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In fact, Yuan Xiangxian did not borrow troops from the Lu Long Army. To be precise, he should pay to hire troops. He proposed this proposal to Han Yanhui who was stationed in Shenzhou, and Han Yanhui rushed directly to Youzhou at a speed of 800 miles.
While Li Chengzhong was still thinking about the deeper meaning, a second equally "ridiculous" secret letter was sent to Li Xiaoxi, who had just led his troops back to Shenzhou. The person who made the request for employment to Li Xiaoxi was Luo Shaowei, the military governor of Weibo. He was very familiar with Li Xiaoxi.
, Luo Shaowei said straight to the point in the secret letter that he hoped Li Xiaoxi would lead his troops into Weizhou City. Luo Shaowei did not have much money to pay Li Xiaoxi, but he promised that as long as Li Xiaoxi agreed, he would help Li Xiaoxi enter the city as an insider. As for the expenses after entering the city,
Li Xiaoxi went to get it herself.
Li Xiaoxi's Youyan Security Company has no channel to contact Li Chengzhong. According to regulations, his "business and business" are coordinated by Han Yanhui of the United Front Work Department, so Li Xiaoxi immediately informed Han Yanhui, who was also in Shenzhou, of the above situation.
This situation is undoubtedly quite shocking. Wei Bo Jiedushi was actually involved in it? Han Yanhui roughly guessed what Luo Shaowei was thinking after thinking for a while. Luo Shaowei didn't want to be a puppet of Wei Bo Yabing. This is completely understandable, but Luo Shaowei agreed.
"Reward"... undoubtedly surprised Han Yanhui. What did Luo Shaowei want to do? Does he know the consequences of his promise?
Han Yanhui originally planned to send a second urgent report to Youzhou, but seeing Li Xiaoxi's eagerness to try, he canceled this plan.
Following Li Chengzhong in the past few years, Han Yanhui has gained a lot of experience and has his own understanding of the situation. Luo Shaowei's intention is very clear. He asked Li Xiaoxi to enter Weizhou to do what he wanted, and Han Yanhui also had an accurate understanding of what he wanted to do when he asked Li Xiaoxi to enter Weizhou.
Inference. Han Yanhui knew the commander he worked for very well. The commander had a trace of compassion and kindness in his heart. Han Yanhui disagreed. So he decided to promote this matter, so that the commander could be better.
To properly control Hebei, we must clear away all obstacles in front of us. Even if it means shedding a little more blood, what does it mean?
No matter what Luo Shaowei plans to do, it is essentially a form of "borrowing troops" and is not fundamentally different from Yuan Xiangxian's request. As long as Youzhou agrees to Yuan Xiangxian's request, it also means that Luo Shaowei's request has also been approved. As for
It doesn't matter whether it's a big deal or a small deal.
Li Chengzhong agreed to Yuan Xiangxian's request for mercenaries. The situation was changing with each passing day and developing so fast. No one expected it. Whether to be cautious or radical. This debate is meaningless. The general trend is like water, and personnel are like boats. The current pushes the boats, and the boats
If you don't obey, you are going against the trend. Since Yuan Xiang first planned to give Weizhou to himself, of course he had to accept it.
What needs to be considered now is how to deal with Wei Bo's gate? This is a very hot potato. If it is not handled well, it can easily cause a fire in the rear.
Another thing to consider is whether it is necessary to leave a buffer zone with Xuanwu? As Feng Dao said, going to war with Xuanwu just after unifying Hebei seems a bit militaristic, and will have devastating consequences for Hebei's production and recovery.
as a result of.
At the same time, we must also consider how to deal with Yuan Xiangxian? This person has fallen deeply into the "trade trap" of Lu Longjun, and has handed over more and more clues to Li Chengzhong. If we do not make full use of this person
, then it would be a pity.
There were so many things to consider that Li Chengzhong felt a severe headache.
In accordance with the decision made by Li Chengzhong, the General Administration of Military Staff changed the overall thinking and formulated a new Hebei strategy. In this strategy, the General Administration of Military Staff issued a three-level mobilization order, requiring all combat systems of the Lulong Army to start accelerating operation. According to
The "Lulong Jiedu Prefecture Military Mobilization Order" stipulates that the third-level mobilization order requires the mobilization of all standing and reserve personnel, and at the same time, the security company is included in the deployment system of the General Administration of Military Staff.
The overall goal of the strategy is to complete the military integration of Hebei before the end of the first year of the third year of Tianfu, and to appear among the vassal towns in the world as a unified Hebei.
In the strategy, it is planned to mobilize the Liaodong Security Company to quickly enter the customs and work together with the Youyan Security Company to complete the clearing of Weizhou.
The Cangzhou Army and the Huaiyue Allied Forces completed the full occupation of Weizhou under Wei Bo, and at the same time seized the eastern parts of Xingzhou, Mingzhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou under Wei Bo's control, and formed a confrontation with the western part of the above-mentioned prefectures and counties under the control of Xuanwu Army
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With the Mozhou Army as the main force, they went south and captured Jizhou and Zhaozhou, forcing Chengde Town to surrender.
The Yingzhou Army, which had just completed its army formation, marched westward as the main force and entered Yizhou, Dingzhou and Hengzhou through combat training, forcing the Yiwu Army to surrender.
The Combat Training Department has accelerated the training of new recruits and strives to complete the training of reserve soldiers before mid-January of the third year of Tianfu. The formation of reserve battalions in each county must be completed by the end of January, and the establishment of reserve brigades in each state must be completed by mid-February.
The Logistics Department must go all out and make all kinds of preparations to establish preliminary usable grain camps in Julu and Guantao before the end of February to support the armies' preparations for Xuanwu's offensive.
Additional special military expenditures will be levied outside the customs, an additional 200,000 dan of grain will be levied from the Balhae Kingdom, an additional 100,000 dan of grain will be levied from the Silla Kingdom, and an additional 50,000 dan of grain will be levied from Ungjin Prefecture. At the same time, military armor capable of equipping 20,000 people will be apportioned to the above three places.
, cotton clothes and various materials, and purchased 5,000 war horses and 100,000 sheep from various grassland ministries at low prices for military use.
In order to cooperate with Li Chengzhong's request to unify Hebei, the Judge's Office in Jiedu Prefecture also began to operate at full capacity and began to establish various state and county government offices. Feng Dao's plan was to transfer half of the officials in the Judge's Office to serve as future chief officials of various states and counties, with temporary subordinates.
The scholars recruited from various wealthy families in Youzhou were supplemented by officials from the original yamen in the occupied states, establishing the main framework of the yamen. At the same time, additional examinations were held in the first month of the year to recruit students from academies in Yingzhou and Youzhou to supplement the judges.
The vacancies of departmental officials.
Yu Housi and the Logistics Department jointly sent a letter to Shenzhou, asking Han Yanhui, who was in charge of Shenzhou, to strive to make a huge deal, mainly using gold, silver and copper coins, supplemented by salt, to purchase grain from the Yuan family and the Jiang family.
Even if the price is high, we won’t hesitate!
With the issuance of military and political orders one after another, the war preparations of Lulong's armies began to accelerate.
The Cangzhou Army and the Huaiyue Allied Army crossed the state border and entered Guantao in the north of Weizhou and Shenxian in the east respectively.
After the Mozhou Army bypassed Shenzhou, they divided into two groups. The left wing and the old camp marched eastward to Jizhou, aiming directly at Liang Gongru, the main force of the Chengde Army. The right wing entered Zhaozhou from the west. The troops approached the gates of Zhaozhou City.
A few days later, the newly formed Yingzhou Army also set out from Fanyang Camp, crossed the wooden bridge over Laishui River built by Lulong merchants, and occupied Laishui County. Afterwards, along the official road built by Lulong merchants,
Marching towards Yi County, the capital of Yizhou Prefecture, their goal was to eliminate the troops of Zhang Gongqing, the military envoy of Yizhou.
The Youzhou Army set out from the Youzhou Camp and practiced while marching. They marched slowly towards Cangzhou. They wanted to make up for the vacancy left by the Cangzhou Army's march south, stationed themselves in Wudi and other counties, and guarded the Xuanwu Army Liu Chongba's headquarters in Dizhou.
The Combat Training Department has compressed the training courses for new recruits and intensified the training intensity, striving to complete the new soldier training before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Education Department has also picked up the merit examination lists of military officers and is preparing to recruit grassroots soldiers to build
The officer skeleton of reserve brigades and reserve battalions in various states and counties. The officers of the new reserve battalion and reserve brigade will go to the training camps located in Youzhou, Liucheng, and Yan County to select soldiers and form their own troops.
On December 23, under the snow-covered Yuguan City, Zhou Zhiyu looked at Zhao Zaili and others in front of him with mixed feelings in his heart. Zhou Zhiyu came to see off the Liaodong Security Corporation. According to the instructions of the General Administration of Military Staff
According to the order, the Liaodong Security Corporation was included in the wartime recruitment ranks. For this reason, the Logistics Department invested 100,000 yuan to hire the company to fight in the customs for three months.
The Liaodong Security Corporation was organized by Zhao Zaili. He used the old Pingzhou Army who followed him as the backbone, and selected tribesmen such as Yier Army, Ya Nei Army, Jizhou Soldiers and Ba Duqi as soldiers, and established a two thousand-man army.
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Zhao Zaili was the first personal guard to follow Zhou Zhiyu, and he was Zhou Zhiyu's direct descendant. He had a good relationship with Li Chengzhong, and his military rank was still higher than that of Li Chengzhong at first. However, after Li Chengzhong left Yuguan, everything changed. When Zhao Zaili was captured by Zhou Zhiyu,
When he was promoted to be the envoy of Yuguan, Li Chengzhong had already become the governor of Yingzhou with the imperial title and the control outside the pass.
Later, Zhao Zaili led his troops to participate in the successive battles between the Lulong and Weibo coalition forces with Zhou Zhiyu. During the Da'anshan Incident, he and Zhou Zhiyu were captured by the Yier Army and imprisoned in Youzhou Prison until Li Chengzhong took charge of Youzhou.
Only then was he able to see the light of day again.
Li Chengzhong once had a long talk with Zhao Zaili. He wanted him to enter the new advanced training class of Bailangshan Military Academy, and when he graduated, he would be arranged to join the newly formed Youzhou Army, starting from the battalion command. This has already been done
It's special care and preferential treatment. After all, Zhao Zaili is different from Li Chengyue, Wang Sitong, Gao Xinggui, and Gao Xingzhou. He has no experience of leading an army alone in actual combat. Not only is he a newcomer in the Laoyingzhou faction, but also the entire Lulong old general.
It is also not well-known in the system.
But Zhao Zaili declined Li Chengzhong's kindness. The main reason was vanity and shame. Li Chengzhong was just fine. Being shorter than Li Chengzhong was acceptable, but he heard that his old subordinate Yuan Xingqin was appointed to the Youzhou Army.
Commander Zuo Xiang, if he were to serve under Yuan Xingqin, he would not be able to keep his old face anyway.
Moreover, Zhao Zaili also has another consideration. He wants to lead the army alone and fight a good battle. He is eager to prove himself and at the same time gain face for everyone in the Pingzhou Clique in the past - who said that only Li Chengzhong in the Pingzhou Clique can fight? Who said that
Without Li Chengzhong, the Pingzhou Clique will only suffer a total defeat? I, Zhao Qianchen, also have unyielding courage and will, and the talent to win battles!
In the end, Zhao Zaili chose to establish the Liaodong Security Corporation. Even if it was not a formal military system within the Lulong Army, this was the beginning of leading the army alone. Moreover, he could bring together his old brothers from the Pingzhou Clan so that everyone would not be separated.
Finally, another important reason is that the Liaodong Security Corporation is based in Liucheng, right next to the old boss Zhou Zhiyu!
It is the wish of the Lao Pingzhou brothers to always be by Zhou Zhiyu's side.
Zhou Zhiyu said goodbye to his old subordinates one by one. He tightened the silk ribbon on Zhao Zaili's shoulder armor, moved over and supported Zhang Long's helmet, then moved backwards, hit Mao Zhang's arm, and then continued backwards...
"Qianchen, brothers, let's go, I will be sent here." Zhou Zhiyu smiled and said to Zhao Zaili and others.
"Captain..." Everyone was reluctant to leave, but they didn't know what to say.
Zhou Zhiyu took a deep breath and moved his lips, but in the end he just added: "Go, don't let others underestimate us!"
Zhao Zaili's eyes were red, he nodded, turned around and shouted: "Get up!"
Two thousand cavalrymen turned around one after another and said goodbye to Zhou Zhiyu one by one: "Captain, take care!"
Zhou Zhiyu smiled and nodded, watching everyone leave. Until the cavalry disappeared, he still stood there and watched silently. For a long time, for a long time... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (.
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