Lord Yuan

Chapter 183 181 Captain Yuan Shao, the crossbow cavalry camp starts

Yuan Shao leaned on the wall of the Duwei Mansion, reading some recent news.

These powerful people who have always liked fish and meat, do not regard Liaodong as their foundation, and only care about the development of their family, have begun to die down at this time. They have not made the slightest move to overstep their bounds, and can only guard their one-third acre of land honestly and dutifully. Only Gongsun family, and the Lee family.

At this time, it began to develop rapidly. With the support of Yuan Shao, and some of the benefits that had not been digested when the Zhao family was destroyed, it was split into two by the two families.

At the local level, in the face of many corrupt officials being arrested and brought to justice, the politics of the entire Liaodong Territory began to become clear, and the population of households that had not been thoroughly investigated for decades was completely revealed to them at this time. in front of.

Liaodong belongs to the country and is subordinate to Liaodong County, but it is independent and self-contained. It governs six cities, with more than 31 households and [-] people, half of whom are Xianbei, Wuhuan and other ethnic groups.

After the layers of exploitation were eliminated, the taxes collected by the Liaodong vassal states gradually began to have a surplus. Unlike before, after being wantonly invaded by many powerful people, they could still claim to have no surplus food in their homes.

Yuan Shao has begun to focus on politics, powerful gentry, and military affairs, and move forward step by step.

Of course, Yuan Shao has not yet been promoted to captain. It is only because the captain Gongsha is ill at home and has not gone to his post that he can start to advance in a big way.

In order to prevent the next process from being hindered, Yuan Shao also began to learn from the consistent styles of those powerful people.

He made the surrounding Li people wantonly spread Yuan Changshi's merits, pay close attention to the good official style of corrupt officials, adopt a tough military attitude towards foreigners, and resolutely resist the powerful gentry without mercy.

After this series of combination punches, Yuan Shao's reputation reached the top again, and the entire Liaodong began to sing about Yuan Shao's achievements.

Literature can bring peace to the people, and martial arts can protect the environment.

It is really a great loss that such a good and capable official cannot succeed Gong Shamu as the captain.

Comments like this have been heard in Liaodong County, Xuantu County, and even Liaoxi County.

Gongsun Yu, the governor of Xuantu County, couldn't help but smile when he saw the news from his subordinates. Although he was the governor of a county, he was actually from the Gongsun family and was related to Gongsun Du. At this time, Gongsun Du It seems that he has become Yuan Changshi's right-hand man. He knows that Yuan Changshi's achievements will not stop here.

In the eyes of people like them, the prefect of a county is already an extremely precious existence, but in their eyes, he is probably just a jumping pole that continues to climb upward.

Therefore, in order to show his sincerity and better help Gongsun Du become Yuan Shao's confidant, Gongsun Yu wrote two letters, one was sent to Gong Shamu's hometown, and the other was sent directly to Jizhou. Youzhou Governor's Mansion.

Gongshamu was not pretending to be ill. He was indeed ill, and it was difficult to move his body. At this time, he received a letter from the prefect of Xuantu County. He was quite surprised, but when he saw the content of the letter, But there was a hint of helplessness.

The surrounding counties and counties have begun to spread the reputation of Yuan Shao at this time, not to mention the officials at all levels in Liaodong, fighting with the common people. It was he who was lying in bed, and the news reached his ears. There are also countless.

After cleaning up the powerful gentry, the arrogant Zhao family was directly destroyed, and a bunch of corrupt officials were arrested. The military also began to undergo major reforms. This series of news was like a reminder, and he was already in poor health. He was even more unable to move under this double blow.

As a captain, what he thinks and does is completely opposite to that, and the phenomena he creates are also one in the sky and one on the earth.

He sighed and looked at the increasingly clear sky. The dark clouds dispersed and the morning sun appeared.

I picked up the pen and paper with difficulty and started the initial plan.

Yuan Shao promoted him to the captaincy of Liaodong and made him fully responsible for the affairs of the Liaodong vassal state. He was already old and could no longer do it. It was time to abdicate and make way for young people.

Soon, letters from the county governor and the captain were sent to the Youzhou Governor's Mansion.

Zhu Gui also didn't expect that this Yuan family disciple could do so well. The previous battle in Liaodong had already made him feel the extremely hard pleasure in Luoyang court. Those eunuchs at that time also felt the victory over the frontier fortress. I am very happy, after all, this can greatly improve the morale of the Han army, so that other foreign races will not dare to act rashly, and they can more comfortably plunder the people's wealth and build mansions.

With these good news shared, they don't have to worry too much that their actions will cause resistance from the common people below.

The greater the victory at the frontier fortress, the happier the eunuchs were and so was the emperor.

When Liu Hong learned that Yuan Shao dared to raid the enemy camp with only a dozen cavalry, his whole nerves were tense. When he heard the story of the Liaodong battle, Rao had always disliked Yuan Shao. Cao Jie, at this time, also showed a very rare expression of appreciation.

Under this kind of operation, the rewards of the past Liaodong Battle will be implemented so quickly.

As the governor of Youzhou, Zhu Gui naturally had a lot of face and swept away the decadent behavior of the past.

Therefore, under the strong suggestions from many parties, and because Zhu Gui had his own heart, he immediately submitted a letter and sent it to Luoyang to explain the matter.At the same time, he immediately sent people to the vassal state of Liaodong to inform Yuan Shao of this for the time being so that he could be mentally prepared.

This matter is already certain.

When Yuan Shao learned that even the prefects of surrounding counties and counties had written letters to him, he could not help but show a hint of surprise. After thinking about it for a moment, he figured out the reason.

Therefore, Yuan Shao began to regard himself as a captain and got to know him well in advance.

More than a month has passed again.

Spring is coming, and everything is beginning to exude new vitality.

Yuan Shao also waited for the angel from Luoyang as he wished. Not surprisingly, he naturally became the captain of the Liaodong vassal state and a veritable prefect of a county. Xun Chen succeeded him and became the chief historian of the captain's mansion. Xun Chen was quite moved by the loss of six hundred stone official position in the Eight Classics, and he thanked Yuan Shao repeatedly.

And with Yuan Shao as a captain, it is naturally more convenient for him to do things.

When the officials below learned about Yuan Shao's previous actions, they all began to behave with their tail between their legs, not daring to reveal any flaws.

In the military, at this time, he already had absolute power of life and death over the transfer and promotion of frontier soldiers. When Yan Liang was promoted to battalion commander and took charge of the first battalion, when he learned that Zhao Jian had planned to give up the position of battalion commander. At that time, I was still a little puzzled.

Zhao Jian said that he relied on the power of the Zhao family to reach this point. Without Yuan Shao's previous battle in Liaodong, how could he have achieved the position of battalion commander, so he decided to start from the very beginning as a basic soldier. , completely breaking away from the Zhao family in the past, only supporting his own relatives, and not getting involved with the Zhao family anymore.

Yuan Shao, who learned about this and heard that Zhao Jian was the only one to hit the rice target with a score of seventy steps in the competition that day, immediately expressed that he would make Zhao Jian the deputy of the crossbow cavalry battalion. Under Han Dang Wenchou, he could Lead a team of 100 people.

The Crossbow Cavalry Battalion has begun to take shape. After Huang Zhong's continuous training, the Crossbow Cavalry Battalion now looks like what Yuan Shao hopes to see.There are now only 5000 people in the camp, led by General Huang Zhong and Deputy General Han Dangwen Chou.

There are more than 300 people who can shoot at fifty paces, which is a qualitative leap compared to the more than 150 people before.

But this has become the most basic aspect of the crossbow cavalry battalion. The soldiers in the battalion have no complaints about this and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the training.

Even Xu Da, Zhao Jian and others, under Huang Zhong's devilish training, have taken on a new look and their combat power has greatly increased. When the time is right, they will use an elite force of 5000 people to test the Xianbei people's reaction first.

As for why he did not choose other foreign races such as Wuhuan, Yuan Shao said that the Xianbei people are stupid and have a lot of money, and their war horses are quite good. If the Xianbei people can be captured and used for their own use, then there will be no need to worry about the crossbow cavalry camp having no elites available.

As for whether the Xianbei people are willing to accept it, it depends on how far the subsequent battle results can push them.

In the past, it was not that the entire Xianbei ethnic group relied on the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han Dynasty was getting stronger and stronger, and foreigners in the frontier areas would never dare to get involved. In addition, the Xianbei leaders at that time were not as brave as they are now. It covers an area of ​​thousands of miles and spans the two states of Europe and Asia. It divides the entire Xianbei into three parts, each of which is led by a Xianbei master.

At present, the eastern part of Xianbei has been seriously damaged, and the glory of the past has disappeared. Even though the actual loss in that battle was only the cavalry of the surrounding Xianbei tribe, but with the damage to morale caused by Kanji being captured, not a few people were lost. Years cannot be recovered.

The first place where Yuan Shao decided to attack was to beat up the drowned dog. The weaker the opponent, the more he must follow the principle of adding insult to injury. In this way, he can not only gain a lot of military merits, but also train the crossbow cavalry battalion's battlefield adaptability. When encountering the enemy Various decisions at the time can minimize the losses of the crossbow cavalry battalion.

If the Crossbow Cavalry Battalion can march straight into Huanglong and attack the Xianbei base camp in Kanji, its morale will be even lower, and everyone will be frightened when they hear the name of the Crossbow Cavalry Battalion.

It is difficult for them to imagine that even though the Han army was in decline, even though it fought a seemingly magnificent victory, in fact, Kanji's losses were extremely small, and he still had tens of thousands of Xianbei elite cavalry under his command. Even fighting another battle in western Liaoning is not a bad idea.

But he chose to rest on his laurels and decided not to avenge this humiliation for the time being.

Yan Liang's grace and demeanor, and his feat of taking the enemy general's head from thousands of troops, as a person involved, he is still afraid of it to this day. That there is such a fierce general among the Han people, for him, this is already a powerful force. It was a nightmare that would never go away. Every night late at night, he would always dream of Yan Liang, who was wearing armor and standing with a sword in hand. He had a look of contempt. He said it later and then quickly. The horse was galloping under his crotch, and the sword was raised and dropped in his hand. Move your own head.

The temperature gradually warmed up, and the elite soldiers in the crossbow cavalry camp began to gear up.

Because they got an instruction.

In ten days, I will go to the outside of the Great Wall to put all my hard training in the past six months into practice and get the most complete answer on the battlefield.

Hearing the news that the crossbow cavalry camp was about to leave, even Yan Liang, who had already cultivated himself, rushed to the crossbow cavalry camp non-stop.

Asked Huang Zhong why he didn't take him with him.

Wen Chou pulled him aside with a wry smile and said.

Our crossbow cavalry battalion is the elite of the elite. One piece of equipment is enough to arm more than three frontier soldiers, and the war horses under the crotches cost a lot of money to get. Even so, the number of 7000 people in the camp is only Only half of them get such treatment.

When Yan Liang heard this, he always felt like he was showing off.

After all, he has been promoted to battalion commander, and there are 2000 frontier soldiers under his command. They are all elite and have good sword skills. But hearing what this uncle said, it seems that the treatment of this crossbow cavalry battalion is very good, and even the equipment is very good. It was much better than the soldiers at the frontier, and he was immediately furious.

Wen Chou smiled again and said, "You are a cavalryman, but not a crossbow cavalryman. You are good at wielding a broadsword on horseback and are famous far and wide, but it is a pity that you are not very good at arrows. It is a pity that you have gone far beyond the Great Wall, won military exploits, and become famous." Gong Ji has no chance to go with him.

Obviously, Wen Chou deliberately wanted to make Yan Liang angry and put some pressure on him. Although the Crossbow Cavalry Battalion has not achieved any success now, when the time comes, with the elite soldiers armed at a high cost, it will be enough to make those Xianbei people Frightened by the news.

Yan Liang had no idea. If he mentioned other things, he still had the desire to refute. As soon as arrows were mentioned, his eyes darkened. No matter how he practiced, the bow and arrow seemed to have a grudge against him, pointing here and there. Whether you can hit or not depends on luck.

The ten-day deadline is approaching in an instant.

It was the eighth day of August, a good day specially chosen by Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao also appeared at the mobilization meeting wearing sophisticated armor, Huang Zhong was dumbfounded, Wen Chou and Han Dang were dumbfounded immediately, and the seven thousand elite members of the crossbow cavalry camp also showed a hint of surprise.

Yuan Shao stood ready, took off his helmet, and looked solemn.

"Today is the time to swear an oath. As the captain of Liaodong, I should have this responsibility and this obligation to walk with you."

Before Yuan Shao finished speaking, Huang Zhong came over on a red horse and said helplessly: "There is no suggestion that the captain came to the outside of the wall in person. Yuan Jun might as well make logistical preparations for the crossbow cavalry camp in the rear. When I return it in the future, at most I will give all the credit to Yuan Jun."

Wen Chou and Han Dang also nodded quickly.

The soldiers of the Crossbow Cavalry Battalion in the audience were also quite surprised. The captain was young. Although he was vigorous and resolute in his actions, the land of Liaodong is now a clear sea and the rivers are clear. The common people live and work in peace and contentment, and the economy is prosperous. But he After all, without systematic training, if you go to the battlefield, you have to be distracted to protect, which is not worth the gain.

Yuan Shao looked at Huang Zhong with a smile and joked: "This captain has a small stove. Your commander, Huang Hansheng, took the time to teach me. Although I have never practiced with you, I may not be as good as you guys." Sweat less.”

Huang Zhong looked helpless. He didn't expect that Yuan Jun had repeatedly emphasized that he wanted him to teach him archery skills. Only now did he realize that he was waiting for him here. He couldn't help but feel very upset.

Even Wen Chou Han Dang behind him looked at Huang Zhong with an indignant look, "Why are you teaching Yuan Jun this?"

Yuan Shao didn't care. After all, Yu Gong was the captain of the entire Liaodong vassal state. Yu Si, Huang Zhong, Wen Chou Han Dang, and even Yan Liang were all his personal followers, and they would obey whatever he said.

So, after Yuan Shao gave an impassioned speech, the army set off.

The entire crossbow cavalry battalion is made up of elite war horses, all wearing a layer of armor that is not too bulky, and they carry far more arrows than imagined. The original intention of the crossbow cavalry battalion itself is not to give up on close combat. in training content.

If the enemy can appear in front of you, it means there is insufficient firepower.

If one round of volley is not enough, then two or three rounds. With well-trained combat planning, they do not need to have close contact with the enemy at all. They only need to rely on the distance of forty or fifty steps to bend their bows and shoot arrows. This is The subjects they train on in their daily lives.

And if the enemy breaks through the heavy rain of arrows and gets within twenty or thirty steps, they will also give the enemy a taste of the fear of dense firepower. Coupled with the skill of mobile shooting, it is enough to destroy any enemy's self-confidence. Morale, and even the determination to resist.

(End of this chapter)