Chapter 591: Deng Qiang
As he spoke, Wang Meng and Hua'an entered the camp of the Jin army together, and saw that the guards were well-equipped and their morale was high, Wang Meng was full of praise, and said that the strength of the guards was not under the elite soldiers of Yecheng, and it was a heroic division that was enough to be proud of the world.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Hua'an and Wang Meng successively talked about the current situation in Guanzhong, and Wang Meng's views on the shape of Guanzhong were roughly the same as Hua'an's, and they both planned to stabilize Guanzhong first, build Guanzhong into a reliable rear base, and then, according to the shape of the Central Plains, wave the army eastward.
For the many bandits and bandits in Guanzhong, Wang Meng's opinion is to suppress the bandits at the same time, first use favorable conditions to appease the bandits, and integrate them into the army, if these bandits refuse to submit, then go all out to exterminate them.
When Hua'an said that the encirclement and suppression of bandits was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and could not be effective in a short period of time, Wang Meng proposed that he should train a new army in Guanzhong and use these uncooperative bandits as a training recruit for actual combat, so that the new army was trained and the bandits were eliminated.
Hua'an felt that this idea was very good, so he decided to recruit a new army in Guanzhong and form a new Guanzhong Legion, which was in charge of Wang Meng, considering that the people in Guanzhong were fierce and there were many Hu people, Hua'an planned to recruit 60,000 soldiers.
When Hua'an gave Wang Meng an official position and asked him to be responsible for the formation of the 60,000-strong new army in Guanzhong, Wang Meng said that his ability was limited, and training recruits required a large number of talents, so Jianyi Hua'an issued an order to recruit talents from all walks of life in Guanzhong.
Hua'an also feels that Guanzhong is a place where Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and since there is a talent like Wang Meng, there must be other talents. So, in accordance with Wang Meng's request, he hurriedly issued a talent search order.
Not only military talents, but also other talents are recruited in large numbers and given preferential treatment.
After Hua'an's talent search order was issued, in the direction of Guanzhong, there were indeed many talents who came to apply, and all kinds of talents squeezed down the gate of the Jin army camp.
Hua'an glanced at it, there were tens of thousands of people, among them. With the most military talents. From the figures of these young people, it can be seen that they are all talents with martial arts.
As a general, being skilled in archers and horses and having strong martial arts are essential basic abilities, therefore. The first subject to test them was martial arts.
Hua'an selected a few thousand soldiers from the army. Let these people come to apply. Fight with the soldiers under your command, and if you win, you will be a talent with strong martial arts and can be hired. If you lose, your martial arts are not proficient, so let them go back and continue practicing.
After the first round of screening, most of the talents were blocked out, and many recruits complained that it was too difficult, but Hua'an said, these people who fought with them were ordinary soldiers in the army, and even soldiers couldn't beat them, how could they become generals, as generals, they must have good martial arts, so that they could serve as an example for the whole army, thereby increasing the morale of the army.
Hua'an took a look, and there were as many as 1,000 people in the first round of assessment, and Hua'an didn't need a thousand generals, so he asked two soldiers to play against a talent who came to recruit, and the talent who could defeat two soldiers at the same time could be regarded as relatively high in martial arts.
In this way, after a round, many more were eliminated, three people attacked one, four people attacked one, and in the end, there were more than fifty people left who could defeat five soldiers at the same time.
Hua'an is very satisfied with these people, on the battlefield, he can fight five enemies with one, which can definitely be a general, at least as a partial general.
After a morning of assessment, these people who came to recruit were also tired, Hua'an decided to let them take a break for a while, and in the afternoon, select military generals with high martial arts skills from the army to fight against them, and those who won were directly appointed as the military leaders of the new army, and those who lost were the deputy army owners and battalion owners.
In the afternoon, Hua An personally selected martial arts generals from among the pro-guard troops and asked them to compete with the talents who came to apply.
The 50 martial arts generals and recruited talents were very exciting, and there were cheers from time to time on the competition field, and even Hua'an applauded loudly from time to time.
After a fierce competition, in this round, there are only ten talents left in Tongguò, and these ten people will be directly appointed as the commander of the new army.
"Big brother, you see, the martial arts of these ten people have surpassed the generals of the pro-guard army, it's really amazing, it seems that Guanzhong is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are many talents!" Wang San said with emotion.
Hua An nodded and said softly: "The martial arts of these people are indeed good, but after watching them for so long, my hands are also itchy, and in the next round, I will personally challenge them." ”
"Big brother, the sword has no eyes, in case there is a mistake...... Forget it! Wang San disagreed with Huaan's move.
"Eh, as the commander of the whole army, how can you be afraid of mistakes, so it's decided, bring weapons." Huaan made up his mind.
Soon, Hua An's habitual glaive knife was lifted up by the general, Hua An raised the glaive knife in his hand, gently fiddled with it a few times, looked at the ten warriors on the stage, and said loudly: "Warriors, you have passed all the tests, at least you can be the commander of the new army, now, Ben will personally try your martial arts, if you win the general, Ben will report to the imperial court, and title you as a famous general." After speaking, he looked at the ten warriors.
"Really, as long as you win, you can be a general." A rude warrior, pointing at Hua'an, asked bluntly.
Seeing that this person was so rude, all the generals under Hua An frowned again and again, but Hua An was not angry, he liked this kind of straight man.
"There is no joke in the army, but you must also defeat the general first! Ha ha! Hua An roared confidently, his voice high pitched.
In Hua An's heart, although these warriors are strong in martial arts, they may not be his opponents, and he wants to fight with these warriors, one is that his hands are itchy and he wants to have a good fight, and the other is to figure out guò to have a contest, understand the strength of these warriors, and arrange higher positions for them.
"Okay, talk counts, I'll come first." The rude man picked up a spear and walked up to compete with Hua'an.
Seeing that this person is burly and majestic, Hua An can feel that this person's martial arts are not weak, and he is a rare martial arts talent.
"Strong man, as long as you win the general, the general will immediately crown you as a general." Hua An said, raising the Glaive Knife and attacking forward.
"Haha! That would be great, I didn't think I could be a general. The warrior raised his spear and charged towards Hua'an.
As soon as the two clashed, they both felt the strength of the other party, especially Hua An, at the moment of fighting with this warrior, he felt a tingling in his arm, and even involuntarily took a few steps back.
The strong clashed, and the game was naturally very exciting, and when Huaan competed with this warrior, the surrounding soldiers applauded.
Hua'an, as the chief general of the three armies, naturally couldn't admit defeat in front of the soldiers, and that warrior was also a master who refused to admit defeat, and the two sides fought for a hundred rounds, and there was no winner or loser, which surprised everyone present.
"Stop, the 100 rounds are up, the game is over." At this moment, Wang San interrupted the game with a loud voice.
The warrior took a few steps back and asked loudly, "I haven't decided the winner yet, no, I have to continue fighting, unless, I am named a general." ”
Hua An smiled, put away his weapon, and asked softly: "The martial arts of the strong man are really powerful, what is your name?" ”
"My name is Deng Qiang, and I'm a member of the Anding family." The warrior replied bluntly.
Hua An nodded, and said loudly: "It's already very remarkable to be able to fight with this general for a hundred rounds, and this general will appoint you as a general now, and you can command 10,000 horses, is it okay?" ”
"Okay, great, then I'll be a general from now on." Deng Qiang roared happily.
Due to the consumption of too much body, Hua An temporarily gave up his plan to continue the contest with the rest of the warriors, and worked with Wang Meng to study how to recruit new troops.
Wang Meng's opinion was to recruit the best soldiers in the entire Guanzhong, and those who had previous experience in the army were preferred, and decided to let these warriors who came to recruit as officers.
Huaan agreed with Wang Meng's opinion and gave absolute support, allowing Wang Meng to let go of his hands and feet.
However, Wang Meng's eyes are not only limited to the military aspect, but also in the economy, people's livelihood and official governance, etc., are very involved, he proposed to Hua'an many strategies to govern Guanzhong, for example, according to the characteristics of Guanzhong's multi-ethnic group, build yì Hua'an to strengthen the work of ethnic unity, so that the people of all nationalities can live in harmony, in addition, according to the characteristics of Guanzhong Weishui and its tributaries, Jianyi encourages the people to reclaim wasteland in order to increase the harvest of crops.
Hua'an has a bold idea, that is, to hand over all the major affairs of the entire Guanzhong to Wang Meng, so that Wang Meng can give full play to his own ability, and the governance of Guanzhong will be in order, and the people will not be left behind.
But now there is a problem, in front of Hua'an, that is the attitude of the imperial court, at present, Guanzhong has just been taken, and the documents for the victory have also been sent to the direction of Jiankang City, for how the imperial court will deal with Guanzhong, Hua'an can not predict, however, for the sake of the Northern Expedition, he believes that the imperial court will let him supervise the military of Yongzhou, because, if an incompetent general is sent to replace him, then, the hard-earned Guanzhong may be lost immediately.
However, it was not until after the imperial court issued an edict that before the imperial edict was issued, Hua'an had to prepare for conscription wholeheartedly.
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In the direction of Jiankang City, the news that Hua'an led the army to take Guanzhong made the entire court boil, for the great victory of Hua'an, among the ministers of the imperial court, there were happy and jealous, but on the whole, they felt that this was a good thing, and should be encouraged, and more ministers built yì, so that the Yangzhou Army and the Jingzhou Army went on a northern expedition together, gathering the power of the three-way army, and completely recovering the lost land. (To be continued......)