Chapter 42 Training and Preparing for War

After dealing with the four of Wei Tianquan, Zhou Yunfeng didn't ramble, and directly ordered eleven people (including Zhou Yunhu) to start selecting soldiers immediately, and after selecting the soldiers, they also needed to determine the list of commanders.

Zhou Yunfeng would not participate in these things, he threw them all to Zhou Yunlong and others, and only gave them two days.

In fact, they didn't need to choose more than 100,000, because the soldiers who had been increasing one after another after the Qinglong Army and Zhou Yunfeng won the five cities didn't need to be selected.

It is naturally the elite who can be selected to travel this time to go deep behind enemy lines, and those who can be selected to supplement the Qinglong Army will naturally not be bad, so there are nearly 50,000 of them who do not need to be selected, if there are really incompetent among them, it would be good to eliminate them directly.

After Zhou Yunfeng gave an order, the entire Gukou City began to get busy, and the selection of soldiers was in full swing, because the Qinglong Army of the descendants was mobilized, so the selection was carried out quickly.

The two days given by Zhou Yunfeng had not yet arrived, and the roster of soldiers had already reached Zhou Yunfeng's hands, and it also included a list of candidates for the commander.

"How many people?" Zhou Yunfeng asked as he picked up the roster and flipped through two pages.

"Eighty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-eight!" replied Long Hao.

"That's right! With the blood killing team, there are almost 90,000 people!" Zhou Yunfeng said with a smile.

"Count how many war horses we have that we can use?" Zhou Yunfeng continued.

"I know that you have to ask, so I have already arranged for someone to count yesterday, and the results will already be available this morning!" Zhou Yunhu said with a smile, and gave Zhou Yunfeng a piece of paper to record the statistical results.

"Wildebeest: 1,966. War Horses: Sixty-four thousand!" Zhou Yunfeng looked at the data, frowned and muttered: "I also plan to assemble all the Fengyun Division into cavalry, but now I can't come!"

Before the battle of the gravel slope, Zhou Yunfeng had nearly 50,000 light cavalry, and in the gravel slope, he wiped out 20,000 light cavalry in Gukou City in one fell swoop and obtained more than 10,000 war horses.

Among the 50,000 reinforcements who attacked Cong Yun, they were composed of 2,000 horned cavalry, 15,000 light cavalry, and 33,000 infantry, so in that battle, Zhou Yunfeng got a lot of wildebeest and war horses.

Although in the war, everyone will try not to hurt the horses, but in that kind of life-and-death situation, nothing can be cared about, so there are still many horses who die in the war, which is also the reason why Zhou Yunfeng now only has 64,000 horses.

It's just that for the wildebeest cavalry, Zhou Yunfeng gave special advice, so the loss of the wildebeest was not very large, and he also got more than 1,900 horses after two battles.

"Second brother, after a few battles, our Fengyun mercenary group has also lost more than forty people, and now we have more people, so we need to expand. Now it's no longer a mercenary group, but a bloody team, and you can choose from the more than 80,000 people selected here, and choose people according to the number of extra wildebeests. Zhou Yunfeng thought for a moment and said.

"No problem!, what are the criteria for selection?" Zhou Yunhu nodded.

"The standard remains the same, it doesn't have to be the strongest, but it must be excellent, everything in the team remains the same!" Zhou Yunfeng said without thinking.

"Okay!" Zhou Yunhu nodded and said.

"Now there are more than 80,000 people, but there are only 64,000 war horses, so it is destined that the whole division cannot be all cavalry, and two infantry brigades need to be formed!" Zhou Yunfeng looked at Zhou Yunlong and said.

"Well, let me look at it! A few of you have been waiting for infantry before, so choose two of you to come out and lead the infantry!" Zhou Yunfeng thought for a while and said, "Su Yuan and Wei Tianquan!"

"Yes!" Su Yuan and Wei Tianquan said with their fists clenched.

"Eight cavalry brigades, each with eight thousand people, and the rest of the two infantry brigades are divided equally!" Zhou Yunfeng said.

"Yes!"

"Gather the ninety-four candidates for the commander you have selected in the school field, and after half an hour, I will go over and have a look and determine the most popular candidate!" Zhou Yunfeng said: "After the commander is decided, you should determine the centurion and squad leader in the various brigades in the shortest possible time, so as to improve the structure of the division and regiment. This must be done tomorrow!"

"Everyone, we don't have enough time, the decisive battle between the Blue Dragon Legion and the Viper Legion in Snake King City is just around the corner, and the 200,000 support army of the Congyun Empire is only three days away from us, so before the arrival of these 200,000 troops, we must deal with the problem of the division and regiment properly, otherwise it will be difficult to resist the enemy, let alone kill the enemy!" Zhou Yunfeng said.

"Yes!" everyone clasped their fists.

"The soldiers of the Fengyun Division are not enough, and there are not enough horses, I think Cong Yun's 200,000 army should help us solve this small problem. Everyone, we can't live up to their hospitality!" Zhou Yunfeng smiled and said, "Let's go get busy!"

"Yes!" everyone hugged their fists at Zhou Yunfeng and withdrew from the hall.

After Zhou Yunhu and the others left, Zhou Yunfeng picked up a list on the table and began to look at it, what was recorded on this list was the selection of ninety-four thousand commander candidates.

The reason why Zhou Yunfeng wanted to take a look for himself was not because he didn't believe in the vision of Zhou Yunlong and others, but because he, as the division commander of the Fengyun Division, he had to go and see these people in person, at least they had to know these people.

Although the full strength of the commander is much smaller than that of the commander, they are the closest person to the soldier when charging into battle, so their role on the battlefield is not much less than that of the commander.

The list not only recorded the names of these people, but also their strength, past achievements and personal resumes were recorded in more detail, and after reading it, Zhou Yunfeng took Xiao Yan and walked towards the school.

When Zhou Yunfeng saw these commanders, the ten commanders plus Zhou Yunhu, the commander, had already begun to divide the troops and horses, although Zhou Yunhu needed the fewest people, but his workload was indeed the largest.

Others can just stroke it over, but Zhou Yunhu can't, he has to choose. Fortunately, Zhou Yunhu had an extra eye when he was picking troops before, he sent some people from the Blood Killing Team to participate, and after their hands, all of them who could enter the Blood Killing Team were recorded, so now it is just right to use it to come in handy.

A day later, all the things that were formed by the Fengyun Division were over, and now all that remains is to train the soldiers, so that the soldiers after the chaos can build trust and cooperation as quickly as possible.

"The Fengyun Division has only been truly established until now, and now I will announce the next tasks. Zhou Yunfeng looked at the eleven people below.

"Su Yuan, Wei Tianquan, Long Hao!" Zhou Yunfeng said in a deep voice.

"Here!" the three of them got up and fought to the center of the hall, hugging their fists.

"The three of you, early tomorrow morning, lead the men and horses of your headquarters out of the city, cross the valley and camp outside the valley mouth! The main task is to train the troops, and the secondary task is to guard against Congyun reinforcements!" Zhou Yunfeng said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

"The rest of the generals will also take their soldiers and horses out of the city tomorrow and train outside the city, and the blood killing team will not be in addition! The blood killing team will not be with the army, find another place, and I have already thought of a place for you!" Zhou Yunfeng said: "You have only one task now, that is, to familiarize yourself with your own troops in the shortest possible time and gather combat effectiveness!"

"Yes!" Zhou Yunlong's seven people also got up and hugged their fists

At noon on the third day when Long Hao, Su Yuan, and Wei Tianquan led their troops to the other end of the valley and stationed down, the reinforcements from the Congyun Empire to reinforce the Snake King City appeared thirty miles away from them.

After Zhou Yunfeng received the news, he didn't show surprise, but said lightly: "Regardless of them, we are consuming with them like this, what we have is time and them! After the Viper Legion is consumed, we will go and play with them!"

Because of the existence of this valley, even if Zhou Yunfeng did not send people to garrison Gukou, it would be difficult for Cong Yun's reinforcements to capture Gukou City, because Gukou City only has two gates, and there is only one direction in the valley, and it is very difficult to bypass both sides to attack the city.

If you only attack the city gate in the direction of the valley, it is also not easy, because the city gate is not far from the valley, and it is difficult for the army to attack the city, if the strong attack can only be a tactic to add fuel, not to mention whether they can break through it, even if they can break through, I am afraid that the troops to be paid will need at least five times that of the defending side to be possible.

The reason why Zhou Yunfeng sent Long Hao and the others to defend the other end of the valley was to prepare for crossing the valley and continuing to attack Cong Yun in the future.

Because of the valley, even if Taniguchi City is not breached, if the other end of the valley falls into the hands of the Congyun Empire, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not build a fortress somewhere to block the Tianyun army at the mouth of the valley.

Although it was impossible for the temporarily established fortress to stop Tianyun's hundreds of thousands of troops, it could resist for a while and cause certain losses to Tianyun's army, so it was impossible for Zhou Yunfeng to leave it to the Congyun Empire.

Because Zhou Yunfeng knew that after the Blue Dragon Legion eliminated the Viper Legion, his Fengyun Division was bound to be the first army to pass through the valley and enter the Congyun Empire, and if he didn't hold the other end of the valley in his hands, he would be asking for trouble for himself.

Although there were less than 30,000 people in Taniguchi, the reinforcements of the Congyun Empire did not dare to attack it, because the terrain was too terrible.

It is indeed a trivial matter for 200,000 people to eat more than 20,000 people, but because of the existence of the valley, it is impossible for them to eat all of the more than 20,000 troops.

As long as there is a big battle, Long Hao and the others will definitely not fight to the death at the mouth of the valley, but will retreat into the valley, and at that time, no matter how many legions are useless, they will not be able to spread out in the valley at all, if there is an ambush in the valley, then I am afraid that no one who chases into the valley will come out alive.

With a large army on the side, they did not dare to camp outside the valley, so the commander of the reinforcements simply stopped thirty miles away.