The Wei army camp was named "Shizui Mountain" in later generations. The reason why it was called this is because after the Beiyi Mountain (Helan Mountain) arrived in this area, the mountain was as strong as the mouth.

It is not the huge mouth of the abyss, but the mouth that is about to close. The mountains are getting closer and closer to the Yellow River in this section. Look at the same on the other side of the river. The two rows of mountains seem to be like upper and lower lips, spitting out the long tongue of the Yellow River.

The east bank of the Yellow River is the gateway to Xinqinzhong. The terrain is narrow and the cars are not square. A fortress almost blocked the passage to the south. With the guard Zang fu leading thousands of people to guard the guard, it can basically be safe.

But the gap between the mountains on the west bank of the Yellow River is a bit embarrassing. It is said that it is wide, but in fact, it is not enough for more than 20 miles to spread the array of more than 100,000 people on both sides to spread the array; it is said that it is narrow, and a level cannot be airtight. When the Han Dynasty was at its peak, it should be fine to mobilize civilians to build a Great Wall here, but at that time the Han army had already advanced north to Hetao, occupied Yinshan, and even threatened Mobei, and it would not be so conservative at all. After Han Xuan, the Xiongnu surrendered, and there was no need for it. When it arrived in Wangmang, the Central Plains and the Xiongnu turned against each other again, and it would be too late to practice again.

"Therefore, I should use 50,000 soldiers as walls to block the Huns and fight with them!"

This is Geng Yan's idea. After the Hun army emerged from the desert and Gobi, if they found that they could not cross the east, they would have to fight head-on, otherwise they would have to retreat back to Shuofang.

"Once the enemy soldiers retreated, the battle will be won."

Geng Yan knew his opponent very well: "Lu Fang was not capable, she was simply a fake Liu Han royal family, and was deliberately supported by the Huns. His generals, officials and subjects were dissatisfied. Since the first time he was expelled by His Majesty, Lu Fang had lost twice in a row in the new Qinzhong. There were only three things. This time, he gathered a large army here and consumed countless people's and financial resources. If he was defeated again, Lu Fang's prestige fell into the valley, and even the Huns and the Khan would not tolerate him, and Hu Han would have changed!"

But on the other hand, Lu Fang would definitely try his best to encourage the Huns to fight this battle, and have the Wei army really prepared for a death battle?

"The shortness of our army is not about the number of people or the terrain, but about morale."

Geng Yan had only one concern: "During Xinmang, General Hounding Hu went out to the frontier and was wiped out. Although this was because the army was not strong enough and the general was unknown, the fundamental reason was that the Xin army was forced to conscript it, and was often whipped and abused, but he had no idea why he wanted to fight this battle."

If the "Bingzhou Tuqi" he founded, and they defended the land of Bingzhou, they knew the cruelty of the Hu people and would fight desperately to defend their hometown and relatives. However, this time the army brought by Geng Yan was mostly soldiers from Guanzhong and Sanhe, and some people may have never dealt with the Huns in their entire lives. They may not be much better than the "Zhu Tufeng brave" of the new dynasty.

But Geng Yan had no time to let them understand deeply. According to the scout report, the Hun army walked out of the desert, and its rangers appeared more and more frequently, and they even dared to touch more than ten miles north of the Wei army camp!

The war was about to begin. Although he had destroyed a country alone, this was the largest war ever commanded by Geng Yan. After dinner, he began to inspect the camp for the last time.

It has to be said that although they were both large-scale expeditions, the Wei army was indeed much stronger than the disaster-like dispatch of troops during the Wang Mang period of the Xin Dynasty.

Geng Yan heard that when Wang Mang was recruiting troops, he basically pulled the men and rushed to Hongmen Camp with his ties. This process would be like starving to death. When the army arrived at Xinqinzhong for a long distance, the number of troops was reduced by as much as 50% or 60%! However, the officers of the Xin Dynasty did not report, and they were satisfied with their empty salary. In fact, there were not enough food, fodder and clothes on it. After all, each department, general, and grain officer had to reach out to grab a hand, and there was not much left when they reached the bottom.

The 50,000 Wei troops were mixed with new and old. Among them, the main force was the old soldiers who recruited Guanzhong a few years ago and recruited to attack Hedong and pacified Longyou. They basically enjoyed the benefits of dividing land, knowing that the fifth reunion did not deceive people. The new recruits were somewhat forced to divest. After all, the Wei State inherited the consistent recruitment system of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and used it for free, and only paid for food and no money. However, they were also trained by Wan Xiu in Guanzhong, and they were still moved by the land.

In addition, the corruption of the Wei army was far less serious than that of the previous dynasty, and officials did not dare to eat their empty salary. When they headed north, although 10% of the soldiers fell ill and exhausted, this proportion was not much compared with the Daxin King's Army.

As the winter clothes that were sewn in Guanzhong arrived one after another, the Wei soldiers wore thick clothes, wore wool blankets that everyone carried with them, roasted campfires with dried cow dung, and drank porridge, but they would not be so cold that they shivered. The reason why they could do this was the result of Guanzhong exhausting the support of the treasury. Next year or even the year after, the fifth reunion would be really impossible to fight.

Geng Yan also discovered that what really changed the mental outlook of the Wei army was the "Sui Junlang Officers" who were arranged by the emperor to join the army.

After learning from the lessons of the Huaibei battle, the Fifth Reunion established a new system, and the emperor appointed a trusted man to settle in the brigade. The first brigade had 2,500 people, and this time it sent more than 20 people at once.

Geng Yan initially thought that this was just an increase in the number of military supervisors, and he had some small opinions, but soon found that it was not that simple.

The person who led the "Sui Junlang" this time was the counselor Chenggong, a doctor. This is an extremely special person: Chenggong, like Fu Long, who was promoted to the governor of Xuzhou, was both a first-class candidate in the civil service examination for the first time, ranked tenth - the fifth one!

He was born in a very small way and was a poor teacher before high school. He walked from Youfufeng to Chang'an for the exam. The fifth reunion admired Chenggong very much because he spoke and did things very well. After staying in the palace for a while, he was sent out to the Wanxiu Army in Longyou to do things. The disciples of Chenggong chose another way because they could not get into the exam that was getting more and more exams: those who failed can join the army and become minor officials.

This created a huge group: the military officials who landed were real gangs and started from the state department. Last year, the fifth reunion selected the best, obtained more than 20 people, promoted them to the army, and ordered them to join the Northern Expedition Army. On the one hand, they cooperated with the army judges to monitor the generals and officials to prevent the situation of the troops repeatedly leaving command during the Huaibei Battle. Secondly, they can directly convey the emperor's will, and even use their higher cultural level to brainwash the soldiers...

When Geng Yan was inspecting, he happened to see Chenggong once again preaching the "difference between the barbarians and the Xia" to his soldiers.

Although Chenggong was a doctor, he was able to get close to ordinary sergeants because of his background. He did not stand high and talk, but sat cross-legged with the sergeants, holding a copper-skinned horn to increase the volume.

Chenggong is worthy of being a master. His conversation is not an official article. But he first chats like a home-cooked person, and asks a few people, and where they are?

"Chang'an people."

“Hanoi people.”

"The man of the right Fufeng."

Chenggong nodded and talked about the food and atmosphere in those places while talking and laughing. This made people feel close and homesick.

Yes, my hometown is so good. Why did they work hard to travel to this desolate northern border and fight a battle that has nothing to do with them? Even if the emperor and the general promised to divide the land after the war, it would be worth it to risk losing their lives? If the superiors go back on their word and divide them into the border land, that would be a cry without tears!

This was counterproductive? Chenggong felt this emotion and asked again: "Can there be locals in Bingzhou?"

There were also a few people raising their hands. Chenggong then smiled and said, "Although the people from all directions have different dialects and come from all states and counties, we are actually the same person..."

"People from China!"

He stood up and walked to the stage that everyone could see clearly, pointing to his clothes and said, "We have a system of clothing and etiquette. Even people in the countryside know basic integrity, shame and filial piety. They are even loyal to the same emperor and fight under these five colors."

Chenggong pointed his hand north: "But the enemies we face are different from the Huns!"

"Those who are Rongdi! They are not verbal and have different desires and etiquette!"

Chenggong emphasized the differences between the Central Plains and the Huns, such as Rong Di's disheveled hair, wearing animal skins and feathers as clothes, assisting with felt tents, mainly meat and cheese, and despicable elderly people, not taking a bath, and they didn't know how to filial piety at all. Even if their Shanyu learned from Emperor Han and gave himself the name of "filial piety", they would still kill their father and sleep with their stepmother!

It is basically true, but there are many exaggerated words. These typical "stereotypes" are also the basis for building the soldiers' simple national view. People who have accepted a certain culture often feel shocked and unacceptable when looking at the customs of different cultures. Starting from food, clothing and language, it is most likely that humans can distinguish "us" and "them".

Compared with those detestable and shameless Huns, a person from the right Fufeng looked at the Hanoi people who were originally difficult to communicate with in languages, and found that the other party also became more handsome.

After helping the soldiers build the most basic national view, Chenggong began to promote the various crimes committed by the Huns.

"The Huns were greedy for women and forced marriages in the Central Plains during the Han Dynasty. The dignified Han princess actually served the Xiongnu Shanyu father and grandson three generations in succession. How humiliating! As for the dowry slaves and servants, there are countless women!"

"Fortunately, the Huns killed and plundered them. Even if they were married, they repeatedly violated their promises. During the Han Dynasty, they frequently entered the Passerby, Bingzhou, Youzhou and Liangzhou suffered a lot. From the former Han Dynasty to the Xinmang Dynasty, it was still unstoppable. In recent years, more than 10,000 people invaded the Huns, thousands of middle-aged people, and hundreds of fewer. Not only would they kill the officials of the court, but they would cover the officials and people, and there were countless livestock products."

Wife, property, life, these are things that every soldier cherishes very much, and everyone is afraid of them. But after all, everyone has experienced troubled times and confrontation between various regimes, isn’t it the same? Everyone seemed to be listening to stories far away from the sky, without much resonance, so Chenggong stopped talking and asked: “You guys were born in Guanzhong, Sanhe, even in Xinmang, and they had never been robbed by the Huns?”

Everyone shook their heads. They did not have such experiences, so they could not feel the pain. So Chenggong further told them a fact: "It is precisely because the border counties are blocking the north that the horse hooves of the Huns cannot affect Guanzhong, the three rivers!"

He then asked a local Bingzhou official to come to power, telling the story of the frequent invasion of the Huns, causing his parents to be killed and his wife and daughter to be abducted, and he was crying. If it were changed, the soldiers might not have empathized with each other, but now that they have realized that everyone is "people of the Great Wei people" and "heritors of China", their fists are hard for a moment.

Seeing that the mood was almost done, Chenggong began to sublimate the value of everyone: "You guys, can you tell me why we came to this foreign land and fought against the Rongdi Hulu?"

"Because if the counties in Bingzhou are lost, the horse hooves of the Huns can cross Xiaoguan and go straight to Guanzhong. The three rivers are ravaged. The ones who are tragically ravaged are your hometown. Those who are killed, raped and plundered and slaved are your parents, wives and daughters!"

His hand suddenly waved, and his voice shouted to the greatest extent:

"So, what we guard here is not a foreign land."

"It's also my hometown!"

For a moment, the officials were in a state of great emotion. The excited people stood up and slapped their palms. Some even waved their fists, raised their swords and spears, and shouted the slogans that the officers repeatedly taught when they were training in Guanzhong:

"Defend the country!"

The trumpet that the fifth reun, Ma Yuan, Wan Xiu and others shouted during the battle with Lu Fangchu in the New Qinzhong appeared on this land again, but it was no longer the few hundred people shouted again, but the common voice of the entire brigade and the entire army!

When Chenggong came out of the brigade camp with his hoarse and painful throat, he met Geng Yan who was smiling and bowing to him.

"Thanks to Dr. Cheng."

Geng Yan's last little worry also disappeared.

"Now the soldiers of the three armies know why they fought!"

Chenggong did not dare to take credit and quickly returned the ceremony: "This is your Majesty's order."

What he said was not only freely based on his experience as a master, but also basically was a script drawn up by the fifth reunion. And the remaining twenty "Su Junlang Officers" also had one copy. After the training of Chenggong Er's letter, they were promoted in their respective brigades.

After laying the groundwork, they finally raised their morale to the highest point before the war! This excitement should last until the moment when they really fought with the Huns...

"The subordinate officials have to go to the next brigade to talk about it." The literati in Chenggong could only do their own responsibilities and bow to Geng Yan: "In the military dispute, the lives of these 50,000 soldiers depended on the general!"

Chenggong left before his feet, and Zhang Yu, the embroidered commander who was also surveillance with the army, also came to see Geng Yan and told him great news.

"General Cheqi and Cavalry, the general of the pseudo-emperor of Hu Han, Lu Fang, sent someone to join us!"
Chapter completed!