Lu Zhi was appointed as the general of the North Zhonglang, Zhu Jun was appointed as the general of the South Zhonglang, Huangfu Song was appointed as the general of the left Zhonglang, and Dong Zhuo was appointed as the general of the right Zhonglang; Li Yu was promoted to a rebellious general, and he could expand the army to 30,000 on his own. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

This appointment made the family and the military a little dissatisfied, you must know that the Eastern Han Dynasty was based on the left as the top and the right as the bottom; Not to mention the north and south, but also after the left and right, of which the north is the top and the south is the bottom. From this point of view, Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun's rankings are even more behind Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song, how can the family be satisfied?

It's just that Liu Hong made compensation, Zhu Jun's department allowed 3,000 horse troops, and Lu Zhi commanded 25,000 people in the five schools of the Northern Army. On the contrary, almost all of Huangfu Song's subordinates were foot soldiers, and Dong Zhuo's command had some private soldiers, but most of them were mainly infantry.

Dong Zhuo is not yet the assassin of Liangzhou, so he does not have more financial resources to raise more cavalry. The current 500 cavalry under his command are all in his private army, and he is about to run out of his savings.

As for Li Yu's rebellious general, everyone directly ignored it. Generals are indeed rare, not to mention the four towns and four expeditions, the four generals before and after the left and right are also a radish and a pit. The Han Dynasty has rules, and those who are not military merit cannot be generals, how can it be so simple to be a general.

The rebellious general is actually a miscellaneous general, which is the same nature as a temporary worker. It is not known whether he can be turned into a regular, the key is that it is not recognized by the military and officials, and he has the name of a general but does not have the glory and status of a general, in the eyes of everyone, if it were not for Li Yu or the head of the autonomous region, I am afraid that I would rather take the position of this Nanzhong Lang general than be a rebellious general.

The expansion of 30,000 people is a real welfare, and now that the national crisis is at hand, it is difficult for the family to oppose Liu Hong's decision.

For Li Yu, military power is important, and the name is not important at all, the Han Dynasty was already on the verge of falling apart, and who cared about a large number of miscellaneous generals after the division of the heroes? It's good to have soldiers in hand, money and food!

The edict was quickly sent to the autonomous region, and as for He Jin's request to let the defenders of Wuyue's land go north, it was naturally rejected. One is that these places do not have many populations, not many soldiers, and at the same time, they are limited by the size of the southerners, so they are not suitable for fighting in the north at all.

In order to ensure that there was no Yu, Liu Hong even sent an edict to Li Yu through the channel of Momen.

Seeing that the national disaster was at hand, Wang Yue naturally did not dare to slack off, and quickly sent people to send things out of Luoyang and went straight to the autonomous region. Three days later, it was delivered to Li Yu. Of course, the real edict could not be delivered so quickly, but Momen used domesticated carrier pigeons and wrote: The edict named Li Yu as a rebellious general, expanded the army to 30,000, and went north to fight for thieves on the same day.

Since the advent of cheap new paper, carrier pigeon contact has become more common, and more information can be transmitted. Carrier pigeons fly in the sky, so they can make many detours, and even avoid being intercepted by the Yellow Turban Army.

In this way, the edict, which was supposed to arrive in more than ten days, arrived in Li Yu's hands within three days.

At this moment, Li Yu is also waiting for the follow-up development of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and even wants to see how Liu Hong plans to face it. learned that the scale of this Yellow Turban Uprising was far greater than history. The key is that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, Baibo Yellow Turbans, Black Mountain Yellow Turbans, Xuzhou Yellow Turbans and Jiangxia Yellow Turbans, which will revolt one after another, actually revolted with the large army in a very short period of time, which was indeed out of his expectations.

Jiangxia Yellow Turban, under the dispatch of Zhao Ci, directly attacked Lujiang County. Fortunately, Lu Kang united with the strength of the local family to effectively defend the city, but the place was completely erosive. In addition to the city, the township was almost ransacked, and the local powerful landlords were almost killed, or they were coerced into the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhao Ci's troops have also increased from 10,000 at the beginning to 30,000, and they are getting bigger and bigger, with a tendency to advance eastward.

To the east of the Lujiang River is Danyang County, and it is very close to Lingyang, so Li Yu also has to worry about whether this Zhao Ci will be lost by the desire for power. The key is that there are many Jiangxia Man's chieftains under his command, and they have enmity with the autonomous region, and it is unknown whether Zhao Ci will be coerced by them to attack the autonomous region because of this.

After having the edict of the imperial court, Li Yu directly invited Cheng Yu, Lin Ming and others to tell the matter. Yuan Jian immediately checked the financial situation of the autonomous region, and said that the financial balance had begun in the past two years, and after deducting the taxes paid to the imperial court this year and last year, there was still a lot of surplus, not to mention the formation of a 30,000-strong army, even if it was a 50,000-strong army, it would not be a problem.

It's just that considering the problem of logistical supply, 30,000 people is indeed the best result.

The south is mountainous and inconvenient to transport. Fortunately, during this period of trade with the north, a large number of mules and horses were bought as means of transportation, although they were all horses or mules, fortunately, the transportation capacity did not decline, and with a large number of board carts for transportation, it could effectively reduce the consumption of basic military rations.

If necessary, horses and vehicles can even be requisitioned for carriage and horse dealers, but this is likely to have a traffic and financial impact. Fortunately, it didn't need to be so frugal, which was really a relief.

"Now the question is, what kind of soldiers are mainly recruited for the expansion of the army? If it is the people of the autonomous region, most of them have received illiteracy, so they can quickly form combat effectiveness after joining the army, but one less such existence is a loss for the autonomous region! Lin Ming questioned the source of recruitment.

"How about recruiting those mountain people as basic soldiers, and using the people of the autonomous region as middle and low-level officers?" Li Yu asked.

"It's feasible, it's just that there are no more than 20,000 young people in the autonomous region, and it will take longer to recruit them in other directions, and most of the mountain people in other places have parasitic diseases, and their physique is not very good, so it is not feasible to be a source of soldiers!" Lin Ming shook his head.

"In fact, the lord ignored a source of soldiers, that is, those people who went south! Due to the turmoil in the Central Plains, many people entered the land of Wuyue, and many hoped to settle in the autonomous region. It's just that our population is already full and we can't recruit more. However, if the quota is given as a condition for conscription, these people themselves have hatred for the Yellow Turban thieves, and they will definitely respond positively! Cheng Yu was a wake-up.

"When will the enrollment be completed at the earliest?" Li Yu looked at Huang Zhong, who was a representative of the military.

"There are quite a few displaced people outside the autonomous region, and they have successively established a lot of villages and lived in the vicinity of the autonomous region. If a conscription is launched and their families are promised to live in the Autonomous Region, they can be recruited in five days, and they can simply practice on the spot! It's just that the subordinates want to ask, how many troops do we need to bring to the north this time, and which troops should we bring to the north? Huang Zhong asked.

These words are also a common idea among the captains, who have been under Li Yu for more than three years. So far, they have been drilling, at most they are military exercises, and there is no chance of fighting abroad at all. It's rare to have a chance to make military contributions, and of course I hope to be able to choose myself.

Li Yu also had to think about it, and finally let the three troops of Huang Zhong, Huang Gai and Dian Wei stay behind, and take Guan Yu, Li Wen, Zu Mao and Yang Lang to the north, a total of five schools. Each school was upgraded from two songs to six songs, that is, 3,000 people per school, and the five teams totaled 15,000 people, leaving 15,000 people to guard the autonomous region.

Huang Zhong is a county lieutenant, the commander-in-chief of the military of the autonomous region, so it is naturally difficult to go north; Dian Wei is not successful in his studies and it is not easy to go north, Huang Gai's side is a little special, mainly for the follow-up of the 180 incident. After all, Huang Gai had already fought in Lingling once at that time, and at that time, they were mainly going back to their hometowns to visit relatives, not to go out on expeditions. Huang Gai also knows this, and it is not easy to protest.

This also shows the difference between relatives and relatives, this is not Li Wen just because he is Li Yu's brother, so even if he also joined the battle of Lingling, and even fought at the forefront in person, there are still a few who go out with the army, and Huang Gai can only stay and sit in the town.

Li Wen was also embarrassed, and vaguely said that he could not play. It's just that since Li Yu is going north, of course Li Wen has to follow. Not to mention that Li Yu is just a literati, and he also intends to be a pure literati, and now he has to be forced to fight, so he naturally needs to have a truly trustworthy person around him to protect him, and also help him supervise this army part-time.

No matter what, Li Wen is his clansman, and he is his clansman, if he can't believe it, then others are afraid that they will think that Li Yu will not believe it anymore. Besides, it doesn't matter if he is willful, people with shortcomings are the best, Li Yu is not good at drinking, not lustful, conscientious, and even takes out his family property to support the construction of the autonomous region, so perfect people are afraid that Liu Hong will be a little jealous.

It's good now, for personal gain, everything he did was for the rise of the Li family in Lingyang, and in the final analysis, he still had selfish desires, so Liu Hong would be much more relieved if he couldn't say it. A courtier without desire is the most terrible courtier.

Li Yu's work in the past few years has not been in vain, as the army raised the banner of conscription, but the first to respond was the people of the autonomous region. As the so-called gratitude is not forgotten, Li Yu gave them a good life, gave them a good life, and helped them to eliminate illiteracy and become cultural people, everyone is not blind or wood, Li Yu needs something, they will naturally die.

Not to mention that this is to protect the family and defend the country, Zhao Ci may advance eastward at any time, and the autonomous region is very likely to face danger. As a member of the autonomous region, they naturally have no hesitation.

Comparatively speaking, the people outside are very confused about why the people of the autonomous region are so active. However, Huang Zhong said that those who join the army can enter the autonomous region and their families can live in the autonomous region and become permanent residents. Suddenly, many people were willing to enlist in the army, and in less than half a day, the recruitment work was overcompleted, and finally 20,000 of them were selected.

These people are all in their twenties, maybe they are married, they may still be single, and some of them are just getting married. But they all have one thing in common, and that is that they have families, and even other siblings. If they are sacrificed, in exchange for the safety of their families, then they are naturally willing to join the army.

They are more active and desperate than those who do not have families. If nothing else, just looking at this momentum, there is almost no doubt about being admitted.

The army was quickly organized and trained, all the troops were scattered and reorganized, and many of the original non-commissioned officers could become army commanders at the very least. At the same time, the cultural classes were carried out simultaneously, and all the soldiers had to attend a two-hour night class at night to eliminate illiteracy, and more than 300 disciples from the outer sect were dispatched to assist in Momen, although they did not have military power, they were also responsible for cultural education, as well as the soldiers' heart-to-heart talks and took care of their lives, and resolved the conflicts between them.

This is also Li Yu's intention, and it is also the prototype of the political commissar and the soldiers' committee. These Momen were directly responsible to the lieutenants, worked directly in the canton-level units, and were each responsible for the culture and life of the 250 soldiers, dealing with their contradictions, and listening to their requests.

Externally, these Momen all helped spontaneously, did not occupy the army establishment, and were disbanded after the battle, which did not have any impact on the military system of the Han Dynasty, so even if it was passed out, it would not cause any trouble to Li Yu.

"Expedition!" After the recruitment and training of the soldiers, Li Yu knew that the northern expedition was urgent, and when the logistics were ready, he immediately shouted. (To be continued.) )