Just when Chen Xu returned to his hometown to visit relatives, there was also a huge team in the Western Regions. He set out in early March, passed through Yumen Pass, Dunhuang, and passed through two counties in Liang Kingdom. After nearly two months of long journey, he had arrived at the border of Daqin.

The generals led by this group were Li Xin, the Marquis of Didao. In addition to the two thousand elite pawns escorted, the remaining more than 10,000 Yuezhi men and women were all captured by the last time with King Tunan.

Although that war was just like a lie in Li Xin's eyes, it happened just right. After a chase and strangle, the Dayuezhi suffered a crushing defeat and escaped the thawing Dahexi, leaving behind nearly 50,000 tribes, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses, and countless wealth and goods from the head.

The captives and wealth were divided into two parts, half of which were returned to the Western Regions countries participating in the battle, and the other half belonged to the Qin Dynasty. After some selection, Li Xin escorted all the men and women who were still strong to Xianyang to present them to the First Emperor to eliminate the Western Army's stolen and sold enamel equipment. As for the remaining elderly, weak and inconvenient women and children, they were all placed near Dunhuang and handed over to King Liang to resettle, helping to open up land and farm and grazing cattle, sheep and horses. Anyway, most of these people were the Yuezhi people and even tribes near Dunhuang.

Staying near the Longxi Camp for several days, Li Xin and Meng Tian blushed after a sincere conversation, and then led their subordinates to escort the prisoners to Xianyang. Meng Tian also wrote a letter to arrange for the messenger to send them to Xianyang and send them to Xianyang to Meng Yi.

If this matter is to be completely pressed, it must be supported by people from the court.

Moreover, Meng Tian had already received a letter from Meng Yi, mentioning that the Qinghe Hou requested the First Emperor to carry out military system reforms because of this matter, so he needed strong support from the generals of the military system.

Meng Tian supported the military reform. As early as when he was in charge of the northwest to resist the Huhu, he had discovered that the unified Qin Dynasty had always adopted the traditional military service method of taking turns to guard the border, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was not suitable for the development and needs of the Qin Dynasty. However, because the Great Wall and straight roads were to be built, and it was necessary to suppress and monitor millions of surrendered soldiers from the six countries, so many troops were required to maintain stability in the northwest. It was not until Chen Xu appeared to build a stirrup saddle and a sharp sabre to build a sabre.

The proposal to abolish the Northwest Army and millions of surrendered soldiers made the defense of the entire Northwest easy and smooth. At that time, Meng Yi finally understood the key point of the military reform, that is, streamlining and cultivating elite soldiers. The era of being king was over, but soon he was transferred from the Northwest Camp. Later, he was ordered to take charge of Longxi to take charge of the Western Army to guide the Western Regions. The combat effectiveness of the elite patriarchs after streamlining once again made him understand that Chen Xu did grasp the institutional drawbacks and lifelines of the Qin army.

But the so-called "not in his position" does not do his own politics.

Meng Tian has ideas, but he is just an executor, so there is no need to cause trouble for himself.

The recruitment of troops and the rotation of guarding the border was not his military commander, but the court's business. He was only responsible for fighting, and even had no need to worry about food, grass and weapons. Once it was not enough, he only needed to write a memorial and request payment. The court was busy to death and had nothing to do with him. He only cared about whether it could be transported on time. If he could not deliver it, he wrote a memorial and filed a complaint to the emperor.

As for whether the Qin Dynasty can support so many troops, it is not his business. Raising food and grass is the prime minister's business. The ones who should be in a hurry should be the left prime minister Li Si and the right prime minister Feng Quji at that time.

Therefore, when the two brothers of Meng Tian and Meng Yi were writing letters from their families, they occasionally talked about many issues such as the court's movements and the army. However, Meng Yi would remind his brother not to discuss military reforms in absurd way, because this is too sensitive.

But to this day, after Meng Tian knew Chen Xu’s plan, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt an incomparable relaxation.

The details of Chen Xu's reform of the army were written very clearly in Meng Yi's letter, and after reading it, Meng Tian was infinitely confused except for admiration.

He couldn't figure out how Chen Xu came up with this military service system and military structure system that was almost everything that was demolished and re-established. He was well organized. From conscription to service, from local lieutenants to border guards, from enlisted soldiers to supreme generals, from military structure to confirmation of titles, there were a complete set of reform plans that could be implemented without any modification.

In particular, the abolition of the 20th-level military title system and the adoption of a new meritorious service system, a military system structure that combines the compulsory military service system starting from the enlistment of the army to the voluntary military service system of the regular combat troops will create a new Daqin military system.

In Meng Tian's opinion, this entire system is seamless and perfect.

Therefore, when Meng Yi wrote a letter two months ago that he wanted to support Chen Xu's reform plan in the court, Meng Tian basically agreed without much hesitation.

First of all, the Montessori and Chen Xu have no differences in many government affairs, and they are also one. In the past, the Montessori made it clear that they would strongly support Chen Xu, and it was impossible not to take action at such a critical moment.

Also, Chen Xu's current status has far surpassed that of Montessori, so Montessori must stand in a precise way and shout. With his current family and identity status, support is not just verbal statements, but must be true and real, otherwise it will easily lead to the breakdown of such a good political marriage relationship.

The most important thing is that after Meng Tian's investigation, the Western Army was so guilty of selling enamel equipment that it was too large and involved too many soldiers. He, the commander of the Western Army, could not escape the blame.

When he received the investigation report on the stolen equipment of Dunhuang and Shule, Meng Yi was shocked. Although he only sent a brief inquiries and chief officers to investigate, the results obtained were that the two armies sold more than 10,000 pieces of enamel equipment, and in fact, many of them were excused by the excuses of losing, breaking and being stolen. Therefore, according to the reports of the returned chief officers and chief officers, the number of enamel equipment lost by the two armies was close to 15,000 sets of enamel equipment.

In other words, there were a total of 20,000 soldiers in the Western Regions, and 60% of the enamel equipment stolen and sold. If these enamel equipment were weapons of weapons, Meng Tian could not imagine the consequences.

A group of soldiers without weapons will be like a tiger without teeth. Once a war breaks out, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, in Meng Yi's view, the military system of the Qin Dynasty had reached a point where it had to be changed, otherwise the army would have gradually dispersed to the point where it was hopeless.

Chen Xu's complete military reform made Meng Tian feel as excited as if he had discovered a new world.

The military structure and the titles and ranks of generals and soldiers at all levels are not important. This is just an appearance. There is no big difference between the division and battalion companies and platoons and the current generals and generals, and the configurations of officers at all levels are similar. The biggest difference is the reset of military ranks.

The old 20th-level military title system is completely overturned, and no longer the rigid killing of the enemy's heads is the only record of military merit. Instead, it is extended to enlistment time, training and assessment, martial arts competition results, military literacy and battlefield performance, etc., and various comprehensive assessments in daily and combat are used to evaluate military merits.

Although Meng Yi did not explain this method of military merit evaluation in detail in the letter, recording military merit through these comprehensive evaluation methods will not only stimulate the soldiers to train hard, but also greatly enhance the cohesion of the army.

As long as you perform well in the county or have excellent military skills during two years of service, you can recommend or voluntarily participate in a higher-level combat force, called the National Defense Force.

The National Defense Force is a system different from the military soldiers. Because the National Defense Force has a salary, it will be managed more strictly and standardized. Various training and assessments run through the entire process. Through strict training and military discipline regulations, the National Defense Force will become a brave team that prohibits combat. As long as it performs well in the army, even if there is no war, it can gradually increase its military title by relying on its daily military merit assessment. It is not impossible to advance from the lowest level soldiers to the generals and school. Moreover, with the increase of military titles, it will also receive higher salary, including money, land, and real estate. The most important thing is that when you retire, you will be recommended to the local area based on military titles and military merits, and serve as lieutenants and police officers to become officials of the court to maintain local security.

Moreover, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, the military service system this time has made many requirements for age and physical fitness. For example, local service soldiers are required to be between 17 and 25 years old, and must reach seven feet tall, the retirement age of the National Defense Forces is 30 years old, the retirement age of ordinary officers is postponed to 35 years old, the retirement age of officers at battalion level and above is postponed to 45 years old, the age of officers of division and brigades is postponed to 60 years old, and senior generals have no retirement age, etc.

Although Meng Yi’s words were not comprehensive in the letter, through these completely new military systems, Meng Tian has seen the appearance of the Qin army in the future and even the violent combat power.

Therefore, Meng Tian not only agreed that while Meng Yi was supporting Chen Xu's army reform in the court, he also prepared to go to Beijing to apologize to the emperor in person, and also used the case of theft and sale of enamel equipment as a case to deeply review and analyze the various drawbacks of the Qin army system to help Chen Xu's army reform be completed quickly.

Meng Tian and Meng Yi both knew how great the resistance to military reform was. From the emperor to civil and military officials, they all believed that the more troops, the better, but in the eyes of generals like Meng Tian, ​​the more refined the army, the better.

The original 300,000 troops in the northwest were far inferior to the current 60,000 elite cavalry.

Although the court's expenses are similar, they are completely different in terms of management and combat effectiveness.

There are many factors that determine the victory of a war. In addition to the right time, place, and people as mentioned in the daily military strategy, on the specific battlefield, an army full of fighting spirit, majestic, rigorous, and fearlessness is the key to victory. Sometimes, even the number of people, food, grass and weapons do not necessarily have to overwhelm the enemy. The core of measuring the combat effectiveness of an army is courage, and the source of courage is self-confidence. Only by being strong can one have the confidence and courage to win. This confidence comes from the strict training of the Qin soldiers and generous and fair rewards.

This time, Li Xin confronted the Great Yuezhi founded by King Tunan in the Western Regions, capturing more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. This is the biggest victory in the past three years. Meng Tian had already learned about the request of Li Xin and Jiang Hu in the letter sent by Li Xin. The Western Army wanted to use this rare victory to completely suppress the incident of stealing and selling enamel equipment, otherwise the three of them would be punished.

Therefore, Meng Tian scolded Li Xin in the military camp and sent him away. Then he began to write down the details of the incident clearly and prepared to return to Beijing to apologize to the First Emperor.

Meng Tian believes that Chen Xu will not be willing to die in this matter.
Chapter completed!