Luo Yi's two thousand men had just been arranged here, and Hou Mochen and Feng Xiaoci also arrived with two thousand men.

Luo Cheng, Feng Xiaoci and Hou Mochen were considered old acquaintances. He was not polite at this time, and smiled and took one into the camp.

"We brought two thousand men this time, which is not as strong as Luo Huben's troops, but the prefect said that Luo County Chief crossing the river as the vanguard is also a major event for our Liaodong County, so we must fully support it."

"Four hundred light cavalry, one thousand six hundred soldiers, people have already brought them. How to arrange the corps? I listen to the county magistrate. We two brothers came here this time and didn't go back. Let's stay and cross the river with the county magistrate."

Seeing Hou Mochen's refreshing look, Luo Cheng was naturally even happier.

"That's really great thanks to Prefect Li, and thanks to Hou Mochen for joining the army and Feng Jun's help."

"It's all my brothers, why are you polite?"

Although Feng Xiaoci and Hou Mochen are both men in their early forties, they are directly called brothers with Luo Cheng, an 18-year-old young man. This familiarity makes the new Murong Changsheng and Yuchi Liang envious.

Like Murong and others, Hou Mochen is also a Xianbei person, but he has a three-character duplex surname, with a surname Hou Mochen. This surname has a very strong Xianbei character. In addition to the common surnames of Xianbei, there are many three-character duplex surnames. For example, Bu Liugu, Kediyan, Monalou, Tuyuhun, etc.

In fact, the Xianbei people had no surnames, so tribal names were considered surnames. Later, after the Tuoba clan established the Northern Wei Dynasty, he vigorously promoted the Ding clan and separated the surnames from clans.

Later, the active Chineseization was carried out, and the compound surnames and three-character surnames with obvious tribal marks were changed to single surnames of Han people, such as the eight surnames of honor, Mu (Quo Muling), Lu (Bu Liugu), He (He Lai, Helan), Liu (Dugu), Lou (Helou), Yu (Wuweiyu, Wan Weiyu), Ji (Hexi), and Wei (Yuchi), and the eight surnames were changed to single-character Han surnames. Then it was stipulated that these eight surnames were the same as the four surnames of Guandong, and they could be directly high-ranking officials and were the Jia surname. This was equivalent to the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Jin people, and they all defined the surname family.

In later generations, there was no Xianbei tribe in China at all, but unlike the disappearing Khitan tribe, the Xianbei tribe actually did not disappear, but was assimilated among the Han tribe.

In ancient China, the Xianbei people were considered the most thoroughly assimilated Hu people, because the Xianbei people themselves actively and proactively sinicized. Later, the Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei was destroyed, and the Xianbei nobles were even more thoroughly sinicized.

For example, there are many Xianbei nobles in the Sui Dynasty, and they are even high-ranking officials. However, even if some of them have not given up their combined surnames and three surnames, in fact, their clothes and language customs have become no different from those of the Han people.

Although Hou Mochen has a three-character surname, his appearance is slightly different than that of the Han people, but in fact he speaks no differently.

Li Jing had told Luo Cheng that Hou Mochen was best at strategy, especially military strategy.

So Luo Cheng asked Hou Mochen to be his marching chief.

Most of the two thousand men were indeed newly-engaged teams, but fortunately they were well equipped, so Luo Cheng directly added 400 light cavalry to Murong Changsheng's personal guard regiment. The 1,600 sprinters were mixed with three sprint regiments, and Luo Cheng simply built another sprint regiment.

He added hundreds of people from the militia camp.

So his vanguard army had three light cavalry regiments, four infantry regiments, plus a heavy cavalry battalion, and the entire army had 12,000 combat soldiers, forming a full wartime field army.

Feng Xiaoci also unified the infantry regiment.

Sitting in the tent and looking at the generals, Luo Cheng suddenly felt like he was strong and powerful.

"General, the vanguard army has 12,000 soldiers. I suggest that it is divided into three wings in the middle, front and back." Wei Ji suggested that if there are too many soldiers, there are naturally different methods of tying.

Hou Mochen also nodded in agreement with Wei Zheng's proposal, saying that the function of the sub-box is to be able to divide troops during wartime. One side is a route, so that the vanguard army can attack in different ways at any time and cooperate with each other's attack and defense.

Luo Cheng followed the advice as if he was a stream of advice.

His eyes swept across the generals, and he already had the right candidates in his heart.

"The front wing is composed of a scouts, a group of light cavalry, and three thousand men are appointed as the capital general!"

The third brother stood up unexpectedly.

"General, Siye has little qualifications and dare not take on this important task. In the army, there are Qi generals, Li generals, Feng generals, Hou Mochen generals, Murong Chiefs, Yuchi Generals, Jia generals, etc., all have qualifications older than me."

The ranks of those who were named waved their hands and shook their heads.

For example, Feng Xiaoci, Hou Mochen, Murong Changsheng, and Yuchi Liang are all newcomers, so they are naturally embarrassed to compete for the position of the general. Jia Runpu, Qi Guoyuan, and Li Ru all know the ability of the third brother, and they are always fighting each other.

Finally, Luo Chengdao, "Luo is the general, and I will choose the generals of this pioneer. I have my own considerations. You are not because you are my brother, but because of your performance."

Finally, Luo Siye reluctantly agreed to take over the position of the front-end general.

Luo Cheng also appointed Zhao Gui as the deputy general of the front wing.

"The rear wing consists of the Pofeng Light Cavalry Camp and the Second Bu Regiment, with three thousand troops. He is appointed as the general of the rear wing, and Luo Cunxiao is the deputy general of the rear wing."

Qi Guoyuan refused a few times. Although the fourth brother wanted to be the general, he knew that Luo Cheng had never bargained. He chose Qi Guoyuan as a general, but he couldn't even be the general, so he simply responded to this general. So Qi Guoyuan finally did this general.

The middle wing had a few more soldiers and horses, with 6,000 people, and was composed of a personal guard, light cavalry regiment, two infantry regiments, and a heavy cavalry battalion. Luo Cheng appointed Feng Xiaoci as the general of the middle wing, and then appointed Jia Runpu and Li Ru as deputy generals.

Hou Mochen became the chief of the vanguard army, Wei Zheng was the record room, and Wang Ziming was the record center.

Because of the Siye, Qi Guoyuan was promoted to the capital, Cunxiao, Zhao Gui, Li Ru, Jia Runpu were all promoted to the deputy generals, so the positions of the regiments were empty again.

The seven regiment generals, except for Murong Changsheng who was appointed as the partial generals of the parent guard regiment, Luo Cheng appointed Du Fuwei, Fu Gong, Guo Xiaoke, Zhang Liang, Wang Junkuo, Li Junxian and Shi Meng as the partial generals.

All the battalions below also promoted a large number of old brothers to come up.

As a result, almost all of the officers were promoted and everyone was happy.

Before the battle was fought, each of them was promoted first, so it is naturally worthy of happiness.

However, veterans like Hou Mochen just smiled and said, for them, they all knew very well that crossing the river this time was actually very dangerous.

"Do you want to bring auxiliary soldiers, civilians?"

This is actually a very troublesome issue.

If there are few soldiers and horses, mainly light cavalry, crossing the river and entering Liao, it will naturally be convenient to maneuver and not easily be surrounded by the Goguryeo people. However, there are also troubles, which is that there is lack of attacking ability and defense ability, and even less supply, and the ability to fight for a long time.

But if you bring more food, grass and supplies, you have to bring a large number of baggage troops and civilian teams. If the baggage troops and civilian teams are brought with you, you have to increase food consumption. This will also drag down the maneuverability of the army and easily be surrounded.

But you can’t have both fish and bear’s paws, you can only choose one of them.

Different choices mean different actions after entering Liaoning.

"I want to hear everyone's opinions first!" Luo Cheng was not in a hurry to express his opinion.

All the generals look at me and I look at you, no one is in a hurry to speak first.

"Chief Secretariat Hou Mochen, why don't you talk about it first?"

Luo Cheng named him.

Hou Mochen did not refuse and smiled, "This time, Your Majesty ordered the general to be the vanguard general and lead his troops to cross the river and enter Liao first. Your Majesty's will is to cross the river to detect the enemy situation, so we have no task of attacking the city this time. Therefore, I think it is better to build a large camp on the west bank of the Liao River, store supplies, and order the infantry to garrison."

Luo Cheng had already guessed his thoughts, "Did Changshi say I only take the light cavalry across the river?"

"That's right."

If you only take a light cavalry across the river, you will not have the intention of fighting. At most, you will be swimming without attacking. This is a real way to go for armed reconnaissance. If the situation is wrong, you will immediately withdraw to the river side. There will be a large camp behind you and infantry will not be dangerous.

"It's too conservative." Luo Cheng shook his head, not liked this plan.

"Then it would be a step further, store the baggage and food on the west bank of the river, and then build a large camp across the east bank of the river, where infantrymen are stationed."

It was indeed a step further, but it was just a concession to the infantry crossing the river.

To defend according to the shore is actually the previous strategy.

"Wei Jishi, where are you?" Luo Cheng asked Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng sat there squinted his eyes, and only laughed loudly when he heard the sound. After a long time, he said, "I think, since we were called a vanguard and crossed the river again. If we don't fight a war or two, and don't pull out a 20-meter fortress, wouldn't we look too timid? I'm sorry for the title of vanguard general that the emperor confers!"

"But it is not so easy to attack the tough and wilderness. There are many mountain cities in Goguryeo, all of which are very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If we stop under the strong city and cannot capture it for a long time, we will easily be surrounded by the nearby Goguryeo people. If we are alone, if we are surrounded and cut off our way back, it will be over."

As a general who grew up in western Liaoning, Murong Changsheng was quite familiar with the situation of the Goguryeo people, and he reminded Wei Zheng.

Everyone wants achievements, but if you give yourself to your achievements for the sake of achievements, it will not be worth it.

Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng laughed and said with a laugh.

"I know this too, but as long as we don't go to big cities such as Xincheng, Gaimu City, and Fuyu City, we can build a few smaller castles, and there is no problem."

"It's not easy to fight in a small city, just like Tongding City. General Luo Ya led the first army at the beginning, but it took several months to finally take it." Yuchi Liang also spoke to remind Wei Zheng that he always felt that this thin and black guy looked a little stupid.

However, Luo Cheng's eyes lit up as he listened.
Chapter completed!