Chen Xuan and Zhao Xian were undercover agents sent by Lu Zhe to Wu Rui for nearly five months, and they should not have come with a swagger, after all, Wu Rui came to vote, and if Wu Rui knew that the officer he relied on was an undercover agent sent by Lu Zhe, he would definitely have a pimple in his heart. However, it is very likely that Lu Zhe will soon face a threat from the Four Clans and Bai Yue, even if it is inappropriate, he needs to be summoned immediately.

Wu Rui has been asking to see Lu Zhe recently, and every time he sees him, he will ask to send troops to Changsha, which makes Lu Zhe have a headache.

Chen Xuan and Zhao Xian were originally an important part of the encroachment plan, but before the encroachment plan could be implemented, Wu Rui was defeated by the Si clan and the Baiyue coalition army. The two of them came to Nanjun with Wu Rui's defeated soldiers, and asked Wu Rui how he was defeated, which was a slap in the face, and Lu Zhe had to summon the two of them over to understand the process of Wu Rui's defeat in detail.

Wu Rui lost too quickly, losing his territory in less than two months. You must know that Wu Rui has recruited at least 200,000 troops in Changsha, and Lu Zhe has not supported a small amount of materials before and after, and the speed of defeat is unbelievably fast.

Lu Zhe very much wanted to know what decisions Wu Rui had made in the alliance between the Four Clans and Baiyue, whether it was because of the mistakes in the decision-making that led to the defeat, or whether the alliance between the Four Clans and Baiyue was too strong to resist Wu Rui's correct decision.

"General Wu was defeated only when he met the Lian elephant soldiers, and the attack on the south had been relatively smooth before that." Chen Xuan said it too generally.

However, Lu Zhe could hear it, Wu Rui's attack on Lingling was the beginning of the defeat, and the subsequent series of defeats were absolutely inseparable from the elephant soldiers of the Lian family.

"Elephant Soldier ......" Lu Zhe originally wanted to say that elephant soldiers have a limit even if they are terrifying, but he has not seen Lian's elephant soldiers on the spot, and those words are too one-sided, and these words should not be said by the superiors.

Zhao Xian also said: "Every time the elephant soldiers run, the ground shakes and the mountains shake, and the soldiers are already timid before the battle, and then they are trampled by the elephant soldiers into the crowd for a while, and it is useless to stop drinking." ”

Chen Xuan took over: "Repeat it a few times, the soldier to the elephant with a huge body." The fear of them is ingrained in the marrow. In the ensuing battle, as soon as the figure of the Lian elephant soldier appeared, it immediately collapsed and scattered. ”

Lu Zhe grasped a key point, Wu Rui's subordinates were too strict in their psychological shadows, and on the other hand, Wu Rui's army organization was not good at all, so it was impossible to control it after a defeat.

The generals who had never seen the elephant soldiers looked at each other when they heard this, they were likely to be sent to Changsha in the future, and they couldn't help but feel a little uncertain when they heard Chen Xuan and Zhao Xian's description.

Among the generals and colonels of various ministries, Ji Bu, Sima Xin, Luo Shao, Wu Liang and others are still leading troops, and it is also important for Mei Kai, Su Lie, Gongwei, and other high-ranking generals who are in Nanjun to be called over this time. And some people at the rank of captain were also specially called over.

Lu Zhe wants to reorganize the army, even if it is a formality, he needs to seek the opinions of the generals.

Repeated battles down. They didn't make a serious summary, and Lu Zhe also had the intention to improve some of the formations and collocations of the troops.

The army has never been able to cope with all situations by a single branch of the army, and multiple arms are required to cooperate on the battlefield, and how to match the arms needs to be carefully pondered according to actual combat.

Lu Zhe prefers defensive troops, but judging from the actual situation on the battlefield for several months, several arms seem to have overlapping effects, such as vine armor soldiers, shield-wielding sword soldiers, and shield-wielding pu sword soldiers, and the functions of these arms are almost the same. And without special tactical training, it is indeed impossible to give full play to their advantages in equipment.

How to use the class is not something that can be explained immediately after being taught. That needs to be understood by commanders at all levels, and all Lu Zhe can do is to explain it as clearly as possible.

In fact, although the rattan armor soldiers, the shield-wielding swordsmen, and the shield-wielding Pu sword soldiers are all shield-wielding troops, they are fundamentally different in usage. For example, rattan armor soldiers are suitable for fighting in the southern jungle and mountainous environment because they are light rattan armor, and the long sword soldiers and Pu sword soldiers wearing leather armor are suitable for fighting in the Central Plains. However, the generals under Lu Zhe don't understand this. Therefore, there is an idea in the use of command, as if there is more and not too much, and which is not less.

The reorganization of the army needs to be done, but Lu Zhe's original urgency was not to let the generals present be frightened by Chen Xuan and Zhao Xian's description: "It's a pity, Wu Rui's expansion is too urgent. After recruitment, it is time to train first and then send troops. The newly recruited soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, and they do not know the soldiers, and they run in a panic when they go to the battlefield, and there is no coordination. How can you collapse without being frightened? ”

Except for a few civilian positions here, which one is not a person who leads the troops? How could they not understand the meaning of Lu Zhe's words, he was pointing out that Wu Rui's army was not well trained and organized, and it was not that the elephant soldiers were too powerful.

For training and organization, generals can often hear Lu Zhe mention these two terms. The two terms don't sound so complicated from a literal point of view, as long as you have relevant experience in leading troops, you can even say that you are extremely familiar with these two aspects.

The reason why the army is an army is not that many people are gathered together, this violent organization is a collective that needs the most organization, and the degree of training is related to combat effectiveness, which Lu Zhe has repeatedly emphasized when supervising officers for a period of time.

Lu Zhe had no intention of immediately sending troops to recapture Changsha County, which Su Lie, Gongwei, Mei Kai, and Kuaitong had already learned on the way to withdraw their troops, but the rest of them did not know.

Now, those who didn't know were looking at Lu Zhe, waiting to talk about sending troops to Changsha.

"After three months of continuous fighting, the sergeants were exhausted and the military supplies were exhausted. After a war with the Chu State, we won the two counties of Lujiang and Jiujiang again. Many things will take time to deal with, and if they are not really necessary, a large army will be avoided in the short term. Lu Zhe set a tone, glanced at the people who were divided into columns, and continued: "In the next two months, the army will make plans, and it is expected to train 150,000 soldiers, and the Tuntian plan, which was interrupted by the war, will also be put on the agenda again. At the same time, the garrison of Cangwu and Hengshan counties also requires the monarchs to express their opinions. ”

Reorganization? People who didn't know the news in advance wondered for a while, they vaguely remembered that the army had been reorganized once half a year ago, and now it has only been half a year, so why do they have to reorganize again?

They didn't understand the situation, half a year ago, Lu Zhe's soldiers were only 110,000, but now after rapid expansion, they are almost close to 500,000, which is a completely different situation.

Seeing Lu Zhe coming over, Kuaitong stood up and explained the reason to the unknown general, talking about the balance between production and the number of troops, and the people's livelihood could not keep up with the army, and it was difficult to feed the army.

"But...... In the future, we need to deal with nearly 400,000 enemy troops of the Si clan and Baiyue, and it is very likely that the state of Chu will make a comeback again......"

"Yes, we are in a place of many battles, and we need a large number of troops to garrison and make corresponding counterattacks, how can we reduce the army?"

Kuaitong had a headache, he was pushed out by Lu Zhe to test the attitude of the generals, otherwise if Lu Zhe himself spoke, even if those generals had different opinions, they would definitely have to keep silent. At present, Kuaitong is just the beginning, and although some generals and colonels have not said it clearly, they are already glaring at Kuaitong angrily, expressing their dissatisfaction with the civilian government's intention to disarm.

To be honest, if it weren't for the high-ranking generals such as Su Lie and Mei Kai who knew that it was a decision made by Lu Zhe after thinking about it in many ways, if they didn't know about it, they would definitely have to think in the direction that the civilian officials deliberately exaggerated the difficulties.

Lu Zhe looked at Kuaitong and was glared at angrily by some captains, and couldn't help but glance at Xiao He.

Xiao He is now the head of civil affairs, and he should have talked about the people's livelihood, but Lu Zhe made it very clear that those things would definitely be hostile to the generals and schools when it came to disarmament, so he chose Kuaitong, a person who had more or less contact with the military.

Disarmament reduces the number of troops, which is a matter related to the actual interests of most military generals, and many people will worry about the reduction of disarmament on their heads, so what's the matter?

"Not enough military rations? Then it's enough to continue to grab Baiyue! ...... at the beginning"

When Lu Zhe heard this, he finally spoke up: "Disarmament is what I mean. ”

If you don't say anything, those generals don't know what to say, the original attack on Cangwu County was a special situation, that was when Baiyue was storing grain and preparing for a counterattack, so there would be so much food, how could it be regarded as the norm.

Many generals looked at their lords in amazement, they couldn't believe how Lu Zhe, who had always been biased towards the military, could have the idea of disarmament after successive victories.

"The number of troops is now 480,000, and the output of each county can only support the needs of 200,000 troops." Lu Zhe stared at the captain who just said that he would continue to rob Baiyue, this person was Zhou Kang, who had been left in Jiujiang and returned to Su Lie's department, and he had a good appearance in the battle of Danyang, and it was estimated that he would also say those nonsense without thinking if he had military exploits.

"480,000, under the age of thirteen and over forty, the number of soldiers in this category is 170,000." The number jù in Lu Zhe's hand is definitely not accurate, but it will only be more and not less.

“…… Most of them are for new bosses. Can such a soldier fight? Can you fight, why do you need to let the various armies wander out this time, instead of concentrating the army to fight a decisive battle with Xiang Liang! "Lu Zhe doesn't need to say the true intention of this battle, just to give them an idea.

"I've said many times that the soldiers are fine but not many, do you want to fight with a group of old and young, or do you want your soldiers to be in the prime of life?" Lu Zhe softened his tone: "There are many leaders who have come to serve, and the composition of the army is chaotic. You are all following me to rise to the end of the tomb, and disarmament will not be able to cut off your heads, and I will not do anything to cut off my arms. ”

The generals gradually understood that the personnel had become too complicated, and Lu Zhe wanted to eliminate the original influence of the leaders through reorganization. At the same time, since disarmament is not on their heads, it seems that there is no need to oppose it, right?

"During the disarmament period, all of you stayed in Nanling and entered the martial arts in rotation mode to listen to the lectures."

Martial arts? They have experienced it once, and that time it was Lu Zhe who was the keynote speaker to explain some tactical tactics. (To be continued......)