Two days later at noon, Yun Zheng finally led everyone to Shuofang City.
The city guard of Shuofang City has prepared a mansion for Yun Zheng as his palace.
Of course, this mansion is just called a royal palace.
It is only half the size of Yun Zheng’s palace in the imperial city.
However, for Yun Zheng, this was enough.
All they need now is a place to settle down temporarily.
After handing over the matters that needed to be handled in the mansion to Ye Zi, Yun Zheng and Shen Luoyan immediately led their men to the camp located more than ten miles outside Shuofang City.
With Wei Wenzhong's order in hand, Yun Zheng successfully took over the military affairs of the camp.
Half an hour later, all the soldiers and generals in the camp gathered in the parade ground.
Looking up, there were quite a few people.
...
...
There must be more than nine thousand.
At least it should exceed ten thousand!
But the quality of these soldiers who settled in the fields was indeed not very good.
Yun Zheng just took a quick glance and saw quite a few people with gray hair.
Judging from their age, they should be at least fifty!
Are they going to fight in the war or to retire here?
Yun Zheng secretly had a headache, and immediately ordered Du Guiyuan and others to start checking the roster, and ordered: "Those over the age of fifty will be expelled from the army, let them farm in peace, and don't..."
"Your Highness, you can't do that!"
Du Guiyuan quickly interrupted Yun Zheng.
"Why not?"
Yun Zheng was puzzled. "At their age, it would be bad for them to stay in the army, right?"
"Your Highness doesn't know."
Du Guiyuan explained: "They are all military personnel, and their families have little land. If their military status is revoked, many of them may have no way to make a living..."
The fields these people cultivated were all government fields and did not belong to them.
They relied on the food distributed from the military farms and the meager salary to support their families.
Driving them out of the barracks would be equivalent to cutting off their chance of survival.
Most of these people had been garrisoning Shuobei for most of their lives. To have their livelihood cut off like this was really heartbreaking for these soldiers.
"Is that so?"
Yun Zheng suddenly realized, "That really cannot remove them from the military."
After thinking for a while, Yun Zheng ordered again: "Then keep your military status and re-select them. If you have skills, put them in the craftsman camp. If you don't have skills, let them do things within their ability, such as feeding horses..."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Du Guiyuan quickly thanked Yun Zheng on behalf of those people.
"This is what we should do! I didn't understand the situation just now, so I said to expel them from the army." Yun Zheng waved his hand and continued, "All ordinary soldiers between the ages of 40 and 50 will be assigned to the logistics and baggage camp..."
Yun Zheng made a quick reorganization, and Du Guiyuan and others listened nearby.
If there is anything they feel is not appropriate, they will point it out.
Du Guiyuan and his friends have been in Shuobei for many years. Although they haven't been to Shuobei for a few years, they are still relatively familiar with the situation in Shuobei.
With their reminders, Yun Zheng also avoided making wrong decisions due to lack of understanding of the situation.
After that, there will be large-scale compilation and statistical work.
It was not until dark that they counted the number of people.
Listening to Du Guiyuan and others’ report, Yun Zheng almost jumped up and cursed.
damn it!
There are more than 12,000 soldiers in the entire camp!
The number of people is far more than what a fourth-rank general like him should command.
But excluding the disabled, the elderly and the weak, there are less than three thousand people left!
This is the result of him relaxing the age limit to thirty-five!
If the age is reduced to below 30, the number would probably be reduced by half!
Including the more than 1,200 people he brought with him, the number of combat-capable soldiers under his command barely reached 4,000!
Fuck!
When he was in the imperial city, he still thought that with his palace soldiers, he would also be a general commanding over ten thousand troops.
As a result, when we arrived in Shuobei, we gave him a 40% discount!
This is not a 40% discount at all!
This is clearly a broken bone!
Moreover, apart from the war horses they brought, there were less than twenty war horses in the entire camp!
To be exact, there is not a single one!
Those original war horses were mounts for middle and lower-level generals who were temporarily transferred here!
All the horses in the camp are mules!
In their spare time, they plow the fields; in wartime, they serve as mules and horses to transport supplies!
Not to mention war horses, many people didn’t even have armor!
Shen Luoyan was furious when she heard the result. She gritted her teeth and said, "Wei Wenzhong, that bastard, must have deliberately stuffed these old, weak, and disabled people into our care!"
"This shouldn't be his intention."
Du Guiyuan explained: "The situation is almost the same for the soldiers in the various camps! Therefore, the Northern Army actually has more than 300,000 soldiers, but everyone says that the number of the Northern Army is 200,000..."
In the eyes of ordinary people, these soldiers who settled in the fields were not counted as part of the Northern Army.
Originally, most of the soldiers who settled in the fields were eliminated from the standing army.
How can we expect that there are many capable fighters among these people?
Even if these soldiers were retrained, most of them were assigned to the logistics and supply battalion.
Du Guiyuan had been in Shuobei for such a long time that he had become accustomed to these situations.
Listening to Du Guiyuan's words, Shen Luoyan couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly.
What is this?
Even if Yun Zheng commanded 10,000 men, it would be extremely difficult for him to seize military power.
Now, the original ten thousand people have directly become four thousand people?
How can we seize the military power of the Northern Army?
"Okay, this is the order from our father, we can only obey."
Yun Zheng tried hard to adjust his mentality, and said to Du Guiyuan and the other three, "From today on, the four of you are captains! Yu Shizhong is the cavalry captain, and the three of you are infantry captains! However, although you are infantry captains, you still have to train the soldiers in riding and archery! Sooner or later, I will make you all cavalry captains!"
If you don’t have a war horse, then get one yourself!
If we want to cause trouble in Beihuan, we must have cavalry!
"yes!"
The four of them obeyed the order.
"Wouldn't that be a bad idea?"
Chen Luoyan frowned and looked at Yun Zheng, "If we replace all the captains with our own people, the original captains and generals in the camp will probably have objections! Moreover, it will be easy for people to criticize us."
"What the princess said makes sense."
Du Guiyuan nodded and said, "How about I give up my position as the captain? I am already a cripple, and if I am still the captain of the infantry, people will say that Your Highness is nepotism."
"I am a nepotist!"
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "Tell them that if they are dissatisfied with me, they can decide whether to stay or leave. I will never stop them!"
Um?
Hearing Yun Zheng's words, several people couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
However, they quickly reacted.
Yun Zheng deliberately wanted to force away the original generals, both big and small!
To be precise, they wanted to force Wei Wenzhong away!
After understanding Yun Zheng's intention, they said no more.
Yun Zheng stood up, patted Du Guiyuan on the shoulder, and said solemnly: "You will take on this position of Infantry Captain for now! One day, I will rebuild the Blood-Cloaked Army! The position of the leader of the Blood-Cloaked Army will be reserved for you!"
Bloody Army!
Hearing Yun Zheng's words, Du Guiyuan, Zuo Ren and Yu Shizhong were all shocked.
Rebuild the Bloody Army!
Isn't this their dream?
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
The three of them bowed together, and a flame suddenly ignited in their hearts...
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