The quiet life in the northern suburbs of Pingliang was shattered after the fifth day. In these five days, nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Second Class Army from Yunwai Prefectures and cadets from Zhaowu University spread out in the northern suburbs of Pingliang City in companies. Every day, each company will arrange a platoon to go to Pingliang City to receive baggage, and the rest of the time is to herd sheep, leaving the soldiers to arrange their own time.

This disorderly and chaotic situation has deeply worried many company commanders. In particular, the Fifth Company, starting from the second day, the Fifth Company wanted to contact the commanders of the cadet companies to hold a meeting to discuss the results.

At this time, no one knew what happened to Yinzhou and Pingliangcheng in the rear, why there was no reorganization order from the higher authorities until now, and I don't know why these nearly 10,000 people were "captive" here like sheep. This is a very dangerous situation. This was especially true on the second day, the first day of the third month of the Han Dynasty, 1003, when there was a military order to transfer all the first-class legions.

Afterwards, many of the cadet company commanders admitted that if the Hungarian army could send a regiment to attack here at this time, all the companies would be scattered, because at this time, the highest-ranking officer here is a second lieutenant, and there is no unified command of all companies.

Thankfully, this terrible thing didn't happen. The Fifth Company's wish to convene a meeting of the company commanders was also unfulfilled - his popularity was so bad that except for Zheng Ying, Luo Oak, and Shi Hammer, who agreed to camp the four companies, no one else heeded the call of the Fifth Company.

On March 4, 1003, Pingliangcheng finally came, a major, surnamed Xu, Mingdong, and Guoliang, who was a student enrolled in the staff department of Zhaowu University in 984. He is Chinese New Year's Eve and 22 years old. When Xu Dong arrived here, he immediately issued two military orders from the General Staff Headquarters of the Northern Xinjiang Front. The first is to order the soldiers of the second-class legion in the states outside the clouds to immediately rush to Pingliang City to accept the wartime establishment; The second is to order each company of the cadet soldiers to form three regiments with the existing company formation, and set up a special department directly under the jurisdiction of the former division of the Third Army Corps of the Northern Xinjiang Front, and the commander of the department is Xu Dong.

After receiving this order, the Fifth Company immediately went to the temporary camp of the commander to accept the formation arrangement.

By the time the Fifth Company came back from the commander's tent, it was already noon on March 5, and it was only at this time that Shen Yun and the others knew from Zhang Mo's mouth why they had been herded recently.

It turned out that although the imperial court had already issued the will to form two front armies, because the previous strategic deployment was made with the goal of one enemy of the Yue clan, now there is one more Xiongnu. The previous battle plan had to be changed. At the same time, the Privy Council also urgently dispatched military supplies to Yinzhou, hoping to build a command center of the Northern Xinjiang Front in Yinzhou.

However, the establishment of a command center cannot be completed overnight. The deployment of the Northwest Front Army in Ganzhou City had already been perfected, and Yigong had already set out. However, Hu Gong did not rush from Yuyang to Yinzhou until early February because the materials and troops in Yinzhou were not assembled.

When I arrived in Yinzhou, I found that it was already a mess. Around the army hedgehog gathered. But they don't belong to each other, it's just a mess. This situation arose entirely because the military orders issued by the Privy Council were earlier than those of Hu Gong, so that the staff under Hu Gong's command could not fully grasp where these summoned troops came from, and they had to check and implement them one by one, and then organize them in order.

When Duke Hu arrived in Yinzhou, the staff headquarters that arrived early had finished sorting out the two legions around Yinzhou.

Hu Gong was angry at that time. However, focusing on the overall situation, he couldn't bear the unhappiness in his heart, and ordered "Rapid reorganization, mainly first-class corps." The second-class army corps is supplemented" and in just four days, the armies in Pingliang and Lingwu were all organized.

But on the fifth day, the staff found out that they didn't know when, and the senior graduates of Zhaowu University were also summoned to Pingliang.

This made Hu Gong, who was already angry, explode instantly, he flipped the table on the spot, and ordered the staff to immediately write a memo, he wanted to impeach the imperial capital military department for those wastes.

It turned out that Hu Gong never thought about transferring this batch of graduates to the battlefield from the beginning, and said that these cadets had not passed the graduation assessment, and even if they passed, Hu Gong was reluctant to let these top people go to the battlefield at this time! The military headquarters made a mistake in the operation of these wastes, and actually issued an order to summon the troops along the Yunwai Forts, and recruited this batch of cadets.

Later, after being reminded by the General Staff, Hu Gong reacted that this military order seemed to have been approved by himself -- there were too many things at that time, and there were a lot of articles and suggestions drawn up by the Military Department and the General Staff.

The person who approved the feasibility of this suggestion of the military department was Xu Dong, a major of the General Staff!

The cadets have come all the way and can't rush back. Hu Gong, who was angry, immediately asked Xu Dong to lead the cadet soldiers and was directly assigned to the former division of the Third Army of the Northern Xinjiang Front. It is said that it is a special department, but in fact, it is to protect the cadet soldiers from harm. Why the Third Legion? Because the first and second legions are all first-class legions that have just been organized, including the flying cavalry guards and the fierce military guards, and from the third legion, they are the second-class cavalry corps, and they are placed here, which makes Hu Gong feel more at ease.

This is a good thing for the cadet soldiers, this time the Northern Front Army finally reorganized a total of six corps, including two cavalry corps, the flying cavalry guard and the third corps; There were four infantry corps, the Liewuwei and the fourth, fifth, and sixth legions. Among the only two cavalry corps, although it was not the first batch to go to the battlefield, it was able to earn some military merits. It's a good place to gild.

But for Major Xu Dong, this being the commander of the department is a disaster. The Holy Ancestor revised the military system and adopted the staff establishment in the corps, divisions, and town armies. The rank of a staff officer is not too high, at most he is a lieutenant colonel. Staff officers don't have to go to the battlefield to fight in person, not to mention, they can still get close to the main general, there are many opportunities to show their faces, and the staff officers who have won the battle have a lot of credit, and they can be the first to retreat if they are defeated, and many people can't get such a position!

Xu Dong's staff officer was sent as a "nanny", although he was not wronged in the rank, but was vaguely promoted by one level, but he himself felt like he had been exiled. Therefore, when reorganizing the cadets, Xu Dong's passion was not very great, and the arrangement was very casual.

There should be three songs under the command of a commander, one for the guards and one for the guards. A baggage song. The total number of men ranged from 5,000 to 6,000. However, the total number of cadet soldiers was only about 4,500, including 2,500 cavalry and 2,000 infantry. The infantry is divided into 550 members of the Heavy Infantry Section, 986 members of the Light Infantry Section, 268 members of the Baggage Section, 140 members of the Logistics and Supply Section, and 56 members of the Staff Section.

It must be noted that the reason why the cavalry cadets greatly outnumber the infantry cadets is that the graduation rate of the cavalry section is extremely low, and many cavalry cadets who did not graduate that year can choose to re-enter the infantry section or continue to stay in the cavalry section. Generally speaking, cavalry cadets who could not graduate that year would be transferred to the infantry section. After all, it will be relatively easy for infantry to graduate.

In the face of such a chaotic establishment, the "Nanny Xu", who was already in exile, simply gave up on herself, no longer bothered to pick people for reorganization, and directly asked the students of the baggage department to nominate a person to be the head of the baggage song, and the logistics department made up for the baggage song. The staff section was changed to the special section of the guard song. The heavy infantry section is a pro-guard song, and the cavalry section is divided into three songs. Qu Chang Gong pushed. The Infantry Section added three pieces to form a mixed arrangement of mounted foot, similar to that of the Guards Corps.

Of course, this kind of reorganization is simple, and Xu Dong, who has engaged in "democracy" in feudal society, is also willing to take it easy. On the battlefield, the status of cavalry is slightly higher than that of infantry, so no one has an opinion on cavalry as a commander. Thereupon. A very strange special section of cavalry is not cavalry, and infantry is not infantry!

The former division of the Third Army Corps of the Northern Xinjiang Front Army was directly under the special department, and the commander Xu Dong was the commander. Sun Han, the chief of the guard, Dong Kui, and the chief Xu of the guard. The fifth company of the first song is the commander of the fifth company, under the jurisdiction of the third, fifth, and sixth companies of the original cadet soldiers, and the company commanders are Chu Sui, Luo Oak, and Stone Hammer; Zheng Ying, the commander of the second song, has the jurisdiction of the first, second, fourth, and seventh companies of the original cadet soldiers, and the company commanders Ying Liang, Hao Feng, and Huangfu Song; The third song is long and wencui, under the jurisdiction of the eighth, ninth, and tenth companies (female soldier companies) of the original cadet soldiers, and the company commanders Bi Yun, Hu Ke, and Zhou Hui.

Shen Yun and Fang Cheng were assigned to the first company of the first battalion under the command of the fifth company, the battalion commander was Zhang Mo, and the company commander was of course Shen Yundang, who made him the person Liu Zhen "valued" at the beginning! However, this special department was originally nondescript and uneven, so Shen Yun's first company also served as the battalion commander Zhang Mo's guard company and baggage company. In the same way, even the first row below has to do the same job.

After all this was set up and put in order, it was already March 6th. There is an episode here, that is, when Xu Dong learned that he also had a female soldier company under his command, his face turned blue - he was even more convinced of his identity as a "nanny" - and ordered the whole army to move to Yinzhou on the spot to join the headquarters of the Third Army. He even told a few Qu Chang that he didn't want to send their special editorial department to fight at the summit, just follow the Chinese army honestly.

In this regard, other people's feelings are unknown, but Shen Yun is very happy.

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The special division arrived in Yinzhou on March 8, and the army had already been mobilized. The long straight road was full of armies heading north. They could only walk along the side of the road, trying not to block the advance of the army.

In the early stage, it was the Flying Cavalry Guard and the Fierce Warrior Guard, these two legions were also the main force in this battle, and the other legions still had the idea of mixing soup with them, so naturally no one dared to stand in their way.

This is the first time Shen Yun has seen the ancient army pull out, except for the different equipment, it is really no different from the modern army. The long dragon that is missing from the end to the end shows a different kind of momentum. He also tiptoed and carefully observed the flying cavalry guards going north, hoping to see the unit led by Liu Zhen from the crowd, but later I heard that the unit led by Liu Zhen had already set off three days ago as a striker.

After arriving in Yinzhou, Shen Yun found another "shocking" news, His Royal Highness Hu Gong, as the commander of the whole army, was supposed to be in the rear of Yinzhou, but he actually led the Flying Cavalry Guard Division to set off three days ago.

"Hu Gong should be a model for my generation, and he deserves to be my Han Marshal!" Zhao Xin's evaluation of this is this sentence.

In other words, none of the army generals of the Han Empire are cowardly, and they all take the lead bravely, and this courage is really speechless. However, this is also the key reason why three army commanders were killed in a row during the previous battle of the Tarim River Valley!

It is clear that from the marshal down to the soldiers, no one realizes this! In the era of cold weapons, taking the lead is one of the important criteria for judging the merits of a general. Who would approve of a general who only likes to hide in the rear and command?

But apparently the commander of the Third Army was such an unpopular general.

Hou Jian, commander of the Third Army Corps of the Northern Xinjiang Front, was one of the few generals in the empire, with the rank of major general. He graduated from the Yizhou Military Academy in 974 and is forty-seven years old this year. At the same time, he is also the ninth Izumo Bo of the Imperial Dynasty, and he is considered a second-class earl (the first-class earl is hereditary, and he retires with the country).

This Major General Hou was one of the proud protégés of Marshal Zhuge of the Empire, who was admitted to the Yizhou Military Academy at the age of eighteen, and graduated with the rank of captain at the age of twenty-two. In 978 of the Han Dynasty, he went to Xihaizhou with the army, punished the small country Cai Xiang, and was promoted to major for meritorious service, and has been stationed in Xihaizhou since then. In 992 of the Han Dynasty, there was another small-scale rebellion in Dayuezhou. He led his troops eastward and was once again promoted to colonel. Of course, it must be said here that Major General Hou at this stage is still a general who dares to fight, and he is extremely brave in battle. Known for its sharpness. However, when he was transferred to northern Xinjiang to fight the Xiongnu in 996, his entire style of leading troops changed. I don't want to charge much in every battle. It's about figuring out where the way out is.

The most interesting was during a battle in pursuit of the Huns. Four hundred miles away, the town he took took him to walk for six days! Then he found that the Xiongnu had set up an ambush in front of him, and he took the lead and broke away from the war group first. The Han army in pursuit of this time had two towns, and his troops suffered the lightest losses, with only one person killed. Two people were wounded, and the dead of them fell off their horses because they ran too fast. The other two were also injured because of ankle injuries and did not sustain fatal injuries.

In the ensuing operation. This Major General Hou took his town to fight everywhere, but he "fled" everywhere, running around, but he made a certain reputation, because the Huns could not deal a fatal blow to Major General Hou's team in this tactic of being repeatedly pursued and ambushed, and in the end they were dragged down first. Major General Hou's final blow annihilated all the Hun invading troops that had been dragged down, killing more than 6,000 enemies and suffering less than 100 casualties!

Such a great merit is supposed to be promoted to general, but the Privy Council does not know how to describe his exploits, and the generals who fight with him have no good impression of this "rabbit general" who only knows how to run around, and are unanimously unwilling to add his name to the recount. In the end, Marshal Zhuge who had always been silent became angry and personally wrote a recital to the emperor to recount his achievements as a proud protégé. The Privy Council had no choice but to promote him to the rank of Major General.

For such a general, it is indeed difficult to get the convincing of ordinary soldiers, but Hou Jian has been stationed in Beihai Prefecture since the last counterattack against the Xiongnu, and the rear division of the Seventh Army Corps of Beihai Prefecture under his command is also a strong force that fights against the Huns all year round, and his name was added to the Privy Council in the convening order.

To be honest, Hu Gong doesn't like Hou Jian either, but there are few imperial generals, Hou Jian is a general, this time the Northern Frontier Front has just been formed, if he is allowed to lead a division alone, it is really a bit of a waste, considering the top of the special department, Hu Gong reluctantly let him be the commander of the corps, but the military order is that the third corps finally set off with heavy grain and grass.

As a cavalry corps, reduced to the point of escorting baggage, all the soldiers who were organized as the third legion were a little helpless. However, thinking that this battle has already been arranged by the Flying Cavalry Guard and the Martial Guard, it is not too embarrassing to escort the heavy grain and grass.

The special compilation department arrived at Yinzhou City and stopped under Yinzhou City for two days to replenish baggage and grain and grass, and also received a group of military doctors.

Yes, the military doctors of the empire are not fixed, but temporary before the expedition. Of course, there will be a fixed number of military doctors in the permanent corps.

According to the regulations, a company must have at least one military doctor in the soldiers, but these military doctors will be placed in the guard song of the commander to form a military medical song. These military doctors are all graduates of major military academies, and horseback riding is a basic skill. At the same time, it can also be used for combat. Of course, the military doctor is not allowed to participate in the battle unless it is the last moment, he is the last guarantee for all the wounded soldiers, and he is the last person to be protected by other soldiers in the battle.

The military doctor assigned to Shen Yun's company is surnamed Cai, his name is Zhong, and his character is Badou. A native of Zhaotong County, Guizhou, he graduated from Wu County Military Academy. He has been in the military for ten years and is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today. He was born a little short, but very strong, because he was stationed in Ningzhou all the year round, so his skin was a little dark, and his face was wrinkled when the north wind blew, and he looked like he was forty years old. is a very honest person, and his medical skills are also excellent - on the first day he came, he judged that Pang Tong had serious athlete's foot, and gave him the secret recipe of his hometown in Guizhou, so that Pang Tong's stinky feet would not be so itchy in just three days......

It is said that among Shen Yun's original five people, Shen Yun is the company commander, Fang Cheng, Zhao Xin and Zhong Lisi have all become platoon commanders, but Pang Tong, the kid, is still a small soldier. However, their military ranks have been promoted - the original horizontal sword badge has been replaced by a double-striped sword badge, of course, only for officers, like Pang Tong is not yet. I'll talk about it when the battle is over.

On March 10, 1003 of the Han Dynasty, the last group of 25,000 people of the Third Army marched over the Yin Mountain and went straight to the Gobi in Beihai Prefecture with a large number of heavy grain and grass in high spirits!

What everyone doesn't know is what a fierce battle will be against them!

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PS: Whew, things like compilation give me a headache. I wrote and deleted, deleted and wrote, and it was a lot of tossing and turning to finally finish it. This chapter mainly focuses on the pre-war organization and some personnel transfers, so that everyone can have a clear idea of the next battle.

Okay, the next chapter [Feiyun Castle, the harbinger of the fierce battle]

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