Chapter 356: The ferocious

Zhao Xun suspiciously asked the soldiers to bring drums and horns.

Zheng Lang blew a horn, thumped the drum hard, and said, "This is the Central Army."

He beat two drums: "This is the Right Army."

He beat three drums: "This is the Left Army."

He thrust a drum hard, then a drum lightly, and said, "This is a strong attack."

Tap two drums: "This is a tentative attack."

It is not that simple. Attack, there are feint attacks, fierce attacks, attacks and attacks slowly. There are also many ways to retreat, but the orders have never been unified and often cannot be implemented.

The army cannot be simply divided into left and right armies and central armies, including vanguards, central armies, rear armies, left and right armies, and reserves, which are more subdivided. Even in the stalemate stage, there are also multiple divisions. There are also various methods of retreat when retreating.

But if the drum is used to command, the drum is light and heavy, and the horn is long and short. Once combined, tens of millions of changes will appear within only five tones, which is enough to allow the rear to command calmly.

It cannot be infinitely exaggerated.

But once you are done, the generals don’t have to look back. As long as you hear the sound of the drums and trumpets clearly, you can lead your subordinates to fight. Second, you can do it more meticulously than the command of the flag.

Zheng Lang made five demonstrations, and Zhao Xun said, "Mr. Zheng, I will understand."

"What do you think of this method?"

"As long as you can study it again, is that OK?"

"Yes." Zheng Lang was responsible for proposing how to implement it on the battlefield or let professionals implement it.

Then he looked at the army again.

However, he frowned again and did not say anything.

It was getting dark, so Zheng Lang rested all night and rode his horse to Zhenrong Village the next day.

Di Qing personally welcomed him out of the city.

I felt a little jealous of Di Qing and all the generals in the northwest.

First, Fan Yong raised his love, then Fan Zhongyan, Yin Zhu and Zheng Lang. Fan Yong doesn’t care. They are old, how many years can they help Di Qing? The key is Zheng Lang. The 24-year-old husband is holding on to him. It’s impossible not to get into the clouds without hiking the future.

After a look, it was originally an unknown soldier who almost got his head beheaded. In just a few years, he became a military army.

Di Qing also knew it in his heart and respected Zheng Lang very much.

Now Zheng Lang is numb to his senses. He deals with so many stars all day long. Looking at Wu Kuixing of the Song Dynasty, it is just that.

He said, "No need to be polite. I'm here to discuss some things with you."

The two entered the city.

Compared with the newly built Luanggan City, Zhenrong Village is much larger in scale. After walking for a long time, it was time to arrive at the military yamen.

Sitting down, Zheng Lang asked, "General Di, have you read the few books I gave you last year?"

"My husband, I'm reading it. Mr. Fan also gave me a book on Spring and Autumn, asking me to read it carefully, be knowledgeable and polite, and learn about military skills."

"Haha, what did you say?"

"My subordinates didn't dare to lie, and said that my husband also gave me four books and I have been reading them."

"What do you say about Fan Zhongyan?"

"He asked me which four books were. I said it was the three volumes of the Spring and Autumn Period (Zuo Zhuan, Gongyang, Guliang), Sun Tzu's Art of War, and the Analects of Confucius and Shangshu, you annotated by your husband. Mr. Fan asked me to show him these books, and then pointed to his husband's two annotated books and said, Di Qing, do you know, how valuable are these two annotated books? My subordinate said he didn't know. Mr. Fan smiled and said, Zheng Xingzhi's words were sold for a while, and his reading style was his, so these two booklets would be worth thousands of gold." Speaking of this, Di Qing suddenly fell on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "My husband, my subordinate was reckless and rude before, please do not blame me."

Zheng Lang gave it to him, and he accepted it and said thank you indifferently.

I used to struggle at the bottom of society, and when I arrived in the northwest, I was on the verge of life and death. How could I think of so many things?

"When you get up, it's not as precious as Fan Zhongyan said. You have good military talent, affection and righteousness, including the tattoos on your face. I also heard that it was the sin you saw that your brother had a wife and a son, and he was punished for him. Don't say it's not worth a thousand gold, it's worth it, but it's not given to you more worth it."

"Mr. Zheng..."

"Don't say much, I'll give it to you, because I want the country to have more talents."

"Mr. Zheng, I will definitely serve the emperor and be loyal to the emperor and patriotism."

"Okay. Come here, I'll say a few things."

"Please give me instructions."

"Don't be restrained, I'm not happy. Come here, the first thing is to transfer a thousand elite soldiers from you."

After Yuan Hao retreated, the court successively sent soldiers, and the main army was almost concentrated in the territory of Zhenrong Army. Yuan Hao broke several villages and had to repair and improve them. Some villages were also added, which required manpower and needed military protection and repair. The main front line of Jingyuan Road was located in Zhenrong Army, followed by Shunde Army, and then Yuanzhou, Jingzhou and Weizhou were almost in the rear.

Therefore, Zhao Xun had to be allocated from the Zhenrong Army to increase his troops. Zheng Lang mobilized a thousand troops, and he also had to be allocated from the Zhenrong Army.

This process was not until all the villages were built, and the troops were scattered everywhere.

"Follow the order."

"There is also the matter of villages. How many villages do you think you want to add and where to start?" Zheng Lang said.

It has to be handed over to an insider.

"Mr. Zheng, my subordinates also want to report it."

“What is it?”

"Jingyuan Road is different from Yanfu Road. There are mountains in Jingyuan Road, but after falling from Liupan, it is relatively gentle, unlike Yanzhou, Shaanxi and the three borders of bandits. Yanzhou has the best geographical location, followed by Huanqing, and finally Jingyuan. The people are second. Yanzhou and Huanqing have many Han people, which are easier to manage. Although there are many Qiangfan in the north of Yanzhou, Yuanhao was asked to take away most of the subordinate tribes of Li Shibin. The neighboring Dangxiang tribes had a feud with Yuanhao, so they had no different intentions. However, the Zhenrong Army and Shunde Army..."

"Well said that, as for the loyalty of all ethnic groups, I will solve it. You talk about the terrain." Zheng Lang said.

In fact, the problems of the Shunde Army and the Zhenrong Army of Qiang were never really resolved, so that in order to make peace in the rear, the Song Dynasty had to deploy troops and set up camps to protect these Qiang people.

"My subordinates believe that setting up more villages is the worst strategy. If you want to protect the villages, even if the court sends many troops, the number is still insufficient, and you will be driven to defeat them by Yuan Hao. However, it is inappropriate not to set up villages. Most of Yuan Hao's troops will move forward at least 70,000 or 80,000 troops. Without the villages, you will move south unimpededly. Wei Qin will be exposed to the enemy's hands. If you want to stop, our dynasty is mostly infantry, and the speed is not enough, and you cannot mobilize all troops in time to fight against them. Even if you can mobilize it, it is probably Yuan Hao's plan to suspect his troops, slow down and deliberately let our army catch up and set up an ambush and annihilate it."

​​A surprise flashed in Zheng Lang's eyes.

Di Qing definitely won't open his golden finger, but this was just the way to go.

"I don't know what to do, so I just chose a few places to fight and rebuilt several villages to give each village a certain force."

"I think so well done. I have another thing to ask you."

"Excuse me."

"I saw many veterans in the army, some of whom were gray-haired. Tell me," Zheng Lang felt many thoughts in his mind after seeing this yesterday.

According to common sense, the more soldiers in the army, the safer they feel.

For example, on Jingyuan Road, 70,000 troops cannot guarantee the safety of all villages when the Yuanhao army arrives.

Therefore, after receiving the imperial edict from the court, all border generals charged archers into the army to maintain the number of troops.

This is wrong.

Zheng Lang thought of four words at that time, to enhance military and simplify administration.

If he doesn't make any changes, Ge Huaimin will lose a lot. How many troops have he mobilized, 70,000!

Almost all the troops on Jingyuan Road were allocated.

The imperial court had only 70,000 troops on Jingyuan Road, as well as archers and local foreign soldiers. There were about 10,000 or 20,000 people. After Yuan Hao arrived in Weizhou, he saw many soldiers on the top of the city. In fact, after the generals officially charged the archers into the army, and with more than 70,000 troops in the court, it is possible that Jingyuan Road can organize a 100,000 army now.

However, after Dingchuanzhai was defeated, it was possible to defend Weizhou, but there was no intercepting army. So Yuanhao went south unimpededly until the outskirts of Chang'an.

Why did Ren Fu and Liu Ping's army suffer about 10,000 yuan and Ge Huaimin's army suffer such a tragic defeat?

Zheng Lang wondered in his mind whether it was because some of these soldiers were old soldiers who were involved in the army and did not want to retire and make a living, and some were new recruits forced to recruit from the court, resulting in a decline in overall combat effectiveness.

If that were the case, it would rather have fewer troops than send these soldiers back.

This will be very troublesome. It will cost a lot of retirement fees to let these soldiers be retired. Formal storage of some brave and horse-dressed Fan Qiang into the army will increase the strength of the army and the number of cavalry, but the big bosses in the court may not be relieved.

The Anshi Rebellion made these civil officials and plants fight, and no one could convince them.

Simply tell the idea.

Di Qing pondered and finally said: "My subordinates think that what Zheng Xianggong said is good. But the war is in danger, who is willing to stay on the front line? If Zheng Xianggong wants to repatriate on a large scale, the morale of the entire army will be shaken."

In peaceful times, most people are willing to stay in the imperial guards and stay alive until they die of old age.

But when the war came, life was in danger. Moreover, the northwest was not like the capital, and it was very difficult. Who would be willing to stay on the front line? Especially the soldiers transferred from the prefectures of Zhunan, Henan, asked them if they would like to go home. At least ninety-nine of the 100 people answered that they would be willing to go home.

What Zheng Lang wants is the elite soldiers, the elite soldiers coming.

Now the northwest army has reached hundreds of thousands, and the real elite troops may be less than 20,000 to 30,000.

If you want to defend, you have to win by the number of troops.

Therefore, Di Qing said something.

He said that he regarded himself as Zheng Lang's person. Otherwise, what right do you have to say about a general's identity and such a thing?

Zheng Lang was stunned and after most of the day, he said, "I will draft a draft order. Those who are over 45 years old on the border will be deported home. Except for those who are over 40 or above in the inland outside the four routes, they will also be deported home."

Confucius said that forty is not confused, which means that after one reaches forty, one has matured his mind and nothing is confused.

This refers to the thought, but the body gradually ages from the age of forty.

Veterans are not useless, some veterans have rich combat experience.
To be continued...