Cheng Qianfan is a veteran who is over forty years old, who followed Emperor Yan to fight in the south and the north, although he has not made any great achievements, he can only succumb to the position of the deputy general of the Longxiang army for more than ten years and cannot move, but Bai Jin is very important to him, and now most of the military affairs of the Longxiang army have been handed over to him, and he is the real commander of the Longxiang army. No, Qianfan has no ambition, and he is very loyal to Emperor Yan. So when he got Emperor Yan's will to let Long Xiangjun follow Ji Qingchen to the north and let him be the deputy head of the Northern Liao Xingying Camp, he knew that Emperor Yan's intention was to let him assist Ji Qingchen, so he came to the Northern Liao Palace.

When the guards invited Cheng Qianfan to the study, he finished saluting Ji Qingchen, and the maid served tea again, took a small sip very politely, and chatted with Ji Qingchen about some gossip, and he led the topic to the matter of sending troops to the north this time.

"Your Highness, this time the army is heading north to Caozhou, and the Long Xiang army can only march in two parts, otherwise it may delay the trip." Cheng Qianfan said.

"Oh-" Ji Qingchen asked puzzled, "why is that?" ”

"Because the Longxiang army has the obligation to defend the King's Landing City, 40,000 people in the army are foot soldiers, and only 60,000 are cavalry. His Highness's strategy against Beirong this time is to be fast, and the marching speed of the Longxiang army of 40,000 foot soldiers may not be able to meet His Highness's requirements. Cheng Qianfan explained.

As the deputy general of the Long Xiang Army, even the mixed infantry and cavalry army of the Long Xiang Army did not know what to do, which made Ji Qingchen very embarrassed, he coughed softly twice to hide his embarrassment, and asked Cheng Qianfan, "General Cheng, are there brave generals and fierce generals in the Long Xiang Army?" ”

He asked this because he wanted to know the generals of Long Xiang's army, otherwise how would he arrange the troops and dispatch the troops!

"Since the battle with the Xishu army at Jianmen Pass three years ago, Sergeant Long Xiang has suffered heavy casualties, and the number of generals in the army has plummeted, and now there are not many generals who can take on big responsibilities." Cheng Qianfan said with a sigh, took out a list from his sleeve, and handed the list to Ji Qingchen. Cheng Qianfan is talking about the battle when Emperor Yan personally conquered Xishu three years ago and folded at the Sword Gate Pass of Xishu! Ji Qingchen took the list, took a cursory glance, and found that it was written with the names of the captains and partial generals of each battalion of the Longxiang Army, and their combat exploits and advantages and disadvantages were also written in small characters below.

Looking at the names of less than ten people on the list, Ji Qingchen felt a bleak sadness in his heart. The dragon army of Dayan, the 100,000 elite army guarding the King's Landing City, the number of generals who can be used now is less than ten, what is this concept? Doesn't that mean that this army has been beaten badly? Doesn't it mean that after the First World War three years ago, the Long Xiang Army has not recovered in the past three years? With such an army, how could it stop the 200,000 Beirong iron cavalry from moving south?

Seeing that Ji Qingchen didn't speak, Cheng Qianfan was also silent.

Because his heart is not comfortable, the ruined Long Xiang Army is now the way it is, and he also sees it in his eyes and remembers it in his heart, but what can he do? Three years ago, a war with Beirong, and the collapse of the Jianmen Pass in Xishu, made the livelihood of Dayan wither, the people lived in hardship, which made Dayan give up the armament, and adopted a policy of rest and recuperation, only to alleviate the emptiness of the treasury caused by the war, the phenomenon of displacement of the people, and because of this, the proposal to reorganize the Longxiang army was not passed, and there is now a shortage of generals in the Longxiang army, and the lack of training of soldiers and soldiers.

Cheng Qianfan was promoted step by step from the sergeant in the Long Xiang Army to the position of the deputy general of the Long Xiang Army today, he has a deep affection for the Long Xiang Army, and he is also very sad to see that the Long Xiang Army, which he has been in for half his life, has become such a remnant soldier now.

"There are still ten days before the troops are dispatched, so let this king figure out a way to solve the general's problem!" Ji Qingchen said.

He felt that the Long Xiang army lacked generals, which was not a bad thing, at least he could arrange his henchmen around him into the Long Xiang army, so that he could better control this army.

But on closer thought, he dismissed the idea.

Because the Longxiang army is the only army that defends King's Landing, no matter what kind of battle the Longxiang army is involved in, no matter how heavy the losses are, as long as the war is over, it must return to King's Landing City, and defend the safety of King's Landing, to put it bluntly, the Longxiang army is the pro-army of Emperor Yan, if you arrange the henchmen and generals around you into such an army, it is not equivalent to inserting cronies into Emperor Yan's pro-army, which seems to be a bit inappropriate.

"Then there is His Highness Lao!" Cheng Qianfan said. The purpose of his visit this time was to inform Ji Qingchen of the current situation of the Long Xiang Army, so that Ji Qingchen could have a general understanding of the Long Xiang Army and be mentally prepared, so as not to find that the Long Xiang Army had low combat effectiveness, the lack of generals and the mistakes made when transferring troops.

"How's the training of the soldiers?" Without qualified middle-level generals, the training of soldiers will naturally not be able to be discussed, but Ji Qingchen still asked unwillingly.

Cheng Qianfan did not answer Ji Qingchen immediately, but pondered for a moment, and then said, "Because of the lack of battalion-level generals, the last general can only let them train 60,000 cavalry soldiers among the cavalry arranged by these only generals, and now the 60,000 iron cavalry in the army has good combat effectiveness, and they can fight with Beirong, as for the 40,000 foot soldiers, their combat effectiveness may be the same as the current state armies in various states." ”

In addition to the four elite and the border army guarding the border passes, there are also a number of state troops in each state to maintain the security and stability of each state, and the food and equipment of the state army in each state are provided by the state assassins, which makes the state army in each state not only small in number and lack of training, but also poorly equipped and low in combat effectiveness, only a little stronger than ordinary farmers. And now Cheng Qianfan said that the combat effectiveness of the 40,000 foot soldiers in the Long Xiang army is the same as that of the state army, so you can imagine what kind of embarrassment they will have when they go to the Beirong Iron Cavalry.

"Well, let them go north with the cavalry! When they arrived in Caozhou City, the king would gather them and the defeated army in Caozhou City to train for a few months, and he would not be afraid that he would not be able to train an elite foot soldier. Ji Qingchen said.

"Yes! That's all it can be! Cheng Qianfan agreed.

Immediately, the two chatted for a moment about their respective thoughts on going north to fight against the Beirong Iron Cavalry, and seeing that it was not early, Cheng Qianfan said goodbye to Ji Qingchen and left the Northern Liao Palace. Ji Qingchen, who sent Cheng Qianfan out of the small courtyard of the study, lowered his eyebrows and pondered when he returned to the study, and from time to time he wrote and drew on the paper, smeared and changed, and finally after careful consideration, he determined a list of middle-level generals who continued to fill in the lack of Longxiang's army.

The names of the generals on this are all from the Yulin Cavalry, or among the Ouchi guards. The Yulin Cavalry and the Ouchi Guards are the pro-troops of the Yan Emperor's pro-army, and Ji Qingchen feels that if the generals in the Yulin Cavalry and the Ouchi Guards are transferred to the Longxiang Army, the Yan Emperor will definitely not have any opinions.

Just when Ji Qingchen was about to dig the corner of the wall into Emperor Yan's two personal guard armies, the second prince Ji Ping's Lu Wangfu and the eighth prince's study, the two were also discussing with their henchmen and advisers about digging the corner of Emperor Yan's wall.

Because Ji Ping was actually awarded the governor of Xizhou, but because Xishu is a subject country of Dayan, Dayan has no garrison on the border of Xishu, only 3,000 Xizhou state troops as symbolic guards, so that Emperor Yan ordered him to form the Xishu Governor's Office, according to the financial supply of the two states, his Xizhou Governor's Mansion needs 10,000 cavalry and 40,000 foot soldiers. In desperation, Ji Ping could only discuss countermeasures with the fifth prince Ji Ying, the sixth prince Ji Yong, and his advisers, preparing to attack Emperor Yan's Yulin Cavalry and Da Nei guards, and strive to dig up a few decent talents to come over to assist him.

"This time it's cheaper, Lao Jiu, this kid! Hum! "It's Ji Yong, the sixth prince, who spoke, and he and Ji Qingchen have already formed a relationship, so they can't get used to Ji Qingchen like this," for no reason, he got a second-grade Northern Liao governor, who is two levels higher than the second brother and your Xizhou governor, and has more troops, this time his father asked him to lead 300,000 troops to fight against Beirong, I really don't know how he got his shit luck. ”

"Sixth brother, you are wrong-" The fifth prince suddenly retorted, "You think that Lao Jiu has taken advantage, but for my brother, I think that Lao Jiu is already difficult to ride a tiger, and his situation is also dangerous!" ”

"Oh-" When the sixth prince heard the fifth prince say this, he immediately became interested, and asked, "What did the fifth brother say?" ”

"This second brother knows better than me, so let the second brother explain it to us!" The fifth prince's very interesting voice was handed over to the second prince Ji Ping. Ji Ping didn't shirk either, just coughed softly, and said, "Sixth brother, do you think the Beirong cavalry is so easy to deal with?" If it was so easy to deal with, the prince would not have died in Yanmen Pass back then, and the 100,000 elites of Dayan would not have been slaughtered by 30,000 Beirong cavalry, so don't look at Lao Jiu now commanding 300,000 troops, and the power is above 10,000 people, but if this 300,000 army is really against the 200,000 iron cavalry of Beirong, I am afraid that it will be the result of a battle and collapse. I'm afraid that what I don't lose is only the position of the head of the Northern Liao Xing Camp, and even the position of the governor of the Northern Liao is not guaranteed! ”

"That's right! The second brother is right. The fifth prince Ji Ying echoed, "Compared to Lao Jiu, our situation is much better, because Xishu still doesn't dare to start a war with Dayan, the current Xizhou and Xining Prefecture are relatively stable and peaceful, as long as we are given three to five years, the second brother can train a strong army, and when the time comes——"

"What the fifth said may not be all right-" The second prince Ji Ping interrupted the words of the fifth prince Ji Ying, and said in a deep voice, "Xishu may not have dared to start a war with Dayan before, but now the situation is different, as long as Caozhou is defeated, Dayan's army cannot stop the pace of Beirong's 200,000 iron horsemen going south, and Xishu may take the opportunity to capture Xizhou and Xining Prefecture, so our situation is also very dangerous, and the establishment of the Xizhou Governor's Mansion is imminent." ”

"Well, the second brother is right, it was the younger brother who was careless just now." The fifth prince, Ji Ying, immediately admitted his mistakes in his remarks, and continued to suggest, "If we want to establish the Xizhou Governor's Mansion and let the Xizhou Governor's Mansion form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, what we lack most is the commander of the army!" I don't know what the second brother has in this regard? ”

"For now, you can choose from the Feather Forest Ride!" The second prince Ji Ping said reluctantly. Because he knows very well that the generals of Yulin Cavalry are one of the brave generals in a million, which will be of great help to him to build a new governor of Xizhou and quickly gather combat effectiveness, but in terms of loyalty, it will be very weak, at least if he wants to completely recover the generals from Yulin Cavalry, it will take him a long time.

As Ji Ping's alliance, the fifth prince and the sixth prince are also embarrassed, and naturally there are no good generals around the two, so they can only agree with Ji Ping's opinion and dig a corner of Yulin Cavalry.

Also worried about the selection of generals is the eighth prince Ji Qian, but Emperor Yan has already ordered Li Muzhi to follow Ji Qian south, that is, let Li Muzhi assist Ji Qian to control the Yizhou army and establish the Nanyi Governor's Mansion as soon as possible. Therefore, Ji Qian was worried not only about the lack of henchmen and generals, but also about how to treat Jiang Rengui and Li Muzhi.

Ji Qian knew that Jiang Rengui supported him in terms of the princes staying in the East Palace. But he also knew that if he wanted to completely control the Yizhou army, he had to overthrow Jiang Rengui and eliminate Jiang Rengui's henchmen and generals in the army. Based on Jiang Rengui's relationship with his mother and uncle, Ji Qian thinks that it is not difficult to overhead Jiang Rengui, but the difficulty is that he has no loyal subordinates around him.

The second is to consider how to deal with Li Muzhi.

Because through Emperor Yan's arrangement, it is obvious that Li Muzhi's arrival in Yizhou is only temporary, the purpose is to deter the Lingnan Yi people, and at the same time, he is a bit like a minister of Qincha to supervise the formation of the Nanyi Governor's Mansion, which makes Ji Qian embarrassed, should he decentralize power to Li Muzhi? Or is he treated as a member of the army?

Thinking about it, in terms of generals, Ji Qian could only focus on the Yulin Cavalry, he felt that the Yulin Cavalry was the elite selected from the hundreds of thousands of elites of Dayan, and it was much easier to select a few generals in the Yulin Cavalry and then train them to be his henchmen than to select some generals from the ordinary army and then train them to be his own henchmen. He couldn't think of a proper way to deal with Li Muzhi, so he could only decide to ask his uncle for advice the next day.

Like Ji Ping and Ji Qian, Ji Hongchang, the third prince who was appointed governor of Ningzhou today, is much calmer than the two, because Ningzhou is the foundation of the Liu family, and he is the grandson of the head of the Liu family.

But what made him unhappy was that he couldn't go to the Caozhou front line to fight against the Beirong Iron Cavalry.

This made him very angry, he felt that with his own ability, whether it was in terms of commanding troops or personal martial arts, he was no worse than Ji Qingchen, and even surpassed, why didn't his father let him go to Caozhou? He felt that there was only one reason, that is, Ji Qingchen had a good teacher, who was good at using cavalry warfare, and was known as Li Qingyi, the grandmaster of cavalry warfare in the world. However, he was angry, but for Ji Qingchen to go north to Caozhou to fight Beirong, Dayan was at a disadvantage, and he did not gloat about Ji Qingchen's situation in this regard.

As for Ji Wen, the fourth prince who was named the secretary of the country, his heart was very comfortable!

Because he himself likes poetry and songs, his writing is brilliant, and he doesn't like soldiers, if Emperor Yan actually gives him the position of governor of one side, it may be a disaster for him, and let him go to Guozijian to do business, but it is in line with his mind, because in this way, he can collect a group of new scholars through the imperial examination for his own use, and he can also get along with the sons of Guozijian day and night, so as to find the talents he needs.

So thinking of this, Ji Wen's heart is very good!