalry can play its role.

After completing such a large-scale circular formation deployment in a quarter of an hour, Yang Hong and Xu Shu couldn't help but clap their hands when they saw it, "Okay, good, such an elite person, pulling out to engage the enemy army, will definitely be able to defeat the enemy!" ”