And when Chen Xu returned to his hometown to visit relatives, there was also a huge team in the Western Regions, which set off from the beginning of March, all the way through Yumen Pass, through Dunhuang, through the two counties of Liangguo, after nearly two months of long-distance travel, has reached the border of Daqin.

The leader of this group of people is Li Xin, the Marquis of Di Dao, except for the 2,000 elite horsemen and women who were escorted, the remaining more than 10,000 men and women of the Yue clan were all captured in the last battle with King Tunan.

After a chase and strangulation, the Dayue clan was defeated and escaped from the thaw, leaving behind nearly 50,000 clansmen, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses, camels and countless household goods.

This batch of captives and goods were divided into two, half belonged to the Western Regions countries participating in the battle, and the other half belonged to Daqin, after some selection, Li Xin escorted the men and women who were still strong to Xianyang to the first emperor, so as to eliminate the theft and sale of enamel equipment by the Western army, as for the remaining old and frail women and children with limited mobility, they were all placed near Dunhuang and handed over to the King of Liang to settle down, help open up wasteland and graze cattle, sheep and horses, anyway, most of these people were the original Yue clan people or even the tribes near Dunhuang.

After a few days of repairing near the camp in Longxi, Li Xin and Meng Tian came out with a red face after a sincere conversation, and then led his subordinate soldiers to escort the captives to continue to Xianyang, and Meng Tian also wrote a letter to arrange for the messenger to be sent to Xianyang to Meng Yi quickly.

If this matter is to be completely pressed, it must be supported by people in the court.

Moreover, Meng Tian had already received a letter from Meng Yi, mentioning that the Marquis of Qinghe would ask the First Emperor to carry out military system reform because of this matter, so he needed the strong support of the generals of the military system.

Meng Tian is supportive of military reform, as early as when he was in charge of the northwest to resist the Hun Hu, he had already found that the unified Great Qin has always adopted the traditional military service method of taking turns to defend the border, which is very troublesome, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is uneven, which is no longer suitable for the development and needs of Great Qin, but because of the construction of the Great Wall and the straight road, and the suppression and monitoring of millions of soldiers in the Six Kingdoms, it is also necessary to have so many troops to maintain the stability of the northwest, until Chen Xu appeared to create stirrups and saddles and sharp sabers, and recommended that the northwest army and millions of soldiers be abolished, At that time, Meng Yi finally understood the focus of the military reform, that is, to streamline and cultivate elites, and the era of number was king, but soon he was also transferred out of the northwest battalion, and then he was ordered to sit in Longxi to take charge of the Western Army's attack on the Western Regions, and the combat effectiveness of the elite horsemen after the streamlining once again made him understand that Chen Xu did grasp the system shortcomings and lifeblood of the Great Qin army.

But the so-called not in his position does not seek his own politics.

Meng Tian has ideas, but he is only an executor, and there is no need to cause trouble for himself.

Recruiting troops and taking turns to garrison the border is not his business as a military commander, it is the business of the imperial court, he is only responsible for fighting, and even the food, grass and ordnance do not have to worry about it, once it is not enough, he only needs to write a recital to request allocation, and the court is busy and has nothing to do with him, he only cares about whether it can be delivered on time, and if it can't be delivered, he will write a recital to complain to the emperor.

As for whether Daqin can feed so many troops, it is not his business, raising grain and grass is the prime minister's business, and it should be the left minister Li Si and the right minister Feng Qujian at that time.

Therefore, when Meng Tian and Meng Yi's brothers wrote to their families in the past, they would occasionally talk about many issues such as court movements and the army, but Meng Yi would remind his brother not to talk about army reform, because it was too sensitive.

But today, after Meng Tian knew Chen Xu's plan, he finally breathed a long sigh of relief and felt an incomparable relief.

The details of Chen Xu's reform of the army have been written very clearly in Meng Yi's letter, and after Meng Tian read it, he was infinitely confused except for admiration.

He couldn't figure out how Chen Xu came up with this kind of military service system and military structure system, which was almost everything overturned and rebuilt, and it was clearly organized, from conscription to service, from local lieutenants to border troops, from enlisted soldiers to top generals, from army structure to the confirmation of titles, there was a whole set of reform plans that could be started without any modifications.

In particular, the abolition of the 20-level military knighthood system, the adoption of a brand-new meritorious service selection and reward system, and the military structure that combines the compulsory military service system from the beginning of enlistment to the volunteer military service system of regular combat units will create a brand-new military system of Daqin.

And this whole system is perfect in Meng Tian's opinion.

Therefore, when Meng Yi wrote a letter two months ago saying that he would support Chen Xu's reform plan in the court, Meng Tian basically agreed without much hesitation.

First of all, Montessori and Chen Xu have no differences in many court politics, and they are one, Montessori has made it clear that he will vigorously support Chen Xu before, and it is impossible not to take action at this juncture.

There is also the fact that Chen Xu's current status has far surpassed that of Montessori, so Montessori must stand in line with exact actions and shout, to today's family and status, support is not just words, there must be a real performance, otherwise it is easy to cause the breakdown of this good political marriage.

The most important thing is that after Meng Tian's investigation, this time the Western Army was guilty of stealing and selling too many soldiers because the number of enamel equipment was too large and too many soldiers were involved.

At that time, when he got the investigation report on the theft and sale of equipment by the two armies of Dunhuang and Shule, Meng Yi was stunned, although he only sent the supervisor and Changshi to inquire and investigate, but from the results obtained, the two armies stole and sold more than 10,000 pieces of enamel equipment, in fact, there were many prevarications under the pretext of loss, fragmentation and theft, so according to the report of the returning supervisors and Changshi, the number of enamel equipment lost by the two armies was close to 15,000 sets.

That is to say, there are a total of 20,000 soldiers and horses in the Western Regions, and the stolen and sold enamel equipment reaches sixty percent, if these enamel equipment is ordnance and weapons, Meng Tian can't imagine the consequences.

A group of unarmed soldiers is like a toothless tiger, and the consequences of a war are unimaginable.

Therefore, in Meng Yi's view, Daqin's military system has reached the point where it must be changed, otherwise the army will definitely slowly disperse to the point of no return.

And Chen Xu's comprehensive military reform made Meng Tian as excited as if he had discovered a new continent.

It doesn't matter what the structure of the army is and the titles and ranks of generals at all levels, this is just the appearance, there is not much difference between the divisions, regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons and the current commanders, and the configuration of officers at all levels is similar, but the biggest difference is the resetting of the military titles.

Completely overthrow the old 20-level military knighthood system, no longer take the rigid killing of the enemy's head as the only record of military merit, but extend it to the time of enlistment, training assessment, competition results, military art literacy and battlefield performance, etc., and use various daily and combat comprehensive assessments to evaluate military merits.

Although Meng Yi did not elaborate on this method of evaluating military merits in his letter, recording military merits through these comprehensive evaluation methods will not only stimulate the generals to train hard, but also greatly enhance the cohesion of the army.

As long as they have performed well in the two years of service in the county or county or have excellent military skills, they can be recommended or voluntarily joined in a higher-level combat unit, which is called the national defense force.

The Wehrmacht is different from the system of soldiers, because the Wehrmacht has a salary, which will also be more strictly standardized, all kinds of training and assessment throughout, through strict training and military discipline norms, the Wehrmacht will become a brave team that prohibits combat, as long as the performance in the army is good, even if there is no war, it can gradually improve the military rank by virtue of the military merit assessment on weekdays, and it is not impossible to advance from the lowest soldier to the general colonel, and with the improvement of the military knight, it will also get a higher salary, There are money, land, real estate, and the most important thing is that when he retires, he will be recommended to serve in the local area according to the military lord and military merits, and serve as a lieutenant and police officer to become a member of the court to maintain the security of the place.

Moreover, in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin army, the military service system this time has made many requirements for age and physical fitness, such as the requirement for local soldiers to be between 17 and 25 years old, and the height must reach 7 feet, the retirement age of the National Defense Force is 30 years old, the retirement age of ordinary officers has been postponed to 35 years old, the retirement age of officers above the battalion level has been postponed to 45 years old, the age of division and brigade officers has been postponed to 60 years old, and senior generals have no retirement years, and so on.

Although Meng Yi did not talk about everything in the letter, through these completely new military systems, Meng Tian had already seen what the future Great Qin army would look like and even its violent combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Meng Tian not only agreed that Meng Yi supported the reform of Chen Xu's army in the court, but also prepared to go to Beijing to personally ask the emperor for guilt, and also took this incident of stealing and selling enamel equipment as a case to deeply review and analyze the various shortcomings of the Great Qin military system, so as to help Chen Xu's army reform be completed quickly.

Meng Tian and Meng Yi both know how much resistance there is to the reform of the army, from the emperor to the civil and military officials, they all think that the more troops, the better, but in the eyes of a commander like Meng Tian, the army is actually the better.

The original 300,000 troops in the northwest are far inferior to the current 60,000 elite cavalry.

Although the expenses of the imperial court are similar, they are completely different in terms of management and combat effectiveness.

There are many factors that determine the victory of a war, in addition to the art of war, the daily saying of the right time, place and people, on the specific battlefield, a fighting spirit and a mighty army that is not afraid of death, is the key to victory, sometimes even the number of people, grain and grass blades are not necessarily over the enemy, the core of measuring the combat effectiveness of an army is courage, and the source of courage is self-confidence, only their own strength can have invincible confidence and courage, And this self-confidence comes from Daqin's strict training of soldiers and generous and fair rewards.

This time, Li Xin overthrew the Dayue clan created by King Tunan in the Western Regions, capturing more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, which can be regarded as the biggest victory in the past three years, Meng Tian has already learned of Li Xin and Jiang Hu's request in the letter sent by Li Xin, and the Western Army will use this rare victory to completely suppress the incident of stealing and selling enamel equipment, otherwise the three of them will be punished.

Therefore, Meng Tian sent Li Xin away after severely reprimanding Li Xin in the military camp, and then began to write down the details of the incident himself, preparing to return to Beijing to plead guilty to the First Emperor.

Meng Tian believed that Chen Xu would not die in this matter.

But what he didn't know was that when he set off, Chen Xu had already taken a group of wives and children back to his hometown to visit relatives.