Chapter 343: Anti-conspiracy
Although the Qing Xu Army generals, who were "red and transformed", had only 13,000 soldiers, which was just a drop in the bucket for the Zhenbei Legion, which had few troops, Zhao Xing did not think so.
According to Tian Ji's horse racing theory, although these 3,000 people would not appear on the front battlefield against Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song's army, they could replace 20,000 Huang Xuan and the Southern Xiongnu who were not good at guarding the city. When these 20,000 people were not inferior to Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry. If these 20,000 people were used well, they could play a very critical or even determine success or failure.
In fact, many years after the end of the Bingzhou War, when people summarized and reviewed the turning point of the battle, they found that it was Zhao Xing who replaced 20,000 Huang Xuan and the Southern Xiongnu cavalry to Bingzhou with thrilling ***.
Of course, this is all a story later. Let’s first take a look at how Zhao Xing deployed and placed 13,000 Qingxu Volunteers.
As the leader of the Wohu City recruit training regiment and part-time "guard commander" of Wohu City, Gao Shun has been away from people's vision and is doing his part-time job, training the regular army of Zhenbei Legion over and over again, year after year. When he came back, he found that Gao Shun, who had no soldiers to train, actually trained 50,000 reserve personnel distributed in various parts of Bingzhou.
Gao Shun was not too worried about the task of stationing in Wohu City. Li Jinsi and Jia Mu were busy with two cunning young men. Even a sparrow flying in from outside Wohu City would be carefully checked whether it was a male or female.
Just when Gao Shun felt that life was boring, he suddenly received a secret letter from Zhao Xing, and immediately swept away his lazy spirit and felt a little bit full of energy. Why? Just because Zhao Xing gave Gao Shun a new task, he was responsible for secretly and half a month of intensive training for the "Qing Xu Volunteer Army" that was about to go north. The ultimate requirement of the training is that these "Qing Xu Volunteer Army" must be able to skillfully use various large-scale defensive equipment, including hot weapons including thunder. Soldiers with a foundation in shooting skills must also be able to skillfully use the English longbow for defense.
Gao Shun, who had already mastered the essence of Zhao Xing's five-character training method, naturally had his own unique side. He would not care about the soldiers who entered the training regiment. The Taiyuan soldiers, the Yellow Turban soldiers who had serious military habits, the scattered sand, and the Southern Xiongnu cavalry in the Canglang Army who were disobedient to management were all taken over by Gao Shun. When they left the training regiment, they all became so screaming elites. Although it was only 13,000 Qing Xu Ke's army, Gao Shun was still confident that he would improve the combat ability of these soldiers in a short period of time, and because these soldiers had a certain foundation, they might even bring some surprises to Zhao Xing.
Gao Shun knew the increasingly tense Western Front Base Camp's desire for troops. So as soon as he received a secret letter from Zhao Xing, he immediately went to Lu County to visit Taishi Ci, and told the generals including Wu'anguo, Cao Bao and Sun Guan about Zhao Xing's meaning.
When several people heard that Gao Shun wanted to help train Qing Xu Bing, they naturally welcomed each other and expressed their willingness to cooperate with Gao Shun's work. After some discussion, Sun Guan, Chen Deng and Mi Zhu were responsible for staying behind and guarding the 7,000 scattered soldiers who were unwilling to join the Volunteer Army; Wu Anguo and Cao Bao led the 13,000 Qing Xu Bing Xu Bing immediately into the Crouching Tiger Training Corps and participated in the 15-day intensive training; as for Tai Shi Ci, he received a more important task, and he was going to Jiguan to replace Xu Huang!
Some people in the base camp have raised objections to Zhao Xing's temporary motion, because the task of defending Jiguan is too important and there is no need to allow any negligence or omission. Several military advisors expressed doubts about Taishi Ci's ability and loyalty, which is understandable. After all, Taishi Ci has just joined Bingzhou and has not yet demonstrated his extraordinary ability.
But Zhao Xing still disagreed with the public and insisted on his own opinions. Others do not know Taishi Ci's ability and value, but as a time traveler, Zhao Xing, who died young at the age of 40, left the sentence "A real man was born in a chaotic world and should carry a three-foot sword to achieve unparalleled achievements; what he has failed now, how can he die!" Lang Lang and bold, who has always remained in the memory of Zhao Xing, who was a soldier. He firmly believed that letting Taishi Ci station in Ji Pass would definitely be competent.
There is another reason that Zhao Xing could not express clearly, or was worried. Although the coalition forces in front of Jiguan were only Yuan Shu, Liu Biao and Liu Yan, with only 70,000 or 80,000 people in total, there was one of the unobtrusive soldiers among the group of soldiers, but definitely a ruthless guy, the sharpshooter Huang Zhong! Since Murong Ping almost implicated Zhao Yun, it is difficult to guarantee that those who are interested in the Central Army would learn from Gongsun Zan to plot against Xu Huang. Xu Huang is not as good as Zhao Yun's shooting skills. If the person who attacked the sneak attack was replaced by Huang Zhong, the result was really unimaginable.
It was precisely out of confidence in Taishici and protection of Xu Huang that Zhao Xing decisively sent secret letters to Taishici and Xu Huang and other generals, pressing the important task of stationing Jiguan on Taishici's shoulders.
Taishi Ci, who received Zhao Xing's appointment, felt agitation in his heart. The weight of this appointment letter was definitely not something that ordinary people could bear. Letting him take over the position of commander of the Crouching Tiger Army, the number one in the Zhenbei Legion, not only reflected Zhao Xing's emphasis and trust in him, but also suggested how important the task of stationing Jiguan was. Although after he entered Bingzhou, Taishi Ci had not made great contributions, at most it was to help Hua Weiguo capture Wu'anguo, which was nothing. But this time, Taishi Ci had the determination and confidence to make great contributions to prove his ability.
It took less than two days to ride the good horse specially sent by Zhao Xing. Taishici quickly rushed from Lu County to Jiguan.
After verifying his identity, Taishici followed the guards to Jiguan and met Xu Huang, the general guarding the pass.
"Donglai Taishici has met Commander Xu!" Taishici took the lead and greeted Xu Huang, who was a few years older than him.
"General Taishi does not need to be polite. It is a coincidence that we can gather at Jiguan today. In the future, you and my brothers will work together under General Zhenbei, and we still need to support each other!" Xu Huang, who was calm and introverted, spoke sincerely to Taishici.
After the two met, they did not chat too much, and immediately handed over in front of Chen Gong, Zang Ba and other deputy generals. Xu Huang then immediately went to the Western Front Base Camp under the escort of the guards.
Taishici, who took office as a new official, did not have any complacent or domineering spirit. Instead, he humbly and cautiously asked the military advisor and several deputy generals for advice, immediately entered the role, and became familiar with the specific defensive deployment of Jiguan and the situation of the imperial coalition at the Guanxia court. In this way, Taishici's relationship with everyone was smoothly familiar with, which was very beneficial to future side-by-side combat.
Although the generals such as Chen Gong and Zang Ba did not fully understand Zhao Xing's temporary appointment, they did not prevent them from firmly implementing this decision. Everyone had studied and trained in the Wohu Martial Arts Hall, and knew the importance of being able to make one person. Therefore, for the new Jiguan General Taishi Ci, everyone could do their best to assist and avoid constraints and internal strife.
With the army at this moment, if anyone still plots on his own interests at this critical moment, he really doesn't know the priorities.
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