The substitute prince: Reported the emperor's brother at the beginning

Chapter 314 Comprehensive Reorganization

The emperor appointed Yu Shengfei as earl, praised him highly and tried to win him over.

The Sixth Prince also guaranteed Shengfei all kinds of military supplies.

Everyone gives him face, and now Yu Shengfei has become the god of war against the barbarians.

But he didn't know that Dalto, whom he had failed to pursue, had been surrounded by the prince's private army.

More than 20,000 soldiers ambushed the last 7,000 barbarian cavalry on the mountain road and surrounded them.

Even all kinds of firearms were opened, and the cavalry screamed and fell one after another.

There were dug horse traps everywhere in front of them, as well as various kinds of iron dysentery.

There was also a pile of rocks behind.

Dalto never thought that he would be ambushed here.

But he remembered that when he came to Hongfeng County, he searched the roads and even the edges many times, and there was no trace of the army.

Apart from the village where there were few people and everyone had fled long ago, there was not even a dog.

But where did these troops come from? Their helmets are round and their weapons are strange.

The smoking weapons made a crackling sound, causing them to suffer heavy casualties immediately.

The battle lasted for two hours, and all the troops were annihilated.

General Dalto was captured directly, but there was no rush to kill him. He would be interrogated thoroughly when he returned.

But all the captured supplies became the property of the private army.

When Ning Yi returned to Hushan Pass, the battle there was still going on.

Even at the critical moment, the barbarian Khan naturally knew that the Sixth Prince was not in the army.

And he also took away tens of thousands of troops.

He even launched a full-scale attack by the rebel army, putting the entire Hushan Pass in danger.

Qin Haifeng even sent troops to support everywhere. The military camp outside the city in front was crumbling, and even the military camp on the left was breached several times.

The two sides fought so fiercely that rivers of blood flowed.

The city walls were also filled with barbarian rebels rushing over in an endless stream.

Not only did the few remaining guards from the Beijing camp suffer heavy losses, but even one of their commanders was killed and another was seriously injured.

Qin Haifeng had to add five guards from the Beijing camp to His Highness's entourage.

It is still a tough battle with the fierce and aggressive rebels.

Hushan Pass was on the verge of collapse because there were too many rebels charging forward.

Moreover, the barbarian Khan did not give Hushan Pass any chance to rest. He wanted to take down Hushan Pass, which was short of troops, as soon as the Sixth Prince left.

Moreover, the barbarian Khan felt that since the Sixth Prince had left with a large army to stop his detachment, it would be impossible for him to return in a short period of time.

If they took the opportunity to capture Hushan Pass, the army would march south through Hushan Pass in a mighty force.

Cooperating with the detachment to attack the capital, even if the Sixth Prince's army came to support the capital, plus the capital's defense troops, it would be enough for him to take it easily.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and should not be missed.

It can be said that the Barbarian Khan’s plan was quite powerful, killing two birds with one stone.

The detachment attacked the capital, causing panic within the Wu Kingdom.

This forced the Sixth Prince to lead his troops south and withdraw the defense system from Hushan Pass.

Our quick attack on Hushan Pass was simply perfect. No matter which side won, it would be a sure win.

As soon as the Sixth Prince's army returned to Hushan Pass, they saw that the battle situation at Hushan Pass was shaky.

Ning Yi had no time to give the army a rest, and personally led two temporary armies to charge forward.

The temporary troops quickly put on winter clothes and no longer feared the cold and rushed to the city wall to provide support, which immediately stunned the attacking rebels.

Especially when the city gates were opened, a steady stream of troops rushed in, howling at the Zuojun camp, which had been mostly breached and was about to be lost.

The arrogant rebels in the left army camp could not bear it immediately. With the continuous casualties, even the retreat became crowded.

Qin Haifeng had personally gone to the battlefield, covered in blood. When he saw Ning Yi finally return, he immediately knelt down excitedly and said, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you."

Ning Yi looked at Qin Haifeng, who was covered in blood and personally led the army to fight desperately on the city wall, and nodded with a complicated look: "Well, you didn't disappoint me."

"Get up and tell this prince what the situation is now."

Qin Haifeng stood up and told him everything.

Ever since the Sixth Prince led his troops away, the barbarians have gone crazy, with hundreds of thousands of rebels taking turns to fight.

They fought bloody battles for several days at Hushan Pass, suffering heavy casualties. The few remaining guards of the Beijing Camp were almost all disabled.

Qin Haifeng had no choice but to send his own five elite guards up, but there were still heavy casualties.

The military camp outside the city was even more battered. If it weren't for the elite guards' support, it would have been breached long ago. In that case, the entire Hushan Pass would have become an isolated city, and the barbarians could have attacked from several directions.

In addition, the tens of thousands of menial soldiers organized by Qin Haifeng were also sent up as cannon fodder, but they were still unable to resist the rebels who kept rushing up.

Of course, today's rebels never expected that there would be a large army at Hushan Pass.

Watching the two temporary armies rushing into the battlefield, they immediately defeated them, causing heavy casualties and retreating, leaving behind a pile of corpses.

That night, Ning Yi made a prompt decision and immediately ordered four temporary armies to replace the positions of the main army in front.

The other two criminal armies were reorganized, and only half of their remaining troops were reorganized into a temporary Fifth Army.

In addition, of the 30,000 newly delivered prisoners, 20,000 elite soldiers were selected and stuffed into the criminal army.

They were led by the high-performing junior officers of the criminal army and the students of their own eleventh class who had participated in the war.

The criminal army became members of the temporary army and everyone was very excited.

Of course, the one who led them was once a servant in the criminal army. As long as the temporary army was given a number, their treatment would immediately be much better.

We just need to reorganize slowly and wait for the delivery of various military supplies.

As for the remaining few guards of the Beijing Camp, Ning Yi didn't care about them anymore and forcibly reorganized them into the Provisional Sixth Army of 10,000 people.

In addition to those who have recovered from their injuries, other wounded soldiers with similar injuries were gathered to serve as grassroots officers, and above them were the servants who had recovered from their injuries.

All the servants are now directly appointed as mid-level military officers.

As for the original commanders and generals.

Give them enough rewards, and let those who are injured return to Beijing to get promoted.

The rest were stuffed into other armies.

Even the six guards of the southern garrison at Hushan Pass outside the city.

Ning Yi had not started the reorganization until now, but now he seized the opportunity to forcibly reorganize them all into one group.

It doesn’t matter if there are heavy casualties. There were 30,000 people in the six guards, but only more than 10,000 people were left. You can see how heavy the casualties were.

But it doesn’t matter, they were all reorganized into the Provisional Seventh Army.

The officers are the injured soldiers at the grassroots level and the old officers who have performed well.

All of it was forcibly controlled by the servant boy after he recovered from his injuries.

As for former senior military officers, their military power was taken away.

Ning Yi wrote directly to the old emperor, saying that these old officers had strong fighting capacity, but the casualties in resisting the barbarians were too great and the army had become disabled.

Let them go south and continue recruiting soldiers for Your Majesty.

Each of them would return to the capital with their military achievements to be praised by the emperor, and then they could go to the south to continue training new troops.

I believe the old emperor would like to have more officers like this, enough to speed up his military training in the south.

The old emperor didn't care about the lives of the wounded soldiers. What he wanted were officers who could train and lead troops, not a bunch of soldiers who couldn't read a single word.