Chapter Ninety-Four: The Great Expansion of the Iron and Blood Army (I)

Ju Yun had a feeling of uproar, to be honest, when he saw the achievements of the Iron Army, as a general and a heavy minister who fought a bloody battle with the Huns, he didn't want to believe it. Because, if the Predator's record is true, then the so-called big victory he has achieved is really nothing compared to the Predator's army, and it can't be compared. It is precisely because of the crisis that he has supported the court over the years that he has become the first hero, a supreme minister, but obviously he suddenly knew that what he had done all these years was nothing, what did Ju Yun, who had always felt good about himself, think?

And Ju Yun and Liu Kun are friends, most of the people in the world are helping relatives and not helping, subconsciously he wanted to characterize Chu Yun as a chaotic minister and thief, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he remembered the strength of the Iron Blood Army, and his words were taken back.

In any case, the Iron Blood Army dragged down the main force of the Huns, which would be of great help to them, in case of a bad relationship with him, what if this Chu Yun surrendered to the Huns like Zhao Ran? Although Ju Yun has such and such shortcomings, he is not a fool to become the Optimus Prime of the Chang'an Imperial Court.

After a deep groan, everyone looked at him, and Ju Yun knew that he couldn't help but express his position: "Your Majesty, whether it is Liu Bingzhou or Chu Weizhong, they are important ministers of the imperial court, no matter why the two sides attack each other, we can't act without permission, we must figure things out." ”

Ju Yun made a decision and diluted the mud, he knew how powerful the Huns were, and there had always been Liu Kun and Tuoba Xianbei to help contain them, and now there was an iron-blooded army, he felt that this was an opportunity.

Ju Yun hadn't thought about it yet, and it became clear when he said it, yes, I don't care if you have any contradictions between Liu Kun and Chu Weizhong, as long as you help the court do things, I don't care who is right and who is wrong, even if this Chu Weizhong is really ambitious as Liu Kun said.

Don't look at Chang'an's chaotic victory during this time, but Ju Yun knew that the imperial court was really not the opponent of the Huns, Ju Yun sorted out his thoughts and continued: "Liu Bingzhou is loyal to the imperial court, and we all know his personality for so many years, but since he is a human being, it is inevitable to make mistakes, maybe Liu Bingzhou received the instigation of the villain." Of course, Chu Weizhong of Shangdang County is indeed very disagreeable, some time ago, our plan, Chu Weizhong turned a deaf ear, but we can't beat it to death with a stick. I think we should give Chu Weizhong a chance to prove his loyalty to the imperial court, since Chu Weizhong said that he had repelled hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops, and his subordinates were even more fierce generals, why not let him send troops to attack Pingyang to relieve the danger of the imperial court?"

After Ju Yun finished speaking, everyone's eyes lit up, what Ju Yun said was indeed a good way, they couldn't stand it for a long time to resist the Huns alone, and in the past, Liu Kun relied on the Xianbei people, which did often give the Huns a headache, but although the Xianbei people were loyal to the imperial court, they would never look at the imperial court too strong, they would not die for the imperial court, several times they clearly occupied a good situation, but the Xianbei people did not make a move, but withdrew the army, which is also one of the reasons why the imperial court has been suppressed by the Huns. No matter what the Xianbei people say, they are all Hu people.

Now there is such a powerful Han force as the Iron Blood Army, and in their opinion, the Iron Blood Army is not as difficult to control as Wang Jun of Youzhou, after all, Wang Jun has the support of some families, which is simply a force to split the court and dig the foundation of the court. The imperial court is also supported by the family, and the existence of Sima Rui, the king of Langya, dug up half of the corners of the imperial court, and Wang Jun dug up another part of it, which is simply an enmity against the sky, but the iron-blooded army is not like this. Therefore, even if the Iron Blood Army suddenly rose, it still did not let a few important ministers take it to heart. In their opinion, it is impossible for the iron-blooded army without the support of the family to become a threat to the imperial court like Wang Jun, even if they are strong and strong, even if the achievements that Chu Yun said are true. The vision of these people was still limited to the past, and they didn't know that Chu Yun's iron-blooded army was not relying on the support of the family. The Iron Blood Army is different from all the Han forces in this era, speaking of which Chu Yun is really a little similar to Cao Mengde, who reuses the Han Sect, but Chu Yun has done it more thoroughly than Cao Cao. Only Chu Yun knew how terrible the consequences of activating the mud legs that these people looked down on, this was an experiment in later generations.

However, Liu Bingzhou could not be appeased. After Thorin finished speaking, everyone nodded, and soon several people agreed on a plan that they thought was appropriate, and when you calculate others in this world, others are likely to calculate you. Of course, you can make others calculate to show that you at least have that ability, and most people don't have the qualifications to let others calculate first. Chu Yun and the Predator Army were regarded as important pawns by some people who thought they were standard-bearers, letting Chu Yun know that he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

It wasn't until a few months later that the self-righteous court officials realized how ridiculous their ideas were.

In the first few months of the third year of Jianxing, the iron-blooded army ushered in a rare peace, Shi Le fought a fierce battle in Youzhou, the Huns were licking and washing their wounds, waiting for the next attack on Chang'an, Sima Rui in the south was overwhelmed by the uprising of the exiles, and Liu Kun did not make any moves, and Chu Yun began a new round of army reorganization plan.

Chu Yun is ready to upgrade the brigade level to the division level, a division has two infantry brigades and a cavalry brigade, of course, because of strategic needs, a division may also be three infantry brigades or three cavalry brigades, this time the army plan has been supported by all the generals, after all, this is related to their own future.

Because of the attack of the Huns, Chu Yun was forced to form several temporary brigades, these brigades Chu Yun was not ready to disband, but many of them had not been systematically trained, so Chu Yun's plan to attack Shangjun had to be postponed for a while, and once Chu Yun's plan was completely implemented, it would be the beginning of the next war of the Iron and Blood Army.

Shangjun was changed to Xinxing County a few years ago, and it used to be the hub of Liu Kun's contact with the imperial court. But now it has been completely deserted, here the Hu and Han gathered, the fish and dragons were mixed, the orders of the imperial court lost control of Shangjun, and the most powerful became several Qianghu tribes, these tribes were secretly supported by Xiliang, and they were considered to be the peripheral forces of Xiliang, Chu Yun's attack on them was not considered to be a tear with Xiliang, this was also a test of Xiliang's reaction.

The decline of Shangjun can be said to be caused by Liu Kun, in the fifth year of Yongjia, Tuoba Yi Lu sent Tuoba Liuxiu to lead troops to be stationed in Shangjun, which was renamed Xinxing County, to aid and assassinate Liu Kun. Liu Kun's tooth gate offered Xing Yan a piece of jasper to Liu Kun, and Liu Kun gave this jasper to Tuoba Liuxiu, who went to Xing Yan to ask for jasper, but when he didn't get it, he took Xing Yan's wife and children. Xing Yan was angry and led the army under his jurisdiction to attack Tuoba Liuxiu, Tuoba Liuxiu withdrew, Xing Yan surrendered Xinxing to Han Zhao, and asked the army to attack Bingzhou. Of course, according to Chu Yun's words, this is the fault of the Divine Stone, Tuoba Six Cultivators regarded the gem offered by Xing Yan as a Divine Stone, and whether it was or not was only known to the dead Xing Yan and Liu Kun.

Xing Yan's betrayal completely lost the hub of direct contact between Liu Kun and the imperial court, of course, the Huns did not directly control here, Liu Cong divided several leaders of the indigenous Qianghu here into Taishou, and Xiliang Zhang Liang was not willing to be lonely, he pulled and beaten, and pulled these Qianghu into his people. The Huns were nominally his territory, but in fact they were indeed controlled by Zhang Liang. It can also be seen from here that Zhang Liang is ambitious, and he does not want to be a loyal minister of the court as people think, otherwise he would not act secretly, even if he succeeded, he did not think about returning it to Liu Kun. This kind of behavior made the imperial court and Liu Kun lose the possibility of direct contact, which shows that the loyalty of the Zhang family in Xiliang is just profitable. These news were all found by the Supervision Department, and even the Xiongnu and the Chang'an court did not know that the actual controller of Shangjun was not the Xiongnu Han State.

Of course, this matter must wait for Chu Yun to complete the army, otherwise once Xiliang sends troops, the iron-blooded army is bound to fight with the Xiliang Zhang family, Xiliang iron cavalry has been synonymous with fierceness from the Han Dynasty to the present, and the Zhang family has been running Xiliang for decades, although Chu Yun thinks that they are weaker than Shile, Xiongnu, and Xianbei, but they are not soft persimmons. Chu Yun wants to completely defeat the Zhang family and control Xiliang, and he is still busy.

Chu Yun recalled all the senior generals such as Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi, Liu Bi was the first nominal general of the Iron and Blood Army during this period of time far from Guo Shuzi, Zhou Bin, Guo Yong, Zhao Hu and other people who are in charge of the army are dazzling, but he took over the reserves, ensuring the continuous flow of fresh blood of the iron-blooded army, and the credit is also very great, after the end of the war, Chu Yun immediately transferred him back from the reserves, and is ready to let him take charge alone, as for where to go, Chu Yun still needs to consider, for Liu Bi's loyalty, Chu Yun is basically completely relieved, and his talent is also very good, if you don't use Chu Yun feels pity. Besides, he married a wife and had children in Shangdang County, so Chu Yun didn't worry about him having different intentions.

After a long period of consideration, Chu Yun decided to set up thirteen divisions, including a mixed division of cavalry and infantry, as well as a pure infantry division and a pure cavalry division.

Among them, the iron-blooded cavalry, as the most elite cavalry unit of the iron-blooded army, expanded into the iron-blooded division, Chu Yun personally served as the commander of the iron-blooded division, the iron-blooded division is composed of three brigades, namely the first brigade, the second brigade and the third brigade of the iron-blooded division, each brigade is 4,000 people, the iron-blooded cavalry has become a division-level combat unit with 12,000 people, the iron-blooded division is not worse than the number of forbidden troops of the Xiongnu and Han countries, the combat effectiveness is not bad at all, and it is a first-class unit of the iron-blooded army. The commanders of the three brigades are Mao Yu, Ran Liang and Cui Zhen, needless to say, Mao Yu, Ran Liang made great achievements when Liu Wei attacked Zhongyang City, and was promoted by Chu Yun. As for Cui Zhen, he was hit, and Chu Yun brought him to his side, which can be regarded as taking care of his cheap brother-in-law.

In addition to the special divisional unit of the Iron Division, the rest also have eight mixed cavalry divisions or pure infantry divisions and four pure cavalry divisions, and most of the eight regular divisions are in charge of their own existence.

Among them, Fang Dashan came out on top and was appointed by Chu Yun as the commander of the First Iron Division, after all, Fang Dashan was one of the first few people who followed him, although Fang Dashan's level was a little reluctant, but Chu Yun respected Fang Dashan's opinion, and he still wanted to be in the combat army. In addition to Fang Dashan's original cavalry brigade, the rest of the 1st Iron Division are the 10th Infantry Brigade and the 11th Infantry Brigade, these two infantry divisions are stationed in Wu County and Qi County in Taiyuan County, guarding against Liu Kun, Chu Yun did not let them adjust their defenses, so Chu Yun saved people's lives Fang Dashan's 1st Iron Division was stationed on the front line of Wu County and Qi County.

The commander of the Second Iron Division was Zhou Bin, who took refuge in himself at the same time as Fang Dashan, he showed a strong defensive talent, and Chu Yun valued him very much, so he integrated his old troops into the Second Iron Division, and the station was still Pukou Pass. Chu Yun was ready to use troops on the western front, so the important task of being in charge of the entire eastern side of Shangdang County was handed over to Zhou Bin.

The commander of the 3rd Iron Division is his own hardcore descendant Zhao Hu, who is still stationed on the Jincheng-Tianjingguan line, and the 3rd Iron Division is also based on his old 4th Cavalry Brigade, plus the 2nd Infantry Brigade and the 7th Infantry Brigade, he is responsible for the security of the south side of Shangdang County.

The commander of the Iron Fourth Division is Chu Yun's apprentice Guo Yong, and he is responsible for the key hub of Pingjin Valley, although Chu Yun occupies Wu County and Qi County, but the strategic location of Pingjin Valley is still extremely important, Guo Yong's loyalty and ability are the top talents in the Iron and Blood Army, Chu Yun is very relieved. The Fourth Iron Division is still composed of the Second Cavalry Brigade, the Fifth Infantry Brigade, and the Sixth Infantry Brigade, three meritorious brigades that have made great contributions, but for safety, Chu Yun mobilized the Fifth Cavalry Brigade to join the Fourth Iron Division, and Guo Yong's subordinates are rare divisions composed of four brigades, which shows that Chu Yun attaches great importance to Guo Yong and Pingjingu.

The commander of the Fifth Iron Division is Ma Hui, and he has further become one of the two commanders of the surrender faction, not only his ability is not bad, but also Chu Yun In order to enhance the influence of the surrender faction, there are Gao Liangcheng and Lu Wang on the Wenchen side, and Chu Yun is also vigorously promoted in terms of military generals. The Iron Fifth Division consisted of four infantry brigades: the Eighth Infantry Brigade, the First Temporary Brigade, the Fifth Temporary Brigade, and the Eighth Temporary Brigade, and was ordered to be stationed in Zhongyang City.

The commander of the 6th Iron Division was Fang Ai, the commander of the original 4th Infantry Brigade, and his subordinates consisted of three infantry brigades, the 4th Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Temporary Brigade, and the 4th Temporary Brigade, and was responsible for Lishicheng, Lin County, and Wubao along the Zhongyang River. Of course, only three brigades of 15,000 people could not defend such a large place, Chu Yun asked the 20,000 county soldiers of Xihe County to assist, the strength of these county soldiers was far inferior to the elite soldiers, but it was still good to let them defend Wu Fort. Xihe County is different from Shangdang County, it is also the only county with county soldiers, and Shangdang County has no direct county soldiers.

The commander of the Iron Seventh Division is the brigade commander of the original 3rd Infantry Brigade, and the 7th Iron Division is composed of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, the 9th Cavalry Brigade, and the 10th Cavalry Brigade.

The commander of the Eighth Iron Division is Fang Yong, this gatekeeper from a humble family has walked from the commander of the reserve brigade to the commander of the combat brigade and then to the current commander of the division to the peak of his life step by step. The Eighth Iron Division consisted of three newly built brigades, namely the Temporary First Brigade, the Temporary Sixth Brigade, and the Temporary Seventh Brigade, and the oldest Temporary First Brigade was only a few months, and they were stationed in Lishicheng for repair, ready to follow Chu Yun to attack Shangjun at any time.

In addition to these eight regular divisions, there are also four pure cavalry divisions, although the level is the same, but the number of cavalry divisions is far less than that of the regular division, these four cavalry divisions are stationed in Lishi City, and they are also the troops formed by Chu Yun to follow him to attack Shangjun, after all, there are many cavalry in the Hu people, this is known to everyone.

The commander of the 1st Cavalry Division Huangcun is composed of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and the 1st Cavalry Brigade.

Liu Hai, the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, is composed of the 5th Cavalry Brigade and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.

Zuo Song, the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Division, was composed of the 7th Cavalry Brigade and the 4th Cavalry Brigade, and Zuo Song became another giant of the surrender faction.

Lu Zhong, the commander of the 4th Cavalry Division, was composed of the 6th Cavalry Brigade and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade.

These four divisions plus the Iron Eighth Division are all troops that Chu Yun is preparing to take to attack Shangjun, they do not have their own station, these brigade commanders are not as capable of acting alone as the previous division commanders, they all have their own shortcomings, either they are not qualified enough for combat merits or they are good at attacking. Of course, the ingredients are also very complicated, Fang Yong and Zuo Song belong to the faction of the surrender of the army, but Fang Yong also belongs to the faction of Shangdang County, and Zuo Song belongs to the faction of Si Lizhou like Ma Hui, Gao Liangcheng, and Lu Wang. Liu Hai and Lu Zhong also represent the Hu faction, and there are not many Hu people under Chu Yun, and even Liu Bi belongs to this faction. However, Liu Hai and Lu Zhong did not belong to the same faction of the Hu people, Lu Zhong was a Xiongnu, and Liu Bi and Liu Hai belonged to Zahu, in order to show their loyalty to Chu Yun, they were not only discordant but seriously competitive with each other. And Huang Cun was supposed to belong to the Senate faction, after all, he followed Chu Yun very early and was also a homeless person, but he married the daughter of a traitor from the Senate faction, so he was not treated well by the Senator faction.

In short, Chu Yun also spent a lot of effort in order to balance the various factions under his command, of course, no matter how it was balanced, Chu Yun's descendants still occupied an important part. Chu Yun's subordinates are now roughly divided into five major forces: the Yuan Lao faction, the Shangdang County Native faction, the Xihe County Native faction, the Descendant Faction, and the Hu Faction.

However, the five major factions are also divided into many small factions, which are no less complicated than the factions in the imperial court, among which the patriarchal faction is the most powerful, most of the civil and military generals are from this gang, and the veteran faction that followed Chu Yun at the earliest among the generals is the strongest, Guo Shuozi, Fang Dashan, Guo Yong, Zhao Hu, Zhou Bin, and Fang Ai are all patriarchs. Wang Lian, Zhang Tong, and Fang Ai among the Wenchen also belong to the veteran faction. Of course, these guys can also be said to be Chu Yun's absolute descendants, and most of them follow Chu Yun closely.

But the people of the patriarchal faction are not monolithic, Guo Xuanzi, Fang Dashan, Guo Yong, Zhou Bin, Zhao Hu, the five generals who are in charge of the party are not very harmonious with Wang Lian, Fang Qing, and Fang Ai. And Zhang Tong is self-contained, he doesn't befriend anyone, he can be regarded as a lonely minister, but the more he is like this, the more important Chu Yun is, and he has become the first person in the patriarchal faction to serve as the county guard of Xihe County.

Although the forces of the other factions are getting bigger and bigger, the Shangdang Gang is still the second most powerful at this stage, and among its Chinese ministers are Fan Gao, Chu Chenglin, Li Jin, and many local county commanders and county officials. However, as Chu Yun vigorously promoted the Xihe Gang and the Descending Faction, their voice among the Wenchen was also shrinking, and Chu Yun would not allow them to dominate the faction. Among the generals, Fang Yong is also the only senior general in the Shangdang Gang.