The Great Swordsman Of Xiangye

Zhang Ziyan instantly came behind Zhao Yin and slowly inserted Xuanyuan into the sword scabbard.

"You... Burst! Zhao Yin covered his neck, and just about to say something, a wound appeared on his neck, spraying blood and falling off the horse.

"Rubbish!" Zhang Ziyan said and walked back.

Zhang Ziyan came to the rear of the horse bandits, saw that Wang Hu and others relied on the advantages of the city wall, fought back and forth with the horse bandits, held the sword and did not interfere.

Zhang Ziyan looked at the time for a blaze of incense, at this time, the city gate was cut out of the gap by Qian Fan's sword, and if another sword came, the city gate might be breached, and then the battle situation would become unfavorable.

"The soldiers who have spent so much effort to cultivate can't be wasted on you like this." Zhang Ziyan thought in his heart.

Zhang Ziyan pulled out Xuanyuan and charged up to slash a flying slash towards the horse bandit.

Suddenly, hundreds of horse bandits were split in half by this huge slash, and the bloody scene made these horse bandits who licked blood at the knife edge also disgusted for a while, and they were even more frightened.

Zhang Ziyan's knife completely destroyed the morale of the horse bandits, Qian Fan saw Zhang Ziyan come back, he was even more frightened, he is a person who knows Zhao Yin's strength, Zhang Ziyan came back so soon, either he defected to Xiling, or he killed Zhao Yin, now Zhao Yin is not there, the answer is obviously the latter.

The horse bandits now have no intention of fighting from top to bottom, Wang Hu and others seized the opportunity, quickly attacked, and quickly cleaned up the horse bandits, and Qian Fan was also killed by Wang Hu and Li Wen.

As for Wu Ling, he hid behind and did not step forward to attack, but he was unlucky enough to be killed by Zhang Ziyan just now.

Zhou Meng was killed by Ma Shixiang and Zhao Hai.

In just one hour, all the horse bandits were killed, Wang Hu began to clean up the battlefield, and Ma Shixiang led his troops to Qian Fan's lair.

Seeing that the battle was over, Zhang Ziyan returned to the general's mansion to wait for Wang Hu and the others to count and report the situation.

Soon, Wang Hu finished counting the situation of the company and came to report.

"Report General! A series of 189 casualties, of which 29 were killed, 55 were seriously injured, and the rest were lightly injured and seriously injured, and it is estimated that 21 people will not be able to return to the team! Wang Hu said with tears in his eyes!

"Hmm! Got it, you go to deal with the aftermath, you can't let the soldiers chill! Zhang Ziyan said.

A day later, Ma Shixiang returned with the second company and captured materials to rescue the people.

"Report to the general, the second company suffered 139 casualties, 13 killed, 37 seriously wounded, the rest were lightly wounded, it is estimated that 7 seriously wounded could not return to the team, more than 400,000 taels of silver were captured, more than 1,500 horses were captured, and more than 2,000 people were rescued!" Ma Shixiang reported to Zhang Ziyan and said.

"Well, good! You go down, do a good job of the aftermath, and the captured materials are the same as last time, and take out three components to the soldiers! Zhang Ziyan said.

Zhang Ziyan looked at the list in his hand, and his heart was also very sad, but he couldn't show it, otherwise his morale would collapse.

But there is also good news, that is, the uncle he gave him his first bite in this world has been found.

Zhang Ziyan went to see him, and although he was abducted by horse bandits and suffered a lot, he was not injured.

After seeing Zhang Ziyan, he happily hugged Zhang Ziyan fiercely, and said that he didn't look at the wrong person back then, and he knew that your kid had a big deal.

Zhang Ziyan was also very happy, and sent him to Chang'an City, and asked Chao Xiaoshu to find him a shop to live in Linxi Lane so that he could start a small business life.

Zhang Ziyan wrote a good war report and asked people to send it to Chang'an quickly.

When the Tang Emperor received Zhang Ziyan's war report, he praised Zhang Ziyan in the early dynasty, and made Zhang Ziyan a general of Dangkou, promoted to a rank of first, and allowed Zhang Ziyan's request to expand.

The civil officials looked at the war report read by the Tang Emperor and could not find anything wrong, and Zhang Ziyan did not need a penny from the imperial court to expand the army.

After obtaining the permission of the Tang Emperor, Zhang Ziyan immediately took out the plan to expand the army, and asked Wang Hu and the four to send people to the northern territory to publicize.

A month later.

"You report on the recruitment of recruits in each company." Zhang Ziyan asked the four.

"Pray to the general, after learning that we eliminated the border horse bandits, the people of the northern territory were full of support for the general, and when they heard that we were recruiting new soldiers, they came to sign up, because of the strict requirements formulated by the general, more than 1,700 new soldiers are currently recruited in a company!" Wang Hu reported.

"The second company is about the same here, and now more than 1,800 new recruits are recruited." Ma Shixiang said.

"Well, it's good, after the last time the elimination of horse bandits ended, I haven't given you a reward, aren't you a little unconvinced in your heart?" Zhang Ziyan said jokingly.

"General, we don't, without the general, there would be no us now!" The four got up and said.

"Okay! Come on! Just kidding, don't take it seriously! Zhang Ziyan saw the four people get up and said.

Seeing Zhang Ziyan say this, the four people sat down with peace of mind.

"Let's get down to business, after the last time, I saw a few problems. First, you don't train enough, you need to strengthen training, a group of horse bandits, relying on the city wall to lose so much! Zhang Ziyan said.

"Yes, General, we will definitely strengthen the training of soldiers!" The four replied.

"Well, second, you can't control the horses, I found a solution to this, someone will send it over in a while, you don't have to worry about this; Third, the four of you must learn to explore the potential of the people below, and you can't do everything yourself, so what do you need the low-level officers to do. Zhang Ziyan continued.

"Yes, General."

"Okay, let's talk about the plan later! First, reward all personnel in the last battle, and all officers will be promoted to one level! Zhang Ziyan said.

"General Xie!"

"After the recruitment of the four of you into the new army, the veterans will be used as the backbone, assigned to each class, reorganized, the original first company and two companies will be expanded into battalions, and then three battalions and four battalions will be formed, with Li Wen and Zhao Hai as battalion commanders, and the officials of each battalion appoint themselves!" Zhang Ziyan said.

"General Xie! Mission accomplished! The four replied happily.

"Okay, tentatively set a battalion of 1,200 people, personnel allocation you to discuss by yourself, the amount of training you decide by yourself, I am only responsible for inspection!" Zhang Ziyan then ordered.

Zhang Ziyan glanced at the four people and said: "By the way, there is also news to tell you, there is not much time left for you to train, I have received intelligence, Yan Guo now intends to start a war against our country, once the war starts, I will apply for support, at that time, which of your four battalions has the worst strength, which battalion will stay to defend the city, and the other three battalions will follow me to support."

"Yes, General!" The four of them looked at the people around them and shouted, all wanting to follow Zhang Ziyan.

"By the way, the Chenzhonglian will also be expanded, this you let the commander of the original Chenzhonglian recruit, recruit three more companies, he will be promoted to the commander of the Chenzhonglian battalion, respectively responsible for the logistics of your four battalions, specifically you will discuss with the commander of the Yuanzhonglian Company." In addition, your four battalions will complete recruitment and start training as soon as possible, and I think we may go to support in about three months. Zhang Ziyan said to the four people again.