With the continuous delivery of livestock from Qin, Lu Zhe's horse ranches in the Qianzhong Plain and north of Yiling were immediately enriched with enough horses, according to statistics, Lu Zhe now has more than 600,000 horses, of which the number of war horses should be about 120,000.

With enough horses, it is necessary to have talents who know how to train horses into war horses, but it is clear that the Qin State is not willing to provide technicians who know how to train horses, and Lu Zhe turns to the Zhao State and the Yan State to seek such talents.

In fact, there is another point that Lu Zhe discovered when he formed the cavalry army, that is, horses are very delicate, and there are many types of horses, there are too many different types of horses, some are flat horses and mountain horses, and horses also have different adaptability to the climate.

The horses purchased from Qindi are basically flat horses, adapted to the dry climate of the north, and are not used to the humid climate of the south, so many horses will always get sick and die after coming to the south.

Lü Zhe found that this difference was not accidental, he had two horse ranches north of the Qianzhong Plain and Yiling, and he came to the conclusion based on the adaptability of the horses in the two places.

The climate of the horse ranch north of Yiling is not so different from that of Qindi, and after sending horses from Qindi, although they are not very adaptable to the local climate, they can quickly adapt to it after about half a month of recuperation.

With the increase of Lu Zhe's development of the entire county, the original ecological appearance will inevitably be changed, and the humidity of the air will naturally be reduced.

If Nanjun can be regarded as an area close to the Central Plains, Cangwu County is really the south. The Qianzhong Plain in Cangwu County is located southwest of Lishui, which is the area where oxygen is produced at this stage, as defined by the global climate. And because of the abundance of rain, how can the climate not be a humid environment?

After nearly a thousand horses died of illness, the frightened Lu Zhe hurriedly ordered the horses in the Qianzhong Plain to be moved to the north of Yiling, but the area allocated north of Yiling was obviously unable to accommodate hundreds of thousands of horses.

With the assistance of the wranglers on the side of Zhao and Yan, a large number of horses are being trained as war horses, and if the taming goes smoothly, the war horses that Lu Zhe can take out in his hands for riding in three years will definitely not resist 500,000, and the horses can also breed more than 1.5 million.

In the future, it will dominate the world with a sweeping momentum, and it will rely heavily on war horses to provide good speed. The cold weapon version of Blitz may not be easy to fight, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a large number of cavalry in a divided and encircled campaign. In addition, if Lu Zhe really wants to unify the territory of China, he will also encounter the grassland Hu people, and it is absolutely impossible to do without enough cavalry.

It is imperative to raise at least 100,000 cavalry within three years, and in addition, the survey of the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains and Qin Land should also be carried out, and the intelligence about the grassland tribes should be done as soon as possible, so that the merchants can play an unimaginable role.

Most of the Central Plains is shrouded in war, and businessmen must be accompanied by armed escorts. In the future, the merchants under Lu Zhe's rule will inevitably go with him, and now Lu Zhe encourages every caravan of laymen to write a travelogue similar to "Travel Chronicles", with the intention of not saying too much.

On the day before the Winter Solstice Festival, that is, on the eve of Lu Zhe's proclamation of King Jianguo. The information about the northern frontier of the Qin State was also transferred to Nanling by Zhao Gao.

Meng Tian's defense line built with huge manpower and material resources blocked the Huns, and the Huns began to hesitate after capturing the first line of defense set up by the Qin army, finding that there were a large number of Wucheng in front of them.

Before the winter came, the Xiongnu army stopped at the ruins of Dingbian City not long before they chose to turn around and retreat, and they turned back to the south of Yinshan Mountain, where water and grass were abundant.

Lu Zhe maintained a strange expression for a long time after reading the information on Northern Xinjiang. It's like laughing, and it's like confusing it.

"Lord, the Hu people are not good at attacking cities, and General Meng Tian has built so many cities in northern Xinjiang. It is not surprising that Touman chose to retreat in the face of difficulties. Kuaitong paused and hesitated: "The Huns have been preparing for so long without success, according to their characteristics...... It must be that they will not be reconciled, what do you think is the chance that they will betray their trust and attack Yan Zhao, which borders the grassland? ”

Ah, Kuaitong's vision has finally reached this height, and seeing things is no longer limited to one direction, and will take the whole situation into account.

Wasn't Lu Zhe's expression just now thinking about this possibility? He didn't think that the Hu people would know how to abide by the credit, so no matter what agreement the three kingdoms of Qi, Yan, and Zhao had with the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu could overthrow it anywhere.

It is impossible to know how much the Huns lost on the Qin army's defensive line, but the Hu people's character was to take back as much as they lost, and it was not surprising that the Qin people could not rob them, so they placed the targets of their raids elsewhere.

"The three kingdoms of Qi, Yan, and Zhao put almost all their forces on the battle with Qin, and before that, because of Zhao's turtle shrinkage strategy, the northern part of Zhao was also in a state of no defense......" Lu Zhe pondered for a while: "The Huns need to spend this cold winter in the Yinshan area, and they will re-dispatch in the autumn of the next year." They suffered a loss in intelligence this time when they went south, and they will never make such a low-level mistake again in the next southern invasion, and they will definitely find that the northern border of Zhao Di is empty, but whether they will drive straight south to plunder Zhao Di, or turn around from the northern border of Zhao Di to attack Qin Di, which does not have Guangbu Wu City, these are difficult to say. ”

It still depends on how strong the desire of the Huns to occupy the land is, if they start a war with the idea of occupying the land, the probability of betraying the alliance with Qi, Yan, and Zhao will be infinitely reduced, after all, the northern border of Zhao is really not a region with abundant water and grass, and the northern border of Yan is simply the territory of Donghu, and they invade the north of Zhao and Yan just to eat chicken ribs.

The main goal of Touman's army to invade the south was to occupy the entire Heshuo region, and the other was to conquer Beidi County and Shangjun in preparation for swallowing Longxi in the future.

At present, the river is divided into upper and lower river Shuo, and there is such a difference because the current Yellow River is not the same as that of later generations, and the current Yellow River tributaries are many and dense, and there is a large tributary whose river width is not much narrower than the main trunk of the Yellow River.

The Shangheshuo area has always been occupied by the Huns, but Xiaheshuo was obtained by the Qin army after the collapse of the Yueshi people. The Xiaheshuo area has been occupied by the Qin people for about 30 years, but because the Qin army's main focus is on the countries in the east, there is also a small number of garrisons in Xiaheshuo, and there is no large-scale immigration and development.

When Meng Tian established Wucheng, he chose to start setting up a defensive line in the Xiaheshuo area, which has always extended to the boundary close to Beidi County and Shangjun County. If he didn't spend a lot of money to build a martial city here, the Qin army that sent troops to fight in this terrain would inevitably suffer, and the Huns would roll south to attack the old Qin land directly, at that time, only the Hot Spring Pass (not the one in Sparta, where the Hot Spring Palace in the Western Han Dynasty was located) could block the Huns, and the Hot Spring Pass would be dangerous as soon as Xianyang was lost.

The Xiongnu retreated, which meant that the Qin army in the north had at least a three-month respite period, and with Meng Tian's talent, he would not fail to find that the defensive line in the Heshuo area was complete, but the northern border of Zhao was in an empty state, so it was inevitable that Meng Tian should build a new defense line in Shangjun, which was close to Zhao.

If Lu Zhe is not mistaken, the person in charge of the northern border of Zhao Di is Wang Ben, and the Wang clan and the Meng clan have always been in a competitive relationship, in this situation, will the Wang clan put aside the contradiction to support Meng Tian's fortification plan?

Fusu was canonized as the crown prince, and after the death of the first emperor, Fusu became the new emperor in the name of the legal system, and Montessori has always been Fusu's staunchest supporter. Wang has never been close to Fusu, but at some point indirectly disliked Fusu because of the relationship with Montessori as a competitor, so the relationship between Wang and Fusu must not be much better.

Seeing that Fusu will ascend to the throne after the death of the First Emperor, and that the Montessori investment will usher in a huge return, will the Wang family, as a competitor, be worried? The Wang clan will definitely be worried, especially since the Wang clan has recently snatched another 100,000 Northern Xinjiang troops from Meng Tian's hands, and the relationship will definitely deteriorate.

After Xu Yang came to Lu Zhe's side, several side branches of the Wang family also came over, and even said that some of the military general families in the Qin State except for the Mengshi family had more or less family members who came to develop under Lu Zhe. After Fusu confirmed the next ruler of Qin, the number of people from Qin's military generals family increased significantly, which made people have to think about what made these military generals appear panicked.

Lu Zhe naturally couldn't ask the members of the military general's family who defected too roughly, he could only knock on the side, and the answer he got was related to the Montessori.

The Montessori family is a huge force in the Qin State, and the families that depend on the development of the Montessori do not know how many, and the success of the Montessori investment will inevitably be rewarded, and the other families can already predict that the future of the Qin State will be the dominant situation of the Montessori family, especially in the army, the expansion of the Montessori power will inevitably be extremely rapid, and they feel that their future is hopeless, and they must find another way.

It is precisely that Lu Zhe's side attaches great importance to Sima Xin who surrendered, and some Qin generals who have served for a long time have obtained positions that were originally unimaginable in the Qin State, and it is not surprising that more and more Qin military generals have joined the family under various factors.

The thing that surprised Lu Zhe the most was that Yan Bi reported that he had found Li Xin's traces in Jiujiang County.

Who is Li Xin? It was the general of the Qin State who led the army to attack Chu and failed, and was later named the Marquis of Longxi because of the conquest of the Xiongnu. However, he is now in a state of no official position. (To be continued......)