Human nature is evil, and its good ones are hypocritical.

We don't know how much Liu Bang resonates with Xunzi's famous sentence, but there is no question of whether his grasp of human nature has indeed reached the peak.

With a greater temptation, the coalition army Shili was tied to his chariot, and when everyone's attention was focused on occupying Xingyang and Changyi, imagining that they could get more spoils, the power to unify and dispatch the baggage of the whole army continued to be controlled by Xiao He, the chief of Liu Bang.

“haha！ What Pei Gong refers to is exactly what Peng expected. In the face of the bait thrown by Liu Bang, Peng Yue, the giant thief who knew the situation in Changyi best, took the lead in responding.

"Juye-kun, in the battle of Xingyang, you can be the vanguard!" Liu Bang was very satisfied with Peng Yue's response, and immediately gave Peng Yue a substantial return.

"No! Xie Peigong. Peng Yue shouted the order. Pioneer - . Since he is the arrow of the whole army, he is also the first person to make the contribution after breaking the city. Peng Yue, who was clear about the emptiness of Xingyang's troops, was of course very satisfied. Pei Gong is very magnanimous, and it seems that as long as you put a little more effort into his footsteps and follow in his footsteps, you will get a rich reward.

"Pei Gong, Xingyang is not far from our army's garrison, Pu can help Juyejun to attack the city!" When General Pu saw that he was preempted by Peng Yue, his face darkened, and he immediately rushed forward and said.

"Haha, we all listen to Pei Gong, and when Xingyang City is defeated, we will have a celebration banquet!"

"Haha, the peony building in Xingyang City is famous far and wide, brother, I have long wanted to try it!"

After an exchange of interests, the coalition parties finally reached an agreement on the distribution of the spoils of war and the next step, that is, the spoils of war will not be distributed for the time being, unified scheduling, unified management, and wait until Xingyang and Changyi are taken, and then the decision will be made.

Liu Bang once again succeeded in bringing the princes who participated in the coalition army under his command, which was the embodiment of his political ability, and it was also the reason why Liu Bang was defeated by Xiang Yu again and again in the four years of the Chu and Han wars, but he had more troops than once, and in the face of such an increasingly powerful opponent, Li Yuan could not have the slightest pride and slackness.

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Luoyang.

The county seat of Sanchuan County, two thousand years later, it has a resounding name: Luoyang, compared with Xingyang, a military town on the bank of the big river, the geographical location of Luoyang is more important, here in the north according to the mountain, in the south to look at Yique, Luoshui runs through it, according to the east according to the Tiger Pass, west to control the Hangu Pass, it can be said that the center of the whole China is Luoyang.

Yang Xiong, Li Yuan, and Sima Yin led 7,000 Qin soldiers all the way west, and after six days of difficult marching, they finally arrived at Luoyang City and settled down.

Excluding the wounded, those who died along the way, and those who fell behind and did not know where to go, the final number of the remaining number of the Qin army field force in Sanchuan County was 6,073 people. Among them: more than 2,100 crossbowmen, accounting for nearly one-third of the total; There were more than 2,900 foot soldiers, accounting for less than half; The rest of the more than 1,000 people are cavalry, but the war horses are seriously insufficient, and the horses are counted to be no more than 600 horses.

Lack of horseshoe protection is the biggest problem of horse loss, no horseshoe is also one of the reasons, the legs are stressed on the horse's abdomen is easy to cause the horse's internal organs to be injured and incurable, the damage to the internal organs is difficult to see from the appearance, and once found, it is too late to want to be treated, the service life of the cavalry war horse is the key to the long-term war, in the historical record of the Han Wu Northern Expedition era, even if there is a policy to encourage households to raise horses, it can not help the consumption of the Northern Expedition year after year.

The problem of war horses, Li Yuan can only go step by step, Luoyang is a much larger county than the white horse, the problem of iron, the problem of skilled craftsmen should have more choices, after a little thought, Li Yuan handed over this problem of Jishu innovation related to the improvement of cavalry combat effectiveness to Sima Yin.

Sima Yin had long admired Li Yuan's heroic appearance in the Battle of the White Horse, and now seeing that Li Yuan had handed over such an important military secret to himself, he was immediately moved and assured that except for him Sima Yin and the jishu craftsmen who participated in the research and development, others would never want to know the production method of horseshoe and horse shoes.

Facing the extremely eager Sima Yin, Li Yuan's face couldn't help but turn red, he couldn't do it like Liu Bang, to be honest, it is not a difficult invention to use iron to make horseshoes and horseshoes, as long as the craftsman's jishu passes, and the flexibility of wrought iron after repeated forging is guaranteed when smelting iron metal, imitation is not a difficult thing.

The innovation on the jishu will inevitably bring about a chain of social effects, for example, the threat of the opponent's imitation, the lesson that the blue is better than the blue, these must be considered clearly in advance, in this regard, Li Yuan is not as conservative as Sima Yin, in the era of information development, the leakage of trade secrets is almost commonplace, as the inventor of jishu, the first thing to do, is not to be conservative to cover up the secret, but should think about how to be one step ahead.

No one has me, no one has me. This advertising slogan made Li Yuan think it was true.

Sima Yin focused on crafting matters, and Yang Xiong was a little disheartened after the successive defeats, and rarely bothered with the reorganization of the army, and Li Yuan naturally became the de facto leader of the surviving Qin army. After showing the bravery on the battlefield, Li Yuan began to learn to manage the team with scheming, although there is still a gap between him and Liu Bang in terms of technique, but the effect is the same.

November of the third year of the Great Qin II (with October as the first year).

After ten days of intensive reorganization in Luoyang, Li Yuan finally successfully digested Yang Xiong's remaining troops, and the six thousand generals were divided into four parts by Li Yuan, which was already the most elite first part of Wang Shangling, the only remaining Wang Shangling in Li Yuan's lineage, and the remaining trilogy was handed over to the three newly promoted military marquis.

Among them, the officers of the two parts continued to use Yang Xiong's old department, which was also considering that all his subordinates would be replaced by their own descendants at once, and they were afraid that Yang Xiong's old department would have any thoughts in their hearts. At the same time, according to Li Yuanzhao's plagiarism of the people's army's training, the low-level officers at the level of Qu Chang, Tun Chang, and Shi Chang were selected through selection, so that even if these two military marquis had different intentions, they could not make any big waves.

In the Zuihou section, Li Yuan's unexpected position as the general marquis was handed over to Jiang Yu, who participated in the Qin army in Baima, and this Jiang Yu was the nephew of Jiang Teng (Nei Shi Teng), a famous minister of the Qin State, who once served as a military marquis during the Qin army's southern expedition to Baiyue, and later returned to his hometown due to unaccustomed water and soil.

In this breakout battle, Jiang Yu's performance was remarkable, especially in terms of reconnaissance scouts, Jiang Yu seemed to have an innate keen sense of smell, and could detect possible anomalies in advance, which made Li Yuan, who had always attached great importance to scouts, very interested.

In terms of cavalry, Luo Jia, who was gradually becoming a fish in water on horseback, became the captain of the cavalry, and the six hundred elite cavalry under his command had become Li Yuan's most reliable assault liliang. Gu Yun, the only one who survived the Battle of the White Horse, was transferred by Li Yuan to Qinbingtun, no one questioned this, Gu Yun's performance on the battlefield was no worse than others, and she was transferred to Li Yuan's side so that the only surviving seeds of Gan and Zhou could be alive.

After the baptism of this big war, Li Yuan no longer thought about who sent Gu Yun, what was the purpose of approaching him? In his eyes, Gu Yun is a trustworthy soldier and a warrior who has passed the test of life and death on the battlefield.