Chapter 261: Train Your Own Army
Li Mao looked at the sand table, rubbed his forehead, and sat quietly for a while, and then unconsciously took out a cigarette and lit it and smoked.
"Urgent, saint urgent......" "What's going on?" Didn't I, who was so flustered, tell you to go to the kitchen and get something to eat? "Something is wrong with the saint, Youzhou! Youzhou Mansion was attacked by the thief army, and General Xiao's people were intercepted there......""What? As soon as Li Mao heard Gao Lishi say this, he immediately threw away the cigarette and lowered his head again, and found the boundary where Youzhou was located on the sand table.
"Okay, you Li Heng, I underestimate you, you want to come to a siege point to help! Zhang Xiaojing Youzhou is now stationed in which way, why didn't they report the battle situation in time...... ""Back to the saint, it is that Lu Youming, he is a subordinate of Zhang Shoujue, the envoy of Youzhou Festival, two years ago, Zhang Shouju was dedicated to promoting An Lushan, so the two had a gap, but later when An Lushan was promoted to the deputy marshal of the Andong Protectorate, Zhang Shouju also retired due to illness, and then Lu Youming was temporarily appointed by the emperor as the assassin of Youzhou! He has more than 30,000 garrisons in his hands at the moment? ”
"Fan Yang Lu's family? No wonder, it's no wonder, he Fan Yang Lu and Qinghe have always been called Fan, the two families have been married for a hundred years, so it seems that the rise of the Youzhou war is entirely likely to be deliberately done by them, Xiao Tiancheng is in danger at the moment, although the soldiers and horses he brought are elite, but they are only 50,000 people, if they are deceived into Youzhou City, they will be closed and beat dogs...... The consequences are really unimaginable......"
Li Mao kept walking back and forth in the hall while covering his mouth as he spoke, and his nervousness was even more palpable, and his current worried appearance was something that no one present had ever seen. "Sage, General Xiao has experienced a hundred battles, no matter how many of them there are, they can't stop it! As long as we send troops to rescue immediately, there is still room for things to turn around! ”
"No, no...... You don't understand what I'm worried about, I'm not worried about Xiao Tiancheng's safety, with his ability, I believe that he has no problem protecting himself, but the crux of the matter is that these 50,000 elites can't be compromised, do you understand? He Xiao Tiancheng can't be defeated in this battle, how many people are watching at this moment? Don't look at the calm as water in Chang'an City now, but do you know how many undercurrents are surging underneath this calm? I dare to guarantee that if Xiao Tiancheng's army shows the slightest sign of defeat, the hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of the Kyoto Guardian Army will immediately become turbulent...... And those who are watching the local officials will take advantage of the situation to choose sides in an instant......"
As soon as Li Mao's words fell, Zhang Xiaojing immediately stood up with some excitement and couldn't help shouting, "The sage is right, when I was rectifying military discipline in the barracks recently, their noble children were arrogant everywhere, and they didn't take me as a general in their eyes. Your Highness the Sage, we can't put all the treasure on them! After Zhang Xiaojing finished speaking, in fact, the four of them were more sympathetic after hearing it, they seemed to have suppressed tens of thousands of Yulin guards in the palace, but in fact, these proud sons of heaven who were born in wealthy families did not look at the grassroots promoted by the four of them at all, in a word, their noble children have their own pride in their bones.
After Li Mao saw everyone's embarrassed expressions, he instantly understood the cause of the moment, that is, he, the emperor, was still giving some face, nothing more than looking at the noble bloodline of the Li family, if even he was not rooted in Miao Hong, not to mention those Kyoto troops now, Yu Linwei, even those powerless literati in the court would probably pounce on him and fight with him.
So after figuring this out, Li Mao knew that his top priority was to break the shackles of the class, and even that he must have a powerful army in his hands, and all this must cross those wealthy families, so he only had one way to go, because although the opening of the military academy had some effect on absorbing many children from poor families, the number was too small, and the far water could not save the fire, so the only way was to recruit troops from the toiling masses.
And after Li Mao thought of this good idea, he immediately thought of the Qiu Xiang Niangniang in his harem - the leader of the folk religion, in such a desperate time, it seemed that she was the only one who could mobilize hundreds of thousands of old and bitter people in a moment, and he had previously arranged some ordnance for them to train and protect themselves.
The more Li Mao thought about it, the more feasible he felt, so he immediately said to the chasing them, "Okay, now you hurry up and dispatch 50,000 trustworthy troops, and the two of you will personally command the chasing iron hand to rush to Youzhou to aid Xiao Tiancheng, in addition, 2,000 reliable instructors will be selected from the graduates of the military academy over the years to gather in batches in Luoyang, Chang'an, and I want them to train 200,000 elite troops within a month......
"Ah...... Sage! 200,000 troops, where are we going to find 200,000 troops for them to train! Saint, aren't you kidding us? "Army, I have my own way to conjure it up, just go and do your own thing, and inform Wang Siyuan's army of all the materials needed so that the Wang Family Chamber of Commerce can prepare for it!" "Whoa!" Seeing that Li Mao couldn't help but turn around and walk out of the main hall after speaking, the five of them had no choice but to agree with a red face.
"Brother Chaser, this 200,000 army, you said His Highness the Sage, where does he plan to conjure it up! Did you know where so many people were hiding before? Driven by Zhang Xiaojing's curiosity, he couldn't help but ask towards the chasing life, and as soon as he opened his mouth like this, the Iron Hand and several people also looked at the chasing life, because they were also curious, after all, no matter how powerful Li Mao is, the 200,000 army is not something that can be conjured up!
"You ...... You all see what I have done, the saints have never spoken empty words, although I don't know where the 200,000 people were, but since the saints said that there were, then there must be, and if we have any doubts, just do what the holy decree is! Hurry up and go to the military department to convene the fighters to discuss the matter of going to Youzhou to help Brother Xiao! If this matter is done and we have no heads, don't even plan to ask for it......"-->