Warlords: Conquer the world from the county magistrate

Fang Jian wanted to exchange other weapons, but the weapon exchange quota for this month had been used up, which made him helpless.

"Ding, a total of points are required, do you want to redeem?"

Although it was painful, Fang Jian still said without hesitation: "Exchange."

"Ding, points have been deducted successfully. The item will be delivered in one day. Please check it carefully."

After replenishing the grenade launchers and mortars with ammunition, Francis Xavier prepared to transfer the six 6-caliber mountain cannons of the First Guard Regiment to the Second Guard Regiment.

The heavy firepower of the Second Guard Regiment consists of four 4-caliber mountain cannons and two exchanged 75-caliber mountain cannons.

The heavy firepower of the 2st Guard Regiment consisted of the remaining 75 4-caliber mountain guns, 75 105-caliber field guns, and one -caliber howitzer.

Although the 1st Guard Regiment was missing three artillery pieces, these five guns were field guns and howitzers, and their power was certainly incomparable to mountain guns and howitzers.

On the second day, after receiving the supplies delivered by Lidev, Francis replenished the troops with artillery shells and distributed the received artillery according to yesterday's plan.

Nanling City, Governor's Mansion, Xu Yunhua rushed back and informed Ma Jincen of Zhu Yaoxiang's request.

"You Zhu Yaoxiang, do you think I can't deal with you?" Ma Jincen slammed the table angrily.

In his opinion, although Zhu Yaoxiang was his sworn brother, he was also his subordinate. It would have been fine if he had not obeyed his orders, but he also made so many demands.

Although I attacked him first, now I am willing to accept him generously, Zhu Yaoxiang should be grateful.

But how could he not be angry when he saw Zhu Yaoxiang being so ungrateful?

Xu Yunhua's forehead was covered with cold sweat. He whispered to comfort him, "General, we are facing a powerful enemy now. We need to be patient."

"After all, the situation is not favorable to us. If we don't win over Master Zhu at this time, and he surrenders to Fang Jian, our situation will be even worse."

"He dares." Ma Jincen blurted out.

After saying this, Ma Jincen calmed down a bit. Xu Yunhua was right. Nanshan Province was his. If he didn't win over Zhu Yaoxiang, he would be the one to suffer if he turned against him.

Glancing coldly at Xu Yunhua, Ma Jincen said dissatisfiedly, "Are you going to let me agree to Zhu Yaoxiang's request like this?"

"Commander Zhu is naturally on your side, but the two sides are now in a state of hostility." Xu Yunhua secretly groaned in his heart and had to persuade him.

"General, just make some gestures. Once you've dealt with Fang Jian, you can do whatever you want with Master Zhu."

Xu Yunhua could only say in his heart that he would rather die than let his friend die. He didn't know whether Zhu Yaoxiang would live or die in the future, but it was better to satisfy the commander-in-chief at the moment and save his own life and status.

Ma Jincen snorted coldly: "Then agree to his request."

"Agree to everything?" Xu Yunhua asked in surprise.

Ma Jincen said dissatisfiedly: "The front line suffered heavy casualties. Although Zhang Shengwu and Han Zhifu are my old brothers, their troops lack training and are not very useful."

"I have arranged for people to recruit soldiers. Once the troops are replenished, we will deal with Fang Jian. Doesn't Zhu Yaoxiang need three months? I will give him three months. You tell him that all the elite troops must be dispatched after three months."

"Are you going to give us the 500,000 military salaries, 3,000 rifles, and food?" Xu Yunhua hesitated.

"Give."

Ma Jincen spat out a word coldly, and then said with a grim look: "Go tell Zhu Yaoxiang that I agreed to his request. If he fails to deliver then."

"Humph."

"Then don't blame me for being rude."

Seeing Ma Jincen like this, Xu Yunhua knew that he must be angry with Yuan Shiting.

It was agreed that only a few government positions were needed, but who could have imagined that they would do something like this and secretly raise an army in Nanshan Province.

How could Ma Jincen not be angry when he also took advantage of the war between him and Zhu Yaoxiang?

Facing the furious Ma Jincen, Xu Yunhua did not dare to stay any longer and left the Governor's Mansion under the pretext of negotiating with Zhu Yaoxiang. After leaving the mansion, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Really?" When Zhu Yaoxiang got Xu Yunhua's reply, he felt it was a little unreal.

When did Ma Jincen become so generous? Is there something fishy going on here? Then he looked at Xu Yunhua suspiciously.

Facing Zhu Yaoxiang's gaze, Xu Yunhua felt a little guilty, then calmly said: "The commander-in-chief has spoken personally, how can it be false?"

"Military pay, weapons, and food will be delivered soon. But the commander-in-chief has said in advance that when you attack Fang Jian, you must send out all your elite troops and not let the newly recruited troops make up the numbers."

"How could that be? I will definitely send out elite troops." Zhu Yaoxiang said embarrassedly.

After the two men reached an agreement, Xu Yunhua left, while Zhu Yaoxiang began to recruit soldiers in Qingshan City and expand his army.

Not only Zhu Yaoxiang, but Ma Jincen also recruited soldiers in eight cities, including Pingshan, Hongxing, Qingchang, Zhengshan, Changye, Nanling, Nanfeng, and Huai Chong.

Not only did they expand the army in the eight cities, but they also increased taxes in these eight cities and extorted countless money and grain.

When Fang Jian received Tao Yunong's report on the movements of Zhu Yaoxiang and Ma Jincen, he could not help but fall into deep thought.

"Yu Nong, what do you think about this?"

Although Tao Yunong's political ability was only three stars, his wisdom and command reached four stars. Tao Yunong said truthfully: "Although Ma Jincen's three divisions were wiped out."

"But of these three divisions, except for Ma Jinwei's division, the other two divisions are not strong. He still has three elite divisions, which are fully capable of keeping an eye on Zhu Yaoxiang at the front line and recruiting troops in the rear."

"You mean, what agreement did they reach?" Fang Jian laughed.

Tao Yunong nodded: "Zhu Yaoxiang is at his weakest right now. Even if we don't attack his troops, we can still put some pressure on him."

"But not only did Ma Jincen's army loosen restrictions on him, Zhu Yaoxiang also recruited soldiers on a large scale, not worrying about a surprise attack from Ma Jincen's army at all. This is very unreasonable."

"It seems that they are most likely to unite and prepare to deal with us." Fang Jian was not surprised at all.

If the enemy recruits troops on a large scale, they will certainly not attack us immediately.

Recruiting soldiers takes time, and training troops takes time. If you send a group of untrained soldiers, it would be like sending food to yourself.

Fang Jian then called Wang Hu and said, "Wang Hu, send a telegram to ask Zhang Wei how many troops they have recruited now?"

"Yes, Commander."

Wang Hu was about to go down when Fang Jian called him back: "You and Han Zhou, select some good recruits from Fenglin's new recruits and train them to expand the size of the special operations team as soon as possible."

"Yes, I'll do it with Wei Hanzhou right away." Wang Hu was very happy about the expansion of the special operations team.

It’s just that the special operations team has very high requirements on the quality of its soldiers. It cannot be expanded simply by saying so. The soldiers need to be carefully selected.

As the three-way war came to an end, Nanshan Province fell into a brief period of calm. Fang Ji'an's troops were training new troops, while Zhu Yaoxiang and Ma Jincen's troops were also expanding their forces and intensifying training.

Of course, the calm was only temporary, and Francis had a premonition that a storm was coming.