Chapter 102 Reverse Effect

Liu Bei's official position officially appointed by Emperor Han is General Zuo. Theoretically, he has the power to appoint some low-level officials by the government, not Sun Quan and other princes. There is an extra procedure for appointing officials.

Under Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's military positions are partial generals, which are the lowest-level generals like General Pei. The official positions of these two were appointed by Cao Yan in the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, which can be said to be "justified" Han officials. At this time, Zhao Yun's official position was General Yamen, which was created by Liu Bei himself. His position was comparable to that of a partial general, higher than General Pei and General Zhonglang.

Compared with a large number of high-level generals under Cao Yan, Liu Bei's camp looks a little shabby, but there is nothing he can do. Cao Yan's family has a big career, hundreds of thousands of troops under him, and the capital of a general. There are only 20,000 people on Liu Bei's side. Even if the official title of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others is raised, it is of no practical significance. On the contrary, it will make people laugh at him for pretending to be poor.

Huang Zhong, an old member of Liu Biao in Changsha, also had a disgraceful resume of surrendering to Cao Yan. As for Wei Yan, he was just a white-body bully who did not even have an official title. Even if the two new submissive people were indeed talented, Liu Bei had any reason to immediately mentioned them to the same level of officials as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. What about the job?

"Lord, what's going on?" Mi Zhu seemed to be unhappy in Liu Bei's tone, and he was energetic for a moment.

"Look at it yourself." Liu Bei threw the letter to him.

Mi Zhu took the letter and took a closer look. A sneer quietly flashed on his old face. He pretended to think for a moment and frowned, "Huang Zhong was forced to return, and it was enough for him to still lead the position of general. And this Wei Yan, although he had won Guiyang County, was just a silent person after all. It was right to be promoted, but it seemed to be wrong to promote him from a white body to a general all of a sudden.

It's not only inappropriate. Liu Feng's letter of recommendation, in Liu Bei's opinion, clearly wants to borrow chickens to lay eggs and win over the two generals of Huang Wei with his father's reward.

Liu Bei snorted coldly: "This stinky boy, last time he wanted to use alienation, just wrote me a letter to persuade me to quit. It hasn't been long, and his mind is confused again. It seems that although he has some qualifications to be a general, he is still just a martial artist after all."

Liu Bei's unhappy performance was right in Mi Zhu's arms. He hurriedly said, "If that's the case, then the second general of Huang Wei should not be rewarded, otherwise how can the other generals be convinced?"

Liu Bei closed his eyes, pondered for a long time, and said, "These two people can't help but reward, otherwise they will only chill the hearts of those who have not returned. Well, you should quickly draw up a letter of appointment for me, appoint Wei Yan as a lieutenant, and at the same time give Huang Zhong a bounty of 30 and a hundred pieces of cloth. As for A Feng, he is indeed meritorious in taking the second counties of Xiangdong, so let's promote him to be a middle general. The rest of the meritorious people will be rewarded according to their meritorious deeds.

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Linxiang City, the southern expeditionary camp.

More than ten days ago, Liu Bei's document of appointing Liu Ba as Changsha Taishou arrived. This Jiangnan talent officially took office in a just name, so Liu Feng gave up the Taishou Mansion and moved it to the barracks. At the same time, another Guiyang Taishou Ma Liang also gladly accepted Liu Bei's expedition. At this time, he was on his way from Wuling to Guiyang County.

In order to ensure military control of Guiyang, Liu Feng ordered Chen Dao to lead 500 troops to escort Ma Liang to Guiyang to take office, and recalled Wei Yan's troops to Changsha. After breaking with Liu Bei, Changsha is bound to be hit by Liu Bei. Liu Bei must concentrate his main force and all the generals who can fight before it is possible to resist Liu Bei's attack.

Liu Bei has 20,000 regular troops. If you add the county soldiers after the conquest of Wuling and Lingling, the number of troops will reach nearly 30,000. Although the combat effectiveness of these 30,000 soldiers is far inferior to that of the 30,000 Wu troops besieged Jiangling, it is already a quite terrible opponent for Liu Feng.

Therefore, after Liu Feng took Changsha, he launched an intensive military expansion operation.

After Han Xuan's death, all the nearly 5,000 soldiers in Changsha County surrendered, but the combat effectiveness of these 5,000 people was really not flattering. Most of them were not only not equipped with armor and other armor, but even did not even pass a decent formal training once a year. Some of them were only farmers recruited at zero, and their physical fitness was involved. There are many people who are not suitable to be soldiers.

Among the 5,000 county soldiers, the ones who can really be brought to the stage to fight, that is, more than 1,500 soldiers and horses deployed by Han Xuan in the office. Except for the 300 people killed in the civil strife, the remaining more than 1,200 people were all collected by Liu Feng. That is to say, the soldiers and horses directly commanded by Liu Feng have increased from 800 to Two thousand.

These two thousand people were compiled into four songs by Liu Feng. Among them, the 500 members of the first song were his direct relatives brought from Jiangxia. They belonged to the pro-guard song and were directly conducted by Liu Feng. The remaining 300 people were mixed with the newly surrendered Changsha soldiers into three songs: B, C and D. Ding Qu was led by Chen. He had set out to escort Ma Liang south to Guiyang, and Ma Yu was the commander of B and C.

As for the newly attached Huang Wei, they originally had nearly 500 songs. Under the instruction of Liu Feng, Huang Zhong recruited troops in Changsha. After fighting Guiyang, Wei Yan annexed some of the soldiers who could fight. The number of songs of the two reached 1,000 in a short time, that is, the number of two songs.

After about three months of military expansion, the number of horses that Liu Feng could command at this time has rapidly increased from the original 800 to 4,000. Of course, the increase in the number of troops does not mean that the quality also increases. If you want to train 4,000 soldiers and horses into an army capable of World War I, it will take some time. Moreover, Liu Ba and Ma Liang have just taken office. Liu Feng must give them more time to build the second county of Xiangdong into a battle with Liu Bei. The base.

Shortly after the completion of the army's reorganization, Liu Feng specially set up a small banquet in the camp and invited Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to the banquet. This was also the first time he had a separate banquet for the old and two generals.

After a few rounds of wine, the atmosphere of the small banquet gradually became harmonious.

Seeing that the time was almost right, Liu Feng smiled and said, "General Huang and Wen Chang are both useful generals. I have sent a letter to recommend General Huang to my father to be a general, and Wen Chang to be a general. Although with their talents, the position of partiality is a little wronged, this is also the highest position I can win for you. I hope you can understand.

As soon as they said this, the two suddenly showed surprise and gratitude. It's no wonder that a middle-aged general who has been a general for more than ten years was suddenly promoted to two levels in a row, and the other was white and jumped into a general. It is not too fast to describe the promotion.

More importantly, Liu Feng himself is still a captain, but he can recommend them as generals. Such a kind of manner and courtesy is really unprecedented in his life.

At this moment, Huang Wei and Wei are not grateful enough. How can they complain? At present, the two were moved and toasted to Liu Feng to show their gratitude.

Seeing that the two were moved and excited and happy because of the sudden rise of official positions, the time had come, and Liu Feng secretly glanced at the people who served them from the left and right.

A moment later, a soldier hurried in and said nervously, "I'm going to the eldest son, the lord has an urgent order to send it."