Han Xiang

Chapter 123 Set up five battalions and set up the governor

Zheng Bao took advantage of the feudal hegemony at the end of the Han Dynasty and the great chaos in the world, and organized a gang of thieves to run rampant in the Jianghuai area. They only bullied the good people on weekdays. People like Yuan Shu, Liu Xun and others would not dare to provoke them.

The reason why he dared to fight Hefei was because he heard that Longxiang had fewer defenders, and secondly, he knew that the city of Hefei was decayed and could not withstand a strong attack, but he kicked the iron plate.

Not only has the city wall of Hefei been strengthened, but the defenders are like tigers and wolves.

I really can't beat it, I can only join in order to survive.

Long Xiang and others ended their pursuit, and finally defeated and surrendered Zheng Bao's remnants with less than [-] defenders.

Zheng Baozai was knocked down by a high-altitude throwing object, and retreated in a panic surrounded by bandit soldiers.

It's a pity that Zheng Bao was thrown to the ground in confusion on the way, seriously injured and comatose. After being trampled by people and horses, the body was found no longer in human shape.

His nephew Zheng Hu, who was the leader who dared to die, had a bright and eye-catching helmet on his head, and was locked by Xu Chu who was chasing him out of the city, and ended up decapitated.

The battle lasted less than half a day, and of the seven or eight thousand thieves brought by Zheng Bao, except for the two thousand who were killed or seriously injured, the rest were all recruited by Long Xiang.

More and more city defense battles were fought, and the increase was doubled. I couldn't believe it, but Long Xiang did it.

It's like the total score of the mock exam is [-], but the result is inexplicably [-], because the person who made the test was merged by him.

Long Xiang led his army back the same way, and Lu Su was already waiting under the tower.

"Yunqi, congratulations. Not only did Zheng Bao kill the harm, but also included his trilogy. No one dares to despise Hefei from now on."

"Incorporation is incorporation, but the combat effectiveness of these people... Hey, I can't compliment you"

Long Xiang shook his head bitterly, and said in his heart that I still like Xu Chu's elite soldiers, and it might be useless to accept such wine bags and rice bags.

Lu Su smiled and said: "The combat effectiveness of soldiers depends on whether the generals can train. If General Xu is allowed to train soldiers, there will definitely be earth-shaking changes."

"What Zijing said is that there will be a raft of soldiers, and a nest of raging soldiers. They have to be reorganized."

Long Xiang nodded deeply.

Feng Zhong, who was standing next to Lu Su, was the first to stand up and ask for someone after hearing this.

"Yun Qi, when you form your formation, remember to give consideration to the Artisan Battalion. After today's battle, the southern city wall has to be repaired and strengthened. My thousand-man team is not enough."

"Uncle Zhong is really good at seeing stitches, but don't worry, there are so many surrendered soldiers all of a sudden, each of you will have a burden on your shoulders."

When Long Xiang was talking, he looked at Lu Su meaningfully, as if saying that you also have a share.

Lu Su instantly understood that he thought about leaving in three years, so he quickly declined politely: "Yun Qi doesn't need to think about me, Hefei is busy with government affairs now, I really don't have the energy to lead the troops, what General Feng just said was right, Zheng Bao's parts are uneven, just to allocate more to the craftsman camp."

"My side is responsible for building and defending the city. I don't care about the strength of the soldiers. Yun Qi can let the rest choose first, and leave the rest to Uncle Zhong." Feng Zhong clasped his fists in agreement.

"I think so too," Long Xiang responded with a smile.

In order to ensure the control of the soldiers, Long Xiang sent an order to gather the soldiers at the South Gate, and he wanted to organize them as soon as possible.

Zheng Bao's 600 soldiers were divided into five parts by Long Xiang. Among them, Xu Ding and Tang Yu each took 400 people, Xu Chu took [-] people, Cao Xing took [-] people, and selected the rest. Return to Feng Zhong.

In order to facilitate the expansion and management of each battalion, Long Xiang named and distinguished the generals under his command, that is, Feng Zhong's 300 men were the Artisan Battalion, Xu Chu's 600 men were the Tiger Guard Camp, and Tang Yu's 300 men were the City Defense Right Battalion , Xu Ding's 200 men were the city defense left battalion, and Cao Xing's 430 men were the cavalry battalion.

The establishment of the army at the end of the Han Dynasty was a two-binary system of "quasi-square system". The most basic unit of the unit was "Huo". Jurisdiction over 10 people, the school lieutenant over 50 people, the general under the jurisdiction of 100 people, and the numbered general over 200 people.

Although the upper limit of the first army is 3200, it can be handled flexibly in actual operation. In theory, other departments can be added infinitely. The Sima of the other department does not have a formal military position, but can be assigned to the commander-in-chief with the number of general.

At this time, Long Xiang led the Sima himself, and he could only rule 400 people in name, and the highest appointment could only be Quhou, so he made his own claim to designate the leader of the Fifth Battalion as a general with a wide range of meanings. Lu Su restrained.

The Tiger Guard Battalion, the City Defense Battalion, and the Cavalry Battalion were re-integrated, and the new entrants were formed into a whole through collective training immediately. The first task of the re-integrated Craftsman Battalion was personally arranged by Long Xiang.

In the defensive battle of Hefei, flying stones made more contributions.

Thousands or tens of thousands of stones and bricks thrown down the city wall piled up into several hills outside the south gate.

Long Xiang was worried about potential safety hazards, so he asked the craftsmen to collect all the camps and bring them back to the city, and asked to dig deep trenches under the inner wall for later use.

Feng Zhong executed the order unconditionally, but Lu Su did not understand.

Lu Su pointed to the gravel and bricks and asked: "Flying rocks are good for defense, but the shooting range is still a bit short. After a collision, the crushed rocks are much smaller when reused. I think you can make people pile them up at the base of the wall. Is there another use for it?"

Long Xiang pointed to the area to be dug where the wires were laid out and the lime was sprinkled, and explained with a smile: "After the pit under the wall is dug, then fill these debris in."

"Isn't it superfluous?"

Without waiting for Long Xiang to finish speaking, Lu Su interrupted directly, with a very surprised expression on his face, thinking that there are 2000 more people in the craftsman camp, and you can't command blindly for the sake of practicing skills.

There is still a lot of work to be done in old city reconstruction, street leveling, house repairs, strengthening of city walls, even if it is to borrow soil from outside the city. Why should they be arranged to do useless work?

Lu Su mistakenly thought that because of the establishment of the project, Long Xiang actually planned to strengthen the foundation. He pointed to the white line and explained: "Zijing, listen to me. The returned crushed stones and bricks are used as aggregates, and finally poured with cement mortar to form an extremely solid foundation.”

"It sounds very strong, but what is the purpose of adding a concrete foundation inside the city wall?"

"Last year, the Cao thief poured water into the lower Pi. I heard that many parts of the city walls were damaged. Now I use rubble and concrete as the foundation, and later I will build a few layers of brick walls on top of it. I am no longer afraid of water attack."

"hiss"

After hearing this, Lu Su gasped, thinking that the amount of the project was so amazing that he didn't know how much cement and bricks it would cost.

He cupped his hands and said: "Not to mention how many bricks are used to lay the city wall, the cement used for the foundation around the city is also amazing. Now that there are thousands of soldiers in Hefei, they can't live in simple tents all the time, right? Although you are planning for a rainy day, are you? Good thing, but at this time Hefei's city wall is enough, and it doesn't make sense to over-reinforce it."

Seeing Lu Su's seriousness, Long Xiang patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "Zijing, don't worry, I didn't plan to do it overnight, the reinforced foundation was built piece by piece, and the ready-made bricks and gravels were used first, as for adding more to the inside of the city wall." Building brick walls is only part of the plan, and we will arrange it later when there are too many people.”

(End of this chapter)