In Youzhou City, where everything has been decided and is gradually on the right track, news from the states in front of the mountain and behind the mountain is still gathering around me in a steady stream.

And a document called "Organizing the Matters of the Effectiveness Camp" was placed in front of me.

After a series of battles before and after the two Northern Expeditions, in fact, Huaizhen has obtained a lot of various prisoners over the years; After many years of "reasonable attrition" and "natural elimination", there are probably about 100,000 people left; Distributed in large and large mines, workshops and labor service areas from Huaibei Province to the Liaodong Peninsula and the Silla Domain, together with other captured and captured feudal Hu people, they undertook the most painful, tiring, dangerous and onerous labor, and even high-risk and harsh low-level labor.

Therefore, behind the various infrastructure construction and large-scale engineering projects that have blossomed all over Huaizhen, and even the primitive accumulation of the original industrial layout and foundation laying in the early Huaidi, there are all the bones of these captives and slave laborers who are consumables.

However, this is also an important human resource, and it is mainly young and middle-aged people who have been trained as sergeants and have experience in the battlefield; Moreover, after so many years of screening (expulsion) and transformation (indoctrination) day and night, the original spirit and will of the hostile camp have also been worn out and destroyed by the continuous difficult daily life day and night, and the nostalgia for the homeland has also faded.

Therefore, since several years ago, there have been people who have been asking for naturalization or leaving the school to redeem themselves in the army, in order to get rid of this endless displacement and toil; The transformation of all kinds of captives and other sources of population has also been carried out in an orderly manner, and a lot of experience has been accumulated in transition and use.

However, in the past, the transformation and naturalization work was carried out piecemeal and accumulated by individual soldiers who had been scattered and resettled, so as to avoid the tendency of these to produce too many intersections and concatenations, and even to form together.

This time, however, it was a large-scale campaign to use these relatively tame and honest Northern Army captives under the banner of redemption and rehabilitation; Formed more than a dozen service battalions and died as a colonel in front of the army, playing the role of opening the way and cannon fodder in a sense.

With the expansion of the territory and regional influence controlled by Huaizhen, their original positions and tasks have been replaced by more and more hard-working sources, and they no longer have to play the role of "consumables" and "paving stones" in some large-scale projects.

Therefore, such a part of the trained young and middle-aged people will be liberated to serve as cheap armed substitutes in a sense, so as to reduce the basic needs of the follow-up military maintenance and strategic layout of large-scale expansion.

And these dozen or so self-recruits of about 10,000 soldiers in the festival battalion are just an experimental beginning.

If it can be confirmed that their performance is basically in line with the needs and that the cost performance is still above the passing line, there will be more self-recruit groups that will be deployed and dispatched to the army; In order to reduce the losses and consumption of the main battle troops, and also serve as part of the garrison and garrison regiments.

When necessary, it can also assume the role of a supplementary battalion for the reserve sequence, and provide and deliver reserve soldiers of a certain quality and level for the local military order at all levels.

It is the so-called special existence of posts that are assigned at any time and live in an indefinite place, so as to prevent and eliminate most of the possibilities of joining together and making trouble because of the relationship between the former township party and the old one;

Then, through the subtle daily influence, as well as the means of merit and reward, the most preliminary sense of collective honor and belonging to the system was formed, and finally the war machine represented by the Huaizhen military system was digested and absorbed one by one and turned into the most basic fuel and parts supplement.

As a result, additional efficiency camps will be deployed in the future to meet the military maintenance and basic service needs and gaps in the new territory.

Of course, there are also corresponding risks and the possibility of hidden dangers, such as the resurgence of the habits and work styles of some old armies due to the excessive use and dependence of these effective battalions, and even the corresponding negative impact within the Huai army, turning the original law and order war used to consolidate and stabilize the rear into a larger-scale rebellion and rebellion.

Therefore, the chief and deputy commanders of these dozen and subordinate battalions were also compiled into a report on the basic situation, and they were attached to the back of this Chen Qingzhazi.

It's just that some of the names that look a little familiar make me laugh, and I just feel that it is really fate in a sense.

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And thousands of miles away, let the rushing river turn between the mountains on a large circle of the east of the river.

Jinyang City, Taiyuan Prefecture, the former northern capital, and the first state of the Northern Han Dynasty, which had not been established for a few years, was also on the high platform of his palace city, facing the majestic and magnificent mountains and rivers in the Taiyuan Basin in the distance, hesitating and wandering.

There are the northern capital gardens and palace groups left over from the Tang Dynasty in the previous dynasty, and there are corresponding full-function official office settings and layouts, so most of the energy and effort were saved for his joke-based movement.

The name and essence of this newly established Northern Han State is nothing more than half of the Hedong Province north of Huguan, including the Jinzhong Plain, plus some of the adjacent areas of the Izumo Middle Road extended by the Yanbian Fortress, about a dozen military states.

As the center of the Northern Han Dynasty, the actual control range will have to shrink a little more on the water, and only about 20 large and small cities in the core area of Hedong are left, including the Jinzhong Plain and the Taiyuan Basin; As for the rest of the places, they are scattered in the hands of large and small military leaders, towns, military chiefs, generals, etc., with local tyrants and clans, and only maintain limited restraint and moderation in the name of canonization.

Therefore, after several years of gathering and recuperating, although the problem of feeding the remnants of the army he brought out was solved, and he basically gained a firm foothold in the local area, the maximum military strength that he, the Taiyuan ****** who had created all the grass, did his best to loot and camp and rule, and the maximum military strength that he could maintain and support was always maintained at 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Among them, in order to strengthen its strength, based on the coal and iron smelting resources possessed by Hedong, it has produced a lot of firearms and equipped them, and sent troops to attack and sweep the grassland forces in Yanbian.

But then it was to this extent, the danger of the mountains and rivers on the surface was certainly hindered and hindered, and the soldiers and horses of the towns set up and stayed in the north by the Southern Great Liang in the north attacked and pursued the northern part of the river; However, it also limited and trapped this remote corner of the Northern Han ******, and the room and space for inward development and expansion.

Originally, there was also a Yunzhong Dao that had been ravaged by the Saiwai Fanhu and the situation was eroded, and the Beiyuan Dao adjacent to the Saishang Dao, which could be used as the direction for him to seek and enter; But this situation had changed a lot a few months earlier, when the men and horses he sent to attack the city and plunder the territory encountered a detachment from the Western forces near the city of Zhongshou near Shuofang Road;

Although they succeeded in defeating the other party, they also got the scattered western army towns in the northwest provinces, which had been united and unified under a banner called the Tang Xining Imperial Court, and began to march eastward with great fanfare.

This is not a very good news and change for the Northern Han ******, which was originally threatened by the Liang military domain in the south and Zhang Bangchang's forces in Hebei; But then the envoys from the Western Army, or the Xining court, began to appear in the city of Taiyuan, which was not so pleasant.

Because the other party simply rejected his request for an alliance and an echo, and quite arrogantly and confidently demanded that he, the ****** who had divided most of the east of the river, remove the newly baked king title; Only by presenting his courtiers and accepting the canonization to Li Shihuo, the contemporary son of heaven in the Xining court, became one of the foreign vassal princes who protected the Tang Dynasty and the Western Dynasty, it was possible to continue to discuss in detail the echo of the southward movement and the breaking of the situation in Hedong.

This can't help but set off fierce debates and criticisms among his subordinates, according to the different positions of the local powerful faction and the foreign affinity faction, no one is willing to easily give up the vested title and position, but with the strength and strength shown by the Western Dynasty, he only feels that it makes people in a dilemma and is indifferent.

Therefore, in the end, all the pressure was fed back to Zhang Dekun, the last remnant of the Northern Han Dynasty lord who has been sitting firmly in the upper position for several years, and the last remnant of the Northern Dynasty ministers who ruled the third generation.

If he had a choice, he would prefer to sit back and watch the towns of the Liang Dynasty in the south fight with the Western Army, and be able to easily reap the benefits according to the dangers of the mountains and rivers, but it is obvious that the development of the situation is not satisfactory.

He sighed heavily, and walked down the tower with a certain determination.

(End of chapter)