After the end of the battle on the western front of Youzhou, Liu He returned to Jicheng with Guo Jia, Tian Chou and others, but left Xu Miao behind, the purpose was to let Xu Miao assist Zhao Yun and Zhang He to train a large number of Yuan Shao's troops captured from Bingzhou to Youzhou, and replenish the losses caused by the various armies after the successive battles as soon as possible.

Although Liu He was reluctant to replenish the captured Xianbei and Qingzhuang into his own troops, he had instructed his subordinates to select available soldiers from the captives to Gongsun Zhan's troops, Gongsun Du's troops, and Yuan Shao's troops a long time ago, and then after about half a year of ideological transformation and intensive training, they were incorporated into his own troops.

Over the years, according to Tian Chou's statistics, the actual number of soldiers recruited by Youzhou did not exceed 40,000, and the number of soldiers converted from the surrender of Han soldiers from all walks of life reached an astonishing 60,000.

For example, in the past two years, in the battles launched successively on the northern, western and eastern fronts, the soldiers of the old battalion who really belonged to Liu He when he first arrived in Youzhou accounted for less than 30%, and the soldiers who originally belonged to Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Du were later converted into the Youzhou camp accounted for 50%, and the remaining 20% were soldiers of the Wuhuan tribe.

Since Cao Cao and Gongsun Zhan were able to select a large number of soldiers from the large number of Qingzhou Yellow Turban rebels, and the Qingzhou soldiers under Cao Cao's command were even more amazing, it was not surprising for Liu He to select soldiers with a good foundation from among the captured Han soldiers.

In later generations, before the start of the three major battles, the total strength of the various troops led by Yan'an was less than one million, while the Nanjing side not only had a large number of elite troops with American-style equipment, but the total strength was as high as millions. As a result, the number of troops on the Yan'an side increased to millions after the three major battles, while the Nanjing side fought fewer and less.

Why? It is precisely because Yan'an has transformed more than 1.8 million troops who have rebelled and surrendered, and then turned around to deal with the skinhead troops together. As a result, the same soldiers fought completely different battles.

For example, among the more than one million insurrectionary troops in later generations, there was a field army that was reorganized and retained for a long time. In that war across the Yalu River, the army was the first to go abroad and participated in the first, second, third, and fourth battles, battles such as crossing the sea and attacking islands, and the defense of the north and west coast of the peninsula. Among them, in the third battle, the 149th Division to which it belonged created a miracle of war in which two infantry battalions used blasting canisters, explosive packs, and grenades to completely annihilate a tank battalion of the 29th Brigade of the British Army. The 1st Battalion of the 442nd Regiment to which he belonged took the lead in capturing Seoul; In the fourth battle that followed, the army stubbornly held out for 50 days and nights on the north and south banks of the Han River with extremely rudimentary weapons and equipment, and under extremely difficult conditions such as ammunition supply, and successfully completed the campaign task of covering the main force to assemble and carry out a counterattack on the central front, which was highly praised by Taizu and General Peng.

As Liu He, who came through time and space, he clearly knew that the special event of millions of officers and soldiers who defected to the army and fissioned their souls in the moment of history in later generations is not only an unprecedented war spectacle and historical spectacle in the history of 5,000 years of war, but also an unparalleled humanistic spectacle rooted in the land of China! Liu He didn't dare to expect that he would be so exaggerated in the future. However, he firmly believed in the great power of ideological transformation, so he gave Xu Miao many privileges, allowing him to use all kinds of means to draw the captured Han soldiers into his camp.

Xu Miao's work has always proven to be effective and remarkable. The converted soldiers have never mutined or defected over the years, and although there have been some frictions in the process of integrating the old and the new, a smooth transition has been achieved through the cautious response of the commanders of the various armies.

Everyone is Han Chinese. Although they are in different camps, the soldiers at the bottom are only forced to sell their lives to make ends meet, as long as the soldiers can see the hope of survival. Restrain soldiers with clear military discipline of rewards and punishments, all soldiers are good soldiers, and the gap is only between the rulers at the top and the generals who command the army!

In this era of rapid decline in the Han population, Liu He is actually retaining the most powerful vitality for the Han Dynasty through a silent way of moisturizing things, and what he hates most is the practice of not understanding how to kill tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers in history. If Liu He followed the brutal method of killing and surrendering, after he swept away all the warlords, he was afraid that he would not be able to deal with the invasion of many foreign races such as Dongyi, Beihu, Xiqiang, and Nanban, and then he could only watch the great rivers and mountains be ruined by groups of uncivilized cannibal barbarism.

When Liu He's order was delivered to Ma Cheng, Xu Miao had already completed the task of surrendering and transforming troops a month ago. The reason why it was so smooth was that Xu Miao asked people to invite the ordinary people whose families were broken and died who were transferred from the four northern counties of Bingzhou to Youzhou, and let them dedicate themselves to their own personal experiences, and then fiercely educated and stimulated these Yuan Ying soldiers who originally belonged to the camp of the Northern Route Army of Bingzhou.

The vast majority of these soldiers from the state were born in civilians and poor families, and some of their parents, wives and children also died under the butcher's knife of the Xianbei people in the south this time, so after listening to the blood and tears of the elders in their hometown, these soldiers were extremely ashamed, in addition to extreme shame, they were resentful and hateful to Yuan Shao and Feng Ji and other rulers, as well as a monstrous hatred for the Xianbei people.

An army, once it has a heart of shame and a goal of hatred, has a soul. And with a soul of troops, there are basic conditions for defeating the opponent.

Before Zhao Yun secretly went to Luoyang from Macheng, he had a three-day and night conversation with Xu Miao, specifically asking Xu Miao for advice on the methods and precautions for the transformation of troops, and Xu Miao also taught him everything, without any concealment and retention.

After Xu Miao received Liu He's order, he learned that he was now in charge of more than 15,000 generals under Gongsun Du in Yangle City and Changli City in Liaodong, and he immediately came to the momentum, he resigned to Zhang He, Liu Fang, Han Heng and others in the shortest possible time, and then returned to Jicheng with two entourages with mysterious identities.

The two people who went on the road with Xu Miao were Zhang Nan and Zhang Kai, brothers who were captured by Zhao Yun in Bingzhou. At that time, Zhao Yun and Zhang He led a large army to besiege and kill 15,000 soldiers and horses of Feng Ji, captured Feng Ji under the First World War, seriously injured the main general Zhang Xu and deputy general Jiao Touch, and also captured Zhang Nan and Zhang Kai by the way, and captured more than 12,000 soldiers. After Xu Miao's persuasion for half a year, Zhang Nan and Zhang Kai have made it clear that they are willing to switch to the camp, so Xu Miao took these two people to Liaodong this time, just to assist Xu Miao in managing the more than 15,000 troops in Yangle City and Changli City.

Soon after, Xu Miao returned to Jicheng. He went to visit Liu Yu, Han Fu, Zhao and other officials in turn, and then went to Gongzi's mansion and brought a lot of gifts to Liu He's two wives and a son. Unexpectedly, Xu Miao made a special trip to Cai's mansion to see Liu and his adopted daughter Cai Yu, who were fostered in the bachelor's mansion, and brought toys and gifts no less than Liu Xiang's to this little girl.

Xu Miao stopped in Jicheng for a while, and after a short reunion with his family, he took over the task of escorting grain, grass and military supplies from Jicheng to Lecheng, Yang, Liaodong, and then went on the road again.

Along the way from Jicheng to Lingzhi, there were troops sent by the Zhenbei Army to escort them, and it took seven days for the grain transport team to arrive at Lingzhi smoothly. At this time, it was early December.

When Liu He saw Xu Miao, he naturally had to have a long talk. As the propaganda minister hand-picked by Liu He, Xu Miao has worked hard for Liu He over the years, and he is also worthy of Liu He's trust and reuse. The Xu family in Jicheng is now in a more stable position in the city because of Xu Miao's relationship, faintly ranking behind the Liu family, the Zhao family, the Cai family and the Han family.

Liu He was also very happy to hear that Xu Miao persuaded Zhang Nan and Zhang Kai, although these two generals were only third-rate characters in the Three Kingdoms era, but now is the time to employ a large number of people, with Zhang Nan and Zhang Kai's switch to the camp, it is equivalent to setting an example for Yuan Shao's subordinates, and in the future, they will definitely be able to recruit second-rate or even first-class generals for Liu He's use.

Liu He took time to summon Zhang Nan and Zhang Kai alone, in addition to saying some words of comfort and encouragement, he also solemnly promised the two that as long as they could make contributions in Liaodong, they would definitely not be missing in the future with various promotions and rewards.

Liu He's reputation has always been good, and his reputation for cherishing talents has already spread all over the Han Dynasty.

After staying in Lingzhi City for a few days, Xu Miao set off on the road again. This time, the general responsible for escorting the grain team to Liaodong was replaced by Sun Li, the deputy general of the Dragon and Tiger Guard, and Liu He handed over 5,000 Dragon and Tiger infantry to Sun Li, and asked Sun Li to lead the team to Liaodong to help in the battle. Now that Xu Huang's cavalry is sufficient, but there is no large-scale infantry to assist in defending the city, Sun Li went with five thousand dragon and tiger guards, but he counted them in one fell swoop, which not only ensured the safety of the food team, but also could replenish Xu Huang's troops, and also help Xu Huang train new soldiers.

In the cold winter, the road from Lingzhi to Yangle is blocked by heavy snow, but this kind of trouble can not stop the army of grain transportation that has been prepared for a long time, and the most important thing in Youzhou now is the cattle and horses that carry goods, and the sled specially developed by the Logistics Department for the heavy snow terrain is also very light and easy to use, so although this road will be hard and long, it will not be trapped in the middle of the bad weather.

After half a month of hard work, on the twentieth day of the lunar month, Sun Li escorted a huge grain team to Yangle City. Although they encountered some malicious tailgating detectives along the way, the deterrent power of the five thousand Dragon and Tiger Guard soldiers understood that if anyone wanted to pick up something cheap, it would be equivalent to hitting the knife edge, and the end would be ugly.

Tian Yu, who was standing at the head of the city in anticipation, finally fell in his heart when he saw the convoy coming from the south.

Sun Li and the others are a few days late, and Xu Huangke will order to kill the horses as food! (To be continued......)