Great Han Empire

Chapter 181

Li Hong took a sip of the soup without making a sound.

"My lord, how did you deal with it?" Fan Li asked in a low voice.

"I let them go down to become soldiers." Li Hong said angrily, "I thought that everyone was a Yellow Turban Army, and they were all born in poverty. This kind of thing should be easy to implement, but I didn't expect that some people have not yet A few days ago, the Bingjia of the Han Dynasty, who had not been a military official of the Han Dynasty for a few days, actually took out the "Seventeen Points 54 Cuts" to refute my wrongdoing, saying that it was wrong for me to let them eat with the soldiers. It just doesn't make sense."

Yan Rou glanced at him worriedly, and said, "My lord, letting them become soldiers is not the solution to this matter."

"I know." Li Hong said, "I have already called Brother Yuxing, Zuo Sima, Wei Cijian, Heng Ji, Lou Lu, She Yingtong and other leaders of the Hu clan to discuss with them and revise the military discipline. I made some explanations and explanations on the basis of the law. After this battle is over, it will be officially settled. From then on, as long as you are in my barracks, you will follow the military discipline I said. Whoever finds it unacceptable will give it to me. Get out. In my eyes, there is no difference between a soldier and a military official, and they are treated equally."

Fan Li shouted excitedly, "Hello, my lord."

The soldiers around were also moved and shouted: "Thank you for your kindness."

Li Hong waved his hands and said with a smile: "Don't say that, I am also a soldier, just like you, I know what everyone is thinking." Then he put on a cold face and said, "I hate those who bully soldiers Military officials. It is the soldiers who bleed and die in battle, but it is the military officials who win the battle and get promoted, so they don’t treat soldiers as human beings. Huh, whoever dares to do this here is looking for death. "

Beard looked at him and whispered, "My lord, how many more days do we have to wait for the war?"

Li Hong shook his head and said, "I don't know either. We are listening to others now, and we have no right to make decisions. We can only resign ourselves to fate. However, I think this battle should end soon."

"Why? We can go back to Jizhou soon? Hutou must have grinned when he heard the good news." Huzi laughed loudly.

"Hutou's two little ladies, Shui Ling, he must be looking forward to going home every day?" Yan Rou laughed.

"His wife is in Changshan Zhending City now?" Li Hong asked.

"Zishan's mother happened to need someone to take care of her, so Hutou sent his wife home before the assembly in Handan." Hu Zi laughed, "Don't look at Hutou's murderous look, he is very gentle to the two young ladies."

Li Hong suddenly thought of Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu standing helplessly by the door, and Xiao Yu's big sad eyes.Li Hong felt a pain in his heart, and Feng Xue's cry suddenly jumped out of his mind, as if seeing Feng Xue's tears rolling down on his lapel again.Li Hong stared blankly at the clay bowl in his hand, thinking of light rain for a while, thinking of wind and snow for a while, and forgot everything around him.

"My lord... My lord..." Yan Rou saw that he was sitting there in a daze without making a sound for a long time, and hurriedly called out in a low voice.

Li Hong woke up with a start and sighed softly.

He looked at the black dry biscuit in his hand, shook his head, and said worriedly: "An army of 10,000+ people, tens of thousands of horses, and a whole truckload of weapons and supplies consume too much. It is estimated that the court will not be able to support it for too long. time. Do you know how much the army spends a day now?"

Several people shook their heads.They are not used to thinking about this kind of problem.Li Hong led [-] troops. This is a problem that must be considered every day, and it is also a very important problem.

When Li Hong led more than 1 cavalry to the south, he was still a Lieutenant of Xinglifeng. Nothing radical has changed, plain and simple.However, since the troops gathered in Handan to prepare for the western expedition, Li Hong began to command the two arms of infantry and cavalry, commanding an army of 600 alone. It was not until this time that Li Hong deeply felt the huge difference between being a general and being a commander.He has to deal with a lot of military affairs every day, and he has to coordinate with officials from various counties and counties to deal with logistics and other matters. He is so busy that he has almost no free time, and sleeps for two hours at most a day.

This time leading the army to the west, Li Hong personally operated all the various things stipulated in the Han military system: the formation of the troops, the management and training of the troops, the arrangement of the military officials of the troops, and the command and coordination of the troops. Dispatch, cooperate with local states and counties to mobilize for military service, recruit soldiers and various logistics support personnel at the same time, handle and implement various systems such as food, weapons, horse administration and support.With amazing physical strength and ingenuity, Li Hong commanded and completed the assembly and mobilization of [-] troops alone in more than a month, and then marched [-] miles with the troops to the Xiliang battlefield.This is a remarkable achievement.Although everyone thought he accomplished it easily, he knew that this was the most remarkable achievement since he could remember.

Li Hong admires and appreciates Murong Feng.Without Murong Feng's teaching, he would not have this ability today, nor would he have the confidence to persevere.On the basis of digesting and absorbing the practice and summary of Murong Feng's leadership for decades, Li Hong flexibly used the very complete military system of the Han Dynasty to complete a arduous task that he could not accomplish at all.During this process, Li Hong learned more new knowledge and mastered more old experiences.He felt as if he had been reborn, from a bloody saber to a hand holding the saber.

"The salaries and rations of 15 soldiers, the rations of 5000 war horses, the rations of tens of thousands of transport horses, the replenishment of military supplies, the addition and renewal of weapons and supplies, etc., will consume about [-] million yuan a day."

Yan Rou's subordinates were stunned.

"5000 million?" Huzi muttered to himself, "One day's money can buy five thousand war horses, you can buy..."

Li Hong smiled and continued: "This is still a conservative figure. If you add the loss during transportation and the compensation for the soldiers who died in the battle, it will be even more. Therefore, if this battle lasts for a long time, the court will definitely not be able to afford it."

"Thanks to the auspicious words of the adults, I hope we can return to Jizhou this year." A soldier looked up at the sky and whispered expectantly.

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Li Hong looked at Li Su who was sitting across from him talking endlessly, and didn't care to listen to what he continued to say.He has been thinking about the possibility of this matter.

Beigong Boyu's troops had not yet arrived in Meiyang, Dong Zhuo wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to attack Bianzhang's camp.Now the rebel army has not formed an encirclement of Meiyang City, and Bian Zhang has not ordered his troops to encircle Meiyang alone. The opportunity is at this time.After tomorrow morning, when Beigong Boyu's troops gradually approached Meiyang City, this opportunity disappeared. 13 people, who shakes the ground?

Zhang Wen obviously did not make fundamental changes to his decisive battle plan because of the changes in the battlefield situation.He still bound his thinking on the basis of a quick decision and a battle.But now the troops are quickly gathering in Meiyang, without concealment, which resulted in two results: one is that the rebels fled quickly, and the other is that the rebels are ready to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers.But the second point is simply not possible.So, to put it bluntly, Zhang Wen's temporary change of formation was not to fight the enemy at all, but to drive the enemy away. In the end, he might catch up with Dong Zhuo's 3 horses.

For Li Hong, there is no loss in this plan.But for Dong Zhuo, it was a bit of a dilemma.Retreat, and disobey the military order; if you don't retreat, you must defend Meiyang to the death, and he will definitely be beaten all over by the rebels, dying.And Zhang Wen wishful thinking that Dong Zhuo would have no problem staying in Meiyang for two or three days.As long as they guard for two days, the main force can rush to Meiyang to encircle and wipe out the rebels.He didn't think about it at all, Dong Zhuo guarded for two days, how much was the loss of the troops?Two days later, will the rebels still attack the city?I'm afraid it's long gone.

Dong Zhuo was the first to stay in Meiyang, and didn't take the initiative to retreat to Xiaohuai. What was his motive?Is it true what Li Su said? Dong Zhuo realized that the Taiwei’s plan had serious flaws, which would cause chaos in Xiliang in the next few years, so he deliberately stayed in Meiyang to form today’s situation and achieve the purpose of avoiding the main battle between the two sides ?
If Dong Zhuo is this kind of general who is for the Han Dynasty and Xiliang, why did the judge and the judge repeatedly ask him to be careful of him before he left Jizhou?Did the judge misunderstand?

Dong Zhuo's strategy is indeed good. If it succeeds, Bianzhang's main force of the rebel army will be damaged, and the main force of the official army will naturally withdraw from Youfufeng; Then retreat into Liangzhou territory; as for June Thunder, he will not take the initiative to invite 10,000+ Han troops to fight, and will definitely retreat.In this way, the crisis in Chang'an was lifted, and all the rebels returned to Liangzhou, and the rest was to enter Liangzhou to suppress the rebellion.

Dong Zhuo's blow hit the enemy's vital point, and the timing was perfect, but Dong Zhuo's cavalry was not strong enough to complete this fatal blow alone.So Dong Zhuo took the initiative to invite Li Hong to lead the Fengyun cavalry to participate in this battle, with more than 2 people attacking the camp of 8 rebels.

(End of this chapter)