Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 309 New Army
After sending away the secret book, all the dark clouds on Li Qinglong's forehead dissipated.And he happily had a reunion dinner with his family.

Soon Li Qinglong's [-]-mile urgent report was delivered to the Empress Dowager Naimazhen, as Li Qingwei expected.

Empress Dowager Naima appreciated his plan of "two peaches to kill three soldiers" very much, and allowed Li Qinglong's application to recruit private soldiers.

Moreover, Empress Dowager Naima also sent a big assist, that is, the Privy Council of the Mongolian court issued an edict allowing Li Qinglong to expand the army, but the court did not pay the redundant soldiers.

The banner played was to consolidate the Mongol Empire's achievements in Nanyang and defend the core of the hinterland of the Central Plains.

The reason given was Kublai Khan's "incompetence", because Kublai Khan "lost" the land of the Southern Song Dynasty occupied by Mongolia.

Naimazhen's operation directly contributed to and even intensified the conflict between Li Qinglong and Kublai Khan.After Kublai Khan's army was transferred back to the Central Plains, he sent several partial divisions to deploy around Luoyang.In particular, Hangu Pass and Hulao Pass were blocked.

Confronted with the "Han puppet army" Mongolian army under Li Qinglong. Although there were Mongolians under Li Qinglong's men, the Mongolians were not monolithic. The Mongolian army under Kublai Khan had been transferred from Luoyang before.

And the newly added [-] Mongolian army standing troops are subordinates of Brother Ali.

With the consent of the Empress Dowager Naima, Li Qinglong immediately contacted Brother Ali who was stationed in Fengxiang.

And Brother Ali hated Kublai very much because of Kublai's obstruction.

Although Brother Ali rushed back to the Jinding tent one step ahead of Kublai Khan, but in order to rush back quickly, he only brought a cavalry of 3000 as an advance army to return to the Jinding tent first, and his [-] men The regular field army is behind.

And when his army marched to Yanmen Pass, it was stopped by Kublai Khan's army.As a result, his troops did not rush back to the Mongolian grassland in time, which made him lose the opportunity to fight for the Khan position for his brother Mengge.

Although Brother Meng comforted his younger brother in the letter, Brother Aribu hated Kublai very much because of this incident.

Now that Li Qinglong threw an olive branch at him, and with the support of Empress Dowager Naima, he was naturally very willing to help him.So without discussing with Kublai Khan, he assigned the [-] Mongolian security forces under Li Qinglong's name.

Although this army belonged to Li Qinglong in name, it was actually under the command of Tuo Lichi, a general sent by Ari Boke.

But this is not important to Li Qinglong.

After that, an interesting thing happened. Tuo Lichi cooperated with Li Qinglong's Han army to camp along Luoshui and set up a defensive formation to confront Kublai Khan's army across the river.

Li Qinglong originally had 5000 Han troops under his command. Apart from the daily public security and city defense troops, as well as the expansion of the army and the expansion of the new army, there were [-] people who could be mobilized.

Around Luoyang, there were [-] Han troops and [-] Mongolian troops, and Kublai Khan's partial divisions defended each other in a fighting stance.

The Han soldiers under Li Qinglong were fine, most of them were "fishing".It was the Mongolian chief who asked them to move, and they moved, and if they were not moved, they corrected it on the spot.

Because of the fight for Khan, the Mongolian army under Tuolichi was extremely jealous when they saw the Mongolian and Han troops under Kublai Khan, and the two sides were always at war.

Because some of these people are among the [-] troops. They have been fighting for a long time and have not returned to the grasslands for a long time, but they are about to return to their hometown after a long absence, but Kublai Khan's troops are tightly guarding the Yanmen Gate and will not open the gate.

This made them lose their only chance to go home in recent years. In addition, the weather near Yanmen Pass was bad during that time. Kublai Khan's army was in the city and on the pass, leaning on the fire and eating barbecue.

And they could only camp on the spot, hiding in the military tent, shivering while wrapped in sheepskin blankets.After all, the trees at Yanmenguan could not provide warmth for an army of [-].

In addition, the Mongols themselves have a bad temper, and of course these Mongolian men couldn't stand it after being treated like this.

Although no large-scale conflict broke out, small-scale fighting still occurred from time to time.

In particular, the Tuolichi side often took the initiative to provoke troubles. For example, when Kublai Khan's troops fetched water downstream, they deliberately dumped domestic wastewater upstream.

Then it will lead to a small-scale friction conflict, or wrestling with fists and feet, or using stones and sticks.

It wasn't until the two sides were bruised and swollen that their respective centurions would stand up to smooth things over and gather their soldiers.

The Han soldiers on both sides, with the mentality of eating melons and watching a show, watched these Mongolian Tartars killing each other.

Compared with the "friendly exchanges" between Tuoli Chibu and Kublai Khan's partial teachers on both sides of the Luoshui River.

The city of Luoyang seemed much quieter, but Li Qingwei was not idle during this time, he was helping his father form a new army.

Li Qingwei stayed by his father's side during this time.He will raise his troops in the future, and as a leader, he does not necessarily have to be able to march and fight, but at least he must have some understanding of how to govern an army.

Although Li Qinglong is not as good as Yang Chan and Guo Jing in terms of culture, Taoism and martial arts, he is also a brave general who has experienced many battles, and he still has a lot of experience in running an army.

Li Qingwei started with the most basic "March Book". He assisted his father in the preparations and deployment of money, food and various supplies to expand the army.

Although Li Qinglong's territory is only in Luoyang, he has now been promoted to the deputy chief of the Henan Road Army.There are quite a few empty establishments under his command.

Before that, many of Li Qinglong's troops were transferred away, but now there are only [-] troops left under his command.As for the Mongolian army under Tuolichi, although he is nominally under his command, the Han army leader cannot mobilize the Mongolian army without the permission of the superior Mongolian general.

Therefore, although these people are nominally under his command, they do not actually occupy his establishment.

He can also recruit 3 people.The upper limit that the chief executive of the road can rule is 5 people.

Although the number of troops was sufficient, after thinking about it, Li Qingwei reduced the number of troops recruited from 2 to 1.

After all, soldiers are good, not many.Moreover, under the premise that the imperial court does not pay food and salaries, the Li family's finances are also somewhat difficult to raise 2 private soldiers.

Raising soldiers is a huge expense, not just to provide them with a meal, but to pay the military salary.

Including weapons, armor, winter padded clothes, military uniforms that are replaced once a year, and pensions for casualties, these are all a lot of expenses.

When Li Qingwei was playing games before, he didn't pay attention to these things. Now that he had done the "March Master Book" calculation, he finally understood why the people were plundered after the ancient battle broke the city.

After all, if you don't rob, it will be difficult to maintain the normal expenditure of the troops in the case of long-term combat.

However, if you raise [-] private soldiers, the financial resources of the Li family are still enough to deal with it.

It is not difficult to recruit recruits in Luoyang, which is the most densely populated place in the Central Plains.Moreover, Li Qingwei also used the modern conscription medical examination mode to screen a lot of young adults.

Not only that, Li Qingwei also specially trained a group of grassroots officers to join the new army.

These people are his specially selected cronies. These people have a common feature, they have followed Li Qinglong for a long time, and they don't have much affection for the Mongols.

Let these people serve as the grassroots officers of this army, so as to ensure that every battalion of this army is under the control of the Li family.

(End of this chapter)