After getting the permission of Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, who was in the tent, Chu Junxiao strode Niyu into the tent, clasped his fists towards the former, and said worriedly: "Last night, there were hundreds more soldiers taking advantage of the night.
Run away... Your Majesty, you can't go on like this."
After hearing this, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, who was sitting in the main seat in the tent, took a long breath and rubbed his forehead with his hands tiredly.
To be fair, for Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, who now has more than 200,000 new Chu soldiers under his command, the escape of hundreds of soldiers at night is actually nothing, but he can't bear to do this every night.
Hundreds of people fled in one night, thousands of people in ten nights, and twenty or thirty thousand people in a month. What kind of soldiers are they training? You must know that the Chu soldiers who have either escaped or defected to Sima Shang of Song County so far are compared to
The total number of casualties caused by Xinyang Jun Xiangpei's recent attack on Feng County is even higher.
Just kidding: Sima Shang, the governor of the Song Dynasty in Wei State, used his words to say that he was worth thousands of troops!
And the most terrible thing is that when the recruits escaped, they took away the armor and weapons distributed to them.
According to the exact information obtained by Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, Sima Shang deliberately spread the news and used the interests of fields, houses, positions, etc. as bait to induce the Chu soldiers to flee with their weapons and armor, or to join his army and become Wei soldiers.
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty, or the armaments sold in Feng County and Changyi - Sima Shang specially sent people to buy these Chu army armaments.
Compared with the soldiers escaping, this is the most intolerable thing for Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei.
After all, the main purpose of this visit is to train troops. Therefore, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei issued a set of armor and weapons to each recruit. The problem is that the quantity of these armaments is limited - the main source of these armaments is
In previous years, the armaments purchased from Wei State, South Korea, and recently purchased from Qi State, although
It can’t be said to be sophisticated weapons and equipment, but it is still armaments after all. At the moment when the Chu State is planning to expand its army on a large scale, losing a set of armaments is a huge loss, let alone those new soldiers who took the armaments and equipment to defect to the Song Dynasty.
Sima Shang of the county, this is simply an unforgivable act of treason in the eyes of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei!
After thinking for a moment, Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, said in a deep voice: "Go and collect all the weapons and equipment of the new army in the camp. From now on, only before going to war, will the weapons and equipment be distributed to the soldiers going out."
Niyu was stunned when he heard this, frowned and said: "Your Majesty, although this can reduce the loss of military equipment, it still cannot prevent soldiers from escaping. The general thinks that your Majesty should report this matter to the king...
"
"Are you teaching me how to do something?"
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei glanced at Niyu.
After hearing this, Niyu's face froze, and he realized that the person in front of him was not Xiang Mo, the general who once valued him highly, but Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei.
"I won't dare." Niyu lowered his head and said with some fear.
Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei took a deep look at Niyu for a few times, then let out a long sigh and said seriously: "Don't be impatient, young man. Do you think I agree with Chu Shui Lord's so-called military training strategy? I
Let me tell you, in my opinion, Chu Shuijun’s strategy for training soldiers is pure shit! No, it’s worse than shit!”
Niyu raised his head and looked at Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei in surprise, and then asked in confusion: "Jun Hou, why are you..."
"Because there is no other way."
Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei stood up, paced around the tent with his hands behind his back, and sighed: "Now that the Wei State has privately controlled South Korea and the Wei State, and annexed the Lu State, you can do the math, and now the King of Wei will
How many soldiers and horses can be mobilized?... Let me tell you, the Wei army is at least 400,000, plus the Wei army, 100,000, the Lu army, 100,000, and the Korean army, 200,000, a total of 800,000 soldiers can be used for the expedition!...
Eight hundred thousand!"
"..."
"As for Chu, we suffered huge losses in the last war. At present, Chudong only has 300,000 regular troops. Even if we add the armies of Chuxi and Yue, Qi's army can barely scrape together six soldiers.
One hundred thousand troops. There is still a gap of 200,000 regular troops... And this does not include the battle losses of the soldiers of Wei and Chu. You also know that the war between our country Chu and Wei has been mutually exclusive in recent years.
The loss is more than one to three, that is, if one Wei soldier is killed, at least three of our soldiers must be sacrificed. This means that our country must expand the number of regular troops to more than one million as soon as possible in one or two years.
And then withstood the attack of the "Allied Forces of the Four Kingdoms of Wei, Han, Wei, and Lu"... Do you have a way to create hundreds of thousands of regular troops from scratch in just two years?"
"I..." Niyu was speechless.
Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, sighed and said: "If I can come up with a better and faster strategy for training troops, I will definitely report it to the king and ask him to remove Lord Chu Shui's stupid strategy for training troops.
but……"
Having said this, he shook his head.
Niyu was silent after hearing this, and after a while he said tentatively: "Actually, I think that if the Wei State really plans to attack Chu in two years... two years is actually enough time for Chu to train its troops."
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei smiled when he heard this, shook his head and said: "No, you are wrong. The one to two years I said is just an estimate, and does not refer to the two years that my country will have. It is already five years.
It’s already been a month, and the worst outcome is that the Wei State may start trying to attack Chu after this year’s autumn harvest. In other words, there are only four or five months.”
"Four, four or five months?"
The fish's expression changed slightly.
Since the beginning of this year, he had always heard from Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei that "Wei may attack Chu in one or two years," so he subconsciously felt that Chu still had two years to prepare for war.
Yang Jun Xiang Pei reminded him, and he suddenly realized: It turns out that Chu State does not have that long to prepare for war. Maybe Wei State will use troops against Chu State after this autumn harvest.
At this moment, he suddenly realized: No wonder Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei was scolding Chu Shui Lord for his army training strategy that was worse than shit, but at the same time he was training new soldiers according to this military training strategy. It turned out that there was no other way.
"At this point, we can only take one step at a time... We will do our best according to fate."
Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei said in a deep voice.
At this point, the confusion in Minyu's heart was relieved, and he quickly clasped his fists and said: "The general will immediately order the collection of armaments for the new soldiers in the camp."
"Well." Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei nodded, and then warned: "Remember, ask the generals of each battalion to strengthen the soldiers' beliefs, and make sure that every soldier has a deep understanding that we are doing this for the sake of the entire
Fight against Chu." At this point, his tone weakened slightly: "I hope this will reduce the number of deserters who go to that damn Sima Shang."
"Yes!" Niyu clasped his fists and left.
Looking at the departing figure of the heroic general Niyu, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei secretly sighed in his heart.
Although he asked Minyu to instill in his soldiers the thoughts of "defending the home and the country" and similar "sacrifice oneself for the country", he himself did not have much confidence in this.
After all, in this era, only a small part of the civilian class may truly understand the concept of "country" and its corresponding meaning. The vast majority of civilians have lived in their hometowns their entire lives and have never been able to read or write.
, have never seen the whole world, and they don’t even know who the monarch of their own country is. You talk to them about the meaning of the country?
Perhaps for this group of civilians, it doesn't matter who rules them at all. As long as the policies introduced by the country do not drive them to a dead end, they will live peacefully in their hometowns like their ancestors did for generations.
Why are the people of Song County united? Why did they still resist after the country was overthrown by Wei? Mainly because of "insight" - they have the concept of country in their cognition, and they are afraid that Wei will not be as tolerant and kind as the former King of Song
Treat them.
But it is a pity that due to the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Chu State, most of the civilian class are backward and ignorant, so that these civilians only have "ego" in their hearts - that is, their own interests, and lack the belief to sacrifice for the country.
Or to put it simply, these people have never even thought about sacrificing themselves for the country.
And this also reflects a problem from the side, that is, civilians are the cornerstone of a country, but they cannot replace the aristocracy and the bureaucratic class and become the pillars of a country.
"Do your best and let fate depend on you."
Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei sighed secretly.
However, even though Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei had considered all aspects, he still could not completely eliminate the problem of deserters.
Compared with Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei who is worried, Sima Shang, the governor of Song County of Wei State who is currently stationed in Feng County, has been smiling all over his face recently.
Think about it, after all, during this period, dozens or hundreds of well-dressed Chu soldiers would rush to Feng County to surrender almost every day.
Especially when the general Ni Yu and others led an army to attack Feng County, the battle went to the end. Maybe the number of Chu soldiers who died in the battle was not as many as the soldiers of Sima Shang who surrendered after the war.
No, in just over a month, more than ten thousand Chu soldiers surrendered to Sima Shang. These people came with their families or in groups to join Sima Shang.
Even though Sima Shang eliminated those soldiers who were unwilling to join the army, he still got more than 5,000 Chu soldiers.
Just by talking, he picked up an army of 5,000 men with complete armor for nothing. Sima Shang simply laughed from ear to ear.
At this time, he no longer regarded the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei as a threat. On the contrary, in his eyes, the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei were just a piece of plump fresh meat.
He has been thinking repeatedly about a question recently, that is, how to get more Chu soldiers to defect to Song County.
Yes, Song County was very large, and Wei King Zhao Run also gave Sima Shang corresponding authority, which allowed Sima Shang to use the land of Song County to lure Chu soldiers without any scruples.
Because of this, a series of hilarious things happened in Song County, where the Wei and Chu armies were clearly facing each other.
For example, a Chu army scout ran into a Wei army scout. After some exchanges between the two sides, the Chu army scouts resolutely joined the Wei army scouts and returned to Feng County together.
This is not the most bizarre thing. What is even more bizarre is that a scout of the Chu army heard that "as long as more people are recruited by the Wei army, they can get positions." After returning to the camp, he recruited a large group of people to join him.
defected to the Wei army.
Of course, this Chu army scout finally got his wish and got the position of a hundred-man general in the army under Sima Shang, but this also made their superior general angry half to death.
There were even a few Chu soldiers who had defected to the Wei army. In order to attract more people to establish meritorious service and obtain positions for themselves, they risked their lives and secretly returned to Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei's command to win over more people.
Together they defected to the Wei army.
All this made Sima Shang very happy.
He has never encountered such an interesting confrontation between the two armies.
However, recently, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei seems to have taken corresponding countermeasures, so that few of the Chu soldiers who came to join him are fully clothed and armored. Of course, this does not matter, after all, Sima Shang's purpose is to 'rob people'.
As for the armaments of the Chu army, to be honest, he really looked down upon them.
At the end of April, thousands of heavy cavalry Han soldiers from the previous dynasty, as well as Shanggu soldiers who were willing to rush to Song County, finally arrived at Song County. According to the order of King Wei, Xu Li, the prefect of Rencheng, intercepted half of the soldiers.
Later, Xu Li used these soldiers as the backbone to form the Rencheng Army to prepare for the future alliance with Zhao Jiang, Qu Cheng, Le Yi and other generals to besiege Qi.
Of course, this was something to consider after a year or two. As for the present, Xu Li immediately took these soldiers south and stationed in "Pei County".
After all, the army under Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei is not just attacking Feng County. Other generals like Yu Ji, Dou Lian and others are actually leading their new troops towards "Xiao County", "Pei County", "Guangxian County" and "Guangxian County".
Qi" and other counties launched an offensive.
Therefore, the city guard Xu Li hurriedly led the newly formed army to the front line to snatch people... no, to resist the Chu army's attack.
The results are self-evident. Within a few days, an army composed of Chu people appeared under the command of Rencheng Shou Xu Li. Although the number was still small, it was not enough to compare with Sima Shang in Feng County.
To be honest, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei has actually considered strategies to break the situation. For example, he could deceive Sima Shang from Feng County out of the city, and take advantage of the Chu army's large number of soldiers in the wilderness to defeat the famous general of Wei first.
eradicate.
Facing Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei's fierce general, Sima Shang readily accepted: Do you want to fight in the wild? No problem!
The next day, Sima Shang transferred the remaining 4,800 Songjun Youma Heavy Cavalry (former Shangshui Youma Heavy Cavalry) from Changyi, which frightened Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei and quickly gave up sending regular troops to attack Sima Shang.
Intend.
No wonder, after all, Shangshui Heavy Cavalry has been built for a long time. How could the Chu State not know the details of this heavy cavalry?
If the Chu State was not willing to spend a huge amount of money, in fact the King of Chu, Xiong Tuo, also thought about building a heavy cavalry force.
After being frightened off by Sima Shang's heavy cavalry of 5,000 Song County wandering horses, Xiang Pei, the Lord of Xinyang, received a message sent by his general Yu Ji. He learned that Xu Li, the governor of Rencheng, actually dared to follow Sima Shang's example.
He ordered his general Dou Lian to lead 30,000 regular troops out of Pengcheng in an attempt to surround and kill Xu Li.
Unexpectedly, Xu Li, the defender of Rencheng, actually had several thousand heavy cavalry and light cavalry (previously the county heavy cavalry and the Shanggu light cavalry).
Dou Lian then did not dare to act rashly.
It’s no wonder, after all, the heavy cavalry is a tactical unit whose deterrence is actually greater than its lethality. For example, during the Battle of Shanggu, Sima Shang commanded 25,000 Daijun heavy cavalry under his command, and asked the Wei army to command
The 300,000 coalition troops under the command of Zhao Jiang and Yuanyi Marquis Han Pu did not dare to move rashly until two Korean generals, Zhao Cong and Yan Ju, replaced Sima Shang and destroyed this heavy cavalry.
In late June, Wei King Zhao Run received Sima Shang's letter in Luoyang.
In the letter, Sima Shang complimented Wei King Zhao Run's strategies - in fact, it was not a compliment. After all, Sima Shang truly admired Wei King Zhao Run's methods of instigating rebellion and winning over Chu soldiers.
In this regard, Sima Shang couldn't help but lamented that it was indeed Wei Gongzi Run who once swept through the Central Plains. Such desperate tactics as "as long as more people are brought in, corresponding benefits will be granted", if it weren't for this His Majesty reminded him in his last letter
, he would never expect it.
Facts have proved that this tactic is actually worth a hundred thousand elite soldiers!
"Hahaha."
After reading Sima Shang's letter, Zhao Runlongyan was delighted.
After all, Sima Shang was a famous general, and his flattery would naturally make Zhao Run happier than ordinary people.
Of course, part of it is because Sima Shang used more cheerful words in the letter. For example, Sima Shang defined the war in Song County as robbing people from Chu State, which made Zhao Run couldn't help but recall all the things he had done back then.
.
"Chu State... is actually pretty good."
He said something very abruptly, leaving the eunuch Gao He confused.
It has to be said that if Wei Jiao, Mu Qing, Lu Mu and other Zongwei were here at this moment - excluding Chu Heng, a slow-minded fool, I believe they would understand. After all, in a sense, the famous "Wei"
"Gongzi Run" first made his fortune from the Chu State. Without the Chu State, there would be no "Wei Gongzi Run", and there would be no today's Wei King Zhao Run.
After a hearty laugh, Wei Wang Zhao Run put away his smile and turned to meditation.
There is basically no need for him to worry about Song County. He believes that Sima Shang, Xu Li and others will handle it well. In contrast, Zhao Run is more concerned about the situation on Zhang Qigong's side.
"I don't know if Zhang Qigong has already set foot in Bashu."
He thought secretly.
At the same time, Zhang Qigong had already led a group of disguised Black Crows and Nanyang Jie tribe towards Badi, pretending to be merchants.
In late May, Zhang Qigong entered the "Jingdi" under the leadership of the Jie guide, and then turned west and entered Wushan.
On that day, seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Qigong ordered people to camp on the spot and light a bonfire.
Taking advantage of this free time, he continued to ask the Jie guides for information about Bashu. After all, he knew nothing about Bashu.
"To the south of Jingdi is Guizhou, and to the west is Ba. In the words of your country, there are barren mountains and rivers on the other side of Guizhou. I really don't understand why your country sends troops to station in Guizhou. However, Badi and Shu
But the land is very rich, there are many people, and there is also food
There are many, as well as silk, tea and other items. Whenever we, the Jie people, rob Bashu, we can bring back a lot of things. We exchange these things with Sichuan Luo for food, which is enough to support the entire tribe..." The Jie people kept talking about the stories of Bashu.
Condition.
Zhang Qigong listened carefully and wrote something down in a booklet from time to time.
Suddenly, he seemed to feel something, raised his head and sniffed with his nose, frowned and muttered: "Where is the sweet smell..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a little dizzy.
"Plop——"
"Plop——"
Under Zhang Qigong's shocked gaze, the Black Crows and Jie warriors in his team fell to the ground one after another without any warning.
"Not good! Someone used poison!"
The leader of the black crows, Ghost, shouted, pushed Zhang Qigong to the ground, and shouted: "Lord Captain, cover your mouth and nose..."
As soon as he said this, he fell to the ground with a thud.
"This bastard!"
Zhang Qigong, who was almost pushed into the bonfire by the ghost, cursed in his heart after falling down.
However, he still followed the ghost's reminder and immediately held his breath, but unfortunately it was too late. At this time, he was unable to move. He could only open his eyes wide and steel himself to look into the darkness in the distance.
See who is plotting against them.
Strive to die in peace.
After a moment, he saw several graceful figures, each holding a sharp sword with cold light, walking towards Zhang Qigong and his party step by step.
"woman?"
Zhang Qigong opened his eyes wide in surprise.
At this time, the leader of this group of uninvited guests slowly walked up to Zhang Qigong, who was the leader of the team. After taking a look at Zhang Qigong who was lying on the ground, he put a sharp sword on the latter's neck, as if
He can swing his sword at any time.
"It's over... I, Zhang Qigong, have not yet helped Your Majesty to unify the Central Plains, but I am going to die unjustly at the hands of a group of barbarian women from the mountains? What a tragedy!"
Feeling the chill brought by the cold blade, a thought came to Zhang Qigong's mind. His face turned pale and he finally lost consciousness.
Because he fell into a coma, he did not hear the slightly panicked murmur of the woman next to him.