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During this period, Meng Xuxing and Wang Yibo reported to the Training Department almost every day, urging the Training Department to speed up the process of recruit training and officer training, which made Zhou Kan extremely annoyed. Zhou Kan simply went to
An empty room was reserved for the two of them to drink tea in the training department, which made many newcomers to the training department think that these two were some important figures in the department.
In fact, there is no need for Meng Xuxing and Wang Yibo to urge them. Zhou Kan and hundreds of people from the training department are already very busy. The first batch of recruits this year has been recruited and training has begun in the three major training bases. Lulong Jiedu Mansion
The trainees of the fourth phase of Bailangshan Military Academy (commonly known as the new fourth phase in the military) have also been transferred from various armies and have been staying in Bailangshan for training for a month.
The new fourth phase of recruits is mainly composed of 5,000 Wei Boya soldiers captured on the Cangzhou station. These soldiers have very good foundation and are quite skilled in personal martial arts and small combat cooperation. According to the generals below Zhong Shao of the Cangzhou army who have had actual combat experience with them,
The evaluation shows that the quality is very high! Therefore, the new fourth phase of the military training course is different from the past. It cancels the training of individual soldier quality and strengthens the cultivation of military orders, discipline and formation.
According to the deployment plan of the Training Department, these Wei Boya soldiers cannot form an army alone and will be divided among the various armies. Among them, the Cangzhou Army, Mozhou Army, Yingzhou Army and Youzhou Army will each be divided into one thousand, and the remaining one thousand will be together.
The troops drawn from each army will form a new army, the Weizhou Army.
After soliciting Li Chengzhong's opinions, the General Administration of Military Staff made preliminary arrangements for the appointment of chief officers. Liu Jinhou, the education commander of Cangzhou Military Capital, was transferred to the commander of Weizhou Military Capital, and his vacant position was filled by Li Chengyue, the deputy commander of the military capital.
Teaming up with Liu Jinhou was Wen Sishuo, the commander of the old battalion of the Cangzhou Army.
The Training Department has now begun arranging the training of Yiwu soldiers and Chengde soldiers. The Weizhou recruit training camp is planned to be completed at the end of March. By then, the Lulong Army's recruit training capacity will reach a scale of 8,000 people every three months. This
The two surrendered armies total about 26,000 people. It is expected that all training will be completed by the end of the year, and most of them will be integrated into the newly established three armies. The redundant personnel will be organized into reserve brigades and reserve battalions.
The Logistics Department is also very busy during this period. In addition to transporting food, it also has to solve the army's equipment problems. Youzhou and Yingzhou are the two major ordnance production bases of the Lulong Army. The major workshops have been producing in full swing for a year. They have made a lot of money.
Bo Man. This year's production tasks are also not light. The logistics battalion's total purchase of military armor this year has reached more than 300,000 pieces, which makes the owners of major purchasing workshops gear up.
In addition to military armor, it is also time for the army to change into summer uniforms.
According to the logistics system set by Li Chengzhong, each soldier must be issued two sets of regular uniforms a year, one for winter and one for summer. This is also one of the benefits of the Lu Long Army. Just to change the uniforms, the logistics department will spend a lot of money.
The military expenditure of more than 100,000 yuan made Zhao Hongde feel heartbroken.
Another busy department is the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. Starting last year, Gao Mingbo began to expand to other towns. The first ones were Dingzhou, Zhaozhou, and Weizhou intelligence stations. Now the three towns of Yiwu, Chengde, and Weibo have become part of Chengzhou.
Gao Mingbo then abolished these three sites and turned to seek development outside Hebei.
Just after New Year's Day this year, the original team of Dingzhou Intelligence Station entered the Hedong area, and then opened a grain store under the guise of opening a grain store. Under the nose of Jin Wang Li Keyong - diagonally opposite the palace of Jinyang, Zhao established a foothold.
The tasks of the Prefecture Intelligence Station are relatively heavy. They have to shoulder the task of establishing the station in Bianzhou, and also send some manpower to set up branch stations in Chang'an and Luoyang, thousands of miles away. They also need to rebuild the Lulong Jin Memorial Hall in Chang'an. Weizhou
The mission of the intelligence station is to go to Qingqing to set up a station. The specific location needs to be selected based on the battle situation after they arrive in Qingqing.
In addition, the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics also dispatched a large number of intelligence personnel. After crossing the Yellow River, they entered various places in Henan and were responsible for inquiring about the Xuanwu Army.
In early April, when Li Chengzhong came to Weizhou with the General Administration of Military Staff to present the flag to the newly established Weizhou Army, a large amount of intelligence from Henan was handed over to Li Chengzhong.
As for the Xuanwu Army, Ge Congzhou surrounded Yanzhou, Zhu Youning invaded Yizhou, and Yang Shihou had already reached Huaisi.
As for the Pinglu Army, Liu Wei stood firm in Yanzhou and Wang Shifan withdrew his troops in Qingzhou. The war had begun.
As for the Huainan Army, Wang Maozhang led 7,000 troops into Henan. At Haizhou, his troops were directed towards Qingzhou, preparing to join forces with the Ping Lu Army.
At the same time, Huainan General Li Shenfu had already begun fighting in Ezhou with Du Hong, the military envoy of the Wuchang Army, Zhao Kuangning, the military envoy of the Zhongyi Army, Ma Yin, the military envoy of the Wu'an Army, and Lei Yanwei, the military envoy of the Wu Zhen Army. All around Dongting Lake gathered together
Although the Shannan and Jiangnan coalition forces have a large number of people, they heard that the battle situation is unfavorable. The specific situation needs further understanding.
Such a messy situation is dizzying, but in any case, the time has come to eliminate Liu Chongba. Li Chengzhong held a meeting of the General Military Staff in Weizhou and issued a military order to the Cangzhou Army and the Huaiyue Allied Forces to go south!
Dizhou straddles the Yellow River to the north and south, borders the Bohai Sea in the east, Cangzhou in the north, and Qingqing in the south. It is an important channel for the Xuanwu Army to attack Hebei. Guarding Dizhou is Dizhou governor and military envoy Liu Chongba, with more than 5,000 troops.
people.
Liu Chongba had two tasks in guarding Dizhou, one was to defend Lulong in the north, and the other was to control Qingqing in the south, but such an important task became Liu Chongba's shackles.
Historically, Pinglu Army and Li Chengzhong have a close relationship. The first place where Pinglu Army set up a town was Yingzhou, where Li Chengzhong started his career. During the Tianbao period, the imperial court set up two towns in Hebei, one was Fanyang, which was in charge of Guannei, and the other was
In order to deal with the outside world of Pinglu, Anlushan concurrently led Fan Yang Jiedushi and Pinglu Jiedushi. Later, Fan Yang Jiedushi was renamed Lulong Jiedushi (because he was the governor of Youzhou, also known as Youzhou Festival).
Du Shi), after the Anshi Rebellion, Pinglu Town moved south to Qianqing, so it was also called Qianqing Jiedushi.
Liu Chongba's situation was not too bad before the Pinglu Army launched its troops. Dizhou was bordered to the south by Qizhou, Zizhou and Qingzhou in Henan Province, among which Qingqing was controlled by the Pinglu Army. Liu Chongba's original plan was to make Wang
Once Shifan was in trouble, he would try to attack Qianqing's abdomen and back. If the attack failed, he would retreat westward from Qizhou and try to fight back with his whole body.
But this plan fell into a semi-abortive state after Lu Longjun unified Hebei. If he attacked Qian Qing from behind, would Lu Longjun give him a knife from behind? Obviously, Lu Longjun would not let go of this opportunity. Therefore,
Liu Chongba gave up the idea of attacking Jian Qing and prepared to evacuate from Qizhou.
To be honest, it is very uncomfortable to be surrounded by enemies from both sides. If you want to safely withdraw to the Xuanwu-controlled area, you must make a lot of preparations. Otherwise, if you flee Dizhou in a hurry, you are likely to be pursued by the Lulong Army. Liu Chongba's preparations were very complete and he arranged ships in advance.
They escorted the grain and baggage across the river, and then conducted several feints of force to confuse Lu Long.
Under normal circumstances, Liu Chongba might have succeeded. Unfortunately, a piece of news quickly reached Dizhou - Yanzhou was successfully attacked by Pinglu Army! This news broke Liu Chongba's overall plan and put him in a dilemma.
Yanzhou is located in the southwest of Qizhou. It is the passage from Qizhou to the hinterland of Henan. The occupation of Yanzhou means that Qizhou is surrounded by the Pinglu Army on the edge of the Yellow River. Liu Chongba cannot return with his entire army. Sure enough, before long,
Qizhou also fell into the hands of Pinglu army, and Liu Chongba was in trouble.
The one who made a surprise attack on Yanzhou was Sima Sima of the Jiedu Prefecture of Pinglu Army, and Yajiang Liu Wei. In this era, not everyone can be a Yajiang. The so-called Yajiang is the commander of the coach's personal soldiers, and is the coach's newest and most trusted confidant.
For example, the tooth generals of Zhu Quanzhong, King of Liang, were Wang Yanzhang and Wang Yanqiu. They commanded Yuan Cong's army and Tingzi capital respectively, and their martial prowess was world-famous.
As Wang Shifan's tooth general, Liu Wei lived up to his great trust. After successfully attacking Yanzhou, he quickly captured Yizhou. This changed the Pinglu Army's decline of living on the seaside and pushed the Pinglu Army's strategic depth two miles westward.
Hundreds of miles!
The plot of Liu Wei's surprise attack on Yanzhou was regarded by later generations as quite bloody, but it was very practical. He personally led his elite tooth soldiers to disguise themselves as salesmen, burden bearers, merchants, etc., infiltrated into Yanzhou City, and then attacked in one fell swoop and captured the city.
Yanzhou was short of troops. After Yanzhou succeeded, he repeated his old tricks and captured Yizhou again. This siege method seemed simple, but it was very difficult to operate. It was impossible for hundreds of people to enter the city in a concentrated manner, and it would take several days to divide it into batches.
After entering and entering the city, you have to assemble the scattered tooth soldiers in series. These steps require precise control of the tooth soldiers. In addition, carrying weapons into the city on a large scale is also a problem, and you need to come up with various methods.
method……
Currently, Liu Wei is stationed in Yanzhou and is confronting the Xuanwu Army Ge Congzhou, He Delun, and Zhang Guihou's group.
Liu Wei did not have many soldiers, only 5,000. He had to face the Xuanwu Army of 50,000, with a strength of one to ten. In fact, the entire Pinglu Army did not have many troops. The total number of troops was only a little over 30,000.
, Liu Wei can lead five thousand people alone, which shows that Wang Shifan has great trust in him.
It was precisely because of Pinglu's lack of military strength that when Zhu Youning led an army of 100,000 to kill Yizhou, Wang Shifan gave up the Yizhou he had just captured and gathered troops in Qingzhou to resist Zhu Youning.
Liu Chongba had no doubt that the weak Pinglu Army would eventually fail. He could just sit and watch from a distance across the Yellow River. When the Pinglu Army was at its weakest, he could even cross the river and give Mian Qing a blow on the back.
Cruel. But he couldn't be sure how many months the Pinglu Army could hold on, a month? Three months? Or longer? What bothered him was when exactly the Lu Long Army would go south, and if the Lu Long Army went south, what would he be able to hold on to?
when?
On April 15th, Liu Chongba received two pieces of bad news in succession.
The first news came that Li Siye of the Pinglu Army was leading his army northward. This Li Siye was not Li Siye, the Modao general of the Tianbao period, but Li Siye, the deputy envoy of the Pinglu Army, who was Wang Shifan's right-hand man. Li Siye brought three thousand Pinglu with him.
The army arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, facing Yanci on the north bank across the river.
Liu Chongba quickly climbed to the top of Yanci City and looked across the river. This place was close to the mouth of the Yellow River, and the river was very wide. Liu Chongba could not see anything clearly. He could only vaguely see a figure moving on the opposite side. Liu Chongba
Ba asked the clipper to go to the other side of the river to investigate. Later, the sergeant reported back and said that the Qing soldiers were building a fortress.
Liu Chongba was not worried about the Qing soldiers crossing the river. In fact, he had all the boats in this area for dozens of miles, nearly a hundred large and small, and the Qing soldiers were unable to cross the river. Therefore, Liu Chongba believed that the Qing soldiers would not be able to cross the river.
The purpose of the green soldiers is to guard against their own attacks.
At nightfall, another bad news also reached Yanci: Lu Longjun finally took action! (To be continued.)