"General Bai! I think this is an opportunity. I can lead the army to rush over and maybe even win by surprise!"
"That is, our 400,000 troops are standing here and doing nothing. We really betray His Majesty's trust."
"General Bai can't be afraid, so he can't retreat!"
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Most of the generals in front of him, except for a few generals who had been fighting with him, were veterans of the court, and the youngest was forty or fifty years old.
Moreover, the descendants of these people are almost all in the middle and lower classes of the military.
In other words, of the 400,000 troops on the eastern border, Bai Hua can really control less than 100,000.
The 100,000-strong army that followed him in his campaign against Rong and Di could only stay in the imperial city because they were exhausted from the expedition and needed rest. Only some generals and soldiers arrived here.
The men and horses taking orders from him here were dispatched directly from Longtian Camp.
The soldiers and horses there are basically under the control of Shangguan Tomb, and there is already a prototype of the Ministry of War. Most of the middle and lower-level generals, generals, captains and lieutenants are selected and appointed through assessment.
The rest are young people with military exploits drawn from various armies, and these people must not be related to the families of veterans in the court.
The most important thing is that Longtian Camp does not have a direct general as commander. If you want to mobilize the troops here, three things must appear at the same time.
The emperor's imperial edict, the Ministry of War's troop deployment order and the tiger talisman!
Moreover, none of these three things can be missing. If one thing is missing, the soldiers of Longtian Camp will not be mobilized.
Bai Hua raised his eyebrows slightly, secretly keeping these guys' faces in mind.
When he arrived, Murong Bing asked Shangguan Mu to give him a secret order. If necessary, he could deal with a group of generals who were self-reliant on their status and who had done nothing.
But in this situation, he really didn't dare to act rashly.
This group of people controls an army of 300,000, and he only has 100,000 in his hands. He wants to use the men and horses in his hands to see that these guys are already a bit stretched, let alone have to be ready for the Eastern Expedition at any time.
"Veteran generals, before this, the troops led by my juniors were only 150,000 at most. This is the first time I have taken charge of so many troops. I really don't know what to do. Since His Majesty has decreed, let us rebuild the eastern border defense here.
The younger generation feels that it is better for us to act according to the order and not to send troops casually."
The contempt in the eyes of the old generals was even greater. In their opinion, although Bai Hua had won so many battles and expanded a lot of territory for Dashang, he was still a young boy after all.
They discussed the military affairs here casually and then left one after another. They even shouted loudly when they walked out of the camp to get together for a drink.
He seemed not to take Bai Hua, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, seriously.
After these people left, Bai Hua's eyes suddenly flashed with murderous intent.
With Murong Bing's secret target, he can kill these old guys at any time, but the war is imminent. If he kills all these people, the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable.
There are now more than a million troops from the Four Kingdoms coalition gathered in Beiyan, as well as 150,000 Hu cavalry in the mountains and forests of the northeast.
Bai Hua is really not sure if he wants to stop such a large number of coalition forces from marching westward to Dashang with just this army at hand.
He was even worried whether those old guys would surrender with an army of 300,000 people.
After letting out a breath of turbid air, Bai Hua's eyes wandered between the eastern border of Dashang and the capital of Beiyan.
Eighty thousand old and weak soldiers defended the city for twenty days without being breached. How did Lesheng do it?
In the mountains and forests of the Northeast, the forest is full of sweat.