Facing this group of gangsters, Xiao Jingxuan planned to be polite first and then fight. If he could give a peace order, that would be the best.
Xiao Jingxuan wrote a letter and arranged for several personal guards to find this group of horse bandits and hand them over.
However, complete preparations must be made. After convening the generals of various ministries for discussion, Xiao Jingxuan arranged the affairs of various ministries.
The first thing is to set up checkpoints at the main roads in Xinchang County. Although the terrain of Xinchang County is flat, there are only a few roads in and out. Xiao Jingxuan has two thousand infantry in his hands.
If Zhao'an fails this time, the main force dispatched will be the cavalry.
In Xiao Jingxuan's heart, the importance of cavalry is definitely far greater than that of infantry.
Moreover, most of the generals under his command are cavalry. You can see this just by looking at the guard camp.
Although there is still a part of the Guards Battalion in Fengzhou, they are basically cavalry, and the infantry is estimated to be only one-sixth, or even less.
Just when Xiao Jingxuan was intensively dealing with the Xinchang horse bandits, the imperial edict from Beijing finally arrived.
However, the content of the imperial edict surprised Xiao Jingxuan because of his promotion.
As a criminal general, it had only been a month since I arrived at Pingzhou Manchu, but I was actually promoted.
After receiving the imperial edict, Xiao Jingxuan was actually very upset. He originally planned to keep a low profile, but unexpectedly he became high-profile again.
Looking at the official document in his hand that promoted him to Fan Yang Jiedushi, Xiao Jingxuan felt very complicated in his heart.
In terms of rank, Fan Yang Jiedushi was the third rank, which seemed to be one level higher than his General Yunhui.
However, he was originally the commander-in-chief of Pingzhou, with no more than 7,000 soldiers under his command.
Fan Yang's Jiedushi is different. Moreover, the Wei Dynasty did not have the official position of Jiedushi at all. Jiedushi was the old system of the previous dynasty.
Since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, there has not been the official position of Jiedushi, and there is one in Yan State, Fan Yang Jiedushi.
The jurisdiction of the former Fan Yang Jiedushi was very large, but later, the former dynasty fell, and the Yan State and the Wei Dynasty each owned part of Fan Yang's territory.
However, although the imperial edict did not mention the scope of Fan Yang's military envoy, starting from today, Xiao Jingxuan can officially form Fan Yang's army. Moreover, as Pingzhou is Fan Yang's old place, Xiao Jingxuan can directly intervene in the local military affairs.
However, soon, Xiao Jingxuan received two letters from Beijing, one from the Duke of Guo's Mansion and one from the Prince of Jin's Mansion.
After reading the letter in his hand, Xiao Jingxuan finally understood something.
The letter from King Jin was mainly to express goodwill. The whole text was either about friendship or talking about the future. There was nothing much to say.
However, the Duke's letter only explained the whole story. It turned out that Fan Yang Jiedu was exchanged for his status as Xiao Jingxuan's legitimate son.
The emperor officially recognized Xiao Jingxuan’s royal status at the court meeting half a month ago.
But it was not the prince Yang Yongtai, but the adopted son Jam Hsiao. In other words, from this moment on, Jam Hsiao officially lost the chance to return to the royal family.
From this moment on, Xiao Jingxuan was just the concubine of the Duke of Liang and the adopted son of the current Emperor Jia'an.
However, as compensation, Xiao Jingxuan was appointed as the Jiedu Envoy. In the future, if the opportunity is right, Xiao Jingxuan will be named the King of Different Surnames.
After understanding the whole story, Xiao Jingxuan felt inexplicably sentimental, but soon, Xiao Jingxuan continued to read.
Liang Guogong confessed one more thing in the letter. That was marriage. However, what surprised Xiao Jingxuan was that the marriage partner this time was a bit strange.
She is a person from the world of martial arts, a princess of the Yan Kingdom, and the saint of the Yange martial arts holy land, Jiange. Rumor has it that the Jiange is the only holy land that has ever left the heavenly realm.
Although he still didn’t know the other party’s name, Xiao Jingxuan was still surprised by his identity.
Not to mention her status as a royal family, her status as a saint far exceeds that of Xiao Jingxuan now.
However, although Xiao Jingxuan is still only half-step innate, martial arts sometimes does not take precedence over the realm. During the assassination in Beijing, Xiao Jingxuan had killed a master in the innate realm.
Therefore, it is not an insult to the other party's identity.
After reading the letter, Xiao Jingxuan looked at the map in the military tent. Xiao Jingxuan guessed that there must be a battle between Chu and Wei in the near future.
Looking at the map, Xiao Jingxuan pondered for a long time. Forget it, it has nothing to do with him for the time being. Now, he, Fan Yang Jiedushi, must have Fan Yang's army in his hands.
Since ancient times, when the three armies have not moved, food and grass go first. If you want to build a strong army, you must have enough population and enough food and wages.
Pingzhou alone cannot support an army. Pingzhou is barren and he must find a way to change this situation.
As time passed, the news of Xiao Jingxuan's promotion soon spread throughout the army, and the generals in the army soon came to the Chinese army's tent to celebrate.
Xiao Jingxuan was simply polite and began to give instructions to the generals.
As the guards who went to Zhao'an returned to camp, they also brought news that this group of horse bandits rejected Zhao'an.
It seemed that the war was about to break out. Soon, the entire military camp began to take action.
First, the infantry battalions began to block various arteries in Xinchang County as planned to prevent the horse bandits from escaping.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry was also dispatched. This time, Xiao Jingxuan adopted a dragnet-style search.
Step by step, they drove this group of horse bandits to a dead end, and even eliminated several small groups of bandits along the way.
The number of horse bandits in Xinchang County was not large, only a hundred, but these hundred or ten horse bandits made the landowners and wealthy people in Pingzhou panic.
In the past, Xiao Jingxuan only wanted to eliminate this group of horse bandits. However, since the promotion decree arrived, as a Jiedushi envoy, his mentality has changed again.
As the bandit suppression began, a group of hundreds of personal guards under Xiao Jingxuan disappeared.
At the same time, all the wealthy landlords in Xinchang County began to suffer misfortune.
Anyone who is greedy for wealth will not escape the attack of horse bandits. However, these horse bandits do not kill people, but only plunder finances.
As long as it was valuable, these bandits would not let it go. Suddenly, the whole Xinchang County was in turmoil.
However, as the range of activities of the horse bandits became smaller and smaller, they were soon surrounded in a forest. At this time, the outside world was completely safe.
Xiao Jingxuan stepped forward on horseback, looked at the surrounded woodland, and said to the left and right: "Come, please go and let the people inside surrender. Remember, it is surrender, not Zhao'an. For a quarter of an hour, if you don't surrender, you will be incompetent."
Keep."
It is said that those who know the current affairs are heroes, but if they cannot see the situation clearly, they will live and die without any regrets.
Soon, the personal guard replied that the horse bandits refused to surrender. Xiao Jingxuan was helpless, so he ordered the cavalry of Xiaowei to start charging.
Two thousand people versus hundreds, one round of arrow rain can kill half of the opponent, and the second round can kill half of the opponent. It will definitely not survive the third round.
Looking at these horse bandits, Xiao Jingxuan began to order people to clean the battlefield and collect the loot.
After the suppression of bandits in Xinchang County, Xiao Jingxuan did not rush to attack the last group of bandits, but began to reorganize the army.
First of all, more than 700 brave men who were fighting bravely and bravely were recruited from various armies and filled into the guard camp.
At the same time, he began to select the old and weak among the various ministries and filled them into the auxiliary barracks. Then he reorganized the armies under his command.
Today, Xiao Jingxuan has 7,000 people under his command, and almost 2,000 people have been selected to serve as auxiliary barracks.
The remaining 5,000 cavalrymen were divided into five battalions by Xiao Jingxuan, each with about 400 men.
The 3,000 infantrymen were divided into eight battalions. Each battalion had more than 300 people.
In the following days, Xiao Jingxuan began a large-scale military training. Whether it was cavalry, auxiliary troops, or infantry, they all began training.
At the same time, he also sent a letter to Beijing and transferred four of his cavalry guerrillas and one of his infantry guerrillas.
Unlike other armies, the training of the Guards Battalion is overseen by Xiao Jingxuan personally.
Today, there are almost a thousand people in the Guards Battalion, of which 300 are veterans and 700 are new recruits.
Many of these people need to be assigned to hold positions in various ministries.
Today's ministries are like new military camps. Each battalion head assigns two or three personal guards to be responsible for training.
The rest of the generals at all levels were basically transferred to the guard camp by Xiao Jingxuan for training.
In the personal guard camp, Xiao Jingxuan leads by example. He has to perform drills every day. Every night, Xiao Jingxuan also teaches these personal guards.
The Guards Camp is now divided into three classes by Xiao Jingxuan, one is the literacy class, the other is the basic class, and the other is the art of war class.
Needless to say, the literacy class is used to teach the guards to read. However, in this class, Xiao Jingxuan selected the guards from the basic class to teach in turns.
The basic class is taught by Xiao Jingxuan himself, mainly teaching these people how to serve as commanders or team leaders, as well as some skills on the battlefield, how to train troops, etc.
The art of war class is simple, it is completely self-study, and then there are military chess and military exercises every day.
Of course, these all need to be done at night, and the tasks during the day are even heavier.
First of all, the first thing in the morning for all the guards was to run three kilometers on foot wearing armor.
After running, go directly to the kitchen to eat. After eating, rest for three quarters of an hour, and then start riding and shooting, forming a queue, and fighting with sword and shield.
Of course, infantry and cavalry are trained separately, but everyone needs to participate in running with heavy loads in the morning and riding and shooting in the afternoon.
In Xiao Jingxuan's eyes, the personal guard camp is his foundation. Through the personal guard camp, he can control the army well, and can also restrict his generals, unable to completely control the army, and breed some undesirable ambitions.
Xiao Jingxuan has been training for three months, and it is already winter.
Among the personal guards, Xiao Jingxuan also began to slowly select some who performed well to serve.
As qualified personnel slowly took up their posts, the structures of each battalion also began to be built.
Generals at all levels also began to perform their duties. As the Ministry of War documents arrived, the letters of appointment for the generals of each battalion also arrived.
To this end, Xiao Jingxuan also held a grand army formation ceremony the day after the letter of appointment was received.
On this day, the sun was shining brightly, and all the armies gathered in an open space in Xinchang County.
Xiao Jingxuan stood on the high platform, looking at the soldiers in armor below. Looking at the empty military flags fluttering in the wind, his heart soared with pride.