Liu Hou's second meaning was to let Zhu Bao collect mules, horses, and vehicles from all over the country while receiving the territory, and form a huge convoy as a preparation for the expedition to the grassland. Liu Hou told Zhu Bao that the reason why the Third Division could not let the Eighth Division go to the grassland to fight the Hu people now was because of the problem of weapons and equipment.

Now the Eighth Division is still only a cold weapon division, although during training, Zhu Bao borrowed the firearms of the Xuchang Garrison Division (also called the Guards Division and the Yulin Army), but as soon as they set out on the expedition, these weapons must be returned, and they will become a pure cold weapon unit again.

However, Liu Hou promised them that they should first complete the task of receiving the territory, and when they received all the territory, new guns and ammunition should be produced, and then they could be given all the firearms, and let them go to the north to fight the Hu people in full armor.

Liu Hou explained very clearly, but Zhu Bao was still unwilling, he said: "But Your Majesty, the remaining territories that have not been received now are far away, and after we receive them, I am afraid that the Hu people will be wiped out by those five divisions, and where will there be the eighth division at that time?" ”

"Hehe, Zhu Aiqing don't worry, I promise that there will be a battle for you, and there will be many battles, and you will definitely fight until you get tired of it." Liu Houdao.

"Really? Your Majesty, you didn't lie to me, did you? ”

"You don't joke, how could I lie to you. To tell you the truth, this time they went to fight the Hu people, and only advanced to the first line of the Great Wall as planned, and then retreated their troops back, and then the main direction of attack was still in Wei and Wu. After cleaning up these two countries, we will continue to fight the Hu people.

Outside the Great Wall, Shuofang, Yunzhong, and Jiuyuan, as well as Liaodong and Liaoxi in the northeast, and even Buyeo and Goguryeo are all places to be fought. Think about it, so many places, isn't it enough for you to fight? ”

"Then Your Majesty wants to guarantee that in the future, you will not be able to lose the share of Weichen in these places." Zhu Baodao.

"Don't worry, I'll let you get enough when the time comes." Hearing that Zhu Bao's tone was finally loosened, Liu Hou also breathed a sigh of relief. This Zhu Bao is really difficult, he is like a child, and it took him a long time to finally get him.

Just when Liu Hou coaxed Zhu Bao to take over the territory, the headquarters of the First Division, which was far away in Jinyang, Bingzhou, was holding a military meeting. Jinyang is the Taiyuan of later generations, of course, now there is also the name of Taiyuan, called Taiyuan country, this is a county, the administrative level is quite a county, and its governance is in Jinyang.

After Zhang Bao led the first division to occupy Jinyang, he stopped advancing and confronted the roots of Xianbei Budu here. During this period, there was constant friction between the two sides, and there were no big battles, but there were many small battles.

The Xianbei people are very cunning, when they first met the first division, they were unexpectedly killed by fire ~ after killing hundreds of horsemen, they learned to be smart, they never came into direct contact with the Hong army, gave full play to the mobility advantage of the cavalry, and started a guerrilla war with the first division.

When the First Division came, they saw it from a distance and ran, and when the soldiers of the First Division had withdrawn, they ran up again and plundered. They were all cavalry, and the 1st Division, except for a few scouts, was all infantry, and it was simply impossible to catch up with these slippery barbarians.

In this way of fighting, although the soldiers of the first division were not harmed, the people in the vicinity were killed. The Xianbei cavalry did not dare to fight the idea of the Han army, but they were not merciless to the Han people, and burned and looted all the way into the Han land. These poor and crazy Hanako troops will rob everything they see, and as long as they can take it away, they will never leave it, and burn what they can't take away.

Needless to say, gold and silver treasures are also the focus, even some daily utensils. Iron pot kitchen knives are some good things, the most scarce on the grassland is ironware, many herdsmen don't even have an iron pot at home, it is not wrong to say that they are called Huazi.

Of course, population is also a resource, and the Han people will never let go, and those who resist will naturally be killed, and those who do not resist will be taken away. They all know that the Han people know how to farm, and some of them have crafts, and they have to take these people back to be slaves, help them farm, help them work, and help them have children.

In addition to herding sheep, these barbarians will fight and kill, and the level of civilization is still in the primitive society, and they can't do any technical work, and they naturally can't do such an advanced and complex production method as farming. Not to mention other "high-tech" industries such as ironsmithing, weaving, carpentry, etc. However, after robbing some Han slaves back, everything was settled.

What is the role of the high level of civilization of the Han Chinese? Those civilized people do not all have to serve them savages. This is a common idea among the steppe peoples. Under their enslavement, these Han slaves lived a life that was worse than death every day.

There is a saying that describes them more appropriately: they wake up earlier than chickens, sleep later than dogs, eat worse than pigs, and work more than donkeys. But in fact, this sentence is not enough to describe them, because although the pigs eat poorly, they can eat enough, but they not only eat poorly, but the little food is far from enough to fill their stomachs.

Moreover, although the situation of the above-mentioned animals is not good, they will not be abused ~ treated and insulted, but these slaves are beaten and tortured at every turn, not to mention insults. Women are even worse than men, and I don't need to say more about what happens to those barbarians whose animal characteristics have not completely faded when they face a group of women who have no power to resist.

However, the slaves actually had something in common with the above-mentioned animals, that is, they could be used as food for these primitive people at any time. If there is not enough food, these barbarians will eat people, they have no psychological barrier to cannibalism, and they are also called "two-legged sheep".

In their eyes, Han slaves are two-legged sheep that they raise, which can be slaughtered and eaten at any time, and there is no difference between slaughtering a person to eat and slaughtering a sheep to eat. One can imagine what kind of society it was, what kind of barbarians it was, and how miserable the situation of those Han slaves was.

Seeing that he was helpless against the rogue tactics of the Xianbei people, and that he couldn't even protect the people nearby, Zhang Bao, the commander of the First Division, was anxious to get angry these days, and his mouth was in a hurry. In order to break this predicament, on this day he summoned officers and staff officers above the regimental level and held a military meeting at the division headquarters.

Zhang Bao first asked people to report on the recent battle situation, and it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man who stood up to report. This polite-looking young man is called Zhang Bin, a staff officer of the division's staff department, and he has just graduated from the Dahan Longteng Academy not long ago.

This time, when five divisions were formed in Xuchang, Liu Hou formally established the staff officer system. In the past, Liu Hou also sent staff officers to various units to assist military commanders in planning, analyzing military situations, and handling paperwork.

However, these staff officers only play a role similar to that of staff members, and there is no system, and some units have more staff officers and some units have less, and even some units have no staff officers, which is very irregular. However, a person with thick nerves like the vulture bone must be helped by a few scholars, otherwise he will not be able to handle many things in his army.

Now that the staff officer system has been established, every division headquarters has a staff department, with a chief of staff and several staff officers. The brigades and regiments below did not have chiefs of staff, only a few operational staff officers. These staff officers are mainly graduates of military academies, and some are former staff members, or military advisers.

The reason why I use the extremely imprecise word "several people" is because although there are already many graduates of the college, there is still a shortage of talents. Many troops are unable to allocate enough manpower according to the prescribed establishment, so some urgently needed troops (such as the vulture bone troops) are allocated more points, and some troops have to be temporarily owed, and then deployed when there are suitable people in the future.