Disobedience before the battle is a serious crime, even if Guo Beifeng woke up at a critical juncture and led his troops to fight to the death without retreating, it still became a major casualty of Zuo Wuwei, more than 1,600 of the 5,000 heavy infantry were killed, 800 were seriously injured, and everyone had minor injuries, so as soon as the follow-up Fujian army arrived, Guo Beifeng was directly taken.

According to the Min ** law, this is a big crime for the head of the gang.

Originally, after the army migrated to Hengros City, Guo Beifeng was about to be beheaded in the army to set an example, but this time, it was Xue Rengui who saved him.

Entering the palace with an injury, Xue Rengui knew it with reason, moved with affection, persuaded Li Jie, and even did not hesitate to exchange his own merits for Guo Beifeng to avoid death.

It's not that Xue Rengui likes this guy a lot, but that Guo Beifeng is currently useful to Fujian.

The Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate began in the fourteenth year of Hou Junjizhenguan's attack on Gaochang State, and the first Anxi Metropolitan Protector was Qiao Wangshi, and in just two years, it was handed over to Guo Xiaoke, Guo Zhifeng's father.

Guo Xiaoke's people are good for fame and fortune, extravagant by nature, servants and concubines play, are extremely luxurious, even in the army, beds, utensils and the like are also decorated with gold and jade, in the war, he commanded looting also happens from time to time, but this can not hide his military talent.

Qiao Wangshi's time to guard Anxi is too short, from the sixteenth year of Zhenguan to the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Guo Xiaoke died in battle, and the most important eight years of the formation and consolidation of the palace were handled by Guo Xiaoke.

After taking office, Guo Xiaoke was able to appease the local people with sincerity, which won the hearts of the people, and then led three or four thousand troops to conquer the left and right, successively exterminated Yanqi, repelled the Western Turks several times, and destroyed Qiuzi, it can be said that most of the territory of the four towns of Anxi was pacified by Guo Xiaoke.

Guo to be named the second son, in the Anxi Protectorate was born also participated in it, but also experienced his father a series of military operations, and later Guo Xiaoke died in the Anxi Army for a few years, then was transferred back to Chang'an, for the Anxi Protectorate functions, construction, geography, he can say that he knows everything about it.

Now, the Min State is facing the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, everything in the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate is too similar to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and even the future competitor is the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, so at this time, the Fujian State needs a person who understands Anxi to serve.

In this case, coupled with Xue Li's willingness to ask for merit, Li Jie reluctantly pardoned Guo Beifeng for his embarrassment, but he was still demoted to a concubine.

However, Guo Beifeng was not worthy of Xue Li's plea for help, and since February when the establishment of the Hezhong Protectorate began, he ran around for the establishment of the Hezhong Iron Army, carefully selecting soldiers from the Zuo Wuwei, Turkic, Qarluq, and Alan people, and by the end of July, a disciplined and high-morale Hezhong Army appeared in his hands in just five months.

The whole army of 12,500 people, in strict accordance with the establishment of Li Weigong's law of war, about 9,600 people are soldiers, the rest are baggage soldiers, and 2,500 people with excellent equestrian skills are selected to serve as Yue cavalry, and the rest of the crossbowmen, spearmen, and sword players are equipped in each team according to the proportion of military reform.

Even if it is infantry, it does not delay the equipment of war horses, this is a nomadic area of Central Asia, and the most important thing is war horses.

It can be said that this Hezhong Army has no time to match any of the main forces of the Sixteen Guards of Fujian in terms of equipment and personnel.

There are many swords and guns, and the army is like a mountain, such an army will be under his command in the future, even Li Rang, who has always been weak, couldn't help but be a little excited, raised his right hand wrapped in armor in front of him, and roared with full of energy: "Soldiers are flat, and I encourage you together!" ”

"Thank you!"

The neat shouts were like thunder, and after a salute, more than 10,000 soldiers got up again, and once again restored the immovable momentum of the army.

There are also eunuchs in the palace who took Li Jie's holy purpose and read aloud in front of the army the acceptance of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, among which Li Rang was the protector of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protector, and the nine surnames of Zhaowu were divided into nine lords as the deputy protectors, and the state assassins, among which Guo Beifeng's Dai Sima This pronoun was finally removed, and he became the six-rank military attache of the Great Min Zhengxuan, although it was still some levels behind the previous Zhonglang General, it was already a great recovery for a sinner.

The only thing that has not been announced is the history of the governor of Hezhong, this position Li Jie has been promised to Anna, Fujian is not without a precedent for women to be officials, but after all, she is a little weak in front of the army, and Anna still needs two or three months to take office, so she has not announced her appointment for the time being.

After the reading, Li Rang and the Governor's Mansion recorded Yao Wenyuan, Li Chou, and others also knelt down to thank him, and the whole army also bowed down again.

After the eunuch withdrew, according to the ancient rites, Li Rang led the civil and military forces of the Governor's Mansion to pay tribute, slaughtered pigs, cattle, sheep and three livestock, drank the blood wine and blood for the alliance, and finally, Li Rang once again ascended the point of the general's platform, the rumbling military drum sounded in the entire north of the city, riding a horse and galloping at the forefront of the whole army.

"The metropolitan governor has an order, the whole army, the drill begins!"

In just three drums, nearly 10,000 troops withdrew from the school field like flowing water, and the empty school field was as if these people had never existed, leaving no traces.

Holding the order flag, Li Rang's palms were a little sweaty, and under the second-grade Dadu helmet carved with a fierce sling, a pair of godly eyes stared at the east of the school field.

Sixteen big-shouldered and round-waisted snare drummers once again beat up the cowhide drum more than one person high, with strong penetration, and in the shocking low drum sound, a large piece of smoke and dust came out of the east, and a shout was mixed with the galloping of ten thousand horses, and the horses' hooves rumbled forward, and in the smoke and dust, a large army rushed to Li Rang's point in front of the platform in a blink of an eye.

Two horns and trombones blew abruptly, and almost at the same time, thousands of riders stopped in unison, turned over and dismounted, and the baggage soldiers quickly led the horses back like flowing water, and in a short time, the neat and tight infantry formation was revealed.

At the forefront, Li Rang's personally practiced Tiger Player's round shield was connected into a precise shield wall, and behind the shield wall, dense spears shining with cold light shone with a cold murderous aura in the sun.

The Hezhong Army absorbed about 1,000 Zuo Wuwei veterans as officers, gang commanders, as many as 110,000 nomadic wolf riders under the impact, Zuo Wuwei was not scattered, under their command, the shield array was strong, it can be imagined.

And unlike that day's decisive battle, there was still enough passage between a section of the shield wall, and behind the shield wall, countless crossbowmen rushed out, and under the overlapping bows and crossbows, in an instant, locust-like arrows shot out, and the hundreds of wooden people placed on the west side of the school field turned into hedgehogs in the blink of an eye.

The strong shield array can not only defend, but also attack, the crossbowmen retreated, the veteran officers shouted the trumpet, and the superimposed shield walls rushed forward like monsters, like a mountain-like pressure, and the audience who looked at the railing outside the school field and faced the army even sweated hotly and their legs were weak.

The spear pierced, the shield wall was supported on the ground like waves, and in the chaotic shouting and harmony, as if he was really fighting the enemy, Li Rang's blood was boiling when he heard the chaotic shouting and killing, and in the chaotic roar, the wooden people in the front row were almost completely poked into sawdust.

In the midst of this blood-pumping exercise, the snare drum suddenly rumbled again, and this time, from the north, a cavalry army rushed out from the rear like a thunderstorm in a few breaths.

It is the Tang army's habitual thief tactics, the cavalry infantry presets the battlefield, seizes the advantageous terrain, and relies on the strict military formation to entangle the enemy, when the war is scorched, the cavalry suddenly kills from behind, outflanks the enemy, and under the front and rear flanks, even if the enemy army is several times their own, most of them end in collapse.

The tactics are simple, but deadly.

However, this time, instead of attacking the enemy with conventional cavalry, the Yue cavalry of the River Army was replaced by the Alan's catapult, the tough lasso swaying on the head, and about forty paces, thousands of stone balls about the size of a child's head rained down into the wooden man, and the smashed sawdust flew into the wooden man.

Although this scene looks strange, but immediately Yue Cavalry drew his sword and killed into the wooden man array, between the sword light and sword shadows, the hard wooden people fell to the ground in pieces, and many people outside the school field couldn't help but shake their heads.

In this way, the Hezhong Iron Army is almost completely trained, just the baptism of the battlefield, after a few wars, I am afraid that it is the main force of Fujian, such an army is in the hands of Li Rang, who is sensitive to identity, and for Fujian, I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse.

Seeing this, many people had already shaken their heads and sighed and went out, and the rest were even more eager to look at Li Rang on the stage, but no matter what the audience outside thought, Li Rang's mind was all about the army in front of him.

This is the capital that he has to realize his dreams and ambitions.

In the smoke and dust, the iron army in the river drilled several formations such as covering retreat, pursuit, and defense, and it was not until the evening that Mingjin withdrew his troops.

In the evening, the palace came to the eunuch again, allowing most of the capital to protect Li Rang to postpone his return to the palace to resume his life, and sent wine buffalo and sheep and other labor items, in the evening, kill cattle and slaughter sheep, stew in the pot, the north of the city school is a lively scene.

However, Sima Guo Beifeng, the capital protector who was supposed to accompany the governor of the capital and worked together with the army before, asked for leave and was absent.

In the south of Hengros City, on the newly built asphalt road of Fujian, another army was also lined up there, but compared to the newly born Hezhong Iron Army, it seemed a lot more desolate and low, hundreds of disabled Fujian troops were either missing arms or broken legs and feet, barely riding on horses, and many seriously wounded people who had not recovered until now were sitting in the carriage.

There were no more than four or five thousand soldiers in good condition.

This is all that is left of the Fujian Army's expedition to the Western Army Zuo Wuwei and Guanning Zuowei, in the ice and snow of the grassland, the march without a rush to the cost devoured the lives of two or three thousand soldiers, in a series of major battles, there are more than 10,000 soldiers scattered their blood on this cold ice field, and finally the establishment of the Hezhong Iron Army and transferred a part of the two armies as the backbone, and now the two armies are really like the wind and candles, Li Jie finally ordered the two armies to return to China for renovation, reorganization, and replace the left and right Jin Wuwei who rarely fought to serve on the front line.

In the bleak sunset evening, dozens of officials and friends came to see off Wanyan Aguta and Xue Li, and Li Jie also sent envoys to see them off, taking the newly dug moat in front of Hengros City as the green willow of Chang'an Baqiao, and more than a dozen old friends said goodbye to each other with wine bowls, which was embarrassing.

At this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the city, and he rode anxiously out wearing the armor of the captain, and looked at it from a distance, Wan Yan immediately turned his head with disdain, but Xue Rengui's generous face showed a little smile.

"General, wait!"

Anxious cries were heard from afar.