In June, Shanggu County, the summer heats up.

After defeating the Yuan army that raided Juyongguan, the high-ranking officials who raided Yanmen also retreated. To the north of Bingzhou and west of Youzhou, the merchants along the eight paths of Taihang traveled and mixed together in Shanggu County. In You and Bing, some people even started to settle down here, and the transaction became hot.

At this time, the people in this area were in high morale. After the people of Heishan who moved here last year had a stable life, many young and strong people began to seek new ways out. Now there are several team numbers in Shanggu County, which were also added by Gongsun Zhi later, such as the Heishan Infantry Cavalry, Youyan Army, Xiliang Army, Wolf Cavalry, and the White Wolf Cavalry. Except for the Wolf Cavalry and the Heishan Cavalry who selected elite soldiers who could ride horses from each army, the rest of the recruiting sites were crowded.

"...... The number is the establishment of an army." Gongsun Zhi and Li Ru walked on the city wall, watching the long queues of recruiting troops lined up at various places below. The summer sky shone brightly, and the former pressed his hand on the wall. "If necessary, erect their flags for each team. Except for the Chinese-character flags, they will no longer raise the general's surname in the future, otherwise it will be too easy for the enemy to know who is leading the team."

Li Ru frowned: "Will such a change make the generals below feel a little dissatisfied? The lord, there is another thing, that is, the generals from all sides are not allowed to recruit soldiers privately in the future, and they are all concentrated in Shanggu County. If the war is intensified, it will be inconvenient."

"It must be convenient. At first, it will be uncomfortable and complain, but after a long time, I get used to it." Gongsun Zhi pressed his hands against the wall, his tall body was heroic and mighty. He looked down and smiled: "The flag is the soul of a army, so that the soldiers will feel a sense of belonging."

Immediately, he narrowed his eyes and calmed down his voice: "...... Unified recruitment of troops, then training, education and then transferring to places will also prevent these generals from becoming popular in the future. After all, people have selfish intentions. If I were by my side, I would not have other thoughts after taking the lead alone. In an army, the upper-level generals have complex thoughts, but the soldiers' ideas are simple. As long as they are allowed to belong to me, I am Gongsun Zhi, and even if the general has a bad intention, he dare not act rashly."

He looked at the middle-aged scholar and raised his fingers.

"Not only that, with the increase of merchants, workshops have been built one after another. This is the foundation. In the future, the weapons, war horses, and food and fodder needed in the army must be supplied according to the heads. Weapons and war horses will be equipped with double spare parts for them, but food and fodder must be kept in mind."

His voice was not high, but his tone was firm, "It's not that I, Gongsun Zhi, is harsh, Wenyou, you see, this border is connected except Jiuyuan County. With a big family business, I have to take every step carefully. I don't want to wander around like a horse thief in the future."

"This is our current home... it is also your Li Wenyou's home. Once you embark on the journey, there will be no way out."

Li Ru pursed his lips tightly and nodded, then bowed to the figure beside him and raised his hands: "The lord took great pains to find a background for us and other people who have no way out. Ru is grateful."

"Don't be grateful too early. Now it's just a short-term peace." Gongsun Zhi helped him up, "In a few years, it might be time to test us. At that time, it's a huge man who loses. We can only continue to rush around the grassland to grab food."

In the brilliant sky light, the breeze blew gently to bring some coolness. The noisy voices of people below the city wall came. On the north side of the city wall where the two of them were, a fast rider stepped on the dust and smoke from a distance, and then entered the city.

Li Ke received this urgent report from Yunzhong, ran up the city and handed it to Gongsun Zhi. He stopped and continued to say something. He continued to read, and his original smile became expressionless. Even though he was ready to fight with the Roman army, he felt cold as soon as he read the information.

"Lord... did that Qin army fight with General Qian?" Li Ru noticed Gongsun Zhi's changes and probably guessed it.

"Fighting..."

Gongsun Zhijiang threw down the cloth, turned around and stepped down the city wall, and walked while constantly issued orders to Li Ke behind him, the personal soldiers on both sides of the army.

"Send a quick horse to notify Gongsun Yue of Dai County, Zou Dan leads troops to garrison Dingran, replace Huaxiong and Gaosheng, who are closest to there, and ask them to support Yunzhong first, and then send people to the Wolf Cavalry camp to beat drums and gather generals, and let Yan Rou and Zhao Yun lead the cavalry to gather together. Pan Feng and Cao Ang are injured, so stay in Shanggu County. Can the military advisors follow?"

"Ru also wants to see what the Qin army looks like." Li Ru got on the carriage with him, and he continued: "Since the war broke out in Yunzhong, Ruyi should send his officials to Ma Teng in Xiliang."

Gongsun Zhi knelt down, nodded, opened the curtain and ordered the messenger: "In addition, I will inform the Southern Xiongnu to go to Bei and Suonu to join me in Dingran."

When everything was arranged, he said to the driver: "Go to the military camp."

The shaft rolled and headed out of the city.

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Under the mansion and roof, Cai Yan shook his cradle and hummed a song to coax his son to sleep peacefully. Stephanie, who was lifted from the confinement, looked at the mother and son bored, and Gerald competed with Dian Wei in the other yard. After a while, he was thrown to the ground and ate a mouthful of dust.

Dong!

Dongdong!

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong-

The drum sounded faintly in the sky. The burly figure lying on the ground got up. Then the giant man opposite hurried back to the house and took a pair of iron halberds and ran outside the courtyard. Gerald hurriedly followed him out and shouted, "What's that sound? Dian... Wei... ran with the sound."

Cai Yan stood up and looked at Bikong, hugged the sleeping sweet child, and whispered: "It's the sound of war." Then, he entered the room and ordered Xianglian, who was dozing off, to prepare the armor for his husband to go to war."

When the little man ran away, Stephanie probably guessed something, bowed to the woman's back, pulled her brother to the courtyard where she was sitting, and shouted loudly: "The warriors of the Holy City, the war is coming--"

In the distance, Yan Rou wiped the blade outside the city, inserted it into the scabbard with a bang, took off the helmet on the rack, turned around and walked towards the curtain: "Lao Qian, don't throw the Heishan riding face!"

The iron helmet pressed the top of his head, turned his back on the horse, and looked at a black evil wolf on the ground not far away. Yan Rou blew the horse whip: "Heishan Rider, follow me!"

Two thousand cavalry sounded their weapons, moved slowly, then accelerated to rush out of the base, galloped on the field, and took out the huge military camp toward the center.

Facing towards him, the young general riding a white war horse looked at him with a gun, nodded silently, raised his hand holding the gun, and there were only about 3,000 cavalry behind him slowly stopped the horse's hooves. The formation looked a little messy, but on each face, the energy was full of energy, which was Bai Lang Yicong, who had just been formed.

"General Zhao, let's get in the account together."

As an old man, Qian Zhao was quite polite to this new general with outstanding martial arts skills. Zhao Yun spoke less. After bowing, the two walked into the tent side by side. Gongsun Zhi, who was wearing regular clothes, had been waiting for a long time. When he saw someone coming in, he pressed his palms to let them sit down.

"I told you about the war between the Qin army and the Han area a few days ago. The war has begun half a month ago. The fast horse has arrived today. I don't doubt the ability to pull the trap, but they only have ten thousand county soldiers. The Qin army has 20,000. The other party can reach this long-distance expedition, which is definitely not a bag of wine."

As Gongsun Zhi spoke, he slapped the table with a bang: "I didn't want to fight this battle, but the Qin people killed the Han people and splashed the blood of the Han people. I want to seek justice. I already have some understanding of the equipment and tactics of the troops. Let's talk while walking on the road."

At this time, the curtain was raised, and two figures came in. They were both in military uniforms. There was still a scar on Cao Ang’s face that had not healed. He clenched his fists and shouted, “Governor, why don’t you let me go? I can fight again.”

"Brother, Xu is going to go too." Gongsun Xu clasped his fists and stepped forward: "Expelling foreign tribes is the father's ambition. As a son, how can he ignore it? Please help his brother fulfill it."

"Gongsun Xu can go, Cao Ang must stay." Gongsun Zhi looked at the two of them and pointed at Cao Ang: "You have not recovered from your body and have too much blood. If you travel a long distance and have not yet arrived at the place, you will die of physical weakness. You fought very well in Liaodong. I have already sent a letter to your father and told him that he has a brave son."

Cao Ang closed his eyes, stomped his feet hard, bowed his hands and left, and walked out of the curtain to see Pan Feng holding an axe next to him, and glared at him: "Why don't you go in together?"

"......you have to use your brain to do things." He patted his head, "You must not be able to mess around like this, look at me."

As he said that, he got in, and for a few breaths, he came out again, and looked at the figure next to him in a dirt state: "I have a bad mind today, I will come back another day."

After that, the two of them were still muttering that the military discussion had ended. When Gongsun Zhi and the generals left the camp to see them, they told them to be optimistic about Shanggu County and then they took a car to go home.

Gongsun Zhi sat in the room holding Cai Yan's hand, and was rarely silent for a long time.

"It's going to go to war."
Chapter completed!