"General, I will come with you in the future and help you kill that thief Chen Zhi!" The young warrior was inspired by Liu Yao's words and couldn't help but echo loudly.

Liu Yao smiled and said, "Of course I won't forget you boy, but now I'll leave here first! Let's go!" After that, he rode his horse and ran wildly!

The cavalry nodded and followed closely.

If their troops want to return to the territory of the Huns, they cannot run west directly, but have to go northwest and turn around the edge of the grassland before they can go south and return to the Huns. This is because on the edges of Youzhou and Bingzhou, there are many military camps in addition to the mountains.

The existence of these military camps not only prevented the nomadic tribes, but also restricted their space for activities.

On the other hand, after sending off the Hun cavalry, Chen Zhi, who was in Dai County, did not breathe a sigh of relief. Instead, he found several staff members, took out the files on the military farm in Dai County, and carefully discussed it in the back hall of the yamen.

He remembered these files almost all at the time of handover, so they could be easily selected.

Those who participated in this meeting were Zhou Ao, Yang Song, Chen Zi, Su Liao and others. In the eyes of others, they were all Chen Zhi's confidants, and they had close relationships and had interests tied together, which was a community.

In addition, Zhang Kang and Bao Jingyan are among the latest additions, but from the seats, they can be seen that they were just attending and did not intend to speak out for cautious consideration.

After Chen Zhi called them, he briefly introduced the purpose of this move: "Although the Huns have retreated, you should see that it is dangerous. They are trying to associate this matter with my arrival. There may be more Huns attacking in the future. Even if the Huns are not considered, other tribes should not take it lightly. The contradiction between the Central Plains and the grassland is not because of grudges, but for the survival space."

"Are you fighting for living space? This statement is appropriate." Bao Jingyan nodded slightly, and there was a slight slight scrutiny in his eyes when he looked at Chen Zhi.

Seeing that everyone understood, Chen Zhi continued, "I have to do a lot of things when I am a newcomer, but in the frontier, military affairs are essential. However, in a short period of time, no matter my servants or other forces, it will be unfamiliar. Therefore, we must use the troops we already have here, but not the troops garrisoned in the county."

Yang Song nodded and said, "Even if it is a county, there are fewer than 300 troops. Most of them are scattered in different counties and borders. Theoretically, there can be more garrisons, but under the restrictions of military pay and the Youzhou governor, the actual troops are very limited and not worth fighting."

Chen Zhi then said, "So at the beginning, we also had to rely on the garrison on the frontier, so it is necessary to figure out the general situation of the garrison. These files record the matters related to the swallowing of soldiers. You can take a look and then talk about your opinion. The matter of the Huns is just an introduction, so it is natural to understand."

Yang Song said: "Most of the military power of the garrison is in the hands of that general. There should be no specific household registration list in the file, it may be just some battle records. Hey, it's true!" As he spoke, he opened the file at hand, took a look, and then laughed.

"In terms of military farming, although Youzhou is a border, the scale of military farming is not large, far from comparable to the Jianghuai line." Chen Zi made this judgment after reading the books and materials.

Yang Song nodded and smiled and said, "Brother Chen, your ancestors are experts in this way. The Chen family in Xia Pi is very close to the Jianghuai military farmland. They are naturally clear about these things. You might as well give me a long experience. To be honest, I have a headache to see many things in this file, but I will listen to others and relax."

During the Three Kingdoms, the New Han Dynasty lived in the south, and the front line of the Jianghuai family was the front line, and they often competed with the two countries in the north, so they had many military farms. Chen Deng, the ancestor of the Chen family, was once the prefect of Guangling, and his family was also on the front line of the Jianghuai family and participated in military farms. Chen Zi, as a child of the Chen family in Xia Pi, knew about these, and had a deep understanding and understanding of military farms.

Chen Zi looked at Chen Zhi and saw that the latter agreed, so he spoke: "Most of the military farms in Youzhou are military farms, which are managed and organized according to the military organization. Generally, a battalion is placed in five miles, with about 60 people in the camp, and tenants are held, so it can alleviate the food shortage on the border, promote water conservancy, and expand arable land. Since Huanling, nomadic travels south, and the farmland is shrinking day by day. This method of military farming is barely maintained. In some northern places, rice can be planted and refugees can be absorbed."

"Good, I can't imagine there are so many benefits!" Yang Song was shocked when he heard this. He was very interested in military affairs. He came here to lead troops, but he lacked interest in the system construction of military strategists and did not know much about it.

Chen Zhize nodded and concluded: "First, it can slow down the army and food, which can expand the army and gain a foothold. Second, it can promote water conservancy and benefit border residents. Third, it can expand arable land and promote many crops. Fourth, absorbing refugees can restore and develop agriculture and reduce turmoil. From this perspective, military farming is indeed very convenient, but..."

As soon as he said "but" he was attracted by everyone's attention.

"However, the food is still from the government, not the land of the people. The warehouse is full of money and has little to do with the people. Many garrisons are not even allowed to get close to them. I have also learned that during the process of farming, civil land is often requisitioned, which has caused many people to lose land, and thus caused a lot of civil unrest."

"Yes, this is true," Chen Zi certainly would not hide these. "There are pros and cons of military farming, but in the Youzhou where Dai County is located, there have been more and more Hu people in the past hundred years. Hu and Han people live in mixed villages. The more north they go, the more Hu people, most of them are nomadic, and even the farmland is barren. Therefore, after Emperor Xuanwu settled north, he decided to farm in the north to prevent the expansion of nomadic south. Therefore, not many of the military farming areas here were seized from the good people, and most of them were fought over from the nomadic tribes."

"I didn't expect that there were so many ways in the small farmland." Zhou Ao couldn't help but sigh, realizing the gap between him and Chen Zi, and his original desire to compete for the first place couldn't help but fade.

Chen Zhi nodded, pointed to the stack of files, and said, "The military farms in the north of Dai County are not large in scale, but they spread along the line of farming and pastoral division. There are many soldiers and horses gathered, thousands, but the specific situation is not marked. Only Youzhou Governor's Office has a record. He will not give us this record. However, from the overall situation of Dai County, it can be roughly judged that this military army can effectively prevent the nomad from moving south, but cannot thoroughly monitor small groups of people. Therefore, occasionally some scattered Hu people infiltrate in."

"If this is the case, relying on garrison can maintain peace in Dai County, but relying on them to encircle and suppress the Huns is unrealistic," Yang Song also expressed his own opinion. He did not know much about garrison, but when it comes to specific military struggles, he had his own opinion. "One of the time, it is difficult to dispatch troops to station troops. Secondly, we must be alert to the north and beware of nomadic conditions. It is impossible to distribute too many troops to encircle the Huns' cavalry."

Chen Zhi nodded and said, "No, but they can drive the Huns to a place and force the Huns to go west, so they have to seek a way north. The Huns came here this time and did not alarm the border troops. This means that they had mastered the path and had to take a small path when leaving, so as to avoid hunting and bypass the border troops. If my previous arrangement was useful, then there was another army that would stop him, and perhaps there would be unexpected gains."

Yang Song looked surprised: "Well? Could it be that you, the prefect, have arranged an ambush? But where did the soldiers come from?"

Their convoy came all the way north and arrived at this unfamiliar place. Before they could consolidate their foundation, they had only so many people. He knew that there were almost no one else except the two hundred clans gathered from Luoyang and Pengcheng. And these people pretended to be brave and frightened the Huns away.

The rest were hundreds of newly recruited clerks from Pengcheng, the 500 elite clerks prepared by the Chen family in Xia Pi, the fifty cavalry and one hundred elite clerks prepared by the Yang family, but they were not sent here and they were to arrive one after another.

Apart from these people, the troops who could be ambushed by Chen Zhi did not exist at all.

"This army is not my manpower," Chen Zhi responded with a smile, "so I'm not sure whether they can lie on the road as I ask. If they can't, it would be fine. After all, it's enough to scare the Huns away. We don't have the strength to annihilate them. But if that army can lie up, it will make the Huns' willful move a tragic defeat!"

Perhaps it was impossible to determine whether the troops could comply with the orders, so Chen Zhi did not explain the identity and origin of the troops, which made Yang Song more and more confused as he heard it, and he seemed to have ants crawling in his heart.

However, Chen Zi's expression changed slightly. He glanced at Chen Zhi, thinking.

On the other side, just as Chen Zhi finished speaking, the Hun cavalry who had just left Youzhou and stepped onto the edge of the grassland were discovered by another cavalry!

The number of this cavalry is more than three times higher than that of them.

"Not good! It's the cavalry of Tuoba Xianbei! Why did they appear here!" The young warrior recognized the person at first glance, and his expression changed wildly.

Unlike the Xiongnu who had fought against the Xianbei people several times when facing the Central Plains infantry, they knew very well that the Tuoba Xianbei cavalry was powerful. Faced with this cavalry, the Xiongnu's advantage of strong mobility was gone! Not to mention, they had just withdrawn from Dai County and ran for a long distance, and were exhausted. In addition, they were pursued by the Han border army and lost their manpower and horses. They were always nervous. They had just breathed a sigh of relief and encountered an enemy with several times more combat power and were psychologically disadvantaged.
Chapter completed!