"Everybody, come here, have a meeting."

General Staff General Nalan Xin summoned the civil and military secretary Lang, and said with a straight face: "From now on, send the order to join the army, call on all troops to start increasing troops, I allow all regiments and schools to incorporate the new strong men into their own troops, and then eliminate some thin and weak soldiers with insufficient spirit, but the eliminated soldiers do not need to be repatriated, and they will be gathered together to form a new army." ”

Everyone said that they didn't understand Nalan Xin's arrangement, but everyone didn't raise any objections, they just obeyed Nalan Xin's arrangement, and there was no need to speak unless a huge loophole was found.

Then Nalan Xin personally led the troops out to recruit troops, Pengzhou City is so big, and the recruitment speed here must be too slow, so Nalan Xin asked Pengzhou Mansion Yin to help, recruit troops in the entire Pengzhou area, and pass the news to several surrounding states, Chen Bao, Tang Hu and others arranged a recruitment team, and went directly to the nearby Bazhou, Bizhou, Tongzhou, Kaizhou, Wanzhou, and Zhongzhou, and it seemed that the formation was very large.

I heard that the troops began to increase, but Ma Butong didn't get the letter, so he panicked, could it be that this is a rumor?

was about to go for certification, when Tang Yuan took the initiative to appear in front of him and said to Ma Butong that he wanted to go to Ma Butong's house for tea.

General Tang came to beg for tea, naturally it was not that little tea, there must be something to say, so Tang Yuan sat in Ma Butong's house and chatted with Ma Butong over tea.

When Ma Butong heard that Tang Yuan was indeed going to increase his troops, he was quite dissatisfied, and asked Tang Yuan, did the Queen Mother agree?

Tang Yuan said unhurriedly, I will recruit troops first, and you will go to ask the Queen Mother for her opinion, after all, it is not an overnight matter to recruit 10,000 soldiers, and you will quickly go to ask the Queen Mother for her opinion, but it will not take half a month.

Ma Butong's face was not good-looking, but he didn't say anything else, just wrote a letter to the Queen Mother, and Nalan Xin's side was still in full swing to recruit troops, and in ten days, more than 3,000 people were recruited, and a brigade could be formed at a glance.

For this reason, Ma Butong was very worried, first of all, Tang Yuan's troops were originally overstaffed, and in the past, he reached a tacit understanding with Tang Yuan that as long as there were less than 2,000 supernumerary, he Ma Butong would turn a blind eye, but now suddenly there were 3,000 more people, and that would reach the scale of 15,000 people.

The Queen Mother didn't get a reply for a long time, Ma Butong was even more anxious, and came to Tang Yuan to discuss the matter of suspending recruitment, Tang Yuan said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, if the Queen Mother really doesn't agree, I will dismiss this group of soldiers." Or it's good for me to take these soldiers to teach Chen Duoyang a lesson. Anyway, there will definitely be losses in beating Chen Duoyang, rather than replenishing the troops afterwards, it is better to go directly to him and avenge the last sneak attack on Liu Zhan's camp. ”

Ma Butong's eyes narrowed, he didn't say anything for a long time, now he can only wait for the queen mother's decree to come down, and then negotiate with Tang Yuan, if Tang Yuan still doesn't listen to him at that time, he will use the power of the military supervision.

But every time he wanted to use the power of the prison army, Ma Butong felt a little empty.

He was still thinking, even if I used thunder to control Tang Yuan, how would I deal with Chen Bao, Tang Hu, Nalan Xin, and Ma Ben? If these people join forces and give me a counter-encirclement, won't I be able to get out of Pengzhou?

You must know that Tang Yuan's lieutenants are all promoted by him, especially Chen Bao, Tang Hu, and Ma Ben, these three people are the most difficult to control. Without anyone else's intervention, just these three people are enough for me to drink a pot. I love eBooks

Very jealous, very headache.

"We should find a way to divide Tang Yuan's troops. It can't be like the division of troops in Jiaohe City, which not only failed to reduce the cohesion of Tang Yuan's troops, but strengthened it. Later, the Empress Dowager deprived Tang Yuan of 20,000 troops, leaving him only 10,000, and now, this kid wants to restore the size of the army. I thought the Empress Dowager would definitely not agree, so I decided to stop Tang Yuan anyway. Ma Butong said with a solemn expression.

Cao Fu and Zhang Gan glanced at each other, and the two of them seemed even more bottomless.

If Ma Butong gives an order, then they will be the ones who will carry out this order, and they have the best idea of how many strong enemies the two of them will face.

In normal times, the brothers don't have to calculate less, if such a situation occurs, what should they do.

They deduced it many times, and they all found it tricky. Once the army mutinied, they had little chance of winning, and instead forced the entire division to rebel.

The Empress Dowager strongly condemned Tang Yuan's recruitment, and angrily reprimanded Tang Yuan for not knowing the suffering of the people.

Tang Yuan was asked to immediately dismiss the redundant troops and submit the latest list of troops quickly.

After getting the Empress Dowager's decree, Ma Butong's waist stiffened, and when he came to Tang Yuan, he didn't talk much, so he put the queen of heaven Yizhi directly in front of Tang Yuan and let Tang Yuan see it himself.

Tang Yuan didn't even look at it, pushed it aside, and said, "I think the Queen Mother must be concerned about the suffering of the people and disagree with me to increase the number of troops." In this case, I still control the size of the troop to 12,000 men and restore our previous tacit understanding. ”

Ma Butong said with a smile: "That's right, we are all doing things for the court and the people, and General Tang can repent and stop losses in time, which is the best." ”

Tang Yuan said with a smile: "I have already asked Chen Bao to lead his troops to Wanzhou, according to the schedule, three days later, to launch an attack on the eastern part of Quzhou, Bai Yong does not pay attention to the Yanshan area, and I am using the most elite troops to attack his weakness and avenge Liu Zhan's troops." Chen Bao will definitely pay a heavy price when he enters the mountains this time, and it is easy to get in and out of the place, so I decided to let him not come out in the mountains for the time being. Ma Jianjun won't have an opinion, right? ”

"What do you mean by that?" Ma Butong was puzzled: "Didn't you say that you want to dismiss the troops?" ”

"No, I'm not directly dismissed, I want to fight a war first, there will definitely be attrition in the war, and after calculating the consumption, it's not too late to dismiss the troops."

Ma Butong's face turned pale, "Will you start fighting in three days?" Are you sure that it will not provoke a larger war? I can tell you, the Empress Dowager doesn't want to fight now, our Great Liang Dynasty has just begun to recover, and at this time it takes at least three years of recuperation, and after three years, our national strength will double. ”

Tang Yuan smiled and said, "Whether the Liang Dynasty fights or not, in fact, it doesn't depend on the Liang Dynasty at all, but on the enemy. Of the two Hanzhong wars, which was initiated by the Liang Dynasty? And the consumption of a Hanzhong war is almost twice that of the Hebei war, why is this happening? In fact, in terms of time, the Hanzhong War was not as good as half of the Hebei War, but why was the consumption so large? Have you considered it? ”