"Junhou."

After getting the permission of Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, who was in the tent, Chu Junxiao strode Niyu into the tent, clasped his fists towards the former, and said worriedly: "Last night, there were hundreds more soldiers taking advantage of the night.

Run away... Your Majesty, you can't go on like this."

After hearing this, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, who was sitting in the main seat in the tent, took a long breath and rubbed his forehead with his hands tiredly.

To be fair, for Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, who now has more than 200,000 new Chu soldiers under his command, the escape of hundreds of soldiers at night is actually nothing, but he can't bear to do this every night.

Hundreds of people fled in one night, thousands of people in ten nights, and twenty or thirty thousand people in a month. What kind of soldiers are they training? You must know that the Chu soldiers who have either escaped or defected to Sima Shang of Song County so far are compared to

The total number of casualties caused by Xinyang Jun Xiangpei's recent attack on Feng County is even higher.

Just kidding: Sima Shang, the governor of the Song Dynasty in Wei State, used his words to say that he was worth thousands of troops!

And the most terrible thing is that when the recruits escaped, they took away the armor and weapons distributed to them.

According to the exact information obtained by Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, Sima Shang deliberately spread the news and used the interests of fields, houses, positions, etc. as bait to induce the Chu soldiers to flee with their weapons and armor, or to join his army and become Wei soldiers.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty, or the armaments sold in Feng County and Changyi - Sima Shang specially sent people to buy these Chu army armaments.

Compared with the soldiers escaping, this is the most intolerable thing for Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei.

After all, the main purpose of this visit is to train troops. Therefore, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei issued a set of armor and weapons to each recruit. The problem is that the quantity of these armaments is limited - the main source of these armaments is

In previous years, the armaments purchased from Wei State, South Korea, and recently purchased from Qi State, although

It can’t be said to be sophisticated weapons and equipment, but it is still armaments after all. At the moment when the Chu State is planning to expand its army on a large scale, losing a set of armaments is a huge loss, let alone those new soldiers who took the armaments and equipment to defect to the Song Dynasty.

Sima Shang of the county, this is simply an unforgivable act of treason in the eyes of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei!

After thinking for a moment, Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, said in a deep voice: "Go and collect all the weapons and equipment of the new army in the camp. From now on, only before going to war, will the weapons and equipment be distributed to the soldiers going out."

Niyu was stunned when he heard this, frowned and said: "Your Majesty, although this can reduce the loss of military equipment, it still cannot prevent soldiers from escaping. The general thinks that your Majesty should report this matter to the king...

"

"Are you teaching me how to do something?"

Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei glanced at Niyu.

After hearing this, Niyu's face froze, and he realized that the person in front of him was not Xiang Mo, the general who once valued him highly, but Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei.

"I won't dare." Niyu lowered his head and said with some fear.

Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei took a deep look at Niyu for a few times, then let out a long sigh and said seriously: "Don't be impatient, young man. Do you think I agree with Chu Shui Lord's so-called military training strategy? I

Let me tell you, in my opinion, Chu Shuijun’s strategy for training soldiers is pure shit! No, it’s worse than shit!”

Niyu raised his head and looked at Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei in surprise, and then asked in confusion: "Jun Hou, why are you..."

"Because there is no other way."

Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei stood up, paced around the tent with his hands behind his back, and sighed: "Now that the Wei State has privately controlled South Korea and the Wei State, and annexed the Lu State, you can do the math, and now the King of Wei will

How many soldiers and horses can be mobilized?... Let me tell you, the Wei army is at least 400,000, plus the Wei army, 100,000, the Lu army, 100,000, and the Korean army, 200,000, a total of 800,000 soldiers can be used for the expedition!...

Eight hundred thousand!"

"..."

"As for Chu, we suffered huge losses in the last war. At present, Chudong only has 300,000 regular troops. Even if we add the armies of Chuxi and Yue, Qi's army can barely scrape together six soldiers.

One hundred thousand troops. There is still a gap of 200,000 regular troops... And this does not include the battle losses of the soldiers of Wei and Chu. You also know that the war between our country Chu and Wei has been mutually exclusive in recent years.

The loss is more than one to three, that is, if one Wei soldier is killed, at least three of our soldiers must be sacrificed. This means that our country must expand the number of regular troops to more than one million as soon as possible in one or two years.

And then withstood the attack of the "Allied Forces of the Four Kingdoms of Wei, Han, Wei, and Lu"... Do you have a way to create hundreds of thousands of regular troops from scratch in just two years?"

"I..." Niyu was speechless.

Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, sighed and said: "If I can come up with a better and faster strategy for training troops, I will definitely report it to the king and ask him to remove Lord Chu Shui's stupid strategy for training troops.

but……"

Having said this, he shook his head.

Niyu was silent after hearing this, and after a while he said tentatively: "Actually, I think that if the Wei State really plans to attack Chu in two years... two years is actually enough time for Chu to train its troops."

Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei smiled when he heard this, shook his head and said: "No, you are wrong. The one to two years I said is just an estimate, and does not refer to the two years that my country will have. It is already five years.

It’s already been a month, and the worst outcome is that the Wei State may start trying to attack Chu after this year’s autumn harvest. In other words, there are only four or five months.”

"Four, four or five months?"

The fish's expression changed slightly.

Since the beginning of this year, he had always heard from Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei that "Wei may attack Chu in one or two years," so he subconsciously felt that Chu still had two years to prepare for war.

Yang Jun Xiang Pei reminded him, and he suddenly realized: It turns out that Chu State does not have that long to prepare for war. Maybe Wei State will use troops against Chu State after this autumn harvest.

At this moment, he suddenly realized: No wonder Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei was scolding Chu Shui Lord for his army training strategy that was worse than shit, but at the same time he was training new soldiers according to this military training strategy. It turned out that there was no other way.

"At this point, we can only take one step at a time... We will do our best according to fate."

Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei said in a deep voice.

At this point, the confusion in Minyu's heart was relieved, and he quickly clasped his fists and said: "The general will immediately order the collection of armaments for the new soldiers in the camp."

"Well." Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei nodded, and then warned: "Remember, ask the generals of each battalion to strengthen the soldiers' beliefs, and make sure that every soldier has a deep understanding that we are doing this for the sake of the entire

Fight against Chu." At this point, his tone weakened slightly: "I hope this will reduce the number of deserters who go to that damn Sima Shang."

"Yes!" Niyu clasped his fists and left.

Looking at the departing figure of the heroic general Niyu, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei secretly sighed in his heart.

Although he asked Minyu to instill in his soldiers the thoughts of "defending the home and the country" and similar "sacrifice oneself for the country", he himself did not have much confidence in this.

After all, in this era, only a small part of the civilian class may truly understand the concept of "country" and its corresponding meaning. The vast majority of civilians have lived in their hometowns their entire lives and have never been able to read or write.

, have never seen the whole world, and they don’t even know who the monarch of their own country is. You talk to them about the meaning of the country?

Perhaps for this group of civilians, it doesn't matter who rules them at all. As long as the policies introduced by the country do not drive them to a dead end, they will live peacefully in their hometowns like their ancestors did for generations.

Why are the people of Song County united? Why did they still resist after the country was overthrown by Wei? Mainly because of "insight" - they have the concept of country in their cognition, and they are afraid that Wei will not be as tolerant and kind as the former King of Song

Treat them.

But it is a pity that due to the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Chu State, most of the civilian class are backward and ignorant, so that these civilians only have "ego" in their hearts - that is, their own interests, and lack the belief to sacrifice for the country.

Or to put it simply, these people have never even thought about sacrificing themselves for the country.

And this also reflects a problem from the side, that is, civilians are the cornerstone of a country, but they cannot replace the aristocracy and the bureaucratic class and become the pillars of a country.

"Do your best and let fate depend on you."

Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei sighed secretly.

However, even though Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei had considered all aspects, he still could not completely eliminate the problem of deserters.

Compared with Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei who is worried, Sima Shang, the governor of Song County of Wei State who is currently stationed in Feng County, has been smiling all over his face recently.

Think about it, after all, during this period, dozens or hundreds of well-dressed Chu soldiers would rush to Feng County to surrender almost every day.

Especially when the general Ni Yu and others led an army to attack Feng County, the battle went to the end. Maybe the number of Chu soldiers who died in the battle was not as many as the soldiers of Sima Shang who surrendered after the war.

No, in just over a month, more than ten thousand Chu soldiers surrendered to Sima Shang. These people came with their families or in groups to join Sima Shang.

Even though Sima Shang eliminated those soldiers who were unwilling to join the army, he still got more than 5,000 Chu soldiers.

Just by talking, he picked up an army of 5,000 men with complete armor for nothing. Sima Shang simply laughed from ear to ear.

At this time, he no longer regarded the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei as a threat. On the contrary, in his eyes, the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei were just a piece of plump fresh meat.

He has been thinking repeatedly about a question recently, that is, how to get more Chu soldiers to defect to Song County.

Yes, Song County was very large, and Wei King Zhao Run also gave Sima Shang corresponding authority, which allowed Sima Shang to use the land of Song County to lure Chu soldiers without any scruples.

Because of this, a series of hilarious things happened in Song County, where the Wei and Chu armies were clearly facing each other.

For example, a Chu army scout ran into a Wei army scout. After some exchanges between the two sides, the Chu army scouts resolutely joined the Wei army scouts and returned to Feng County together.

This is not the most bizarre thing. What is even more bizarre is that a scout of the Chu army heard that "as long as more people are recruited by the Wei army, they can get positions." After returning to the camp, he recruited a large group of people to join him.

defected to the Wei army.

Of course, this Chu army scout finally got his wish and got the position of a hundred-man general in the army under Sima Shang, but this also made their superior general angry half to death.

There were even a few Chu soldiers who had defected to the Wei army. In order to attract more people to establish meritorious service and obtain positions for themselves, they risked their lives and secretly returned to Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei's command to win over more people.

Together they defected to the Wei army.

All this made Sima Shang very happy.

He has never encountered such an interesting confrontation between the two armies.

However, recently, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei seems to have taken corresponding countermeasures, so that few of the Chu soldiers who came to join him are fully clothed and armored. Of course, this does not matter, after all, Sima Shang's purpose is to 'rob people'.

As for the armaments of the Chu army, to be honest, he really looked down upon them.

At the end of April, thousands of heavy cavalry Han soldiers from the previous dynasty, as well as Shanggu soldiers who were willing to rush to Song County, finally arrived at Song County. According to the order of King Wei, Xu Li, the prefect of Rencheng, intercepted half of the soldiers.

Later, Xu Li used these soldiers as the backbone to form the Rencheng Army to prepare for the future alliance with Zhao Jiang, Qu Cheng, Le Yi and other generals to besiege Qi.
To be continued...