Duolonga did not kill Dong Fuxiang, the specific reason is not known to outsiders, and the official explanation is only to appreciate his military talent, and the fake cannot be faked anymore.

Liu Xian thought that it was always because Dong Fuxiang was anti-Qing and actively resisted violence, and there was no vacancy in the national righteousness.

Then there is the defeat of the True God Cult Tyrannical Army out of Shaanxi, the momentum has fallen greatly, there must be many people in it who are shaken, Duolonga has gone through many years of fighting with the Taiping Army, in this aspect is to figure out carefully, leaving Dong Fuxiang alive, there must be the meaning of 'a thousand gold to buy horse bones'.

In the final analysis, Dong Fuxiang also has the credit for guarding the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, and now the Manchu Qing Dynasty relies on the support of the Han officials and gentry, and it can't be excessive.

If Duolonga is replaced by a Han official like Zuo Zongtang, nine times out of ten they will be reused, instead of throwing garbage to Liu Xian like Duolonga.

After the streamlining, Dong Jun originally had a three-battalion system, but as soon as he heard that Dong Fuxiang was going to march into Xinjiang, more than half of the people who were in an uproar ran away. In the end, including Dong Fuxiang's personal soldiers, there were only more than 600 left, not all of them were cavalry, just because there were a lot of horses left in Dong's army, and everyone had them, so they became the 600 horsemen in the mouth of the Qin army!

"Damn, people are unlucky, they stuff their teeth when they drink cold water."

In a camp on the outskirts of Feng County, a small hundred brand-new military tents were supported in the cold wind, and the east side of the camp was a black mule and horse. On the largest military tent in the center, a bearded man was angrily throwing away the chicken leg in his hand.

Of course, it won't be the wine, but the chicken.

"Damn, Lao Tzu is also an official soldier now, why don't you let Lao Tzu enter the city?"

This man is Dong Fuxiang, who is one year older than Liu Xian, because of his beard, he looks a lot older. And the reason for his anger turned out to be that the Qin army encountered in Suizhou at the beginning was closed.

"These officials don't treat us as accomplices at all. Look at the guy surnamed Liu, we've all arrived in Feng County, and his mother didn't even send someone to ask. ”

"Big brother. Let's slip away and pull the team away. Even when we come to the surname Liu, we are also cannon fodder. If you really entered Xinjiang, you would want to leave at that time, but it would be too late. ”

The people in the tent were all persuading Dong Fuxiang. Today's closure of Fengxian County and Liu Xian's 'ignorance' made everyone's hearts cold to the bottom. The road to Xinjiang is a dead end, no matter how you look at it. So one persuaded him to flee, and all of them were persuaded to flee.

Dong Fuxiang, who was angry, turned cold at this time, and his eyes swept over everyone, "Brothers, don't faint. Now we are all people on the roster of the Ministry of War, family registration relatives and friends, and the imperial court is in our hands.

Let's work together, life and death don't matter first, the first thing to suffer is the old hometown. ”

After Dong Fuxiang fell along, the relatives, wives and children of these people were all in the hands of Duolonga.

The atmosphere in the tent immediately became obsessed again.

In the end, not everyone can be Li Zicheng's second.

"Send someone to greet you." On the same night, Liu Xian sent men and horses to the north overnight.

It doesn't matter what Dong Fuxiang is thinking, and what attention Duolong A's attention is. He is only 600 people, and when he is in the army, how to handle him is a piece of cake.

On February 22, it had been two days since the bride arrived in Nanzheng. The 5,000 troops of the Qin army marching to Xinjiang were finally all in order.

Thousands of cavalry were reluctant to go to Xinjiang, but Liu Xian was not afraid. In the past two or three years, he has received 60,000 or 70,000 refugees from Henan, Hubei, Anhui, and Shandong provinces who have followed the Qin army's shelter team into Hanzhong.

Liu Xian recruited 500 people from them, and with the elite of the hundreds of horses who were strongly persuaded to surrender, the cavalry battalion was restored to the scale of 3,000 cavalry, and the combat effectiveness did not decline much.

"Would you like to follow?"

"If you want to follow, let's go to Xinjiang. Death is also death on the battlefield of the national war! ”

"This national war is not only a matter for the imperial court, but also for you, and for all Chinese. Die, and we will die glorious. ”

"The military gate has given the order. All the man-made rosters and badges, the war dead, regardless of officers and soldiers, will be honored at the shrine in the future, and all will be sacrificed at the shrine. ”

"Or not?"

"Chop off your head, go to the mine, choose one of the two!" Even the opportunity to build roads and embankments was not given to coolie camps.

……

February 24, the night before the wedding. There is still a bright light in Liu Xian's study.

Fan Debang, Huo Guangzheng, and Zhang Shouyan, the three cultural people who are most trusted and relied on by Liu Xian, are all in Liu Xian's study.

"We looted a lot of goods on the battlefield. But the scale of the army is large, the military salary is high, and the sound of the imperial court is like that, we have always been subsidizing money to support the army. ”

"There are also disabled soldiers and survivors of fallen soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of refugees to feed, and these are all big expenses."

Liu Xianjun's main source of finance was the hundreds of thousands of acres of land that Liu Xianjun had acquired in Hanzhong Mansion and the mines that made money. Then there is Li Ying's subsidy and help.

"Now our army has more than 21,000 recruits. The monthly military expenditure is at least 130,000 taels. The number of battalions in the military headquarters was only 9,500, including 1,000 horsemen and 800 artillerymen. Every month, the salary is allocated on time, at most 30,000 taels, which can only be counted as a fraction.

If our army does not find a way to make money or make a windfall in the course of a year, there will not be a penny left in the account by this time next year. By the way, in the past three years, Liu Zhuo, Fan Debang and others have already quietly returned all the old army in Hanzhong Town to the soldiers and horses of the Qin army.

For example, Zhang Shoushan, Xiao Dongsheng, Luo Yuguang, Huang Yaolong and other waste materials have now all become puppets in name, except for a top and a puppet, there is no real power at all. And Wu Yun, Xu Bangda, and Mu Huaide, one of them went to Duolong'a's men, and two went to Tang Yougeng's tent.

Therefore, every cent of the salary in Hanzhong Town can indeed fall on the head of the Qin army. However, Fan Debang's algorithm still does not include the troops entering Xinjiang and the combat allowance required by Liu Xian.

At this point, the financial crisis of the Qin army is already approaching.

You must know that in the future, when Liu Xian enters Xinjiang, the Qin army sitting in Hanzhong will not be allowed to go out, and he will not get a chance to hug the extra money.

Otherwise, the army is crisscrossing the country, passing by the state and county, do you dare to let the army in?

Can't! Then take the money and reward it.

In the three years that Liu Xian and the Twist Army played happily, in addition to the silver money obtained from the 'suppression of bandits', the main source of benefits was the filial piety of the magistrates and gentry.

"Yuandu, the army must be reduced!" Zhang Shouyan knew that the military power of the world was now important, and the Qin army was soaked with Liu Xian's hard work. However, there was not enough money and food, so they had to cut it. And in this way, it can also greatly increase their loyalty in front of Beijing.

"The number was reduced to thirteen thousand." After deducting the 5,000 men and horses who went out on the expedition, there was still a force left that was not enterprising and had more than enough defense.