Qingzhou.

A buffer zone between the Han and Taiping armies.

The scouts of the Black Mountain Taiping Army are gathering information on the movements of the Han army.

This is not the first time.

Since the Han offensive stopped, the front-line teams behind the buffer zone had their own scouts.

And they are all the henchmen of each commander.

Although the Taiping Army now has millions of people, and may even exceed one million, the main military force of the Taiping Army is still the original Taiping Army of the 36th Route led by the commander of the 36th Road.

The numbers varied, adding up to only one-third of the millions, but they were far more armed than the others.

It's not that other people can't be trusted, but except for the 36 primitive Taiping Army, everyone else is really just ordinary farmers and ordinary people.

The training time is too short, and releasing it is just to add military merits to the Han army.

Fortunately, during these days, the Han army stopped attacking because of the change of generals, and the commanders from all walks of life also had enough energy to practice, and it didn't take too long, in a few dozen days, these millions of people could have basic combat effectiveness, and the rest depended on how to survive on the battlefield.

As long as they can survive, they are elite soldiers.

Not to mention the Zhengxuan team supported from Liaoning, organized criticism, reminiscing about the sufferings they had endured in the past, enjoying the next dozen acres of land can feed the whole family, and there will be spare money to buy new clothes for the family every New Year's Day.

Because there will be no worse end, they are already at the bottom, no matter what they do, they are going up.

Today is the seventeenth day since the Han army stopped its offensive.

The 5,000 Zhengxuan troops who came from Liaoning have dispersed into the millions, ensuring that one out of every 200 people is similar to the person who is engaged in the work of correcting and falsifying.

Be clear about your goals, increase your enthusiasm for fighting, know why you want to fight, and be firm in your beliefs.

Of course, the role of the Zhengxuan team is not only in the role of war, they will also relieve everyone's emotions, teach everyone culture, and enrich their spiritual world.

Relying on the prestige of the commanders from all walks of life, Qingzhou's Zhengzhi team was also formed, getting rid of the powerful situation at the beginning, although it was a harmonious group, it was also scattered.

There are so many people in the Taiping Army, naturally it is impossible for all of them to be young and strong.

Therefore, the first thing that the Zhengzhi team did when it was formed was to select the old and weak, women and children among the millions of people from the queue of soldiers.

With this challenge, there are only more than 300,000 soldiers left in the million-dollar Taiping army who still seem to want to do that.

This is still selected for men under the age of 50, if the age is stuck at 40, the number of soldiers in the Taiping army has to be reduced by half and up.

Although the number of fighters has been reduced, the combat effectiveness of the team has been improved, the old and weak, women and children have been properly accommodated, and the soldiers do not have to spare extra effort to take care of their families in the process of fighting.

Linzi.

After coming to Qingzhou, the first county town captured by the Taiping Army is also one of the main control areas of the Taiping Army today.

The defenders of the county seat, the officials have all been imprisoned, but the people in the city, the Taiping army did not go to oppression, this is the death order set by the 36th road marshal, those who arbitrarily oppress others, will be punished by military law.

So at present, Linzi City can be regarded as peaceful.

The government office.

A group of Qu Shuai, as well as Hu Shujiu, who came from Liaoning to support and is now the Taishou of Qingzhou, gathered together.

There were some other officials in the hall and some generals sent by the commanders who were too busy to come to the meeting.

"Okay, I won't talk about the miscellaneous things, the main thing now is that the opportunity I am waiting for has arrived."

At one end of the round table, Hu Jiu's voice resounded from the iron microphone throughout the palace.

Everyone heard it clearly and couldn't help but nod.

"The news from Jun that the Han Dynasty has changed generals, and the original Yulin Lang who were good at attacking have now gone north to be involved with the border counties of Liaodi, and we are now facing the famous generals of the Han Dynasty who have not yet arrived, and Cheng will not be there."

"Many people may not have heard of him, so here is an introduction, so that you have a general understanding of him, from time to time, the original Yanmen is too guarded, guarding the Yanmen Pass for more than ten years, no Huns go south, and the defense is victorious and not defeated, this is his ability."

"But for us, it is a good opportunity to strengthen ourselves, because he has the same problem as many Han generals, he is good at defending but not attacking, according to the information collected by the spies, if this general has a foreign war, he generally can't show his face on the battlefield in the end, and his marching speed is too slow."

"It is also because of this that although he has military exploits, he has few promotions."

"Brainstorming what we're waiting for next? It is rare that the Han army gave a chance. ”

Hu Jiujiu glanced at everyone.

Everyone pondered, and He Jin, the commander of Wolong Mountain, got up and spoke.

"It's really a good opportunity, we are entrenched in Qingzhou, but we only control a small part of the territory, the defenders of Qingzhou counties are still looking at us, if the Han army attacks, they will inevitably become trouble."

"Hu Taishou, I think it is possible to ask the king for a batch of siege equipment support, and work together to expand the area controlled by Qingzhou when Cheng does not arrive from time to time, and when Cheng arrives from time to time, the Taiping army needs to divide half of its forces to confront the Han army, so we will not have such a good opportunity."

He Jin's speech made the group of commanders and generals nod.

Hu Jiujiu was also bowed, and said to a clerk beside him: "Draft a document and tell your lord that Qingzhou needs a batch of siege equipment to support, and I hope that it can be transported when the next supply is delivered." ”

The clerk nodded and drafted a paperwork.

"But there are still ideas?"

And the crowd began to discuss.

After a half-time, one of the generals got up.

"Yu Taishou, Gao Wan's scouts have reported, the number of war horses in the Han army is extremely short, I don't know if this can also be an opportunity?"

"War horses. scarce."

Hu Jiujiu pondered.

This is consistent with the intelligence gathered by agents everywhere.

The Han army has reached the point of lack of war horses.

It's a given.

Although Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing built a horse garden, Liu Che had 360,000 war horses, but Liu Che was really a big deal.

War horses are consumables, especially in the era when there is no horseshoe, often after a big war, the number of war horses will be lost to ninety percent.

And Liu Che twice. Oh no, plus the siege of Mayi, a total of more than two or three hundred thousand troops were assembled, and the war horses that Wenjing Zhizhi had saved up had already been used.

Based on Zhang Qi's understanding of history, he also guessed the lack of war horses faced by the Han Dynasty after fighting the Xiongnu several times.

This can be seen from the original history.

Why do you want to fight Dawan, is it Liu Che's gluttonous cantaloupe?

Of course not, the purpose of fighting Dawan is probably that the horse politics of the Han Dynasty was already in danger at that time, and the war horses needed to be castrated, which means that the horses with excellent blood were selected as war horses, and the war horses were consumed, and the quality of horses in the Han Dynasty had fallen to the bottom, so they had to attack Dawan.

Because of Dawan at that time, there was a stallion with excellent bloodlines.

Hu Jiujiu thought for a while and raised his head.

"Well, the king also said that the Han Dynasty is facing the horse dilemma now, and this may also be an opportunity."

"Draft a document and ask the Liao side to support a group of war horses, if there can be a knight, it will be better."

(End of chapter)