Just when the training competition of the Hexi Army kicked off, Yan Zhenqing found Guo Song.

On the side of the martial arts arena, the two walked slowly, and in the distance was the soldiers' high-pitched shouts of killing, and one team shouted louder than the other.

"I came to the envoy to talk to the envoy about the military situation of the Hexi Army."

The Hexi army has always been a big problem for Guo Song, he now has an army of 80,000, if according to the monthly money of each person, it is 240,000 guan a month, and it is close to 3 million guan a year, not to mention whether he has so much money, even if he has, how can Hexi have so many materials to support the purchasing power of 3 million guan?

This is actually a problem that all armies have to face, during the Tianbao period, when the Tang Dynasty was the strongest, more than half of the annual taxes of the imperial court were used as military expenses, and in the Song Dynasty, there was a tax income of 100 million guan a year, which was still not enough to raise a million army.

But half of this problem has been solved, and Hexi has also adopted the military age system commonly used by warlords in various places, that is to say, the military salary for one year is different from that of three years as a soldier, but the Hexi Army has also added a military merit system, and the treatment of participating in one war and participating in ten wars is also different.

The military age and military merit are divided into the ranks of soldiers, first-class sergeant, second-class sergeant and third-class sergeant, the first-class sergeant is paid three times per month, the second-class sergeant is paid two times per month, and the third-class sergeant is paid the same amount per month.

The current 50,000 recruits are all third-class sergeants, which greatly reduces the financial burden of Hexi, but there are no second-class soldiers in Hexi at present, only first-class soldiers and third-class soldiers, and the previous veterans are all paid three times a month, and it is impossible to reduce their salaries.

But even so, it costs 1.6 million yuan a year, and Hexi is also burdened.

"Does Yan Gong have any good suggestions?" Guo Song asked.

Yan Zhenqing said with a smile: "The method I said was implemented by Guo Lao Linggong back then, and the effect was not bad, that is, to use military and land to solve it." ”

"What do you mean?"

"The reason is very simple, if a soldier has two yuan a month, then give him the usual money to support his family in peacetime, and the other to be stored and repaid with land after the war."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "Guanzhong has ten yuan for one acre of land, and a soldier can only buy one mu of land if he saves money for a year, and when he is a soldier for ten years, he is only ten acres of land, which seems to be a bit uneconomical. ”

"What if the land is doubled?"

Guo Song was stunned for a while, he really didn't think about this, if only one month is given to the consistent army, and the rest is paid with land, even if it is doubled, in five or six years, at most more than 100 acres of land, this is indeed a good solution, but what about the feasibility? Guo Song felt that this plan was difficult to operate, and the soldiers would not easily agree.

"The solution is not bad, but does Yan Gong think it is feasible?"

Yan Zhenqing smiled slightly: "In the past few months, I have specially found thousands of soldiers to investigate, and it turns out that ninety out of ten soldiers are willing to accept this plan. ”

"I really didn't expect this, ordinary soldiers don't seem to trust the government very much, what if the government breaks its promise? Or what if a soldier dies and the government doesn't recognize his previous savings? ”

"This question is well raised, if Zhu Zhu or other feudal towns come to implement this plan, they will not succeed, but the Hexi army can succeed, the reason is that the soldiers trust you, they believe that you will not break your word, and they believe that you will bring them wealth."

"Yan Gong suggested that I adopt this plan?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

Yan Zhenqing nodded, "This is your best choice, the burden is only 80,000 per month, and only 1 million per year, which can greatly reduce the burden on Hexi." ”

Guo Song smiled bitterly and said: "But I owe a lot of debts, which have to be repaid with land." ”

Yan Zhenqing tilted his head and looked at Guo Song with a strange expression: "That's because you have too little confidence in yourself, you have captured Anxi, Beiting and Broken Leaves, and you occupy more than 10,000 miles, you are the largest landlord in the world, you actually said that you have no land to repay, isn't it funny?" ”

"That's right!"

Guo Song scratched his head and couldn't help laughing, "Let's go!" I invited Yan Gong to have a cup of tea, and I talked to Yan Gong about the situation of broken leaves. ”

The two turned and walked in the direction of the big tent.

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Four months ago, Zhu Zhu's army launched the Xiangyang Campaign, 200,000 troops besieged Xiangyang, Xiangyang knew the soldiers and horses to make Da Xi Baohui kill Xiangzhou Assassin Shi Zhang Quan, Kaecheng surrendered Zhu Zhu's army, Shannan Province Jiedu made the pious king Li Liang just took his family to go on a trip to the outskirts of Xiangyang, heard that Xiangyang had fallen, frightened him to disguise himself as a civilian, and fled to Chengdu in a panic overnight with his wife and children.

The loss of Xiangyang was of great significance, which was equivalent to cutting off the connection between the Tang army in the Central Plains and the Chengdu imperial court, and also cut off the logistics and grain routes of the 30,000 Tang army.

Zhu Zhu's army occupied Bianzhou, Songzhou, Chenzhou and Yuzhou without bloodshed, and all the Tang Dynasty's lands in the Central Plains fell.

On the plain east of Qiaoxian County, Bozhou, Li Xilie led an army of 80,000 to be ready for battle, and the withdrawal of 30,000 Tang troops to the southeast must pass through his territory, Li Xilie is planning to seize Yangzhou, if the 30,000 Tang troops withdraw to Yangzhou, it will inevitably make his plan to annex Yangzhou bankrupt, lying on the side of the couch, how can he allow others to sleep soundly, Li Xilie decided to completely annihilate this Tang army.

A mighty army finally appeared in the distance, Li Xilie narrowed his eyes, these guys really came to Bozhou, and he thought they would go to Xuzhou!

Li Xilie suddenly became annoyed in his heart, he didn't believe that the other party would not know that he was here, it was obvious that Tang Jun was coming for him.

Li Xilie secretly gritted his teeth, since you want to ask for your own hardship, then fulfill you!

At this time, the 30,000 Tang army also discovered Li Xilie's army, they stopped three miles away, and quickly formed a large array of wild geese, Liu Qiajun was the head of the wild goose, Li Baozhen and Ma Suijun were two wings respectively, and the three large arrays were horns for each other and cooperated with each other.

Although the strength of the Tang Army was less than half of that of the Huaixi Army, they were well-equipped and well-trained, and more importantly, their commanders were all famous generals of the Tang Army.

The three Tang armies formed a large formation, and Li Xilie had 5,000 cavalry, and he waved his sword and shouted: "The cavalry team is dispatched, kill!" ”

"Kill—"

The 5,000 Huaixi cavalry took the lead, like a sharp sword, and rushed straight to the Tang army's large array three miles away, and the 80,000 troops behind shouted in unison, following the cavalry like a sea tide and rushing towards the Tang army.

The 30,000 Tang troops stretched out their bows and arrows, raised their bows upwards together, and aimed at the 5,000 cavalry rushing forward......

The sound of the bang sounded, and 30,000 arrows rose into the air, and shot densely into the cavalry group towards a rapidly moving dark cloud, like a storm.

The cavalry turned over on their backs, although they all had shields, but the arrows were too dense to resist at all, and the casualties exceeded 2,000 people in an instant, at this time, the second round of arrows of the Tang army was fired again, this time it was a flat shot, and it was a storm and a storm of strafing, and the cavalry 70 steps away fell to the ground in large swaths, some were shot by arrows in their horses, and some were shot by cavalry, two rounds of 60,000 arrows swept across, and most of the five thousand cavalry had been killed and wounded, leaving only five or six hundred people.

Li Xilie didn't expect that the Tang Army's arrow array was so powerful, and he spent countless money and worked hard to build up the 5,000 cavalry army that almost died out in a short period of time, his heart ached like a knife, and he shouted: "Kill it, don't accept surrender, kill the enemy army!" ”

"Kill!" The Huaixi army a hundred steps away shouted like thunder, overwhelmingly killing.

The 30,000 Tang army quickly collected their bows and transformed them into spear troops, spears like forests, and walked towards the Huaixi army step by step.

A great battle broke out between the two armies on the Bozhou Plain.......

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