Chapter 358: Anxiety (I)
The grass has long since withered and yellowed, and a team of knights in the wilderness embarked on an unknown journey, the leader was Sima Xin, who did not know what fate he would face, and the one horse behind was Li Liang from Guanjin in Julu County.
Nearly 100 cavalrymen held the Qinzi banner, and every knight was dusty, they had been on the road for almost two days, and they were about to enter the Nanling realm.
Attacking Lu in the south suddenly became Lu Zhe's subordinate again, this change of identity is simply bizarre, but no matter how much you don't adapt to reality, it is still reality after all.
Under an edict from the First Emperor, 110,000 Qin troops became Lu Zhe's subordinates, will these generals of the Qin department be uneasy? In fact, there was not a single one of them who was not uneasy in their hearts.
The time was too short for them to see what would happen from Lu Zhe's series of actions, but the fastest speculation did not come true, and they were not disarmed and then dug and buried.
Can you get fair treatment when you work under Lu Zhe? They could see this, whether Lu Zhe arranged the battle or did not make it difficult in terms of food, they also put down their hearts for the time being.
There was no pit killing, no difficulty, and it seemed that Lu Zhe didn't seem to hold a grudge because of the previous battle, but was it okay?
When he reaches a certain identity, he can still more or less perceive the attitude of the Xianyang Center towards Lu Zhe, Lu Zhe is a rebel, a traitor who cannot be cleaned up for the time being, as long as there is a certain time, Daqin will definitely send troops to exterminate him.
Great Qin regarded Lu Zhe as a rebel, and then almost 110,000 of them were lost to Lu Zhe, what the hell is this?
The position is as high as Sima Xin, since the 110,000 Qin army was lost to Lu Zhe, Xianyang has never issued even a single word of order, if you want to say that the most uneasy and hesitant, it should belong to him.
How much Sima Xin longed for Xianyang to give an order, even if it was for him to find an opportunity to assassinate Lu Zhe, it was better than not knowing that he was really fighting for Lu Zhe. It's better to do something.
When they chatted in private, they came to a conclusion that it was bad news for Great Qin that Lu Zhe was self-reliant, but compared to someone who would directly wave his troops north, the group in the south, which had become a behemoth in a short period of time, was not entirely bad to have Lu Zhe, a person who did not immediately wave his troops north, as the commander.
So? It's nothing, that is, they have been dragged so unembarrassed and not embarrassed, and then they were discarded by the Xianyang Center!
"No one thinks about it for us?"
What do you think? Such as life safety, official position and future? In the face of the safety of the country, let alone the early 100,000s, as long as Lu Zhe's idea of going north can be stopped, it will not touch the bottom line of the Qin State. Whether the First Emperor is in power or any other Qin monarch, he will not frown at all.
"I heard that you and Lu Hou are friends with each other?"
"Lieutenant General, exactly."
Sima Xin asked casually, and Li Liang answered quickly.
Lu Zhe's past has been gradually dug up, and it is not a secret that Yang Zhou has become friends with Xu Yang and Li Liang, and those who should know have basically heard about it.
Sima Xin and other people above the rank of lieutenant received an order from Lu Zhe and asked them to rush to Nanling. Among the hundred horsemen, twenty-three people were captains, partial generals, and generals, except for those knights who accompanied the guards, Li Liang was such a military marquis. So why Li Liang was named by Sima Xin to accompany him is not clear enough?
Neck-to-neck friends are not something that can be said casually in this era, they don't know that Lu Zhe doesn't understand the sacredness of neck-to-neck friends, but they know that neck-to-neck friends represent being able to give their lives for each other.
With Li Liang's cleverness. He could guess why he was named and entourage, it was nothing more than Sima Xin and other generals who wanted to use that identity to achieve some purposes. But to be honest, he didn't think he could help anything, and he never thought he wanted to help.
Lu Zhe in the Yang Zhou period was just a tun chief. The current Lu Zhe is the overlord of the five counties with hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, Li Liang knows that if it is just for the future, then Lu Zhe will definitely take more care of the past feelings, but when it comes to the overall situation, the feelings cannot affect Lu Zhe's choice.
"What kind of person is Lu Hou?" Sima Xin seemed to be talking to herself. But is it really talking to yourself?
Li conscience said, "It's here", how could he not know that Sima Xin was probing the bottom.
What kind of person is Lu Zhe? Li Liang has also been asking this question recently. He recalled a lot, and recalled all the things that happened to Lu Zhe in Yangzhou. The impression of Lu Zhe seems to be a very simple person, taciturn is the first, ignorance of human feelings is the second, and military talent is the third. wanted him to explain Lu Zhe's personality and hobbies, but he couldn't say a reason for thinking about it for a long time.
Li Liang couldn't think of a reason for himself, but he couldn't say something like "I don't know" when he faced Sima Xin who wanted to understand, not only could he not show that he didn't understand Lu Zhe, but he also had to be very active with Lu Zhe, and Lu Zhe respected him very much as his second brother.
"Really? No wonder he will win again and again, it turns out that Lu Hou was born in a military family and has a long heritage. Sima Xin sighed when he heard that Lu Zhe was studying the book of war every day.
Sima Xin actually discovered that Lu Zhe's military decisions were very mature, but Lu Zhe's behavior was relatively ...... How so? It is that some of the handling is far less proper than the military arrangement, and there are many places that have been neglected, but it shows the tenderness corresponding to his age.
The ghost is from a military family, if Lu Zhe hears someone say this about him, he will probably blush. But in general, he has a long-term vision that many people in this era do not have, and he knows a lot of things, and he has also studied what powerful troops will appear in history, and he must be better than many people.
"Lu Hou wants to reorganize the army, and it is estimated that 150,000 main battle troops will be reorganized." Sima Xin stretched out his hand and touched his forehead, looked at the mountains in the distance and added sullenly: "We have not received an order for reorganization, nor have we been planned into the main battle unit. β
This is what the generals of the Qin family are most worried about recently, after all, Lu Zhe has included all the troops except the Qin family into the reorganization plan, and it can be seen from the name of "main battle force" that Lu Zhe will pay the most attention to that army in the future, and they seem to have been forgotten.
Sometimes being forgotten is a good thing, but more often it is a big bad thing, at least when the future is uncertain, all the generals of the Qin Department do not want to be forgotten.
"Lu Hou is from the same background as us, how can we not understand the gap between our combat strength and those newly formed troops?" Li Liang comforted.
Sima Xin withdrew his gaze and smiled meaningfully at Li Liang.
The 30,000 troops left behind were all left in Fanyang in Lujiang County except for the hundred cavalry brought out by Sima Xin, and 15,000 of the troops were Qin people who went south.
The troops who were resting in Fanyang received some items on the second day of their stationing, which were two thick winter robes, two pairs of thick boots, a thickened quilt, and a water bladder sewn from cowhide.
Everyone who received the supplies from the army was a little stunned, and their first reaction was not joy, but a deep worry.
The first thing they did when they received the uniforms, boots, quilts, and water bladders was to think, "How much do you have to pay for these?" β
The Qin army would occasionally distribute some supplies, at best it was just a blanket or something, and it was not necessarily distributed once in a few years of being a soldier. The thought of having to pay for those things when he got them was not strange to the Qin soldiers.
When the soldiers wondered if the southerners were going to trap themselves with the quartermaster, they learned that they were military supplies sent by Lu Zhe's baggage troops, and they didn't need to pay for the things they distributed.
What's the situation? Some of them have been soldiers for more than ten years, and they have never seen such a generous thing, and when they heard that it was distributed by Lu Zhe for free, they felt that it was like a dream after solving the confusion.
Serving in the Qin Army, unless it is the Xianyang Garrison Force, the border army and county soldiers do not need to bring their own robes and weapons in addition to the food they eat? When you come to the south, you have the treatment of getting supplies for free, is it a change in the military system, or what?
The soldiers of the Qin system were not overjoyed after receiving the free supplies, some of them were at a loss and puzzled, and then they saw that the soldiers of the southern department were at ease, and some people were complaining that the battle robes were too small or too big, and some people began to ask.
"It has always been the Lord who has sent out robes and other things."
"Don't pay?"
"Pay? Why pay? Independently made a fortune in Nanjun, and there has always been such treatment in the army, which has become a common practice. β
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Before the supplies were distributed, many Qin soldiers had already written letters to go home, and those who should have prepared their wealth were also ready, and they began to prepare winter clothes when the military merchants came.
I have to tell the truth, the soldiers of the Qin department are very unaccustomed to this kind of treatment, but it is a good thing that they don't need to buy it themselves and be issued by the army, and they don't need to pay for it when they lack anything.
In fact, it is not only the troops in Lujiang, but also Nanjun, Hengshan County, Cangwu County, and Jiujiang County...... All the troops that are going to launch a military operation against Changsha County in the near future have received the corresponding supplies. Some units that did not have a combat mission, they did not receive them for the time being.
Lu Zhe expected to use a quarter as an adjustment, and the troops should be reorganized and prepared to fight in the south.
A quarter is neither long nor short, and it is enough for the troops that should be in place to reach the predetermined position.
This time in the operation against Changsha County, Lu Zhe did not plan to use many troops, in addition to the Qin troops of about 100,000, there would also be a heavy auxiliary army of about 100,000 people.
Before launching a military campaign against Changsha County, LΓΌ Zhehui first did one thing, that is, to draw up official positions and distribute rewards, and Sima Xin and other Qin generals who were summoned to Nanling were also among them. (To be continued......)