On the evening of the same day, Zhao Xing asked Dong Zhuo, who had graduated from the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall earlier, to call Duan Xuan to the mansion and had an in-depth conversation before the official appointment.

According to Zhao Xing's instructions, Duan Xuan will go to Xiliang with Ma Chao this time to replace Tian Yu, the commander of the Third Division of the Vanguard Army, and Tian Yu will be transferred to the post of military division of the Xiliang Army.

The Vanguard Army, as a strong infantry army under the command of the Protector Legion and the Crouching Tiger Army, not only has a number of 30,000 people, but also the two commanders are even more terrifying. The military commander Guan Yu is also the governor of the soldiers and horses of the Liang State, and the military advisor Jia Xu is also the chief of the Liang State, these two "golden partners" are important generals deliberately arranged by Zhao Xing to go to Xiliang, the original task is not only to contain Ma Teng, but also to prevent the Sima family in Yizhou in the south of Liangzhou and the army of Huangfu Song in the Sanqin region, which shows the weight of the task and the high status.

Therefore, Duan Xuan, who was already familiar with the various armies of the Jin State in the Crouching Tiger Lecture Hall, was also very surprised when he heard that Zhao Xing was going to let him serve as the commander of the heavy infantry division under Guan Yu. According to the analysis of previous battle examples, although the heavy infantry division has only 5,000 people, it can fight against about 10,000 cavalry on the Great Plains, and if it is properly commanded, it will be the heavy infantry division that will win in the end. This kind of terrifying combat power made Duan Xuan not feel that handing over his five thousand men was a bit less, but felt a lot of pressure.

Zhao Xing told Duan Xuan that the page of Dong Zhuo's generals in the past had already been lifted when Duan Xuan, Li Ru, Hu Zhen, Li Meng and others expressed their surrender, but whether or not they had the ability to lead troops to fight depended on their personal ability and performance in the future; no one in the Jin Kingdom would assign a range to generals from various factions, but they would definitely rank the abilities of all generals.

After listening to Zhao Xing's words, Duan Xuan was also very touched, patted his chest and promised that he would definitely be loyal, bring good soldiers wholeheartedly, fight a good battle, and not let others ridicule the Liangzhou man for being a bad man.

Early in the morning of the second day, Ma Chao rushed to the Crouching Tiger Training Regiment located halfway up the mountainside and picked up Gao Shun's dignitaries.

Gao Shun, who had already received Zhao Xing's order, took Ma Chao to the rows of neat and orderly barracks, and then proudly introduced to Ma Chao: "Since last summer, the Crouching Tiger Training Regiment has trained a total of 40,000 soldiers who meet the standards, including 20,000 soldiers from Dong Zhuo and 20,000 under Gongsun Zan and Liu Dai in Youzhou. ”

When Ma Chao heard this, he asked Gao Shun with some doubts: "Didn't Dong Zhuo surrender more than 30,000 soldiers at the beginning?"

Gao Shun replied: "Those weak guys, oily guys, and guys who can't endure hardships have all been eliminated in a year's training, and there were more than 30,000 people when they first joined the training regiment, and only 20,000 people were left in the end. ”

Ma Chao was surprised when he heard this, he had heard that the training of the Crouching Tiger Training Corps was very harsh, but he didn't expect such a high elimination rate. Ma Chao is very clear, those weak guys in Gao Shun's mouth, when they attacked Wuwei back then, they were also fierce soldiers who dared to fight hard.

Ma Chao then put on a smiling face, tried his best to please Gao Shun and said, "Brother Gao, you see how the younger brother has a discussion with you." I don't want the 10,000 white horses under Gongsun Zhan's subordinates, I'll just draw 10,000 out of the 20,000 Dong Zhuo's troops, okay?"

After Gao Shun heard Ma Chao's words, he laughed out loud, almost laughing out into tears. Gao Shun taunted Ma Chao and said: "Brother Ma family, you have lost your eyes this time! Just now, you just heard about the situation of 20,000 Dong Zhuo's troops, how can you know the situation of 20,000 Youzhou elite soldiers?"

Without waiting for Ma Chao to speak, Gao Shun continued: "The lord asked you to take 10,000 Bai Ma Yi under the command of Gongsun Zan to Liangguo, that really didn't treat you as an outsider! Think about it, if you were to lead 10,000 Flying Tiger troops to fight Han Sui, would you still be afraid of the 20,000 cavalry under his command?"

Ma Chao was a little embarrassed when he heard this, but he still expressed his respect and gratitude to Gao Shun very sincerely.

Gao Shun then said with a straight face: "The reason why Bai Mayi is allowed to follow you from now on is to prevent these soldiers from Youzhou from becoming corrupted and no longer forging ahead after returning to Youzhou. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's original 20,000 soldiers will definitely be put into Youzhou in the future, and the 20,000 soldiers from Youzhou will be put into Liangguo, which is the reason that the lord often reminds not to be a soldier at the door of his home!"

Ma Chao nodded, indicating that he fully understood this advanced concept of leading troops.

After inspecting the 10,000 elite soldiers that Zhao Xing had allotted to him, Ma Chao's confidence increased greatly, and he rushed to meet Guo Jia and Pang Tong, pestering the two resourceful men to help him choose middle-level generals. In fact, even if Ma Chao didn't come to entangle, Guo Jia and Pang Tong were secretly screening the candidates for generals to go to Liangguo in their hearts. It's just that Guo Jia has a bad taste, and he likes to look at Ma Chao, who is generally a jade-faced boy and is very capable of fighting, so at the beginning, he tried to find a lot of reasons to prevaricate, and almost didn't make Ma Chao, who was eager for revenge, red-eyed.

After discussion among the three of them, it was finally decided that Murong Ping, Hu Zhen, and Tian Chou would follow Ma Chao to Liangguo, and the other two division commanders would be selected from the army led by Pang De. Pang De himself served as the deputy commander of the Xiliang Army and fully assisted Ma Chao, and Ma Teng's son Ma Dai also followed his brother in the future.

While Ma Chao's side was busy, the Jin State's larger-scale troop deployment was also rapidly unfolding. The 20,000 Dong Zhuo troops were divided into two, and they were added to the Xiong Zhen army under the command of Xu Shu and the Xiongwu army under the command of Li Jinwu, making the number of these two armies also reach 30,000 each; the remaining 10,000 Youzhou soldiers who were selected by Ma Chao were included in the banner of the vanguard army in the future, which also made the number of the vanguard army reach 40,000 in one fell swoop, which was the same as the Dingyuan army.

At the same time, Zhao Xing sent a secret envoy to the depths of Taihang Mountain to contact Zhang Yan, preparing to carry out a limited refitting of this strange army, at least to ensure that their weapons and armor will be unified in the future, and there will no longer be a situation of seven long and eight short. In the future, the Montenegrin Army will be the tenth unit under the command of the Protector Army, mainly engaged in mountain and jungle warfare, and Zhao Xing arranged it like this, but he set his sights on the mountainous Yizhou in advance.

Of course, if the Montenegrin Army wants to win respect and trust, the task at hand is to assist the Protector Army to conquer Jizhou in one fell swoop, so that Yuan Shao can bitterly eat the bitter fruits he planted at the beginning.

The war horse began to neigh, the swords and guns had already been polished, since Yuan Shao dared to kill the merchants of the Jin Kingdom, Zhao Xing also happened to raise the banner of avenging the citizens of the Jin Kingdom, and completely knocked Yuan Shao into the abyss.