Except for Chu Ge's silent crying in the lobby of the Metropolitan Mansion, no one made even the slightest sound, a border army general who was nearly thirty years old and had killed countless enemies actually cried in front of so many bigwigs and colleagues, how depressed did he have to be like this in his heart?

No one had ever dared to be so in front of so many bigwigs before, and the words were fierce and disrespectful, but no one cared, including Wang Zhengjian. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After a long time, Zhao Ziliang stood up and walked to Chu Ge's side and patted him on the shoulder to show comfort, and then bowed his hand to Wang Zhengjian: "Dashuai, Chu Ge and his three thousand soldiers have been stationed in Henglus City for a long time, in fact, this matter is also complained about the last general, it was the last general who recommended to the saint that he led the troops to garrison Henglus City, the purpose was to keep the big cannibals out of the country, who knew that it would be almost ten years in the blink of an eye." He and his generals are indeed too depressed, otherwise they would not be disrespectful to the marshal and the lords and generals between words, although there is a mistake, but it is also excusable. He used to be the chief of guard of the last general, although he is not under the jurisdiction of the last general now, but the last general still pleaded with the commander for him and forgave him for his disrespectful words just now. ”

Wang Zhengjian listened to Zhao Ziliang's words, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, this official is not so narrow-minded that he will get angry when someone says a few inappropriate words in front of him, Chu Ge's two questions, I don't know what General Zhao's opinion is?" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "Chu Ge and they have been stationed in Henglus City for too long, and it is not appropriate to send others to replace them, not to mention that now the Anxi side is trying to return the garrison rights, according to the last general's opinion, it is better to simply return the garrison rights to them, and our Beiting Protectorate does not rely on such a little tax to live, but if they want to get back the garrison rights, how can they express it, for example, the transfer of garrison rights first, Chu Ge and the three thousand men and horses under his command will be withdrawn, and the Anxi side will send troops and horses to take over the defense. In addition, let our people collect taxes for a few more years as compensation, and when the agreed time is up, they will take over the tax affairs, and our people will fully withdraw. As for the arrangement of Chu Ge and the 3,000 soldiers under his command, this is the matter of General Lai Yao, after all, the command of Chu Ge and the 3,000 soldiers under his command is in the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion, if the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion is tight and unable to accommodate Chu Ge and the 3,000 soldiers under his command, the Han Navy of the last general is planning to reorganize and expand some people, but it can accept them, it depends on the meaning of the marshal and General Lai Yao! ”

Wang Zhengjian considered Zhao Ziliang's opinion for a while, and felt that it was feasible, so he said: "The garrison right can be returned to them, when they have to let us collect taxes for at least another two years as compensation, this official has no opinion here, as for the placement of Chu Ge and his three thousand soldiers, General Lai Yao, what are your plans for the Governor of Broken Leaves, just now General Zhao said that if your military budget is tight and cannot be resettled, his Han Navy can help resettle, what do you think?" ”

Lai Yao is also quite troubled about this matter, if he does not count Chu Ge's 3,000 men and horses under the jurisdiction of the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion, in fact there are only 6,000 people under his jurisdiction, Zhao Ziliang used to be the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Republic of China would try to make money as military expenses, so the military budget has been very abundant, but when he took over the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion, he was not good at management, and could only rely on collecting taxes and Zhao Ziliang's tuntian to collect grain to maintain the army's expenses, and the acres of land lost their fertility because of the planting years, many acres of fields were wasted, and the grain collected was getting less and less, and he could not arbitrarily increase the taxes of the past caravans, Therefore, the military expenditure is decreasing every year, and raising the current 6,000 men and horses is already the limit, if another 3,000 people and horses are added, he really can't afford to feed them, although he is reluctant to give up the 3,000 elite horses under Chu Ge's command, but there is nothing he can do.

He bowed his hand to Wang Zhengjian and said: "Great marshal, the last general is incompetent, if there are more than 3,000 men and horses under the jurisdiction of the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion, the last general will indeed not be able to feed him, since General Zhao's Han Navy can be eaten, then Chu Ge and the three thousand men and horses under his command will be incorporated into the Han Navy, the last general has no opinion!" ”

Wang Zhengjian nodded and looked at the official sitting on the side of the civil official, "Lord Yuan, what do you think?" ”

Yuan Er got up and arched his hand: "Chu Ge used to be the chief of the guard under General Zhao, and now he is transferred to General Zhao, and the two sides know the roots, so it's better!" ”

Wang Zhengjian immediately made a decision: "Since this is the case, then let's handle it as such, and discuss the matter with the envoy sent by General Anxi Gao, and hand it over to Lord Yuan to discuss, how about it?" ”

Yuan Er agreed: "The lower official obeys the order!" ”

The next day, Yuan Er negotiated with Feng Changqing, Anxi wanted to return the garrison rights, and Beiting had no opinions, but it was still necessary to send someone to collect taxes in Henglus City for another three years as compensation for the garrison over the years, how to say that the three thousand soldiers under Chu Ge's command had to work hard without merit, and if they didn't spend some money to send them, they were afraid that it would not be easy to appease.

Chang Qing did not agree to the tax that Beiting wanted to collect for another three years, and was only willing to pay each garrison soldier three months' military salary as compensation, which was also too little, Yuan Er disagreed, and immediately broke off the negotiation.

On 27 June, the two sides resumed negotiations.

Feng Changqing also understands that if there is no blood, he is afraid that the Beiting side will not easily hand over the garrison power, if this matter is to be caused by the imperial court, and the imperial court intervenes, no one can predict the consequences, and it is best for the Beiting and Anxi sides to solve it on their own, so as not to make a mess, which will not be beneficial to both parties.

After two consecutive days of bargaining, the two sides each took a step back and reached an agreement: after January, the defense of Henglus City was sent by the Anxi Protectorate to lead 3,000 troops to exchange defense with Chu Ge, and after the change of defense, Chu Ge led his troops to Tingzhou to belong to the Han Navy, which was commanded by Zhao Ziliang. At the same time, the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate sent an official and two officials, and more than a dozen officials to Henglus City to collect taxes, and two years later, the right to collect taxes was returned to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the officials and officials sent by the Beiting were withdrawn!

After Chu Ge's 3,000 men and horses withdrew to Tingzhou, Zhao Ziliang immediately carried out the second round of further reorganization of the Han Navy.

With Chu Ge's 3,000 men joining, the strength of the Han Navy reached more than 15,000 people, and in order to be able to better command and command the army, Zhao Ziliang was ready to make slight changes to the establishment of the Han Navy. The number of troops stationed in various localities and the border armies in various localities is quite different due to the difference in the number of troops, and the strength of troops at the same level is very different; some armies are only a few thousand people smaller, and some armies are as high as 12,000 or more, while some battalions below the army level have only 3 or 400 people, and some are as high as 3,000 people; although the border armies of the Tang Dynasty also have a perfect military establishment system, there are no detailed regulations on the specific number of troops at each level of formation.

Zhao Ziliang would reorganize the army under his command every time he took up his post in a place, so that the army under his command would be more suitable for combat and convenient for command.

Now, Zhao Ziliang is preparing to carry out the second reorganization of the 15,000 men of the Han Navy, and this reorganization is only a slight adjustment to the previous one, and will not abolish the previous establishment on a large scale, but after the reorganization is completed, it will definitely carry out more severe intensive training.

First of all, Zhao Ziliang decided to add a temporary structure between the army-level structure and the battalion-level structure, on the one hand, to facilitate command, and on the other hand, to better accommodate generals, some generals have far more command ability and command ability than battalion-level generals, such as Chu Ge and the first few of the 18 cavalry of Whirlwind.

Speaking of the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry, Zhao Ziliang actually has a much higher level of trust in them than he does in these students such as Fugu Huaien, just because they were promoted from the lowest level of the army and have been with him for the longest time, even when he was ordered by the emperor to remove all official positions, these people and the three hundred servants still did not give up.

The only people who can compare with the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry are Zheng San, Wang Can, Chu Ge, Bai Xiaode and others, all of whom are his cronies, followed by Chen Qing, Gong Ren and others, and then those students.

Originally, Zhao Ziliang planned to call it the front, rear, left, right, and middle army, but he thought that the Han Navy was only a military-level structure, and it would not be good to take such a name, so he still named the front, rear, left, right, and middle five parts, and each part had a commander and two deputy generals, such as the commander of the front battalion and the commander of the rear battalion. There were only two battalions in the front, left, right, and rear battalions, and there were nine battalions in the middle battalion, one of which was a scout battalion. The battalion-level chief officer has one lieutenant and two deputy lieutenants, and each battalion has 1,000 soldiers, all of whom can have their own names, and in order to facilitate memory, they are all called the first, second, and third battalions at the beginning. Each battalion has jurisdiction over three regiments, each regiment has one lieutenant, two lieutenants, 330 soldiers, three brigades, each brigade has one chief and deputy commander, 110 soldiers, two teams, one principal and one deputy team and 55 soldiers, each team has five lieutenants, each brigade has one chief and deputy commander, and nine soldiers.

In order to facilitate command and operation, Zhao Ziliang organized all the infantry into the middle battalion, the baggage soldiers and heavy cavalry into the rear battalion, the two battalions of the front battalion were light cavalry, the left and right battalions each had a light cavalry battalion and an archery battalion, the middle battalion had five infantry battalions, three light cavalry battalions and a scout battalion, and the rear battalion had two iron cavalry battalions (heavy cavalry battalions) and a baggage battalion.

If there is a need in battle, the three light cavalry battalions of the middle battalion can also be transferred to any position to support, and at the same time, two archery battalions and two iron cavalry battalions can be transferred separately for use, and another general can be appointed to take charge of them.

Chu Ge's 3,000 men and horses were divided into three light cavalry battalions, and the three lieutenants remained unchanged, but they were arranged in different positions, Chu Ge was appointed as the commander of the left battalion, Xuan Yi was appointed as the commander of the front battalion, Xuan Er was appointed as the commander of the right battalion, Xuan San was appointed as the commander of the rear battalion, and Bai Xiaode and Servant Bone Huai'en who were transferred from Anxi were appointed as the commander of an archery battalion and a lieutenant of a light cavalry battalion respectively. (To be continued.) )