About a stick of incense time, the pair of soldiers who went to explore and check the freezing of the Fen River came back to resume their lives, only to see a soldier with the identity of the team leader hurriedly rushed to the front of the coach Duan Shao, knelt down on one knee and replied: "Qi Yu Dashuai, the small ones went to check on the embankment, and used a shovel to dig the ice until the water came out, and the thickness of the river water in the entire upstream area was about two feet. “

"Are you sure it's really only two feet long?"

Hearing this, the team leader raised his head and said categorically: "The subordinate is sure that it is about two feet, and the subordinate father is a tailor, and he has helped his father take care of the sundries since he was a child, and he has learned a little eyesight, and he will never make a mistake, and he is willing to make a military order!" “

"Okay, if it's true, the commander will definitely reward you, if it's not for the military stick to serve." After speaking, Duan Shao waved his hand to let the team leader retreat.

Then, Duan Shao drew his sword and pointed to Luliang Mountain, and ordered loudly: "Warriors, march upstream, break the embankment and flood Fennan City, and avenge the dead brothers!" “

"Revenge, revenge~" A burst of shouts of soldiers resounded through the sky, accompanied by firm steps, and marched towards Luliang Mountain.

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When they reached the upper reaches of the mountainside, many soldiers were working together in the division of labor as a team, and everyone was tied with ropes, rolled up their sleeves, and kept shoveling ice "bang bang bang", and they were blowing all kinds of meat jokes in their mouths.

Gao Yang came to the Xiaoguo Army, looking at this army that had been tempered by the fire of war, after participating in the siege of Fennan, judging from the eyes and momentum, there was no messiness of the previous miscellaneous army, and the eyes were firm, revealing a little ruthlessness, and a determination of life and death. He walked next to a team leader, and saw that the team leader was burying his head in shoveling ice, while carefully telling the soldiers in the team to pay attention to safety, Gao Yang saw that the team leader's helmet was a little crooked because of his work, so he smiled and said: "Soldier, are you tired?" ”

When the team leader heard the voice, he looked up at Gao Yang, and when he recognized it as the commander of the legion, the team leader quickly straightened up, saluted Gao Yang, and said excitedly: "General Qiyu, you are not tired under the mark, and you are full of energy." ”

"Okay, this is a member of our Xiaoguo Army, Ben will remember that your name is Liu Wu?" Gao Yang looked at the dark face of the team leader, and quickly recognized that this was the team leader named Liu Wu when he was training in Yubi.

Liu Wu heard Gao Yang call out his name, and his heart was even more excited, he didn't expect the main general to recognize him, and immediately replied loudly and restrainedly: "Yes, general, it is the standard, the general also talked to the standard at that time, but I didn't expect the general to remember the mark." ”

Gao Yang smiled, patted Liu Wudi on the shoulder, and helped him straighten his helmet, and then said with a smile: "Of course I remember, Ben will respect every warrior in the legion, and he can also remember every warrior among you. ”

When Liu Wu heard that he had the opportunity to enter Baibao Xuanjia, he was even more excited, knowing that Baibao Xuanjia not only meant supreme glory, but also meant obtaining a lot of money. The most important Baibao Xuanjia are all brave and skilled Xianbei people, after all, the Han people's riding skills are indeed inferior to the Xianbei people, but more importantly, in this era when the Hu people respect the Han people, the status of the Han people is like ants, although Gao Huan is a Xianbei Han, but externally he claims to be a Xianbei person, plus the starting soldiers are all the Xianbei people who rebelled in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, so almost all the troops in the army are the Xianbei people of the six towns and Luoyang Xianbei. If it weren't for the fact that the army of Yuwentai in the Western Wei Dynasty was mixed with Hu and Han, almost all the wealthy families in Guanxi were Han nobles, and they played a pivotal role, and their military capabilities were relatively strong, so they began to allow the army to recruit some Han people into the infantry corps, so they were still resisted by the Xianbei nobles of Liufang, but fortunately, Gao Huan suppressed all this with his own personality charm and authority, so that it became a fact that the Han people joined the army during the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and some Han nobles in the Guandong and Hebei were successively reused in the imperial court, but compared to the Guanlong group of the Western Wei Dynasty, The status of the Han people in the Eastern Wei Dynasty was still very humble, and almost all the high-ranking officials in the court were Xianbei people, so they would lose the support of the Han people, and the long-term confrontation between Hu and Han would be a serious internal friction.

According to the Book of Northern Qi, Gao Huan once asked the soldiers to "not bully the Han and not violate the military order". Heroes like Gao Huan have all been defeated in terms of national contradictions. Even if he was well aware of the contradictions between his subordinate Xianbei soldiers and the Han people, but the army was all Xianbei people, and he needed this group of Liufang Xianbei people who started with him to stabilize the regime, so he had to give a lot of special care to the Xianbei of the six towns politically and economically, stipulating that they would take war as their main occupation, not engaged in production, and rely on the Han people for food and clothing. In the end, he was defeated by the Northern Zhou, which was composed of the Guanlong group.

For Gao Yang, who came from the 21st century, he would not know that the differences between Hu and Han would only make the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the subsequent Northern Qi Dynasty continue to suffer serious internal friction, as recorded in the historical records, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi regime under the rule of the Gao clan could not eliminate the contradictions between the Xianbei and the Han people, which shows how arduous it is, and the only thing he can do is to run in small steps, slowly strengthen the imperial power, strengthen the centralization, strengthen the military power in his hands, and constantly boil the frog in warm water, step by step to promote the great cause of national integration.

At this stage, the recruitment of excellent Han people is the first step, which is also the main reason why Gao Yang does not plan to use the name of "Baibao Xianbei" in history, Gao Yang does not think that the Han heroes are not as good as the Xianbei people, but they do not know that the Han military strength of the Han and Tang Dynasties killed the Hu people in fear, and kept fleeing, such as the Han Dynasty's "Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen", and the Tang Dynasty's 10,000 Anxi Army resisted the Tubo army of more than 300,000 for half a century, these classic military cases all show that the Han people are not inferior to the Hu people.

I only heard Liu Wu salute loudly: "Thank you general, you will not be dishonored under the mark, and you will definitely be able to enter the Baibao Xuanjia and serve the general." ”

"Haha!" Gao Yang laughed, nodded and said: "Good man, this is the soldier of my Xiaoguo Army, I will wait for your good news, if you make a meritorious service after this battle, I will choose a good horse for you, and by the way, I will arrange someone to guide you to work immediately." ”

The surrounding soldiers had different expressions after hearing this, and the Han soldiers looked envious and excited, while some Xianbei people remained silent, obviously some did not accept the idea of Han people entering the elite of the army. Gao Huan shouted loudly towards the Xiaoguo Army: "In the Xiaoguo Army, all meritocracy, as for whether you are from the Xianbei tribe or from the Han nationality, in the eyes of the general, they are all brothers who share life and death, and they are brothers who are worthy of entrusting their backs, and they must not be distrusted because of the concept of Hu and Han, so it is still us who will be harmed in the end, after all, no one will give their backs to a person who does not trust, this kind of army that guards against each other and deviates from morality, it is very likely to be broken by the enemy in one fell swoop and lose their lives, do you want to see such a result?" ”

After listening to Gao Yang's teachings, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army all looked pensive, yes, no one will give their backs to people they don't trust, or brothers who have carried guns together and ate big pots of rice together, so they will hurt themselves in the end. People's hearts are selfish, and in the face of life and death, everyone's interests are the same, so these Xianbei soldiers have put down this national contradiction and replied in unison: "Unwilling, unwilling~"

Gao Yang was worried that this kind of contradiction would be difficult to mediate among the low-level soldiers and people, it seems that as long as everyone's interests are the same, these soldiers and people will not care whether you are a Xianbei or a Han, the real difficulty is the upper-class Xianbei nobles, although there are not many of them, but if they are not handled properly, it is easy for this group of Xianbei nobles to rebel. The Northern Wei Dynasty is not a lesson from the past, because Emperor Xiaowen's reform did not appease the six towns of Xianbei, which eventually led to a rebellion and subverted the dynasty, and also gave Gao Huan the opportunity to ascend to the throne, so for the current national contradictions, we can only boil frogs in warm water and reform step by step, Gao Yang does not want to be overthrown by man-made counter-revolutions before becoming emperor.