Chapter 977: Uehara Station

However, in addition to the peasant soldiers, the active duty of the Qin army will be one million, plus 400,000 auxiliaries, and of the one million active service, 200,000 are actually on rotation, which means that the real actual number is 850,000 active standing troops.

One million active soldiers, including 100,000 soldiers, remained at about 10%.

"Will it be a little too much?"

A few people asked worriedly, from the huge number of 4.3 million troops to 850,000 all of a sudden, how do you look at it, how is this a bit too ruthless.

"Even if it's 850,000, that's a lot. Ladies and gentlemen, 30 million people support 1 million troops, which is already a very heavy burden. Look at our past few years, life has been very tight, the army has been expanding, and in the end it has brought more than just logistics supply problems. ”

If there are too many troops, it is inevitable that management will not be in place, and military discipline will even be lax. And Li Jing has been guarding against one thing, that is, the excessive power in the hands of the generals will eventually be unrestrained, and a new army leader will appear. Especially in the past few years, the battle has continued, the establishment of the Qin army has been expanding, in the past, when it was not fighting, the battalion level was the largest unit, but now, not only are there countless chambers and armies, but there are even long-term legions, and the corps commander holds ten armies and 50,000 horses. This momentum is not good, and after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be a mountain faction.

If you go outside, you must first settle inside.

Taking advantage of the current situation to ease somewhat, Li Jing was ready to sort out the interior first. It's not okay to just stare outside.

By virtue of disarmament, Li Jing threw out his second plan, that is, to reorganize the army. Deal with the leaders of the mountain factions. The best way to do this, of course, is to change officers frequently. But that's not thorough enough. Therefore, Li Jing took advantage of this disarmament and the reduction of the army. By the way, the plan to reorganize the armies was thrown. Of course, this is not a simple reorganization, the one million army of the Qin Domain will be divided into two hundred armies, one thousand compartments, and two thousand battalions. From the box level, the whole army was numbered, from the first box to the thousandth box, and the armies also went from the first army to the two hundredth army. And take this opportunity. Li Jing directly disrupted the original legions, and abolished the establishment of each legion. The legion establishment is gone, and the legion commanders are naturally gone. After the abolition of a legion, a general can only command a maximum of one corps.

Moreover, in the non-wartime state, the battalion and above the box and army only retain the basic establishment, but all the officers are not in the army, but stay in the office of the governor of the five armies in Yanjing, and make guest appearances as guest lecturers and professors at the military academy. Only in wartime can they rely on military orders to mobilize their troops. In non-war times, the troops were stationed in various places in battalion units. The battalion is led by the battalion commander as the highest de facto commander. This is also according to the original twelve guards of the Sui and Tang dynasties to implement the separation of soldiers and generals and control military power. Prevent the emergence of warlords.

In particular, the 200,000 guards in Gyeonggi were handed over to a number of generals to be under their respective commands, with layers of restraint and supervision everywhere. The stronger the Qin Domain, the more Li Jing began to pay more attention to internal precautions. It can be said that up to now, the possibility of external forces defeating Qin Fan is very rare, and the biggest possibility is that there is an internal problem. Many heroes in history single-handedly conquered most of the East Mountain, but the result was one step behind dominating the world, and the biggest problem is that the internal contradictions are difficult to reconcile. For example, Cao Wei was taken away by the Sima family, the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi, and even many short-lived dynasties of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which are not all like this. The hero of the first hero, the most prosperous dynasty did not live long, a big reason is not only the incompetence of later generations, but also mainly because the foundation of the dynasty was unstable at the beginning. Just like the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, these monarchs can be regarded as heroes, but in the end they did not succeed in dominating the world, which has a great deal to do with internal instability.

"How to arrange the six legions controlled by Qin Zongquan, Shang Rang, Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guimu, Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi?" Gai Yu asked. In Li Jing's plan just now, there was no mention of these six legions that were nominally subordinate to the Qin army.

As for these six so-called legions, Li Jing did not mention them just now, naturally because these six legions are not actually controlled by Li Jing. It was only a nominal submission, not only Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi, but also Shang Rang and the other four generals.

Qian Biao and Yang Xingmi left him alone for the time being, these two people are now intimidated by the prestige of the Qin army, although they are gradually detached from self-reliance, but they don't dare to act rashly for a while, in this case, Li Jing also intends to maintain this situation for the first time. As for Shang Rang and others, although these people demoted Li Jing, in fact, the two sides are more similar to cooperation than subordination. Li Jing now has the intention of using them, so he does not intend to rush to annex them, so as not to cause them to backlash.

"Well, give them six numbers from forty-first to forty-sixth, six new regiments, and the rest will remain the same. Anyway, the military budget is self-sufficient, and the number of soldiers is 50,000 yuan, so it doesn't matter if he wants to recruit more. Well, don't move the four states of western Henan for the time being, they are suspicious of the province. Especially Shang Rang and other four generals of the Yellow Nest. Keep them in western Henan, when they are still used sooner or later. "Li Jing has long seen and understood that it is unlikely that these military leaders will surrender directly and sincerely, they have territory, soldiers and horses, how can they be so easy to surrender. But Li Jing doesn't care, he doesn't care too much about the territory of those states, leaving them stuck in the south of Luoyang, the most uncomfortable people are still the Yang brothers, it is Zhu Wen. What Li Jing needs to do is to sit and wait, sooner or later they will definitely have a fight, and when they fight each other, that is, when the fishermen of the Qin Domain will benefit. Let them go first, otherwise if Li Jing intervenes too early, I am afraid that they will fight against the Qin army, and the Zhu Wen and Yang brothers will be cheapened.

"In conclusion, there are three things we have to do at the moment, which are the top priorities. First of all, the first is disarmament and reorganization of the armed forces. Second, the establishment of a production corps, the recruitment of slaves, displaced people, and Hu people to go to Guanwai Tuntian to reclaim the famine, and develop the northeast. Third, and most importantly, make comprehensive preparations for next year's battle in Hebei and make comprehensive preparations. Li Jing waved to the marching army and said to the ministers in a deep voice. Li Yi, the state affairs of the supervising army, Li Xiao and Li Bao, the state affairs of the Pingzhang army, stood on one side, their eyes looked at Li Jing's side from time to time, and they vaguely felt that Li Jing was talking about something important, but they were separated by a distance. But I couldn't hear anything clearly. Although nominally. Li Yi is a prisoner. He is the person with the highest official position in Yanjing, and Li Wei and Li Bao are also the third and fourth people in the Qin Fan after Li Yi and Li Jing. But they also knew in their hearts that this was only in name, and in fact, they were excluded from Yanjing's inner circle.

Li Yi was no more than a ten-year-old boy, and he was very excited when he watched the mighty teams below drive by. He even couldn't help but want to pull Li Jing's hand. Ask this imperial uncle to come and watch together. But a guard wearing a sword was like an iron tower, blocking him silently, and he didn't pay attention to the state affairs of the overseer at all. Li Yi pushed Xun Wei a few times, and finally found that he couldn't push him at all. And Li Jing has been talking seriously with a subordinate, and he hasn't looked at this side from beginning to end.

At this time, Gongsun Lan appeared behind her in a palace dress, but the guards of the three guards of Qin Xunyi did not stop her and let her go directly.

"Your Highness. Henan intelligence, Li Keyong has just crossed the Yellow River. It has entered Luoyang, and after Zhengzhou, it will arrive in Bianzhou. He led 20,000 soldiers and horses south and went straight to Bianzhou. ”

Li Jing nodded, a smile on his face. Yang Fuguang was finally going to make a move on Zhu Wen, and it was not as unexpected as he expected, Yang Fuguang, an old treacherous and slippery guy, did not attack Zhu Wen directly, but transferred Li Ke to use this super thug to take 20,000 horses south from Hedong.

To drive the tiger and devour the wolf, Yang Fuguang is indeed a good means.

"King, Li Keyong is going south at this time, why don't we go to Taiyuan, his old nest?" Wang Zhong proposed.

Li Jing shook his head, although this was a little exciting. But Li Keyong dared to go south at this time, how could he not have the slightest arrangement? Taiyuan Hedong Center is the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty, which is the center of the north. How can it be so easy to fight, besides, compared to taking Taiyuan, for Qin Fan now, it is the most important thing to seize the second town of Hebei step by step. Instead of taking the risk of attacking Taiyuan, it is better to prepare to fight Wei Bochengde. Wei Bo and Chengde are already a piece of meat on the board, but attacking Hedong Town at this time may anger Li Keyong and the Chang'an Yang brothers, and eventually break the agreement just reached. This is not a good thing for Li Jing. The rabbit was anxious and bitten, it really scared the Yang brothers, they really came to fight hard, this is not worth it for Qin Fan.

Since you can steadily eat away at the past step by step with a little more time, why bother to make yourself covered in scars. For the current Qin Domain, the most important thing is time. Today's Qin Domain, in all aspects, is far superior to the towns, and the longer the time drags on, the less their strength develops as fast as the Qin Domain. At present, the Qin Domain, tactically based on stability, encroaching step by step, it is completely necessary to take risks again, because then the harvest does not match the risk ratio. The time when the Qin Domain took risks has long passed, and now the Qin Domain has no need to take risks. Take risks, and if you don't get it right, it will give the other party a chance to turn around.

"Should Juwen remind him over there?" Gongsun Lan asked. Li Keyong went south under the guise of an order from the Chang'an court, nominally leading the army to reinforce Zhu Wen. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the name.

"The show has just begun, what are we in a hurry. I can't eat hot tofu if I'm in a hurry, so I'll see. Li Jing replied with a smile.

Bianzhou, Henan, Xuanwu Town, Shuaifu Festival Hall.

Zhu Wen was looking at the news he had just received, and the matter of the peace between the imperial court and the Qin clan had finally been announced. This matter greatly surprised Zhu Wen, and Li Jing, who completely had the advantage, actually chose to negotiate peace with Chang'an at this time. Moreover, the terms of peace between the imperial court and the Qin clan did not seem to be very attractive to Li Jing, but how could Li Jing agree to negotiate peace.

The content of the peace agreement that Zhu Wen received was not complete. There are a few missing articles on it, such as the Chang'an court's transfer of Bianzhou and Hao, Ying, Cai, and Chen to the Qin domain, for example, the Chang'an court promised to hand over Zhu Wen's head to Li Jing. Also, the result of the peace agreement that Yang Fuguang handed over to Zhu Wen said that the imperial court reached a peace agreement with the Qin Domain, and Yingcai Hao Chen Sizhou was returned to the imperial court. As for the three states of Haoying Chen, the imperial court assigned it to Zhu Quanzhong's Xuanwu Town.

This result always made Zhu Wen feel a little incredible. Is there such a cheap good thing? Sizhou was obviously occupied by Li Jing, how did Li Jing give it up in the end?

But doubts are doubts, and Zhu Wen is still very happy. It would be great if the imperial court really assigned Yinghao Chen Sanzhou to Xuanwu Town. In this way, Zhu Wen's Xuanwu Town was connected with Jinshang Town and Shaanxi Town to the west.

In addition to being happy, Zhu Wen immediately sent several troops with peace documents to Chen Haoying Sanzhou to take over the city. Who knew that Lu Dao, the three tribes of the faction were gone, and soon, the Tan Ma who sent Lu to inquire about the news again brought back a news that made Zhu Wen extremely angry. His three envoys and his retinue were all killed, and their heads were still hanging on the gates of the three cities of Chen, Hao, and Ying.

At this time, Zhu Wen was really angry, and he was furious. Obviously said something good, but you actually repented, and dared to kill my people. Immediately, Zhu Wen ordered the soldiers and horses to be gathered, and as soon as the soldiers and horses were assembled, another news came that Qin Zongquan was leading the Caizhou soldiers to march towards their Tangzhou. Just when Zhu Wen was a little angry, there was another urgent report from Tanma.

"Report! Reported to the king of Liang, the king of Jin, Li Taiwei, led 20,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce, and has now arrived at the border of Bianzhou and sent to report. ”

"Oh, is King Jin here so soon? Came at the right time, the traitor of the dog day did not abide by the agreement, not only did not hand over the Yinghao Chen Cai Sizhou, but also dared to kill my envoy, and now he sent troops to invade Tangzhou, which is really unreasonable. This king was about to lead his troops to teach these rebels a lesson, and it happened that the king of Jin arrived, and with the king of Jin, he would definitely be able to beat those grass thieves this time. Come, transfer the guard camp, and go with the king to meet the king of Jin. ”

Zhu Wen's general Zhu Zhen is also very happy, although Li Keyong is a little arrogant, his ability is still admirable. After all, over the years, if you can fight with Li Jing until now, and you haven't been destroyed, it is estimated that Li Ke will use it. With such a general, dealing with a few remnants of the Yellow Nest, what else can be a problem.

"The king personally went to greet the flying tiger, so let a certain person prepare a banquet at home!"

"Well, good. Li Ke used this person to be arrogant, the banquet must be grand, and he prepared more wine and meat for the Lao Army, and comforted the Hedong Army for a while. ”

"The banquet is arranged at Uehara Station, how about it?"

"Uehara Station?" Zhu Wen thought for a while, "Yes, it has just been renovated, and it is very exquisite, so I will arrange it to entertain Li Ke at the Shangyuan Station!" (To be continued......)