In the face of strength, no matter how many conspiracies and tricks, no matter how vicious and despicable methods, they are all a grain of sand in the rolling red dust. Throughout the rise and fall of the world, the tide of history rolls forward, those who follow it prosper and those who go against it die, no one can resist the fate of history, and the same can not change the trajectory of history.

In the early morning of the next day, Wu Bin returned to Jiangquan City by boat, Du Ruixun waited anxiously at the dock outside the East Gate, and when he saw Wu Bin going down to the shore, he hurriedly stepped forward and gave a slight salute and asked urgently

"Wu Changshi, how did the Xianjun react?"

Wu Bin's expression was complicated and intriguing

"Zhao Xun and Bai Liyan were furious, but listening to Zhao Xun's meaning, they didn't seem to have any intention of retreating."

"No retreat?!" Du Ruixun repeated, and after thinking about it, he said, "Is that to borrow the Tao?" ”

"But this official doesn't sound like it......"

Du Ruixun was taken aback when he heard the news, and he hurriedly said

"Could it be that the Xianjun still wants to cross the river to attack me!"

"It seems to be so."

"No way!" Du Ruixun denied, and then said, "It has only been two months since the Xian army started, even if it is only March since July, how can the Xian army complete its preparations in March, let alone crossing the river to land and attack us, it must be completed before the winter at the earliest, before that, the Zhi army has already taken over Dekang, if the Xian army does not take advantage of the road, how can it attack me." ”

Under the system of agricultural civilization, the backwardness of the productive forces restricts the scale of pre-war reserves, war mobilization and material reserves are a long process, and logistics scheduling is subject to technical conditions and thinking limitations, requiring huge overall planning.

As the saying goes, "taking it by surprise and attacking it unprepared" is more of a pre-war military secret preparation in addition to a surprise in the military posture.

For example, the work of transporting and requisitioning grain, grass, equipment, and equipment, the organization of the people, the allocation of money and grain, the recruitment and training of new soldiers, and the expansion and reorganization of the standing army are all huge and systematic projects, and the requisitioned ships needed for the operation of crossing the river are all nationwide organizational work.

From Du Ruixun's point of view, it is impossible for the Xianjun Army to complete the integrated training of the regular army and recruits in just two or three months, nor can it be possible to complete the transfer of personnel and the requisition of materials and equipment without a trace in his nose, and the whole process will take at least half a year.

Two days later, Zhao Xun and Bai Liyan delivered two urgent letters to King Xian, and learned that Wei Guo had ceded Dekang to King Zhi, and King Xian was furious.

"Despicable, shameless, the old thief of the Zhiwang, the widow wants to skin him alive!"

"The king is angry, the king is angry."

Jiang Hao persuaded, and King Xian said

"The old thief of King Zhi betrayed my country, so how can the widow not be angry."

"Your Majesty, think of a good plan at this time, so as not to suffer from the enemy on your back."

"What are the widows afraid of, go, grind ink!"

"No!"

King Xian made a decision immediately, approved Bailiyan's request to send troops, and quickly sent it to Ganfu.

On the twenty-eighth day of September, the generals of the Ten Road Town Army gathered in Yangdu, in fact, there were only nine roads, and the tenth road town army was pieced together by the powerful rabble, so there was no town army, it was a temporary formation, led by Dong Guochang of the Luhou Department, and the official worshiped the supervising army.

Dong Guo Chang is Chinese New Year's Eve five years old today, and he has neither held a decent military position nor been born in the army before this, and he is a very serious "smuggler" who specializes in smuggling salt and edible alkali to foreign countries.

Due to the high tariff barriers and chaotic foreign markets in various countries, the sales of regular commodities in Xianguo are exploited and controlled by the elite strata of various countries, and they are unable to effectively use the export of commodities and culture to carry out economic penetration to obtain greater economic and political benefits, so smuggling is also necessary, and it is smuggling privately supported by the government.

As a result, a large number of smugglers have appeared in the past ten years, and many black accounts have been opened for them to launder money.

Dong Guochang was the most outstanding smuggling leader under Lu Hou, and Lu Hou took the opportunity to go west, and Lu Hou just turned him into a regular position.

The military meeting is set up in the military tent set up on the east open ground of the Yangdu Zhiso, the military tent covers an area of 140 square meters, three and a half zhang long, four zhang five wide, one zhang high, army green denim canvas, hollow pipe steel structure frame, surrounded by cables, steel nails, sandbags fixed, even in the face of eight strong winds, it is foolproof, Xiaomazha sits on the ground, enough to accommodate ten people to hold a meeting together.

Seeing that there was a lot of darkness below, Bai Liyan pressed his hand and said

"Generals, please be quiet, the military aircraft meeting begins now. But before that, there is something Zhao Shuai wants to inform you in advance. ”

The voice fell, and there was a lot of discussion when he sat down, and then Zhao Xun said

"Everyone, someone must have known that a few days ago this marshal transferred away 100,000 horses, some people may guess what the intention is, this marshal today might as well tell you clearly, the country has ceded Dekang to Zhiguo, so this war Zhiguo may intervene, in order to prevent accidents, this marshal decided to transfer 100,000 horses to the capital to defend the capital. Therefore, after the start of the war, you must be cautious, and the movements of the will army should not be taken lightly. ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone was in an uproar, and Gu Zhong, the general of the Fifth Town Army, said first

"Zhiguo has eaten the gall of the bear's heart and leopard, and my country has devoted all his strength to attack and defend, and he dares to come to find death, he simply doesn't know the height of the sky."

At this time, Xu Jin said

"General Gu's words are wrong, there are still many people in the world who don't know where the guns are going, if the Zhijun is looking for death, just let them know that they know how powerful the guns are."

"That's right!" Tian Peng shouted, took out a revolver and pointed it at the sky and roared, "If he dares to come, Lao Tzu will collapse his mother one by one, hehahaha......"

Bai Liyan's face sank and looked at Tian Peng

"Put away your guy, beware of going mad and crashing yourself."

As soon as the words ended, everyone burst into laughter.

Soon after the Xian army arrived in Ganfu, except for a few key care targets, Bailiyan organized the commanders of the three levels of military capital, county, and general of each town to watch the 60,000 people in the seventh and eighth towns line up to fire a volley, and the scene was extremely spectacular for a time. Since then, generals at all levels have been overly optimistic about the war.

When the laughter dissipated, Zhao Xun continued with the unfinished words

"Yongxing guns are being delivered to the king's forbidden army in an endless stream, and they will soon become an army, although Zhiguo is not worried, but you must not relax your vigilance. This attack and defense must cross the river to capture the whole territory before Zhiguo takes over Dekang, so the generals are summoned today to come with the intention of advancing the battle. ”

At this time, Lu Tingxun said

"Ben will have something to ask Zhao Shuai."

"General Lu, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Does the king know about this?"

"The marshal Yu Baili deputy marshal has played my king to inform this matter, I think now the arrow has to be sent, the king will definitely agree to send troops, if the king does not allow, the marshal will immediately collect the troops, General Lu can rest assured."

It's not that Lu Tingxun is not worried about Zhao Xun and Bai Liyan, after all, he handed in the letter of surrender, and Zhao Xun and Bai Liyan don't need to deceive him, he is more worried about his attitude towards the throne. If Zhang You wants him to preserve his strength, he will not work hard, and if King Xian decides to send troops, he must go all out to give Zhang You a long face and win more political capital.

To appease Lu Tingxun, Zhao Xun said again

"The towns have been assembled for more than two months, and there is a problem with the replenishment and joint training of new recruits, can we fight?"

"Qi Qi Zhao Shuai." Ye Xin stood up and said, "This replenishment of recruits and recruits is highly trained, and they can be used with a little training, and they can fight." ”

"Well, General Ye's words seem to be quite confident, hehe." Zhao Xun twisted his white beard and nodded in approval, and then asked Lu Tingxun, "General Lu's ninth town is a new town army, can the soldiers be skilled in fighting and killing?" ”

"Back to Zhao Shuai, it is rare for recruits to have veteran seven-point fighting skills, although most of the generals are recruits, they are ten times better than before, and these new troops can be in battle with a little practice, and they can indeed fight."

The situation reflected by Ye Xin and Lu Tingxun generally reflects the achievements accumulated over the years since the promulgation of the new military system. Under the new military system, the whole country has implemented an institutionalized combination of farming and warfare, fighting both non-farming and warfare, and regular rotation training. With the village as the unit, the county town as the training point, and the armed battalion and the town army as the output unit, they went to various places to take turns to station and spot check.

In addition to the non-agricultural population such as students, craftsmen, technicians, intellectuals, merchants, and practitioners in all industries, men over the age of 14 and under the age of 45 during the agricultural slack period shall be given quantitative military training to practice simple and practical combat skills.

At the same time, all localities were encouraged to set up military attachés, teach martial arts, promote martial arts, and disseminate the spirit of martial arts, and allowed peasants and urban populations to go to the government to report and purchase ordinary weapons and armor sold by the government at designated places, and to implement a system of regular spot checks and weapons verification to prevent reselling, smuggling, and illegal accumulation of troops, so as to hide troops and weapons among the people, thus reducing the pressure on spending on national defense equipment in wartime.

Of course, the weapons and armor sold by the government are lower than the equipment of the Xianjun town army, excluding the export weapons, the quality of the equipment allowed by the government to sell is slightly higher than the iron and steel parts made by other princes themselves, which can kill the enemy externally, and will not pose a threat to the town army and auxiliary troops due to civil rebellion internally. However, with the popularization of hot weapons, most cold weapons will retire from the stage and become history.

The 200,000 soldiers recruited in this expedition to the west were the battalions, and nearly 500,000 were those who were disbanded and retired after their service in the last seven or eight years. These 700,000 people have good combat qualities and rich combat experience, and their re-recruitment and transfer to the original structure can quickly build up combat effectiveness.

The remaining 450,000 people are all recruits from all over the country, the longest has accumulated two years of rotation training, and the shortest is three months, and after being recruited, the training will be concentrated, of which 100,000 will be filled into the ninth town of Lu Tingxun, and the remaining 350,000 people will be divided into six and divided into one, two, three, four, five, and six towns.

Xue Sheng's Seventh Town and Zhoukong's Eighth Town still maintain their existing strengths without expanding or compressing them, so as to maintain the combat structure of the two armies after the reorganization of hot weapons, and will not cause trouble because of the change of structure. At the same time, the young officers of the armed battalion were added to strengthen the cohesion of the grassroots organization, absorb combat experience, and provide a test field for the future expansion and reorganization of other town armies.

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