Although most of the mountain soldiers were concentrated in Sichuan and Shu and Guanzhong, Hanzhong was the beginning of Feiqian's training of mountain soldiers back then, so when Li Dian re-engaged his mountain soldiers' training in Nanzheng, he could not be considered starting from scratch.

Li Dian now deeply feels Fei Qian's forward-looking nature.

The Di people around Hanzhong provided Li Dian with a very high-quality military source.

One of the strategies to differentiate the Di people was to gather their courage.

These Di people who are either in the Qinling Mountains or in the Bashan Mountains seem to be walking on the plains on a regular basis, and there is no pressure at all. The most important thing is that these Di people are hard-working and most of them have certain experience in survival in the mountains and forests. When they are trained, in addition to having some difficulty in cultural discipline and military rules, they are unique in combat in the mountains and forests.

In addition to being less educated and less orders, these Di soldiers were almost full in hard work. Even in order not to alert Cao's army, they could not make fire, but they were all given some coarse cakes, and they still had sweet food. There was no problem at all. If they were in extreme environments, they could even keep walking and fighting without eating all day...

Just like this time when he discovered that Cao's army had signs of detour, Li Dian thought of the mountain soldiers constructed by these Di people at the first time.

The Di soldiers who arrived here almost overnight did not lose their morale after running around and eating in a rough place, and were still lively and jumping around. Even if the food was single and lacked, it did not have much impact on the Di mountain soldiers. Li Dian also saw some Di mountain soldiers spontaneously searching for prey, collecting wild fruits, and replenishing ingredients.

This is indeed a very good quality, but for some reason, Li Dian felt that something was wrong.

Standing on the hillside, Li Dian looked into the distance and thought for a while, but could not figure out what the problem was. So he simply summoned several military academies to check the map while making the final pre-war arrangements.

Li Dian said, "From here to go to Mulansai, you must pass the intersection here... We are here now, waiting for Cao's army to come to the door... But now it is not clear where Cao's army is... Our scout met the other scout because he was afraid of alarming the snake, so he did not get too close...

"What if Cao's army did not come to Mulan Village, but continued to walk backwards?" a military academy asked, "There is a three-fork here, why don't we go there to block Cao's army?"

『Cao army came at a speed faster than we expected...』 Li Dian shook his head and said, 『We just met Cao's scout yesterday, and we met again today... This shows that Cao's army is very close to us! Although this time, in order not to be exposed, we intercepted some Cao's scouts, which is a possibility of arousing the other party's alertness, the scout detection itself is an unexpected risk... So as long as our troops are hidden well, there should be no big problem...』

"Will we send scouts to detect it again? Is there a determination of the location of Cao's army?" another military academy asked.

Li Dian thought for a moment, shook his head, "It's not appropriate. We can roughly infer the position of Cao's army based on the batch of scouts of Cao's army, and Cao's army can also infer our position based on the number of scouts appearing... What's more, if the scout accidentally falls into the hands of the enemy, it's better to wait here. This time, the general of Cao's army is Cao Zhen and Cao Zidan, a very outstanding young general under the Cao family. If he can capture and kill this general, it would be a great achievement!"

Who can guarantee that the soldiers under his command will not be captured?

Who can ensure that the captured soldiers are loyal and unyielding and would rather die than be recruited?

At least in the era of the Han Dynasty, no one could do it.

Feiqian could not do it.

So instead of betting on impossible risks, it is better to stick to the existing bargaining chips.

Li Dian was to seek stability, and in order to prevent his military academy from realizing his thoughts about the scouts, he also named his meritorious service at the end and diverted his attention from the military academy...

Obviously, Li Dian's strategy succeeded.

When the military academy heard that the big fish came, they were all quite excited. They looked at each other and were a little ready to go.

Li Dian pointed to the three-way intersection that the military academy had just mentioned before, "This road must be guarded against... In this way, Li team led you to take a hundred people and turn over from the medicinal road, bring more war drums and flags, so it's better to hide. If Cao's army really comes, it's going to be a clamor to be a suspicious soldier... and here...

After a while, Li Dian assigned combat missions, and each military academies took their troops and left separately.

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Several Cao army scouts left the large army, looked at the surrounding mountains and forests with some fear, and walked forward.

After Fei Qian engaged in an arms race, Shandong was forced to call.

But no matter what, it is a step slower.

The original military system of Cao Cao was not refined at all, but still followed the original structure of the Han Dynasty. After being critically attacked by Fei Qian, he learned his mistakes and began to reform the military system. Unfortunately, due to innate reasons, there were always some problems here or some problems.

Just like treating elites in the army, Fei Qian's approach is to cultivate, while Cao Cao's habit is to scatter.

There are competitions in Feiqian Army every year. If you win a big game, you can go to Beijing for further studies, and if you have good small game, you can get better treatment. However, whether you are going to Beijing for further studies or those who are originally given benefits in the military, you can freely choose your future direction, or become a higher-level military academy, go to other regions to command troops, or become a skilled backbone locally, have relatively high degrees of freedom and focus on personal wishes.

But Cao Cao's side couldn't do it...

For some reasons, among the Cao army, the Central Guard Army, which is directly under the Central Leadership Army, is the first floor, and the other local soldiers governed by the Xiahou family of Cao are the second floor, and the rest are the third floor. Lao Cao, who has extremely high dual commerce, just pulls it into his pocket. When he wants to use it, he is very sincere, but he is also straightforward when he pulls out his dick and leaves. This leads to the lack of talents in the Cao army, but it is easy to have faults. At the same time, a large number of talents are concentrated in the core area of ​​Cao Cao, and the promotion is difficult to retract, and the surrounding areas are short of people.

In history, even after Cao Cao's death, this problem was not alleviated. For example, when Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, the entire Guanzhong and even Longyou were weak, and the cavalry of Cao's army actually remained in the central area of ​​the Central Plains. If Brother Zhu was lucky and his teammates were more powerful, he might have taken Longyou at that time and advanced to Guanzhong...

Of course, even if Zhuge successfully took Longyou at that time, he might not be able to stand firm in Guanzhong, because in fact, when Zhuge Liang had not yet eliminated the people behind Sichuan and Shu, he was doomed to be a failed attack.

Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition was doomed to fail. So how did Cao Zhen's first advance westward plan?

After sending out scouts again, Cao Zhen's troops stopped one after another to rest.

He looked back and saw that the long queue on the mountain road gave him a bad premonition.

Jingzhou is not as rich as originally thought. Even if it is taken over Wancheng, Cao's army may not have received much supplies and strengthening. This is a very embarrassing fact. The reason why Wancheng looked so prosperous was entirely because the commercial goods in the relevant area were supported by it. It seemed like a small supermarket in a residential area. It seemed very lively. After all, not everyone likes to go to large supermarkets far away, but in fact, once the external purchase channels break, they will be out of stock in minutes!

Wancheng is such a small supermarket inside Nanyang. Although the price is slightly higher than that of Guanzhong, it is close and convenient, so it was still very prosperous. However, with the war between Cao Fei and the two families, Wancheng's purchase channels were closed, how much inventory can there be in the granaries?

Therefore, Cao's gain of Wancheng was not a loss, but he definitely did not get rich overnight.

The main purpose of Cao's army advancing west was not to eat Hanzhong in one breath...

Of course, if you can really win Hanzhong, it will naturally be great.

Just like Zhuge's Northern Expedition in history, it would be great if he could really achieve Guanzhong, but in fact, Zhuge was ready for failure on the first day of his march.

The same is true for Cao Zhen. He tried his best, but he didn't really want to kill himself on the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains.

Looking at the scouts in the distance, they went further and further away, then became small dots and disappeared from their sight without any abnormalities. Cao Zhen also became a little dazed. Maybe it was just thinking too much?

He was about to order the troops to continue moving forward when suddenly some riots occurred in front of him.

Cao Zhen's pupils contracted instantly, and he looked into the mountains ahead.

The distance was a bit far, and he couldn't see it in detail, so he could only see some small dots shaking.

The scout he sent out seemed to have encountered the sentinels of the Hanzhong defenders, and the two sides fought in the forest...
Chapter completed!