Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 163 Intense, Perfect Summoning

Starting from the capital city, he traveled southward along the official road. Within a few days, Chu Changning led the army to the border city of Xuzhou.

The army marched all the way without covering their tracks, and Xuzhou had already heard the news.At this moment when Chu Changning arrived at this small border town, the city gate was wide open, and a group of ordinary people holding iron forks and sticks were waiting at the gate.

When they saw Chu Changning leading the army, they were overjoyed and came forward to meet him.

Chu Changning felt strange, and when the leading commoners approached, he asked, "Who are you?"

"General! We are all people in the city, and we specially opened the city to welcome the general!"

"...Where's the general defending the city?"

"So that the general will know that we've wiped out those sons of bitches!" A young man raised the iron fork in his hand and said very proudly.

Chu Changning was very surprised, and then a scholar explained to him everything that happened in the city.

It turned out that since Song Qian, the state shepherd, brought his whole family across the south of the Yangtze River and fled, the whole Xuzhou was in chaos.All the powerful people were fleeing, and some generals in the army began to plunder the property wantonly in the city, causing the people in Xuzhou to suffer untold misery.

It can be said that the people of Xuzhou have long been looking forward to the Bei'an Army coming soon!Therefore, as soon as the Bei'an Army announced its march into Xuzhou, people from all over Xuzhou responded one after another.

This small frontier town was an example. The common people concentrated their resistance, defeated the general and his soldiers defending the city, opened the city gate, and welcomed the Bei'an army into the city.

Chu Changning knew the ins and outs, and was very satisfied.

If this is the case in every city in Xuzhou, then it would be much easier for him to capture the whole of Xuzhou than imagined.

Leading the army into the city, Chu Changning continued to march after a short rest.

As he expected, almost all the cities in Xuzhou have become spinach, most of them have no soldiers to defend, even if they have soldiers, they have already fled in the face of Chu Changning's tens of thousands of troops, and Kaesong surrendered.

Almost in just one day, Chu Changning easily went down to four cities in a row, and when he turned around the next day, he was already approaching Kaiyang City.

Kaiyang City is the prefectural city of Xuzhou. State Shepherd Song Qian has already escaped, and now this city is also occupied by a former general.

How could this little general, He De, occupy a big city, escaped by relying on the state herdsman, and the senior generals also crossed the river one after another.Those with high official positions have all left, and those with small official ranks will naturally be promoted.

But it wasn't long before the general joined the state, and Chu Changning came to the city.

What surprised Chu Changning was that the general still didn't surrender, and wanted to defend with less than ten thousand soldiers.

It happened that there was no battle to fight along the way, and Chu Changning was itching forehand, so he also lined up his troops at this opportunity.

He made full use of the advantages of the masters of the rivers and lakes, organized several of them into a small team, and then directly began to attack the city.

The Rong army under him is an elite division carefully selected from Beirong and several other tribes.It can be said that each of them is a warrior who can fight three with one. The masters of the rivers and lakes are the first to climb the ladder, relying on their inner strength to resist the arrows shot down from the city wall.

When the internal strength was about to be exhausted, he retreated decisively and replaced another master to take the lead. In this way, the casualties of the siege soldiers were greatly reduced for a while.

Chu Changning watched from behind, feeling emotion in his heart.

Jianghu masters are indeed very useful. Without them, it may not be difficult to climb the city wall, but at least hundreds of soldiers will be injured.

But now, he visually estimated that there were less than 200 casualties, and the vanguard had successfully climbed onto the city wall.

Heartbroken, Chu Changning decided to go to battle himself.

He was born in the third level of the realm, and he was able to deal with this kind of battle with ease. After climbing the city wall, he fought forward with the soldiers of the Rong people to open the way.

There were thousands of soldiers in the garrison area, and they had no fighting spirit. After the Bei'an army climbed the city wall, they retreated steadily, and soon they all threw down their weapons and surrendered.

The general was also beheaded by a Rong man with an axe.

"General!" The Narong soldier held the general's head and shouted excitedly at Chu Changning in unskilled Zhou dialect, "Mine! I'll kill it!"

"Good!" Chu Changning praised, "You deserve credit!"

"Thank you, General!"

The battle ended in less than half an hour. The army entered the city, but the common people were not afraid, and went out of the city to greet them with laughter.

They really have a "welcome Wang Shi" mentality towards the Bei'an Army now.

Chu Changning also strictly abided by the military regulations of the Bei'an Army, and did not allow any soldiers to harass the people. Several Rong soldiers violated the regulations and were immediately taken down by the monitoring soldiers accompanying the army.

After controlling Kaiyang City, the entire Xuzhou is almost under control.

Chu Changning wrote a letter and asked Kuai Ma to send it to Su Yuan in the capital.

In the letter, he not only reported the results of the battle, but also continued to invite the battle.

Xuzhou previously sent troops to support the capital, which left the city empty. It is really not fun to fight so easily.

Chu Changning asked for a fight, begging Su Yuan to let him continue marching westward and defeat the only remaining Qinzhou in Jiangbei!
As long as Qinzhou is conquered again, Jiangbei will belong to the Bei'an Army, and the Bei'an Army will officially own half of Dazhou's mountains and rivers.

Hurry up and send the letter to the capital.

In the capital, Su Yuan held a military talisman and was calling for a new call.

This time he didn't think too much and chose to summon directly.

As he expected, there were no pictures on the light curtain.

He had summoned Li Yuanba and Qi Jiguang several times before, if another rare general appeared, Su Yuan would really doubt his luck.

But when the result of this summoning came out, he was overjoyed.

[Successful Summoning: Obtain [-] Pawns from the Building and Ships]

【Building ship pawn】

Main battle type: Naval battle

Equipment: none
Quantity: 50000
Remarks: "The wind roars and the waves stand upright, riding the waves like flying!"

……

Lou Chuan pawns!
fifty thousand!

"This is no worse than a rare general..."

Su Yuan couldn't hold back his excitement and whispered.

Just [-] summoned soldiers is a big number. Summoned soldiers are absolutely loyal and forbidden, and one summoned soldier is better than five real soldiers.

It should be noted that the [-] Xiliang iron cavalry he summoned for the first time are still in use, and the number has not decreased much.

Now there are 20 more, and the combat power is not inferior to that of [-] or [-] real soldiers.

And more importantly, the [-] is still a ship pawn!
What is a Lou Chuan pawn?In short, sailors.

Because naval battles often take place from the boats, the sailors are also called the soldiers of the boat, and the generals of the sea are also called the generals of the boat.

Su Yuan does not lack land soldiers now, but what is lacking is sea soldiers.

Land soldiers and sea soldiers are both soldiers, but there is a big difference.

One of the key points is that many land soldiers have no water skills at all, so how can they be competent in naval battles?
The [-] Xiliang iron cavalry he summoned, even those priests and archers, can't swim.Most of the real soldiers in the north, such as Qingzhou Corps and Mozhou Corps, are also landlubbers.

It is true that Su Yuan can let them learn to swim, but the problem is that "swimming" and "water-through" are two different concepts.

Plopping back and forth in the pool is also known as being able to swim, but if such a person who can swim is thrown into the sea, he will give up soon.

Swimming can be learned suddenly, but water requires long-term training.

A northern soldier who learned how to swim in an assault, and a southern soldier who grew up by the sea fought in the water. It is estimated that the latter can fight three at a time.

For this reason, the call of the pawns of the [-]-floor ship can be said to have solved Su Yuan's urgent need, and it can be called a perfect call.

"With these [-] sailors, my plan to go south can be advanced a bit..."

Su Yuan thought in his heart, even with these [-] sailors, it would be no problem for him to divert to teach the Eastern Japanese a lesson.

Since the war with Dongwa, he has also asked people to investigate information about Dongwa.

According to the summarized information, Dongwa Kingdom is undoubtedly a small country with a population of only 300 million, and its volume is almost only slightly larger than that of a state in Dazhou.

But it is such a small country that has frequently harassed Da Zhou for many years, causing Da Zhou a headache, but there is nothing he can do.

The root cause of this is that the Eastern Wa Kingdom knew that its national strength was not as good as that of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so it spent a lot of resources on the construction of naval warfare.

And Dazhou, because of the vast land, can be self-sufficient by farming and arable land, and can also support a large number of corrupt officials.Once a person is satisfied, it is easy to lose his aggressiveness, and the same is true for a country.

When those princes and nobles don't need to go to sea to plunder other countries, but can eat their mouths full of oil, then they will naturally not work hard on going to sea to build, they only need to think about how to maintain a stable domestic rule, so that there is no chaos in the country.

But in this way, when your border is frequently harassed, you have nothing to do but stare and curse.

In the past, Dongwa relied on this to plunder from the coast and border of Dazhou from time to time, and after tasting the sweetness, it became more and more unscrupulous.

Now that Jiangbei is in Su Yuan's hands, he will not allow this to happen again.

Not only is it not allowed, but he also wants to beat Dongwo into a cripple.

The population of Eastern Japan is 300 million, and the standing force of 20 is probably too much. This 20 does not belong to only one person, but to one force.

According to intelligence, there are currently multiple shogunates in Eastern Japan, and each shogunate has its own private army. On the contrary, the "Daimyo" that exists like an emperor does not have many soldiers at hand.

Among these shogunates, the most powerful is the Shanggong shogunate.

Su Yuan has no more specific information here for the time being.

"The more than 400 Japanese pirates were not all killed back then, just keep a few prisoners for Shen Lian to interrogate." He thought to himself.

Unlike the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Eastern Japanese had different languages ​​and cultures, so it would not work for Su Yuan to send Jin Yiwei to lurk there.

But as the saying goes, money can turn ghosts, or that the enemy of an enemy is a friend.If you want to understand this Shanggong shogunate, you can start with other shogunates.

Su Yuan was not in a hurry, he first summoned dozens of building and boat soldiers to come out to have a look.

As soon as the soldiers appeared, he noticed that they were different from other summoned soldiers such as Xiliang cavalry.

The skin of these building pawns is mostly dark and rough caused by too much wind and sun, and these soldiers are all slender, with long hands and long legs, and they are extremely good at swimming and diving.

Su Yuan took them to the ferry and found Qi Jiguang.

"Jiguang, look at how these soldiers are doing."

Qi Jiguang looked at these building boat soldiers and said, "My lord, can you let them go into the water to have a look?"

"of course."

Su Yuan asked these building boat soldiers to swim in the sea, dozens of them took off their coats and jumped into the water without saying a word.Their flexible swimming postures are like long fish, which seems to be a manifestation of their deep water skills.

Qi Jiguang was very satisfied, and said: "These soldiers are very good at water, and they are the best candidates for the navy!"

Su Yuandao: "Then I will give you [-] soldiers like Jiguang. Can you build me an elite navy that is invincible?"

fifty thousand!

Qi Jiguang's heart was shocked, and then he said in a deep voice: "My lord, I will definitely do my best to train these [-] soldiers to become the most powerful naval elite!"

"Okay." Su Yuan nodded, he was very confident in Qi Jiguang.The [-]-building pawns were handed over to him, and he was training naval battles while building warships. The combination of the two would definitely create a navy with extremely fierce combat effectiveness.

And that's what he needs right now.

Su Yuan didn't directly summon 5 people and throw them at the ferry. With so many people, there was no place to live.He plans to build some military tents first, or discuss with the people in several fishing villages to see if they have plans to sell their houses.

Direct demolition is not very good. Many fishermen have been fishing in the village for generations. Forced demolition will definitely cause a lot of dissatisfaction.

After tentatively deciding on this matter, Su Yuan returned to the capital, and it happened that Zhou Shu was looking for him, saying that he wanted to know about the overall military situation of the Bei'an Army for statistics.

She was in charge of the Ministry of War. After counting the guards in the area, she had to ask Su Yuan if she wanted to make a statistics of the Bei'an Army as a whole.

Because until now, except for Su Yuan himself, no one knows how many people there are in the Bei'an Army... Yes, even Lu Wuyou, Chu Changning, Zhao Yun and other confidants don't know.

They only know that Su Yuan will often bring out a large number of soldiers suddenly when needed, and these soldiers may have never appeared before...

The two came to the Yamen of the Ministry of War. In the study, Zhou Shu first showed Su Yuan her statistical results.

In Mozhou, Qingzhou, and the general information, the number of guards, and the situation of ordnance in each city, she has made a complete statistics.

But the records here in the capital are blank, which is also the purpose of her looking for Su Yuan.Since she is in charge of the work of Minister of the Ministry of War, she wants to do her duty and find out how many soldiers there are in the capital.

Zhou Shu said to Su Yuan: "I know you have many secrets, but it's better to improve the statistics of military strength. What do you think?"

"..."

Of course, Su Yuan wouldn't reveal all his trump cards. It wasn't that he didn't believe in Zhou Shu, but that the things written down on paper, no matter how small the chance, were at risk of being leaked.

And he can summon once a week, does this record have to be updated every week?In that way, the secret of his summoning time is not directly exposed.This is absolutely unacceptable.

After thinking for a while, Su Yuan said to Zhou Shu: "I can understand your desire to complete the statistics, but the capital is a bit special, so you should only record the soldiers who are in charge of city defense and public security work."

City defense and security soldiers are a fixed number and will not change much.Even if Su Yuan summoned more and more soldiers in the future, he would not add more soldiers to maintain law and order, as that would only cause redundancy.

Hearing this, Zhou Shu also knew that Su Yuan didn't want to reveal the secret, so he nodded and said, "Okay then."

　Remarks:
　　1. Thank you for your reward!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)