Qin Cheng rested in the medical hall for a few more days, and his injuries gradually improved, and after being diagnosed in the old medical hall, Qin Cheng left the medical hall and went back to the barracks with the white-faced guy who came to meet him.

Before leaving, Xiaolou was quite reluctant to send Qin Cheng to the gate of the hospital, the autumn wind was sorrowful, I don't know if it was because of the wind and sand, or what, this little guy's eyes turned red, seeing that Qin Cheng was about to leave, Xiaolou pulled Qin Cheng's sleeves, refused to let go for a long time, a pair of red eyes, pitifully looked at Qin Cheng, and his reluctance was overflowing.

The miserable appearance of the little guy fell in Qin Cheng's eyes, but Qin Cheng felt quite warm in his heart, thinking that when he came to this era, most of the people he met were so affectionate and righteous, even Xiaolou, an eleven or twelve-year-old little doll, had taken care of herself for so long, and now he still had this nostalgic look, Qin Cheng was really moved.

Squatting down in front of this little guy who was not big and seemed to be a little underdeveloped, Qin Cheng stretched out his hand to help him wipe his tears, and said softly: "I'm still crying when I'm so old, what's the matter, the little fart child can't bear Brother Qin?" ”

Xiao Lou held back his tears, shook his head, and said, "No, I'm reluctant to give Brother Qin's candy, Brother Qin is gone, and no one will buy me candy!" ”

Qin Cheng smiled dumbly, rubbed his thick hair with the hand that wiped his tears, and said with a smile: "How do you know that your teeth will fall out after eating candy, you are not afraid that one day you will wake up and lose all your teeth?" ”

"Really...... It's true? Do teeth really fall out? Xiao Lou was obviously frightened by Qin Cheng's words, and said in surprise, seeing Qin Cheng's ill-intentioned smile, he immediately reacted, "You know that you lied to me, you are such a big person, you don't look like an adult at all, you know how to make fun of children......

"Hahahaha......" Qin Cheng stood up with a smile, turned over his horse, and turned back and said, "Go in, if there is a chance in the future, I will come to see you." ”

After that, Qin Cheng raised his horsewhip and left with the white-faced little guy.

Xiao Lou watched Qin Cheng leave, ran out a few steps, tears flowed out uncontrollably, after all, he was just a child, and the people close to him would be sad and cry when they left.

After a while, Xiao Lou wiped away his tears, looked at the direction of Qin Cheng's departure, and said indignantly: "Hmph, what kind of person, it's been so long, and I didn't see that the person was a girl when I left......"

"Xiaolou, Xiaolou......" Behind Xiaolou, the shouts of the old medical hall came out.

"Here, master!" Xiao Lou heard the shouting, turned around and ran towards the medical hall, and as he ran, his mouth pouted, "Hmph, I said I wanted to come to see people, if you dare not come, hum......"

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The medical hall and the barracks are not far away, and it will take less than half an hour to get there on horseback. Qin Cheng rode a horse and followed behind the white-faced little guy, but he was not happy. It may be that the white-faced guy took care of Qin Cheng's newly recovered injuries and deliberately slowed down. Thinking of this, Qin Cheng couldn't help but smile slightly, thinking that although this white-faced little guy was usually very cold, his heart might not be like his face.

"Brother, I haven't asked you for your name yet." Qin Cheng caught up with the white-faced little guy, walked side by side with him, and asked with a smile.

The white-faced little guy glanced at Qin Cheng, his attitude was still lukewarm, and said, "Liu Mu." ”

"Willow?" Qin Cheng heard this name and repeated it in his heart, but he felt extremely awkward, secretly thinking that this white-faced little guy should not use this to deceive himself, "It turned out to be Brother Liu, there is something I want to ask Brother Liu about something, I wonder if Brother Liu can tell me?" ”

Knowing that the other party is cold, Qin Cheng tries to be polite in his words, but this will not make Qin Cheng have any mustard in his heart, Qin Cheng heard a sentence before the crossing, and he has always used it for himself: If you are an ordinary person, then you only need to adapt to a few people, if you are a leader, then you have to adapt to everyone.

"What?" The white-faced willow asked.

"During the Battle of the North Gate the day before yesterday, General Sun Ao, the county guard, brought troops to help, and I want to ask, is he still in the barracks?" Qin Cheng is actually concerned about whether Li Guang and Gongsun Ao are unhappy because of themselves, after all, this is related to how much Li Guang attaches importance to himself, of course, Qin Cheng will not ask directly.

"General Gongsun stayed in Qiansang for a day, and then led the army back." Liu Mu said, his brows furrowed, then stretched out, and said coldly: "If you want to ask the general if he has sought justice for you, you can be more direct, and you don't need to beat around the bush like this." I can also tell you directly that the general did have a dispute with General Gongsun because of you, but that's all, the scene was not as hot as you expected. ”

Qin Cheng smiled dumbly, he didn't expect this guy's sense of smell to be quite sensitive, but after thinking about it carefully, it is not difficult to think of his intentions, "Brother Liu said this, but the misunderstanding is below, and I don't want the general to argue with General Gongsun for the sake of the next." ”

After a pause, Qin Cheng said again: "Although it is true that I have some trouble with General Gongsun's arrow, this is at most just a private grudge. ”

"The latter sentence is pretty much the same, it's a big truth." Liu Mu smiled for the first time, but it was fleeting.

"......" Qin Cheng was speechless for a while, so he had to laugh and laugh, and his understanding of Liu Mu's character deepened a little more.

While talking, the two of them had already arrived at the Qiansang City military camp, and from a distance, the military camp at this time was no different from before the war, but when Qin Cheng entered the camp, the guards learned Qin Cheng's identity, and their eyes immediately became hot when they looked at Qin Cheng.

Liu Mu led Qin Cheng to the big tent of the Chinese army, and directly brought Qin Cheng into the tent without reporting.

Li Guang was not the only one in the big tent at this time, many high-ranking generals were present, including cavalry captain Ji Zhu. Some of these people recognized Qin Cheng, and some had never seen it before, and they all set their eyes on Qin Cheng at this time.

"General, my subordinates were ordered to take them back to Qincheng, and they have now brought people here." Liu Mu first replied to Li Guang.

"Subordinate Qin Cheng, I have seen the general." Qin Cheng saluted Li Guang beside Liu Mu.

When Li Guang saw Qin Cheng, he had already walked out from behind the case, laughed a few times, patted Qin Cheng's shoulder with both hands, and said in a loud voice: "How is it, the injury can be healed?" ”

After Qin Cheng woke up, Li Guang went to visit once, but that was more than ten days ago, at this time, when he saw Li Guang, he only felt that the other party was full of energy, and it seemed that the results of this battle were reported to Chang'an, and it should have received a good response.

"It's just an arrow wound, General Lao is worried, and it's no big deal." Qin Cheng replied.

"Good! It's okay! Li Guang laughed heartily and said to everyone: "This is the Qin Lang I mentioned to you before, if it weren't for Qin Lang in this battle, I, Li Guangxing, might never have a chance to meet you again!" ”

"The general laughed, how dare his subordinates." Qin Cheng said modestly.

"This is Qin Lang?!" Deputy General Li Xi walked over, looked Qin Cheng up and down for a while, and showed an appreciative smile, "It's really heroic!" The general told us about your exploits before, and we still didn't believe that Qin Lang was so young, but at this moment, it seems that he is really a hero and a young man! Since then, there has been another tiger general in my Qiansang army! ”

Li Xi said, and the generals echoed for a while. Qin Cheng saw Li Kang standing aside at this time, and this guy still had a dissatisfied expression.

Among the generals, some people praised Qin Cheng one after another, and Qin Cheng was proud in his heart, but on the surface, he was still modest and cautious, and he was calm and clear, and finally Li Guang proposed to set up a table for Qin Cheng to celebrate the success in advance tonight.

"The official commendation at the court has not yet come down, but it is only a matter of the past few days, and the heralds of the post station have already come to inform them, and then the whole army will drink together to celebrate...... Li Guang said.

After a lively while, Li Guang returned to the general's case, and then talked about business, "Some time ago, Qin Lang and the general talked about the restructuring of the military branches, and the general and the generals also discussed some before, and now that Qin Lang is here, today we will discuss this matter in detail, if you can reach a unified opinion, we can report to the court and ask Your Majesty." ”

After that, Li Guang looked at Qin Cheng, meaning to let him explain first.

At this time, Li Guang took out the matter of the restructuring of the arms and told the generals, which was also expected by Qincheng, after all, the restructuring of the arms is a major event, although Li Guang said that he is the defender of a county and the chief general of the army, but such a major event cannot be decided by one person in private. However, as soon as he came back, he was asked to discuss this matter with the generals, and Qin Cheng could also think that Li Guang still attached great importance to this matter, and it was impossible to say that Li Guang also agreed with Qin Cheng's idea in his heart, so he was in a hurry to settle this matter in the army. However, it can also be seen from this that Li Guang's temperament is also resolute.

"No. Since the generals are willing to discuss this, I will boldly say it below. Qin Cheng said, seeing that all the generals looked at him, his body straightened slightly, "In the sixty or seventy years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, on the issue of Hungary, although the imperial court has always pursued a policy of peace and proximity, the intention is to stabilize the frontier. However, as the generals know, for sixty or seventy years, the Huns have never stopped invading our Han frontier, and every late autumn, the Huns will surely go south, seize our goods and kill our people. Small wars almost every year, and big wars are also every three or five times. As soon as the war started, the light ones plundered the border, making the people of our border counties miserable, and the heavy ones even approached Ganquan Palace, disturbing the Son of Heaven. All of this is not because our Han army is not brave enough, the soldiers are not tenacious enough, and the fighting spirit is not strong enough, but the root cause of its drawbacks lies in the fact that our Han army is not suitable for fighting with the Xiongnu. ”

"Harmony is not what my Han wants, but harmony cannot help my Han people to live and work in peace and contentment, and it cannot help my Han Tianwei to be inviolable. The root of the harmony lies in the inability of the army to defeat the Xiongnu. And the root cause of the army's inability to defeat the Xiongnu lies in the troops. ”

"The reason why the Hun cavalry was able to crisscross the territory of our Han Dynasty and come and go like the wind is rooted in its speed. Looking at our Han army, regardless of whether the cavalry combat strength can defeat the Xiongnu, the number alone is much lower than that of the Xiongnu. Xiongnu men, everyone is a soldier, everyone is a cavalry, cavalry are elite, the Han army and the Xiongnu army are compared, the reason for its defeat and victory is self-evident. ”

"Therefore, the only way for our Han army to defeat the Xiongnu army and eradicate the threat of the Huns to our Han border counties is to expand the cavalry and refine the cavalry. Only by cavalry against cavalry, with speed compared with speed, can there be a complete victory over the Hun army! In the past, Li Mu of the Warring States Period, sharpened a sword for ten years, and obtained 30,000 or 20,000 elite cavalry, which could defeat the Huns, making the Huns dare not go south and herd horses for decades. This record is a model for us. ”

Qin Cheng talked eloquently, a little selfless for a while, unaware of the changes in the faces and eyes of the generals, and in the end, Qin Cheng concluded: "Therefore, we should vigorously develop cavalry in the border counties, so that for three or five years, we can have the basis to eradicate the trouble of the Huns." ”

After Qin Cheng finished speaking, the military tent fell silent for a while, and the generals, including Li Guang and Li Kang, all had a contemplative look on their faces. Although Qin Cheng had also talked to Li Guang about the basis for developing cavalry before, what he said at that time was not as comprehensive and thorough as it is now. For a while, Li Guang only felt that what Qin Cheng said was thought-provoking.

In the middle of the sound, a heavy infantry captain took the lead in speaking, and his tone was quite unkind: "According to what Qin Lang said, to defeat the Huns, as long as the cavalry is enough, in this way, won't my infantry disappear from the army?" But Qin Lang should not forget that in this battle against the Huns, our heavy infantry also made great contributions. Regardless of the big array of gourd belly, it is only the battle of the north gate to seize control of the city gate, and my heavy infantry is the pillar! ”

"Oh?" Qin Cheng raised his eyebrows and said slowly: "So dare to ask the general, where was the general during the battle of gourd belly and the battle of the North Gate?" ”

Qin Cheng remembers clearly that during the Battle of the North Gate, there were only 200 heavy infantry left under Li Guang, and at that time, there was not a single captain. Thinking about it, the heavy infantry captain under Li Guang at that time had already died in the gourd belly. That's why Qin Cheng has this question.

"This ...... Although the general did not fight with the general at that time, he knew the details of the battle very well. The captain of the heavy infantry said that he was following the adjutant general Li Xi all the way at that time, so it was naturally impossible to participate in the battle of Hulu belly and the North Gate.

"The general was not present at the scene, so it is understandable to say this." Qin Cheng said with a smile, his words were unceremoniously, he also knew that this was not the time to be modest and polite, "At that time, the general led us to meet the enemy in the gourd belly, using the military law formation created by Li Mu back then, but even so, when we faced the same number of Huns, we never defeated the Huns head-on, let alone the Hun cavalry attacked from the flank later. What the general just said, but he only knew one thing, but he didn't know the other. In the next presumptuous, wouldn't the general have heard how many lives were lost when our infantry retreated under the cover of cavalry? And what a heavy price did the cavalry brothers pay in order to cover our retreat? He dared to ask the general, if it wasn't very close to the mountain pass at that time, how could our infantry be preserved? The general just said that the battle of the North Gate is even more disagreeable, and regardless of whether the Huns will fight head-on with our Han army next time, does the general think that the Hun cavalry will fight with us in front of the city gate next time? If there is no favorable terrain without the city gates, what will our army do? ”

In the end, Qin Cheng paused word by word, and there was a questioning tone in his words, his eyes looked straight at the other party, and he did not shy away from his subordinate identity at all.

The heavy infantry captain was pressed by Qin Cheng step by step, and he knew that he was wrong, and beads of sweat had already appeared on his forehead. This is actually no wonder of him, after all, he is a captain of heavy infantry, if the army really vigorously develops cavalry, whether it is the strength of the heavy infantry or the status, it will be greatly reduced, if he does not say anything at all, it will be really soft.

Although Qin Cheng also knew this, for the sake of the development of the cavalry, he had no room to retreat, so he could only speak more seriously.

"Then according to what Qin Lang said, the army vigorously develops cavalry, what about my chariots and infantry? Qin Lang's words, does it mean to ignore the function of the arms in coordinated operations? This time, it was Li Xi who asked.

"When we talk about vigorously developing cavalry, we are not completely rejecting other branches of the army. There is no doubt that cavalry plays its main role, but it would be a mistake to completely discard other arms. "Qincheng Road.

Qin Cheng remembered that when Wei Qing defeated the main force of the Xiongnu Yizhi in the past (of course, according to the current historical trajectory, it is likely that there will be no more than that), not only cavalry was used, but also chariots and infantry also played a great role in that battle. If Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are compared, although Huo Quzhi's tactics are big and his achievements are outstanding, but he must rely on the absolute elite strength of the cavalry, and his own casualties are also large, Wei Qing used Huo Qubing to select the remaining cavalry to fight with Yi Zhixian when he fought a decisive battle, and made reasonable use of the cooperation of other arms, not only defeated the main force of Yi Zhixi, but the casualties were much smaller than Huo Quzhi's, but the results were not as prominent as Huo Qu's disease, and he could not be like Huo Qu's disease, several times deep into the territory of the Xiongnu for thousands of miles of long-distance attacks, coming and going without a trace.

"The border line of the Han Dynasty is long, the terrain of the border county area is complex, if there is only cavalry, it is not appropriate, the coordinated operation of the various arms of the army will still play an irreplaceable role in some cases, even if it is fought deep into the territory of the Xiongnu, if the cavalry combat power does not reach a very high level, the strategic command is not brilliant, and the coordinated operation of the arms is also a necessary supplement. It's just that in order to defeat the Hun cavalry, our Han cavalry must be in the core position, and other arms are more in cooperation with the battle. Qin Chengdao, the different scenes of Huo Quai's battle and Wei Qing's battle in his memory before the crossing came to mind.

"In this way, the general also has some numbers in his heart, but Qin Lang mentioned that the various arms with cavalry as the main force cooperate in battle, but there is no precedent before, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do it properly if we try rashly, and if the gains outweigh the losses, it will not be beautiful. In this regard, I don't know if Qin Lang has a rule in his heart? Li Xi groaned and said his thoughts, but when he said this, he pushed Qin Cheng to the forefront of tactical reform in the absence of action, and asked him to take charge of the reform of the arms.

Qin Cheng smiled slightly, and said: "If you don't abolish it, the main force of the Han cavalry is unfamiliar to us, and it is also unfamiliar to the Huns, so how can the general know that we can't win?" Moreover, the emergence of new things always has to be explored step by step, and if you don't explore, you can't have rules, and you can't succeed for fear of failure. It doesn't matter whether there is a rule in your heart or not, it doesn't matter if you have a rule in your heart, what matters is whether you have the confidence and determination to explore this rule. If not, it would be a bit whimsical to talk about destroying the Huns. ”

As soon as Qin Cheng's words came out, the generals present were shocked in their hearts. In all fairness, Qin Cheng's words are very clear, but they are true, which of the generals present did not grow up in the process of resenting the Huns and killing the Huns, and they have seen a lot of border counties being destroyed by the Hun army. Now that Qin Cheng has said the direction and laid out the strategy, the generals are all moved.

For a moment, the audience fell silent again. Each face was contemplative.