Now there are 3,000 cavalry and infantry in the Wei Xuan army, and what Wei Xuan is asking for today is a parade, that is, 3,000 people gather for a queue performance.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu and others have become accustomed to it, but Wen Ping is also the first time they have seen it, and Wei Yan, Huo Jun, Li Yan and others have indeed never heard of it.

Wait until the 3,000-person division completes the assembly, and then presents two rows and three pieces to assemble again, with the drums and trumpets sounding in unison and the flags waving, Wei Yan and the others can be regarded as an eye-opener.

Wen Ping was even more excited, he didn't expect that he would leave only three months, Wei Xuan would train 3,000 recruits to this, no wonder he was able to break 100,000 in Hedong that year, and in Xingyang, he was able to break 300 cavalry in one day.

Wei Yan and the three of them made eye contact while watching, obviously except for the shock in their hearts, they all showed the same meaning, and they were right.

That night, all the officers were stained with the light of Wei Yan and others, not only canceled the cultural course, but also were able to drink, Du Peng, Wang Qiang, Yang Ling and Liu Ming were guests of the Wei family, born in light chivalry, and they were also very curious about Wei Yan and the other three who were admired by Wei Xuan, and they proposed a martial arts competition during the banquet, and Wei Xuan did not stop them????????????????。

Wei Yan and the others are newcomers, and they know that in order to gain a firm foothold in this new strain, they need to show a little ability appropriately.

Then as the competition progressed, both sides seemed to be surprised, because Dian Wei and Xu Chu were called to Wei Xuan's side and never made a move, and the result was that Wei Yan defeated Liu Ming, Du Peng and Zhou Cang one after another, and competed with Sima Zhang Liao for forty rounds of swordsmanship.

This naturally surprised the arrogant Du Peng and others, and Han * Meng did not end up holding his own identity. Fortunately, Li Yan, who appeared later, lost to Zhou Cang, while Huo Jun competed with Du Peng for 30 rounds without a win, so that Yicong, who had followed Wei Xuan, finally regained a little face. And these light heroes naturally accepted the appointment that Wei Xuan was about to announce.

Wei Yan, Huo Jun and Li Yan were also very surprised, because they could see that Du Peng and the others looked at Dian Wei and Xu Chu differently, these two plus Han * Meng and Wei Yan did not have Zhang Liao who could win and Zhou Cang, who had their own strengths with Wei Yan, so many fierce generals, no wonder Wei Xuan said that if he wanted to serve as a military marquis, he also had to take the school art of war.

In the following days, Wei Xuan began to recruit troops in various parts of Yingchuan, and after Wei Yan and Wen Ping and others passed the art of war assessment, they were officially appointed, Li Yan took over a song led by Zhang Liao, and Wen Ping, Wei Yan, and Huo Jun each received a song.

Zhang Liao is the Sima of the Left Army, with jurisdiction over Liu Ming, Huo Jun, and Wen Ping, Xi Zhicai is the Sima of the Right Army with jurisdiction over Yang Ling, Wei Yan, and Pei Yuanshao, Wei Yun is the Sima of the Chinese Army with jurisdiction over Li Yanbuqu, and Dian Wei, Xu Chu and Zhou Cang's personal guards, after a period of training and selection, the three personal guards have also increased to 50 people, and the three people are 150 people, including 50 cavalrymen.

Wei Xuan led Du Peng, Wang Qiang, and Han * Meng Sanqu cavalry. In this way, the total number of infantry cavalry reached more than 4,200 people. Of course, the cavalry guard has always been treated as a private soldier, and if one day the imperial court dismisses him or transfers him to other places, he will take these people away. Of course, Wei Xuan hopes that no matter where he goes, he can still carry these more than 4,000 people with him like Dong Zhuo, which is the foundation of life in troubled times. And there are a few future celebrities among them. The civil officials of the Han Dynasty respect the right, and the military attache takes the left as the longest, so Zhang Liao is the Sima of the left army, and it is also a last resort to let Xi Zhicai serve as the Sima of the right army, this old brother was driven by Wei Xuan to put a duck on the shelf, he only wants to join the army, but Wei Xuan's own brother Wei Biao's qualifications are too shallow, so he can only temporarily follow Xi Zhicai, but whenever there is a performance, Wei Xuan naturally wants to promote him. At this moment, Wei Xuan thought of the fourth brother Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng's wisdom may not be as good as Xi Zhicai, but there is no problem in commanding two or three thousand people, the key is that he has experience in commanding troops. But now Dong Zhuotun is in Hedong, Xu Huang and Yang Feng. Wei Zheng and the three of them may not be able to help him, so Wei Zheng can't move without permission.

Of course, if there is a war, Wei Yan and the other three can seize the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and accumulate some battlefield experience, and they are also capable of being Sima. These appointments, including Sima and Junhou, were temporarily not approved by the imperial court, and would not be recognized until Wei Xuan brought the army to the battlefield or brought it to Luoyang to give a report to the general He Jin. Of course, this does not affect the daily training and combat of the army.

In Wei Xuan's plan, the three hundred auxiliaries sent by his uncle Pei Ye were not intended to be returned, and were intended to be used for short-distance transportation???????????????? In the future, there will be more medical and engineering soldiers, and if it is full, it will be about 5,000 people. This casting is the ideal number of people in a mixed brigade.

Any more of his lieutenant will be criticized, and the consumption of food, grass and equipment will be very fast. For the first time, the counties and counties in Yuzhou provided money and food for the sake of the face of the imperial court, and if it was not enough later, Wei Xuan needed to change his own face.

On weekdays, the queue training was divided into units, and in the afternoon, the battle formation training began to be carried out in units under the jurisdiction of the military commander. On the 5th, Wei Xuan came forward to conduct an all-army battle formation training. Liu Ming, Yang Ling and others who followed Wei Xuan are well-informed, and Wei Yan and others are natural talents, so it is smooth for you to chase after me.

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The days of training were boring, and the time soon entered the wax moon, and more than a dozen people sent by Wei Xuan to Funiu Mountain to inquire about intelligence returned to Yangzhai one after another, bringing back unexpected news to Wei Xuan. It turns out that there is a lot of article on this Funiu Mountain.

Funiu Mountain is located in the south of Yin in Sili Henan, the southwest of Yingchuan in Yuzhou, and the north of Nanyang County in Jingzhou, stretching for more than 800 miles from east to west, and belongs to the eastern branch of the Qinling Mountains. Funiu Mountain Range is a major mountain range that extends to the Central Plains of the Qinling Mountains, roughly in the northwest-southeast direction, more than 400 kilometers long, about 80~140 miles wide, shaped like a lying cow, so it is called Funiu Mountain, it constitutes an important watershed of the three major water systems of the Yellow River, the Huai River and the Yangtze River.

The northern veins of the Funiu Mountains develop into the Bears Ears Mountains and the Outer Mountains; To the south is the Nanyang Basin.

The mountain extends to the east to the northeast of Nanyang Fangcheng and is suddenly interrupted, forming the famous "Fangcheng gap", the gap is about 60 miles long, about 30 miles wide, it is a mountain accumulation plain area extending from southwest to northeast, and the southeast of the gap is the low hills and hills with undulating terrain. "Fangcheng Gap" is a natural transportation artery connecting the North China Plain, the Nanyang Basin and the Jianghan Plain.

What was found at the back door was the southeast section of the gap in Fangcheng Mountain, although it was still steep, but the absolute height was not high, and it was the border of the three states and three counties. Therefore, it has become a gathering place for bandits.

At the beginning, Wei Xuan led people from Luoyang to Yangzhai, but he was ambushed by thousands of bandits as soon as he came out of Yuyuan Pass. Fortunately, Wei Xuan's righteous servants were well-trained, and the scouts found them in time, and then killed most of the bandits.

However, in order to find out the origin of this inexplicable bandit, Wei Xuan released some of the bandits and quietly sent people to follow them. After nearly three months of hard work, these people finally figured out the distribution of this generation of bandits. There are more than a dozen cottages of large and small bandits in the southeast section of Fangcheng Mountain alone. There are still three or four thousand people. Such a scale is naturally nothing compared to the Montenegrin Army on the eastern side of Taihang Mountain, and it is not worth mentioning compared to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which is making more trouble now, but it is no better for military training.

At the beginning, Yingchuan and Nanyang were the hardest hit areas in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and this Funiu Mountain had unique hiding conditions, so it is understandable that there were many bandits.

However, as the investigation deepened, some scouts found that there were several large cottages where people had cultivated farmland in the mountains, and some cottages had iron smelting and weapons workshops.

Nanyang produces iron, but the bandits hiding in Funiu Mountain farm their own land and build their own weapons, which is incredible. You must know that although Wei Xuan has received strong support from several counties in Yuzhou, such as ???????????????? Today, only half of the more than 4,000 people are fully armed, and most of the rest are still using wooden clubs. So when Wei Xuan heard the news, he became interested in these cottages.

He ordered a dozen scouts to gather together the results of their investigations, drew up a sketch, and then summoned Zhang Liao, Xi Zhicai, Wei Yun, Wei Yan, Li Yan, Wen Ping and others to discuss.

Most of these people were militants, and a few of them were as stable as Wei Yan and lacked military exploits, so almost all of them asked for troops to suppress the bandits.

Sending troops is definitely going to send troops, mainly how many people to send, how to maximize the benefits, and at the same time, you can't go too deep into Nanyang, otherwise it will be bad to cause Nanyang to be dissatisfied.

After thinking about it, Wei Xuan left the generals to discuss, study the topography of Funiu Mountain, the distribution of each Shanzai, and the connection route between the cottages. He took Dian Wei and Xu Chu to Yangzhai, he needed to ask his uncle to borrow some weapons, otherwise the number of people dispatched was too small, and once the grass and snakes were startled, it would not be beautiful for the other bandits to flee from the wind.

Pei Ye knew that Wei Xuan was ambushed by thousands of thieves when he came out of the Yuanyuan Pass, and now there are three or four thousand thieves on the mountain, Pei Ye is also a little surprised, but when he heard that the thieves on the mountain are smelting by themselves, Pei Ye is not calm, if these three or four thousand people are fully armed, once someone climbs the heights and shouts, and goes straight to the Nanyang Basin or Yingchuan, the county towns in these two places will definitely not be able to stop it, and the harm may be greater than the original Yellow Turban Rebellion!

So Wei Xuan proposed to go into the mountains to suppress bandits, Pei Ye agreed, he thought that Wei Xuan wanted Yingchuan to send county soldiers, but Wei Xuan proposed weapon support, Pei Ye pondered a little and asked people to convene the county Cheng, the county lord Bo, the soldier Cao Lu and others to discuss, everyone knows that Pei Ye is Wei Xuan's uncle, and now Wei Xuan was ordered to come to Yuzhou to recruit troops and suppress bandits, and the bandits in Funiu Mountain also have a huge threat to Yingchuan. Therefore, the crowd did not actively support it, nor did they speak out against it.

Pei Ye then made the decision to lend 300 armor, 1,000 leather armor, 2,000 swords and guns, 300 bows and crossbows, and a number of arrows in the Yingchuan County Treasury. It is better to borrow weapons than to borrow them.