Riding on the war horse and looking at the heartfelt gratitude in the eyes of the people of Nanyang who welcomed him, Li Fei suddenly had an idea, which was to recruit some troops in Nanyang City to make up for some losses in this war.

Thanks to the sudden surprise attack on the rebel camp, the rebels were defeated too quickly, and the entire war was basically a one-sided massacre. The loss of Anton's Iron Cavalry was not large. Only more than 100 people were killed in battle, and more than 900 other minor and serious injuries were also injured. Lan Long's medical team has dealt with the wounded. It is estimated that the final reduction should be around 200.

Such a small amount of casualties is almost negligible if the enemy defeated more than 80,000 victories.

Li Fei not only wanted to make up for the losses of the war, but also wanted to further strengthen his strength. The people of Nanyang City were besieged for half a year and had run out of food. It was the time when he was most desperate. He was relieved of the siege. He was grateful to him from the bottom of his heart. If some soldiers were recruited in Nanyang City, the loyalty of these soldiers to him might not be lower than that of the soldiers recruited by the Andong Protectorate.

He did what he thought of, and Li Fei sent someone to raise the banner of recruiting soldiers that day.

Nanyang is a city of Dazhou, with a population of nearly 200,000. Out of Li Fei's reputation and gratitude to Li Fei for resolving the siege of Nanyang, there were more than 8,000 young and strong people in Nanyang who came to the conquest. However, what Li Fei wanted was a real elite, so he only planned to acquire 2,200 of them.

Although the chance of being successfully selected was only one-quarter, as long as they were successfully selected, Li Fei would pay each of them twenty cents of settlement fees on the spot, and would also receive another three cents of military pay every month in the future. The treatment was really great, and even the soldiers under Lu Jing were jealous.

This time, Li Feiye attacked Wu Lingxun's more than 80,000 rebels, but not only got enough food and grass for 100,000 people to eat for half a month, but also obtained more than 2 million yuan of property. All of them were obtained by Wu Lingxun's robbery along the southern expedition. Even if he gave 20 yuan to each newly recruited recruit, it would be a drop in the bucket.

"Duke Wu also only takes real elite soldiers in the Andong Protectorate?" Lu Jing asked.

"Yes, the key to soldiers is to be elite, not to be too many." Li Fei nodded and said.

"No wonder the Andong Iron Cavalry under Duke Wu's command is so elite, it is not inferior to any iron cavalry in the world!" Lu Jing sighed, and agreed with Li Fei's statement. An Lushan's 150,000 army went south and swept Hebei. In just 30 to 40 days, he crossed the Yellow River and captured the eastern capital Luoyang. In the Battle of Yingchuan, the 100,000 army of the Tang Dynasty was defeated by Wu Lingxun and the Khitan and Xi cavalry, and more than 30,000 elite anti-army forces. When the anti-army just besieged Nanyang City, it only developed to 60,000 people, and he also had 50,000 troops in Nanyang City, but because there were more than 20,000 elite troops in the anti-army, he did not dare to go out of the city to fight. He was besieged for half a year, and so far, he was at the end of his life. If Li Fei had not come to rescue the siege, he would have thought that Nanyang City would not last for another month.

Li Fei stayed in Nanyang City for a full twenty days. In addition to waiting for the Anton Iron Knight soldiers who were injured in the war to recover, he also trained 2,000 new recruits to ride horses.

Because when Li Fei set out for a thousand miles from the Anton Protectorate's Mansion, in order to hurry, he equipped each soldier with two war horses. Therefore, the war horses were absolutely surplus among the Anton Iron Cavalry, but there was no standard weapon armor. The two thousand new soldiers were temporarily wearing armor and weapons stripped from the captured anti-army soldiers.

In just twenty days, of course, it is impossible to train the newly recruited 2,200 recruits into elites, just to let them learn basic horse riding and archery. Next, they will slowly grow into real elites in the bloody battle.

After Li Fei bid farewell to the Shannan Road Jiedushi Lu Jing, he led his army to leave Nanyang City and headed straight for Suiyang in Huainan, preparing to lift the siege of Suiyang.

Suiyang is located about 300 miles southeast of Bianzhou, which is the barrier of the Jianghuai land. The Tang Dynasty defended Suiyang and defended the gateway of the anti-army going south to the south. If the anti-army seized Suiyang, it could enter the Jianghuai land. If it occupied the Jianghuai, it could further cross the river and capture the beautiful Jiangnan, which was no less prosperous than Guanzhong.

You should know that at this time, the Tang Dynasty, Hebei, Luoyang, and Guanzhong were all lost, and Hedong was also devastated. Jiannan, Shannan and others were poor and could hardly receive any taxes. The Tang Dynasty currently only relies on Jianghuai and Jiangnan to provide most of the taxes and food to resist the anti-army. Once both Jianghuai and Jiangnan were captured by the anti-army, the Tang Dynasty might be unable to make up for the situation.

Compared with the siege of Nanyang, the siege of Suiyang is much more tragic because there is a Zhang Xun in Suiyang!

If you want to say that Zhang Xun was originally just a small county magistrate in Qingyuan County, Haozhou, and was not qualified to lead the fight against the anti-army. But Zhang Xun made a legend!

After An Lushan rebelled, he was in a state of power from Youzhou City and quickly crossed the Yellow River to capture the eastern capital Luoyang. He also proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang. He also sent his general Yang Chaozong to lead troops to attack the southeast to attack the Jianghuai, intending to bring the Jianghuai and even the Jiangnan into rule.

As the news came, the prefectures and counties along the way didn't even dare to resist, so they fell in sight.

The anti-army was far from reaching Haozhou, but the governor of Haozhou at that time was ready to surrender to the anti-army, and forced Zhang Xun to be the chief minister to go to pick up Yang Chaozong's anti-army.

Zhang Xun was so angry that he pretended to obey the orders of the governor of Haozhou, but he secretly recruited people. When he arrived in Yongqiu County, there were more than a thousand troops. Taking advantage of the fact that Yongqiu County had just surrendered to the anti-army army, and the large number of anti-army troops had not yet arrived in Yongqiu, he took the lead in occupying Yongqiu County.

The more than a thousand people he recruited in Yongqiu County, together with only three thousand people defended the city, while the rebel army sent by Yang Chaozong to attack Yongqiu had a total of 15,000 people, five times that of Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun relied on these 3,000 people who had not received any training to fight against five times his anti-army in Yongqiu, killing the siege of the city and the anti-army suffered heavy casualties. In the end, he not only defended Yongqiu, but also repelled the anti-army. Zhang Xun became famous in one battle.

Then he continued to fight with the second wave of 40,000 anti-army bloody battles in Yongqiu.

This time it was even worse. Zhang Xun had only two thousand defenders left, and the anti-army was twenty times more powerful than his.

Almost everyone thought that Zhang Xun could never defend Yongqiu this time, but Zhang Xun was surprised and led more than a thousand people into the anti-army camp with a night attack, killing the anti-army panic and in chaos, causing thousands of casualties to the anti-army, and had to retreat and rest.

Later, Zhang Xun repelled the anti-army army several times in Yongqiu, killing and injuring no less than 20,000 anti-army soldiers. Not only did he show the confidence of the Tang army, but he also made his own reputation. Even Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who was still in Chang'an City at that time, heard about Zhang Xun's reputation and personally issued an order to grant Zhang Xun the title of Chief Censor.

In the end, Yang Chaozong, the general of the anti-army, led 70,000 elite anti-army troops to fight. Zhang Xun knew he was defeated, so he immediately gave up Yongqiu and retreated to the more important Suiyang. Now he has been fighting with the anti-army army for nearly three months in Suiyang. With the strength of the 7,000 defenders, he resisted the anti-army siege and even took the initiative to attack the rebel camp from time to time. He killed and injured more than 40,000 rebels under Suiyang City. He was so angry that the rebel general Yang Chaozong was furious, but he was unable to capture Suiyang.

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