Chapter 906: Surge in Troops

"Everything is going well," Yang Shifeng's answer is very simple.

Such a brief answer did not satisfy Lin Xuanzhong, so after Ruan Yi gave the same answer, Lin Xuanzhong asked Zhou Wenfeng and the others to go back to rest, and he took people to inspect the camp. The 100,000 army spread out in a huge formation, and it took Lin Xuanzhong a stick of incense to inspect only a part of the area, but what he saw could satisfy Lin Xuanzhong.

The performance of the new army is not much different from the old army, but the combat strength of the entire army is not yet known. In order to ensure that the combat power is only strong and not weak, Lin Xuanzhong plans to strengthen the training between soldiers by making wooden weapons, so as to improve the actual combat ability of soldiers.

After instructing this idea, Lin Xuanzhong thought of the previous idea again, they wanted to train shield soldiers, so Lin Xuanzhong handed over this matter to some people to take charge of. It can be said that in a blink of an eye, he found a lot of things to do for the people below, of course, at present, strengthening training and adding a shield battalion are only Lin Xuanzhong's initial ideas, Lin Xuanzhong did not ask the following generals to complete it as soon as possible, so the following generals have no opinion.

After the generals below accepted their respective duties, Lin Xuanzhong deliberately went to Hong Yu again. It is worth mentioning that since being promoted to deputy general by Lin Xuanzhong, Hong Yu's current status in the army can actually be compared with some ordinary generals. In the future, the greater the role of the Ministry of Intelligence, the stronger Hong Yu's strength will be, and the higher his status will be.

After seeing Lin Xuanzhong, Hong Yu was naturally very excited, and directly reported the situation in the barracks to Lin Xuanzhong without Lin Xuanzhong asking.

According to Hong Yu, perhaps because there are too many people in the army, the process of selecting talents is somewhat difficult, but the process of training personnel has not encountered any problems. Because of the limited time, for Lin Xuanzhong, it is a good thing that Hong Yu can make progress. It would be great if Hong Yu could make more progress before going to war with other countries.

When he returned to the military tent again, Lin Xuanzhong, who was very satisfied with the changes in the camp, was finally relieved. Since there is no problem in the army, the next thing is to wait for Zhang Jiutian to come to the meeting with his troops, and wait for Lan Ce to issue an order to them. No matter where Lan Ce wanted to send them, Lin Xuanzhong had no opinion, he just wanted to hand over the army to Zhang Jiutian as soon as possible. Of course, some problems are the same as before, with Zhang Jiutian's current ability, he may not be able to command an army of more than 200,000 people, so the next thing to do is to support Zhang Jiutian.

After Zhang Jiutian came over, Lin Xuanzhong would hand over the military affairs to Zhang Jiutian as before, and now in addition to being worried about Princess Lan Xin's affairs, Lin Xuanzhong's state of mind has stabilized.

Three days passed in a flash, and after three days of calm, Lin Xuanzhong's refusal of Lan Ce's marriage finally reached the barracks in the form of grapevine. For those who already knew about it, Lin Xuanzhong's refusal to marry was a big deal, big enough to affect Lin Xuanzhong's reputation.

What came to the barracks was the result of the discussion among the people outside, and there were two theories about Lin Xuanzhong's refusal to marry. Some people feel that Lin Xuanzhong is proud of his achievements and does not know how to elevate himself, and some people feel that Lin Xuanzhong has the right to choose. Because there was an argument about it, some soldiers who had gone to the city to buy goods overheard about it and brought the news to the army.

One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and soon the people in the army understood why when Lin Xuanzhong came back that day, his face was not as high-spirited as they imagined, it turned out that it was because he offended the emperor in the imperial city. When the matter reached Lin Xuanzhong's ears, after lamenting that the paper could not contain the fire after all, Lin Xuanzhong directly ordered that no one in the army should be allowed to talk about this matter in private, otherwise it would be dealt with by military law.

Originally, many people already felt that it was not good to discuss this matter in private, but when Lin Xuanzhong's military order was issued, those who liked to discuss Lin Xuanzhong's private affairs could only suppress their inner restlessness and did not dare to discuss it privately with others. Some other people who were originally towards Lin Xuanzhong were already helping Lin Xuanzhong maintain his reputation, but unfortunately this could not alleviate Lin Xuanzhong's guilt towards Princess Lan Xin.

It is worth mentioning that when the rumors flowed into the army, Lan Ce's order followed. When the envoy read out the contents of the holy decree, Lin Xuanzhong had a feeling that it was not surprising that Lan Ce was really going to transfer them to the western border. Although there is no definite deadline, it undoubtedly means that they can pass as quickly as possible.

According to Lin Xuanzhong's conjecture, if Lan Ce let them make meritorious contributions, he would definitely not send them to the eastern realm to fight, because the merits of the eastern realm are easy to obtain, and going there can make them get rid of the impact of refusing to marry as soon as possible. In addition, the personnel who make up this army come from many backgrounds, and it is not conducive to controlling Lin Xuanzhong to send them to the eastern border, because the family affairs have not been formed, Lan Ce does not want Lin Xuanzhong to quickly increase his strength, lest Lin Xuanzhong really be proud of his achievements in the future, and it will not be easy to control.

If Lin Xuanzhong is sent to the western realm, Lin Xuanzhong's growth can be curbed to a certain extent, of course, another marshal will be sent over just in case, if Lin Xuanzhong's prestige can be suppressed. Lan Ce's various considerations were not much different from Lin Xuanzhong's thoughts, but Lan Ce didn't know Lin Xuanzhong's true thoughts. If he knew that Lin Xuanzhong wanted to leave the army, Lan Ce didn't need to think too much about it at all. However, the matter has come to this point, and what Lin Xuanzhong has to consider is no longer Lan Ce's idea, but the next transfer of troops.

After instructing Chang Siyuan to send a message to Zhang Jiutian to come as soon as possible, the army here has already begun to make preparations. There are more than 1,000 miles from the Purple Cloud Country to the western border of the Night Country, and according to the calculation of a 100-mile march in one day, it will take about half a month for the grain and grass team to reach there, and as for the large ordnance team, it will take at least 20 days to wait for the 200,000 troops to arrive there. I don't know how long it will be after the fight with the enemy forces over there.

Not long after asking Chang Siyuan to send someone to deliver the message, Lin Xuanzhong then asked Hong Yu to send some secret agents to rush to the western border of the Night Kingdom as soon as possible to find out all the information related to the next war. Letting those spies set off from the Purple Cloud Country in advance and rely on their own ability to rush to the western border of the Night Country is a preliminary test for those spies, if someone can't do it, it proves that their ability is insufficient.

As for the news in the northern part of Shanhaiguan, Lin Xuanzhong planned to wait until after the garrison to consider it, and now Lin Xuanzhong did not dare to send the secret agent to such a far place. After arranging some affairs, Lin Xuanzhong inspected the barracks again. Those new troops may be because they are about to go to the battlefield, and they all look a little nervous. And those elites of the night army are full of spirit one by one, and it seems that they are already in a hurry to fight and make meritorious contributions.

Now that the size of the armed forces has more than doubled in size as before, we must think of an effective way to calculate military merits in the future, and we must not be unfair in recording merits. It has always been a difficult thing to keep a fair record of meritorious service, and according to the past practice, it is impossible to determine the veracity of their respective statements by simply reporting the numbers of the officers and soldiers below, and sometimes some people will lie about the killing of the enemy's junior officers and generals.

I've heard a lot of people say that there are problems with their military records, and some people have reported others for cheating. Now think about it, when there are fewer people, they can work together towards a common goal, but when there are more people, it is still necessary to give some people a chance to make a difference. The issue of military merit is by no means a trivial matter, because of all the previous considerations, Lin Xuanzhong wanted to hand over Zhang Jiutian a truly sound army before leaving.

So, in the past few days waiting for Zhang Jiutian to bring his troops over, Lin Xuanzhong wanted to discuss the development of the army with the generals.

Two days later, after receiving news from Lin Xuanzhong, Zhang Jiutian directly followed Lin Xuanzhong's instructions to speed up the march, but it would take some time to get to Lin Xuanzhong.

In the past period of time, Zhang Jiutian encountered a lot of things in Gu Country. Because of the hurry of Gu Huang's escape, many Gu Guo royal clansmen only received the news later, at first they thought that Gu Huang would fight back with Xingguo's army, but then the truth was not as they thought, so because they were afraid that the Blue Kingdom would take them out, the royal clans scattered all over the country wanted to escape, but some wanted to escape because they were too slow or their geographical location was not good.

As early as when Lin Xuanzhong led his troops to leave from Star Chasing City, the commander of the Lei Army and Bai Shuilian each led their troops to the south of the Valley Country, so after the two armies stopped in front, none of the people who wanted to escape could escape. Therefore, many royal relatives of the Gu Kingdom were stopped, and some people simply went into the mountains to become bandits.

Speaking of which, if those royal relatives did not flee, they would indeed be suppressed by the Blue Country, but according to the past practice, the Blue Country would not put them to death, so their spontaneous surrender to the Great Blue Country must be better than the result of running away and being caught. Of course, there are indeed many people who directly express their submission to the Blue Country, and it turns out that those people's choice is not right, although their original position cannot be kept, but the situation is very safe.

When Bai Shuilian and the former commander of the Lei Army were busy stabilizing the situation in the Gu Kingdom, Zhang Jiutian, who led an army, helped them deal with a lot of things in the central area of the Gu Kingdom. Thanks to the current abundance of troops, everything is going smoothly.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that many people from Gu Country have joined the army recently, and this is when the night army has not issued a conscription obituary. In less than half a month, the number of people joining the army from all over the country has reached 50,000, and some of them are still the 60,000 Gu troops who are unwilling to submit to the blue country.

What is even more surprising is that because Yang Guo recruited too many soldiers, but could not support so many troops, he finally handed over the extra 50,000 personnel to Shi Jiangchuan and others to command, and then asked Shi Jiangchuan to bring people to Gu Guo to join Lin Xuanzhong's army. And long before Lin Xuanzhong was given marriage, Lan Ce had agreed to this matter.