29. Bottom line

In addition, more than 1,200 Han people were rescued, all of whom were young and strong people who had been captured by the Xianbei people to their tribes, and as long as they had a little recuperation and rigorous training, they could replenish the strength of the Xinghan army, and they must have been brave and daring to fight, because they had gnashed their teeth against Hu Lu.

The biggest gain in this battle is none other than these thousands of fat and strong horses. It really made Wang Bo overjoyed, and he even forgot all about teaching Chen Dao a lesson to avenge the revenge of the stuffy stick. Immediately find Liao Hua, Pinghan and others, and after equipping each of these war horses with two horses for the commanders above the military commander, all the rest will be handed over to the cavalry, and strive to expand the cavalry camp as soon as possible. I was thinking about how to build my own horse farm.

There are a lot of bows and arrows and sabers that have been collected, but they are either eliminated by the Han army, or they are shoddy by themselves, so the hunting team can make do with them.

After arranging the post-war events, Wang Bo locked himself in the house and instructed Chen Zhi not to disturb him, and he did not go out for several days. Every time Chen Zhi delivered food, he only saw Wang Bo there, motionless in a daze, pondering, and sometimes muttering to himself.

The crowd outside was strange at first, but then slowly turned into worry. On the sixth day, when Yang Feng, Xu Chu and the others couldn't help but break in, the door suddenly opened, and Wang Bo, whose eye sockets were deep and his hair was messy, appeared in front of everyone sitting outside the house.

Without waiting for Yang Feng to ask, he waved his hand and said, "I'll go and tidy up first, you will take everyone to the conference room and wait for a while!" ”

In less than a quarter of an hour, Wang Bo came to the conference room in high spirits, swept away everyone, and said slowly: "Since the beginning of the construction of the Han Dynasty in Wuxing, all my brothers have survived in the continuous war. only talks about things, and the subtleties are not thoughtful, and there are many shortcomings in planning the overall situation. ”

"At the beginning of the battle, knowing that the enemy was very strong, I was helpless and worried, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for the anger and the death of the place, then I am afraid that the city of Seoul would be in danger! I have been entrusted by my brothers, and I feel deeply guilty, and it is difficult for me to face the widow of my brother who died in battle! After speaking, he bowed to everyone and apologized.

Hearing this, everyone's eyes turned red, and they knelt down on the ground, Yang Feng choked and said, "How can the lord have such a thought? My brothers all started from the recklessness, it is the lord who rescued and protected each other so far, if it were not for our drag, with the amazing talent of the lord, it would be useless to worship the three princes! ”

"We are stupid, we are all martial artists, we hate not to share the worries of the Lord, just for the battle array, bravely kill the enemy, although we die without regrets!"

"The lord treats us like brothers and sisters, if it weren't for the lord's dedication and thoughtfulness, everything would be properly considered, and the Han army would have survived to this day?"

"Now the Wuxing Han army is strong and strong, and the foundation is solid. And since ancient times, strong men have been shrouded in horse leather, how can they hear that they will not die in a hundred battles? ”

"Don't blame yourself, your body is related to the life and death of the brothers of the Xinghan, and you must not be wasted! We are all willing to be pawns in front of the main stallion, chop the thorns and cut the waves, and never give up! ”

Everyone shouted excitedly: "I am willing to chop the waves for the Lord and die without giving up!" ”

Wang Bo helped everyone up and said with a firm face: "The brothers are affectionate and kind, and life and death go hand in hand!" Yuan Hao Minggan is within five years, and he must lead my brothers to live and work in peace and contentment, and the future generations will have no worries! ”

After speaking, he waved his right fist vigorously and led the crowd to shout: "All of us are united!" Xinghan Wansheng! ”

When everyone was cheering, Chen Zhi, who had just stood up, knelt down again with a "poof", Chen Zhi, who had never cherished words like gold, raised his head at this time and said loudly: "Lord! Wu Runan Chen arrived, and all the brothers in the past were born in yellow turbans and mixed with mountain bandits, so they were despised. Now I see that the brothers of Wu Xinghan are not afraid of life and death, and bravely kill Hulu! I also feel that the lord has a benevolent heart and great ambition! To the heart of the convincing! I hope that the lord will not care about the past suspicions and stay in front of the horse! ”

Wang Bo smiled, stepped forward to help Chen Zhiyan: "Uncle Zhi doesn't need Mingzhi!" I have long regarded my uncle as a brother, otherwise how dare I stay by my side for a long time? From now on, we should be open-minded and get close to all the brothers! After speaking, his face sank and said: "You attacked me later, and I never settled accounts with you!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Chen Zhi also scratched his head: "I am also afraid that the lord will make a slight mistake, so I have made a ...... decision."

After the joy, Wang Bo calmed down in the past few days and discussed with everyone a few things he had summarized. After everyone listened to Wang Bo's idea, they all shouted: The lord is really a god and a man!

One is that Wang Bo wants to set up a Department of Animal Husbandry. To put it simply, it is to set up Xinghan Army's own farm, which specializes in selecting and cultivating breeders who are familiar with animal habits, raising horses, cattle, and sheep...... Wait a minute.

Raising horses provides a reliable source of war horses for the growth of the cavalry army in the future of the Xinghan army, so as to get rid of the dilemma that now can only rely on the capture of Hu people and the exchange of war horses from the caravan. War horses, a strategic resource, are safer in their own hands.

Raising cattle, Xinghan City had to feed so many people, and it was too slow and easily limited to buy from caravans. In the coming year, it is necessary to rely on the two rivers that flow through this place to reclaim farmland, and it is better to use cattle to cultivate the land, save labor and improve production efficiency.

Donkeys and mules must also be raised, which is mainly considered for the logistics baggage team. Since the Xinghan army wants to survive safely in this troubled era, the war is inevitable, and if the war wants to be victorious, in addition to the bloody battles of the soldiers in the front, it must also rely on the rear to have a stable and efficient material operation mechanism. And the use of a large amount of animal power is its guarantee.

As for the breeding of sheep, it is nothing more than providing a rich source of meat for the Xinghan army. After forming a sufficient scale, Xinghan City does not need to send a large number of hunting teams every day, and goes up the mountain to hunt, and can liberate a lot of reserve troops.

Wang Bo even entrusted the Wang caravan to go to Yanmen Pass and Taiyuan County to find a way to attract pigs, chickens and other domestic animals. I really can't do it, so I grabbed it from the mountains and tried to domesticate it myself, but I don't know if it will work?

The second thing was to set up a caravan of Heunghanseong's own. Carry Xinghan wine, new furniture and other self-made things in Xinghan City, and exchange them for the things needed in Xinghan City in other places, mainly to Youzhou, Jizhou and other Han gathering areas.

The most important thing is that Wang Bo wants to set up an armory workshop, and Yang Feng and others also agree very much.

In the last battle with Xianbei, the reason why they were able to kill and injure so many people was that in addition to their geographical advantages, the Xinghan army also had the range of bows and arrows, which was farther than most Hu archers. To put it simply, I can fight you, but you can't beat me, this is the power of sophisticated weapons and equipment.

Judging from the current situation of the Xinghan army's lack of weapons and armor, I am afraid that if it experiences several more major battles of this intensity, it will be in a situation where there are people without weapons. After all, armor will wear out, and it won't last long just by capturing it, so it becomes inevitable to make your own weapons.

Moreover, Wang Bo found that the current cavalry does not yet have mature horse harnesses. Except for the generals who are skilled in controlling the horses, most of the sergeants can only control the weapons with one hand during the battle, and tightly clamp the horse's belly with their legs, and when running rapidly, even the Hu people, who have been riding horses since they were young, have to crouch on the horse's back and grasp the horse's mane. Anyway, like in the film and television dramas of the previous life, in order to avoid arrows, Wang Bo has never seen the unique job of riding a horse to the side of the horse for a while, and hiding in the belly of the horse for a while.

If there were a perfect saddle and stirrups, the speed cavalry would no longer be a dream. Equipping the horse with a horseshoe not only greatly increases the stability of the horse rider and frees his hands for battle, but also the war horse will be able to fight for a longer time and longer distance because it does not have to seriously wear the horse's hooves, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Wang Bo has long wanted to install this thing on the war horse, but there was a lack of horses before, and this thing is a double-edged sword, if the Hu people learn it, there is no strong cavalry Xinghan army, I am afraid that in the future, I will not fight with the Hu people in the field, because it will die a miserable death.

According to Wang Bo's vision, the armory workshop should not only be able to build existing armor, but also take on the important task of developing more powerful weapons. For example, the imitation of the powerful firepower of the individual crossbow, the city's defensive weapon bed crossbow, the heavy weapon stone throwing machine for attacking the fortification, and so on.

Hearing Wang Bo finish talking about his idea, everyone was stunned, and muttered secretly: Our lord is simply not human! Can you figure this out? Compared to the lord, his head is a stone! Especially the whimsical ideas of those new weapons, which make everyone admire the five-body throw.

At the same time, the people who were overly excited were even more eager for the bright future of the Xinghan Army. Now they are driving them away, and they are crying and shouting.

After everyone went down happily, Wang Bo left Yang Feng, Liao Hua, Chen Rong, Xu Chu and several others, and said with a serious expression: "When I want to follow the Ming Emperor of the Han Dynasty, that is, Liaodong Taishou sacrificed money and grain to the head of the Huns. This move can provoke the dispute between the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and the second is that the Wuxing Han army can also stand by to recover the clouds, occupy the rich land in the front, and expel the roots of Xianbei Budu outside the Yin Mountain. What is this method? ”

"Hiss......" Yang Feng and the others listened. They all gasped a few times: Our lord is black-hearted! Take wine to buy Xianbei people's heads? Wouldn't this be an addiction to playing "Jingguan"? Even Xu Chu, who used to pat his chest indiscriminately when he heard that there was a fight, twitched the corners of his mouth and didn't make a sound.

Everyone was silent for a while, and Tian Chou first said softly: "Lord, this method seems to be too vicious, if it is against the harmony of heaven?" ”

Chen Rong continued: "This move may damage the prestige of the lord!" If the Han army of Wuxing left the name of brutality and murder, it would be very inappropriate. ”

Wang Bo nodded thoughtfully.

Yang Feng said: "And in this way, I am afraid that between the Xinghan army and the Xianbei people, they will also become enemies of life and death, and they will rest until death!" If the whole clan is panicked and the whole clan is attacked, with the current strength of our army, it should be difficult to resist the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty, and millions of Xianbei people will invade in a big way? ”

"Hmm!" Wang Bo thought for a while, and then said slowly: "This move is indeed too vicious!" If it is not a painful pain, it should not be taken lightly! I also feel that in the last battle, the brothers suffered heavy casualties, hated the captives, and acted in a hurry! ”

"However, Chief Hu of Saiwai is finally a big trouble for my big man! It is very difficult to subdue its wildness. When the Wuxing Han army accumulates strength and the soldiers are strong and strong, if Hu Gou still does not repent, discuss this law again! ”

Everyone nodded, and Wang Bo added: "This statement comes from my mouth, and it enters your ears, don't leak it!" Remember! ”

In less than a month, the Xinghan army was in the ancient city of Shanwu, and Hu Qi fought a bloody battle and won a complete victory, beheading thousands of its heads, and the news of building Beijing to view the imperial slave pass spread throughout the northern border of the Han Dynasty.

Different from Budugen, who was thunderous after hearing the news, the Han people in the north such as Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Jizhou, from the officials of the Han court to the women and children of the common people, were all overjoyed.

In particular, the hot-blooded men who were deeply affected by Hu Cai's captivity and plundered and had a deep blood feud with Hu Cai, after hearing the news, they called friends and companions, or went to the recruiting offices set up by the Xinghan army in various places, or followed the caravan to Xinghan City, setting off a wave of defecting to the Xinghan army, fighting on the battlefield, and killing Hu Lu to avenge their hatred.

The good news came one after another, one after another, making the soldiers of the Xinghan Dynasty rejoice. Wang Bo couldn't smile every day, and sighed again and again that this battle was worthwhile.

First of all, countless Yan Zhao men, in response to the call of the Xinghan Army to kill prisoners, rushed to Xinghan City to serve in the army, all of them were young and middle-aged people who were strong and healthy. Among them, there are many people who are skilled in martial arts and bow horses.

In view of this, Wang Bo ordered the "Killing Hu Battalion" to be formally established, which was specially used to house the soldiers who had defected to him, and Yang Feng was temporarily the general of the unified army, responsible for reorganization and training.

First of all, the strength of the force, the selection of each leading team chief, Dubo, every ten days for the Xinghan Army selection day, good performance, selected reserve auxiliaries, outstanding can be directly shortlisted for the official soldiers.

For a while, on the originally built huge school field, people roared and neighed, and the shouting and cheering were endless, so it was not lively. Liaohua, who really felt that the place was narrow, finally had to lead the cavalry and find another place to train.

Wang Bo also personally participated in several selections, but did not find that the peerless celebrity in his impression would defect to the Xinghan Army in the future. While feeling slightly disappointed, I also found some good seedlings, which should not be very outstanding in history, or second- or third-rate generals buried in the dust. For example, Jiang Qi, Xia Zhao, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, etc., were all personally selected by Wang Bo to join the War Department.

Then the good news came that Du Yuan, who stayed in the old camp in Jizhou, had personally led 3,000 Yellow Turban soldiers who had been trained into an army to rush to Xinghan City.

Because it was rumored that the Yellow Turban soldiers who crossed the border were going to Xinghan City to kill Hu, the Han soldiers of Zhao State, Changshan County and other counties that passed through on the way, although they had long hated the "Black Mountain Army" to the core, did not deliberately embarrass them, and some county officials and gentry also gave some money and grain because they admired the Xinghan Army's anti-Hu move.

What attracted Wang Bo's attention was that the letter also mentioned that Gongsun Zhan, who was already a Zhonglang general at this time, was specially handed over to Du Yuan with 100 pairs of good iron scale armor and 200 sabers of the Han Dynasty, and entrusted him to transfer them to Wang Bo to express his respect for the Xinghan army's killing of Hu Qi.

Therefore, the army led by Du Yuan did not need to detour the mountain road in order to avoid the city, and the marching speed was very fast. Since Wang Bo got the news, he has already traveled to Zhongshan Kingdom, if there is no accident, at most, more than a month, you can reach the south of Pingcheng, which is infested by the Hu people.

After Wang Bo heard the news, he didn't sleep happily all night. Hurry up and tell Yang Feng the good news, and everyone is overjoyed when they hear it.

Ping Han shouted for good wine to celebrate, and after being glanced at by Wang Bo, he went to pester Yang Feng, and Pei Yuanshao, Xu Chu and others also coaxed. In the end, Wang Bo had no choice but to order someone to take ten catties of Xinghan wine and distribute it to everyone to drink, so he got into trouble in Pinghan's complaining eyes.

In addition to greeting Wang Bo and expressing his admiration, some sent some obsolete weapons and armor, some sent some money and food, and some even sent dozens of beautiful courtesans, so that everyone looked at Wang Bo's eyes with a lewd smile.

Wang Bo did not refuse to come, accepted them all, and let people take their own proud work: Xinghan wine. Each messenger burned ten catties of Xinghan and twenty catties of small burns as a return gift, and expressed his willingness to recruit skilled craftsmen from various counties.

But the last group of envoys made Wang Bozui happy.

The last person to be sent was none other than the current Bingzhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan. He not only sent people thousands of loads of grain and grass, hundreds of weapons and armor, but also sent a team of 1,000 people, which is called "helping to kill the captives".