The three major battalions in the capital were established by Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle, and were the quintessence of the country's army strength.

In the army, veterans are wealth, not only can they teach new recruits combat experience, but also can stabilize their positions at critical moments. Moreover, although the veterans are a little ruffian, and some veterans are still a little afraid of death, most of them are still loyal and have feelings for the troops.

There are many such veterans and recruits in the army, and the recruits serve the veterans, wash the veterans' clothes and wash the footcloths, which is an eternal thing, commonly known as the rules. As the elite of the country, the three major battalions have had stubble. During the orthodox years, the great eunuch Wang Zhen bewitched the emperor Zhu Qizhen to drive the expedition in person, and the three major battalions of Tumubao were almost all lost, with a total of more than 200,000 deaths.

At the end of orthodoxy and the beginning of Jingtai, the defense of the capital, Yu Qian led the three battalions of the reserve army that stayed in the capital to win the battle against Warat, and after driving away a generation of overlord Warat, Yu Qian made a decision to disband the three battalions, mix the remaining ones, and take the regimental training as the unit, which is the regimental training system.

After Zhu Qizhen's change of seizing the door, he drove his younger brother Zhu Qiyu off the throne and recaptured Dabao by himself, the regimental training system also went to extinction, and the three major battalions were restored. After several rearrangements, both in terms of combat effectiveness and military atmosphere, the three major battalions have not recovered from their original intentions.

But even so, they are still very strong, and they are still the most important weapon of the country. It is the main force to defend the emperor in Beijing. Compared with the health centers in various places, it is not one or two grades worse, even in the face of the well-equipped Lu Bing's private army, and the Shandong Xiangma Cai Longyu Department funded by Lu Bing.

The three battalions were left with the appropriate people to guard the capital. The main force was arranged by Lu Bing to march towards Gutian to quell the Gutian riots.

As for the Yarkand Khanate, Lu Bing was secretly worried that there were no troops available, so he had no choice but to let his Shandong soldiers and horses go to battle. Meng Xueqing disagrees with this. It is believed that this not only exposes the strength, but also may lose the military strength that has been accumulated with great difficulty, and even if the final victory is won, it will only be a battle between cranes and mussels for profit, or it will be difficult for the army to become a great weapon. In short, even if all the soldiers come back, these soldiers will not remain in Lu Bing's hands, and they will still be absorbed by Zhu Houxi in the name of living like this. Now the imperial court has no choice but to let Cai Longyu manage it, Cai Longyu is controlled by Xia Dade's balance Lu Bing, but by the end of the war, I am afraid that this army will not be surnamed Cai, nor Xia, nor Lu. I also have to have the surname Zhu.

Lu Bing only said one sentence: "The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband." Before the great appointment of the country. Self-interest is like a big deal. ”

Cai Longyu and Li Xiang are in a different situation, Cai Longyu is a ringing horse and a real bandit. In contrast, Li Xiang can only be regarded as a rogue. Similarly, Cai Longyu and his subordinates are more wild and difficult to discipline, and now the Yarkand Khanate is just a soldier on the border. Cai Longyu and Xia Dade went, and it was inevitable that they would provoke a real war. The atmosphere on both sides was tense enough, like a barrel full of gunpowder, and there was no room for a spark. Now to provoke strife and let the Yarkand Khanate, who is sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, join the battle early, this is not blood, but just a mentally retarded behavior that does not understand the general situation.

As long as the Yarkand Khanate doesn't cause chaos now, it's easy to say anything, so in addition to Cai Longyu and Xia Dade, who have a hot temper, Lu Bing also asked Qi Jingtong, who has a calm temperament, to help, and with Qi Jingtong in charge, Lu Bing can rest assured. This is also the reason why Qi Jingtong cannot be used in naval battles.

In order to prevent Mi Thirteen from sneaking up again, taking Lu Bing's family as a hostage, Meng Xueqing returned to Shandong to preside over the overall situation, and invited many good men with good relations in Shandong Mansion to come to see the family care home, plus Lu Bing left a hundred elite soldiers in Shandong, thinking it should be enough. The 100 refining elite soldiers have experienced a hundred battles, and they have followed Lu Bing since the sixteenth year of Zhengde, and it has been almost ten years since then, from Beijing to Changzhou Mansion, from Changzhou Mansion to the sea, Li Xiang and Cai Longyu are all defeated generals under this group of 100 refined elite soldiers. In addition, Lu Bing also prepared another master for the family in Dengzhou Mansion, but the master will not be able to appear until later.

With the steady development of Shandong's foundation, as well as Lu Bing's prosperity in the officialdom, as well as the establishment of Cai Longyu's commanders, the hundred refined elite soldiers are nominally classified as Cai Longyu, but the actual control is still in Lu Bing's hands, and the advantage is that the number of people can be expanded and there is no need to worry, and private salt instantly became official salt.

Today, the number of elite soldiers has reached 3,000 people, and the backbone of them is still those veterans. The large number of people did not make Lu Bing lower his requirements for this group of elite soldiers, his body was strong, his reaction was flexible, and he obeyed orders honestly. Just talking about being tall, if you are in the south, you may have to choose for a while, but in Confucianism, Shandong, which is rich in Han people, this is not a problem. In terms of equipment, the elite soldiers are constantly replaced, maintaining the most advanced level in the country, whether it is armor or weapons, it is the best, and of course the treatment is also the best.

Therefore, many people want to rely on the relationship to enter the elite soldiers, even if it is a logistics with a slightly worse treatment, but the hundred refining elite soldiers is mainly grasped by Lu Bing, so all the relationships are useless, Lu Bing only needs the best. The families of the 100 refining elite soldiers enjoy a series of different treatment from ordinary people, not to mention tax exemption, there are also benefits during the New Year's Festival, if anyone produces a 100 refining elite soldiers, it is a supreme glory, the conditions are higher than the government's head catchers, and it is not as good as being an ordinary big soldier in the 100 refining elite soldiers. In Dengzhou Mansion, Lu Bing completely overthrew the common saying that good iron does not refine nails, and good men are not soldiers.

The combat effectiveness of these elite soldiers is not comparable to those spies who fought in the capital, they specialize in the art industry, the spies are responsible for spying on intelligence, and the specialty of the elite soldiers is to fight and kill. Lu Bing left a thousand people for Meng Xueqing, plus the martial arts people who came to help and invited them with a lot of money, not to mention Bai Yu and Dongfang Ao, who were the thirteenth of Mi, were enough to pacify all the guards in Shandong.

These people were responsible for guarding Lu Bing's family, while Duan Qingfeng rushed to the capital and followed Lu Song every step of the way. The spies are distributed in the Lu family's house, and they do not allow for any mistakes, and they take turns to protect them.

After settling down in his family, "Lu Bing" took most of the elite soldiers with him. Mightily headed towards Gutian.

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The desert is lonely, the sun sets over the long river, and the expedition goes out of Hanse, and the geese enter the Hutian.

The scenery of the desert is particularly charming. A red sun slowly sets as the poem says, dyeing everything on the horizon a blood-red color. The hot temperature is gradually receding, and the heat flow on the surface is constantly rising and about to run out, and the nights are cool, even cold, for the Northwest Desert.

A caravan of horses walked slowly in the desert, saying that it was a caravan of camels and horses. Since the opening of silk, even if there is a war. If the imperial court does not order a ban. Still unable to resist the trade between the two sides. The horses and merchants who traveled were desperate. What I earned back was gold and silver treasures, fine wine and delicacies, and beautiful women.

Silk, porcelain, and important tea, which the Han people had, were transported. In exchange for horses, gold, silver, cattle, sheep, weapons, etc., it can be said that it is a lifelong conversation. Seeing a wide range of colorful lives, beautiful women, wine and food, this is all desirable, people run for these, for this on the road.

Many people have only run the caravan trade once in their lives, while others have been on the road all their lives, and they are not short of money or have become accustomed to it. And those who have only run once are also divided into two situations, many people are contented and happy, just to understand the urgent need of the moment, make some money and then stop. Some have become dry bones in the vast desert, and they have remained here forever.

On this trade route, danger is everywhere, sand wolves, wild beasts, strange and strange things, at some point will turn into ghost towns and devour travelers. But this is all in the minority, and the places where strange things happen have long been passed down by the word of mouth of the merchants, so that they are avoided early on the road, and the large number of horse caravans, even if they do not have bows, arrows, sabers and muskets, have clubs for self-defense. Those sand wolves did not dare to invade, it is the tradition of horse teams to walk together, and many small horse gangs always like to rest in a fixed place, waiting for enough people to go on the road together.

Helping each other and keeping warm together has created a unique business atmosphere in the northwest, and everyone agrees to help people who are killed on the road, and they will also unite in the face of danger, because while helping others, they also protect themselves, and they may become the one who rescues them at some point.

Of course, the most dangerous thing in the northwest desert is not the sand wolf, nor is it strange, but there are three things.

First, horse bandits, needless to say, horse bandits are in groups, ranging from dozens to hundreds or even thousands, some of them work alone, and some of them are subordinate to a big horse bandit. Each bandit gang has its own prescribed range, and the average caravan gang cannot resist the attack of the horse bandits, even if it is the army of the imperial court, it has to retreat three points when encountering large horse bandits.

Say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or even make a wrong move, you will die under the knife or fire of the horse bandits, because the horse bandits are on the business road, so their weapons are very advanced, Chinese and Western fusion, from the half-moon knife to the crossbow and even the fire gun is not lacking, the Han people have a saying that the skills are not pressing, and for the horse bandits, there are more weapons are also prepared. Of course, the horse bandits robbed the road in order to make money and survive, if the horse team robbed every time, or robbed too ruthlessly, it would cut off the caravan's way of life, and over time, there would be no one on this road, so they half-robbed and half-nourished quite understand the truth of the long stream.

If there is really a situation where the stunned young man is born and robbed when he sees someone, the caravan will either take a detour or stop at all. The caravan made a detour and paid a protection fee, but the horse bandits next to it were not allowed to enter, and if there was no sale, they had to be forced to step into other people's territory and rob the road, and everyone's territory horse bandits were fought out of blood and flesh, and if they wanted to step on other people's territory, they were afraid that it would not be so easy. Therefore, most horse bandits only collect tolls by convention, so that road robbery becomes a kind of livelihood and sustainable development. If the Raptors of the River River come out of nowhere and break the rules, the other bandits will join forces with the caravan to destroy them.

The desert is vast, there is no card, and it is not necessary to pay money every time, as long as you encounter horse bandits, then you have to pay a certain amount of money to pass safely, and the amount of money paid is generally determined according to the number of goods and horses and camels transported. Some horse bandits have good moral character, and they don't charge money when they come back after collecting money in a single trip, and some are robbed several times and are quite tasteless.

If you can't meet the horse bandits, then you don't have to pay it, but there is another situation, that is, the caravan is too strong, and the caravan of thousands of people will not move the general horse bandits, for fear that someone will take the lead in eliminating harm for the people, and the horse bandits will fold into it themselves, then the gains outweigh the losses. After all, who came out of the horse gang didn't have the strength, enthusiasm and courage of the horses, and the guys in their hands were not vegetarians.

Horse bandits are bandits, and if bandits are reasonable, they are not called bandits, so even with so many rules, there are still many people who die at the hands of horse bandits every day.

The second thing that terrified the caravan caravan was the endless sand. On the way, quicksand may form somewhere, and deep pits will pull people and livestock into it, and some of them will be enlightened by wild sand before they can be saved. Even if the sinking is very slow, few people dare to rescue closely, and the edge of the quicksand is very dangerous. The general method is to throw out the rope, lassoness the trapped person or let the trapped person grab it by himself, pull it out with livestock, save it if it can be saved, and if it can't be rescued or not lassoed, then there is no way, it can only be buried here, and there are not a few people who die in this quicksand and sand pit.

However, the general caravan has a leading camel, they know the way, and they are more careful, so they mostly explore the road from the front, and avoid places like sand pits, so most of the caravans are in a long snake and follow the pace in front, which is also mostly for this reason.

Of course, the most terrible thing is the storm. The weather is unpredictable, the sand in the sky is uncertain, the powerful wind can blow people away, and the small power will also damage the goods, which is the most feared by the caravan. Not only individuals, but also the entire caravan is also in danger of encountering a big storm, no matter how many people you have, they are all equal in the face of the storm, and they will bury as many as they come. Compared to nature, man is too small.

Generally, before traveling, the caravan will look at the sky, and then judge whether there is a storm according to the season before choosing whether to travel. On the way, there will also be some fixed refuge points, and the remaining ancient city woods can help the caravan to avoid the storm. This is the role of the Silk Road, not only as a trade official, but also as a life-saving straw to mark the way down, and it is an empirical statement. With the passage of time and the change of climate, these places are constantly changing, and later generations are constantly improving the map of the Western Regions Road.

However, the desert is ruthless and unpredictable, he is a man with strong blood when he is strong, but his personality is like a changeable little woman. Often, the time before a cup of tea is still clear and the wind is beautiful, but after a while, it will be cloudy, lightning and thunder, and even the sky will be full of black and fierce winds, attracting the most feared and deadly sand of the caravan. At this time, if you can't go to the village and can't go to the store, then you can only resign yourself to fate and wait in a circle for Allah's final verdict.