When Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong were in Taiyuan, they did not feel much panic when they learned that the Tianxiong Army had been destroyed by Datong. They were not affiliated with the sequence of the attacking Yan army, and they thought that they could return south by receiving the command of the governor Dong Chengxin. No matter how bad the attacking Yan army was, it had nothing to do with them.

Kong Zhou, who was impatient, was even angry that Tianxiong's army fought too badly.

When they entered Lanzhou, they saw that the road was blocked by people fleeing to the south, and before they could reorganize the defeated soldiers who had no time to reorganize them, they felt a little heavy.

The great Yue ministers were always above military generals. They did not feel Wang Fan's indifference to Xu Huai, and they were even flattered by Wang Fan's busy schedule to host a banquet to entertain them, but this did not inspire them to lead their troops to defend Shuozhou.

Of course, Xu Huai then left the city and wanted to take away the four hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers who had been selected earlier with Xu Wuli. They dared not say or ask.

The four hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers were mainly from Huaiyuan Township.

When the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion was the most fierce, the Huaiyuan Military Village could be swallowed up by the coalition forces of the various villages at any time. Xu Huai and others turned defeat into victory step by step in such a difficult situation.

In addition to making Xu Huai establish an unmatched prestige within the Huaiyuan Township Camp, this also gave the generals and soldiers of the Huaiyuan Township Camp a strong spirit and perseverance.

When they returned to Xu Huai's command to fight, they had no resistance in their hearts.

The current situation in Shuozhou is not urgent, and Xu Huai was also worried that Wang Fan would change his mind at any time, but he did not rest outside the city overnight. He took advantage of the smooth road and drove to Shuozhou overnight in the wind, snow and cold. What's more, the four hundred soldiers were more accustomed to the extremely difficult training and combat from this moment on.

It is only twenty miles from Ningwu to Yangkou Fort, and fifty miles north of Yangkou Fortress is Shuozhou City.

Walking at night in the wind, snow and cold is not easy. Xu Huai and the others are walking forward, giving more than 60 war horses to the weak and sick to ride, and finally arrived at the city of Shuozhou the next day.

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"It's so strong wind and snow. I thought you would take a break in Ningwu for two days before coming to Shuozhou!"

Seeing the generals returning home in the wind and snow at night, Liu Qiong'er looked tired and reached out to help dust off the snow on Xu Huai's armor with heartache.

"Someone doesn't like us, so why don't you come back early and stay there to get angry?" Yin Peng muttered behind.

At first, when Wang Bing led the first group of men from Shuozhou to return, Xu Huai was worried that their personal safety would not be guaranteed, so he asked Yin Peng to lead fifty cavalry to protect them in person.

After arriving at Yangkou Fort, Wang Fan immediately sent Zheng Shou and Wang Kong to select Jianrui, who had a pure life experience, to form a personal guard camp.

There was nothing at all.

The problem is that the day after Yin Peng and his friends arrived at Yangkou Fort, they were thrown aside. They were in Yangkou Fort, and they were not staying or leaving. They sat on the bench for eleven days, and only then did they go back to Shuozhou with Xu Huai, of course they were full of opinions.

Pan Chenghu and Guo Junsen listened to Yin Peng's complaints and just smiled.

When Wang Fan was no one available, he asked them to stare at Xu Huai, but after Wang Fan took control of the Western Route Army, he did not express his intention to summon them to Ningwu to rely on the eve of leaving Shuozhou and the twelve or three days after that.

It is obviously impossible for Wang Fan to see that they had already had a clear understanding of Xu Huai. Most of them disliked them for being bandits and being recruited as bandits. Even though they did not have any expectations for Wang Fan, the feeling of being thrown into another book was not good.

"Another resentful woman," Xu Huai took off his saddle and asked everyone, "I am not with my fifth uncle for the past few days, will the city of Shuozhou be peaceful?"

"Most people are still looking forward to returning to the south, and they are a little unstable..." Xu Wukun said with a frown.

"Well, I've expected this a long time ago!" Xu Huai nodded.

Even though the vast majority of soldiers from extremely poor peasants have long been tortured by the cruel reality, they still have thoughts, thoughts, various concerns and delusions.

Tens of thousands of Han people in Shuozhou moved south, and the entire city was empty, leaving only three or four thousand soldiers to retreat. How could anyone have no idea in their minds?

More importantly, they were also stray dogs who fled in panic. They didn’t know when the Khitan cavalry, whose troops were several times more powerful than them, would flock to them. Why were they not confused and suspicious?

The military system implemented since the founding of the Great Yue Dynasty did not solve the problem of why the lower-class soldiers fought.

Since the middle and late periods, in order to deal with the increasingly severe public security issues that have escalated exploitation, the court has intensified the incorporation of a large number of refugees, thieves and prisoners into the ban army; in order to prevent fleeing troops, almost everyone in the lower-level military soldiers had tattoos on their cheeks.

After joining the army, he was regarded as a thief and was guarded by prisoners. How can the generals become stronger?

Except for the desperate children of poor people, almost all good families are ashamed of joining the army, and the Banxiang Army has fundamentally lost the foundation for ensuring combat effectiveness.

Such an army can basically only fight with the wind or rely on the city to defend, with almost no possibility of being proactive and enterprising. When encountering hard battles, there is no resilience.

When Ge Boyi and Ge Huaicong were invading Yan in the eastern route army, they first started killing in Kelan City and instigated soldiers to plunder the foreign people. They really didn't know the importance of restraining military discipline, but were they so arrogant that they thought the Khitan was like a paper tiger and could break it?

Actually, it is not the case.

Ge Boyi, Ge Huaicong and others were greedy and timid in fighting, but they had been governing Tianxiong's army for half of their lives, and the moral character of the generals and soldiers under their opponents was far better than Xu Huai and others.

They indulged military discipline in Kelan City, but in fact they wanted to use killing and plunder to inspire morale. They even made a promise in the army that they would succeed in Datong and plunder.

They did not even dare to strictly restrict military discipline, for fear of causing a mutiny.

When the king of Kelan City advised Ge Boyi to restrain military discipline, Ge Boyi blocked Wang Bing's words with such words. After thinking about it seriously, it might not be Ge Boyi's excuse.

In addition to the Tianxiong Army, the Eastern Route Army, which was formed by elite troops from the Western Army, Liu Shizhong and other generals also consciously indulged in military discipline.

Just looking at the surface, it can be said that the generals indulge in military discipline, causing sharp contradictions and confrontations between the Han and Fan, and were taken advantage of by the enemy. However, if you look closely, you will find that this is inevitable.

And Xiao Linshi must have seen through this point, so he had such a plan.

Xu Huai now keeps the soldiers in Tongbai Mountain, Shuozhou. Even if Wang Bing, Zhu Han and others see through it and don’t say it out loud, they will not be able to hide it for long.

When the Tianxiong Army was reorganized, as long as the fleeing soldiers were re-created, who would be blindly able to see the problem?

In addition to the reorganization of the Tianxiong Army, the Third Ya and the Ministry of War will send officials to intervene, the court will clarify the crime of Datong's defeat and will also send officials to investigate the matter. At that time, the incident of the gathering of soldiers from Tongbai Mountain in Shuozhou will not be a secret.

In the world where military generals are so strict, it is so taboo to deliberately gather the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain to master it. How could Xu Huai not know?

However, he had no other choice!

If it weren't for the Tongbai Mountain soldiers, but if they had other complicated sources, they were left to guard Shuozhou alone, they would have been making trouble for the south, or they might have fled south in groups of three or three.

With just forty or fifty Zhufeng Hall Guards, how could it be possible to suppress the thousands of fleeing soldiers who had no fighting spirit and did not have the conscious desire to defend the border and defend the enemy?

In this case, only the Tongbai Mountain soldiers rely on the cohesion formed by the local concepts to stand together in Shuozhou.

Even if this matter is a big taboo and even makes people make a big fuss, Xu Huai has no better choice.

With Wang Fan's coldness and alert attitude, Xu Huai guessed that he had seen the strangeness at the first time. Xu Huai could only hope that Wang Bing and Zhu Han could share some pressure for them.

It will be only two years at the latest, and it may be less than one year at the earliest. As long as you can drag the Chihu Iron Cavalry south, all this will no longer be a problem.

However, the other soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and the Han people in Shuozhou City all retreated south one after another. The soldiers who stayed in Tongbai Mountain in Shuozhou must have hesitation and hesitation. This is the problem that Xu Huai and the others will solve in the future.

This is also the reason why Xu Huai only asked the two battalions of Tangzhou Xiangjun to be transferred into the Western Route Army after saving Ge Boyi.

Xu Huai was interested in 400 Tongbai Mountain soldiers from Huaiyuan Township camp in the Tangzhou Xiangjun of the two battalions.

Compared with the three thousand Tongbai Mountain soldiers who were recruiting bandit soldiers, most of the four hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers fought side by side for nearly a year under their leadership.

In addition to being mostly strong and strong, these 400 Tongbai Mountain soldiers were much more important than that of him, Xu Wukun, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing and others.

Everyone sent 400 soldiers into the barracks to settle down. Tang Qing grabbed Yuan Lei's shoulder, laughed and ridiculed him and said:

"Yuan Tudui! I have told you that there is no prospect of going to the Xiangjun, so I asked you to follow us - look, it's still in our hands now, right?"

The Xu family moved to Tongbai Mountain at the beginning of the founding of the dynasty. Later, due to its strong development and expansion, its relationship with other clans of major surnames has always been tense, which is a relatively special existence.

As indigenous surnames, Yuan Zhong, Tang and Jin and others had much more harmonious relationships and had more in-laws.

There are many martial artists in Tongbai Mountain, but in the past decade, the inheritance has gradually become a series of inheritance with the Fu Python Fist and Fu Python Gun as the core, and the other inheritances have deep connections.

Tang Pan's martial arts is a family tradition, but his father learned boxing skills and big-bar gun skills with Yuan Lei's cousin during his lifetime. Tang Qing and Tang Pan both learned boxing and gun skills by Tang Pan's father, while Yuan Lei learned boxing and gun skills by his cousin. It can be said that he was a master.

As the legitimate son and grandson of Zhong's family, Zhonghe has liked to dance boxing and sticks since he was a child. The Zhong family relied on their wealth to invite Tang Pan's father and others to Mopanling to be boxers to teach Zhonghe's boxing skills and knife bows.

Zhong Jitang and other Zhong family members were not qualified to formally become disciples, but they also learned horizontal swords and boxing skills from Tang Pan's father.

In the Tongbai Mountain suppression of bandits, Zhonghe's achievements were not inferior to Tang Pan, but he had neither intention to win over Zhufeng Hall nor to serve as an official in the state office. After returning to Mopanling, he not only reorganized his family, but also had the ambition to study hard, thinking of taking the imperial examination and winning fame.

Zhong Jitang is not as good as Zhonghe's civil and military, and is also poor in his background. He can join the state army as a military officer, so he can find the best way out.

In addition to Yuan Lei and Zhong Jitang, there were two generals of the four hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers, deputy generals and more than 30 military officers. Most of them were familiar with each other before the bandits in Tongbai Mountain. They joined the village camp to participate in the bandit suppression war, which made their relationship closer.

Of course, most of the recruited bandits in Tongbai Mountain were poor children who were poor after the rebellion of Tongbai Mountain, who were bewitched or coerced after the rebellion, and many of them had known each other or even got married.

What Xu Huai had to do next was how to integrate the three or four thousand Tongbai Mountain soldiers and how to build a truly elite army.
Chapter completed!