Just experienced a spring news, the water level of the Liao River suddenly rose more than one meter, the Liao River, which used to look docile and soft, suddenly became hideous, the river carried a large amount of sediment and tumbled down, and the clear river water became extremely turbid. Xu Yuan stood on the bank of the rumbling Liao River, looking at this long river across the earth, and his mood suddenly became excited, just like the magnificent and rolling away long river.

Five years ago, he was still a little-known little county lieutenant in Liyang County, not liked by the county guard, and was greatly excluded in the local area. This journey seemed to be a journey of death and no life, but it allowed him to embark on a completely different life from then on.

Now he is the commander of the First Army of the Northern Field Army of the Eastern Governor's Mansion, the former small county lieutenant of Liyang County, and now he is a senior general of the Governor's Mansion, and he dare not say that he is famous all over the world, but in Yan Kingdom, he is definitely a famous person, and what makes him even more excited is that the journey of the Eastern Mansion has just begun.

Liaoxi, Hejian, grassland, such a vast land, is almost equivalent to another Yan country, and now, the army of the Eastern Mansion is divided into two routes, and is advancing towards the vast area of Liaodong controlled by Donghu, and when Donghu is taken, the strength of the Eastern Mansion will be completely above the Yan State.

Xu Yuan, like Meng Chong, is literate and hyphenated, although he is not as knowledgeable as Meng Chong, but compared with ordinary generals, Xu Yuan can even proudly call himself a Confucian general.

After reading books, the knowledge is naturally different. The promulgation of a series of policies in the Eastern Mansion made him see the great ambition of the chief, and he seemed to see another Qin state, which was thriving.

Most of the policies of the Eastern Mansion seem to be no different from those of the Qin State, but when examined in detail, they are very different. Xu Yuan even thought about it to study it well, of course, not at this time, now he first had to make preliminary preparations before the arrival of Sun Xiao, the commander of the group army.

Captains! Thinking of this official position, Xu Yuan was a little funny, the leader's mind was filled with countless whimsical ideas, which made it difficult for him to digest for a while, but it didn't matter. As long as you do your own job, the military system that the leader came up with does make the command from top to bottom a lot simpler and more transparent.

However, according to the size of an army envisioned by the leader, the current self can only be regarded as an empty army commander, and the number of an army can reach more than 30,000 people, but now, the forwards he brought are full of calculations. Even the leaders of the gang were counted as less than 3,000 people, which was more than ten times worse.

Whenever he thought that he might lead an army of 30,000 to gallop, Xu Yuan was fascinated. But when I returned to reality from the dream, I looked at the three or two prawns and small shrimps under my hand, and I felt that this dream was going to come true, and I was afraid that it would be the year of the monkey.

As long as you can summon soldiers. I will give you a quota, and a payroll, and a weapon. These are the words of the chief. Of course, there are also requirements for the soldiers recruited, and it is not enough to get a random group of farmers. This means that the generals under his command can cross the sea with eight immortals and show their magical powers.

Now under his command, there are 1,500 elite foot soldiers, 1,000 cavalry, the cavalry is basically dominated by the Huns, commanded by Gongsun Yi and Luo Lei, 1,500 of my foot soldiers are divided into two battalions, each with 750 soldiers, Ni Huazong and Tao Jiawang people serve as battalion commanders, and according to the establishment of a battalion, a quarter of the number is missing.

It is obviously unrealistic to passively wait for the upper authorities to transfer troops to you to fill the vacancy, the four group armies under the Zhengdong Mansion, under the command of Ye Chong and Ye Zhen, are completely an empty shell, almost all the elite soldiers in the Zhengdong Mansion have been enriched to the two group armies in the north and the east, even if new recruits are recruited in the future, the northern group army is so far away from the base camp, I am afraid that for a while, it will not be my turn, and the entire army of the Governor's Mansion is short of soldiers and major generals, and there are more monks and less porridge, so it will have to wait until when 30,000 people can be gathered.

"I listen to all four of you, we are an army, but now the number of people is not enough for a regiment, my army commander has a false name, let alone you, if you want to make yourself worthy of your name, you can grab the territory and population as quickly as possible, and expand your army. Gongsun Yi, you partner with Ni Huazong, Tao Jiawang, you and Luo Lei teamed up, each set up a regiment-level combat unit first, I said in the front, the appointment of officers below the division level is in the hands of the group army, that is, the division commander, only the group army needs to report it, and the Governor's Office will not reject it, so you all show your powers, whoever expands his army to a regiment while maintaining combat effectiveness, then he is the regiment commander, and if it is extended to a division, then he is the division commander. ”

Tao Jiawang was an old man who had followed Xu Yuan from Liyang County and had a close relationship with him, and when he heard this, he couldn't help laughing, "Commander, what if I drove an army!" Isn't it possible to be a military commander? ”

Xu Yuan snorted, "If you get a soldier and want to be the commander, I will cut off your skull first and snatch the men and horses." ”

Several people burst out laughing.

"In many years, Yan Peng's second army is coming, his command is full of 4,000 foot soldiers, and the Governor's Mansion is equipped with another 1,000 cavalry, and the strength is much stronger than ours, everyone, I don't want to be compared to the second army, we have to work hard while they haven't arrived yet." Xu Yuan looked at the four generals and pointed to the Liao River: "The Governor's Mansion wants us to take the Liao River as the boundary, first fear this side, build a city, Tuntian, and lay a solid foundation, but it did not prohibit us from crossing the river." On the other side of the river, not far from us, there are Xiongnu tribes, Donghu tribes, and a large number of people, you two battalions, for a period of ten days, a battalion is stationed, and a battalion will attack, while the Donghu army has not yet arrived, you can catch as much as you can, and when the Donghu army arrives, there is no such a good thing. ”

"Understood!" All four of them were very excited. The two groups glanced at each other, and they both saw the aura of competition in each other's eyes. This is not only a matter of ability, but also a matter of face, and no one wants to lose to anyone.

The first battalion of Xu Yuan's first army was set up about ten miles away from the Liao River, the construction of the camp took the method of Sun Xiao's construction of the Niulanshan camp, first cut down a large number of trees, erected trees as stakes, two rows of wooden stakes about one meter wide and then nailed to the railing, and then poured mud and stones in it, rammed tightly, it became a simple city wall, although it could not run horses, but the infantry could gain a foothold on it, and the bed crossbow brought with it was installed every ten meters or so, forming a powerful long-range attack firepower, and then equipped with the arm crossbow mounted by the foot soldiers, From a mile away, a dense network of firepower was formed.

After the arrival of the large army, it only needs to be widened and strengthened on the basis of the current city wall, and the stone bars or green bricks are placed on the outside to form a solid city wall.

Xu Yuan led the army to arrive here a few years ago, and the camp built now is not large, just suitable for an army of more than 3,000 people to be stationed.

Fortunately, the attention of the Donghu people does not seem to have shifted to this place, which made Xu Yuan not be disturbed in the slightest when he established this large camp, and now, he is already starting to establish a second stop for the follow-up troops.

Sun Xiao's headquarters would not arrive at such a frontier, but set up at Dayan Lake, a place that had been selected when Gao Yuan retreated.

The bank of the Liao River, which was originally empty, because of this big camp and the stationing of thousands of soldiers, was extremely lively, although the city wall was simple, but in Xu Yuan's view, in the near future, this simple camp would become a strong fortress, and countless soldiers of the Northern Group Army would start from here, drive across the river in an endless stream, cross the Hetao Plain, cross the mountains, and enter the hinterland of Donghu.

On the city wall, the flags were unfurled, the weapons were shining, and the soldiers were standing solemnly, and Xu Yuan's heart was full of a sense of achievement.

In the eyes of the Donghu people, these trenches are irregular, one here, one there, it seems to be dug out at random, but in the eyes of Xu Yuan, it is a natural protection, which is naturally not dug out at random on a whim, but a specially set up defense line to prevent being attacked.

The Hun cavalry in the army were now also becoming familiar with these arrangements, and they could gallop between these trenches without difficulty, and gallop out of the camp at any time to kill the enemy.

After the Hun cavalry joined the Eastern Army, the biggest change was that they began to understand countless tactics of using the terrain and using the cooperation with the foot soldiers to kill and injure the enemy's living force as much as possible and minimize their own casualties.

The soil obtained from digging these trenches will naturally not be wasted, part of it is used to build the city wall, part of it is used to build houses, they are to stay for a long time, the Huns are used to tents, but a large number of Central Plains foot soldiers are more accustomed to thick houses.

Xu Yuan strode into the most spacious house in the camp, this is his house and the place where the generals are convened, the surrounding area of this house is all open space, there is no building to block the view, one by one the guards will protect this place extremely tightly, even a mosquito will not be able to fly in silently.

These soldiers belonged to Xu Yuan's personal guard battalion.

After walking back to the big case and sitting down, Xu Yuan took out a map, this is a brand new, not yet complete map, on the side of the Liao River where they are standing, the mountains, water, hills, and roads are all clear, but on the other side of the Liao River, there are only a few shallow strokes, but Xu Yuan knows that with the passage of time, this map will become more and more perfect, because he has sent more than a dozen sentry riders, sneaked into the opposite bank, and began to draw a detailed map of the opposite side.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. (To be continued......)