In order to facilitate command, Yi Feng divided the Wuzhou Army into five branches: the horse army, the infantry army, the chariot corps, the engineer corps, and the artillery, with battalions under each branch and regiments under the battalions, and the troops of the five branches were arranged in order, in the order of the 123rd Infantry Battalion, the 123rd Cavalry Battalion, and the 123rd Tank Battalion.

The cavalry unit has been greatly expanded from one regular battalion to three battalions and two regiments, one of 17 cavalry regiments, reaching a scale of nearly 10,000 cavalry. Zhang Jin said that he would be the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, that is, the third cavalry battalion, and Yi Feng promoted Wang Fubao to his deputy, and at the same time let Wang Fubao concurrently serve as the commander of the 11th regiment, which was to let Wang Fubao hold real power and let him have the strength to balance with Zhang Jin.

I have to say that this time to the north, the Wuzhou Army still gained a lot. defeated 10,000 Tongluo people, so that the Wuzhou army not only trained in actual combat, but also gained the dependence of Xi people. The 8,000 Xi soldiers recruited before the war, and the more than 20,000 war horses captured after defeating the Tongluo people, also made Yi Feng suddenly want people, horses and horses, and he was able to immediately expand the scale of the cavalry.

With these horses, the cavalry of Wuzhou was able to immediately pull up the shelves of the seventeen regiments, and even reached the state of abundance with two war horses for each cavalry.

The 8,000 Xi people recruited this time, in this operation, the 8,000 Xi people were organized into three cavalry battalions to go into battle, counted after the battle, more than 1,000 killed, more than 1,000 wounded, and finally reduced about 2,000 people, leaving 6,000 people, and the original cavalry reorganized, just enough to make up 17 cavalry regiments.

In addition, a large number of camels and pack horses were captured in this battle, which greatly improved the strength of the chariot battalion and the baggage battalion, and the cattle, sheep and miscellaneous animals taken from the Tongluo people. It also made the follow-up food supply problem of the Huaihuang Army's troops almost solved, and there was no need to transport grain from the dam to the north to replenish, and there was even a surplus. What made Yi Feng happiest was those war horses. Most of these war horses of the Tongluo people are iron-hoofed horses brought by themselves from Mobei, this kind of horse belongs to the category of Mongolian horses, which is not too tall, but it is taller than the horses of Monan, and the endurance is extremely strong, especially for eating grass and does not have too high requirements, this kind of horse is a first-class military horse.

After the initial inspection. The report from the following military newspaper shows that among the more than 20,000 war horses, in addition to many stallions. There are also a very large number of mares, and at the same time, there are quite a few stallions, which are precious stallions that have not been gelding. This is very gratifying news. This means: Yi Feng not only got this batch of more than 20,000 Mobei iron-hoofed war horses, but also got the opportunity to continue to breed this kind of war horses. With these stallions and mares, there are more and more iron hoofed horses in the hands of the Huaihuang army. In order to build a strong cavalry, there is an extremely important condition, that is, there must be a strong war horse support. Now, the Wuzhou cavalry and the future are bright.

After distributing a batch of war horses to the five tribes of the Xi tribe, Yi Feng gave them a lot of captured cattle, sheep and miscellaneous animals, most of which were originally captured by the Tongluo people from the Xi people. But now these are the trophies that the Han army has taken from the Tongluo people. Therefore, the Xi people, including Su Zhi, did not make such a request for the return of things to their original owners.

On the one hand, the two armies of Han and Xi continued to rest, while on the other hand, they were still carrying out the final battlefield cleaning work.

The Tongluo people who were killed on the battlefield were all beheaded. Their weapons were all taken away, and even their clothes and shoes were all stripped away, and Yi Feng couldn't look down on these rags, and basically gave them to the five tribes as a reward for the Xi people to cooperate with the battle. Their bodies were all planted on sharp wooden stakes by the Shehe River, and the heads were identified and packed up in boxes and transported directly back to Huaihuang City. These are the military exploits of the Wuzhou Army, and they will be handed over to the imperial court for inspection in the future.

The army at the west mouth of the Shehe River has already arrived at the confluence of the victory ditch, and at the confluence of the two rivers not far east of the ice castle standing at the mouth of the East Valley, a brand-new Shuanghe town has been quietly uprooted. The ice castle is only a temporary role, after this battle, it will not be long, and when the weather is warm, the ice and snow will naturally melt, and at that time, the Shuanghe town city locked with two rivers and three rivers, that is, a military town closest to the east of the Wuzhou Army, will be directly established in the Xi realm. This military town, which will also have three forts after completion, will become a military and commercial center, where a total of 2,000 Wuzhou town garrisons will be stationed in one town and three forts to defend the trade routes with the Xi people and fulfill the security joint defense agreement.

Of course, after the completion of Shuanghe Town, it will immediately become a military base for the Wuzhou Army to train the new army for the Xi people. As for the agreement with the Xi people to help train the children of the Xi leaders as officers, Yi Feng's arrangement was to arrange all these children to serve as soldiers in the cavalry battalion, serve in the barracks for two years, and then transfer to the teaching team for one year of training, and then complete the training. In short, the children who want to be trained must serve in the Wuzhou Army for at least three years, and during these three years, they have to fight for the Wuzhou Army in the event of war. For this somewhat harsh condition, Xi Ren was a little difficult to accept at first, but in the end Su Zhi took the lead in agreeing. He directly let his eldest son Kedu join the cavalry battalion of the Wuzhou Army and start from the bottom. He looked farther than his clansmen, and knew that although the past three years would be a little dangerous, they were indeed a good opportunity to exercise.

The five departments of the Xi nationality planned to train 36,000 new troops, and asked the Wuzhou army to help train them, and Yi Feng agreed in one breath. He is not worried that Xi Ren will be able to sit big because of this, to put it bluntly, it is not so simple to strengthen the army, it is easy to draw out tens of thousands of young people, but it is difficult to supply these tens of thousands of troops. This is a fight for comprehensive strength, semi-nomadic and semi-fishing and hunting, and some of the Xi people of the barbaric era, and even the state organization form has not yet appeared, and the Xi people of the tribal system are difficult to support a real full-time standing army. Don't look at the Wuzhou army, which has a population of only a few hundred thousand, it has raised an army of tens of thousands of people, and it is still expanding. But the model of the Wuzhou Army is a special case, the dam is a poor place, but there is a special operation of Yifeng, which makes the dam just like Dubai in the desert in the later generations. Relying on entrepot trade and relying on a number of unique and highly profitable industries, Wuzhou was located outside the Great Wall, relying on a population of hundreds of thousands, but able to supply a standing army of tens of thousands. But the Xi people can't, they can't support a standing army of tens of thousands of people. The most is to select a group of people, and then train them here in Yifeng, which seems to be the same, and then go back to their respective homes after going back, and herd the sheep. Fishing for fishing, hunting for hunting, and maybe training once in a while when you have time. But if he dies, he will look like a village soldier, or he can fight with the government soldiers of the imperial court, but compared with the current full-fledged professional and professional army like the Wuzhou Army, it is definitely inferior.

Therefore, Yi Feng was very relieved to help them train the army, and even sell them ordnance and armor. Moreover, these are not gratuitous. At the same time as the transaction, the Wuzhou army can also get the opportunity to be in the eastern mountains and rivers of the Xi people. Build a town fort and build roads in Tuntian, and comprehensively strengthen trade exchanges with the Xi people, the wool will come out of the sheep, and the more vigorous the trade. In the future, the Xi people will be affected by the famine. In the end, it will be more difficult for them to escape the effects of the famine.

In short, maybe there will be a day when everyone will turn their faces. But now, having just defeated the Tongluo invasion and facing a greater possibility of retaliation from the Turks, relations between the two sides will only be good.

After solving the problem of going south to Tongluo, a very important problem is placed in front of everyone.

What's next?

It has been more than half a month since a Wuzhou general proposed to send troops this time, and now he has annihilated the Tongluo people who went south. Then it's time to collect the troops and go home.

However, the Xi people, represented by Su Zhi, hoped that the Huaihuang Army could continue to stay here for a period of time. After all, the Tongluo people have just been destroyed, but I heard that the Baye Gu people and the servant bone people also went south this time, maybe after they defeated the Xi and Khitan, they will kill all the way to the Xi realm.

Yi Feng was actually a little hesitant at this time, the Wuzhou army defeated the Tongluo people this time, and the loss was not large, and the number of troops before and after was less than five hundred. Even a large amount of loot and supplies were obtained, and the logistical pressure was not great. However, he was always worried about the Turks, fearing that the Turks would suddenly attack the dam. But Chen Wan has been by his side for the past few days, asking him to send troops to save the Khitan. Previously, Yi Feng temporarily pacified Chen Wan on the grounds that he wanted to solve the Tongluo people first, but now that the Tongluo people have been destroyed, the matter of rescuing the Khitans has also been put in front of him. The latest news I got a few days ago was that the Khitans had been defeated by the alliance of Bayegu and the servants, and it was because of this that Yi Feng decided to deal with the Tongluo people in advance.

In the long run, now that the Khitan is in trouble, he led his troops to the north to rescue, which was a charcoal in the snow, which was of great help to attract the Khitans to his chariot. As long as the siege of the Khitans can be relieved, the relationship with the Khitan will inevitably be strengthened in the future. This is very helpful for the Wuzhou army who lives outside the Great Wall, with many friends and many roads. Moreover, even if you don't count on the military help of the Khitans, at least the cooperation in commerce and trade is good.

In the end, Yi Feng discussed with Wei Zheng and other senior generals for a long time, and decided to go north. Since there has been no bad news on the dam, and the morale of the Wuzhou army is now high, it is not much of a problem to take this trip. Yi Feng told the Xi people of his decision, and after discussing it for a long time, the Xi people themselves also decided to send troops to the north to rescue the Khitan danger. For the Xi people, the Khitan and them are originally homologous and heteros, and they have always been dependent on each other. If you ignore the situation of the Khitan, then it is possible to die with cold lips and teeth. If they were only allowed to send troops to save the Khitan, they might still hesitate, but since the Wuzhou army was willing to go north, there would be no danger, and the winning rate of this battle was still very high.

Yi Feng was still very happy with this result, Xi Ren's strength had already been seen in this battle, and it was not strong. But the table is not bad, and he doesn't need Xi Ren to really make any effort, what he values more is Xi people's attitude and table xiàn. This time, the Xi people accompanied the troops to the north, which is tantamount to further the relationship between the two parties.

According to Yi Feng's construction, each of the five Xi tribes was organized into a battalion, and the five battalions were formed into an army alone, called Kumo Xi Army. The five battalions of the Xi army, each battalion with the head of the headquarters as the main general, the five departments unsurprisingly elected the Su branch of the Ahui clan as the army commander. The Wuzhou Army and Kumoxi joined forces to jointly promote Yi Feng as the commander of the coalition army and command the coalition army. The Fifth Division of the Xi Army originally wanted to send more troops, but Yi Feng refused. The Huaihuang army now has more than 20,000 people, and there are only 8,000 soldiers from the Baye Gu and the servant bones combined, even if you add their Xia clan Hu servants, it will not exceed 20,000. In the end, the five divisions of the Xi nationality finally sent 15,000 troops, each of which was a model of 1,000 soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers.

The two armies combined, more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, on the third day after the battle of Victorygou, after a brief rest, the coalition army camped north. Head east to the Raole River, then head north along the frozen Raole River to the Khitan.

It was almost dawn, and he was huddled beside the tree in a shabby sheepskin robe. He was wiping his slender cavalry knife with the corner of his coat. This thing is slender and sharp, and its name is directly called a cavalry knife. It is an authentic Han family item. Although the name is simple, it is extremely sharp when slashed, and in the battle of Shenggou, Fu Gan used it to kill several Tongluo people on his horse. During the cavalry battle that day, after being conscripted, he was assigned to the third battalion of the provisional cavalry, and as the appointed cavalry captain, he was lucky enough to get a cavalry knife. When I first took the knife. He also felt that the knife was a little light, too light and slender. After the horn sounded, he rushed with the team into the Tongluo people's formation under the pass. He was very angry that day, he was a member of the Ahui clan, and he had settled near the Lok Ma River for generations to hunt and fish, but the Tongluo people suddenly killed him. His wife and parents died by the sword of the Tongluo people.

When the Han army led his troops here to intercept and kill the Tongluo people. When recruiting Xi soldiers, he signed up as soon as possible. When he went to the battlefield, he had no anger in his stomach and could not vent it. The horse, which was just over thirty, rode very well, shot arrows very well, and of course danced well with a sword. Most of the Xi brothers who charged ahead like him that day had a blood feud with the Tongluo people, although the Tongluo people were very fierce, but none of them were afraid of death.

Under the guidance of the military horn. The comrades were very brave, regardless of the rain of arrows in front of them. Ignoring the spears and swords of the Tongluo people, one of them died and rushed up again.

Su Gan also rushed to the front at that time, and when he saw the Tongluo people, his eyes were already red, and he directly held the knife and slashed down, but the knife directly cut the spear shaft that the Tongluo person raised to block, and directly stabbed the person on the head, this knife is really easy to use. Even if it is a hard confrontation with the knife of the Tongluo people, it can often directly smash the knife of the Tongluo people. According to his statement that the old scar of the leader had given them this kind of cavalry knife earlier, those damn Tongluo leopard riders would not have been able to get out of Luomachuan at all.

In the battle of Victorygou, with this sharp cavalry knife, Su Gan fought fiercely all night and beheaded thirteen levels, which can be described as a meritorious achievement. After the war, the third battalion of the temporary cavalry was canceled and incorporated into the second cavalry battalion, and he, the leader of the original temporary cavalry third battalion, was directly promoted by virtue of his military merits, and directly became a cavalry head in the second cavalry battalion. The brothers who rushed with him that night and survived the melee were all incorporated into his capital, and according to the previous military establishment of the Xi clan, he could be regarded as a centurion. As soon as he entered the second cavalry battalion, all of his 100 Xi brothers received this extremely sharp cavalry knife. As the head of the capital, he even received a cavalry iron plate cuirass, which was much stronger than the leather armor made of cowhide, and ordinary arrows could only leave a white spot when they were shot. Of course, those chariots of the chariot battalion covered with thick iron plates are called a sturdy. Cutting it with a knife on it, it was just a white mark, and the heavy infantry of the chariot battalion, good guy, had two layers of armor on their bodies, and after putting it on, it was like an iron pimple, and they couldn't even see their eyes and nose. It really can't be cut with a knife, and a horse can't be knocked down. He was very envious of these iron pimple soldiers, who didn't have to walk when they were marching, and how comfortable they were to sit directly on that big cart.

But their treatment is also good, the food is very good every day, and they are also issued cotton robes, fur coats, ponchos, and even felt blankets, hats, leather boots, which is nothing, they actually received a kind of thing called rock sugar and liquor, that thing is really rare, rock candy is like real ice, but it is sweet in the mouth. The liquor, the cold wind howling in the ice and snow, but after a sip, a fire immediately surged up all over the body, and the whole person immediately warmed up, it is really a good thing, I have never heard of it before, I have never seen it, and now I have it in the Wuzhou army, and I heard that this is a supply, and it is distributed every month.

On the way to the march, he saw the long lines of coalition troops all over the mountains and fields, as well as the chariot battalion chariots that moved like castles, and secretly thought to himself, he had never seen such a majestic army before. With so many soldiers and horses together, and they all have such good weapons, the Tiele people in Mobei are going to be unlucky this time.

Listening to the Han king in the capital, the Wuzhou army here is only half of the strength of Yi Shuai's troops. And all the troops under Yi Shuai, in the Great Sui Empire in the Central Plains, were just border soldiers of a state on the northern border. There are more than 300 prefectures in the Great Sui, and there are dozens of governorships such as Wuzhou.

He has lived in Luomachuan for 30 years, and the most people he has seen in the past does not exceed 100,000. The Ahui tribe is the largest tribe of the Xi people, with nearly 200,000 people, but it does not even have the population of a state on the border of the Great Sui. I heard that there are tens of millions of people in the Great Sui, tens of millions, how many must there be, how to order it?

Iron Horse Glacier, the army is long.

Zhang Jin, who was newly promoted to the general of the third battalion of cavalry and promoted to general of the Liupin Fu Army, did not have much joy on his face. If it weren't for Wang Fubao's incident, he would have been happy for a long time to be promoted to the commander of the third cavalry battalion, but unfortunately when he knew that Wang Fubao, who he had suppressed for a long time, actually relied on the merit of capturing Gu Luo, he was personally promoted by Yi Shuai, and was directly promoted from the captain of the cavalry to the deputy general of his third cavalry battalion, and also served as the commander of the eleventh regiment, he was really depressed. The 3rd Cavalry Battalion was replenished with almost 2,000 recruits this time, and it was expanded from the original one reinforced regiment to the current standard cavalry battalion of five regiments. Even Dou Jiande, the first head of the original reconnaissance group, is now on an equal footing, but Wang Fubao's exceptional promotion made him feel uncomfortable. (To be continued......)