[Red Mansion] Let's listen to a general's order

"Ahem...you miscalculated." Li Lian did not forget to cough twice before saying.

"First, hasn't the emperor ordered Gong Gaohou to reorganize the Spike Army?"

"Secondly, although seven out of ten elite soldiers from the Xiongnu and Turks were eliminated, why didn't you count the rest of the veterans?"

"Thirdly, the Huns and Turks grew up on horseback. They are skilled at bowing horses. Mounting on horses is a warrior. They can become an army with a little training. Moreover, they have lived in the grassland for a long time. The location is the most familiar, why not choose young and strong men to form your own army?"

Li Lian's three questions caused Li Mingzhu and the others to change their expressions.

As the No.1 of the current military, Li Mingzhu is duty-bound to answer these three questions.

"Although the emperor ordered Gong Gaohou to form the Spike Army, it is full of recruits, which have not yet formed, and the strength of the army is only three thousand, which is useless in the overall situation." It is not that she has not considered letting her fiancé join the battle, but when discussing just now, she did not She is also not good at "using public affairs for personal gain" by any general.

"As for the recruiting of the Huns and Turkic people...they have only surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty not long ago, and their hearts are uncertain. I am afraid that they will disperse as soon as they arrive on the grassland, which will damage morale for no reason." This reason is the most superficial one, and the most fearful of these Huns Will the people and the Turkic people hold a grudge, and suddenly come and stab a knife in the back when the fighting is the most intense on the battlefield!At that time, I really don't even know where to cry!

Li Mingzhu, Niu Jizong and others couldn't afford this risk!

"Third brother, Xuanwei's words are not unreasonable!" Niu Jizong said in a difficult way.If those Huns and Turks really made trouble before the battle, refused to obey orders, fled before the battle, or even fought back at a critical moment, the consequences would be unimaginable.

It's not that Li Lian doesn't understand their difficulties, but, "Soldiers are expensive and fast. We don't know how long Rouran can resist, and the speed to rescue Rouran must be fast. And most of the soldiers in Lantian are infantry, even if they were captured last time." I’m afraid there won’t be any results for a while.” If the infantry needs to be transformed into cavalry all at once, horses are not enough.

"Also, although the Japanese pirates in the south are a mob, they are good at operating in small groups and have great flexibility. Once they disperse, it is difficult to encircle and wipe them out without doubling or tripling their forces. Moreover, they rely on their bases to hang in the Overseas, every time I encounter setbacks, I escape by boat, and the next time I am unprepared, I will gather again to attack. Therefore, if we want to destroy them, we must have enough troops.” The reason why Li Lian was able to eliminate tens of thousands of Japanese pirates at the beginning is because It was because he evacuated all the people in Jinhua County early in the morning, and then used tricks to lure tens of thousands of Japanese pirates gathered at sea to come ashore to invade Jinhua County, and when they entered the city, they closed their doors and beat dogs.It is much more difficult for the Japanese pirates who have been fooled once to be fooled again, at least the possibility of closing the door and beating dogs is infinitely reduced.

However, military strength is indeed a serious problem that cannot be ignored for the current Da Zhou.To solve the problem of military strength, the only solution today is to do what Li Lian said—to recruit former Huns and Turkic soldiers and young adults.

"Cough, cough, cough!" Li Lian coughed a few times, looking weak.

"Your Majesty, I would like to lead the 20 cavalry army composed of the Huns and Turks, the [-] soldiers of the Tiance Mansion, and the [-] soldiers of the Lantian Camp to repel the country of Ohlos and rescue Rouran!"

After a pause, he continued: "I suggest that General Xuanwei lead 24 soldiers from Tiance Mansion, [-] soldiers from Lantian Camp and Fengtai Camp to the south to wipe out the Japanese bandits."

Hearing these words, the emperor was overjoyed at first, but then maybe thinking of Li Lian's condition, he couldn't help worrying and said: "Jing Ya has not recovered from his old illness and is seriously ill, how can he continue to work so hard!? If you have any Accident, how can I feel at ease? Let General Xuanwei do the task of leading the troops to rescue Rouran!" Wanting to break Liuhan Baling's pursuit of the Pearl, there is a lot of trouble, and the world knows that the Huns and Turks will always give Let Mingzhu save some face!

Faced with the emperor's true feelings, Li Lian couldn't help feeling slightly guilty.

In fact, he didn't have any cold at all, but he used to fool the emperor by saying that his old disease had relapsed and he was almost dying.However, the last time he entered the palace to manage the affairs between Li Mingzhu and Po Liuhan Badian, he was very energetic and healthy.If the emperor is not hesitant and wants to overthrow the old account, among other things, he just needs to order Li Lian to do an extra copy of the homework he gave to the emperor every three days, or directly allow the various counties to choose It is enough for Li Lian to have a headache for a descendant to be taught by Li Lian.

So, after Feng Zizhi's advice, Li Lian decided to pretend to be sick.

His pale face was purely due to the powder on his face. As for his pulse, Li Lian had taken a elixir developed by Dongchang—Fenghan Wan.People who have taken this medicine have symptoms of wind and cold in their pulse, although they have no problems themselves.Coupled with the fact that Li Lian slightly disturbed his pulse with internal force, it was only natural that the imperial physician could not see that he was pretending to be sick.

"Your Majesty! I have been granted the grace of the Emperor. I was granted the title of Marquis, the title of Champion, and the position of General Tiance. Now that the country is in trouble, how can I just sit idly by!"

Seeing Li Lian's sincerity and his heart to serve the country with every fist, the emperor was deeply moved, and felt guilty for having a little suspicion of Li Lian in the past.

For him, for the sake of Da Zhou, Jing Ya actually didn't even care about his life, what a noble sentiment this is!

The emperor was so moved that he resolutely refused to allow it!

Li Lian had no choice but to persuade him in every possible way, and at the same time winked at Li Mingzhu, Niu Jizong and others desperately.

Li Mingzhu, Niu Jizong and other generals understood, presenting facts and reasoning in various ways.

Everyone tried to persuade the emperor for a long time, and even their voices became hoarse.

Seeing that everyone was saying the same thing, the emperor could only reluctantly nod his head.

Without him!Because if the Xiongnu and Turkic aristocrats such as Hu Hanxie were not the main generals, only Li Lian had enough prestige and ability to make the Huns and Turkic people bow their heads and obey.

Different from the customs of the Central Plains, the nomadic peoples on the grasslands emphasize that the strong are respected and the victor is king.As long as you have the real ability to beat them into obedience, they will naturally obey your orders.

As long as you are strong enough, the Xiongnu clan and the Turkic Ashina clan can also kneel at your feet and kiss your soles piously.

As long as you are brave enough to lead them to fight everywhere, be invincible, and win countless honors of money and beautiful women, they don't mind obeying you at all.

Whether it is the Huns, Turks, Xianbei, or Rouran, they don't care about being Zhou people and contributing to the Great Zhou.

But the beautiful premise of all this is to have an invincible record, enough prestige to shock them, and the ability to make them crazily worship.

As for the above three prerequisites, only Li Lian in Da Zhou can fulfill them.

There is an old saying: Barbarians and Di, like beasts, are afraid of power but not virtuous.

Since the complete defeat of the Xiongnu and Turkic tribes, not only countless people of the Great Zhou Dynasty set up longevity tablets for Li Lian, but Li Lian also had a large number of admirers among the Xiongnu and Turkic tribes.It can be said that the people of the two ethnic groups either worship Li Lian extremely fanatically and are willing to die for him, or they fear Li Lian like a god, and the word "awe" is deeply engraved in their bones.

Although Li Lian beat the Manchus into "slaves" and turned them from wolf kings on the grasslands into puppies with ropes at their feet, so what?It is the ability to beat them so miserably that they are worthy of worship!

The matter of dispatching troops had just been negotiated in the morning, and the news was released at noon. As soon as the conscription order for the Huns and Turkic youths to join the army was issued in the afternoon, the military officials in charge of the conscription almost died of being trampled and beaten.

It was all because there were too many Huns and Turks who were willing or even eager to join the champion Hou. They fought for the position of enlistment, and accidentally injured countless officials who were in charge of counting and persuading the fight.

After the news that Champion Hou recruited Huns, Turkic veterans, and young adults to form a cavalry army, the Huns, Turkic veterans, and young people near the capital flocked to the conscription office outside the city without waiting for the officials in charge of recruiting to come. Want to be the first to join Champion Hou's command.

Veterans and young adults are like this, but instead of stopping the old and weak women and children of the Huns and Turks, they are busy going to other farther places to publicize the fact that the champion marquis recruited their people to join the army.As a result, with the capital as the center, the news that the champion Hou summoned the Huns, Turkic veterans, and young men to serve as soldiers continued to spread.The Xiongnu and Turkic youths in other places were afraid to take a step back, so the champion Hou recruited all the soldiers, didn't even eat lunch, and hurriedly summoned friends and set off for the capital together.And the old mothers and relatives at home continued to spread the news to the outside world, one to ten, ten to a hundred.

Just arrived at Haishi, the [-] Huns and Turkic cavalry had already recruited full members, and there were even a lot more.However, at this moment, the more the better.The emperor gave these more than [-] cavalrymen the title of Yanbei Yicong, overjoyed by the face given to the newly descended young men by the Huns and Turks.

There was no time for the whole team to train or anything, and after the Ministry of War immediately dispatched hundreds of thousands of horses and equipment, Li Lian took Yan Beiyi to the north from the starry sky.

Along the way, apart from Li Lian's own several hundred soldiers, the closest to him was Yanbei Yicong, who had just formed a new army, followed by 20 soldiers from Tiance Mansion, and then [-] soldiers from Lantian Camp Soldiers.

Others felt that Li Lian's move was too risky.

Although there is no other way to find these barbarians to help Da Zhou fight, but Li Lian should not really treat them as his own, he must be vigilant no matter what.All around him are those "dangerous" barbarians who have just landed!As the saying goes: People who are not of our race must have a different heart. It is hard to guarantee that there will be some resentful and undead barbarian who secretly approached Li Lian at night, and then clicked on him!

Niu Jizong tried his best to persuade him several times, but each time he jumped three feet high because of Li Lian's indifferent attitude, and then swung his big ax to find relatives and unilaterally "discuss"—discuss how to beat others .

Even after being persuaded more than once by Niu Jizong and other subordinates and personal soldiers, Li Lian still went his own way and did not listen to the advice at all, which is really annoying.

Li Lian fully understood what the others were thinking, but Li Lian didn't want to use his own life for fun, but to find a way to win the trust of Yan Bei's followers.

Before leaving Beijing, Hu Hanxie deliberately told him Li Lian's status in the hearts of the Huns and Turks, which made Li Lian more confident in commanding Yanbei Yicong.

It's just that Yanbei Yicong is different from Tiance Mansion, that is the child brought up by Li Lian, and it is also different from the soldiers of Lantian and Fengtai camps, everyone is a citizen of Dazhou.He and Yan Beiyi were enemies in the past, and even though they are colleagues now, even though Yan Beiyi worships and respects him extremely, they are still strangers in essence.Li Lian needs to accept Yan Bei Yicong's heart completely.

Now that Li Lian put himself in the center of Yan Bei Yi Cong, it meant that he entrusted his safety to Yan Bei Yi Cong.Even if his own son, Tiance officer, wanted to see Li Lian, he had to get Yanbei Yicong's permission first, and pass through Yanbei Yicong's encirclement line. What a huge trust this is!

Grassland people are straight-minded, and often move their fists faster than their brains, but that doesn't mean they are fools.

The trust that Li Lian gave them was heavier than gold and more beautiful than jade.

The great champion Hou entrusted his life to them and gave them such great trust. They should charge forward for him, kill the enemy desperately, and repay him with death, so as not to disappoint the great champion Hou!

When Yan Bei Yicong was so moved, Li Lian took advantage of the victory and pursued him, promising in public that he would treat Yan Bei Yicong and other soldiers of the Great Zhou equally, that he would be rewarded for his meritorious deeds and punished for his demerits!Every enemy's head cut off by Yanbei Yicong's soldiers has the same credit as other Great Zhou soldiers!As long as you continue to make meritorious service, you will be promoted and appointed as a marquis, and your children and grandchildren will be protected and enjoy a stable life of wealth and glory.

Yanbei Yicong, who used to wander around on the grassland all day long and lived a precarious life, yearns for a stable and prosperous life more than any of the people in Dazhou.

So, within a few days, Li Lian easily accepted Yan Beiyi's heart from top to bottom.

Whenever Yan Beiyi had a little free time, regardless of the exhaustion of the days of rapid march, he rode a horse and wandered outside Li Lian's tent with anticipation and longing.And when Li Lian pushed his tent away, countless people cheered.After Li Lian stepped out of the tent, every tall and mighty Yanbei Yicong prostrated at his feet in admiration and admiration, offering their loyalty and knees, leading the horse for him, and being driven by him.When marching, as long as Li Lian's whip is sounded, ten thousand horses will gallop.

It can be said that Yan Beiyi was so enthusiastic about Li Lian that even Li Lian's own son, the soldiers of Tiance Mansion, could only be ashamed of it.

In this way, Li Lian took Yanbei Yicong, Tiance Mansion soldiers and Lantian soldiers to the grassland to help Rouran.

On the other hand, since someone has been responsible for the hot potato of going north to fight the Ohlos country and rescue Rouran, many people are coveting the remaining big cake of going south to fight the Japanese pirates.Therefore, in the army that went south to suppress the bandits, there were several "generals" who hadn't been to the barracks for ten years.

"Yi'er, Ding'er, although the Japanese pirates are mobs, you must remember—the son of a rich man, you can't sit still. Just leave the trivial matters of killing the enemy and making meritorious deeds to the soldiers, and don't put yourself in danger!" Leader The old man earnestly said.

"Yes, Father." A dignified man about fifty years old replied respectfully.

"Yes, grandfather." A middle-aged man with a face similar to Shi's nodded in agreement.

At this time, in the big tent of the Chinese army

Ran Feng yelled at Gao Kegong indignantly: "I don't understand why you allowed Nan'an's old man and his soft son and cowardly grandson to go south with the army to suppress the bandits! Although they still have military posts on them, who doesn't I know that the military position is just a nice word, but in fact, I don’t have a single soldier!”

Half a day before Li Mingzhu led the army to set off, the former Nan'an County King personally brought his son—the current Nan'an County King and his grandson—Zhongjinghou Shi Ding, and squeezed into the queue of Fengtai Camp. Members of Fengtai Daying, now that the country is in trouble, their father, son, grandson and grandchildren should contribute to the country and serve the Great Zhou, so as to live up to the grace of God.Gao Kegong, who has officially taken over the Fengtai camp, is so disgusted by his words that he can't wait to order his left and right to throw these three brazen bastards out of the barracks.And when he opened his mouth to order, he was stopped by Li Mingzhu.

"Bah! Do you think that's what I thought? A whole family of sluts know how to do military feats! It's so shameless!" Gao Kegong yelled.

He is also an unlucky reminder!Although it is said to be the big army on the third day of the week... um... now it is the top four, and Yanbei Yicong has to be added... Among the four big armies, Tiance Mansion is the No. 1, followed by the Lantian Camp. Fengtai Daying, at the moment, I am afraid that Fengtai Daying is still at the bottom, and even the newly formed Yanbei Yicong can be placed on top of Fengtai Daying.

well!The Tiance Mansion is full of elites. Under Li Lian's strict requirements, every soldier has been carefully screened, and there is no mediocrity.The Lantian Camp has existed since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Apart from stationing in various places, the troops of the Great Zhou were mainly concentrated in the Lantian Camp for training.Yanbeiyi is composed of Huns and Turkic young and strong Hu people from the inside, and their combat effectiveness is absolutely strong.

And his Fengtai camp was only established during the period of the Supreme Emperor, mainly responsible for the water warfare in the south, and his background and strength are a bit insufficient.In the past, the other nobles who couldn't get into Tiance Mansion and Lantian Daying focused their attention on Fengtai Daying, right?The quality of the entire Fengtai camp is uneven, and one-third of the "soldiers" are noble descendants with rank and titles.Both the Taishanghuang and the emperor opened one eye and closed one eye on this, which can be regarded as using the Fengtai camp to appease the relatives and noble ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

Fengtai Daying, one of the majestic four armies, is at the bottom of the list. I am afraid that there is no chance of turning over.As the chief general, Gao Kegong hated those "nobles" among his "subordinates" who only ate their salaries without doing anything, who hadn't been to the camp for ten years, and who would flock to him if they had military merits.

"Okay! Since he wants to mix military merits, let him follow!" Li Mingzhu paused, "I'm afraid he will get the military merits, and he won't have a chance to enjoy them!" In the old Nan'an County King, he brought his son and grandson into the Half an hour before the barracks, Wu Bin, a scholar of Dongge University, visited her.

Po Liuhan Baling rolled his eyeballs and smiled knowingly.

When Ran Feng and Gao Kegong heard these words, their expressions changed.

The two walked out of the tent, circled around, saw that there was no one else except Li Mingzhu's two Tiance female soldiers guarding the door, and then walked back into the tent in fear.