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Chapter 356 Martial matters?

The spring of the first year of Xianqing was very important to the Tang people.

Li Zhi wants to demonstrate his supreme majesty this year.

Wu Mei wanted to replace the crown prince with her own son Li Hong.

Li Yifu is ambitious and wants to use oracle bone inscriptions to reshape his right to speak in the court.

Yunchu is busy expanding cotton planting, busy tinkering with his cabbage business, busy getting the people of Wannian County out of single agricultural planting, and then making a fortune, so as to fulfill his long-cherished wish of putting gold leaf on Chang'an.

Following the wishes of the above people, Li Ji is preparing to write a grand narrative about himself on the earth.

Now, relying on the prestige of gunpowder, he is intensively arranging the affairs of the Eastern Expedition. This time, he will recruit 21 Zhechong mansions in Longyou, 27 Zhechong mansions in Shandong, 2 Zhechong mansions in Hebei, and 26 navy warships. Wei has [-] horses and [-] generals above the seventh rank. A total of [-] troops will be mobilized to quell Goguryeo.

This time around Wuwei recruited troops, Wannian County and Chang'an County were the key areas for recruiting.

The troops from Wannian County were almost dispatched in empty groups, and the number of soldiers sent out reached a shocking 100, which almost exceeded the number of troops sent by the two Zhechong Prefectures.

If things go wrong, or if there is a catastrophic defeat, there will definitely be scenes of crying and mourning everywhere in the countryside of Wannian County.

Logically speaking, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty's recruiting government would definitely not be so inhumane. A Zhechong government can send up to four regiments of troops, which is 1000 or [-] people.

However, only one Zhechong mansion can appear in a state, that is to say, the number of mansion soldiers mobilized by Wannian County is not conventional at all.

If only Wannian County had such a recruitment method, Yunchu would still be able to appeal. Chang'an County next door dispatched [-] troops this time. Not only was Pei Xingjian not worried, but he enthusiastically challenged the emperor and said that he would bring Let the soldiers of Chang'an County go to win a chance to become a marquis immediately.

This blocked Yun Chu's avenue to appeal.

The troop transfer documents from the Ministry of War came down, Yun Chu looked at the thick roster, his scalp felt numb, all the government soldiers from the age of 50 to [-] were in the ranks of recruitment.

Yun Chu, who had experienced a tough battle, knew what was going on on the battlefield, and the song "Song of Soldiers and Chariots" written by Du Fu immediately sounded like a thunder in his head.

"New ghosts annoy the wronged old ghosts and cry, and the sky is cloudy and rainy and wet and chirping."

Just when Yunchu was sitting in the public office and feeling upset with the thick roster, the outside of the county office was as noisy as a busy city.

"What are you doing outside?"

The irritable Yun Chu roared, and immediately a small official came to report: "Xian Zun, there are a lot of soldiers from the government outside, all of them are here to respond."

Yun Chu gritted his teeth and said: "Tell their family members not to make trouble, this time it is the emperor's order, whoever says it will not work, as long as it is on the roster, it must be ordered to go out, there is no need to run away."

The little official said strangely: "Xianzun, no one ran away. Everyone wants to know if they are on the list now. If they are, then go home and prepare equipment, and go to Liaodong immediately."

Yun Chu was stunned for a moment and said, "Are they willing to fight in Liaodong?"

The little official said, "Yes."

Yun Chu said: "Why?"

The little official said: "Not to mention our strong troops and horses this time, the commander-in-chief is Yinggong, and Yinggong has mobilized more than 500 powerful generals who are above the seventh rank of the Tang Dynasty. This time we went to destroy Goguryeo.

As long as you go to Liaodong with the army, you won't have to fight for three years. If you are lucky and follow the right general, you may even get some spoils back. If you are lucky, you can get some military merits. "

Yun Chu's eyes widened and he said, "Who said that?"

The little official pointed to the outside and said: "Those government soldiers said that some veterans who are obviously over 50 years old came to ask."

When Yunchu heard the words, he left the roster and came to the gate of the county government office to have a look.

The originally noisy gate of the county government office suddenly became quiet.

Sure enough, the crowds here are very crowded, and you can see that the number of people will not be less than [-].

Yun Chu saw that everyone was looking at him earnestly, so he coughed and said, "Liaodong is a place of bitter cold, and conquering Goguryeo is not something that can be accomplished in a short while.

At home, the cotton planting has increased more than tenfold this year, and so many livestock have been raised, and all of them have gone to war. What about the work at home?Just rely on your parents, wife and children? "

It was obviously very inappropriate for Yunchu to say such things at this time, and he still felt that he should make things clear to these people.

An old man with white hair stepped forward to salute: "The county lord is taking pity on us men of the mansion, thanks to the little people who naturally know that the past two years have been good, and the family has some surplus food.

The county also takes us people seriously. When food and clothing are scarce, there is cheap food to buy, and relief is given out from time to time, so the people are content.

Now, the border is unstable, so the old man is thinking of wielding a knife while he is still able to swing the knife to settle the matter of the border, so that future generations will not have to fight.

A good life should be enjoyed in peace, don't let us live a good life here, and the war on the other side of the border is not good. "

Yun Chu looked at this obviously fleshy old man and sighed inwardly, he was a fucking veteran.

He didn't say a word about going to Goguryeo with the army to participate in the robbery, he just picked what Shangguan liked to say.

However, this is also good, the army should be more brutal and motivated, so that it will be brave in battle.

When the old soldier spoke, the soldiers around him also agreed, and looked impatient.

At the beginning of Yun, he ordered Hu Cao to start counting and posting military posts, and distributed them to everyone on the roster.

100 people from Wannian County set off for the expedition, and the entire county government immediately became busy. Although it was said that except for the food and grass, the government soldiers prepared the rest by themselves.

However, Yunchu felt that as the parent officer of others, he had to prepare another piece of military equipment for them no matter what.

Through Lao Huang, the director of the Palace Gate Bureau, Yunchu replaced two hundred sets of ancestral tattered armors of the government soldiers with new ones by mysterious means.

Anyway, they are all old, and no one cares about the old ones becoming tattered. In addition, these armors are all worn on the soldiers who are going to fight, and the armor itself should be worn on the soldiers, so there is no problem.

Yunchu also publicly destroyed the arrows made of bamboo that had been stored in the warehouse for many years. Some arrows were almost turned into bows due to poor storage.

Therefore, Yunchu thought of a way to turn most of the bamboo arrows into straight arrows made of Zhe wood or oak wood.

He even replaced a large part of the tattered bows in Fubing's hands, and added five bowstrings to each bow.

They also mobilized the blacksmiths in Wannian County to reprocess and beat the weapons of the soldiers to make them look brand new.

There is nothing to do with crossbows. The Ministry of War is very strict about this thing. However, Yunchu still found a way to exchange things for five hundred crossbows and fifty thousand crossbow arrows for the soldiers.

Most importantly, Wannian County bought [-] war horses from the market at one time to strengthen the number of cavalry of the Wannian County government soldiers.

It's a pity that no vests were obtained, so these horses couldn't fight with armor on them.

Yunchu also went to Li Ji's mansion in person, hoping that the old man would distribute some gunpowder to the Wannian county soldiers, but he spit out in a mouthful of spit.

When I walked to the door, I heard Li Ji say, if you are a general and command the Wannian County Army, gunpowder, thunder and fire bombs are not negotiable.

"They are forcing you to go to the battlefield." The gentleness of holding a bronze mirror to check whether the boil on his face is mature or not easily revealed the essence of the matter.

"If I go to the battlefield, believe it or not, where is the most dangerous place, the old thief will definitely send Wannian county soldiers there?"

"On this point, I believe that if they are on a truly cruel battlefield, the Wannian County Army will not be able to reduce casualties just because you are in command.

As far as your bad relationship with those old thieves is concerned, I even think your old things in Kucha City will repeat itself. "

"So, I can't go."

"That's right, you really can't go, but, I heard that the person who commanded the Wannian County Army may be Guo Daifeng. Since his father and his brother died in the battle of Kucha City, this guy has been thinking about revival Menlin, this guy is capable of using the lives of Wannian county government soldiers to increase his military exploits."

"He dares!"

"Why don't you dare, go to Liaodong, he is the general, drive the people under your command to death, what can you do in Chang'an, what can you say?

Beat him up when he comes back?
Oh, that's all there is to it. "

After hearing gentle words, Yun Chu looked at him suspiciously and said, "Why do I feel that you are driving me to the battlefield?"

Grinning gently, he finally squeezed out the pus from the boil, wiped it with a handkerchief, then looked at the lump of pus and blood on the handkerchief and nodded in satisfaction: "Haven't you seen it yet?
This time, Xue Rengui will lead the 400 soldiers from the right-leading army to fight, and Pei Xingjian will lead the [-] government soldiers from Chang'an County to fight.

Since both of them are going to fight, will those old thieves let you go?

I even dare to say that the three of you are very likely to be the three strikers in this battle.

Otherwise, there is really no way to explain the mobilization of [-] government soldiers from Wannian County. "

Yun Chu sighed and said, "I really don't like the battlefield. When I was defending the city of Qiuci smelling the smell of corpses, I had already made an oath."

Looking softly at Yun Chu, he said: "Go ahead and ask for a memorial, I doubt that His Majesty has not agreed to Pei Xingjian's memorial until now, and it is very likely that he is waiting for your memorial.

Your target is Jing Zhaoyin. As you said before, the guard of the capital should be a tiger, and no matter how bad it is, a dog must be sent. No one dares to entrust the safety of Chang'an to a pig.

The Battle of Liaodong is the best environment to test who is a pig, who is a dog, and who is a tiger.

Don't worry, if you join the Zhan Zuo Shu, I will join too, and we will lead this group of people from Wannian County together to see if we can win a title immediately.

In the Tang Dynasty, those who had no military merits could not be regarded as real nobles. This is not comparable to the virtual nobles you get from planting cabbage. "

Yun Chu bowed his head in silence for a moment and said, "Let me think about it again."

　You look first, I will continue
　　
　
(End of this chapter)