Guanzhong, outside Xi'an City.

The siege camp was still noisy.

Compared with the war in Henan, the siege of Xi'an Fucheng seemed extremely gentle.

Not to mention others, even Liu Chengzong, the commander-in-chief, felt it was outrageous.

A few days ago, Gao Yingdeng reported that the first field brigade has been reorganized. Two Mongolian divisions and two Xifan divisions have been transferred to Guanzhong and organized in the camp.

Liu Shizi immediately went down to the camp to review the drills and found that the four generals of the first brigade were very capable, so he completely changed the uniforms of the two fourth divisions without a word.

Everyone with a discerning eye knows the level of equipment of the Mongolian soldiers and the Spanish soldiers.

As an auxiliary unit, it uses captured equipment.

The first level is used to capture the equipment of the Ming Army, the second level is used to capture the equipment of the Oara Army, and the third level is used to capture the equipment of Qinghai Mongolia.

Comparatively speaking, if you don't count the muskets in the hands of the Western Fan soldiers, the equipment level of the Mongolian soldiers is even better. After all, the Western Fan soldiers with the best equipment are called Meng Armed Fanzi in the Marshal's Mansion.

In short, sheepskin drags, red tassel hats and helmets, spears that cannot be straightened, hard bows of nomadic cavalry, and wooden sticks with iron heads as bones. These are the more common weapons for regular soldiers, and the better ones will have some of the four.

Protective equipment such as mirror armor, chain mail, and iron-inlaid leather armor.

Liu Shizi's army did not consider the level of their equipment. The original plan was that after the reorganization was completed, as winter approached, the rear in Lanzhou would transport winter clothes to the front line and let the Ordnance Bureau change them as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the generals headed by Gao Yingdeng took care of this matter in Xi'an Fucheng.

When he went down to the camp for a drill, two soldiers from the headquarters changed their sheepskin linings to Ming Dynasty military guard uniforms, and their outer chainmails were replaced by purple-patterned cloth-covered iron armors.

The red tassel helmet on the head was replaced by the Ming army's red tassel helmet, and there were also many red-lacquered helmets with the word "Yong".

All the equipment can be seen at a glance as second-hand.

War jackets are generally a bit too big and don't fit well.

Purple cloth armor is not purple, nor does it have flowers, but the fabric is called purple cloth and the color is light ocher.

Especially the armor, they all wore privately modified infantry armor.

There is a big difference in the shape of infantry armor and cavalry armor, and a knowledgeable person can see it at a glance.

Infantrymen are fully equipped with armor that reaches to their feet, and are covered with armor plates from the armpits to the crotch, so there is no need to consider the impact of short stature and other movements.

The current armor of the two Mongols is a modification of the armor-shaped cloth armor, with the hem shortened to over the knees, and the armor plates on both ribs from the armpits to the crotch were removed and made into a plug-in type.

Protect your crotch, armpits, and waist to prevent your nails from touching your armpits and rubbing your crotch downwards when riding a horse.

Some people are even equipped with hanging legs, which are iron greaves.

Not to mention the iron helmets, they also hung chain mail collars under the helmets.

Everyone even stepped on the waist sword, and the crudely made bones were replaced by pumpkin hammers with iron handles; the Mongolian hard bows were replaced by the Ming army's large-bodied soft bows.

It is obvious that these equipments come from the besieged city of Xi'an.

In fact, according to low-level officers on the front line of the siege, armor was not the largest input in the siege trade.

When the Ming army went to the camp to buy food, their favorite thing to use was silver. Because prices in the city were too high, the silver they had was no longer valuable.

In addition, the largest equivalents are fragmentary consumables such as gunpowder, lead bullets, iron bullets, and arrowheads.

According to statistics from each battalion in the siege, they forged more than 20,000 arrowheads alone, and countless lead pellets and iron bullets.

As for gunpowder, more.

After the reorganization of Gao Yingdeng's First Brigade was completed, Wang Wenxiu was appointed as the chief military officer of Longxi Road, and along with Li Wanqing and Yang Chengzu, he led troops and transferred them to Gongchang and Pingliang. When his army left, it had more gunpowder than when it entered Guanzhong.

Liu Chengzong also prepared a deputy general named Ouyang Gun for Wang Wenxiu.

Ouyang Gun was from Ganzhou. He had just received the order to be promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of Lintao, and he caught up with Liu Chengzong to attack Gansu.

He helped Yang Jiamo form two Ganzhou battalions, but was surrounded by Liu Shizi and imprisoned in Liangzhou until he surrendered along with Li Hongsi.

The Marshal's Mansion feels more at ease with this person than with Li Hongsi.

Because Li Hongsi is from Shaanxi and Ouyang Gun is from Gansu, in the final analysis it is still a matter of place of origin.

His hometown has become the land under the jurisdiction of the Marshal's Mansion. The Ming Dynasty is too far away and Xining is too close, and people have to eat. So not long after he surrendered, he was hired by the old man as an instructor at Xincheng Academy to study cavalry tactics.

Later, he worked with Dalai Taiji in the training camp.

Wang Wenxiu was transferred to Longxi because Liu Chengzong wanted to transfer Ren Quan'er back to Guanzhong to form the Second Field Brigade of the Marshal's Office.

With the experience of forming the first brigade, things were much easier for the second brigade, and Liu Chengzong was able to focus more on the direction of Henan.

The person in the Marshal's Office who pays the most attention to Henan's developments is Zhang Tianlin.

As soon as Zhang Yichuan captured Yongning, Zhang Tianlin cooperated with his troops to open a Tangbao route between Tongguan, Hongguan and even Yongning County.

After all, the western Henan area is still under the threat of the plague. With their capabilities, Henan is beyond their reach, but intelligence is indispensable. Therefore, they can only balance the two evils and select soldiers to risk their lives to escape, forming a fast channel for transmitting intelligence.

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Liu Shizi was very happy to establish contact between Henan and Guanzhong.

In the commander's tent, he chatted with Zhang Xianzhong, King Han and other ministers of rites, looking through letters with a smile, and even praised Zhang Yichuan.

The Henan Fifth Battalion fought brilliantly in several field battles in western Henan.

There are many mines in western Henan, which have always been rich in desperadoes. Recruiting an army with the mountain miners as the backbone and fighting a few tough battles can greatly improve the quality of Zhang Yichuan's army.

At the same time, the idea of ​​attacking Yongning first and then Luoyang is also very good. Having a rear can maximize the morale of the besieging army.

Taking ten thousand steps back, the army will not panic too much when it encounters a setback. At worst, it can retreat to Yongning County. Even if Yongning cannot stop it, it will retreat directly to Tongguan.

But as soon as he finished his words of praise, he saw Zhang Yichuan's letter saying that after conquering Yongning County, he killed Zhu Caiqing, the king of Wan'an County.

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King Han was sitting in the commander's tent and observing his actions. When he saw Liu Chengzong's smile solidifying, he asked: "Commander, what's the matter?"

"Zhang Yichuan, after the city fell, he killed a county king."

The smile on King Han's face also solidified, and he paused for a moment before returning to normal, and said: "The prince of Yongning City is King Wan'an, right? He is a branch of Yi Fan. Just kill him, Marshal. His family has no weapons."

What a good person."

Liu Chengzong was noncommittal.

"Consecrate him, Commander!"

Zhang Xianzhong, the Minister of Li Yamen, obviously knew more about etiquette. His eyes widened and he said angrily: "What a Zhang Yichuan. He took the county king and escorted the prisoners to Guanzhong, but he killed them privately in Yongning County. Is that what he can kill?"

Liu Shishi raised his eyelids and looked helplessly at the Minister of Li Yamen and the chief executive. Neither of them got to the point.

He didn't care whether the executed vassal king was an evil king or a good king, nor did he care that Zhang Yichuan, a bandit leader, had no subordinate consciousness.

What he cared about was that Zhang Yichuan had no brains in doing this.

Just like Zhang Tianlin likes to destroy Buddhist temples, it is meaningless.

The princes and princes of the Ming Dynasty have no meaning to the Marshal's Mansion, nor to the bandits.

The only meaningful things in the feudal mansion are the mountains of wealth and the educated population in the feudal mansion.

The former can enrich financial and material resources, while the latter can also be sent to the barren and cold Tianshan Mountains, allowing them to use their waste bodies and limited talents to do something meaningful for the world.

As for the princes and princes, once they leave the feudal government, if they don’t kill them, it will be a waste of food, and if they kill them, they will waste their knives. To put it bluntly, they are useless people.

"He killed Prince Wan'an just to pursue his own pleasure regardless of the consequences. He shouldn't have killed him. It's my fault for not telling him in advance."

Liu Chengzong shook his head with some annoyance: "This generation of vassal kings enjoys wealth and honor. When faced with the danger of siege, they are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered and stay out of the matter. Firstly, the patriarchal law is in control. Secondly, there are no vassal kings who have been killed. Even if the city falls, they will not be killed."

I don’t realize that my death is approaching.”

He didn't say what he said next, but his meaning was already very clear.

In the past, the vassal government did nothing when faced with siege, because there was no vassal king who was defeated and killed. In the final analysis, the bandits and troops outside the city did not hang over their heads and were easily dismissed as common people. The imperial clan system that eliminated the country was terrible.

With Prince Wan'an taking this initiative, in the future the princes in the vassal government will be afraid of death and may really use their money to recruit troops in times of crisis.

The key is that Zhang Yichuan is still in Henan Prefecture, and Luoyang is right in front of him.

Liu Chengzong disapproved of this matter. The biggest reason was that in Luoyang, the capital of Henan Prefecture, Prince Fu Fan was famously wealthy in the world.

You, Zhang Yichuan, really want to kill a prince, save the life of Prince Wan'an, and send him to Luoyang City to give a message to Prince Fu, asking him not to act rashly in the city, which will lower the morale of the Ming army, capture Luoyang, and kill Prince Fu.

Now that Luoyang has not been captured, but the Prince Wan'an who is very close to him has been killed, how can Prince Fu not be afraid?

The key prince was not a general. He was afraid and could not abandon the city and escape. He could only risk his life and throw money at it.

Thinking of this, Liu Chengzong shook his head, raised his hand and called Yu Linqi, and said: "For Zhang Yichuan's contribution to the capture of Yongning, let the military office create a merit plaque to encourage the soldiers to keep up their efforts. When the plague in Henan subsides, another reward will be given and sent there first...

…Then the Li Yamen will report it to all the generals and commanders at all levels in the army.”

Zhang Xianzhong failed to reply immediately.

Liu Chengzong's views on vassal kings touched him a lot.

He studied Liu Chengzong obsessively again.

But this time, there is also a little new inspiration mixed in.

He felt that although Zhang Yichuan was more cruel to the feudal king, he was obviously more respectful than Liu Chengzong.
To be continued...