Chapter 196 Sending a Messenger Five Days Later
Although Zhang Yi's army won the battle, it was only a training exercise for friendly forces, so Zhang Yi did not make a fatal move.
After having won the victory, Zhang Yi immediately ordered the gold to be withdrawn.
The rapid sound of gold ringing sounded, and Zhang Ni's army began to give up "pursuing" Meng Da's army and slowly retreated.
After all his troops had withdrawn and reorganized their formation, Zhang Ni left the formation and came to the high platform to pay homage to Mi Yang.
Zhang Ni's performance made Mi Yang nod secretly.
Even when his own side had won the victory, even when facing friendly forces, he never let down his guard.
In addition, when the two battalions faced each other just now, Zhang Ni changed his formation in time according to the situation and defeated Mengda's first battalion.
It can be seen from these performances that he has a calm personality and is flexible. He is a very good general.
At this time, Ding Feng, who was behind Mi Yang, had a flushed face after watching the formation changes of the two battalions.
A good man should be like Meng Da and Zhang Yi, commanding his troops to strangle the enemy and stay in a safe tent.
Since some time ago, the army of the three battalions had roughly understood the order of the golden drum in the army, Mi Yang asked the generals of the three battalions to command the soldiers of the battalions respectively and began to form formations for confrontation training.
In Mi Yang's view, whether the formation can be formed smoothly and whether the formation can be changed smoothly after formation is the criterion for whether the army is familiar with flags, golden drums, and orders and prohibitions.
It is true that at the beginning, the sudden formation and confrontation training made the three battalions a little uncomfortable.
The formation was chaotic and some stampedes even occurred.
However, after many formation confrontation trainings, the Third Battalion army became more and more familiar with formation changes, and to this day, they are already very familiar with formation confrontation training.
Of course, if it is just formation confrontation training without rewards and punishments, it will easily make the three battalions slack off.
So Mi Yang set up a corresponding reward and punishment system.
In a battle between three battalions, the soldiers of the battalion that comes first will have meat for their meals that day.
In today's world of food scarcity, this temptation is quite strong.
As the last soldier of the battalion, he is responsible for hunting and capturing game in the deep mountains and forests for the entire army.
As for the second place, he is responsible for repairing and maintaining the equipment for the entire battalion of soldiers, and is responsible for cleaning the clothes of the entire army.
It can be said that in addition to the rewards for first place, there are penalties for second and third places.
Especially the third one, they were the ones hunting, but in the end they still had no meat to eat.
The purpose of Mi Yang's arrangement is that he does not want his army to develop a mentality of showing off due to repeated formation and confrontation training, and he does not want to think that being second is also good.
In the past formation confrontation training, what surprised Mi Yang at first was that it was Deng Ai's battalion who lost more than he won.
In the original estimate, Mi Yang thought that Deng Aicai should be the first winner.
Because formation confrontation training tests the proficiency of the soldiers with flags and golden drums on the one hand, and the adaptability of the commanders and generals on the other.
Deng Ai's camp was assisted by generals like Ding Feng who had climbed up from the bottom step by step. In addition, Deng Ai himself was quick-witted and changeable. Logically speaking, he would not have achieved such results.
But later, after continuous observation, Mi Yang discovered something fishy.
Deng Ai is deliberately letting off steam!
Deng Ai took advantage of the opportunity of being the last to take his army to hunt in the mountains and forests, and at the same time exercise his army's ability to march in complex terrain.
Because according to the Seven Kills Order, no soldier is allowed to leave the camp without the permission of the commander-in-chief Mi Yang.
Therefore, if Deng Ai wanted to speed up the training of his soldiers' field combat capabilities, he could only use this method.
After figuring this out, Mi Yang knew it well but did not expose him because such an approach was very Deng Ai.
Don't care about finishing last many times, you are capable of bending and stretching.
Wanting to quickly train the field combat capabilities of your soldiers is to lay the foundation for future surprise attacks.
Because of this, Deng Ai's battalion of troops is not present in the valley camp.
Shortly after Zhang Ni came to pay homage to Mi Yang, Meng Da also came to pay homage to Mi Yang.
Seeing this, Mi Yang stretched out his hand to help the two generals in front of him. He praised General Meng Da: "Zi Du, Bo Qi has trained his army well. Our army has begun to have combat effectiveness."
Faced with Mi Yang's praise, Meng Da felt a little embarrassed.
After all, among the three generals under Mi Yang's command, he has the highest qualifications. As a result, he has been the second in command since the past few days of confrontation.
Zhang Yi, who often won first place, showed no pride on his face when faced with Mi Yang's praise.
Because he knew that the three battalions of troops could already take up combat strength in about a month.
In addition to the reason why the three of them have been commanding the training for days, the more important reason is that the old public security department that Qian Miyang placed in the army played a great role.
Moreover, the proportion of pure recruits among the nearly 10,000-strong army is not high. For these reasons, the training progress of the nearly 10,000-strong army has been greatly increased.
After Mi Yang praised Zhang Yi and Meng Da, he saw that the sky was getting dark and he thought that Deng Ai should lead his army back to the camp soon, so he led Meng Da and Zhang Yi into the main tent and waited for Deng Ai.
's return.
Today is also the day when Lu Yi delivers a new batch of grain and grass from Shangyong City.
As time passed, before it completely darkened, Deng Ai finally led his troops back to the camp from the dense mountain forest.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the utilization rate of land by humans was actually very low. In this era, there were dense mountains and forests and deep lakes everywhere.
Especially in Hanxing County, a place with many mountains and rivers.
In the rolling mountains in Hanxing County, there are countless game animals.
Although some game animals were ferocious beasts in the noisy mountains and forests before they died, in the face of large numbers of people and well-trained soldiers, they could only succumb to the spears and arrows of Deng Ai's soldiers in the end.
Seeing the soldiers of Deng Ai's camp returning with more or less game meat on their bodies, the faces of the soldiers of Zhang Yi's camp showed expressions of joy.
That's all meat. They can have extra food tonight.
Although most of it is just minced meat, it already makes them very satisfied.
As for the soldiers of Mengdan's camp, after seeing the soldiers of Deng Aina's camp returning with game on their backs, their faces did not show any joy.
When they saw the blood and dirt on Deng Aishui's body, they all had annoyed looks on their faces.
Today they are cleaning clothes again!
They have almost washed nearly half a month's worth of clothes for the soldiers under Deng County Lieutenant. Can't their Meng County Lieutenant lead them to victory once?
Because Mi Yang came from a later generation, he took hygiene very seriously.
Under his strict requirements, Soldier Mengda, who was often responsible for cleaning his colleagues' clothes, not only could not just deal with the matter casually, but also had to work hard to clean his colleagues' clothes as cleanly as possible.
In the entire camp, there are more than 10,000 pieces of clothing for the soldiers alone.
If it weren't for the ban on loud noises in the camp, they would have begun to complain incessantly.
Deng Ai, who had just returned to the camp, heard that Mi Yang was waiting for him in the main tent. After handing over his soldiers to Ding Feng, he hurried to Mi Yang's main tent in the middle of the valley.
On the way, Deng Ai met Lu Yi, who had just handed over food and grass in the camp.
Deng Ai, who had always admired having enough food for his troops, admired Lu Yi who had been working hard to raise food and fodder for the army.
Therefore, after seeing Lu Yi, Deng Ai took the initiative to salute Lu Yi.
After Lu Yi saw Deng Ai covered in blood, he knew that Deng Ai had just returned from hunting with his men. Looking at Deng Ai whose face became more determined, a smile appeared on his face.
Since Liu Bei sent him to Mi Yang's command, his future fame and fortune have been bound to Mi Yang.
Now that he saw that Mi Yang's soldiers were becoming more refined and his generals were becoming more mature, he was sincerely happy for his small group.
Lu Yi smiled and saluted Deng Ai.
Then the two of them arrived at Mi Yang's tent together.
After arriving at the camp, Lu Yi first reported to Mi Yang: "Yi has escorted 80,000 dendrobiums of grain and grass to the camp, and has handed them all to the camp's central grain officer. The grain and grass are divided well."
After listening to Mi Yang's report, Mi Yang smiled and asked Lu Yi to sit down.
During this period of time, Lu Yi dealt with one snake and one fox, raising a total of nearly 200,000 dendrobiums of grain and grass for Mi Yang, which was really indispensable.
Nearly two hundred thousand bushels of grain and grass were enough to feed Mi Yang's army for nearly two months.
Because of Lu Yi, Mi Yang did not have to worry about food problems in a short period of time and could train soldiers with peace of mind.
However, it can also be seen from this point how rich the Shen brothers are, and they are really wealthy.
The fact that the Shen brothers could continue to provide food and grass to Mi Yang's army was essentially an act of bribery. They wanted to use this food and grass to block Mi Yang's interference in county affairs.
Regardless of whether it is ancient or modern, bribery will definitely not involve emptying one's assets for bribery.
The amount of bribes may be just a drop in the bucket for those big players.
After Lu Yi sat down, Mi Yang said to him: "When this matter comes to an end, I will write to the king to express my merits for Ji Yang."
Seeing that Mi Yang wanted to express his gratitude to him, Lu Yi bowed slightly to Mi Yang and said to Mi Yang: "This is my own work, and I don't deserve any credit.
Moreover, if the ruler had not previously deceived the Shen brothers, Yi would not have been able to deal with these two people and successfully raise food and fodder for the army."
When Lu Yi said these words, his face was sincere, and he did not mean to make any false excuses.
Because what he said is true.
If Mi Yang had not concealed it so well before, the Shen brothers would not have been able to let down their guard and continue to provide food and grass to "enemy the enemy".
After listening to Lu Yi's words, Mi Yang just smiled casually.
Then he looked at Deng Ai and saw that Deng Ai was now covered in blood and stains, probably from hunting.
Seeing this scene, Mi Yang warned him: "You are in charge of a battalion, which is of great importance. You can just leave the matter of fighting wild beasts to your subordinates. Why go into battle yourself?"
Faced with Mi Yang's warning, Deng Ai had a good attitude in admitting his mistake. He bowed to Mi Yang and then said: "What you taught me is that wild beasts are ferocious, and if Ai doesn't take the lead, I'm afraid the soldiers will not die."
Seeing what Deng Ai said, Mi Yang did not warn Deng Ai again.
Because he knew that although Deng Ai liked to take the lead, his purpose in doing so was to boost morale, and it was not entirely a hot-headed behavior.
With Deng Ai's wisdom, after his warning, he will be more measured in the future.
After admonishing Deng Ai, Mi Yang asked Deng Ai to sit down as well.
Then he dismissed the rest of the people in the tent, leaving only a few generals in charge and Lu Yi, and said to them:
"Now that our soldiers are ready to fight, I want to attack the Shen brothers in the near future. I wonder if you have any suggestions."
Hearing that Mi Yang was finally going to take action against the Shen brothers, everyone in the tent became energetic.
If anyone in the account is the most disgusted with the Shen brothers, it is undoubtedly Meng Da who was cheated by the Shen brothers in Hanxing County.
After Mi Yang finished speaking, Meng Da came out first and spoke to Mi Yang: "The Shen family has been entrenched in Hanxing County for many years, and their eyes are spread throughout the county.
If the general wants to attack the Shen brothers, he must do so secretly and quickly.
Otherwise, if the Shen brothers are aware of it and counterattack, they will definitely start a battle with our army in Hanxing County. By then, our army will be a guest army and the situation will be unfavorable to our army."
After listening to Meng Da's words, Mi Yang nodded slightly.
What Meng Da said was exactly what he was worried about.
The main reason why he did not attack the Shen brothers in the beginning was that his soldiers were not trained, and if he attacked rashly, there would be too many variables.
Shen Dan and Shen Yi must have a private army with good combat power, otherwise historically they would not be able to defeat Liu Feng, who was good at fighting.
Another very important reason is that the Shen family has been developing in Hanxing County for many years. It can be said that their spies are everywhere in Hanxing County.
Not to mention other things, Shen Dan's spies were densely crowded outside the valley camp.
Once his army makes an unusual and large-scale move out of camp, the news will be reported to Shen Dan's desk quickly.
Shen Dan will definitely be suspicious by then and will not sit still and wait for death.
In addition, if we rashly start a direct battle in Hanxing County, even if Mi Yang can kill the two Shen brothers in the end, the three cities of Hanxing may be destroyed in the war.
Hanxing County was regarded as Mi Yang's first base in his plan.
Under this consideration, it would be disadvantageous for Mi Yang if Hanxing County was devastated by war.
Therefore, even if he now possesses considerable combat power, he cannot attack the Shen brothers directly.
It's best to be wise.
It's just that Mi Yang already has a similar plan in mind.
Mi Yang looked at Ding Feng, the only soldier left in the tent. He said to Ding Feng: "Chongye, tomorrow you will set out to deliver a letter to Xicheng for me."
After hearing Mi Yang's instructions, Ding Feng hurriedly went out to worship, saying yes.
After giving instructions to Ding Feng, Mi Yang looked at Lu Yiyan and said, "After Ji Yang returned to the city, he informed Shen Dan in the city that in five days, I will host a banquet for him in the camp. I hope he will do it."
arrive."
After Mi Yang gave Ding Feng and Lu Yi successive orders, everyone in the tent understood Mi Yang's intention.
Lu Yi felt that the matter was of great importance, so he responded solemnly.
But after Ying Wei, Lu Yi asked Mi Yang, "What should I do if Shen Dan doesn't accept the appointment?"
What to do?
Mi Yang looked at Lu Yi and said, "Be polite first and then send troops. If he doesn't come in five days, I will lead troops to invite him."
Mi Yang has scruples in his heart, but he will not be timid.
When it’s time to do it, do it!
The timing was wrong, I just found out~
It’s not a big problem, let’s continue coding.
Book Recommendation: The Wind Rises in the Late Ming Dynasty
This new book by an old author is worth reading.
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