Xuande

Chapter 307 Cheng Gongying's Revenge
In the current Liangzhou, there is no Zhonglang General in the Liangzhou Corps.

At present, the highest military positions in the Liangzhou Corps are all kinds of school lieutenants besides Liu Bei who is a general.

Not even a school captain.

At present, there are only five school lieutenants in the Liangzhou Corps, namely Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xia Houyuan and Xia Houdun. What they do in the state pastoral mansion are school lieutenants in the army. For example, Guan Yu served as Wu Meng. He was Captain Wu Meng in the army.

Liu Yong, Liu Sheng, Pang De, and Xu Huang are capable enough, but because they did not have any serious military achievements in Liangzhou, they only served as army commanders, and the leader was Yizhou Mu. The government is engaged in the identity of the leader.

When the Eastern Han court did not set up standing general positions, even Zhonglang generals were not set up very much. The school lieutenant was a mid-to-high-ranking officer standing in the army at ordinary times, and Zhonglang general became a general at the commander-in-chief level.

Over the years, as wars have become more frequent, military merits have also begun to increase. The number of Zhonglang generals has gradually increased, and the number of generals has also begun to increase. However, most of them are set during wartime, and they are not often set up after war.

This is a practice formed by the changes made by the Eastern Han court in order to limit military expenditures and reduce expenditures. At the same time, it is also a manifestation of the Eastern Han court's lack of sufficient ability to command joint operations of large corps and its obsession with small-scale security operations.

Since the Han-Qiang War, with the continuous weakening of national power and the gradual depletion of finances, the Eastern Han Dynasty tended to be more introverted and conservative, and lost the idea of ​​pioneering and entering.

For military operations, it adheres to the concept of "If you can't fight, don't fight, if you can fight small, don't fight big", reject large-scale operations, and avoid wars as much as possible.

Under this kind of guiding ideology, naturally there is no need for a lot of relatively high military positions, and there is no need for various generals. Even Zhonglang generals have become less numerous, and it is not unusual to have one or two generals occasionally.

This practice also affected Liu Bei's subordinates to a certain extent, and it is also the problem that it is difficult to promote the military rank normally without sufficient military merit.

However, with the increasing number of wars encountered by the Liangzhou Corps and the continuous accumulation of military achievements, it will be a matter of time before this limit is broken.

Liu Yong, Liu Sheng, Pang De, and Xu Huang were the main generals following Liu Bei's attack. They all made great military achievements this time, so Liu Bei promoted the four of them to the rank of school lieutenant.

Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Ma Teng, Yan Xing and other generals at the next level also accumulated some credit, and were officially signed and appointed as military commanders by Liu Bei.

The next time there is another war and huge gains and captures, the first Zhonglang in Liu Bei's army may be born, but it is not yet known who that person will be.

Of course, this is not important.

Liu Bei will not be stuck with military merits, and he will not allow his subordinates to make credit but not be promoted. This is not something he will do. They have made credit and the conditions are met, and they can be promoted.

In the future, when their military merits are greater and their status is higher, it is not impossible to arrange for them to be generals.

In the previous era, there were not so many titles of generals, but Liu Bei knew a lot of cool titles of generals, and when the time came to arrange them one by one, it would be enough to calm people's hearts.

Next is a series of accumulative awards for military merits belonging to middle and low-level officers and soldiers, including material rewards and promotion rewards.

Wuchang was promoted to Shichang, Shichang was promoted to Captain, Captain was promoted to Tuen Zhang, Tuen Zhang was promoted to Junhou, and Junhou was promoted to Jun Sima.

Because of the strict implementation of the military promotion and reward system, the Liangzhou Corps has very strong combat effectiveness and fighting will, and the desire to win is also very high. Basically, they will not fall into panic when they hear of wars, and they will not worry about their future. worry about their fate.

In addition to the army, other civil servants who made contributions to this march were also rewarded with generous material rewards, and there were also a series of promotions in the state pastoral government system.

However, compared with soldiers on the battlefield, the promotion speed of civilian personnel is definitely not so fast.

And to put it bluntly, Liangzhou is such a big plate. If everyone has accumulated meritorious deeds to a certain extent, it is inevitable that there will be no promotion.

Liu Bei calculated that even if he didn't want to go to Luoyang at that time, his subordinates would push him to Luoyang angrily.

The small Liangzhou couldn't accommodate their strong desire for promotion, so they must pursue higher positions, greater power and broader space.

Liangzhou is still too small. At that time, for their own sake, they must push Liu Bei forward.

Liu Bei doesn't need to take the initiative, everything will happen naturally.

A few days after the large-scale rewards for meritorious deeds, Guan Yu, the prefect of Jincheng, sent someone to tell Liu Bei an interesting episode.

During Liu Bei's Northern Expedition to Xianbei, a man from Jincheng named Cheng Gongying pretended to be an official from Liangzhou, and was sent by Liu Bei to discuss matters. He took the initiative to contact Shaodangqiang and met the leader Naduo.

When Naduo met him, he said that Liu Bei was commanding troops to fight against the Xianbei people, Liangzhou was empty, and it was a good time to send troops to Liangzhou to directly attack Liu Bei's rear.

He believes that as long as Shaodang Qiang moves fast enough, he can easily capture Liangzhou with an army of 2 people and invade Liangzhou, and he can also obtain a large amount of wealth accumulated by Liu Bei, which is beneficial to Shaodang Qiang. There is no harm at all.

He was so shocked, he didn't quite understand the brain circuit of this guy, he quickly stabilized his emotions after being surprised, asked him about his origin and the reason for doing this, and asked him about the reason for what he did and his accomplices clear.

Then Naduo tied him up and handed him over to Guan Yu to dispose of, in order to express Shao Dangqiang's importance to the agreement, as well as his trust and loyalty to Liu Bei.

Now Guan Yu has taken down Cheng Gongying's entire family and several disgruntled families in Jincheng County, and wiped out all the forces that conspired to betray him.

Liu Bei was very happy about this, and asked Guan Yu to send all these people to Ji County to be handled by him. In addition, he also sent people to praise and reward Naduo to reward his loyalty.

After Naduo received Liu Bei's commendation, he was very happy, and at the same time he was glad that he made the right choice.

Because only he knew that when Cheng Gongying came to lobby him, he was moved. He was far less resolute and decisive than he said. Guan Yu.

There is a slight difference in details between what he experienced and what he explained.

At that time, when Naduo asked about Cheng Gongying's origin, Cheng Gongying did not evade, and confessed that he was once a subordinate of Han Sui from Liangzhou.

Han Sui was captured by Liu Bei on the battlefield, and was escorted to Luoyang by him, where he was tortured by Che Li, and his whole family was beheaded.

He hated Liu Bei very much, and tried every means to avenge Han Sui.

But Liu Bei's power is very strong, and he is protected by a very powerful army. He couldn't act rashly, so he kept lurking and waiting, and finally waited for a good time.

So he immediately found Naduo and started lobbying.

"At the moment, Liu Bei is commanding troops to fight against Xianbei, and the rear is empty. It doesn't take too long for you to gather the army and go all the way from Jincheng to Jixian County. Liu Bei took away the main force, and what remained was only a county with more than 3000 people. Garrison strength.

Although Guan Yu has military exploits, but he has few people and is alone, he will definitely not be able to fight against your main army, and will surely retreat. You can go straight in and capture Liangzhou. Liu Bei has accumulated a lot of wealth in Liangzhou these days. If you want to seize it, you will surely Success! "

(End of this chapter)