"Self-reliance is impossible, either Linghu Chong's trick to surrender, or..." Song Qingshu fell into deep thought, "Either something happened in Sichuan."
"A change?" The girls looked at each other, not knowing what he meant.
"Now there is too little information to judge, Ping'er, you arrange the secret agents of Huanyiyuan to investigate what happened in Sichuan recently, especially how Wu Xi is different from the usual ones." Song Qingshu said.
"Okay, I'll go now." Wanyan Ping nodded, turned around and left.
"Hey, wait a minute," Song Qingshu stopped her, "There is one more thing, you can arrange the place where Pucha Ahut and his son are under house arrest later, and then go to the prison to release them."
Wan Yanping said with a half-smile, "You took advantage of Qiucao, do you want to do something to make up for it?"
Song Qingshu had a black line: "She is also your good sister, don't you want to help?"
"Qiucao did come to me a few times, but I never let go because I was worried about ruining your big business." Wanyan Ping sighed, "If I knew you were going to let them go in the end, I might as well let them go earlier. Selling autumn grass is a favor."
While talking, he sighed and left, leaving several people in the room looking at each other.
Song Qingshu's old face turned hot, he felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly changed the subject: "We can't passively wait for the Huanyiyuan to investigate, we need to use two prongs, send an army to test and attack, and then we will know whether he really surrendered or pretended to surrender."
"Who should we send? Now Pusan Zhongyi and Heshi Lie Zhining are leading the main force of the imperial court to guard against the Deng and Tang prefectures on Huainan West Road, and Pusan Anzhen is leading an army to confront the Red Coat Army. Reluctantly, if you take the initiative to attack..." Ge Bi said with a worried face.
Song Qingshu said confidently: "I already have a suitable candidate. How is the formation of the loyal army that Dai Qisi asked you to form?"
Dai Qisi naturally knew what he was thinking, and hurriedly replied: "Some brave men in the army have been selected, and a lot of middle-level officers have been promoted, but I have not been able to find a suitable commander, and the training time of the entire army is too long. Not long, I'm afraid..."
"I have already found the commander. As for the training time is not long, it is not a problem. Since they are all brave men selected in the army, naturally they cannot train like ordinary soldiers." Song Qingshu looked southwest, "The best training The battlefield will always be a real battlefield, and only through the tempering of blood and fire can a real tiger and wolf master be trained."
"Will going directly to the battlefield cause them heavy losses?" Ge Bi asked with some concern.
"Under normal circumstances, it is unwise for them to go directly to the battlefield, but now they are only asked to test the attack. If the surrender is false, they will retreat immediately; Ordinary wars are much smaller," Song Qingshu paused, and said in a deep voice, "If such difficulties cannot be overcome, there is no need for their army to exist."
The purpose of his establishment of the Loyalty Army is to have an elite among the elite who is loyal to him, and with the leadership of Monk Wanyan Chen, a historically famous general, it is impossible to do this even if you don’t believe it.
"Take me to the barracks of the Loyalty Army first." During this period of time, he had been running around, and he hadn't had time to see this army that would belong to him in the future.
"Okay, the loyalty army's barracks is ten miles west of the city. Shall I go and see it now?" Dai Qisi also had some excitement in her eyes. After all, this matter was handled by her alone. If she does well, she can elevate herself in the other party's heart status.
Although she has a stunning beauty that can overwhelm all living beings, she is not used to serving others with color, so it is impossible for her to take the initiative to hook up with Song Qingshu, so she can only prove her worth in other ways. The more the other party values her, In the future, it will be more certain to persuade him to send troops to help the Persian General Forum.
"Okay, it's not too late." Song Qingshu knows that the opportunity is fleeting, if he can't seize the opportunity of the other party's "surrender", if something happens to him later, it will be too late to regret.
Because Ge Bi had to pretend to be the emperor and sit in the palace, it was naturally inconvenient to go with her. After saying goodbye to her, Song Qingshu and Dai Qisi rode to the military camp in the west of the city.
The two rode horses side by side, Monk Wanyan Chen and many guards stood in front of and behind them, faintly protecting them in the middle, Dai Qisi took this opportunity and whispered to Song Qingshu: "According to the selection criteria you proposed before, now the Zhongxiao Army only selects It has reached 3,000, but after the fighting in the south is over, there should be more sources of troops to choose from."
"Soldiers are good but not many, three thousand is enough." Song Qingshu knew that now that the Southern Song Dynasty was in the Northern Expedition, many of the main forces of the Jin Dynasty court had been transferred to the south, and it was very rare for her to be able to select three thousand elites.
As for the number of soldiers, as a traveler of later generations, it is natural to know that in ancient wars, the more the number, the better. The kind of battles that frequently mobilize hundreds of thousands or millions of troops often end in failure.
With the communication conditions in ancient times, hundreds of thousands of people could not command effectively at all. Often the forward troops were defeated, and the follow-up troops had not had time to rush to the battlefield. Then they would flee after seeing the defeated forward troops, because fear is contagious. There will be far more people who die from trampling on each other than those who die in battle.
Another fatal factor is logistics. The most important thing in war is logistics. Once there is a problem with logistics, even the most elite troops will lose their combat effectiveness in an instant. With the ancient transportation conditions, it is impossible to supply hundreds of thousands of troops with food. Back then, when the Sui Dynasty was as rich as the Sui Dynasty, millions of troops went to Korea, but because of the long supply line, the government forced people to rebel against the people. Empires crumbled.
Therefore, the war intentions of hundreds of thousands of troops in history were either exaggerated by one side, or all the logistics and civilians were included, and the real combat troops were only a fraction or even a tenth.
Therefore, in ancient times, an elite army of tens of thousands of people was the best choice, taking into account combat effectiveness, flexibility and logistical pressure, and it was far more effective than hundreds of thousands of explosive troops.
Although there are only 3,000 members of the Loyalty Army today, after the baptism of blood and fire, these 3,000 elites are the seeds of the Loyalty Army, the skeleton of the Loyalty Army. will fall.
Dai Qisi then introduced to him the middle and high-level officers of the Zhongyi Army: "Now there are a total of six deputy commanders in the Zhongyi Army, and they are all selected according to your requirements. They are talented and have always been frustrated. The first one is Servant Feihan, he used to be the Deputy Envoy of the Near Servant Bureau and the Commander of the Gongwei Zhidu. He was accused and finally dismissed because he discussed privately with others about the affairs of the Imperial Guard. He was known for his military exploits when he served on the frontier, and he is a rare talent."
"People from the Pusan family..." Song Qingshu frowned, "What's the relationship between him and Pusan Zhongyi?"
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