The emperor changed his name again.
Yuan changes are actually not uncommon, but it is extremely rare to see such frequent changes in a year like today.
At the beginning of the year, it was still called the first year of Yongxing, but before the first month was completely over, the name was changed to "Yong'an".
At this time, the emperor Sima Zhong, who had just been kidnapped to Yecheng, issued an edict to change the Yuan Dynasty to "Jianwu". From now on it will be the first year of Jianwu (304).
Uncle Fang, the powerful ministers may often ignore the emperor's edicts, but that involves fundamental interests. No one would deny face to such a small matter as changing the Yuan Dynasty. After all, it is harmless.
The new official letter issued by the Luoyang court already uses "Jianwu" as the year name.
Shao Xun just received a message: Luoyang Arsenal has allocated some equipment to meet military needs.
This is the largest arsenal in the country, with everything from crossbows to sharpening stones - well, at least on paper, there are a lot more.
Military Chief Cao Fu, Shangshu Zuopushe Wang Yan, and Supervisor Luoyang Governor Mi Huang jointly signed it. Naturally, it was impossible to fool Shao Xun with any rotten weapons. They were all of high quality and at least usable.
After receiving this batch of equipment, Shao Xun planned to quadruple his troops.
No matter how bold people are and how productive the land is, I'm afraid of you!
The army is overstretched, and it is Sima Yue who will be worried about him in the future. It is none of my business. On the contrary, he has to praise me for making prompt decisions and turning the tide.
With this mentality, at the end of August, Shao Xun openly set up a checkpoint in the Mangshan area of ​​Luoyang to contain the defeated troops.
"Stop! I told you to stop, are you deaf?" Chen Yougen led fifty cavalry, quickly rushed to a group of broken soldiers who were running out of breath, and roared.
Fifty people dismounted, carrying long swords and holding crossbows, looking fierce.
The defeated soldiers were not stupid. They looked at the gang of murderers and Senhan's crossbow arrows, but they showed no resistance.
Huang Biao led a group of people, unloaded their equipment - if there was any left - and then took them aside for a rough screening.
The main thing is to separate people, identify each other's names and hometowns, listen to the accents, and talk about their military experience to see if there are any flaws.
Identifying spies is just incidental, and breaking up people and taking them away is the main task.
However, Shao Xun is quite picky. Not everyone wants it, but he must at least be physically strong, and preferably he can also shoot arrows.
Archers can easily transform into spearmen and axemen, but the latter cannot easily transform into archers.
Li Chong has been suggesting recruiting more archers.
Previously, there were only about forty archers in the rear building, and there were some casualties during the battle. In July, they were replenished to sixty or seventy. Now there is a good opportunity to contain the defeated troops. It would be a pity not to take advantage of it.
"You said you were from the Chinese Army? How does that make you similar?" Chen Yougen's loud voice sounded again not far away.
"General Zuowei's subordinate, Governor Hu Ben, has been a soldier for nine years. It's absolutely true."
Governor Hu Ben was a heavy-armored infantryman. But he only had a middle coat on his body. He looked haggard and lost, and anyone would doubt him.
"Still talking nonsense!" Chen Yougen sneered: "Both the left and right guards, Tiger and Ben, are guarding the emperor, all officials, kings, and the emperor have arrived in Yecheng. How did you escape?"
The veteran said helplessly: "The thieves only want to capture the emperor. Who cares about us, officials? They snatched a horse and ran away in the chaos."
"Where's the horse?"
"I broke my leg halfway and gave up."
Chen Yougen couldn't tell for a while, because several people actually identified him as a sergeant of the Chinese Army.
"How is the emperor's situation?" Before Chen Yougen could speak, Shao Xun came over and asked.
The veteran looked like a "high official", and his expression perked up, and he said: "The Ye thieves fired thousands of arrows, and the brothers covered them from left to right, but it still didn't help. I could see clearly that the emperor was hit by three arrows, and he fell from the chariot.
, fell into the grass."
"A mountain collapsed?" Shao Xun didn't ask for nothing. He just wanted to confirm whether there was someone who kept the mourning secret and used the emperor's name to deceive people.
"No." The veteran swallowed and said, "The thieves were arrested - after we met the emperor, I watched from a distance someone calling for a medical officer to treat the emperor's injuries."
Shao Xun nodded slowly and told Chen Yougen: "Record his name and join the Royal Army."
"No." Chen Yougen responded.
After Shao Xun left, he continued to review the Northern Expedition with the student soldiers - based on the true or false information he obtained.
In this way until evening, a total of more than 500 qualified sergeants were taken in, and all of them unloaded their equipment and took them away.
Now only the first batch of defeated troops has arrived in Luoyang, and more will appear in the future. There are hundreds of thousands of people, and the real dead are probably not even a fraction. Most of them have either broken up or fled into organized groups.
In the wild, I don’t know how many bandits will increase.
Wubao and the manor are expected to be very profitable. The weak in the defeated army are demoted as slaves and work on the fields. The strong are incorporated into private soldiers. The outstanding ones can become guests to help Wubao and the manor improve their military level.
Everyone is silently devouring the few remaining wealth of the Jin Dynasty.
When it's almost eaten, this shabby house will be kicked down.
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After withdrawing his troops and returning to the city, Shao Xun got Governor Mi to endorse him and reorganized the entire army.
First, he made adjustments to each team.
There are ten people, including the chief, which means that one corps leader can only manage four people (including himself), which is not very scientific.
When the military system was implemented in the Tang Dynasty, the number of fire chiefs (shuchang) in the imperial army was not included in the number of ten people - Wu was the same as at this time, and the Wu chief was in charge of five people, including himself.
As a result, one new person needs to be recruited for each item, and the establishment of the entire building will increase by fifty people.
In addition, the flag bearer is part-time, and there is no such thing as propaganda. This is only equipped at the first level of the army.
Shao Xun decided to add an additional supervisor, a clerk, two grooms (part-time veterinarians), two flag bearers, two battlefield messengers, four advocates, four scouts, eight door guards and some other scattered personnel.
The number of people in the building will swell to just over 590 people.
To put it bluntly, this is to allow the Zhuang unit to fight independently.
The Xiajun originally had two buildings, front and rear. Counting the scattered personnel at the corps level, the number will exceed 1,200 after supplementation.
After containing the defeated troops, they will take advantage of the situation to expand. The entire army will be organized into five buildings, front, rear, left, center and right, with nearly 3,000 people.
This is the highest goal of containing the defeated troops this time: to disband 3,000 soldiers, plus auxiliary troops. With the officer resources currently on hand, no matter how many people there are, it will be impossible to effectively control them.
In terms of officer appointment, Shao Xun is Lieutenant Sima and concurrently serves as the leader of the rear building. The other four building owners are Gao Yi, Li Chong, Huang Biao and Yu An.
Chen Yougen's army was expanded to a hundred men and did not belong to any army, but he himself had the title of Superintendent on the rear building of the lower army.
Wu Qian went to become a building owner among the eliminated people in Luoyang City and engaged in logistical support work - this auxiliary force is expected to expand to more than 2,000 people.
As for the expansion of the army, after weighing the pros and cons, he did not participate too much, but only gave a lot of opinions.
Anyway, no matter how many soldiers He Lun recruits, he will still train them himself in the future, and there will be plenty of opportunities to get involved.
As a result, the Donghai Kingdom's army became stronger and became a decisive force in Luoyang City.
"Quan Zhong——" After the compilation was completed, Mi Huang pulled Shao Xun. As soon as he opened his mouth, he felt something was wrong.
"I haven't taken my cousin name yet. What does Quan Zhong mean?" Shao Xun said with a dark face.
"This——Yu Yuangui mentioned the matter of visiting Cao Junsi..."
"So it's this guy!" Shao Xun was annoyed and had a bad impression of Yu Liang.
"Let's not talk about it." Mi Huang observed his words and decisively changed the topic and brought up the business: "We have collected so many defeated troops. When Zhang Fang comes, can we go out of the city and defeat them?"
Shao Xun pondered for a while and said: "A frightened bird, a newly attached soldier, whose prestige has not been established, and whose favor has not been extended, I am afraid that he will not be able to fight in the field."
"That's it, I understand." That's what Mi Huang is good at. He is willing to listen to professional opinions and does not act recklessly.
Besides, he got a taste of it.
Now when he goes out, people who see him must respectfully call him "commander" even if they are not happy.
"He Lun heard that you went out of the city to recruit troops. He went out from Dongyang Gate in the afternoon, blocked the road and recruited more than 1,700 people." Mi Huang said again.
"So fast? How did he raise money?"
"Catch as many as you come."
Shao Xun nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
Lao He doesn't refuse anyone who comes, so he might want to recruit his own army into an organized system, instead of carefully selecting them like him, breaking them up and then replenishing them into each team.
It seems that he is not very ambitious and has never thought about turning this army into a private army. Thinking back to He Lun and Wang Bing who once sought the position of the Imperial Guard, Shao Xun even sighed: Maybe Sima Yue can't do anything else and just look at people.
He still has some discernment, He Lun and Wang Bing are both loyal ministers of his family.
I don’t know if there were any wives and children given to them in history. From Shao Xun’s understanding, He Lun and Wang Bing may have average abilities, but Sima Yue will indeed try his best to handle the tasks assigned to them by Sima Yue, even if he dies.
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Thinking of this, Shao Xun, a rebellious guy, actually had a little respect for He Lun and Wang Bing.
This is a person who has his own persistence and integrity, unlike him - he has a bottom line of one, two and three, and all kinds of plan A and plan B are flying.
"Since we can't fight in the field, we can just defend the city and wait for news from Sikong." Mi Huang sighed regretfully. He still wanted to establish some achievements, although his master didn't know where he was.
"Captain, please be at ease." Shao Xun said with a smile: "If the Luoyang garrison can be expanded to more than 20,000, Zhang Fang will not be able to enter the city until his death."
This is true.
This is not a field battle, it is a siege, and the difficulty is not on the same level.
If nothing else goes wrong, Zhang Fang would just kill someone and hit them on the head?
Chapter completed!