In the face of this gang of bandits, Xiao Jingxuan plans to salute first and then soldier, if he can Zhao'an, it will be even better.

Xiao Jingxuan wrote a letter and arranged for several guards to find the gang of horse bandits and hand them over.

However, it is important to be prepared. After convening the generals of various ministries to discuss the matter, Xiao Jingxuan arranged the affairs of each ministry.

The first is to set up cards on the main roads in Xinchang County. Although the terrain of Xinchang County is flat, there are only a few roads in and out. Xiao Jingxuan had 2,000 infantry in his hands.

If Zhao'an fails this time, then the main force dispatched will be cavalry.

In Xiao Jingxuan's heart, the weight of cavalry is definitely far greater than that of infantry.

And most of the generals under his command are cavalry. Just look at the guard camp.

Although there is still a part of the guard battalion in Toyoshu, it is basically cavalry, and the infantry is estimated to be only one-sixth, or even less.

Just when Xiao Jingxuan was in full swing to deal with the Xinchang horse bandits, the holy decree in Beijing finally arrived.

However, the content of the holy decree surprised Xiao Jingxuan, because he was promoted.

As a criminal general, it was only a month after arriving in Pingzhou, and he was promoted.

After receiving the holy decree, Xiao Jingxuan's heart was actually very broken, and he originally planned to keep a low profile, but he didn't expect to be high-profile again.

Looking at the official document in his hand that promoted him to the envoy of Fan Yangjie, Xiao Jingxuan's heart was very complicated.

In terms of grade, Fan Yang Jiedu is a positive third grade, and it seems that he is one level higher than his Yun Lu general.

However, he was only the chief general of Pingzhou, and his corporal was only 7,000.

Fanyang's festival degree is different. And Da Wei didn't have this official position at all. The festival envoy is the old system of the previous dynasty.

Since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, there has been no official position of Jiedu envoy, and there is one in the Yan Kingdom of Fan Yang Jiedu.

The jurisdiction of the former Fanyang Jiedu envoy was very large, but later, after the fall of the previous dynasty, the Yan State and the Great Wei each owned part of Fanyang's territory.

However, although the holy decree did not say the scope of Fan Yang's envoys, from today on, Xiao Jingxuan can officially form the Fan Yang Army, and Pingzhou is the old place of Fan Yang, so Xiao Jingxuan can directly intervene in the local military and politics.

However, soon, Xiao Jingxuan received two letters from Beijing, one from the Guogong Mansion and the other from the Jin Palace.

After reading the letter in his hand, Xiao Jingxuan finally understood.

King Jin's letters are mainly to show goodwill, and the whole article is either to make friends or talk about the future. There's not much to say.

However, the letter of the Duke of China explains the whole story. It turned out that this Fan Yang Festival envoy was exchanged for the identity of Xiao Jingxuan's son-in-law.

In the court meeting half a month ago, the emperor officially recognized the identity of Xiao Jingxuan's royal family.

But it's not the prince Yang Yongtai, but the righteous son Xiao Jingxuan. In other words, from this moment on, Xiao Jingxuan officially lost the opportunity to return to the royal family.

From this moment on, Xiao Jingxuan was just the concubine of the Liangguo Mansion and the righteous son of Emperor Jia'an.

However, as compensation, Xiao Jingxuan was appointed as the envoy of the festival, and in the future, if the opportunity is right, Xiao Jingxuan will be named the king with a different surname.

After understanding the whole story, Xiao Jingxuan was inexplicably a little sentimental, but soon, Xiao Jingxuan continued to watch.

Liang Guogong explained another thing in the letter. That's marriage. However, to Xiao Jingxuan's surprise, the marriage partner this time is a bit strange.

is a person in the rivers and lakes, the princess of Yan Kingdom, and the holy daughter of Sword Pavilion, the holy land of martial arts in Yan Kingdom. It is rumored that the Sword Pavilion is the only holy place that has ever been out of the realm of heaven and earth.

Although he didn't know the other party's name, the identity of the other party still surprised Xiao Jingxuan.

Not to mention the identity of the royal family, it is the identity of the saint who is far more than Xiao Jingxuan is now.

However, although Xiao Jingxuan is still only a half-step congenital now, martial arts sometimes does not come first in the realm, and when he was assassinated in Beijing, Xiao Jingxuan killed a master of the innate realm.

Therefore, it is not considered to insult the identity of the other party.

After reading the letter, Xiao Jingxuan looked at the map in the military tent, and Xiao Jingxuan guessed that in the near future, there must be a battle between Chu and Wei.

Looking at the map, Xiao Jingxuan pondered for a long time, forget it, it has nothing to do with him for the time being, and now, he must have Fan Yangjun in the hands of his Fan Yang Jie Du envoy.

Since ancient times, the three armies have not moved, and grain and grass go first. If you want to train a strong army, you must have a sufficient population and enough food.

Pingzhou alone will never be able to raise a large army. Pingzhou is barren, and he must find a way to change this situation.

As time passed, soon, the news of Xiao Jingxuan's promotion spread throughout the army, and the generals in the army soon came to the Chinese army tent to celebrate.

Xiao Jingxuan was simply polite, and then began to tell the generals.

With the return to the camp of the personal guards who went to Zhao'an, they also brought the news that this group of horse bandits rejected Zhao'an.

It looks like a big war is about to break out. Soon, the entire barracks was in action.

First of all, the battalions of the infantry army began to block all the main roads in Xinchang County according to the plan to prevent the horse bandits from escaping.

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry also sorted. This time, Hins Hsiao adopted a dragnet search.

Step by step, this group of horse bandits was cornered, and even eliminated several small bandits along the way.

The number of this group of horse bandits in Xinchang County is not large, only 100 people, but it is these 100 horse bandits that make the landlords and old rich people of the entire Pingzhou panic.

In the past, Xiao Jingxuan only thought about eliminating this group of horse bandits, but since the promotion decree arrived, his mentality has changed as a festival envoy.

With the beginning of the crackdown on bandits, Xiao Jingxuan's personal guard of 100 people disappeared.

At the same time, the landlords of the entire Xinchang County began to be unlucky.

As long as it is for the rich and unkind, it has not escaped the attack of horse bandits. However, these horse bandits do not kill people, they only plunder finances.

As long as it is something valuable, this group of horse bandits did not let go, and for a while, the entire Xinchang County was in a hurry.

However, as the bandits' range of activities became smaller, they were soon surrounded by a wooded area. At this time, the outside world is also completely safe.

Xiao Jingxuan stepped forward, looked at the surrounded woodland, and said to the left and right: "Come to someone, go to someone, let the people inside surrender, remember, it's surrender, not Zhao'an, a quarter of an hour, if you don't surrender, then you won't be left behind." ”

The so-called person who knows the times is a handsome man, if he can't see the situation clearly, then he will live and die without complaints.

Soon, the guards replied that the horse bandits refused to surrender, and Xiao Jingxuan was a little helpless, so he ordered the cavalry of the guards to start charging and killing.

Two thousand people against hundreds, one round of arrow rain can solve half of the opponent, and the second round can kill half of the opponent. Definitely not survive the third round.

Looking at these horse bandits, Xiao Jingxuan began to order people to clean up the battlefield and collect the loot.

After the end of the suppression of bandits in Xinchang County, Xiao Jingxuan did not rush to attack the last group of bandits, but began to reorganize the army.

First of all, more than 700 brave men who were drawn from various armies and bravely fought on their own were filled into the personal guard battalion.

At the same time, it began to select the old and weak from the various ministries to fill the auxiliary battalions. Then the armies under his command were broken up again.

Today, Xiao Jingxuan has 7,000 people under his command, and almost 2,000 people have been selected to be filled into the auxiliary barracks.

Of the remaining 5,000 people, the cavalry was divided into five battalions by Xiao Jingxuan, each with about 400 people.

The 3,000 infantry men were divided into eight battalions. There were more than 300 people at the head of each battalion.

In the following days, Xiao Jingxuan began a large-scale military training. Whether it is cavalry, auxiliaries, or infantry, all of them have begun to train.

At the same time, he also sent a letter to Jingzhong and transferred four cavalry guerrillas under his command and one guerrilla of the infantry army.

Unlike other armies, the training of the pro-guard battalion was personally watched by Xiao Jingxuan.

Today, there are almost 1,000 people in the guard battalion, of which 300 are veterans and 700 are considered recruits.

Many of these people are assigned to positions in ministries.

Today's divisions are like boot battalions, with two or three guards assigned to each battalion for training.

The rest of the generals at all levels were basically transferred by Xiao Jingxuan to the personal guard battalion for training.

In the guard camp, Xiao Jingxuan leads by example, not to mention that he needs to go out every day, and every night, Xiao Jingxuan also teaches these guards.

The guard battalion is now divided into three classes by Xiao Jingxuan, one is the literacy class, one is the basic class, and the other is the art of war class.

Needless to say, literacy classes are used to teach literacy to the guards. However, Xiao Jingxuan in this class was selected from the basic class and the guards took turns to teach.

The basic class is taught by Xiao Jingxuan himself, mainly to teach these people how to serve as a leader or team leader. As well as some tips on the battlefield, how to train soldiers and so on.

The art of war class is simple, it is completely self-taught, and then every day is a military chess exercise.

Of course, these are all things that need to be done at night, and the tasks are even heavier during the day.

First of all, the first thing all the guards do in the morning is to run three kilometers on foot in armor.

After running, go directly to the room to eat, rest for three quarters of an hour after eating, and then ride and shoot, queue, sword and shield fighting.

Of course, infantry and cavalry were trained separately, but all of them had to participate in the morning running with heavy loads and their own riding in the afternoon.

In Xiao Jingxuan's eyes, the pro-guard camp is his foundation. Through the personal guard battalion, he can control the army well, and he can also limit the generals under him, unable to completely control the army, and breed some undesirable ambitions.

Xiao Jingxuan has been training for three months, and now it is already winter.

In the personal guard. Xiao Jingxuan also began to slowly pick out some good performers.

As qualified personnel slowly took up their posts, the shelves of the battalions began to be erected.

Generals at all levels have also begun to exercise their duties. With the arrival of the military headquarters, the letters of appointment of the generals of the battalions also arrived.

For this reason, Xiao Jingxuan also held a grand ceremony for the formation of the army on the second day after the letter of appointment arrived.

On this day, the sun was shining, and the armies of all ministries gathered in an open space in Xinchang County.

Xiao Jingxuan stood on the high platform and looked at the armored soldiers under the stage. Looking at the empty military flag fluttering in the wind, my heart was full of pride.