"What general?" Big Head Qi looked at Zhang Liao and the others in disbelief.
"Yes, general!" Zhang Liao nodded. "You two are now a thousand man general and a hundred man general of the Xi Liang Cavalry. Big Head Qi, you will be a thousand man general and Yan Xiaoliu, you will be a hundred man general. Yan Xiaoliu, you will assist Big Head Qi and make sure he doesn't make any mistakes. Otherwise, you two will be questioned. "Zhang Liao said to the two men.
"Ah ah ah ah!" Yan Xiaoliu was also stunned. Since when did he become a general? Although he was only a commander of a hundred men, he could still be called a general. Moreover, the Xiliang Cavalry was an elite unit of the Yangzhou Army. Therefore, a commander of a hundred men was still a very high rank.
"What ah ah ah! Why aren't you thanking General Zhang Liao? "Zhang Hu gave each of them a kick and said to them in a bad mood.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Big Head Qi and Yan Xiaoliu immediately knelt down. Yan Xiaoliu was still okay because he had not put on his armor yet. However, Big Head Qi had already put on his armor. Half of the armor was connected to the body so how could he kneel down?
"Alright, get up!" Zhang Liao smiled at the two of them and let them do as they pleased. "Once you're done changing, go to the military tent and register with a civil official." Ordinary soldiers might not have such an advantage, but generals had to register. Only then would they have an official position.
"Yes, yes!" The two of them nodded in unison and watched as Zhang Liao turned around and left. The two of them felt like they were dreaming.
"I am going to be a general, I am going to be a general. Haha, I, Big Head Qi, am going to be a general!" Big Head Qi was so excited that he was speechless. "Er Niu, I am going to be a general. Ge San, I am going to be a general." Big Head Qi grabbed a person and said. It was very annoying, but the group of old brothers around him had no choice but to shamelessly congratulate him. After all, he was going to be the commander of a thousand men. On the surface, they were respectful, but in their hearts, they were cursing Big Head Qi. This damned Big Head Qi, what kind of dog shit luck did he have to attract the attention of the generals?
He's a general? How does he look like one at all? He's more like the great general in front of the door (The great general in front of the door is a dog).
Qi Datou knew that these cowards were cursing in their hearts. However, he didn't mind. To put it bluntly, this was a petty person being complacent. To put it nicely, Qi Datou was going to be a general in the future. He was a great person who didn't mind petty people's offenses.
Only Yan Xiaoliu was happy to be with Qi Datou. Although he wasn't a thousand-man general like Qi Datou, he was still a hundred-man general. Moreover, General Zhang Liao wanted him to assist Qi Datou. This meant that Yan Xiaoliu was going to be a deputy general. Generally, there wouldn't be a deputy general below a thousand-man general. However, this hundred-man general's position was the highest among the thousand-man troops. Yan Xiaoliu was a general with the highest rank.
"When I become a general, I will have a higher salary. With a higher salary, I will be able to marry Xiao Hua." Thinking about this, Yan Xiaoliu's saliva almost came out. He already had someone in his heart.
Qi Datou and the others were laughing happily. On the other side, they were crying miserably. Before this, Zhang Liao had ordered them to take off their armor and put down their swords. However, some of them didn't listen to the order. They thought that Zhang Liao and Yang Zhou were getting rid of the donkey after it had left the millstone. Therefore, they didn't obey the order. Now that they knew that the army was changing their equipment, they were all dumbfounded.
"General, General, we, we!" The leader was a thousand man general. Behind him was a hundred man general and a group of guards. There were more than twenty of them.
Zhang Liao saw them and stopped in his tracks.
"Men, come and arrest them!" Zhang Liao didn't even open his mouth when Zhang Hu shouted.
"Yes!" Although they were all fellow soldiers, they couldn't help them. They could only look at these twenty people with sympathy. Some of the soldiers put on their armor and went forward to arrest these people.
"General, spare our lives, spare our lives!" This time, these twenty people were really panicking. Disobeying an order in the army was not a small crime. If they didn't handle it well, they would be beheaded.
"General, spare our lives, we didn't do it on purpose, we didn't do it on purpose!" One by one, they knelt down and begged for Zhang Liao's forgiveness.
On the other side, the Xiliang Cavalry were a step slower. They didn't want to arrest these brothers who had fought side by side with them. They hoped that they could get the general's forgiveness.
"Why are you still in a daze, arrest them!" Ge Jun also spoke. This group of Xiliang Cavalry finally reacted. They could only let down their brothers and went forward to arrest them.
"Forget it!" Zhang Liao, who had always been strict in military law and had a poker face in his later years, unexpectedly said these two words. This simply stunned everyone. Because they didn't react in time, these twenty people were arrested.
"Let them go!" Zhang Liao waved his hand and said to his subordinates. This group of Xiliang Cavalry obeyed and released them.
"General, general, we will definitely listen to general in the future. If general tells us to go east, we will definitely not go west." With a way out, these disobedient Xiliang Cavalry knelt down and kowtowed while begging for mercy.
"Take off your armor and put down your swords." Zhang Liao said to the twenty or so disobedient Xiliang Cavalrymen. After speaking, Zhang Liao left.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Each of them was beaming with joy, thinking that Zhang Liao had forgiven them. They quickly took off their armor and swords and prepared to replace them with new armor and weapons. However, after waiting for a long time, no new weapons and swords were sent to them.
"General?" These twenty people were led by General Qian. They stood in the cold wind wearing only their underwear.
"General, where are our armor and swords?" The General Qian walked forward and asked a small soldier in the industrial zone who was transporting weapons and armor. At this time, the General Qian was already very humble.
"Your armor and weapons, ah, they are over there! They have not been opened yet. "The soldier in the industrial zone pointed at an unopened box in a carriage in front of him.
"Many thanks, general. Many thanks, general. We will not disturb general. We will go and get them ourselves." The General Qian looked at the unopened wooden box. Now that he was doing things in a low-key manner, he had to personally go and get them. He was prepared to keep a low profile.
However, when they were about to get close to the boxes containing the armor and weapons, they were stopped. Several soldiers from the industrial zone pulled out their swords and stood in front of the group of people.
"General, what are you doing?" The General Qian asked carefully.
"You are not worthy of the armor and swords." The soldier in the industrial zone looked at the twenty people expressionlessly and said.
"What nonsense, our general has already bypassed us. These weapons and armor are ours. Do you still dare to not let them go?" One of the General Qian's men had a bad temper and immediately scolded. A group of people was about to surround them.
"General? Haha! General Zhang Liao did not give me an order to come and get the armor. " Even though they were surrounded by more than twenty people, the four soldiers in the industrial zone did not retreat at all.
"Then we will get it ourselves!"
"You can try!" The two sides were full of gunpowder. One side had more people, but they did not have any armor or weapons. The other side only had four people, but they had a complete set of swords and armor.
"Come back!" The General Qian sighed and said. Although they were clenching their fists tightly, this was all they could do.
A Xiliang Cavalryman wearing new armor ran out of the camp with a token in his hand.
"General Zhang Liao's orders are for Kong Guowen and the others to put down their armor and weapons and head to the army to hand over their duties to General Qi Zhu, as well as receive their rations." After the Xiliang Cavalry messenger finished passing down the order, the twenty or so people did not know what to do.
New General Qian? Since when was there a new General Qian? Qi Zhu, I still ride a pig. This Qi Zhu was Qi Datou's name. However, Qi Datou had forgotten about him because it was too unpleasant to hear.
"Provisions!" The thousand-man general bit his lip. This was the last bit of food he could get. It belonged to the severance pay for being discharged from the army. In the army, there were only two kinds of people who would receive severance pay. One was the disabled, and the other was the dead. But they …
"General, we want to see the general!" They wanted to see the general. This group of Xiliang Cavalry was boiling. If they were kicked out of the army, what else could they do? They had been fighting and killing for so many years. They had been on horseback for so many years. They might have already forgotten their original farming methods. Moreover, they didn't have any farmland. They had to fend for themselves.
"What's the noise!" Someone came out of the camp. When the Xiliang Cavalrymen saw that it was General Zhang Hu, they immediately castrated him.
In the army, Zhang Hu and Ge Jun used to play the good cop and bad cop.
"General, can you plead with General Zhang Liao? We are brothers, we are brothers!" The thousand-man general said bitterly.
"Plead? How can we plead? It's not like you don't know the rules in the army. We are no longer in the hands of Little General Zhang. At that time, we could be unrestrained because we didn't know when we would live and when we would die! But now, you are a member of the Xiliang Cavalrymen. You are a member of the Yangzhou Army. You must abide by the rules of the army. Live and fight for the people of Yangzhou. If you are disabled, the people of Yangzhou will take care of you. If you die, you can enter the Hero Palace and receive incense from the people. Soldiers must obey orders. Even if the road ahead is a road of death, you must obey orders! "Zhang Hu's words were all made by Zhang Liao.
Although the Xiliang Cavalrymen had a grudge against Zhang Liao for killing their brothers, Zhang Liao slowly got used to it. Soldiers would die on the battlefield sooner or later. Zhang Liao's enemy was not these soldiers, but Yuzhou Liu Bei. These days, Zhang Liao also led the Xiliang Cavalrymen. At first, he was cold, but now, he was smiling.
However, the only thing that did not change was Zhang Liao's adherence to the rules of the army. Soldiers must obey orders. Soldiers who did not obey orders were useless. Indeed, this General Qian was right. One should not have the intention to harm others. Zhang Liao made them take off their armor and swords. It was very likely that the Yangzhou Army wanted to get rid of the donkey after it had outlived its usefulness. It was right for them to be cautious.
If they were not soldiers, they would not have done anything wrong. However, they were soldiers. They were the Xiliang Cavalrymen. That was a huge taboo.
The reason why the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was the world's number one cavalry was because the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was able to completely obey the orders of their commander. Even if there was an abyss in front of them and death was in front of them, as long as their commander gave the order, they must charge and break through the enemy lines.
This was Zhang Liao's bottom line. He did not kill them because Zhang Liao was soft-hearted. After all, they had fought side by side with him. They could be considered as fellow soldiers during the Battle of Linhuai.
The people below all shut their mouths. They could not defend themselves. If this was the battlefield, they might really become deserters.
"Sigh!" Zhang Hu couldn't bear to look at the twenty or so former Xiliang Iron Cavalry. "Hurry up and leave the camp. Hang in there, the general still hasn't changed his mind." If Zhang Liao decided to punish them, they wouldn't be able to say anything.
"General, General, this matter was done by Guo Wen alone. I beg you to plead with General Zhang Liao. Expel Guo Wen alone. Let them stay!" The General Qian knew that things were not going well. He quickly knelt down. He wanted to take responsibility for this matter alone.
"General, what are you saying? If it was not for you, I, Hong Da, would not have taken off my armor and put down my swords!"
"Yes, we do not blame the general!" The Xiliang Cavalrymen below were still loyal.
"Leave, leave!" Zhang Liao waved his hand. Zhang Liao had already ordered his subordinates to give more rations to them.
"General, I beg you, I beg you! I, Kong Guowen, can leave, but my brothers can't. They have been fighting for their whole lives. If they leave, they will die. I beg you, general, I beg you! " Kong Guowen knelt on the ground and kowtowed until his head was bleeding. What else could these Xiliang Cavalrymen do other than fight? They could only become bandits. Would Liu Mang allow bandits to appear in the Yangzhou region? Huang Zhong was very satisfied with the bandits. This was because the bandits were used by Huang Zhong as practice. It was a dead end.
"If you knew this would happen, why did you do it?" Zhang Liao was also in a difficult position.
"General, didn't General Zhang Liao say that no one in the army can disobey military orders? Yes, it was I, Kong Guowen, who disobeyed a military order. I, Kong Guowen, admit it. As for them, I, Kong Guowen, ordered them not to take off their armors and swords. If they took off their armors, then they would have disobeyed my orders. General. " Kong Guowen was right. If they really wanted to count it carefully, the only one who disobeyed military orders was Kong Guowen. Kong Guowen's subordinates only obeyed Kong Guowen's orders. After all, Kong Guowen was also their general. If they put down their weapons, wouldn't they have disobeyed Kong Guowen's orders?
"This, this!" Zhang Liao's eyes widened. Kong Guowen's words were reasonable. Zhang Liao didn't know how to deal with it. He wanted to go in and ask General Zhang Liao.
"No need!" A figure walked out of the tent. It was Ge Jun. "The general has already heard what you said in the tent. The general said that he will kill only you, Kong Guowen, and let your subordinates return to the army. What do you think?"
"General, you can't, you can't!"
"I'm willing, I'm willing!" Kong Guowen smiled and nodded. It was as if the person who was going to be killed was not him.
"No, no, General. If you kill General Kong, we won't live alone!" This Kong Guowen was really quite popular. Zhang Liao also nodded in appreciation. If possible, Zhang Liao also wanted to keep Kong Guowen. This person was a talent, but military law was military law. The law was merciless.
"If you want to kill, kill us all!" Hong Da rushed to the front and shouted.
"Da Hong!" Kong Guowen wanted to stop Hong Da.
"Men, take them all down!" Ge Jun ordered the Xiliang Iron Cavalry soldiers below. Soon, all twenty of them were taken down again.
"General Ge, Da Hong is a rough person. I beg you to let them go. Let them go!" Kong Guowen was anxious. Originally, he only wanted to kill him. But now, Da Hong made things worse. Wasn't Kong Guowen anxious?
"General, death is but a scar the size of a bowl. Let our brothers accompany you!" This Hong Da was simply a boorish man.
"Sigh!" Kong Guowen knew that it was useless to continue talking. He could only sigh bitterly and be brothers in the underworld. "Brothers, I, Kong Guowen, will repay you in my next life."
"Let's talk about the next life in the next life!" Ge Jun snappily said to this group of brothers.
"Men, throw this group of people out of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry camp! If they dare to enter again, kill them all! "Ge Jun ordered his subordinates.
"Yes!" Two of the personal guards carried each of them and dragged all of them out of the camp. Then, they threw all of them out of the Xiliang Cavalry's camp as if they were burdens.
"Not killing us?" Kong Guowen was stunned.
"Kong Guowen! Consider yourself lucky. General Zhang Liao said that it would be a pity for someone like you to die like this. You can forget about returning to the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Take this! "Ge Jun threw a wooden slip to Kong Guowen.
"This, this is?" Kong Guowen took the wooden slip from Ge Jun's hand and looked at the words carved on it. He was stunned.
"Since you all only know how to fight, then continue to join the army. Whether you can climb to your current position and survive on the battlefield is your own business. From now on, it has nothing to do with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry!" It turned out that Zhang Liao saw that Kong Guowen was a talent and was reluctant to kill him. However, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry could no longer use him. Therefore, he directly removed Kong Guowen's name from the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. He was right. This group of Xiliang Iron Cavalry veterans had been fighting for their entire lives. Other than fighting, what else could they do? If they were originally part of Yangzhou's army, as long as they were alive, even if they were disabled, they would still be supported by Yangzhou. Even if they retired, they would still be able to get a large amount of land from Yangzhou. However, if they were removed from the army, then everything would be over.
Zhang Liao also did not want them to become bandits. In the end, they would become enemies with the Yangzhou army. Therefore, Zhang Liao threw Kong Guowen to other units. Whether it was the Black Flag Army or the City Guard, Zhang Liao would not be able to intervene. Only General Huang's reserves had this possibility.
"Plop!" Kong Guowen once again knelt down.
"General, what are you doing?" Hong Da did not understand. Their names had already been removed from the Xiliang Cavalry. Why was Kong Guowen still kneeling? He should be spitting at the Xiliang Cavalry's camp and shouting that he would not return from today onwards.
"Thank you General Zhang Liao. Thank you General Zhang Liao!" Kong Guowen sincerely kowtowed to Zhang Liao this time.
"Da Hong, don't call me general anymore!" Kong Guowen said to Hong Da. Now, Kong Guowen was already a civilian.
"Then what should I call you?" Hong Da did not understand. A general was a general. What else could he be called?
"Call me Brother Kong!" Kong Guowen said to Hong Da.
"Brother Kong?" Hong Da tried to call out.
Kong Guowen smiled and replied. "Hey! You all can also call me Brother Kong. "The small episode of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not affect the entire war machine of Yangzhou.
All kinds of weapons and armor from the industrial area were first given to the main forces and then sent to the reserves. It could be said that Yangzhou was already in a period of vigorous development. The provisions that were snatched from Liu Bei were first distributed to the people. The provisions in Jingzhou were also bought at a high price.
Now, the Yangzhou army had all kinds of resources. They were just waiting for the Lord's order to expand the territory for Liu Mang.
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