Back in Shuozhou, Xu Huai was also exhausted, but he was still pestered by Zheng Tu and the others until late in the evening, before he was able to escape and go back to the bedroom to undress and have a good sleep. It is true that since the northern expedition to Yan, Xu Huai had not
After a good night's rest, all kinds of weird dreams overlapped after falling asleep. When I woke up at dawn, there was no trace of the chaotic dreams.
Xu Huai stood up, put on his clothes, and opened the window in front of the bed. The biting cold wind poured in, and the surroundings were silent. It seemed that the world should be so quiet and peaceful, without strife and killing.
There was still candlelight shining on the window paper in the wing. Xu Huai pushed away and walked over, and saw Liu Qiong'er still sitting under the lamp, copying something.
"Why don't you rest yet?" Xu Huai walked over and hugged Liu Qiong'er, who was a little haggard, from behind. He looked at a dozen thin pages of paper, full of beautiful fine characters written in small regular letters, which he said yesterday were among the dog-slaughterers.
Discussion, but it needs to be much more detailed. It can be seen that he went back to the house and went to bed yesterday evening, and Liu Qiong'er and Xu Wuqi discussed this matter for a long time.
Xu Huai pushed Liu Qiong'er off the chair and asked her to sit on his lap.
Liu Qiong'er sat in Xu Huai's arms, twisting her hips to get down. When Xu Huai wrote the numbers "Lifeng Courtyard, Yue Yu Tower" on the light yellow rough paper, she asked curiously: "What is this?"
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"Uncle Wu will be the master of Lifeng Academy, and you will be the master of Yueyue Building, how about it?" Xu Huaixiao asked.
"You have to first tell me what Yue Yulou does." Liu Qiong'er said.
For thousands of years, the Central Plains has always adhered to the theory of "when you enter, you will be Chinese, and when you come out, you will be barbarians", but the main solution is to solve the problems of civilization, nation and even the identity level of the country.
This is somewhat superior to the lower-level generals.
Since the founding of the Dai Viet dynasty, civil society has been used to control military affairs, and civil society has been used to suppress military affairs. The scholar-bureaucrats have controlled family and state affairs, and their relationship with the rough generals and the lower-level soldiers with complex origins has become even more alienated.
Xu Huai has now built more than 3,000 Tongbai Mountain Soldiers into an elite force in Shuozhou. He needs a new identity to break through the many contradictions within the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers, and to leave a strong enough base for further development and growth in the future.
tolerance.
After solving this basic problem, and then reorganizing Tongbai Mountain Soldiers, everything will flow smoothly.
The traditional military-supervising envoys are very weak. A few to a dozen Jun Yuhou, supplemented by a certain number of court soldiers, may superficially stop an army from killing and looting wantonly, but it cannot fundamentally shape the military.
military discipline.
Whenever the generals at the lower level violate the rules, the enforcers of military discipline are mainly military officials and generals at all levels. They will inevitably be rude or protective, and the rewards and punishments are unclear, not to mention the manipulation of the generals at the lower level.
Military generals at a slightly lower level don't have this concept in their minds at all.
Xu Huai wants to further expand the Zhufengtang Guards and then complete this matter.
Considering that the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain still had to be reorganized under the framework of the Dai Viet Imperial Army, Xu Huai planned to reorganize all Zhufengtang guards into Lifengyuan in the name of Yu Houguan.
Of course, it is extremely taboo to set up a private military discipline agency to control generals. Lifengyuan can only be established in vain and must be kept strictly confidential.
However, whether it is a Yuhou officer or a Zhufengtang guard, they all need to carefully select people from the army for deeper training. No one is more suitable than Xu Wuqi to serve as a military Yuhou and control the Lifengyuan.
In addition, there is an extremely important work that needs to be continued and further strengthened.
That's intelligence work.
If they hadn't been able to target Chen Zixiao and Sujinlou early in the morning, Xu Huai would never have been able to understand the full extent of Xiao Linshi's conspiracy even if he had the memory fragments flashing in his mind;
Building, Guo Zhongxiong secretly met with Ge Boyi, who was imprisoned in the state prison, for an hour. Xu Huai believed that they had been involved in the vortex of "collaboration with the enemy" at this time.
The Tianxiong Army was destroyed in Datong. They were raided by cavalry from Shengde Gate and Yue Hailou encouraged Ge Huaicong and others to abandon the army and flee alone. No one can deny an extremely important factor, that is, the intelligence work of the Tianxiong Army was too great.
Rotten.
Even before his death, Ge Huaicong did not know by whose hand he was defeated.
Xu Huaiyi was completely disappointed with Dai Viet's military intelligence collection work. Firstly, if the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain wanted to control their own destiny, they must have their own intelligence agency.
Ordinary enemy intelligence reconnaissance is naturally the responsibility of the scouts and sentries established by each department as usual, but for deeper and more systematic intelligence collection and infiltration work, Xu Huai plans to formally establish the Yue Yu Tower, with Liu Qiong'er in charge, and Zhou Jing as her director.
deputy.
At this stage, the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain will still be within the framework of the Dai Viet Forbidden Army. Similarly, no one will allow the Forbidden Army to have an independent military intelligence agency. The Yue Yu Tower will still be secretly established under the framework of Zhufengtang.
In addition to Lifeng Courtyard and Yueyu Tower, Xu Huai also wants to continue to build a large-scale building based on Zhufeng Hall's original pavilions and caravans.
In addition to strengthening the logistical supply of Tongbai Mountain Soldiers in addition to the normal Forbidden Army supply system, Xu Huai also urgently needed to establish a secret passage at this time to ensure that he could lead the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers to safely withdraw when the situation completely collapsed.
Go to Tongbai Mountain or other safe areas.
Xu Huai had never imagined that in just one year at the earliest and two years at the latest, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of red soldiers would cross the Yinshan Mountains and head south like a torrent. He would be able to turn the tide with just three thousand Tongbai Mountain soldiers.
Able to block the red cavalry north of Shuozhou.
If things could really be solved so easily, there wouldn't be any huge disaster.
Xu Huai would never use the Khitan cavalry to measure the combat effectiveness of the Red Husband cavalry.
This is not a level of existence at all.
The Khitan is getting old, and the condition of its soldiers and horses may be slightly better than that of the Dai Viet Imperial Army.
Even the Tibetan soldiers that Xiao Linshi organized in a hurry were far from strong in combat effectiveness.
When Xu Huai and others retreated from Datong City to Wuzhou Mountain, they had received advice and even captured thousands of heads of Tibetan soldiers.
However, the Chihu people have risen rapidly in the past thirty years, and have been continuously annexing and expanding to surrounding areas for thirty years. Their soldiers and generals have been training continuously for thirty years. At this time, their combat effectiveness may be at its peak.
During this period, even the most elite Khitan cavalry had no power to resist the red cavalry.
What confidence did Xu Huai have that the three thousand Tongbai Mountain soldiers could withstand the torrent of Red Husbands heading south?
Xu Huai never had such illusions.
He followed Wang Zhen to the north, and his fundamental goal from the beginning to the end was to bring back more Tongbai Mountain soldiers, so as to preserve a little more vitality for Tongbai Mountain in the upcoming catastrophe.
Currently they are only halfway towards achieving this goal.
In addition to Lifengyuan and Yueyulou, in the name of Zhufengtang Courtyard and the caravan, secretly laying a passage for the southward retreat of 3,000 troops is their top priority next.
The southern evacuation passage is not difficult at all. The main thing is to build more Zhufeng Villas on the expected south evacuation passage, secretly reserve the necessary supplies and livestock for the south evacuation, and provide a temporary place to stay.
This way, we can ensure that the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain and more troops will not collapse due to lack of food and grass during the long southward retreat of two thousand miles, and will not have to rob food from the people and the military morale that has been built up will not be weakened.
If the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain could maintain their reorganization and combat effectiveness during the retreat south, not only would the retreat of 3,000 troops to Tongbai Mountain not be a big problem, but it would also be possible to carry more troops to Tongbai Mountain.
Therefore, Xu Huai would not think that the women and children of the Hu tribe in Shuozhou were a burden. As long as they were properly arranged, these women and children could even go south in advance.
At the beginning of the Dai Viet Dynasty, the families and children of the Forbidden Army soldiers were all concentrated in Gyeonggi Province, under the jurisdiction of the left and right military patrols. The places where the Forbidden Army soldiers were stationed were also rotated every three years.
In the middle and later period, this system could no longer be implemented. If generals and soldiers got married at the station, it was common for their families to follow the army or move back to their place of origin.
It is not difficult to arrange for women and children to go south in advance when something is expected to go wrong.
Of course, the situation when the disaster really comes must be extremely complicated. Xu Huai cannot accurately predict everything now. He does not even rule out the possibility that the Chihu people may enter Yanji from the south of the Liaoxi Corridor, and then go straight to Bian via the Hebei Road.
Beijing, Hedong Road west of Taihang Mountain may be safe for the time being.
But no matter what, the necessary preparations must be carried out as quickly as possible.
For this reason, Xu Huai planned to establish a large labor camp, or to directly delete some of the soldiers from the military register and directly integrate them into Zhufengtang's caravan.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether you erase it or not.
Dai Viet's forbidden army has always had a tradition of empty pay. There are only 12 out of 10 soldiers in the military rolls who cannot be verified as real people. How big a deal is it in Dai Viet today?
On the contrary, Xu Huai was not in a hurry to start the establishment of a formal war camp. After all, whether they would be given the commander-in-chief of Xiangdu, who would be given the general position, and how many additional battalion commanders would be given, all had to be
The court will decide; of course, it also depends on what Wang Fan will write in the memorial to the court.
After hearing Xu Huaixu talk about many arrangements, Liu Qiong'er looked towards the north window nervously and asked: "Will the cavalry of the Red Huns really go south so quickly?"
"It won't take more than two years at the latest," Xu Huai said. "In Shuozhou and Datong, there are not many intermarriages between Han and Tibetan people, but it is not impossible. Among the many women and children staying in Shuozhou, you will marry those who are Han people."
As wives, women and children who are considered Han citizens by giving birth to and raising children, but who still retain some characteristics of the Hu people are selected to see if they can select some courageous people worth mentioning and bring them to Yueyu Tower for training..."
The appearance of the Tibetan Hu people in the north and south of the Yinshan Mountains is quite different from that of the Han people in the Central Plains. If Yue Yulou does not specially cultivate a group of elites, it will be very difficult to conduct intelligence espionage and infiltration of the Chihu people in the future.
For now, they can only indirectly understand the fighting situation of the few remaining Khitan elites east of the Great Xianbei Mountains to resist the Chihu people by capturing or bribing the Khitans.
The available clear information is limited, but none of it is optimistic.
Xiao Linshi led his troops to defend Yingzhou and had no intention of further searching for the main force of the Eastern Route Army to fight...
