"The nine battalions of the Ghost Guard are respectively Shen Lindong's 1st Elite Battalion, Hu Li's 2nd Jianshi Battalion, Zu Gongmao's 3rd Dead Soldiers Battalion, Cao Li's 4th Cavalry Battalion, Li Yuan's 5th Cavalry Battalion, and Wen Ruyu's 6th Baggage Battalion.
Battalion, the 7th Security Battalion of Li Chuncheng, the 8th Guards Battalion of Guancheng, and the 9th Confidential Battalion of Hu Sanwan. The flags of each battalion are the Ruishi Camp, Jianshi Camp, and Dead Soldiers Camp under the guard flag.
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Wen Ruyu listened carefully and recorded it in the book. When she returned to the supply camp, she immediately sent people to make the commander's flag and the camp flag. The ghost guard flag was only black and white, which was particularly easy to sew. It took Wen Ruyu three days to make more than 500 flags.
Distribute them among themselves. The soldiers and civilians in the city also learned the news of the formation of the Ghost Guard early, and the whole city celebrated. The establishment of the Saibei Ghost Guard announced that this makeshift team was finally recognized by the empire, and would never be seen again from now on.
Once it is disbanded, no one will worry about the future anymore.
But just when the sergeants were happy, they heard that the Ghost Guards only had 10,000 soldiers. Now there are 34,000 soldiers in Mucheng, including 16,000 Mucheng defenders and 3,000 Qinglong Army Qingzi Battalion under the command of Chen Qing.
officers, and 13,000 wounded soldiers of the Qinglong Army who were temporarily recruited,
There are still 2,000 rebels. Zhang Xiaowu needs to select 10,000 people from the 16,000 wooden city defenders, and the others have to return to their hometowns to serve as the people. Just after the front foot has defeated the Quanyi, the back foot has dismissed the people and returned to their hometowns.
Just thinking about it was a bit like burning a bridge, so the sergeants protested one after another.
Zhang Xiaowu immediately ordered: "The number of ten thousand is stipulated by the imperial court, but there will be some restrictions on the order of the foreign emperor. Once you enter the ghost guard, you will be a ghost guard for the rest of your life. As long as you don't leave the ghost guard, the ghost guard will protect you as your brother for a day."
The troops were moved, but Ruan Qingwen was worried that someone would impeach him. After all, the military personnel can only be decided by the Ministry of War, and private decision-making by the following is a serious crime of treason. Zhang Xiaowu said, then you should report to me that the ghost guards are special, except for the 10,000 ghost guards.
, there are still 6,000 civilians. As for internally, everyone agrees that military pay should be shared equally, and everyone should take the same amount.
On September 18th of the first year of Dade, the Ghost Guards of Northern Saibei officially formed an army. Zhang Xiaowu led his troops to pay homage to the Dade Emperor in the capital city first, and then gave the officers ribbons and armors in turn. There were thirty-six generals of the Ghost Guards and above, all of whom were beaming with joy.
, one of the three great things in life is getting promoted, getting rich and having a wife, and now they are the second one.
Looking at the rebellious Zhang Xiaowu from afar, all the rebels were beaming with joy and felt the same, but only the poisonous lady Tao Zhiruo felt sad. She sighed and turned away. Zhu Wushuang chased her after seeing this and asked her why she was sad. Tao Zhiruo
He hurriedly said: "I am not sad at all. I think the sun is too hot. I want to go back to escape the heat."
Zhu Wushuang pinched her waist and said angrily: "Sister, please don't think that I am easy to deceive at a young age. Do you think the general took advantage of you and refused to admit it? Humph! What a Chen Shimei, I will not spare him!"
Tao Zhiruo stopped him in a hurry and said, "That's not the case. Sister, please stop talking nonsense."
Zhu Wushuang said: "Sister, you and the general were alone in a room for three days and three nights. Even if you had nothing to do, something would happen. How can he be irresponsible?"
Tao Zhiruo said: "General saved me, it's too late for me to thank you. How can I say this? How can we, the children of the world, be so pretentious? It's just being alone in a room. It doesn't matter. Why are you so pretentious?"
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Zhu Wushuang pouted her mouth to show her disbelief, and said with a frown: "I must ask clearly what happened here, and why you two can't see each other from that day on."
Tao Zhiruo knew that she had always been reckless, so he quickly stopped her and prevented her from asking the general about what happened during those three days and nights. However, from a distance, the two of them saw a general galloping towards him on horseback. This man was injured all over his body.
Holding the green flag high, he shouted: "Report! Jincheng has been destroyed! The Wuhuan army is coming south. It has passed the ruins of Luolan and will arrive at Wooden City in seven days!" After saying this, he fell down from his horse.
The joy of the Ghost Guard forming an army immediately faded with the news that Jincheng had been defeated and Wuhuan was moving south. Everyone was horrified and mourned the 30,000 soldiers and soldiers in Jincheng. Of the 50,000 soldiers and civilians in Wood City, 20,000 were originally the guards of Jincheng.
Army, now that Jincheng is gone, they don’t know where to go. Zhang Xiaowu was also shocked, and immediately ordered all the troops to return to camp to find out the reason.
This fainted scout was one of Li Yuan's men, one of a group of cavalry sent by Li Yuan to serve as scouts and sentries in Luolan City. Now that he is the only one who has escaped, it means that the others have sacrificed their lives for the country.
Although Zhang Xiaowu was anxious, he did not let anyone force him to wake up. Instead, he let him wake up naturally after sleeping peacefully for two hours.
After the scout woke up, he reported truthfully. It turned out that they had encountered a Wuhuan scout. After the two sides fought for a while, the Wuhuan cavalry appeared. The ghost guard scout was either killed or captured, and this man was also captured by them. That night, this man was imprisoned.
When they got up, they saw tens of thousands of Han soldiers tied together, each one walking like a zombie.
Their eyes had long lost their vitality, and they were waiting numbly for death. He immediately went forward to inquire, and then he learned that since the opening of the Jialan River in May this year and the weather getting warmer, a plague began to break out in Jincheng.
The combat effectiveness of the Jincheng defenders was greatly weakened. After several unsuccessful attacks by the dog barbarian army, they stopped besieging them.
By June, hundreds of people died from the plague, and by July, more than a thousand soldiers died from the plague. In mid-August, the number of people killed by the plague in Jincheng reached 10,000, so that in early September, almost everyone in Jincheng was sick.
, many soldiers even escaped overnight.
Wuhuan originally waited for the princess of Shenghan to marry and get married, and then send away the Jincheng defenders to monopolize the Crow Gold granary, but in August, the soldiers of Jincheng began to flee. The Wuhuan people did not stop them, they just needed Crow Gold
Granary did not need to expend any effort to massacre the Han soldiers, and they thought they had reached an agreement with the Holy Han Empire and were focused on dealing with the feudal lords, so they allowed the Jincheng soldiers to escape at will.
However, in early September, the Wuhuan people accidentally caught a few deserters from the Han army, and then they learned that there was a great plague in Jincheng and that there were only 30,000 defenders in Jincheng.
The Wuhuan people never expected that a huge pie would fall from the sky and directly knock out the uncle and nephew Wuri Lai and Wuli Ta. They only sent 10,000 slave soldiers to successfully invade Jincheng and completely occupy it.
Jincheng.
There were only a few hundred people in Jincheng who could resist. The rest saw the Wuhuan slave soldiers. Let alone fight, it was difficult to stand up. Even the first warrior of the Holy Han Dynasty, Li Cunyi, led 500 cavalry to protect the first military division of the Holy Han Dynasty, Gu Yong Xiangdong.
Escape. Wuri Lai Lai doesn't care.
In pursuit of this lost dog, they occupied Jincheng before the other tribes and took full control of the Raven Gold Granary as soon as possible. The other tribes were furious after seeing this and left without saying goodbye. Uri Lai Lai also took complete control of Saibei.