On the school field, the tribesmen formed a square formation, with each person spaced three feet apart. They lined up neatly and wore armor.
This is a team that combines old soldiers and new soldiers. It has the composure of old soldiers and the vigor of new soldiers.
Huo Qubing, wearing a red-brown official robe, climbed onto the high platform at one end of the school grounds under the spotlight.
"Before I came here, I just received news that the Nu Qiang tribe was gathering the Qiang people and trying to attack our great Han Xiguan."
Huo Qubing scanned the faces below.
The younger one is about the same age as him, and the oldest one is only twenty-seven or twenty-seven years old, but he is already a veteran of many battles.
His voice was deep and firm:
"The purpose of setting up the Yulin Army and the Tiger Guards for the Han Dynasty is to hope that you will become the most elite tribesmen, able to compete with the powerful armies that have resounded in this land at different times, or even be stronger than them. p>
I hope that your opponents will be the Wei soldiers, Qi martial arts, Zhao Bianqi, and Qin Ruishi during the Warring States Period, these powerful armies that once dominated the world, made a country proud, and are famous in history."
Following his voice, all the people subconsciously straightened their backs and stood like a big gun.
The champion actually has such high expectations for them!
"The foundation of becoming a strong army is hard training, rich experience, and most importantly, a brave mentality. On the battlefield, the mentality of daring to fight bloody battles with all enemies.
A warrior who refuses to admit defeat will always dare to sound the clarion call for counterattack in adverse circumstances. Even if it is an adverse situation, he will be defeated. In all wars, Your Majesty, I, the big man, will eventually be invincible because of you!"
Below, thousands of troops stood in silence.
"Your army formation ceremony is aimed at annihilating the Qiang invaders and going into actual combat. If you fight well, it is the most glorious army ceremony! If you don't fight well, do you still have the nerve to form an army?"<
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Huo Qubing suddenly shouted: "Answer me!"
"No, no, no!"
The roaring sound was like a roaring mountain and a tsunami!
Huo Qubing made a gesture, and his voice subsided in an instant, and you could hear the needle drop.
"Then go and raid Xiqiang and defeat all opponents. I'm in Chang'an, waiting for news of your victory."
"By the general's order!"
Yao Zhao was at the front of the army, kneeling on one knee. All the Han troops shouted in unison, with a momentum like a rainbow.
Half of Chang'an was shaking because of their voices.
"Let's go."
Yao Zhao jumped on his horse first and rode towards the outside of the school grounds.
The Han army behind him was in order, and if the sword was unsheathed, they followed closely.
"Lang Zhongling, it is against the rules to let the guards leave Chang'an to fight."
Tong Xuan, the lieutenant general of the Wei Army, reminded: "Moreover, this is a new army. Although many old soldiers have been recruited to integrate into it, I'm afraid it won't work if we really let them go directly to the battlefield."
Zhang Cigong on the other side looked at Tong Xuan with the expression "It is everyone's responsibility to care for the mentally retarded":
"Have you not seen the proportion of veteran pawns in the team? Do you need so many people to fight Xiqiang?
Lang Zhongling just asked them to see blood, stimulate hemorrhagic nature, and desire to fight. The real combatants are the old soldiers. I have prepared the baggage for them in advance. Without careful arrangements, how can I let them leave the camp without permission?"<
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As for letting people leave camp to attack Xiguan, it is definitely a violation for others to mobilize troops and horses without authorization.
Huo Qubing...just transfer him. Qubing designated his troops to help me take care of my worries...Zhang Cigong guessed the subtext of the emperor's heart.
Huo Qubing said calmly: "I have informed your Majesty."
That's okay... Of course Tong Xuan also knew the emperor's trust in Huo Qubing, so he reminded him and fulfilled his duty and said nothing more.
The army broke out of camp and left.
Huo Qubing scanned the troops and was quite satisfied with the troops selected by Yao Zhao and Zhao Ponu from various places.
When we first formed an army, our energy and blood turned into smoke, and our energy soared into the sky.
This time, Yao was asked to recruit troops to Xiguan and allocate 2,000 old soldiers to accompany him. The Yulin Army and the Huben Guards each had 1,500 troops, for a total of 5,000 troops.
The Nu Qiang can probably put together a mixed army of nearly 20,000 Qiang people. One against four, the advantage is mine.
For Huo Qubing, this is already a very conservative use of troops.
In the afternoon, when he returned to the city, Huo Qubing was somewhat surprised to find Ru Bohu waiting in the guard hall.
"What's wrong?"
"After Huainan was abolished and closed, the population was re-counted.
I felt something was wrong, so I compared the population of the five counties and two counties when Huainan became a feudal state."
Ru Bohu handed a roll of bamboo slips to Huo Qubing: "Take a look."
Huo Qubing took the bamboo scroll.
That is the population register of Huainan Kingdom.
Historically, the Han Dynasty had a population of about 65 million at its peak.
However, due to the environmental restrictions at that time, it was definitely impossible to count the people who lived in remote areas. The actual population should be 70 million.
In this world, the population is much larger than at the same time in history.
Huo Qubing's analysis should be related to practice. People's life span is appropriately extended, Qi and blood are stronger, and they are healthier. After practice, the essence is at the top.
Under the circumstances of encouraging childbirth, it is estimated that there are many cases where one shot hits the target, so the total population far exceeds that of the Han Dynasty in history.
The feudal state of Huainan alone had a population of over two million households.
"I compared the population ratio of Huainan in the past few years and found that there may be a large number of people in Huainan who were wiped out and not reported, or used for other purposes and moved to other places.
Its previous population was easy to manipulate and difficult to find out because it became an independent country. The current statistics are the real numbers."
"Transfer or use for other purposes?"
Huo Qubing: "What does the embroidery order refer to?"
Ru Bohu: "If he wants to rebel, he needs external help.
Huainan tried to lure the Xiongnu into the country several times before. Even if it was good for the Xiongnu themselves, why should the Xiongnu help him?"
"You mean that Huainan treated the population as slaves and secretly sent part of it across the border to the Xiongnu as a condition for helping him?"
Huo Qubing thought: "Even so, the population number is wrong. According to the comparison of the records above, the missing number is too large. It is definitely not all given to the Xiongnu."
Ru Bohu handed over another slip: "This is the carriage and horse agency I found in Huainan.
They use the skills of border traders to sell fur goods as a cover and sell goods at the border. Look at their number of trains entering and leaving the border.
At most, there are two to three hundred times in ten months."
"Did they take the opportunity to smuggle and transfer the population?"
"Yes, I am showing you this because I want to tell you that there may be people from Beiguan...Huainan who have not been cleared out. Otherwise, it would be difficult to smuggle people out of the customs frequently.
I speculate that the disappearance of Liu Qian, the eldest son of the King of Huainan, and others may have been among these border trade teams, and they probably came out of Beiguan."
Ru Bohu added: "It is unlikely that they left Beiguan and headed towards the grassland. It is most likely that they went to the east of our Han Dynasty, the original Yan land during the Warring States Period or even further east."
Huo Qubing: "Xiu Yi Ling said that there are still people in Beiguan who haven't dug out all the dirt... Are there any suspected targets?"
Ru Bohu shook his head: "Although there are many vehicles and horses leaving Beiguan from Huainan, they are very scattered. It will take time to investigate the specific problem."
"The most urgent task now is to strengthen the defense of Beiguan to avoid accidents."
There was a gloomy look on Ru Bohu's face as if a storm was about to come: "The speed of deploying the Beiguan defense is faster. My premonition is not good."
Huo Qubing understood what he meant. If the King of Huainan had a back-up plan, it was unclear why his body could not be found. But since he himself had a back-up plan, he was far from being at the end of his rope and had no reason to commit suicide. Regardless of whether he is dead or not, since there are still secrets in Beiguan, it means there is a hidden danger.
Once launched, the consequences are difficult to predict.
"So... Lei Yuan and Wu Yuan should be fine."
Since the King of Huainan has a back-up plan, and with the skill and abilities of Lei and Wu, if they are loyal to him, they should continue to work with him. It is completely unreasonable and necessary to surrender at this time and be suspected and suspected for nothing.
So when they came, it proved that they didn't know the follow-up arrangements of King Huainan, so it was more likely that there would be no problem.
Ru Bohu left in a hurry.
In the afternoon of that day, news came to Beiguan to strengthen the defense.
Veteran Li Guang also set off in person and went to Beiguan.
The next night, at midnight, the embroiderer came to the champion's house and called the door, asking Huo Qubing to meet with Ru Bohu.
Liang Yuan at midnight.
In the main hall, Ru Bohu's hair was disheveled. It seemed that he was woken up in the middle of the night and didn't have time to comb it properly.
Huo Qubing walked in and said, "Beiguan...is there something wrong?"
"Not yet."
Ru Bohu: "After I left your place yesterday afternoon, I issued an order when I came back to conduct a thorough investigation along Beiguan. We haven't found out what went wrong in Beiguan, but Xiuyi's subordinates mobilized fully to conduct a thorough investigation.
, accidentally discovered that there were Xiongnu soldiers and horses operating in Wuhuan and Fuyu areas outside Beiguan.
The leader is Zhao Xin, who rebelled against the Han and returned to the Huns."
Wuhuan and Fuyu are both nomadic peoples in the northeastern corner of the Han Dynasty, and some of them are descendants of the Donghu people who were replaced by the Xiongnu.
"It can be inferred from this that the problem should also occur in that generation, east of Beiping County, where the Yan Kingdom was located during the Warring States Period."
"The terrain of that generation is long and narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If... something happens, it will be equivalent to cutting off a piece of our Han Dynasty, which will be similar to the original Yan Kingdom." Ru Bohu pointed out.
In Huo Qubing's mind, the topography of the northeastern corner of Han Dynasty emerged.
It is indeed a long and narrow area, starting from Beiping County to the east.
Based on the conversation between the two yesterday, it was revealed that a large number of people in Huainan were missing, and there was no contact... Huo Qubing quickly figured out many things.
"The King of Huainan's back-up team is also in that area.
He secretly transferred part of Huainan's population to the area east of Beiping County?"
A flash of light flashed through Huo Qubing's mind, and many things had answers at this moment.
Since the death of Liu Huai, the earliest Lieutenant of the Northern Army, he had searched for clues and captured two people. After interrogation, it was found that the two people were from Beiping County and Liaodong County, which was the original Yan region.
In other words, the King of Huainan has been in tandem with the secret forces for a long time.
Their plot from beginning to end may be Yuan Yandi.
You must know that the original Yan land was relatively independent and had no worries. Moreover, there were Huns and many nomadic peoples in the north and northwest, and the situation was complicated. Therefore, if it can be successfully divided, it will not be easy to take it back.
The original Yan land was a huge area of four or five major counties, far from the previous corner of Huainan.
The King of Huainan regarded Huainan as a chess piece from the beginning.
He used Huainan to cause trouble, which was just an illusion, just to disturb the Han Dynasty.
Huo Qubing had always been puzzled before. Huainan was a small place and surrounded on all sides, so it was impossible to succeed. Why was the King of Huainan so irrational?
Now it’s all accessible.
The King of Huainan did not expect Huainan to succeed.
He just wanted to use Huainan to unite the Xiongnu and chaos. It would be best if he could cause a big chaos.
Even if he fails, he still has a deeper plot, which is to split the original Yan land. The plot is bigger and more likely to succeed.
Because Yan is the farthest away from the center of the Han Dynasty, and the terrain is long and narrow. As long as we hold a small area bordering the Han Dynasty, we can in turn use the dangerous pass built by the Han Dynasty, that is, the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, to set up defenses. If we want to break through it, we will never be able to take it back.
It's not that easy.
Once successful, he can be independent and self-governing and make good plans.
The headquarters of the hidden power in the dark may also be in Liaodong... They have always been in close contact with the King of Huainan and have been planning for a long time.
Huo Qubing's thoughts flickered and he figured out the cause and effect.
Although some places are still vague, the general direction is correct.
"Have you told His Majesty the news?"
"I have sent someone to report to Your Majesty, and at the same time, I have notified you, General Wei, Prime Minister Gongsun Hong and others to enter the palace together."
As he spoke, he heard Emperor Liu Che's voice coming from the air: "Come here."
The emperor has received the report, and this incident has also shocked him. His voice has never been lower than before.
Half an hour later, the emperor's study.
The ministers gathered together and the atmosphere was depressing.
The good news is that Ru Bohu and Huo Qubing have never stopped conducting a thorough investigation of Huainan because they have always had doubts about the death of King Huainan.
Therefore, we can find clues and deduce these changes before real changes occur.
Ps: Regarding Huainan and the secret forces, whether there is a chance to control several counties in the northeastern corner of the Han Dynasty, but the emperor is unaware of it, there will be a reasonable explanation later.