Chapter 150 Jianghuai Eighteenth Battalion

After making up his mind, Li Er immediately took a group of his trusted followers to Didao, Lintao and other places to meet with the local powerful people with the surname Li.

The Longxi Li family is a county clan, and its branches include Guzang, Didao, Danyang, and Dunqiu.

The lineage of Lord Tang is undoubtedly the main branch of the Li family today.

As the legitimate son, Li Er naturally had a good relationship with others. Naturally, there were many people willing to accept the olive branch he extended.

He made an agreement with everyone that if Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, was appointed as the chief general in charge of the war in Guanzhong, each family would have to contribute manpower and manpower.

Naturally, they will be granted official positions, and there will naturally be rewards after the war.

Li Er was busy expanding his strength in Longyou, and Li San and Li Si were also busy.

In Shu, Li San relied on his natural strength to lift a tripod and convinced many barbarians who came to Chengdu to pay homage to the Duke of Tang, as well as the leaders of the Qiang and Di people in Yinping, Wudu.

These people all have one thing in common: they fear power but not virtue.

Only by showing that you are stronger than them can you gain their favor, respect, and even loyalty.

Otherwise, any benefits given to them will be in vain.

On the parade ground, Li Yuanhe invited the clan leaders and heads of the local Han noble families in Yizhou, such as Li Hao of the Deyang Li family, Yan Jun and Yan Min of the Ba County noble families, the Qiang noble leaders Ran Zixian, Xiang He, Xiang Lun, Tian Juan, the Qiang leader Yang Wandi and Yang Nan, and the Di leader Fu Fei and Qiang Yong.

It wasn't Li Yuan's sudden idea to invite all these people here; the plan had been made months ago.

On the training ground, Li Sanlang, wearing an ordinary robe, knocked down eighteen warriors of various tribes in a row in wrestling.

While riding, he threw eight short spears from dozens of steps away, and all of them penetrated the double armor.

This group of Bandun barbarians, Di people and Qiang people were extremely impressed by Li Sanlang.

After Li Sanlang showed his powerful powerlessness, everyone said to Li Yuan, "Sanlang Jun is really a god."

Li Yuan stroked his beard and laughed when he heard this. He waved his hand and said, "Among my four legitimate sons, Sanlang is the least capable, so he follows me. My Erlang once led 500 cavalrymen to attack Fuhan at night, killing thousands of enemies and almost capturing the Tuyuhun chieftain Fuyun alive!"

"And my Silang, with a hundred cavalrymen, captured Jinyang and captured the rebel king Murong Jian. Now he is a general with a high rank and is in charge of a region. He also captured and killed Yang Xun in the battle of Dongduyuan. You should all know who Yang Xun is, right?"

The barbarians immediately changed color after hearing this. They really knew who Yang Xun was. He was known as the "modern Xiang Yu". When he followed the army to the west to conquer Tuyuhun in the early years, he was like a god of war. The Qiang and Di people had all heard of his name.

How could such a powerful Li Sanlang not be ranked among the best of Li Yuan's sons? There are even more powerful second and fourth sons?

Li Yuan certainly could not have imagined that the things he boasted about casually in order to win people's hearts would have such a great impact in the future.

The fourth son of Li Yuan, Duke of Tang, was thus described as "born with supernatural powers", "brave and brave", and "a match for ten thousand men". This story was passed down by word of mouth among the Bandun barbarians, the Di people, the Qiang people, and the people of Shuzhong. Later, a scholar in Shuzhong wrote a novel based on the rumors he had heard in his childhood, and Li Yuanhui in the novel was described as a man with supernatural powers who could lift a tripod. Because the novel was so well written, it spread to Guanzhong and other places, and spread throughout the world through word of mouth among storytellers.

So many years later, the image of Li Yuanhui as a teenager, whether on the stage or in the mouths of storytellers, has become the "best hero in the world" with two drums and golden hammers in his hands and infinite strength.
As soon as the man who would become the "best hero in the world" returned to Hefei, he began to gather everyone to discuss the entire Jianghuai defense strategy, as well as a new round of military expansion and reorganization plans.

After discussion and exploration, we felt that the situation of the various tribes in Jianghuai was rather complicated, so we temporarily set up twelve battalions of infantry, with each battalion consisting of 3,000 people.

They are: Huainan Right Camp, led by General Zhu Xingzong, with 800 men under his command.

The commander of the Huainan Left Camp was Yin Gong, who had more than 700 soldiers under his command.

The commander of Lujiang Left Camp, Guo Xing, originally had more than 2,000 troops from Tianzhu Mountain.

The Lujiang Right Camp was led by General Zhou Ben, who had more than 800 soldiers under his command.

The commander of the Tianzhushan Camp was Xiahou Yuanhong, who originally had over 2,000 troops from the Tianzhushan Mountains. The commander of the Guangling Camp was Zhang Zhen'e, who had 1,200 troops.

Jiangdu Camp, led by General Zhang Jian, with 800 men under his command.

The central army camp was led by General Yu Zhongheng, who had an army of 1,000 men.

The Zhonglei Camp was led by General Dou Xianjun, who had an army of 1,000 men.

The Tiger Step Camp, led by Li Xuandao, has a thousand troops under his command.

After several battles, the original Xuzhou army had only about 3,600 people left.

It was divided into Xuzhou Left Camp and Xuzhou Right Camp, with He Gui and Chen Zhen as the main generals, and more than 1,800 troops under their command respectively.

These twelve infantry battalions will be expanded to three thousand men per battalion, and all the soldiers will be recruited by themselves.

The cavalry was divided into five camps, with General Huwei Liu Xuanji as the commander.

The Tuqi Battalion had only 300 heavily-armored cavalrymen, led by the cavalry commander Liu Xuanji.

The Huaishang Camp, led by Liu Ju, had more than 600 followers, most of whom were horse thieves, so Li Yuanhui placed him in the cavalry sequence.

In Huaiyuan Camp, the commander was Chang Yanheng, and his followers also numbered more than 600 people, the same as Liu Ju above.

The Xiaoqi Battalion, led by the commander Ma Deyi, has 700 light cavalry under his command.

The Yue Cavalry Camp, led by General Wang Tong, had 700 light cavalry under his command.

The expansion plan for the four light cavalry battalions is to have one thousand cavalrymen per battalion.

As for the heavy cavalry battalion, these 300 heavy cavalry are enough to sweep across the Jianghuai area. In addition, due to the configuration requirements and huge consumption of heavy cavalry, it will not be expanded for the time being.

In addition, there were 600 people under the command of Han Quan, who were Li Yuanhui's personal guards and were called the "Wuweiying".

In terms of the navy, Li Yuanhui recommended Lu Qin as the General of the Tower Ship, commanding 6,000 naval forces and hundreds of warships.

Of course, these 6,000 people are the number after the capacity is reached. There are still more than 2,000 people, and the rest have to be recruited by Lu Qin himself.

According to Li Yuanhui's military expansion plan, there were 36,000 infantry, 4,300 cavalry, 6,000 naval forces, plus 8,000 soldiers from the three counties in northern Jiangsu. The entire Zhennan General's Office had an army of more than 50,000 people.

However, when Li Yuanhui set the conscription tasks for these generals, it was more of a limit than a task.

The number of 50,000 was the maximum number of troops that Li Si could currently afford to support after discussions with his generals and staff.

Li Yuanhui did not expect the generals, who now had only seven or eight hundred men under their command, to quickly recruit three thousand soldiers in a short period of time.

Just give them a goal and let them do what they want.

Guo Xing and Xiahou Yuanhong who came down from Tianzhu Mountain, and He Gui and Chen Zhen who came from the Xuzhou Army should be able to recruit enough soldiers.

As for the Zhang brothers, there is no doubt about it. The two brothers have the support of the Zhang family, which is a large and powerful family. They have tens of thousands of tenants and hundreds of thousands of acres of land. There are dozens of salt fields of various sizes and tens of thousands of salt workers.

In other words, they can raise a team of tens of thousands of people. There are not many powerful families of this level in Yangzhou, let alone in the world.

At this point, the Jianghuai Eighteen Old Flags Camp, which later became famous all over the world, officially debuted.

(End of this chapter)