Three days later, the snow finally stopped, and the sky was warm and bright. % This means that winter has officially left, and spring has come to the remote and bitter cold land of Toyosu.

The passion and fighting spirit in the veins of the 100,000 Shuofang men seemed to have been ignited by a bright sun. The whole army moved up and down to clear the snow and build the city, and repaired the school field to train soldiers and horses.

As soon as the weather was warm, Xue Shao suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders became heavier, and he also threw off his arms and prepared to make a big move.

The most important task at hand is to solve the problem of feeding the whole army.

As long as Xue Shao is still the commander of the Shuofang Army for a day, this burden will not leave his shoulders for a day. The soldiers and the people are the commanders, and a commander who does not understand the people's livelihood will be defeated sooner or later. After all, the victory or defeat of a war depends largely on the strength and strength of the country, and the most direct expression is whether the logistics of the army can be guaranteed.

The opening of the Yinchuan military camp was officially put on the agenda.

Although the imperial court had not yet given Xue Shao an official reply, and the requested means of production such as cattle and seeds had not been matched, Xue Shao sent his marching secretary Su Wei and Guan Ji Li Xianyuan on the third day when the heavy snow had just stopped, and led a group of envoys who were familiar with agricultural farming and authentic peasant soldiers to Yinzhou to inspect the terrain together. Liu Youqiu, who was in the rear governor's office, received an order from Xue Shao and went to Yinzhou in person, and participated in the field investigation with the local officials in Yinzhou.

The time of the inspection will definitely not be very short, and after Xue Shao handed over the task, he did not sit on the ground and wait, but personally took over the job vacancy left by Xue Chuyu - training cavalry.

The cavalry of the Shuofang Army has been formed for a long time, and it has also participated in actual combat, because of its fierce combat power in the Shuofang Army and even the entire military circle of the Tang Dynasty, it enjoys a high reputation and prestige. The training plan left by Xue Chuyu is also very mature and perfect, and there are not too many things that Xue Shao really needs to worry about. His biggest task is to do his best to elect a new cavalry general and take on the responsibility of "leader" during the period when Xue Chuyu is temporarily away from the team.

As the saying goes, "one soldier bears, one general bears", and "selecting generals" is very important in the army. Especially in a frontier field army like the Shuofang Army, if an incompetent general cannot be recognized by the officers and men under his command, it is very likely that there will be disobedience to orders, the above offenses, and even the bad things of "chasing the commander if the army is strong".

Although the proud soldiers are good at battle, they also have the same advantages and disadvantages.

Obviously, except for Xue Shao, the coach, it is difficult for the elites under Xue Chuyu to accept other leaders in a short period of time. Therefore, from the first day of Xue Chuyu's "leave", Xue Shao personally temporarily served as the general of the cavalry and the commander of the jumping army. At the same time, Xue Shao chose to bring two "deputy generals" together, Fengzhou Sima Tang Xiujing, and newcomer Zhang Renyuan.

Although Tang Xiujing is not the old man of Shuo Fangjun, he is a direct subordinate of Xue Chuyu, the governor of Fengzhou. He is over 50 years old, has a lot of experience in politics and leading soldiers, has a strong and calm temperament, is honest and resolute, and is full of foresight and strategy.

It stands to reason that a "veteran" like Tang Xiujing has no reason to be a green leaf for Xue Chuyu, a weak-crowned young man. But Xue Chuyu's existence itself is an unreasonable thing, how many people can be as young as him throughout the ages? Even his father, Xue Rengui, was still hunting for a living at his age. Tang Xiujing was not unconvinced, the two have been working together quite closely, and they are responsible for most of the daily military affairs in Fengzhou.

There is such a relationship, Tang Xiujing's appearance was easily accepted by the cavalry soldiers.

As for Zhang Renyuan, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Xue Shao is planning to "break the rules" and reuse him. This Wensheng from the "imperial examination" is actually not uncommon in the Shuofang army, and Guo Yuanzhen, a young genius who is an eighteen-year-old junior scholar, seems to be more famous than him. But Xue Shaobian took a fancy to Zhang Renyuan's unique military talent.

Just like wine, the ingredients of the peerless wine and ordinary village mash are 99% the same, but the one percent difference determines the superiority and inferiority of the two. The same is true of "talent", Xue Chuyu's talent is undoubtedly rare in a hundred years. But in Zhang Renyuan's body, Xue Shao also seemed to see something similar but not identical.

Xue Shao asked Zhang Ren to train with the Jumping Army, and they were inseparable day and night.

Zhang Renyuan did not disappoint Xue Shao, he tried his best to train as if he was playing hard, and devoted himself to learning. In a short period of time, he completely adapted to the special, arduous and very complex training and combat methods of the Jumping Army, and soon stood out as one of the best cavalry generals.

The army is a world where the strong are respected, and Zhang Renyuan has won the recognition and respect of the whole army by virtue of his talent, hard work and rapid strength.

Only then did Xue Shao appoint Zhang Renyuan as the deputy commander of the 3,000 Jumping Army, and no one in the whole army was dissatisfied.

At the same time, Tang Xiujing also temporarily took over the vacancy left by Xue Chuyu and assumed the position of deputy head of the marching road of the First Army Yue Cai.

An "army" of 25,000 people.

This army is the mainstay and essence of the Shuofang army, and the three thousand jumping troops are the killer weapon that Xue Shao relies on the most. Regarding the sudden activity of Tang Xiujing and Zhang Renyuan, Li Duozuo, Guo Yuanzhen and others saw it in their eyes and knew in their hearts that Xue Shao was definitely not in a hurry to find someone to replace Xue Chuyu, and this kind of thing may be born in officialdom and anywhere in the army, but it will definitely not be born between Xue Shao and Xue Chuyu. Then, Xue Shao must be preparing for some mysterious military operation.

But Xue Shao didn't say it, and no one dared to ask. Military secrets are sometimes really only known to the boss.

It took nearly a month for Xue Shao to promote Tang Xiujing and Zhang Renyuan, temporarily replacing the vacancy left by Xue Chuyu. The army was stabilized, and Xue Shao was a little relieved.

At this time, the Xia Prefecture Governor's Mansion in the rear transported the first batch of supplies of the year, which contained a large amount of live mutton. The training intensity of Shuofang's army suddenly increased, and a military exercise simulating actual combat was also held. Tang Xiujing and Zhang Renyuan, like Xue Chuyu in the last Luoshui military exercise, took the lead in the imaginary enemy and the main army led by Xue Shao.

This military exercise is different from the Luoshui military exercise in that it mainly focuses on military combat drills and frontal field confrontation. Xue Shao used himself as a whetstone, focusing on sharpening the cavalry under Tang Xiujing and Zhang Renyuan.

There were a total of 25,000 people under Tang Xiujing's command, and more than 70,000 people in Xue Shao's hands. In the face of the frontal encirclement and suppression of the "enemy army" three times their size, Tang Xiujing and Zhang Renyuan suffered a lot. Xue Shao was not polite to them at all, and after the field army formations of the Seventh Army, the Six Flower Formation, and the Wind Rear Holding Base Formation, Tang Xiujing and the others almost all took off a layer of skin. Tang Xiujing himself is the main general, and he even almost died in the exercise several times. Zhang Renyuan was even captured once by Guo An and several other scouts, and was whipped by Xue Shao in front of the whole army - enemy prisoners of war, such treatment is good!

This kind of military exercise is also the first time that Shuo Fangjun has experienced it. The soldiers vaguely felt that Xue Shao was desperately polishing the cavalry like this, and he must have another plan.

The exercise ended fifteen days later.

On the same day, Li Xianyuan returned to Fengzhou with a large number of graphic materials and reported to Xue Shao on the investigation of the Yinchuan Plain.

Li Xianyuan said that Yinzhou is indeed fertile and convenient for irrigation, and the terrain is also very suitable for farming, and at least 7,000 hectares of fertile land can be cultivated. But it is not easy to really open there, at least a large number of cattle, mules and horses and quite strong manpower and material resources are needed as a foundation. Earlier, when Wang Fangyi was the governor of Xiazhou, he had thought about Tuntian in Yinzhou, but because of a plague that caused a large number of livestock to die, he had to give up. To this end, Wang Fangyi also studied ancient books, used his brains to understand the new agricultural tools and used people to pull the plow, called the "coupling tillage method". This ensured the normal farming of the people at that time.

At the same time, Li Xianyuan also brought a bad news, Xue Shao had asked the court to open Yinchuan with ploughing cattle and seed farming tools a few years ago, and now the court has given an approval. There are many reasons and reasons, but in a nutshell there are two words - refusal!

A ploughing ox and a seed were not given to the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion, only Xue Shaojing was asked to wait for the supplies from the imperial court to arrive.

Xue Shao hated it so much that it was an itchy tooth, and his first reaction was to think of Pei Yan.

Pei Yan has always wanted to show his influence in the army, and he has always been deeply afraid of Xue Shao and Shuo Fangjun. Now Shuofangjun wants to open Yinchuan Tuntian, which is a matter of merit in the present and benefit in the future. But in Pei Yan's view, it was Xue Shao's desire to "economic independence" to get rid of the control of the imperial court.

Xue Shao felt more and more that the contradiction between himself and Pei Yan was irreconcilable, and the two of them were a little bit of "eight characters conflicting" from a personal point of view or in their attitude towards national affairs.

"Young marshal, the imperial court does not support it, I'm afraid the opening of the Yinchuan military tun will be a piece of paper!" Li Xianyuan said worriedly.

Xue Shao repeatedly read the imperial court's approval several times, and said: "Although the imperial court did not promise to give us seeds and farm tools for cultivating cattle, it also did not have a strong attitude to prohibit us from cultivating military camps. Didn't Hei Zhi Chang Zhi open more than 5,000 acres of military camp in Heyuan, and I didn't see how dissatisfied the imperial court was, but on the contrary, he also gave Hei Zhi Chang a reward, I know about this. The things of Tuntian are often capable, why can't we do it? ”

"What does the young marshal mean is that we don't rely on the imperial court to open the fields ourselves?" Li Xianyuan asked.

Xue Shao frowned and threw Song Shu on the table, and said: "There is no ploughing oxen, so we will use the coupling tillage method and use people to pull the plow!" There are no seeds, and we spend money to buy them from the people of the three states! There are no farm tools, but we have iron ore and blacksmiths. We don't have anything else, but we have the courage and confidence that is imperative, and there are 100,000 hard-working and hard-working laborers - the imperial court does not support it, so we will reclaim the military camp by ourselves. All in all, no one wants to stop me! ”

Li Xianyuan was stunned and looked at Xue Shao blankly.

Xue Shaozheng was angry, and said angrily: "What do you want me to do?" ”

"The young marshal left the capital, like a different person...... I was amazed! Li Xianyuan said the truth.

Xue Shao sneered, "Being a grandson with a tail between your legs in the capital, there's no way." Now I have shouldered the difficult duty of militarism and historical mission, and I still hold the lives of 100,000 brothers in my hands. Who dares to force me to be a grandson again, but let him know Xue Rentu's temper!! ”

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