Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 363 Continue to Patrol 2
Gongsun Xu chatted with Huang Zhong for a while, and the two exchanged a lot of opinions on the establishment of the martial arts hall.Human and financial resources are sufficient, and now, for the establishment of the lecture hall, what is most lacking is someone who is qualified to be called a teacher.

If Gongsun Xu hadn't welcomed Liu Bian back to the small imperial court, I'm afraid his plan to build a lecture hall would have been postponed. However, after Gongsun Xu sent heavy troops to take back Liu Bian, he also took back many veteran officials from the court. .

For example, Lu Zhi, a great Confucian in the present age, Huang Fusong, a senior figure in the court, etc., these people have been familiar with the art of war since childhood, and have rich experience in leading troops.Even Gongsun Zan and his son are Lu Zhi's students. It would be absolutely appropriate for these people to go to the martial arts hall to teach students.

The most important thing is that Gongsun Xu now has enough confidence to do this. His confidence not only refers to the current human and financial resources and the strength of the army, but actually refers more to the books he brought back from Luoyang .

With these books, Gongsun Xu is confident that he can do a lot of things well. Just like what Gongsun Xu said when he transported these books to Bingzhou, he has already controlled most of the cultural essence of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. What a pride.

Of course, it is not so simple to make good use of the books in your hands. The Liu family has the most precious wealth in the world but failed to make good use of it. They failed to train generations of outstanding children to protect the great Han. In addition to the will of the children of the royal family, another important reason is that the current books are not suitable for carrying and reading.

Guan Yu can be regarded as one of the generals in the Northern Xinjiang who likes to read books. He likes "Spring and Autumn", and he integrates the realm he has learned from "Spring and Autumn" into his family's family swordsmanship. However, just like this Guan Yu always sent his own soldiers to guard all the "Spring and Autumn" that Guan Yu often carried with him.

Gongsun Xu has been waiting for the two things he wants to come out. After so many years of preparation and exploration, there must be some effect.Liaodong General Zuoying once sent a piece of newly developed paper. Although it looked like a treasure in the eyes of others, Gongsun Xu was still not satisfied.

The printing machine has not yet been developed, and Gongsun Xu is a little anxious.But this is also something that cannot be helped. Some things cannot be rushed after all.

After chatting with Huang Zhong for a long time, Gongsun Xu asked suddenly, "By the way, Han Sheng, I remember you mentioned something you wanted to tell me. You told me once before the Northern Expedition, and you said it again just now. What is it?" I'm a little curious about anything."

At this time, Huang Xu, who was standing behind Huang Zhong, raised his head quickly after hearing this, as if he wanted to say something, but Huang Zhong coughed twice and replied: "Well, it's hard to say about this for now. After the grassland is stabilized, I will lead the Let’s talk to the lord before the army goes to sea, it’s not suitable now.”

Dian Wei laughed and said: "Han Sheng, what's the matter with you, just say what you want, you are so coy, it doesn't look like you, is there any difficulty, or I will help you Let’s just beg the lord together.”

Huang Zhong glared at Dian Wei and stopped talking, Gongsun Xu couldn't continue to ask, he knew that Huang Zhong must have something to hide, otherwise he wouldn't be so coy, and besides, Huang Zhong wouldn't have any bad intentions , perhaps in his opinion, the time has not come yet. "

After staying here for a long time, Gongsun Xu led the Huben army on their way again. Dian Wei was about to leave, but was stopped by Huang Zhong beside him and said: "You said this yourself, you have to say something for me when the time comes Good words, otherwise don't blame me for being rude to you."

Hearing Huang Zhong's threat to himself, Dian Wei couldn't help laughing and said: "I said Han Sheng, you are begging me, how can you have such an attitude? Besides, who is rude to whom is not sure. ? Are you sure you can beat me?
Hey, didn't you get a lot of high-quality horses this time, how about giving me some points?I was a villain when I helped you blackmail those captives. If the lord hadn't asked you to lead a team to escort those captives back, I must be the one who made a fortune. "

Huang Zhong laughed and said: "I know you don't have any good intentions, don't worry, you will not lose your share of the good things. I have prepared all the cattle, sheep and horses for you. Do you think I will take the thousands of dollars all by myself?" Cattle, sheep, and horses? My lord kindly didn’t ask me to hand them in, but I couldn’t make it difficult for my lord either.

If this matter is settled, I will invite you to drink. I still have [-] altars of special wine from the Northern Xinjiang Army that my lord rewarded. I know that you have only saved two altars over the years. I am afraid that you will feed the rest of them. The wine worm is gone, just two jars, I'm afraid it's not enough for you to eat.

How about it, think it over, if you can't do it, you won't have your share of this wine, in the future I have to let my family's Xu'er bully your family's Dianman every day, and think about the consequences. "

After finishing speaking, Huang Zhong walked away with a proud face, leaving Dian Wei standing there with a black face. He has seen people begging for help, but he has never seen him threatening himself with harsh words and being so arrogant when he was begging for help. Wei felt that even Lu Bu might not dare to talk to him like that, Huang Zhong was really amazing.

When Huang Xu happened to pass by Dian Wei, Dian Wei picked him up and asked, "What on earth do you want to do, you are so secretive, tell me what's going on, don't be afraid, uncle?" bully you."

Looking at Dianwei's ugly face, plus his disgusting expression now, Huang Xu could only whisper, "Uncle, this matter is really hard to say, if you don't handle it well, the lord will get angry, you can help my father speak well at that time." That is, maybe the lord can reward you with two altars of wine when he is happy? If we don’t handle it well, we will be punished together.”

After finishing speaking, Huang Xu also struggled to escape from Dian Wei's clutches, leaving Dian Wei alone in a daze. At this time, he was like Monk Zhang Er who couldn't figure it out.

Three days later, Gongsun Xu finally sent back all the captives who had the capital to redeem him, and brought back most of the negotiated cattle, sheep and horses. As for the family members of the army, Gongsun Xu arranged two thousand cavalry, All the soldiers who were injured and unfit to continue fighting were sent to Hetao.

In this way, only cattle, sheep, horses and other strategic materials are left in Gongsun Xu's army. All soldiers can mount war horses to kill the enemy. In addition, the soldiers' rations are those cattle and sheep except for the food carried by the pack horses. In this way, Gongsun Xu's marching speed has been greatly improved.

After some rectification, Gongsun Xu now has 4000 frontier troops, [-] Northern Army cavalry, [-] servants, [-] captive troops, and [-] tiger troops, and those who have not been redeemed More than [-] captives went.

These people are destined to be abandoned. When all the captives are redeemed, the hearts of these people gradually become cold. They have no family, no family background, no background. When they go to the battlefield, they have to rush to the forefront When it comes to making military exploits, they always can't grab others.

But they have to do life-threatening business, because they have no background, if they want to live, they have to work hard, they have to fight for their lives, but no one cares about their life and death, even they themselves Treat it as one thing.

This is a group of prairie warriors with no way out and no way out. Even if they can be redeemed today, they will probably spill their blood on the battlefield and throw their corpses into the wilderness in a few days.Even if someone is willing to redeem them to go back, in the end it is just asking them to sacrifice their lives.

Although Gongsun Xu had some sympathy for these warriors, he was not merciful. Gongsun Xu was never soft on the enemy. If he wanted to blame him, he would have to blame the world, blame them for the wrong timing of their birth, and blame them for not going against the Northern Border Army .

After statistics, there were 670 captives left. Among these people, few were injured or disabled, and even if there were, it would not affect their combat effectiveness.They are different from the more than 6000 people in the captive army. The captive army has family members, and Gongsun Xu is sure to control them, but for these people, Gongsun Xu is unwilling to take risks.

However, if these warriors were wasted in vain, I would feel sorry for myself.This is Gongsun Xu's idea. For how to use these abandoned captives, Gongsun Xu naturally has a plan. However, if he wants to fully implement this plan, he may have to further weaken the confidence of these captives and make them completely desperate. .

Among the more than 5000 people left in the army, these 4000 soldiers have the lowest status. Coupled with Gongsun Xu's deliberate connivance, the captive army and the servant army always find reasons to bully these prisoners from time to time.

The captives and servants were not treated badly, but the rewards and supplies that Gongsun Xu could distribute to them were limited. They were satisfied with their current life, it was all because their rewards were enough, and everyone could get enough to support themselves And that of my own family.

However, if the number of servants and captives increases, each of them will have to distribute a little of their profits to others. In this case, they will face greater competition and get less benefits.

Therefore, both the servant army and the captive army rejected the prisoners, and they even rejected Gongsun Xu and other generals to select warriors from the prisoners to expand their staff.

The most important thing is that these captives all have a distinct color of the Xianbei nomadic tribe. The servants and captives are basically the herdsmen of the Xiongnu tribe who are close to the Xiongnu tribe. They are still very different from the Xianbei herdsmen in many places.

Therefore, the relatively united servant army and captive army did not like the more than 4000 captives. With these prisoners, the servant army and the captive army might be replaced.Many soldiers of the servant army and the captive army knew in their hearts that their current position was still very embarrassing. If their role could not satisfy Gongsun Xu, or if Gongsun Xu felt that someone could take their place and ask for less benefits , then there is really no need for them to exist.

This is also a wonderful move by Gongsun Xu. Although he still treats the servant army and the captive army favorably now, the status of these two armies is still far inferior to that of the Northern Border Army. To run, you have to feed the horses with grass. At the same time, Gongsun Xu also let the horses understand that they can only survive if they are loyal to the Northern Xinjiang Army.

(End of this chapter)