There are no military ranks in the Xining Army, and the new military system has the rank of general, colonel, captain, sergeant, and soldier.

Generals: Ling Tong, Li Tong, Zhuang Yunqing;

Lieutenant Generals: Park Eun-joon, U Chizan, Yu Chongchong, Sui Wohu, Gu Duoli;

Major Generals: Cheng Keling, Meng Ming, Suo E, Zhu Gong, Zhu Qi, Guan Suo,

Colonel: Commander of all battalions and senior lieutenants;

Lieutenant Colonel: Lieutenant of the Military Academy, Sentry Commander, Senior Team Commander;

Major: Second Sentry, Team Leader, Senior Team Deputy;

Lieutenants: Team Vice-Guards, Senior Captains, Cadets of the Armed Forces Academy,

Non-commissioned officers: Captain, second group,

The soldiers are divided into elite soldiers and new soldiers,

The Weiyuan Battalion was added as the 13th Battalion of the Regular Army, the Sailor Battalion was added as the 14th Battalion of the Regular Army, and new troops such as the Modao Brigade, the Armored Infantry Team, the Heavy Cavalry Team, and the Longbow Brigade were added, and the Tiger, Leopard, Xiao Cavalry, and Agni Battalions were added.

Dingjiuniang Pass, Ice Rock Valley, Boulder Fort, Jiulian Mountain for the four major fortresses, hired Gruss as an engineer, new construction and renovation of city fortifications, all projects are contracted by the construction company founded by Yongchang Company,

The commanders, ranks, and garrisons of each army are as follows:

Tiger Battalion,,Yu Chongchong,,Lieutenant General,,Jiulian Mountain

Leopard Battalion,,U Chi Tsang,,Lieutenant General,,Yongbyon District

Flying Tiger Battalion,,Sui Crouching Tiger,,,Lieutenant General,,Little Chang'an

Breaking Wave Battalion,,Meng Ming,,Major General,,Xiao Chang'an

Broken Battalion,,Suo,,Major General,,Luoyanchuan

Blade Battalion,,Mahshan,,Colonel,,Golden Town

Jin Feng Ying,,Yao Meng,,Colonel,,Ice Rock Valley

Tie Bell Battalion,,Wang Qun,,Colonel,,Jiuniangguan

Xiaofeng Battalion,,Chen Mingyi,,Colonel,,Boulder Fort

Xiao Cavalry Battalion,,Cheng Keling,,Colonel,,Wufeng Town

Banner Battalion,,Tan Rang,,Colonel,,Zhongshou surrendered to the city

Agni Battalion,,Yu Yan Furnace,,Colonel,,Feng'an

Weiyuan Battalion,,Gu Duoli,,Lieutenant General,,Yinshan County

Sailor Battalion,,Zhu Gong,,Major General,,Wuliuwan

Police 1st Battalion,,Wu Bohan,,Colonel,,Fairy Mountain

The second battalion of the police, Min Yuanyin, colonel, Hengsai Town

Police 3rd Battalion,,Xie Heng,,Colonel,,Wangshan Town

Each battalion built a permanent camp at the station, which was used to store ordnance, grain and grass and settle family members, and the families of officers of colonels and above lived in Feng'an City, and in the new planning of Feng'an City, a new city was built in the southwest corner of the city, which was specially used to house the families of senior officers.

Yang carried forward the trip to Zhenwu Army and gained a lot, not only persuaded Liu Wei to agree to send troops to help Yang Hao attack Dong Bacheng, but also said that Liu Wei agreed to solve Dong Bacheng's problem before he sent troops south, which means that he would first help Yang Hao fight Dong Bacheng, and then Yang Hao would fulfill his promise not to send troops to interfere in Hedong.

This is undoubtedly a lot of sincerity, and his risk to Yang Hao has been minimized, as for how Yang Hongyang did this, Yang Hao is not interested in knowing, but his impression of Yang Hongyang is really good.

Accompanying Yang Hongyang to Feng'an was Liu Xun's chief strategist Li Xuzhou, who came to finalize the specific details of the troops with Yang Hao, and Yang Hao and Li Xuzhou had a face-to-face secret conversation.

Li Xuzhou asked Yang Hao how many troops he had, Yang Hao replied about 10,000, Li Xuzhou seemed to be a little disbelieving, and asked what the proportion of infantry and cavalry in each battalion was, Yang Hao replied: "The enemy in Fengzhou is on the grassland, and almost all the battalions are cavalry, only a small number of infantry. ”

Li Xuzhou smiled and said: "Liu Dashuai is also good at cavalry, and the cavalry is suitable for field battles, attacking those high-walled cities in Hedong that are heavily defended, but I am afraid that we may not be able to take advantage, and it seems that we can only lure Dong Bacheng out to fight." ”

These words are said to Yang Hao's heart, the battle of Suizhou, let Yang Hao feel a lot, he found that the battalions of the Xining Army have been continuously tempered, and the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, especially the field offensive and defensive, whether it is the Shence Army or the Xia Sui Army, on the frontal battlefield, a battalion of the Xining Army swept two or three thousand people, and did not feel effortless,

But the siege of the city is a little clumsy, because the cavalry to maintain a high degree of mobility, so can not carry heavy siege weapons, relying on a simple ladder, even against a small city like Yinzhou, it is quite difficult to fight, if you want to attack those big cities in the east of the river with deep ditches and high bases, heavy defense, it is naturally difficult to climb to the sky,

Li Xuzhou is worthy of being the chief strategist of the Zhenwu Army, and he hit the nail on the head in one sentence, but Dong Bacheng is also a master, how can he not know the truth of stepping and riding against each other, and how can he sacrifice his own strengths, leave the heavily defended town fortress to confront the Fengzhou and Zhenwu armies, which have superior cavalry,

Yang Hao sighed and said, "Mr. plan is a good plan, but is there any way to induce Dong Bacheng to fight." ”

Li Xuzhou said with a smile: "You and I just posted to invite him, and he may not be willing to go out of Taiyuan, so he can only ask someone to help." ”

"Please sir."

"The general's sworn brother Shi Xiong."

Yang Hao laughed and said: "Don't hide it, sir, I have already explored the wind in Linzhou, General Shi is not interested in attacking Hedong, although my second brother is in the formation of thousands of troops, he has a bodhisattva heart, and he can't see the lives of the people." ”

Li Xuzhou frowned and said, "If General Shi refuses to help, then he has to ask General Ma for help." ”

"Ma Yue." Yang Hao was taken aback, he had almost forgotten about this person,

He took advantage of the civil strife of the Tiande army to get thirteen counties south of the Yellow River, and was in the limelight for a while, but Ma Yue's life was not easy after being the master of the house, the thirteen counties in his hands were barren and scarce, and he was unable to support the thousands of troops in his hands, and the officials were not good to do, so he went to be a bandit, but the local natural conditions were too bad, and the eyes were full of yellow sand, and he crossed the river to the north to rob the Tiande army, and was blocked by Zhu Gong's sailors and could not pass the river, and wanted to plunder Fengzhou to the west, and the soldiers and horses had not yet been assembled, He received a warning letter from Park Eun-joon,

Park Eun-jun told him that if he dared to go west, he would cross the river to take his old nest Lin Danghai, but Ma Yue had no choice but to rob Shengzhou to the east, Liu Wei deliberately showed weakness and lured the enemy to the city of Shengzhou, the general of the Zhenwu Army did not think about leading the main force of the Zhenwu Army to fight, Ma Yue was defeated and fled back to Lin Danghai in embarrassment,

Don't think about the 30,000 troops marching together, and the fighting Ma Yue had nowhere to escape, so he had to sign an alliance under the city and cede the six counties close to the Zhenwu army to the Zhenwu army, which greatly damaged his vitality.

Yang Hao said: "I just don't know if General Ma is willing to help with this." ”

Li Xuzhou sneered and said: "If he dares not to help, he will not be afraid of the two things of you and me, and destroy this guy first." ”

Yang Hao nodded silently and said, "Please sir, how General Ma will help with this." ”

Li Xuzhou got up and walked to the map, pointed to the important town of Langu in the east and west of the river and said: "Let's let General Ma send troops to attack Langu, let's say that it is harassment by horse bandits, don't think about the general taking the opportunity to cross the purple water south on the grounds of rebellion to contain the defenders of Shuozhou, and the garrison of Lanzhou needs to guard against Linzhou, only Dong Bacheng can relieve this siege." ”

Yang Hao groaned: "What if Dong Bacheng can't shrink out." ”

Li Xuzhou laughed and said: "Then he is not Dong Bacheng, Dong Bacheng will definitely come out, as long as his main force is out of Taiyuan, Liu Dashuai will wave his army south to cut off his back road, at that time, the general can wave the dragon slaying knife, and he will be ashamed." ”

Yang Hao laughed and said, "What Mr. said is very much in line with my opinion, and I think this matter is settled." ”

The two agreed on specific matters such as the time of sending troops, the route of the march, etc., Li Xuzhou rushed back to the Zhenwu Army overnight, and Yang Hongyang also resigned to Yang Hao, Yang Hao asked: "I heard that you and Lord Li Shi have an old relationship, and I don't know if you are still in contact now." ”

Yang carried forward and said: "Master Li has an old relationship with his father, and the younger brother often goes to his house to ask for poetry, but the eldest brother has heard something. ”

Yang Hao smiled: "It's nothing, it's just ...... In extraordinary times, please be more careful. ”

Prime Minister Li Shi is the target of the crown prince Li Yong deliberately, Yang Hao suddenly mentioned him at this moment, he must have something to say, and if he didn't finish speaking, there must be something unspeakable, Yang Yang said: "Thank you big brother for taking care of me, I will remind Lord Li." ”

Yang Hao does have an unspeakable secret, just early in the morning he received a secret report from Zhang Cheng, someone paid a huge amount of money to rent a mansion next to the prime minister Li Shi's mansion from the ghost gang, there are often unknown people in and out, Zhang Cheng speculated that someone may want to assassinate Li Shi, Li Shi and Yingwang Li Yan had a holiday, because of this, Yang Hao is inconvenient to say too clearly, but depending on the situation, Yang Hongyang has understood his intentions,

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Shengzhou Thorn Mansion,

Li Xuzhou rushed back from Feng'an non-stop, and before he could wash his face, Liu Wei's attendants came out and took him to Liu Wei's study, in the study, the commanders of all battalions of the Zhenwu Army gathered in one place, and Liu Wei's treasure "Map of Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains in the North" was hung on the wall in front of the study.

"Hua Lin, how's it going?"

As soon as Li Xuzhou entered the house, Liu Wei asked anxiously,

"Thanks to the handsome Hongfu, the students live up to their mission."

There was a sound of admiration in the house, and all the generals were smiling, and the New Year was in general,

"Okay." Liu Wei clapped his hands, "The generals will listen to the order and implement the plan according to the plan." ”

Liu Wei at this time with nearly 20,000 troops, the main force is Zhenwu left army, right army and the newly attached Turkic loyal army of 3,000 people, in July of the second year, Zhenwu in the Turkic rebellion, plundered the camp field, Liu Wei sent the army to break, collected its elite 3,000 people, organized into a loyal army, the generals dispersed and returned to their camps,

Qi Guhai, the deputy commander of the left army, returned to the camp of the East Surrender City and asked the concubine Liu to pack up her clothes, and Liu said unhappily: "I won't let people live in peace for even a year, if you leave, don't come back." Liu's seventeen years old, glamorous and capricious, Qi Guhai favored her like a pearl in the palm of her hand, seeing that she was angry, she hurriedly coaxed: "This time it's a big deal, and I'll be able to return within half a month." ”

Liu said: "You coax me again, where is there still a place to fight around the Zhenwu Army, you won't be crazy enough to fight Hedong." ”

Qi Guhai laughed and said: "Hedong naturally can't fight, but Fengzhou can still fight, Fengzhou has twelve big farms, the marshal said that when Fengzhou is defeated, all armies and deputy commanders can get a farm, but let your brother who is not a weapon take care of it, and it is better than him to shake the west all day long." ”

Liu was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly packed up his bags for Qi Guhai, and accompanied Qi Guhai for a while, and then sent him out, Qi Guhai just left on the front foot, Liu wrote a secret letter, hid it in the leg bone of the goshawk, sealed it, called his brother Liu Chuan, and instructed: "The matter is very important, you immediately report to General Guan." ”