Chapter Eighty-Five: Songhai City's Military Reform
When he set out from Songhai City, Shaoyang and his party were only fifty-four horsemen, but when they returned, they were already a large team, and there were more than 100 young Zhuang people from the Xu family caravan and Zhang Fei with them. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Fortunately, there are still more than 500 war horses, and the people of the Blackstone Fort clan can ride more or less, which does not affect the speed of the team's progress.
Zhang Fei was in a happy mood, galloping in front of the team, and the war horse under his crotch was a dark horse given by Shaoyang, a war horse with third-level strength, far better than the best horses in that batch of war horses.
Blackstone Fort didn't have many horses, so it was rare to have the opportunity to ride, and his people enjoyed riding horses to the fullest. Behind them, Zhao Yun had been observing, his eyes emitting a fiery gaze.
"It seems that Zilong is very interested in the people of Yide. Seeing this, Shaoyang rode his horse to Zhao Yun's side, and he could see that Zhao Yun was very optimistic about Zhang Fei's clansmen.
"They are good seedlings of cavalry, and with simple training, they can immediately become elite cavalry. Zhao Yun had in his mind the scene of himself leading an elite cavalry galloping on the battlefield to fight the orcs.
More than 100 people are not a lot of people, but they are enough to become the backbone of the cavalry, and if they are supplemented from other arms, Zhao Yun believes that this cavalry will soon be formed.
"After all, you're a member of Yide's clan, so you have to pass him first. Shaoyang thought about it and felt that it was not good for him to forcibly order Zhang Fei to hand over the clansmen to Zhao Yun, so he could only let the two of them solve it on their own.
Zhao Yun just hummed and didn't respond, thinking in his heart how to persuade Zhang Fei to hand over his clansmen to train as cavalrymen.
There was no hurry, it took half a day longer than when he came to return to Songhai City, Shaoyang set up a banquet to entertain Zhang Fei, and introduced him to Xu Shu and others.
Needless to say, Zhao Yun's strength is on par with him, and he gets everyone's attention in an instant.
"I Xu Sanmu admires the person who has the ability the most, come, I salute you for a cup. Xu Sanmu pulled Zhang Fei to toast.
He is the second-highest lieutenant general among the military generals of Songhai City, second only to Zhao Yun, but his strength is far inferior, and he is even inferior to Zhou Cang and Yu Ban.
However, he is optimistic, it doesn't matter if his strength is not as good, he is not afraid of anyone at the wine table, but unfortunately he finally met his opponent this time.
"If you drink too much to drink, bring the jar. Zhang Fei pushed Xu Sanmu's wine glass away, picked up a jar of wine and handed it to Xu Sanmu, picked up another jar of wine, patted open the mud, and poured a big sip of wine.
"Why don't you drink it? Zhang Fei wiped his mouth, saw Xu Sanmuleng in place, and shouted.
Xu Sanmu didn't drink badly, but he didn't expect Zhang Fei to propose to drink it with a jar, so he was stunned for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately drank it with the jar.
The two of them met each other in chess, regardless of the others fighting there, until each person poured three jars down, Xu Sanmu couldn't stand it at first, and got drunk.
And Zhang Fei was still very sober, picked up a jar of wine again, and turned his target to others, his first target was Guo Jia, just now he could see that Guo Jia had been drinking, and the amount of alcohol was good.
"Come, your lord, let's have a drink. Guo Jia found Zhang Fei walking towards him, and immediately came to Shaoyang and pulled Shaoyang to drink, but he just took a sip casually.
Zhang Feicai had to give up this goal, and looked around at his colleagues, Xu Shu's identity was a military advisor, and Zhao Yun's strength was stronger than him, so he didn't dare to provoke him for the time being, so he shifted his attention to Zhou Cang and Yu Ban.
"Fengxiao, don't you like to drink? Why don't you drink with Yide. Shaoyang joked with a smile that Guo Jia was obviously avoiding Zhang Fei.
"It's true that I love to drink, but it's not a barrel, and I can't stand it with my small body. Guo Jia was not embarrassed at all.
"That's a bit of an exaggeration. Shaoyang looked at Zhang Fei, who was forcibly pulling Zhou Cang and others to drink, and expressed his deep understanding of Guo Jia's evasive behavior.
After a wine banquet, Zhang Fei relied on an astonishing amount of wine to pour a group of people, and finally mingled with everyone.
As for the arrangement of Zhang Fei and the clansmen, Shaoyang was not overly troubled, and early the next morning, Zhang Fei took the initiative to propose: "Your Excellency, I hope to lead the clansmen to join the cavalry troops." ”
Shaoyang looked at Zhao Yun on the side, saw that his face was calm, and he was not surprised by Zhang Fei's proposal, and understood that they had already communicated, so he agreed to Zhang Fei's request.
With the addition of Zhang Fei and more than 100 clansmen, the cavalry unit trained by Zhao Yun went very smoothly, and soldiers from other branches of the army replenished the cavalry to 500 people.
There were more than 10,000 troops in Songhai City, and there were many generals under his command, and at Xu Shu's suggestion, Shaoyang reformed the military system.
Originally, Zhao Yun was the general of the Songhai City garrison, and Xu Sanmu was the deputy general, and the entire army was nominally led by the two of them, not that Shaoyang did not trust them, but with the expansion of the army, it was indeed a little out of place.
After the reform, the Songhai City army was no longer a separate garrison, but was divided into several parts.
The Tuntian Legion composed of 5,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, the commander of the corps Xu Sanmu, although the Tuntian Legion is not the main force of Songhai City, but the number of people is the largest, and it is not a disadvantage to Xu Sanmu.
Five hundred cavalry, one thousand sword soldiers, pikemen, and longbow soldiers each formed the White Dragon Legion, the corps commander Zhao Yun, the deputy corps commander Zhang Fei, and the newly formed White Dragon Legion was definitely the main force of the Songhai City army.
The White Dragon Legion plans to focus on cavalry in the future, but at present, the number of cavalry in Songhai City is limited, and it can only be temporarily supplemented with other troops.
The remaining 2,000 sword fighters were the Guards Corps headed by Zhou Cang, and Yu Ban led a group of backbones as a recruit corps to be responsible for training.
While the legions in Songhai City were training and preparing for battle, Valer, who was far away in the werewolf tribe, also took action.
There were only a few days left before the werewolf was ready to go on the expedition, and in order to be able to join the expedition, Valer gave away almost all the possessions he had, and he finally got the reward.
Waller's father, werewolf matriarch Gegil Wolff, called Waller to his side.
"Vale, your last defeat not only caused heavy losses, but also made me lose face in front of the elders of other tribes, and I am not going to let you accompany you on this expedition. There was not a hint of kindness on his face.
"The child's incompetence disappointed the father. Valle made a look of regret.
"Forget it, several of your uncles have been persuading me these days, let me give you another chance, in this case, I will take you with me on this expedition, and when the time comes, I will make more merits, and I will be ashamed. With that, Gergil waved Wahler away.
Valer respectfully retired, and when it left the Great Tent of Gegil, there was a resentful look in its eyes, but it didn't know if it was directed at Shaoyang and Songhai City, or something else.