The last three kingdoms

Chapter 293

In the next few days, Liu Yin has been busy making preparations for the expedition.

Of course, all the preparations were made in secret. Apart from Liu Yin's contact with Zhang Shao, not even Dong Jue who recorded the affairs of the minister, Huo Yi, the prefect of Jianning, and Fan Jian, the minister of the book, had no contact with him. comminicate.Of course it's not that Liu Yin can't trust them, it's just out of the need to keep it secret, the less people know about it, the greater the success rate of this plan.

For this expedition, Liu Yin stated in front of Liu Chan that he would mobilize 3 troops. This time Liu Yin was promoted to the general of Zhenbei, and he also had the power to command the three armies. For the needs of the expedition, Liu Yin specially reorganized the army under his command.The Hubu Battalion and the Huqi Battalion belonged to the Chinese Army, under the command of Liu Yin himself. Gao Yuan was still the general of the Hubu Battalion, and Deng Pu was still the Zhonglang General of the Huqi Battalion.

Yang'an Camp and the newly established Wudang Camp formed the Zuo Army. Fu Qian served as the Zuo Guard and was in charge of commanding the Zuo Army. Zhang Le was the general of the Yang'an Camp, and Zhao Zhuo was the general of the Wudang Camp.

The Wudang Flying Army of Shu Han is a famous and brave army, which is as famous as Cao Cao Wei's tiger and leopard cavalry.After Zhuge Liang pacified Nanzhong, he moved Nanzhong's strong soldiers, and more than ten thousand families of Qingqiang lived in Shu.In the previous Northern Expeditions and internal rebellion, the Wudang Flying Army has always been the backbone of the Shu army, and the Wudang Flying Army's achievement in besieging and killing Zhang Yun in Mumendao.

The soldiers of the Shu Han were all born in military households. They have been soldiers for generations, and the Wudang Flying Army is no exception. Moreover, the soldiers of the Wudang Flying Army are all immigrants from the southwestern Yi and Qingqiang. They are all dressed in iron armor, able to climb mountains and ridges like walking on flat ground, good at using bows, crossbows and poisonous arrows, and are unstoppable.

However, the ending of the Wudang Flying Army was also quite tragic. During Jiang Wei's seventh Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, in order to cover the withdrawal of the main force, the Wudang Flying Army, led by the commander, General Zhang Yi, fought to the death without retreating. In the end, Zhang Yi and the five thousand flying troops died heroically for the country, and the Wudang flying army has since become the swan song.

Although the Wudang Flying Army as a whole no longer exists, those soldiers from the military households of the Wudang Army are still active in the various ranks of the Shu Army and have repeatedly made military exploits.

After arriving at Nanzhong this time, Liu Yin proposed to Liu Chan to reorganize Wudang Flying Army.The Wudang Flying Army is best at fighting in the mountains, and Liu Yin took a fancy to this point, which gave him the idea of ​​building the Wudang Flying Army.The military households of Wudang Army moved from Nanzhong to Shuzhong many years ago. After returning this time, Liu Yin specially sent people to verify the Wudang military households, and sent the children of Wudang military households scattered to each army and battalion. They specially selected them, recruited all the young people of the right age into the army, and hired some brave men who were willing to join the army among the barbarians in the southwest with a lot of money to enrich the newly established Wudang Flying Army.

Through hard work, the reconstruction of the Wudang Flying Army was very effective. Liu Yin organized it into the Wudang Battalion, led by Zhao Zhuolai.

The right army used the original Yan Yujun as its team, and appropriately added some new recruits. Liu Yin considered the position of the right guard for a long time, and decided to appoint Huben Zhonglang Huang Chong. Although Huang Chong was not a brave general, he was encouraging morale , He is quite talented in commanding and fighting, and he is very rich in strategy. He and Liu Yin cooperated tacitly during the battle of Qingyangpu, and they were the best choice for the right guard.

However, Huang Chong was still serving in the Huben Army at this time, and he was under the command of General Dong Jue of the Guards. He was not Liu Yin's subordinate, so Liu Yin could not be transferred directly.Liu Yin played the postmaster Liu Chan face to face, and proposed to call Huang Chong, Liu Chan agreed, and made Huang Chong the general of the Yi army, and transferred Liu Yin, the general of Zhenbei, as the right guard.

As for the two battalion generals under the right guard army, Liu Yin also decided to appoint Zhuge Shang, the son of Zhuge Zhan, and Luo Xilai, the son of Luo Xian, after careful consideration.Although the two generals were relatively young, their fathers both died in this war. Both Zhuge Shang and Luo Xi had a strong desire for revenge. Father revenge.Liu Yin then appointed them as Zhonglang generals to govern Yong'an camp and Baidi camp respectively.

As for the Chinese army, Chen Shou served as Bo, and Ma Rong served as the superintendent, and He Pan and Du Zhen joined the army.He Pan and Du Zhen were ministers who served in Jin Dynasty after the death of Shu. Now it can be said that they are humble and unknown in Shu.He Pan was only a small official in the county at this time, and Du Zhen was only a meritorious officer in Shu County. Liu Yin knew their talents well, so he deliberately enlisted them as the generals of Zhenbei to join the army and enrich them as his staff.

According to the establishment, Liu Yin's three armies and six battalions have a total of 3 horses, but this is only the number of people who are paid, which belongs to the official establishment, but the private troops of the generals are not included in the statistics.Because the private army trilogy is not included in the official establishment of the imperial court, and the food and payment are also given by the generals of the scholars. There are no less than one thousand private soldiers in the Anping Palace and the Ma family alone, and there are also many other scholars. After a rough estimate, Liu Yin has 5000 people under his command at the moment, which is only a lot more.

Thirty-five thousand people were going to the Northern Expedition, and the food, grass and military equipment needed was also a huge amount. Liu Yin had been working on this preparation, and had sent his master Bo Chenshou to Hanjia to raise food and grass.

Hanjia County is the most important place for Liu Yin to go in this Northern Expedition. From Hanjia County all the way to the west, you can see the majestic snow-capped mountains rolling up and down. This is destined to be the starting point of Liu Yin's Northern Expedition. Raising grain in Hanjia County can avoid Liu Yin's burden of long-distance transportation of grain from the south. As the base for the Northern Expedition, running Hanjia County well is a top priority.

Of course, Hanjia County was originally covered with high mountains and dense forests, steep roads, and sparsely populated. Now that there is a war, the people are dying and fleeing. It is almost difficult to find a few living people in the entire Hanjia County. However, it seems difficult to rely on Hanjia County to provide a sufficient amount of food and supplies.

Therefore, some materials have to be collected in Nanzhong. The most important thing is how to get warm clothes.

Regardless of whether it is Sichuan or Nanzhong, the climate is pleasant, even in the coldest twelfth lunar month, it is just one or two extra clothes, which is not the same as the need for thick warm clothes like in the north.

But to cross the snow-capped mountains, there is an urgent need for a large number of warm clothes, at least one set of people must be available.

Therefore, Liu Yin had to sew more than 5000 sets of thickened clothes to withstand the severe cold of the snow-capped mountains.Sewing clothes is not difficult at all. Now that there are so many refugees, it is not difficult to recruit some refugees with tailoring skills.

The real problem left Liu Yin at a loss. It was not a big problem to sew some jackets, but it couldn't solve the problem of keeping warm. It was extremely cold to cross the snow-capped mountains, so he had to use clothes made of cotton wool.

But the cotton from the Three Kingdoms period?

(End of this chapter)