In their own military-land system, the military and farmers are separated. Soldiers are drawn from military households and households with men and horses; logistical labor is drawn from farmers. With 40,000 military households, it is entirely possible to draw one soldier from three households, one soldier from two households, and in extreme cases, even one soldier from one household.
If he really wants to go crazy, he can directly draw 10,000 troops and 50,000 Han people into the battlefield. The war potential of Hedong County has been fully mobilized by himself.
However, there is currently nothing that can support such a large demand for conscription, and supporting measures such as weapons, armor, and food are insufficient, so such a large army cannot be supported for the time being.
When this year ends, it will be the third year of Zhongping, and Emperor Ling of Han will die in the sixth year of Zhongping. Although the Han Dynasty is in chaos now, Emperor Ling of Han can still suppress the various aristocratic families and warlords with the help of eunuchs. Once he dies, there will be chaos in the world.
It took him a year to compromise and successfully registered the entire Hedong area and found out the war potential of the entire Hedong area.
And now, he still has four years to train farmers and soldiers, forge weapons and armor, store up grain and smoked meat, ease the conflicts between the Hu and Han peoples, raise more cattle, sheep and horses, and convert all the war potential of the million people he has into real military mobilization capabilities!
The first step is to start with winter training!
Liu Zhuang checked the situation of the Hedong granary. No taxes had been collected for two years, and there was only money coming in but no money going out. It was simply unrealistic to use the existing grain to bring all 40,000 military households for training at once.
But it didn't matter. Liu Zhuang divided the 40,000 military households into eight groups and started training in batches. The primary training of the infantry was very simple: just obey orders. As long as you can maintain a neat square formation and understand the orders passed down in sequence by the military officer - the garrison commander - the team leader - the squad leader - the platoon leader, you can advance, turn left or right on the battlefield without disorder.
Only after practicing this most basic formation well will you be qualified to enter the second stage. Weapons are distributed according to the rules of the first row of sword and shield men, the second row of halberd men, the third row of infantry spears, the fourth row of battle spears, and the fifth row of archers. You must learn how to fight in a dense phalanx and how to use each weapon.
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Chapter 154: Horsemen and Horsemen
Liu Zhuang not only focused on the combat training of the soldiers, but also on the culture and learning of all the officers. He forced all the garrison commanders who managed a hundred people and officers with higher ranks to learn to read and write. If others wanted to learn, they could also do so, and he would not stop them. The teaching of learning was left to several clerks under his command.
In this era, we can no longer expect all soldiers to be educated, but at the very least, these grassroots officers must be able to read and write, and be taught some basic military skills.
The power of the aristocratic families lies mainly in their monopoly on culture and knowledge, not to mention the terrifying Confucianism. Without the aristocratic families, almost no one in the world can read and write. This is fucking terrible. Before movable type printing and papermaking brought down the cost of books, these people were almost invincible. But they didn't dare to try these two technologies - it would be troublesome if they forced the aristocratic families directly to the enemy side. These two technologies can only be used after they unify the Central Plains, subdue the aristocratic families, and leave them with nowhere to run.
Therefore, now Liuzhuang can only break this cultural monopoly, at least in the army, by educating loyal soldiers and officers to read and write.
When Liu Zhuang was in the Han army camp, he was simply a standard Han general. The army gathered in large numbers, lined up in neat battle array, and all training was carried out in an orderly manner.
But when Liu Zhuang ran to the gathering place of the Xianbei people and horses, he changed into a different appearance, riding on Tuoba Yun's back with a bow and arrow, and led everyone to hunt in the nearby forest farm in this autumn when the horses were fat.
The men and herdsmen, who had worked hard for more than half a year, happily followed the great chief Tuoba Yun...ah, now he is called Wanhu, and Liu Fujun went out hunting. They thought it would be the same as before, everyone dispersed and hunted on their own, but they found that Liu Zhuang had issued new regulations. According to the previous thousand households and hundred households, the men and horses were reorganized according to the Han army organization, with five people in a squad, ten people in a squad, fifty people in a team, one hundred people in a village, five hundred people in a song, and two thousand five hundred people in a battalion.
Afterwards, Liu Zhuang issued detailed orders to all the teams, organizing the Xianbei cavalry and the Han cavalry together, dividing them into eight major parts, and surrounding the eight directions of the forest farm respectively, encircling the hunting grounds tightly.
Then these eight parts began to be divided into units of hundreds of people: your village is responsible for searching for prey, your village is responsible for scaring the prey from the front, your village is responsible for driving away the prey from the side, scaring the prey and making it enter the ambush circle responsible for by others, and everyone rushes forward to complete the final hunt.
The Han cavalry or Xianbei troops stationed in a certain direction that caught the most prey would be rewarded, and if they let the prey escape, they would be punished.
The Xianbei people thought this method was quite interesting, so they started to play with it. Later, they found that this method was indeed very efficient in hunting. When they spotted a herd of deer, everyone rushed forward, some blocking the back and others blocking the wings. The frightened and terrified animals rushed headfirst into the defense circle that had been deployed long ago, and they were all caught in one fell swoop.
Although I usually do this myself, I have never done it on such a large scale, hunting with so many people. If I succeed once, I can almost wipe out a herd of deer in the woods and grasslands.
However, if you want to play this way, you need extremely tacit cooperation among all the cavalry and very efficient means of communication, otherwise it will be impossible to succeed. The Han cavalry had long adapted to the discipline. Although they were not good at hunting, their success rate was higher than that of humans and horses, which made the Xianbei thousand households very unhappy. So they followed suit and coordinated the garrisons, cooperating with each other, and the orders were passed down from the Sima of other departments, the military officers, and the garrison chiefs one level down.
Liu Zhuang also knew that the Xianbei people were used to being free, and it would be impossible for them to get used to standing at attention and marching in formation all of a sudden. So he started with hunting to let them know the importance of coordination among large armies, and gradually establish a military command structure during their favorite hunting activity.
After several hunting bouts, the communication, coordination, and tacit understanding between the various troops were deepening. The Xianbei troops and the Han cavalry were also comparing their battle results and archery skills with each other, and the friendship between comrades was also accumulating.
Through hunting battles one after another, Liu Zhuang not only gradually tempered the scattered tribes of people and horses, who had no idea of unity, into a real steel knife from a piece of high-quality iron ore, but also made the Xianbei people and the Han cavalry more familiar with each other and have a tacit understanding through this competitive hunting and martial arts performance.
After four months of military training, the number of troops that Liu Zhuang can mobilize is already considerable, thanks to the two iron mountains rewarded by the emperor and nearby craftsmen. Although he still lacks armor, he no longer lacks weapons, especially arrows.
Now, although he still holds the official title of General of the Central Army, he has a total of eight battalions of Han troops with 20,000 men under his command.
Two battalions of troop and horse, five thousand men.
There are four battalions of the aristocratic families with 10,000 men, and the number of combat soldiers in Hedong County has reached 35,000. Liu Zhuang has 5,000 sets of armor, which means that the armor equipment rate of the 25,000 people directly under his command has reached one-fifth. The aristocratic families have a higher rate than himself. After all, these people are really wealthy and have accumulated more experience.
Liuzhuang has temporarily stopped expanding the army. The number is already very large. If the army continues to expand, the food supply will not be enough. Moreover, the training has just begun. If the army is expanded blindly, the training will not keep up. Let's leave it this way for now.
February of the third year of Zhongping. (March 186, 3 AD)
After the third New Year after arriving at the end of the Han Dynasty, they trained the soldiers for several more months. The slack farming season was over and a large number of soldiers were disbanded to do farm work. After a winter of training with drums and gongs, the entire Hedong County resumed farming, except for some cavalry.
The Bingtian system, which was copied from the Fubing system, can certainly provide a large number of soldiers, but they are ultimately peasant soldiers, so one still has to set up a professional army that is separated from production and trains all year round.
Liu Zhuang pondered and adjusted his army. He first pulled out a thousand cavalrymen from the White Horse Camp to form his own guards. These battle-hardened cavalrymen were veterans who had followed Liu Zhuang from Yanmen and fought in every battle. Their loyalty, combat effectiveness, and faith were unquestionable. They became full-time soldiers, and after the White Horse Camp was replenished with soldiers, it became half-farmer and half-soldier like the other camps.
Later, Liu Zhuang noticed that the Xianbei people had suffered heavy losses. The increasingly fierce battle for pastures in the Yinshan Mountains and the great battle in Hedong last year had left many foals orphaned. When the various Xianbei tribes asked for food, a lot of food was for these foals that were not yet able to take care of themselves. The Xianbei people also had the tradition of taking hostages.
Liu Zhuang suddenly thought of the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire.
The Janissaries were a professional army composed of foreigners. The Ottoman Empire levied blood taxes in the foreign regions and vassal states they conquered, and selected young local children to join the army. These children were trained by Ottoman officers from an early age and underwent 19 rigorous training and assessments including religion, culture, swordsmanship, musketry, horseback archery, etc. After completing all the training and assessments, they became qualified Janissaries.
It seemed that he could also play the same way. Liu Zhuang first helped each household to take over the burden of taking care of these orphans, and asked every leader of a hundred or a thousand households to hand over one of his children to Anyi as a hostage. In addition, the Tuoba tribe, which was already loyal to him, also obtained a thousand absolutely loyal soldiers as his direct guards - although more than half of them were children.
But it didn't matter. I taught these children Chinese, Chinese law, Chinese customs, and Confucianism at night, and taught them lance, bow, sword, javelin, etc. during the day. When these horsemen children grew up, I treated all the orphans and hostages like my father. I provided them with meat and milk for every meal to maintain nutrition, and let these children grow up together with the children of the Thunder Warriors.
As long as he raised these centaur children, he would have a group of extremely loyal and capable Han-style centaur guards under his command. One hundred and twenty Thunder Warriors, one thousand Han cavalry, and one thousand Xianbei centaur constituted the initial form of his guards. The Han cavalry leader Zhao Yun and the centaur leader Tuoba Yun also became his two guards captains.
At this moment, Liu Zhuang, who had been quiet in Anyi for almost half a year, was also surprised to find that at a New Year's party, Lu Bu and Guo Huai both had symptoms of dry heaving and nausea. After consulting a military doctor, Liu Zhuang was surprised to find that both of his wives were pregnant and he was going to be a father!
Chapter 155: Expanding Ambition
Liu Zhuang did a great job in Hedong County. The soldier-farming system was very effective, so there would be more grain in the autumn harvest this year. The policy of resettlement of men and horses was perfectly implemented. He reached a reconciliation with the aristocratic families and united them together. He even created the Janissaries, a professional cavalry team, and even killed two people in the stomachs of Lu Bu and Guo Huai.
However, in Guanzhong, the situation of Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song was not so good. The two most capable Han generals of that era fought the rebels in Liangzhou for more than a year but failed to defeat the rebels. When Liu Zhuang received the news from the front line of Liangzhou, he found that Huangfu Song had even been dismissed last year because of the unfavorable war situation. The court appointed Zhang Wen as the General of Chariots and Cavalry and Governor-General, and asked Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian and others to continue to suppress the rebellion in Liangzhou.
At the same time, Geng Bi was sent as the new governor of Liangzhou to guard Hanyang County, the last part of Liangzhou that had not fallen for the empire.
It is not Huangfu Song's fault that the war was not going well and he did nothing. The rebellion in Liang Province caused a big chaos. These rebels were not peasants who had never fought in a war like the Yellow Turban Army, nor were they loosely organized bandits like the Xianbei people. Instead, they were the Red Necks and Han Border Army stationed in Liang Province who were forced to rebel by the Han Dynasty's policies!
Their fighting power was originally comparable to that of Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song's troops. Both sides wore the same armor, held the same weapons, deployed in the same formation, used the same tactics, and shouted at the same time, "Blood sacrifice to the blood god! Skulls sacrifice to the skull throne!!!" The scene of the fight was extremely bloody and terrifying.
Arrows rained down from the sky, cavalrymen were charging into the air, and the Xiliang cavalrymen raised their spears and rode their horses, confronting each other head on, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.
Although they were evenly matched in military strength, in terms of politics and economy, it was the Han army led by Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo that was at a disadvantage.
At that time, the Yellow Turban Army almost swept across the entire Jizhou, but the fortresses and big cities where the noble families stored food and supplies were not breached. When Lu Zhi's royal division arrived, these noble families immediately brought soldiers and food to welcome the royal division. These local tyrants put in 200% effort to take back their land from the Yellow Turban Army. Lu Zhi never encountered any problem with food and supplies and he could attack wherever he wanted.
The only forces the Yellow Turban Army could mobilize were the peasants of Jizhou and some low-level soldiers who could not survive.
So, what about the Liangzhou nobles? You see, these rebel leaders look very familiar. The second in command is Han Sui, the former Liangzhou official, and the first in command is Bian Zhang, the former Xin'an County Magistrate.
These Liangzhou nobles and court officials have all defected to the side of the rebels and held important positions. These redneck nobles, who were at the bottom of the Han Dynasty's contempt chain, have become kings and leaders of the rebellion.
After Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song went deep into Liang Province, they found that they could not get any support from the local nobles. Liang Province was already poor, and they had to cross the Long Mountains, making the transportation of food and grass extremely difficult. They had clearly won the battle several times, but because the food and grass could not be transported, they had to retreat from the desolate Liang Province to the rich Guanzhong to raise troops. The battle line was always pulled against each other on the dividing line between Guanzhong and Liang Province.
What’s even more outrageous is that even in terms of morality, the Han army didn’t have any upper hand. Under the guidance of the local Confucian scholars, the Liangzhou rebels put forward the united front ideology of “clearing the emperor’s side”, saying that the Han emperor was good, but was deceived by the eunuchs. We will march into Luoyang today! Kill the eunuchs! Explain the pros and cons to your majesty! The enemy was sent by the eunuchs to kill us, and we, the rebels, are the righteous side!!!
Although this reason was ridiculous, Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song actually agreed with it in their hearts, and the soldiers under their command also nodded one after another. However, they did not dare to open their defense line and let these crazy Liangzhou compatriots pass through.
In March of this year, Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye and Wuwei counties, which had not heard any news for a year and a half, were isolated and helpless. They were trapped until now and had no choice but to surrender. The road to the Western Regions was completely cut off.
Emperor Liu Hong of Han felt that his headache was getting more and more painful. The Yellow Turban Rebellion had wiped out his treasury, and the Liang Province Rebellion had made his already weak finances even worse. After fighting in Liang Province for a year, he had been forced to levy heavy taxes and continuously transfer soldiers from other places to fill the gap. Not only did he fail to recover Liang Province, but he also brought new disasters to other areas that had been subject to heavy taxes and extortion.
After all, with Liu Hong's completely collapsed grassroots control ability, if he wanted to collect one copper coin from the grassroots, the people would actually have to pay twenty-one copper coins, one of which went to the emperor and twenty to the officials at all levels who were responsible for collection.
The emperor thought he was just making things difficult for the people, but when he actually carried it out, he ended up forcing the people to die.
In May, Liu Hong once again dispatched reinforcements to Liangzhou. This time, he sent Gongsun Zan, the governor of Zhuo County and commander of Yanshan. Before going to Liangzhou, he had to draw 3,000 troops from the surrendered Wuhuan tribe, and together with her original troops, go to Xiliang to quell the rebellion.
As a result, the 3,000-man conscription quota this time also made the Wuhuan people very worried. Are you going to stop? It’s okay to recruit soldiers to fight the Yellow Turbans, after all, the Yellow Turbans attacked their doorstep.
You're attacking Liangzhou and also conquering our Wuhuan people? Liangzhou is in the westernmost part of the empire, and Wuhuan is in the easternmost part of the empire!
However, the Wuhuan were not as powerful as the Southern Xiongnu after all. Seeing that Gongsun Zan was good at fighting, they had no choice but to accept the situation with a knife at their necks. As a result, the group ran out of food halfway through the journey. They didn't know whether the food was embezzled or the warehouse was originally out of stock. In any case, Liu Hong's grassroots management ability was not enough to find out.
Gongsun Zan's troops could still bear it, but the 3,000 Wuhuan troops who had come south to Han just to live a good life were not happy. They were already annoyed by being forcibly conscripted to fight in a place thousands of miles away, and now they were not given any food? They immediately disbanded and rioted, forcing Gongsun Zan to quell the rebellion on the spot and unable to go to Liangzhou for support.
After the Southern Xiongnu were forced to remain neutral due to heavy taxes and levies by the Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan people, who were also affiliated with the Han Dynasty, began to roar that they could not live like this and clamored for a separation.
This is what it's like to govern an aging empire on its deathbed. Things happen one after another, troubles pile up on top of each other, one by one, and chain reactions continue to destroy the internal structure of the Han Dynasty. Since the collapse of the first domino, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there are now countless collapsed cards on the table.
At this moment, Liangzhou had become a huge wound on the body of the Han Empire that seemed like it would never heal, and it was constantly bleeding the dying seriously ill old man.
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Soon, it was the autumn harvest season, and Liuzhuang's military farming system finally began to harvest grain. This year was a good year with good weather and good harvests. Each household harvested 200 to 300 shi of grain. The military households only had to pay three-tenths of the tax, and harvested three million shi of grain.
The 80,000 farmers needed to pay four-tenths of the tax, and harvested 8 million shi of grain in one go, which added up to a total of 12 million shi of grain and fodder.
Each household also handed over an average of 100 sheep. These were ewes that were too old to reproduce, weak rams, or those that had died of old age. They were slaughtered, pickled, and sent over with their furs as tax.
But it didn't matter. The purpose of collecting the tax was to obtain resources such as meat and sheepskin. Liu Zhuang ordered his men to kill them all, and preserved the meat by smoking and salting. He mixed the meat with other food and used it as military rations. After an extremely complicated operation, he obtained about one million stones of dried meat.
The huge amount of food instantly filled up Anyi, the capital of Hedong. Based on the ratio that one stone of food was enough to feed ten soldiers with severe physical exertion for a day, the 12 million stones of food would be enough to feed his 35,000 soldiers for ten years.
Of course, if we want to fight a war and transport food to the front line, this amount of food is far from enough. The people who transport the food back and forth by mules, donkeys, and pack horses will consume about 70% of the food. The farther the front line is, the more exaggerated the consumption will be.
However, if it is a shorter expedition, these food supplies can support one or two years.
Of course, in order to prevent the situation where too much tax was collected from the people below, Liu Zhuang directly told everyone the tax rate. Under the military-field system, many farmers were even village heads and team leaders. They learned to read and write while training with the army in the past two years. It was not easy for the officials in charge of taxation to collect more.
To be on the safe side, Liu Zhuang also placed his own confidants in each county. The tax collection officials consisted of a local aristocratic family in Hedong, a relative of an aristocratic family in Bingzhou, and a soldier who was originally a member of the army. The three of them supervised each other to ensure the normal implementation of tax collection activities.
Not only that, if someone is overcharged, anyone can immediately go to the nearby police to report it. Once discovered, they will be severely punished. With such a multi-pronged approach, the cost of corruption becomes very high. You must deal with people from two other different factions before you can be corrupt, and the food you earn may not be enough to bribe people.
Among these three people, there is even one who is a farmer-soldier who directly stands on the side of the local farmers.
What's more, among the people you want to collect more, there are quite a few soldiers who have actually used knives and chopped people. If you play like before, not only will the governor chop himself, these peasant soldiers can draw their knives and chop themselves into pieces.
Liu Zhuang happily calculated the food and fodder. His ambition grew with the increase of the soldiers under his command and the food in the warehouse.
This year is the third year of Zhongping, which is 186 AD. I can still save food and grass for three years. By the time the world is in chaos, I will already have well-trained soldiers and sufficient food!
In the past, I just wanted to survive in these troubled times, and didn’t seek fame and fortune among the other princes.
And now, I am occupying a strategic position in Hedong, with the advantage of mountains and rivers, rich people, tens of thousands of cavalrymen, the civil officials such as Jia Xu, Wang Ling, and Jia Kui, the military officials such as Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, and Zhang He, as well as a large number of military chiefs. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao don't even have their own soldiers at this moment!
With such a huge first-mover advantage, why can't I compete with them in the Central Plains?
Chapter 156: Qiang Woman Ma Teng
For the next period of time, Liu Zhuang was actively preparing for war. Now he could not buy armor and weapons at all. The Han Dynasty had been in chaos for three years, and even a fool knew that something bad was bound to happen. Everyone was accumulating weapons. Weapons and armor could only be made with his own two iron mountains, and his money could only be used to buy food, fodder and horses.
Lu Bu and Guo Huai have been resting to take care of their pregnancies. The silk brocade half-covers the graceful figures of the two women, and their bulging pregnant bellies, which look quite unique. The two concubines who were transformed into imperial guards, as well as Tuoba Yun and Yuwen Tai, have not had any news about their bellies, which makes Liu Zhuang a little puzzled.
Finally, on October 31, the third year of Zhongping, Lu Bu gave birth to a son and Guo Huai gave birth to a daughter, which made Liu Zhuang very happy. He hugged his children and wife and shared the joy of family.
The boy born by Lu Bu was very tall and weighed eight times that of other children. The midwives were so frightened that they almost lost their grip on the baby. He perfectly inherited his mother's terrifying physique. The daughter born by Guo Huai was quite normal. After much thought, Liu Zhuang named the two children at the full moon banquet one month later.
He hoped that the boy, his eldest son, would inherit his and his mother's unparalleled bravery, so he gave him the name of Liu Yu, the super-powerful war god emperor in later generations.
The girl's name was thought up by Guo Huai. She was quite stubborn about naming her first child, and finally decided to name her Liu Yao.
In this way, the family spent another New Year happily. Time turned to the fourth year of Zhongping. When the Liangzhou War lasted for the fourth year, the Liangzhou War seemed to see hope of victory again - the bandit leader Bian Zhang died of illness last winter. The entire Liangzhou rebels were leaderless and failed to elect a new leader.
The new governor of Liangzhou: Geng Bi thought he could profit from it and kill all the bandits who had lost their leader and were in disarray, trying to re-establish the central government's rule in Liangzhou. Even though there were a total of ten counties in Liangzhou, and now in the Han Dynasty, there was only one Hanyang County in the hands of him, the governor of Liangzhou.
"Come on! Governor, you are playing with fire!"
Below the seat of the governor, a Qiang woman said in extreme shock. She was tall and had a hot body, with a pair of mature and plump breasts that lifted the Han official robe high, forming a mouth-drying black arc in the air. Countless golden magic patterns were entwined on her violet chest, forming an exquisite picture, like a four-winged eagle flapping its wings in flight, with four gorgeous golden wings evenly spread on the two huge breasts, drawing moving arcs along with the trend of the snow-capped peaks.
Not only that, the four-winged tattoo on her chest also exudes a faint golden halo, which can be seen through the black official robe. The crispy violet flesh next to it is also faintly visible in the light of the golden patterns, which is particularly attractive.
If you look closely, you will find that on her smooth jade back and her lower abdomen where her legs are crossed, there are also two light-cast four-wing patterns, one large and one small.
The Light-Forged Qiang people, probably because they live on a plateau, are too close to the Thirty-Three Heavens. Under the immersion in high concentrations of magic, their magical talent is even better than that of the Han people. Many Qiang people are born with exquisite and complex tattoos on their bodies, and they emit all kinds of light, which is a symbol of blessing from all the gods in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
"Military Commander, why don't you tell me?"
Geng Bi spoke of Ma Teng's official title with dissatisfaction.
"The leader of the bandits did die of illness, and the bandit army is indeed in chaos, but we are also in chaos!"
Ma Teng slowly stood up from his seat. The structure of the Qiang woman's feet, with their recurved sheep's hooves, made her look like she was wearing high heels. Her hips involuntarily tilted back and her huge breasts thrust forward, showing off her sexy and hot perfect body to the fullest.
The charming sheep's tail that stretches out from her plump and round buttocks like peaches is the icing on the cake, making people's eyes stay on the buttocks and linger on.
"The armies of General Chariot and Cavalry and General Suppressing the Enemy have been staying in Guanzhong due to lack of food and fodder. They have been unable to enter Liangzhou to fight for a long time. The supplies from Guanzhong cannot be delivered to Liangzhou at all and are eaten up by General Chariot and Cavalry. We have been fighting on our own for the past few years!
Last year, Governor Gongsun wanted to bring a group of Youzhou reinforcements, but they ran out of food just a few days after leaving Youzhou, and all the Wuhuan troops they recruited rebelled. For such a large empire, there was not enough supplies to send reinforcements to Liangzhou. With the troops we have, how can we fight against the rebels???"
"It doesn't matter. We are weak, but the divided enemy is even weaker! As long as we capture a few enemy cities and get food from them, we will become stronger and stronger, and the enemy will become weaker and weaker. In the long run, won't we win? Pass on my orders! Invite the troops! Invite the troops!!!"
Liangzhou Governor Geng Bi said nonchalantly.
"Absolutely not! This is something we absolutely cannot do at this stage! Governor!"
Ma Teng was shocked when he heard this and tried hard to persuade him.
"How did Liangzhou rebel? The imperial court spent money without limit, the government was corrupt, and the rebels included not only Qiang people but also Han people! They were forced to rebel! Now you want to rely on the enemy for food, isn't that just robbing the people's food? You will completely push them to the side of the rebels!"
After being opposed by Ma Teng several times in a row, Liangzhou Governor Geng Bi looked at his staff and felt a little embarrassed. The previous Liangzhou Governor had been beheaded for making such a big mess during his tenure! Huangfu Song was dismissed because he did not produce any results for several months! If I don't show some achievements quickly, I'm afraid I will be the next one to be finished!
