After the summer planting ended, Xinshi around Mayi suddenly became nervous.
Niu Gui, who had been doing business on the grassland, came to Xu Wei and said: "Qushuai, there is a problem with the Xianbei people. More than a month ago, King Xianbei and his company kept summoning Xianbei tribes to gather. Now tens of thousands of Xianbei people have gathered around Hantan Mountain, and
There is also a trend of more and more people. If the autumn season comes in September, there will probably be hundreds of thousands of people."
Xu Wei immediately summoned the entire Mayi hierarchy and asked Niu Gui to report to them the Xianbei people's changes!
Xu Wei looked at the top management of Mayi and said seriously: "The King of Xianbei and his company have summoned tens of thousands of Xianbei people this time. Chen Bing is on the border of the Han Dynasty. It is obvious that they are going to invade the Han Dynasty."
Old Man Wang asked strangely: "What does the Xianbei invasion of the Han have to do with us? The court should be the one who is nervous about this, right?"
Wang Lei whispered: "Sir, Khantan Mountain is less than a hundred miles away from us, and it is only 400 miles away from Mayi. Now Chen Bing is at our doorstep. There is no prosperous place on the border of the Han Dynasty, that is, we are
Mayi is rich, and as long as Helian is not stupid, he will definitely send troops to us!"
Only then did Old Man Wang feel that the situation was serious, and said a little helplessly: "Why is it so difficult for us to live a better life? Everyone comes to bully us. It used to be the imperial court, but now even barbarians dare to bully us!"
Xu Wei also felt very fucked. This was completely different from what he had imagined. He chose such a leftover material because he wanted to farm with peace of mind, and then after the farming was completed, a wave of a flowed over, and what princes were fighting for hegemony and the Three Kingdoms were fighting for hegemony. He
The farming method was swept away.
But the reality is that he has no way to farm with peace of mind. In the first year, 40,000 horse thieves came, and in the second year, hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people came. Gold horns, silver edges, and turf bellies are all nonsense.
The reality is indeed completely different from the game. The Xianbei people are not NPCs in the game. They are indifferent to every move around them. If Ma Yi makes some moves, the surrounding Xianbei people will immediately react. Compared with the poor border counties, the wealthy Ma Yi
Yi was obviously a better target for looting, and Xu Wei now realized that he had chosen a very poor place to start.
Old Man Niu asked carefully: "Have you guessed wrong? We defeated 40,000 horse thieves a year ago. The King of Xianbei people should know that we are not easy to mess with. Does he want to deal with other counties of the Han Dynasty? Not necessarily
Come to us in Mayi.
Could it be Dai County and Shanggu County in Youzhou? These two counties don't seem to have many troops! Didn't Liu Bei also cultivate a lot of fields this year? It is said that the harvest this year is also good. He bought a lot of farm tools from us to harvest wheat.
Could it be that Helian went towards Liu Bei?"
Niu Gui smiled bitterly and said: "I also want to think so, but if the Xianbei people want to invade Daijun and Shanggujun, they will not gather so many tribesmen. Daijun and Shanggujun combined do not even have 200,000 people, and there are no field soldiers."
Even more impoverished.
It would be enough to plunder Helian and gather 10,000 tribesmen, but now it seems that Helian wants to assemble the Xianbei people in the entire west and central part. He has gathered hundreds of thousands of tribesmen. Apart from targeting our city of Mayi, Helian will not
There are other places where hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people can rob."
Xu Weidao: "We can't take any chances. We gather soldiers and waste a little time and money at most. But if Helian really invades our Mayi and we are not prepared at all, then all of us may die at the hands of the Xianbei people."
Under the iron cavalry.”
Then Xu Wei looked at Old Man Niu and said: "Old Man Niu, now stop all the work you are doing and go all out to build weapons and armor, ensuring that you can arm 100,000 people!"
Old Man Niu nodded solemnly and said: "Old man understands!"
Then he looked at Old Man Wang and said: "Old Man Wang, you also ask the factory to stop all work and start to produce crossbows, spears, trebuchets and other military weapons. You also need to prepare food and grass for 100,000 people! At the same time, you also need to prepare ordnance.
Transport grain and grass to the fortress in Qiangyin County, strengthen local armaments, and evacuate local people and herdsmen."
Old man Wang said seriously: "Old man understands!"
Then Xu Wei asked the two of them to go prepare. After all, they didn't understand the military deployment.
"Wang Ge, order the district chiefs to start gathering their troops. I want to gather 100,000 people before He Lian comes to Mayi. Let He Lian know that our Tengjia Army is not easy to mess with."
Chief of Staff Wang Ge said loudly: "No!"
However, he hesitated and asked: "Are the soldiers on active duty divided into officers to arm the troops?"
There are only 20,000 full-time soldiers in Mayi. Of course, because there are many young and strong people, 100,000 people can be recruited at any time, and they are also soldiers with military experience. But after all, these soldiers have been plowing the fields for a year, and they even have to build new buildings during the slack period.
In water conservancy, there is no time for training. Wang Ke expressed doubts about how much combat experience such militiamen retain, so he asked such a question!
Xu Wei also felt a little bit pained. The labor force in Mayi has always been insufficient, and there is a shortage of people for various infrastructure constructions. As a result, a large number of Hu people came to work in Mayi, and a special type of herdsmen workers appeared. The labor force is so scarce.
, militia training has naturally been abandoned, and now that the war has come, there are not enough soldiers.
In fact, Xu Wei also attaches great importance to the construction of the army. He trains 20,000 professional soldiers as officers. He often selects some military theories summarized by later generations that are in line with the current situation and uses them as teaching materials to educate these soldiers, and even assigns a few
War examples and let them simulate command.
It's a pity that few generals have not been trained so far, but it is okay to let them serve as basic officers, but now they are scattered among the militia, so the combat effectiveness of Xu Wei's army will plummet.
He thought for a while and said: "Separate 5,000 people to serve as commanders and lead them to train the militia!"
Sharpening his guns before the battle was a waste of time, Xu Wei could only pray to heaven that Helian could invade Mayi later so that he could have time to train his soldiers.
He retains 15,000 elite elite troops, so that the combat effectiveness of the Tengjia Army can be guaranteed.
To deal with so many cavalry, I thought it would take an ace unit to act as a sharp knife to defeat the Xianbei people unexpectedly.
Xu Wei was now in a dilemma, whether to arm a Mo Dao heavy infantry first, or to arm an armored heavy cavalry first. With Mayi's resources, he could only arm one such ace unit.
Xu Wei thought for a while and decided that the Mo Dao heavy infantry should be the first warrior. After all, there is no shortage of steel in Mayi. With meat and vegetables for three meals a day, the tribesmen in Mayi are also very strong and can recruit thousands.
He formed Modao heavy infantry, but when he wanted to form armored heavy cavalry, he had difficulty finding high-quality war horses. Although Bingzhou's horses had good durability, they were not too tall and were not suitable for forming armored heavy cavalry.