Li Hong took a sip of soup and didn't make a sound.

"My lord, what did you do with it?" Fan Liang asked in a low voice.

"I let them go down and be soldiers." Li Hong said angrily, "I thought that everyone was born in the Yellow Turban Army, and this kind of thing should be easy to execute, but I didn't expect that some people who haven't put on the armor of the Han Dynasty for a few days, and haven't been a military official of the Han Dynasty for a few days, actually took out the 'Seventeen Articles and Fifty-Four Cuts' to refute what I did wrong, 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 asked Brother Yu Xing, Zuo Sima, Wei Assassin, as well as Heng Xi, Lou Lu, Shooting Yingtong and other Hu leaders to discuss together, revise the military discipline, and make some explanations and explanations on the basis of military discipline. When this battle is over, it will be officially decided. From now on, as long as I am in my barracks, I will be dealt with according to the military discipline I said, and whoever finds it unacceptable will give me a fuck. In my eyes, there is no difference between a soldier and a military officer, and they are treated equally. ”

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

The soldiers around him also exclaimed with emotion, "Thank you, sir, for your kindness." ”

Li Hong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't say that, I am also a soldier, and like you, I know what everyone thinks in their hearts." Then he put on a cold face and said, "I hate those officers who bully soldiers. When fighting, it is the soldiers who shed blood and sacrifice, but it is the soldiers who win the battle and get promoted and rich, so they still don't treat the soldiers as human beings. Hmph, whoever dares to do this here is looking for death. ”

Beard looked at him and whispered, "My lord, how many days will you have to wait for the war?" ”

Li Hong shook his head and said, "I don't know. We are now listening to others, and we have no right to be the masters, so we can only resign ourselves to fate. However, I think this battle should be over soon. ”

"Why? We can go back to Jizhou soon? When the tiger head heard this good news, his mouth must have been crooked. Beard laughed loudly.

"The two little ladies of the tiger head, Shui Ling, he must be looking forward to going home every day?" Yan Rou said with a smile.

"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 Handan assembled." Hu Zi smiled, "Don't look at the tiger head murderous, be very gentle with the two little ladies." ”

Li Hong suddenly remembered Xiaoyu, remembered Xiaoyu standing helplessly by the door, and remembered Xiaoyu's big desolate and complaining eyes. Li Hong felt a pain in his heart, and the cry of the wind and snow jumped out of his mind, as if he saw the tears of the wind and snow rolling down on his clothes. Li Hong looked at the mud bowl in his hand in a daze, thinking about the light rain all of a sudden, thinking of the wind and snow all of a sudden, and suddenly forgot everything around him.

"Your Excellency...... Your Excellency ......" Yan Rou saw that he didn't make a sound for a long time, sat stupidly, and hurriedly shouted in a low voice.

Li Hong woke up and sighed softly.

He looked at the black dry cake in his hand, shook his head, and said worriedly: "An army of more than 100,000 people, tens of thousands of war horses, and a whole vehicle of weapons and baggage, the consumption is too great, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for the imperial court to support it for too long." Do you know how much money the army costs in a day now? ”

Several people shook their heads. They are not used to thinking about this kind of problem yet. Li Hong with 50,000 troops, this is a problem that has to be considered every day, and it is a very major one.

When Li Hong led more than 10,000 cavalry to the south, he was still a lieutenant who was a strong front, and the structure of the troops was all Qu, although there were many people, but it was just to turn 600 Qu people into 2,000 Qu people, and there was no fundamental change in management and responsibilities, which was simple and clear. However, since the troops were assembled in Handan to prepare for the Western Expedition, Li Hong began to command the two arms of infantry and cavalry, and commanded an army of 50,000 alone. He had to deal with a large amount of military affairs every day, and he also had to coordinate with the officials of various counties and counties to deal with logistics and other matters, so he was so busy that he had almost no free time, and he slept for two hours a day at most.

In this expedition to the west, Li Hong personally carried out all the various things stipulated in the military system of the Han Dynasty: the establishment of the troops, the management and training of the troops, the arrangement of military functional officers of the troops, the command and coordination of the transfer of troops, the mobilization of military service in coordination with local prefectures and counties, the recruitment of soldiers and various logistical support personnel, and the handling and implementation of various systems such as food, salary, weapons, and horse administration. With his astonishing physical strength and ingenuity, Li Hong single-handedly commanded and completed the assembly and mobilization of 50,000 troops in a period of more than a month, and then rushed to the Xiliang battlefield with his troops on a march of 3,000 miles. This is a remarkable achievement. While everyone thought he had done it with ease, he knew it was the greatest achievement he had ever remembered.

Li Hong admired and thanked Murong Feng. If it weren't for Murong Feng's teachings, he wouldn't have the ability to do it today, and he wouldn't 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 perfect military system of the Han Dynasty to complete an arduous task that he could not complete. In the process, Li Hong learned more new knowledge and integrated more old experience. He felt as if he had been reborn, from a bloody knife to a hand holding a knife.

"The salaries of 150,000 soldiers, rations, 30,000 war horses, rations for tens of thousands of transport horses, the replenishment of military supplies, the addition and renewal of weapons and baggage, etc., will cost about 50 million dollars a day."

Yan Rou and his subordinates were stunned.

"Fifty million?" The beard muttered to himself, "One day's money can buy five thousand war horses, and you can buy ......"

Li Hong smiled and continued: "This is still a conservative number, if you add the wear and tear during transportation and the bereavement of the fallen soldiers in the future, it will be even more. Therefore, this war, after a long time, the imperial court will definitely not be able to afford it. ”

"By the auspicious words of adults, I hope we can go back to Jizhou this year." A soldier looked up at the sky and whispered in anticipation.

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Li Hong looked at Li Su, who was sitting opposite, and didn't want to listen to what he continued. He had been thinking about the possibility of it.

Beigong Boyu's troops had not yet arrived in Meiyang, and Dong Zhuo wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to attack Bian Zhang's camp. Now the rebels have not yet formed a joint siege of Meiyang City, and Bian Zhang has not ordered his troops to surround Meiyang alone, and the opportunity is at this time. After tomorrow morning, when Beigong Boyu's troops gradually approached Meiyang City, this opportunity will disappear. 130,000 people, who shakes the ground?

Zhang Wen obviously did not make a fundamental change to his decisive battle plan because of the changes in the battlefield situation. He still tied his thinking to a quick battle and a decisive battle. But now the troops are rapidly assembling in Meiyang, and there is no concealment, and the result is twofold: one is that the rebels quickly escape, 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. Therefore, to put it bluntly, Zhang Wen's temporary change of formation is not to fight the enemy at all, but to drive the enemy, and in the end, it is possible to catch Dong Zhuo's 30,000 horses.

For Li Hong, there is nothing to lose from this plan. But for Dong Zhuo, it's a bit of a misstep. Retreat, disobey military orders; If he doesn't retreat, he will defend Meiyang to the death, he will definitely be beaten and bruised by the rebels, and he will be dying. And Zhang Wen wishfully thought that Dong Zhuo would have no problem staying in Meiyang for two or three days. As long as it is held for two days, the main force can rush to Meiyang to encircle and annihilate the rebels. He didn't want to think about it at all, Dong Zhuo guarded for two days, how big the loss of the troops was? Will the rebels storm the city two days later? I'm afraid it's long gone.

Dong Zhuo was the first to stay in Meiyang and did not take the initiative to retreat to Xiaohuaili, what was his motivation? Could it be that as Li Su said, Dong Zhuo realized that Lord Taiwei's plan was seriously flawed, 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 goal of avoiding the main forces of the two sides from fighting?

If Dong Zhuo is such a general for the sake of the Great Han Kingdom and Xiliang, why did he repeatedly tell himself to be careful of him before he left Jizhou? Could it be that the judge misunderstood?

Dong Zhuo's strategy is indeed good, if it succeeds, the main force of the rebels in Bian Zhang will be damaged, and the main force of the official army will advance step by step, they will naturally withdraw from the right Fufeng; Beigong Boyu saw that he was lonely and difficult to do, and he would follow him and retreat into Liangzhou; As for the thunderstorm in June, he will not take the initiative to invite hundreds of thousands of Han troops to fight, and he will definitely retreat. In this way, the crisis in Chang'an was lifted, and all the rebels retreated to Liangzhou, and all that remained was to enter Liangzhou to quell 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 Iron Cavalry to participate in this battle, and attacked the camp of 80,000 rebels with more than 20,000 people.