Li Hong said to Zhang Baiqi who was sitting next to him and remained silent, "I know what Zhang Shuai thinks. After all, you are an old man from the Yellow Turban Army. Surrendering and surrendering is surrender. There is a difference between the two. If you participate in the government army and me in the Western Expedition, it means you betrayed Taiping Road and the Yellow Turban Army. So you don't want to, I understand it very much. If it were me, I would have made this choice. Go back to Taihang Mountain."

Zhang Baiqi looked at him excitedly and whispered: "Would you like to let me go back to Taihang Mountain?"

"The emperor forgives the world. You have no guilt now. You are a free person. You can go anywhere you want, but you'd better go back to Taihang Mountain. With your identity, if you leave the camp of the Western Expedition Army, your head will be chopped off at any time." Li Hong said with a smile, "In addition, there are more than 18,000 people in the list you gave me to leave, right?"

Zhang Baiqi nodded and said, "Abandoning the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, is people who have families and families to leave. What remains are people who are very stubborn and unwilling to join the government army. Do you mean too much?"

"I just made sure that there was no other meaning. Now they are all innocent common people and can leave freely. Let's do this, tomorrow, you several leaders of the Yellow Turban Army arrange for them to leave Handan. You also know that I am in a difficult situation now, so I can only provide them with some money and dry food on the road. This is my best effort."

The two of them were moved to nothing, and lay down on the ground, kowtowed to him several times, and left the tent.

Li Hong looked at their departure backs and felt lost. He walked to the edge of the map, his eyes were looking at the map, but his mind was thinking about Zhang Baiqi and Huang Ting.

"Zilong..."

Zhao Yun hurried over.

"You go and tell Zhang Baiqi and Huang Ting that they will take some people back to Taihang Mountain." Li Hong said in a deep thought, "Take those stubborn and homeless people away, so as not to organize themselves privately, burn, kill, loot in the village, and to harm the people."

"Sir, if you know this..."

"I have a clear conscience, what are you afraid of? Go."

The matter of dismissing the Yellow Turban Army's surrender was soon over, and the camp of the Western Expedition Army gradually became quiet amid the noise.

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On the field outside Handan City, teams of cavalry and infantry were conducting arduous training under the leadership of their respective garrison leaders. The sound of war drums, ox horns, and shouts never stopped from morning to night.

The weapons and equipment recruited from various places are still being transported to the camp one after another.

On the same day, Heng Ji, She Yingtong, and Lou Lu rushed back with 1,100 Hu soldiers.

When Li Hong heard Zhao Yun's report, he couldn't believe it for a moment. He cheered excitedly, roared, rushed out of the tent, rode on the black panther, and swept out of the camp like a whirlwind, and went up to meet him.

Over the years, in the northern territory of the Han Kingdom, he was the only one who won the support of some Hu tribes through his own efforts. He was the only one who integrated the warriors of the Han and Hu tribes, led them to fight south and north, and was invincible. He was the only one who was consistent and sincerely treated the Hu soldiers as brothers. His respect and maintenance of the Hu soldiers was finally rewarded. This time, when he needed soldiers for a thousand miles of expeditions, the Hu tribes who supported him extended a hand of friendship without hesitation, and gave him strong support like brothers.

The things that Li Hong had been uneasy finally had a result, a touching result. At this moment, he even believed that as long as he had these brave brothers in this life, he could dominate the world and be invincible. I have so many brave brothers in the world, what am I afraid of?

That night, Li Hong warmly received the new Hu soldiers.

Hengji smiled and told Li Hong that Lou Lu had sneaked out again this time. When King Hei Ling heard that his son was going to follow the Han army to expedition to Xiliang, he would not let him go to Baishan no matter what. The troops could borrow it, but his son could not. Seeing that it was useless to beg for all kinds of begging, Lou Lu simply killed all the way down Baishan. King Hei Ling was helpless and worried that his son would die in Xiliang, so he ordered the most elite iron cavalry in the tribe, his six hundred personal guards Hei Ling cavalry, to follow Lou Lu to protect Lou Lu's safety. He still pampered his son.

The Shimoci of the Wuye Tribe and the Lu Pofeng of the Bailu Tribe are the same old saying, "Whatever you say, we will follow you, and only you will follow your leader."

Li Hong smiled and said to She Yingtong and Hengji: "You have brought hundreds more people. Is the tribe's strength enough?"

She Yingtong smiled and said, "Enough, don't worry, sir. Since defeating the Xianbei last year, the border should be very quiet in the past few years. Murong Feng and Tuoba Feng both need time to recover their vitality."

Hengji also said: "The Captain Ji of Huwuwan is recruiting troops. When his troops have a certain strength, the border will be safer."

"Are you all willing to come? You didn't force it?" Li Hong asked, "The future is uncertain when we go to Xiliang. Maybe we will all sprinkle blood on Xijiang, so don't threaten the soldiers."

"Sir, I'm so concerned. Before we left, you asked us to ask everyone, but someone was willing to go home, but no one went back. You were on the spot, you know. After you left, we asked several times, but no one was willing to go back. Now whoever goes back is a coward, and even if you are alive, you can't raise your head in the tribe. Although we are not as knowledgeable and knowledgeable as you Han people, we know who is good to us and who is bad to us. How should we repay those who are good to us, and how should we take revenge on those who are bad to us." She Yingtong smiled and said slowly.

"Sir, treat us like brothers, treating us all as soldiers of the Han Dynasty, paying us money when we are alive, and giving us pension when we are dead. Look at the warriors in our tribe, which one of them is unwilling to follow you. Everyone is willing to fight against you and are willing to give your life for you." Heng Ji said with a sigh.

Lou Lu walked over and said, "Sir, our Wuwan Iron Cavalry has helped you fight many wars in the Han Dynasty for decades, but you are the first to give us military pay and the first to pay us pensions. My father was moved to see the money, and tears rolled in the old man's eyes. My father dismantled the money into a sheep and distributed it to the families of the fallen soldiers in the tribe. Everyone shouted my father's name and thanked my father for his kindness, but they didn't know that this was all the kindness of the adults."

Li Hong felt ache in his heart when he thought of the fallen soldiers, and tears couldn't help moistening his eyes. He wanted to say something, but his throat was choked and he couldn't speak.

The pension, just a little pension, actually won the hearts of the Hu soldiers.

Dignity, this is the last glory and dignity of a soldier, and no one has the right to deprive it of.

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Li Hong wrote to the emperor again.

The troops have been assembled, and the emperor urgently needs to decide the system of the troops. Because the system determines the level of officers in each department, the level of officers in each department determines the position of each person, and the position determines the salary of each person.

Li Hong submitted a report to the emperor, vigorously praising the Wuwan tribe of Shanggu County and the Xianbei tribe of Shanggu County, saying that many tribes of the two tribes actively responded to the emperor's decree and cooperated with His Majesty's actions to go west to Liangzhou to suppress the rebellion. They each tried their best to send a large number of cavalry to join the Western Expedition Army and begged His Majesty the Emperor to give him praise.

At the same time, he once again urged the court to decide the troops' westward route as soon as possible and provide military supplies for 50,000 troops. It is difficult to predict whether the troops can advance westward as scheduled.

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The emperor is more anxious than him now.

Zhang Wen has been appointed as the Grand Marshal by the emperor, but this cannot bring Zhang Wen anything that can actually reverse the situation in Xiliang. He wants reinforcements, enough reinforcements.

After defeating the official army at the end of last year, the rebels of Xiliang were planning to capture Huaili City, the county seat of Fufeng County before the heavy snow came, but because the heavy snow suddenly fell, the rebels had to retreat in a hurry. They took advantage of the long winter to assemble 150,000 troops in Hanyang County. The rebel leader Beigong Boyu was preparing to lead his troops to attack after the beginning of spring, capture Chang'an and plunder the Sanfu.

Zhang Wen got the news in February. Now all the Han troops in Sanfu are only 100,000, including the county and state soldiers with weak combat power. They can’t fight against 150,000 rebels with 100,000 people. More importantly, once Beigong Boyu attacks, he must make an appointment with the Qiang tribe cavalry of tens of thousands of Xianling Qiang, Huangzhong Qiang, Yiconghu (Qiu people in Zhangye, Liangzhou), Baima Qiang, Shenlang Qiang, etc. At that time, the 100,000 Han troops could not defend Chang'an and Sanfu.

Zhang Wen asked for emergency one letter a day, every three days was expedited, and every six days was express. The fast horse went back and forth to Chang'an every day to ask for reinforcements. In March, Zhang Wen simply asked for emergency one letter a day, and the fast horse only entered Luoyang but did not leave Luoyang.

The emperor and the ministers in the court were urging them one by one like ants on a hot pan, and they were so anxious that they were wandering around.

Li Hong's memorial finally gave the emperor a chance to breathe. With 50,000 soldiers in hand, now we have to solve the military supplies of the 50,000 army and the food supply for the westward advancement. Who knew that this issue would be discussed for half a month, and the result was not yet reached.

Zhang Wen had been happy for a few days, and then he found that Li Hong's troops from Jizhou were staying in Handan without moving. He was anxious and sent two special express horses a day to urge the court to immediately order Li Hong's army to set off westward. But the route of the 50,000 army to go west has not been decided yet. How can Li Hong's troops set off? If Li Hong is forced to advance westward according to the original route, without the supply of food and grass along the way, the soldiers and war horses would probably starve to death before they reached Hedong. Even the emperor who did not know how to fight was known.

At this time, Li Hong's urging documents began to fly to Luoyang day by day.

The emperor will pick up the easy ones first.

"My dear friends, most of the 50,000 troops that entered Liangzhou west were adapted from captives of ant thief, and there was no establishment, so Li Zhonglang wrote a letter to inquire about this matter and asked for establishment. What do you think will you do?"

This matter is usually handled by General He Jin.

He Jin immediately went out to report: "According to the military rules of the Han Dynasty, generals can unify the army, one barracks, five divisions, and one division can reach 2,000 people. Each division is led by a lieutenant or a military Sima. Now Li Zhonglang is commanding a 50,000 army, and at least twenty-five military Simas or military Simas, but he now has only four military Simas and no one lieutenant, so how to arrange this system must be considered from the long term. For a while, I really can't give an answer."

The emperor was stunned. We also had to make a long-term plan for this matter? When will Li Hong's troops enter the battlefield in Xiliang?
Chapter completed!