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Seven thousand five hundred soldiers, one thousand five hundred cavalry, and five hundred Huoren county soldiers, this is the entire combat strength of the expeditionary force this autumn. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even if Zhao Wuxian migrated and immigrated to Tuntian twice before and after, and accumulated two years of food for this battle, Huoren County could only supply so many people at most, and if there were more, before the army could be drawn, there would be a famine first.

So he discussed with Ji Ran in advance, this battle is a battle for the survival of the country to destroy the country, and for the Zhao family, it is only a regional war sent by Taiyuan County, and it is good to succeed, and if it is not successful, it will not make the entire Zhao family hurt their muscles and bones.

This is also the reason why the country is sought first, not Zhongshan, for the small and strong Zhongshan, we must let the tens of thousands of troops in Dongyang, Taiyuan, and Handan work together to have a chance to destroy it.

This time, Zhao Wuxian didn't even let the experienced post Wuzheng as the commander, but named Mu Xia as a general.

Mucha was initially scared and excused himself for his resignation.

"The minister is from a humble background, just a shepherd boy, and there are countless people who are more noble than the minister."

Zhao Wuxian disagreed: "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, and empty their bodies." Fu said that it was lifted in the plate building, the rubber was lifted in the city of fish and salt, and the hundred miles were lifted under the cow's mouth, and their starting point was similar to yours, and they all achieved meritorious deeds. I have personally selected you from the stables and given you the name of Muhammad, and my vision is far more reliable than the blood that comes out of my mother's womb. Over the past decade or so, you've proven yourself countless times. ”

In the Battle of Meng Zhu, his left flank launched an offensive to crush Zheng's army; In the Battle of Wenshui, it was he who blocked the impact of the mighty chariot of the Qi people; In the Battle of Changping, it was he who prevented Zhiyao's breakthrough and escape.

Mu Xia, the hardest shield among the martial artists, Zhao Wuxian wants to try to make him learn to be on his own like Ran Qiu.

"The minister is afraid that he will not be able to convince the public......"

"You have made outstanding achievements, you are a doctor I personally promoted, holding the Xuanniao Banner to defeat Rong Di, who dares to disagree? If anyone dares to disobey the military orders you have given, they will be brought to justice by their own military law and judges! ”

Speaking of this, Mucha could not shirk, he could only go to the north to serve as the main general, from the beginning of spring to the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, he had been in Jinyang and Huo people for more than half a year.

It was also here that he deeply felt the difficulty of being a general.

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These two years are a rare time of peace, but there is no external fighting in the country, there must be internal worries, and there will be fighting where there are people, which is unavoidable......

Represented by Mu Xia, Yu Xi, Tian Ben, Qi Wan and others are a group of military warriors, they came from humble backgrounds, and in their early years, they were either Mu Mu, or they were hundreds of workers and light men, and with Zhao Wuxian's fortune, they gradually occupied a high position in the martial arts.

The other faction is the old pro-noble department headed by Post Wuzheng and Zhao Yi, most of whom are distant branches and retainers of the Zhao family, and their family has a long family tradition, and the whole family has been loyal to the Zhao family for more than 100 years. In the Zhao Dynasty, these people were the mainstay of the Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom, but after Zhao Wuxian took power and won the war, they found themselves ********......

Military merit and new retainers crowded out their positions, and within the Zhao clan, the pattern of this redistribution of power varied from place to place.

Hanoi and Hebei east of Taihang were rebuilt by Zhao Wuxian to knock down the buildings of Fan, Bank of China, and Handan, because of the change of regime, there were more new generals to be hired, and Zhao Wuxian personally presided over it.

The newly established Taiyuan County is different, Dong An is old and seeks the country, values the old friendship, and in the twelve counties, most of the county orders and Sima have not been replaced, and they are all the original doctors and Yi Zai. The clans of these people are old in the Zhao clan, and their relationships are intertwined, which is very different from the situation east of Taihang.

When rewarding meritorious deeds after the war, Zhao Wuxian promoted all the military generals brought back from the Lu State, these people were born and died for him, and repeatedly made military exploits, compared with the old retainers Yi Zai, he trusted them more, and the reward was also tilted.

In Jinyang, some people have long complained: "Shangqing employs people, such as accumulating salaries, and latecomers are on top ......"

Now they find that not only are they not as rewarding as others, but they are also being restrained by them! When Muxia, who was only thirty years old, was transferred to Taiyuan to preside over the Northern Expedition, the old ministers of the Zhao family looked at this simple and humble "cattle herder" and found it difficult to accept it for a while.

Fortunately, the equally meritorious Post Wu is doing the Zhao clan Sima in Yecheng, and he is also self-aware, and he does not discriminate against military meritorious, and he does not like to be involved in these factional disputes. And Zhao Yi was also sent to the west of the river to guard against the Qi State, so the old Taiyuan department, who felt that he had been wronged, could only move closer to the son of Post Wuzheng.

He stayed in Jinyang during the war and repelled enemy attacks many times. He was young and vigorous, arrogant, and disdainful of the dispatch of Musha, the "cowherd", and many things were openly and covertly disobeyed.

Tian Ben, who came with him, gritted his teeth in anger and clamored to go to the post to win or lose, and the Chu man Shi Qi suggested that Mu Xia might as well follow the story of Sima Sui Tho killing Zhuang Jia, a confidant of the Marquis of Qi, to boost his prestige, and deliberately set up a point to find a reason for the military judge to behead the post!

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"Kill one person and three armies shake, kill it! Once this person goes, he will definitely be able to subdue Taiyuan! ”

"No, after all, he is the son of Youzi Liang Sima, not to mention that in the next half a year, he will train soldiers and dispatch baggage, and he will rely on the counties of Taiyuan a lot, so he can't offend them all. It's not good, and I think that we rely on meritorious deeds to be mean to the old ministers of the Zhao family, and it is not good to make trouble to Shangqing. ”

Mu Xia is a person who pays attention to the overall situation, and knows that Shangqing sent him, in addition to presiding over the war, he also has the intention of nailing a few hammers into the self-contained Taiyuan County military.

He personally went to meet with Youcheng and proposed that the soldiers he brought with him and the soldiers of Taiyuan County hold a military exercise, and compete with each other.

You Cheng is arrogant, he has always looked down on the humble background of Mu Xia and others, and he also disagrees with the so-called "victory in a hundred battles" Zhao Wushu, and he readily agreed without thinking too much.

On the day of the competition, 3,000 Taiyuan soldiers gathered from the five nearby counties arrived at the agreed location, only to find that there were only 1,000 veterans on the opposite side.

"What does that mean!?"

You can't help but be furious! He thought it was an insult, you know, Mucha had brought a whole division of people with him.

"Could it be that you think that you can defeat us just by relying on this little person in front of you?"

Mu Xia held his sword and smiled: "Shangqing's requirement for martial arts has always been to be able to fight more with less, and fight three with one. ”

These words were too arrogant, and it was even more annoying to say from the mouth of the usually honest Musha. You Cheng couldn't stand the excitement, so he had to let the soldiers on the opposite side fold, but the results of this competition with wooden spears and arrows that dropped arrows made the Taiyuan people dumbfounded.

The side led by Youcheng is completely defeated! These always proud Jinyang warriors were rushed by the dense phalanx formed by five hundred warriors......

According to the agreement, they can only follow Mu Shama's head and cooperate with him to select soldiers from various counties for training and deployment.

From spring to autumn, Mu Xia selected and trained 5,000 soldiers from various counties in Taiyuan, plus military soldiers, a total of 7,500 people, plus the Huo garrison, and the cavalry trained at the eastern foot of Luliang Mountain, no more than 10,000.

This is a temporary grouped together troops, but the proportion of veterans in the army is surprisingly high, whether it is a soldier on the battlefield of a hundred battles, or a Zhao conscription soldier who has served several times to dozens of times in various counties of Taiyuan, they are all out-and-out battle-hardened soldiers.

However, the degree of coordination of this coalition army is not high, after all, it is a mixed army, and it is even difficult for the Taiyuan people and the Song and Lu people in the military force to communicate. There is still a long way to go to give normal play to the combat strength in actual combat, but fortunately, the veterans of the military have already had many experiences in coordinated operations, and what they need to adapt to more is the colder weather in Taiyuan than in Song and Lu.

Mu Xia trained the soldiers of Taiyuan County according to the regulations of the military soldiers, and in addition to emphasizing order, the first task was to enable the soldiers to march long distances.

"From Jinyang to the sentence note, three hundred and fifty miles, the sentence note to Daicheng is also three hundred and fifty miles, our enemy, seven hundred miles away!"

This is undoubtedly an expedition, not to the densely populated Central Plains, but to the desolate and desperate areas beyond the border fortress. Therefore, we must be fully prepared, the army has always admired only the strong, and there are soldiers who threaten one enemy with three, and many measures can be carried out smoothly, such as backpacks and leggings.

The main body of the backpack is a woolen felt covered in autumn and winter, in which a set of change of clothes is tied with a rope, as well as dry food distributed during the rapid march, plus armor and weapons, and the soldier's weight is more than 30 catties. If you carry it all the way, let alone fight, you may not even be able to hold a spear. Only by tying these into backpacks and carrying them on their backs could soldiers carry the necessities of survival on long marches.

But in a short period of time, it is not a simple matter to wrap these things neatly in linen cloth and put them on their backs, and it took two months for the soldiers of Taiyuan County to pass the training alone, and the military guards were pointing and laughing on the side, as if they had seen the tragic scene when they had just been recruited into the army......

The same is true for tying leggings, the first time I saw the same color of the warriors' kudzu shoes, a layer of linen leggings was tied on the calf and stomach, the Taiyuan soldiers were curious but also a little resistant, and they wrapped these things up, wouldn't it be more inconvenient to walk?

The veterans of the military soldiers said to them mysteriously: "This is what Shangqing asked us to wear, and the military soldiers can become a strong army in the world, relying on this thing!" ”

In the Spring and Autumn Period, leggings were undoubtedly a weapon for foot soldiers, and they were so useful in long-range raids based on mountain marches. Not only can it avoid the calf bitten by insects, but also avoid some thorny shrubs in the mountains from scratching the soldier's calf, and walking with leggings for a long time can effectively avoid the calf swelling and pain caused by the accumulation of blood veins.

This was the medical conclusion that Bian Que came to after researching, and the old man was not only amazed, but also admired Zhao Wuxian's foresight......

Of course, it was really uncomfortable at the beginning, after the Taiyuan soldiers hit, they felt that their legs and stomachs were swelling all the time, and they not only walked faster but slower, and it took a month to adapt to it.

But their training was effective, and after the autumn harvest was completed in Taiyuan, Zhao Wuxian came, and he inspected the army, which was gradually condensing into a whole, and was very satisfied, and let the post come out, and praised him after looking up and down.

"Ziliang Sima has a good son."

Although he was the same age as Zhao Wuxian, Yu Cheng was still so excited that his face turned red, bowed down, and said that he was willing to die for Zhao. The previous dissatisfaction with Mucha and his disapproval of the martial arts all disappeared with Zhao Wuxian's encouragement. In mid-August, the large army stationed in Jinyang marched north, and they were to go to the Huo people, where they would join up with the garrisons there, and prepare for the expedition......

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On the first day of the ninth lunar month, the autumn wind gradually rose, outside Huoren County, staring at the thousands of sons and daughters in front of him, Zhao Wuxian suddenly remembered the sentence "How many people fought in ancient times" for some reason......

He shook his head vigorously, drove away this weakness, and opened his throat and said loudly to the soldiers under the city:

"Three years ago, at the invitation of the Zhi clan, the generation entered Kou Taiyuan, burned the city, plundered the population, and suffered from the destruction of the family, seven or eight out of ten ......"

Not only the soldiers of Taiyuan County, but also the Huo people who were watching also showed resentment, which was an important reason for Zhao Wuxian to fight this war, and Dai Rong's evil deeds left a huge scar on the hearts of all the people in Taiyuan counties, which has not healed so far. He needs to completely win the hearts of the people of Taiyuan County through the corpses of the generations.

"The people are compassionate, I am the lord of the king's heart like a knife, this hatred will never dare to forget, now the Zhao family is rich and strong, will complain with grievances, and return the color with the spear!"

He turned his gaze to the neatly standing army: "The Zhao clan will carry out a march across the peerless region, an expedition that shocks the world, and a hundred years later, the deeds of you and others will be sung together with the legend of King Mu of Zhou wading through the quicksand, and the legend of Duke Huan of Qi going north to the mountains and cutting down lonely bamboos will be sung through the ages." ”

"Thou shalt cross the snow-capped Xiawu Mountain, and thou shalt cross the swift and wide Sanggan River, save the Chinese who had fallen into slavery, step on the fields of Dairong, slaughter their cattle and sheep, take all their possessions, hold their wives and daughters, and let them weep bitterly before they die, regretting their trespassing. From then on, Rong Di did not dare to go south to herd horses, and soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain......"

All the soldiers held back their strength at first, and then laughed insolently.

"The goal of your trip is Daicheng!"

"Conquer it for me, destroy the palace bazaar, dig open the tomb of the emperor, step on the culture of the people, and build a city ruled by the people of China, and record your exploits in the temple forever!"

"I am your food channel, your lifeline, the hungry will be supplied, the wounded will retreat to the rear, and go north with confidence!" Zhao Wuxian raised his right arm and stretched it straight to the north.

"To the north!" Mucha hammered his chest, this was the first time he was in charge, and the trust of the lord must not be squandered.

"To the north!" With blazing eyes, he raised the sword in his hand, swung it into the air, and shouted. Since Shangqing values military merits, and generals in the army are not allowed to be promoted without military merits, then prove yourself in this expedition, let Shangqing see that he is much stronger than the cattle herders who are in high positions in the army!

"To the north!" The county Sima Xuqu shouted loudly, he will also be a guide, with five hundred local soldiers, he has been waiting for this day for a long time!

"To the north!" Nearly 10,000 soldiers with backpacks and leggings also raised their arms and shouted, the Taiyuan soldiers are for revenge, and the soldiers are for meritorious service and get more farm house slaves. What's more, the military discipline that the military judges emphasized in the Central Plains will turn a blind eye after they get out of the jam, and they can do whatever they want.

The voice of the oath resounded through Huoren County, and the pen in the hand of the county order who wrote the notice of Anmin fell to the ground, and the carrier pigeons in the city seemed to be awakened by the shouts of the mountain and tsunami......

They will fly to inform Yecheng and Jinyang, and the war has begun!

They will also fly to the cavalry at the eastern foot of Luliang Mountain to convey Zhao Wuxian's instructions to Yu Xi: Go on the expedition! The country will not be returned! (To be continued.) )