Zhi Du was immersed in his own ideas, drawing a picture of Shunde's future on paper, when he suddenly heard the voice of a soldier. He didn't come back to his senses for a while. It took him a while to remember who Xing'an Jun was.
?
Isn't he Guo Wei, the younger brother of Guo Mao, the captain of the Flying Fox Army?
After the Battle of Yanji, Guo Mao was granted the title of Marquis of Xingwu for his military merits, while his younger brother Guo Wei, who was the captain of his own army, also had his merits elevated to the rank of chief concubine and was granted the title of Lord of Xing'an.
Although Guo Wei is only a feudal lord, everyone in the Northland knows that he is the representative of Guo Mao, the captain of the Feihu Army.
Specially responsible for traveling and liaising with Guo Mao and the Feihu Army.
Now Zhidu was ordered to protect the Xiongnu generals. According to the emperor's order, the Feihu Army also belonged to the army commanded by Zhidu.
But the problem is... Guo Mao is Yizong's Ma Tsai, and the Flying Fox Army is now also a combat force directly under the command of the Anbei Protectorate.
If it is not necessary, Zhidu will not deploy the combat power of the Flying Fox Army at all.
"Did Mr. Xing'an tell you anything?" Zhi Du put down his pen and asked.
"Reporting to the general, Mr. Xing'an said that there is a big matter and he wants to discuss it with the general..." the soldier replied.
"Then please invite Mr. Xing'an to come in..." Zhi Du thought for a moment and waved his hand.
Soon, a burly military general, wearing a set of Han-standard captain's armor and holding a sword, walked in, performed a military salute to Zhidu, and said: "The last general, Captain Feihu, salutes General Zhi!"
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"Xing'an Lord, you don't have to be polite..." Zhidu stood up with a smile, invited Guo Wei to the guest seat, and ordered the people around him to bring tea and snacks. Then he asked with a smile: "Xing'an Lord is not training in Feihu Pass and is here in Shunde.
Is there something important?"
Since the Battle of Yanji, today's Emperor has issued an order to let the soldiers of Feihu Army, Juzhu Army, Xiliu Camp and other major field armies who have served for more than five years and below the team rate be disarmed and return to the fields.
At the same time, a group of new soldiers were recruited into the army.
This is one of the preparations made by the Han army to prepare for the next war, allowing more young people to enter the army and receive training, so as to maintain the combat effectiveness and vitality of the army.
Among them, Feihu Army and Juzhu Army have the most recruits!
No way, in the past, these two armies took on the Han Dynasty's most important fire-fighting duties at the border of the Great Wall, and they were the Han army's rock-solid mobile troops.
Many soldiers had joined the army during the Taizong period and were already quite old. Long-term training and frequent wars had also made these veterans physically and mentally exhausted.
As far as Zhidu knew, the Feihu Army alone had dismissed more than 7,000 veterans in the past year, accounting for nearly half of its combat strength.
Especially at the grassroots level, more than two-thirds of commanders and corps commanders have retired.
Therefore, in the past year, both the Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army have stepped up training of new recruits and cultivated new grassroots officers.
Guo Wei smiled, bowed his hands to Zhidu and said, "This is exactly why the general came..."
"Huh?" Zhi was confused. Why did he come to train new recruits? So he asked, "Why do you say that?"
"General..." Guo Wei smiled and leaned towards Zhidu, saying: "I am here not only on the orders of Brother Yu, but also on the orders of Juzhujun Commandery and Ji Nanhou Su Gong.
The general discussed..."
"Su Yi also asked you to come?" Zhi Du looked serious, knowing that this was a big deal.
The current captain of Juzhu Army, Ji Nanhou Su Yi, was a fierce general who fought on the front line from the Battle of Mayi to the Battle of Yanji. He once killed a large number of the Xiongnu and several people in Guduhou.
Known as the Tiger of Yanmen, he is one of the top three most powerful generals in the Han Dynasty.
He has the strength to pull up mountains and rivers, and the courage that no man can match.
After the Battle of Gaoque, he was awarded the title of Marquis of Jinan for his meritorious service. Although he only had a household of 800 households, he was very popular with the emperor. The emperor even took off his own sword and gave it to him to encourage him to serve the country.
Kill the enemy.
As Zhijinwu, Zhidu knew better that after the emperor decided to make Yi Zong the governor of the Anbei Protectorate, he immediately promoted Su Yi to be the captain of the Feihu Army.
Among them, there is a sense of caution that the righteousness and vertical tail cannot be lost.
Su Yi has never had any political leanings or alignment.
He is a martial arts fanatic and a diehard fan of today's emperor.
Based on Zhidu's understanding of Su Yi, I am afraid that even if the emperor asked Su Yi to die, he would commit suicide without hesitation.
Even this martial arts idiot asked Guo Wei to come here. Zhi knew that this matter was probably the common wish of Feihu Army and Juzhu Army.
Therefore, Zhidu had to treat it seriously.
In today's world, warriors rule the roost.
Even the prime minister will bow down and step down once he loses the support of the military.
Today, it is always believed that an elite army, even with only a thousand men, can defeat tens of thousands of enemies.
Therefore, the current force structure of the Han army is dominated by field armies.
Currently, there are ten field armies in the Han Dynasty.
The Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army are two of them, and these two armies are the only concentration camps among the Han clan tribes, second only to the Yulin Guard, Xiliu Camp and Huben Guard.
In the past four years, the Feihu Army alone has contributed seven princes and fifteen princes to the Han Dynasty.
No one can ignore the joint demands of the Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army.
"What's going on?" Zhidu asked, "Please tell me first..."
"Brother Yu and Marquis Ji Nan, please come here later and ask for a favor from the general..." Guo Weibin bowed politely: "Please general, please be merciful to the tribes in the southern part of the country and leave behind a few remnants and remnants..."
"Hmm..." Zhidu looked at Guo Wei with questioning eyes. If he hadn't known that this man was a pure Han Chinese and that his men were stained with the blood of the Huns, Zhidu would have suspected that this man was a Xiongnu craftsman or a
Traitor.
"General, don't have any doubts..." Guo Wei bowed quickly: "General, I swear that I am not showing mercy, nor am I here to persuade the general to disobey the emperor's order, or to persuade the general to be a treacherous minister..."
"I came here just to ask the general to consider our Feihu Army and Juzhu Army and leave a few remnants and remnants in Munan the next day so that we can train our troops..."
"Training troops?" Zhidu was full of doubts.
"Of course..." Guo Wei said with a smile: "General, you should also know that our Feihu Army and Juzhu Army retired a large number of elite soldiers and generals last year. The newly recruited recruits are either from the countryside or from the city.
The young master here..."
Speaking of these new recruits, Guo Wei's eyebrows furrowed deeply.
In terms of physical fitness and tactical literacy, these newly recruited soldiers are naturally far stronger than the veterans of the past.
Benefiting from the increased supply of dairy products and meat, the new generation of Han youth are developing far better than their predecessors.
Regardless of height, weight or strength, they are far superior to those of their predecessors.
None of the new recruits of the Flying Fox Army are under seven feet tall.
Moreover, his familiarity and discipline with various weapons are also excellent.
The only problem is that I have no practical experience and everything is just flowers in the greenhouse.
After a year of training, he is still far behind the veterans.
They lack tacit understanding, lack of cooperation, and even lack of improvisation and reaction on the battlefield.
Many people have never even killed a chicken.
When such soldiers go to the battlefield, they are afraid that something will happen.
However, the Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army did not have much to do to change this problem.
Because times have changed.
In the past, the Juzhu Army was the frontline combat force facing the Xiongnu invasion, while the Feihu Army was the firefighters on the Great Wall.
Every soldier will participate in the war from the moment he joins the army.
Even during the so-called peace period between Han and Hungary, the friction between the Han and Hungarian armies at the foot of the Great Wall never stopped.
Under such circumstances, soldiers will naturally grow rapidly.
In the tempering of blood and fire, he grew into an elite soldier.
But what now?
The new recruits of the Juzhu Army could not see the shadow of the enemy even if they pulled out the Great Wall and penetrated three hundred miles into the grassland.
The area around the Great Wall was already under the control of the Han Dynasty.
The Huns were as far away as Mubei, four to five thousand miles away.
The new recruits have not experienced even a small battle on the scale of a weapon fight until now.
On the surface, they looked decent, with distinctive armor and might, but in reality, Guo Wei knew that these recruits were simply not qualified!
On a real battlefield, ten thousand such recruits may not be as good as the three thousand veterans in the past.
How does this work?
How is this possible?
The competition within the Han army was very fierce.
Everything from military spending to equipment must compete.
The only thing that can play a role in this competition is martial arts and record.
Back then, the emperor wanted to allocate a thousand breastplates to the guards, but all the generals in the court jumped up and shouted loudly. Everyone felt that it was a waste to give these breastplates to the guards.
It was not until the guards defeated the army of King Youxian of the Xiongnu in the Battle of Gaoque, and achieved success, that these sounds immediately disappeared without a trace.
The batch of breastplates was also successfully allocated to the Guards. The Guardsmen could even confidently come to the court to grab military expenses, organization, and places in the martial arts academy.
Do they have the courage before the battle at Gaoque?
Every time I come to Chang'an, I always do so with trepidation and fear of saying the wrong thing.
Moreover, everyone now knows that today's emperor has great ambitions, and his eyes have never only stared at the Huns and the grassland.
He has great ambitions in his heart.
Not just to destroy the Huns, but to conquer the entire known world.
What's more, we have to face the distant and unfamiliar Western Region and the body poison tens of thousands of miles away, which is still shrouded in legends and mysteries so far.
In a situation like this, there won't be much peace and quiet.
In as little as one year, as many as five years, the trumpet of war will sound again, and the Han army's battle flag will set off again.
This time, the iron hoof will break through Junji Mountain, go deep into Hexi, cross mountains and wilderness, and go deep into deserts and swamps.
This time, the Western Region will usher in the liberation of the King, and the world will be blessed by the emperor's sanctity.
The Han army is going to the Kunlun Mountains where Emperor Mu once visited to see if the Queen Mother of the West is still there?
We must also save our compatriots in Daxia who are struggling in dire straits and under the iron hooves of foreigners.
There are tens of thousands of generals and subordinates in the Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army. No one would want to see themselves left behind in this great war and this great journey.
Ahead, there are countless meritorious deeds, countless honors and countless great achievements waiting for men to display their ambitions.
However, the reality is that the new recruits really do not have a real combat opportunity to hone and train them.
what to do?
After much deliberation, everyone's eyes were focused on Mu Nan.
If you think about it carefully, the various tribes in Makunan are really the best training targets!
First of all, they will definitely resist!
If they don't resist, those nobles will die!
Secondly, their combat effectiveness is very weak and it is almost impossible to pose any threat to the well-equipped and well-trained Han army.
Simply the most perfect goal.
Do cats at home sometimes deliberately catch a mouse, bite it, and then leave it to their children to practice their hunting skills?
Tigers and leopards in the mountains and forests will also bite some deer and sheep half to death, and then throw them to their cubs for practice.
However, it is difficult to report this kind of thing to the emperor openly and honestly.
It is absolutely impossible for the benevolent Holy Emperor to approve such a memorial.
Therefore, the Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army could only come to Zhi and play by the sidelines.
As long as everyone agrees, then the Juzhu Army and the Feihu Army can come to the grassland for training under the banner of supporting the friendly forces and punishing the bandits.
Maybe, we can even come over for training in turns.
What's even better is that the environment of the southern grassland in this scene can perfectly reproduce the many tests that the Han army will face in the future.
In this way, when the emperor blows the clarion call for expedition again, the Juzhu Army and the Feihu Army will be in the best condition to set off for the expedition.
After listening to Guo Wei's words, Zhidu was surprised by the boldness of Feihu Army and Juzhu Army.
Frankly speaking, the plans of Feihu Army and Juzhu Army are very good.
If he were in Zhidu, he would probably use this method.
But the problem is...
"You should know that without the emperor's plan and orders, even one soldier and one soldier cannot be mobilized..." Zhidu said calmly: "I will not do anything to deceive the emperor..."
He Zhidu is the emperor's goshawk, the minion of the country.
It is wishful thinking to expect him to reach some agreement with others behind the emperor's back.
He will only be loyal to his king.
Not any other person or thing.
"General, please don't worry..." Guo Wei said quickly: "Before coming, I have already asked Duke Dongcheng in Taiyuan to present his request to the emperor when he returns to Beijing and ask for his permission.
Already agreed..."
"Now it depends on the general's opinion..."
"If the emperor gives permission, and with the tiger talisman as proof, I will naturally not stop him..." Zhidu thought for a while, then nodded.
As long as the emperor agrees, then of course he will be happy to help.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to let the new recruits from Juzhu Army and Feihu Army come to the grassland to practice and see blood.
If it were possible...
"The Ba Shang Army and the Thorny Gate Army can also come to the grassland to practice and practice..." Zhidu thought in his heart: "Everyone takes turns to come and exercise together to restore combat effectiveness..."
Good thing, Zhidu will certainly not forget his former subordinates.
When Guo Wei heard this, he was overjoyed and said: "General, on behalf of the Feihu Army, I would like to express my gratitude to my colleagues in the army. Thank you so much, General!"
This kind of matter, which cannot be discussed in court and can only be discussed quietly in private, must of course have the consent and permission of the master Zhidu, otherwise it will not work even if the emperor agrees. rw
