14. Select the front
In September, when the time turned into the fourth year of Zhongping, all the people who responded to the kingdom and Han Sui had gathered in Jicheng. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Seeing that the granary of Jicheng was about to sit empty, the kingdom as the leader also issued several orders at this time.
The first way is to divide the troops to eat the counties, and the second is to send troops to attack the counties and counties in Liangzhou that have not yet been surrendered, and grab the autumn grain of the other side by the way. The third is to draw elites from the coalition forces and form an independent army, called "Xuanfeng", as the vanguard of the westward advance in the coming year······
Of these orders, the third line undoubtedly reacted the most strongly among the coalition forces. For ordinary soldiers, becoming a "selector" means being among the elite in the army, being able to give priority to allocating grain and grass, and having a greater chance of gaining combat merits on the battlefield, while for the soldiers and horses who preserve their strength, this is a weakening and suppression with ulterior motives, and no one is willing to draw out their elite soldiers and horses.
So a few days later, on the day of the election of the colonel outside the southern city of Jicheng, although the non-commissioned officers below were enthusiastic, the officers who knew about it were deliberately showing weakness, and the generals and adults on the general platform reacted even more mediocre. Seeing that he was about to fall into a new round of bickering, the kingdom wanted to kill people with a black face, but Han Sui came out in time to persuade everyone to focus on the overall situation, and each drew troops and horses to form a "selection of the front", and finally decided on the "selection of the front" in the bargaining between the two sides.
In this round of the game, Han Sui once again defused the Kingdom's aggressive offensive. In the end, the idea of the kingdom drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle was not completely implemented, but each family drew soldiers and horses, Han Sui had the most soldiers and horses, and the number of people to be transferred was also quite large, and the kingdom still weakened Han Sui's strength to a certain extent.
Han Sui naturally did not give the people of the headquarters, so the transfer fell on the Jincheng people recruited by Han Changxin, Yan Xing and Zhao Hong's troops were selected into the "Election Front", and because most of the people from Jincheng were selected in the "Election Front", so after the kingdom appointed its eldest son Wang Fan as the leader of the "Election Front", it also had to appoint Han Sui's nephew Han Chang as the deputy future of the "Election Front" to appease the hearts of the people below.
Yan Xing, Zhao Hong and other Jincheng children who were selected for the "selection of the front" bid farewell to the other Jincheng children who were not selected, and moved to the camp built for the "selection of the front" in the east of the city with their troops.
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"Brother, do you really want to go to Sanfu to spy on the military?"
Zhao Hong was standing in Yan Xingxin's military tent at this time, looking at Yan Xing, who was struggling to write on the desk, his handsome face was filled with doubts and puzzlement.
After tossing these days, with the selection of the coalition army, all the men and horses divided their troops to go to various places to eat or send men and horses to attack other counties, and the selection of the front army not long after the formation of the army also received orders from the kingdom. That is, in the autumn, after the coalition army dispatched some soldiers and horses from Longxian to feint on the front line of Wangxian and Qianyang, the Xuanfeng Army also sent a small group of elite men and horses to the west to cross the southern vein of Longshan, and follow Weishui through Chencang to infiltrate Sanfu to spy on the reality of the Han army in Chang'an.
In the face of this dangerous task of going deep into the tiger's den, Yan Xing surprised others, and he automatically asked for help, expressing his willingness to lead a small group of people to go, this is not an easy credit to take, and a slight mistake after going deep into the enemy's territory will be the end of the entire army. In Zhao Hong's opinion, this kind of decision can be described as reckless, and it is extremely inconsistent with Yan Xing's calm style in the past, so after hearing the news that he took the initiative to ask Ying, he hurriedly ran to Yan Xing's account to ask what happened.
In the face of Zhao Hong's questioning, Yan Xing was noncommittal, with an unfathomable smile on the corner of his mouth, and continued to dip in ink, writing the last few words on the gray-yellow paper with wolf hair.
"Brother!"
Zhao Hong spoke up again, this time he obviously raised the volume several times, and his sword eyebrows were also raised high, the impatience and anxiety in his heart made him forget the Confucian etiquette that he had been abiding by for many years, and he directly leaned over to look at Yan Xing, anyway, now he can't care about the gaffe.
"It's finally finished!"
Governor Yan exhaled and rested the pen on the pen holder. looked up at Zhao Hong, smiled, and said:
"Brother Xian, don't be anxious, it's not too late to talk to you in detail after dealing with the matter here for your brother!"
After speaking, Yan Xing also got up, carefully dried the pages of paper in his hand, took it in his hand, put it into a wooden box, and called the servants who were guarding outside the tent, and ordered the wooden box to be handed over to Yan Shun in Zuotun immediately, and told him to read it carefully, and he would go to him later to see if he had read it carefully.
Hu Cong bowed to the leader's orders, turned around and walked out of the military tent, and strode away.
Yan Xing clapped his hands, and when he saw Zhao Hong beside him looking at him directly, looking like a resentful woman, he couldn't help laughing.
Since that day on the small hill to show each other, the relationship between the three has become more and more intimate, and they often invite each other to come and go. Zhao Hong is younger than Li and Yan, and the Yan and Zhao families have many marriages, so they respect Yan Xing as much as a brother in terms of etiquette.
"Let's go, don't stand, let's go out and talk!"
Yan Xing patted Zhao Hong on the shoulder, turned around and lifted the curtain of the tent door, and walked out. Zhao Hong wanted to speak and stopped, seeing that Yan Xing had already walked out before he could answer, he stomped his feet and followed out quickly.
Yan Xing walked out of the tent, looked at the scorching autumn sun in the sky, and writhed and moved. At this time, Zhao Hong also followed, Yan Xing stopped his movements, and beckoned him to walk around the newly established camp together, and the other servants followed far behind.
I have to say that the kingdom still attaches great importance to the matter of selecting the front to form an army, the first army of the selection of the front was initially close to 4,000 people, each camp by virtue of the terrain, each other is the horn, the camp between the deep ditch and thick base, Diao Sen Ming, even the camp of various buildings, facilities are also complete.
It seems that when the original kingdom built the camp, it planned to place the elites selected on the day of the colonel to be trained here, so as to become a strong army to subdue Han Sui and others. It's a pity that people can't make plans, and by mistake, they are cheaper than Yan Xing's miscellaneous army.
Yan Xing was officially appointed as a Qu commander of the Xuan Feng Army, but the commander was still his own Santun people. At present, these horses are trained in three places in the camp according to the establishment of three cantonments, except for the expatriate scouts, the guards of the camp gates, and the patrols.
After these days of observation, although Yan Xing is shrewd and alert, he is still young after all, his heart is undecided, and he can't lead the people of Yitun well. And because Yan Shun is older, he is also more calm and experienced in handling things, Yan Xing is still more at ease with his command of Zuotun's men and horses, but he only sent a few personal followers to assist him, as for Zhongtun, Yan Xing has always been personally responsible, and Ganling assisted.
The things I wrote just now were the training syllabus that Yan Xing planned to prepare for Yan Shun to lead the whole army after he left. Yan Xing's subordinates are rare, not to mention their own children, although there is still a battle with the third uncle Yan Li in the clan, but as soon as he saw that Yan Shun had the potential to be trained as a subordinate leader, Yan Xing spared no effort to support and cultivate him. It is not easy to survive in troubled times, and you need to rely on your own family. Not to mention anything else, fierce people like Cao Cao and Sun Jian, at the beginning of their business, didn't they also need to rely on the children of the family.
Yan Xing watched the training of his own troops as he walked.
The most basic training of the army in the era of cold weapons is to listen to the golden drum, know the advance and retreat, know the queue, and practice the five soldiers, as for the tactical movements such as dividing into the encirclement and rushing to outflank, Yan Xing does not dare to expect his subordinates to be able to do it for the time being, and at the same time, he does not dare to conduct too appalling training in the eyes of others.
At present, Yan Xing's personally trained Zhongtun people and horses are already familiar with the drills on the queue, and they have an indomitable momentum when they set up a formation on the training ground and shout slogans to advance, plus these troops have trained five soldiers when they were in the Yan family before. In Zhao Hong's eyes, compared with the Zhao family's tribulations, he immediately made a judgment, he forgot about the tangled problems for the time being, and followed Yan Xing in amazement.
It was Gan Ling who commanded the training on the field, and he caught a glimpse of Yan Xing, Zhao Hong and others, but he just clasped his right hand into his chest and saluted, and then turned around and threw himself into the command training. In Yan Xing's view, the army is the most unsuitable place for red tape, and it should be as simple as possible on the basis of being able to obey the command and improve combat effectiveness, and in the eyes of the subordinates, this is also a manifestation of Yan Xing's approachability and fairness.
At present, Yan Xing has a lot of things in his hands, and he plans to hand it over to Yan Shun after he leaves. The camps can be judged against each other, and the drawing of the camp map is like the arrangement of the latrines between the tents; the interval between the swoos; Important buildings such as stables and granaries should not only be placed on the edge of the camp to avoid being affected by the rockets launched by the enemy's attack on the camp, but also to avoid affecting the daily rest and passage of the soldiers; These are not detailed in the ancient soldier book, although the current camp is small, but it is complete, can be used as a template for future camping, so a group of people are needed to carry out the measurement and drawing, but these can only wait for their own return and then lead people to carry out the execution.
Seeing that Yan Xing stopped and was about to fall into contemplation, Zhao Hong, who followed behind, coughed at the right time to express his dissatisfaction with being ignored. Yan Xing, who was interrupted from his thoughts, was not annoyed, he smiled:
"Brother Xian, I know that you are here to persuade me, but I have made up my mind, and I will leave tomorrow, even if I have to go to the army general to ask for my resignation at this time."
"Brother, I really can't see that this 'selection of Feng' is just a compromise between the king and Han Zhugong, is it really worth the risk for you?"
There were no outsiders around, Zhao Hong simply shook out the idea of being jealous of Mo Shen in the past, and his bright eyes stared at Yan Xing's face.
Yan Xing's always calm and calm face changed color slightly, adding a gloom to his heart. Indeed, the gap between the upper echelons is the biggest hidden danger of the seemingly powerful coalition forces, but what can you do other than accumulate prestige by fighting hard by yourself, and sit back and watch the changes? Hehe, it's been four years since Zhongping, and if you don't take the opportunity to rise up, I'm afraid that you will repeat the fate of your own family in history.
Thinking of this, Yan Xing lowered his head and sighed lightly, and when he raised his head again, Zhao Hong was surprised to find that Yan Xing had regained his composure, and he looked at the mountains in the distance outside the camp, and his attitude was fierce.
"The will is not easy, the matter is not evaded, and the position of the minister is also! Although it is dangerous to infiltrate Sanfu this time, if you are lucky enough to succeed and find out the reality of the Han army, you and my brother can really gain a foothold in the selection of the front army. ”
Speaking of this, Yan Xing paused before continuing with a smile:
"Besides, if you don't encounter intricacies, why don't you use sharp weapons!"