Chapter 407 Recruiting the Black Mountain Army (Final)
Subsequently, Li Qiang communicated with the two in detail, and the soldiers and leaders of Zhao'an will be arranged according to their ability at that time, and those who can be qualified as military marquis will be appointed as military marquis, and those who can be qualified as tun chiefs will be appointed as tun commanders, otherwise, they can only be appointed as army commanders or even chiefs, etc., no matter how low they are, they are just ordinary soldiers, and they will even fail to be elected as people, and the same standards will be implemented, and no one will be taken extra care of.
Yu Poison and the two of them can't help it, it's good that they can serve as military commanders themselves, for their subordinates, providing them with this opportunity depends on their level, their own ability is not good, no wonder others.
In the end, the two sides agreed that after ten days, the champion Hou would send people to Wu'an and Sheguo to accept their recruitment, and then Wu'an County and Sheguo County would be set up respectively, and the selected officers and soldiers and their families would move out of the mountainous areas, and those who were willing to go out of the mountains could follow, and those who were willing to stay in the local area could be resettled in the two counties.
Yu Poison and Zuo Zhangba did not raise any objections and fully accepted Li Qiang's opinion.
However, the mood of the two is different, Zuo Zhangba is more honest, and he is very satisfied with this arrangement; At the beginning, he abandoned tens of thousands of believers and fled, it was because he thought that the Youzhou army would not be difficult for them, and now he has also embarked on the same path and accepted Zhao'an.
Yu Poison was a little strange in his heart, the thirty-six Qu Shuai who followed the sect leader at the beginning, now some have turned into dry bones, and some have soared, these of them were fortunate to escape from the pursuit of the Youzhou Army, and lived a hard life in the mountains for a few years, and now they are still forced to accept Zhao'an, the same road, different ending.
The same road, different people step into at different times, there will be different endings, the fault is not in the road, but in the people.
Li Qiang returned to Yecheng and made a detailed report to Gao Shun, who was very happy and immediately asked Ma Gui to arrange for the county commanders and county lieutenants of the two counties to take up their posts, and to complete the integration and placement of the Montenegrin Army under the jurisdiction of the two in early October; At that time, Yang Feng of Hanoi County will be isolated, and he can only accept Zhao'an.
As for the soldiers, they will be formed after arriving in Yecheng.
For Li Qiang and others, the work of incorporation was familiar with the road and proceeded very smoothly.
Yu Poison changed back to his original name Yu Shan, and Zuo Zhangba changed his original name back to Li Hei.
The number of people who could join the army greatly exceeded the expectations of Li Qiang and others, but they were mainly infantry; The selected candidates and their families moved to Yecheng in batches, and even those who were unsuccessful also wanted to go out of the mountains and were willing to stay and continue to farm.
Migration becomes the most important task; In October, the weather starts to get colder, so it's important to get it in place as soon as possible, otherwise the winter will be very difficult.
In order to resettle these people, Gao Shun ordered Zhangnan County and Zhangbei County to be set up in the east of Yecheng and on the north and south banks of the Zhanghe River, respectively, and each county should resettle 10,000 households.
The two new counties are close to Yecheng, which is convenient for mobilizing construction materials and construction personnel from Yecheng to speed up construction.
Chu Yan sent back the news that Yang Feng was very concerned about Zhao'an, but he was still a little skeptical and couldn't make up his mind.
Li Qiang asked Yu Poison and Zuo Zhangba to write a letter of persuasion each, and sent the military marquis Liu Shi and Li Dajin to deliver the letter, and persuaded on their behalf, hoping that Yang Feng and the Montenegrin army under his jurisdiction could smoothly accept Zhao'an.
Li Qiang believes that with Chu Yan's previous work, it should not be difficult to recruit the Montenegrin Army in Hanoi County.
Sure enough, as Li Qiang thought, Yang Feng saw the persuasion letters from Yu Shan (Yu Poison) and Li Heizuo (Mustache Zhangba), as well as the persuasion of Liu Shi and Li Damu, and decided to accept Zhao'an.
Yang Feng was appointed as the military commander, and the leaders of the small forces attached to Yang Feng were all appointed as military marquis; The selection of the army was presided over by Chu Yan, and the selected soldiers and their families needed to be relocated to Wei County; Commanders and officers of higher ranks must wait until Yecheng and be personally inspected and appointed by Gao Shun.
The unsuccessful candidates and their families were placed in the nearest Hanoi district, and Tai Shou and Chu Yan were in charge.
The population exchanged from Dong Zhuo was either placed in Hanoi County, or in Ha Dong County, as well as in the three auxiliary districts of Bingzhou and Guanzhong; Now Hanoi has a population of more than one million, and it is very prosperous and prosperous, and everyone is very happy and not dissatisfied.
What makes Gao Shun most pleased is that there are still more than 4,000 Yellow Turban wrestlers left, and the older ones among them are transferred to the ordinary infantry as captains or even chiefs, and the remaining 3,500 Yellow Turban wrestlers are organized into the wrestler battalion, and the tun commander and military marquis are all junior and intermediate officers and soldiers, enjoying cavalry treatment, and Pei Yuan (Pei Yuanshao) was urgently transferred to serve as the other Sima of the wrestler battalion.
Gao Shun provided a better start and weapons for the Lux Battalion, and after the reorganization, the combat effectiveness of the Lux Battalion was no less than that of the first battalion of Lu Yi; The organization was divided into eight divisions, and the shortfall was filled with high-ranking infantry, which was also to strengthen the control of the Lux battalion; The Lux Battalion was under the direct command of Li Qiang, which supplemented the shortcomings of too few elite infantry soldiers in the troops directly under the General's Palace.
The reason why Yang Feng, Li Hei or Yu Shan were not allowed to directly command the Lux Battalion was to strengthen the control of the Lux Battalion; Pei Yuan previously served as Zhang Jiao's guard captain and was very familiar with the Lux Battalion, and he served as the Sima of the other departments of the Lux Battalion, these Yellow Turban Lux were more acceptable, and Pei Yuan witnessed the marriage process between Li Qiang and Zhang Ning because Li Qiang was Zhang Jiao's son-in-law, and he was very loyal to the Gaoshun forces and very close to Li Qiang.
Yang Feng, Yu Shan, and Li Hei all chose to serve as the cavalry commanders, and each had two cavalry under their jurisdiction, one of which was mainly a cavalry selected from the Black Mountain Army, and the cavalry of the other was drawn from the troops of Xu Lin and others; This kind of mixing is also to strengthen the control and surveillance of the people.
Gao Shun carefully looked at the attributes of the three people, Li Hei's attributes were similar to Zhang Meng (Zhang Niujiao), the force value was 93, he belonged to the category of fierce generals, and he was not good at strategy and politics; Yu Shan (Yu Poison) attributes are relatively average, with a force value of 81, intelligence 78, and politics 71, which is suitable for guarding the pass or guarding the side; Yang Feng's military value is only 76, his intelligence is 73, but his politics is 84, no wonder he has long been appointed as a lieutenant by the first emperor Liu Hong, which is a unique honor in the Yellow Turban Army and the Black Mountain Army.
The temperament of the three of them can be seen from their clothes, Li Hei is dressed casually, his face is dark, his hair is unkempt, his beard is messy, and he looks like a reckless man; Yu Shan was dressed in armor and dressed as a military general; And Yang Feng is dressed in a Confucian robe, his hair and beard are very neat, his face is fair, and he is very elegant.
After the three of them worshiped the Lord, Gao Shun gave Mingguang armor, Bangang sword and a super-grade war horse. The three of them were overjoyed, and Gao Shun did not hesitate to reward them, making them even more loyal; After changing his outfit, Li Hei was even more burly, with a height of more than eight feet, which made Gao Shun like it very much.
According to the different attributes of the three people, Gao Shun ordered Li Hei (left beard zhangba) to be directly led by Li Qiang; Yu Shan (Yu Poison) was sent to Liangzhou to serve; Yang Feng was sent to Pingzhou to serve; Such a decentralized arrangement is also intended to strengthen control over them.
Liangzhou and Pingzhou are both constantly fighting, and there are many opportunities to make contributions, and the two are very happy; Li Hei kept Yecheng, and there were almost few meritorious contributions, but this was the importance that the lord Gao Shun valued him, and he was not dissatisfied.
As for the other marshals, such as Li Damu, Liu Shi, Zheng Gu and more than a dozen others, they were all appointed as military marquis and placed to serve in Cheng Li, Tian Feng or Fang Liang respectively.
At this time, Qin Guan also sent a letter asking for instructions, hoping to retreat to Zhongshan Kingdom, reduce the territory under its jurisdiction, return the territory of Changshan Kingdom to the locality, eliminate the old and weak soldiers, reduce the consumption of money and food, and form an elite army to prepare for future incorporation.
Gao Shun knew that Qin Guan was throwing off the burden and playing with caution, but he didn't break it, and readily agreed to Qin Guan's suggestion; Let Li Qiang take over the territory occupied by Qin Pass in Changshan State, open up Jingcheng Pass, and strengthen the contact and exchange between Bingzhou and Jizhou.
Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia admired Gao Shun even more, and they easily recruited the Montenegrin army in the three counties of An, adding hundreds of thousands of people, more than 4,000 cavalry, 4,000 Lux battalions, and 18,000 infantry; Although the Montenegrin army in the north did not go to Zhao'an, it took the initiative to withdraw from the territory of Changshan State.
This made Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia even more suspicious of Gao Shun's ulterior secret, but Gao Shun didn't say it, and they didn't dare to ask.
These Montenegrin officers and soldiers have all gone through years of baptism of war, and after a little training, they were integrated into the regular army.
At the end of October, Gongsun Du came to visit, Gao Shun personally feasted and received, although he could not support Gongsun Chan openly, but the conditions given by Gao Shun have made Gongsun Du very satisfied.
In early November, Luoyang Dong Zhuo was forced to accept the reality of reduced taxes.
The jurisdiction was stable and there was nothing to do, Gao Shun ordered Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Li Qiang and Ma Gui to stay in Yecheng, and he only took the senior cavalry of Wutun as an escort and returned to Taoyuan Fort.
It's been so long since I've been out, and I really miss my loved ones at home; And he planned to pass through Changshan Country, where there were people he valued very much, and he needed to recruit them personally.